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A Goose Question.
®. J. T. writes: “Last spring I had two
pair of geese, but lately, getting goose
hungry, I killed and ata one of the gan
ders. Will It’ be necessary to provide an
other gander in order to have the goose
propagate?”
The one gander will suffice.
Hot Bods andGoldFramss-The Differ
ence.
What is the difference between a “hot
bed" and a “cold frame?” One authority
says hot beds for on|ons and another says
cold frames, afid it puzzles me a little.
S. C. R.
A hot bed means the use of some heating
substance, like fermenting stable manure,
placed several inches under the seed bed
(in a glass frame,) while a cold frame
signifies the absence of such, merely rely
ing on the glass frame to collect'the heat
to aid the germination of the seeds.
Here in our Comparatively mild climate
we have never found it necessary to re
sort to the stable manure under the seeds.
It the glass frame is properly managed
there will be enough heat to get any
plants tn time to set out as early as it is
safe to set out in our climate, and these
cold frame raised plants are always health
ier than any raised in hot beds. We know
of. no plants that cannot be raised to per
fection without the aid of under heat in
our climate and the hot bed is absolutely
unnecessary.
Cabbage and Green Peas.
My intentions now are to plant two
acres in cabbgge and one acre in green
peas to ship to northern markets. Will
you please tell me the best manure to u§e
for each of these cropg, and the time to
aoW to get the,earliest crops? B. J. C.
Any good fertilizer that Will make corn
or cotton will make cabbage and peas. A
compost of stable manure and cotton seed
■with a ton of bone dust, along with a
1,000 to 2,000 pounds of ashes, spread broad
hiake a wry good manuring for
Oljftfer erpp,, Do not expect to make heavy
crops of cabbage or peas with goo or 800
pounds of ordinary fertilizer. Do not
begrudge manure for these ertips. Put It
on most freely, Do not begrudge It. Plant
both crops just as soon as the severe
weather is over and push them by good
cultivation. You cannot put too much
manure on the land .anywhere under
125 per acre. For the cabbage it might pay
to apply S6O worth. Get your land ready
and we will be more explicit in a later is
sue.
Hogs and Cattle Rating Castor Oil
Plants.
Agricultural Editor News: As I am
an invalid and have to pass my time by
reading the News and a few other good
papers, I thought I would make an effort
to get up a short article for the News. I
have had my attention called to the fact
that our njilch cow has taken to a patch
of castor beans that grew outside our
lot, and she, with the help of a neighbor’s
cow, have demolished the patch. At llrst
we thought it would ruin her milk, but we
could not detect any difference. Never
having heard of cattle eating castor bean
pldntH befpre, I would like to know what
you think would be the result if there were
enough for a regular every-day, pasture.
While the cows were eating the leaves and
buds of the castor plant our pigs took to
eating the castor beans, and first we
thought it would surely kill the last one;
but to our surprise they kept flourishing.
Not a pig have we lost, nor has one been
the least unwell. I write this, hoping to
see if this is a naw departure for cows and
hogs. G. p, W .
Growing Broom Corn.
Do you suppose there would be any
proflt in growing a few hcras in broom
corn .here In Middle Georgia, when is
the proper time to plant it, and how much
would it probably yield per acre? la there
more than ond kind? H. M. C.
•From some little experience in the mat
ter we assume that broom horn can be
grown as successfully tn Georgia as any
where, but we cannot say how profitably.
Borne years ago there was a broom manu
factory in Atlanta, that purchased all
the good brush offered, but whether or
not hero Is a good market for the brush
thei now we cannot say. It is easy
enough to grow the corn. It is sown in
four foot rows and thined out just like
sorghum. It requires some care in cur
ing properly for market, and in a later
issue we will tell you all about it, so
that If you decide to make the venture
you will be ■able to make and bale, it prop
erly for shipment. It la not planted lw
for<» March. There are several varieties
of the corn.
In th« Garden Notes and Suggestions
for December.
Many gardeners who read this depart
ment find little that they can do this
month, as the ground is either covered
with snow or hard frozen most of the
time. Their only employment will be in
the direction pf procuring all necessary
seeds, so that they will be prepared to
take advantage of the first weather suit
able for sowing, and in making of such
composts as may be made under a shel-
But on another hand, there are a far
greater number who are numbered
amongst the readers of the New* who will
find an abundance of wo-k this month
that will go a long ways toward insuring
gueceu In the spring. Wet weather will
be about the only thing that will prove an
impediment to steady and Important work.
De<'emb«r Is usually a wet month, not
from very heavy “down-pours.” but from
the fact that evaporation of moisture
takes place so slowly after a saturating
rain. After such a rain it is oftentimes
a week before the soli dries off sufficiently
to allow of being plowed. The average
of rainfall In Middle Georgia, obtained
from a record continuing over twenty
years, is four and a third (4%) Inches. In
July or August this quality of rain would
not prevent plowing many days in the
month, but that amount in December may
preVent plowing altogether. It depends
altogether how it falls, and the number of
cold, cloudy days, whethpr such a quan
tity of rain will keep the soil continuously
wet—too wet to plow. Whenever It Is prac
ticable to do so, and has not been done al
ready in November, the initial preparation
of the soli should begin this month In
most southern gardens, large or small.
Where the soil is sandy, or loose from
the presence of vegetable matter, no very
great advantage is secured by ridging it
up in the winter, but all, clay soils or
shallow soils are greatly benefited by be
ing ridged up and exposed to the helpful
influence of frost and freezing. It will un
der such soils, be much more easily
worked in the spring, and they are not so
apt to bake hard later on in the summer.
While sandy soil is not especially bene
fited from being ridged and exposed to
frost, still on account of the ease with
which it may be properly manured dur
ing the latter part of this month and
along through January, It will be found
well to ridge it as well as the stiffer soils.
This ridging is done either with a
narrow turn shovel pf turn scooters run
ning furrows as close as possible without
throwing any soil into the furrow pre
viously made. This will have the soli in a
somewhat the appearance of a corrugated
roof. When the soil Is dry enough or
hard from being frozen, such stable ma
nure or other organic matter of a coarse
nature can be hauled out and spread
broadcast aver this fluted surface. Later
on this soil will be thoroughly harrowed
across, ploughed and relisted or furrowed
to prepare it for planting. In the large
market gardens (in the south) this Decem
ber (and January) work is necessary to
best results, and it should not be left un
done except for good excuse.
While cold frames are rarely found in
the small home-garden of our southern
latitude, no one who grows vegetables for
market is likely to neglect this valuable
adjunct in securing plants for early use.
The earliest vegetables caw 'duly be ob
tained through the use of well-constructed
and well-managed frames (part glass cov
ered and part cloth covered.) By the use
of frames it is possible to have large,
stocky plants ready to be transplanted to
their several plats just as soon as all
rough weather 1» past, and before it
would not be at all safe to put the seed In
the open ground. They are Indlspenslble
toward securing early plants of cabbage,
beets, tomatoes, egg-plants, pepper, cel
ery and lettuce.
When specially early vegetables are not
desired, as is the case usually with the
small gardefier in the country or In the
town, the expense of cold-frames need
not be undergone. Just as good vegetables
can grown from sowings of seed In
the open ground, but the garden will be
later In getting under way.
In the well conducted garden there
should bo no need for any plantings In
the open ground this month, except In
lower latitudes, where It Is particularly
appropriate to the planting of several
crops. Our pwn practice in Middle Geor
gia has been to make rhe first planting
of English peas during the first ten days
of this month and occasionally such plant
ings have been killed. When It is not
desired to take any risk, this planting
had better be deferred until next month,
and what is the case with peas la likewise
the case with onions sets put out now or
sowings of spinach. It is possible that
both may he kijled or heaved out of the
soli by severe freezes the last of this
month or during the hot month, though we
have time and again planted both suc
cessfully during the first half of Decem
ber. Very little may be lost and some
i by waiting until the
close. Junuury before making these
plantings—that Is, anywhere above, the
31st or »2d parallel of latitude. Os .course
at points op the seacoast, plantings at
this season are more secure than they
would be further In the Interior, where
the elevation Is higher. Below the 82d
degree the approximate latitude of Sa
vannah, Ga., it is rarely the case that
plantings of the hardy crops made this
month are Injured to any considerable
extent. Only now and then at rare inter
vals does such weather occur as did in
January, 1886, to kill hardy crops below
the 81st parallel. It has happened only
once in a dozen or more years.
We are not a believer In taking unnec
essary risks in gardening or anything
else, but It is very important to be fully
up to time in all our horticultural work.
If there Is so much to be done It is wise
to dispose of such work as can be done
as promptly as possible. It Is a waste of
time and seeds to have much replanting or
resowing to do, and one had better be
a week or two late than a few days too
early. Labor In most sections Is not so
plentiful as it once was, and It must be
economical. In the large gardens or
truck patches labor saving implements
must be used to- the fullest extent possi
ble.
One advantage of early plantings Is it
enables us to establish the crop before
the grass and weeds become trouble
some. A. B. C.
All About Tobacco.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The tobacco plant is from three to six
feet high.
Iron tobacco pipes are popular in Cen
tral Asia.
Virginia tobacco Is one of the strongest
varieties.
Salt is added to all wet snuffs to pre
vent molding.
Brazilian tobaccos often contain 10 per
cent, of niclta.
The first European tobacco was grown
in Portugal tn 1620.
A "hand” of tobacco is commonly about
four ounces.
The tobr plant Is a member of the
nightshade mily.
About 220,000,000 cigars are annually ex
ported from Havana.
Oculists say that one form of blindness
is caused by smoking.
The best kinds of snuff are made only
from the high-grade leaves.
The tobacco leaf Is said to require about
twelve weeks to cure.
It is said that tobacco seed will retain
its vitality eight or ten years.
The best grades of Cuban tobacco have
less than 2 per cent, of nicotia.
The genus nieotiana contains about
fifty species, mostly American.
The first chemical analysis of tobacco
was made by Vauqqeline in 1809.
Tt,3 yield of a tobacco farm is said
to be from 600 to 1,000 pounds an acre.
The value of the leaf tobacco exported
by this country in 1890 was $20,640,000.
Scotch snuff is said to obtain its pecu
liar color from the addition of ochre.
Tobacco growers often save a large
quantity of seed from an especially good
crop.
The ash of tobacco is large, varying
from 16 to 30 per cent, in the different
kinds.
The French government has had a
monopoly of the tobacco business ever
since 1816.
The department of Lot, in France, pro
duces a tobacco with nearly 8 per cent,
of nicotia.
The color of snuff depends on the ex
tent to which the fermentation has been
allowed to go.
The seed capsules of the tobacco plant
are provided with valves for the escape
of the seeds.
Turkish and some other eastern tobaccos
are only used as tine-cut for cigarettes
and pipes.
The poorer and ’cheaper varieties of
snuff are sometimes made from refuse
stems and leaves.
Th flowers of some species of the to-
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1894.
bacco plant open only at sunset, and close
at sunrise.
The Storing of Onions.
Onions are the most easily cared for of
any of the smaller agricultural industries.
Nor Is there a vegetable that would fill
its place In the economy of the house. It
conduces to health, stimulates the appe
tite, and In many ways renders itself
useful. Great care should be exercisd to
prevent the onions from being bruised in
the handling. In gathering them they
should not be suffered to fall upon one
another or the ground. Bruised onions are
more difficult to keep through the winter.
They should be thoroughly dried before
storing away. Care, also, should be taken
to retalri the outer covering of loose lay
ers, as these act as a protection In the
bln or the cellar. In drying it is a good
plan to spread them out on the drying
floor as thinly as possible. This drying Is
an Important factor In the preservation of
onions through ttje winter. Onions should
never be stored In a damp place. Tn the
cellar the floor of their bln should be sev
eral Inches from the floor, even If the floor
is dry. Bricks will draw dampness from
an apparently dry dirt floor, and so well
onions. Neither should they be stored
above the potatoes or cabbages. It is not
always possible in an ordinary cellar to
have room to spread them out thinly In
the blns, but do the best you can in this
way.
The cellar should be kept quite cool.
Onions sprout freely if the cellar is at all
warm and sprouty onions are poor eat
ing. Hence cellars should be well venti
lated, and the means of ventilation of such
a character, of such a nature, as to be
easily regulated. This can be done
through a draught made In the doors that
can be managed like a stove damper, and
the ventilator through the roof, If the
cellar be a cave, or by the chimney, If
the cellar is under the house. This ven
tilation Is essential in onion storage In
winter. Onions cared for as herein Indi
cated will keep royally all winter and come
out in the spring and command the top
of the market. E. B. H.
The Use of Salt.
Salt Is not a fertilizer strictly speaking,
but acts as such by combining with other
mineral elements in the soil, rendering
them more readily available as food for
the growing plant. This is most notice
able in sandy soils, where there is an
abundance of potash in an insoluble form
(silicate or potash,) which changes to a
soluble form under the action of the salt.
Nitrate of soda also will show much bet
ter results when mixed with twice its
weight of common salt than when used in
a pure form per cent, nitrogen,) per
haps because it makes the proportion of
available potash in the soil more evenly
balance the amount of nitrogen furnished,
or because of a chemical change in the
form taken by the nitrogen in the soil.
Very naturally salt shows better results
upon lands remote from the seashore, as
the latter receives salt in the spray or
In the rainfall to an extent that would
scarcely be believed by those who have
not experienced it. Upon the south side
of Massachusetts Bay, after a northeast
storm, window glass upon the side of the
building exposed to the storm has been
found to have a perceptible coating of
salt, ten of fifteen miles back from the
coast, and doubtless this would be the
fact in other localities exposed to the rain
■with heavy winds blowing directly in
shore. Salt is supposed to promote the
growth of leaf and stalk more than the
development of grain or root crops, but
assists the latter by making a healthy
growth of the whole plant. It does not
seem to. show as good results upon a stiff
clay or clayey loam as upon a lighter soil.
About 200 pounds to the acre is called a
fair application for grass lands, and the
grass seems to be more succulent and bet
ter relished by the animals. Too much
salt is injurious to vegetation, and salt
will not usually show any beneficial ef
fects on a second application, until after
the lapse of some years, or after a heavy
dressing of barnyard manure has been
put upon the land. There are grades of
salt that are not quite pure enough for
salting meat, which can be bought at a
low price, and as the impurities do not
usually contain anything Injurious to the
plant, they are cheaper to buy than the
merchantable salt. Almost any of the
agricultural stores or fertilizer dealers
will furnish salt for manure, and it may
pay you to try it, as it will not be very
expensive.
Good or Poor Cows.
A cow whose milk will make a pound of
butter a day, or 350 pounds in a year, is
a very good cow, and -would yield a profit
after paying for liberal feedlng.One which
yields 300 pounds a year is a good cow
and probably a profitable one, and one
that yields 250 pounds a year may pay for
her keeping and care, but one that does
not yield over 200 pounds a year is a poor
cow, and does not do any more than pay
for her feed at the average prices for but
ter and feed. Those that fall below that
amount are very poor cows and unprofit
able to the owner. Even if he can sell
the milk for more than the feed costs,
he had better replace her with a more pro
ductive animal. The Babcock test will so
quickly show the capabilities of a cow,
when rightly used, that there is no ex
cuse for keeping those that do not pay
for the labor of caring for them as well as
for their feed.
The Yam Swe«t Potato.
Some of the southern sweet
growers claim that the sweet potatoes
grown tn the north are not of the same
variety, and are much inferior in quality
to those grown in the south. We know
there fa a great difference of quality of the
sweet potato, varying with the kind of
soil it grows on and the season. On cold,
heavy soil and in a season when there
IS much rain, the potatoes are heavy
and watery. In the north, at least, the
sweet potato does best on sandy soil, if
It is made rich by thorough manuring.
There is, however, a kind of sweet po-
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tato grqwn in the south known as the
yam potato. It requires a longer season
than is possible for ft in the northern
states. Those who have eaten the, yam
sweet potato say that it is much better
than ordinary sweet potatoes found in
northern markets. This is not the old
yam potato introduced in the north forty
years ago or more, when the Irish potato
began to roti It was then thought it
might prove a substitute for the common
potato, but the yam proved a course,
poorly-flavored and wholly unmanageable
tuber. It grew so large, so far below the
surface, and so full of prongs that when
once in a field it was almost as hard
to get rid of it as of a crop of horseradish
that had been suffered to grow for two
or three years without being removed.
Horticultural Notes.
Do not cultivate so deep as to disturb
the roots.
An effective remedy for black knot Is
cutting off and burning.
Keeping the soil shaded aids materially
in the storing of nitrogen.
Many make a mistake in failing to
spread out the roots evenly.
It is not too late to set out strawberry
plants if good care is given.
Remove the mulch and give the straw
berries thorough cultivation.
In growing berries for market the best
results are secured with a rich soil.
Transplanting two or three times helps
in the formation of fibrous roots.
Generally in transplanting it is best to
set the plants down to the first leaf.
Allowing them to grow tod thick Is
one cause of failure in growing root
crdps.
Mulching newly set trees during hot,
dry weather often saves them from
dying.
During the summer is a good time to
prepare the soil for fall planting of the
orchard.
Many plants die because care is not
taken to place the soil In eJose contact
with the roots.
It is rarely a good plan to allow a fruit
tree agen to select the varieties of trees
for the orchard. I■- 1 / ;
Allowing moss or lichen tcf grow to the
bark of the trees affords a, hiding or har
boring place for vermin. • 4
The grape can be readily propagated
by layering and. a good supply of. plants
be seared’at'Alttw 'obfctr:
Bettbr sow this places vacant v ln the
garden to turnips or rutabagas rather
than allow them to grow up in weeds.
Old straw is one of the best materials
that can be used for mulching. Bagasse
is also good when it can be secured con*
veniently.
Keep down the raspberry canes; four
or five good canes to every four feet of
row will give a better quality of fruit than
if thicker.—Live Stock Indicator.
Foot Evil.
A Mississippi experimental station re
port says:
“Foot evil” is the name popularly given
in Mississippi to a disease of the coronet,
or that region of the foot where the hoof
and skin meet. It is an Inflammatory con
dition which sometimes results In the sep
aration of the hoof from the soft struc
tures to such an extent that the hoof is
lost. .
Causes—lt lg qhiefly the result of filth,
moisture, or both. At least, these are
very favorable to itg development, and it
is seldom or never seen under any other
conditions. The irritation produced by
manures, mud, or heavy dews, will result
in developing foot evil.
Symptoms—These are slight swelling,
lameness of a more or less severe type,
and a progressive separation of the outer
part of the horn and soft structures;
which usually begins at the heels arid ex
tends forward until it encircles the whole
foot.
Treatment—Remove the cause; that is,
keep the parts dry and clean. Apply a lit
tle strong liquid carbolic acid to the af
fected part by means of a feather, and
then apply a solution of carbolic acid (one
of acid to twenty-five of water) once a
day. If a marked improvement is not no
ticed in three or four days apply the pure
acid again and then continue the solution
as before.
Hints on Mulching.
The inexperienced gardener often falls
to obtain the best result from mulching
his plants, and sometimes does them more
harm than good by a lack qt knowledge
of what to use and how Vo übe ft. The
character of the plant IS very nearly a
reliable guide, as those which have their
leaves at the time of covering, as spinach,
lettuce, strawberry plants, and othert do
not need to be covered very thickly or
with anything which is likely to become
matted down under a covering of snow, so
as to exclude the air. As they breathe
through those same leaves, which are the
lungs of the plant, they are smothered if
burled too deeply or with too close a cov
ering. And the more abundant their
foliage, the less the need of covering. In
a locality where the ground is not likely
to freeze and thaw very often there is
less need of covering than upon a warm
southern exposure. It is not the freezing
that kills, but the fact that thaw: ng in
the spring may start a new growth which
will be so tender that it will be killed
by another freezing. They also need to be
protected from the direct rays of the hot
sun when the thawing process begins.
Humanity to Animals.
Prof. David Swing in a letter once said:
“As we advance in this humane work to
ward animals, their world grows under
our study, and the horse, the ox and the
dog seem to come nearer to man and not
to be the low brutes they once were. We
who are a little better in language and
power than the dumb animals must come
between them and all needless pain.”
Sunshine for Pigs.
Contrary to popular superstition, sun
shine is as necessary to the welfare of
pigs as it is to any of the domestic ani
mals, and it is important that not only
their feeding quarters, but their sleeping
quarters as well, should admit as much
sunshine as possible.
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Poultry for Profit.
There is small profit in eggs when they
bring but 10 cents a dozen; and no profit
at all, rather a loss, when hens have to
be fed all winter, without eggs, and then
only produce a few dozen in the spring.
When the eggs laid barely pay for the
food eaten during that season, all the
food eaten previously is a loss. There
is a regular ebb and flow of prices for
eggs. The high tide is about the last
of November, and through January, and
from that the price ebbs away steadily to
about May 1. Everybody’s hens are laying
then, and production is at its highest, con
sequently prices are the lowest. Later on
the supply gradually diminishes, and pri
ces rise, the movement being facilitated
by sales of fowls to be served as “spring
chicken” in the summer hotels, and the
steady falling off of the egg yield. In
the fall the old fowls are moulting, and
are, almost without exception, resting
from their labors, so that unless there
are pullets to lay there are few eggs, hence
the demand exceeds the supply, and the
price reaches bigh tide again.
A hen will consume a fraction over
50 cents worth of food in a year. If she
does not begin to lay until March she
will produce less than 100 eggs, which must
net her owner over 1 cent apiece to barely
pay for her food and trouble. If she
comes to laying maturity in October or
November she will lay vigorously all win
ter, if well housed and well cared for,
and will give her owner, before moulting
time, 150 to 175 eggs, which can be sold
at an average of nearly 2 cents apiece,
and pay a substantial profit.
There is a “tide in poultry raising, and
that tide is early-hatched chickens and
early-laying pullets.
There is the whole secret of it in a few
words; all the rest of the story is detail.
We hear much complaint that “We
couldn’t hatch the chickens early; our
hens woudn’t sit.’,’ That is one of the evils
of late-laying birds. If they are got to lay
in October, and kdfct laying they will be
broody enough in April, unless they are
of the non-sitting varieties; whereas, if
they don’t begin to lay until March they
will be late in brooding, because nature
impels them to lay a goodly number of
eggs before the. brooding fever sets in,
Get them laying'early and early broodi
ness follows as a matter of course.
‘ Much can.be dope to further this plan
by “selection.” Choose paly the early-lay
ing and prolific laying birds to breed from,
putting them in a pen by themselves; and
in two or three generations you will have
a strain of naturally early-layers. You
have not to wait long for profits from
our selection of early-laying pullets. Breed
from them, and no others next spring,
then kill off the old birds. It is a decided
advantage in poultry raising that the
profits begin to come in immediately.
Vicious Treatment of Horses.
In a certain sense the horse is not only
the most noble, but also the most useful
of all our animal friends. But, like many
of our own race, it is oftentimes found
brutalized by e s vicious training and an
education of the lowest order by a more
intelligent brute than itself, and driven
with clubs and kicks into a state of piti
able nervousness and even madness. Like
the human species, it is sometimes gifted
with an unusually sensitive nature, and
when unduly excited with fear, is driven
into a state of temporary insanity. Such
horses, usually gentle and tractable* are
impulsive and demonstrative, and need not
be driven by the exercise of brute force.
They are quick in apprehending the wishes
and calls of the driver, but require the ut
most care in making plain the driver’s
meaning. An ignorant person, In case of
emergency, is often liable to confuse his
animal friend with inexplicable blows and
jerkings of the bridle, until the horse be
comes restive and intractable, then bolts
and becomes a veritable wild beast. The
fault mainly lies with the driver, and not
with the poor animal, which must' feel
and imagine it has got under the control
of a maniac. The first duty of a man who
owns a spirited, highly nervous horse, is to
be humane in his own temper and disposi
tion, and never, under atty Circumstances,
to confuse his'animal servant with con
tradictory and unusual commands.—Ex
change.
TIFTONTOPICS?”
The Tramp Who Was Bup Over by a
Train. . .
Tifton, Ga., Nov. 25.—The tramp who
was run over by the Georgia Southern
and Florida train at his place last week
while trying to steal a Hd4, died yesterday
from his injuries. He gave his name
as Frank Hays,-and said- he was from the
Indian Territory.. >■;
The. people along the line-of the Bruns
wick and Western railroad are delighted
with its change of schedule, which goes
into effect to-day, giving, them a through
day train each way.
A new bank, with a capital of $50,000
paid up stock, has been chartered, and
will commence operation Here about Jan.
1.
Municipal politics is becoming warm.
Several candidates have- already an
nounced themselves. The issue seems to
be whether or not the city shall allow
stock to run at large on the streets.
TO MAKE NO FIGHT.
Majors Not to Contest the Election of
Holcomb in Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 25.—The proceedings
begun by the republican state committee
on behalf of Lieut. Gov. Majors against
Judge Holcomb, governor-elect, were
dropped to-day, and there will be no con
test. To-morrow was the limit time for
filing the notice, and this evening, after
a conference lasting until nearly mid
night, it was decided to abandon all pro
ceedings in that direction. A letter from
Mr. Majors himself was presented to the
republican managers, in which he depre
cated what he terms an “unseemly scram
ble for an office, the right of which is in
doubt.” Acting on this, the committee
declares the proceedings closed, and the
contest dropped.
Shot His Mistress. -
St. Augustine, Fla., Nov. 25.—Deputy
Sheriff Turner returned from Negoa to
day, bringing the negro, Robert Lee. who
yesterday shot and fataljy injured a col
ored woman who was living with him.
A SHOWER OF CHESTNUTS.
Samples of “Gags" That Are Always
Langhed At.
The “New” Jokes That Came in With
the Season—The Prime Bequisite of
Stage Humor Segms to be an Entire
Absence of Wit—The Variety Come*
dian’s Idea of Bepartee is to Use an
Ax.
From the Chicago Times.
The “gags” perpetrated at the variety
shows succeed best with the audience
when they are absolutely devoid of Wit.
A good joke requires a listener 'with some
intelligence to appreciate It, but, the
variety men need jokes that will suit the
humor palate of people with no intel
ligence at all. Humor has been dehned
as the unexpected, and so, when the
stage German asks the stage Irishman
“Where will you go yesterday?” there is
enough unexpectedness for the remark
to seem humorous to the fellows up in
the top gallery. They simply burst with
laughter at such merry sallies.
An actor went to a manager with a
large supply of what he said was the
latest wit. The wretched theatrical man
listened to about twenty samples, and
then said: “Yours is certainly the very
latest supply. It’s about twenty years
late.”
There are one or two “gags” that
seem new, though it Is not always safe
to bet upon the pedigree of a “gag.” The
gentlemen who have introduced porcelain
shirt fronts into modern melody may
have slyly dug up some ancient saying
from long-forgotten graves, tomb rob
bing being a fayorite weakness of humor
ists, but they guarantee that their re
marks are strictly novel. Perhaps,
though, this Is only another symptom of
their fun.
“We lost father from the house for a
week,” says one of the minstrels.
“Mother had every one she could think
of out looking for him, but it was no use.
We missed him dreadfully, especially on
pay day. My brother and I were walk
ing along the Chicago river yesterday and
on the bank we found father. He had
just been washed ashore.
"I knew him at once;-the same features,
the same whiskers, and the same clothes.
I was just going to fetch a wagon to take
him home when I noticed his mouth was
wide open and he didn't have any teeth.
Father has a splendid set of teeth. It
wasn’t father.
“Now,” he concluded, tearfully, “if that
man had kept his mouth shut what a
fine funeral he’d have had!” (Laughter.)
“Had a great meeting and banquet
down town the other night,” says anoth
er. “My brother was there, large as life.
You ought to see my brother. He’s a fine
fellow—carries everything before him.”
"Chairman of the dinner, I suppose?”
Inquires the middle man, amiably.
“Oh, no! He was the waiter.” (Laugh
ter.) • , ’ . ’
Waiters carry everything before them.
See?
Then they give a burlesque of the Lex
ow committee meetings. A loud, rasping
noise is heard in the distance. Mr. Goff
jumps to his feet in alarm, clutching at
his green moustache. He seems to think
that the police are leading a mob against
the Inquisition.
“What’s that?” he demands. _ ■
"Oh, they’re filing an affidavit,’ is the
response.
Then someone says it's an “after David
8.,” and there is a loud snicker at Sena
tor Hill’s expense.
When they adjourn for lunqheon ft is
decided that the- Lexow committee shall
eat their meal right where they are. A
court attendant goes out to get it for
them, and returns with a bale of hay.
This, for some reason, provokes large
quantities of mirth.
“I’ve got a dude dog,” declares Mr.
Sweatnam.
“Ha Ha! What’s a dude dog?”
“One that’s got his tongue split.”
“What’s that for?”
“To put: creases in his pants.”
A troupe of magicians come in with an
easel, a picture frame with a blank can
vas, and all sorts of apparatus. The ma
gician in chief announces that he will
deposits photographs of politicians In a
tin box and will make any picture called
for appear on the blank canvas.
He so places the photographs, which
gives him a chance to say something
bright about Hill and Cleveland being "in
the same box.” After the photographs are
all deposited he calls for the audience to
make their selections.
“Who do you want to see?”
“I, want to see Hill,” says someone in
the audience.
“Want to see Hill, eh?”
“Yes.”
“Go see him, then, why don’t; you?”
Then the troupe of magicians seize their
easel and apparatus and march off, “guy
ing” the spectator who called for Hill on
their way out, and making him feel sorry
he spoke.
In the variety show which Includes Pug
ilist “Bob” Fitzsimmons a couple of tra
ditional stage tramps have a quarrel and
square off to each other. •
Then one of them, who evidently is
afraid, backs off and says he doesn’t care
to fight just then.
"I’ll send me friend to fight,you,” he
adds, bluisteringly. >
"Who l«i your friend, anyway?”
“O’Donnell.” s 1■
This reference to Mr. Corbett’s former
refusal to fight Fitzsimmons until that
gentleman had met and defeated bls
trainer, O’Donnell, la a distinct “go”
with the gallery gods, who howl but “Cor
bett! Corbett!”
Hallen s>nd Hart, in “Later On," have
some very good “gags,” They are made
by themselves, often on the spur of the
moment, and when they prove a success
they are retained in the play. “We wear
out a lot of ’gags,’ ” said these gentlemen
to me, when I saw them in their dressjqg
room the other night after the perfdr
mance. “Sometimes we make up things,
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and find .that they’ve been traveling
around for a long time. An actor treats
a good ‘gag’ sometimes as a dog does a
bone. He can’t bear to part with I|, and,
even after he has buried it he’ll dig it up
again and play with it.”
“I’ve got three children,” says someone
in “Later On” gravely.
“What sex?” < ► >
“Two boys ,” he begins.
“And a girl,” adds the eoubrette, finish
ing the sentence.
“You need encouragement,” the son
brette says to him.
“Thank you—with a little seltzer on
the side,” is the reply, and the crowd once
more roars itself hoarse with hilarious ap«
proval.
“Now, here’s the question of clothes,’*
observes the comedian. “If Hoboken has
a Jersey what’ll Delaware?” ’
This is built on. the same lines as a
very familiar joke, but it wants a lot
of scenery and properties to produce it
with the proper dramatic effect. A young,
woman is leaning against the rail of a
ferry boat crossing the North river. It
is necessary to the success of the “gag?
that her face should be turned toward,
Manhattan Island. •
“That’s the poorest woman in the
world,” remarks the funny man, pity
ingly.
“How so?” ‘
"She has only one Jersey to her back.’*
(Shouts of merriment.) 4
The “gag” that plays upon the local
pride of the audience is generally a suc
cess. A New Yorker and a Brooklynite
are hotly debating as to the merits of
their cities. When the piece is played in
New York the Brooklynite is made up
as a countryman, with hay sticking out
of his boots, and when it is played in
Brooklyn the New Yorker is made up as
a slow creature.
“There’s one thing we’ve got in Brook
lyn that you haven’t got in New York,’*
the Brooklynite says tauntingly.
“What’s that?” demands the New
Yorker, anxious for an argument
“The other end of the bridge.”
Here’s another. ;
"I’m living in one of the smallest! flats
in Chicago. It’s so small that I have to
go out into the hall to change my mifid.”
When a traveling company visits* (Phil
adelphia there are a lot of “gags” that go
well in other towns that they are afraid
wouldn’t succeed very well there, and
leave them behind. For instanece, here
is one that they ask in New York that
never by any chance crosses the border
line of Pennsylvania:
"Where was it Rip Van Winkle had his
famous sleep?”
“Right in Philadelphia, of course.”
And:
"Go upeatirs with that man,” says the
hotel clerk, “ and see that he doesn’t blow
out the gas. He’s from Philadelphia.”
Then the brilliant vartety actor struts
over to the window and looks out of it
“Yes,” he murmurs, “this is a very
large afternoon." After a pause he adds
contemplatively: “Just about as large as
It was yesterday afternoon.”
If you want to be funnier even than
that just confine a secret to a negTo as
black as the ace of spades and tell him
impressively to "keep dark.”
Or ask of a stage dude:
“Is it true that you were refused at th®
morgue?”
That one isn’t very new, but it is still
in constant wear.
A stupid stage Hibernian, one of thos*i
men with the wooden heads, in which an*
other comedian drives a hatchet, letting
it stick there—the whole hatchet transac
tion coming under the head of “repartee’*
—comes running on the stage with a doofl
mat- “I brought this In," says he, “b*-
cause I noticed outside that people wet#
wiping their feet on it.”
HONOR FOB BERNHARDT.
She Will Receive the Bed Bibbon of thfj
Legion of Hone r.
From the Philadelphia Press. < { !
New York, Nov. 21.-Sarah Bernhardt-*
the divine and only Sarah—is to bo
awarded the red ribbon of the Legion of
Honor.
The news has not yet been officially pub
lished In France, but it will be very soon-
The decoration is not the order of ths
Legion of Honor known by that name in
this country, but the original, French le
gion, which has hitherto been almost in
accessible to actors and actresses.
The divine Sarah will ba the first act
ress to receive the coveted distinction as
an actress. She will be almost, but not
quite, 'the only woman who will have
tained the red ribbon. Marie Laurent, thqM
great melodramatic actress, who did
much to swell the fame of d’Ennery, by ■
her admirable acting, was accorded thoj||
same honor years ago. But she was dec-W
orated not because she had achieved ce- IM
lebrity upon the boards, but because she
happened to be the president of a chart
table society. Madam Dieulafay, the ec- 1
centric Asiatic explorer (an advocate o£ ’
bloomers), is also a member of the legion.
And the ribbon has in a few Instances
been granted to a woman who has mad*
their mark as painters, sculptors or writ
ers.
A special interest attaches to Mme.
Bernhardt for the honor. In decorating
Gqt and Coquelln and Worms, of the
Theater Francaise, official France to some
extent renounced the old and stupid no
tion that actors were pariahs. By giving
the actress the acknowledgement to which
her genius had long since entitled her
the government of France will have pro
claimed its liberality still more emphatic
ally. It will have shown that it admits
the right of actresses to rank not only
with their fellows of the sterner sex, but
with artists generally.
According to a friend of Mme. Bern
hardt in this city, it is to the “exceptional
services which she has rendered” to
French art abroad by familiarizing for
eigners with the masterpieces of the , i( : s
French that the great actress will owe
her unique privilege. To those who can
remember what an outcry was caiiaetl
by th announcement of her sudden flight
from the Theater Francaise and her Sub
sequent visits to America the/e will be a
peculiar significance in the somewhat
tardy but generous acknowledgement of
her genius.
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