Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — Page 6

A CLEVER ADVENTURER.

Chicago Post, - - “Goodevening!” '■ ... The banker, William Murray, raised his eyes from his ledger. He was somewhat surprised for he did not expect any clients at that hour, at which, as was usual, his office was ■closing. * The new arrival was a well-built, tall young man, badly dressed. He had entered as the clerk was leaving. “I was afraid I should be too late,’’ said the visitor, whose voice agreed better with his aristocratic face than did his worn-out clothes. “Permit me to ask how I can serve*you,” said Murray, without .getting up to receive him. "I beg you to be as quick as you can, Sir Henry, because I want to get away.” “I will tell you at once.” replied _ “*Se youngban net. cbme to ask” you for the loan of £200." ~ Murrav eyed the, young fellow from head to foot. “And the guaranty?” luf said, shortly. “My prospects. As you know I am the presumptive heir of Lord Hervey. lam the nearest of his relations.” Murray laughed sarcastically. “Sir Henry,” he said, “you know very well that you are somewhat inexact. I know from a private source that Lord Hervey has sworn not-fco'grve you another penny, and I t hink you will believe me when I tell ybu that I am perfectly well informed." The face of the young fellow did not change in the least. “But the reason I have called upon you,” he said,” is because you know the friendship which your brother-in-law, who is my grandfather’s lawyer, has for me, and I want to show you this letter which he has written to me:" “Dear Sir Henry: I have at last the pleasure of sending you a friendly word. Your grandfather, whose health has changed for the worse, desires to see you and bless j’ou before he dies. I advise you to come as quickly as possible. Your old friend, B. Jameson.” “This is really the signature of my , brother-in-law. ’ said Murray, after he had read the letter. “And my best r md,” continued Sir Henry. “If he knew the conditions in which I am he would certainly help me.” “Why do you want this assistance from me?" “Precisely because I want to go to my grandfather and I require some money for the journey.” “Ah, well, I run a risk now and then.” “Excuse me," interrupted Sir Henry, “but I hear some one moving in an adjoining room.” “You must have been mistaken,” said the banker. Rafter looking. ‘ There is nobody there. Let us return to our business. I can only let you have £100.” ’tVery well, give” me that." said the young man, "and make out your receipt. u The following evening Sir Henry was another man. He had been running about all day engaged in the most varied and agreeable occupation —in paying his debts, in rigging himself out anew. At ft o’clock in the evening he received from his grandfather's solicitors the following telegram: “The condition of your grandfather is much worse. He will not alter his wdl until he sees you. Come immediately.” He hastily packed his portman-' teau. A few minutes now would decide his lot, either make him the heir to an estate of £30,000 a year, or leave him as hard up as he ever was, to be reduced some day, perhaps to beg his bread. He went into a neighboring hotel, took up a railway time table to find out the quickest and shortest route, lit a cigarette and then started for home. “I beg your pardon, but could you oblige me with a light?” The speaker was a man dressed in dirty, well worn clothes. Poverty had rendered the baronet considerate of others. He stopped at once and gave the man what he required. “A fine evening,” observed the latter, continuing to walk along by the side of the baronet. ‘ Yes," replied Sir Henry. “Good day." Hehad reached bis lodgings and was preparing to go in when the man stopped him. “Wait a moment, sir/’ said the man, placing his hand upon the baronet’s arm. 44 We11, what is it?” \ “Nothing except to tell you, Sir Henry Merton, that you are arrested. 1 am a police officer and I am sorry to say you must consider yourself in my custody.” ■“You arrest me?” I “Yes; for the murder of William Murray, yesterday evening, in h s office.” “But, my dear sir, I am absolute Jy innocent. v “I hope so, sir; but that does not concern me. You will have the opportunity almost immediately of producing the proof." “If I cannot see him before his death I shall remain a hopeless vagabond,” thought the young man, who had suffered too much poverty not to look upon this prospect with fear. . “Come with me. Let me have an opportunity of speaking with you," said he, as he noticed the passers by were beginning to observe them. Hie companion followed him un-

willingly to his dingy room, and - without waiting for the baronet’s invitation seated himself in the only chair whieh the apartment contained. “Pray tell me what this means.” said Sir Henry, anxious to know all, and wondering whether, after all, he might not find some means of pursuing his journey. His companion coolly proceeded: “This morning when Mr. Murray’s clerk arrived at the office he found his principal shot through the head, dead, seated in his chair. The police were at once sent for and made inquiry into the affair, I being one ofthem » “Weriearned that last night--the night of the crime—a person had been seen to leave Mr. Murray’s office at a rather late hour. I caused that person to be watched and ascertained t hat h e made sever al purchases to-day, among other things some, from Smith & Blake, the tailors, whom he had paid with a banknote indorsed with the name of the banker. Murray, written with hisown hand. : “The person who paid them that note and left "the murdered man’s office at such a late hour was myself. “1 will now give you an exact account of how I passed my time, and make you a confidant as to my position,” said the Baronet, and he hastily did so in as few words as possible. “I indeed pity you sincerely.” said the man, interesting himself in the Baronet’s posi tion. "Then why can’t you hplp me?” “I don't see how I can.” “Give me three day’s grace. At the end of that time I will come-and give myself up of my own accord- I swear it. vv’hen lam reconciled to my grandfather I shall have nothing more to fear. “You shake your head! Look!” said Sir Harry, entreatingly, “Here is my purse. . Take all it contains. I only .want sufficient for my journey. The rest belongs to you, and I give you my promise to come and give myself up in three days' time. “It is very little I am offering you, but directly I get possession of the inheritance I swear to you that I will not forget to reward you. ” “But if I should let myself beovercome by "compassion I don’t see how I could help you.” said the man. “I have no wish to deceive you. At every station there are police officers with your description. If I let you go free you will fall into their clutches, so it will be all the same.” “Yes: but can not I disguise myself? I will do anything you wish, but I beg of you to let me go.” “But how can you disguise yourself?’' continued the detective. Sir Henry had a lucky thought. Ten minutes after the young baronet, having put on the stranger’s corduroy trousers, black coat and cloth cap. had the street and leaped into a cab, while his protector, in the new clothes, had taken another direction. "Luckily, I have another suit in my bag.” said the baronet to himself, throwing himself on to the seat and glancing at his costume He reached the station in time to get his ticket and to buy an evening paper, so that he might find out the particulars of the strange crime. He had hardly thrown his portmanteau into the carriage when the train I started. I ... “At last,” he murmured, settling himself into one of the corners. But in an instant after he looked out of the jvindow, terrified as though a person who was standing there under the. station awning had been a ghost. This person was William Murray, the murdered banker. As the train moved off the baronet maintained his gaze through the window, but suddenly he gave himself a shake and took up the paper. “If he really was killed I shall soon know!” he exclaimed. He looked all through the paper but could not find a word about the crime. ————— Another piece of news, however, attracted his attention. It was the promise of a reward offered by the police authorities to whoever should give information leading to the capture of an adventurer who had for some time been going around the city committing acts of roguery with the greatest audacity and skillful ness. He continued his reading: “The adventurer wears a cloth cap, a black jacket and corduroy trousers.” With feverish haste Sir Henry took from his bag the spare suit of clothes with which he had provided himself, rapidly arrayed himself in them and as the train passed through the short tunnel before reaching the station he flung the property of the wily swindler out of the window. Twenty minutes after he had reached his destination his grandfather passed away and he was the possessor of an estate and income of £30,000 per annum.

To Avert Sunstroke.

St. Louia Globe-Democrat Now that the sunstroke season is at hand it seems to me that the city authorities could follow Boston’/ plan of prevention with profit. There all the laborers on the street?, rock piles, public buildings, etc., are given weak gruel made of oat meal instead of ice water whenever they are thirsty. Ice water, beer and whisky are all prohibited. The oat meal drink is very cooling to the blood, it has been found, and is very strengthening besides. Men who drink it regularly seem to enjoy immunity from heat prostration, though they toil Ijour after hour ia the hottest sun.

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Late Corn fur Fodder. ; If corn is not intended to produce a crop of grain there is no better food that can be grown for stock than to produce fodder or ensilage from corii. It happens that the frost sometimes doesnot put in ifn appearance until October, in which case ample time is allowed to grow a summer crop. Of course, there may be delay in seeding if the season is dull, but "where the weeds have overrun the field it will be an advantage to cultivate it. There is one peculiarity in a fodder crop which is that it may be cut at any stage of growthbut the nearer the approach to the.period when ears are formed the better, as the stalk then contains a larger proportion of dry matter and less water. Corn for fodder may be planted in drills and cultivated in one direction only/but the ground should be well "prepared. Keep the weeds down by destroying them in the early stages. The proper time to cut the corn is when the ears begin to glaze, for it is then that the foddei’ contains much of the nutriment that is on its way to fill out the grain, which gives it a .greater feeding value. The best variety of corn for the purpose depends upon the section in which the corn is grown, as varieties adapted for some regions will not give the best results everywhere. The fodder should be cured in the ordinary manner, but should not be left in the fields. The proper mode of feeding is to first run it through a cutter. y , Ensilage. j Ensilage corn is grown in the same manner, and the corn is also cut when (-the ears are glazed, but may be cut i sooner when there is danger of frost. (It is hauled to the barn, cut up fine ■ and stored in a silo, under heavy 1 pressure, to be fed in winter as a succulent food to the cattie. The value of ensilage depends largely upon its use. Eed exclusively, it will not give satisfactory results, but if given as a portion of the ration it increases the appetite, keeps the epws in better condition and increases the flow of milk, by providing them with a change from the usual dry ration during the cold sea- ; son. The farmer who has a short ' hay crop, or who has failed with his I regular corn crop owing to drought, may regain a portion of his Ipst time i by resorting to millet, sorghum or late corn. It is admitted by all who have made experiments that no crop can be produced at less cost than ! late corn fodder or ensilage, and I that for winter use the crop is unex- ' celled. Raising Cow Food, .. Roland Smith, in the Farm Jouri nal, relates this story, which the I reader is able to read, digest, and I appropriate without comment from | us: I' “I visited, during March, a dairy farm that keeps 125 cows. The whole milk is sold at an average of ithree cents per quart the year round, or a fraction less. The man who runs it has cleared as high as I SB,OOO in a year, besides making a ; good living, his entire expenses. I which include the payment of nearly ' a dozen hired men and boarding them, his repairs, etc. How has he worked up to this point of prosperity? The farm has been famous-for years for its production of great crops of fodder. The stable floors are kept water tight, and all the manure is hauled to the fields as fast as made. Absorbents are used abundantly. The fodder crops include i especially the growth of legumes.’ plants like clover, Deas. and cow I peas, that are rich in protein or al--1 bumen. The last of a rank field of i peas and oats was being cut wpt and fed the day I was present. To see the cows eat their messes would do any man’s heart good. They did not seem to look for any addition in the way of grain, but cleaned up the ; mangers as fast as possible and lav ' down so full they grunted in the es- ! fort. These sleek cows had long , hours before them in which to call up thi.s food, masticate it thoroughly as cud, and pass it. to the stomach mills where it is further ground by organs none the worse off because unaccustomed to heavy rations of grain. The food seemed to fill the bill of their requirements completely, , the same as grass in June. It contained immature peas and oats as well as being full of the dried juices. iof these plants, and was bright and sweet. The peas were plowed in as ! early as the ground could be worked, a bushel of seed per acre being used, and the oats, two and a half bushels, harrowed in thoroughly on the surface.. It is. needless to say that the soil was made intensely rich, for the 1 crop was tall and healthy and cut four tons of the dried fodder per j acre. The cows were fed on it green from the fields as long as it would do to use. Towards the 10th of July, the grain showing a tendency to harden, the crop was hayed and housed. This was not difficult as many would suppose who have never tried it. The peas alone would jierhaps make trouble, but oats cure so - ' easily and quickly that the peas I mixed well through them were well ventilated and easily got into a condition for housing. Here, though the? might heat a trifle, the oat hay will render spoiling impossible. The crop is ready to hay at the most auspicious season of the year, and this also is in favor." Educating Fsriuwardn. Chicago later Ocean. .- At the close of the last term of the Minnesota School of Agriculture

there graduated: a.young man, Z. J. Wyatt, born, and raised in Minneapolis and apparently destined for life to city avocations and associations; rt all events the thoughtof being a farmer had perhaps never occurred to him until by mere chance he became a student in the school named three years ago. The course of instruction there revealed to him possibilities, interests and beauties in the avocation of intelligent agriculture that he had never dreamed of. He became so charmed with the J field he had entered that his summers since have been passed in actual farm work, and upon his final graduation his father secured a farm for him, and he is now a full fledged farmer, with no longings forthose city allurements that are supposed to be charming so many farm boys away from their farm* homes. This incident faithfully illustrates the scope and influence of the Minnesota School of Agriculture; its central idea is to. educate toward the farm, not away from it; to draw city boys to agricultural pursuits instead of influencing country boys-to cast their lots in the confusing and often deplorable whirl of city life. In confirmation of this tendency of the school is another incident: ‘ ‘Some two years ago a farmer came into the office of F. S. & H. to consult "about a trade for his boy to learn in the city, or the advisability of going on,a railroad in some menial capacity. The boy had no taste for farming; its work was irksome, its life intolerable. The father was advised to get the consent of the boy to attend the farm school one winter. The plan worked: the boy soon saw in the avocation of farming many new things: saw in it an arena for intellectual development that gratified him; saw a possible grandeur, dignity and independence that made the other aspirations lie had aspired to mean and slavish. He gladly went back to the farm in the spring, anxious to make practical application of many things he had been taught, and in the fall was even more anxious to get back to the school to supply gaps in his education that his practice had revealed to him. While the school is not yet all it should be, nor all it will be, yet it is in the right path, is based on the correct system, a system that recognizes the necessity of a constant and close communication between farm and farm school, if boys are to be made into educated and practical | farmers. Keeping the Sexes Separate. W. H. White, of Worcester county, Mass., writes in the Country Gentleman as follows on this subject: From my limited experience I am satisfied that laying liens, kept in confinement to limited quarters, will I | produce more eggs if no cocks are al-; i lowed -with them, and that the eggs ! possess superior keeping qualities; The most prolific layers I ever had were the Plymouth Rocks, taken when about half grown and confined in a yard with a small «house for J shelter, and there kept, never hav- j ing any cocks to run with them. They commenced laying when about five or six months old and laid all winter and the next summer, producing on as many successive days as many eggs as there were hens, and there, never was a day when ! there was not- some laid by them. When one does not care to breed chickens on the score of economy, it is better in my opinion, to keep the layers without any cocks. It saves his keep, which will average the profit of one layer, at least. I had formerlly supposed it essential to egg production that hens should have the attention of cocks, but from experience I found that good, wellformed eggs are produced from hens that never had the attention. Fam Not««. The largest crop of corn ever j grown was by the use -of fertilizers i and constant cultivation until mat tired. A row of gooseberries and one of currants should ba in the garden, and plots for strawberries should be so arranged as to have a new bed! every year. I If you have used a large propor- 1 tion. of manure on ground for early i cabbage, lettuce and peas, the ground may be planted to late potatoes after the early crops are re- ; mjoved. .It the strawberries are backward I apply one hundred pounds of nitrate ' of soda per acre, and the effects of I the fertilizer will be apparent imme" I d iately. j Hot coal tar is an excellent pret servative of fence posts. In applyi ing it every portion of the wood i that goes below the surface of the’ ; ground should be well saturated. A erop of potatoes may be grown between raspberries and blackberries the first year, but after that the berry canes should have the whole plot and receive thorough hoeing and . : cultivation. Never buy a milch cow with the view of selling her for producing beef at some future time. A good milch cow will yield enough extra milk to more than pay for the milk ithd beef that a poor milker will pro- ' duce, and will give quicker returns ■ in cash. Do not put out melons, beans, j squashes, or cucumbers too soon, as they require a warm toil. Shguld the young plants come Up too early the cool nights may give them a check from which they may not recover, and prove of butlittle service when the bearing period arrives.

THE PAIR SEX.

Mrs. W. J. Baird, of England; is famous as one of the most ejnert chess analysts in the world. Her chess problems are considered among the best and most difficult published. She has competed in many tourna tnents and has won many prizes. Mrs. Baird is the wife of Deputy Inspector General W. J. Baird, and they have a ; 10-year-old daughter who has also shown great taste for chess, and has composed several remarkable problems. Women have given an aggregate of $3,328,078.18 to institutions of learning in the State of Massachusetts, of which Harvard has received more than half. Public libraries in the State have received from women, gifts amounting to to $681,186; publicand industrial schools have received 1122,000, and kindergartens $344,579. As early as 1664 Bridget Wyn«s gave Harvard college £4 and in 1718 Mme. Hutchinson gave £jo to the same institution. . Miss Ella Knowles, who was the Populist candidate for attorney general at the last election in Montana, has been selected by the Republicans in that state as counsel in their effort to secure control of the legislature. □At the, wedding of a daughter of Theodore A. Havemeyer, the wealthy sugar refiner, in New York, the entire stairway of the house was covered with a canopy of lilacs and roses. The ceremony was performed under a canopy of white satin and point lace, upheld by columns of white onyx and gold, and in the midst of the upper room was an orange tree laden with fresh bios' soms, banked at the base widi lilies of the valley. The gifts were not shown at the wedding. NAMED FOR'THE INFANTA’. ’ New York World, New honor has been thrust upon the Princess Eulalia. A bonnet has been named for her. It is a tipy affair, dainty and pretty, as the namesake of so charming a womam ought to be.

THEEC' r/ATT.Y The soft crown is of finely woven gold cloth. It is trimmed in front with an hour-glass bow of pale blue crepe de Chine, at the back of which is a jet aigrette flanked with two turquoise-studded gold wings. The strings, which tie directly beneath the chin, are of the blue crepe de Chine. The original of this’bonnet, to deserve still more its Spanish name, was made of orange erepe de Chine, with jet wings and a black feather aigrette. But the average woman found the color rather too trying, so now it is made in a variety of shades Mrs. R. H. Tyacke, in conjunction with her husband, has been making the largest bag of bears ever shot in one season in Kullu, in the central Himalayas. She has written a book called, “How I Spot my Bears.” Miss Harriet Eliza Grefen, who died recently at Oakland, CaL, was one of the leading authorities on library cataloguing. For many years she had been employed in the Boston public library and the Boston Athenaeum. She was also connected with the Columbia College library, where she gave instructions to students in her department.

WATTEAU HOUSE-GOWN. New York has a population of working women reaching in round figures to about 300,000.

PEOPLR.

Mrs. Ellen RusseiFfimmsuu wa? awarded a medal at- the Mediumbias Historical Exposition at Madrid for her archaeological books, “Indian Myths,” and “Masks, Heads and Faces. ” -; - A Montreal citizen has succeeded in getting his hired girl fined and imprisoned for deserting his service without notice. The fine was 5 cents and the term of imprisonment five minutes. John Hays Hammond, the noted California miner and manager of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan silver minaa at Coruf d’Alene, Idaho has gone to Johannesburg. South Africa, to take charge of the eight great gold mines of the Barnat brothers. There are already many Californians in South Africa, and generally doing well. , ! . Baron Alphonse Rothschild, of Paris, has now only one eye. In the course.of a hunt which he gave on his estate in France, last fall, one of his guests accidently ■ shot him in the eye. Although the best special ists in Europe tried to save the organ, it was found impossible. The eye was taken out a few days ago. It was feared that the sight of the other eye would be impaired. Admiral Sir John Tryon passed his youth at Bulwich, in Northamptonshire, where the Tryons have lived since the days of James I. Sir George’s father was a typical squire of the old school, and a famous horseman. His mother, a sister of the first baron Kesteven, greatly influenced the character of her boys, entering into all their pursuits and being no ordinary hostess. Fond of horses and dogs and and of sports. George Tryon and his brother were leaders of the young men in the county, and their subsequent success has been watched with keen interest by rustics of Northlamptonshire. ’ Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, who succeeds the ill-fated Vice Admiral Tryon as commander inchief of the queen’s Mediterranean squadron, has been in the royal navy for forty-three years. Both his grandfather and his uncle were admirals before him. Dr. Nansen’s, the artic explorer, theory is that if he can drift to the i pole, he can get out of his ship and , walk back at any stage of the game w'hen he feels tired. Artic explorai tion is now practically without what w r as its greatest terror —scurvy. Nansen is going into a healthy country. If there is enough ice to sink ' his ship, there will be something for him to stand on anyway. The chief engineer of the A ustrian State railways, Henry Graf, is in Washington. He has come to Amer- ; ica to make a special study of Amer- ! ican railway systems. He is a young man still in hil twenties, fie has i official letters to many high officials !on American railways. Herr Graf i considers American jines more sol- ! idly built than those of Europe, and time made much faster; while the j European excel in ths matter of precautions against accidents. • D. C. Gilman, President of the i Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has presented, in behalf the trustees of the university, to the American Bible Society, a facsimile of the Chaldean flood tablet, recently reconstructed by Professor Haupt. ! The tablet is a plaster cast from a modern reproduction in clay of the so-called Izdubar or Gilamesh legends, commonly known under the name of the Babylonian nimrod epic. It contains the cuneiform text of the Chaldean account of the deluge, as restored by Prof. Paul fiaupt. The I text is based on thirteen fragments, which were found duripg the British excavations in the valley of the Euphrates and Tigris, and are now preserved in the department of oriental antiquities at the British Museum, London. The casts have been finished in colored plaster, so as to give them the appearance of a real cuneiform clay tablet. The tablet contains, in six columns, 331 .lines of cuneiform writing. . The only sign of great age in Marshal MacMahon, who recently celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday, is his lack of teeth. When A. molar passqs the time of its usefulness the ex-President accepts its loss philosophically, and refuses to call on the dentist to repair the damage. He attributes his green old age tb temperate Irish ancestors (the Marshal’s name is Patrick) and to the absence I in his own character of malice and i ambition. I Horace M. Haynes, of Charlotte, ! Me., who is now seventy-three years ■of age, was the driver of the baj rouehe drawn 6y eighj black horses ?which conveyed. Presideili Tyler I from Boston to the great Bunker : Hill celebration, June IT,'. 1843. ; Haynes remembered that it rained, but President Tyler stood bareheaded in the carriage, bowing right and left to the crowds of cheering people who threw bouquets into the carriage until it could literally hold j no more. The Oaks, the famous old couni ry ; seat in Surrey, England,! was j recently offered for sale and bought •in by the owner on the failure to ! realize any adequate price. General Burgoyne, the warrior of Saratoga, sold the Oaks to his fatherdn-law, Ix>rd Derby, and it was under one of his successors that the place gave • the names to the famous races, th* Derby and the Oaks. The interior of the great house is fiulsbed is carved oak, and the 181 acres of oaks ' which surround it include the avenue of stately trees from which the estate was named.