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Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
By  Geo.  B.  Fiske 
(Continued  from  page  717) 
“Dollars  in  the  bank?  Yes;  I  can 
boss  them  all  right,  young  man.  Yes ;  I 
started  wild)  young,  and  they  kind  of  got 
attached  to  me  because  I  never  put  them 
out  of  their  job.  Have  you  ever  noticed, 
when  you  thought  of  spending  a  dollar 
for  the  show,  bow  it  might  work  for  you 
all  your  life?  Pay  itself  all  over  to  you 
at  five  cents  a  year  and  be  just  as  good 
for  business  as  ever  at  the  end.” 
I  thought  of  the  fool  ways  I  had  spent 
some  of  my  dollars,  for  I  had  fallen  into 
the  loose  ways  of  most  city  fellows,  and 
with  more  bad  company  than  good,  as 
may  happen  to  a  boy  almost  alone  in  the 
world.  But  I  replied  confidently: 
"I  can  hang  on  to  a  dollar  as  close  as 
anybody,  if  I’ve  a  mind  to.  It’s  sink  or 
swim  with  me  now.” 
“All  the  better  if  you’ve  got  the  stud 
in  you.  boy.  You’ve  not  built  just,  right 
for  a  farmer,  but  I  like  your  grit.” 
“Sell  me  this  land,”  I  returned  boldly, 
“you  don't  need  it.” 
“Well,  young  man.”  be  replied  with  a 
sly  twinkle,  “I  thought  jou  might  say 
that  when  I  took  you  up  here.  ‘Old 
Mount  Entirely’  my  grandfather  used  to 
call  it,  nlaybe  because  the  top  was  en¬ 
tirely  bare  of  trees,  which  grow  on  most 
of  the  lot  in  his  day.  It's  entirely  bare 
of  good  pasture  feed  now.  Still  I 
wouldn't  sell  it  to  the  rich  men  here,  nor 
to  foreigners,  but  I  believe  a  young  man 
ought  to  have  a  chance.  Here’s  eleven 
acres — pretty  rough,  but  it  has  all  been 
plowed  once.  It  might  do  for  what  you 
want.  I'll  sell  it  for  five  hundred  dollars.” 
"I  couldn't  pay  more  than  three  hun¬ 
dred.”  I  replied,  “and  not  much  cash  at 
that.  But  it  would  be  safe,  because  I 
shall  improve  it  as  fast  as  I  can.” 
“Well,  I  guess  I  have  to  let  you  have 
it.” 
“T  will  pay  you  $25  down  and  when  I 
cut  off  some  wood  next  Winter  I  will  pay 
you  ou  account  whatever  I  get  for  it.” 
The  old  mail  laughed  and  grumbled  a 
little  at  my  proposition,  but  it  went 
through  on  that  basis,  and  here  I  was, 
settled  on  the  land  at  last,  but  without 
the  least  idea  of  what  was  really  before 
me. 
CHAPTER  IV. 
Ox  The  Hijxtop. 
My  case  was  much  like  that  of  a  nc<v 
settler.  It  was  early  Spring,  rains  were 
coining  at  short  intervals  and  I  had  no 
money  to  lavish  on  costly  buildings.  First 
I  thought  of  a  tent,  but  couldn’t  find  a 
second-hand  one  for  sale.  Then  I  in¬ 
quired  around  town  and  found  a  builder 
who  was  tearing  down  an  old  block  ami 
tenement  combined.  Tie  bad  the  stuff 
piled  helter-skelter  on  the  premises; 
hoards,  joists,  clapboards  and  shingles, 
great  beams  got  out  in  ancient  times 
when  lumber  and  labor  were  cheap  and 
rough  as  well. 
I  got  him  to  figure  it  out  for  me,  and 
finally  bought  stuff  estimated  enough  for 
a  shack  or  cabin  12  by  18  feet.  It  cost 
$20  delivered,  including  three  windows 
with  casings,  two  doors,  some  badly  split 
clapboards,  also  a  keg  of  “assorted”  nails, 
many  of  them  rusty  and  bent,  having  been 
pulled  out  of  second  hand  lumber.  All 
very  mean  material  to  work  with,  but 
the  best  I  felt  like  paying  for.  A  dis- 
heartening-hioking  heap  it  was  when 
dumped  in  m.v  old  pasture  lot  at  the  top 
of  the  hill. 
The  first  thing  I  did  was  to  fix  up 
something  to  sleep  under.  I  put  in  four 
joists  for  corner  posts  and  put  across 
half  a  dozen  of  the  old  boards,  overlap¬ 
ping  them  at  the  edges,  and  the  whole 
thing  slanting  a  little,  roof-like,  as  was 
easily  done  on  a  hill  lot  like  mine.  T 
bought  from  the  village  second-hand  store 
a  canvas  cot  and  some  bedding  for  a 
couple  of  dollars,  and  I  bought  also  a 
small,  round,  sheet-iron  camp  stove,  a  lit¬ 
tle  tinware  and  some  other  things.  Food 
I  bought  as  1  needed  it,  whatever  I 
thought  was  cheapest  and  handiest  for  a 
green  cook ;  bread,  broken  crackers,  milk 
from  Frost’s  farm,  salt  pork,  ham,  eggs 
and  potatoes.  I  felt  like  the  lonesomest 
bov  in  all  the  State.  B))t  weather  was 
good,  the  birds  were  on  band  for  the  sea¬ 
son.  and  a  smart  wind  blowing  over  my 
hilltop,  and  before  I  knew  it  1  found  my¬ 
self  singing  at  my  work. 
(To  be  continued.) 
Treatment  for  Tree  Dopers 
The  latest  tree  dope  that  has  come  to 
our  attention  is  the  scale  cure  and  germ 
destroyer  made  by  W.  C.  Thompson. 
This  seems  to  be  the  old  game  of  poking 
a  powder  into  the  trunk  of  the  tree,  and 
then  sitting  down  in  the  shade  to  let  this 
powder  work  into  the  sap  and  save  the 
cost  of  a  spray  pump,  while  you  can  go 
fishing  if  you  want  to.  This  one  seems 
to  be  a  star  performance.  Thompson 
claims  that  this  tree  powder  purifies  the 
sap.  It  also  makes  a  good  medicated 
soil  when  mixed  with  black  muck,  ajid  lie 
says  that  many  persons  have  tried  plac¬ 
ing  the  mixture  about  the  roots  of  the 
trees,  to  be  .  taken  up  by  the  sap.  He 
claims  while  that  is  a  very  sure  thing, 
putting  the  powder  into  the  trunk  of  the 
tree  is  very  much  faster.  This  stuff  will 
kill  San  Jose  scale,  pear  blight,  peacli 
borers,  and  worms  and  germs,  accord¬ 
ing  to  Thompson.  I-Iis  directions  for  use 
are  given  as  follows; 
“Bore  a  hole  in  the  trunk  of  the  tree, 
slaning  downward,  on  the  south  side,  as 
the  sun  draws  the  sap  to  that  side  of  the 
tree.  Don’t  bore  toward  the  heart,  but 
keep  in  the  sap  wood.  For  large  trees 
bore  an  inch  hole  from  four  to  five  inch¬ 
es  deep;  then  insert  a  tablespoonful  of 
powder.  Small  trees  should  be  treated 
in  proportion,  down  to  a  half-inch  bole 
and  a  tea  spoon  ful  of  the  powder.  Then 
plug  the  hole  with  dry  wood  or  cork. 
All  large  trees  should  be  treated  in  two 
places." 
Surely  this  is  a  wonderful  perform¬ 
ance.  but  some  of  our  readers  are  a  little 
bit  dubious,  and  want  to  be  shown  be¬ 
fore  they  invest  their  money  in  this 
wonderful  stuff,  so  one  of  our  people  sent 
the  circular  to  the  Indiana  Experiment 
Station,  and  received  the  following  re¬ 
ply: 
We  have  not  tried  out  the  Thompson 
Scale  Cure  and  (term  Destroyer.  We 
have,  however,  used  the  Tree-wax  and 
No-hlight  remedies.  They  are  practically 
identical  in  composition  with  the  Thomp¬ 
son  material.  They  have  proven  abso¬ 
lutely  worthless.  They  are  composed  of 
Venetian  red.  potassium  nitrate  and  sul¬ 
phur,  You  could  duplicate  a  $2  box  of 
Ibis  material  for  about  50  cents,  even 
at  the  high  rate  you  would  have  to  pay 
for  the  potash.  Science  has  unt  yet  dis¬ 
covered  a  satisfactory  means  of  treat¬ 
ing  plant  diseases  and  pests  with  reme¬ 
dies  applied  internally.  The  circulatory 
system  of  the  tree  is  absolutely  different 
from  that  of  the  animal,  All  of  the 
trees  which  wc  have  treated  in  our  Bed¬ 
ford  orchard  showed  large  dead  spots 
around  each  treatment  puncture,  My 
advice  to  you  and  all  members  of  your 
organization  would  be  to  run  friend 
Thompson  off  the  farm  with  bis  nostrum 
as  soon  as  he  appeared. 
That  seems  to  be  about  the  truth  of 
the  matter.  If  anybody  wants  to  give 
$2  for  stuff  which  he  can  buy  for  50 
cents,  there  is  no  law,  except  the  law  of 
ordinary  common  sense,  to  prevent  his 
doing  so,  and  sometimes  even  this  law 
will  fail.  If  anybody  wants  our  advice, 
lie  will  follow  that  given  by  the  Indiana 
Station,  that  is,  he  will  “run  friend 
Thompson  off  the  farm,”  and  then  go  in 
and  make  his  wife  a  present  of  the  $2. 
It  is  astonishing  bow  many  of  these  tree 
dopers  are  still  able  to  play  their  games, 
and  get  good  money  out  of  our  farmers. 
Chestnut  Blight  and  Potatoes 
I  used  leaves  from  blight-infected 
chestnut  frees  for  litter  in  the  henhouse 
and  in  the  horse  stable.  If  these  leaves 
are  put  on  ground  intended  for  potatoes, 
is  there  any  danger  of  their  infecting 
the  potatoes  with  blight?  j.  p. 
Pasadena,  Md. 
There  would  lie  no  danger  whatever  in 
this.  The  chestnut  disease  is  entirely 
different  from  tin*  potato  blight.  Both 
are  germ  diseases,  but  so  different  in 
character  that  it  would  not  be  possible 
for  one  to  “catch”  from  the  other. 
Guest:  ‘‘See  here,  waitress,  you’ve 
kept  me  waiting  here  for  half  an  hour, 
looking  like  a  fool!”  Waitress:  “Sorry 
I  had  to  keep  you  waiting,  sir;  but  you’re 
responsible  for  t lie  rest.” — Judge. 
