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? THE 3I0R Told at the Edge of "tir r_ written 10 BY EDWIN L.] chapter vi. It was just at dusk that evening: th western 6Ky was streaked with crimso: nd black; the white mist wa9 lying i: thin wreathe along the purple rive meadows; the landrails were croakin In the fern and the night jars churnin on the oak; the little stars were twink ling in the smooth heaven, and the pal crescent of the moon was adip upon th sea when a thin curl of smoke rose froi the thatch of a hut in the fishing villag below the burgh. A minute after bright tongue of flame shot up and i cry of alarm rose from inside the stock ades. "Surely some careless housewif had let an ember fall among the thatch, they thought, and the great oak gate: creaked upon their hinges an I out t< the extinguishing ruBhed in their loos* beepskln oloaks two luckless herds Ab they passed the portal an arrow 6pec across the grass, and, plunging aoej iDto the cbest of the foremost, h? bounded half his height into the air then fell with a heavy thud into th< fern and went rolling and kicking am screaming down the hillside. At th< game minute an un6een hand from be hind, with a single sweep of a goo< Norway ax, severed the head of tL* other from his body as he stood glarinj after his comrade, and now the starligh <cas twinkling on the weapons and mai of hurrying Norsemen, and -while thi fierce cry of "Odin! ('din!" went up t< the black sky, and the dusky crows startled from their roosting places flapped dismally about between th< stars, a long, low wail of fear and terro rose from the hundred corners of tha doomed citadel. < And the game "was ours from the he ginning. Numerous and strong, flerc< and bloodthlreiy as bloodhounds on th< trail, we raoed for the open gates, an< carried the first one and swept roum the way between under the unguarde< palisades, whtre a dozen men migh nave hold us at bay, and 60 to the Innoi portal, where we stabbed a brave ol< crone who tried to 6hut it in our face and there the place had fallen?th< wolves wem in the fold. And wild work we made of it! As w< gained the entrance the English chief tain rushed out of tho mid-door of hii hall in his nightwear (for he had al' ready gone to bed), a naked sword ii his hand and by his side a fair younj boy with curly yellow hair. By Thor, Irould not have been the wild fowl 01 the neighboring marsh when that comely fad was hungry. He shot so close anc straight,although the light was poor foi shooting, that had there boen a dozer 6uch it would have gone badly indeet irith us. At the first shaft he piercec Kolbiorn throngh the wrist, and the sec ond wounded stalwart Sveinke in th< thigh; then he shot one in the throa and anoth< r in the stomach, and kep ns all at bay until his last arrow wai spent, and then died far down on th< haft of bloody Dagson's bear spear lik< the fierce young cub he was. As foi the other ? although he was stou' enough of heart, yet his limbs wer< "BY HIS FIDE A FAin YOUNG BOY." lean and old, and ray merry fellowi made short work with him, and he la? in the moonlight as they left him, pal< and bloody across his threshold, all th? evening. Then we shut the gates to keep th< screaming women in and lit a stack o two to give us light and so fell on. Bu why should I try to tell you all we di< that evening? Why should I try t< picture the wild, fierce hell of lust an< cruelty and rapine that raged withii those grassy shambles unacr the mil< white starlight? And if 1 had a hundre< pens I could not tell each incident as i i# T ylir? vAti mirrVif rvrvf nor. UI1U M. Vi?U JVU UiiJ^uv MV* V?kA< to listen. If I had a hundred pens could scarce recount how, one by one wo first dragged the men from the! hiding places, and how some of ther fought desperately, while somo sub mltted sullenly, but whichever way i was we killed them. Or how the womei screamed and struggled in tho .arms o tho sea rovers and cried for mercy am tore the yellow beards of their new grimly laughing masters, and were sen down to hades, the old and l^an once And how the others?the pale, fair girls with fear-bright eyes arxl long, Joos hair and bare feet, ail in their torn, di shovelled night Rear?were bound han ?nd foot and lashed to the nillars in th dining-hall, or how the little one moaned and wailed, and hid behind th heaps of doad and strove to wake wit.] timid petulance those who would nove wake again, or, often, with their c hei ished playthings locked tightly withi their arms, crept into wondrous corner and hid from ue?ask me no smaller dc tail, for I could surfeit you with norror until compassion dimmed your eyes an stayed your reading! for an "hour tncpTace was full of th guttural shouts of men and the shriek of women, the scream of the maiden an cry of the mother losing her little on< the wail of the captive and the moan c the dying down in the shadows; an men ran here and there struggling wit white-shrouded forms, or dragging b heel or hair strange shapes into dusk corners, and the tires blazed and th sparks fell?and then, presently, be cause there were no more to kill, th noiSd died down until presently eilenc reigned, broken only by the laughin and shouting of my men. und thus w gathered in the hall, relit the lamp? hrnOiod off t.ha remnants of the earlit ?venlng supper and laid out for oui eclves all tho best we could put ov hands on. And fierce, wild revelry m fellows made of it The. hot. blood < rapine and pillatie ha<l #ot into thei veins and they heated it higher with tli strong, abundant drink from that Pril ish chieftain's hiding places, until the were more like a tawny, handsome ban of furies than mortal men?gods! think I never brought such a crew ? devils to that shore before. They n.ad the rafters ring with their wild p:;ga hymns; tlicy danced and Pbouted an ate and drank, while the pale captiv girl* stood huddling in the shadows c waited trembling on them, and the win #n<J irt lj etroaipijig do^n t.h<i Hoc Y_OF ULLA. the Northern Sea, and .. Tl_* T) r i nib r apci. ESTER ARNOLD. among the blood and' litter, and the e torches flared, and the doge howled outD side. Oh, it was strango, wild revelry n and went on for half the nicht-time. r It must have been near tho dawn and ? most of tho maidens Joy swooning upon ? the floor between weariness and terror, . and half the rovers wero drunk as e swine, when they fotehed in tho dead e chieftain, setting him, pale and bloody, D in his chair, and putting a cup into hia e hands while the ribaldest fellow them 8 made a song and sung It to him. Then a next a cry arose?who started it I know not, but may God forgive him?for tho frnnkiln'n /lanrrhfort Wa harl p I ' "'b*'-"" -T-o? .. uot seen her?she was not among tho 9 captives?and now a hundred buxom 3 fellows were on foot hunting with toroh 3 and lamp high and low in every crack * and corner of the burgh to find her. ' Unhappy damsel, they hunted futilely ? everywhere until they came to tho 3 small round tower on the cliff verge; ? there the strong oak door was barred 3 and shut from within, and a wild yell of 1 drunken pleasure told their quarry wae 5 at bay. ' AVhat was It that made me just then * so sick of all that revelry and sat like a 5 black foreboding on my soul? I know ? not, but I turned, and, weary of the | glare and tumult, slowly left the burgh * and walked down to the bcach, where B lay my ship, just as the men were mak3 ing a ta.l mound of sticks and heath and > timbers about the door of tho doomed ? tower that held the Silent princess. 3 Climbing on board I gave orders to r those who had stood by the Wolf to * make all ready for the sea, then threw myself down listless, strangely sad. and " chilly as one in ague, by my place at 3 tho tiller to await the com ng of the 3 pillagers. And presently, one by one, * the sons of the creek came reeling down I the path, singing as they stumblod | down the darkness and carrying bundles 5 and bags, and furs, and cupe, ana r weapons in sheafs, and dragging falter1 tag slaves, aDd surly, snarling dogs in ? leashes, and so at last when they were s a 1 on board but one, that one came running down the path, and before he had 3 (.'Ot ha f way to us the burgh was all Illuminated with a rosy light, and looki tng up we saw that the laughing villain " had fired it in twenty peaces, and not 1 only the dwellings but also the groat J mound of fuel his friends-had built | against the tower door. f CHATTER vn. 1 Up came our anchor and out we r lurched upon the waves once more. We ? set sail and drifted slowly down under J the cliif where stood tho castle, and as 1 we came the fire raged furiously until " when we were below that beetling brow 3 we were sailing on a heaving molten soa ? of blood, and all our spars and cordage 6 were shining copper red, and all the up3 turned faces of the vikings were flushed * and hectic in the shine?and then?oh, 3 bow can I write it??just as we came ? tho nearest a white woman's form 1 stepped frantic out on top of the tower 3 and clasped her hands across her eyes, " and hid her face and wept. And I?oh the fiercest, strangest gust of agony and joy sprang up within my heart?I gasped and glared, and, all forgetting the strangeness of it in tho horror of tho moment, dropped the tiller, and leaping to the clanking bulwarks stared another moment, and then, out of my deepest heart, out of the hot inspiration of my very soul, burst a fierce, wild cry of "Gunna!" ? And in an instant that white form was on her feet and staring terror-dazed at us, and then she saw ine by tho shrouds as I stood limned in gold, with all my ship against the black setting of the I night, and gazed down steadfastly up on me ror a ininuio, tuen ciappeu uei hands upon her bosom and stretched ' them wildly to me, and above the hissing of the flame and the thud of the white surf upon the rocks I heard her cry, "Ulla! lUla!" And now the strength of twenty jarle 5 was in my heart. I tossed off as though f they were baby fingers the strong grip ' of two stout fellows who thought tc > stay me and in a minute was in the sprl and striking out bravely tor the land. 3 The great frothy pillows of the tide r | boiled for a space under my chin, und J J now I was deep down in a humming j black sea valley and anon mast high . upon a curiing crest of spume, and then, all in the black shadow of tho clifT, the , black waters seemed to dissolve into a j hell of ghostly chaos and white thunder, t and my feet touched tho pebbly bottom. I landed somehow, but how only the j palo Norns can tell, and scrambled up a sheep track the boldest of my men had j! said in oaylight was impossible; came n to the palisades and clambered over them, and rolled into tho fort on top of j two mangled lo lies, and up again, and jj now, in tho golden shine of tho lire, I rushed to the great hall. j There in his chair of 6tate was tho dead chief just as my robbers had left Tim with mnuth wide ODen and fixed , ?yes staring grimly down bis hall and ' golden wine cup clinched vrithin his (J lingers and bloody night gear wrapped [ about him, while on his fane the streaks j ol pain and anger twitching with a c hideous mockery ot life as the smoke s curled and the flames went soaring overe head in rosy eddies. To right and left was wild disorder, tables overturned r and benches cast about, broken flagons .. and squandered victuals, bent sword* n I and cleft targets, and costly stuff? pulled s into shreds and dead men a-sprawl upon their faces, arid blood and dirt and litg ter, and ovr>r all the fire was humming ite (j iiorce sung as it mounted from point tc point in the roof and shed great burning jiaKes r.na emoers on us ueiow. but e nothing 1 cared for bloo 1 and litter, but * with a foot of wind and a heart hotter ^ than the flames above rushed through Ji the banquet place and brushing rudely ^ by the scowling king got out to the ~ inner court and so reached the portal ol " the tower. y Over a red path of cinder* I flew, anc y with my bare hand cast the flarne-ro e 0 doorway into red ruins, and up uu aol'an uttfiiiq t rnnpfl? j J ^ ?r ? ~~ r r-f t ?wa6 in ttik priir ijcn ttjvikjsg or: u juulvixy." noticing that they fell to ashes as passed?and in another moment, in i moment of wildly mingled feelings, "was out upon the burning parapet, an< there upon her knees, leaning agains the outor walls, and seeming asleep wai tho white maid whose fair faoe ha< haunted my forest path and shone upoi mo through tho drift and reck of tei years' storm and battle. Down I went upon one knee and deep, 6trong love and gentle compunc j tion welling up in my heart, took thi -* maiden's neau upuu wj Bmnuuor ?u< her band in mine, and in a minute shi gave a great, shivering gasp of pain an< fear and opened her eyoB and looked up By 6weet Bkulla hei self, it was nearly worth the interval of pain to e^e th( glad light of pleasure that was lit with in them as they met mine, to ft-el th< warm clasp of her hand and t( know unspoken that our hearfa were one and our troth unbroken. I was a happy moment, but all too brief lor I knelt and framed the hot wordi of love and courage ani drew he sweet, yielding form to my bosom and raiDed my long garnered kispes 01 h jrdear, pale face. I felt the "oakei platform whereon we stood heave am tremble, and, with a gasp, I looke< about and 6aw the cruel flame hat gnawed through every joist upon tha turret, and tho whole platform wai crackling and blistered and hanging bj a thread, while down below, nungrj for its fall, was the great roaring seething funeial of the inner tower "Gunna!" I cricd, "my own? then is but one way. Look! look! Th< 6taire are gone, the platform rocks, anc down below the courtyard is cruel hard Gunna, my life! come?quick!?ther?? 80?and hide your face deep dowu to mi wolf-skin folds!" And as she fled U me and leapt into .my arms I hid he: fi.co in my cloak and stepped off on t< the narrow rim of crackei and Vaggec parapet just as tho platform fell int< ruins and went thundering down int< the yellow and crimson caldron under neath. For one grim minute I poised mysel: upon that narrow, giddy 6hell of black ened wall with the howling flame roar ing behind and the dark vortex of th< sea thundering in dim dreadfulness tw< hundred feet below upon the other, thei ?wrapping my sweet burden still clo-e to my bosom and muttering between nr 44 'now fob GIIEEX BALDKnSUN'd?or ol1 valhalla!' " teeth. "Now for green Baldersund or ol< Valhalla!"?leapt bravely out into th night! This is all! This is the story of Ulli tho viking, Ulla the priest. The lam] wavers to its ending?the ink is dry. When tho clansmen picked us up th maid was dead, and so was the light am the loving of Ulla. For three days wi staggered back across the melanchol; ridge and furrow of the black North Sea and then we buried her here under i grassy mound by the white lip of thi ocean in Baldersund. And grief, dul and abiding, 6at in my heart, and nom ? ? : * A* #? ff rtw nm COlilCl 11* J\ b ill ici iiiuiij years, there camc one barefooted, 1 cross and a staff in his hands, fnmovc seas and whispered comfort. He oourei the unction of the new faith into nr heart and the baptismal water on m; head and bid me forget and arise anew* And I took the cowl of him, learning t< read and write, and built me a hut bj the green mound I loved snd strovo b; penance and privation to do as I wai bid. Cut can I forget? Can the shar] thong and the mean fare purge the hot free, loving spirit in my blood? A lime6 it shakes off the shackles of swee insipidness, and then I?I, old Ulla Er llngson?whilo the pale ghost-Iin olays upon the dark summit of m; mound ?rid the black sea booms disma !n tJio black night distanco, go out upoi ihat dear, shrouding turf and cast my - .'If upon my face, and tear my whit hair, and mock the wild win 1 and wave with my still wilder grief. [tiie END. I Copyright. by the Authors' Alliance. AJ ri-flits reserved. iCONVICTED BY THE RAYS. ProfeiiKir Roentgen's Discovery Prove, Malpractice Against a Sarjeon. The Yale Medical Journal contains an ictei usting picture made by eathode rays of i badly broken arm, whioh had been improp erly set. The picture was made by Prof03 "*** A ? ? ?? OC kifi loKnMfAin BOr ttoenigeu UU dttUUcklJf wm uimauvi- ., ia Hamburg, Dr. 0. G. Child, formerly o the Yale Medical School, securnd the plate and sent it to Dr. Carmalt, of the Medica Bchool. Tae photograph i6 very dim. but ac cording to medical experts would convic the surgeon ol malpractice. Its suoceae has led the physicians of th Medical School to decide to try cathode ray on a broken arm which has been giving som local surgeons a great deal of trouble. Th article accompanying the picture by Profes sor Roentgen suggests that the day may b near when every auigeon will have to phc tograph his setting of broken bones in orde to be oertain that ho is not guilty of mal prootice. Judicial Vrest Censor. ' Judge Ong suspended the trial at Clevc > land. Ohio ofjllusbrod Kelch, charged wit! [ wife murder, becaues of a complaint by th i prisoner's attorney that reports of the tria published by the newspapers were prejudi cial to the interests of his client. The tim ' Is at hand/' said Judge Ong,y*when newspii 1 pers must discontinue these practices, f propose to ascertain what power lies in th 1 aourt, not itinerant, but statutory. I will or 1 deavor to hold a consultation with the oth< Judges at onco and ascertain what should t done. If they disagree with me, I will a< uloue." A Northern Southern KxiiomI ion. A Southern States exposition is to l>e licl , In Chicago the current y^'ir. the Smte3 o 1 Alabama. Florida, (reorgia.Kentucky. Louisi 1 ana, Mississippi, Maryland. North Carolinn > South Carolina. Tennessee and Texas to d< ! liver the exhibits at that ?-ity and Chicago t furnish the building aud pay the expenses c maintaining the exhibition not more tha three months. Th*? opening *et fo August 1. _______ Man Whom All Delighted to Hoaor. l'r-">fes-or Theodore Mommsen. Jthe emi nent ftennan jurist and historian, has beet decorated by the Kaiser with the Order o the Crown of the first class. The veterai scholar has had honors showered upon hin by educational institutions androyaltty fron all lands. He will hoou celebrate th< aiKhlieth anniversary of hi? birthday and thi golden jubilee of his first appointment as t universltv Professor. Canada Invites the Armenian*. UiliUIUlUJJ 'viwifljuj^u w V ?wi/www...?n scheme for inducing Armenians to imm grate. Bicycles In Mexico, r Over 1000 bioyelee arc ir. nsc in the City < Mexico. *> * /,* ?>-" - ? ; TESTING SEEDS. * I ? 66< 1 INTERESTING OPERATIONS AT 80 t AN KXPKRIMUNT STATION. all ? Se ' i Seed Adulteration Has Been Rci duced to a Science?Test for I in- aD purities?Lome-Made Germ? inatlng Apparatus. ^ 0 m 1 "V" "T"6~7TTH the coming of spring, fil ? \ /\ / horaldod by the alluring te Y V ftn<* fifthly colored adver- cl ' tisements of seed dealere cu 9 and florists, the farmer, housewife and nc - amateur gardener aro flooding the la 9 mails with the seed orders they are te 5 sending to the dealers. The little paper pi * packages, full of promiees of lovely of blooms and plump vegetables, will be of j sent by return mail, and then will w: r come the planting, waiting, anxiety ai , and triumtih or disappointment, in i Those who bought their seeds of re- in if rr~ 1 i r SEED-GERMINATING APPARATUS 1 putable, conscientious dealers will p have themselves to blame if plants, aj grasses, flowers and shrubs fail to w Bpring from the seed, but too often b the little bags or packages of seeds " contain sand, crashed quartz, "dead" te seed or inferior seed mixed with a si small proportion of the genuine, for fl seed adulteration has been reduccd to cl a science. s< Sometimes this adulteration is due sj to sheer carelessness on the part of gi D growers and dealers, but more often ti it is the result of careful study and g; ~ careful manipulation by dishonest Is 3 men. Europe set the example of mix- ai 0 ing inferior, dead and cheap seed with a) a the good to increase the profits of the g< p grower and dealers, and some of the oi worst pests which trouble farmers le e were introduced into this couu- tl 1 try through the medium of adul- vi 0 terated seeds. b; ' me JSUSSian tuiBCie, a icrai weeu W ' which covers over 35,000 square miles ai e of good farming lands and seriously tt 1 interferes with agricultural operations 0 in feven States, stole into the United tc f di ? - le ^ ^ C( : JL fii 1 __lJ j FLAN OF SEED-CLEANiNG MACHEKB. aI 1 m - States more than a score of years ago Uf 0 in Russian flaxseed. ^ 9 It is said that the average farmer Cl buys tho cheapest seed in the market Pf ;l and trusts to luck lor results. This ?* practice is condemned by experts, who . deolare that cheap seed ie the principal source of the hosts of noxious ar weeds which spring up on many farms, f*3 Purity is a primary requisite to 18 good seed and adulterated seed is not S' p pure. The adulterating matter may 1" . be worthless, harmless stuff, such as * Band, dirt, atones, crushed quartz or [ dead seed, or it may be seed of harmfnl weeds, which so nearly resembles 1D >1 the genuine that the closest inepec" tion fails to discover the fraud. ' ' Grass and clover seed are the prin- sf e cipal victims of the dishonest' 'mixer." ai f A common method of adulteration is cfl ? to mix the seed of wild and inferior _ grusfes with that which commands a ^ e high price. ? '* In Europe there are several "seed ' control" stations where need is tested, and seed investigation now is an important feature in many agricultural ( < experimental stations in this country. I i. rtnrl n*\nliQn/?Ofl llCAfl if) I a ' xuu nppmaiu? uuu U^umuwu U .W ^ these investigations are complete in ii every particular and somewhat expeni sive, but any farmer or gardener can j e test his own seed anil arrive at comet i ] conclusions. The points to be considered are gen? uineness, purity, germinating power aud actual value of the seed. A good >j magnifying glues, a set of small bottles or to bos provided with corks, and a home-made germinating apparatus arc ' ;ii all ibftfc is necessary to ?nter into a re if personally conducted pur^-seed inves- ai i- ligation. The method of testing jik in ^ carried on in an experimental station sa 0 is about, as follows: us >1 A fair average sample is secured, t-e u and this sample is divided up into uv r smaller average samples, so that sev- w< eral tc^s can be carried ou <it the same | tli time. After tbis smaller average saju- j go - pie is weighed, the seeds are spread i ae | out upon a smooth glazed black or ! wbite surface and all of the impurities l> i are carefully separated from the gen- *e 1 uine seed, weighed and their percent* ()j I age ascertained. All cbafi', sand and lil ? foreign mixtures of any sort ar?> rc- 01 garded a6 impurities- The? seedf- of th weeds are identified, if possible, and in every result is carefully recorded ou " blanks made for the purpose. When dc the test for impurities i6 complcle the si< germinating teat is made. "Where the m tests are made thoroughly two lots of of : seeds are taken for the germinating ai; >- test ; one for Ike geminating appr.ra- { ? ".t fv ' ' s and one for outdoor or eenhouee culture. For sprouting sds it is neccessary to have me scrt of an apparatus in which I of the different factors governing rmination, such as light, temperare and moisture, can be controlled, d this requires artificial heat which n be readily regulated. Various rms of equipments are used; one o5 em consists of a square chamber ade with double walls which are led with water to preserve a low mperature. The lower part of the lamber is made of sheet iron and mtains a Bunsen gas burner con:cted with an automatio heat regutor. which is used to control the mperature. The upper chamber ie ovided with holes for the insertion i?uuiiiiuuic tcx o ouvi itir tuc nuuiiDoiuu oxygen. The chamber is provided ith shelves made of galvanized iron, id on theBe shelves are copper pane, which the seed may be germinated varions ways. Before the seed ie 55! !l' ' , 11 3 USED BY THE GOVERNMENT, laced in this or any other generating pparatns it is soaked in distillec ater or rain water from six to fifteei ours to hasten germination. Thi sprouting bed" is made of som< iaterial which will soak up water ich as porous dishes, thick oloth, annel or blottipg paper, asbostui loth, earth or sand. The eelectec :eds are placed on or between th< sorting bed, and placed in th< erminating chambcr. The tempera ire is maintained at a uniform do. ree as it is in an incubator, and, in ict, the artificial germinating of seeds ad the artificial hatching of eggs arc ike in many respects, and a good srminator can be made ont of an rdinary incubator.. The Beeds are ft in the germinating chamber until ley sprout, and the germinating line of the sample of seeds is found y counting the number of seeds hich sprout within the time allowed id ascertaining the percentage oi ie whole number. Usually the'time allowed for seeds > germinate is as follows: Ten full 1/8 for cereala, clovers, peas, beans, ntils, sunflowers, cabbage, rape, ustard, flax, chicory, hemp, poppj id tobacco; fourteen full days ioi jot-seed balls, rye grasses, timothy, trrots, etc.; twenty-one full days 'oj rassee, except meadow and rye grassei id timothy; twenty-eight full dayi ir meadow grasses, birches, alders, !orns, beeches, etc., and forty-twc til days for white pine and ston< uits. Seeds which do not germin o within the specified time arc >unted bad, and, in the calculation, jure as suoh. A simple, home-made germinating jpnratus can be made of a good-eizec ilk pan, a porous dish, such as ii led for setting flower pots in, and t me of glass big enough to entirely iver the pan. The bottom of th< in is covered with water and the por is saucer is placed in the middle. It ie bottom of the saucer a piece o tick blotting paper or flannel is laic 1(1 OH H2IB Llie M,'eu UfC opicou, am. len another piece of paper or clotl laid ovor the seed and the pane o: ase is placed over the pan. The iper or cloth is soaked in watei ;fore the seeds arc laid in anc 10 seeds are soaked from six tc :teen hours before putting then the paD. The water soaks into the jrous saucer and this keeps the ?prouting-bcd" moi6t enough to trout the seeds. The otmosphere oi 1 ordinary living room is suitable i: .re is taken to place the pan near th< ove or in some warm place at night, ac pan may be left partly open froir 1?\N HOME-MADE SEED OERMJNATOK. me to time to permit fresh air tc ach the seed. With this apparatus, id a stroDg magnifying glass to aic separating the impurities from the mplc to be tested, any farmer can certain the practical value of bit ed. The sample should bo a fail orage of the whole and it should be .ujjh'.'d anil the seeds countcd so that e proper percentage of purity anil rminati'j^ value can be ascertained eurotely. For cleamng large quantities of 6eeil om which to secure a test sample a ed-oleaning machine is required, ne used in an experimental station i< ie a fanning mill. This machine nol ily separates the chafl and dirt from e seed, but divides the clean seed to light and heavy seeds. All that this machine docs can be me by a farmer with a number ol we*. varying in the number ol eshcr< to the inch. With a nnmbei such sieves the see is can bo clcancd id separated quickly an 1 cheaply. Ciliceero Record. ; v;r^^v'?!w The -Rodente* Revenge. Herman Oelriohs, hostler in the stable of a West End family, had an ' experience the other day which seems almost beyond belief. It brings out a trait in the character of the rat family whioh has probably never before been showD. Oelriohs was working about the stable when he noticed an unusually large rat. It was in a corner, so that it could not easily get away, and picking up a club he proceeded to annihilate it. The rat showed fight, but a few well-directed blows settled it. Leaving it for dedd, the hoBtler continued his work. It was half an hoar later when Oelrichs, working near wherd he had hilled the rodent, thought he saw it move. Picking.up his club, he prepared to make snre he had ended it. As he approached it the nnimsl proved to be very much alive, making a jump at him, just catching hie left hand. It was a harrier fight than before, but he finally succeeded in dispatching it. This time, to make certain of it, he stuck the prong of a pitchfork throngh its throat, and again went about his work. It was something like an hour later when the man again noticed the rat. Its eye was dpen, and had a peculiar lifelike appearance. Grasping the pitchfork, he again started to run' it through, when the rat sprang ta its feet and made a most aggressive fight, jumping at the man's legs and showing its teeth most viciously. It clung to him so closely that it was with difficulty that he suoceeded in striking it Finally, he caught it on the fork and beat it until there could be nc longer any doubt a? to its being dead. This time he threw it out in the alley to get rid of it. Later in the day, in cleaning up, he found two other rats, dead, one with the mark of the pitchfork through its throat. The only conclusion was that he had killed three rats instead of one, that the first and second rats had been dragged away and hidden, while the other had attempted to revenge their JI--AT? Ol T 2~ Ut'HIUtJ. JLIUU1B uiuua'X/cuiuiuat. MUSEUM 15 THE "WHITE HOCSE." Confederate Memorial Collection Established In Richmond. The building in which the Confede; rate mut earn has just been established, \ says Leslie's Weekly, is the old White ! Honse of the Confederacy. Thebuild, ing was purchased by the city of RichI mond for $43,000 and presented to President Davis when the seat of the Confederate Government was moved e from Montgomery, Ala. Jefferson CONFEDERATEMUSEI r . (Formerly the White Ho i Davis occupied it fonr years. In April, ( 1865. when the Federal Army occupied ! the iown, this building became headquarters for "Military District No. . 1." From 1871 to less than two years j ago it was used as a public school. ( Miss Winnie Davis, "the Daughter of tbe Confederacy," was born in the I house. Little Joe Davis fell from the j portico and was killed. : A Confederate bazaar in Richmond t in 1892 yielded 832,001), and witli cms ; and other contributions the baildiag i ha9 been restore.! and improved nnder the direction of thu ladies of the Coni federate Memorial and Literary SoI ciety. It is a handsome honse, with | splendid round columns, roomy pori ticos, mantels of Carrara marble, and ) large, high roomi To every State of [ tho old Confederacy a room will be as> signed, to be in charge of a regent p representing that State. These re| gents are the daughters of ?li8tin) guisbed Confederates, including Miss i Mildred Lee, Miss Daisy Hampton and I Miss Winnie Davis. There are many ( visitors daily to the new museum, and , it is expeoted tbat the project to enf tablish a battle abbey will be consolif dated with this enterprise. The mat- | > ter is now nnder consideration. t Kile Ice. An American farmer in Brazil who longed for the cooling liquids of his j native land and was unable to obtain i them in thac tropical country, has utilized a kite for the purpose of ob- | taining ice, says the South American Journal. He tills a tin can with water and sends it to the height of three miles, where it is promptly frozen. After a sufficient interval the kite is rapidly hauled in and the cake of ice ir secured. The inrentor is so pleased with hi* toy that he now proposes to : nend up :i kite 150 feet, long by a steel | wire cable. Under the kite will be unamended a pulley, over which runs an endless chain bearing cans attached ' to hooks. The cans will be tilled with j water and the speed of the belt upon ' which they run will be so regulated * that the topmost cans will be convert1 ed into ice sufficiently hard to &tand ' the downward journey. This is cer- | tainly the most original ice machine 1 of which we have ever heard. ; j ! - " Hie Heavy Butter Piute." I One of the tricks of the grocers'; trade is "the heavy batter plate." 1 Some grocers have a habit of putting the wooden plates upon which they ; sell their butter away in a damp place i to absorb moisture and gain in weight. I In this way the grocer gains about au ounce to the pound, which, iu a1 ( month's sales, reaches a pretty total. . ?Chicago Record. It is estimated that $2,000,000 j I worth of com was destroyed in the | Biver valley, .Missouri, by the recent . Witt storms and orerflovr. II A NINE-FOOT MUSTACHE* An Idaho Man Is the Poueuor aadflfl|j Has No Rival In the World* I James H. Brown, IseneOlerk at the H Fort Hal] Indian Agency, Boss Fork,' fl Bingham County, Idaho, has the lon?- I H est mustache of any man living. It mofttmi-on nino foof from tin in tin. fonr^^H and a half feet each way from the cen-% tre of the lip. This mustache is Mr* Brown's greatest joy and pride. It i* EH most carefully kept, ' and would attract marked attention anywhere. Tha Indians look upon this enormously long mnstaohe with awe and reverence, believing Mr. Brown to have been ex- I I ceptionally blessed by God. Mr. Brown is by birth a Virginian. He was born in Londonn County, eleven miles west of Leesbnrg, near ,^^9 what is known now as Bound Hill. j^^Hj His father moved from Loudcun I County to Barbour County, then in Virginia, but now in West Virginia, in IB October, 1857. Mr. Brown's occupation has alway* iBH been that of a farmer, with the exception of a period of eighteen years, I I which he devoted to the lumber busi* nees, and the time he has been giving to Uncle Sam. Fohrteen months ago ? T /II i. air. Jtsrown was appointed issue *jierit at the Fort Hall Indian Agency, which position he is still filling. ' The fame of Mr. Brown's elongated mustache is by no means confined tothe wilds of Idaho. It is known H throughout the Virginias and the Soath generally. The newspapers of thefl|H| places of the towns visited by Mr. Brown have loudly extolled the wonderfal length of his mustache, but this-^Bn is the first time that a picture of the^H&| JM AT RICHMOND. YA. |HH use of the Confederacy.) proud owner of the longest mustach^B^W in the world has ever been printed. Better lor the Boy*. The Judge of the Maysville Police Court summoned into court tb? B parents of* some incorrigible boys, antS^H| offered them tbe option of giving thciifl^^H sonB a sound whipping or having then^HH sent to the workhouse for thirty d&ys^^^H They chose the former, >and ofbcer^^HB stood by to see that the paddle wa^^BI well applied. A Twenty Thousand Dollar Bar. The picture given herewith shows "ladj bird beetle," a small buj^^^H brought from Australia by the Uniteifl^H States Government to head off thJH^H me <fc*20.000 nofi. ravages of the "white scale,"an insec^^^H which threatened the orange industrj^^^H of California with destruction. It cotri^^HI $20,000 to introduce the lady biru^^^Hj into California, but as they fed voj^^^H raciously upon the white scales th^^^^B latter were nearly wiped out, and th^H^H orange groves were saved. A Pup With liabliil's Bars and A Newfoundland dog, owned b^HH| Alviu Case, of Montgomery Heigh Belleville, ^avc birth on Sunday to litter of ten pups, oue of which was peculiar that its mother killed it with^^^^S out delay. It has two front feet^HHH shaped like the hand of ti human being^^JjH and devoid of clawr. In tho rear ar^^^^H one rabbit's foot and two dog's paws^^^^H The pup's head strongly resembles^^^^H l-abbit's, and has long ears like a bit. and the peculiar split r>o?c ?! tlios^^^^H animals. Tlie monstrosity has bee^JKfl| .reserved in spirits, and will be placefl^^^H :u exhibition. ? New York Mercurj^^^^H Torpedo ttoals for Japan. .Japan is going to build at ouce less than ninety torpedo boats. Grei^HK^^ Britain, ou the other hand, has cided to build no more of them, to substitute for them what are khon^Hfl^N as torpedo boat destroyers. These larger than torpedo boats, and cari^^^^H half a dozen quick-firing guns apicc^^B^H in addition to torpsdoes and torpec^^^^H Indian oak, one of the har.ie#t woods. will sink in water.