Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — Page 6

Twixt Life and Death

BY FRANK BARRETT

CHAPTER XXlX.—(Continued.) •He will be in by five o’clock." Nessa —ginnl “Did you say they were gentle“Malrs, mum. Patients, apparently. Oa* of them looks very po’rly—a gcntle—the other looks like a messenger, «r something of that, sent to take care off him.” “Show them in the consulting room If •hey choose to wait.” “I hare done so, mum. They are in •here now.” They were there-- Ctrannings, the ‘ mes”wager or something Of that,” with his dr to the door at the end of the room which opened into the doctor’s study; his haod on the arm of the gentleman, James Anderson. When Johnson entered by the Other door to tell them the doctor would he home in three-quarters of ail hour both were seated on the couch, the gentleman with his eyes closed. Cummings nodded, with a glance at Anderson, to signify that they would Wait, and Johnson withdrew. -It's all right,” whispered Cummings. —Yoo’re got three-quarters of an lidur to get rid of the demon." Anderson was on the alert in a moment. “He’s In there—the demon you sold jotr soul to, you know,” Cummings continued. Anderson nodded eagerly. “The one I’ve been hunting for?" he ■shed, putting his lips close to Cumwings' ear. “Yes. He’s at his old tricks againtaken the shape of a beautiful woman. Anderson nodder! anti winked, • a cunning grin baring his .clenched teeth. “It’s no good trying the long game •gain,” said Cummings. Anderson pursed up his lips and shook Vs head vehemently. “Yon failed last time through being too •low.” Anderson assented with a nod and fuatous scowl. “You’ll have to do it sharp. Hexham will never let you out of the waistcoat if ke catches you before it's done. Anderson started to his feet and dipped lb band in his pocket with desperate baste. Cummings rose also, laying a hand upw his arm. sharply. “Don’t be a fool and lose your last chance by want of caution. You can be ■harp without being rash; you must get your opportunity.” Anderson snatched his arm away im“Let mo alone,” he muttered; “do you think I don’t'know nil that?" “Wait a bit; there may be more than •ae in the next room. The right one may not be there. If she's gone we may have to wait for another chance.” He wont to the door opening into the study, and laying hold firmly of the handle, tamed it by imperceptible degrees till the catch was withdrawn from the lock and the door, yielding to the slight pull, slowly gaped. With the same noiseless movement he turned the handle back to its original position as he perceived Nessa through the opening seated before the fireplace with her back to the door. He aaw her face mirrored in the inclined glass over the chiinneyplece. Anderson, craning over his shoulder, saw it also, ■nd with instant perception that the glass which revealed her to them would reveal them to her if she chanced to look up, gnickly crouched down, drawing Cummings back with an ngony of apprehension in his face. The two bending low ■odded to each other significantly. “Are you ready?” breathed Cummings, ■rid with horror of the thing he was doing.

Anderson replied by a nod, and slid •ilently down on all fours. “Wnit until I'm outside before you "Begin. I' must Bolt the street door for fear •f Hexham," Cummings whispered. Anderson took no notice of the caution, but with cat-like stealth drew the door wider open to permit of his passing far. At the last glance Back, as he slipped into the hall, Cummings saw that Anderson was already half through the door. With a rapid step he crossed the kail, opened the street door, and without pausing to close it ran down the ■tree!. It was Mrs. Redmond who waited •round the corner this time, llis face •old the tale the moment he came in sight. Without waiting for him to join her, she kurricd on in the direction he was taking O oming to her side, he dropped into • rapid walk, which she with difficulty accommodated tier pace to. “Has he done it?” she asked. Tt’s all over By this time," he an■wared. They said no more, but hurried on, pautiug for breath. There was a 'bus passing the end of the street. Cummings bailed it hoarsely, and both ran to overtake it. No other passengers were on •ke top. When she had recovered breath Mrs. Redmond asked for particulars, and Cummings gave them in Brief. Hbe was discontented, even though neeident had favored their design beyond expectation. “Supposing he doesu’t do it after all?” ■he aafd, petulantly. “Then we shall Be no worse off than V* were before. It was only un cxperkraeut, and it turned out ever so much Setter than I thought it would. What •lae did you want?" “You shouldn’t hare roine away so im. Time enough to bolt when he'd Imt it." “And been caught." "There was no danger of that. It would ke neen that he was n maniac; his name taawldn’t lie known." “And Hexham, when the thing got In Mm papers?" “He wouldn't hare stirred In the mattar, to take the responsibility for having •rt the man get out of his hands twice." “1 wasn't going to risk that. Besides, 1 tail you, she can't escape.” “Pw all you know. If she does, we’ve laat our tool, and shan’t get him again; ghat's sure. Much better have looked •boat and brought him Away, saying

you’d call another day. You might have found out her room, and got him in there next time, if you hadn’t the courage to see it through. Or if you'd followed my plan of drawing her into some hotel, and shutting her in a room with him." “Oh, shut up, you croaking old—Wait till the _evening papers come out, then you’ll see whether I’m a fool or not. Get down. We’ll take that other ’bus.” * • » * • * • Nessa, bending over her German grammar, heard n movement in the direction of the consulting room, hut knowing patients were awaiting the return of Sweyn, she disregarded the sound. She heard the street door shut, another door open—the further door of the consulting room. But when she heard a rap at the door behind her, she raised her head, and, turning round, saw Johnson, with a look of perplexity in his face, in the entrance. “I beg your patron, mum, but I was going to ask you if you had seen anything of the two. pussons." “No: r have seen nobody," said Nessa, rising, and laying down her book. "I thought you might, as this door is half open.” “Are the gentlemen gone?" she asked in astonishment, going to the door of the consulting room. “Clean gone, mum. I heard the street door open, and ran upstairs at once, and they must have heard me and took to their heels, for I see not a sign of anyone when I looked down the street.” “What can it mean?" “Thieves, mum; that’s what it means. T didn’t like the look of the one in the long, black cloak—looked like one of those pussons that preaches in the parks, and the other was shamming sick for an excuse. They know the doctor goes out after lunch, and reckoned on getting his instruments or something out of the study; but seeing you they were balked in their puppos, and gave up the job. It's frequently done.” The explanation was conclusive. Nessa left Johnson examining the periodicals on the table of the consulting room, with a view to seeing if any had been taken, and, \\ ' draw ing into the study, Jurued the key in the lock as a precaution for the future. She glanced at the clock; in a quarter of an hour, at the furthest, Sweyn would be home. There was just time to put her hooks away and set the room straight. The books packed on the shelf, his chair pushed back in its customary place, she glanced round to see if anything else needed arranging. Then her eyes falling on the shelfTn the~case beyond the screen, she noticed with surprise that the velvet-lined lid of a box of instruments stood open. Crossing the room to examine more closely, she discovered that one of fhe-4o»g dissecting knives was gone from its place. Was it possible that one of the thieves had passed behind her, opened tlie box and taken the knife? Another supposition—that the thief, alarmed by the sound of Johnson entering the adjoining room, had found no time to escape, and had armed himself with the knife for defense —caused her to turn her eyes toward the recess behind the screen. ' -

With a horror-stifled cry she drew back on perceiving the dim figure of a mnn in the shadow of the screen, ..crouching as if to spring upon her with the gleaming knife in his hand. Breathless with terror, she drew back step by step toward the door of the consulting room, keeping her fare toward the man, who, like a oat hesitating to spring upon the prey it is uncertain of reaching, shifted his position. and stole upon her step By step. Smld‘>nly it flashed upon Nessa’s" recollection that she had locked the door; to open it she must turn her Back upon this man, and expose herself to his attack. The quivering of the knife showed her that the man was nerving himself for the spring. She strove to scream; but the horror which prompted the cry silenced it iii her paralyzed throat. There was a long table in the middle of the room; she thought of it in this last extremity; and just as the man Bent suddenly down to spring, she turned, and in a moment placed herself upon the further side of it. As she reached this temporary barrier she looked Back. The man had come from the shadow of the screen, and stood now facing the light. She recognized him, distorted as his face was with demoniacal fury, and faintly gasped: “My husband!” * He seemed to perceive the paralyzing fascination he exercised upon her, anil drew stealthily upon her until he reached the table, and there again he stood, undetermined whether to chase her round it or to vault across. In that moment the street door closed, and Xcssa’s strained perception recognized Sweyn’s step In the passage.

CHAPTER XXX

Anderson heard the sounds also, and instantly the whole expression of the man changed from savage feroeity to cowering apprehension; the fear of Ilexham overcoming the Craving to rid himself of a supposed tormentor. The hand with the knife dropped to his side; his head shrank between his shoulders, nnd he looked wildly round for a means of escape. Nessa, seeing her advantage, flew swift ns thought to the door Behind her, turned the key, opened it nnd dropped fainting into Sweyn’s arms as he stepped quickly to meet her. "My poor child,'what is the matter?” be asked. She made no answer; her head rolled back from hta shoulders with the waxen hue on it which he had seen when he despaired of her life. "There's been thieves In the place, sir; that’s what's frightened the missis,” exclaimed the sapient Johnson. "Water, quick!” said Sweyn. He carried her to the couch, in the consulting room, and laid her there at full lengths Johnson returned with water, the two maids following at his heels, and the cook peering in from the past age door.

Sweyn dashed a little water !■ Xesaa's f. and took other means to restore her, w\-ile Johnson, in « low tr-*e, ‘narrated all that he knew with regar . ,o the visits of the “two pussons.” As soon as Nessa showed 'signs of returning consciousness Sweyn sent the servants away and raising Ness* into a sitting posture seated himself baeide her, supporting her with his arm. She looked about her wildly, and finding him at her side clasped hia hand and murmured eagerly: “It is you, love?” “Yes, I; your husband, darling. Don’t be frightened. There’s no one to harm you. lam here. Dou’t trouble to think about it I know all. A couple of pilfering thieves came into the place and sneaked out when they saw you protecting our goods and chattels. Well, that show's that they are not very terrible, nt any rate. There, now you feel stronger.” She pressed his hand for response. Her palm was wet, her fingers icy cold, and she trembled violently. “You’re cold, aren’t you? We’ll have a cosy hour in the big chair before dinner; is there a fire in the study?” He rose as he asked the question, as if he intended to go in and see. She clung to his hand, restraining him with almost frantic anxiety. He regarded her in silent perplexity. “We w'on’t go in there, if you would wish not,” he said. “You are shaken aud unnerved by this imaginary danger. It will be better still if you lie down in your own room for a little while. Let me take you up.” She assented to this silently, and by gesture, for terror seemed to have deprived her of the power to Speak. WJth overwhelming dread, she passed the entrance of the study on her way to the staircase. Only Sweyn’s powerful arm sustained her trembling form. Her room was the first from the head of the stairs; the door stood open. Sweyn led her in, and, having placed her on her favorite lounge, arranged the pillows, while she looked on bewildered and speechless. He lifted her up and laid her on the bed; then he covered her, talking with cheerful kindness the while. lie sat down by the bedside, continuing to chat until he noticed that her eyes dosed. She was striving to control her tumultuous ideas, and decide what she ought to do. Presently she noticed that he had censed to speak, ami, opening her eyes, she saw him going noiselessly toward the door. The idea that he was about to go down into the study where her husband waited with that horrible knife -brought a cry of terror to her lips; and when he turned quickly to find the cause he found that she had thrown back the clothes and sprang from the bed. “My dear, dear love, what is it?” he muttered, soothingly, ns he ran back to her side and took her again to his breast. “You—you must not go down there,” she faltered. “I will stay up beside you if you wish it.” He seated her and himself upon the side of the beri, with a dawning conviction that something more than the cause attributed by Johnson underlay this unaccountable agitation. “Darling,” he said, with gentle firmness; “you must tell me what has happened—^what it is that •” —He-stopped, for it was clear that Nessa was not listening to him—not even thinking of him. Her eyes were fixed on something near the window, while her bosom rose and fell quickly to her painful gasping for breath. What was it she saw there to alarm her, he asked himself, looking quickly in the direction of her strenuous regard. (To be continued.)

DISSUADED A SUICIDE.

The Preacher Pointed Out Why Buck a Death Was 11l Advised. _“Aji Arkansas country storekeeper of my acquaintance had a Bad attack of melancholy about a year ago,” said a drummer to a New Orleans Times-Dem-ocrat reporter, "and attempted to commit suicide. He put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger, but the cartridge failed to explode, and before he could try it again the weapon was taken away. However, he swore he would do the deed the first chance he got, and he was, no doubt, really of that intention, when he was talked out of It by a little Itinerant preacher, who was a reformed gambler. The argument used by the parson was so peculiar and ingenious that it made a deep impression on my mind. ” 'You know you would he a dead man,’ he said, as nearly as I can remember, 'if it wasn't for the fact that there was a defective cartridge under the hammer of your revolver. Now, a defective cartridge is a very unusual thing,’ he went on. 'They calculate at the manufactory that there is possibly one to the quarter million turned out. The chance of that had cartridge being in the boxful that you bought for your gun was not over one to another quarter million; the chance of your getting hold of it when you loaded was exactly one to fifty, and the chance of it being under the hammer was ono to five That makes the total 1 to 500,055,' ” “At that-point the little preacher suG deuly straightened up; his eyes (lashed fire, his chest expanded, nml. he shook his forefinger under the storekeeper’ll uose. ‘You miserable sinner!' ho roared, ‘do you Imagine for a minute that tin I/ord would have given you that kind of odds and let you win out on the plas if He liadu't got some good and special use for your life? Don’t let me evet; hear of your trying to block Him again!’ The would-be suicide thought the tiling over and concluded that the parson was right. Ills melancholy promptly disappeared, nnd the last time I saw him ht was bubbling over with cheerfulness. He believes firmly he Is a mnn of des> tiny."

A Bold Climber.

A boy of Springfield, Mass., e*nfc the wall of a four-story building for ft* cents. He had nothing to hold to bu‘ panels that projected a few inches. A geographic board In the DomlnJyL of Cunadn settles all questions ns to the correct spelling of geographic names In the Dominion. In Hungary there nro thousands oi villages and hundreds of small towns without' a doctor within ten miles.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Sheep’* Loss In Weight-Removing Honey From the Hives-A Little Foeding In-formation-Seed Potatoes-How to Fatten Mules—Etc., Etc. Sheep’s Loss In Weight. Farmers who keep common sheep and depend upon wool do not know how specimens of some breeds may be made to reach great weights. A two-year-old grade Liueoln wether in England was slaughtered, its live fat 34 pounds, the skin, blood and entrails DO pounds, and the waste 6 pounds. Sheep weighing 300 pounds live weight are numerous In the United States. Removing Honey From the Hiy»s. To have honey In the ty>st shape to sell It should be removed from the hives as soon as It is well capped over. The cappings are then white aud very Inviting’. If allowed to remain long in the hives after being capped, the cappings become stained by the bees and the appearance is injured, A Little Feeding Information. In Fall feeding of cattle. It seems, by taking the country at large, that the best method employed Is to feed grain while the steers are still on good pasture, feeding from ten to twenty pounds of corn meal per day. Some feeders commence to use their green corn crop just as soon as it commences to dent, but this Is not considered a good practice by many of tlie most successful feeders, and it is calculated that it siould require from fifteen to twenty days to change steers from grass to tlielr corn diet. Great care should be exercised to prevent the steers from losing any flesh in the transfer. Seed Potatoes. It is Important to guard carefully your seed potatoes. They should be fine and large, for potatoes are prone to retrograde. The sprouts should not be allowed to start; if they do. they must be broken off. To have the best seed you must plan in the fall. We read a good suggestion in an exchange: One way to prevent them from sprouting is when storing the potatoes away in the fall to leave vacant the same amount of room adjoining them, then when they show signs of sprouting scoop them into the adjoining bin. A good way when one saves only a few seed potatoes is to put them into barrels, leaving as many empty barrels as have been filled; then two men can pour them back and forth when necessary; they will not have .to be changed often. This may sound unreasonable, but just try it and see. The potatoes will be almost as solid in the spring as when stored away in the fall.—Farm, Field aud Fireside.

HoWto Fatten Mules. Put them into a shed or barn which can be closed up except the windows and doors. Hang up at all of these burlap fastened at the top so that it will blow in and out with the wind, and when quiet it will keep the place turned loose in barn, put in a good oak trough. If the trough is of pine, put a hoopiron hand on the edge, as mules are great to gnaw. Have a small lot adjoining in which you can turn them at night to roll. If they have collar sores, keep these well greased with axle grease. Flies do not like the smell and will not light upon the sore if it is well greased. Have a lmlf-barrel of water in one corner where the mules can go and drink at will. Put this up so high that they can only drink out of it and not get any litter into if. Place a box of salt and ashes where the animals can at all times go and lick it. Now commence feeding them lightly. Increasing until you give them all they will eat. Green corn, clover hay, oats, ground or soaked corn, bran and a little ollmeal and brown sugar. In sixty or ninety days they will be fat and fit for market, provided you have the right kind of mules to start with.— Orange Judd Farmer.

Fatal Effects From Creen Fodder. Because they have seen cattle eat young first growth and second-growth sorghum and Kafir-corn, and In some instances pretty nearly subsist on them without apparent harm, many persons are ready to maintain that these green growths are never dangerous. Yet, under circumstances and for reasons which no one Is yet able to explain, other persons In numerous Instances find to their sorrow that the plants are almost Immediately fatal. This suggests that no one Is Justified In taking any chances by permitting cattle to have access to such “greens.” Among others, Secretary Coburn of the Kansas Board of Agriculture cites three examples of their fatal effects, occurlng recently. Thomas Feakes, of Lincoln County, turned his cows Into an unused corral where a few scattering bunches of Kafir-corn were growing. In less than thirty minutes seven of the cows that liud nipped the growing blades were dead; several others were made very slek, but recovered. John Kaser, of Covert Osborne County, was driving a lot of young cattle through a pasture whore there were stools of green Kafir cam nnd sorghum. Within thirty minutes leu out of eleven heifers that had eaten of these sprouts were dead. C. F. Wadsworth, of the same county, nt

about the same time, lost six steers In the same way. Losses such as these are of annual occurrence, and a list of them would be very long. The fact that results are not always fatal should not furnish an excuse for taking risks so likely to prove extremely expensive. Certain safety is only assured by absolutely preventing cattle from getting within reach of the plants named, even for the briefest intervals. The Season’s Lessons From Dairymen. The season ended has many lessons for the thoughtful man. One of them is that general farming is in the long run most reliable. In many parts of the country dry weather has very materially shortened the hay crop. Where men did not foresee the coming trouble and put in liberal pieces of corn to supplement the shortage of hay, winter stares them In the face with empty mows and an abundance of stock on hand. This stock must either be carried through cold weather on grain or turned off at a loss. The result is, cattle are very low in price. Not once in a lifetime do we see cows selling as cheaply as at the present time in those sections which were most seriously affected by the drouth. Good cows coming into milk In the spring are to-day Worth only from sls to S2O per head. And many are selling for even less than that. Calves, sheep and lambs go along with cows in price. If we had been a little more cautious about getting overstocked with cows, we wObld be better off. The pendulum has been swinging toward dairying for a few years back, and now we are caught. We must get out the best way we can. But should we not firmly resolve that hereafter we will not run so largely to one branch of farming? Mixed farming is the safest. Again, we should learn from the experience of this year that it is wise to be prepared for any kind of a season that may chance to come. It is said that any fool knows enough tcy carry an umbrella when it rains. It is a wise man who takes one along when the sky is fair. WLo could have foretold last spring that the hay crop would be so nearly a failure in 1900? If we had all known that we would surely have planted a good piece of corn. But we didn’t know it, and many of us are sadly lamenting the fact now. Prudence would have suggested that we should be on the lookout for just the thing which did happen. Corn is a splendid crop to raise every year, drouth or no drouth. No one ever saw guilty of saying that he was sorry he had so much corn. The trouble is to get enough. Here is a chance to turn over a new leaf. If we err, let it be on the right side, and plant corn. Experience ought to have taught us this long ago.—E. L. Vincent, in American Agriculturist.

Short and Useful Pointaes. Linseed meal is excellent for thepoultry while moulting. Damp stables are injurious to the stock. Don’t have them. Select your future dairy cows from only the best heifers. Pop corn is better than field corn for hens, as it contains more nitrogen. Try changing the churning temperature of the cream if the butter seems long in coming. The largest profit always comes from the animal that has been fattened up in good shape. If your cows arc of the best the only way to Increase the yield Is by more and better feeding. Poultry do not require a large amount of charcoal, but they do need an uninterrupted supply. Keep the hens a scratching. When they are idle they get Into bad habits —especially that of feather pulling. You might as well farm with 'the old-fashioned Implements as to try and farm with the old-fashioned scrub stock.

Good beef cattle are only those that are able to take on flesh rapidly, mature early, and stand ready to be fattened at any age. Don't empty meat brine where the hogs can get it. The burying of hogs is a very unpleasant as well as unprofitable business to be In. The way some people who keep liens deprive them of a dust hath, you would think It was gold dust that was required instead of common road dust. The farmer who keeps hens must take his choice between lice or eggs. If he persists In allowing the liens to be lousy he must do without the eggs. It appears that the hog's digestive apparatus Is of the very best. In from thirty to forty-five minutes after he has eaten, his food will be fully digested. If the hens receive better onre, better bousing, and more comfort, It is equivalent to “pushing the button.” The hens may be depended upon to “do the rest." A farmer should not satisfy his own Ideas In breeding. Find out what the purchaser wants and try to comply with his Ideas of what constitutes a good animal. . If a cow can’t make nt least 150 pounds of butter In a year she.isn’t worth her keep. But before discarding her make sure that the fault la with the cow nnd not the owner. A new educational plan Is being tried In Copenhagen. No books are used, but the boys are Instructed orally when they perform nt the same time some light manual work.

Labor Worla

The number of meu employed on llritlsh railways Is nearly 400,000. The Western Federation of Miners How' has 80 unions and over 10,000 members. There are nearly 8,000 members of trades unions in Peoria, 111., w'itb 108 unions of tha. various trades. The Journeymen Brewers’ Union will levy an assessment of $1 per member to create an A. F. of L. defense fund. A recent compilation of statistics ;Show that out of 98 chief national Industries In a given year only 29 gave men employment for 300 days In the year. The Pennsylvania Steel Company has received an order for 0,000 tons of steel rails from the East India Railway Company. The order was secured in competition with English manufacturers. Tlie United Garment Workers are stirring up organized labor and insisting that union men before purchasing clothing should see that It bears the union label. Dealers that do not handle union goods will be looked after lay the organizers. The Pennsylvania law limiting the hours of factory labor for females to GO hours a week ami not more than 12 on any given day, and fixing the minimum age of child labor at 13 years, has been upheld and declared constitutional by the Superior Court. The act prohibiting corporations from discharging employes for belonging to a union was decided by the same court as unconstitutional as “class legislation." The United States consul nt Chamitz, Germany, writes the department here that workmen there are provided with brick houses of five rooms, aud parlor supplied with porcelain stoves and heating pipes, and the kitchen with wash boiler and stove; with yard for flowers in front and a garden plot behind, with shed for poultry or some domestic animal. These houses are to be rented to the workmen for $3.05 per mouth. The railroad firemen are now complaining because the mammoth engines that are now being used are so hard to fire and they nearly kill the men who ere assigned to them. These engines, with the same crews, do a little more than twice the work that engines did ten years ago. Some firemen have been relieved from this severe strain. Ah apparatus for mechanical firing is being experimented with on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The New Zealand Parliament at its Idlest session passed a law*, prescribing a minimum wage for children. A boy under 18 may not be employed in a factory or work room at less than $1.25 per week, and no girl at less than sl. The object of the law is to correct a long-standing abuse of the apprentice system, unscrupulous employers in dress-making and millinery establishments having been accustomed to take young girls into their employ, keep them twelve mouths without paying them a cent iu the way of wages, and then turn them adrift in order to take on fresh hands under the same conditions of non-payment of wages.

A Sarcastic Lawyer.

The late Henry W. I’ayue, of the Massachusetts bar, was once defending a charity case, in which a boy of 15 was charged with arson. He made a strong case to prove the defendant an idiot. After a charge from the judge, which was practically an order for acquittal, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The judge asked Payne If he would move for a new trial. "I thank you for your suggestion,” was the answer, “but I am oppressed with the gtavest doubts whether I have the rig* to move for a new trial. Vour honors I have already asked for and received for my idiot client the most precious heritage of our English and American common law—a trial by a jury of his peers.” l’nyne had an old quarrel with the Supreme Court, and never lost an opportunity of showing his contempt for that body. Once, riding from Boston to Cambridge with a load of law books, he was accosted by a young Harvard inan with the remark: “You have quite a load. Mr. Payne. Law books, I suppose?" “Oh, no,” was the answer, “only Supreme Court reports.”—New York Tribuue.

Olives.

The olive has boon cultivated in the region of the Mediterranean const from time immemorial. Olive oil there takes the place of butter. S[Miin lias about 3,000,000 acres In olives, Italy 2,500,000, and France about 300;000 acres. There are forty-five different varieties of the fruit grown in Europe. The tree occasionally grows to lie sixty feet high and twelve feet In circumference of trunk. The varieties differ In the nature of the wood, the foliage, and the quality and shape of the fruit.

Extensive Male of Live Stock.

A speculative Scotch gentleman wnnted to dispose of some bees, so, to attract purchasers, lie printed the following: “Extensive sale of live stock, comprising not less than 140,000 head, with an unlimited right of pasturage." The Ingenious trick succeeded to admiration, for his stock brought “high prices.” A great many people “make fun of you." Don’t give them any more occasion than you can help. When a woman has money, people never think the men pay her attention because of real love.