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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKXALi WEDNESDAY. JUNE 4, 1902. 7 2 NONE BUT THE BRAVE By HAMBLEN SEARS. Previous charters aiTf.irM May 2 22. 23. 25. IS. June 2. lUek copies are kept but thirty Synopsis of Preceding Chnnter. Morton IlalfTt. of Putnam's division of the 'or.Unental Army, starts n an linj'ortart ml i n t ti'n-tal Wa.-hinftton alor.R the Hudson iivr roaJ. vhtn he encounters a coach which 1 s Jn.-t -..-rturn I. lie f-mls a lovely lrl In i.tr ai..; cfwri her to n lr.n. There lie u' i.un;. r a ilrurk-n l'.rltl.'h offleer. 'vlth whom 1 r.sfcts a iu:. The .:.'. vtr 1-s wounded, anl his IHrids ni.iite leaij to avc-nze the injury. The i::r!. who rtvfuln htr ilt-nftty as Deborah Pfcil 1 i !. tc-j . in wl.fn t Ii e .'.rur.ktn crowd accuses I cllort t U -jr.? a f;jy. an J sav she is his sweet heart. The drunken ruJTlani "insist urjn a mar r rtrtmfnj, and puh forward one of their r.urr.W. who .erform it. l'.a'.tort secures a rors f jr the plrt. and the couple proceed on t!jlr J' urr.T. Th girl st-js at a Tory house, anl the so:d.r continues on. his mission. While l.i a forest he overhears voices and thr is a witness to the f.-mous conference between Ben edict Amol! an.j MJ-r Arrn f"r the- delivery of the jlars cf West Point. IJatfort hurries away to tell Washington ft the riot, when he 1 Intercepted hy an A n-.erlca n i icict; h is tut tinder arrest anrt ordered sent to Arnold's head quarter?, but tf escapes from hi. -4 puard and push on io th headquarters of Washington. When he arrive there, after a tremendous ride, it Is to learn thtt Arnold has already escaped to the Urltisa l;aes. and that Andre Is a pris oner. B.ilfort is then attached to Washington'! staff and told to await orders. CIIAPTKIt VIII. IN WHICH I AM BIDDEN TO ENTER A FORBIDDEN HOUSE. So you'ro etationed with us now, my friend?" asked Acton a couple of days later, as we sat in Lieutenant Curtls's quartern In the upper atory of Colonel Liv ingstone's house. I told him that he was right. For, on presenting the commander-in-chief's note to the colonel, the latter had shaken me cordially by the hand, and told me that no one could be more pleased than he over the result. It turned out that when he read Putnam's note, while I was undergoing my first examination In the guardhouse, he felt that something was wrong; and, real izing that Washington often had agents at work whom no one else knew, be had called me to him, Judged for himself, and done what he could to help me along. It goes without saying that Arnold's treason was as unknown to him as to every one else; and, as I learned now. If I had told him the whole story, he would not have thought of believing it. Then I had been placed on his staff as an aid. to do what might come within my power, while I waited further orders from General Washington. And I had looked up the only two men I had made friends with during my short sojourn at the fort. They appeared each la his own way glad to have me with them again, the one boister ous and full of regard for a man who, how ever unconsciously, had been the means of saving him from possible death, the other calm, cool, serious and reserved, a gentle man to his finger tips. Curtis, indeed, haunted me a little by a strange twist which his face had now and again of look ing familiar, as If I had known hlra long ago In & past age. when he wore other gar ments. Nay, 'twas more than the face. Th voice, the little mannerisms that a man will always carry about him, would all now and then bring this peculiar prior ex istence to my mind. Yet it was all intangible and curious so strangely so that I almost of necessity tried to learn something of hi3 life and ante cedents. Here again I was baffled. No one not a soul In that regiment knew aught of him back of a couple of years, when he had joined with a lieutenant's commission and been placed under Capt. Jacob Barnes, who commanded a company of Living stone's foot. Distinguished service had raised hlra to the colonel's staff. Acton, whom I Immediately came to look on as a friend a friend who ha remained the same through thirty-odd years told me what little I could learn of Robert Curtis. He himself was the son of an old James town colony family, and had drifted into Livingstone's regiment through a Captain Henry, whose lieutenant he now was. And it appeared that Curtis had little to do with any one but this one Southern officer. According to John. Curtis had no lack of money, but spent little or nothing. The frank fellow, after their acquaintance be came established, had asked his friend con cerning his own family, and had been cut short by Curtls's gloomy face and his an swer that he had none. Neither could he learn where the young man came from, nor why he was weighed down so by such sorrow as prevented him from taking part in any of the recreations of camp life. He never laughed; sometimes he would smile. He never talked to any great extent; but on occasion, when some military or political subject came up. he could talk freely and well, with the knowl edge of a traveled and a studied man. He lived, In fact, a life apart from the life of the camp, a camp where I soon found that. In spite of the lack of money, there was no lack of amusement of every kind. Yet, withal. Curtis was never brusque; no one was too low for his courtesy; no officer could browbeat him with the rights of discipline when the higher rights were on his side. He had fought Captain Barnes and wounded hin, because the latter had ruined a country wench'near by, and then tried to browbeat Curtis when the latter criticised him to his face. Several times he had, I learned, called a superior to ac count, as on the day of my arrest. John Acton, or Jack, as I, like all the world, at once called him. was of another type. Huge In size, he was big in every way open-hearted, open-handed, full of a great, hearty laugh, careless of himself and all else, fond of a jovial evening, but as big In his sense of honesty and chivalry as he was In stature. They made a strange pair, these two. Yet, perhaps, by their very opposites, they were drawn together. My dropping In with them was all Acton's doing. Curtis I should never have known otherwise; for he did his best to avoid meeting any one excepting Acton. 'Twas the latter who took me to his heart at once, and so I saw Curtis and be came so strangely fascinated by the pe culiarly familiar look and manner he teemed to have that, perforce, he had to tolerate me; and in a few days I came to the habit of being with these two men whenever we were off duty. In such a camp, lifelong friendships and enmities are quickly made, and the exist ence of our American officers of those days, filled always with work, was relieved by the social life of little cliques and groups. Such an one was I now taken Into, and before long we three had ugreed, among ourselves, that whenever occasion aroe for special duty on the part of any one of us, that one would, if possible, se cure the ether two to help him carry through the affair. The especially Important cae In point vras the rapture of a certain man called Captain HateUfne. I had overheard some thing of him that morning in the guard house, and learned now that the man had be-come a sort of mania with Curtis. The latter had distinguished himself on several occasions in carrying out special work, and s direct order had now come from the com- mander-ln-chief for Lieutenant Curtis to watch and. If possible, take this man. I learned, too, that he was thought tr be a py of Clinton's a Tory working with the L'nn'irh, In cthsr word; but that he had passed for a short time as a private agent of Washingto'n, coming well recommended from two fritnd3 in New York. The commander-in-chief, however, with his uner ring sagacity, had finally come to suspect the man, and had then lost him of a sud den. Curtis had seen him now four times, but never face to face, only in the darkness. And the way the man had eluded him had hurt the young lieutenant's pride, besides giving his strong, serious nature a dlfflcult task that fitted into his desire for hard labor of any sort. "I'll come up with the man, if It takes the powers of hell to do it," he declared one night, after we had spent the evening covering a bit of the country to the esat ward of Teller's Point. "Egad. Rob, I pity him," cried Acton, "for ye'll come up with him some day, and then will there be a short but unpleasant hour for him." "If ever I meet him," said the other calmly, " 'twill be a short affair, for 'tis between him and me now; and, if you'll be lieve it, I'm blessed If I do not think ho knows it." "Ye'll do It, by Gad, Rob, ye'll do it, sure!" said the other with that boundless confidence of an cpen. enthusiastic nature In one who is always reserved and unen thuslastlc to a fault. So In the ten days that followed my ar rival we spent half the time scouring the country, looking for this ghost with the cape coat and phantom horse. To confess truth, I had some doubts of the importance of the work, which showed how little I knew cf the intriguing and under-current work going on at this otherwise strangely stagnant period of the war. 'Twas on such an expedition that Acton had nearly lost his life when I chanced along; and, in fact, 'twas no child's play to roam about the country to the south of us, infested as it was with all the outlaws of the northern part of the colonics. These villains preyed on any one, and we were good meat for them. Two or three running fights we had in these ten days, as it was, but without results of any kind, save the lesson of knowing when to run away. Yet could Acton never get this bet ter part of valor into his head; for 'twas always a hard task to make him retire. As on the day I first met him, he would brighten up at the prospect of a fight, and would tackle any number of Skinners that might fall in with us with a laugh on his lips and Joy in his heart. And then, when we had finally got him away, once actually leading his horse against his will, he would curse us roundly for an hour, and then beg our pardon. Yet with all this the time dragged with me, for I had hoped to get a commission to search for Arnold, and each day that passed made this more hopeless. Once we heard that he lay in New York; again, that he had gone to England; still again, that he had joined Cornwallis In the south. I had, of course, told my story to my two friends, and we had here again agreed to work together, should I ever gain permis sion to go forth in search of him. The idea brought more life and color to Curtis's face than anything I had witnessed since mak ing his acquaintance; for, cool though he was and little given to enthusiasm, this was a work after his own heart. In fact, his mind seemed gradually to settle upon that, too, as a riece of work he must have a hand in. Then, too, my mind would continually hark back to a face that would not down from my thoughts, and I wondered night after night as I lay in my bed for the colonel's aids actually did have beds what she did now, and now; where she was; what might be her sorrow and trouble that had taken her from her home, and why fate should have set the insurmountable barrier of a great war between us. Of the episode of Gowan's Tavern in which one James Marvin had taken so significant a part. I thought but little and spoke not at all, because, Indeed, it meant naught. And yet 'twas a strange satisfaction that would run through my blood, to think that this one unknown woman of all others in the world had stood beside me there, had rid den with me the next morning, and, what ever she might have felt, had certainly trusted me. If I could see her once again, under happy circumstances! If I could watch the sudden changes of mood fly one after another across her fair face! Aye, if I coald! If I could! If And In walked Curtis with his usuaj careless step and undisturbed countenance, to say: "Get your kit together, lad. We go on something worth while this night." Without a word, I took my sword from the corner and got pistol and boots ready. 'Twas only a moment, and we went over to his room, where sat Jack Acton, ready as well. "We take twenty men, and ride south. Are you ready?" "Why twenty men, Rob?" asked Acton. "Let us do it alone, whatever It may be." "We shall need them all. Nothing more here. The walls can hear and talk of it." "Still, I do not see." went on the big fel low; but he followed after. Outside, over by the barracks, with his usual precision, Curtis pointed out to us the troop of twenty men, ready mounted, and our horses standing by. I was up on Roger at once, for I had the dear old nag again safe and sound. And we rode away south, giving the word and a greeting to the rickets as we passed out of camp into the night and the uncertain neutral coun try. The command had been passed along for silence, and so we rode hour by hour steadily southward, until by the distance my heart began to beat faster, for by now I had begun to know the country, and I saw we must be fast nearlng a certain fated house. If I could but see her once! "This way. Jack and Balfort," said Cur tis out of the darkness; and we moved a hundred yards in advance of the troop. "We are getting near the place." "And I should like, to know" began Acton. "Why we are here? Well, listen. There is an impression that an attempt has been planned to recapture Andre, who was to have been taken to-night down this side of the river and carried over to the other bank, on his way to Tappan for trial. The colonel had word from headquarters this evening, at 6, that the plans are changed. "Andre goes from West Point without crossing, and we are to take the British squad, or troop, that will come here to take him. They may be on hand now. They may not comt; till later, as the prisoner was to cross about 4 In the morning. At all events, the meeting, or place of conceal ment, will be in a house here at Gowan's Ferry, which I will show you." My heart gave a double Jump as he went on: "We shall divide into three parties, one going south, one eastward, and the other making an attempt to enter the house." "Give me the house. Curtis," said I quickly; "1 want work badly." lie said nothing, and we moved on; when, as If by magic, I recognUed In the dark ness the wood-lined road, and in another moment, coming out Into the open, I knew the house where I had last seen Deborah Phlllpse. Turning to Curtis to urge my point now with added fervor, I caught a fierce yet mournful look in his face as he gazed with wide eyes at the old mansion, and the request froze on my lips. He looked long as he waited for the troop to come up, and then, as if by an effort, turned h!3 face towards me and said: "Balfort, take six men and enter that house, if you can. Once there, conceal your men and take anything and anybody who tries to enter. I go south to meet them with six troopers, and Acton will cover the country to the eastward with the others." I said not a word, but, as I picked the sergeant and five men, I fervently and si lently thanked heaven. To be Continued on Friday. Copyright. 1M1. by Frank A. Munsey as "In the Shadow of War." Copyright. 1302, by Dodd. Mead fc Co. "JUDGMENT OF PARIS A Dangerous Kxamnle for the 3Ion tana Paris to Follow. Butte Inter Mountain. Paris was the good-looking son of the King of Troy, and It was because of his doings that the Trojan war was declared and waged for seven years, resulting in a general cleaning out of combatants and the destruction of "the topless towers of Ilium." It was on Mount Ida, when he was still a shepherd boy, that Juno, Venus and Minerva came to Paris with the golden apple and asked him to judge of their respective beauty and award the apple "to the fairest." It was a delightful and yet a delicate commission, but Paris did not shrink from the responsibility. Juno of fered him the bribe of power, Minerva glory and Venus promised him the fairest woman in the world. Venus received the prize, and, true to her word, leaving her cwn charms out of the balance, gave the fair Helen into his keeping. There is no use to rake up old personalities further than to say that Paris had no right to Helen, for she was already the wife of Menelaus. The Trojan war was the result, and Purls fell pierced by the unerring arrow of a hostile bowman. Is Paris Gibson. United States senator from Montana, also interested in judging as to the beauty of women, and if so is it due to his present Washington environ ment? We are moved to this inquiry by a letter which Mr. Gibson has written from Washington to a lady of his home town of Great Falls, the president of the Travelers' Club of that place, In which he recommends a woman lecturer to the club and advises that she be engaged to lecture on the sub ject of "The Commercial Value of Beauty." It is an important and a fascinating theme, but it would seem, at this distance, that it would be more interesting and im portant in Washington than in Great Falls. While beauty is not despised in Great Falls, or anywhere else in Montana, as suredly it is more of a commercial proposi tion in Washington, where its value Is known and acknowledged in the Jine of lobby work, for example. Possibly Senator Paris Gibson does not realize the dangerous ground upon which he is treading and inviting his fellow-citizens of Montana to follow him. A peril lies In this golden apple business. This modern Paris may be bringing on another war in which some Montana Hector may be slain by another Achilles and dragged thrice around the walls of Great Falls. We have but to recall the wreck and the red fields of war created by Helen's fatal gift of beauty to abstain from mix ing that sort of thing too intimately with our commercial affairs. Not only did the beauty of this woman bring about the ruin and slaughter at Troy, but in after years Dr. Faust bartered his immortal soul for one look at her. When she ap peared before him and her marvelous eyes suddenly met his as he walked in his gar dens, he was transfixed: "Is this the face that launched a thousand Fhlps, That burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! , Her mouth sucks forth my soul! See where it flies! " Let Paris Gibson have a care. SUNDAY DA SEI! ALL. There Is Much Difference Between the Amateur and the Professional. Philadelphia Preas. The presence of a Catholic clergyman, of Hackensack, N. J., at a baseball game last Sunday, and the strenuous efforts Cleve land (O.) is making to stop the playing of the game in that city on Sunday, illustrate the different views people will take of the same question. Uoth are doubtless sincere, and can give ample reasons for their opin ion. The difference Is due to environment and the kind of baseball played. v The clergyman believes that exercise is a good thing, and that as most of the young men of his church are employed six days in the week, and have no time for recrea tion except on Sunday, he advises them to play baseball that day. He. however, qual ifies his advice by Insisting that the game must not Interfere with the regular atten dance at church of the participants, and that the game must be conducted in an or derly, quiet manner, so as not to disturb the tranquillity of those who believe in a .cessation of all sports on Sunday. But the people of Cleveland evidently have no confidence that baseball can be played on the linos marked out by the Hackensack clergyman. Their experience has been with noisy coaches, disputes be tween umpires and players, and the shout ing of fans on the benches. These, with crowds pouring in and out of the grounds, and ari occasional melee among spectators, have convinced Cleveland that Sunday baseball is not a thing to be desired, and it has asked the courts to put a ban on it. or at least on the professional kind of base ball. The trouble with baseball as a Sunday recreation is that it generates too much enthusiasm for a day of rest. And the American people will not listen to any proposition to disturb the well-settled cus tom of making the Sabbath a day of rest. If baseball were not such a "git-up-and-git" game It might become a quiet Sunday recreation like golf and bicycling, but it is doubtful if it can be conducted in that way. The Hackensack clergyman may be able to keep his "boys" within the bounds so long as they play only amateur ball, but most communities will agree that professional baseball is not a Sunday recreation to be encouraged. DEMAND FOR POSTAL CAItDS. Uncle Sam's Printer Turning; Out 3,000,000 a Day, New York Sun. One of the most noticeable developments in the rostoffice Department is the increas ing use of postal cards. The number circu lated through the mails is increasing ev ery month, and to supply the demand the United States postal printing office up in Rumford Falls, Me., is being run night and day. It Is now turning out 3.000,0oo postal cards daily and still the demand Increases. New York. Boston. Chicago, Pittsburg, De troit, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Troy use more postal cards than other cities. One of the newest and increasing uses for postal cards is to secure opinions on all sorts of subjects. Whenever a busi ness concern, a social organization or a political body washes to test the state of public feeling on any point now it circu lates postal cards. They are printed so that all the citizens whose opinion Is sought need to do is to write "yes" or "no" or to affix a mark to a question, sign his name and drop the card in the mail box. It is a simple and effective means of feeling the public pulse, and it is helping Uncle Sam's trade in postal cards wonder fully. A Matter of Taste. Roswell Field, in Chicago Post. A gentleman in Maryland has discovered that locusts served up with a sauce of -wild honey a la John the Baptist make a most delightful and palatable dish, and he has brought many of his friends around to his way of thinking. Up to the present time locusts have not been corralled by the meat trust and may be obtained In rea sonable quantities in the proper season, subject, of course, to the game laws. As it seems to be approaching the time when we must face the question of eating, not what we like, but what we must like, and as there is every day an advance toward the condition of the camper who "liked his beans wet," we cheerfully recommend the locust to the Indigent housekeeper. For our own part we profess no great appetite for locusts. Personally, we think we should prefer beetles and tumble bugs. Arthur Demlng, Monologuist, Newby Oval. FARM AND GARDEN jZ? INTERESTS Agricultural Thoughts. Country Gentleman. Tasmanlan apples and pears are now cut ting quite a figure in the London markets. Ben Davis shows up well to the front, as usual. From all reports we believe that the ship ments of apples lri boxes holding one bushel or less will.be much more generally tried this year than ever before. New potatoes are coming to the city markets rather rapidly, but the prices of old potatoes have not diminished in the least. It is probable that large acreages of this indispensable vegetable will be planted this year. Thorough early cultivation !r the orchard Is the central idea in the modern system. This is the time of the year when the work i3 done. Hairy vetch makes a fine cover crop so says Professor Craig. But the seed is expensive. When a man once gets a statt, though, it is not difficult to grow one's own seed. The Southern strawberry crop, now com ing to market, is generally very good, and the prospects at this writing are that the Northern crop will be equally good. Drainage is a very important matter in an orchard. It is too often neglected or overlook altogether. Many orchards are unsuccessful on this account. The Bismarck apple, very highly recom mended recently by the men who had the trees for sale, has not proved a great boon to the planters. The fruit is coarse and of rather poor quality. A hundred good old American varieties could be mentioned which are better. At a recent horticultural meeting the dear old crazy question was asked: What is the best time to prune? Mr. H. E. Van Deman answered it by saying that he thought June or July was about the best time. Still, of course, it depends on the tree and what one is trying to do with it. High or low pruning used to be a live question for discussion at all fruit-growers' meetings. It is, not so much agitated now. The reason is partly that we see that it is to be settled by every man to suit himself. Still, it seems certain that the tendency in the Eastern States Is to prune lower than formerly. One of the most striking developments of the current year has been the organization of hundreds of large fruit-growing compa nies. These concerns are planting all sorts of fruit, but especially peaches and apples, in nearly every State in the Union. The Elberta peach has had a great boom. It has been more excessively planted than even the Kieffer pear was two years ago. A day of reckoning will come, of course, nvhen all these trees come into bearing. Elberta is a fine variety; but, when any variety is the fad, it is a good thing to plant something else. Cantaloupes are every year coming to be more and more of a factor in the fruit market. They are being more appreciated by the general fruit-growers, too, who find them an excellent catch crop. The search for an apple which will have the hardiness of Duchess, the prolificacy of Baldwin, the vigor of Spy, the keeping quality of Ben Davis and the flavor of Spitzenburg goes seriously forward. It is safe to say, though, that the national ad ministration will change before the apple is discovered. Iowa has more than five times as many plum trees as she had ten years ago that is, according to the census figures. These are mostly of the native varieties, not shown by the census. One man of whom we heard the other day marketed Gu) crates last year, all natives. Prices were good. The dewberry is a fine fruit. One reason why the public knows so little about it is that dewberries are almost always hold to the consumer as blackberries. The Green Mountain is an ideal grape for Northern States. For Southern lati tudes there are better ones. We were recently told by a man who claimed to know that there is a growing demand for homemade, wines. Blackberry wine, gooseberry wine, currant wine and all those old-fashioned beverages which our grandmothers used to make are certainly worth bringing back into use. Okra is a fine vegetable for those who can grow It. That means for persons as far south as New Jersey. In the North .t does not do well. Even lima beans cannot be grown very far north, and sweet pota toes are never worth mentioning nortn of New Jersey. Canning factories are Increasing every year. They serve to take up the excess in some lines and to make a crop of some other things profitable; but they do not usually cut much figure in the general fruit market. The really good marketable fruit is not of the canning factory grade. Root-killing of apple trees is being con stantly reported. It seems to be due. how ever, to very diverse causes in different cases. This Is a subject which we 3hall have to look after closely. Damage at the root of a tree easily escapes notice. Concerning: Sorrel. The Purdue University agricultural ex periment station issues the following bulle tin concerning sorrel, prepared by the bot anist of the institution, J. C. Arthur: Sorrel Is among the most troublesome of weeds, when once it has gained a foot hold. It appears to be attracting more at tention in Indiana than formerly, and the following statement has boen prepared to answer the Inquiries that are now frequent ly received at the experiment station. Sorrel flourishes most on sandy soil, where the usual" farm crops give only a poor stand. Its presence in a field is gen erally an indication of limited fertility, and It may become a pest on any thin soil, and especially sour soils. The farmer with rich fields and clean culture, is not likely to notice It. Sorrel grows about a foot high, with leaves an inch long having a pair of pro jections at the base of the blade. The leaves are pleasantly sour to the taste. It sends out runners just beneath the surface of the ground, which start new plants and bind the whole together in mats. Patches of it are usually conspicuous from the red color of the stems, especially during the llowering time, and give fields a red ap pearance, even at considerable distances. It is sometimes called red sorrel, and oc casionally horse sorrel. There is no direct method of extermin ating sorrel; It Is too tenacious of life to be easily vanquished. First efforts must be given to cultural methods. A succession of hoed crops, if extra care is taken to let no plants escape destruction, will greatly reduce the numbers; but plants at the edges of the field and seeds in the soil will be likely to restock the ground. It is gener ally in pastures and clover lands that the weed is the greatest pest, where it is not always expedient to use the plow. But whether the ground is under the cul tivator or in sod, chief reliance must be had upon means for increasing the fertility. The land must be made to grow good crops by using manure or chemical fertilizers. In this way the weed is choked by the oth er plants, and although it will not be ex terminated, yet it is so much reduced as no longer to give trouble. In this connection the use of air-slaked lime is especially to be recommended in addition to the fertilizers. Lime has had a reputation in this connection for a long time, and recent experiments confirm the opinion. Its application will do no harm to other crops, and is usually decidedly bene ficial to them. It is a corrective for acid soil, improves the mechanical condition of stiff soils, and makes the natural fertility of the ground more quickly available. It should be applied on sorrel-infested fields at the rate of one to five tons per acre. Our "Wheat Prospects. W. S. Harwood, in Scribner's Magazine. The fear which was quite recently ex pressed in scientific circles in Great Britain that the end of our capacity to raise the greatest of all cereals, wheat, was already in sight, had in it much to disturb. The specter of ultimate starvation for a very large number of the race, however, seems to have been laid for all time by the in vestigations which have been carried on for the past decade at one of the stations in the great wheat region of the North west. This station, a department of the School of Agriculture in connection with the University of Minnesota, has been at work testing old varieties of wheat and creating new ones. Wheat, a self-fertilizing grain, goes on reproducing Itself through any number of centuries. The grain of pre Adamic periods would, if planted through ail the centuries, produce precisely the same wheat grown in that far time. So, to produce a new wheat, man must come to the aid of Nature. To create a new wheat, pollen from one wheat flower is placed on the stigma of another wheat flower in the dawn of a summer morning, the fertilized wheat Is incased in a mask of tissue paper to keep away the birds and insects, and, in due .He IiristdSfliiD brands of am? PV One Band from "FLORODORA" Cigars or Two Bands from hCUBANOLA: "CREMO" ''GE0.WCHILDS"or'JACKS0NSQUARE''Ci3a are of same value as one Tag from "STAR'.' HORSE SHOE. "SPEARHEAD': "STANDARD NAVY or J.T. 1 I !-fcw1 l I I 1 2 w ft (Jil I VY fr sJ It r J u II Li N ft a U W K I . a ir ir rii run i - r i J v trÄTC5: J ', JV2 every meal for every man, woman and child. How foolish to make these statements if Mapl-Ffake would not justify all we claim ? Try it. Get a package today. Serve it in any of the dozen methods suggested in pamphlet of directions (inside each package). Always ready for eatin. . Thoroughly steam-cooked, it assimilates quickly, aiding good digestion and assisting every organ of the body to perform its functions a3 Nature designed. If your grocer values your trade he'll always have Mapl-Flako fqr you. Kot more expensive than ordinary cereal foods. HYGIENIC FOOD CO., LTD., BATTLE CREEK, MICH. i season, that which nature alone could not accomplish has been done a new wheat has been added to the plant life of the world. Hundreds of new wheats have thus been created at this station. Hundreds also have been found wanting when tested, lacking in some one essential, or in many; but out of the hundreds a few, less than a dozen all told, have been found to be su perior to those, from which they were bred better in yielding power, stronger to resist disease, as rich in food qualities. Se lection, too, has been an important feature of the work, the choosing of the choicest types for seed and breeding. A Leaf Added to the Clover. Everybody's Magazine. Near Amsterdam, in 1S-S8, Professor De Vries found a plant bearing six or seven four-leaved clovers. This he set out anew in his garden, where it did not bear seeds until lhSO. These he sowed, and since then he has had a new generation each year. Each time he chose his seeds from one fourth of the best plants; that is, from those which had the most four and five leaved clovers. It was the third genera tion, however, in 1S91, that began to be rich In the desired form of leaves, but only with four and five leaflets, and these only in the adult plants. Still, during August and September of the same year he re marked a very few with seven leaflets. At this point he reduced his selection (or choosing his seeds from the best specimens) to a severe standard. That is, he chose for progenitors only those plants which had two-thirds of all its leaves with four or more leaflets. The five-leaved clovers, however, are now the normal product. Professor De Vrles has given its seeds for practical ex perimenting purposes to the professor of the Minnesota Agricultural College, but as to the results he has not yet heard. Providing that a rich soli and a good cul ture be maintained he holds that his five leaved clover will keep constant: that Is, it will not go back to the three-leaved. Such being the case the cultivation of this new variety should have a high value over the ordinary clover, not only as "cow grass," but as a more enegretlc enricher of the soil. Multiplying Crops. Up-to-Date Farming. Frequently two or more crops can be grown on the same piece of ground with equal advantage to each if occupying the ground at the same time, or one crop may be removed and followed by another. Where the very maximum results are ex pected from any soil it must be put into the very finest condition before planting, so the after cultivation will not be hind ered. m Suppose now you have a half acre of ground and wish to make the most possible 0 The Steam Cooked The whole of the wheat (most carefully se lected wheat, too) combined with pure maple syrup, and other healthful ingredients, hygien ically prepared. Great, light flakes, crisp and delicious. In comparably more appetizing than any other cereal food. A delightful, nutritious article for from it. AVe suggest a programme similar to the following: First, plant early cabbage that will ma ture by July 1; set them in rows 3 feet apart by IV2 feet in the rows, which will give you about 5.500 plants. Second, set a head lettuce plant between each cab bage plant In the rows, and a row of let tuce plants between the rows, setting the plants In the lettuce row about one foot apart. Thus you will have about 13.000 on half the acre. Third, sow a row of radishes between each row of cabbage and lettuce. If you have followed our suggestions you will have the rows a inches apart. The radishes will be marketed in about 60 days, and the lettuce is ready to expand, and finds room by the radishes being removed. The lettuce in turn goes to market early in June, and the cabbage occupies the ground exclusively, and is ready for market on July 1. As soon as the crop of cabbage is off the grounel should be cleared of refuse and plowed and pulverized again thoroughly, and planted to celerj' in rows or shallow trenches 3 feet apart and 6 Inches apart in the rows. Between the trenches set two rows of lettuce. By this process an enormous amount of stuff may be taken from a small plot of ground. The varieties may be varied, keeping in mind development and maturity. 'STRlKIXCi" STinCMS. Prevalence of n Vicious Ilahlt That Calls for Serious Treatment. Philadelphia Press. Because the faculty of Delaware Col lege, In Newark, Del., suspended a haif dozen students, charged with the brutal hazing of a fellow-undergraduate, the en tire student boiy of that Institution, with the exemption of the senior dasj, has de termined to "go on strike." The men have absented themselves from lectures and will, they say. refuse to take any part in the regular serious work of the place unill the suspended persons have been fully re instated. This news, following closely upon a somewhat similar story from Li fayette. calls attention to a point of view which appears to be growing in favor with college students and which should be dealt with both promptly and severely by aca demic authorities. The young man at college Is at an age when, for all his reputed humor, he takes himself far more seriously than he 1U ever do in after life. He Is wonderfully fond of ridiculing others, but he is Kenr ally incapable of seeing anything ridicu lous in himself. Yet a student "on strike" is really the most ludicrous figure Imagin able in the college world. There may be two minds about4the utility of strikes in the cause of labor, but it is self-evident that the student who adopts such meas ures Is hurting no ore but himself and his own parents. His tuition has been paid in advance, and his absence from Kc- in the world! Tobacco. Food. tures is only giving to the faculty he pur poses to injure a vacation on full salary. The striker merely robs himself of his ad vantages and his parents of the money they have spent with the understanding that he shall uso it in acquiring an educa tion. The faculty should expel him and the parents should spank hlrn. If a tu dent in good standing objects to one col lege, the only logical course for him to pursue Is quietly to go to another. As for the institution he so vainly tries to hurt. It can better afford to lose three fourths of its students than to permit them to make gratuitous fools of them--selves about its precincts. N Ik lit Schools In Luios. Manila American. The American takes pleasure in giving publicity to the plans and rules of the new enterprise of the Young Men's Christian Association, the opening and maintaining of nlfiht schools for men. The main ob ject is to aid Americans resident in this city by preparing them for appointment to and promotion in the civil s rvice. in es tablishing night schools for Kngllfh-spcak-ing men the association Is meeting a crinj need, and it is the fcTeatest possible pleas ure to know that this movement, which must result in increasing the Alciency of the civil service employes, is ready to l set in motion. The alms of the association are so well known and the rejultr that have been accomplished thrush it nc?ny have been so greatly appreciated that it does not hesitate to ask the moral support of everybody in this educational move ment. This will no doubt be readily ac corded, as it certainly should be. Th-i nlßht classes will no doubt bo liberally pat ronized and the effect of the work will not only improve the minds and rrtlcieney of the civil service, but studious and ambi tious men In every calling. The Manila branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation is an efficient, active and up-t-date institution. In every possible way it deserves the active sympathy and the moral and financial support cf the com munity. It Will De a c;ood Ulli. Salt Lake Tribune. The forecast of an agreement amor Republicans whereby a compromise tii for the relief of Cub is to be pAKsed wUl be acceptable news to the country, for a bill upon which all Republicans can unit is sure to be a good bllL The terms of th'.i measure will be anxiously awaited by th country. Urti A Good lUamiile. Kansas City Star. Even the t'nlted States may learn some thing from Cuba. President Palma, with every temptation to be diffusive, kept his first mesage within the space of a column.