THE RALSTON TRIBUNE, RALSTON, OKLAHOMA
| day. Oar rambler* did their Arty wall
bat *>• grape arbor and the pergola
woald not be covered properly In a
season. There were boles In the flower
beds to be filled by annuals, and mis-
takes made In succession, so that July
found us with many patches destitute
| of any bloom. Out In the vegetable
area there were first cutworms and
then drought and potato blight to be
wffb, aad
could give gladly of oar owe atoms
of knowledge or enthusiasm sod find
joy In the giving. We bod health as
never before, and air and sunablne and
a world of beauty all about us to the
far, blue wall of bills.
Above all, we had the perpetual In-
centive of gardening to keep our eyes
toward the future. A true garden,
like a life whll lived. Is forever becoia
CHAPTER XVII—Continued.
• —17—
As the busy autumn days came upon
on. Twin Fires took on a new aspect,
and one to us greenborns indescribably
thrilling. ' In the first place, our field
of corn rustled perpetually as we
walked peat tt and down In tbe green-
ish-golden lanes beneath we could see
tbe orange gleam of pungklns (I shall
so spell (be word lest It be mispro-
nounced by the Ignorant!. Great ears
or tbe Stow ell’s evergreen were ripe,
for Mike’s prediction about the early
frost had not come true, and we ate
tbe succulent food clean to the cob ev-
ery day at dinner, besides selling many
dosens of ears to tbe market. In the
long light of afternoon. Stella loved to
go along the path by tbe bayfield wall
and then tarn In amid the corn, losing
sight st once or all the universe and
wandering In a new world of rustling
leaves. She felt, she said. Just ns Alice
most have felt after she bad eaten the
cake; and once a rabbit bounded
across her foot, to her unspeakable de-
light She looked to see If be had
dropped his gloves!
Then there was the potato field. We
were eating our own new potatoes
now. Often Stella dug them.
“It seems so funny to go and dig .ip
• potato.” she declared. “I’ve always
felt that potatoes juat were. But to
see the whole process of growth la
qolte another matter. Oh, John, It
makes them so ranch nicer!”
“Especially when yon are getting
•eventy-flve cents a bushel for them,
1 laughed.
The loaded tomato vines, too, with
the red ftalt banging out from the wire
frames and sending a pungent odor
Into tbe surrounding air, appealed to
Stella endlessly. 1 used to see her now
and then, as I glanced from the south
room of a morning, eating a raw to-
mato Ilka an gpple. her head bent for-
ward ao that the juice would not apotl
her drees.
And there were tbe applest Already
a red Mtrachan tree Invited ns on
every hip to the brook, and other old
trees were beating fast-reddening
fruit. I bad wanted to set out more
orchard, but we agreed that we could
not afford It that year. If we were to
bnlld chicken houses against toe
spring, so I reluctantly gave up tne
idea. But our old trees. In spite of
(or perhaps because of) my spring
ftoralng. were doing falrty well. We
had enough for baked apples and
cream all winter, anyhow, Stella reck-
oned. smacking her lips at the thought.
Every day, on our way to the pool,
one or tbe other of us took a hoe along
and scraped a tree for five minutes,
gradually getting the old bark off, and
making a final preparation for a thor-
ough spraying the next winter jnat ao
much easier. I used to prune a bit too
In apare momenta, ao that by tbe end
of tbe summer considerable renovation
had been accomplished. -
And bow came the foxglove trans-
planting. According to the gardeners
directions, wa took two long rows
where tbe early peas bad stood (and
where Mlko had disobeyed my Instruc-
tlona to spade'the vlnea under, that
being a form of green manuring your
old-time gardener will not see the
value of, I have discovered), trenched
them, put In manure and soil, and set
out at least three hundred foxglove
plants six Inches apart It waa a cool,
cloudy day. and they stood up as
though nothing bad happened. Then,
aa an experiment, we moved acorua of
tiny hollyhocks from the crowded seed
beds Into their permanent position as
a screen between the south kitchen
windows and the snndlal lawn, and aa
a border on the west side of the same
lawn. They, too. were quite uuaffect
ed by tbe change.
Meanwhile, we ordered our bulbs—
hyacinths, daffodils (which In our dl
mate refuse to take tbe winds of March
with beauty, cowardly waiting till
May), a few crocuses. Narcissus poetl
eus, Empress narcissus. German Iris
Japanese iris and Darwin tulips. We
ordered the iris and tulips In named
varieties.
“They have such nlae names." said
MeUa. "especially tbe Japanese Irii
Klml-no-megumt, Stalratakl,    Mo mo
chtguma! The tultpa are nice, too.
Here la Ariadne and Kate Greenaway
hobnobbing with Trofesaor Rauwen-
hofft What's the use of having plants
that aren't named? We must show
them as much respect aa Antony and
Cleopatra, ov Epictetus and Luella!”
We also experimented with lilies—
lemon lllte* for the abndy north aide
of tbe house, Mgers for the border bo-
yood the peal, and two or three of the
y llama, jnat to show
go la for the exotic,
aa the Mg sets tea.
contended with. In our Ignorance we
neglected to watch the hollyhocks for I ing. forever In process, forever leading
red rust till suddenly whole plants be-1 on toward new goals. Life. Indeed
gan to die. and we bad to spray madly    goes hand In band with your gnrden.
with bordeaux and pull off a great    and never a fair thought but yon
heap of Infected leaves, to save any    write It In flowers, never a beautiful
blooms at all. There were clearings    picture bat you paint It If yon can.
coevAiem- m    oooecsow, se* O co I to be made In tbe pines for ferny spots,    and with the striving learn patience.
When    tbe    bulbe    came    In    October. and constant work to be done about    and with the half accomplishment tha
we looked at the boxes sadly.    the pool to keep the wild bushes from “divine unrest”
Whew”" said Stella, “ypu can't be coming back. There were chickens to HORA# nqn NUMERO NISI SERB-
lazy and have a garden, can you?” *»•    *,tef n°"* a nnd new re    NAS
.. M I onAnelKIHtlaa In lh() flllfllFfll fftP hflth I
reads tbe ancient motto on oar dial
THE
PRICHARD
Significance
of Good Digestion
Is strongly reflected In
your general health
and happiness.
For any digestive weak-
ness, llverfand
bowel trouble or
malaria, fever
and ague
desired to avoid our full share of dvk-1 plate, and aa I look back on the years I v mtiAlllfi trV
work. We lived a busy life, with not of Twin Flraa* genesis, or forward Into TOU SIUJUIU
K„n,a in nnraoivm if I had inf I on hour In the day Idle, and few hours I the future, the hours that are uot I    A AaBHapaan||an|ja
help. 1^should feel like the Eckstrome. in the evening. We lived so full a sunny    UQSTETTER^S
whifh Ood forbid!”    I life, indeed, that It was only by pro | I am wrtting_now at a    | Vfl Iff W I fc ■ ■ mail W
II Stomach Bitter*
IBP———H———
Money la useful as a servant, but
tyrannical aa a master.
SWAMP-ROOT STOPS
SERIOUS BACKACHE
When your back aches, and year Mad-
a uu.«    ______ - ________ -    - -    der and kidneys seem to be disordered, ro-
und put the tigers Into the borders and a small family, I managed to die- path now wanders op the brook al- member it is needlem to raffar-fotovow
___a. ____________i__,l -i I nna> rtf m v aiimluH milk and ci-fsiti mnat fn the mud amid the wild tangle. 1 nee rest dm* store and oat a bottle of Hr.
be looked after now, also, and new re
"I don’t work tomorrow. I guess,” I sponalbilitlea In the village for both
said I. “Shall we ask Mike’s Joe to | of ua. We had neither attempted nor
help ua?"
“Never!" said my wife. “We'll pnt
which God forbidT*    .    .    ...    „    -
So the next day at seven-thirty we serving an absolute routine for my
the pergola. Tbe floor la of brick, laid
began We ringed ^e poo w th Ger ownbroad-w.noln, labors, from 9 a. m (aom.wbat Irregularly) by Stella and
ma*n and Japanese Iris. Wnated for till one. that . wa. able to rea.st the me. for w. .till are poor.aethe **-
succession, and planted a few Japa- siren call of formed garden. and get stroma would reckon ""•**• *^
nese both below and above the poo!, my daily stint accomplished.    \ot    ^l-Lhh”
close to the brook. We set the Narcla- The preceding summer 1 had made grim Inhibitions of wealth proventa
sus poeticus bulbs where. If they grew, about two hundred dollars out of my ua from doing whatever we can with
the flowera could look at themselves in prodace, which In my first naive en- our own hands, and finding therein •
the mirror below the dam. The Em- thuslaaro pleased me greatly. But li double satisfaction. Over my beafl
press narcissus we placed on both was surely a poor return on my Invest- rustle the thick vlnes-n wistaria
•Ides of tbe pool Just beyond the Iris. meat, reckoned merely In dollars and among them, which may or may not
On each side of tbe bench we placed oents, and tbe second season showed survive another winter
a bulb of our precious Myriopbylluma. I a different result Having two cows | It la June again.
I know that a
close "to the shrubbery on both aides. I pose of ray surplus milk and cream I most to the road, amid the wild tangle, nearest drug store and gt a bottle of Dr.
The hyacinths went into the sundial | to a farmpr who ran a milk route. | and ends suddenly In tbe most unex-1 KUmar’i Swamp Root. It is a PtyMaas
beds, the Darwins Into the beds at the I This brought me In $73 a year. As I I pected nook beneath a willow tree,
base of the rose aqueduct, a few er«> further saved at least $100 by not hav- where Irises fringe a second tiny pool,
cases Into tbe snndlal lawn, and the ing to bny milk, and $00 by Peter’a | know that the path still wanders the
daffodils here and there all over the efforts st the chnrn. and could reckon other way into tbe plnee—pines larger
place, where the fancy struck os and | a further profit from manure and j now and more murmurous of the sca-
the ground Invited.
prescription for diseases of the kidnsys
tad bladder.
It has stood the taat of yean sad hoe
o reputation for quickly and affectively
giving results in thousanda of coses.
This prescription waa mead by Dr. K0>
__    calves, my eowa were worth between past beds of ferns and a lone cardinal n(r ^ ^ prjTat# practice and was eo
“Now I’m going to label everything. I three bundfed and four hundred dol- flower that will bloom In a abaft of rt„ .g.etive that it baa boon placed m
----    ------ - - - 1    - - -    -    -    ---^ ‘ path .ale evtrywbera. Got a bottle, M* aad
and pnt It on a map besides,” cried lars a year to me. Now that we had aanlight Somewhere down that
Stella “except the daffodils. I want bens and chickens, we could reckon I my wife Is wandering, and she la not
to forget where they are. I want aur-1 on another $100 saved In egg and poul- j n|one. A little form (at least she says
prises In the spring. Oh, John, do yon
suppose they’ll come up?"
“Tea, I suppose they will,” 1 laughed,
“some of them. But do you ouppose
we’ll ever get tbe kinks out of our
backs?”
“I’m willing to go doubled up all the
rest of my life for a garden of daffo-
dils all my own,” she cried.
And then my heart with pleasure thrills
And dances with the daffodils—
“It was very thoughtful of old Worde-
wbrth, and Shakespeare, and Masefield,
and all the rest to write nice things
about daffodila. wasn’t It, John? 1
wonder If gardens would he so won-
derful If It weren’t for all (heir lit-
erary suggestions, and the lovely
things they remind yon of? Gardens
have ao much atmosphere! Oh. spring,
spring, hurry and cornel”
1 forgot my lame back In her enthu-
siasm. and later, when tbe applet were
gathered, tbe potatoes dug, tbe beets
and carrots In the root cellar, onr own
sweet elder foamed In a glaas pitcher
on onr table, and tbe first snow aplts
of December whistled across tbe fields,
we put a little long manure over the
Irises and other bulbs, and pine boughs
over the remaining perennials, and
wrapped the ramblers In straw, with
almost as much laughing tenderness
as you would put a child to bed.
The cows were back In the stable,
and Mike had revised bis opinion of
cork-asphalt floors when he realized
the ease of cleaning with a hose; the
potatoes and apples and onions and
beets and carrots for our family use
were stored In barrels and bins In tbe
cellar, or spread on shelves, or burled
In sand. The vegetable garden was
newly plowed, and manure spread on
the bnyfleld.- Antony and Cleopatra
try bills. To thla total I was able to I it has form!) sleeps beside her, while
add at tbe end of tbe eummer more ahe sits, perhape, with a book, or more
than five hundred dollars received likely with sewing In her buey fingers,
from the sale of frntt and vegetables. or mor* likely still with bauds that
not only to the market but to tb^ ho-1 8tray toward the sleeping child and
ears that listen to the senshell murmur
of tbe pines whispering secrets ll the
future. Is he to be a Napoleon or a
Pasteur? No lees a genius, surety, the
prophetic pines whisper to the listen-
ing mother!
My own pen halts In Its progress
and the Ink dries on tbe point And
_ . hark, from the plnee a tiny cry I Can
Vy (/■ he want bis father?
THE END.
$1.00, at year nearest draggtoT
However, if yon wtob Aral to test thla
great preparation send tea seats te Off*
Kilmer A Co, Binghamton, N. Y., tor O
■ample bottle. When writing be an sad
mention this paper.—Adv.
i
Vi
One or the Other of Ua Took a Hoe
Along.
tela I was tbe only person In Bent-
ford who had cultivated raspberries
for sale, for Instance, and tbe fact
bad been captured and bropgbt Into that |    denTar them absolutely
tbe dining room, where they were to ^ t0 th* hotels was appreciated In I “I"    "tbit mid
•nanil thn wlnlar In n    Iiawl Rnlt*- I____.. n.,-    B»e!70D« snows    »ulu
spend the wluter In n glass bowl. Epic-1 90 dellcate a fruit Stella and Peter
tetus and Luella and Gladys and Gay-
nor had all burrowed out of eight Into
the ground. The pageant of autumn
on our hills was over, only an amethyst
liaxe succeeding at sunset time. Wood
fires aparkled In our twin hearths. The
MINE HAS PECULIAR VALUE
Great Variety of Meat Useful Produets
Taken Prom the Ground In Vor»
dlte, South Africa.
Situated In the beautiful Knap val-
ley, In the Jamestown district of Bar
berton, Transvaal, there to a mine
known by the name of Verdlte. The
name was given to It on account of
the peculiar greenstone found In the
mine, which Is unknown In any other
part of the globe. Articles of jewelry
and ornaments are made of verdlte,
and It has been called the lucky green-
stone of South Africa. This 'green-
stone la a silicate of magnesia, or
talc, colored green by nature in tha
course of Its formation. Other silicates
of magnesia may be mentioned here;
peridots, serpentine, meerschaum and
steatite. The mine, or. rather, htU.
consists of throe varieties of talc,
green, white and black. But a pe-
culiar fact ts that In tha black tale
there Is preaeat pure gold. Some of
the finest specimens of gold-hearing
rook have been found at this mine.
to found
One on His Reverence.
A young factory hand and hia girl
went to get married. They got aa far
as the church, when he found out ho
hadn’t enough money to pay the wed-
ding fee. The clergyman woud not
marry them, saying: "No mot?,tao
wedding.”
So the girl naked woald ho wait
till ahe went home for the money.
The clergyman said “Tea.''
In a little while the girt returned
with the money and the knot was duly
Med.    -    - v-***»c -
The girl now said to the clergyman:
“Can anyone oppose our union?"
To which he replied:
“Nobody, my daughter. Heaven
bless you.’’ /
The girl ealdf
'Then there’s the pawn ticket for
your hat and coat, which I took from
the vestry and pawned!"
Collapse of hla reverence.
A Solemn Warning.
“Do you think our republic to la dag-
ger?"
“Certainly not,” replied 8enator Sor-
ghum. “It to reasonably safe now.
All I aay Is that I shudder to think
of what may befall It If I should hap-
pen not to be re-elected."
Douglaavllle, N. J„ has a dwelling
;occupied continuously for 200 yearn.
New York In May started 229 now
buildings, valued at 236.287,390.
were tbe pickers. I also supplied the
Inns with peas, cauliflower* and toma-
toes. Thus the Tana, was actually pay-
ing ms In cash or saving at leaat a
thousand dollars a year—Indeed, ranch
more, since we had no fruit nor vege-
aummer residents bad departed. Our table b||ta the j.ear through. Mra. I’llllg
first Thanksgiving tnrkey had been iwing an artist In preserving what
eaten, though a great atone crock of WOuld not keep In the cellar. But we
Mrs. Pilllg'a tuqpmpurable mincemeat W||| ra|j |t a thousand dollars, aad tot
still yielded up Its treasures for am- the rest go ns Interest on the Invest-
broalal pies.    | nient represented by seeds and Impte-
la quarts, pyrites, or even la sea
water, but scarcely over has It been
mentioned In b«ks that gold exists
In talc. When the verdlte rock hai
gone through the ordinary process of
crushing and the gold has been ex-
tracted. the waste (or what Is called
the elimee from a gold mine) to
| used la the manufacture of soap,
grease, paint, paper, toilet powders,
gas jets, electric insulators, crayons
and many other articles of everyday
use. In tact, one might oay that
r'rjVJTI."Uln. .« from
ter Is like!”.
“And yonr friends are pitying you
down In town,” said I. “Don’t you
want to go back to them till springT"
Stella looked at the fires, she looked
out over tbe bare garden and tha
a year, nud employed hie eon Joe at
I1.7S a day for twenty weeks. This
left me a profit of about two hundred
dollamm my first full season at Twin
Fires, which paid my taxes and bought
my coaL Out of my salary, then, came
no rent, no bills for butter, eggs, milk.
plowed fields to the dun hillsides, she poultry nor vegetables. 1 had to pay
listened a moment to the whistle of
the bleak December wind, she looked
at me.
In her eyes I read her answer.
ueod tor some commercial purpose.
Adding to French Wealth.
Sixty families of the Malsono Alton
luburb of Paris have received assign-
ments of uncultivated land tor plant-
ing potatoes and other vegetables, tha
action being under a decree by tha
French minister of agriculture. This
to the Brat practical application of tbo
measures adopted for the utilisation
CHAPTER XVIII.
Herns Non Numoro Ntol Serenes.
But this atory Is, after all. an Idyl,
and the Idyl Is drawing to Its dose.
Even aoribe Old Three Decker cnrrtei) I coop ua In an upper West aide apart
tired people to the Islands of tbe Blest. I ment. We bad thirty acres of beaut)
Mra. rilllg her $20 a month therefrom.
1 had to pay the upkeep of the place,
and grocery and meat bills (tbe latter
being comparatively email In enmmer). ....    .    ,    ...    . ,__.
But with the greet Item of rent ellml- | ot previously uncultivated lands.
nated. and my farm help, paying for
Itself. It wna natonlshlng to me to con-
template what a beautiful, comfort-
able home we were able to afford on
on Income which In New York would
>lt for the Fart.
Wlfey—What do you think baby will
become when ha grows up?
Hubby—Well, he's had axparlauca
enough to bo a towncrler.—Town Tup-
les.
my little tale can only end with “and
they lived happy ever aftar."
That second summer at Twin Fires,
of course, showed aa many things yet
to be done. Neither Room nor the I
balit to aJ
ful land, we had a brook, a pine grove,
an orchard, f not too formal garden,
a lovely house, la #hlcb we were
•lowly aeaatabtlngiMahogany furniture
which fitted It We had summer eoel
Lift In tha Open.
“Wa ean’t Imagine what the hard
Mps of tha tvoaehos must bn."
”| earn. Weak a m all-day Meats
ah
When
The Doctor
Says “Quit”
—many tea or coffee drink-
ers find themselves in tha
grip of a “habit** and think
they can’t But they can—
easily—by changing to the
delicious, pure food-drink,
P0STUM
This fine cereal beverage
contains true nourishment
but no caffeine, eg do tee
end coffee.
Postum makes for com-
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