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with George to be the first to shield the other. 
But before a word had been spoken Emily hart 
taken the broken halter and speaking gently 
to the animal, he was then led quietly 
away to the barn by George, who came back 
horror stricken, with hands besmeared with 
blood and wrtth a piece of a man’s clothing in 
one of them. 
“ Emily," he said gently, *• there’s some¬ 
thing wrong over the way, I most go over. 
No, don’t, come. I fear something very hor¬ 
rible has happened. I will send Jabez over 
if he is there, or I will come back.” 
Before he arrived the mangled body of 
Defiance Bartlett- had been discovered and 
was laid quietly and gently within the lower 
room of the house. The frame of the barn 
had fallen into the cellar and the fire was 
already burning itself out. George found the 
men assembled discussing the cause of the ac¬ 
cident, and when he had related the circum¬ 
stance of the bull, and bad exhibited the 
portion of the bloody vest of the dead man, 
there was no difficulty in forming an opinion. 
It became clearer still when Jonas Pratt shiv¬ 
ering and awe-stricken, told of the brutal as¬ 
sault upon him by Bartlett, and showed his 
bruises t.o confirm the story. 
“ Men, its . lar enough,” said one, “thispoor 
fellow came in mad and went into the barn 
with the lantern and let out the bull ; mebbe 
he got mad with the critter for he's gentle 
enough, we know, naterally, and they hed a 
tussle and be got thrown and the lantern wer 
spilled and sot fire to the barn, and the critter 
tackled him in the yard ; mebbe dazed with 
the fire, and got the better of him, aua that’s 
the end of poor Bartlett and I’m sorry for 
him I do declar, and I’m sorry too for that 
poor gal in there; I'm afraid it will be the 
death on her.” 
And one by one the crowd dispersed, a few 
remained quenching the embers until all was 
dark again, and the fttony Brook fat m with 
its dead burden of misery upon it relapsed 
into darkness and silence. 
(To be Continued.) 
you leave any better legacy than a sound 
body and a well stored mind? Do you take 
no enjoyment in books, or papers, or music? 
If not, see that your children will when they 
come to occupy your place. Clem Auldon. 
“The “ACME” Pul¬ 
verizing Harrow, Clod 
Crusher and Leveler 
saves me in my market 
garden an immense 
amount of labor. The 
use of the hand rake 
being unnecessary after 
running the “ACME" 
over the ground twice.” 
{See pccge 888 this paper.) 
RANDOM NOTES, 
“Stockman” says, in Rural New-Yorker 
of Nov. 4: “A flock of mutton sheep is not 
well managed unless 150 lambs are reared for 
each 100 ewes.” What does he mean? That a 
ewe will have a lamb and a half? Western 
farmers, I think, are not so grasping; here 
they are satisfied with 00 lambs out of 100 
ewes. 
THE STORY OF STONY BROOK FARM, 
HENRY STEWART 
CHAPTER XX. 
(Continued rrom page S71) 
The mine had turned out badly and the 
money was exhausted. Defeat bad overtaken 
these men, and within a few weeks of their 
great crime, so quickly bad retribution 
come to them; and while their suffering vic¬ 
tim still laid hovering over the grave and 
death was reaching out to grasp and crush 
the young life, the chief actor in the tragedy 
was already swiftly approaching his self- 
wrought punishment. Bartlett was still more 
angered at Pratt’s remonstrances, and retorted 
with bitter accusations and threats. At last, 
with a sudden blow, he laid his partner in the 
unprofitable business senseless at his feet, 
brutally kicked bis helpless form, and de¬ 
parted in ungovernable fury. It was dark 
when he reached his home. The cows had 
been milked and he met the milk on its way 
to the creamery'. It was his business to attend 
to the bull, a gentle, well-trained, beautiful 
Jersey, so docile that it could be led by its 
mistress by a light halter, and would follow 
her to be patted and petted. But the brutal 
man, in his haste, in the dark, to loosen the 
knot which secured the bull, and irritated 
because of its restlessness, kicked the animal 
severely. In Belt defence it kicked back which 
still more enraged him. He would tame that 
beast. He would cure him of kicking, and he 
would make him lead to water quietly too. 
He would not be bossed by a bull. He rushed 
to the house for a lantern and sought a club 
and returned to chastise the animal. 
The bull had been aroused to fury and when 
Bartlett approached with the light it started 
suddenly, broke its fastening and rushed upon 
the unhappy man. The shock bore him down 
and threw the lantern across the floor where 
it exploded. Bartlett was a powerful man 
and the bull was but half grown. Seizing the 
animal by the horns he gained his feet aud 
by sheer strength bore it to its knees and tried 
to overthrow’ it and escape to put out the fire. 
The bull, with a sudden dash, recovered its 
lost ground and gradually forced the man out 
of the barn into the yard, where the struggle 
still continued. A few minutes longer aud 
the man would conquer. He saw the bull 
was weakening. Its tongue protruded aud 
its breath came in gusts. In his rage he 
seized the beast’s tongue witb one hand and 
gave it a sudden aud powerful wrench. Very 
soon he saw his mistake, but too late. His 
cruel act had renew ed the fury of the bull 
and with u scream and a leap it freed itself 
from his weakened hold, flung him olT and 
darted upon him as he lay prostrate. All 
alone the struggle had been fought, and the 
fire had crept slowly along the barn-floor and 
up the wall uutil it reached a mow of hay. 
A bright gush of flame shot out of the barn¬ 
door as the fire leaped and spread all over the 
building and the suddtn blast tore out the 
windows. The red flame lighted up the yard 
and by its glare the hapless mao, unable to 
recover hia feet, saw’ the bull darting upon 
him; he saw the bright glare reflected in its 
eyes like coals of fire and the blood from its 
torn tongue that dripped from its foaming 
muzzle. In an instant one of its horns was 
buried in hia aide. Thrust after thrust did 
the bull give its helpless foe; it kneeled upou 
him and crushed him and furiously tore him 
into a shapeless mass. Then, satiated as it 
were, it leaped the yard fence, bounded across 
the road into the lane and down the path to¬ 
wards the Stone House farm. 
The bright light had alarmed the whole 
valley, and the neighbors were hurrying 
towards it as moths fly to a lantern from 
every quarter. Wagons rattled over the 
atones and horses' hoofs clattered as they gal¬ 
loped furiously. George and Emily were 
mourning over this new disaster, and saw 
from their stand on the lane the gathering 
groups which, too late to save the barn, were 
carefully protecting the other buildings, and 
moving witt the greatest quietness and speak¬ 
ing in w hispers lest they might disturb the 
sick girl indoors. A sudden tramping and 
rushing approached them, which in the bright 
light they soon perceived to be the escaped 
bull. Emily darted on the instant in front of 
her brother to shield him from the animal, 
careless of her own safety. But the really 
gentle animal had already lost its unnatural 
ferocity and stopped suddenly, close to the 
figure clad in white aud so like its mistress. 
Emily lecognizing it, approached it, striving 
There seems to be a difference of opinion 
in regard to letting cattle and sheep run in the 
orchard. William Parry says that fruit trees 
and stock do not do well together. Charles 
A. Greeusays: “We have heard considerable 
talk about farmers growing fruit for stock. 
John Jones planted apple trees for stock. He 
dug holes In the meadow and stuck them in. 
Pasture ran short in August and he turned in 
forty bead of cattle. The stock had all the 
fruit (or trees); enjoyed it hugely aud seemed 
to thrive on it. (Scarcely a tree was left. 
Another farmer turned his sheep into a fine 
bearing orchard. The bark of the trees ap¬ 
peared quite nourishing to them, and they ate 
it with good relish. Planting fruit for stock 
is a success in this locality.” How is this, 
anyhow? I believe it does them good. (I 
mean the stock). A near neighbor of mine 
has an old gray borse that isn't able to do 
anything, except to get through a fence. He 
is very fond of cotton-wood bark in the Fall 
and Winter, but it does him a great deal more 
good to girdle a two-dollar pear tree than it 
would to peel a whole cottonwood. 
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Produce Commission Merchants. 
forClroular of advloe about Smcrrso Produce. 
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Sec’y Chas. W. Garfield's article on Ed¬ 
ucation and Country Schools in the Rural 
New Yorker of Oct. 25—especially hisenum- 
eration of six “radical errors”—might be 
thought by many to be a hyperbole, but it is 
a very plain statement of a very lamentable 
fact. His article ought to be printed in bold, 
brazen faced type and posted up where it 
would be conveniently in the way of every 
school board and every parent until they be¬ 
gin to realize the truth. Mr. Garfield appears 
to have same hesitancy in regard to the 
Rural being the proper channel for this dis 
cussion. Now, I don’t know the feelings of 
the Rural on this subject, but it would seem 
that if there is one thing under the .sun be¬ 
sides “hog« and hominy” in which the Rural 
New-Yorker should feel a live interest, it is 
the comm in country school—the stepping- 
stone of the statesman and the bulwark of the 
nation. [That’s what it should be.— Eds ] 
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farmer’s children is more an accomplishment 
than a matter of necessity; secondly, that a 
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It seems to me about impossible to effect any 
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