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ST. IIELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 9, 1882.
NO. 44.
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MES. 1RI.DLE3 COXaPlBAL'T.
"There's grandmother, dear run and
bring her iu." And Tiptoe obeyed by-
toddling out to meet the'brisk-steppiug,
fresh-faced, oldish (not old) ladv who
came in at the .gate.
"Come to spend the day, haven't you.
mother.'1 Jtiow nice of you!
Young Mrs. Prindle had never yet
discovered that her husband's mother
was her "mother-in-law" in the" popular
acceptation of the term. -
"les, I V6 come, Kate; but don t stop
your wort; 'tis a nice cool morning for
sewing go right on."
no alter ensconcing tier visitor in an
. easy chair, and supplying her with fan
and footstool, Mrs. Prindle resumed her
basting and fitting, with an occasional
ten minutes or so of rapid stitchi: g, the
ouly interruption to the stream of talk
which seemed in no way . to interfere
with the motions of her deft fingers.
"There?" she exchimed, as noon drew
near. "Pet, come here."
She proceeded to try on Master Tip
toe the result of her morning's work, a
jaunty thing of tucks and r utiles which
hardly reached to the knees of the chubby
morsel. It was duly pulled down,
jerked around, patted smooth herej
puffed out there and quickly tied about
with a sash improvised from a strip of
lining muslin snatched from the floor.
"Now," with a kiss and a shake "run
to grandmother and say, 'Isn't I sweet,
grandmother."
"Isn't mamma feet gaumuzzer?"
came with a heroic attempt at very pre
cise pronouueiation.
"No, no; that isn't it." laughed mam
ma, but "ganmuzzer" caught the merry
urchin in her arms.
"That is it exactly, Tiptoe. I declare,
Kate, you are as industrious a little soiil
as I ever saw. And what a knack you
have at such things! and if Robert don't
get on it won't be your fault."
The kindly woman had never been
blessed with a daughter of her own and
this son's wife of hers was well nigh jjer
fect iu her eyes.
But the affectionate speech failed to
bring an answering smile. A troubled
expression arose .to the young woman's
face and tears slowly gathered in her
eyes. She unbuttoned Tiptoe's slip, un
mindful of his piotest against having on
his "ugly ol' dies" again, but comprom
ising matters by tying on the pink mus
lin sash over the buff chambrey. The
machine was righted and closed up, and
the cuttings gathered from the tloor be
fore unburtheniug came which the
mother knew would come.
"I don't know, mother, sometimes I
feel quite discouraged, and really think
it is not much use for me to try."
"Why, Kate, dear, what do you mean?
Are things going wrong with Robert?"
"On, no, mother! Nothing, I mean, for
you to worry over. It is only that I am
anxious about Robert smoking so much
I know it is hurting him in more ways
t ban one."
His mother's face grew grave.
"Is he smoking more than formerly?"
"Yes, I'm sure it is growing on him.
From what I can see and what I can
guess at, I think he smokes eight or ten
cigars a day. I have known him to
smoke a dozen in a day."
"Too bad," replied his mother, with
a sigh. "Of course it must be a great
in j dry to him in time if it is not al
ready." "And, then, he cannot afford it. I
don't think he realizes at all what a drain
it is. I know he needs every cent he can
keep in his business, and I try my best
to save in every way I can, but, mother,
I do get out of heart sometimes when I
see that, with all my pinching and scraw
ing, I can't save as much in a week as he
spends for cigars in a day."
"I see, dear."
"And I know it is a selfish way to look
at it. but I often feel impatient and
angry at going without so many little
things that I would like to have. I am
perfectly willing to do without, you
know,' only I can't make it seem right
that I should do all the doing without."
"It is not right."
"Still, it is really Robert's only fault,
so pethaps I thought not to concplain.
Think how much worse some men are?
Supposing he drank, now?"
"That's a poor excuse, Kate. You
wouldn't excuse a person for being a liar
because he was not a thief."
"Well!" Young Mrs. Pringle drew a
long sigh. "I don't know what to do
about it, I'm sure. When I try to talk to
him about it he either puts me off or
laughs at me, and tells me not to bother
my head about things I don't under
stand." "Suppose, Kate, you ask him for the
same amount he spends in cigars for you
to spend for your own gratification?"
"But I couldn't have the conscience to
spend money on superfluities, mother. I
remember how Emily Brand used to do
that sue thought she was quite justified
in spending thiee or four dollars a week
in trash, because her husband spent the
same in cigars. So he smoked and she
spent, and he broke up in business, and
now they are living, nobody knows how,
in some little western town."
"I think you might manage to open
Robert's eyes a little, though, Kate.
Listen "
Mrs. Pringle, the elder, smiled, as if
in admiration of some clever scheme
within her brain, yet shook her head in
solemn appreciation of the serious char
acter of the subject. A very earnest
counsel followed, brought to a sudden
end by the appearance of the son and
husband, carrying his young heir, who
had run to meet him, on one shouldc r
and a small parcel under his other arm.
"A new book, Robert?" asked his
mother, glancing at it after greetings
bad been excluded,
"Oh." put innate, .ia it that 'Car
ol?. You
said
"No, it is not. I went for a copy, but
they had none of the cheap editons, and
l tuougut hardly it worth wlnle to pay
two dollars for one.
He leisurely unwrapped his parcel,
showing Tiptoe a picture inside, untied
various bits of ribbon, giving them to
him to tie on Carlo's ears, then took out
a cigar which he smelled critically be
fore setting: it approvingly between his
lips. ,
" What How such a box as that cost
you. Robert?" asked his mother.
"About eight dollars and a half,
ma'am." he answered, with a perfectly
unsuspecting smile. "I frequently buy
by the box because I find it quite a little
saving, and, of course, I have to watch
the corners, for our expenses naturally
increase a little each year."
His look of virtuous frugality seemed,
however, lost upon his mother, as she
said, dryly
"I am glad you appreciate the need of
it. How long does such a box last yon?"
"Well I can hardly siy. Perhaps a
month, perhaps not so long."
"But it seems to me,Robert,you spend
more money on vourself than you do on
Kate."
Mrs. Kate her hid face behind Tiptoe's
curls to hide a smile at her mother in
law's light skirmishing.
"What?" said Robeit, looking up in
surprise. "Why don't you have money
enough, Kate? Why didn't you tell me,
dear?"
Her tender heart was disarmed at once
and she was about to protest that she
never .wanted anything, but Mrs.Pringle,
tho elder.struck in with a warning glance
at her.
"You know, Robert, it is not pleasant
for a wife to be obliged to always ask for
what she wants for her own little fancies.
Now, I think it would be a good plan for
yon to hand ner the same amount you
spend in cigars, monthy, say for her
own personal gratification."
"That s a goou suggestion, mother. 1 11
doit."
"Then bear in mind" Mrs.
Pringle
was very fond of clinching a thing when
she went at it; "your best way will be to
keep a careful account of your owu ex
penditures and hand herv.j8guJariy, the
same.
"Agreed, ma'am,"
He sat down for awhile after dinner
enjoying uis inotner s visit, cnatting
pleasantly smoking three cigars mean
while and putting a few more into his
pockets as he started town town, never
dreaming that, according to his wife's
mental calculation, lie could burn
more money in an hour than she could
save by sewing all her spare time for
half a day.
Robert Pringle conscientiously made
an entry, in a corner of his private memorandum-book,
of every cent he spent in
tobacco during the following month, be
ginning with the box of cigars, which
lasted exactly eleven days, was promptly
replaced, and smaller purchases made as
convenient. To do him justice, his
really generous and uncalculating dis
position had gone far, as his wife assert
ed, toward preventing on his part, any
fair understanding of his own extrava
gance, for he, by no means, smoked all
he bought, but in tho usual course of
polite exchange which prevails among
gentlemen, a man of his open-handed
disposition was sure to bear the heavier
burthen.
"Phe-ew-w-w!" he ejaculated, as he
cast up the items for the month succeed
ing the agreement with his mother.
He went over the short column from
the bottom up, then from the top down.
There was no mistake figures never as
serted themselves more vigorously than
these which calmly stared him in the
face, expressing:
May 15
- 2ft
'28
29
JuceiD
13
..83 50
. 1 15
,. 75
. 3 50
.. 1 75
- 2 25
S23 50
It looked large. And when he came
to writing out a check for the same
amount for Kate it looked very large.
"I've been going a little too strong on
it this month, Kate," he said as he hand
ed it to her.
He had half a hope that she would de
cline to take it, but she laid it it her
desk with a very matter-of-course "thank
yort."
A few days after, she challenged his
admiration of a lace collar she was wear
ing. "Prettier than cigars, isn't it?" she
asked archly.
"Is that your cigar money, dear? Yes,
very pretty, but they do manage to crowd
a good deal of money into a very small
show, eh?"
"That's real lace, Robert, not at all
high for such a quality! Butwhat have
you to show for your month's money?"
He laughed and shrugged his shoul
ders, assuring her she could get less next
month. By a heroic effort at self sacri
fice he lowered the sum by several dol
lars, but the following month it rose
higher than at first, and Robert began to
feel a little surprised at the nonchalant
way in which Kate accepted so much
money to lay out in mere superfluities.
He was obliged to acknowledge to him
self as she displayed a pearl brooch with
great apparent satisfaction, that he was
somewhat disappointed at her discover
ing so much relish for such trifles.
"Pearls, eh? My mothei used to wear
something like that."
"Ah? I suppose so; pearls are never
out of style, you know."
Kate colored a little as she said it, and
began to talk of something else.
In due course of time an encyclopedia
appeared. This purchase met with Rob
ert's hearty approval, for both had often
felt the need of it, but he had never felt
able to buy one. But when a fancy chair
lisle' we were speaking
you'd bring one up."
' was set in the parlor where there was al
ready no lack of fancy chairs, and a pic
ture, small in every respect but the
urice. he thought, was nunc: in the
sewing-room, he felt a little annoyed,
more especially when Kate airily re
marked I
"I hadn't need of it. of course, but as
I have just so much to spend, I thought
I d like it.
He was ashamed of himself for feel
ing so, and he told himself over and
over again that it; was a perfectly fair
arrangement -Kates money made an
important figure in his business, and if
she had noue, he had chivalrous notions
on the rights I of industrious and
economical wives,. And then what
right had he to criticise her mode of
spending, when she was not injuring her
self or any one else by it which he
knew in his heart could not be claimed
for his way? Still, he had rather hoped
that it wovld occur to her to pay some
of the house bills, but it never had; they
hac contmved to present themselves with
their agravatiug regularity, serving to
increase an? irritating conscienceness of
the presence of unnecessary articles
abou t
the
house, the purchase of
which
means.
was
At
allow
not ! warranted by his
all events, he might
justly
himself to fall back
upon a little relief for Ins well con
cealed annoyances,1 in his feeling of sur
prise that his wife j had not taken the
least advantage, so far as he knew, of
this liberal supply of pocket-money to
carry out any of her old desires for do
ing good. He had not observed that
she had given a cent to any of the mis
sionary societies or in relieving the
poor, in uis own growing sense 01 dis
comfort at the view he was forced to
take of the hitherto unimagined extent
of the cost of his I pet self-indulgence,
there was some consolation in reflections
on Kate's sh rt coniings.
He sat alone one 'day looking over his
accounts. He came acioss six "stubs
of checks he had given her. They ran
thus: 823 50, 25 - 25,$24 50, $24, 17 40,
$23 25. The total was 133 05. His
own expenditure doubling the amount.
gave $2 jo 10 this for six months, mak
ing the yearly sum bf $552 20.
A blank expression overspread his
counteuance as Jie thought of his part
ner's strong desire to extend their busi
ness, and of .his utter inability to co
cporate in such extension unless his pri-
vate expenses could be cut down. He
looked again at the sum it was twice
the hire of a servant, one-third more
thtui their house rent. And the blank
expression on his face grew blanker as a
.farther calculation showed him that this
nice little game ofi "superfluities," be
tween his wife and himself, was played
at an expense amounting to the interest
on a fraction less than eight thousand
dollars at seven per cent.
Une montn later ne nanded nis wile a
paper. j
"Here's your check, Kate."
She opened and found It blank!
arms were around his neck in a
ment.
Her
mo-
"O Robert! have you really given it
up for . good? I j knew you were try
ing to stop it, dear; but do you mean it
for always?
"1 Hope so, KateJ 1 never quite took
in, till lately, how far the thing was car-
rying me, but I find there is only one
rignt thing for me to do.and the sooner 1
do it thoroughly, the better. But what
will you do witbwtrt! your spending mon
ey, my little woman.'
With a ringing laugh she ran to her
desk and took out some papers .
"I don't know what I should
have
done," she said, with a desperate
shake of the head, "if this money
ness had gone on much longer.
little
busi-
Now,
Robert, did you imagine that I was fool
ing away all that money?"
"Why, I believed just what you told
me. i
"I never told you so, sir.
showed you the things and let
I simply
you be-
lieve what your mother and I intended
you should." ;
"Aha! A conspiracy against me, eh?"
"But it was all her doing, Robert. She
set me up to it, and I should have stop
ped it long ago, for I could hardly bear
it to let you think me such a
simpleton, "but she domineered over me
in the most dreadful manner, and I
couldn't. Here" $he laid the papers in
his hand "there are five of the checks.
and the other went
clopjedia that is
tor that cheap ency-
the only "bona fide
purchase I have made
"How came you by all the laces and
jewelry and other stuff, then?" asked
liobert in surprise.
"They a)P belong
to your mother."
Deceit! Treachery! Double-dealing!
What is the saying
about a man's foes
being of his own
household? Really,
Kate, I think an honorable man might
entertain conscientious scruples against
quitting tobacco as the result of such
practices upon himt"
"Give me back the checks, then.
But ho kept them, and Mrs. Princle.
the younger, never got another to spend
on "mere superfluities.
A Two-Legoe AiiioATon. A short
time ago a Dooly county farmer, whose
place is on the river, was walking around
near his stock yard when he heard a
squealing among his hogs. He looked
over the fence to learn the cause, when
he found a large alligator had a dead hog
which it had killed. j He ran to tne house
for his gun and called several of his
kinds to go with him to kill the. alliga
tor. On arriving at the lot. the hocr had
disappeared, and so had the
water mon
ster. They followed to the river bank,
and, instead of alligator tracks, discov
n? . . . l
ered those of two persons who had the
skin of an alligator, ;and who had used
it to accomplish the purpose of stealing
hogs. The rapid rowing of a boat
down the river could be heard dis
tinctly. f AmericuH Republican.
New Method of College Discipline.
In Minnesota they have a State uni
versity. The professors in that institu
tion are inclined to administer a nevr sort
of discipline. At least, this is inferi;N3
from a telegraphic account of an affray
wuicu tooK place there recently. The
boys are wild, and two or more of the
professors went after them for the pur
posa,of capturing them. Not to put too
hue a point on it, the boys were on
spree in the night, and the faculty were
not wise enough to shut their eyes to
the matter until morning. One would
think that the place for a grave profes
sor was in bed at a seasonable honr.
Larks can be caught as well in the morn
ing as at any other time. . The fleeing
students had pistols, likewise the pro
fessors. One of the students had a ball
lodged in his thigh from a pistol in the
hands of a pursuing professor. From
this it may be inferred that the student
was considered to be "worth the powder
to blow him up," and that tho professor
was the right man to do it. Now
there is an old definition that educa
tion is simply to "teach the young idea
how to shoot." The professor- thought it
an easy lesson. uut now .mucii net
ter to have hurled a Greek prosody at
him, or to have floored him squarely
with a proposition in syntax. The young
man has a bit 11 in his thigh, lodged there
probably just as the professor was out
ofwiud. But what is the' good of any
such souvenir? It is a new method of
putting on the college brand.
Now if all this had happened in Cali
fornia, ii connection, say, with the Uni
versity of California, there would have
been a great deal of comment about it.
The religious papers would have im
proved the occasion at once to discourse
about "godless institutions." and the
public would have been bored with
dreadful homilies. But it happened in
Minnesota. It might have happened at
Yale or Princeton, where the students
will occasionally go off' on a lark, only
tnat it is inconceivable that any member
of the faculty should have thought it
worth the while to follow students in the
night for the purpose of capturing them
as so many aborigines, in snort, most
of the professors could not tell a pistol
from a syringe. They have some idea that
it is an iron tube in which a compound
of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter is
placed, and that on certain occasions, by
tne conjunction oi certain cuemicai laws
then and there operative, it is persuaded
to go off, to the imminent danger of the
party of the first part, and small danger
to the party the second part. As a gen
eral rule, learned professors launch
their propositions at the heads of stu
dents in the class or lecture room. This
new method of discipline will be watched
with interest.
We could hardly suppose that vener
able professor, Ben. Sillimen, or Dr.
Mark Hopkins, or Dr. Nott, in their
time would have gone after students
with pistols. The latter once discover
ing a student in the act of removing the
door-steps from a dwelling in Schnec-
tatly, said, in a mild way, as he patted
the young rogue on his back, "There,
sonny, that will do; now put the steps
right back." The distinguished judge,
in after vears. said that he never had
a
more effectual punishment administered
to him. In those days Nihilist doctrines
were not known. But when a professor
warns tne ueeing students witn ine
"sweet notes of his pistol," what are we
to think of the new and more explosive
discipline? When it comes to this, that
Minnesota professors are walking
arsenals deing police duty at night, we
are put upon fresh inquiry as to what is
really the best method of persuading
young men to keep in the path of duty?
The most astonishing fact of all is that
the professor was able to hit tho flying
target. Probably not one in tivo thou
sand of the aggregate college faculties
could have done as much. Let us hope
that not more than that proportion think
worth the while to carry x318tois ut all.
S. F. Bulletin.
Canton F.annel, Sugar and Syrup.
"Yes. Ben, and you may bring me a
plate of hot buckwheat cakes, too; have
them well browned, Ben," added the
speaker.
This was in a hotel breaktast-room not
five minutes' walk from City Hall. The
speaker was a scientist of rare attain
ments, yet one to whom science means
only the classified knowledge of a well
stored mind.
A man on the other side of the table
called for maple syrup.and tho scientist
handed itaoixs the table, remarking as
he did, "here's your solution of saw
dust."
"I don't exactly 'catch on; what do
you mean?" And the questioner lost ap
petite as he spoke.
"Simply what 1 said,' was tne answer,
as a serene smile of mystification spread
over the professor's face. "The thing is
quite as probable as possible; I was
only alluding to tne nice preparations oi
glucose that are manufactured nowa
days."
4iSut not irom sawdust.' expostulated
the scribe.
"Yes. and worse,, even from rags,
said the sacchannetic iconoclast. "I re
member on one occasion this was illus
trated before a large number of sweet
rrirl vnu1natn in a flourishin&r chemistry
class. During the lecture course a Can
ton flannel undershirt was handed around
for inspection J It was one that had been
picked out of the worst demoralized pile
in possession of the rag man.
The gar
. e i.
ment was a mass of stained rags, the
original color of which had been obliter
ated by the traces of wear. This shirt,
as Isaid, was first handed around for
inspection, and then torn up into shreds
by the janitor; nobody else wanted to
touch it. The pile of rags .was then put
in dilute sulphuric acid, which had the
effect of transforming the celuline Into
grape sugar. After the solution had
been thoroughly neutralized with com
mon chalk, it was evaporated, and the
sugar was thus obtained. The thing was
done before the class, and the young
ladies had each a chance to taste it."
'Did they improve it?"
"Not much. You couldn't get one of
them to touch sweet tilings for a month;
the experiment had been too sugges
tive.'; Neither did the man on the opposite
side of the table seem to want the syrup:
nun me waiter iook u away, ine scien
tific gentleman calls it "shirt-tail sweet
ness long drawn out." Louisville
Courier Journal.
The Tea-Plant.
The vegetation on the southern slope
of the Eastern Himalayas, 3,000 or 4,0Q0
feet above the sea, though by no means
luxuriant, is said to be very agreeable
and of much interest to the botanist.
Among the plants native to these slopes,
planted in the course of nature during
the preparation of the earth for man, and
left wild with the elephant and the leo
pard, is a shrub growing from 20 to 30
teet high, and well worthy to be selected
for pleasant foliage and fine flowers. The
lanceolate leaves are from two to three
inches long, and the flowers are large
and white, very fragrant, in clusters of
two or three in the axils of the leaves.
This is the tea-plant of the erenus Thea.
very nearly allied to the genus Camellia
ox wu,cu me uaponica ana otner species
from China and Japan are favorite cultiva-
of which the Japonica and other species
tions of the greerr-house in Europe and
l " i -VT t. a 1 11
mis uuuiury. nowuere in uie world,
but on the borders of the Himalayas and
the wild regions of Asam is the tea-plant
found growing uncultivated.but it was not
discovered in this its natural habitation
until the present century. As a culti
vated plant, the Chinese have certainly
had itsince the fourth century and they
cla m it to be indigenous to their own
soil just as confidently as they claim the
parentage of numerous valuable articles.
China has given tea to the world and has
furnished a favorable home to the plant
VL nSiSS!!
n its native land, farther east. When it
became known in England that the tea-
plant grew native in the highlands of the
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tion of notable failures in methods of cul
ture and cure, it appears that the finest
teas of Asia are those of these mountain
plains and the choicest plants are of vari
ety Assamica. lately propagated from the
wild shrub of the mountains.
"Don't Mention II."
A citizen of Pawtucket entered a gro
cery the other day, and said he wanted a
private word with the proprietor.
When they retired to the desk, he be-
"I want to make confession an I repa
ration. Dou you remember of my
buying sugar here two or three days
ago." i
"I do."
"Well, in paying for it I worked off a
counterfeit quarter on the clerk. It was
mean trick, and I came to tender you
ood money."
"Ob, don't mention it," replied the
grocer
"But I want to make it all right.
"It's all right all right. We knew
who passed the quarter on us, and that
afternoon, when your wife sent down a
lollar bill and wanted a can of sardines.
gave her that bad quarter with her
change. Don't let your conscience
trouble you at all that's all right."
is Usual.
The commercial traveler of a Phila
delphia house, while in Tennessee, ap
proached a stranger as the train was
abont to start, and said:
"Are you going on this train?"
I am."
"Have you any baggage?"
"No."
"Well, my friend, you can do me a
favor, and it won' cost you anything.
Yon see, I've twowrousing big trunks
and they always make me pay extra for
one of them. You can get one checked
on your ticket, and we'll euchre them.
See'!"
"Yes, but I haven't any ticket."
"But, I thought , you said you were
going on this train?"
"So I am. I'm the conductor."
"Oh!"
He paid extra, as usual.
Press Down theEarth. If garden
seeds, when planted in the spring, are
firmly pressed when under the earth by
the ball of the foot, at the time the gar
deners are putting them in the ground,
they will invariably grow, drought or no
draught, and what is more important,
they will spring up earlier, and grow
faster, and mature better than any of
their kind which have not been subjected
to this discipline. This same rule of
pressure holds good in regard to trans
planting trees, shrubs and plants.
As a trainj was approaching Cleveland
it parted in the middle, the end of
it striking an old gentleman on
his hat. I "What is the matter?
he exclaimed. "Oh, the train's broke
in two," replied a lady who sat in the
next seat. "I should say so," the old
gentleman said, looking at the broken
cord. "Did thev s'pose a little bit of a
string like that would hold the cars to
gether?"
Never address your conversation to a
person engaged in footing up a column
of figures.
There's nothing so deaf ex-
cept an adder.
HOUSE AND FIRM.
Now that the dismal winter is past
and we have ' once more the chance to '
cultivate oar floral treasures, . a little
chat about flowers may not be out of
place. . i .
Laying out ! and arranging a. pretty
flower-yard requires a certain amount of,,
artistic skill. Many and pretty are the
designs used by those who have abun
dance of means to obtain an attractive as .
well as inexpensive flower-yard or lawn
of the more common varieties of flower'
I is a question with ao&Lof us.
ayuiu Mil lonuamy; tnat is, ior ex
ample, do not make a bed just four feet
long on one side of the walk, with its
exact mate on the opposite side.
Shrubs or evergreens carelessly scat
tered about will have a much prettier
effect than to set them by rule or line.
For brilliant display and variety of
colors, also for length of time in bloom,
nothing exceeds a bed of portulaca. - No
drought is too long or sun too hot for,' as
Mr.Vick calls it, "this little salamander." .
If you wish ! to make a bed of "showy
annuals, do not, as you value your repu- '
tation for sanity, throw your seed into .
the ground without regard to size or
color, but if you have a round bed,place
the taller sorts in the center, then the
next in height, and so down to the dwarf
or broader plants. If a long or side bed
is used, place the tallest kinds in the
back of the bed or the side furthest from
view. Blend the oolors, and do not al
low them to grow too thick. - ; .
A 3 .11' . .
Euphorbia, sometimes called "snow
on-the mountain," when grown in clumps
or masses. W -v
y J 7 TTIliU
its pretty white and silver-tipped leaves
noaumg in the breeze.
-a 1 1 a
a staiK or two oz ricmus in a
yard
gives the ground a tropical look.
Many ladies cling to the mistaken idea
that because they have not the time to
cultivate a large garden, they must do
1
cf pleasure during the Fong summer
months. Besides, what is nicer than to
Diuok ft Mrmin,, nnnna, ft
fn r,na9 r
Some farmers have an ample back
yard in the rear of their dwellings and
outhouses, for chickens, turkeys, guinea
henSf etc., and might add to their list of
frti ' a Jt I
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mucn trouoie, and greatly to their ad-
Th do nit need . pond. A
small vat or trough daily supplied with
fresh water is suthcient. Clean water,,
and a, clean trough is good for every
thiog that has feathers, and should ' be
daily supplied to all the fowls in the .
yard. A good flock of large white ducks
is ornamental among the others' fowls
as well as profitable. They give but -little
trouble, and usually are , healthy ,A.
and prolific, j
Sorghum seed is readily eaten bv"
poultry, and is better for small chickens
than corn.
Milk could stand at least 3G hours te-:
fore ekimming to get good results.
Farmers take notice.
It now claimed that potash in lieu
of ashes or the potash salts is excellent F-
for grape vines if fruit is defective in K
color. I
Kill the dog first and hunt for his
owner afterwards, is the maxim of cer- -tain
Georgia farmers who mean to make
sheep-raising profitable.
Cockle seed will remain in the ground
many years if untouched by the plow.
As soon as brought to the surface they
begin to sprout.
all sonrs.
A Horse Creek, California, man has
nearly lost his life by the bite of a rab
bit, j , . T
Cigarette and cigar smoking among all f
classes of Boston women is becoming
general. j :
Jim Keene, the wealthy stockbroker, :
once peddled stationery in San Fran-
cisoo. ;
A Canadian cat has adopted some
young black squirrels that were thrown j
to her to be eaten.
The Philadelphia medical colleges' .
graduated 709 students in 1881. The -number
for 1880 was 731. 1 . . j
It is lawful to catch brook trout in t
Massachusetts at all seasons of the year
when they will not bite. 1 4
It is strange that, of all possible tasks, -simply
to be what we are should, prove .
not the easiest, but infinitely the hard
est, j .
When at home the Chinaman is a Mon- -golian.
When in the United States he .
is a Mustgolian. f Louisville Courier
Journal. '
What is hypocrisy? Why it is when
any one says he ' loves his neighbor as
himself and then straightway sands his
sugar. .. . ,- v .
It is well we cannot see into the fu
ture. Fancy the disgust of Pizzaro if he
could have foreseen Sbipherd. Syra
cuse Herald, i .
Girard College is to have a complete
machine shop, with a workbench, forge,
and gas engine for each of the ninety
pupils in practical mechanics. .
It is stated that Governor Roberts, of
Texas, intends 1 recommending in his
message to the Legislature the gift to
the University of 2,500,000 acres of land.
Rochester University has just received -a
gift of $100,000 for the purpose of add
ing a ladies' department to the institn- '
tion. i
The School Board of Reading, Pa., baa '
voted to close the public schools on the .
day Jumbo visits the city with Barn urn's
circus. !
The Connecticut Legislature has pro
vided that School Board s,ou the petition
of twelve adult residents, may order in
struction in the public school concerning
the effect of intoxicating beverages.
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