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CHAPTER VI.
▲ FENCING BOUT.
A FEW days after Helm's ar
rival M. Roussillon returned
to Vlncennes, and if he was
sorely touched in his amour
propre by seeing his suddenly acquired
military rank and title drop away he
did not let it be known to his fellow
citizens. He promptly called upon the
new commander and made acquaint
ance with Lieutenant Fitzliugb Bever
ley, who Just then was superintending
the work of cleaning up an old cannon
in the fort and mending some breaks
in the stockade.
Helm formed a great liking for tbe
big Frenchman, whose breezy freedom
of manner and expansive good humor
struck him favorably from the begin
ning. M. Itoussillon's ability to speak
English with considerable ease helped
the friendship along, no doubt; at all
events their first interview ended with
a hearty show of good fellowship, and
as time passed they became almost in
separable companions during M. Itous
sillon's periods of rest from his trading
excursions among the Indians. They
played cards and brewed hot drinks
over which they told marvelous stories,
the latest one invariably surpassing all
its predecessors.
Heim had an eye to business, and
turned M. Itoussillon's knowledge of
the Indians to valuable account, so
that he soon had very pleasant rela
tions with most of the tribes within
reach of his agents. This gave a feel
ing of great security to the people of
Vlncennes. They pursued their nar
row agricultural activities with excel
lent results and redoubled those social
gayeties which, even in hut and cabin
under all the adverse conditions of ex
treme frontier life, were dear to the
volatile and geuial French tempera
ment.
Lieutenant Beverley found much to
Interest him in the quaint town, but
the piece de resistance was Oncle
Jazori, who prov««l to be both fascinat
ing and unmanageable—a hard nut t >
crack, yet possessing a kernel, abso
lutely original in flavor. Beverley vis
ited him one evening in his hut—it
might better l#c called a den —a curi
ously built thing, with walls of vertical
poles set In a quadrangular trench dug
in the ground, anil roofed with grass.
Inside and out it was plastered r.itli
clay, and the floor of dried mud was es
smooth and hard as concrete paving.
In one end there was a wide fireplace
grimy with soot, in the other n mere
peephole for a window; a -tvoodeu
bench, a bed of skins and two or three
stools were barely visible in the
In the doorway Oncle Jazon sat whit
tling a slender billet of hickory Into a
ramrod for his long flintlock American
rifle.
"Maybe ye know Simon Kenton,"
said the old man, after he and Beverley
had conversed for awhile, "seeing that
you are from Kentucky—eh?"
"Yes, I <lo know him well; he's a
warm personal friend of mine," said
Beverley with quick interest, for it
surprised him that Oncle Jazon should
know anything about Kenton. "Do yon
know him, M. Jazon?"
Oncle Jazon winked conceitedly and
sighted along his rudimentary ramrod
to see if It was straight, then, pucker
ing his lips as if on the point of whis
tling, made an affirmative noise quite
Impossible to spell.
"Well, I'm glad you are acquainted
with Kenton," said Beverley. "Where
did you and he come together?"
Oncle Jazon chuckled remiulsr.-ritly
and scratched the skinless, cicatrised
spot where his scalp had once flour
ished.
"Oh, several places," he answered.
"Ye seo tliet hair a-hangln' there on
the wall?" He pointed at a dry wisp
dangiing under a gln a log barely
vlslbla by the bad light. "Well. 1 bet's
my scalp. He, he, he!" He snickered
ns If the fact were a most enjoyable
Joke. "Simon JCenton can tell ye about
thet little affair. The Indians thought
I was dead, and they took my hair; but
I wasn't dead. I was Just a-glvln' 'em
a possum act. When they was gone I
got up from where I was a-layln' and
trotted off. My head was sore, and.
ventrebjeu, but I 'was mod! He, be.
he!"
All this time he npoka 4n French,
and the English but poorly paraphras
es his odd turns of expression. Ills
grimaces and grunts cannot even be
hinted.
It was a long story, as Beverley re
ceived It, told scrnpplly, but with cer
tain nide art. In the end Oncle J axon
sold with unctuous self satisfaction:
"Accidents will happen. I got my
chance at tlict Indian who skinned my
bead, nnd I Jen' took a bead on Mm with
my old rifle. I can't shoot much, never
could, but I happened to hit 'lin squure
In the lef eye, what 1 shot at, and It
was a hundred yards. Down lie tum
bles, and 1 runs to 'im anil finds my
same old scalp a-hangln' to bin belt.
Well, I lifted off his hair with my
knife and untied mine from the belt,
and then I had both scalps he, lie, he!
Yo ask Hlrnon Kenton when ye sec
Mm. He was along at the same time,
• rid they mnde 'lm run the ga'ntlct nnd
pretty nigh beat the life out of 'lm.
Vcntrebleu!"
Twilight and moonlight were blend
ing softly when Beverley, on bis way
back to the fort, departing from a di
rect course, went along the river's side
southward to have a few moments of
reflective strolling within reach of the
water's pleasant murmur nnd the
town's indefinite evening stir. Rich
sweetness, the gift of early autumn,
wns on the air blowing softly out of a
Iliac west and singing In the willow
fringe tliat hung here and there over
the bank.
On the farther side of the river's wide
flow, swollen by recent heavy rains.
Beverley saw n pirogue, In one end of
Which a dark figure swayed to the
strokes of a paddle. The slender and
(hallow little craft was bobbing on the
choppy waves and taking a zigzag
eourse urning floating logs and masses
•f lighter driftwood while making slow
but certain headway toward the hither
bank. %
Beverley took a bit of punk and a
flint and steel from his pocket, relit his
pipe and stood watching the skillful
boatman conduct his somewhat dan
gerous voyage diagonally against the
rolling current. It was a shifting, hide
and seek scene, Its features nppenrlng
nnd disappearing with the action of the
waves and the doubtful light reflected
from failing clouds ami sky. Now im I
again the man stood tip In his skittish
pirogue, baluucing himself with care, to
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u " i nfcort pclc i;i driftwood
out of Lis way, and more ; an 0:100 ho
look J to Beverley ss if h ■ had plung; d
headlong into the dirk TU::< r.
I«jver!ey stood at ens\ Miy and half
dr v.:.;i!y looking on. v!:.;i suddenly
son; Ling onus d a caia-:;o;ho, which
for a moment he did n>t ■ iapr-'herd.
In fact, the man in the ; rue came
to grief, as a man in a pirogue is very
apt to do. and fairly somersaultPd over
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"I've saved than bath," he roared
board into the water. Nothing serious
would have threatened, for tin- i:«r>u
could swim like an otter, had nt:t a
floating, half submerged log thrust 11 p
some short, stiff Htumps of boughs, up
on the points of which the man struck
heavily and was not only hurt, but I.ad
his clothes impaled sec-arely by one of
the ugly spears, so that b" Luug in n
helpless position, while the water's mo
tion alternately lifted and suhnu iv;< d
him, his arms beating about wildly.
When Beverley heard the strangling
ery for help he pulled himself promptly
together, flung off his coat, as if by a
sing'le motion, and leaped down the
bank Into the water. He was a swim
mer whose strokes counted for all that
prodigious strength and excellent train
ing could nfTord. He rushed through
the water with long sweeps, making i:
semicircle, rounding against the cur
rent, so as to swim; down upon the
drowning man.
Loss than a half hour Inter a rumor
by some means spread through the
town that Father Beret and I.ieuten
ant Beverley were drowned in the Wa
bash. Hut when a crowd gathered to
verify the terrible news it turned out
to he untrue. Gaspard Uonssilloti had
once more distinguished himself hy an
exhibition of heroic nerve and muscle.
"Ventrebleu! Quel homme!" ex
claimed Oncle Jazon, when told that
M. Uoussillon had come up the bank of
the Wabash with Lieutenant Beverley
under one ami and Father Beret under
the other, both men apparently dead.
"Bring them to my house immedi
ately," >l. Uoussillon ordered, as soon
as they were restored to consciousness:
and he shook himself, as a lag wet ani
mal sometimes does, covering every
body near him with muddy water
Then he led the way with melodrama!
lc strides.
In justice to historical accuracy there
must he n trifling reform of what an
po;yeil on the face of things to be grand
ly true. (Jaspard Rousnilion actually
dragged Father Beret and Lieutenant
Beverley one at a time out cf the eddy
water and up the steep river bank
That was truly n great feat; but tin
hero never explained. When men ar
rived he was standing between the col
lapsed forms, panting and dripping.
Doubtless he looked as if be had
dropped them rfroin under Lis arms
and why shouldn't lie have the benefit
of a great Implication?
"I've saved tliem both," he roured;
from which, of course, the ready ere
ole Imagination inferred the extreme of
possible heroic performance.
"Bring them to my house Immediate
ly." And It was accordingly done.
The procession, headed by SI. Iloas
slllon, moved noisily, for the French
tongue must shake off what comes (■
It 011 the thrill of every exciting 1110
ment. The only silent Frenchman Is
the fjead one.
Father Beret was not only well nigh
drowned, but seriously hurl. He lay
for a week on a bed In M. Roussillon's
house before lie could sit up. Alle<*
bung over him night and day. scarcely
sleeping or eating until he was past all
danger. As for Beverley, be shook off
all the effects of his struggle In a little
while. X'»xt day he was out. as well
and strong as ever, busy with the
uffalrs of Ids office. Nor was he less
happy on account of what the little ad
venture had cast Into his experience.
If Is good to feel flint one has done an
unselfish deed, and no young man's
heart repel:* the fresbnes of what
romes to him when a beautiful girl
first enters Ms life.
Naturally enough, Alice had some
thoughts of Beverley while she was so
attentively earing for Father Beret.
She had never before seen a man like
aim, nor had she read of one. Beverley
itepped in for a few minutes every day
to see Father Iteret. Involuntarily
lengthening his visit by a sliding ratio
ns h<- beeaiie better uefjunlntod Ho
began to enioy the priest's conversa
tion, with Its sly w ,!■;■?!j w. . 1.1 crop
ping up tlirougn fervid rell, m w'liti
menls nnd (plaint hur.or. Alice must
have Interested him more than la* was
fully 11 ware <>f, fhi'i < "i fallowed
her, as nli" came and v. ■ 11J. wi• ha < >ii i-
Otls criticism of la r half m.it age cos
tuiue and her sprit;, y. dryad lii e sup
pleness, which rem! talc. l him "f ihe
shiest and grni i-f 11 !«*•■ t wild birds, mi l
yet 11 touch of I" till n ... tin- n:b:: «t
nnd held, fthov/id in ii i.er ways. Ho
wet.'l led at her itit'i• t. ov.v Father
Beret, whom she e .111 .1 :• •1 1 pparently
Without effort. But 111 time he l>e
gati to feel n deep r < l<a 1 r. ri broad
er lnlelllgenec, behind h-.-r ««.i; rflclal
BflUVagerle, nnd he round Unit she
really had no mean Hiiiatterhig of books
In the lighter vein.
A little thing happened which further
o[H mil his eyes nnd ln< re:i d the in
terest that her beauty ami H, .1. -alary
charm of style aroused in liltu cradu
aliy, apace with tlielr advancing ac
quaintanceship.
I'aflier Beret had got well mid ro
turned to liis hut and his round of
spiritual duties, but Bi verlcy came to
iloii.tilion place every duy all the
«'or a :. ! r. -Miloi
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-nii* of her toutf'.v v,:i i:o
K'es pr. ii ill. :tu. too. iya '" trie ully
wlien.'vcr oj)portu:iity a Vord
ctL Alice found l;i !'.<-.< r:»y l.ir>;c tar
jict for the missiles of ber i-iever and
tantalizinK perversity. He in turn
practiced a native dignity and an ac
quired superiority of manner to excel
lent effect. It was a meeting of Greek
with Greek in a new Arcadia. To liiui
here was Diana, strong, strange, sim
ple, even crude aln>ost to naturalness,
yet admirably pure in spirit and im
bued with highest womanly aspira
tions. To l;er represented the
great outside area of life. He came to
her from wonderland, beyond the wide
circle of houseless woods and prairies.
Now, there is an antagonism, vague
yet powerful, generated between na
tures thus cast together from the op
posite poles of experience and educa
tion, an antagonism practically equiva
lent to the most vigorous attraction.
The return to nature has always been
the dream of the conventionalized soul,
while the*simple Arcadian is forever
ionging for the maddening honey of
sophistication.
Innate jealousies strike together like
flint and steel, dashing off sparks by
which nearly everything that life can
warm its core withal is kindled and
kept I:urning. What I envy in my
friend I store for my best use. 1
thrust and parry, not to kill, but to
learn my adversary's superior feints
and guards. And this hint of sword
play leads back to what so greatly sur
prised and puzzled Beverley one day
when he chanced to be examining the
pair of coleehemardes on the wall.
lie tore one down and, handling It
with the indescribable facility possible
to none save a practical swordsman, re
marked:
"There's a world of fascination in
these Ihinßs. I like nothing better
than a bout at fencing. Does your fa
ther practice the art?"
"I have no father, no mother," she
quickly said, "but good Papa Itous
sillon does like a little exercise with
the colechemarde."
"Well. I'm glad to hear it. 1 shall
ask to teach him a trick or two," Bev
erley responded in the lightest mood.
"When will he return from the woods?''
"I can't tell you. He's very Irregular
In such matters," she said. Then, with
a smile half banter and half challenge,
she added, "If you are really dying for
some exercise you shall not have to
wait for him to come home, I assure
you, M. Beverley."
"Oh, It's SI. de Honvllle, perhaps,
that you will offer tip as a victim to
my skill and address," he slyly return
ed, for he was suspecting that a love
affair in some stage of progress lay
between her and Itene.
She blushed violently, but quickly
overcoming a combined rush of sur
prise and anger, added with an em
phasis as charming as it was unex
pected :
"I myself am, perhaps, swordsman
enough to satisfy the Impudence and
vanity of M. Beverley, lieutenant In
the American army."
"Pardon me, mademoiselle; forgive
me, I beg of you," he exclaimed, ear
nestly modulating his voice to slncercst
besccchmcnt. "I really (lid not mi an to
be impudent, nor"—
Her vivacity cleared with a merry
laugh.
"No apologies, I command you," she
interposed. "We will have thcui after
I have taught you a fencing lesson."
From a shelf she drew down a pair
of foils and, presenting the hilts, bade
Mm take his choice.
"There isn't any difference between
tliem that I know of," she said, nhd
then added archly, "but you will feel
better at Inst, when all is over and the
sting of defeat tingles through you, If
you are conscious of having used every
sensible precaution."
He looked straight Into her eyes, try
ing to catch what wns in her mind, but
there was a bewildering glamour piny
Ing across those gray, opal tinted wells
of mystery, from which he could draw
only n mischievous smile glint, direct,
daring, irresistible.
"Well," he said, taking one of the
foils, "what do you really mean? Is It
a challenge without room for honorable
retreat?"
"The time for parley is past," she re
plied. "Follow me to the battle ground."
Nhe led the way to a pleasant little
court In the rear of the cabin's yard, a
space betw<»n two wings and a vine
covered trellis, beyond which luy a
well kept vineyard and vegetable gar
den. Here she turned about and faced
him, poising her foil with a tine grace.
"Are you ready?" she Inquired.
He tried again to force a way Into
the depths of her eyes with his, but he
might as veil have attacked the sun,
so he stood In a confusion of not very
well defined feelings, undecided, hesi
tating, half expecting Unit there would
be some laughable turn to end the uf
fulr.
"Are you afraid, M Beverleyt" she
demanded after a short waiting In
alienee.
He laughed now and whipped the air
with his foil.
"You certainly are not In t anient?" he
said Interrogatively. "Do you really
mean that ymi want lo feme with me?"
"If you think beenn*e I'm only a
girl you can easily beat uie, try It,"
she tauntingly replied, making a level
thrust toward hl.-t breast.
(julck as a flash lie parried, and then
a merry clinking and tv. inkling of steel
blades kept time to their swift move
ments. Instantly, by the sure sense
which is half sight, half feeling the
sense that guides the experienced fenc
er's hand and wrist Beverley knew
that he had probably more than his
match, and in te?i seconds bis attack
was met by a time thrust In opposition
which touched him sharply.
Alice sprang back, lowered her point
and laughed.
"Jo vous salue, M. Beverley!" she
cried, with childlike show of delight.
"Did you feel the button?"
"Yes, I folt It," he said with frank
acknowledgment In his voice. "It was
cleverly done. Now give me a chance
to redeem myself."
He began more carefully and found
that she, too, was on her l>est mettle;
but It wns a short bout, ns before.
Alice seemed to give him an easy open
ing and ho accepted It with a thrust.
Then something happened that he did
not understand. The point of his foil
wns somehow caught under his oppo
nent's hilt guard while herbladeseemed
to twist around Ills. At the same time
there was n wring and a Jerk, the like
of which he had never beforo felt, nnd
he was disarmed, Ids wrist and lingers
aching with the wrench they had re
ceived.
Of course the thing wns not new; he
had been disarmed before; but her
trlek of doing It was quite a mystery
to him, altogether different from any
that he had ever seen.
"Vous me pardonnerez, monsieur."
she mockingly exclaimed, pleklng up
his wen-pon nml offering the hilt to
him. "Here Is your sword!"
"Keep It." he said, folding hla arms
and trying to look unconcerned; "you
have captured It f-ilrly. I am at your
mercy; bo kind to me."
"Mine. Itousslllon and Jenn. the
hunchback, hearing the racket of th ■
fo;I =. 1..: - m.i tr> «f rt:i.! WfW
siaudii'v i.v !• ••
"Y. •: «»»*• • (.1 !!• : Hi
said ;!ie d.;i • ay.rovr.i of
what she bad dniu*. "C i! > naif, a e
with gentlemen."
"This !T:I does." said Alice.
"And with extreme disaster ti this
gentleman." said Beverley, laugli'ng in
a tone of discomfiture and resignation.
"Ah. m'sieu'. there's nothing but dis
aster where she goes," complained
Mine. "She is a de".r«>yr
of everything. Only yes.ertlay she
dropped my pink bowl and broke It.
the only one I had."
"And Just to think." said Beverley,
"what would have been the condition
of my heart had we been using rapiers
instead of leather buttoned foils! She
would have spitted it through the very
center."
"Like enough." replied the dame in
differently. "She wouldn't wince,
either—not she."
Alice ran into the house with the
foils and Beverley followed.
"We must try it over again some day
soon," he said. "I find that you can
There U'a* a urlnrj and a Jcrh—hc uw
disarmed.
show me a few points. Where did you
learn to fence so admirably? Is M.
Houssillon your master?"
"Indeed he isn't," she quickly re
plied. "He Is but a bungling swords
man. My master—but I am not at lib
erty to tell 3*ou who has taught me the
little I know."
"Well, whoever he Is I should be glad
to have lessons from him."
"But you'll never get them."
"Why?"
"Because."
"A woman's ultimatum."
"As good as a man's," she bridled
prettily; "and sometimes better—at tb<
foils for example. Vous—comprenez,
n'est ce pas?"
lie laughed heartily.
"Yes, your point reashes uie," ho
said.
When Beverley, taking his leave,
passed through the gate at Itousslllon
place, he met Itene de Bonville going
in. It was a notable coincidence that
each young mnn felt something trouble
some rise In his throat as he looked
into the other's eyes.
A week of dreamy autumn weather
came on, during which Beverley man
aged to be with Alice a great deal,
mostly sitting on tbe Rousnlllon gallery,
where the fading vine leaves made
fairy whisperings, and where the tem
pered breeze blew deliclously cool from
over the distant multicolored woods.
The men of Vlncennes were gathering
their Indian corn early to dry It on the
cob for grating into winter meal. Many
women mndo wine from the native
grapes and from the sweeter and richer
fruit of imported vines. Mrs. Itoussll
lon and Alice stained their hands a
deep purple during the pressing season
and Beverley found himself ei -d In
helping them handle the juli> crop,
while around the overflowing earthen
pots the wild bees, wasps and hornets
hummed with an |nccssant, Jarring
monotony.
Jean, the hunchback, guthered ample
Btores of hickory nuts, walnuts, hazel
nuts and pin oak acorns. Indeed, the
whole population of the village made a
great spurt of Industry Just before the
railing of winter, and presently, when
every preparation had been completed
for the dreaded cold season, M. Kous
slllon carried out his long cherished
plan, nnd gave a great party at the
river house. After the most successful
trading experience of his life he felt
lrreprcsslbly liberal.
"Let's have one more roaring good
time," lie said. "That's what life Is
fof."
fro BE co.tTiwtJEn.J
~ SICKROOM TACTICS.
A l«orcii(al Nirit Mast lie Utstls,
i'tlltnl and Taetfnl.
The proper inentnl ntmosphere creat
ed In a sickroom Is often as Important
as the reuiedlos given. A nurse should
be In touch with her patient—that la,
she should be sympathetic and not al
low Irritability und whims to upset her
equanimity. The nurse who can create
su atmosphere of repose, who can hu
mor without Indulging her patient In
ull the Idiosyncrasies of sick people,
has won linlf the battle. An unsympa
thetic, Impatient nurse will do more U>
binder recovery than the link of reaa*
edies. It Is not acts anil words alone
thut help or hinder; her very thought*
are as potent ns her general conduct,
nnd the sensitive patient will be Influ
enced for good or 111 If the nurso were
dumb. Khe should' at all times mnIn
tIIIII a positive uplifting mental atti
tude and remember that the patient's
Irritability or melancholia Is Justified
by her physical condition and Is not
perverseness.
Gentleness, patience and, aliore all,
tact are the requisites for good and In
telligent nursing, uml the nurse who
laeks these qualities lins Indeed missed
her calling. I'atlents have often failed
to improve simply because they did not
fnney their nurse. A nurse must be
likable nnd make herself liked, and It
takes only plnln tart nnd a little clr
cuinspection to Ingratiate herself with
the most uninteresting of pntlcuts.
A Hrvrnlrrnlh Ontary Father.
The advice given by a parent to
his son nt Oxford In the year 1080
against catching cold when nttendlng
the theater will not be without In
terest. "Child,—l heurd Hint the plny
ers are gon down to Oxford, but I nm
unwilling that you should go to see
them net, for fear on your coming out
of the hot play liouso into the cold
nyer, you should cnlch hnrin, for ns I
did once coming out of .lie theatre at
a publlck Act when It was very full
and steaming hot, nnd wnlMn a Broad
In the cold, and gave me sutch a cold
that It bad I.lkt to cost me my Life,
Your best wny In sutch n cold Is to go
bom to your one chamber dlr«*ctly from
t! e piny house and drink a glass of
Hack, therefur Be sure you send your
servant At your hand for a bottle of
the Best Canary and keep It In your
chamber for that purpose Harkon
thou unto the voyco and Advise of mee
Thy ffather, I living Thee Better then
hlmselfc." tendon Chronicle. ,
MMSQWEN
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MODERN TREE PRUNING.
Commercial Method of Forming the
Head of Apple aad Pear Tree*.
The controversies that rage around
cultivation versus grass much in the
orchard or strlngfellow tree planting
as opposed to the old style are hardly
more vigorous than the standing dis
cussion on how and when to prune. As
to time, theories and practices vary
from specified dates to the ancient
■H
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FLAX or TBXK AT PLANTING TIME.
rule, "Prone when the knife is sharp."
When we come to form there is more
of certainty. Commercial apple and
pear orchards, for instance, are now
adays headed much lower than used to
be the cose, three feet being a very
common height for starting the head.
In localities where windstorms are fre
quent the low headed trees are less
likely to be broken, they lose a smaller
portion of their fruit and are less sub
ject to sun scald, because the low head
shades the body of the tree somewhat.
The cost of harvesting the fruit is less
than that of gathering from tail trees,
as with low beaded trees much of the
crop can be gathered by the picker
standing on the ground, while with
high headed trees the major part of
the work must be done from ladders,
which extends the time required to do
the picking and consequently increases
Its cost.
Professor L. C. Corbett, whose horti
cultural experience has been extensive
and varied, recently outlined a plan of
forming the head which is in accord
ance with the latest successful practice
and scientific theory. The diagrams il
lustrate its principal features so plain
ly as to need little comment. However,
the arrangement of the branches may
be noted.
First, the branches of the whole
Bhoukl be disposed at equal distances
around the main stem or axis of the
plant, and, second, they should be at
some distance from one another up
and down along the central axis of the
tree—that is, not In the same plane, but
from four to eight Inches distance
apart. (See the first cut.) With such nn
arrangement of branches the tree when
old is less liable fo Injury from heavy
snows or severe winds.
Professor Corbett emphasizes tho de
sirability of having the main structur
al branches of a tree composed of from
three to five limbs of about equal slxe
rather than of two limbs. A tree which
divides Into two limbs which again
subdivide to form the main bead Is
much more likely to split tljan a tree
with several limbs disposed at differ -
ent heights upon the main axis.
In order to preserve a symmetrical
form ond to prevent the rrult being
borne at the extremity of long, slender
branches on apple and pear trees the
main body branches left at planting
time should not be more than eight
FLAN OF TOP A FT KB OK* TKAK'H OBOWTH
IN THR ORCHARD.
inches lonf. At the close of the first
season the growth of that year should
iiguln be shortened to at least a foot,
and each of the tbaln body branches
should be allowed to carry not to ex
ceed three subdivisions, each of which
*houkl be eight Inches long. Tito third
year the snuio operation should bo re
peated, and Instead of allowing each
subdivision to carry throe branches tbo
number should be reduced to two.
White Earth la Demand.
The demand for kaolin for the man
ufacture of crockery Is greater than
America can supply, and Immense
amounts are Imported. It Is said that
20,(KH) tons are annually Imported from
lirltlsh Guiana alone. A linn of George
town, British Guiana, has ocr.trocted
to supply a company In New York
yearly that amount. This firm owns a
roof that will produce 100,000 tons an
nually. Kaolin (white earth) Is found
In abundance In most of the great riv
ers In British Guiana. This valuable
white earth Is composed of alumina
and sand anil Is found In this country.
Homo valuable mines exist In Olilo, also
In Maine, Connecticut, New York and
other states. Is there white earth In
your farm? asks a writer In Farm,
Field and Fireside.
THINGS DOING.
Current Kreut* «>f tirurrnl Interest
In Agriculture.
(Hi*' outcome of llie cotton situation
In llils country ban IMS'II .>r some time
apparent to anybody with an eye for
future events. Knglaud lias been mak
ing M( reiinous efforts to extend cotton
culture In Kgypt, and It I* authentical
ly reported that those effort* are meet
ing with success. The government of
Jamaica l < Mll lil to bo entering upon ex
tensive experiments In cotton produc
tion with u view to pushing the Indus
try. Germany and France are slso
making their ventures In various parts
of their foreign pox e mlons, and It Is
beginning to be realised that there are
fresh areas where It Is probable the
cotton plant can be profitably culti
vated.
Belgium, the Netherlands, llnly and
Japan are now talked of as nations all
of which possess cotton territory In
their foreign colonic* of Africa and the
East Indies and Formosa. Itussla al
ready grows cotton, but thus far uses
it all.
The secretary of agriculture, the
chief of the bureau of statistics and
one of the largest manufacturers of i
No. ]S.
j»rint cloths in this country arc all
credited Tilth opinions which arc sub
stantially to the effect that the short
age ill the supply of cotton has not
been sufficient to account for the ab
normally high prices and that the re
sult of these may be the establishment
of new cotton fields in other countries.
Cotton traders who maintain that the
high prices are justifiable do so on ac
count of the smailncss of the crop.
This is attributed in general to the cot
ton boll weevil. The loss in Texas
cotton through this insect is placed by
latest estimates at 300,000 bales. De
terioration in the cotton seed is an
other factor claimed in the short crop,
and some of the agricultural authori
ties are incliucd to see truth in this
( claim, believing that the low price oC
cotton had made many planters indif
ferent in the selection of seed, the best
of which went to the oil makers.
A llral Farmers' Trout.
"Buying and selling and dealing in
all kinds of farm and dairy products,
cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, dry goods,
boots aud shoes, groceries, hardware,
farm machinery, lumber, stone, brick
and all kinds of building material,
grain and real estate and dealing in
all kinds of merchandise and in buying
and selling all kinds of property on
commission and otherwise." Such i 3
stated to be the object of a company
of 500 lowa farmers. It is claimed
that at an expense of less than S4,OX)
for salaries and other items on a capi
tal of $23,000 and indebtedness not ex
ceeding $5,000 they carried on last year
a business of $<120,000.
llou Gldcoh I* Made Front Corn.
One of the novel things in the food
section of the Agricultural building at
the St. Ix>uis world's fair will be the
demonstration of the process of making
glucose from coru. Glucose is now un
derstood to be a neutral sweet devoid
of flavor, with uo harmful properties
and of value as food. With the addi
tion of a little hickory bark to give it
Uie maple "twang" or mixed with a pro
portion of the genuine maple, it makes
table sirup thicker or heavier than ma
ple, but lighter in color, unless colored
with sugar house molasses.
A Farmer*' Exchange.
A project which originated in a farm
ers' co-operative meeting held in Chi
cago last December has for its object
the consolidation of the various co-op
erative movements of American farm
ers and the establishment of a farm
ers' exchange. A meeting at Omaha is
expected to bring further development
of the plan. ■ *
A Bit Batter Show Plaaaed.
At the recent Wisconsin Association
of Buttermakers, Secretary Fulmer ad
vocated the holding of a state scoring
contest once a month. He also said the
association could aid the dairy and
food commls«k>ns and become a power
in legislation. It was resolved that as
Important an exhibit as possible should
be made at St. Louis, and the work of
the dairy school of Wisconsin univer
sity was commended. It is claimed
that the supply men sold about $30,000
worth of machinery.
Ohio'* Fine Poaltrr Show.
Exhibits by two catteries, over t\
hundred dogs and fifty beautiful water-
Towl were Interesting features of one
of the finest poultry shows on the rec
ord of the Ohio Stnte Poultry associa
tion, recently held. The entries of
fowls numliered about 1,000 and com
prised many varieties nnd breeds. A
number of bantams were shown, lp
eluding black rose combs, silver duck
ling, games and many others.
Corn Competlttoa.
Both Illinois and Missouri have
worked systematically and vigorously
for success in the world's fair corn ex
hibit at St Louis. The exhibits of each
of these states will be the result of
State competitions held with a view to
securing the finest corn grown in the
stato for display in the universal ex
position. The Illinois commission
makes Its awards under the auspices
of the state farmers' Institute.
J. T. MARSHALL.
The florae For the Farmer.
Mitchell, 8. D.—Before the South Da
koto Live Stock association J. U. Dun
mire of Scotland said in his address on
"The Horse For the Farm:" "The horse
for the fartner is the draft bred horse.
He Is the horse that can be raised by
the common farmer with little trouble
and expense. lie Is In reach of nlmost
every farmer in the country. It is n
profitable business on the farm to raise
a few good colts. I say 'good colts,'
for It is Just as ensy to raise good ones
lis poor ones.
"It Is Just ns easy to rnlse good horses
as good cattle or good sheep or hogs.
It does not pay to raise poor ones.
Leave that for the other fellow."
THE GYPSIES.
Their Tribe* Kslated la Barope
From Immemorial Time*.
Gypsies were found in England about
1614, according to "A Dyalogue of Sir
Thomas More" (1520), but the exact
year of their arrival Is unknown. They
were present in Scotland In 1500. and
possibly they were the "Saracens"
whose depredations in that country
prior to 1400 are on record.
Hatalllard and other authors believe
that gypsies existed In Europe from
immemorial times, for they find no ac
count of their crossing the Bosporus,
and no record Is known to exist of their
passage to England or Scotland.
They were better received in these
countries than In any other, but so
early as 1531 an act was passed re
quiring the Egyptians to quit tho
realm under pain of death, a similar
edict being Issued in Scotland In 1541
and at varying periods in most of the
European states.
Transportation across the seas was
among the milder means adopted and
probably was tint cause of much fur
ther dispersion of the tribes. Under
Henry VIII. gypsies were shipped from
England to Norway or France, and
from France, so recently as 1802, they
were deported to Africa.
UNTIMELY CHEERS.
The Mlaplnri-d F.nf litialn*m of an K*-
4 orpar In Ir«»latid.
It was the rule in Ireland at one
time that after an execution the body
should hang an hour, but the sheriff,
from mistaken lenity, would on sonio
occasions look away nfter the prisoner
had been turned off. while the friends
of the culprit would hold up their com
panion by the waistband of tint trousers
so that the rope would not press upon
his throat.
When the hour was expired tba
deceased was put Into a cart, which
was driven at u gallop along the stony
road. The jolting generally brought
the prisoner to. One such recovery
was so complete that the resuscitated
man sat up In the coffin and gave three
cheers.
One of Ills friends was so shocked at
this Indecent conduct that he hit the
ex corpse on the head with his shlllnhih
and finished him. The question then
aro*e whether the as'iallnnt could Ist
tried for murder, but it was ruled that
no man could be sueeetofully charged
with the murder of a man who was al
ready dcaij in Inw. l'curjwn's Weekly.