The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, April 13, 1905, Image 3
?THE SPLENDID SPUR
1 OH
HE ADVENTURES OF JACK MARVEL
j By ilflVB V. qUILLKB COUCH,* .
CHAPTER X.
- (Continued.)
i was standing Oars with bar *??**
In mine, and a burning remorse In my
heart, when I heard the clear notes
?f a bugle blown, away on the road to
Launceaton.
Looking that way,. I aaw * great
Company of horaee coming down over
the crest, the sun shining level on their
arms and a green standard ttat they
bore In their midst. ?
Joan spied them the same Instant,
?nd chocked her sobs. Without a
*?o*d we flung ourselves down full
length on the turf to watch.
Tb<7 were more than a thousand,
us I guessed, and came winding down
the road very orderly till, being, full
of them, it .seemed a long serpent
iwrlthlng with shiny scales. The tramp
of hoofs and jingling of bits were
pretty to hear.
"Rebels!" whispered I.
Joan nodded.
There were three regiments In all,
!W hereof the llrst (the biggest) wss of
dragoons. 80 clear, was the air I could
fclmost read the legend on their stand
ard, and the calls of their captains
were borne up to us extremely dis
tinct.
As they rode leisurely past I thought
of Master Tlngcomb's threat, and won.
dered what this array could Intend.
Nor, turning It over, could I find an/
, explanation, for the Earl of 8tamford's
gathering, he had said, was In the
northeast, and I knew such troops as
the Cornish generals had to be quar
tered at Launceston. Yet here, on
the near side of Launceston, was a
large body of rebel horses marching
quietly to the sou' west. ? AVhere was
the head or tall to ltt
Turning my head as the last rider
disappeared on the way to Bodmin. I
spied a squat, oddly shaped man strld-'
Ing down the hill very briskly; yet he
looked about htm often and kept to
the hollows of the ground; and was
crossing below us, as It appeared,
straight for Joan's cottage.
Cried I: "There Is but one man in
tho world with such a gait? and that's
Billy Pottery!"
And Jumping to my f^et (for he was
Come directly beneath us) I caught up
? great stone and sent it bowling down
tho slope.
bounce it went past him, missing his
legs by a foot or less. The man
turned, and catching sight of me as I
stood waving, made his way up the
hill. .'Twas Indeed Captain Billy; and
coming up, the honest fellow almost
_ bogged me for Joy.
"Was seeking "thee. Jack," he
bawled; "learned from Sir Bevlll
. where belike I might find thee. Left
his lodging at Launceston this morn
ing, and trudged ivery foot o* the way,
'A thirsty land. Jack ? neither horse's
meat nor man's meat therein, nor a
chair to sit down on; and three women
only haye I kissed this day!" He broke
Off and looked at Joan. "Beggln* the
lady's pardon for sea manners and
way o* speech."
"Joan," said I, "this Is Billy Pottery,
? mariner and friend of mine, iind as
deaf as a haddock."
Billy made a leg; and as I pointed to
the road where the cavalry had Just
disappeared, went on with a nod: '
"That's so; old Q'arge Cudlelgh's
troop o' horse sent off to Bodmin to
seize the High Sheriff and his posse
there. Two hour agone 1 spied 'em,
and lia' been ever since play In' spy."
"Then where be the King's forces?*"
I made shift to lnquiitc by signs.
"Marched out o' Launceston to-day,
lad? an' but a biscuit a man between
'em. poor dears? for Stratton Heath, 1'
the nor'cast, where the rebels be en
camped. Heard by scouts o' these
'gentry beln' sent to Bodmin, and
_ were minded to fight the Earl of Stam
ford while his drngooners was away.
And here's the long an' short o't;
thou'rt wanted, lad, to bear a band wl'
us up yonder? an' the good lady here
can spare thee."
And here we both looked at Joan?
I shamefacedly enough, and Billy with
a puzzled air, which he tried very deli
cately to hide.
She put her hand In mine.
"To fight, lad?"
I nodded my head. .
"Then go," she said without a shade
tn her voice; and as I made no answer,
went on? "Shall a woman hinder when
there's fighting to.ward? Only come
back when thy wars be over, for I
?hall miss thee, Jack."
And dropping my hand she led the
way down to tho cottage.
Now, Billy, of course, had not beard
a word of this; but perhaps he ga{h>
?red some import. Anyway he pulled
up short midway on the slope,
scratched his head, and thundered:
"What a good lass!"
Joan, some paces ahead, turned at
this and smiled; whereat, having rt>
Idea he'd spoken above a whisper, Billy
blushed red as any peony.
'Twas but n short hrlf hour when,
tho mare being saddled and Hilly fed,
we took our leave of Joan. Billy
walked beside one stirrup, and the
girl on the other side, to sec us a few
yards on our way. At length she
halted:
"No leave takings, Jack, but
?Church and King!' Only do thy beat
and not disgrace me."
And "Church. and King!" she called
thrice after us. standing In the road.
For me. rts I rode up out of that valley,
the drums seemed beating and the
bugles calling to a new life ahead. Tho
last light of day was on the tors, tho
air blowing fresher as we mounted;
and with Molly's every step the past
five months appear'd to dissolve and
fall away from me as a dream.
On the crest I turn'd in the saddle.
Joan wrfs yet standing there, s black
speck on the road. She waved her*
hand once.
Billy had tnrn'd, too, and uncovering,
shouted so that the hilltops echoed.
"A food lass? a food lass! Bat
what's hseoms o' t'other oner I
% . V- V d J
, ** Happy Adventure.
I^kt came and found m bat mid
way between Temple end Launceston;
for tho' my companion etepp'd briskly
beside me, twee useless to pat Molly
beyond a welk; and, besides, the mare
was new from her day's Journey. Billy
engsged that by sunrise we shoold be
In sight of the King's troops. %
By daybreak we stood on a ridge
a bore a bollpw rale into which the
snn did not yet pierce, bat passing over
to a high conical hill beyond, smote
level on line after lone of white tents?
the prettiest sight! Twas the enemy
there encamped on the top and some
wsy down the sides, the smoke of their
trampled watch dree still curling
among the gorsebushe#.
| Looking down Info the valley at oar
I fe^t, at first I saw no sign of oar own j
troops? only the roofs of s little town*
with overmuch smoke spread above It,
like a morning mist. But here I heard
the church bells clashing and a drum
beating, and then a regiment of foot
moving westward along the base of
the hill. It was evident the battle
was at hand, and we quickened our
pace down Into* the street
It lsy on the slope, and midway down
we passed some watch fires burned out,
and then a soldier or two running and
fastening their straps; and last a little
child, who seemed wild with the Joy
of living amid great events and bid us
proceed straight to tlie sign of "The
Tree."
It stood some way back from the
street, with a great elm before the
porch, where, by a stable, sat two
men with tankards beside them and a
small company of grooms and soldiers
standing around. Both men were more
than ordinary tall and soldier like,
only the bigger wore a scarlet cloak
very richly laced and was shouting or
ders to his men, while the other,
dressed In plain buff suit and Jack
boots, had a map spread before him.
;whlch he studied very attentively,
: writing therein with a quill pen.
i "What a plague have we here?" cries
ttbe big man as we drew up.
I "Recruits, if it please you. sir." said
II. dismounting and pulling off my hat.
Ithoufch his Insolent tone offended me.
! "Slid! The boy speaks as if he were
a regiment!" growls he half aloud.
"Can'st fight?"
I "That, with your leave, sir. Is what
I am come to try."
He turned ou Billy. j
i "And this rascal?"
; Billy heard not a word, of course,
yet answered readily:
"Why, since your honor Is so pleas
antly minded, let It be cider."
Now the first effect of this, delivered
with all force of lung, was to make the
big man sit bolt upright and staring;
recovering speech, however, he broke
into a volley of blasphemous curses.
, All this while the man in buff bad
scarce lifted his eyes off the map.
But now* he looks Hp*? and I saw at the
first glance that the two men hated
each other.
? "I think," said he quietly, "my Lord
Mohun has forgot to ask the gentle
man's name."
"My name 'Is Marvel, sir ? John Mar
vel." I answer'd him with a bow.
? "Hey!"? and dropping his pen he
starts up and grasps my band? "Then
'tis you I have never thanked for His
Gracious Majesty's letter."
"The General Hopton?" cried I.
"Even so, sir. My lord," he went on,
still holding my hand and turning to
his companion, "let me present to you
the gentleman that in January nav'd
your house of Bocconnoc from burning
at the hands *of the rebels? whom God
confound this day!" He lifted his hat.
"Amen," said I. ns his lordship
bowed, exceedingly sulkily. But I did
not value his rage, being hot with Joy
tQ lje so beprals'd by the first captain
(as^ yet hold) on the royal side. Who
now, not without a sly triumph, flung
the prfee of Billy's cider on the table,
and, folding up his map, nddress'd me
again:
"Master Marvel, the flght to-day will
lie but little with the horse? or so I
hope. You will do well, if you wish to
serve us best, to leave your mnre be
hind. The troop which my Lord Mo
hun and I command together Is below.
But Sir Bcvlll Grentllle, who has seen
and Is Interested In you, has the first
claim; and I would not deny you the
delight to flght your first battle tinder
so good a master. Ills men are. with
Sir John Berkeley's troop, a little to the
westward; and If you are ready I will
go some distance with you, and put
you In the way to find hlin. My lord,
may we look for you presently?"
The Lord Mohun nodded, surly
enough; so, Billy's cider being now
drunk and Molly given over to an
ostler, we set out down the hill to
gether, Billy shouldering a pike and
walking after with the grooni that led
Sir Ualph's horse. Be suro the Gen
era!** courtly manner of set
ny blood ting. .ig. I seeni'd to grow a
f til two Inches taller, and when, In the
vt'e. we parted, he directing roe to the
let , where through n gap 1 could see
Sir ilevlll's troop forming at some five
hundred paces' distance, I felt a very
desperate warrior. Indeed; and set off
at a run. with Billy behind me.
-
'Twould be tedious to toll (ho whole
of this long flght, which, beginning
soon nftor sunrise, ended not till four
In the Afternoon, -or therealKuits; and
Indeed of the whole my recollection I*
bnt n continual advance n:ul repulse.
But nt 3 o'clock we, having been for
the sixth time beatea back, were pant
ing under cover of a hedge, and fclr
John Berkeley, near by. wn* writing on
a drumhead vmo ine*?nge to the
camp, when there' comes a young man
on horseback. Ill* face smeared with
<*lrt and du?t, and rides up to him
and Sir Bevlll. 'Twas (I have since
loarn'd) to say 1lint the powder wan all
spent I nt a barrel or two; but this
only the captains kuow at the time.
"Very well, then," crl?*a Sir Bevlll,
toping up willy. "C^cne nlonjc boy?
MaM the ektrgv, ad ip
Away alaas the Hop* we Jmm4 the
?(bar truopctm wwndtag la uiw?r,
and I better* 'twas a wain cordat
to all of aa.
BlUy Pottery was rtaged en my
rlsht, la tbe first tank, aad next to mat
ea tbe other aide, a slant, aaar aarea
foot high, who aakl hie Mupe w^sTtn
thonj Payne, and hie haatnaaa to act
aa body-aervant to Sir BevllL And he
It was that atruck op a tolshty carteoe
sons In the Oornlah tonsoe, which the !
saat took op with a will. Twaa In
credible how It pat fire Into than all;
and Sir BotUI toes'd hla bat Into the
air; and after him Uke schoolboys we
pelted, atralght (or the maaaea ahead.
For now orer the rampart came a
company of red musketeers, and two
of rnaaet-clad plkemen. charging down
on aa. ? moment, and we were crashed
back; another, and the chant roee
again. We were grappling, band to
band. In tbe mldat of their flies.
Taktns breathy I aaw tbe enemy melt
Ins off tbe aammlt like a mail's breath
off a pane. And Sir Bevill cansht my
band and pointed across to where, on
tbe north aide, a white etandard em
broidered with gold griffins waa mount
ing.
" *Tls dear Nick 81annlng!" be cried;
"God be pcaiaed? tbe day la ours for
certalnf
The rest of this signal victory (In
which 1700 prisoners were taken, be
sides the Major- General Chndlelgb; aud
all tl)e rebels' camp, cannon and vic
tuals) I leave historians to tell. For
very soon after the rout was assured
(the plain below full of men scream
ing and running, and Colonel John
Dlgby'a dragoons after them, chasing,
cutting and killing), a wet muzsie was
thrust Into my hand, and turniug, I
found Molly behind me, with tbe
groom to whom I had given her In the
morning. The rogue bad counted on a
crown for his readiness, and swore the
mare was ready for anything, he hav
ing mlx'd half a pint of strong ale with
her mash, not half an hour before.
So I determln'd to see tbe end of It,
and paying the fellow, cllmb'd Into
the saddle. Billy Pottery strode at my
stirrup, munching at a biscuit be had
found In the rebels' camp.
We turned Into a lane, which grad
ually led us to westward, out of the
main Hue of the rout, aud past a
hamlet, where every door wss shut
and all silent. And at last a slice of
the sea fronted us, between two steep
ly shelving hills. On tbe crest of the
road, before It plunged down toward
the coast, was a wagon lying against
the hedge, with tbe horses gone; and
beside it, stretch'd across the road, an
old woman. Stopping. 'we found her
dead, with a sword-thrust through the
left breast; and Inside the wagon a
young man lying with ills jaw bound
up? dead, also. And how this sad
spectaele lmppen'd here, so far from
the battlefield, was more than we could
guess.
I was moving away, when Billy, that
was kneeling in the rond. chanced to
cast his eyes up toward the sea. and
dropping the dead woman's baud,
scrambled on his feet and stood loot
ing, with a pussled face.
[ Following his gase, I aaw a small
?loop moving under ehorten'd canvas,
about two miles from tbe land.
She made, a pleasant sight, with the
last rays of aunllght flaming on her
aalla; but for Billy's perturbation I
could not account, so turn'd an Inquir
ing glance to blm.
"Suthin* T the wind out yonder,'* was
his answer. "What's a sloop doing ou
that ratch so close In by the point?
Be dang*d! but there she goes again"?
_ as the little" vessel swung off a point
or two further from the breeze, that
was breathing softly up Cliannek
"Time to siip, lad. for the both of us,"
he broke off shortly.
- Indeed, I was faint with hunger by
this time, yet bad no stomach to cat
(bus close to the dead. Bo turning into
a gate on our left, we cross'd two or
three fields, ond sat down to sup off
Billy's biscuits, tlio mare standing qui
etly beside us, and cropping the short
graRS.
The field where we now found our
selves ran out along the top of n small
promontory, and ended, without fence
of any sort, at the cliff's edge. As J
sat looking southward, I could only ob
serve the sloop by turning my head;
but Billy, who squatted over against
me, hardly took his eyes off her, and
between this and lain meal, was too
busy to speak a word. I stetch'd my
self out and found it very nlen!>aut t?
lie still; nor, when Billy stood up ond
sauntered off .toward the fp.r end of
the headland, did I stir more than to
turn in y head and lazily watch him.
(To be continued.)
INDIVIDUALITIES.
Dr. William A*hmorc. the veteran
missionary to China, Is eighty yearn
old.
Dr. J (?. Mont fort, Keillor editor of
!l?c Herald mid Presbyter, liau eulcred
iN nincly-flfth year
Hlgnor (larofalo. t l?o Italian crimin
ologist reckons Hint throughout Eu
rope 10,000 person* are annually con
denmed for murder.
John <J. Pack hard, a rich Cailfornlan.
Is having a $75,000 library building
erected for Marysvlllc, Cal., beenmo
he got liis start In life thrv.
Manuel Kiulqncz. one of the oldest
pioneer* of (California and the m*?:
survivor of (Jcneral l?"r.Mnont'M hallal
lon In lh:* Mexican war, lias just die: I
at I /Oh Angeles, Cal.
One of the many private pension lulls
which passed Hie House recently pro
Tided for Increasing the pension of Kd
mund (.!. Itoss from ?12 to $30 a mouth.
He was once a Hcnator.
Dr. Nicola* Menu, of Chicago. Ill . the
noted surgeon, urge* Kcnrral support
of the White ( 'row* Hoc i e I v . saying
that It Ik dCKtined to do In lime of
peaee what t lie Hod Cro?* Society dots
In war.
Captain !?'. C. March, who arrived In
Han Francisco, Cal.. recently from
Manchuria, where he was American
military attache with Ceucrai KflfOkl.
brought with him .Vtf? photographs
taken oil the field of battle.
H. W. Kapp, who ha* Just been ap
pointed general agent of the Pennsyl
vania Itallroad lines at Haltlmore, >1(1.,
was born In Marietta. Pa., In 1H44. lie
ginning IiIk railroad career eighteen
years Inter In a humble position.
Only one man In tbo city of I<ondon
outside tbe Tower possesses the pass
word which enables Itlm to answer tbe
challenge of tbe entries at any time.
It l? the Lord Mayor, and the paaa
word la given to tm by aotborltr of
la a mass of aMirie ataM Prof ee
?orVolttB. the iriiWHH French phy
?tdit, hu dieeovered a nmnber of dlt*
aaada of mkrsscofte dimensions, bat
of nfilar octahedral form and perfect
prater.
In one unbroken noctnrnal flight the
European bird known ae the northern
Ibluethroat hae been known to travel
from Central Africa to the German
Ocean, a distance of 1600 miles, mak
ing the Journey In nine boors.
It le thought that the Panama Canal
Commission will procure from the Co
lumbia River the 40,000 plies that will
bo needed In the construction of the
canal. That will be equivalent to 32.- 4
000,000 feet of timber, or equal, all
told, to four of the huge rafts that arc
built on the Columbia River and
towed* to Ban Frandsqo at the rate of
three each summer.
The fourth Jewel screw of a watch is
so smsll that to the naked eye It will
not look like anything more than a bit
of dust, says Ed. Key, watchmaker, In
the 8t Louis Globe- Democrat, and Is
probably the small&t screw made. It
must necessarily be perfect In every
respect, and the character of the work
manship required on It Is Illustrated
by looking at ittmder a powerful mi
croscope, when It Is seen that the
threads average 200 to the Inch. It is
exactly 4-100 of an inch In diameter,
and over 50,000 could be packed in a
lady's thimble with ease.
The lifting of massive Iron and steel
plates weighing four, six and twelve
tons by msgnetlsm, Is now done every
workday In a number of large steel
works. The magnets are suspended
by chains from cranes and pick up the
plates by simple contact and without
the loss of time consequent to the ad
justment of chain and hooks in the
older method. It Is also found that
the metal plates can be lifted by the
magnets while still so hot that it
would be impossible for the men to
handle them. A magnet weighing 300
pounds will lift nearly five tons.
In a paper published recently In the
Hungarian Mathematlschen Dr. van
Kaleccinxky gives an account of fur
ther observations and experiments on
the warming of different Inyers of
liquid by the sun's rays. Observations
in lakes in which salt water is covered
with a stratum of fresIT water show
that the salt water may be warmed to
a much higher temperature than the
overlying fresh wster. Experiment*
with solutions of magnesium sulphate,
sodium sulphate, ammonium chloride
and sodium carbonate, and with fresh
water covered with petroleum and with
olive oil give similar results. It Is con
cluded that the phenomeiwn is of gen
eral occurrence, and that it is a factor
of geological Improtance in the forma
tion of certain deposits.
AN INTELLIGENT PACKHORSE;
Boom of th? P*rfona?nrM of "Dbkay" on
the Monntolo Troll.
Packhorses are . a most Important
Item for the traveler over a mountain
trail. In "The Mountains/' Stewart
Edward White tells of a pack animnl
named "Dinkey," and of his experience
with her characteristics. At times Mr.
White was inclined to think her per
fection; at other times he wonld have
"considered thirty cents a large price
to pay for her."
To enumerate her good points, says
Mr. Wh|ta she was an excellent weight
carrier, took good care of her pack that
it never scraped nor bumped; knew all
about trails, the possibilities of short
cuts, the best way of easing herself
down hill^kept fat and healthy In dis
tricts where there was next to no feed
at all; was past mistress in the picking
of routes where a trnliiess country. Her
endurance was marvelous, aud so was
her intelligence.
In fact, too great Intelligence perhaps
accounted for most of her defects. She
thought too much for herself; she spec
ulated- on Just bow far each member
of the party, man or l>east, would stand
Imposition, and tried conclusions with
each to test the accuracy of her specu
lations. She obstinately Insisted on her
own way In going up and down hill; n
way well enough for Dinkey, perhaps,
but hazardous to the other loss skilful
animals who naturally would follow
her lead.
Her performances when she was be
ing packed were ridiculously histrionic.
As soon as the saddle was cinched she
spread her legs apart, bracing them
firmly, as If about to receive the weight
of a safe. Then as each article of the
pack wos thrown across her back she
flinched, and uttered tbe roost heart
rending groans. Wc used sometimes to
amuse ourselves by adding merely an
empty sack, or other article quite with
out weight. The groans and tremblings
of the braced legs were quite as pitiful
as If we had piled on a sack of flour.
If Dinkey did condescend to do things
according to your ideas. It was with n
mental reservation. You caught her
sardonic eye fixed on you contemptu
ously. You felt at once that she knew
another method, a much better method,
with which yours compared most un
favorably.
The Killer'* Voy?((,
The Imperial yacht Ilohenrollem ha*
received orders to l?e fitted oat and
provisioned for n prolonged trip. It In
announced from Potsdam that their Im
perial Maje*fles -will leave Berlin, trav
eling by rail to Genoa, where they will
fhlp 011 board one of the steamer* of
the Hamburg-American Line, and
spend the first part of their cmlae on
this veaael. From Malta they will use
the Hohenxollern, thence proceeding
to Grecian water*. It I* their Majes
tic*' wish to meet the home-coming
aallor Prince Adalbert somewhere In
the Mediterranean. After their Majes
ties return to Berlin the marriage of
the Crown Prince will take place.? Ten
don Telegraph.
Invitation to W?lk Blow.
Tom Gorbln died near Kashville the
other day. and one of the neighbors
wns looking for pallbearer*. He wont
If- Ben Stnart nnd said; "Ben, how
would yon like to walk slow behind
*Mfc {Mter-AtchLaou tilth*
ONC CJtUSK OF ILLMCSV
^ physician apon bdoc uk?d
pwitiy what to the chief cause of ill
???1th replied: "Thinking and talking
i boat it all the tine. This ceaseless
atrospsctlon in which so man j of the
jwn* generation of nervous folk in
dulge, is certainly wearing them oat
122 ' ?**. 001 worryln* ?? to
?2? y *i**p to? moch or too
ittle, they are lldgetlnc orer the
unount of food they take or the quan
ity of exercise necessary for health,
in short, they never give themselves
i moment's peace. Our frsndfsthers
lid not concern themselves with these
luestions. They ate, drsnk, slept ss
Prompted them. Undoubtedly
, y were healthier in mind and body
or their sublime Indifference, snd If
ourselves fewer questions, wo
thoold have less time to analyze our
imagined ailments."
That medical science has made re
markable progress in the last few
Aecades cannot be denied. . The fault
for some present day undesirable con
ditions lies not with the doctor but
with the patient. There has been too
Srent a tendency on the part of the
alty to acquire a smattering of medl
ial knowledge through the reading of
?o-called "health" magazines and pam- ?
phlets, and to put into practice, on
their own account, that "little knowl
edge" which. It can uot be denied, is
t "dangerous thin*." The following
of some most ridiculous fnds along
Ihe lines of eating, drinking, sleeping
?nd exercises has assisted in swelling
the mortality statistics. Our grand
fathers would hold up their hands in
terror at many of the foolish things
we do In the name of "health." A
little more of the comfortable non
chalance of our healthy ancestors
would do no harm to the rising genera
tion.? Housekeeper's Magazine.
WORDS OF WISDOM.*
"The worst bankruptcy is to lose
heart."
Experience is the extract of suffer
ing.? A. Helps.
How blessings brighten as thev make
their flight.? Young
Next to excellence Is the apprecia
"on of it. ? Thackeray.
There is 110 genius in life like the
genius of energy and activlty.-I) u.
Mitchell.
Our ancestors have traveled the iron
age; the golden is before us. St
Pierre.
A desire to have Scripture on- our
aide Is one thing; to desire to be on
the side of Scripture Is <juite another.?
\\ hately.
1o realize supreme liliss we must
not be extremely attached to anything
or anybody excepting tJod; to be at
tached to anything or -any oue except
ing ?od, is to be an abject slave.?
Daniel Webster.
To be silent, to suffer, to pray when
we cannot act, is acceptable to (Jod.
A disappointment, a contradiction, a
harsh word received and endured as
In His presence. Is worth more than a
long prayer.? Fenclon.
If I do what I may In earnest, I
need not mourn If I work no great
work on the earth. To help the growth
a.. lhou?ht that etruggles toward
the light; to brush with gentle hand
the earth stain from the white of one
snowdrop? such be my ambition. ?
l*eorge MacDonaid.
To live In love is to live an everlast
ing youth. Whoever enters old age
by this royal road will find the last
of life to be the very best of life. In
stead of finding himself descending the
hills of life, he will find It uphill all
the way, into clearer air. There the
on reaches farther; here the sun
sets are more golden nnd the twilight
lasts longer.? Mary A. Livermore. '
Where lie Mule Hid Mlatnke.
"I reckon," observed the man lu the
mackintosh, "I'm the biggest fool lu
the room."
Nobody disputed the proposition, but
they asked him what new evidence
had turned up.
"Well," he said, "I offered to bet a
man $."> that there wvre no mules in
Noah's ark, in the time of the flood,
and agreed t6 leave it to the first twj
men we met. He snhl it was a go,
and steered me into a hotel. We found
two men lounging in the hotel office,
and I told them the terms of the bet
and asked them to decide. They said,
?Well, mister, we're from Missouri,
and you can bet you're sweet life
we'll nevet* go back on the innle.
You've lost.' "
"Your original remark," commented
the man who had his fert on the table,
removing the cigar from his month
and blowing a ring of smoke toward
'the celling, "was correct/ You are."?
Chicago Tribune.
Flowery PolHenca* In France. ?
There Is an agitation in France
against the flowery politeness which
winds up a letter. Frenchmen are
asking why they should write: "Ac
cept the assurauce of my most distin
guished sentiments and believe me
your very humble and obedient ser
vant?" It Is long and abject. "Your
devoted" considered more dlgultk'd,
as well as concise, if the person ad- '
dressed be n man.
Hut if one is writing to n woman he
may be flowery still. There Is a story
of Victor Hugo, who was listening to a
speech from an old republican col
league. The orator addressed his au
dience constantly as "Cltoyens, clto
yens." At last Hugo broke In. "I am
a pretty good republican." he snirt,
"but when I address a woman I rail
her my sovereign, my queen!" The
company seems to have taken this
protest with perfect gravity.
Hrtplnir Her Oar.
At the end of January Mr*. Wtinder
brought her nice new expense hook to
her husband.
"I can figure up my January balance
all right," sho said, "but I'm either
tflO.Ofi behind or ahead. I remember
what the other Items are for. Dut I
can't recall whether I sppnt that
$10.4)5 for something, or you gave It
to mo for household expenses."
Mr. Wutider looked at the page for a
moment, then handed back the book
with a condescending air.
"My dear," he said, "that 1003
seems to indicato to nre what year
tm# tv.'v-wgt, - ?
? COSY KITCHEN.
There should be comfortable chhlrs
In the kitchen, a table with drawer* ?
a settle table, which may be so ad
justed as to provide an Ironing tab!e
or a comfortable seat, and the box scat
may be used as a receptacle for kitchen
lore, magaslnes or domestic science.
There should also be a good clock, a
calendar, a slate for memoranda and a
thermometer.? Newark Advertiser.
THE NOON-DAY I.UNCH.
The habit of giving one's self suf
ficient time for one's lunch and. pej
haps, ten or fifteen minutes in which to
rest afterward, ia one well worth culti
vating. Then by all means try to dls
l>euse with the so-called woman's
lunch. A piece of roast beef eaten at
noon will do you more good than nil
the salads and sweetmeats that were
ever concocted. One should never, eat
when one Is extremely tired; the prac
tice of resting twenty minutes after
each meal will go a long way toward
curing an obstinate case of dyspepsia.
THE WINDOW DKESSEIl.
Men who dress the windows of the
large stores In the shopping districts
wear bags of cotton cloth over theii
shoes, presumably to protect the tine
fabrics they have often to walk over.
Slippers would no doubt answer as
well, but the bags are In general use.
To wear them may be a trade condi
tion. Much of the fixing up is done at
night In this rush season, and the men
may often be seen at work behind
drawn shades. When the shades do
not quite reach to the l>ottoin of the
window the swaddled feet moving
about so actively are rather a queer
sight.
THE SERVANT PROBLEM.
"I've found a solution of the servant
problem In'tlie learning of tlie Swedish
language," said a housekeeper, the
other day. "I've taken to employing
women of that nationality, and I've
found that the best way to keep them
Is to know their tongue. You know
these women have a way of coming to
you ns green as grass. They really
are of no use ordinarily until you teach
thoin their duties nn<\ the English lan
guage. Then they go where they can
got better wages. I went through that
experience several times, ami at last
my husbnnd asked mo if it wouldn't
be easier to learn Swedish than to run
n continuous kindergarten for teaching
English. I found it did not take long
to pick up enough words to say ail I
needed. Then, when I got a cook and a
maid who had just landed, I used no
English with tlioni, Thoy have their
Swedish friends and so have not tried
to pick up our language. The result is
I have had them three years, and ex
pect to keep them a long time? unless
they should marry."
TO RENOVATE PORTIERES.
Nothing la better for this than gaso
line, but one can not be cautioned too
often or too strongly to handle this
dangerous fluid carefully. To clean a"
pair of chenille or velour portieres, six
to eight gallons of gasoline is neces
sary, and the work must bo performed
out of doors. Spread the hangings on
the grass and brush lengthwise nnd
across, and on both sides; never hang
on a line to brush or beat, as the strain
is very likely to break the warp. Look
them over carefully for soiled spots
nnd dust streaks, and mark each spot
and streak with a white thread. Tut
the hangings in a tub and cover with
gasoline; rub the s?lls, and afterwards
the whole curtain with the hands nnd
work up and down in the fluid until it
looks clean. Gently squeeze out the
gasoline, but on 110 account wring;
rinse In another tub of fresh gasoline
and hang to dry in the shade, without
wringing or shaking, and use as few
pins as possible. As the curtains dry.
occasionally pull them out smooth and
straight. The odor will disappear in
drying.? Household.
Palsy? Whites of three eggs, one
linlf cup of butter, oup cup of sugar,
one nnd one-half cups of flour, one
tenspoonful of yeast powder and a
tenspoonful of lcinou or rose. Tills
a very nice cakc, and Is especially pret
ty when frosted wltli yellow fronting*
Roan Rarebit? Melt two table?poon
fuls of butter nnd add one-fourth ten
spoonful of paprika, one-lialf tenspoon
ful of salt, one cupful of cold baked
beans, well mashed, nnd three-fourths
of a tenspoonful of pood tabic sauce.
When thoroughly heated add two-thirds
cupful of milk and three-fourths cup
ful of mild, soft cheese, tlnely cut. Stir
until the cheese Is melted.
Rice Pudding? Roll half n pound of
rice In milk until it is quite tender, b"at
it well with a wooden spoon to mash
the grains; ndd three-quarters of a
pound of sugar nnd the sntne of melted
butter; linlf n nutmeg, six epps, some
?rn ted lemon peel; puf a paste in the
disli nnd l?nkc it. For a change It may
be boiled and eaten with butter, sugar
and wine.
Dessert Puffs? Take one pint of milk
and cream each, the whites of four cgus
beaten to n stiff froth, oup heaping
cupful of sifted flour, one sennt cupful
of powdered sugar: ndd n little grated
lemon peel and a little salt. Reat these
Ingredients all together until very llplit,
bake In gem pans, sift pulverized sugar
over them and cnt with n sauco flav
ored with lemon.
Tli* JK*port? of Ytalr<
The principal exports of Itnly nre
raw silk nnd silk good*. wine*, olive
oil, fruit nnd vegetable*, butter and
cheese. poultry nnd eggs, nnd other
agricultural produce. It hns n large ex
port trade In innrble, about thirty per
cent, thereof jjolng to the tlnlted States,
'to which it also sends about 4500 tons
of Hiininc nnnunlly.
Results among the wool growcrii
have been pnrtlculnrly gratifying. The
i Oregon exceeded 17^
tSIXfl THE OIL SPRAT.
For the ncale insect, crude petroleum
Is really effective. l?nt the public hears
too much of a few tree losses to use
It freely. According to J. It. Smith,
New Jersey State entomologist. Its ac
tion seems to benefit old |?ear trees,
aside from killing the scale. There Is
a grade of crude oil known hs insecti
cide oil. which is considered most relia
ble. It goes farther when heated to
eighty degrees, and applied uuder
heavy pressure through a line nozzle.
HINTS FROM ORCIIARDI8TS.
Make the hens cultivate apples,
plums and small fruits. Have yards
enough so that liens can be changed
from one yard to another, and in that
way keep for them a sueeesslou of
green feed in summer, while they help
you to grow the fruit. Sow buckwheat
or other grain In the yards when the
hens are not using them, for 4 hem to
gather later. Have small, movable
coops or pens for the liens to roost In.
and sheltered laying boxes, also mova
ble.? A. W. Fisher, in the Massachu
setts Ploughman. i
FERTILIZING TEACH TREES.
The |icach Is somewhat sensitive to
overfeeding with nitrogen or amnion
late manures. Trees grown near barn
yards shoot out very vigorously at first,
but the tissues seem to degenerate
rapidly, forming gum pockets and ex
uding large quantities of gum. The
trees have been observed by pencil men
to suffer from winter killing and In ex
treme cases are often killed outright.
An qpplieation of nitrate of soda, at
the rate of :M>0 pounds per acre In ono
case noted by the Pcpnrlnicut of Agri
culture, retarded the ripening time of
poaches two weeks. Peaches regularly
ripen 011 the poor knolls and hilltops
earlier than in adjacent valleys or
pockets a -few feet away, where seep
age nitrogen affects them. The latter
are also more subject to certain fungi.
Tiie proximity of an old stable was in
one case the cause of the fruit being
Inflated, and while the trees and fruit
were larger, the latter was Inferior In
color and quality. In a series of tests
the fruit on the trees moderately sup
plied with nitrogen was brighter in
color, sweeter and liner in texture, and
only slightly smaller. In fact, the
?peach is healthiest and yields the best
fruit in soils which, for most other
crops, would lie considered detlclent lit
nitrogen.
The plum in this respect behaves
re ry much like the peach, especially the
Japanese varieties. Two plum trees
were given six pounds of nitrate of
soda? which is a large m>pJJegtk>,r.?
strewn In a circle around the trees
about equal to t lie spread of tho
branches. It was applied In spring
after the growth had started and while
growth was moderately stimulated dur
ing the season and they appeared to
be all right In the fall, they were kllls'-V
root and branch, the following wiuter,
though adjacent trees were entirely,
nnharmed. On account of this sensi
tiveness to riirrogcn. skilful peach and
plum growers are always very muttons
In the use of nitrogenous fertilisers,
especially stable manure.? (J. E. M.,
lu the Indiana Fanner.
THE IIITCIIINOS METHOD.
Tlio "Ilitchlngs" nietliod of orchard
culture, as It Is called, lian excited very
wide attention, because It ban shown
results which have not been equalled
by ordinary methods, not even by the
improved methods of the most ad
vanced scientists. The Itural New
Yorker thus tells how It is:
Mr. Hitching* docs not plow or culti
vate his orchards. His soli Is naturally
strong, and Is well adapted to fruit
growing. The trees are planted in
sod, and are kept "mulched"? that Is,
a covering of manure, strnw, grass, or
whatever is available. Is put aronml
them. As the grass in the orchard
grows it Is cut with a mowing machine
and left to decay 011 the ground. It Is
not cured and taken ? out as bn3*?
Manure, straw, or other organic mate
rial is hauled in and spread over the
surface of the ground. The object of
this is to add organic matter to the
soil and prevent the evaporation of
moisture. The thick covering of grass
and weeds on the surface keeps the
soil cool and moist, giving an ideal
condition for apple roots. The constant
supply of humus or organic matter in
the soil holds moisture, while Its slow
decay ahls somewhat In making the
fertility in the soil available. ITnder
this system there is no loss of fertility
except that removed In the crow of ap
ples. The trees grown on in is fVlan
are peculiar In shnpe. They do not aw 1
n rule make ns much wood growth as
the cultivated trees, and the limbs ap
pear to sprawl out Instead of growing
erect. But little pruning Is done un
der this system? simply cutting out
branches which tend to Interfere with
others. This "mulch method" must
I not be confused with ordinary "sod
! culture," where the grass is cut in the
! orchard and hauled out for hay, or
| where hogs or sheep are pastured. The
1 advantages of this mulch method are
! evident. One man can care for a
large number of trees. It Is well suited
to rough and sleep hillside, which
, makes excellent location for apples,
: but can not be cultivated at reasonable
' expense. The fruit grown In this way
? is firm and of Mull color -of better
S keeping ?jiiiiiit.v usually than that front
! cultivated orchards. The chief objec
, lion Is the dang, r from tire when the
mulch is dry. though this Is not serious
at the season when such tires are most
likely to occur.
Togo'n Way.
1 Admiral Toko Is a small man, turn
! frig gray, with a short cropped naval
beard and a face that shows little
emotion. Most polite In manner, he
paid us every attention. The great
man had a peculiar way of landing
with both hands spread out on hU
hips and his anus akluho, 1 took a
sketch of him in this position; and
then I found a most amusing coin
cidence. His officers, from the chief
of his slatT down to the middles, all
aped their beloved chief and stood
with their arms and hands In th?
same attitude. ? Frederick VIIHtrf,
^ ^ort Arthur.'1