Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — Page 6

UNITED AT LAST

CHAPTER XXV. r.EADT FOR THE WORST June roses Were opening in the flowergarden at Davenant. and Gilbert Sinclair bad been leading a life of the purest dcmesticity for the last three reeks. It hung lather hea ily upon tiim. that domestic life, for, though he oved his wife after his own fashion, he was not fond of home joys or exclusively feminine society. But what will not a jealous man endure when once his suspicions are aroused? Patient as the spider watching his prey, he waits for the unguarded moment which shall betray the horrid secret he fears yet longs to discover. Except to see Goblin win the Derby a feat which that estimable animal performed with honor to himself and satisfaction to every one save the bookmen -Gilbert had not been away from Davenant sinbe the Two Thousand. He had been told to look for treachery at home, and he was there ready to seize the traitor. No mouchard in the secret service of the Parisian police was ever a closer spy than the husband who doubts vet dotes, suspects yet fondly loves.

That he had seen nothing in all this time to confirm his doubts was noc enough to convince Mr. Sinclair that triose doubts were- baseless. He was willing to imagine profoundest hypocrisy in the wile of his bosom, a brazen frpnt under the semblance of a pure &pd innocent brow. Even the devotion tdher cjiild might be a cover fora guiltier love. Her happiness, her tranquility, gave him new ground for suspicion. Was there not some secret Well-spring of contentment, some hidden source of delight, masked behind this fair show of maternal affection? The e were the doubts which Gilbert Sinmair was perpetually revolving in his mind dur.ng this period of domestic bliss, and thii was tne aspect of affairs up to June 15. Ascot races were to begin on the llith, and Goblin was to fulfill his third great engagement. This was an occasion before which even a husban i’s jealous fear; must give way, and Gilbert had made up his mind to see the horse run. He had not carried out his idea of selling Goblin after the Derby. .Jackson, the trainer, had Crotestea vehemently against such a reach of faith with him, who had made the horse.

"That there ’o-s is to win the Leger,” said the indignant Jackson. “If he don’t I’ll eat him, pig-skin and all.” Gilbert felt that to part with such a horse for ever so high a price would be to cut up the goose that laid the golden eggs. ■ "A horse can't go on winning great races forever, though. There must come a turn in the tide,” suggested Gilbert, sagely. “We should get a pot of money for him now.” ■ “A gentleman couldn’t sell a 'oss that had just won him the blue ribbon of» the turf,” replied Jackson, with a burst of chivalrous feeling. “It would be to> mean. ” Gilbert gave way to the finer feelings of his trainer, and took no step toward cutting short his career on the turf. Things were looking livelier in the coal-pit district, he told himself, and a fe.w thousand a year moie or less could not hurt him. He would carry out his original idea, take a place somewhere near Newmarket, and establish his wife and—the child there. Under ordinary circumstances he would ha. e taken a house at Ascot during th > race week for the accommodation of himself and a selection of choice spirits with sportmg tastes, where toe nights might have been enlivened by blind hookey, or poker, or some equally enlightened lecreaticn. But on this occasion Mr. Sinclair made no such comfortable arrangement, and determined to sleep at nis hotel in town oa the night aiter the race.

He was smoking his after dinner cigar on the evening of the loth, pae ng slowly op and down the terrace in front of the open drawing-room windows, when a servant brought him his letters. The first opened was from his trainer, who was in high spirits about Goblin. The next two or three were business letters of no importance. The last was irfa strange hand, a nigiling, scratchy little hand, which, if these be any expression in penmanship, was suggestive of a mean and crafty nature in t ie ■writer. Gilbert tore open the envelope, expecting to find some insinuating “tip” from a gentleman of the genus “tout ” but the letter was not even so honest as a tip: it was that snake in the grass, an anonymous warning: “It Mr. Sinclaire is away to-moro nitelhe wil mis an oportunitie to learn sumthing he ouht to kno. If he want's to kno a secret let im wattch the bal-I coaie of is wif’s room Ije win tenn and leven to-moro nite. A Friend.” Such a letter falling into the hands of a. generous-minded man would have aroused only contempt: but coming to a.man.who had given himself up as a prey to suspicion and iealousy, who had long been on the watch for domestic treachery, even this venomous i Crawl became significant as the voice of Fate—an oracle to be obeyed at anv cost. “She has taken advantage of my intended absence already, and has made an appointment with her lover,” thought Gilbert Sinclair. “This warning comes from one of my servants, I dare sky-- seme scullery-maid, who has found out my wife s infamv. and pities the doluried h-v.b*nd. Rather hard to swallow pfty Irom ibat quarter.” Then came the natua«d reaction. “Is it a hoax. 1 wonder a trick played up n me by some di missed under! eg? Yet how should any one know how to put his finger on the spot that galls? Lnless it were thats co undid Wyatt, who hates me like po son. Well, at least, I tap take the hint, and be on the watch. God help Cyprian Davenant if he cro-ses m, threshold tfith evil intent. He may have deceived me once. He shall not deceive M». Sinclair went to Ascot next day Bs he had intended. Any change in bis plans would have put his wife upon

MISS M E BRADDON

1 her guard. He went to the races, look- ' ing uncommonly glum as his friends | informed him: so gloomy, indeed were his looks lhat sbtoe ot his intimatea ! made haste to hedge their bets about Gobrln, making very sure that the Derby winner had been seized by some I sudden indisposition. The event reI warded then- caution, for Goblin, alj though brought up to the starting post ■ in magnificent condition, failed to get I a place. Gilbert bore his disappointment with supreme stoicism. Goblin s . v ct- ry would not have made him smile; his failure hardly touched him. : It was provoking, of comse, but De--i tiny and Mr. Sinclair had long been at odes; it was only another item, a del to an old account. He drove to the station directly GobI lin’s race was over, and as there was ! another race to c me, he got a place in i th? t ain easily. It started immedi- . atelv, and he was in London before I 7 o'clock, and on his wav to Davenant at 8. He had not stopred to dine. A biscuit and a glass of brandy and soda I was al* he cared to take in his present i frame o' mind. It wag striking nine as he left the ; quiet litt'e Kentish station, not ouite i clear as to what his next step ought to I be. He had been told to watch his wife's room between 10 and 11. To do I this with any effect, he must get into I the house unol served or find a safe ■ post of observation in the garden. To 1 announce his return home would be, of ' course, to destroy his chance of makI ing any discovery: and by this time he i had made up his mind that there was , domestic treachery to be discovered, i As to the means, he cared little or i nothing. To meet treachery with j treachery could bs no dishonor. It was dusk, the swest summer dusk, j when he entered the park through a i gate seldom used by any one but the gamekeepers or servants. The nightingales were breaking out into sudden gushes of melody, calling and answerI ing one another from distant clumnsof ; chestnut or beach, but Mr. Sinclair took no heed of the nightingales. In , his happiest frame of mind that melodious jug-juggling would have maue no I particular impres,-ion upon his unsensii tive ear: to-night all senses were in mo eor less abeyance. He found his way along the narrow footpath mechan- ! ically, looking neither to the right nor to the left, and only roused himtelf when he came within sight of the house.

How to get in unobserved and reach his room without meeting any of the servants was the question. A moments reflection showed him that this ought to be easy enough, i Half-past nine o'clock was the servants' supper hour at Davenant, and me ds in .the servants' hall are an institution which even domestic convulsions leave un-haken. A funeral makes I no difference in tho divine right of serv- ' ants to dine and sup at a certain hour; . a wedding may cause some suoererogatory feasting, but can hardly over- , throw the regular order of the dai'y meals. Mr. Sinclair had no fear, therei fore, of any alteration in the routine of the household, and he knew by experience that his servants liked to take ; their t me at the social evening meal, i It was twenty minute <to ten when ihe stopped for a minute or so in I the shrubbery to consider his plans. Between ten and eleven, said the anonymous letter. He had no time to lose. He skirted the lawn in front of the drawing room windows, ktaping in the shadow of the tree-;. The windows were all open, and he could tee the whole of the room. Lamps were burning on the table, candles on the piano, but his wife was not there. Ho went in at one of the window-,. Tho child s toys wero lying on the floor by Constance’s favorite chair, and an open work basket a little pile of books on a gypsy table, showed that the room had been lately occupied. “She ha; gone to the balcony-room to keep her appointment ’’ he thought, savagely, for by this time he had ac--1 copied the anonymous warning as a truth.

The hall was as empty as, the draw-ing-room, the lamps burned dimlv, being the last invention in lamps that do not illuminate. Gilbert went softly up the shallow old staircase to the corridor which ran the length of the house, and ended at the door of his own snuggery. He reached this door without meeting any one, went quietly into the room, and locked the door. The oriel-window of this room commanded the balcony room, -which was recessed in the southern front, between two projecting wings. There could be no better post of observation for the man who had boon told to watch the garden approach to his wife’s I'coms.

There were matches and candlei on the mantel-piece, but to strike a light would be to make his presence known to any one in the ba cony rocm, so Gilbert waited quiet y in the half darkness of a summer night, and found what he wanted easily enough by the sense of touch. There was no moon yet,- but a few stars were thiding faintly in the calm gray sky. The windows of the balcony room were dark, and one stood open—the one nearest the iron stair. Gilbert observed this. “She is sitting there in the dark,” he thought, “waiting for him. That dark room, that open window, lo.k like guilt. Whv has sne not her lamp lighted, aid her music or her books? Ao: she has something else to think of.” His guns were arranged in artistic order above the chimney-piece -a costly collection, with all the latest imorovements in sporting guns. His han,s wandered here and there among the stocks till they came to a favorite rille, the lightest in his collection and one of the surest. He had shot many a royal stag with it beyond the Tweed. He took down this gun, went to a drawer where he kept ammunition, and se-' lected it and loaded his gun in a steady, business like manner. There was no faltering of the hand that dropped the cartridge into its place, though that hand meant murder. “He refused to fight me,”i Gilbert Sinclair said to himself. “He lied to me until I was fool en ughtobelievd his lies. I gave him fair warning. He I has tricked and insulted me in the face iof that warning. He ha, entered my house once as an impostor and a liar. If he tries to enter it a second time as a thief and a seducer, his blocd be upon hi , own head.”

CHAtTBR XXVI. CAUGHT IX THE Toils Ten o'clock struck with sweet and solemn chime from the old square tower of the pari-h church,,Gilbert Sine air opened the lattice and stood by the open window of the dressingroom, waiting. Tjaere was not . a l-*af stirring in the garden, not a shadow save the motionless shadows of the trees. No light in the windows of the balcony room. The stars brightened in the clear gray, and in.the soft twi-

light of jotamer all things ware dimly defined—not dark, bit shadowy. The quarter chimed from the church tower behind the trees yonder, and still there was no movement in the garden. Gilbert stood motionless, his watch divided between the old Dutch garden with its geometrical floweroeds and stone sun dial, and the windows of the balcony room. As the sound of the church clock dwindled slow>y into silence, a light appeared in ths center window, a candle held in a woman’s hand, and raised above her head. Gilbert could but faintly distinguish the dark figure in the feeble glimmer of that single candle before figure and light vanished. A signal, evidently, for a minute latir a man's figure appeared from the angle of ihe hedge, where it had been hidden in shadow. A man tall, strongly bu It—yes. ju t the figure that pat-ent watcher expected—stepped lightly across the garden, carefully keeping to the narrow gravel-pat us, leaving no tell-tale footprint on flowerbed or box-border. He reached the iron stair, mountel it swi.tly, had his foot on the balcony, when Gilbert Sinclair fired, with the unerring aim of a practiced sportsman and the firm hand of a man who has made up his mind for the worst. The figure t eeled, swayed for a moment tn the topmost step, and rolled backward down the light iron stair, shaking it with the force of the fall, and sunk in a heap on the gravel-path below. Gilbert waited, expecting to be thrilled by a woman's piercing shriek, the despairing cry of a guilty soul, but no such cry came. All was darkness in the balcony room. He fancied he saw a figure approach the window and look out, but tvhatever that shape was it vanished before he could verify his d< übts. He went over to the chimney-piece an 1 put away his gun as coolly as if the purpose for which he had just used it were the most ordinary business of daily life, but this mechanical tranquillity had very little significance. ; It was rather tho stolidity of a slpepi walker tha i the calmness of a mind that realize 4 the weight and measure of its act. He went back to the window. There lay the figure, huddled iu a formless heap as it had fallen hid--00081- foreshortened from Gilbert’s point of sight. The open hands clutched the loose gravel. No sound, no light yet in the balconv room. “bho does nut know what has hap- ' pened,” said Gilbert, grimly. “I had better go a d tell her.” j He unlocked his door and went oht in the corridor. His wife s bedroom opened out of the balcony room. The child sleut in a smaller room adjoining ■ that. He went into the balc r ny robm and found it empty, then opened the ! bedroom door and paused on the ’ threshold. Io iking in.

Impossible to imagine a more peaceful picture than that which met the husband s eyes. A night-lamp shed a faint light over the white-curtained bjd, an open boo.c an I an extinguished candle on a little table by the bedside, showe I that Cons ante ha I read herself t > sleep. The door of the inner room stcod half epen, and Gilbert could see the litt'e white crib, and the sleeping child. The mother's face was hardly less placid in its repose than the child’s. |TO BE CONTINUED. |

Cream Ripening by Bacteria.

■ The chief object of the ripening of cream is to produce the butter aroma, and this aroma, though very e.anescent. controls the price of the butter, ’■this flavor the butter-maker owes to the b-icteria. for by their growth the materials in the cream are decomposed and the oom ounds formed which produce the flavors and odors of high quality butter. Different species of bacteria vary much as to tho flavors which they produce, some giving rise to good, some to extra fine, and others to a very poor quality of butter. A majo.ity of our common dairy species produce good but not the highest qua ity of butter. Up to the present time the butter-maker has had no means of controlling the species in his cream, but has had to use these furnished by the farmer. The bacteriologist can isolate and obtain in pure culture the suede; of bacteria wnich produce the best-flavored buttrr. He can then furnis i them to the creameries to use as starters in cream ripening. The artificial ripening of cr am ptomises much for the near future, although It has been applied only on a small scale at the present time. The use of a pure culture of a species from Uruguay impro.ed the fla.or of the butter of a Connecticut creamery over 2i; per cent., according to expert estimates. Most species of bacteria in bad bitter are probably assoc ated with filthiness. Hence a proper inspection of the ba-ns and dairies to insure proper conditions, especially cleanliness, will be a means of avoiding much of the trouble in cream ripening, and will in many cases result in an improvement of the butter.—Mark Lane Express. %

The Typewriter on the Battlefield.

Military authorities appear to be exhausting every re ourco tha will add to the lapidityof communi<ation letween the field of battle and the commanding officer. For a longtime the telegraph was mainly relied on for the instant transmis ion of intelligence, and then the telephone was brought into active use. It has been recently seriously proposed that aids-de-camp and other carriers of infoimition in t me of war sh mid be tiught shorthand, in order to write down important communications with all possible speed, and the late t move in this direction is the introduction of the typewriter on the scene of military operations. One of the novel features of a recent military tournament in England was the use of the typewriter < n the battle ie Id for the purpoe of recording messages Iro n signalers. It is stated that the typewriter operator was also an expe t eyelist and had his Remington m ounted on the handles of his machine. Riding in and out among the horses and gun carriages, which he did wituout the slightest mishap, whenever he-came to a standstill ho instantly braced up the cycle by a handy c ntrivance, and pounded away at the typewriter while in the saddle. The ne-sage. when competed, was sent to the commanding officer in the rear by m ans of a trained dog.

Stamps for an African Chief.

Philatelists should note that a new postage stamp that is likely to become rare is being printed at the Fiench Government stamp-printing establishment in the Rue d Haute ille, in Paris. The department ha< been commissioned to produce them for the African chief, Menelik. The stamps are of the nominal value of 5, 10, 25 and 50 centimes, and 1. 2 and 3 francs. The fir t ,the cheaper sorts) represent a lion surmounted by a crown, holding a banner, and the others bear Menelik’s effigy.—London News. The government experimental station in lowa has latelv proven that ground grain, when fed to colts makes them grnv much more rapidly than unground, and the same amount- fed them during April gave batter results than in February. The black-mailer poses as drummajor in virtue's parade.

OUR RURAL READERS.

SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. Convenient Contrlmnee for Topping Hay•tark«—A New Fodder Plant—Slovenly Farming la Uisgimtlng—To Cure a Horse ot Balking—Farm Notes. Topping Haystacks Tfiose who are obliged to store a portion of their hay in stacks from lack of storage room in the barns, know how difficult it is to build a stack that will remain good until it is drawn to the barn In the winter, writes C. E. Benton in the American Agriculturist This is liecause it

FIG. 1. LADDER BRACKET.

is better to top the stacks after haying, using for the purpose swale grass when that can be obtained, not only because it is of small value for fodder, but also because the broad, ■’tough leaves mat together and shed the ra.ns better than upland grass. When the stacks are of considerable size, I have found great convenience in using what is called a “ladder bracket” In the illustration, Fig. 1 shows the manner in which it is constructed. The upper pieces are of spruce or other stiong wood, two inches square. Across their top is bolted a light plank six feet long, which makes a convenient platform. At A are iron pins put through each piece, which serve for hooks. By this means the bracket is

FIG. 2. LADDER AND BRACKET IN POSITION.

hooked on the ladder round at any height desi.ed, making an adjustable platform on which an assistant can -stand to receive the hay from the man on the load, and pitch it up to the man on the stack. Fig. 2 shows it placed on the ladder leady for use. By using this simple contrivance, whicif a farmer can make in an hour or two, it is easy to top a large stack, building it up to a good form. In order that it may be perfectly strong and secure, it is best not to use nails in its construction, but fasten it entirely with small carriage bolts.

Slovenly Farming;. if there is any one thing more disgusting than another in agriculture it is slovenliness—go-as-you-please farming. And it does mote to degrade the occupation In the minds of on-lookers than all the distateful duties together, prominent among which aie the cleaning and purifying of the cow stables and hog pens and tne carting and distributing of the tilth about the farm, it costs no more to do a piece of work neatly than it does to (to it in a slip-shod fashion. T’he thoughts are bright to the Gleaner’s mind bv noting the work of gathering a field of hay which he passed in going to and from his place of labor. The men employed seemed to have had experience, but the work was wretchedly done, and more than half the value of what was in the beginnings tine five-acre mowing lot must have teen lost by the slip-shod manner of handling the grass. In the first place, it was left standing till well past the fully ripe stage. The preparatory clipping with the scythe began on the Fourth of July, the main work not being started until ten days later, the few hundred pounds of clippings lying by the roadside in the meantime, getting pretty thoroughly “seasoned.” One bright morning the machine was set a-going, and it laid down about one quarter of the field of handsome grass. This was not even shaken up, but just at nightfall was raked, thrown upon the wagons and taken to the barns, the machine next mowing at another quarter. This on Saturday. A brisk shower found the grass where the machine had left it, and it lay under a bleaching sun during next day, not being touched till Monday afternoon, when it was raked and taken 'to the barn—a black, unpalatable mass; mixed with it was another quarter of the field, cut on Monday ana loaded without other handling than that afforded by the rake. The product of the first quarter of the lot was added to the other after the same heedless treatment, and it is safe to saj' that the last end of lhat hay in w will be worse than the first —and goodness knows that the first is bad enough. 'Whereas, but for the heedless, slipshod way of doing the work, the result would have been a mow of upwards of fifteen tons of the. choicest hay—a credit to the maker and a continual feast to the horses to which it was to be served.—Hartford Courant.

To Cure a Horse of Balking.

An officer of the police detail said recently: "When I was a mounted policeman I learned of a most humane and kind method of curing a balky horse It not only never fails, but it does not give the slightest pain to the aninnl. When the horse refuses to go take the front foot by the fetlock and bend the leg at the knee joint Hold it thus for three minutes and let it down and the horse will go promptly. The only way in which I can account for this effective mastery of the horse is that he can think of but one thing at atime, and having made up his mind not to go, my theory is that the bending of the leg takes fiis mind from the original thought. There have been some barbarously cruel methods i esorted to to make a balky horse go its way, such as filling its mouth with sand, severely beating the horse, or, as in one recent case, cutting out his tongue. The humane societies would have their hands full to care for all these cuelties to animals. If they only the owners of horses '• T ,

would adopt njy treatment, aud there would be no trouble with the erstwhile troublesome balky, horse.”— Our Animal Friends.

Decoration for Woodwork. The accompanying illustration of a plant box, shown in Fig. 1, and an umbrella holder, in Fig. 2,show ameth-

ORNAMENTAL PLANT STAND.

bard wood such as oak or ash: upon the sides is then drawn some design that can be treated broadly. The I in oo nnrl ♦ U « .

continues to settle while the hay is going through the process of fertne h ta t i o n, known as ••sweating.-’ Hence it

lines and the shading are then made permanent by golngoverthem with the red-hot point of iron, burning the wood more deeply where heavier lines or deeper shades are desired. There is an exquisite softness aoout the result that is espec-

ially effective and handsome. Cornstalks and theirleaves make a particularly suitable and effective design where a tall pannel is to be decorated. Hard wood picture frames, and almost any kind of hardwood amateur work, can be decorated in this way. Cow or Care. Quite a good many people have the belief that lood, cleanliness, intelligence in compounding rations and in feeding them, pure water, and skill exercised in the manufacture of butter have more to do with it all than has the cow, since there are comparatively worthless cows in all breeds, says a correspondent of ‘■Hoard’s Dairyman.” it is said that Jersey butter will “stand up” tetter than will any other. That all depends. There are Jerseys and Jerseys, and some of their butter will “stand up” and some will **Bll down” or run away, if you give it a chance.

oping a succulent forage plant unusu. ally rich in sugar, and much relished by all kinds ot stock. The plant is a close relative ot the sweet pea which it much resembles in appearance. It grows two. three, or more feet in height, with roots that run till they find water, even to twelve feet, and some say twice that It seems to flourish on any soil, growing well upon rocky, sandy, or gravelly soil, [ changing hard and barren ground to fertil soil. Dry seasons do not seem to hinder luxuriant growth, and it needs no manure. It has a fleshy stalk, with leaves three or four inches long, shaped like willow leaves, and giving three cuttings in a season, yielding in all some four lons of dry hay per acre. It is claimed that when once established, It will last fifty years. Odds and Ends. Salt dissolved in alcohol will take out grease spots. Banana peelswill clean tan shoes ■ as well as regular dressing. Court plaster should never be ; applied to a bruised wound. Wood ashes very finely sifted are good for scouring knives and tinware. Cold sliced potatoes fry better when a little flour is sprinkled over them. A strong solution of salt and water will remove the poison of bees or mosquito stings. A teaspoonful of powdered borax added to cold starch will tend to give the linen extra stiffness. Coarse-ground coffee sprinkled on a shovelful of bdrning coals will remove offensive odors from a sick room, i If you desire to paper a wall that has been whitewashed, rub the wall down with a cloth wet in strong vinegar or saleratus. When using a spoon or whisk for beating, take long upward strpkes, the more rapid the better. The spoon should touch the bottom of the bowel esch time, and the motion must be reg ular.

Ninety-nine out of every 100 pounds of milk drawn from healthy, properly fed and cared for cows, will make butter that will “stand up and possess good body flavor and texture,” if ; the conductor of the train is an artist. If he is a • daub” as many of 1 them are, he’ll spoil it. That’s about : all there is of it, and the attempts to make the dairymen of this country, or the world, believe that all this depends on the cow and that no other cow than the Jersey can do it, wiil fail. I The Ear y Harvest AppleTho early harvest apple is very ! likely to overbear, but it is quite good ! for pies when not fully grown, pro I vided enough sweetening is added tc ake off the surplus acidity. It is best to shake off some from all the trees, even though there is no market for them, for those left,to ripen will be greatly improved in size and flavor, besides making sure that the tree will perfect fruit buds for bearing the next season. Usually the early harvest tree allowed to ripen all its fruit in years of abundance bears nothing the following year. Wagner's Flat Pea. Great interest is manifested in the new fodder plant Latbyrus Silvestris Wagneril, otherwise known as Wagner’s flat pea. Some thirty years ago the celebrated agronomist, Hen Wagner, of Munich, Germany, began crossing and improving varieties of' Ldthyrus, until from a bitter, worthless weed he has succeeded in devel-

LATHYRUS SILVESTRIS.

IS A MIGHTY POWER.

GROWTH OF THE CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 80-*ii in Ohio Twenty-ono Tears Ago, the Woman's Temperance Crusade Is Now a Great Organization, Exerting an Influence In Every Civilized Land* In a Noble Cause. A potent force in the elevation, emancipation and education of the mothers of the race that is yet to be

od of decoration that is quite readily applied by those who have some artist ic ability. These articles are constructed of some handsomely - grained

[?]ISS FRANCES WILLARD

to the world that speaks the English tongue; there are branch organizations in the Sandwich Islands, in China, India and Japan. It is almost universal in scope, recognizing no sectarianism in religion, no sectionalism in politics, and no sex in citizenship. Of an organization so powerful and so widely extended it is interesting to glance at the history. Back in’ 1873 a singular crusade swept over a large section of the West. It was a crusade of prayer,

UMBRELLA STAND.

MRS MARGARET BRIGHT LUCAS, First President of the W. C. T. U.

psalms; religious enthusiasm was kindled, and thousands signed the pledge and professed conversion. Church tells pealed in steeples and the sound of jubilant thanksgiving rose from the street as the crusading ladies were asked by reformed publicans to stave in casks of liquors and empty the contents into the gutters. Birth of the W. C. T. C. But the pace was too fast and the inevitable reaction came. Other saloons sprang into existence and the traffic flourished as before. The

I principle of the cru- ! sade, howe ve r, ! lived, and in 1874 a number of ladies met in conference in Cleveland and adopted the name of the Woman’s Christian Temper-; ance Union. A plan of organization was adopted, an appeal made to the women of the globe and a pub- 1

U * e of the tablished in Chica- British w. c. t. u. go. That house now issues no fewer than 130,000,000 pages of printed matter yearly, all directed to the objects of the union. Out of the appeal made to womankind has grown the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, a society which comprises, besides our own order, the British Temperance Association, the Canadian Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and organizations in the Sandwich Islands, Japan, India and China. Its first president was Mrs. Margaret Bright Lucas, a sister of John Bright, one of England’s great statesmen. A. Wonderful Growth. In 1876 at a convention of the W. C. T. U. in Newark, the question of woman suffrage was first broached and was advocated by the “Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy, “Miss

WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE TEMPLE CHICAGO

Frances E. Wiliard, Secretary of the Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union and president of the local union in Chicago. Upon the platform of equal woman s' rights Miss Willard was elected president of the Woman's National W. C. T. U. in 1879—a post she has since tilled with credit to herself and profit to the society. Under her direction- the work of the society was divided into prevent tive, educational, evangelistic, social, legal and organizing departments and thereafter the society wielded an immense power in the nation. In the nurseries and schoolrooms, in the reformatories and in the home, at encampments and at fairs, in the halls of Congress and in the dives of great cities the influence of these indefatigable workers for humanity’s sake is constantly felt. All over the globe t ey have dispatched missionaries to educate, to preach, to purify. Now the membership is nearly half a mill lon and is ever growing. In Chicago the national headquarters are in a building which was erected by the society at a cost of $1,100,000.

RAILWAY BUILDING FALLING OFF

The Boom Days of Railroad Construction and Extension Seem to Be Over. In a general way Jhe facts pertaining to the financial standing of railways are known. Accepting railway construction as an indication of the condition of the railway Industry, the period through which we are now \ssing shows greater depression than

born is the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. It is a link in the chain along which humanity is feeling its way to a nobler and better life, and of the few organizations which work ‘throughout the Engl is h-speaking world it is, perJia ps, the strongest But its influence is not confined

women relying on that spiritual weapon to bring the saloon down. Starting in Hillsboro, Ohio, the crusade swept in the shortspace of seven weeks over as many States, obliterating thousands upon thousands of barrooms and saloons. Women besieged ,such places, praying and singing

LADY HENRY SOMERSET.

a!>y pre vices period, says the Review of Reviews. The increase in new mileage brought into operation daring the fiscal year 1892 was less than during any year since 1880, while the percentage increase stood lower than for any previous year since the beginning of railways in this country. Thus the rate of increase from 18«6 to 1887 was 9.08 per cent.; from 1887 to 1888, 6.05 per cent.; from 1888 to 1889, 3.82 per cent.; from 1889 to 1890, 4.78 per cent; from 1890 to 1891, 2.94 per cent; from 1891 to 1892, 1.188 per cent; and from 1892 to 1893, 2.80 per cent. These figures show a remarkable depression in the business of railway construction. Another fact emphasized bv railway writers is the large amount of mileage placed in the hands of receivers during the last eighteen months. Thus 43,000 miles of line have been under the protection of the courts, an amount equal to 24 per cent of the total length of line.

STABLE AND CARRIAGE HOUSE.

Elegant Design of a House Suitable for a Rich Man’s Horse. This design was prepared by Palliser, Palliser & Co. for erection in connection with a proposed residence at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Conn., and is arranged to suit the requirements of individual wants as well as the peculiarities of the site. There is a cellar built under carriage house, which will be found useful for the storage of vegetables, roots, etc., and the carriage house being arranged to drive through, makes it very convenient for every-day use, as well as utilizing the room. The shed is de-

PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

signed as a shelter for horse and carriage, so that the horse can be fed noon times without unhitching. The two stalls and box stall give ample room for two or three horses, while there is room enough for three carriages. On second story is provided a man’s chamber, hay-loft and feedroom—the feed bins being built into position and having chutes down to stable below.

PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR.

The building is of wood, frame sheathed, and lower or first story clapboarded and shingled above, root slated. The ventilator is connected with stable below by means of wooden vent pipes, and thoroughly ventilates the whole building. Harness-room has an open fire-place, the chimney running up through man’s room on second floor. The hay-racks, mangers and stable fixtures are of iron. Water is supplied ou first floor. Tbe har-

PLAN OF SECOND FLOOR.

ness-room is fitted up with the necessary hooks, pins, etc., for hanging and storing harness. The whole built in a first-class manner at a cost of SBSO, and makes a neat building for the purpose.

Irrigation in 'Drouthy” Kansas.

A large indiviuual irrigation plant in Kansas is described as follows by a paper in that State: “Among the irrigation plants in course of construction in Kansas probably the most extensive is that of Mr. G. M. Munger, of Eureka, Greenwood county. He is constructing a reservoir which will cover about 160 acres with water. This is done by building a dam 2,800 feet long and 38 feet high at its greatest height. This, as described by the Irrigation Farmer, will catch the storm waters from a large area and will be used primarily for the irrigation of a 500acre orchard now just beginning to bear. The water will be raised by two compound duplex steam pumps, the water cylinders of which are twelve by fifteen inches. Each pump has ten inch suction and eight inch discharge. These pumps will elevate the water to a height of sixtyfive feet, delivering it on the highest part of Mr. Munger’s farm. The estimated cost of the plant complete, including ditches for distribution of the water is $15,000.

When to Stop.

The following answers were received by an English paper in response to a request for opinions as to when to stop advertising: When the population ceases to multiply and the generations that crowd on after you and never heard of you stop coming on. When you have convinced everybody whose lire will touch yours that you have better goods and lower prices than they can get anywhere else. When you perceive it to be the rule that men who never advertise are outstripping ,their neighbors in the same line of business. When men stop making fortunes right in your sight solely through the direct use of the mighty agent. When you can forget the words of the shrewdest and most successful business men concerning the main cause of their prosperity. • - —— - ■. - TOo much turkey to-day may result in a dinner of feathers tomorrow. «