Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Page 2

One Man’s Evil

CHAPTER X,—(Continued.) ■*| »n» not going j' wt . vet -" Stanton ■aid, with a ami Ip."‘“I was looking for another room in which to sit and wait for Kir Gerald. He won't be lona.'- 1 --—■■———=l “Will you sit in here, sir?” said the valel, opening the door of another room. Stanton nodded his head and passed in. There was a door which led to the room Chkb which he had’ just eonie. and when 'he found himself ttloue. he..xrejit toward it and strained hi* eats to listen to what waa passing within. _L:_... --s Some one was sleaking out loudly, yet dearly and firmly. It was Hubert's voice. Ily dint of great difficulty Stau“l trusted you. 1 thought you my only friend. When the worst came, you, and you alone, stood by me. You know what 1 said to you. B.ut now —now. Gerald, 1 know the truih. I know who it was that forged my father's name! I know who it waa ihat robbed Lady Charlotte of her jewels; I have suffered for these two crimes. Now I mean to have justice r _ . . There came from the iuner rooms sounds which told Staut-m that Gerald Tenby was answering Hubert, but not in words. Swift as lightning he pushed open the door, and was in the room. With one strong hand be swept the two men apart. “Fool!” he hissed between his teeth to deraid. lie had used liis strength so well that Hubert Tenby had staggered and fallen to the ground, striking his head sharply as he fell. • Stanton took no notice of the other Ban, who leaned, panting with “fiassidn, ■gainst the table; He knell down by Unhurt. ( ; “Yon have stunned him," he said, in a whisper. “I wish I had killed him!” came from Gerald Tenby's lips. "You had best take him away from me, He is not safe r Stanton made no reply to this. He was looking into Hubert's fa<v. . It had a strange, seUexpression. The hand be lifted from the floor fell liervehas from his grasp. . CHAPTER XI. Stanton turned and looked at Gerald Tenby. “I am not so sure that you haw not got your wish," he said. Then' was a curious sound in his voice. “This seems to me a strange faint.” There was so much force in his voice tbit be roused Gerald Tenby front that wild frenzy of rage and fear. He drew a *WP breath, and then the color came hack to his lips, untf he was himself again. “What do you propose!?" he asked, in a~ swift, low voice. "Do you intend that I shonld hide him here'.- That seems full •f risk. How 3S we know that he has sot some one waiting for him outside? How dpyye know “Bah!" said Stanton. "When a rat is In a, corner he turns and fights! We are In a corner, Tenby, and we must fight with what weapons we have. 1 tell you that Hubert Tenby must not leave here —at least, until we see our way a little more clearly than we do nt present. Get rid of Stephens for half an hour. You hare at least a couple of spare rooms here. We must put him into one of these rooms, and, if it is necessary to give an explanation at all to your man, we can easily say that you -let Hubert out of the chambers yourself. I don't suppose Stephens ever pots his nose into those unused rooms: but that we must risk also. Come, rouse yourself, man! You don’t seem to see how near the dock you stand.” . Gera!.! Tenby trembled as if he had been stunned. lie was. in fact, utterly unnerved. His hands were trembling. He felt cold in every limb. The task of lifting Hubert’s uneonacioos body down the passage and into one •f the rooms which Stanton had spoken •f was accomplished without any great difßcnlty, for Hubert's -misery- the last two years had told on his physique. Where he kad once been a fine, young athlete, he was now spare, almost wasted. The room into which he was carried was practically unfurnished; at least, it was all in disorder. The blinds were closed. and the furniture pushed tCJjfPther ir.d covered with dust sheets. They drew out a coUCh and laid their” burden on it. So still and white was this same burden that a new fear gripped. Gerald Tenby’s heart. “What if he should be really dead?” he whispered. But Stanton shook his head. “lie is not dead,” he said. “You had best leave this to me, Tenby. As I tell you. he will not come to his senses yet ■while. I shall install myself here to he ■ear him when he does. We shall have to get rid oLS t ephena at unco." Having been well prompted by Stanton, Sir Gerald adopted a hard tone to his servant. “What do you mean." he said, “by let* ting anybody and everybody push their way ip here? I though! I "as never go iog to get rid of that fellow. -You must be careful. Stephens.” - The valet looked sullen. “He said lie had a right .to come in. sir, and it seamed to me from his manner that be- spoke the truth." “That is enough.”said Sir Gerald, quiethr. “You can put your things together and leave my service immediately. No. I will listen to no words. You go, and go •t oner, within the hour." The servant attemptedjto make a further protest Hera Id’s manner immediately suppressed this. “You will give me a character?” said Stephens. “I have served you well. I don't deserve to be turned off like this, at a sKXßcnt’s notice." ♦I sflow no one to be insolent to me. If yon can find others who will put up with your impertinence yon will be •why." —; — “It's rain to turn s»e away like this, air.” said Stephens, and there was a break

By EFFIE ROWLAND

in his voice, *btit Sir Gerald made no answer, and, seeing' that his ease was hopeless, Stephen* picked up his port man--leau and passed out of the chambers. 1 s’ * « • • • • • Antonia went out early. She was too restless to remain in the,,hou4e. That short interview with Lady Betty had left her with a pleasant sensation. It was the first time she tv.Td really felt that it would be possible, for her ta hrtva a grain of sympathy for her uncle’s wife. Hubert had given her a full description of Ben Coop, and as she-saw a burly man, wearing a sun-burned look, and having an Pavel upon him, approach-her untold heF that this man was Hubert’s one friend. She spoke to him almost before she was aware of it. "You are Ben Coop?” site -said.-' “You have come to find me?” Ben looked down into -her beautiful eyes; "and h ls heftrt went ont instantly to this girl whose love for Hubert was written so eloquently in every line of her ex,pressive face. "Ay, miss,” lie said, "I am Ben Coop. Mr. Hubert sent me to you with this letter. I was just \vond"ring whether to ring the hell at that, big door, when I saw yod coming, and I knew the first time, mists, that yam were the one 1 wanted” - “('mm' back with me Tmlie parirr’ she said; “we can talk more freely under the trees,.and, oh! I have so much to say, so much to ask. it was good of Hubert to send you to me." . -■ “He would have come himself,” said Ben; "but you know what keeps- him tack.” Ben was walking shyly beside Antonia. It serpied to him that Hubert’s deolara--4km that she was—more--an angelt-han a human being had actual truth iu it. Out in the park Antonia led hint to her favorite tree, and there they sat and talked, heedless of time, and the happiness, of the- girl’s heart was deepened and made certain, now that she assured herself that Hubert would not tight alone. *4r ought--m -be si easy," shir sahT to Ben, when they had discussed everything; “and yet we must !>e prepared for difhcultieo. Uerald.Teuh,v. will, not-give up what bo holds without a great struggle.” “Mr. Hubert will wrrt, rrriss." Bcn said. stoutly; “but now I'm thinking I must leave you. Mayhap the lad will be back at the hotel waiting for me.” As he was crossing the road I. i-I> Betiy'-s very smart carriage rolled swiftly by. Antonia did not lioiky it; but Lady Betty leaned forward and looked keenly at Antonia and at the girl's strange companion. To Lady Betty, of course, Ben had a rough and common air. A frown con -traded the pretty, babyish face. “That must l»e Hubert Tenby’s friend,” Betty Marchmoiu said to herself. ■-'She has met him already; US looks’ as ft' he could fight. Gcnriri must s»-e me. I shall go to his rooms this afternoon. lie will have got my telegram early this morning, and will in all probability have left by the first train he could catch; that would bring him to his chambers about five. At any rate, I wit? risk it. If I go quickly on foot no one will recognize me, and lie will thank me when he sees me, for there is not a moment to be lost.” But the best plans are apt to go awry sometimes, and Lady Betty's plans received an unexpected check when she reached her house, for her husband was waiting lor her return. t “I have just had this telegram from Marehmont, my dear," lie said. “He is in town, and is coming here this afternoon. I thought I hail better tell you, as he will exi>ect to see you.” Lady Betty's face had a pinched look, "Lord Marehmont does not come to see me." she said, "lie comes because Antonia is here. I cannot possibly be at home." Then Edward Marehmont demonstrated for the first time iu his married life the fact that lie had a will of his own. “Whether my brother comes to welrfs daughter or not, I expect you to bo here to receive him." he said, coldly, and with that he went away. Lady Betty stood and watched him go. A strange kind of chill crept into her veins, and yet she seemed to be in a fever. She mounted the stairs slowly. It* was a strange thing that her. husband should have chosen this moment -out of all their married life- to let her feel that*ihe freedom he had allowed her was not real —-a strange coinoiden >\..iiihl one designed to carry a very dirk meaning to the man Lady Betty had married.

CHAPTER XII. Antonia received the news of her fath »r's approaching visit with a sensation of surprise. “I don't know anything about your father.” I«uly Betty complained, -“but I believe your un ie is not so considerate, lie has commanded me to be here when Lord Marehmont arrive*. Oh! you look astonished. I oan assure you it is a fact.” "I exjH’ct," said Antonia softly, eager to make things right, "that Ufacie Edward is thoroughly upset by the news that my ■father is coming to London. By this time you must know as well as we do-that it is .■» very tmttxnal proceeding on his part.” "I know out thing." site said, irritably, “and that is that you -Marehmont* are a wry queer lot. One never knows what to ex;>ect from any one of you.” After that .she apd Lady Betty separated—the girl to go to her own room, to adt down once again, and to tell. Over to herself the wonderful atory that had haprpened, and lady Betty to go aiso to her room to make her plans for the afternoon. “I tnuat see Gerald,” she said, between hes iceTBI **tt makes me xirk tu see that look on Antouia's face. She is so confident. Gerald most act quickly. If I go now 1 dire say he will not bare arrived; Out lam sure he will come. My telegram must bring him. If lie has sot come,

then f shad have to return later on; a!- j though my dear husband has commanded , me. to: be here. I must go out now, at spy rare,” Lady Betty mused on„ restlessly ; "I fee! I shall go mad if4f Stf.y in this house, Eyen though I may not ,ind Gerald, I will go to his rooms. If I meet Edward, I shall snap my fingers at him. lie has dared ,to -speak to me to-night as no one- haaever ■dared to speak to me be- . fore; but he shall Is’ > punished for it. j I and find my opportunity.” The carriage had imii retd.v left the door , and was foiling swiftly down the street, j when Mr. Marehmont dime out of his study. ' '% "Can you tell me where her ladyshtp" i»7" lie asked of the butler, and the servant answered that* Lady Elizabeth bad ..just gone out. j There was a curious (riok on Edward Marehmont’,? thoughtful face as he tUrne’d and entered-his study. His wife called him dull, stupid; she treated him as she would have treated a doormat, quite forgettifig that there had ; been days when this man of books and culture had laid his very heart at her feet. The words he had spoken to her to-day ■had been a revelation to her; but -she would have heeil far more surprised could she have looked into the man’s heart now, and realized the trouble that had gathered there. For, blind, and dull, and unworhfly as he was, Edward Marehmont was still a man. to whom honor would always be denr; a man to whom pride -and dignity had IbhiF' fntlest meaning; and to th«man there had come all nt once a great awakening. Two days l>ef,,re an anonymous letter had found its- way to Edward March* mont's table. lie had opened it and read it, before he realized the purport of such a missive. His first impulse had been to ttar it into a thousand pieces, and this he did, hut the sting -still remained. Till now he had never doubted his wife, lie had regarded her as a butterfly—a beautiful, useless, and, lie was obliged to add. heartless little creature who played about his life just as a butterfly hovers about a garden. _ He had never supposed that she cared for him ; hut he, never supposed that it would be possible for her to care for any other; hut this poisonous letter had opens' od his eyes. . t Ignorant of what was passing in her husband's luind, Lady Betty Marehmont ordered her carriage to set her down at on,' of the largest shops in the West End. It was a shop through which she could pass, leaving her servants at one door ignorant of her departure at another. And she sped swiftly through this shop, and passed out at the other side, when she immediately bailed a hansom and was driven to Gerald Tenby’s chambers. Just' as she reached Gerald’s door it was opened and a man passed out. He looked-both confused and armored to see Lady Betty standing there, and she in her turn was confused and annoyed to be found there. She instantly recognised 'lffm'Tis MW man who ha<l .interrupted her interview with Gerald at Mill Cross Court. "I have brought a message from my husband to Sir Gerald,” she said, as cold--4y .as she could. ■ . . George Stanton answered her without any hesitation. “Can I be the bearer of your message. Lady Betty?” he asked. “I expect Sir ■Gerald to arrive this evening, although I fancy lie will npt come here, but will probably go to a hotel.” "Xnrti H this- evening-!"L.mh Bet 1 y repeated. "Dear me! This is very annoying. 1 luvte this man,” she said to herself, " “and he's got such a _funny look about him. lie looks so white, and his eyes shine so brightly. . .'What can have induced Gerald to have takt-n him for a secretary? There is something about this man 1 don't understand.” Immediately she was in the street she started walking swiftly away from him, which was exactly what George Stanton wanted. He asked for nothing better. The moment he was by himself his smile went, and a hunted, worried look spreod over his face. "What brought her here?” he said, between his teeth, “and at such a moment, too! Ilad she remained she might have heard more. 1 must be quick. I don’t trust Gerald. lie’s a coward at heart, even though there is so much at stake.” He hailed a hansom, gave~an address hurriedly to the driver, anil rattled out of the street, passing Lady Betty's elegant, tiiaek rotted figure as be went. (To be continued.)

A Case of Inertia.

Tim Wooden was literally “too lazy to live.” as the anecdotes of him fold in an old "History of Milwaukee" go to prove. It may be that the doctors of to-day would pronounce him a victim of the insidious germ which works to uncontrollable languor, but the diagnosis of the good old times of Tim's career reads simply, "plumb laziness.” A party of Indians, knowing Tim's peculiarities, ouce captured him for fun. and made him believe that they were going to burn him at the stake. ; They took him to some distance from the village, tied him to a tree and heaped wood about him. Just as the pile was ready to light, the chief appituiuhed. and whispered in Tim’s ear that if he would never tell who had I captured him lie would release him and let him return to Milwaukee. "What, walk twenty miles!" exclaim ivl Tint. "If you'll lend me a horse I'll agree to it.” one time, when Tim was lumlierlng. a loose log made- a perilous -descent down the side-of the hill. The shouts of the other men warned him that the danger was coming his way, but rather titan expend vital force in jumping. Tie let tile log strike him and break his Kg.

Black Hair the Strongest.

Black hair is stronger than golden tresses and will suiHairr*nlniost double the weight. Recently it scientist found. J&jr experiment, that jt Is possible to susjH’iid a weight of four ounces by n single hair, provided the hair tie black. Blonde hair will give way nt weights varying according to the tint. A yellow hair will scarce support tw# ounces, a brown will bold up three without brooking, wbile one of n very dark brown will sustain an additional half onnee. A thing that some oue doesn’t find fault with ia seldom worth having.

ARE WE BEING EFFEMINIZED?

United State? Has a' Million Mori Women than-Men. In tilt United States there are at least l/iOO.tkX) inure women than, men, and only one-tenth of the women are at work outside of their'own homes, says the World s Work, Yet the stump “of the feminine mind is upon everything American, and in many of the higher plmtiou -of culture women take the initiative. This rule of women ,in the United Stdtes begins in our public -kcliobls, where boys and girls are educated together, and where the teacher Is always, in the lower grades at least, | woman- In the great cities the feminine influence goes into, every hook and cranny of social development. Women compose very largely the reading public, and no current novel can succeed without their patronage. Some of the most successful magazines are devoted to their interests exclusively, and those given to scientific and philosophic discussions Seldom exist long, or they become the organs of small and detached organizations of men. Art exhibits are conducted by ’•omen, and women hold executive offices in world’s-fair committees. They serve as chairmen of school boards and they torment, through their principal leagues, the party leaders. They are notable as charity workers, and they Lave made reputations as doctors, lawyers, magazine editors, newspaper reporters, preachers, political speakers, end labor organizers and agitators. Indeed, where In the United States do we not find the woman, with her influence, battering at all doors?

Illustrating the Text.

In Iris book on India, “The High-Road of Empire,” Mr. Murray enlivens a description of the carts of that country with a story of a fellow Englishman who had traveled in the East. He was a Kentish squire, who was interested in giving bis tenants an intelligent Idea of what he had seen abroad. lie had mftde a journey In. Palestine and being an admirable draftsman, had brought home a number of excellent sketches. One winter evening after hit return the squire gave a lecture to his village, and showed a number of his drawings. Among them was a carl very similar to that which I drew at Jodhpur. The squire explained to his audience that it was a tj]pe of the most primitive conveyance known, and that it had existed iu precisely this same form in Palestine from the earliest times; Indeed, that It was probably a cart or wagon of this description that Joseph had sent down from Egypt to bring his father and his household goods from Canaan. , Afterward an old farmer came up and expressed his great interest in what he had hoard, adding that there was one thing above all others which had iuterested him, and that was the cart. “For now,” he said, “I understand why Joseph said to his brethren, ‘See that ye fall not our by thexvay.'”

Beats Horse Show Driving.

A Western man was telling some stories of daring driving, soma realistic and some hyperbolic. “There is a story,” he said, “of One Eyed Pete McCoy. If this story is true, the four-in-hand drivers of the East are only practicing a decayed and degenerate form of coaching. Oue Eyed Pete drove a Dakota stagecoach that made a circuit of Deadwood. Carbonate, Spearfish and Bear Gulch. He tore into Carbonate oue day on his usual dead run. Like an avalanche, the coach clattered up to the hotel door. There suddenly it stopped, and one of the horses fell stone dead. ‘A very sudden death,’ said a bystander. ‘Sudden? Not at all,’ said One Eyed Pete. ‘That there boss died at the top of the hill, nine mile back, sir, but I wa’n’t goin’ to let him down till I got to the reg’iar stoppln’ place.’ ”

A Third End.

An Irishman who was out of work went on board a vessel that was in the harbor and asked the captain if he could find him work on the ship. “Well,” said the captain, at the same time handing the Irishman a piece of rope, “If you can find three ends to that rope you shall have some work.” The Irishman took hold of one end of the rope, and showing it to the captain said: “That's one end, your honor.” Then he took hold of the other end, and, showing it to the CRptaln as before, said “And that’s two ends, your honor.” Then, tnking hold of both ends of the rope, he threw it overboard, saying, “And, faith, there's another end of It, your houor.” He was engaged.

Suspicious Circumstances.

“Isn’t it horrible! Maud was arrest ed on the street!" “Arrested! What for?" “She got on the street car facing ths right way and the policeman arrested her for a man In disguise.”—Boston Transcript

Unique Marriage Proposal.

A London dentist made a novel proposal of marriage. He fell in love with an elderly patient who ordered a set of false teeth from him. When tlu teeth were delivered the woman found a neat little proposal engraved on the plate which held the teeth.

Fixing the Responsibility.

Sister Sue—You didn’t get home until 2 o’clock last night Brother Jack—And bow do yon know ? “A little bird told me.” "D that cuckoos”—Smart Set

His Role.

“80 Smothly la a musician. What kind of an Instrument does be play?” “Politics. He * known aa the party bartnonlaer.”— Detroit Free Frees.

FARM AND GARDEN

When a man goes out to buy a horse nowadays he has to take along with him about $l5O to S2OO. A good thing about the hog is that he may be able to utilize'much of the waste of the farm and orchardThe farmer who continually tries to cultivate a four-horse farm with three horses will always be one horse behind. Don’t be afraid to use the comb and brush, If you wish your horse to shed his coat, and Come out slick and glossy In spring. The best dairy conditions cannot be obtained where wooden palls are used. The milk sinks into the pores of the Wood and it is next to impossible to cleanse them properly. A Southern farmer says that good results ore obtained by feeding sunflower seeds to horses, hogs and other stock. The feeding of this requires judgment, as the seeds are very rich and should be mixed with bran. In a day’s ride all over the country one will see many up-to-date dwellings everywhere with the old pioneer house moved aside to be used as an out building. That is all right No better use can be made of these old structures. Everybody likes straw-berrieq,. but everybody does not grow them. TiT order that everybody may have all they want to eat somebody will have to grow them. Three hundred plants will make a good starter and will make a bed large enough to supply one family table. The flocks of the world have diminished 93,000,000 head since 1873, or an average of more than 3,000,000 a year. A growing taste for mutton, tuberculosis lu cattle, and trichina in pork are factors which, one writer contends, have caused this decline. Cows that come through the winter very poor will require the greater part of the summer in getting ready to do good service. It never pays to starve a good milk cow. Her ration can be reduced and probably changed somewhat when dry, hut should not be withdrawn entirely. Few men stop to think how glad the small son is to go to town with the father. It is a good plan to take him to town occasionally. Many boys will be glad to get up in- the seat and ride with the farmer to a neighbor’s. Why not let him go along? To do the best by a boy a man lieqjls to be a boy occasionally. Of course the farmer shouldn’t have eockleburs on his place. Nevertheless they are sometimes found.in the manes and tail of his horses. To remove them quickly and easily take a bucket of hot water and dip the horse’s tail in it. This will softed the spines on the burrs, and then can be easily removed. Just as good as hot water is a light application of grease or any kind of machine oil.

An Arizona sheep-ranching company gives the following estimate of the cost of running 4,000 sheep: Taxes, $224; wages, Tear aien, $1,689-; -living, four men, $432; extra expense, lambing, $350; shearing, 13 cents a head, $520; loss, 5 per cent, and mutton killed, $350; feed for span of horses and two saddle horses, $204.58; sundries, $600; 3,500 lambs, extra expense, $300; depreciation in bucks, $540. Total, $5,690.58. This amount divided by 4,000 gives as the annual per capita expense, $1.42. It Is barely possible that a stand of corn muy be mathematically correct and not agriculturally perfect. An lowa corn grower says: “A two-stalk hill now and then does not surely diminish tlie yield one-third, nor does n four-stalk hill surely spoil the yield of that hill. In fact some years a four-stalk bill will out yield n threestalk hill. Iu some years the twostalk hills will crowd tlie three-stalk hills." It is better to have stalks at every intersection. Two Intersections with nothing and the next one six does not average in the right manner. Too Many Heim In n House. » The main idea in keeping a large number of fowls In one house is to care for them more easily, but there are always risks to run which cannot be avoided even by the most experienced and careful worker. All things considered, the plnn of having one roof cover the poultry house, no matter how large, is advisable, but the matter of division Is a thing to be seriously considered. In our own experience we like the scratching shed divisions better than anything else. This Is worked out by building a roosting room, then a scratching shed, then another roosting room, another scratching shed, and so on to the end of the bouse. The Idea la that each house has Its own scratching abed, which Is located between two roosting rooms except at one end. Potato Mn Moat Fall la Llm. Ths recent bulletin of the Genera <N. Y.) experiment stattoß gives re

salts of co-operative tests made by thirty growers which together show a net profit of SIO,OOO from spraying. The average increase in yield from spraying was G2V4 bushels per acre, done at a cost of $4.98 per acre. The cost for each spraying was 93 cents. The net profit per acre was $24.86. These results are In line with those obtained with similar experiments in 1903. The spraying was found to lengthen time of growth by preventing late brack. Not only was the quantity greater, but it was found that the potatoes contained one-sixteenth more dry matter In the sprayed fields and one-ninth more starch, and as might be expected were more mealy and of better cooking quality. Spraying is almost a universal practice iir the Aroostook region, it being declared that there Is scarcely an acre in the whole section not regularly sprayed. Growers use the large power sprayers which treat four rows Tit once and do the work very quickly, making three to eight applications during the season, according to circumstances.

Benefit* of Thinning. In spite of the fact that the thinning of growing fruit insures a better quality, encourages more eyen yields year after year, and prevents the overloading that often breaks down the- trees, there are comparatively few farmers who make any attempt to cut off the unusual and unnecessary strain upon the strength and vitality of the tree. Men have become accustomed to relieving the weight on the limbs by propping from beneath, and while this method often prevents the breaking down of the tree, it does not foster tha vitality which is so severely drawn upon that the yield for the coming year is virtually minimized. Among the fruit growers the problem Of thinning is becoming recognized for its merit. The thrifty horticulturist prefers a medium yield of fruil every-year of superior quality rathei than an enormous output every other year of ordinary quality. Experience has taught him that he can profitably destroy from CO to 80 per cent of his fruit orop by thinning, inasmuch as ha secures more desirable fruit, lessens his labor and in the end realizes more profit. —— ——— —— While we recognize the fact that tlie average farmer is not in a position to compete with the fruit specialist, still this is no evidenfce that he cannol shape Ids methods along the lines suggested by the successes of the other. Therefore we venture to assert that th« farmer with a fruit tree promising to break under the overload can better afford to relieve it of a portion of its crop, rather than seek props to assist its over-production and subsequent deterioration.

Government Land. While land in the congested cities of the* East Is selling at fabulous price* a front foot and agricultural land in close proximity is far beyond the reach of the immigrant and citizen of sniull means, there yet rqpiains in the hands of the government, open to acquirement under the general land laws, an acreage exceeding the total under private ownership by more than 45,000,000 acres, not including the national parks and reservations. The greater portion of this immense territory, seven times the size of Spain, lies west of the Mississippi river and ia divided among twenty-five States and territories. By no means has all the desirable land been appropriated. Three million acres lie within regions abundantly watered by natural rainfall and many million* of acres hitherto arid land will in due time be brought to a high state of productiveness under government and private irrigation project*. There are also many millions of acres of forest available under the timber laws and great tract* of grazing land awaiting the herder. All this is exclusive of Alaska with its 350,000,000 acres open to entry which have been overlooked, it being considered a cold and bnrren region. Large tracts there are favorable to agricultural pursuits as well as the mining Industry, and with the development of the transportation facilities will furnish homes for a large farming population. The right to homestead on the public domain is the greatest privilege of American citizenship. 'Che right to homestead is co-existent with citizenship. Every cltlzenJ!iver twenty-one years of age; every immigrant who has declared his or her intention of becoming a citizen; every head of n family, male oF female, even though under twenty-one, may locate a tract not to exceed 100 acres, and after five years' residence will receive absolute title thereto. There are some restrictions to this general statement of homestead rlghta. A bead of a family lp anyone who has dependent on him or her any relative. Any one who has previously made a homestead, or perfected title to one, or who owns more than 100 acres of land In any State or territory of the Union Is also debarred. — Indianapolis New*. V t