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This Is the Charge Made in the
Finance Committee.
JACH side
OHABGING THE OTHER.
Hound by a Secrecy Resolution
** r nt )t i, llurd to Get News on tne
j*roprr** Made on the Tariff Measures.
Tlie Hisnd Bill In the Senate—The lions*
on Appropriations.
^•ashinotoN, March 14.—Mr. Sher-
ff|in W!uS able to attend the meeting of
tins finance committee, but he did not
^ve until a late hour. All the other
onuibt'rs who are now in the city were
present.
The first thing done was in the direc-
tion of preventing the publication of the
tct ion and discussion of the committee.
This was brought about by a resolution
nlediiinK members of the committee to
L resv, *<nd as a result none of the
members would speak, further than to
, 8 v that absolutely nothing had been
iccomplisbed, and no agreement was
reached as to when the bill should be
^Democratic members are accusing
their Republican colleagues of consum-
i n , needless time and characterize their
conduct by that more expressive word
••filibustering.”
This tin* minority deny, ana say that
all they ask is time to consider the bill.
In return they accuse the majority at
tempting the railroad bill through the
committee. . ...
After the routine morning business
the senate resumed the consideration of
the Bland seigniorage bill.
At ~ o'clock Mr. Harris called atten
tion to the agreement to take a vote on
jlr. Allison's motion to reconsider the
vote bv which the seignorage bill passed
to a third reading, and the vote was or
dered resulting as follows: Yeas, 28;
navs, 43. <■
the house at 1:10 p. m. on motion of
jlr. Savers went into committee of the
whole on the sundry civil appropriation
bill, Jlr. Lester, of Georgia, in the
chair.
8om« Nominations*
The president sent to the senate the
following nominations: George M. Ad
ams. pension agent, Louisville, Ky.; W.
Y,’. Degge, postmaster. Norfolk, Va.
About the DUpensaxy Cases.
Washington, March 14. — Commis-
licnor .Miller has received no informa
tion of a clash in South Carolina be
tween the state authorities and Collector
Towner. The state dispensaries are
treated by the internal revenue bureau
the same as though they were individ
uals engaged in the wholesale or retail
liquor business. If illicit liquor is found
In them, the liquor is seized and sold to
reimburse the government for the un
paid tax and the remainder, if any, is
turned into the treasury. In no case is
it permitted to pay tax on illicit liquor
and retain the goods.
The Mwsp BKIEB.
Telegraphic Sparks and Other
for Banner Headers.
—An unknown mulatto woman was
lynobed near Little Book, Ark.
Wayne MaoVesgb baa presented
his credentials as ambassador to King
Humbert.
—Ten campaign hats have been receiv
ed by the officers of the Second Georgia
Regiment.
—The tax assessment of the town of
Tennille shows property valued at over
$300,000
CITY NdflfeS,
Rev. Wm; Center, one of Clarke
county’s staunch citizens and farmers
was in the city yesterday. Mr. Center
is a hale and hearty man for one of his
age.
Mr. W. B. Jackson is having his
handsome home cn Lumpkin street
greatly improved. Recently & hand
some Mansard roof has been placed on
the bnilding, which adds several com
modious rooms.
Rev. W. P. Lovejoy will commence a
protracted meeting at his church about
the first of ApriL There can be no
doubt that there are indications of re
vival fire in many parts of the city, and
we sinoerely hope the flame will kindle
—The city of Maoon began Saturday chuldtiM pro P° rlioDa and that all the
setting out 1,000 shade trees in the
parks and streets of the oity.
m the oity may be revived
and greatly built up.
We learn that Rev. W. M. D. Bond,
—Congressman Tom Johnson’s steel I of the Athens oircuit, has changed bis
worlu at Johnstown are to he removed apgointment on his cireuit at Center,
to Cleveland. Thevemninr mm m.. I Heretofore he has been preaching at
to Cleveland. They employ 8,000 men. Center on the first Sunday in the month
—The oity council of Augusta has I and at White Springs on the second,
the property of the exposition oom-1 Springs on the first and at Center
pany.
the second Sabbath.
-The Maeon Gas, Light and Water
Company is said to receive a yearly ■
revenue of between $81,000 and $32,000 * °?® at Christian church con
- * ™ * I tin non tv\ WilliamaAm afta 1
At tbb Christian Church.—The
from Its water plant.
tinnes to grow. Dr. Williamson, after
the seimon last night, read two impor-
—The annual oonvention of the na-1 tant queries whioh he will answer to-
tional republican league will be held in
Denver for several days, beginning
June 25. *
—The men in the Mt. Washington
glass factory at New Bedford, Mass.,
night. His subject for tonight will be,
'What Must I DO To Be Saved.” Come
cut and hear him.
To Sxu. their Library.—The Phi
have struck against a 10 per oent reduc- Ksp P & Liter «y Sooiety of the Univer-
tion and a non-union shop. - B,t y of Georgia will at an early date,
I sell its library. It once had a good li-
Memorial services in honor of the I brary of three thousand books, but of
late George W. Childs were held at the I late years it has not been attended to,
Fifth avenue theatre by the composi-1 and many liooks have Deen stolen or re-
tors and newspaper men of New York. I moved from their places. The sooiety
—Cora Plankett, a pretty young At-1 has no further use for its library and
lanta girl sommitted suicide in that | will sell it.
city on Tuesday by swallowing a pois
onous drug.
—A Dodge county negro reoently
plowed up a half dozen old silver dol-
Not Fob An Office —Yesterday at
noon at Elberton daring an adjourn
ment of the court, Mr. T.RR. Cobb,of
behalf of the candidacy of Gen EvanB
During the oourse of his remarks, he
took occasion to denounce as false the
farm work and gone to digging for
money.
—The prohibitionists of Dodge conn
ty are planning to have the prohibition publication in one of the Gwinnett pa-
election come off in April, immediately pe rs that he had been promised an of-
upon the expiration of two years from
the date of the last election.
Condition of Georgia Banks.
Washington, March 14.—Returns of
the condition of 27 national banks in the
itate of Georgia up to February 28 show
th# average reserve to have been 40.72
per cent; loans and documents, $7,124,-
000; lawful money reserve, $1,183,000;
surplus funds, $1,067,000, and individ
ual deposits, $5,140,000.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made.
HARY WASHINGTON
ENTERTAINMENT.
’Possum vs. Rats.—Mr. Tom Hada-
way has a rat trap that he setB exclu
sively for rats, and rats only. There
has, however,been anew recruit in the
trap. Mr. Hadaway bated the trap
well on Tuesday night and dreamed of
catching them b/ the thousand. He
was disappointed when be came down
. ., . . . , Wednesday morning to find a ’possum
’"Hsafel/Xdin the'trap. Mrs. Hada-
—A Kansas woman has applied for I
an injunction to prevent her lover from I
marrying another woman." Some law-1
yers hold that she is entitled to it, a
the defendant promised to marry her.
—A number of State papers are advo
eating Judge Marshal J. Clarke for the |
Supreme beuoh in the event the oon-
"Mary Ball Washington, the daugh
ter of tol. Joseph Ball, of Lancaster,
V»-, was born 1700, married to Augus
tine Washington, March 6, 1730, and
died August 25, 1789, aged 83 years.
Hie was buried on the spot chosen by
herself on her own plantation, ‘ Ken.
more," on the Rappahannock, near
fttJericksburg, Forty years after, e
patriotic citizen of New York, Mr. Si
^ Burrows, presented a handsome
nisrb.e monument for the spot, the cor
ner-stone of which was laid by Presi
dent Andrew Jackson in 1823. It was
Dearly but not entirely completed, but
is now insuch a state of dilapidation
sod rum aa to be irrecoverable.”—
Lussiny’s Life of Mary Washington.
it is proposed by the Mary Washing
ton Association to rescue from entire
oblivion the grave of this woman whose
memory should be hallowed in the
ne&risof every mother and daughter
>n America. Accordingly this organi
sation has undertaken the task of rais
ing fifty thousand dollars for this pur
pose. Already one-haif of that snm
has been collected, the monument or
dered and the first payment made.
Early in the spring the work will be
completed and the monument, a hand
some monolith, will be unveiled with
appropriate ceremonies. Said the no
ble W ashington; “I attribute all my
success In life to the moral, intellectual
and physical education whioh I receiv
ed from my mother.” Should we not,,
then, delight to honor the memory of
th« woman who gave us the greatest
hero and patriot that “adorns the an
E&1 ® of American history ?
Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb, the Vice Pres
ident of the Mary Washington Associa-
boo in Georgia proposes to give a series
of entertainments,the proceeds of which
*ill be devoted to this noble work,
he first of these entertainments will
P r esented at the Opera House on
uesday evening, March 27th. In our
E ext issue a complete program and cast
°f characters will be given.
A FAMILY~mOROFORMED
VOUNa WlKflgfiANKi
They shot young Wlndebank Just hero,
By Merton, where the eon
Strikes on the walL 'Twaainayear
Of blood the deed was done.
At morning from the meadows dim
He watched them dig his grave.
Was this in truth the end for him.
The well beloved and brave?
He marched with soldier scarf and sword.
Set free to die that day ~
And free to speak once more the word
That marshaled men obey.
But silent on the aileA band
That faced him, stern as death
He looked, and on the summer land
And on the grave beneath.
Then, with a sodden smile and proud.
He waved his plume and cried:
"The kingl The king!” and laughed aloud,
“The king! The kingl” and died.
Let none affirm he vainly fen
And paid the barren cost
Of having loved and served too well
A poor cause land a lost.
He in the soul’s eternal cause
Went forth as martyrs must—
The kings who make the spirit laws
And rule us from the dust.
Whose wills, unshaken by the breath
Of adverse fate, endure
To give us honor strong as death
And loyal lore as sure.
—Margaret 8. Woods.
HER N0M DE PLUME.
I stand here alone—a' much alone this
clear, cold winter mon an.; -.s though the
wastes of Sahara stretch o.. t around me.
Yet I am in a pretty room—a luxurious
room—with a glorious fire glowing in
the silver barred grate and the curtains
of frosty lace half obscuring the outside
world. A room with a warm crimson
carpet, a jardiniere of blooming plants,
a redbird swinging idly to and fro in its
gilded cage, a piano in the corner and
pictures on the walls, and books—books
everywhere.
This is my especial sanctum, my own
thrill; riflisli Voice; .Evidently the fact
of a “better half” Wbdld forever obscure
the fame of the popular writer.
Again I shake my 1 head.
“Vere St. Albans is hot married,’* I
return, and the violet eyes dance with
delight. §lie is pleased and does not at
tempt to cdhceal it.
“I am his nearest friend,” I added ex
planatorily, “nearer to him than anyone
else.”
And then I bow her opt and go back
to my work.’ But all day long I am vis
ited by thoughts of the pretty college
girl, and I fall to wondering if Brother
Tom paid his wager like a man of honor.
The next day “Vere St. Albans” re
ceives cards of invitation to several af
fairs. The envelopes are all addressed
to Mr. Vere St. Albans, and gradually it
dawns ^pon me that I am universally
believed to be of the masculine gender.
It is amusing and provoking, bnt the
situation has its compensations. I de
cline every invitation in Vere St. Albans’
name and feel almost like an impostor
as I do so.
Day after day I am besieged by callers
who demand to look upon the face of the
mysterious St. Albans. Of course I re
fuse everybody. I doable Abby’s wages
and station her in the small entrance
hall, with orders to admit no one. I re
ceive letters from my publishers re
proaching me with my seclusion. —
“Don’t be a hermit, my dear fellow,"
says one of the lettecs from the angnst
head of the house; “a bttle society will
freshen you up, and besides you have
really made a hjt in that last article, and
people are desirous of meeting you. My
son, whom we have just admitted to the
firm, is very anxious to meet you.”
And so on until 1 feel the blood grow
cold within my veins at thought of pos
sible complications. ’ '
Can I always preserve my incognita?
Will they not besiege my den and ferret
the truth and me—out of it together? It
comes at last. One bright winter morn
ing Abby ushera into my presence a port-
Hok to Mak« Them* With the Least fit-'
penditurtf of Labor and Money.
The cheapest, most easily made and
the most satisfactory nest we ever used
is the one illustrated by Fig. 1. It is
made of a soapbox with two-thirds of
the lid removed and-the box turned on
its narrow side, as shown in the cut. We
den, whither I retreat from the storms
of the world, the cold, pitiless blasts of V looking old gentleman, and with him
floe.
viding for two additional judges.
—In the Chatham Superior court Joe
Blois has the second time been oonvict-
ed of the murder of August Meyer, and
unless the Supreme oourt interferes, he
will serve a life sentence in the peni
tentiary.
—Bob Beck and his third wife have
separated,
of age and has already paid out more
money for marriage license th^n any
one of his tender years on record.—
Dahlonega Signal.
—Henry McDonald,whose sensation
al arrest and imprisonment in Chatta
nooga, attempted to commit snioide in
jail on Sunday night by swallowing
morphine. The jailor took the drug
away from him.
—While McIntosh county furnished
her share of soldiers to the late war,not
a one is drawing a pension from the
State of Georgia. There are some who
are entitled to the $60 per annum, but
will not make application for it.
—A young son of James Worthing'
ton, of Griffin, bad his thigh broken
Friday. His father was knocking down
an outhonse, and being deaf did not
way tnrned him loose as he wanted to
oatch rats and not ’pusBums.
GOOD LOOKS.
Good looks are more than skin deep,
spending upon a healthy condition of
all the vital organs. If the Liver be
inactive, yon have a Billions Look, if
He is only about 22 years I your stomach be disordered you have a
Dyspeptic Look and if your Kidneys be
affected you have a Pinched Look,
Secure good health and you will have
good looks. Electric Bitters is the
Teat alterative and tonic and acts
irectly on these vital organs. Cures
Pi tuples. Blotches, Boils and gives a
good complexion. Sold at J. Crawford
and Go’s and Palmer and Kinnewbrew’s
Drug store. 60c. per bottle.
W.mtber Forecast, "
Washington, March 14.—Forecast till
8 p. m., Thursday. For North Carolina
South Carolina—Fair, slightly cool
er Thursday morning in the interior,
variable winds, becoming northeasterly.
Eastern and Western Florida, Georgia
and Alabama—Generally fair, variable
winds, becoming southerly. Missis-
■Jppi—Fair, followed by showers on the
coast, southerly winds.
John T, Ford Dead.
Baltimore, March 14.—John T. Ford,
hear the boy on the other side and I ^ veteran theatrical manager, died at
knocked
him.
the building down upon
his residence in this oity this moral Jg.
His death was sudden and unexpected
—Ellijay Courier says that Mrs. Ste- The immediate cauBe was heart disease,
phens, a lady living in Ellijay, recent
ly showed the writer a very interesting
relio in the shape of a common gourd,
which she used to keep parched coffee
in, and whioh she told os had been in
ber family since the year 1779. Her
great, great, grandmother raised the
gourd in Franklin county, Georgia,and
it has ever since been banded down
through the generations, and preserved
as an heirloom in the family.
—There is a lot of land in Colquitt
county over whioh there will probably
be a big legal squabble some day. A
letter was received by General Phil
Cook, secretary of State, a few days
ago, asking some information about
the lot. Upon Investigation hefonnd
that there were eleven different persons
paying taxes on the lot. The records
show that these eleven people have
paid the taxes on this lot frun 18781 eso.
superinduced by grippe.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
World’s Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
Naval Stores.
Savannah. March 14.—Spirits of tnrpenti no
quiet with demand moderate; Arm at 28^-
28 for regulars; sales 250 casks, and closed
steady at 29. Rosin qniet with a slow de
mand; opened and closed lirm and un
changed; A. B, C. D and J5, $1.05; If, $1.10;
G, $1.38; H. $1.65; I, $1.95; K.$2.30: M. $2.50;
N. $2.5 <62.55: windowglass, $2.7(J®$2.»; wa-
terwhite, $3.00.
Wilmington, March 14. — Rosin firm
■trained. 90; good" strained. 95; turpentine
is steady at 28; tar is steady at 85; crude
turpentine is steady; bard. $110; soft and
virgin, $1.90.
down to 1893. Some day it will be do-1
cided to Wtom it belongs.
A hd then a Burglar Cota in Hla Work
*t Waycross.
A aicross, Ga., March 1.—The resi-
*nce ot G. N. Hay was Lurglarized
tat night. Miss Lula Hay awoke and
°und 1 negro man bending over her.
e was frightened, but could not move
i 1 * 8pe * lc - She had been drugged, and
| “ er «old watoh was stolen. Mr. Hay
... 1118 wife were also dragged with
oroform. The burglar robbed Mr.
J °* a large nun of money and other
»b»«s. A woman hgp been locked
with being accessory to the
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World’s Fair Highest Award.
An Old Rumor Revived-
Again rumor says Senator David B.
Hill la soon to marry. This time it is a
New York young lady, whom he has
but recently met. Some of bis critic*
are accusing him «f but having one ob
ject in view.. They say he haa reached
the conclusion that a married man has
a better chance of political success than
a bichelor, and in order to achieve his
greatest ambition—the presidential
nomination—he will take this step.
This accusation of bis enemies is at>3urd
Produce and Provision*.
New York, March 14.—Pork, new mess.
$12.50®$12.00 Middles is nominal; short
clear, — Lard is qniet; western steam 7.1214;
steam, $25; options, March, 7 101 May
Chicago, March 14.—Cash quotations were
as follows: Mess pork. $ia86®UL90.
Lard, 6.67t4'ao.7U Short ribs, loose 5.62)44$
5 C7S4. Dry salt shoulders, boxed &00®625;
short clear sides, boxed 6S714»6 50.
Cincinnati, March 14 —Pork, mess, $11.75.
Lard, steam leaf, 725. Bacon steady; shoul
ders, 0.50, short rib sides, 6.75; short clear,
LOO. ,
New York Cotton Futures.
7 New York, March 14.
Cotton futures opened steady.
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Speaking of marriages Justice White |
„ho was onlyswora in 01 _
. * ATU i who was supposed I Instructor, Free* Ail oi 1 _
bench Monday, a . . nlnr = teed to do you good and cost you nothing
to be a confirmed old bachelor, is soo ^ Q raw j or( j 4 Qo, and Palmer & Kin-
towed. Rumor say$ be will W$rry|nebrew’sDrogtor*.
who was only sworn in on the Supreme copy of Guide to Health and Household
J - - 1 * *— ■*"— All of which is gnaran-
adversity—and find peace. Yet I am a
woman—a sensitive, imaginative wom
an—and if sometimes a tiny touch of
discontent starts into my heart—a feel
ing of loneliness—it surely neednotcon-
cern any one but myself. “Man was not
made to live alone,” and, for the matter
of that, neither was woman. Yet
better a lonely, single life than an un
happy double existence. So I say as I go
over to my desk and seat myself for the
daily “grind.”
First I will introduce myself. My
name is Vere St. Albans Hale, and I am
a newspaper correspondent, writer of
magazine artioles and everything else in
the imagination line for which I can find
sale. The reader must not object to the
implied inference that the newspaper
correspondent is to be classed with writ
ers of fiction. Yet whence do they glean
all their scraps of wonderful informa
tion? **»
For .a long time I have been writing
articles for a leading magazine under a
masculine nom de plume—Vere St. Al
bans—which is an abbreviation of my
own given name attached to my second.
To my surprise, the articles have been
received with far more appreciation than
I had dared to hope for. and that fact,
accompanied by liberal checkB, has
proved a very pleasant episode in my
lardworking existence. This morning
as I seat myself at my desk preparatory
to coming down on the day’s work like
the traditional wolf on the fold I am in
terrupted by the appearance of my own
servant—a girl with a fair, open counte
nance and general vacuity.
“Well, Abby,” I observe, a little tes
tily, for she is transgressing a well
known rule regarding the interruptin'?
of my work, “what is it?”
“Please, miss” (in a solemn voice,
which somehow provokes me to smile),
'there’s a lady—that is to say, a girl—in
the deception room.”
A Bmall antechamber where my stray
visitors are first received before being
welcomed into the sanctum. I smile a
little more.
“Reception room, Abby,” I correct se
verely, bnt feeling an irresistible desire
to expand the smile into a laugh.
“What is her business?” *
“Oh, she wants to see Mr. Vere St. AP
bans—that’s the very name, miss”
(proudly). ‘Tve said it over and over
till I know it’s right.”
“Mr. Vere St. Albans!”
I repeat the name—the unlucky name
—in a bewildered way.
“What does she wish of hlml"
Abby courtesies.
“Please, miss, I don’t know. Bnt she’s
a-carryin a little book in her hand. No,
miss, she’s not a book agent, ’cause I
asked her. She’s a college girl, she says,
and—and—I believe it’a some writing
she wants done.”
I arise in mock resignation. I did have
an idea—a bright and brilliant idea—in
my brain when I seated myself at my
dmk this morning. It has flown now.
Will it ever return?
I take myself into the reception room
and find my visitor, a pretty little school
girl, overdressed and laden with school
books. Conspicuous on the very top lies
a velvet bound volume. Yes, I have
seen such volumes before, “many a time
and oft,” and it does not require the
word “Autographs” in huge, gilt letters
to explain its mission. She arises at once.
“Pardon me for intruding,” she be
gins, “bnt I have ventured to call to re
quest the autograph of the great writer,
Vere St. Albans. Will yon kindly inter
cede in my behalf, madam, and beg
him to write, in my album?’
There is the situation in a nutshell.
She believes Vere St. Albans to be a
rmn, and she wants his illustrious auto
graph. Well, the very easiest way in
the world to get it over with and to be
at liberty to return to my day’s work at
the desk is to grant her request.
“I will ask him,” I return, feeling like
a conspirator.
“Oh, will yon, please?” her face light
ing np wonderfully. “How good of youl
Yon see, there’s a wager on it. Brother
Tom has bet me a dozen pairs of kid
gloves—six buttons and assorted shades
—that HI not he able to get St. Albans’
autograph. He say* there is a mystery
about him- I think you are very kind
to promise to help me!” she adds gush
ingly,
I do my best to repress a smile, and so
taking the book from her hand I retire
to the privacy of my sanctum, where I
proceed to inscribe my name in my lar
gest, manliest chirography. I dry it care
fully and return to the reception room.
“Oh, how very kind in youl” my vis
itor gnshes again. “I shall prise it as
long as I live! Are you his sister?’
I shake my head.
“Oh, not his—wife?’
.1 fancy consternation in the sweeW
a man of some 30 years, tall, dark, hand
some—just each a face as I love to por
tray as the faces of my heroeB.
“I beg your pardon!”
Mr. Atherton falls back, overcome
with surprise.
“The servant showed us in here. We
are desirous of meeting Mr. Vere St.
Albans. We are of the publishing firm
of Atherton & Sons. I wish to see Mr.
St. Albans in regard to some especial
work. Will yon kindly request him to
give ns audience?
I feel my face growing red—redder-
reddest. I rise from my chair and mo
tion them to be seated near. I open my
mouth to blurt forth the whole truth,
hut some perverse imp seizes my tongue,
and instead I falter:
“You cannot see Vere St. Albans to
day, gentlemen. He—is indisposed.
go he is, indeed, indisposed to receive
visitors.
“You are St. Albans, I pre
sume,” he ela&rve*. And I—oh, depths
of infamy! I am s® embarrassed, so
overwhelmed with embarrassment un
der the cool, steady gaze of the younger
man that I bow and mutter something
which sounds strangely like “Yes."
At that moment there is a curious hus
tle within :he fiat where thy little home
is situated. An uproar all at once, and
in rushes Ahby, wild and disheveled,
and clings to my arm like a mad crea
ture.
“Oh, Miss Vere! Miss Vere?” she
shrieks, “the house is on fire! Come, Jet
ns get away, or we shall bo burned
alive l”
It is all true. The fire has been burn
ing so long unsuspected that now it
breaks out with irresistible force, and
soon the whole building is in flames,
But long before then we are quite safe.
My two visitors bear my desk down
stairs between them, and while the elder
man keeps watch and ward over it out
side upon the street the younger returns
tome.
“We must get your husband out,” he
says eagerly. “Show me his room, and
I will do my best to save him!”
“My husband!” I falter feebly. “Why,
I have no husband!”
“Then who is Vere St. Albans?”
“I am!’
So the truth is told, and somehow I
feel better.
When we are all safe on terra firm a,
my new friend turns to me and says in
alow tone:
“My name is Tom Atherton. My
young sister called to obtain Vere St,
Albans’ autograph. She is more than
half in l6ve with the unknown and mys
terious Vere. I shall take pleasure in
undeceiving her.”
Then after a long pause, during which
he studies my shamed face attentively
he adds:
“And I am quite in love with Vere St.
Albans. I have known that writer for
months through her manuscripts. Tell
me, is there any hope for me?”
What can I say but murmur some
thing about short acquaintance and all
the rest of the conventional excuses that
flock through my brain. But time does
away with the first excuse, since he pro
ceeds'.henceforth to devote himself to
cultivating my acquaintance, and the
others he puts aside as he would a shad
ow.
So one day Tom takes me to his home,
and I am duly presented as his betrothed
wife in propria persona. — New York
Weekly.
F IGr 1
fiq-2.
CHEAP NEST—HANGING NEST,
place these boxes in rows with the open
sides toward the wall of the laying room.
Wo have some that have been in use for
a dozen years. Lousy, yon say?. Not at
alL A handful of dry slacked lime in
the bottom under the hay or a sprinkle
of pyrethinm (insect powder) avoids all
trouble in this direction.
Fig. 2 ijlustrates a good hanging nest
This, too, may be made from a cheap
storebox. To hang it up bore two holes
in back of nestbox and drive two nails
for hooks into the wooden wall of poul-.
try house, leaving the heads out about
lj inches. The holes and nails must be
the same distance apart, and the distance
should be uniform in all cases so that the
nests can be changed when. necessary.
The sloping top prevents fowls from
perching on them.
It is very desirable early in the seasotf
when the sun is not strong and many
days are cold and stormy to have warm
coops and plenty of light in them. Fig.
3 illustrates a coop of this kind. No
valid objection can be made to such a
coop as this if properly used. By this
we mean that on bright sunny days it
will become too warm unless part of the
figs FIG-4
FOR EARLY CHICKS—CHEAP COOP,
glass he shaded or extra ventilation be
given, and at night the glass will let in
the cold and must be covered with old
carpet, straw mats or boards. It is sim
ilar to a hotbed and when used for early
chicks must—to be successful—be han
dled with care and intelligent judgment:
otherwise the chicks will he like plants
drawn np rapidly with too much heat,
tender and weak.
Fig. 4 illustrates a style of coop in
common use in some sections where poul
try is an important farm crop. It is
about as economical of lumber as any
coop that can be made, and at the same
time gives thq greatest possible propor
tion of floor room. In making up a lot
of coops of this style scarcely any lum
ber need t>e wasted. We have been ac
customed to make the roof boards 38
inches long on one side and 35 inches on
the other. By using foot wide boards
and placing two together we get a coop
2 feet deep. By making the lower an
gle like the top we have a floor space 2
by 3 feet or 6 square feet, and the lum
ber cuts to the best advantage.
The foregoing practical talk is from
the Philadelphia Farm Journal and con
tains timely and useful information on a
subject of widespread interest.
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A Florida correspondent of the Texas
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I am feeding the Wonderful pea hay
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the first year in the south I am free on
the hay question, having enough pea
hay to carry mo through, and my horses
work as well and my cows give as
mnch milk as when fed on northern
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Florida clover—beggar weed—crab
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F wedewick—Ash me man Jeames. He
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