Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Page 6

Madame Midas

- CHAMBER TO(ToniTmicd.’i : “Drop it,” said Slivers severely. in liN "HECspiug: trrrtp voire;.:- Billy protended net ; to unde.cvuhig-JSliyi.’.rs-l for a moment or *wo. resumed his jrmr , ney. Slivers sfrotelnsl out his hand fur the ruler. wUorvtipoir Billy tor-omtttg e+rv»* to his danger. dropped thfcriHflghl andflew off »totable with a 'discordant shriek. Slivers leaned twck in his chair drumming in an aiw-n; --r; v.f way-with his lean fingers On the table. lli> cork arm hung down dimply, an JTiis oue _cj c was ffjced on a' loiter Tying in front oTTiTfff. - This was-a-eoianHmr<»fH-iotv from the man—ager of the Pactolus mine requesting Slivers to get him more hands, and Slivers' ers in a musing sort of tone, “and she's got a good thing in that claim if six' only •trikes the load. What a fool 1 was not to hare collared that ground before she did; hut Hcfhtosh never would tell me where she place was. Never mind TTI be even with him yet." _His expression of face was not pleasant as he said this, and he grasped the Tetter fipfront of hrm in sT vioh-nT IvftTv as if be were wishing his long fingers were round the writer's throat. - Tapping with his wooden log on .he floor, be was soon about to recommence his inusing>. when he heard a step in the passage, and the door of his office being pushed violently open, a man entered without fur liietr^raiK^ T :TOa:tlnng:toms<-if d«v n in a chair near the window. “Well, Mr. Randolph Yillicrs." croaked Slivers, after contemplating his visitor tor a few moments, “how’s business? “Bad." retorted Mr. Villiers. "I've lost twenty pounds bn those Moscow shares. “More fool you,” replied Slivers, "I rould have told you the mine was no good; but you will go on your own bad judgment.'’ “It’s like getting blood out of a stone to get tips from you,” growled Villiers. with a sulky air. “Conte now, old toy, in a cajoling manner, “tell us something good—l’m nearly stone broke, and Tmust live.” “I don't see the necessity,” malignantly returned Slivers, “but if yon do want to get into a good thing ” , “Yes! yes'” said the other, 'eagerly bending forward. “Get an interest in the Paeiolns. ami the agreeable old gentleman leaned--back -and- -laughod—loudly at his -v-iskot’-s discomfilnre. . ; V'?: “You knbwi-as, well as 1 do that my ajfe won't look at me." "Why don't you ruin your wife, you fool?" said Slivers, turning .vindictively -on Villiers. "You ain't going to let her have all the money while you tire starving, are you?” "How the deuce am I to do That asked Villiers. “y : " "■ . "Get the whip hand of her. ’ snarled Slivers viciously; "find out if she's in love, and threaten to divorce her if she doesn't go halves." “There's no chance-of her having any lovers,” retorted Villiers; "sire's a piece of ice.” “Ice melts," replied Slivers quickly. “Wart till ‘Mr. Right’ comes along, and then she’ll want to get married again.” "Well “You’ll have the game in your own hands." hissed the wicked old man, rubbing his hands. "Oh!" he cried, spin-, ning round on his wooden leg. "its a lovely idea. Wait till we meet ’Mr. Right.' just whit.” and he dropped into his chair quite overcome by the sTate of excitement he had worked'himself into,; , "If you've quite done with those gymnastics. my f H endsaid asof t voice near she dtor. “pertiapa I may enter.” * __ Both the inmates of the office looked ap at standing at the half-open door —one. an extremely handsome young man of about thirty, dressed in a iteat suit of blue serge. and wearing a large white wide-awake hat, with ft Birdseye handkerchief twisted round Ir. His conrpatiitm was a-short and heavily built, dressed somewhat the samt, but with his black bat pulled down over his eye*. “Gome in." growled -Slivers, angrily. “What do you want “Work,” said the young man, advancing to the table. "We are new arrivals in the* country, and were told to come to you to get work." “I don’t keep a factory.” snarled Slivers. “I don’t tyink * would eamc; to you if you did,” retorted the stranger coolly. “You won Id not to a pleasant master either to look at or to speak to.!’ Villiers laughed at this, and Slivers stared dtimfouhded at being spoken to in such a manner. Slivers was just going to snap out a dismissal, when he caught sight of McIntosh’s letter on the table. Here .was n young man handsome enough to make any woman fall in love with him. and who. moreover, had a clever tongue in his head. All Slivers’ animosity revived against Madame Midas as he thought of the Devil’s Lead, and he determined to use this young man as a tool, With these thoughts in his mind, be drew a sheet of paper toward him. and dipped the rusty pen fflthc tbi<-k ink. “Names?” he nsk<kl. “Mine,” said the stranger, bowing. ”is Gaston Vandeloup; my friends Pierre Lcmaire—both French.” Slivers scrawled this down in the series of black scratches which did duty with him for writing. “Where do you come from?” was his „»est auestiop,..;.-, ~ —, “The story,” said Mr. Vandeloup, with suavity, “is too long to repeat at present; but we came to-day from Melbourne.” 1 *mst kind of work can you do?" asked Slivers sharply. “Anything that turns up." retorted the “I was addressing your companion, sir; not you,” snarled Slivers, turning viciousAr ab Mi,

By Fergis Hame

r.j- baVe To” answer for both," replied the, young man coolly, slipping one baud h;« pocket and lenii ig ■fljElS'pi hie Hit - ill a niM-T.icv-.nl uttiUule . "niy. friend is d,Hid>. -But his leg>s arms and eyes •grr'e~~ all - there.” - Slivers glared ftl ibis fresh niece of im- ; 'rtincnce. but said nothing. -Tie wrote a letter to Mclntosh', recommending him to take oil tlte two meti, and handed it to •-Vkwdidoapv received i r urfrtP-a how. : “The price of yotp- services. Monsieur?" he asked. ’' “Five tob,“ growled SI i versjTroWttjjg; out : his one -hand. •---.—Tor-a—I.ZAL— •• • Vandeloup pulled mil two half-crowns and put them in tin' thin, daw-like lingers. ttbteb-Instantly - closed• .them. . go***#-.-IoV, «aid Sliviyts. poeketiiig the money.; "the -Paptolyc clgTgr.- There'*- A-yt-ecty-wotaatfe there.” . . | Vamfcioup put on his hat and went to the door, out of which Pierre had already preceded Him. _l_... ('HATTKB IV. ■ Jtajiftj tie Midas.--was slajiilijag onthe "veranda o-pfrer cottage; staring far away into the distance, where she could see •he tall chimney and huge mound of white earth which marked the whereabouts of the Pactolus claim. She was a tall woman of t!e‘ .Ttmoesqtie type, with tir.m white TianiTs-and w, jl-fuhued feet, . Seatii-red this j*ast,u a 1 looking ■Mini r\ were lmge moiiml- of v it+fr* earth, looking hike heaps of carded wool, and at the end of cax>h of these invariably stood i; tall, ugly skeleton o.f„vi--Qto-dniese-niar.k-. id. the positions of the :niues : --the tovy-' trs contained the winding gear, while the. white earth was the day called mulloclu brought from several hundred feet below •JtlC. surface; Near these mounds were rough looking shcds with tall rctl cbimneys, which made a pleasant spot of color agaiiisl the white of the clay. On one of these mounds, rather isolated from the ethers, and standing by itself in the midst -of- -ft- wide green paddock, Mrs. Villiers' eyes were fixed, and she soon saw the dark figure of a man coming slowly down the .white mound, along the green field and advancing slowly up the hill. She called out to some one inside. " “Archie is coming, Selina --you had better hurry up the lea, for lie will be hungry after such a long day.” The person inside made no answer save .iw-ttm.oytva.-V-hrttt>g-of snme domrstit ntetisi's.—Madam, walked slowly -down the garden path, and leaned lightly over the gate, waiting for tbo new corner, who was indeed none other than Archibald Melntoah, the manager of the Pactolus. He was a man of about medium height, rather thin than othefwigei with a leirg. narrow looking head and boldly cut features. His eyes were gray and shrewd looking,' his lips were firmly compressed - iu fact, the whole appearance of his fate was obstinate—lho face of a man who would stick Id. his opinions whatever anyone else might say to the contrary. - “D'ye know what this may be?” he said, a smile relaxing his grim features-as h» v held up h rather large nugget i “ 'tis the third this week !” Madame Midas took the nugget from him and balanced it carefully in her hand; with a thoughtful look in her face, as if she was making a mental calculation. “About twenty to twenty-five ounces, 1 should sav," she observed in her soft, low voice; "the last \ve had was fifteen, and the one before twenty - looks promising, doesn't it?" “Well. I'll not say but it might mean a deal more," replied Mclntosh, with characteristic Bcotrh- - earn t ion,--ashefob towed Madame into the house; "it's not a very bad sign ; 1 will not say but what -we-mieht -to-noar ilie .Devil's Lead.”, p "And if we arc?" said Madame, turning with a smile. "AYeel, mem. ye'll have more siller nor ye'll know what to do with." Selina Jane Sprotts, who now acted as servant to Mrs. Vlibers, was rather aq oddit-y iu w ay. She had been Mad--tune’s nurse and had. followed her up to Ballarat, with the "determination of never leaving her. Selina was a spinster. She moved noiselessly abotK the small room, in a wonderfully dextrous mauuer, and, after laying the table, placed the teapot on the hob. - <fBjf and by Archie, who had been making a great splashing in the back premises, came in looking clean and fresh, with a more obstinate look about his face than ever. Madame went To The tea table and sat down. Archie asked blessing. “You have written to Slivers?” said ! Madame, raising her eyes. “That wooden legged body," jetdPfed Mclntosh. "Deed and I have, but the old tyke has not done anything to getting me what I want. Weel, weel,” in a resigned sort of a manner, “we might be than we are, an’ who knows bilt PradfTeuee will send us men by and by?” Madame rose to her feet and walked to the window. Her thoughts were sot pleasant. She had hoped to cut heraelf off from all the bitterness and sorrow of her past life, but this husband of hers, like an unquiet spirit, came to trouble her and remind her of a time she would willingly have forgotten. "If'T'TOUld only get riffi <rf-Trrnr, 1J sheThought, toying wifb a flower, "hut it is impossible. I can’t do that without money, and money 1 never will have till 1 find that lead. 1 must bribe him. I suppose. Oh, why can’t he leave me alone now? Surely he has ruined my life sufficiently in the past to let me hate a few getfulness." And with a petulant gesture she hurled the rose out of the wiudow, where it struck Archie a soft apd fragrant blow on the cheek. “Yes,” said Madame to herself, as she pulled down the window, “I must get rid of him.” CHAPTER V. Miss Sprotts was much in favor of a

constint fire, because of the dampness of the house, and Madame Midas did not by any means-object,- as. she was a perfect salamander for heat. Hence, when the outward door was dosed. The .faded'red curtains of the window drawn, and the newly replenished fire., blazed brightly in the Wide free place, the room was one a -syfumte—wottW * have delight. Madame Jlidrtswas scaled now at the small..table itt"The ,-cn’ter of the room, Hand the.sMft.gjow oT tto lamp romTierjUter smooth, lmlr aiid wliffit dross with a sub-' dued light. Archie sat by the fire, half asleep,-and there wa s hdead -a i 1 i-nbe in the room, only broken by the rapid scratching of Madanie's pen qr ih" dick of Selina’s needles. .. . -j-r-- nJotn ,, Tlli ;l knock came to -the ,fi;out door; wlii'-h caused Selina to drop her wrnrk~wT? h : siTffilcji start, and'rise to -her seer. _ _■ - ■ " r . " ' ■■'“Nt>fr-yo«. S'-iimt." ssid-Madame; in a quiet voice; *Tot Arbhiy got it may be wait ttaittp," - T —“)i ed no,' mein." re;ditfd Ardiie, ob- _ stiu. itely. ns im arose from his seat; “’tis very likely a man from the work* i -sawing: fey h vvliiTts. io' got There's "more talk nor sense aboot them. I’m thinkin’ — the -dlatteririg parrots T--Selrnu resnmeri her knirtirrg in a most -phlegmat !«• wa mii*r. Itti-f' .Mradamc listenedintently. for she was always haunted by, a secret dread of her husliand -breaking in on her. She heard a inilrtinn - 0P • VOICBJR and then A rchie j.-e turned - with Tsai fiM;.; who entered the room and stood before , Madame in- the light, of the, lamp, T is two-merr fronrstb.yT ged said ~ “One o’ then? has a wee bit letter for ye” turning to. receive the same from the foremost man. T’he man. however, did 1 not take notice of Archie’s gesture, but walking .forsvard . ~T7i XtaiTame, laid the letTer down before her. As he did so. she caught sight of the delicacy of his hands, and looked up suddenly with a piercing gaze. He bore the scrutiny coolly, and took a chair in -silence, his companion doing the same, while Madame opened the Tetter and read Slivers’ btnt-writing with-a-Aextertty-'OSrty" . Having finished her perusal, she.looked t'd 1 slowly. “A . brokiMt.-(ji>wii gentleman,” she said to herself, as she smV the easy bearing and handsome face of the young man; then looking at his companion, sfie sawby his lumpish aspect and coarse.hands that he occupied a much lower rank of life than liis friend. Monsieur VaHdeioun for ii was he—- ■ -.iiigh-t—tor-eye as she was scrutinizing them, and his face broke into a smile —a most charming smile, ns Madame observed mentally. though she allowed nothing of her thoughts to appear on her face. “Y'ou want work,” she said, slowly folding up the letter; “do you understand anything about gold mining?" “Unfortunately, no. Madame," said Vandeloup, coolly ; “but we are w illing to lean!'” —j —__ r gArchie grunted iu a dissatisfied manner, for tie waspiy no means'in favor of teaching people their business, and, be- • sides, he thought VambTintp too much of “You look hardly strong enough for such hard labor. said Mrs. T fibers, doubtfully eying The slender figure of the voting man. “Y’our companion, 1 think, will do, but you -—” “I, Madmne, am like the lilies-of the field that neither toil nor spin,” replied Vandeloup gayiy; ir bnt, unfortunately, I ntii now jbbinpelled by necessity to work, nud though 1 should prefer Lp earn my bread in an easier maimer, beggars cannot be choosers." "You are French?" she asked quickly, in that language. . , Maibnne.” lie r-plled hi the same tongue, “both mv friend and myself are from Paris, but we have not been long out here.” "Humph!” Madame leaned her head on her hand and thought, while \ andeioup looked at her keenly, and remembered what Slivers had said; "She is, indeed, a handsome woman,” he observed, mentally. Mrs. Villiers rather liked the looks of this young man; There was a certain fascination about him which few women could resist. Ilis companion, however, she did not care about -he bad a sullen Tttrd —lowering eoturteimuce, and looked rather dangerous. “What is your name?" she asked the young man. "Gaston Vandeloup." "You are a gentleman.” lie bowed, but said nothing. "And you?" asked. Madame. sharply Turning to the other. He looked up and tottehed lfis meurh. (To to continued.»

Why Kelly Langhed.

Baseball cranks will all remember with pleasure tlie late ’Alike” Kelly, the star attraction of the famous Bostons, then champion- of the National League. The Bostons were playing in a western city, and had just returned to tbdj* hotel after the game, and the memtfcrs of the team were separating and going to their rooms .while Kelly headed for the bathroom to take liis regular "rub down.” A few minutes later one of the other players on the team, while passing down the corridor, heard Kelly's well known laugh inside tlie bathroom, and stopped at the door and asked Kelly what the joke was. Kelly replied; “This is the first time I ever got out of (lie hath tub without stepping ou the soap."

"Turrible" Mistake.

“\Ve wish,” wrote the editor of the Tartown Transcript, “to correct an error which crept into our issue of last week- Tn describing the unfortunate runatyav accident in Main street, we wrote: ‘‘While awaiting the arrival of the ambulance. Dr. Skinner, who was fortunately present, took the victim’s pulse.’ It was the printer who carelessly changed the ‘l’ in the last word to T.’ We make the correction In justice to Dr. Skinner, whose fees are always moderate and who never presents a bill in advance. Office over Jed Kimball’s drug store,’' -t \ .

All (popular songs are composed, bat many oif them seem to be decomposed. Self-Interest has shattered many a man's lofty Ideals.

FARM AND GARDEN

One turkey mother can take care iof two. dozen ]*>ults.__. Cows kept in stalls will consume from - ttiroe to four tons of bay a year. Let the cow frisk in the open air once in a while : continuous-stable life is not good for her. Hay green in color and sweet tir'tirste Is the only, quality that is fitted for a cow iu milk to oat. Pon-t wastoMnetr-eg-;-. for washing J “l^€3‘oiniierliatiya 1 coating, opens the pores in the shell, and paves the way to - early decay. Scatter a generous quantity of salt, and wood ashes, for the horse on the ground and see how clean he will clean it up. It is good for pin worms. Some men are. judged by. their buildings, others by the kind of stock they keep, A very good impression .of the kind of a man is seen by looking into his back yard. The seed corn topic w ill not down and it ought not to until every farmer can obtain a satisfactory stand. Some tests of seed reported this spring show a low vitality. Make every squar% inch of the farm rich but the lawn,‘and make that beautiful.—A lawn that does not .present beauty to the eye is out of place. A field that !s beaufiful aad not rich Is an abomination to its owner. In the adjustment <;f a cultivator the shanks should be ca-y to handle by tlie operator and at the same time do good work. I have seen men working like a nigger at an election cultivating corn when there is no need at ail for such efforts. In the long, hot days there is a tendency for farmers and their wives to work too hard. One ought to be wise enough to know that old age will come -later on and If one wishes an easy obi age he should use discretion when in his prime. Not every rlth field wilt produce good crops; not every trotting bred horse will trot; not every drafter will escape the barbed wire; not every banker is honest; riot every bright thing that glitters is gold; not every church member Is a Christian.. There is all the difference in the world in the way. men cultivate corn. Lots of men lose more than their wages In the corn they tear out. All boys on farms should he taught how to cultivate corn. It is an essential "factor" in their agricultural education. A new milker will not get as much milk as the one to which the cow has been accustomed. A cow has some rights that are to be respected. Whether she has or not she usually assumes the right to withhold her milk when she has a new milker. The small breeder wife is overstocked with horses should never refuse a fair offer for such animals as he has decided to sell. .Cost of keeping aud risk of injury from accident are items that should not be overlooked by the man who desires to make the breeding of horses profitable; Yes, clover seed Is exi>eusive. The question is can one afford not to buy It? As a ruTe not enough study Is given the advantages of haying clover. Eight dollars appears to be a big price, but it Is not so much when we consider tlie area a bushel will sow. Then the advantages reaped by It are to be regarded To keep your flock as free as possible from sheep parasites, give the animals a change of pasture, say once every tea days. Alfalfa, red clover, oats or any high-growing forage is good for sheep, inasmuch as the animals are not so liable to become infested with parasites as when eating grasses which grow lower. The man who cannot be induced to select and test his seed corn properly should plant thick and then thin it to the required amount. If he does not ■want to do the work himsel.’ he can hire boys to do It. A man Ls running a risk when lie sets his planter to “three grains to the hill" of seed that has not , been managed properly. Better have four or five and thin to three T Tr p-- so ( a^B || ( . A gain of four x>ounds per head in weight and of ten cents per pound In price Is quite worth while when you remember that it can be done on about the same amount of feed. It is wise to caponlze every cockerel not wanted for breeding. There Is very little pain caused by the operation If done skillfully and at the right time—less pain than Is often endured by cockerels In tlielr fights with one another Batter Should Be Kept Cold, Recent experiments on the temperature desirable for storing butter Indicated that about 20 to 25 degrees U f "# - - —.-A - . - _ -

right, maintaining the butter at several dear**'* below freezing point. Storage this year from the fishy flavor, which Is more in evidence than usual, and the cause Is under Investigation by the department of agriculture. Low* temperature does touch to prevent this troll 7 Die*. Heavy Hampshire Lambs. Harry 1.. Andrews writes as follows to the American Sheep Breeder; My flock of Hampslfires are well along in lambing, and I- think I have a finer bunch of lambs this spring than ever -before, although perhaps not so great a per cent of twills as usual, but what they lack in numbers they more than, make up in size. I weighed two lambs on March 1, a rani lamb, 29 days old, that weighed 40% pounds, and tp ewe iamb, 31 days old, that weighed 37 pounds, which L thlnk not very bad considering they have not been pushed at all. ~ How to Cat Seed Potatoes. Round potatoes, with few eyes, such as Carman, are best cut by hand, as machine cutting leaves some pieces without eyes. In cutting the seed, leave sufficient body with each piece to furnish abundant vital food to support thb sprout until it has time to take root in the soil. The size of the pieces Is more important than the number of eyes. All perfect germinating sorts, such as Green Mountain and W. W. Mammoth, may be safely cut to one eye. All imperfect or blind-eyed sorts as Livingston, Seneca to the piece. Tamworth Swine. Tlie Tamworth, a much despised and ridiculed breed of swine, is making reasonably good headway In the United States, Why shouldn’t it? The one crime that it has committed is growing a long shout. But snout aud head, taken together, weigh less than the average head of other breeds. If Tarnworths could produce the long side and short stub head at the same time they would certainly do so to please tlie American people, but Tam worths cannot violate tiny law of conformation. The law of correlation says that a short head cannot go with a very long body. Why do not more people grow Tamworth pork? If they would once try it, like the Gauls on first tasting the wines of Italy, they would want more, says Orange Judd Farmer. Bis; Profits in Fancy Apples. Stories are coining east of the large profits made by fruit growers in eastvra Washington state. In the WeuatJiee valley the prosperous condition of orcharding has increased land values to as high as $250 per acre for the raw land with water rights. Orchards in full bearing range all tlie way from S7OO to SI,OOO per acre. The boom is the result of a very favorable season, when good apples have been selling at $2 a box at shipping stations. One or two unfavorable seasons might change the' situation. The region is described as more like a great orchard village than an ordinary farming section, the fa rips being small and the houses close and other improvements common. The orchard work is carried on in a very thorough manner, with the laud kept thoroughly cultivated and cleaned. The trees have a long growing season and apples fruit at five years from setting. Tlie apples produced here are of very fine appearance and have a peculiar, waxy skin, which finds favor with the buyers. The actual flavor is not equal to the best apples produced in the east, but the Washington apples are carefully graded and packed and sell close to the top of the market prices. Plowing Hilly I.nnd. Ililly land ought never to be cultivated, but kept in grass. Sometimes a farmer has nothing hut hills, and if lie raises n crop of grain it must be on this kind of land. In plowing hilly ground one should never plow up and down the hiU unless he wants his soli carried away with the flood and great ditches washed in the field. Always plow around the hill, beginning at the base nnd winding up the land at the top. In this way the soil is thrown so that It acts as a barrier to the water aud will not wash away. The other day I saw a hill that had been plowed la an ideal manner. It had been in grass and the farmer had commenced at the "base and plowed round aud round It, throwing the thick Inverted sad down the hill and leaving a space at the corners of his land that drained the hill nicely. A recent heavy rate had not damaged it In the least, for all the water had drained off from the corners of the land. The corn should be planted In the manner the hill wa* broken. Never plant corn up and down a hill, for a dashing rain will wash It out. Then If the corn is planted the way tbe land was broken there will be no harm done the land In cultivating it If you have to cultivate the corn planted up and down the hill, It simply makes matters worse for the soil 1* loosened up to be carried away.—Agricultural EpitomtsL

An Unreasonable Reqnest.

Mrs. C. was ordering the day’s lunch over the telephone. Brains were on her menu arid she tried a number of butchers without success. "Is that 2Car anxiously. “Yes.” ; “Have you any brains?” -toSWhat?” troy“No, ho, no!” came the testy reply. “Madame, you have made a mistake, this is Dr. Smith’s telephone.”—Lippinaott’s.

WORN TO A SKELETON.

A Wonderful Restoration Canard ■ Seniiatlon JJft ■ Ift PeuMTiVlUllll ~¥Sitftr Pa., says: “Three yeark ago I found that my housework was becoming ,a

burden. I tired easily, had no ambition and was fading fast. My complexion got yellow, and I lost over fifty pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar In the kidney secretions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as liis medicine was not

helping me 1 began using Doau’i Kidney Pills. They helped me at once,*and soon all traces of sugar disappeared. I have regained my former weight and am perfectly well.” - _ Sold bv .ail dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Revive the Horse Laugh.

“I think,” said one of the middleaged fellows at a downtown resort, “that what is wanted is a society to revive the horse laugh. It is missed, and sadly.” “What kind of a laugh was that?” asked another chap. “The horse laugh, the loud, flamboyatit,' ItapTY ba-lia,” came -tbe- answer; “the kind you can hear at the distance of a block and that shakes the rafters. That was known as the horse laugh when I was a toy. but I rarely hear Itriow! rt bught to be cultivated. If is needed. It tones up the system and sets the digestion going, not only of him—who horse laughs. but of those who hear tlie horse laugh. It was the stuff, the real stuff, aud, unless it is revived, posterity will be the worse off for its loss.” —Philadelphia Records Benjamin Hobbs of Springfield, Mass., is the oldest active armorer in America. He lias been in government employ for over fifty years.

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