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CHAPTER IV.—(Continued.)
He looked at the girl. She wore a
plain gown of some cheap grey stuff,
simply made, and a narrow white col
lar but the gown nearly touched the
floor, and Enderby was astonished at
the change the different garb wrought
in her. She now looked a girl of sev
enteen. Her figure was very slender,
but the grey gown Bhowed soft, wo
-r .manly curves.
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Then he glanced into her face. 'A
slight color was in the cheeks, her
'eyes were soft and dreamy. Then was
something in the whole faca wonder
fully gentle and sweet, yet the mouth
spoke of firmness and steady purpose.
Enderby was the first to speak.
"I hope your ankle is better now,
Miss Lloyd?"
"Oh, thank you, yes! It Is nearly
well again," she answered quickly. "I
96'not think it could have been a
sprain after all. I bathed it vlth a
lotion, and it is only stiff new. You
see, I understand a little about doctor
ing people," she added, with a slight
smile.
"I am very glad," he answered. "And
jrour father—how is he?"
The girl's face quivered a little.
"He is a little better than he was
that night, or he would not be here
pow. But he is still very ill."
"And the doctor you wished—Doctor
Lyndon. Have you found him?" En
.derby asked.
•.' His voice w&s hardly under his con
-trol as he put the question.
She hesitated a moment then an
swered:
"Yes I have found him. He has
been to see my father, and says he
thinks there is no immediate danger."
"Perhaps he knows your father's
^constitution well? I suppose that is
the reason why you were so averse to
jhaving a stranger?" said Enderby. "By
the by, I know a Doctor Lyndon, and
wonder if he is the same man. A Doc
tor Dundas Lyndon—a slender man,
with brown hair, a good complexion,
grey eyes, and wearing a beard."
"Yes, that is he," said the girl, with
reluctance in her words. "Then you
know him, Mr.
Enderby started, then smiled.
"Why, I believe I have never told
Son my name! How stupid of me! It
Is Paul Enderby. I am a barrister by
profession, and met Doctor Lyndon
only the other day. Do you know him
.. well, then? He is an intimate friend?"
"Of my father, he seems to be," the
girl answered slowly. "But I have not
.known him for very long. You see,
we have been abroad—" She drew
berself up sharply, then looked at En
derby with a sudden fall in her eyes.
"Oh, you must forget that. Mr. Ender
by! Will* you? I have no right to
talk about my ikther's affairs."
"Don't be afraid. A lawyer learns to
keep his own counsel, Miss Lloyd,"
said Enderby.
But a sudden chill had fallen upon
bim as the girl spoke. He stood for a
moment silent, then looked up and
spoke.
"Miss Lloyd, will you answer me
one question? Your name is a Welsh
one is it possible you are of Welsh
'descent?"
"I think my mother was Welsh
ut I am not Bure about my father,"
'said the girl. "You see I was away
from my parents for a long time, Mr.
Enderby. When I was quite a little
'girl, an aunt—a sister of my father's
—took me to stay with her. My'father
was very poor then, so poor that he
bad to teach in a private house he
was a tutor. I think. Did you speak,
Mr. Enderby? I thought you did. Then
I'Jolned my father later on, when—
But I must not say any more."
She looked into Enderby's face with
sweet, childlike, trusting eyes. Ender-
r. 4y
felt himself a traitor, though he had
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:/done no harm to either the girl or her
||lifather.
This was the man, then! His vague
S suspicions had been correct. How
strangely, how wonderfully Fate—or
rather Providence—had thrown these
people In his way—the very man whom
whom he was to prove guilty of a base
and terrible crime!
And Dundas Lyndon? Somehow, the
thought of this man made Enderby's
heart grow vaguely prescient of evil.
.What part did he play In the arena of
human sin and suffering that he
should be trusted both by Sir Henry
.Lennox, and by the man whose crime
.'it bad been Sir Henry's part to prove?
N Suddenly the girl said:
"Will you allow me to go up and tell
my father you are here, Mr. Enderby?
I told him how you had helped me,
and I think he will see you."
"I should like very much to see Mr.
Lloyd," said Paul earnestly.
And the girl left the room,
She returned in a short time.
"My father says he would like to see
you, Mr. Enderby. Will you come this
way?"
He followed her across the dingy
corridor, until she paused before a
door and opened it. He found himself
In a room much more comfortably fur
nlshed than the other. A bed stood in
the center, with a white coverlet laid
neatly over it the room was aB tidy
and clean as it could be.
v.- Besjde a small flre—the sun was
"•khinijjg brightly outside—stood a com
iortably-cushioned easy chair, and in
It, .clnd In a. somewhat old and worn
dwssinggown, satthe mere shadowof
man—a thin, emaciated creature,
.e ion« limbs -ahd^ evident ^elgjbt
M, to make bis emaciation more
.ed. His hands, almost skin and
I, were crossed on bis knees a pa
ay .between them.v He tamed his
toward the door as they entered,
Enderby saw It :fully. It was a
that bad once been a handsome
.gentle and refined but now tbe
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bloodless lips, the hollow cheeks, the
sunken blue eyes, the temple, over
which thin gray hair kept straying,
made it more like the face of a dead
man than of a living one.
A strange feeling of mingled pity
and compunction moved in Enderby's
heart as he came forward to the chair.
"I am sorry to see you looking so
ill, Mr. Lloyd," he said, as the sick
man made a gesture to rise, bowing as
he did so. "Do not rise, I beg of you."
"Jasmine, will you place a chair
for Mr. Enderby?" said the sick man.
It was the first time Paul had heard
the girl's name, and he turned to look
at her as she brought forward the
chair.
Jasmine did not raise her eyes, but
she must have felt the look she did not
see, for a second blush dawned in her
cheeks. For the moment she seemed a
woman in the first glorious dawn of
womanhood.
She placed the chair, then almost
noiselessly withdrew from the room.
Her father glanced to see if she was
gone, then he turned to Paul.
"Mr. Enderby, you were very kind
to my poor little girl the other night,
and for that let me beg to thank you.
We have few friends, my child and I.
We are poor and unknown, and there
fore friendless. For me it matters lit
tle, but for my child I feel sorry at
times that it should be so. I some
times wonder what would happen to
her if—if I died. Yet surely God would
raise up friends—the God who has nev
er quite forsaken me, however low I
have fallen."
He spoke in a quiet, gentle voice—
the" voice/ of a recluse who is more
accustomed to tnink than to speak
and Enderby glanced at him quickly.
Was it possible that this man could be
a criminal—this gentle looking, emaci
ated, and now evidently dying man,
the father of Jasmine? Or was it as
Sir Henry had said, that he was real
ly insane, at least on one point?
"I thought, from what your daugh
ter said, Mr. Lloyd, that you had at
least one friend," l}e said, determined
to probe the matter as far as he could.
"Doctor Lyndon."
The sick man was startled at the
name, and looked up sharply.
"Ah, yes—Doctor Lyndon! He was
my friend—once," he said slowly, "and
now also, I suppose. Yet sometimes—
What was I about to say?" he broke
off suddenly. "Mr. Enderby, there is
something in you which seems to draw
my confidence or is it that I have
been so long exiled from kindly hu
manity that I am eager to seize the
first hand stretched out to me? But
at least you are kind and generous
so much I know from what you did
for Jasamine. I should like if you
would come to see me again. Will
you?"
"I shall be very glad to do so," said
Enderby, almost eagerly. "May I
come on Sunday? I have more time at
my disposal then."
"Thank you," said the sick man
faintly. He stretched out his wasted
hand, and Enderby could not but take
It, yet again he felt a traitor.
Jasmine let him out.
"I am so glad you came," she said
in a low voice—and he saw a mist
come over the soft eyes. "He knows
no one, and sometimes I think, If only
he could speak of what Is preying on
his mind, he would be better."
"Then there is something?" Ender
by said, holding the small hand with
an unconscious close grasp.
She checked herself again.
"You must not let father know that
I said that!" she exclaimed eagerly.
"Good-by, and thank you so much!"
"Good-by," he returned.' As he went
down the long stairs he wondered
again if he were a traitor.
•r' CHAPTER V.
"Do you think I shall soon be all
right, Lyndon?"
"I certainly think so with care and
good nursing, such as Miss Jasmine is
able to give you, you will soon be as
well as any of us."
"I must get well soon," said the sick
man, with a flash of passion. "Lyn
don, I can't die and leave *my child
with this horrible stigma on her name.
I have made up my mind to write to
Sir Henry, and if he refuses to do-any
thing then, I must tell the truth."
Dr. Dundas Lyndon stood silent for
a moment. There was no change in
his smooth, freshly colored face his
light eyes were on the ground. Pres
ently he raised them, and looked at
his patient.
"You must not tell me these things,
old friend—you really must not. I am
simply a doctor, and am doing the
best I can for you but I should much
prefer if you did not speak to me of
these matters. Now I must go. You
will take your medicine as usual, and
I shall call again tomorrow."
"Lyndon," said the invalid, a little
huskily, "you are too kind to me. How
am I to repay you for all the kindness
you show me—and gratuitously?"
"Tush, man!" said the doctor—but
an observant watcher might have fan
cied that he turned slightly paler now.
"Is that much for one to do for an
old friend? We have known each
other these fifteen—seventeen years—
since you were my coach, Lloyd."
H$ went away, and Jasmine stole
back to her father.
There^ was strangely, cruel expres
sion on Dundas Lyndon's face as he
turned toward the door for a moment.
"Yes," he mutiered, between set
teeth "I am doiny my best for you—
and for, us all—David Lloyd."
Jasmine Bat down at her father's
feet on a low hassock.
"The doctor thinks you are better
today, daddy T"
"Yes, little one. Perhaps I «i»«n be
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better soon now, Jasmine. I hope r\i
There Is the work I have so often
spoken of to you to be done yet."
"YOB.
dear."
The girl looked Into the flre—they
had always to have a small flre burn
ing, even when the Sun was shining
warmly out of doors—her brown eyes
soft and dreamy.
It was strange how really little Jas
mine Lloyd knew of her father.
She had been, as she told. Enderby,
brought up by an aunt who lived in
Cornwall, while her father, whose
wife had died when Jasmine was very
young, had acted as tutor in private
families.
Then, when she was twelve, there
came a sudden summons for her. It
came in the shape of a sea-captain,
who brought a letter from her father.
Jasmine was to go out to him the
captain would take care of her.
She was taken to a wild, little
known place in California there her
father was making a poor living by
schoolmasterlng the miners' children
and conducting the "St. Jago Argus."
She was happy enough in that lovely,
warm climate of rich luxuriance and
fertility her father was good to her,
wonderfully gentle and kindly.
Then had come the upheaval of her
life again. News had come to her fa
ther which agitated him terribly, and
in a week's time they were on their
way home. They came to London and
took the shabby two-roomed flat In
Burdon Mansions. Her father wrote
articles on California for some papers.
Then came the first visit of Doctor
Dundas Lyndon, which agitated her
father again. Soon after he was taken
ill, and sent for Doctor Lyndon.
That was four months ago. Since,
then he had been steadily growing
worse, until that terrible night when
the lives of Paul Enderby and Jasmine
Lloyd came in touch.
Her father had told her vaguely
there was a work he had to do in Eng
land, and she knew, more by instinct
than by anything he said, that some
terrible cloud of disgrace or fear hung
over her father's life. But she did not
ask him to tell her what it was. She
waited patiently until the time came
when he should be willing to divulge It
to her and meantime she loved her
father with all her heart, and trusted
in him implicitly.
She broke the silence presently.
"Father, you know Doctor Lyndon
very well, don't you?"
"Yes, my child he was my friend
years ago."
"If it were not for that," said Jas
mine, slowly, "I think I should ask
you, dear, if you really trusted him. 1
don't, father."
(Tn be Continued.) •./
Men's Shirtwaists In Home.
Whatever may be the ultimate fate
of the shirt waist man in this country,
he is already established on a firm,
footing in the Eternal City of Rome.,
Victor Emmanuel, the Count of Turin,
and only two removes from the throne
of Italy, has given the shirt waist his
sanction, and all the Roman dandies
have been quick to follow his example
The Count of Turin is one of the
most enterprising and interesting
young Princes in Europe. He has
traveled widely, coming to this coun
try in 1898 and spending a part of the
next year hunting big game in Asia.
In adopting the shirt waist, for hot
weather wear the count has made some
startling Innovations in the decoration
of the garment. On one of his shirt
waists the buttons are made of gold
ten lire pieces, set in two rows down
the front of the garment, beginning
at the top close together and ending
at some distance apart below. On an
other waist the buttons are made of
black jet, each as large as a half dol
lar, and arranged in the sme way.—
Chicago Tribune.
Thinking of Her.
In the "Recollections of a New Eng-.
land Town." is the story of Mr. Bush,
an inventor and a studious man, whq
sometimes became so absorbed iq
thought as to forget both place and
people. His wife was a notable house
keeper, but she did not always go tq
church. One Sunday she accompanied
her husband thither, and glad an^
proud was he. But when the service
was over he walked away home, leav-i
ing her behind. Mrs. Bush was griev
ed. "My dear," she said, when she
reached the house, "I don't know what
people will think. You came away
without me. It was plain to be seei)
that I was entirely forgotten!" Mf.
Bush looked at her in a comical dis
may. "Forgotten, my dear?" said he.
"Oh, no, I don't think that's possible!
Why!" a brilliant idea striking him,
"now I remember, I was thinking of
you all the way home. I was thinking
what a good dinner you'd give mel"—i
Youth's Companion.
Queen Victoria's Pearls*
When Queen Victoria ascended the
throne, all the jewels left by George I
III. and George. IV. became hers.
Among them was a fine pearl necklace
that had belonged to Queen Charlotte,
wife of George III. Soon after the
queen's marriage to the prince con
sort, the king of Hanover claimed the
pearls as part of the crown Jewels of
Hanover. The claim was submitted to
the law officers of England, who had,
though with reluctance, to give their
decision against the queen. The pearls
are now worn on great occasions by
the duchess of Cumberland, sister of
the princess of Wales. Immediately on
decision being made known, the East
India company presented the queen
with a fine set of pearls, far superior
to those she relinquished.—London An
swers.
Signaling the Bank Bate.
There Is quite a mild excitement just
now at the Bank of England because
of an innovation at that venerable and
conservative Institution. A flagstaff
has actually been placed above the
building, and many are shaking their
beads at the sudden giddiness of the
Old Lady of Threadneedle street The
suggestion has been -tmade in all seri
ousness that numbers might be placed
on tbe flagstaff and .the bank rates in
dicated from time to time by the height
of the flag on the pole.—tendon Chron
icle.
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FABM AND GAJtDEN.
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AGRICULTURISTS.
Son* Cp-to-Date Hints About Cultiva­
tion of tbe Soil and Ylelda Thereof—
Horticulture,
^iUmilture and Flo^oifl-
Cow Feas In Kaotas.
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Aside from small plat#, purely ex
perimental, cow peas do not seem to
have been grown to any considerable
extent in Kansas, except by Hon. Ed
win Taylor of Wyandotte county,
whose experience has been published
by Secretary Coburn of the State Board
of Agriculture. A portion of Mr. Tay
lor's observations is given herewith:
Several of my neighbors are natives
of the mountain portion o£ Tennessee,
tor years I have listened to their
stories of the value of cow peas and,
tt last, some five years ago, I was
"agrlvated" by their iteration into try
ing the cow pea myself. I planted five
acres of upland with them. I had the
beas all right, estimated at from fif
teen to twenty bushels per acre, and
how c^me the question of gathering
them. I couldn't get it (lone at all, for
ihe reason that all the available pick
fcrs in the neighborhood were picking
potatoes.
All the agricultural writers were
Binging the praises of the cow pea, and
last summer (1899) I surrendered
again and gave the peas a second
trial.
I planted the first section, about ten
acres, the 6th of July. The peas came
up quickly, were well harrowed when
about four Inches high, had no other
cultivation, grew rapidly, but kept
company with a good many weeds.
We pushed the potato digging and neg
lected the pea planting, so that when
we were done digging two-thirds of
the field was yet to sow, the ground
hard and dry. About half was broad
casted the other half planted with tha
corn planter. It was Aug. 10 before
we finished. On the broadcast sowing
fully one and one-half bushels of seed
to the acre was used on tha portion
put in with the planter, about half a
bushel per acre, and on that portion
also was the best yield. The seed in
the first instance cost ($1.50 per
bushel) J2.25 per acre in the second
75 cents. About five acres of the por
tion put in with the planter did not
have the rows doubled, thus giving an
opportunity for cultivation. It was
gone over twice with a wheel culti
vator, and the resulting crop, so much
stronger and ranker than any of the
test, convinced me that, on rich
ground, the peas should be sown in
rows wide enough apart to admit of
thorough cultivation. The saving in
seed over broadcast sowing will much
more than pay for the cultivation,
while the yield, judging from one
year's operations, will be considerably
Increased. The first week in September
I cut a few loads of peas and ran them
through the cutter to "seal" the en
silage which we had just finished put
ting up. It served the purpose the best
of anything I ever used. We fed the
peas green, dried, and half-dried. The
cows seemed indifferent to the prep
aration, so long as the supply was am
pie. Not only was there the increase
of milk noticed, but the access of thrift
in the animals themselves was most
apparent.
I had two varieties, the Whippoor
will and the Clay. The first named is
the earlier variety It makes less
vines and more peas than the latter.
I There were more or less peas on most
of the vine3 we fed. Nothing was
weighed, but I guess the yield to have
been around three tons of dry vines
and peas per acre. A few stalks of
the Whippoorwill, planted July 5, not
cut, had matured their pods the latter
part of September. My conclusions
are: First, the Whippoorwill pea,
planted In rows thirty inches apart and
well cultivated, will make fine feed in
Bixty days and ripen a full crop of
seed in eighty days, and the Clay will
follow on some fifteen days later. Sec
ond, that so long as they can be hauled
from the field they are about the fin
est cow feed known, and I see no
I reason why, when dried thoroughly,
they might not be treated as other hay
and retain their value. Third, if, when
I have farmed that field another year,
I find that my Tennessee- friends are
vindicated as to the increased friability
and productivity of the soil from the
cultivation of this legume as fully as
they have respecting its value for feed
ing cows, then I shall want tc add my
mite to a subscription for a monu
ment to the man who invented cow
peas.
Clover Seed.
A communication from the Vermont
ExMriment Station says that clover
seer absolutely pure is an unknown
article in the market. In buying clover
seed .it Is just a question of how much
Impurity there shall be and what the
impurity is. It is not necessary to
have a great quantity of foreign mat
ter In order to have a very undesirable
mixture. If there is a half ounce or
seed of some bad weed in a bushel of
clover seed it may be' enough to Infest
the farm for years. Vermont clover
seed is probably no worse than any
other and it is better to sow poor
seed than not to grow clover—within
certain limits—but in many cases the
goods offered on the general market
may as well be subjected to an ex
amination.
The Vermont Experiment Station
made a number of these examinations
last year. Twenty samples of red
clover seed showed an average impur
ity of 1.8 per cent by weight- Twelve
Eamples of alslke clover showed an
average impurity of 3.2 per cent. By
actual count in small samples the
seeds of noxious weeds averaged about
tOO to each ounce of the clover seed.
These wore principally sorrel, plan
tain, goesefoot, quack grass, pig weed,
wild carrot and kale, in the order
named. Besides these there was more
or less mixture, of other seeds like
timothy, herds grass, etc., and of other
species not counted as weeds. Thesei
samplis were all secured of dealers in
Vermont. Any man with a good hand
lens can oftea form .a very good Judg
ment of the purity or impurity of a
lamplo from which be contemplates
buying.
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Chen 7n different articles of earn
merce, and next to cotton and wheat
furnishes the largest values in ex
ports from the United States. Its
name has become an epithet, says a
foreign writer^ on swine. Its applica
tion to man means greed and brutisfc
ness. It is commonly supposed to be
a scavenger, like the puddle duck. It
takes mud baths. So do men. Thero
is much virtue in mud. The hog
bathes in pools of It to eoat his skin
against the attacks of Insects man
dips his festered hide in it to Improve
his circulation and draw out his gout
and rheumatism. The hog is pachder
matous so is man—notwithstanding
Cuvier's classification. I have seen
men, know men today, with skin
thicker than the hide of a rhinoceros.
The hog is omniverous—so is man.
The hog is carniverous by choice—so
is man. The hog is herbiverous, gran
iverous, graminiverous and phytlvor
ous by education—so is man.
These reflections *re induced by the
indignities offered a useful animal.
Ine hog was the ileanliest of beasts
until man built a sty and imprisoned
him in filth, fattened him on filth,
killed him In filth and ate him in
filth. No animal, w..d or domestic, Is
so clean about its bed as the hog. It
wants pure, sweet, fresh straw every
time. The hog has brains, it has
teen known to excel the pointer in
scenting quail.
Ru'l Worm*.
The true bud worm (He'Iothls
rhexiae) occurs in the more southern
portions of the tobacco-growing re
gions,but has not been no:ed in tobacco
fields north of Maryland. The adult
insect is a small, greenish moth. The
larva or caterpillar of this moth is
nearly always found in the bud of the
tobacco plant about the time the plant
-The true bud worm
afinlt moth:
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The Bo«.
Tbe boc of today constitutes no leas
full-grown Inrva, from wide: c,
aamo. from above: d. need pod bored into by larvfc
«, pupa-^QAtural size
is ready to top. In some seasons they
occur in large numbers and damage
the tobaoco considerably. In the ear
part of the season, as a general thing,
but few of them are found, and in or
dinary seasons they are not especially
noticed* during the early "worming"
of the tobacco. In August they begin
to be more abundant, and generally
leave the plant about the end of the
month, entering the ground, trans
forming to pupae and issuing as moths
toward the end of September.
Fampklns In the Hog Ration.
At the New Hampshire Agricultural
College experiments were made to de
termine tbe value of pumpkins, apples,
bran, milk and corn-meal in the hog
ration. Eighteen were divided into
six lots of three pigs each. The fol
lowing rations were fed:
Lot 1. Milk, corn-meal, and pump
kins, cooked.
Lot 2. Milk, corn-meal, and pump
kins, uncooked.
Lot 3. Milk and pumpkins, raw.
Lot 4. Milk and corn-meal.
Lot 5. Milk, and pumpkins and ap
ples, half and half, cooked.
Lot 6. Milk, corn-meal and bran,
half and half.
The pigs were fed for 25 days and
made the following average gains per
day:
Lot 1 2.21
Lot 2 2.26
Lot 3 1.12
Lot 4 1.97
Lot 5 1.54
Lot 6 2.18
It will be noted that the greatest
gain was made by tbe lots having
corn-meal as a part of the ration, the
pumpkin-fed lot being in the lead.
The least gain was made by the lot
receiving only milk and raw pumpkins.
The table shows there was a range
in daily gain from 1.12 pounds in the
lot fed raw pumpkins to 2.26 pounds
in the lot receiving corri-meal in con
nection with raw pumpkins. We also
see there was but little difference in
lot gain and average daily gain where
pumpkins were fed cooked or raw.
Again, the highest market value was
from the lot fed raw pumpkins and
corn-meal. Close to this lot in value
are the lots fed cooked pumpkins and
corn-meal corn-meal, and corn-meal
and bran. There was but little differ
ence in the cost of the food for these
lots, the corn-meal-brain ration being
the highest.
The lot fed. raw pumpkins and milk
brought in the least money, but the
cost of food was less by half than any
of the other lots. Estimating the cost
for each pound of gain we find the
raw-pumpkin lot produced a pound of
gain at a cost of only 2.39 cents, while
all the other lots required over 3 cents'
worth of food to produce one pound of
gain, and the oorn-bran ration eost
over 4 cents per pound. The highest
cost to produce a pound of gain was
in the apple-pumpkin ration, where
4.64 cents of food was required to pro
duce once pound of gain. This was
due to the price of apples. The lat
ter, even at the low price of 10 cents
per bushel proved less economical as
a food for feeding these pigs than any
of the other rations, and where they
were used in connection with pump
kins the average profit for the whole
period was but 33 cents for each pig.
All things considered, the lots fed
pumpkins, either raw or cooked. In
connection with corn-meal, produced
the greatest profit, and at least cost
for each pound gain, live weight
Prof. Burkett of the experiment sta
tion draws the following conclusions:
1. The cooking of pumpkins does
not Increase their feeding value.
2. When pumpkins are available
for pig feeding they can be fed most
economically in connection with corn
meal."
?. While raw pumpkins, fed In con
nection with milk produced a pound of
Win at small cost, so few pounds were
produced it is advisable to feed corn
meal with tfyem.
4. Apples, even-at tbe low price of
10 cents per bushel, are not an econom
ical food for pigs.
6. Bran is not desirable as a foed
'fZKtt'.
for pigs, even if fed witb cora-meal.1
This is further considered in the fol
lowing experiment.
Destroying tbe IVIre Worn.
Ohio Experiment Station: The par-,
ent of the wire worm is an entirely
different insect from that of the white
grub. In this case, the fully developed
insect being the slender, brownish*
beetles, known as snapping beetles on,
account of their habit, when placed,
upon their backs, of throwing thein-t
selves into the air with a slight BnaJ
and turning over and alighting uporf
their feet. Their life history is very
much the same as that of the white
grub. These are also grass feeding
insects, but while the white grub is
more usually found upon higher lands,
which the female seems to select for a
place to deposit her eggs, the snap-,
ping beetles, or skip-jacks, seem to
prefer the lower, cooler and damper
lands. It is for this reason that the
lower lands are more often affected,
by this pest, and it frequently occurs
that the» patches of black soil among
clay will bo more especially subject to
infestation. While it would seem that
the harder and more compact body o$
the wire worm would be less suscept
ible to climatic influences, neverthe
less, we find no more practical preven
tion of the occurrence of this pest than,
the fall plowing of sod lands, and, asj
with the white grub, it is quite prob
able that late fall or winter plowina
will be preferable. While this rioas
not, in all cases, insure absolute free
dom from the attacks of these insects,
there seems a stronger probabilit- ot
their ravages another year being pre
vented in this way than by any other
known to us.
The Danish ItRcnn Floy.
There are a good many things that
we can learn from the Danes, and
among them we might name readiness
to adapt ourselves to new circum-»
stances. When about forty years ago
the Danes turned to butter producing
from grain and stock raising, they
found it necessary to create a way to
dispose of the by-products of their
dairies. Naturally the way out was
found in the hog. But the native hog
was not just the kind of an animal
that would make the most out of his
food and so they imported a better hog
from Holstein. When they investi
gated this better hog they found that
he had been created partly by an In
fusion of blood from imported Eng
lish hogs. So the Danes went to Im
porting English hogs to be used with
their own. A good many of these Im
ported hogs W6re Berksiilres and some
were what are known as Middle
Whites. It is said that by 1870 nearly
half of the boars in use in Denmark
were of English origin. Most of the
bacon had been consumed by the
Danes or by the Germans, but by 1880
the English had begun to appreciate
the high quality of Danish bacon. The
English public, however, demanded a
longer side than the Danish and Eng
lish cross gave and the Danes took
the hint and began to import what is
known in England as the "Large
White." It was a wise move on the
part of the Danish farmers, and in
seven or eight years England had be
come the largest buyer of Danish
bacon. At the present time the D5ne3,
are endeavoring to develop a
breed out of their mixed herds
propose to call it the "native" brtwu.
They will doubtless succeed in this,
but if they try to get their breed and
themselves into a state of eternal
fixedness they may awake some morn
ing to find that the bacon market has
slipped out of their grasp. The no
tions that govern market demands
change, and the producer must always
be ready to change with them.
Horticultural Observations*
An apple grower In Pennsylvania
tells about a hail storm that swept
over his orchard when the fruit ..-as
only partly grown. Where a hall stone
struck an apnle a little hard knot
formed that seemed to extend to the
core. It ever remained a blemish on
the apple. While the rest of the ap
ple would color up, the spot hit by
the hailstone remained green In color.
Have any readers of the Farmers' Re
view had a like experience?
A cherry grower says that If a sweet
cherry could be produced that would
prove remunerative it would take the
market But the sour varieties are
the only ones that can be depended
on to give good crops. It is the same
condition of affairs that confronts us
in the growing of almost every other
kind of fruit The varieties of inferior
quality have the most profit In them
simply because they can be depended
on to give fair crops every year.
,s not
$?
P°ss'hle to Inspect fruit In
the same way that grain is inspected,
vl hen a barrel of apples has been head
ed up, the apples having been pressed
down as much as possible, It would be
very destructive to the apples to have
em
opened and exposed to the bruis
ing of repacking, repressing and re
heading. Nevertheless, the laws should
be stringent enough' to protect both
the purchaser and the grower. Much
of the rascality complained of In the
handling of fruit is d^e to the repack
ing by men that retail the fruit
a
The question of what Is the best
apple to evaporate is being considered
by some of our growers. To some ex
tent it partakes of the nature of the
question, "What Is the best apple for
market?" In other words. It cannot
fcs answered except with a good deal
of modification. If good-flavored ap
ples are used the consumption of the
evaporated product will be stimulated
but such good product cannot be put
on the. market at as low a price as
can fruit like the Ben Davis. The ideal
apple for evaporation is a number tw»
or three of the first quality apples
That takes all but the best of those
varieties oft the market, and at the
same time does not lessen the quality
of the evaporated product
A recently published report by' J. a
Dodge, special agent of the depjut*
ment of agriculture, credits New Me*
loo with possessing the -)stj^ei* ndnir
her of sheep of any state or territory.:
Governor Otero estlmatee liut years'
product of wool over 18,(NN)^M'
pounds and .declares that sheep biuh,
bandtr is now the most profitable' l*i
gustry in the territory, an4 that Iocfc
masters are in bettor spirits than- fair'
many fears.
Helen Keller, the famous Mind deaf
flute, has been elected vice prcsidoa^
ef the freshman class at Radcliife col*
lege.
PrOHperlty
,Tj
for 1901.
Indications point to great prosper*)
lty for the coming year. This is
sign of a healthy nature. The suo
cess of a country, as. well as of an
Individual, depends upon health. If
you have any stomach trouble trjf
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters* wliioi
cures dyspepsia, indigestion and bii»
lousness.
Some men's political fields are po»
tato patches only.
M. D. Johnson, a seaman from the
United States steamer Albatross, wh9
was one of the passengers on the
"Owi" train from Los Angeles whicl»
was wrecked near Antioch recently,
thus describes Iris experience: 'TV
^as a little after two bells this mora*
Infff and I was smoking my pipe in'
the 'Owl's' stern gallery. The first,
thing I knew of any happening v/a»
Wiicii I was thrown violently froiii,
Iuy seat. After the pitching aud
jumping- had stopped, I crawled owl1,
*nd saw that the steering gear of
the Owl' had been carried away,'
causing her to part amidship. The
pfler end listed badly to starboard1
and went aground, throwing all the
hands jii a heap to me listed side.i
ISo lives were lost, however, though
all were
badly
what damaged. One unlucky paa»
senger bunted the glass out of a port
hole, cutting her head and face quits
badly. After wigwagging the craft
coming up behind to change heri
course, the forward end of our craft
picked up the passengers and crew
and continued her voyage. As fo»
me, I will be glad when I am safe
aboard 4he Albatross again. This
cruising overland is too rough tad
choppy for me."
FROM BRYAN'S OWN CITY
Cornea a Startling Story—An Open loi
ter That Will Cau«e a Senaatlon.
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Special.)—
At No. 2115 O street, this city, is the
B. & M. wallpaper house. "B. & M."
are the Initial letters of the proprie
tors, Mr. A. C. Bonsor and Mr. O. EL
Myers. The senior partner, Mr Bon
sor, is a well-known and highly re
spected citizen, and no one has evev
doubted his truthfulness. It Is, there
fore, the pronounced opinion In Lin
coln and the state generally that th$
significant and very strong statements
made In Mr. Bonsor's letter will go
unchallenged. After explaining hit
willingness that the matter be given
the fullest possible publicity in the
public Interest, Mr. Bonsor proceeds:
I have suffered untold misery and
pain for over ten years. My kidneys
were diseased. I tried many so-called
remedies, but tiey did me no good. 1
saw an advertisement of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills, and fought some, and com-
menced to
not been ta
I -began ti
not had
before th
ney Pill
all nig
compl
or
t:
ri 1
,4j*
-T3
shaken up and some*
pe. I had
[iys before
ITS I had
bp, and
lis Kid
sleepj
no\
paii
^Dodd's Kidney Pills always
6Hs a box. All dealers.
When a man insists in "explain
ing" a thing it is a sign that it wor
ries him.
Tne only way to CURE diseases of the
6kln Is by cleansing the system and puri
fying the blood: take Garfield Tea, it Is
the best blood purifier known.
Lucky is he who controls his tem
per.
Klrli, Kect Blood.
Morley's Sarsaparilla and Iron not
only purifies the blood but makes
new, rich, red blood. If you have
skin eruptions, boils, abscesses, rheu
matism or scrotula, or if you have a
run-down, tired-out-feeling, try this
remedy and note the prompt results.
Ask your druggist.
He who earns
appreciates it.
his own education
Some women think they love a man
before marriage, but act as if they
hated him afterward.
OLDEST MAW IN AMERICA
Tells How He Escaped the
Terrors of Many Winters
by Using Peruna.
Mr. Isaao Brock, the Oldest Man in the
United States.
Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan coun
ty, Tex., has attained the great age
of 111 years, having been born .n
1788. He is an ardent friend to Pe
runa and speaks of It in the follow ina
terms:
"During my long life I have know#
a great many remedies for coughs,
colds, catarrh and diarrhoea. I had
always supposed these affections to
be different diseases, but I havo
learned from Dr. Hartman's books
that thes9 affections are the same and
are properly called catarrh.
"As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Pe
runa, I have found it to be the be!
If not tne only reliable remedy tor
these a Sections.
"Pesunc has been my Stand-by
for nmny years, and I attribute my
good health and my extreme age,
to this remedy. It exactly meets
all my requirements.
"I have come to rely upon it almost
entirely tor the many little things for
which I need medicine. I believe it to
be especially valuable to old people.**
Isaac Pfpck.
0«tarr1i is dM (reatest enamr of old
age* A person entire^ firpe-Jkmn ca
tarrh is snr* to lire wST anfl
tarrh eent by
c, coldly,