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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892.
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A Matter of Taste.
Ella looked completely puzzled. "Bat
what are you trying to prove now,
George?"
"I was only showing yon that, even
though yon have come back earlier, we
couldn't possibly have got ready in time
if I hadn't" But here he stopped. "No,
I want that to be a surprise to you, Ella;
you 11 see presently," he added.
Ella's delicate brows contracted.
"I like to be prepared for my surprises,
please, George. Tell me now."
They had turned np one of the quiet
streets leading to the hill; they were so
near the house that George thought he
might abandon further mystery, not to
mention that he was only too anxious to
reveal his secret.
"Well, then, Ella, if you must have it,"
he said triumphantly, "the house is very
nearly ready now. What do you think
of thatT
"Do you mean that that it is fur
nished, George?"
"Papered, painted, decorated, fur
nished everything, from top to bottom!
I thought that would surprise you.
Ella!"
"I think," she answered slowly, "yoa
might have told me you were doing it."
"What, before it was all done? That
would have spoilt it all, dear. I should
have written, though, if you hadn't been,
coming home so soon. And now it's fin
ished, I must say it looks uncommonly
jolly. Tin sure you'll be pleased 'with
it it looks quite a different place.
She tried to smile.
"And did you do it all yourself.
George?"
"Well, no, not exactly. I flatter my
self I know how to see that the work's
properly done, and all that, but there
are some "things I don't pretend to be
much of a hand at, so I got certain ladies
to give me some wrinkles."
Ella felt relieved. She was disap
pointed, it is true hurt, even, at having
been deprived of any voice in the mat
ter. She had been looking forward so
much to carrying out her pet schemes,
to enjoying her friends' admiration of
the wonders wrought by her artistic in
vention. And she had never thought of
George, somehow, as likely to have any
strikingly original ideas on the subject
of decoration, although she liked him
none the less for that.
But it was something that he had had
the good sense to take- her mother and
Flossie into his confidence; she knew she
could trust them to preserve him from
any serious mistakes
"You see," said George, half apolo
getically, "I would ever so much rather
have waited till you came hack, only 1
couldn't tell when that would be. 1
really couldn't help myself. You're sure
yon don't mind about it? If yoa only
knew how I worked over it, rashing
about from one place to another as soon
as I could get away from the office, pick
ing up bits of furniture here and there,
standing over those beggars of painters
and keeping 'era at it, and working out
estimates, and seeing foremen and man
agers and all kinds of chaps. I used to
get home dead tired of an evening, but
I didn't mind iat; I felt it was all
bringing you nearer to me, darling, and
that made everything a pleasure."
There was such honest affection in his
look and voice, he had. so evidently in
tended to please her ami had been in
such manifest dread, of any further sep
aration from her, that she was complete
ly disarmed.
"Dear George," she said gently. I am
so sorry you took all the trouble on your
self; it was very, very good of you to
care so much, and I know I shall be de
lighted with the house."
"Well," said George, "I'm not much
afraid about that, because I expect oui
tastes are pretty much the samt-in most
things."
They were by this time at the house,
and George, after a little rumbling with
his as yet unfamiliar latch key, threw
open the door with a flourish, and said:
"There you are, little woman! Walk
in, and you'll see what you shall seer
No sooner was Ella inside the thaa
her heart sank.
"Looks neat and nice, doesn't it? saiuC
George, cheerfully. "You'd almost take-1
that paper for real marble, wouldn't you?'
See how welT they've, done those wm
I like this yellowish color better tham :
green, don't you? It looks so cool hit
summer. That's a good strong hallilamp.
not what you call high art, exactly
but gives a rattling good light,, and that's-:
the main thing. Here, Til light it. up for .
you. Confound it! They ha.Ten't turned,
the. gas on yet however, there's too
much sunshine for it to shw.if .they had.
This linoleum is a capital' thing you.
might scrub as long as- you liked and.
you'd never get that pattern out!"
"No," Ella agreed, with a tragic little
smile; "it it looks as if it would last."
"Last? I should think so! And here's:
a hat stand you could almost swear it
was carved wood of some sort, but it is.
only cast iron painted; indestructible,,
you see. They told me it was the latest .
design wonderful how cheaply . they
turn them Out, isn't it?"
"I thought you said you were helped?"
"Oh, I didn't want any help here thi
is only the passage you know!"
Yes, it was only the passage and yet
she had been picturing-such a charming;,
entrance, with a draped arch, a graceful
lamp, a fresh bright paper, a small buf
fet of genuine old oak and so on. She
suppressed a sigh as she passed on.
After all, so long as the rooms them-!
selves were all right, it did not bo very,
much matter and she knew that her
mother's taste could be trusted. , - i
But on the threshold of 'the dining
room she stopped aghast. i
CHAPTER H. ,
The walls of the dinning roont had
been distempered a particularly hideous
drab; the curtains were mustard yellow;
the carpet was a dull brown; the mot-,
tied marble mantelpiece, for which Ella
had been intending to substitute one in
walnut wood with tiles, still ' shone in
slabs of petrified brown; there was a
hnge mahogany sideboard, of a kind sh
had only seen in old fashioned hotels. ;
"Comfortable, eh?" remarked George;
'lots of wear iu those curtains!"
Unhappily there was, as Ella, wasoiily
too well aware. . -
"You did this room yourself too, then,'
George?" she managed to say. without,
betraying herself by her voice. .
'Yes, I chose everything here. . You
see; Ella, we shall only use this ruoin for
meals." -
"Only for meals, yes," she acquiesced,
with a shudder; "bnt, George, snrt.y
you said mother had helped you with the
rooms?" ... . . ..
!What, your mother? No," Ella, her
notions are rather too grand for me it
was Jessie. and Carrie I meant. - Just
come and see what they've made of my
den."
Ella followed ; the window which had
commanded such a cheerful outlook into
one of the pretty gardens, with a pink
thorn, a laburnum tree or two, and some
sycamores, which still flourish fresh and
fair on Campden hill was obscured now
by some detestable contrivance in tran
sparent paper imitating stained glass.
"That was the girls' notion," said
George, following the direction of her
eyes; "they fixed it all themselves. It
was their present to me pretty of them
to think of it, wasn't it? I call it an im
mense improvement, and you see it's
stuck on with some patent cement var
nish, so it can't rub off. You get the
effect better if you stand here now see
how well the colors:come out in the sun!"
If only they would come out! but
what could she. do but stand and admire
hypocritically? Her eyes, in spite of her
self, seemed drawn to that bright hued
sham, intersected by black lines intended
to represent leading; of the room itself
she only saw vaguely that it was not un
worthy of the window.
"Nothing to what they've done with
the drawing room !" said innocent George,
beaming. "Come-along, darling; you'll
scarcely know the place!"
And Ella, reduced to a condition of
stony stupor, followed to the drawing
room. She did not know the place .in
deed. It was a quaintly shaped, irregu
lar room, with French windows opening
upon the garden on one side and a deep
bow window on another. When she had
last seen it the walls were covered with
a paper so pleasing iu tone and design,
that she had almost decided to retain it.
The paper was gone, and in its place a
gaudy, semi-Chinese pattern, of unknown
birds, flying and perchiug on sprawling
brandies laden with impossible flowers.
And then the furniture the "elegant
drawing room suit," in brilliant plush
and shining satin; the cheap cabinets.
and the ready made black and gilt over
mantel, with its panels of swans, haw
thorn blossoms and landscapes sketchily
daubed on dead gold surely it had all
been transferred bodily from the stage-
of some carelessly mounted farcical coin-
edv!
Ella's horrified gaze gradually took in.
other features; the China monkeys swing
ing on cords, the porcelain parrots hang
ing iu great brass rings, huge rnisshapen.
terra cotta jars and pots, dead grass in.
bloated drain pipes, tambourines berib-
honed and painted with kittens and
robins, enormous wooden sabots, gilded
Japanese fans, a wooly white rug and a,
bright Kidderminster carpet
I -Bao on earth are vouT"
demand td
George. ,
"Oh, George!" burst involuntarily fro:
her lips.
"I knew you'd be pleased," he said.
complacently: "but I mustn't take all the
credit myself. It was like this, you see. i
I felt all right about the other rooms,
but the drawing room thafB your room, :
-and I was awfully afraid of not having- j
, it exactly as it ought to be. So I went ,
!;i to the girls, and I said: 'You kno9"&li. ,
' about these things just make it what
hyon think Ella will like, and then we
can't go wrong.' We had that Grosvenor
Gallery paper down first of all. Choose
something bright and cheerful,' I said,
and I dont think they've chosen badly.
Then the pottery and china and all that
those are the girls' present to you, with,
their best love."
"It's very, good of them," said poor
Ella, on the verge of tears.
"Oh, they think a lot of you! They
were rather nervous about doing any
thing at first, for fear you mightn't like
it; but I told them they needn't be afraid.
What I like, Ella will like,' I said, and
I must say no one could wish to see a
prettier drawing room than they've turn
ed it into they've a good deal of taste,
those two girls." .
Ella stood there in a kind of dreary
dream. What had happened to the world
since she came into this house? What
was this change in her? She was afraid
to speak, lest the intense rebellious anger
she felt should gain the mastery. Was
it she that had these wicked thoughts of
George poor, kind, unsuspecting, lov
ing George? She felt a little faint, far
the windows were cloeed and the room
stuffy with the odor of the new furniture
and the atmosphere of the workshop;
everything: here seemed to her common
place and repulsive.
"How about those plans of yours now.
Ella, eh?", cried George. !
TJiis was too much her over tired pa
tience broke down.
"Gearger she cried impulidvely, and
her voice sounded hoarse and strange to
heir own ear. "George, I must speak I
must tell you" and then she checked
herself.
' She must keep command of herself, or
she could not, without utter loss of dig
nity, nua tne-words that ware to sting
him ' into a sense of what he had done
and 'allowed to be done. Before she
could go on, George had dnwn her to;
him and was patting her shoulder ten
derly. "I 'know, dear little girl," he said, "I
know:; don't try. to tell me anything.
I'm so ' awfully glad you're pleased; but
nil the money and pains in, the world
wouldn't make the place good enouja
far my Ella." i ' "
She released herself with a lit tie cry of
impotent despair. How could she Bay
the sharp, cruel speeches that wecre strug
gling to reach her tongue now? It was
no use; she .was a coward, she simply
had not the courage to undecei ve him
here, on the very first day of the jreunirm,
too. . ;. .-. .
"You haven't been upstairs yoVeaid
George, dropping sentiment abruptly.
"Shall we go up?" ; . .
Ella assented submissively, much as
even this cost her, but it was hotter, she
reflected, to get it .over and kncw -the
very worst However, she was spared
this ordeal for the present As they re
turned to the hall,, they found them
selves suddetdy face to face with a dingy
man, whose face was surrounded by
fringe of black whiskers, and crowned
hr a shock of fluev hair. .
""Who on earth are you?" demanded
George, as the man rose from the kitch
en stairs.
"No offense, sir and lady. Peagrum,
that's my name, fust shop round the cor
ner as you go into Silver street, plumber
and sanitry hengineer, gas fittin' and
hartistio decorating, bell 'anging in all
its branches. I received instructions
from Mr. Jones that I was to look
into a little matter o' leakage in
the back kitchen sink, also to see
what taps, if hany, required seein' to,
and gen'lly to put things straight like.
So I come round, 'aving the keys, just to
cast a heye over them, as I may term it,
preliminry to beginning work in the
course of a week or so, as soon as I'm at
at libity to attend to it pussonally."
"Oh, the landlord sent you? All right,
then."
"Correct, sir," said the plumber affa-
blv. "While I've been 'ere I took the
freedom of going all ow this little 'ouse.
and a Dice cozy little 'ousa you've mado
of it, for such a "nouse as it is. You've
done it up very tysty, very tysty you've
done this little 'ouse up, and 1 ve some
claim to speak, seein' as how I've had the
decoration throughout of a many ouse
in my time, likewise mansions, xbu
ain't been too ambitious, which is the
error most parties falls into with small
'oases; now the parties as ad the place
before you, by the name o' Rninmlea
well, I dessay they satisfied theirselves,
but the 'ouse never looked right, not to
my taste, it didn't."
"George, get rid or tins person, said
Ella, under her breath, in French.
Unfortunately, George s acquaintance
with that tongue was about on a par
with the plumber's, and he remained
passive.
The plumber now proceeded to put
down his inci-hauic's straw bag upon the
rinll table, which he did with great care,
as if it were of priceless stuff, and con
tained fragile articles. Having done
this, he posed himself with one elbow
resting on the poet of the staircase, like
a grimy statue of Shakespeare.
"Ah," he said, shaking his touzled
head, "this ain't the first time I've been
'ere in my puffessioT.il capacity, not by
a long way. Not by a long way, it ain't
Mr. Rummies, him as I mentioned to
you afore, and a nice pleasant spoken
gentleman he was, too. In the tea trade.
Mr. Rummies, he alius sent round for
me whenever there was hany odd jobs
as wanted doin', and in course I was al
ius pleased to get 'em, be they hodd or
hotherwise.
"Er exactly," said George, as soon as
be could put in a word, "but you see, 1
this lady and I"
The plumber, however, did not aban
don his position, but seemed determined
that thev should hear him
TO BB CONTLNCED.
QUEER THINGS IN COFFINS.
ntoeatrtettira iHmt Will Make ma the
tsdinaktn Lan(H.
" What is the last curious tninjr you
have met in your lugubrious business?"
-4aaked a reporter of aa undertaker the
other day.
The undertaker opeued the lid of a coffin
sear his elbow, and replied : " Do you see
that satin linging?"
" Yes. What's odd about that?"
" YeUovr.-
Yellow Is a common enough color."
" N'ot icV coffin lining, my boy. They're
iranerall' hue. But Ibis coffin was made
for a wc n whose main ambition in life
was to k well, and her last dying r
qtmt' that her coffla be lined with bid
jrotd v as that color bwst set off her
com; lon. which was rather sallow and
dark.' 'Promise me,' she said. I don't
want all those women to come in and see
me in my coffin looking like a frUrht' So
they promised, and she died contented.
" Only a arornan would bother her head
with such thoughts on her dying bed,"
moralized the reporter.
Tm not so sure of l hat," said the under
taker. " I once buried an old chap, a saloon-keeper,
whose income while he lived
was unevenly divided between the supxrt
of his family and the decoration of his
person. The family jrot the smaller half.
He wore the most expensive clothes at all
times, and the ditter of A-l diamonds from
from his shirt front neeklie. watch-guard,
and his big. red. chubby hand, actually
dazzled the beholder. Well, when his time
came, he bad very little property but bis
jewels to leave behind him. but be made a
will bequeathing the little be bad to bis
wife, on condition that she dressed his
body In his best suit of clothes, decked it
with all his diamonds and buried them,
every one, with him. Otherwise his whole
estate, including the diamonds, was to go
to Charity.
The poor woman declared she would
obey his every wish, but it was with a
heavy heart Uiat she brought out toe suit
I was to dress the corpse in. It was of the
loudest biggest most glaring plaid you
ever saw; enough .to inglitcn Uld Met
himself away. Tho shirt was all covered
over with a pattern composed of purple
ballet dancers and scarlet bulldogs, and
these, with his big diamonds glittering all
over him, made a startling sight for the
mourners who looked -nto his eofllu. Many
were the lamentations that the poor widow
should be obliged to bury all those dia
monds, and much admiration was ex
pressed for the wifely devotiou which kept
her from murmuring. ...
" But tho widow was no fool. She buried
the jewels sure enough, but hardly was the
grave filled up before she ordered the sex
ton to empty it again. Tho coffin was
opened, and the widow took tho diamonds
from the old curmudgeon's shirt-front
with her own hand. Then they buried
him a second timo.
I heard or anothor str inge case, con
tinued the undertaker, " which, though it
did not come under my own olwervation,
yet I believe to be true. It was that of a
man who always had a horror of being
buried alive. Ho left a provision in his will
that a big bottle of chloroform was to be
put in the coffin with him. lt was to be
laid by his side, and a tack-hnmmer was to
be put in his band, so that it he came to
life under ground ho could smash the
bottle at a blow ami fill the eofllu with
fumes that would kill him instantly and
painlessly. Jt . Y. Tribune.
The South', Prosperity.
Financially, tho southern states are
glowing with health and promlso and re
joicing In the consciousness of tholr essen
tial greatness. Mo furor has boon created
by sensational advertising, but the world
has been astonished by the latest statis
tics of wonderful growth, as shown in the
national census of 1HW.. The sum of all is
in tbe fact that theassossed value of prop
erty in nine suites is estimated by the
census officials to have grown from $3,000,
000.000 in 1880 to JG.O.W.OJO.000 in 1800. .
The reports of the census everywhere
tell of enlarged aud eulurglng areas of cul
tivation, of new mines of coul and iron, ex
cellent' in quality and luexhnustlblo in
quantity, of now manufactories la every
(tanartment of human industry. All the
banes of wealth and of sound and satisfac
tory finance are bore ; and in my opinion,
southern enterprises are animated, sus
tained and fortified by as stucore and high
reirartfl for commercial credit and personal
ihonor, and by as profound a conviction of
the necessity of fair dealing, as are to be
found a where. J. L. Williams In the
Forum. .
Woman's World.'
Feeding the Sick.
Mr. Editor: In an article In Our
range Homes on feeding the sick I
And a good deal of wisdom, but I taken
exception to the idea that dainties
and delicacies should pe prepared to
tempt the appetite andinduce the pa
tient to ..put ..Into the stomach food
that it does not crave and probably
cannot properly assimilate. ...JLhe
writer says :
Food for the sick should be prepared
in the most careful and painstaking
fashion. The dainty bit of meat, the
whitest and most Inviting potato, If
such uislies are permitted.
And I would add, if not permitted,
in uny but tho the rarest cases the
first thing to do should be to dis
charge tho doctor. With the excep
tion of ono or two rare ailments where
starch must be. avoided, there are no
cases where a light, mealy potato is
not among the most easily digestible
of foods. . In no cose where bread
may be safely allowed, either fresh or
fttule, is it as good food for an invalid
as the potato. -
- When the gastric juice is deficient,
and food cannot be "properly assimi
lated, the appetite fails. This is the
stomach's distress signal. Food is
not wanted, and if the patient is in
duced, by tempting flavors and sea
sonings which tickle the palate, to
swallow it, nature continues her pro
test and expels it if possible by vom
iting. If this fails, the offending sub
stance lies in the stomach, causing
distress. When nature wants food,
when the stomach can digest it, apie
tite returns, and if the patient has led
a proper life, and the organs and
tastes have not been perverted, the
appetite is the safest guide in the se
lection of food. What it craves
whut the system needs.
is
Of course, food for the sick or well
should be neatly, carefully and taste
fully prepared, and special attention
should be given in case of sickness to
malting the food and dishes, as well
as everything else in the sk-k room
pleasant, neat and comrcxt?.vlo.
. Aious W. Mattison
Can Boet Fickle for Sale.
A writer In an exchange advises
women who need pin money to try
canning beets. She says never use a
beet that is too large to put into a
quart can whole. Cut off the leaves.
but do not cut the stems short enough
to bleed the beet. Boil until tender ;
put into cold water and slip the skins
offx and then put the beets into the
cans, arranging them to show off
thoir size and shape a much as possi-1
ble. Next heat good cider vinegar
boiling hot, season with pepper and
salt, and fill the cans full of the boil
ing vinegar. Put the covers on at
once and tighten them from time to
time, as the cans shrink from cooling.
Use glass cans and keep them in a
dark place. A few pint cans put in
any grocery will convince you that
there is money in it ; or send a few
cons to people who are known to you
as "good livers" (being sure to include
the hotels and restaurants in your
list), telling them that you have them
for sale either at your home or some
store, as the case may be. -
If you have some nice cans in mid
winter, send them to this class of
people and solicit their orders for the
next year. A few printed circulars to
send with the cans will enable you to
do your soliciting through the medium
of a "small boy," if you dislike that
part of the work.
Lay your plans, and put up a quan
tity in pint, quart and two-quart cans
and it you use any energy at all In in
troducing them you will wish you had
more.
Strawberry Preserving.
You can not put sugar on fresh
strawberries, pack them down and let
them stand and have the fruit perfect
as you can In the case of pineapple or
raspberries. The strawberries will
become spongy and the sugar extracts
the juice. Heat should be applied to
the berries as soon as the sugar is
added, and no water is needed. Good
strawberry preserve is practically out
of the market and if one wants it
search must be made among private
houses, or at hotels where they make
a specialty of nice things and have
their preserves made for them.
S 'uwberry jam can be bought, but
this is aiways inferior to the genuine
rich preserve.
Always use the best ripe strawber
ries and have them red, not light col
ored, as all the color is needed for the
beauty of the preserve.
Put a pound of sugar Into the pre
serving kettle to each pound of ber
ries. Put them in alternate layers
but never enough to make more than
six inches in depth of both fruit and
sugar. Put the berries over the Are
and watch closely ; when they begin
to boil skim carefully. Simmer ten
minutes, then pour into platters and
set In the sun. It should have twenty-four
hours' exposure to the sun
and if the sun does not. nhlnn cnnsoeii-.
lively it will do no harm to let treTtora,B? much, :.e r
preserves remain in the platters.
Alter sunning turn the preserve
into small jars just as it is, without
heating, and seal. I have tried put
ting the preserve direct from the ket
tle into -jars and letting them stand in
the sun, but the result was not as good
as on the platters ; neither did deep
layers result as well. Use small jars
because the preserve is so rioh that
-but little Is needed. Miss Parloa.
Currant pudding. Beat two eggs
light and stir into a cupful t f sugar
creamed with half a cupful ot butter.
stir in a cupful of milk, three-fourths'
oi a pint of nour, with two even tea
spoonfuls of baking-powder and one
cupful ot currants.
Notes,
wi ta Kill Hogs. . 'L . .!
Axmsson, If arch 22.
Tf VAitnr- I WOUld like tO ASk
your advice as tc ln best time to kill
hogs. Some of m T neighbors tellcie
to kill them In the flt quarter of th
mnnn hwsiiiw if trill w wueu me moon
is on the wane th9 n 'leat will shrinkJ
Is there anything in now muca
anlr.riAtor nhnnld I u. 9 to Salt 100
pounds of pork? YoiWO Fabmeb J
The best time to kill frogs is when
they are in good condition. A year
ling, if kept grow ng all tbe tune and
fed plenty of com or other good fat-
producing food the last morrth or two
will not make as much meat as a two
or three-year-old hog, but will pro
duce sweeter, nicer pork and at a less
cost per pound. The ttiird hundred
pounds cost more to produce per
pound than the first 200, and the
fourth hundred Is dearer still to the
farmer.
As for killing in the first quartei of
the moon, I would not kill them in
the moon at all. Your barnyard will
do very well, If there are no breeding
animals; if there are, do your killing
where they will not smell the blood or
the carcass. The moon does not med
dle in our affairs nowadays half as
much as she used to In the days when
good people couldn't keep good with
out burning witches xtnee in a while.
When your yearling pigs are fat kill
them on a cool day, and If you are go
ing to salt the meat down do so in the
coolest room available, after the ani
mal heat has been thoroughly expelled
from it Don't be afraid of using too
much salt Run' a knife In around
the bones wherever you can and jam
tbe gash so made full of salt Lay a
layer of salt two inches deep in the
bottom of the tub. Then a layer of
the cut-up meat Fill all the inter
stices between the pieces with salt
and also cover the layer out of sight
with salt Then repeat the operation
till all the meat is packed and cov
ered out of sight with salt Cover the
barrel to keep out dust In a few
days, if the meat Is not covered with
lbrine, add a little water till It It cov
ered. Keep it j?ool and always see
that there is undissolved salt in the
tub, and your pork will keep good
and sweet without the use of any salt
peter. Saltpeter gives meat a flavor
that many people object to. - The
moon never meddles with meat pre
pared as we have directed, nor in any
other way. .
Electricity for Plaats.
It would seem that electricity is one
of the agents employed by nature to
ia'sapplying thu plnnr. jsrith nour-
Ishment and to stimulate its growth.
To what extent plants may be sub
mitted to electrical influence, or what
strength of current is best suited to
them and what currents prove detri
mental to their development, have
not been determined as yet, but it is
desirable to continue this research
until some definite information shall
be gained on these points. Probably
different varieties of plants differ
greatly in their capacity for enduring
the action of electric currents without
Injury experiment alone must deter
mine this.
It has been proved that the slow
discharge of static electricity facili
tates the assimilation of nitrogen by
plants. Faraday showed that plants
grown in metallic cages, around
which circulated electric currents,
contained fifty per cent less organic
matter than plants grown in the open
air. It would seem from tbe re
searches of the latter physicist that
those plants requiring a large per
centage of nitrogen for their develop
ment would be remarkably benefited
if grown under electric influence.
Five plants died from mi'dew, the
others were well developed and the
heads large. The laigest heads were
over the greatest number of wires and
nearest the electrodes. It was further
noticed that the healthiest and lar
gest plants, as soon as the current
became feeble or ceased altogether,
began to be affected with 'mildew,
On examining the roots of the plants
it was found that they had grown
about the wires, as if there they found
the greatest amount of nourishment;
the roots were healthy and in no way
appeared to have been injured by the
current, but, rather, much benefited
by the electrical influences.
Beside this garden was prepared an
other plot of the same dimensions,
having the same kind of soil and
treated in like manner as the first,
but the electrical appartus and wires
were wanting. kAt the close of the ex
periments only three plants had par
tially developed and two of these wero
nearly destroy by mildews-one only
was tree icpm tne aisease, : xne re
sults, therefore, shb that te healthi
est and largest- plants-ft-w-tn the
electric pmw a-? v r - ,;
J.-
Thi'deetnicWon iof IheHrtain
portatfoa ief infet!tQ.
tcees at Sti Pedraaa,
portation ol infected i.
Lthe.easfc rfll assure-
that Hie threat or -a re
WWW, U VI 1W MWO,.UW .
e--farmer JJiat has
breediiijj jsjoesf Will not
calves in thetr'tfted. .For
the calves should be put
house treatment, or, in oth
they should be fed to nur,A
possible growth from tt i
farmer that neglects a
raal makes a loss he never d
It costs far less to make 100 p
beef in the three-year-old
In the six-year-old ox. T
for nothing it the a"
us many are ant"
weeks old tosh
go about and
pinched up -
, lions, halr.s'
and lookin-
den to the
cannot b
ZoriSmi
Genecal News. :
Argentine
theU- -rM
t Ik
"usea.' reciprocity with
ean ex-convicte were
' t NewYcrk March
' . ' r i , ; -. .
Jltion treaty between
Unltedtates .has
ta,' VToxthe
"Msefrew xelud-
ex.
V Ameii; goods.
Pavawhl.i
im to .America -as -It
aly's minister, Mon'astbebestion
of indemnity the families of the
Italians lynch d at Ker "riea&a is
seiuea. . .
unnta st Arts'-:
' "Walt Whitman is dead-
Two million dollars is needed
to
complete tne census. ; .
The Standard oil trust has reorgan
ized to evade the anti-trust law, -
Jim Keene, who failed in Kew York
In 1883, is paying up his old debts. - .
Mills has been almost unanimously
re-elected to the federal senate from
Texas. - -
Blaine is likely to retire from poli
tics soon on account of his ruined
health.
The Chicago board of education is
charged with taking bribes, the same
as the aldermen.
When the Standard Oil company re
orgmized it had $26,000,000 surplus
earnings on hand.
The boiler in a lumber mill at East
Jordan, Mich., exploded March 21,
killing seven men.
The Brotherhood of Trainmen has
petitioned Congress to close the
world's fair on Sundays.
A house fell on a housemover
named Brobst, who was moving it,
in Chicago March 20 and killed him.
a jury at Darlington, Wis., has de
cided that sll thA
Siebold last September were insane
miu um wree oi tnem are insane yet
The Anuvimn TtnhHin Rnsmi
vvwu, - OUU
Shuttle company, which owns twenty
three mills in 'low l-'nnloTil I, -
tailed. .- -
A boiler in a brick fw-tnrv nt T.l
clede. Mo., exploded March 21 and
killed four men nnrl 'llsinmmnelT in.
jured four more..-
Seven of rthfl hnnillinir rhiuimil.
dermen have-been indicted. One of
the witnesses ii a woman In whose
DresencA in a hnnco nt ill.fam tho ol.
dermen talked too freely while tirSk.'
Tim lAfirnr nntt mrt-at itrt f .At
legheny Cirv, Pa., have been arrested
for embezzlement and the superin
tendent of water works and health
board are short. The total shortage
amounts to $300,000.
Edward M. Fielu. the swindler and
forger, son of Cyrus W. Field and
nephew of Stephen J. Field of the
federal supreme court, has been sent
to the New York state insane asylum
at Buffalo for examination as to his
sanity.
The most startling case of bank
wrecking in years has come to light
at Painesville. O.. wher hv foiwrv
and theft K. K. Paige and Horace
Steele have left the bank $600,000 be-
nina. raige and Steele, the presi
dent were arrested.
A gasoline stove used for warmine
water for baptisms at Mannintr, Iowa,
exploded, March 20. Bev. M. Boles
carried it out of the church. He wore
celluloid cuffs, which caught fire and
nis arms .were Durned to the bone.
Physicians pronouced his injuries fa
tal.
Justice of the Peace Frank Green
wait of Sioux City and his wife had a
fight and she whipped him. He is a
farmer and he deputized Bill Otto, a
farm nana to arrest her for batterv
He tried and convicted her and
sent her to the county jail in charge
of Otto, bnt on the way she whipped
who ana went. noma.
Cerro Gordo HL. suffered March 96
from the most damaging cylone ever
known in that vicinity, "it left a
track about 300 feet wide and over
half a mile in leangth through the
most thickly inhabited part -of the
village.- Houses, barns and buildings
of all kinds were twisted about in the
most terrible manner, but fortunately
no uves were losr.
Church Maddox was taken from his
home at Marengo, IncL, by whitecaps
wno proposea to nog rum for stealing
some fresh pork he had in his house
He protested that he bought the pork
from a neighbor named Gibbs. Gibbs
was visited and confirmed his claims,
and the men unmasked and turned
Maddox loose. . He recognized five of
them, two of whom werelocal preach
ers, ana tney nave, oeen arrested. -:
FOREIGN. V,
Fire has destroyed the village of
Level, Switxei land. .
; Fifty-two May day rioters in Borne
have been imprisoned and fined. .
In northern Bolivia 30,000 Indians
are reported to te on the. war path.
Jl syndicate has been formed to cul
tivate tobacco, on . a large scale in
' Th9Greek parliament has been 'dis
solved and Mar; IS fixed as the day
tor a new election. .. -
President Palacio of YeneiuliJs re:
ported to be insane. So is Emperor
William of Germany. . -
An uprising of Malays against
British rule at Pahang, India, is as
aumingserious proportions. .
The Russian force on the Prussian
frontier has been ordered to be-ready
to 'march at a half-hour's notice.
Curreiit :I,oys.
: V- Bsfcrta im f ., iasidq
There Is a hitch in the fiahriHo' J
coiTes-pondenca between th TT. j
States and Great Britita. Engf ji.
reiusesw renew last years agreen ; - , JJ
to keep poachers ont oT the sea'pSfciT
rag aroitration unless tha TTrt
States agrees - W idemcfr British .
sealers for what they- Ioae- thereby U '
ine arbitrators '.decide in favort- of ;
Great Britian. "She. nacrrnKtui
sealers who give bonds to pay dan..
ages ir decided Against be allowed to
continue sealinjg in the Bearing set, i
thisyear. -.. '- - 2p:; - .
President Harrison' aim In- rnt .
demanding an - inunediate answer: ; .
The modus. of Jast year is the Icaat
this government can accept in reason. -:
The restraints after this treaty , of sr. .
bitration should be more absolute, ' Ji
not less. He does not want to protect
this discussion, and having sow in tie
most friendly spirit: submitted th - V
considerations which support thejust
demand of this government that the ?.
property which is the subject of
agreed arbitration shall notbeenMivt i"
to spoliation pending arbitration he
expresses the hope that Lord Sails- l
bury wi'l give promut and friendhy
assent to the renewal" of the modus.
The president will bear with regret
that her majesty's provernment vm-
tinues to assert the right to deal with
tnis subject precisely as it. no pro
vision had been made for the settle
ment of the dispute, and in that event
this government, as has already been
pointed out, will be compelled to deal
with the subject upon the same basis.
and use every means in its power to
protect from destruction or serious in
jury the property and jurisclictional
rights which it has long claimed and
enjoyed. ,
England has sent some w&r vessels
toward Behring sea. .
- The Canadian government issued a
notice March 28 to all Canadian seal- - '
ers who had been driven outofBeh-
ring sea by reason of the agreement
between the United States and Great
Britain to file theirxlatms "foTcSmS-
geTwithin one month.
The Abercorne tin plate works have'
closed, throwing 3000 hands ont of
work. : ,
Fifteen hundred bricklayers, car
penters and cabinet-makers on the
two new Astor hotels on Fifth avenue
Xew York, struck March 21 because
five non-union men had 'been given
work.
The strike of Canadian Pacific con
ductors and brakemen has extended
from Winnipeg to the Pacific -:"ZZ.
The enginman at Hepburn colliery,
DuxharaEng., were stoned by strik
ers and several of them injured
March 24 because they refused to join
the strikers. - -
The British house of commons re
jected by a vote of 272 to 160 a bfil '
making 8 hours a days work in the
mines. i . -
The authorities at ' Brisbane,
Queensland, are receiving 500 desti-
tute persons daily. The -mayor s
the distress is due partly to bad man
agement ;n the late strike. "
The Canadian Jaeific strike trouble '
was submitted to arbitration March -
23.
B. Williams, a non-union lumber
handler in San Francisco, was badly
clubbed by strikers March22. A non
union lumber handler was badly
beaten bv strikers in San Francisco
March 24. The Pacific Pine Lumber
company offers $130 for information .
leading to the conviction of a union
lumber handler for beating one of its V
employes.
Red coats quelled the riotous strik
ing miners in Durham. : :
In Paris 5000 cabmen struck March '
Discharged switchmen at Kent,
O.," attacked the men Who had tak -'n
their places and the police who were
defending them March 26 and firing
resulted, inwjjich two of the rioters
were wounded.
Judges Sent to Jan. "
Judge Phillips ot the United States '
Circuit-Cijirt at Kansas City, Kas.,
nas sentenced Judges Say, Blaine
and George of Cass county to jail un
til they make some arrangement for
payment ot the bonds voted by that
county twenty years ago iu ai i of the
Tebo and Seosho B idroa L "He also
imposed a fine of $500 on each of
thW, '
Tff 1870 the two countieoted $730,
000 and $1,000,000, respectively, tc ai
in the construction of the road. 1
was, never built, but thetwnds
into the hands of innocent porch?
who have obtained judgment
edly, but have never been a'
lecU mhn8
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