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WEDDING FOR RICHES.
X low her for the wealth of gold
That ffllfttenn In her wild-blown trssae*,
Whene'er the sun and breese. grown bold.
Bestow on her their soft caresses.
I love the diamonds In h''r eyes.
That sparkle from each Kllxtculrifi facet.
Ah. me! the wealth that In them lies—■
The Kohinoor cannot surpass It.
I love the richness of her skin.
That flushes with each new emotion;
Her marble brow that might have been
Of Pares—far across the ocean.
MISER JOHN’S THANKSGIVING
By ERNEsT McGAFFEY.
(Copyright, I Wit. by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
John Hall sat at the north end of
his granary and looked out over the
bare, brown fields. A hawk shifted
his flight over a distant osage orange
hedge, and puffs of wind lifted the
dust on the road which stretched
away to the town that lay beyond.
The weathercock on the barn roof
swayed and turned and the windmill
creaked drearily as the breezes
passed over. The sky was a leaden
gray, and in the fields the corn stood
In shocks Into which the rabbits
twisted their way and ate of the corn
there. To the north lay the prairie;
to the south the timber Hue stood
black and menacing.
Hall was a man of thirty-five, tall,
strong and burned to a dull brown
by wind and sun. His farm was a
good one, the house comfortable and
roomy. Humor had It that he was
going to bring a wife there when he
first bought Johnston's place, ten
years before. But the years had
slipped by; John Hall had grown
older and sterner, and still there was
no woman at the door of the house
on the hill. He had worked hard and
prospered. His farm was a model
for neatness and order. He was In
ventlve, energetic ami Industrious.
Except for a hired hand there was
neither chick nor child on his farm.
He lived by himself and kept by him
self, and the neighbors seldom found
him more communicative than was
necessary for the ordinary salutations
of the road.
Gossip found it easy to dilate on
his steadily Increasing store of the
world's goods, and because he spent
so little of the money which he made
the people round him callod him
“Miser John.” He attended none of
the dances, barn-raisings, corn-shuck
ing bees or any other of the country
festivities, but remained on his place
working regularly during the time the
other farmers worked and tinkering
at his machinery and mending fences
at odd times.
He stroked ills brown beard re
flectively as he sat at the granary
door, and rose to his feet as his hired
hand called from the house. It was
Thanksgiving week and lie lind been
thinking rather gloomily of the ap
proaching holiday. For it was on a
Thanksgiving day that he had como
to the farm.
“Reckon I’ll go home Thanksgivln','*
said the hand as Hall stepped onto
the back porch. "Got a letter from
Mam. an' she lowed all the folks was
expectod, an' I'm elected to come
along.”
“All right,” replied John Hall as he
drew his chair to the table and pre
pared to eat his breakfast.
"Got a letter for you.” said tho
hand, whose name had been simpli
fied to “Hlck’ry Bill," as he handed a
blue envelope over to his employer.
Hall took the letter mechanically
and thrust it into his pocket without
a word.
“Didn’t take no more notice of it 'an
if it was a shoestring,” as Hick'ry
Bill afterwards remarked.
After the meal the hand went
down Into the creek bottom for a load
of wood and Hall accompanied him
without reading or referring to the
letter In his pocket. But he had
recognized, or believed he recognized
the bandwriting, and the letter burned
In his coat like a ball of fire.
“What dtd it mean, what did It
mean?” he kept thinking over and
over to himselt us he swung the
heavy ax in the timber. But the
man's habitual self-control and pride
Btood him so well in stead that the
easy-going hired man forgot about the
letter and busied himself with tho
work in hand. That night when the
comforters were folded around
Hick'ry Bill and that gentleman was
moored in the harbor of dreams. John
Hall drew out his letter and turned
Drew his chair to the table.
the lamp-wick a trifle higher. It was
not a long letter. There was no
studied commencement, and no end
ing except a name.
Miser John read it twice before he
■topped to copslder. It ran as fol
lows;
The pearl* that peep -elth every smile;
The ruby lips that o„' so sweetly
And all my wtulnen beguile
By ridding me of rare completely.
The voire that whispers sweet and low.
Its silver tones my heart consoling—
So tenderly that I bestow
My life, my all. to Its controlling.
With thus my reHseless longing fed
On all that mortal man bewitches,
How cun 1 calmly shake my head
And say I will not wed for riches?
—Kra Mugaslne.
"It was my fault I see ft now.
You were not to blame, as I bad been
led to believe. Will you forgive? I
am Just the same ax ever I was. ex
cept for the years which have gone
by. 1 have never cared for anyone
else, and If the old light has not
faded I chad hope we may not miss
each other on the way.
“MARGARET.”
John Hall sat far Into the night
wrestling hard with bitter thoughts
and sweet. He opened a trunk In
his room and looked long at a picture
which he drew from its depths. He
took out n package of letters and
read one or two of them. At dawn
he turned In, but did not sleep. But
Stood at the door of their home.
he was up and about when the hand
began stirring and went out on the
front porch and looked north. High
up a flock of wild geese were flying
southward, their silent wedge cleav
ing with unerring instinct the way
to the valley of the Mississippi. The
gleam of a red bird's wing flashed In
a nearby thicket and the sun shone
brightly on tho still green grass be
fore the doorway. All at once a great
peace fell on the man's heart, and he
seemed a boy again. He turned back
to the kitchen and said to Hick’ry
Bill "I'm going to town. Bill; back
to-night.” Ho swung himself. Into the
saddle that lay on a bay pony’s back,
and started in a steady canter for
town. Once there he had his beard
shorn, his hair cut, and his appear
ance changed to much like the man
of ten years before. He sent a tele
gram, and waited for an answer. The
answer came, and the agent stared
as Miser John gave a strange shout,
which was after all only a college
yell of seventeen years back.
That night John Hall took a two
days’ Journey. When he came back
a carload of furniture, including a
piano, came with him. And with him,
too, was the pretticßt woman the peo
ple of that section had ever seen.
And the sweeteßt Matured, and most
helghborly. All the women and girls
fell in love with her: all the men
worshiped her from afar off. And
on Thanksgiving there were times at
John Hall's farm. The big barn floor
was made ready for a dance. The
dinner was given there beforehand,
and there never was such a feast pro
vided in the memory of the oldest. In
habitant. .
Over twenty turkeys were on the
boards. And the quantity of “stuf
fing.” pies, cake, pickles, potatoes,
gravy and cider consumed, and a very
rare brand of sparkling cider never
before seen near Whipple Station,
made things hum along in beehive
fashion. John Hall made a speech
and the neighbors were amazed to
hear the silent man tell Jokeß and
stories that kept them laughing as
though their sides would split. It
was the event of twenty years In
Vermillion township and everyone
had the time of their lives. Three
cheers were given for John Hall and
his wife, and when tho lamps were
lit In the barn there was the biggest
crowd that ever gathered under one
roof in the county. John Hall and
ids wife were the first couple in the
first four of the opening quadrille and
everyone danced until the roosters
began to crow. There were cheers
and handshakes for them at every
turn, and as the guests moved away
in their buggies and wagons there
were more cheers and hearty good
wishes.
And aB the sun came gloriously up
over the distant hills and lighted the
barren fields with a touch of autumn
al glory, John Hail and his wife
stood at the door of their home with
hands close clasped and with faces
radiant with the flowering hope of
long lost years blossoming In their
hearts. A Jay's wing glinted blue in
the orchard and white clouds sailed
by and past to beckoning shores.
And this was how Thanksgiving
came bo Mir.Ai John
HARD WORDS FOR KRUGER.
Eastern Paper Savagely Criticises th|
Transvaal's Ex-president.
.The Brooklyn Eagle makes the fol
lowing savage onslaught on ex-Presi
dent Kruger:
"Some men there are who will not
taste the sweetness drawn from tho
uses of adversity. They will not bury
their dead ambition. They will not
accept for themselves what all the
world has accepted for them, they
will not admit the Justice of an arbi
trament which they invited and which
resulted in their discredit and disas
ter. Clearly such a man Is Paul Kru
ger, late president of the Transvaal
republic, whose memoirs are now to
be published in London. Some ex
tracts from this forthcoming book
have been printed In advance of the
volume Itself. They are monument
ally bitter. They are characteristic
ally abusive. The man who encour
aged a clique of corrupt aliens to bat
ten upon the treasury of hIH own land,
who is known to have profited enor
mously by the sale of privileges, if
not by the Sale of Law, enlarges upon
the "lies, treachery, intrigues and
secret instigations" of the govern
ment with which he so fatally clash
ed. The approver of the Infamous
dynamite concession says that Cecil
Rhodes was one of the most unscrupu
lous characters that ever existed, a
liar and a briber. Ix»rd Milner is a
murderer at his worst and a “tool
of Chamberlain" at his best. Hard
names are not arguments. According
to the proverb, they break no bones.
In more modern phraseology, they
cut no Ice. They prove nothing, they
Indicate nothing, save the gall and
the wormwood, the bitterness of an
Irreparable defeat."
BUT THE HORNETS ESCAPED.
Disastrous Attempt to Smoke Them
Out of a Barn.
Ames Young of Sterling, Wayne
county, took e load of hay to Scranton
the other day and sold it. When he
went to unload it at the barn of the
man who bought it he found u big
hornet’s nest hanging to a beam in
the mow.
To render the occupants of tho nest
harmless some sulphur was placed in
a pall, set on Are, and held under the
nest so the fumes would suffocate the
hornets. The pail was held too close,
the nest caught fire aud dropped into
the pall.
The hornets began to swarm ont
and the hired man who held the pail
chucked it, nest uud ail, out of tHe
mow window. It fell on the load of
hay, which caught Are. Young had
time to get his horses unhooked and
out of the way, hut the hay end
wagon and part of the barn were con
sumed. The hornets escaped.—New
York Sun.
The Harvest Song.
It’s sin* a song of harvest In the sun
light and the dew.
Where the world I* like a picture ’neath
a living sky of blue,
A song that echoes sweet.
Till you hour the world's heart beat
In tho thrilling air around you, and
the grasses at your feet.
It’s sing a song of harvest; the summer
days were long.
But they led to fair fruition where tho
harvest is a song:
A song whose music fills
All the valleys and tho hills—
That twinkles in the sunlight and rip
ples In the rills.
It’s sing a song of harvest; let the mer
ry echoes rise—
An answer to earth's sorrows, a solaca
for its sighs:
Earth's riches reaped and stored—
Toll’s welcome and reward:
Love and tojl have made the harvest,
and love of life is lord!
The Company’s Logic.
An amusing extract from a Belgian
paper gives the following incident:
A woman whose husband had lost
his life in a railway accident received
from the company ten thousand francs
byway of compensation. Shortly
after she heard that a traveler who
had lost a leg had been paid twenty
thousand. The widow at once put on
her'bonnet and shawl and went to the
office of the company.
"Gentlemen, how is this?' she ask
ed. 'You give twenty thousand franca
for a leg, and you allowed me only
ten thousand for my husband."
"Madam.” was the reply, "the rea
son is plain. Twenty thousand francs
won’t provide him with a leg, „ut for
ten thousnnd you can get a husband.”
Compulsory Attendance.
Emperor William recently ordered
the army chaplains deliver periodical
lectures in the evening for the benefit
of private soldiers. Attendance is us
ually small, not being compulsory, but
one reverend gentleman found that
his lecture-room was filled every
evening. He was much pleased and
to the commanding officer expressed
his pleasure at the religious awaken
ing. "Rubbish,” said the uncompro
mising colonel: "I have merely dis
covered that compulsory attendance
at your sermons is excellent punish
ment for trivial offenses."
Courageous Woman Painter.
Miss Lucy Kemp Welch, tlie animal
painter, ponsesses a small menagerie
of pet creatures which serve her as
models. At her capacious studio she
incessantly plies her brush In the de
lineation of equestrian studies, in
which she excels. She combines pluck
with genius, for one day a spirited
horse, serving as a battle model in
her studio, escaped into the street
but, nothing daunted, the artist
rushed after and captured the run
away, brought him back and contln
ued her work.
Bet and honor are sometimes ml
odds.
AGRICULTURE
Farm Economies.
There was a great failure in New
York not long ago which Involved mil
lions of dollars. Investigation showed
that the failure was due very largely
to the neglect of small economies, the
saving of a few cents here and of a
few dollars there. The waste had
gone on for a quarter of a century and
had resulted in bankruptcy. How many
farms have been lost because of the
reckless way their owners had of do
ing business? The best thinkers on
this subject have been for years ad
vising every farmer to keep books and
by that means looking after the big
and the little things. The little in
comes and the little outgoes are al
most lost sight of, and even the big
things and transactions are too sel
dom properly accounted for. We do
not wlßh to advise the farmer to put
his family on shorter fare than at the
present time, but wc do wish to urge
that he know where bis money is go
ing to and where the money is coming
from that is to meet bis future obliga
tions. We do wish him to know
whether his various farm operations
are all bringing him a profit. It not
Infrequently happens that a certain
crop will be grown on the farm for
years without ever paying a profit. It
would be economy to know fully the
truth about such a crop and cease to
grow it. To cease to lose money in
that way is one of the most necessary
farm economies. It might be well to
Inquire (on some farms) If the money
that Is being put into that embryonic
trotting horse Is not mostly wasted.
Has account been taken of all the
littlo expenses incurred in his devel
oping? To save these expenses (in
curred on a "gamble") is a worthy
farm economy. It is economy to put
the farm tools in out of the sun and
rain and cover them with preparations
that will protect them from the damp
ness that everywhere exists. Not the
least of the economies on the farm 1b
the saving of time. Tne shortest way
to do this is to have a place for every
thing on the farm and to see that
everything Is kept where It belongs.
This will save both time and effort.
How Sour Soils Are Made.
The black prairie soils are invari
ably rich In nitrogen and potash, be
cause they are largely composed of the
charcoal of decayed vegetation. The
accumulation produced has been pre
vented from total decomposition by
tho water lying heavily in the soils
and excluding the air. TLe drifting
sands and clay silt, and the earth in
which the plants were rooted supply.
suL.cient mineral matter to make them
Into healthy soils, which settle grad
ually to a fairly firm mass, except in
some parts where the water lay stag
nant too heavily the year round. The
last condition allowed only a growth
of water plants like sphagnums, and
resulted in what are termed "bogus
soils," too deficient in mineral matter
to properly support farm crops. As a
portion of each year’s vegetation be
came entirely decomposed, and the
charcoal bodies, or carbon structures,
were burned out and passed ofT into
the air as carbon gas. humus was de
posited through tho mass, thus mak
ing food for plants to be taken up by
them in absorbing the soil waters. —
T. C. Wallace.
Chick-Pea or Gram.
A shelling pea, practically unknown
in tills country, is the chlck-pca (Cicer
arietinum), the garhanzos of Spanish
cookery, or the gram of India. It is
largely cultivated In southern Europe,
in Spanish America and many parts
of the East, especially British India,
whence it Is exported. It is a stiff,
upright plant, covered with hairs and
bearing inflated pods containing a few.
curiously shaped Beeds; the two lobes
distinctly marked and the germinal
point very prominent. These peas are
eaten boiled, but more commonly
roasted. This roasted pea seems to
have been much in use in Roman
times, the phrase frictl ciceris emptor.
"buyer of roasted chick-peas," mean
ing in conversation a poor fellow.
National Bureau of Forestry.
The work of the Bureau of Forestry
It now being carried on In 20 states.
The Bureau appointed 90 new student
assistants for this season, the entire
field force numbering IC6 men. The
work includes, among other things,
the gathering of the necessary data
for several working plans, a study of
a number of well-known commercial
trees, the examination of farm wood
lots, and a study of the treeless areas
with a view of devising plans for for
est extension. The Bureau of For
estry began the new fiscal year of
1902-1903 with an appropriation of
$291,860. The amount for the pre
vious year was $185,440. This In
creased appropriation shows how this
work commends Itself to Congress,
And it makes possible a much wide/
range of work. The present season's
work is by far the most varied and
Interesting yet undertaken by the
Bureau of Forestry, and Is being car
rled on in Maine, New Hampshlrt-
Vermont, Massachusetts, New York,
New Jersey, Maryland, Tennessee.
Kentucky, West Virginia, North Caro
lina, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska.
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Montana,
Arizona and Californio. Later In
the season it will be extended to still
o'her states and territories.
HORTICULTURE
The Seedling Apple.
For a good many years there has
been a contest as to wbeiber It was
better to hunt up new apples in for
eign countries and import them or de
velop new apple varieties from seeds.
Both methods have been tried and
both have yielded some discouraging
results. A few good apples have been
Imported from foreign countries, but
very many, after having been tried for
a dozen years, have been cast aside as
worthless. On the other band, of all
seedlings that have been brought to a
stage of fruitfulness not one in a thou
sand has proved to be of value.
However, wo should not forget that
ail the progress that has been made in
the development of new vorietles at
home or abroad has been by meanß of
seedlings. For every good variety we
now have, multitudes of seedlings
have been tried and cast aside. We
must continue this work, though it is
very slow as g process. It Is a great
task to care for a thousand seedling
trees and bring them to a bearing age.
They must bo planted at first in seed
ling rows and then transplanted. They
must be cared for after the best meth
ods for years till they como Into fruit
ing. Even after that it la sometimes
necessary to keep them for other
years to determine other facts about
them; for a tree will sometimes show
increased fruitfulness as the years go
on. Among the things that must be
done for the treeß are keeping the
ground fertile and the trees sprayed.
The borers must be hunted out and
the caterpillars attacked as soon as
they appear. The discouraging thing
about the work is that after so long a
wait and much hard work the grower
may find that not one tree is superior
to varieties already growing, and un
less a new variety be superior In at
least one point to other varieties it is
of no use to save It.
The laborer can never know that he
is to reap the benefit of his hard
work. Even if he develops a superior
variety, other years must elapse be
fore be can make anything from it;
and even that will depend on bis busi
ness acumen and business energy.
However, the seedling is the only
available road of advance. If all apple
growers would each grow a few trees
it would distribute the load over many
backs and it would weigh less heavily
a few.—Farmers' Review.
Missouri Horticultural Meeting.
L. A. Goodman, secretary of the
Missouri Horticultural Society, noti
fies us that the forty-fifth annual meet
ing of the society will be held at
Springfield, Mo., December 2 to 4. In
a circular he Bays: The state society
has been a great factor in the wonder
ful growth of the fruit industry in
Missouri. She ranks first now in ap
ple orchards of any state in the Union.
The fruit lands of our state have
been brought more and more to the
notice of grower and dealer. We feel
proud to-day of our position, and with
proper care and attention we should
be able to hold it. To this end the
society In all its efforts to develop the
fruit interests of the state and to bring
good fruit men into it. has never lost
sight of the need of the best means
for educating, assisting and develop
ing all our fruit growers; instructing
them where knowledge is wanted, ad
vising them where experience would
give the help needed, assisting, direct
ing, encouraging, whenever opportuni
ty is offered.
This forty fifth annual meeting will
be one of the beßt ever held. Some of
the best men of the state and nation
will bo there to help answer scientific,
technical and practical questions and
to give Instructive papers. The fruit
growers of Greene county and south
Missouri will give us a hearty wel
come. One hundred and fifty dollars
is alloted for premiums, to be given
on fruits and flowers in our usual
manner. Five specimens constitute a
plate. Perfection of size, color, form
and condition will be the points con
sidered. Collections shall embrace
only one plate of a variety for the
judges to pass upon. New varieties
and rare ones are desired. Specimens
for name are always in order. Let us
make this a banner meeting. Monday,
December 1, the Ozark Apple Growers'
Association will hold Its regular meet
ing and all apple growers of the
Ozarks are invited to be present; the
society delegates will also be welcome.
Railroad rates will apply for this day
also. A good program will be carried
out. Fruits should all be arranged on
Tuesday. All fruit will be reserved
and put up In glass Jars for the
World's Fair.
Plum Trees in a Foultry Yard.
From Farmers' Review: I would
:.ot by any means have plum trees in
a poultry yard, if it must be kept clear
from grass, in order to have the plum
trees do well. I can not see what good
they do any way. for the shade from
them is very poor, besides, unless the
ground under the trees is well stirred,
after every heavy rain, the ground
will harden so they will not scratch
or keep it loose so as to act as a
mulch, consequently they will do no
good in there ou that account. Of
course. If you spade up the ground
under each tree after the heavy rains,
it would make an ideal dusting place
for them. A poultry yard, by all
means, must have grass, for it is al
most impossible to raise chickens and
have them do well without It.
Public virtue never survives the
demise of private rectitude.
The DAIRY
Need of Improvement in Dairy
Methods.
From Farmers’ Review: In no ar
ticle of human food is so mnch filth
consumed as In dairy products. When
milk or cream Is ordered even at
our best hotels and restaurants, dirt
is frequently found at the bottom if it
Is allowed to stand a short time. This
is not appetizing, to say the least, and
is driving people who like milk to
using something In Its stead. This
greatly reduces the consumption of
milk and at present Americans do
not consume more than one-third as
much milk per capita as Is used In
some European countries. Many per
sons ÜBe as little milk as possible
because of the careless way In which
It is produced and the fear that It may
contain disease germs. As dairy prod
ucts are usually consumed In the raw
state, there Ib, of course, more danger
on this account, but when In propor
condition they are both healthful and
economical and would be const med In
much larger quantities If people could
always obtain them clean and >f good
quality.
Simply because we are acct 3tomed
to doing a thing in a slipshod way is
no reason for its continuance. We
are living In an ago of the mod rapid
change and improvement ai d the
sharpest competition. The p ibllc is
becoming more Intelligent and is de
mandlng better food produe; s year
after year, and unless the di Irymen
fall Into line and march with • he pro
cession by producing clean ni *ik and
dairy products their consumptr on will
certainly decrease. People x 111 not
continue to drink milk In v hlch a
sediment is found and to ei t poor
butter and cheese. It Is tbes to tha
interest of the dairymen the nselves
as well as the general public .hat at
teutlon be given to the produ tlon ol
milk, butter and cheese that at i clean
and attractive in appearance .s well
as of superior quality.
In dairying as in all other occupa
tions there is room at the top and It
is in the better class of I airylng
that the profits lie, for this it as yet
a field almost wholly unoccupied.—
W. J. Fraser, University of If» uois.
Gain in Feeding Silage
There are about 3,488 hllli in an
acre of corn. Valuing the corn at
from $lO to sl2 an acre, you will
find feeding six hills a day. It will
cost you 2% cents a day to feed a
cow or a horse. The cow or horse
Is doing its own grinding and shuck
ing the feed, costing you 2V4 cents
per day per animal. We remember
one year after our cows had gone
through a terrible drought, they
caught the pink-eye from a neigh
bor's cattle, which he had bought at
the stock yards. They fell off !n
flesh and milk. Frost had killed our
field corn and we were at a loss to
know what to do. This was the lat
ter part of October, and we began to
feed ensilage and from that day wo
Increased our milk, the cows gained
in flesh, the hair looked silky and
glossy and the milk was of a rich
June color.—L. A. Speis.
Unscientific Handling of Milk.
Mr. McNutt said: The farmer sells
his milk for 2 cents a quart, the baby
who drinks It pays 8. Two cents for
production, 6 cents for distribution.
There is something wrong about that.
I found out the trouble one morning
when in New York. At 4 o’:lock a
milkman came along, cllmbec stairs
aud left a pint of milk. His wagon
rattled away a quarter of a mile and
delivered another pint. That n ornlng
over fifteen milk peddlers ct mo up
those same stairs to deliver milk. We
have learned how to distribute our
letters, but if we had the same system
of distribution in the mail service tnat
we have in the milk business every
letter would cost 25 cents postage.—
Benton Harbor, Mich., News.
Big Returns From Poultry.
Now what about the returns from
eggs and poultry meat wheu produced?
I am disposed to under, rather than
over, estimate in this matter. A very
moderate estimate is 100 eggs per
hen per year for sale or use. These eggs
at one cent each are worth SI.OO all
told. In addition to this you should
have a setting of eggs that would givo
you eight chickens, which, at 10 cents
each, would be worth 80 cents. This
makes a total return of SI.BO. What
does it cost to produce these returns?
This is just where one marked advan
tage of poultry raising comes In. A
great deal of the feed used to produce
poultry on the farm Is made up of
what are, comparatively speaking,
waste products—small grain. table
scraps, green bone, etc. But we have
made experiments at Ottawa with a
view of learning just what the cost of
production is where foods have to be
purchased—the cost of the grain used,
being placed at a cent a pound. Even
on this basis, the cost of feeding a ben,
as shown by actual experiment, was
not beyond 75 cents per year. This
left a profit of at least SI.OO per fowl.
And this was allowing only a cent
each for eggs. How much greater
would the profits be if eggs were
produced in winter, when 25, 30 and
35 cents per dozen can be obtained
in Toronto or local markets? In that
case the net profits would run up to
$1.50 to $2.00 per year.—Prof. A. U
Gilbert
Spain has 620,000 miles of cork for
ests. and Kentucky is Insanely Jeai-