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BURIED ORCHARDS.
Peach Trees That Are Turned Under
Ground to Escape Frost.
The burying of entire peach or
chards for protection against late
spring frosts is a common practice
in the intermountain valleys of
eastern Colorado. In areas where
not more than one full crop in seven
or eight years has been previously
harvested annual yields are now
to be counted on. A net return of
$25 from each peach tree is not un
common.
Irrigation facilitates the task of
burying the trees. Just before a
hard freeze is due in the late fall
the Colorado orchardist digs a
trench to each peach tree which
he expects to ‘Hay down” and turns
on the water, allowing it to run
until the soil about the roots is
thoroughly soaked. He then can
undermine the trees and bend them
down with little difficulty. They
are held to the ground by a heavy
plank or by ropes until a covering
of hay is spread over them and a
layer of dirt shoveled on top of
that. Two inches of dirt have been
found sufficient protection in 30
below zero weather.
Orchards are left prostrate and
covered until the last bit of danger
from frost in the spring has passed.
In the higher localities this danger
period is not before the 10th of
May. When the hay and dirt are
finally removed a mass of pink
bloom greets the orchardist. He
will tell you it is the prettiest sight
in the world. Sometimes, if the
season be late, tiny peaches will
show their green heads among the
pink blossoms.
After raising the tree a brace is
applied and left against the trunk
through the summer. An orchard
of trees all propped in this manner,
their branches all leaning one way
and showing more foliage and fruit
on one side than on the other, pre
sents a novel picture to the Colo
rado tourist.
I have been told that peach or
chards subjected to this burying
treatment were short lived. Last
season I saw one weighted down
with big, luscious peaches. It had
been buried for ten successive win
ters and had yielded six full crops.
—Farm and Fireside.
St. Kilda State Affairs.
One feature of St. Kildan life
would have appealed strongly to
Dr. Johnson if he had carried out
his intention of spending a winter
on the island. “The men ©f St.
Kilda,” writes John Sands, “are in
the habit of congregating in front
of one of the houses almost every
morning for the discussion of busi
ness. I called this assembly the
parliament, and, with a laugh, they
adopted the name. When the sub
ject is exciting they talk with loud
voices and all at one time, but
when the question is once settled
they work together in perfect har
mony. Shall we go to catch solan
geese or ling or mend the boat to
day? Such are some examples of
the questions that occupy the house.
Sometimes disputes are settled by
drawing lots.”—London Chronicle.
Personality of Typewriters.
Two men changing typewriters or
motorcars are, though more subtly,
like two men changing boots. Sew
ing machines, pianos and fiddles
grow intimate with the people who
use them, and they come to express
those particular people and the
ways in which they are different
from others. A brown eyed type
writer makes her machine move dif
ferently every day from a blue eyed
one. Typewriting machines never
like to have their people lake the
liberty of lending them. Steel bars
and wooden levers all have little
mannerisms, little expressions, small
souls of their own, habits of people
that they have lived with, which
have grasped the little wood and
iron levers of their wills and made
them what they are.—Atlantic.
His Reminder.
“My husband has a clever idea
for reminding me of little things
that I am to do while he is away
during the day,” said a woman who
lives in Harlem. “Last week a rela
tive came on a visit and I was to
meet her at the station at half past
10 in the morning. At 10 o’clock
the alarm clock rang in the parlor,
and when I went in to shut it off I
found a note lying beside it which
reminded me of my engagement.
I am sure that I would have for
gotten it otherwise.”—New York
Bun.
Open Windows For Invalids.
If the sleeper be ill or fragile or
very old the room can be ventilated
by placing a board five or six inches
deep and about an inch thick to
fit across the bottom of the window.
Then shut the lower sash down on
this hoard, leaving the upper sash
dosed. This method allow? a shaft
of air to pass up between the two
sashes and so to the ceiling, whence
it spravs evenly all over the room.
From “Health In Business.”
A PAINTER AND HIS BASSOON.
Gainsborough Loved to Play, Though
He Tortured His Friends.
“Gainsborough’s profession.” says
one of his friends, “was painting,
and music was his amusement, yet
there were times when music seem
ed to be his employment and paint
ing his diversion.’’
He w’as so passionately fond of
music that he filled his house with
all manner of instruments and per
mitted his table to be infested with
all sorts of musical professors ex
cept only bagpipers.
Gainsborough never had applica
tion enough to learn his notes thor
oughly, yet he loved melody so
much that he tried his native skill
upon almost every instrument. He
could perform a tune on the fiddle,
the guitar, the harpsichord or the
flute. He also took lessons upon
either the hautboy or the clarinet,
but made nothing of it.
According to a biographer of
Gainsborough, Johann Christian
Bach, a son of the great Sebastian,
who lived for many years in Lon
don, had a certain dry and testy hu
mor. He used to sit and endure
Gainsborough's unhappy efforts and,
laughing in his sleeve, exclaim:
“Bravo, bravo!”
Gainsborough, not at all abashed
at his irony, if indeed he perceived
it, would go at it again, laboring
hard at his task. “Now for Pur
cell’s chaunt,” or “Here is a bit of
old Bird.” he would say.
“Dat is very fine!” cried Bach
when the ordeal was over.
“Now for a touch of old Henry
Lawes,” continued Gainsborough.
“Now, dat is too pad!” Bach
would shout, his patience worn out
at last. “Dere is no law why de
gompany is to listen to your mur
der of all dese ancient gombosers.”
Then he would get up from his
seat, run his fingers along all the
keys of the harpsichord and flourish
voluntaries as if he were inspired.
One day Bach called on Gains
borough in Pall Mall and found
him in his studio, working hard at
the bassoon. The painter’s cheeks
were puffed out till his face was
round and red as the harvest moon.
Bach stood astounded.
“Pote it away, man, pote it
away!” he commanded. “Do you
want to burst yourself like the frog
in the fable? It is only fit for the
lungs of a coundry blackschmidt.”
“Nay, now,” exclaimed Gains
borough, “it is the richest bass in
the world. Now listen again.”
“Listen!” cried Bach. “Mine
friendt, T did listen at your door in
the passage, and py all the powers
above it is for all the vorld as the
veritable braying of a jackass.”
“Why, you have no ear for music,
man.” Gainsborough exclaimed, “no
more ear than an adder!”—Youth’s
Companion.
An Undiscovered Interior.
A magazine editor recently re
turned a story to an aspiring con
tributor.
Immediately the latter wrote an
indignant letter to him, saying that
before sending her manuscript she
had slightly pasted together several
of the inner pages. When the story
was returned to her it was in its
original condition. She had always
suspected editors of neglecting their
duties; now she was sure of their
carelessness, for her own story had
not been read. To all this the much
berated man made reply:
Dear Madam—At breakfast, when I find
that an egg is bad, 1 do not have to eat
the whole of it to make sure.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
Jarred the Professor.
When in 1883 Professor Freeman
was examining Battle abbey he
found himself dogged by a person,
who, as he thought, somewhat offi
ciously obtruded his offers of as
sistance. After vainly trying to
shake him off he broke forth with:
“I don’t want your help. The Duke
of Cleveland promised that 1 should
not be interfered with by the gar
deners.”
“Exactly so,” was the reply; “I
hope they have obeyed my orders.
I am the Duke of Cleveland.”
More Than Kind.
‘Tn my young days,” says Mr. A.
J. Swinburne in “Memories of a
School Inspector,” “a rural school
mistress entirely misinterpreted my
kindness, which was prompted by a
desire to quiet her nervousness.
“I asked her is as pleasant a voice
as I could summon if she could
have the children recite on the
Tieindeer.’
“She replied, simpering, T have
a lesson on clouds and one on mist,
but I’m sorry I have none on rain.’ ”
Took Him at His Word.
“Yes; the engagement is off.”
“What came between your two
loving hearts?”
“I hardly know. I told her I was
unworthy of her, and she agreed
with me so heartily on the point
that our courtship kind of languish
ed after that.”—Washington Her
ald.
USES FOR THE PAPER BAG
Careful Housekeeper Can Find Many
Ways of Storing These Useful
Articles.
There are very few housekeepers
who do not find uses for ordinary
paper bags that are continually ac
cumulating. A most excellent way
to keep these bags so that they will
always be not only easy of access, but
in good condition and in assorted
sizes, is to have a pine boar<s, three
inches wide by one inch thick, neatly
planed. Screw two brass rings in
the top by which the board may be
hung to the wall or pantry door, and
drive three nails with the heads filed
off on the boards.
Another good idea is to reserve a
small drawer in the kitchen or pan
try for them. Before being placed
in the drawer they should be care
fully smoothed and folded.
An enamel cloth bag tacked upon
the pantry door is also a convenient
receptacle for these bags. An ingen
ious housewife has fashioned a bag,
convenient for holding paper bags
and also for odds and ends of string.
The bag is made by cutting two
pieces of linen duck of the length re
quired. One piece is four inches nar
rower than the other. The narrower
strip is stitched across its width to
the wider strip to form three pock
ets. The two strips are placed flatly
together and stitched and bound all
around with braid. The middle
pocket is made wide enough to hold
large and small paper bags; the end
pockets are intended for string.
HEARTLESS FRAUD
“That rich old man that Maud
married was a regular cheat.”
“Why, wasn’t he as rich as he said
he was?”
“Yes; but he wasn’t as old as he
said he was.”
TWIST ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
“The gentlemen are requested to
come in smoking.” “Now,” writes
an American from a German winter
resort, “what would you do if you
received an invitation to a card party
at the home of a nice family, where
you had been introduced? Light
your cigar or pipe when you reach
the house or wait until the maid
opened the door? Either would be
wrong, for the ‘smoking’ refers to
the coat you are expected to wear.
What we call a ‘dinner coat’ is
known here as a ‘smoking.’ This
sounds as queer to Americans as
‘Bobhaus.’ That is what they call
the clubhouse of the bobsleigh club
of which the young duke of Cobnirg-
Totha is the patron, which has just
been erected at Oberhof. Queer use
these Germans make of our lan
guage.”
PUZZLED.
“Why do you wish to marry my
daughter?”
“Well, sir, that’s the very question
I have asked myself about four hun
dred times. And I haven’t found an
answer yet.”
NOT THE SAME.
“I understand a popular music
hall actress says she always wanted
to be a surgeon.”
“Well, isn’t she a regular cut-up?”
PROPER TINT.
“How very blue this sea view is in
your painting.”
“Well, wasn’t it the sort of view
to be painted in ultramarine?”
HIS EXTREMES.
“Jake has had his ups and downs.”
“How so?”
“First, he got down to hard pan,
and then up to a Panhard.”
GOOD SUBSTITUTE.
“You can’t get any wet goods in
this town, sir.”
“All right; then bring me some
thing extra dry.”
HERITAGE OF THE LONG PAST
Groundless Worries With Which Wom
en Are So Prone to Be Afflicted
Are Thus Explained.
Worry is a habit, and it is one to
which womankind is especially
prone. Possibly it is an inherited
taint—handed down to us by our an
cestresses of medieval times, who
could do nothing but sit by the fire
and spin—or else work miracles of
art at their tapestry frames —while
men folk were away fighting or
hunting, and in either case carrying
their lives in their hands.
Those old-time Marianas, im
mured in their moated granges,
weaving romances with their needles,
could not well help laying up for
their hapless descendants a heritage
of overstrung nerves and vague,
groundless fears.
Life was not very full or very in
teresting for women folk in those
days. 'A rqaiden’s destiny led her
either to the altar or the cloister,
and in either case her future was
bounded by impassable walls. If she
married her sun rose and set in
her husband; if she became a nun
her hopes, finding no outlet in this
world centered themselves* in the
world to come.—Exchange.
NOT THE COMMENT EXPECTED.
In Lord Rossmore’s recently pub
lished “Things I Can Tell” he gives
this story at the expense of Mr. Glad
stone and the home rule agitation:
“The subject of home rule always re
minds me of the day when old Glad
stone sat down and Mrs. Gladstone
made a speech on the hustings. Said
she, addressing the throng, ‘My
friends, I found it very hard to con
vince my dear husband about the
claims of Ireland for home rule, but
one day when he came into the
breakfast room he remarked to me,
“My dear wife’ you’ve overpersuaded
me about that downtrodden country.
You have at last converted me in
favor of home rule.” I got up from
my chair, put my arms round his
neck and gave him a loving wifely
kiss.’ She paused to see what effect
her words had produced and an irre
pressible Irishman called out, ‘And
it served the owld beggar parfectly
right.’ ” '
ROMANCE OF A VASE.
A gentleman from Bala, North
Wales, who recently purchased a vase
for a few pounds, has had the pleas
ure of discovering that the article is
worth, even for breaking-up pur
poses, more than 250 times the
amount of the purchase money.
He obtained the vase as bronze
from a London auction room, but
later found that it had been bronzed
over ; that it was, in fact, of gold
and silver and of great antiquity.
It is believed to possess a romantic
history, and it was probably dis
guised to hide its value, which may
turn out to run into thousands of
pounds. Photographs and a descrip
tion of the vase have been submit
ted to the Liverpool museum author
ties, who are of the opinion that its
w’orth has not been overestimated.
The ornamentation is evidently of
Grecian design and the workmanship
is French. —London News and
Leader.
NO NEXT TIME FOR HIM.
When General Braddock started
out to take Fort Duquesne Washing
ton warned him against Indian am
buscades. Braddock ignored the
warning and was surprised and his
army cut to pieces, Braddock him
self being mortally wounded. Frank
lin relates, rather wickedly, that
Braddock remained silent the whole
day on the retreat, and that the first
words he spoke were: “Who would
have thought it?” Then he relapsed
into silence for another day, when
he again collected himself and said,
“We’ll know better next time,” and
immediately afterward died.
WHEN HIS LETTERS COME.
When the postman passed Johnny
Jones said to Willie Green :
“Look, I think he is going into
your house.”
“Yes,” said Willie, “we get lots
of letters. Sometimes we get as
many as three at one time.”
“Huh,” ejaculated Willie, “you
ought to see the letters my papa gets
at the first of every month.”
BARNYARD ARISTOCRACY.
“I’d have you know that I’m a
descendant of the geese that saved
Rome.”
“What is that to pure colonial an
cestry? Can’t you see I’m a Ply
mouth Rock hen?”
EYES THAT SQUINT.
Harmless In Babyhood, but a Serious
Matter Later On.
The eyes are meant to look both
in the same direction and thus to
help each other to see, as the feet
help each other to walk or run.
When they do not do so there is a
squint or a “cast” in one or both
eyes, or, to use the medical term,
“strabismus.” Not only disfigure
ment, but also impaired vision, re
sults.
Little babies squint more or less
during the first few months of life.’
That is not a serious matter, al
though it often frightens a young
and inexperienced mother, it is
generally caused by a slight dis
turbance of the digestion and pass
es when that is corrected. But a
squint that appears later, when the
child is beginning to develop vision
by the constant use of the eye
muscles, must not be neglected. If
it is the unfortunate condition will
probably last through life.
The eyes should work absolutely
in unison, just as two horses har
nessed to a cart ought to pull to
gether. When they do not focus
on the same point at the same time
the crooked eye soon abandons the
struggle and leaves the straight eye
to do all the work. That is unfair
to the good eye and fatal to the
other, for an eye that is not used
grows gradually blind from lack of
exercise. Flven if the squint is so
slight that the child makes an un
conscious effort to force the affect
ed eye to its task he is sure to suffer
the distressing ache of eye strain.
When a young child has strabis
mus take him at once to a trust
worthy oculist, in order that he may
have the glasses that his condition
demands. And. when he has been
fitted with glasses that pull the
crooked eye into line with the
straight eye and make it do its work
properly, see that he wears them
every waking minute, except when
he washes his face.
If the squinting eye has already
got the habit of shirking it may
have to be trained by exercises.
The good eye must be shut at in
tervals, so that the other will have
to do all the work, but the oculist
in charge of the case must decide*
the precise character and frequency
of the treatment. —Youth’s Com
panion.
Progressive.
““Please, mum,” said a tramp,
“would you be so kind as to let me
have a needle and thread ?”
“Well, y-e-s,” said the housewife
at the door; “1 can let you have
that.”
“Thankee, mum. Now, you’d
oblige me very much if you’d let me
have a bit of cloth for a patch.’’
“Yes, here is some.”
“Thankee very much, mum. It’s
a little different color from my suit.
I see. Perhaps, mum, you could
spare me some of your husband’s
old clothes that this patch will
match.”
“Well, I declare! You’re clever,
my man, and I’ll give you an old
suit. Here is one.”
“Thankee greatly, mum. I see
it’s a little large, mum, but if you’ll
kindly furnish me with a square
meal mebby 1 can fill it out.”
Hours of Sleep.
According to Dr. Frederick B.
Percy of the Boston university
school of medicine, the least cultur
ed and least developed adults need
the most sleep, and the higher the
intellectual development the more
prone one is to dreams. The healthy
child of two years passes half its |
time in slumber. The adult re
quires from seven to eight hours of
sleep daily, aged persons not more
than five or six hours. Women
need, as a rule, more sleep than
men. There are persons to whom
nine or even ten or twelve hours
of sleep are essential, while others
seldom sleep more than six out of
the twenty-four. Too much sleep
is possible. Sleep undisturbed is
what we all desire.
Proved His Contention.
“Mother,” complained Johnny,
not so pleased as might have been [
with the results of unselfish mater
nal tailoring, “these trousers are
too tight. They’re tighteFn my
own skin.”
“Now. my son,” said mother, in I
quiet reproof, “don’t exaggerate. ■
How can they be tighter than your
skin ?” ■
“They are. too, mother: they
must be. I can sit down in my skin. ’
but 1 can’t sit down in these trou- j
se rs. ” Exc h a nge.
Betty’s Gift.
A Lancashire vicar was asked by
the choir to cad upon old Betty, who
was deaf, but who insisted in join
ing in the solo of the anthem, and J
to ask her only to sing in the hymns.
He shouted into her ear. “Betty.
I’ve been requested to speak to you
about vour singing.” At last she
caught the word “singing” and re
plied: “Not tn me be the praise, sir.
It’s a gift.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Neiv Schedule On G. & N. W. R. R.
Sunday.
The Gainesville Northwestern
Railroad will inaugurate a new
schedule next Sunday, June 15th.
Train No. 5 arrives Gainesville
daily, except Sunday, at 10 a. m.,
and Train No. 8 leaves Gainesville
daily, except Sunday, at 3.15 p. in.
Train No. 9, Sunday only, arrives
Gainesville at 8.70 a. m.. and Train •
No. 12 leaves Gainesville at 9.10 a. in.
A new train each way has also
been added as follows: Train No.
21 arrives Gainesville. Sunday only,
8.50 a. m.. and traiu No. 20 leaves
Gainesville, Sunday only, at 4.35
p. in.
Autry, Camp Ground and Yonah
have been made flag stops.
Dearness Ca act be Cured
by local applications, as I hey cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that 1 *
by constitutional remedies. Ueafnee*'
caused by an inflamed condition o f •
cons lining of the ’
this tube is inflamed y» \ •
sound or imperfect \
entirely closed, \
unless the inflammation ■ \\ \
and this tube restored to» \\ \
tion, hearing will be <lest rol\\ \
cases out of ten arecaused
is nothing but an inflamed I „ >* •
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hurdr
any case of lhaluess (cause,
that cannot becured by I’ull\
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENY A- < ’<>.
Sold by druggists, 75c. \
Take Hall’s FamilylPills force'
General Housecleanin.
Window Cleaning and \
Cleaning done in neat style. A
Hill, 59 Railroad x.
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And Constipation
Dont Wait Another Day—Get a 25-
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other ailments caused by poisonous
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that remedy is HOT SPRINGS
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ter a few days treatment you will
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not be subject to dizziness or ner
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will sleep soundly, relish what you
eat and do your work willingly and
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If you feel lazy tired or blue, its
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Eor free sample write Hot Springs
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i gents in Gainesville.
Tax Receiver's Notice.
1 will be at —
Gainesville June 2 to 2<>.
For the purpose of receiving Tax
Returns, and all property held amt
possessed February Ist is subject to
taxation.
All property not returned will be
double taxed.
Come early ami avoid the rush.
W. B. Buffington,
Tax Receiver.
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