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Crawford Const? Herald.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
ROBERTA, GEORGIA, ‘
E. ?• TRAMMELL,
Editor and Proprietor.
TERMS: $1 per year in Advance
Official Organ of Crawford County.
Entered at the postoffice in Roberta,
Ga., as second-class matter.
The attendance of women at the Boa-
ton University, amounting as it does to
300, illustrates how the cause of woman
is progressing nowadays with a rapidity
that surpasses even that of geometrical
progression.
I
- New Mexico has a very wide range oi
climate. The temperatures registered in
the Territory during January varied con¬
siderably over 100 degrees. The hot¬
test place during the month was La Luz,
Dona Ana County, where the ther¬
mometer registered seventy-six decrees
one day, and the mean temperature for
the month was 60.7 degrees. At Dulce,
Rio Arriba CouQty, the mercury on one
chilly January day crawled down to
thirty-two degrees below zero, and its
record for the month in that bracing
spot was 1.6 degrees below zero.
The record of ship building in New
England for 1891 showed that the sail¬
ing ship is by no means a thing of the
past, even in this country, remarks th«
New York Tribune. In England th<
returns for the same year are even mon
suggestive, the tonnage increase of eight
per cent, being all in sailing vessels.
Sailing vessels, moreover, constituted
twenty-five per cent, of the total con¬
struction of 1891, against nine per cent,
in 1887. The obvious lesson is that a
profitable field still exists for sailing
ships, and that under certain conditions
they etc expected to compete successfully
with steamers.
Professor Jameson, of Brown Univer
sity, Is lecturing on the historic colonia
mansions on the James River in Vir¬
ginia, especially those at Shirley, West-
over and Upper and Lower Brandon.
This region and tho country about Will
iamsburg, which the professor designate!
as “the quaintest place in the English
portion of America,” was once a virgir
field of discovery for the seeker after old
colonial furniture. Many a raro find ot
ancient mahogany tables and sideboardi
has been made thereabouts, and quaint
Chippendale chairs used to be found
there in numbers—interesting objects o:
treasures-trove that could tie secured fo
the proverbial song. But time hai
changed all that, and such articles whet
discovered there now are held at fail
price. It is said that much of this sort
ef colonial furniture may be obtained
nowadays in parts of Kentucky, run
pieces haring been inherited by thi
present generation of lventuckiaus from
their Virginia ancestors.
People who think that the free-pasi
business is carried to extremes in tbe
United States should note how they do
it in Russia. The Railroad Gazette says
that the Russian railroads have been ac-
eustomed to give free passes not only to
their employes, but to relative of their
employes, a practice which may have
been heard on this side of the Atlantic.
The term “relatives,” however, has been
Found to be extremely elastic, and re¬
cently the Great Russian Company pul
its foot down and issued positive orders
that hereafter passes will be granted to
no other relatives of employes than their
wives, though a trifling reduction ol
leventy per cent, on the prices of tickets
will be made to parents, brothers and
listers of employes and of their wives,but
ill aunts, cousins and stepmothers must
pay full fares. If your brother receives
s salary of as much as $750 from the
company, you can get your discount only
on first-class tickets; if he has from $150
to $750, you have second-class tickets;
if less than $450, third-class tickets.
The idea of the bicycle railroad finds
favor at Seattle. A line is soon to bt
constructed between that city and Taco¬
ma. The contract calls for its comple¬
tion within a year. The following de¬
scription is given of the road’ “There
will be two tracks, each of a single line
of steel rails. A timber will be laid on
the ground across the width of both
tracks at intervals of twenty feet, and
across these, lengthwise of the track,
10xl2-inch stringers will be laid, tc
which the rails will be spiked. To each
end of the sills will be bolted upright
timbers 2x18 inches and eighteen feet
high, with 4x6-inch braces. These up¬
rights will be connected overhead by a
cap, which will support a 4x6-incb
wooden guide-rail, directly above each
line of rails. The cars will run on
wheels under their centre on the single
line of rails, and, when running on a
straight track, will be held upright by
their own impetus. When roundin" “
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upright by two ruboer wheels affixed to
their roofs and running one on each side
ot the guide-rail, while a third rubber
wheel will revolve against the under side
ot . ... this rail, pressing .... against it and . , keep-
ing it in position. It is intended in the
course of a few years to replace the tim-
hers with steel superstructure. * Steam
koower will be used, but ultimately elec-
« city will be the motive power.”
Tolstoi, the Russian philosopher, says
that the least complicated and shortest
rule of morals that he knows is to get
others to work for you as little as possi- |
ble and work yourself much as possi- !
as
ble for them; make the fewest call upon
the services of your neighbors, and ten-
.
der them the maximum number of ser-
vices yourself.
Few people perhaps are aware of the
fact, believes the Boston Transcript,
that there was once a Postmistress-
General. She did not serve in this
country or in the present, century, but
the fact that a woman ever served in
that capacity is indeed remarkable.
Denmark was the home of this remark¬
able woman, whose name was Countess
Gyldenlore, or Dorothea Krag, as she
was called during her term of office,
which extended from the year 1703 to
1711. The present postal system in
that country, which Is considered one of
the best in the world, was inaugurated
by her.
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A few nights ago a mau standing in
one of the streets in Brooklyn, N. Y..
suddenly threw up his hands and fell to
the pavement, apparently lifeless. A
large crowd immediately gathered, an 1
two ambulances speedily came in re¬
sponse to police calls. Several surgeons
made a careful examination, and one of
them so roughly that the supposed dead
man sprang up, and roared with pain.
Then it was discovered that the man had
been shamming,and that he had done it on
a wager that he could draw a crowd of
500 people in less than ten minutes. He
won the wager, but it has cost him six
months in jail.
A citizen of Southwestern Arkansas
writes thus of a remarkable discovery to
Governor Eagle, of that State: “I wish
to inform you in regard to a skeleton
found near Saratoga. It is supposed to
be some kind of a serpent’s bones. Some
of the joints weigh nine and ten pounds
each. I have thirty-nine of these joints
and a number of pieces of ribs, but no
whole ones. From the be3t we could
tell the ribs would have measured four
feet in length. I have been informed
that you are gathering the curiosities of
our State for the museum, and every one
that has seen the bones says that they
are one of tho greatest curiosities ever
seen in this part of our State. The
thirty-nine joints weigh 350 pounds.
Please givo me the necessary informa¬
tion in regard to getting tho bones to
the museum.”
James B. Allen, whom citizens of
Chicago, Ill., recognized in 1889 as tho
oldest settler by presenting him with a
medal suitably inscribed, indulges in
some interesting reminiscences. He was
brought to the log settlement in 1833,
being then two years old, by his father.
The family carno from Ogdensburg, N.
Y. They took up their residence in a
little house immediately south of the
picket fence surrounding the fort. It
was the only house left by the Indians
after the massacre of 1812, and General
Winfield Scott had once occupied it.
The General presented to the elder Allen
three old cannon, which were afterwards
thrust muzzle down into the ground and
used as hitching posts. Later they were
cast into a bell for the court house. Old
Allen built Chicago’s first dock, on
River street. “The first water works
Chicago had," says his son, “were
operated by Nic Reiss, who peddled
water to the settlers at tfee price of
twenty-five cents a hogshead, Tho
water works consisted of a two-wlieel
cart on which was placed a sort of tank,
and the whole arrangement was drawn
by n horse which old Nick Reiss used to
drive. A good many years after that
my father and Virgil C. Walter, under
the firm name of Allen & Walter, oper¬
ated the old hydraulic water works at
the foot of Lake street. The water was
conducted to the city in wooden pipes.”
He continues: “I remember the old
ferry across the river where the Rush
Street Bridge is now; it was pulled by a
rope attached to a windlass on each
bank of the river. There also used to
be a ferry where the Lake Street Bridge
now swings. The stage coaches for the
West, which used to make Galena their
objective pointy used to be ferried across
there.” Mr. Allen remembers the first
vessel launched in Chicaco, the Mar¬
guerite Allen. It was originally (by
courtesy) a gunboat, and formed one of
the fleet that took part in Perry’s victory
on Lake Erie. It was lengthened and
rebuilt as a schooner, and in this form
began its trading career. The first hotel
was known as the Green Tree House,
ind was built by John Gray. The first
iteamboat to ply on the lake was the
lames Allen, named after the elder
Allen. Mr. James B. Allen is a veteran
ot the war. He claims to be a great-
lephew of Ethan Allen.
Easy to Become Ambidextrous.
A - majority *f those persons unfortu¬
nate enough to lose an arm, lose the left
arm it is said, but once in a while sonu
one loMM a right arm . Now then< di(i
you ever think as to your probable digital
facility in case you should lose your right
arra to-morrow In the language ot the
ex'uorter, “it may be your turn next?’’
It is a useless, senseless, harmful habit
this neglect of the left arm aad its ad-
juncts, but we are all of us too thought
less, too lazy perhaps to correct tde habit
l S Ca f corrected as I have
found after two weeks regular practice. \.
Acy man or woman who is in arne3f>
and wili practice half an hour at some
certain time each day, can learn to write
a ' e S lb '® hand and with reasonable rapid¬
ity with the left hand.—Detroit Free
Press.
A COLDEN HOUR.
\ beckoning spirit of gladness seemed
afloat.
That tightly danced in laughing air before
us;
The eurt’u was aii in tune and you a not*
Of Nature’s happy chorus.
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The leafless boughs across the lane were
knitting:
The ghost of some forgotten Spring, we said.
O’er Winter’s world comes flitting.
Or was it Spring herself, that, gone astray,
Beyond the alien frontier chose to tarry?
Or but some bold outrider of the May,
Some April-emissary?
The apparition faded on the air.
Capricious and inealeu able comer—
Wilt thou too pass, and leave my chill days
bare,
And fall’n my phantom Summer?
—William Watson, in the Spectator.
THE HUN A WAY.
BY PATIENCE STAPLETON.
OULD they put her
[ in wondered, the asylum,” “if they she
caught her?*’
Folks would suae-
ly think she was
• r. crazy. \
littu —® ’■ A-.^ * be be stone s t°PP e< l ^ t0 at
wa
r03t > aud looked
back ‘jrTV 1
old lamihar
scene.
Far behind her streebed the meadow,
a symphony of olive and green in the
late fall. Here and there the sunken
boulder stood soldiery, golden rod, or
berry bushes clothed now in scarlet and
gold. At intervals in the long slope
stood solitary trees, where fiuttering,
brittle leaves fell in the gentle, chill air.
In summer time she remembered well the
haymakers rested in the shade, and
thc jug with ginger water she made for
the men was kept there to be cool.
She seemed as she sat there to re-
member everything. The house was all
right, the was sure of that; the key was
under the kitchen door mat, the fire was
out in the stove and the cat locked in
the barn.
She held her work hardened hand to
her side, panting a little, for it was a
good bit of a walk across the meadow,
and she was eighty years old on her last
birthday. The cows feeding looked
homelike and pleasant.
“Goodbye, critters,” she said aloud;
“meny’s the time I’ve druv’ ye home an’
milked ye, an’ I alius let ye eat by the
way, nor never hurried ye as the boys
done.”
With a farewell glance she went on
again, smoothing as she walked the
scattered locks of gray hair falling under
the pumpkin hood aud keeping her
black scant gown out of the reach of the
briars. Across another field, then
through a leafy lane where the wood
was hauled in winter, then out through
a gap in a stump fence, with its great
branching arms like a petrified *ctopus,
to the dusty high road.
Not a soul in eight in the coming twi¬
light. John, the children and the scold¬
ing wife who made her so unhappy,
would not be home for an hour yet, for
East Mills was a long drive.
Down the steep hill went the brave
little figure, followed by an old shadow
of itself in the waning light, and by the
tiny stones that rolled eo swiftly
passed her often and made her look be¬
hind with a start to see if a pursuer was
coming.
“They’d put roe in the asylum, sure,”
she muttered wildly as she trudged
along.
At the foot of the hill she sat down
upon an old log and waited for the
train.
Across the road, guarded by a big
sign, “Look out for the engine,” ran
two parallel iron rails that were to be
her road when the big monster should
come panting around the curve.
At last the dull rumble sounded, a
shrill whistle, and she hurried to the
track, waving her shawl as a signal.
This, in the conductors’ vernacular,
was a cross-roads station, where he was
used to watch for people waving articles
frantically. The train stopped and the
passenger was taken aboard. lie noticed
she was a bright eyed old lady, very neat
and precise.
“How fur?” he asked.
“Bostin.”
“Git there in the mornin’,” he said,
kindly, waiting for the money, as she
opened a queer little reticule, where,
under her knitting, wrapped in a clean
cotton handkerchief, was her purse with
her savings of long years—the little
sums Sam had sent her when he first be¬
gau to prosper in the West, and some
money she had earned herself by knitting
and berry picking.
At a cross road, as they went swiftly
on, she saw the old sorrel horse, the
rattling wagon and John aud his family
driving homeward. She drew back
with a little cry, fearing he might see
her and stop the train, but they went on
so fast that could not be, and the old
horse jogged into the woods, and John
never thought his old Aunt Hannah, his
charge for twenty long years, was run-
niug away.
At Boston a kindly conductor bought
her a tbrougla ticket for Denver.
“It’s a long journey lor an old lady
like you,” '
he said.
“But I’m peart of my age,” sbe said
anxiously; I never hed a day's sickness
since I was a gal.”
“Going ali the way alone?”
“With Providence,” she auswered
brightly, alert and eager to help herself,
but sileut and thoughtful as the train
took her into strange landscape where
the miles where the landscape went so
swiftly it seemed like the past yearn of
ner hie as she looked back on them. -
“Thy works are marvelous,” she mur-
muiel often, sitting with her hands
olded, and few iale days bad there been
m the world w.iere she had sat and rested
80
In the day cosc.i , the , people kind
were
an generous, sharing their baskets with
ler and seeing she changed cars right
an< ier carpetbag was safe. Sue was
ike any of t.,e dear old grandmas in
0Sn ' Uen and
mcXr k fainfan l‘f 1UOrV , T Ue! * d
of wiW ' r^Tn as T ‘ alms r^ntry C8Lntr 7 bTv bur v ; 1
in" s k i. -
, lln
and crops iTtnevJJword or told the JKpIm children' Bihf b
iR •tories :L '“ ,d M
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through" tu"’ great H 0 bo.vh • Jerhi!!'* g ci y bjr
the lake, and now through yet a strange
land. Tired and worn by night in the
uncomfortable seats her brave spirit be-
gan to fall a little. As the wide, level
plains, lonely and drear, dawned on her
sight she sighed often.
“It’s a dre’ful big world,” she said to
a gray bearded old farmer near her; “so
big I feel e’enmost lost in it, but,” hope-
fully, “across them deserts like this long
ago Providence sent a star to guide them
wise men of the East, an’ I hain’t lost
my faith.”
But as the day wore on, and still the
long, monotonous land showed no human
habitation, no oasis of green, her eyes
dimmed, something like a sob rose under
the black kerchief on the bowed should-
ers, and the spectacles were taken off
with trembling hand and put away care-
fully in the worn tin case.
“Be ye goin’fur, mother?” said tho old
farmer.
He had bought her a cup of coffee at
the last station, and had pointed out on
the way things he thought might interest
her.
“To Denver.”
“Wal, wal; you’re from New England,
IT be bound.”
“From Maine,” she answered; and
then she grew communicative, for she
was always a chatty old lady, and she
had possessed her soul in silence so long,
and it was a relief to tell the story of her
weary years of waiting to a kindly lis-
tenor.
She told him all the relations she had
were two grand nephews and their fami-
jj es . That twenty years ago Sam (for
she had brought them up when their
parents died of consumption, that takes
so many of our folks) went out West. He
was always adventurous, and for ten
years she did not hear from him; but
John was different and steady, and when
he came of age she had given him her
farm, with the provision that she should
always have a home, otherwise he would
have gone away, too. Well for years
the y we re happy, then John married, and
his wife had grown to think het a bur¬
den as the years went on, and the chil-
( | ren when they grew big did not care for
her; she felt that she had lived too long.
“I growed so lonesome,” she said
pathetically, “it seems I couldn’t take
up heart to live day by day, an’ yit I
knowedour folks was long lived. Ten
years back, when Sara wrote he was doin’
fair an’ sent me money. I begun to
think of him; fur he was alius generous
an’ kind, an’ the gratefulest boy, an’ so
I began to save to go to him, tur I
knowed I could work my board for a
good many years to come. Fur three
years he ain’t hardly wrote, but I laid
that to the wild kentry he lived in. I
said b’ars and iDjuns don't skeer me
none, fur when I was a gal up in
Aroostuk Kentry there was plenty of
both, an’ as fur buffalers them horned
cattle don’t skeer me none, fur I’ve been
used to a farm allu3. But tho loae-
sumness of these medders has sorter up-
sot me and made me think every day Sam
was further off than 1 ever calc’lated
on.”
“But what will you do if Sam ain’t in
Denver?” asked the farmer.
“I hev put my faith in Providence,”
she answered simply, and the stranger
could not mar that trust by any word of
warning.
He gave her His address as he got off
at the Nebraska line, and told her to
send him word if she needed help. With
a warm hand clasp he parted from her to
join ^ the phantoms in her memory of
folks that had been kind to her, God
bless me," and then the train was rum-
j bliag on. the had lis¬
| But many of passengers
tened io her story and were interested,
aud they came to sit with her.
One pale, little lad in a seat in front,
turned to look at her now and then and
to answer her smile. He was going to
the new couutry for health and wealth,
i poor lad, only to find eternal rest in the
sunny land, but his last days brightened
; by the reward for his thoughtful acts of
kindness.
“Sbe probably brought those boys
up,” he thought, “and denied her life
for them. Is she to die unrewarded, I
wonder? There eaunot be any good in
the world jf that be so." He thought of
{ ber aud to° k °ut his purse 1 There was
so little money in it, too, every cent
made a big hole in his store; but the
consciousness of a good deed was worth
something. “I mayn’t have the chance
to do many more,” thought the lad, but¬
toning his worn overcoat.
He slipped off without a word at a
station and sent a telegram to Denver.
“To Samuel Blair”—for he bad caught
tbe name fa°. m ber “Tour Aunt
lfa ana b Blair is on the W. and VV. train
C0!n ' a g ?° you.”
w ? s otd y a s Haw, but a kindly
w i ad might blow it . to the right one after
all.
When he was. sitting there after his
message had gone on its way, she leaned
over and handed him a popDermint drop
from a package in her pocket.
“You don’t look strong, dearie,” she
said, “hain’t ye no folks with ye?”
“None on earth.”
“We're both lone ones,” she smiled;
“an’how sad it be there ain’t no one to
fuss over ye. Aur’be keerful of the
drafts, and keep flannels alius on your
chist; that is good for the lungs.”
“You are very kind to take an interest
in me,” he smiled, “but I am afraid it
is too late.”
Another night of weary slumber in the
cramped scats and then the plain began
to be dotted with villages, and soon ap-
peared the straggling outskirts of a city,
the smoke of mill?, the gleam of the
Platte River and a network of iron rails,
bright and shining, as the train ran
shrieking into the labyrinth of its des-
tination.
“This is Denver,” said the lad to her,
“and I'll look after you as well as I
can.”
“I won’t be no burden," she said
brightly. “I’ve twenty dollars yet, an’
that’s a sight of money.”
The train halted to let the eastward
bouud express pass; there was an air of
excitement in the car, passengers getting
ready to depart, gatherieg up luggage
and wraps, and some watching the new
comers and the rows of strange faces on
the outward bound.
The door of the car slammad suddenly,
and a big bearded man with eager bluo
e J« cat “ e d <>»n the aisle, looking sharply
fr ° m " ght t0 ieft ' He had left Denver
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gfance fell on the tiny black figure.
b ‘? ak tn h, » vo,ce - aad she—she put
her trembl,n , S baad aad fell rato the
i'iS'V u wrinkled face. «"“>■«
V 1 knawed p f° v, dence would let me
find ye, bam, she said brokaaiy, and no
one smiled when the big man sat down
beside her and with gentle hau l wiped
her tears away.
“Why, I’ve sent John twenty dollars
a month for five years for you,” he said
angrily, as she told him why she ran
away, “and he said you could not write,
for you had a stroke and was helpless,
and I have written often and sent you
money. It’s hard for a man to called his
own brother a villain,
“We wua’t, Sam,’* she said gently,
“but just furgit; and I wouldn’t be a
burden to ye, fur I can work yit, an’ for
years to come.”
“Work, indeed! don’t I owe you
everything?” he cried. “And my wife
has longed for you to come. There are
so few dear old aunts in this country,
they’re prized, I tell you. Why, it’s as
good as a royal court of arms to have a
dear handsome old woman like you for a
relation.”
Then he found out who sent the tele¬
gram and paid the lad, who blushed and
stammered like a girl and did not want
to take it.
“I suppose you want a job,” said the
big man. “Well, I can give you one.
I’m in the food commission business.
Give you something light? Lots of your
sort, poor lad, out here. All the refer¬
ence I want is that little kindness of
yours to Aunt Hannah.”
“Here’s the depot, Aunt Hannah, and
you won’t see ‘bars and Injuns’ nor the
buffaloes; sunniest city you ever set your
dear eyes on.”
He picked up the carpet bag, faded
and old fashioned, not a bit ashamed of
it, though it looked as if Noah might
have carried it to the ark.
They said g odby, and the last seen of
her was her happy old face beaming
from a carriage window as she rolled
away to what all knew would be a
pleasant home for all her waning years.
—New York Herald.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Electric welding is now applied to
the work of manufacturing iron wheels.
Zinc expands up to the melting point.
A bar of hammered zinc six inches Ions
will expand 1 1-100 of an inch in rais¬
ing the temperature 100 degrees F.
The average mortality of unmarried
men between the ages of twenty and
twenty-live is 1174 in every 100,000,
while that of married men is only
597.
It is stated that a German firm has
perfected a means of making a profitable
disposition of sawdust, An acid is
mixed with the sawdust and the whole
mass molded into blocks or any other
form, resulting in a fine material for
building purposes.
A new machine is being used in
England to level the tips aud nails in
the bottoms of boots and shoes and to
produce a line polish and finish hitherto
impossible by hand work. The machine
is arranged to run by power and is firmly
placed on an iron base, with counter
shafting and pulleys.
A design of an electric boat, pro¬
pelled by a sea-water battery, has been
exhibited before the French Academy of
Sciences. The battery plates are under
the boat, in tho form of a keel, and the
current generated drives a motor oper¬
ating the screw. The plates (copper or
zinc) are raised or lowered by means of
pulleys.
In the Electricity Building at the
World’s Fair, Chicago, there will be
forty thousand panes of glass, or more
than in any other exposition structure.
This building will bo especially con¬
spicuous at night, as, owing brilliancy to its ex¬
tensive glass surface, the of
its electrical exhibit will ba strikingly
visible from the outside.
Thomas Meehan says that striking
variations in plants occur at times sul-
denly by bud variation as well as by
seeds. The curled-leaved weeping
willow suddenly assumed this character
on a tree of the ordinary kind; the red
sweet potato is also a bud variation from
the ordinary white variety; the double
flowered tc’wose is believed to have
oriiginated ,ud
j&s tttssii&sz’z manufactur-
that in which the process of
mg the celebrated Sevres china ia shown
to the public. Bohemian girls, attired
in their national costume, manipulate
the plastic clay and wax into life-like
leaves and birds. The mass is then
placed in a furnace aud tho heat is so
regulated as to solidify the substance
without the least fracture. A second
furnace evaporates all that is left of the
wax, leaving a very friable dead white
china flower. On this the coloring artist
reproduces tho delicate shading of the
natural flower and the article is again
placed in the furnace to burn the color,
A Philadelphia scientist ha? made an
analysis of the brains of a gorilla, and
the results of his investigation are ealeu-
lated t0 8 iv< ; litt!e comfort to those who
have maintained there is only a “missing
**nk ’ between man and the gorilla in the
chain of evolution. It was found that
the brain of the gorrilla was ready of a
much lower order of developement than
that of the ourang-outang or the chim-
P aDZee - The gorilla s frontal lobe, in-
stead of being rouud and convex, was
P°fa ted and concave, and the lower
P or ri° n °f the brain, visible in the
chimpanzee as well as man, is missing.
Th e gorilla, instead of standing at the
head of the monkey tribe, is lower than
at least two 0j her members of it.
No Wonder Indians Are Dying Out.
q-jj e conversation had drifted on to
Indiai » t and apropos of the topic a lum
i )Prrna ,. thp nffiop remarked that at tho
!ast cau]p on p ra ,; r j e River, he’ from * which
he had just returned, ’noble had seen a
„ 0o dlv group of these aborigine;
near the lumber shanties
“They came to look after a horse ” -aid
he. “Lost a horse?” “No,we lost one -
got killed, and thev came down to cut
him up.” “What for?” “Why the’carcass to eat
him. They stayed dried" right bv
and hung up and every pound of
meat on him. Queer how thev found
out. The horse hadn’t been dead twenty-
four hours before the whole tribe were
after him; crows cou.dn’t have done bet-
ter."
“That’s nothin",” said an old logger
standing by. “Last winter six horees
died ia <>« camp A of didn't epizootic, pick’the aud I’ll
* hangeJ “ bones
of everv one of them cleau. There is no
duction of the Indian population when
you (»»-> know what they eat—Minneapolis
Girls over twelve can make valid will*
under th» laws of Scotland.
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TREATMENT OF A BROKEN HORN.
Ther8 is no difficulty in repairing a
broken Lorn, ns only the shell of it is
lost, and the inner core quicklv secretes
the horny matter for a new covering. As
good a way as any to treat the injury is
to wrap the horn core in a strip of cot-
ton cloth smeared with common the" tar but
not not gas gas tar. tar. This protects tender
core from the air, and the new covering
is made in a short time without any more
attention. The bandage may be left on
until it falls off, or it may be removed
after a week or two.—New York Times.
MACHINE TO PULL WEED3.
A machine has been brought out to
pull weeds entirely out of the ground or
to kill them in case they are well rooted
by stripping off their seeds and leaves.
It is adapted to be drawn by horses and
a sprocket drive on the drive wheel is
connected to rotate a forward shaft turn¬
ing in suitable bearings, this shaft hav¬
ing a gear wheel by which a drum i3 ro¬
tated on a shaft turning in bearings on
the front end of the main frame. The
drum has longitudinal slots in its rim in
each of which moves a comb, the teeth
of which form V-shaped openings into
which the stems of the weeds readily
pass and are firmly gripped. The ma¬
chine is said to have given great satisfac¬
tion in practical work, being well
adapted to pull up weeds in cultivated
ground in which the grain has appeared,
without injury to tho grain.—Chicago
News.
LOSSES OF EARLY LAMBS.
The most telling commentary on the
prevalent carelessness and poor manage¬
ment among old-fashioned farmers was
their acceptance of the loss of a consid¬
erable number of early lambs as a matter
of course. Those who were more care¬
ful timed the breeding so that tho lambs
were dropped late when there was com¬
monly mild weather and a good bite of
grass. In these days thousands of lambs
are born in midwinter, aud such care i
taken of them that losses are very rare.
A basement stable warm enough by the
warmth from a flock of sheep so that
water will not freeze in it, is needed.
Then there must be green or succulent
food, roots and some bran or grain, to
encourage a flow of milk when the lamb
is dropped. The legs are carefully cut
so that it is easy to get to the teats, and
if the weather is cold a watch is kept so
that tho lamb does not chill before it
can get to the teat and suck. After it
gets hold of the teat the lamb will
usually care for itself. Of course, lambs
thus cared for cost money, but they
bring money, too, and enough to repay
the cost. This kind of lamb-growing is
very different, and also more pleasant
than the old way of keeping sheep, feed¬
ing mostly on straw with a little hay,
and letting the earlier lambs, which arc
always most valuable, die for lack of the
necessary attention.—Boston Cultivator.
ALWAYS.
Always believe in farming so long as
it pays.
Always blanket the warm horse stand¬
ing in the wind.
Always milk the cows regularly,
kindly and with dispatch.
Always have a snowplow ready when
the heavy snows come.
■ Always count your chickens after the
period of incubation is passed.
Always think twice before the boy is
set lo a task you would not do your¬
self.
Always keep cellars cool—as near
thirty (our degrees as possible—in which
,h„ wotk
tf 8 *• ““ pa '“ ire 01
Always clean the mud from your
horses when you get home aud rub them
dry.
Always go to the barns at night just
before going to bed to see that the stock
is all right.
Always keep the fences and gates in
order, and have a supply of posts ready
in the shop.
Always select the most vigorous and
well ripened shoot# for cions,alter which
pack in bundles and store in the cellar,
Always keep posted about the work of
the month, and read tho agricultural
papers, not forgetting the advertisements
of implements and seeds.-American
Agriculturist.
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agricultural stations.
The good work which is being done
in the various agritultural experiment
stations of this country is a nply demon-
strated by the experiments of the past
year. From the periodical pamphlets
compiled by the able scientists in charge
of these stations we can judge of the
merits of the work, and it gives us
pleasure to bear testimony to the useful-
ness and excellent results attained by re-
ce nt experiments. Theories are good,
hut stubborn facts are what we need
most, and it is because our knowledge
on manysuojects has been advanced by
wor ^ done at the agricultural experi-
ment stations that we deem the scientists
in e hsrge worthy of such high praise,
Enlightenment-in regard to the science
of a griculture is certainly much needed,
au ‘ 5 no one ca “ maintaia th <R the agri-
cultural stations are not doing their ut-
niost t0 supp'y this need. Indeed, our
naiy lt “ lr is that they wili ahead t0 °
faSt ' 1Iowever ea ’y »t may be for them
to arrive at satisfactory results by raems
of S!m P lc experiment it cannot be ex-
P ected the average unscientific agricul-
turist wl11 arrive a t the same results with
eiJU! *' raf8 ’ a ? d 5t ,B ‘o‘‘t therefore be
" l11 the sc,eilt ' sts to pau-<e occasion-
all v ’ in or ‘ lcr tbat ,hcir less eruJite
-
bretllren may *‘ ave tilue . to thoroughly
tcst tilB experiments. We make tnis
suggestion on the assumption that the
object of those Agricultural stations is
Do: * 0,ciy to advance the cause of pure
SC!rnce ’ but alsn to benaH ‘ aad instruct
^.c-Uunsts Experiments which show
corciu * ,ve l? ‘hat improvements are pos-
,f laostl,na de ami the more popu-
-‘r >fay >>ecomc the greater benefits will
"• T ™r“ <l»»3b Fbp«l», h„„,
in the ordinary meaning of the
J r, ' ord the T c,a hardly become, at least
-
. erable time,
unless paina be
taken to bring them to the notice not of
scientists, farmers, but Excellent of averageh^J^T:
as the paaipb’, '
containing an account of the expense 1
are, they are not as widely circulated
as thoroughly appreciated by practk
farmers as they should be, and untib\\
are their real value as exponents on pi
gress wia not be cieariy understood
National Provisioner.
TRANSPLANTING CABBAGE
“For three consecutive seasons,”
Professor Bailey, of the Cornell
sity station, “we have
determine what foundation there
for the common notion that
cabbage plants give better beads
larger proportion of heads than
at the ncrmal or natural depth. It
very general practice among
to set the plants to the depth of the
leaf when transplanting to the field.
exhibited in tables in Bulletin No,
the results of three years’ tests
no advantage is to be gained by sue!
practice.”
In 1389 the experiment was tried up
twelve varieties, about twenty plants
each being set up to the first leaf, m
as many more set to the same depth i
which they stood in the seed ba
Strangely enough, it appears that
half the varieties gave better results f n
shallow setting and the other half bs;i
from deepsettiug. There were,howen
rather more heavy heads from the d|
setting. Combining all the results, (
gain in weight from deep setting »»
13.60 is to 13.46, a difference so sm
as to lead to the conclusion that the pi
ticular method of planting probably jj
nothing to do with the yields.
In 1890 the test was repeated, J
early Wakefield cabbage being usedj
the purpose. The plants were groi
upon a heavy and rather poor clay losi
Here the shallow planting gave decide!
tho better results, both in t!>e percent!
of plants producing good heads andi
the average weight of heads.
In 1891 the test was again
this time with early Wakefield and?
mitira Drumhead. The plants *
grown on a rich and well-prepared lo
clay loatn and all the conditions throui
out the season were such as to insui
fair and uniform test. The average
suit was in favor of the shallow sett
so far as the weight of heads is conceri
but in favor of deep setting in the p
centage of plants producing good
mature heads, but the differences w|
slight pected and no greater than lots might of bej plJ
from two or more
treated in the same manner. different The j
varieties, however, gave resu
The Early Wakefield gave better resi
from deep setting and the DrutnhJ
from shallow of setting. Upon investigaij the wij
the results the entire
leads to the conclusion that the deptll piJ
which strong and stocky cabbage
are set does not intipence the extent I
weight of the crop.-—New York WoJ
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Broad tires are a disadvantage a
rough road.
Keep your watering troughs scruj
lously cleau.
Vary the feed; feed greens during I
winter, birds lay better for it.
Hatch early in season; the early ■
brings the highest broiler prices.
Dig the yards over frequently; ■ I
will prevent much poultry disease.
Be sure that coops are moved ■
quently; foul ground is worse for chi*
ensthan old birds,
Renew drinking water for the fo
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a 6 ^° U a '° ' vaQ 8 ’
Economy is the proper term fer g
farming. Save the littles all aroi
Chips will make as good fire while I
* as t RS big cord wood,
The big fruit crop of 1821 may
repeated in 1892. Let us take yesr.H
the orchards and vineyards this
prepared to fight insects aud
Not more than three or four
of business men succeeded
sometime becotnimr bankrupt, ll
do you find a farmer who fails ia II
ueS3 ? They rarely do. sell
with fair t0 „ 0 )1 draft-horse?
in Chicago at $135 to $210, and ina appl
teams atlji225 to $237 each, it
that there is still money to be
raisin" good horses. !
There ili are four wavs of Kandlin"!
u e _ a scatterinAt a .r it a minst the barn to rot
i eac ash* h into" owr the haru-vw
W Jamnostin" drawin " it th’field at a
atu i it as aarden-’rs b “ do. ,1
‘
., , r‘ e , w TAeso bune word* sa J i Mj .1
J" 1 *! of the fence?. ,
be P‘ aced at tue head of every pijl
opfa‘ agricultural OQ 13 completely papers stirred until to p j
One year ago with twenty-live - J
a farmer had five egg? a day. -'*■
with twenty fowls, he has from
to fourteen. The five missing bird? 1
roosters, which accounts for the
story.
Tubers of the single dahlia de?irei null
started this month if it is
multiply some choice kind froa|
tings. It mav, 'single however, be done i»| m
Seeds of the dahlia sown
open border as late as May will
flowering roots. su®
A whole chapter would not
tell how much farmers, and other p#
too, lose by putting off necessary -
until they “have to” do it. It 5 I
mau of forethought and forehand^ '^ I
who wins, and he is the only < 10
serving of success. In autumn
winter get everything possible cf
way of the rush and throng our
'
spring and hot summer.
Many J of the current run of
Por^fbut^ , la | a ood deal to f°armL , ay about
can nrffl
have such thW Thev can no
sorbents of profit which no sensible®
able „J,h° and 7or» willing to plan and
re tan.
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somethin" for hands and horses snl^
, n 1 utilize their services winter
tuer.