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j |hkW& »»«•* j-wdw-v » v * "i* v"y ••* * 'I--"' <«"»• -•' * ' «_ }<••' « ^ «r ' f */\, * kS * ' * 1' « '*' ** : "1 , T- /2?6Z'Z5?ZXZP/%&> mv&m&smjt' s-AU&m.zv7 <&mw---4 &3&.szs&> <r conmvx*t kl-' £• CHAPTER VII.--Continued. >**' *1 have dismissed the sheriff and 41b posse, and I gave them a hundred dollars for their work, and three bot­ tles of pretty good whisky I had on niy car. Unless they get orders from elsewhere, you will not hear any "fur­ ther from them." "You must let me reimburse what expense we have put you to, Mr. Gor­ don. I only wish I could as easily repay your kindness." Nodding my head in assent, as well M in recognition of his thanks, I con­ tinued, "It was my duty, as an official of the K. & A., to recover the stolen • mail, and I had to do it." "We understand that," said Mr. Cul- - leu, "and do not for & moment blame C you." ."V "But," I went on, for the first time looking at Madge, "it is not my duty " to take part in a contest for control of ; the K. & A., andl shall therefore act • In this case as I should in any other loss of mail." "And that is--?" asked Frederic. "I am about to telegraph for ln- l stnictions from Washington," I re­ plied. "As the Q. S. by trickery has dishonestly tied up some of your prox­ ies, they ought not to object if we do the same by honest means; and I ; think I can manage so that Uncle Sam will prevent those proxies from being voted at Ash Forks on Friday." If a galvanic battery had been ap- i plied to the group about the break­ fast table, it wouldn't have made a •bigger change. Madge clapped her v hands in joy; Mr. Cullen said, "God t bless you!" with real feeling; Fred­ eric jumped up and slapped me on the shoulder, crying, "Gordon, you're the biggest old trump breathing;" ' while Albert and the captain shook j; hands with each other, in evident ju­ bilation. Only Lord Ralles remained : passive. "Have you breakfasted?" asked Mr. Cullen, when the first joy was over. "Yes," I said. "I only stopped in 4 on my way to the station to tele­ graph the postmaster-general." "May I come with you and see what you say?" cried Fred, jumping up. I nodded, and Miss Cullen said, questioningly, "Me, too?" making me very happy by the question, for it ,showed that she would speak to me. I gave an assent quite as eagerly and In . ;a moment we were all walking to­ wards the platform. Despite Lord jRalles, I felt happy, and especially as ;I had not dreamed that Bhe would ever forgive me. I took a telegraph blank, and, put- (ting it so that Miss Cullen could see !what I said, wrote: "Postmaster - General, Washington, D. C. I hold, awaiting your instruc- , ttlons, the three registered letters v istolen from No. 3 Overland Missouri • .'Western Express on Monday, October ' (fourteenth, loss of which has already 'been notified you." Then I paused and said, "So far, (that's routine, Miss Cullen. Now ' .comes the help for you," and I con­ tinued-- "The letters may have been tam- jpered with, and I recommend a special agent. Reply Flagstaff, Arizona. "Richard Gordon, "Superintendent K. & A. R. R." "What will that do?" she asked. Tm not much at prophecy, and well wait for the reply," I said. All that day we lay at Flagstaff, r jand after a good sleep, as there was {no use keeping the party cooped up In their car, I drummed up some ponies and took the Cullens and Ack- land over to the Indian cliff-dwellings. I don't think Lord Ralles gained any­ thing by staying behind in a sulk, for it was a very jolly ride, or at least : that was what it was to me. I had of course to tell them all how I had settled on them as the criminals, and , a history of my doings. To hear Miss Cullen talk, one would have inferred ( I was the greatest of living detectives. "The mistake we made," she assert­ ed, "was not securing Mr. Gordon's help to begin with, for then we should never have needed to hold the train up, or if we had we should never have been discovered." What was more to me than this Ill-deserved admiration were two lie," she went on; "but I thought if I let you have the letters it would ruin papa. I really wouldn't mind poverty myself, Mr. .Gordon, but he takes such pride in success that I couldn't be the one to do it. . And then, after you told me that train-robbers were hung, I baa to lie to save them. I ought to liave known you would help us." I thought this a pretty good time to make & real apology for my con­ duct on the trail, as well as to tell her how sorry I was at not having been able to repack her bag better. She accepted my apology very sweet­ ly, and assured me her belongings had been put away so neatly that she had wondered who did it. I knew she only said this out of kindness, and told "The Q. 8.'» dough Is cooked." things she said on the way back, when we two had paired off and were a bit behind the rest. "The sandwiches and the whisky were very good," she told me, "and - I'm so grateful for the trouble you took." "It was a pleasure," I said. "And, Mr. Gordon," she continued, and then hesitated for a moment-- "my--Frederic told me that you--you •aid you honored me for--?" "I do," I exclaimed energetically, as 4!h6 paused and colored. "Do you really?" she cried. "I thought Fred was, only trying to make sne less unhappy by saying that you did." "I Mid It, and I meant it,* 1 told lier. ; *% km lMs so miserable over Oust "Mr. Gordon, may I ask you a ques­ tion?" her so, telling also of my struggles over that pink-beribboned and belaced affair, in a way that made her laugh. I had thought it was a ball gown, and wondered at her taking it to the Canon; but she explained that it was what she called a "throw"--which I told her accounted for the throes I had gone through over it. It made me open my eyes, thinking that any­ thing so pretty could be used for the same purpose *for which I use my crash bath-gown, and while my eyes were open I saw the fojly of thinking that a girl who jvore such things would, or in fact could, ever get along on my salary. In that way the inci­ dent was a good lesson for me, for it made me feel that, even if there had been no Lord Ralles, I still should have had no chance. On our return to the cars there was a telegram from the Postmaster-Gen­ eral awaiting me. After a glance at it, as the rest of the party looked anx­ iously on, 1 passed it over to Miss Cullen, for I wanted her to have the triumph of reading it aloud to them. It re^d: "Hold letters pending arrival of spe­ cial agent Jackson, due in Flagstaff October twentieth " "The election is o * the eighteenth," Frederic laughed, executing a war dance on the platfor i. "The G. S.'s dough is cooked." "I must waltz with someone," cried Madge, and before I could offer she took hold of Albert and the two went whirling about, much to my envy. The Cullens were about the most ju­ bilant road agents I had ever seen. After consultation with Mr. Cul­ len, we had 218 and 97 attached to No. 1 when it arrived, and started for Ash Forks. He wanted to be on the ground a day in advance, and I could easily be back in Flagstaff befor& the arrival of the special agent. I took dinner in 218, an4 they toasted me, as if I had done some­ thing heroic instead of merely having sent a telegram. Later four sat down to poker, while Miss Cullen, Fred and I went out and sat on the platform of the car while Madge played on her guitar and sang to us. She had a very sweet voice, and before she had been singing long we had the crew of a "dust express"--as we jokingly call a gravel train--standing about, and they were speedily reinforced by many cowboys, who deserted the med­ ley of cracked pianos or accordions of the Western saloons to listen to her, and who, not being over-careful in the terms with which they ex­ pressed their approval, finally by their riotous admiration drove us inside. At Miss Cullen's suggestion we three had a second game of poker, but with chips and not money. She was an awfully reckless player, and the luck was dead In my favor, so Madge kept borrowing my chips, till she was so deep in that we both lost accounts. Finally, when we parted for the night she held out her hand, and, In the prettiest of ways, said: "I am so deeply in your debt, Mr. Gordon, that I don't see how I can ever repay you." I tried to think of something worth saying, but the words wouldn't come, and I could only shake her hand. But, duffer as I was, the way she had said those words, and the double meaning she had given them, would have made me the happiest fellow alive if I could have only forgotten the existence of Lord Ralles. CHAPTER VIII. How Did the Secret JLeak Out? I made up for my three nights' lack of sleep by not waking the next morn­ ing till after ten. When I went to 218, I found only the chef, and he told me the party had gone for a ride. Since I couldn't talk to Madge, I went to work at my desk, for I had been rather neglecting my routine work. While I still wrote, I heard horses' hoofs, and looking up, saw the Cullens returning. I went out on the platform to wish them good-morning, arriving just in time to see Lord Ralles lieip Miss Cul- lei} out of her saddle;,»snd the way he did it. and the way he continued to hold her hand after she was down, while he said something to her, made *ne grit my teeth and look the other way. 11 oil © oi tae riders hat' «een me, so I slipped into my.ear and went back to work. Fred came in present­ ly to see if I was up yet, and to ask me to lunch, but I felt so miserable and down-hearted that I made an excuse of my late break fast* for not joining them. After luncheon the party In the oth­ er special all came out and walked up and down the platform, the sound of their voices and laughter only mak­ ing me, feel the bluer. Before long I heard a rap on one of my windows, and there was Miss Cullen peering in at me. The moment I looked up, she called: "Won't you make one of us, Mr. Misanthrope?" " ., I called myself all sorts of a fool, but out I went as eagerly as if there had been some hope. Miss Cullen be­ gan to tease me over my sudden ac­ cess of energy, declaring that she was sure ft was a pose for their benefit; or else due to a guilty conscience ove^ having slept so late. "I hoped you would ride with us,, though perhaps it wouldn't have paid! you. • Apparently there is nothing to see in Ash Forks." . "There is something that may inter­ est you all," I suggested, pointing to a special that had been dropped off No. 2 that morning. ( , "What is it?" asked Madge. "It's a G. S. special," I said,, "and Mr. Camp and Mr. Baldwin and ^wo G. S. officials came in on it." "What do you think he'd give for those letters?" laughed Fred. (To be continued.) FISHERMAN GOT BOTH CASKS. One Smuggling Adventure Which Netted Little Profit. George W. Whitehead, appraiser of merchandise at the port of New York, was talking about smuggling'. "No great amount of smuggling Is done," he said. "To smuggle exten­ sively it is necessary to have accom­ plices. These accomplices cheat you, or you cheat them. Altogether, in the end, you lose rather than gain." - Mr. Whitehead smiled. "Not long ago," he said, "a certain skipper hailed a fisherman off the coast, and asked him If he would smuggle ashore for him a cask of brandy. "The fisherman agreed, and two casks of brandy were lowered into his boat. " 'One,' said the skipper, *Ig for your trouble and risk, my man." "Well, a week or so later, the skip­ per-called with a team at the Jersey fisherman's house for his cask of brandy. It was night. He got the cask and started on the dark and lone­ ly way back home. "But the custom house people have sharp eyes and ears. They lay In wait for the skipper. They caught him a mile outside of the fisherman's village, and there was the cask of brandy in his wagon. "He said nothing. There was noth­ ing to say. The cask was opened. " 'We'll sample this fine liquor,' said a customs officer. "And he put his mouth to the bung and then drew back amazed. The skipper was amazed, too. The cask contained nothing but water." Making Sure of Their Shoes. They were on a slumming expedi­ tion. Two chop suey establishments had been graced by their presence and they thought they were seeing much of the under world. They had drifted down State street and had the boldness to enter a saloon that is much frequented by negroes of slen­ der means. And the sight which met their gaze was a peculiar one. They saw twenty or thirty negroes asleep. They were sitting in chairs and the chairs leaned against the wall. But the peculiar fact was that all were without shoes. In a moment they saw the shoes on the floor. And a leg of a chair stood in each. "How peculiar?" queried one. "Yep," was the short answer of one of the proprietors. "Why do they place the chair legs in their shoes?" "Very simple. If they didn't they wouldn't have an/ shoes. We don't guarantee the honesty of our custom­ ers." "And If they slept with their shoes on?" , "Some man with a poorer pair them off." • "And if they stood them near the chair?" "Some envious man would take would exchange."--Chicago Chronicle, An Old-School Head. Capt. Ryan, the new British* naval attache, said at a dinner in Washing­ ton: "The strength of the heads of some of our old-school farmers is quite in­ credible. "At a harvest supper, a feast simi­ lar in its way to your Thanksgiving dinner, there was an old farmer who drank a good deal of champagne. The moment his glass was filled he would toss it off, and then, of course, it would be filled again. "But the old fellow grew quieter and quieter, the more champagne he drank. A frown settled on his fore­ head. His eyes flashed angrily under his heavy gray brows. "Finally when the waiter filled his glass for the twelfth or thirteenth time, he shook his head and said: " 'James, wheT are you going to put the whisky on the table? These min­ erals are getting tedious.'" But It Saves Pins. Exlusive fashion note: r It its said the Greek dress is coming back for the women. This is a garment that is made by taking several widths of muslin and draping it on. It gives the wearer the shape of a pillow.-- Atchison Globe. Criticism. "What is your favorite poem?" "I haven't any," answered Mr. Cum- rox. "Poetry always strikes me as merely an effort on the author's part to show off how much. he knows about capital letters and punctuation marlut." Evldenee of Reckless Bravery* She--Do you believe men are as brave now as they used to. be? He--Sure! Just see the poetry •ome men write now. \ Proposed Bering Strait Tunnel rw. ARCTIC OCEANS X' north TAC.1F1C. vMDiV'OSTOJc- Dotted line marks proposed tunnel and route of projected railway fromeast cape of Bering straight to Kansk, 3,000 miles inland in 8iberia on, the Siberian Railway. 'J The sympathy of Emperor Nicholas, Premier Witte and other members of the Russian ministry, as well as of powerful influences in court, has been enlisted by Baron Lelcq de Lobel in the project of the American-Trans- Alaskan-Siberian Company for the construction of a tunnel under Bering 'straight from East Cape to Kansk and 3,000 miles of railway to connect it with the Siberian railway. • It is believed that by Interesting Americans materially in Siberia the political ties between the two coun­ tries will be strengthened. JOHN D. POOR POLITICAL BOSS. Citizens of Tarrytown Elect President Against His Wishes. Once more John Wirth has defeat­ ed John D. Rockefeller by being elect­ ed borough president of • Tarrytown^ When he ran last year he was oppos­ ed by the oil king and his hundred and one employes cn the big Pocanti- co estate, but Wirth pulled through. He carried out every one of his pledges to the voters and on the strength of this decided to make the race again this year. Last year Mr. Rockefeller personally directed the fight against the village butcher. This year he has refrained from active participation in the village election because of the pernicious activity of subpoena servers. Mr. Rockefeller, contrary to custom, remained at Lake- wood. In some mysterious way, how­ ever, the oil king sent word that Wirth must be defeated and 200 em­ ployes of Pocantico Hills came down in sleds and lumbpr wagons. But the Tarrytown butcher was again trium­ phant. HE HAD FORGOTTEN THE NAME. Young Ohloan's Lack of Memory Somewhat Embarrassing. Among the crowds of visitors In Washington the other day was a young Ohloan named Bud Keifer. Two of the sights he wanted to see were Senators Foraker and Dick, but one of these gentlemen was absent and the other, too busy. The doorkeeper informed Bud that he would call out Senator Clark's secretary, George- Gilliland, an Ohio man. Bud was de­ lighted, he and Mr. Gilliland having been schoolmates. As they stood chatting over old times Bud was in­ troduced to one or two senators who passed by. Then Vice President Fair­ banks came along and Mr. Gilliland said: "Mr. Vice President, let me introduce Bud Keifer of Ohio." The vice president stuck out his hand. Bud grasped It briskly and said: "Glad to meet you, sir. What's the name, please?"--Chicago Chronicle. Last of War Governors. Frederick Holbrook of Vermont, who recently passed his ninety-third birth­ day, 1s the only one of the famous "war governors" now surviving. He stood with Govs. Curtin of Pennsyl­ vania and Andrew of Massachusetts as one of the stanchest supporters of the Lincoln administration when it most needed such support as they could give. Among the beneficent in­ stitutions for which the nation is in­ debted to Mr. Holbrook's initiative were the military hospital established at Brattleboro during the civil war, where from 1,500 to 2,000 soldiers were cared for at once, and the na­ tional bureau of agriculture. The ex- governor was choirmaster in the Brat­ tleboro Congregational church for forty years. Finally Met His Fate. Out of the 250 women who Bought his hand but one met the fancy of lonely John Halloran of Jersey City, who owns $30,000 worth of real estate and has been advertising for a wife for the last year. Lonely John Is 52 years of age. He has spent most of his life before the mast. He received hundreds of letters and dozens of applicants called. The women were too old, too young, too gay or too quiet. At a ball given by a lodge of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, however, John Halloran met the girl who suited him--Miss Adele Peters of West Ho- boken--and became engaged to her. Corrected By the Boss. A prominent Schopl street liquor dealer had a coachman whose North of Ireland brogue greatly displeased him, as he came from another sec­ tion of the Emerald Isle, and was ever ready* to correct the deficiencies In the speech of his servant One morning the coachman, address­ ing bis employer, said: "I want a new whop (whip)." Disdainfully gazing at the coachman the boss retorted: "For hivin's sake, mon, don't say 'whop'; can't yeu say 'Up.' "---Boston Herald. " She Made a Good Guess. It was at an afternoon tea and the girl with a bad memory turned cold as two vaguely familiar women greeted her cordially while she stood chatting with a friend. An introduc­ tion was obviously expected, not to say Imperative. 1 "So stupid of roe to forget your name," she murmured, smiling sweet­ ly; "but I am sure It begins with an 'M,' now doesn't it?" | "Almost," returned the other; "It's Emerson." DISCOVERY MADE BY SENATOR. Statesman Put Colleagues on portant Bit of News..' ~ v Senator Ankeney of Washington, who made himself famous by predict­ ing a bright future for a young man he observed at work at the Panama canal hearings, said young man being Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, has made another Important discovery. "I attended the Panama canal hearings," he said, "for we're interested, in the canal out in my country. I watch the work pretty closely and I see and hear a good many things. Now, I told Senator Millard, the chairman, a fine piece of information yesterday. I told him that from something I heard Senator Morgan say I was quite sure that Morgan Is in favor of a Nicaragua canal.' Just heard it drop accidentally, you know, but I think It is straight enough." The senate Is agog over this discovery and well it may be, for Senator Morgan has only been talking and working for a Nica­ ragua canal for twenty-five years. NO DOUBT OF CLOSED DOORS. Visitor Satisfied as to Reality of Ex­ ecutive Session. E. J. Ridgeway, magazine editor, sat in one of the galleries in the sen­ ate listening to the railroad rate de bate. Mr. Ridgeway wanted to see Senator La Follette and he went down to his committee room, leaving his hat on the gallery seat. He got back about two minutes before the senate went into executive session and was shooed out with the others. He left his hat there again. The senate was in executive session for an hour and *a half. Mr. Ridgeway tried to get a sergeant at arms to get his hat He was told nobody but a senator could go in and that his hat must stay there until the doors were open­ ed. It stayed there, too, and he waited. "I am fully convinced," Mr. Ridgeway said, "that these executive sessions are'really held behind closed, doors." Woman Notary Makes Precedent. Miss Mamie Offutt, official notary and. public stenographer to the govern nor of Alabama, is the only woman who ever had the honor of swearing in the chief justice of a state. Samuel D. Weakley of Birmingham was ap­ pointed chief Justice of the Supreme court to succeed Thomas N. McCIel- lan, deceased. Mr. Weakley went to Montgomery to be sworn in, but the clerk of the Supreme court and other officers were absent. Casting about for some one with authority to ad minister the obligation, it was found that the governor's stenographer was the only notary present. After some persuasion she administered the oath, signing her name to the necessary papers; Upholds the Present Congress. "I am not one of those who think congress has deteriorated," said Jus­ tice Harlan. "I maintain that the present congress is as high grade as any congress. The Congressional Rec­ ord is a remarkable publication. If a man were cast on a desert Island and had the Bible, Shakespeare and the Congressional Record, he would have all the reading matter- he wanted." Kansas Man Raises Oranges. „ "M. R. Ivey of Ottawa Is the only man In kansas who raises his own oranges. He has a tree that has been producing the fruit for several years past and that has raised a crop of eighteen or twenty oranges last year. The oranges are not as large as the commercial fruit, but are of good fla­ vor. The tree Is of the Mediterranean variety.--Chicago Chronicle. Coquelin Declined Honor. M. Coquelin, the actor, refused the red ribbon. of the Legion of Honor when it was offered him a few weeks ago. "You have waited too long," was his answer to M. Dajardln Beau- metz. M. Coquelin, cadet of the Comedie Francalse, was decorated sev­ eral years ago, not as an actor but as a public functionary. The Retort Courteous. Adam drew himself up proudly and looked haughtily at Eve. "Madam," said he, "I would have you remember when you put on these society-queen airs that I was the whole show in the beginning, and at best you are no better than a spare rib." Then as Eve deftly fanned him with the primeval equivalent for a broom handle, Adam confirmed his social pretensions by giving the first patri­ arch's bawl on record.---Baltimore American Pressure of Explosives. In a lecture before the Royal So­ ciety, Mr/J. E. Petavel discussed the pressure to which rifle barrels are subjected by high explosives. In the case of powerful cordite his experi­ ments Indicated that the enormous figure of twelve tons per square inch may sometimes be attained. This means that every square foot of sur­ face has to resist a pushing force of nearly three and a half million pounds. These figures closely agree with those obtained by Sir Ar*rew NoNfe Housing Chicks. The best method of housing I have totind Is a coop as follows: Housg part (1 foot 9 inches by 2 feet) has removable floor, and is separated from exercise room by a wooden partition with galvanized wire cloth window and door, admitting light and air. The exercise room (2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet) is closed at the end and screened with fine mesh galvanized iron wire, back and front. The dowel door in front confines hen while chicks enjoy free range. If cats bother put fine mesh wire on outer door and three lath on opening between coop and exercise room, thus Confining mother in coop. If kept clean she will do as well. Above coop or house is Intended for hen with chicks, but may be used also as a home for chicks long after they are weaned, or for chicks removed from brooder. Dimensions! Width, 4 feet 3 Inches. Depth, 2 feet. Height in front, 1 foot 9 inches. Height in rear, 1 foot 3 Inches. Material, pine free from knots dressed on both sides, tongued, grooved and closely fitting, painted, put together with screws, five pieces total. I find it best to keep the chicks off the ground until warm weather. I set the pens described above in most any place where the light Is good and under cover and my chicks grow and do well first six weeks. Have lost chicks at night (and day, too) by cats before* caring for as above. Only lost one last season. Give the chicks all the range you can afford, as they commence to develop, say after six to eight weeks old.-- A. H. Mclntire, Sheboygan Co., Wis., in Farmers' Review. Using the Incubator/ I am using Incubators in my hatch­ ing operations and find the 120 and 220-egg sizes the most convenient to manage. To be successful one must have a good thermostat and learn how to control the flame of the lamp so as to give a uniform heat The tem­ perature of the room counts for much, and the room used should be one that Is not quickly affected by" the change of temperatures out of doors. Most of the thermometers sold with incu bators are reliable, but about one in fifty will prove to be out of the way in Its recording of the temperature. Some­ times a man fails in getting a good hatch through an accident he might have avoided. At one time I changed oil and the second lot was poor. The lamp went out and the temperature fell. I did not discover that the lamp was out till it had been out for some time, and by that time the eggs were chilled. I lit the lamp again and suc­ ceeded in getting a 50 per cent hatch, even then. When all the eggs are fer­ tile I get from 60 to 80 chicks out of 100 eggs. There are a number of things the novice should look for. Among them are poor Incubators, poor eggs, poor ventilation, drafts, not turning the eggs enough, and lack of attention to the lamp and tempera­ ture. I figure the cost of- the oil for one hatch at from 40 to 50 cents. I fill my incubators in March, April and May, for the spring birds and for fall chicks I start the eggs to hatching about the last of June or In July.--• J. E. Weaver, Fulton Co., N. T. Ground Bone aa Feed. It. Is surprising that so many fresh bones are allowed to go to waste on our farms when they are particularly adapted for poultry feed. Fresh bone contains nitrogen, phosphorus and lime In considerable quantities. The lime is useful in the shells of the eggs, but this is the least important thing connected with the feeding of bones. The lime might be supplied in old plaster. But the phosphorus in the bones constitutes a very important element of food and this phosphorus goes to build up the bones In growing fowls. It is more useful for growing fowls than for mature fowls, but Is serviceable for both. The bones also contain considerable quantities of ni­ trogen, and this nitrogen goes to make muscle. The only way that a farmer can use the bones Is to buy a bone mill by which they can be re­ duced to a very fine condition with small effort. We have heard people complain that It required too much muscular effort to grind bones. Bui this was true largely a long time ago. Bone grinding mills have now been perfected to such an extent that little effort Is required. Every farmer should keep enough fowls to justify him in buying a bone mill, which can be pur­ chased for a very fetf dollars. Fowls crave food of this kind both summer and winter. Clover and Alfalfa aa Poultry Food. We should not forget that all kinds of poultry graze on succulent grass and kindred forms of vegetables. Clover and alfalfa are among the most useful things that .can be grown near the poultry house. Some farmers Ijave extended their poultry yards to include large plats of grass ground. .They would have done better had they plant­ ed those same areas to clover or al­ falfa, both of which are exceedingly rich in the elements the poultry needs. Alfalfa is as rich as bran in protein element All kinds of clovers are good and If one will not succeed another will. A man need not tie himself down to growing just the red clover. White clover can always be grown and nearly always alslke. Sv-"* ~ i The Horns of Cattle. horns of cattle are no longer, necessary for their protection or the protection of their calves. The reason fot leaving them on no longer exists. If they use them at all now It Is as a means of offense and not of defense. Let them come off. They should be sawed off, bred off and prevented from growing All three ways are now being used against them. The simplest way of getting rid of the horns of a horned breed Is to use caustic potash on the incipient horns of the calves. Sunlight tar the oow stable la worth money! HE WANTED THE PROPRIEiifC King Personally Saw that His Toaat Was Properly Observed. A story was told In the San Fran* cfiseo Argonaut by the late Admiral Murray about the much-lamented King Christian of Denmark. A small fleet of American ships visited Copen­ hagen, and the king invited the prin­ cipal officers to dinner. "From my seat at dinner," related Admiral Murray, "I looked out on the pleasant lawn where the band was stationed. After the principal busi­ ness of the dinner was over, at the invitation of King Christian the glasses were filled, and, all the table being at attention, his majesty arose and, with due formality, proposed 'The President of the United States.' "Glasses were raised but the king paused, glared over his shoulder, and abruptly left the dining hall. The guests upon Invitation of an aid, sfeated themselves. "In a few minutes I saw the bahd- master come hurriedly Into sight, fol* lowed by the king, who kicked him across my field of view. "Shortly after the king returned to the dining hall, took his place at the head of the table, and, the guests hav­ ing risen, again proposed 'The Presi­ dent of the United States.' As he raised his glass the band struck up 'The Star Spangled Banner." With a satisfied smile his majesty emptied his glass." ":-: NEWTON'S FIRST LAW RivfcEDl. Statement Would Have Astonished the Philosopher. During my course in physics at the Portsmouth high school the class came to the analysis of Newton's laws of motion, so one Monday morning one of the boys did not have any ̂ of his physics lessons learned, but he succeeded in answering the question put to him by the physics teacher, and escaped being marked zero. Collector of Customs Sherman TP. Newton of Portsmouth, N. H., con­ ducts a wholesale fish establishment, and for a motto, which is printed on his bill-heads and envelopes, and also upon his fish wagons, uses "Live and let live. Let 'em come." This Mon­ day morning my friend who did not know his physics lesson was called upon to state Newton's first law of motion. He made up his mind very hastily to answer the teacher's ques­ tion, and, jumping out of his seat,, re­ plied: "Why, Newton's first law of motion is 'Live and let live. Let 'em come.'" The answer caused a good deal of merriment in the class, but did not please the "crabbld" teacher. --Boston Herald. 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