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'■UNT blues.
W itf f< alt tostether,
it flT' un i at nighf.
it 1
t •riD-i candle light*
And old .1 tol*! a story
Of a rit in th« ian
How grappled wal >1 glory
By the pow<*r of hi* han ?.
An yan an by the eollar,
While he wilks in iron shoe*.
An •ar him run an 1 holler i
“Boo, ixw 0 ; I am Blues,
t f havei poison fn my cup
And ha ve com« to oat you up.'*
Tommy Cobble had an ailing,
<vl all the day ;
For he had l »hfp a-saltir.g.
But the asel didn't pay.
If e ooenn f rouble,
\ ml the wind was howling ‘‘yoo-o.”
While the waves were going bubble,
Keeping Tommy in a stew.
But the sails were all a flying,
\ji 1 wore bringing happy news,
But the giant still was crying:
“Bo Im I am Biues,
1 have poison in my cup.
And have come to <*at you up. a
T lien iliere was a little lassie,
With a Cupid in her eye.
But a lover wild and “sassy”
Made the little maiden cry ;
Aii'l the win f loving Cupid
Were imprisoned in a cage,
Ail i the dreams of life were stupid,
Vitb a blot on every page.
I the mighty giant dwelling
■Vhcre our hopes begin to snooze,
A\ it>< s again his fearful yelling :
Bo< , boo ; T am Blues,
rive poison in my cup,
And have come to cat you up.”
Fo it is with every being,
. nether man oc whether maid .
T > y are always mischief seeing
V i inclined to be, afraid.
I . a .,trange, uncertain feeling
las a liking for the soul,
Ar: l It eomon with sorrow stealing,
Like a solemn funeral toil.
But it's only hateful lying
• tf the d unon full of “booze,”
A", I imagination crying:
“Boo, boo : F am Blues,
i have poison iu my cup.
And have come to eat you up.”
— I. Ritchie, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A STREAK OF LUCK.
nv LEON WILLIAMS.
ARRY in haste, and
/ \ awi That you of the know is what adage.” the Clin- rest
t o u W e 1 d o u’s
I father his of his son said, told wlicu him to
purpose
marry Edna Nor¬
ris, a girl as poor
7%J i himself b u t
W® with those quali¬
ties of person,
WfliW mind and heart
that would have
made wealth less enviable if she had
possessed it.
If Clinton Weldon had followed his
father’s advice, he would not have been
his father’s son. He had loved Edna,
and lm believed that the fifteen dollars
a week he was making, as managing
clerk in a law office, would be ample
to support himself and his little wife,
till he had an increase of salary, or
was admitted to a partnership. When
he finally explained the situation to
the girl, sho hastened to agree with
him, as she would have done with any¬
thing else ho might have proposed,
though Clinton’s opinions were the
only ones sho accepted without ques¬
tion.
And ho they were married and went
to live in a flat.
Even after the honeymoon was over,
the love aud faith in themselves aud
the future, and au inexplicable belief
that their happiness would continue
indefinitely, made their life an ideal
one, and even the senior Weldon be
guu to regard himself as a false prophet.
Mrs. Weldon was to inherit five
thousand dollars when she was twenty
oue, aud with this the young people
planned to buy a house aud become
their own landlord. But months be
tore the young wife reached her ma
joiit v sue became a mother, adding
greath to the husband s joy, but in
creasiug Ins living expenses in a way
U. W uo* anticipated in the days of
Clinton hi ! i Weldon it gave up tobacco, . ,
postponed buying the suit of clothes
had piot ...a himself and in otner
uH.it I'l tiic dt lLlni man d 1 of ' 0 !!’- his wife aud baby, i t0
not forgetting the nurse.
At length he plucked up courage
enough to ask the lawyer iu whose of
five ho worked for an increase of sal
ary, hut instead of getting it as he ex
Pooled, ho was told that his services
had been very satisfactory, but that
they would bo dispensed with from
this time on as the lawyer wished.to
give the position to his nephew.
For the first time since his mar
uagt t liuton \\ eldon went home with
i heavy heart, but he bravely tried to
hide his trouble fromkiswife. There
was nothing at all new in this experi
ence, but the experience of others
never avails with ourselves, Poverty
is never lightened bv the conscious
ness that thert are others quite as poor
as w e arc. Ihe craving for food can
not bo appeased by the knowledge of
another man’s hunger.
Mrs. Weldon had what the nurse
called a “set-back, aud the doctor re
sunnd his daily visits. Clinton’s
father was as poor as himself, so that
there was no hope from that quarter,
Every morning at the same hour the
young man went out to look for work,
and returned without success at the
same time every evening, the better
to keep up the impression that he had
been at the office.
Furnishing the flat, such a plea?mv
at the time, had prevented his getting
any money ahead, indeed, he had less
thau five dollars that he could count
on, after he left his place, aud most
of tb s went for mediciue. The poorer
the patient the more numerous and
expensive the prescriptions the doc
tors write out.
Although it was still early spring
and the weather raw, Clinton went
without an overcoat; he left that and
his dress suit with his * ‘uncle, ” a* Sc*
curity for ten dollars. His watch,
given him by his aunt on his twenty
first birthday, and the little opal pin,
presented him by Edna the week after
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 1. 1891.- EIGHT PAGES
tbei • engagt out, went to the
accommodating relative, but still he
was nliable to meet the next month’s
rent and his landlord was a terror.
“You ain’t got uo place, and there
don’t appt ar .. to __ be no chance of your
gettin’ one,” said Harding, the land¬
lord, when Clinton brought an excuse
instead of the expected rent, “Now,
young man. I’rn not in this business
for my health, so if you don’t pay this
month’s rent and the next month’s
according to contract at half-past
three on the first day of next month,
you must vacate the flat, aud I’ll take
measures to get what you owe me,
that’s all.”
Clinton told of the many places ho
was promised, but Harding bad often
heard suchstoiies before. Seeing the
failure of this line of argument, the
young man spoke of his wife’s prop¬
erty, into the possession of which she
would shortly come, when he, Clin¬
ton, would buy a house of his own,
anil be would thank Mr. Harding if
he kept his eyes open for a bargain.
This last argument seemed to sur¬
prise the old real estate man, and as
we shall see presently, the informa¬
tion saved Clinton in a way he had
never dreamed of.
Time crawls when money is expect¬
ed ; his wings move with eleetiie
quickness when money has to be paid.
The month flew past, finding the
young wife still ar from strong, the
baby vigorous and vociferous, particu¬
larly at night, the money secured
from the pawn-shop exhausted and the
chances of getting a place worse than
ever.
“If you don’t raise money by giv¬
ing a chattel mortgage on your be¬
longings,” said a young, impecunious
legal friend, to whom Clinton made
known his poverty, 1 Harding will
dispossess you and swoop down on the
stuff. I can get you eighty dollars at
forty per cent, for six months on your
goods, aud that will pay your rent
aud help you out.”
“But if I can’t pay when its due?”
urged Clinton.
“Well, you’ll be dead broke, that’s
all, and you’re pretty near that now,”
said his friend.
“The only trouble about that is
that I want to keep the true state of
affairs from Edna. Why, she doesn’t
know I’m out of work. I couldu’t
find it in my heart to tell her,” said
Clinton.
“But what has that to do with the
chattel mortgage?”
“It has this to do with it, that to
give it value, it must have her signa¬
ture.”
“Well?”
“Well, I can’t get her signature
without explaining.”
“You can’t?”
“No.”
“Then your wife doesn’t trust you
as much as you thiuk. Go to her, tell
her iu a coaxing way, its a little busi
ness matter to which you want her
signature, and that as it may be a
pleasant surprise to her, after a bit,
and all that sort of thing aud she xyill
sign it without question, She’ll fall
in with the joke,” urged the friend.
Cliuton Weldon followed out these
instructions to the letter. He made
out a chattel mortgage for everything
but the baby’s crib, “got a smile onto
himself as he facetiously expressed it
when telling the story, aud asked his
wife to sign.
“She wanted v to read the whole
thing, but with sweat on my brow in
big globules and a forced laugh on my
lips, 1 begged her not to ; and to my
great relief she signed. »«ying as she
did so, ‘I am sure this means a for¬
tune, Clint,’” explained Clinton to his
friend.
It was twenty minutes past three of
the last day when the young man ex¬
changed the chattel mortgage for
eighty dollars, nearly all in crisp,new
one dollar bills.
Placing the money between the
leaves of his receipt book, he pulled
his hat over his eyes, and with the
book grasped tightly in his hand, he
fairly flew for the real estate office of
Mr. Harding. To his horror it was
twenty-five minutes to four when he
.leached there, and the boy in charge
said that his employer had just gone
out.
Questioned as to where he had gone,
the boy said to an auction sale of real
estate on the next street.
With visions of his wife and little
onc being thrown into the street that
Clinton rnn in breathless haste
*° auction room, which he found
crowded.
Standing on* tiptoe, he saw Mr.
Harding far to the. front, eagerly
WHtchln 8 tUo Pioneer, was
shouting: “Six thousand, I am bid!
s i s thousand, I am bid! who will make
it sixty-one hundred?”
Clinton threw up his hand in his
eagerness to get to the front, and in so
doing displaved the book and the
bills. “Ah" thanks, Mr. Weldon,
sixty-one hundred; do 1 hear sixty
two. Sixty- one, sixty-oue. Going
ami gone!”
By this time every eye was fastened
ou the young man. and he looked to
pg awfullv in earnest that no one
dared bid ; gttiast bim . Little did
thev know the cause of his great anx
lt qe.
“See here. Weldon, I’ll give yon
two hundred and take your bid," said
Harding, when Clinton reached
’
s jq e .
Quick as a flash, the position and its
possibilities darted through Cliuton
Weldon’s mind.
“No, sir,” he said, waving above his
head the book with its interlining of
new bills, “cannot think of it."
“Three?”
“No. sir,” with rising emphasis.
“Four.”
“No!”
“Five?”
“Make it a thousand, Mr. Harding,
and call off' the rent of the flat, and
it's yoars,” said Clinton.
They compromised on eight hun
died and the rent, and the young hus
band went home that night a happy
man.
After this Clinton Weldon gave up
all thought of working for others. He
was taken into partnership with Mr.
Harding, and through laud specula¬
tious he has become the richest man
in upper New York.—New York Ad¬
vertiser.
The demand for Western cow-ponies
has increased, owing to their being
used a*- polo ponies in the East,
Prices have risen and it would appear
. uj if there was monev in the business.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
rho National Game—His Inspirit
tiou Taking -A Mean Advan¬
tage—As It Probably Will Be
— Inherited Hair, Etc.
Her baseball knowledge was but small,
This alto fair, with witching face :
Yet when he offered marriage, why,
She knew enough to take the bass.
—Buffalo Courier.
HIS INSPIRATION.
Bilton—“Smothers seems to have a
talent for writing comic operas. ”
.Skilton—“Yes, he was born with a
remarkably retentive memory.”—Chi¬
cago Record.
TAKING A MEAN ADVANTAGE.
“What do you do when your wife
gets at von for coming home late?”
asked the first deal aud dumb man.
“Turn out the gas,” responded the
3ther. Life.
A LARGE PRACTICE.
Prospect Heights, “What sort of a
nhysiciau is Dr. Banks?”
Montague < 4 Electric.”
Prospect Heights—“What’s that?”
Montague “He attends to trolley
cases. ”—Puck.
AS IT PROBABLY WILL BE.
The Heiress (returned from abroad)
— “Myhusband is a nobleman.”
Her Friend—“Hush, dear girl! It
wouldn’t make a bit of difference with
those who are your true friends.”—
Chicago Record,
INHERITED HAIR.
Hhe \\ here did Miss Fosdick T , ... get ,
her lovely golden hair—from her fath
er or her mother?”
Maude — “.She must have got it
from her father. I notice his is all
gone.”—Brooklyn Life.
A HOWLING SUCCESS.
Nodd—“I hear your wife gave an
afternoon reception last week.”
Todd—“l T es, she did.”
Nodd—“Was it a success?”
Todd—“I should say it was. She
has been in bed ever since.”—Phila¬
delphia Life.
OPPORTUNITY.
Flora — “I have just found a dollar
aud am hesitating whether to give it
to the Missionary Society, or to buy
some ribbon for dear little Fido.”
Frank—“Ah I see; undecided
whether to “point a moral, or adorn
a tail. ”—Truth.
AN IMPERTINENCE.
“That young Mr. Diggles is
brute,” said Maude.
“Why?” told asked Mamie.
“I him you had quit playing
the piano, and he asked me what made
you do it—the golden rule or a sore
finger.”—Washington Star.
A FREE TRANSLATION.
Bumford—“What impresses
most in little Miss Artless is her charm¬
ing naivete.”
Chumford— “But I think her chief
attraction is her delightful simplicity
and the absence of any affectation in
her. ”—Raymond’s Monthly.
A SUPREME TEST OF NERVE.
“Why do you think that Hepby
has such great moral courage?”
‘Because last night when he asked
a cabman what fare he should pay.
and the cabman said ‘what you think
is right, sir,’ Hepby paid only the
regular fare. ”—Chicago Record.
HOPEFUL.
“How is your son getting along in
college?” asked Farmer Corntossel’s
neighbor.
“Purty well in some ways. I don’t
know how he’s doin’ in his studies.
But from his last photograph I jedge
he’s discovered a hair tonic thet’ll
make his f or tune. ’—Washington
Star.
AFTER HIS FATHER.
Calino as a friend of the familv is
introduced STirhS? h£d to the £“ babv six months
th
straggling locks of light hair.
“I wish von much iov ” he said to
the mother of the bantling. “3plen
did child; very precocious too; why,
h e is nearly as bald as his father!”—
Courier de l’Enrmte
_
the superfluous woman.
“Dear, asked Mrs. „ Wick „ T . . wire, . look- , ,
ing up from her paper, ‘ what does
this paper mean by referring to ‘the
superfluous woman?’ What is the
superfluous woman?”
“In our engagement days,” am
swered Mr. Wiekwire, “the super¬
fluous woman was your younger
sister. ’’—Indianapolis Journal.
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY.
Teacher— "In what State is Chi
cago j
Pupil—“New ^ Jersey."
River? /‘Wrong. Where is the Hudson
'Rises in the Rocky Mountains and
to the Gulf of Mexico."
goodness, child, you must have
been reading a London newspaper.
Good News.
-
the worm turned.
A New York girl was seated the
other evening at dinner next to a
quasi-literary man. He had been ban¬
tering her on the foibles of her sex,
and finally she said: “What an Ull
feeling person you are, Mr. I—.”
“No,” he replied slowly, with a
consciousness of his power, “but I
might be said to be next door to one?”
“Ah,” she retorted, “you are be
side yourself, I see !”—Philadelphia
Life,
COMPLIMENT3 OF THE SEASON.
Old Fnnnimau (at boarding-house
breakfast table —“This chop, Mrs.
H*ahlv, is quite appropriate to this
horrible, bleak weather.”
Mrs. Hashly—“Indeed, Mr. FumL
“Yes. ; So know.”
I very raw, you
will "And also thing well this horrible with weather last
go your
months board bill, Mr. Fuanitaai^”
“Ah! How so, Mrs. Hastily?”
Browning’s “Unsettled, Mr. Fuuuimau.
Monthly.
SAVED B1 WIT.
An Italian organ-grinder reeenth
escaped a tine by hi* wit. He had been
playing before the house of an irascible
old gentleman, who furiously and amid
wild gesticulations ordered him to
move his on. The Italian stolidly stood
ground and played on, and at last
was arrested for causing a disturb¬
ance. At the court the magistrate
asked him why he did not leave when
he was requested.
“Me no understan’ mooch Inglese,”
was the reply.”
“Well, but you must have under¬
stood by his motions that he wanted
you to go,” said the magistrate.
“1 tink he come to dance,” was the
rejoinder.—Roseleaf.
A DIET REFORMER.
Re shunned waste and riot, was
plain in his diet. “If I eat meat,” he
said, “I shall die; and keep from my
presence that acme and essence of
dyspeptic fatality—pie.
“No radish nor spices, no sweets
and uo ices, to sunder mv peptics
awry. And I will not eat biscuit, l
wouldn’t dare to risk it—for the soul
that eats biscuits shall die.
“And no health can be good in a
laud where plum pudding is indiscrim¬
inately ate, and deterioration will fol
low the nation that has too much pie
on its plate.”
‘•And the man who eats melon is
worse than a felon, and the man who
eats salad a knave, and death with his
sickle the man who eats pi fide will
cut down aud dump in his grave.
“But, unless I have blundered, I’ll
live to a hundred,” his chums and his
cronies he told. But so scant was his
ration he died of starvation when he
waR bnt twenty years old.—New York
World
Bonanza Farming.
Bonanza farming is by no means
confined exclusively to Uncle Sam’s
domain. We have before us an ac¬
count of an immense -wheat farm in
the ., Argentine . ,. Republic . .. which had 6b,-
7‘20 acres of wheat under cultivation
lasi year. It belongs to an Italian by
the name of Guaijoni, •who was sent
out by his Cover ament a few years
ago as an “assisted immigrant.” Now
he is one of the lords of the land in
that beautiful wheat belt of the south
temperate zone. iThe growth of the
wheat industry iu Argentine during
the past fortj years is only equalled
by our own marvelous advance.
In 1850, 120,000 acres were under
cultivation, tons of wheat; which in 1860, [produced 160,000 30,000
acres
produced 40,000 tonfi ; in 1870, 240,
000 acres produced 60,000 tons; in
1880, 490,000 acres produced 120,000
tons; in 1880, 2,800,000 acres pro¬
duced 900,000 tons, and in 1893, 6,-
100,000 acres produced 1,920,000
tons. Next ;o the cattle trade wheat
raising is the principal industry of
the country, and the system of bo¬
nanza farming finds more encourage¬
ment from tlie autocratic Spaniards
than in our own country of democrat¬
ic notions.
The Dalrymple-Godin farm near
Fargo, North Dakota, which is gener¬
ally called the largest farm in the
world, has only about thirty thousand
acres under cultivation, so that it
would take two like it to make one oi
Guazoni’s.
But we haven’t much love for the
wholesale system of land tenure and
would much rather let some othex
country have the credit, if there be
any credit,of havingthe largest farm iu
the world. The self-respecting, intel
ligent American farmer, even if he
owns only forty acres, has nothing to
ask from the land barons of other
parts of the world, neither does he
wish to have their systems to contend
against here.—Farm, Field and Fire¬
side.
The Great Chrysorrhoas Canal,
The great Chrysorrhoas Canal, in
the planet Mars, is 3335| miles long
and over 400 miles wide. The colos
sal character of this trunk line canal
dwarfs into utter insignificance such
works as the Chinese Wall, the Great
Pyramids, the works of the Mound
Builders in the Mississippi Valley, and
in fact exceeds in its great total all the
labor that man has ever performed on
the earth. A section of 175 miles of
this canal represents 70,000 square
miles, and this is the area drained by
the Ohio River Valley above Cincin¬
nati. If the precipitations on Mars
equal those of our earth, then those
were no inefficient hydraulic engi
neei's that planned the handling of that
volume oi water and kept it out of
the during construction. But
Wlth the com letioil of the great Yerkes
telescope, wnen the next conjunc¬
tion with our neighbors takes place, it
is probable that those who learn by
ocular sight will see the evidence of
something radically different from ar¬
tificial excavations in these peculiar
lines. The remarkable changes of di¬
rection in this alleged canal under con¬
sideration, and the unexplainable
quality of “gemination” or appearing
in duplicate, is not consistent with any
known law bearing on aqueous matters
on earth. This is a peculiarity com
mon to nearly all the marsian lines,
and also to considerable seas and lakes,
once the problem of these
“canals” is solved it will be found that
the mistake lay in first accepting a
conclusion and then trying to warp
stubborn factors into sustaining it.—
New York Telegram,
A Valuable Safe.
Silas Camp, a rich old bachelor,
died at Allentown, Penn., about a
month ago, and his personal effects
were sold at auction a few days since.
Among the articles 6old was an old
sale, which was knocked down to a
firm of plumbers for 33.50. Camp had
kept the safe in his store, and after
his death his executors had opened it,
and, as they thought, taken every¬
thing of value out of it. Just ai*ter
the sale a small boy was fooling with
the safe, and accidentally hit upon
the combination and opened it. Look
ing into it, he found a private drawer,
which he pulled oat and found that
it contained some S600 in gold. The
executor took possession of the money,
but the plumbers say that they bought
that with the safe, and propose to re*
sort to the law to recover it.—New Or*
ienois Picayune.
AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF IN'TKKF.ST KFI.ATIYE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
PRUNING APPLE TREES.
Some knowledge of the natural habit
of growth of different varieties of ap
pie trees is needed if we would prune
them properly. The Northern Spy
apple grows a close, compact, upright
head, and unless its centre is kept well
trimmed the fruit will be small, green
and nearlv worthless. Full giving
to sunlight flavor is requisite tor Jppl™, color
snd to oil kinds of but
it makes a greater difference with the
Northern S,,v ' than auUr anv i other
?*rthTs In r** £*„*£££$ ol trees
1
possible, Mi Tn lhey will -n come sooner into • .
beaming thus.—Boston Cultivator.
xIORSE BREEDING.
The official “director of horse breed
ing in Austria” makes the
statements iu a recent report: “In
the wild state mares breed with almost
absolute regularity as each breeding
season follows the one immediately
preceding. In domestication sterility
is common among about twenty per
cent, or even more, of mares annually
sent to the horse. This is attributed
not only to numerous diseases to which
mares are subject under artificial con
ditions but also to fright, strange sur
roundings, and the brutal treatment
they sometimes receive from some of
their attendants at the time of service
—in fact, to mental impressions of a
disagreeable character at the most
critical time. Thoroughbred mares are
said to retain their power of reproduc
tion longer than others, while thirty
years is the utmost recorded age of
foal getting. When permanent steril¬
ity follows in a mare after having pro¬
duced only one foal in her life the pro¬
duce of that foal is generally absolutely
sterile.”
re A MING OF MILK.
A Canadian correspondent of the
Weekly Times writes as follow :
May j Sll£?gest another possible ex
planation of the fact that milk, on be
ing drawn in cold weather, does not
foam
Either on account of some attrac¬
tion exerted by the descending milk
on the air it passes through, or by
friction between the two, a certain
amount of air is dragged down with
it by the milk, much in the same way
that a waterfall causes froth to gather
at its foot. Friction is most likely the
really efficient factor in producing the
result. It is by the grip that friction
gives the wind on the surface of the
sea that it is enabled ag'ainst the power
of gravitation to lift up the mighty
waves, as is evidenced by the effect
that the thinest imaginable coating of
oil upon its surface has in causing the
waves to settle down again.
But in winter time, when the dif¬
ference between the temperature of
the milk and the air is so great that
the milk, as it leaves the teat, becomes
enveloped by the steam thrown off
from it, it seems reasonably clear that
the friction that would otherwise be
occasioned by the passage of the milk
through the air must of necessity be
entirely done away with, the conse¬
quence being that the milk no longer
is able to draw the air down with it.
FEWER FARM FENCES.
The old-fashioned zigzag, or “Vir J
ginia” rail, fences so common forty
years ago are now seldom seen, and
perhaps are never built, writes S. B.
Reach, Stone walls are cumbersome,
often thrown down by the frosts of
winter and subsequent thawing, and
are not economical, except on farms
so covered with stone that it is of first
importance to get rid of them. Post
and rail or slat fences are expensive,
more so in the aggregate than most
people would suppose, without reflec¬
tion on the subject. Wire fenceing is
probaly as cheap and lasting as any in
use. There are serious objections to
barbed wire, and many prefer the
smooth wire, either straight, twisted
or woven. But is it necessary for
farmers to build as many fences of any
kind as has been the custom in the
past? If the laws which most States
now have concerning cattle were re¬
spected and enforced, farmers would
be relieved of the necessity of fencing
every foot of their land bordering on
the public roads. Nearly every farm
has fields that are never pastured, and
it would seem, need not be inclosed.
The great burden upon farmers for
needless fencing is imposed not to keep
their own cattle in, but to keep other
people’s cattle out. I am pleased to
observe the tendency to build fewer
fences than formerly, not only to sub
divide farms, but especially along the
highways. If these are left unfenced
and rows of shade trees planted out on
the boundary lines, farmers will be
saved a deal of trouble and expense,
and the country roads be made more
enjoyable and attractive.—New York
Tribune.
HOR3E3 IN BURNING STABLES.
The heart-rending news of the burn
mg of nearly one hundred and fifty
horses (imported and home bred per
cherons) at Elwood, iu Northern
Illinois, has been spread all over the
West. This was as fine a drove as was
ever owned in this country, and
valuable. It included also three "very
fast and valuable trotters, and the loss
can hardly be estimated.
It is almost impossible to get a
horse out of a burning building,
possible, the harness or saddle should
be thrown over the back of the horse
or he should be blindfolded by a sack
or an old garment thrown over his
head and eye?, and then he can be led
out. Strange as it may seem, if he
can, a horse will rush back into a
burning building. The loss to the
owner, in this instance, is immense in
pecuniary way, but irreparable to
his heeding stud and the vicinity,
which availed itself of the nearness to
the stud and so large a choice from
which to breed. Doubtless new im
portations will be made, but there is
some drawback in breeding from
horses the first year of their importa
tion. Iowa has some large droves of
imported and home bred animals of
the same highly improved breeds, a*d
perhaps would be glad to dispose of
a dozen or two.
It is not often that men axe bo caxe-
In! of their horses as to keep tire in
stoves in the barn. Only a day or
two ago a Rockford man lost two very
valuable horses by being strangled to
death by smoke and steam generated
by water thrown from the hose of a
lire engine on the tire, which origin
at-ed from au oil stove which the
kindly owner had placed in the barn
f or the comfort of his horses. Tity
8 nch au outcome should be the resuit
D f his merciful conduct.—.St, Louis
Republic,
simple hotbeds. '
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folks, anil hence there may be some
conflict over the privileges of the
“real” hotbeds in which the large
quantities of plants for largo areas are
raised. But with a few shallow boxes,
her warm kitchen and the sunny
window, mother may be independent
of the lather aud the boys and raise
her own vegetables a3 well as flower
plants. In making the boxes for the
kitchen hotbeds see that they are
small enough to handle, when filled,
without straining one’s back. A good
size is about fifteen to eighteen inches
long and nine or ten iuelies wide;
three inches is deep enough, aud two
inches will answer for many seeds,
Have the soil moderately rich, but by
all means have it fine,
After sowing the seed the soil must
be kept moist at all time, and when
the young plants appear give plenty
of light, but avoid setting too close to
the glass, or the sun will burn the
tender seedlings.
When the young plants are an inch
or two high, transplant to other boxes
of soil and give less heat, the objeef
being to gradually harden the youug
plants so that they may be placed in
the open air at the proper time with¬
out being obliged to protect them at
night.
Of course, even the miniature hot¬
beds described are not necessary ex¬
cept for certain plants, like tomatoes,
etc., and even then for the kitchen
garden, where but few are needed, we
would advise buying the plants if
possible. By having the soil prepared
early and selecting the warmest loca¬
tions for the earliest sown seed we
may dispense with the hotbed in many
cases and still have vegetables among
the earliest.—Farm and Fireside.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Honey is the proper food for bees
after reaching maturity.
Chaff makes a good absorbant in the
stable. It is good for bedding, too.
Too much care cannot be taken ir
pruning. One mistaken cut may prove
ruinous.
Bees reared in the spring and sum¬
mer are shorter lived than those reared
later in the season.
Firewood is more easily cut when
green, and makes quicker and bettex
fires when seasoned.
Cows are not kept lor their com¬
pany ; therefore, why let them go dry
four to six months out of the year?
It never pays to offer a horse fox
sale in poor condition. It does not
pay to keep a horse in poor condition.
Save the poultry droppings by plac¬
ing them in barrels or boxes and keep¬
ing them from contact with, the
or snow.
Don’t be satisfied with your churn¬
ing if you leave over one-tenth of
per cent, fat in the buttermilk.
doesn’t pay.
No comb made from foundation
quite equals in fineness the natural,
though in some cases it approaches it
very closely.
Bees when not gathering settle down
to a very quiet condition, during
which there is very little wear and
tear of the system.
Dark cow stables are an abomina¬
tion, because disease is an abomina¬
tion, and darkness is conducive to
disease. Let in the sunlight.
A force pump with brass cylinder
and plunger giving twenty-five or
thirty pounds pressure is the best for
spraying insecticides and fungicides.
The spray should be fine and well dis¬
tributed.
Go through your apple orchard now
and destroy all cocoons before the
warm weather brings the moths out to
destroy your fruit, and thereby you
will find yourself well repaid for the
short time expended.
Put the small fruits in ox*der now
for the growing season, Given in
telligent attention now and from this
time forward they are much more
likely to prove profitable the present
year and in the future,
Every one who has had much ex¬
perience in raising sorghum for feed
ing live stock is ready to admit its
nutritive value, as well as the great
yield per acre, which helps to make it
a profitable crop for this purpose.
Barley sown as soon as the grounc
is in good working condition is one ol
the best makeshift hog pastures
known. Put it in the press drill, with
a bushel and one peck to the acre ; ii
sown broadcast, about a bushel and a
half.
An eminent agriculturist says that
there is nothing more certain than that
the productiveness of very many of our
fruits and vegetables—and those the
most valuable—is often tremendously
increased bv bees in the important
work of pollenizing the flowers.
Changes of food with fattening stock
should always be made cautiously.
Variety in the ration is desirable, but
it is best to attain this by feeding
mixed rations all the time rather than
byffising one material for a time and
then changing wholly to another.
One of the easiest ways of propagat
. blackberry is to dig about the
plants in the spring, cutting ofl
OQ / ei ‘ c Ec1 * 3 the roots a few
i QC h es from the plants. Take these
roots and cut into small pieces, four
or i ac h es long* and plant them,
Some people do not seem able tc
distinguish between growth and fat,
yet there is a big difference between
them. Growth must be kept up from
the birth of animals, while fat should
only be added during the last month
or six weeks before they are sent to
the slaughter house.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS#
THE CARE OF BLANKETS.
But few housekeepers know how to
■tike proper care of their blankets. To
nave a woman in once in six months
or once a year ; to get. every blanket
in the house washed; to return them
to the beds hard, shrunken, discolored
coverings, with half the good taken
out of them, that is the usual way.
Don’t wash your blankets. Air theuj
frequently. When a guest leaves the
guest chamber, and before the next
arrives, let the blankets hang in suu
and air for at least twenty-four hours.
See that the micro-organisms col¬
lected in Tommy and Johnny’s bed are
scattered to the four winds. Then
when the time comes that the blankets
begin to show symptoms of wanting a
wash send them to be cleaned. Once
a year or even less will be sufficient for
this. It will not cost more than the
so ap and tire, to say nothing of tha
gossip, temper and general derange¬
ment which Mrs. Flinn would bring
into your unoffending household. In
a large hospital, celebrated for ite
management, the five-year-old blankets
were placed beside the new ones, and
the writer was unable to tell the differ¬
ence : and remember, the wear and
tear of hospital is very many times
that of a private house. ,
Among some tidy housekeepers a
habit prevails of carefully folding the
coverlet each night and leaving the
blankets exposed to the air. This is
decidedly wrong. The surface of th?
coverlet is generally composed of some
closely-woven, shiny material, which
will not prove a convenient resting
place for dust. A blanket is exactly
the opposite, and should, therefore, be
well protected by being tucked snugly
in between sheet and coverlet well out
of sight—a blessing in disguise by
night and day.—Good Housekeeping.
TEN EGG RECIPES.
Omelet With Smoked Beef—Beat six
3ggs light, the whites and yolks sepa¬
rately. Put a tablespooful of butter
into a frying pan, and cook iu it for n
couple of minutes two tablespoonfuls
of finely chopped smoked beef. Mix
the whites and yolks of the eggs
lightly, turn them into the pan upon
the beef and proceed as with a plain
omelet.
Omelet With Green Peas—Beat up
six eggs for omelet as in preceding le
cipe, mix whites and yolks, and stir
into them a halt' cupful of canned or
cooked green peas. Season with salt
and pepper, put a tablespoonful of
butter into the frying pan, pour iu
the omelet and cook as above di¬
rected.
Sausage Omelet—Make a plain ome¬
let of six eggs and fry it in a table¬
spoonful of butter. Just before fold¬
ing the omelet, lay on it three cooked
sausages, which have been skinned,
minced fine and heated. Fold the
omelet and serve..
Tomato Omelet—Beat together tlis
whites and yolks of six eggs, season
and salt with pepper. Heat two
tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying
pan, turn into it a cujiful of stewed
and chopped tomatoes from which the
liquor has been drained, eoolc for two
minutes and then stir in the beaten
eggs. Let the omelet brown on the
under side, fold over and serve.
Eggs a la Creme- Heat a half pint
of new milk in a pudding dish ou top
of the stove, melt in a tablespoonful
of butter, and when the milk boils
break into it six eggs. Season with
salt and pepper, cook for three min¬
utes more. Serve in the dish in which
they were cooked.
Eggs Poached in Consomme—Heat
a pint of consomme or clear beef soup
to boiling. Poach six eggs iu it, two
at a time, lay them in a dish that will
stand the heat, and put the soup on
the hot part of the stove where it will
quickly reduce one-half, Wiiile it
boils sprinkle a tablespoonful of
grated cheese over the eggs and set
them in a hot oven. Thicken the
Boup with a tablespoonful of browned
flour kneeded xvith half as much but¬
ter, and when it is smooth and thick
pour it around the eggs.
Eggs a la Lyonnaise—Boil six eggs
hard and cut them into slices. Fry a
small onion, sliced, in a tablespoonful
of butter, stir in a half pint of milk
in which has been mixed a tablespoon¬
ful of flour. Cook this to a smooth
sauce, add pepper and salt to taste,
put in the sliced eggs, cook two min¬
utes longer and serve in small squares
of buttered toast.
Savory Eggs—Boil six eggs hard
and slice them. Brown half a small
onion in a tablespoonful of butter, add
a cupful of broth or gravy and boil
for ton minutes, until the sauce is re¬
duced to half the original quantity.
Season with salt, pepper and a small
tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce,
lay iu the sliced eggs and let them get
heated through. The sauce must not
boil after the eggs go in,
Eggs for Breakfast—Boil six e gg £
hard. Chop the whites coarsely and
rub the yolks through a sieve. Make
a white sauce by cooking together
tablespoonful of butter and one of
flour in a saucepan until they bubble,
add half a pint of milk and stir until
thick and smooth. Season with salt
and white pepper, stir in the minced
whites, and when these are heated
through turn them upon a hot dish.
Strew the yolks over them and set iu
the oven for two minutes.
Scrambled Eggs with Cheese—Heat
a tablespoonful of butter in a frying
pan, and break into this six eggs.
Stir constantly, and as soon as they
are well mixed add a tablespoonfnl of
grated cheese. Season to taste with
salt and pepper and serve on very hot
plates. This makes an excellent lunch¬
eon dish.
Five-Story House With No Stairs.
A unique house is being built in
Paris for a private gentleman. There
will be no staircase in it, and yet it
will be a house several stories high.
This sounds like a paradox, but it is
explained in this way: The street in
which it is being built is in the Rue
Muller, which has a steep gradient. A
large frontage has been secured, ex¬
tending to the corner of the Rue La¬
marck. As the ground rises, the level
of the floors rises, and there are five
gradations, equivalent to five stories.
It is in this way that visitors to the
house will step directly out of the
street on the fifth floor, as well as all
the others, --London News