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A Taleof tkeTaird Generation
By HARRY LEON WILSON
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Copyright, by Lotbrop Publishing Company.
CHAPTER XXII.—CONTINUED.
"And if you want to, you can be the
tame with me. I ain't ever held any
thing against you, and maybe now I
can do you a favor."
"It's right good of you to say so."
"Now, look here, ma'am, let's you
and me get right down to cases about
this society game here in New York."
Mrs, Wybert laughed charmingly
and relaxed in manner.
"I'm with you, Mr. Bines. What
'about it, now?"
"Now don't get suspicious, and tell
me to mind my own business when I
ask you questions."
"I couldn't be suspicious of you—
really I feel as if I'd have to tell you
everything you asked me, some way."
"Well, there's been some talk of
your marrying that young Milbrey.
Now tell me the inside of it"
She looked at the old man closely.
Her intuition confirmed his own pro
testations of friendliness.
"I don't mind telling you in strict
confidence, there was talk of marriage,
and his people, all but the sister, en
couraged it. Then after she was en
gaged to Shepler they talked him out
of it. Now that's the whole God's
truth, if it does you any good."
"If you had married him you'd 'a'
had a position, like they say here,
right away."
"Oh, dear, yes! awfully swagger peo
ple—dead swell, every one of them.
There's no doubt about that"
"Exactly, and there ain't really any
reason why you can't be somebody
here
"Well, between you and I, Mr. Bines,
I can play the part as well as a whole
lot of these women here. I don't want
to talk, of comse, but—well!"
"Exactly, you can give half of 'em
cards and spades and both casinos,
Mrs Wybert."
"And I'll do it yet. I'm not through
ly any means. They're not the only
perfectly elegant people in this town!"
"Of course you'll do it, and you
could do it better if you had three or
four times the stake you got."
"Dollars are worth more apiece in
New York than any town I've ever
been in\"
"Mrs. Wybert, I can put you right
square into a good thing, and I'm go
ing to do it. Heard anything about
Consolidated Copper7"
"I've heard something big was doing
in it but nobody seems to know for
certain. My broker is afraid of it."
"Very well Now you do as I tell you,
and jou can clean up a big lot inside
of the next two months. If ou do as
I tell you, mind, no matter what you
hear, and if you don't talk."
Mrs Wybert meditated.
"Mr. Bines, I'm—it's natural that
I'm a 4ltthr uneasy. Why should you
want to see me do well, after our lit
tle affair? Now, out with it! What are
you trying to do with me? What do
you expect me to do for you? Get
down to cases yourself, Mr. Bines!"
"I will, ma'am, in a few words. My
granddaughter, you may have heard,
Is engaged to an Englishman. He's
next thing to broke, but he's got a title
coming. Naturally he's looking fur
money. Naturally he don't care fur
the girl But I'm afraid she's infat
uated with him Now then, if he had a
chance at some one with more money
than she's got, why, naturally, he'd
jump at it"
"Aren't you a little bit wild?"
"Not a little bit. He saw you at
Newport last summer, and he's seen
you here. He was tearing the ad
jectives up telling me about you the
other night, not knowing, you under-
YOU THINK IT OVER."
Stand, that I'd ever heard tell of you
§k before. You could marry him in a
'f .as Jiffy if you follow my directions."
"But your granddaughter has a for
tune."
"You'll have as much if you play
this the way I tell you. And—you
never can tell in these times—she
anight lose a good hit of hers."
"It's jery peculiar, Mr. Bines—your
/tfijplfc'jpfc,.what a brilliant match it
be fir you. Why, you'd be
nrpe, with dukes and
their crowns to you.
-s.sa»
(That's
criticise
if that's
at
Milbrey—
rvw&TWa llghter*n cork—
gallwt* and he'd float right
le ain't got any
family and a
Tsn't good
tut you~reck
e? Is that
4» broad.
I don't
gop} game
game you're
play it betr
iter. Ibe wa'n't
meant fur it—and I'd rather have her
marry an American, anyhow. Now
you like it, and you got beauty—only
you need more money. I'll put you in
the way of it, and you can cut out my
granddaughter."
"I must think about It Suppose I
plunge in copper, and your tip isn't
straight. I've seen hard times, Mr.
Bines, in my life. I haven't always
wore sealskin and diamonds."
"Mrs. Wybert, you was in Montana
long enough to know how I stand
there?"
"I know you're A 1, and your word's
as good as another man's money. I
don't question your good intentions."
"It's my judgment, hey? Now, look
here, I won't tell you what I know and
how I know it, but you can take my
word that I know I do know. You
plunge in copper right off, without
saying a word to anybody or makin'
any splurge, and here—"
From the little table at his elbow
he picked up the card that had an
nounced him and drew out his pencil.
"You said my word was as good as
another man's money. Now I'm going
to write on this card just what you
have to do, and you're to follow direc
tions, no matter what you hear about
other people doing. There'll be all
sorts of reports about that stock, but
you follow my directions."
He wrote on the back of the card
with his pencil.
"Consolidated Copper, remember—
and now I'm a-goin' to write some
thing else under them directions.
"'Do this up to the limit of your
capital and I will make good anything
you lose.' There, Mrs. Wybert, I've
signed that 'Peter Bines.' That card
wouldn't be worth a red apple in a
court of law, but you know me, and
ou know it's good fur every penny
you lose."
"Really, Mr. Bines, you half-way
persuade me I'll certainly try the
copper play—and about the other—
well—we'll see, I don't promise, mind
you!"
"You think over it. I'm sure you'll
like the idea—think of bein' in that
great nobility, and bein' around them
palaces with their dukes and counts.
Think how these same New York
women will meach to you then!"
The old man rose.
"And mind, follow them directions
and no other—makes no difference
what you hear, or I won't be respon
sible. And I'll rely on you, ma'am,
never to let anyone know about my
visit, and to send me back that little
document after you've cashed in."
He left her studying the card with a
curious little flash of surprise.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE AMATEUR NAPOLEON OF WALL
STREET.
At the beginning of April, Hhe sit
uation in the three stocks Percival had
bought so heavily grew undeniably
tense. Consolidated Copper went from
109 to 103 in a week. But Percival's
enthusiasm suffered little abatement
from the drop.
"You see," he reminded Uncle Peter,
"it isn't exactly what I expected, but
it's right in line with it, so it doesn't
alarm me I knew those fellows inside
were bound to hammer it down if they
could. It wouldn't phase me a bit if
it sagged to 95."
"My! My!" Uncle Peter exclaimed,
with warm approval, "the way you
master this business certainly does
win me. I tell you, it's a mighty good
thing we got your brains to depend
on. I'm all right the other side of
Council Bluffs, but I'm a tenderfoot
here, sure, where everybody's tryin' to
get the best of you. You see, out there
everybody tries to make the best of it.
I told that to one of them smarties
last night. But you'll pull them in
their place all right. You know both
ends of the game and the middle. We
certainly got a right to be proud of
you, son. Dan'l J. liked big proposi
tions himself—but, well, I'd just like
to have him see the nerve you've
showed, that's all."
Uncle Peter's professions of confi
dence were unfailing, and Percival
took new hope and faith in his judg
ment from them daily.
Nevertheless, as the weeks passed,
and the mysterious insiders succeeded
In their design of keeping the stock
from rising, he came to feel a touch
of anxiety. More, indeed, than he was
able to communicate to Uncle Peter,
without confessing outright that he
had lost faith in himself. That he
Was unable to do, even if it were true,
which he doubted. The Bines fortune
was now hanging, as to all but some
of the western properties, on the turn
ing of the three stocks. Yet the old
man's confidence in the young man's
acumen was invulnerable. No shaft
that Percival was able to fashion had
point enough to pierce it. And he
was loth to batter it down, for he still
had the gambler's faith in his luck.
"You got your father's head in busi
ness matters," was Uncle Peter's in
variable response to any suggestion of
failure. "I know th?,t much—spite of
what all these gossips say—and that's
all I want to know. And of course
you can't ever he no Shepler 'less you
take your share of chances. Only don't
ask my advice. You're master of the
game, and we're all layin' right smack
down on your genius fur It."
Whereupon the young man, with
confidence in himself newly inflated,
would hurry off to the stock tickers.
He had ceased to buy the stocks out
right, and for several weeks had
bought onIy*on margins.
"There was one rule in poker your
pa had," said Uncle Peter. "If a hand
is worth calling on, it's worth raising
on. He jest never would call. If he
didn't think a hand was wdrth raising,
he'd bunch it in with the discards, and
wait fur another deal. I don't know
much about the game, but he said it
was a sound rule, and if it is sound
in poker, why it's got to be sound in
this game. That's all I can tell you.
You know what you hold, and if 'tain't
a hand to lay down, it must be a hand
to raise on. Of course, if you'd been
brash and ignorant in your first cal
culations—if you'd made a fool of
yourself at the start—but shucks!
you're the son of Daniel J. Bines, ain't
.you?",".
The rule and the clever provocation
1M4 their effect. *,
I'll raise as long as I have a chip __
Vfatoh%^s*&Qx: a a a
I bad a tip that cam* straight ft
Shepler, though he never dreamed It
would reach me. That Pacific Cable
bill is going to be rushed through at
this session-oil congress, sure, and that
means enough increased demand to
send Consolidated back where it was.
And then, when it comes out that
they've got those Rio Tinto mines by
the throat, well, this anvil chorus will
have to stop, and those Federal Oil
sharks and Shepler will be wondering
how I had the face to stay in."
The published rumors regarding Con
solidated began to conflict very sharp
ly. Percival heard them all hungrily,
disregarding those tha* did not con
firm his own opinions. He called them,
irresponsible newspaper gossip, or be
lieved them to be inspired by the
clique for its own ends.
He studied the history of copper
until he knew all its ups and downs
since the great electrical development
began in 1887. When Fouts, the bro
ker he traded most heavily with, sug
gested that the Consolidated company
was skating on thin ice, that it might,
indeed, be going through the same ex
perience that shattered the famoua
Secretan corner a dozen years before,
Percival pointed out unerringly the
vital differences in the circumstances.
The Consolidated had reduced the pro
duction of its controlled mines, and
the price was bound to be maintained.
When his adviser suggested that the
companies not in the combine might
cut the price, he brought up the very
lively rumors of a "gentlemen's agree
ment" with the "non-combine" pro
ducers.
"Of course, there's Calumet and
Hecla. I know that couldn't be gunned
into the combination. They could pay
dividends with copper at ten cents a.
pound. But the other independents
know which side of their stock is
spread witn dividends, all right."
When it was further suggested that
the Rio Tinto mines had sold ahead
for a year, with the result that Euro
pean imports from toe United States
had fallen off, and that the Consoli
dated could not go on forever holding
up the price, Percival said nothing.
The answer to that was the secret
negotiations for control of the Euro
pean output, which would make the
Consolidated master of the copper
world Instead of disclosing this, he
pretended craftily to be encouraged by
the mere generally hopeful outlook in
all lines. Western Trolley, to, might
be overcapitalized, and Union Cordage
might also be in the hands of a pirat
ical clique, but the demand for trolley
lines was growing every day, and
cordage products were not going out
of fashion by any means.
"You see," he said to his advisir,
"nere's what the most conservative
man in the street says in this after*
noon's paper. 'That copper must nec
essarily break badly, and the whole
boom collapse I do not believe. There
is enough prosperity to mainPtki a
strong demand for the metal through
another year at least. As to Western
Trolley and Union Cordage, the two
other stocks about which doubt is now
being so widely expressed in the
street, I am persuaded that they are
both due to rise, not sensationally, but
at a healthy upward rate that makes
them sound investments!'
"There,", .said Percival, "there's the
judgment of a man that knows the
game, but doesn't happen to have a
dollar in either stock, and he doesn't
know one or two things that I know,
either. Just hypothecate 10,000 of
those Union Cordage shares and 5,000
Western Trolley, and buy Consolidated
on a 20 per cent, margin. I want to
get bigger action. There's a good rule
in poker: if your hand is worth call
mg, it's worth raising."
"I like your nerve," said the broker
"Well, I know some one who has a
sleeve with something up it, that's all."
By the third week in April, it was
believed that his holdings of Consoli
dated were the largest iu the street,
excepting those of the Federal Oil
people Uncle Peter was delighted by
the magnitude of his operations, and
by his newly formed habits of indus
try.
"It'll be the makings of the boy,"
he said to Mrs Bines in her son's pres
ence. "Not that I care so much my
self about all the millions he'll pile up,
but It gives him a business training,
and takes him out of the pinhead
class. I bet Shepler himself will ba
takin' off his silk hat to your son,
jest as soon as he's made this turn in
copper—if he has enough of Dan'l J.'s
grit to hang on—and I think he has."
"They needn't wait another day foi
me," Percival told him later. "Th»
family treasure is about all in now)
except ma's amethyst earrings and the
hair watch chain Grandpa Cummings,
had. Of course I'm holding what I
promised for Burman. But that rise*
can't hold off much longer, and the,
only thing I'll do, from now on, to
hock a few blocks of the stock I
bought outright, and buy on margins,
so's to get bigger action."
"My! My! you jest do fairly dazzle
mo," exclaimed the old man, delight
edly. "Oh, I guess your pa wouldn't
be at all proud of you if he could see
it. I tell you, this family's all rigbi
while you keep hearty."
"Well, I'm not pushing my chest out
any," said the young man, with be
coming modesty, "but 1^ don't min#
telling you it will be the biggest thici
ever pulled off down there by any one,
man."
"That's the true western spirit," de-,
clared Uncle Peter, beside himself with
enthusiasm. |"We do things big when
we bother 'em at all. We ain't afraid'
of any pikers like Shepler, with hi*
little two and five thousand lots. Oh!1
1 can jest hear 'em callin' you hard
names down in that Wall street—Na
poleon of Finance and/ Copper King)
and all like that—in about 30 days!"
He accepted Percival's invitation
that afternoon to go down into the
street with «him. They stopped for a
moment in the visitors' gallery of the
stock exchange and looked down into
the mob of writhing, disheveled, shout
ing brokers. In and out, the throng
swirled upon itself, while above its
muddy depths surged a froth of hands
in frenzied gesticulation. The frantic
movement and din of shrieks disturbed!
Uncle Peter.
MANY
N
"Faro is such a lot quieter game/"
was his comment "so much mora calm
and restful_ What a pity, now, taln't
folks in this city as well as
elsewhere have been talking about
the old crow which is known to have
established his headquarters long ago
in the White House grounds and
whose skill as an augur has been ad
vanced recently by a warning' he gave
that Easter Sunday would certainly be
a moist and unpleasant day.
To the east of the mansion on the
north front, in a little grove of elms,
the old'bird has his habitation. Gen
erally he occupies a tree very near to
the north portion. There is a large
bollow in the trunk of this tree and in
the topmost branches his sable plum
age is nearly always to be seen. Some
of the policemen on duty about the
grounds keep an eye on the old fel
low at times, but the majority of them
ignore him. "I have as much as I can
do," said one of the bluecoats when
the subject of the crow's methods was
mentioned to him, "to keep my atten
tion riveted upon the crowds of people
that swarm here every day without
giving any thought to the crow."
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National (Capital
MRS. ROOSEVELT'S FAD IS
COLLECTING OLD CHINA
WASHINGTON.—"Whey
everybody
is somebody, nobod is anybody
at all," as the. clever gondolier re
marks In the Sullivan opera. "So it is
at the capital. In the large and grow
ing class of "somebodies," the woman
who wants to make her mark has to
be different. Even Mrs. Roosevelt
seems to recognize that fact and rather
than be classed with the average she is
making her personality felt along
many lines. To begin with Mrs.
Roosevelt, having set the national
taste toward black for' street wear and
white for indoor occasions, switched
off to the other extreme and now
wears rather amazing combinations.
No one except the president's wife
could have hoped to put on snuffy
looking brown for a great wedding
and not be classed with the dowds.
Yet Mrs. Roosevelt did this very thing,
and this winter saw innumerable dark
brown and indigo blue afternoon and
evening toilets, a radical departure
from what Paris calls "good form."
Mrs. Roosevelt has chosen to ally
herself with that part of society which
goes in for uplifting.
3.
ROGUES
GALLERV
HE United States government is to
establish Immediately in this city
a criminal identification bureau, or
what may be called an "Habitual
Criminal Registry," for keeping the
records of all men convicted of crimes
against the federal laws, and also all
Indicted by grand juries of the United
States courts. The bureau is to be
under the supervision of the depart
ment of justice, and all prisons in the
United States where government pris
oners are, or have been confined, have
been directed to send their records,
consisting of photographs, Bertillon
measurement cards and finger-print
identification sheets immediately to
the department of justice.
A central bureau for the Identifica
tion of federal law-breakers has been
urged for some time by criminologists.
Heretofore each prison in the United
States has kept its own records, and a
federal law-breaker could serve a term
in one prison and be freed without the
fact ever becoming known that he had
served a previous term-for a similar
WISE WHITE HOUSE CROW
ISOLDWEATHERPROPHET
But there are others about the
White Hoiise who have paid consider
able attention to him. One old retain-
INISTERS of the Gospel in Wash
ington and in some other places
where Secretary Taft is well known,
aim at him a curious criticism. They
say that he does not often attend
church, and that he does not seem to
care for conventional religious forms
and ceremonies. They do not say that
the secretary is irreligious In the
broad sense, but merely that he does
not comply with the usual rule of men
in high public station in the matter of
attending divine worship regularly.
For example, when he was" on his way
to Cuba the last time he had to spend
Sunday at Charleston, S. C, where the
old custom of going to church is rigid
ly adhered to by all the better class of
Jjltizens. It was noted that the secre
ary did not go to church there, and
one or mere ministers of that city
have since then made inquiries of men
|Of the doth in-Washington as to the
secretary's church connection and
habits In this city. Soma of Judge
Taft's friends hare say he is a Upl
and others that he is an Epis
but nobody seems clear as to
he goes to church when in
?^tha^ howler, the
Is singularly
Her name Is on the list of patrons of
art and music. She is pledged, when
her husband leaves office, to aid in the
establishment of a National Academy
of Art and of a National Conservatory,
both to be supported by government
funds. She keeps up her membership
with the Spanish-American War Relief
society, and performs her part of the
labors. Likewise the Army and Navy
Relief society and the Cooperative so
ciety know her as a faithful contrib
uting member, just as she was when
her husband was in less exalted sta
tion. A few minor fads Mrs. Roose
velt also confesses. She wishes to go
down in White House annals as the
most intelligent and conscientious col
lector of historic china who has ever
graced the stately mansion. She is
making this claim good by delving and
digging everywhere for pieces of the
china used by presidential families
since George sipped his tea out of
gold-rimmed cups of Martha's best set.
Every administration is now repre
sented in the cabinet which adorns
the portrait gallery in the lower floor
of the White House.
GOVERNMENT TO KEEP
WATCH ON CRIMINALS
offense in another penitentiary.
Now all records are to be classified
in Washington, and not in any of the
federal jails or prisons. The Bertillon
measurements, photographs and finger
prints of the convicts are to be taken
and sent to the central bureau.
Also the records of all men suspect
ed of being yeggmen, train or post
office robbers. Those held in federal
jails under indictment, etc., are to be
sent there.
The central bureau will ascertain
the record of each man from the date
he has, and if one not yet given trial
proves to be an habitual criminal this
fact will be made known to the prose
cuting attorney and the judge previ
ous to the hearing, and if the man is
convicted it will mean that he will be
given the limit.
At the present time there are about
8,000 known criminals who violate the
government laws, and a close tab is
to be kept upon these In the future. It
will go hard on a known criminal con
victed in a United States court here
after.
er, who went into service when Gen.
Giant became president, says this
same crow was stationed near the
house when he first took up a humble
position there. "And we all know,"
said this old fellow, "that as a weather
prophet he can give cards and spades
to the bureau officers and beat them."
There is no one of the officials, high
or low, who will venture conjecture
concerning this crow's age. Their
guesses range anywhere from 27 years
to time when the memory of man run
neth not to the contrary, but there is
a consensus that no matter how old
he is he is a wise bird.
That he possesses some influence is
evident from the fact that his forecast
of the weather for Easter prevented
the ladies of some of the members
of the minor offices about the White
House from venturing out and risk
ing a detriment to their headgear.
"How long this old fellow will re
main with us no one can tell," said
one of the clerks, "He knows he has
a good place where no hunter can
take a pot shot at him and no wanton
little boy can hurl a rock at him, so
be is wise enough to stand pat."
SECRETARY TAFT NOT A
REGULAR CHURCH GOER
even though he may not regularly at
tend divine worship.
Soothing the Savage.
All at once, without warning, writes
the tame Indian, describing his first
dinner at a white man's" table, the
man struck the table with the butt of
his knife with such force that I
jumped and was within an ace of
giving a war-whoop. In spite of their
taking a firm hold of the home-made
table to keep it steady, the disfces
were quivering and the young ladjhcs
no longer able to vnaintain their com
posure. Severe glances from mother
and father soon brought us calm,
when it appeared that the blow on the
table was merely a signal for quiet
before saying grace.
Facing the Possibilities.
"Pete," said Meandering Mike,
"what would you do if you was one of
dese ldngs of finance?"
"Well," answered Plodding Pete, "I
dont say as I'm any smarter dan de
mejudat'a got de money junr 4
9 ^faJPF, give it a W
a git made fun of, or try to use ft In
pontics an' git into a fight"—Waaft
lngton Star. ,»••*+ »*, I
ptw
Qeod Ground, Good Seed and Good Cul
tivation Are Essential.
From my experience in the raising
of potatoes it seems to me there are
three things to be especially consid
ered these are, good ground, good
seed potatoes and good care of the
(and, writes an Iowa correspondent of
the Northwestern Agriculturist.
loose and plant immediately after small
grain or in the first part of May.
Planting later will give the bugs a
chance, but by putting the seed in
early the plant will be getting tough
by the time the bugs begin their work,
and they do not care for tough leaves
In late planting, also, the plant is young
and tender and the seed will not be
as large nor healthy.
Selection of the seed: I have come
to one conclusion, that is, use the best
seed to be bought. Plant none that is
small or unhealthy. Select your seed
potatoes as you do your corn. Use
only those that are round and smooth
and that have shallow eyes. About the
size of an egg is my favorite, or a little
smaller will do. Cut the heads off just
enough to kill the sprouts so closely
connected, as two or three eyes are
sufficient for a good hill. Cut them
about three weeks before planting
them, so the part that was cut can dry
up. If planted immediately after be
ing cut, the ground will draw one-third
of the substances from the potato and
it will not have nourishment enough
to produce a healthy tuber
Taking care of the land as it should
be done: It must be kept clean Drag
it twice after planting It can stand a
good dragging after the plants are up,
6ay a couple of inches. But don't drag
in the morning when the dew is on the
plants because they will break and
their growth will be retarded for at
least two weeks Right after dinner
when they are good and dry is the best
time.
A common corn cultivator is suffi
cient to do the work. But you should
plow at least six times and run through
with the hoe immediately after. Hoe
it twice, and this with the plowing will
leave the land nice and clean for gath
ering the potatoes in the fall. If I can
answer any further questions concern
ing the potato business, I will be glad
to do so.
STOCK SOLUTION OF BORDEAUX.
Some Suggestions as to Methods of
Preparing the Spraying Mixture.
Concentrated stock solutions of cop
per sulphate, one pound to each gallon
water (dissolved by suspending in
sacks at surface of water), aie often
used, also a stock dome wash of a
creamy consistency which will keep
all seasons if" kept covered with a lit
tle clear water. The 5-5-50 Bordeaux
is generally recommended for pota
toes, which means five pounds copper
Bulphate, five pounds of stone lime to
Suggestion for Strainer Box.
B0 gallons of water. To prepare 5o
gallons of Bordeaux mixture as per
above formula, fill a 50-gallon cask
three-quarters full of water, add five
gallons of the copper sulphate solu
tion, and stir in enough of the lime
wash to equal five pounds of stone
lime. Stir well when adding the
lime, and then test a little of the mix
ture in a saucer or can with a few
drops of ten per cent, solution of yel
low prussiate of potash. If it shows
a red brown color lime must be added
until you get no color from the test.
It Is best to have a slight excess of
lime than a deficiency. As nozzles of
a smaller capacity than generally used
for orchard work are best, great care
should be used in straining the Bor
deaux. A strainer is made some
what after style of the diagram, the
size of mesh being the same as the
diameter of opening of nozzles. An
inverted V-shaped strainer will strain
mixtures that it would be impossible
to get through a strainer with a flat
horizontal sieve. One-quarter to one
half pound of Paris green or ita
equivalent in some other form of poi
son should be added to 50 gallons of
Bordeaux when potato bugs threaten.
Commence spraying when potato vines
are six inches high and repeat about
every ten days.
THE TIME TO PRUNE.
It Is in the Early Spring or Late Fall
That Work Should Be Done.
It has become quite well understood
that late winter or early spring is th€
proper time to give trees their gen
eral pruning. However, the question
often arises and to explain the mattei
this item is submitted.
If ^enerar pruning is done while
growth is taking place the tree losei
some opportunity to heal the wound
unless it be given at the time growth
is just beginning, and at that time
there is much danger of the plan!
bleeding seriously if it should be
done in the fall there is considerable
likelihood of the wound becoming so
dried out before spring that a very
large wound results, but if the wound
be made, a few days or weeks before
the buds open neither of these thing
will result and the tree takes advan
tagepof *all the growing season to heal
Jhe cut? surface, says Rocky Mountain
Farming when special pruning in tire
sjiinhier can^well be given to
deslree effects
OTCKEm 3R0QJ3S
THAT BARREL OF APPLES.
"I wish to speak to you about that
barrel of apples I bought day before
resterday," said the kind-looking old
First we will consider the ground.
Plow early in the fall, or in August if
possible, not shallow, but middling gentleman.
deep. Oats land is preferred for this "You'll have to see the clerk who
reason, and I have found it to produce sold them to you," the grocer an
the mealiest potatoes. Wheat and corn swered very snappishly. "I don't know
•and will give the tubers which are anything about them."
glossy and hard, but those raised on "But I desire to say to you personal
oats land are of the nicest quality for ly that—"
home and market use. Disk three "Now, look here, I can't be bothered
times in the spring so the land will be over every pound of sugar or pint of
cider or barrel of apples that my
clerks sell. Just see the young man
who waited on you. He's around some
where."
"Yes, I see him there at the back
end of the store, but I really felt that
it was my duty to tell you about it
You see—"
"If I stood around listening to every
body who comes into this store to
complain that they've bought some
thing they didn't want or that they've
been slighted, as they think, by my
clerks I wouldn't have time for any
thing else. You'll please excuse me.
The clerk will hear your complaint,
and if there is anything that we can
do you may be sure it will be done.
But we can't take back a barrel of
apples after they have been out of the
store two or three days. You can
surely see that if we did business in
such a way—"
"My dear sir, I don't want you to
take back the apples and I haven't
any complaint to make. I merely
wished to tell jou that I found the
apples at the bottom of the barrel to
be just as big as the ones at the top.
I believe in the principle of gmng
praise wherever it may be fairly
given, and I stepped in to order an
other barrel, but I see you're too busy
to bother with such a trifle this morn
ing, so I will be going."—Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
GETTING RID OF IT.
Mr. Flubdub—What's the use of
keeping that old umbrella around?
It's no good.
Mrs Fubdub—All right. I'll lend it
to somebody.—Philadelphia Press.
His One Joke.
My Uncle John with Joy will fill
With this one witty sally:
"I know a man whose name is Hill—
Of course he has a valet
—Judge.
Going One Better.
Enthusiastic Artist—Do you know I
painted a picture of a lion so naturally
that it had to be placed behind bars.
Enthusiastic Author—That's noth
ing. I wrote a novel so full of burn
ing emotion, that it had to be printed
on asbestos pages for fear of a con
flagration —Royal Magazine.
The Eternal Feminine.
"Don't you remember me? Why, we
went to school together."
"Surely it must be my mother you
are thinking of."
"Oh, no—it was your mother who
told you you should be ashamed to go
with girls so much younger than you."
(Etc., etc., etc.)—Cleveland Leader.
JUST A HINT.
Spinks—Does your girl like poetry?
Winks—Yes but she's too insinuat
ing.
Spinks—In what way?
Winks—Well, she won't agree that
anything rhymes with "springtime"
but "ringtime."—Chicago Daily News.
What He Was.
Masked Man (dashing into a parlor
car on Western railroad)—Hold up
yer hands.
Passenger Don't shoot, please.
Take all I've got, and welcome.
Mask Man—This is a big pile of
money, so 111 give you ten dollars of it
back. I may be a train-robber, but I
ain't no parlor car porter.—N. Y.
Weekly.
Not Her Game.
"Low bridge!" sang out the emde
taking the party over the vessel.
The society matron held her head
•till higher, with appreciation of her
eonseauence. **",
pOk, but I always play highr" she
remarked, in haughty disdain of the
watming.—Baltimore American.
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THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.
The youthful jokesmith stood in the
august presence of the great editor.
With trembling fingers he untied the
string around his batch of jokes and
laid them on the editor's desk.
"I have brought you some jokes," he
said, with unsteady voice. "Would you
care to look them over?"
"We have no use whatever for new
jokes," replied the editor gruffly, as he
turned to other work on his desk.
"But these," said the young joke
smith, "are not new. Some of them
are at least 20 years old."
WitlFa cry of joy the great editor
grasped the jokesmith's hand, accept
ed the jokes, and handed him a pure
five-cent Havana, union made cigar.—
Milwaukee Sentinel.
KEEPING OUT OF TEMPTATION.
De Quiz—Why is it you never gc
fishing any more?
De Hitt—I have reformed.
De Quiz—Reformed?
De Hitt—Yes I have signed the
pledge and made a solemn vow never
to tell a lie.
Nary a One!
Strange, amid church-social whirl,
Ne er has been our luck to view
E'en the shadow of a pearl
Floating in an oyster stew.
—Judge.
Accounted For.
Mistress (reprovingly) Bridget,
breakfast is very late this morning. 1
noticed last night that you had con
pany in the kitchen, and it was nearly
12 o'clock when jrou went to bed.
Bridget—Yis, mum I knowed you
was awake, fur I heard ye movin'
around, an' I said to meself y'd nade
slape this mornin', and' I wouldn't dis
toorb wid an early breakfast, mum,
—N. Y. Weekly.
FEMININE STRATEGY.
Jack—You are holding your parasol
on the wrong side to protect you from
the sun.
Evelyn—Yes, I know It but there Is
that horrid Miss Snub, and I want her
to see my new hat
Suitable.
thai
Gunner—What is the name of
big apartment house over there?
Guyer—I don't know, but I think it
should be called "The Aviary.*"
Gunner—And why so?
Guyer—Because all the women are
parrots and all the men are "owls."—
Chicago Daily News.
Doesn't Always Work.
"The way to get a thing done prop
erly," remarked the moralizer, "is t«
do it yourself."
"Oh, I don't know," rejoined the do
moralizer. "I have a distinct and pain
ful recollection of trying to shave my
self once."—Chicago Daily News.
A Justifiable Kick.
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself, tr
kick that dog?" said the passerby.
"No, I'm not," replied the kicket
hotly.
"Is it your dog?"
"No it's my wife's!"—Yonkert
Statesman.
Caught.
'Til tell you how to make money,"
said one stockbroker to another on the
stock exchange. "Buy thermometers
now and sell 'em in the hot weather."
"Why then?"
"Because they're bound to go up."
On Some Vessels.
"A ship's officer must be very alert
these days," remarked the traveler.
"Yes," answered the old salt "a
man has to be pretty quick to beat the
passengers to the boats in case of ac
cident."—Washington Star.
Carrying Out the Sliffile.
"They tell me Mrs. BitterpiU works
like a beaver."
"Yes, I guess that's right She feE
in love with a perfect stick and hat
been chewing about it ever since."—
Judge.
Tougk Luck.
"What makes you look JO aaeT* *.
"Fellow I owe $60 has Just recorcpet
mart pneumpnia.*j-|Clevelam* Leader.
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