Image provided by: Crook County Historical Society/Bowman Museum; Prineville, OR
About Ochoco review. (Prineville, Crook County, Or.) 1885-1??? | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1887)
AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to the Interest of Farmer ami Stockmen. Il) Tent Ml-el. The Oiiliiriu Agricultural College has issued u bulletin on this subject, of which Ihe following lire extract : Ful some year past, especially in Knghind, 'armcrs liiiTc hnil llicir at lor.tion di rected to tin; condition of tlic seed -own on the farm, and in many ciimcs have found Unit seed is far from being piirenr suited for the purposes intend 'l, It fails in being true to il.i lulicl ; a her needs, lire mixed with it, especially, in Urn case o( grass Hied. In sumo -amplcs tunny hiciIh of wood arc i'i til tid , and ilk not a few ciihch there is it lack u( germinating power ia the need. These facts have led to tlm practice among prominent seedsmen of guar anteeing the purity, cleanliness and vitality of needs Hold, and it lui heen i ihsorvod Dial during the pant few yean .1 marked improvement haw resulted. Leading Canadian anil American -.i'(Ih ii have uIho adopted thiH idea of tenting llieir feeds hcfor' recom mending them, ami lind that the ex pense in well repaid by securing the t'oiilidenco of the people. With a view of calling thi' attention of fiinncrs to '!lin (pietitioii of tehling Hccdri this bui lt tin in written. While Mil fnihiri'M in germination can iiot lie uttrihuted entirely to pi Mir need, aiiore iM no doubt that imieh need is miwii which has very little vitality, and in Mime raw-it, especially grass, several v arieticH spring up where only one whs expected. The seeds of weed-1, (oo.are not unconinion in ft I grain, and thus .il a period in Canadian fcrniiug, where (here in ho much interchange of grain fur seeding purposes is li.e present, il i nut a mutter of surpiise that we lind weeds on the increase, both iii regard to nilinher and variety. The following niolhods (if testing seed .ire recom mended : 1. Place I'l l -ceils hel ween sheet of blotting-paper laid nil f ind, and keep 'tie paper damp in a place vt here the temperature i about 7S to So degri Fahrenheit. Tin number of seed. germinating will indicate tin- percctit ,i';c goisl. '1, l'lace I he H'ad on a piece of Man m l in a Mincer, with Millioicnt water i.i moisten il thoroughly, After seat toting the need ( 1(M( , on the llmincl. put a piece of damp blotting paper erllie whole and place in a warm room. Keep ii continually damp, and in a short time the seed will gerini natc, ihe number sprouting will lie the ocrcenlagc of Hood seed il. Tint following method is much nor" complicated limn the preceding, and can only be adopted where (he -object i.s made a study. Thin is the apparatus used at the college. It eon ints of u hemispherical copper boiler, one foot in diameter, fastened to the bottom of a galvanized iron pan two feet wide, four feet long and live inches deep. The water nassc-from theenp boiler into the pan through four -mall holef, nod is made to circulate over every part of il by guides three fourth of nil inch high. Another bot tom resting on the top of tliCH' Is lirinlv soldered nrolind theedi;eM; at fine cor ner a tube passes through the bottom, 'or the purpose of tilling tint boilerand a 1 1 1 1 1 -r pan with water. After coming Horn the copper ves-cl the heated wa ter runs back and forth several timed in lint lower pan, ami is finally con ducted by it return tube back to Ihe Copper boiler, entering near the bot tom. Some sand (about two inches deep; is put in the upper part of the pan, and on thin rests the boxes, etc., containing the seed to he tested. This tin box and boiler is set in something like an olllce desk, about four feet high, standing on four legs ami having i lunged, glazed top. Heat in pro duccd by a small coal stove , below . This gerininalor is well adapted for '.esting many samples at the same time. I. For examining seeds as tw purity, -cutter them on a piece of black card board, ami the foreign grain urtt read ily observed. If it goo I selection of ceils, true to their kind, is kept for comparison the impurities emi be easily idtint iticd. Here follow Ihe results of several tests in the gerniinator, but Hie follow ing inferences drawn from llieiu cover the ground no far an all practical pur poses are concerned : I. Age lia.s a marked died on the v italily of certain seeds. "2. Many seeds have lost much of their vitality from improper curing, or other ciiusct . .'I. Frozen wheat is not reliable for -eed, even though germinating a fair per cent., its growth in the field is of a more or lens weakly nature. I. All ncedH should be tested for vi tality and purity. ii. Seeiln are mon likely to be good from seedsmen than from commission agents. !. A Hinall percentage of imputr ceds iiKitn.s very many in a bushel. 7. Thistles can be grown from seed a fact contradicted by hoiiic fanners at ticveral lliMtitnlec. They miiinhiiti t hat, tlutl"8 are propagated from the root only, and that all Ihe seeds me i in perfect. II iiiiltai lllil .riis. Stephen l'owers, a well-know n writer on agricultural matters, in ueonmiuni cation to tlV.' (.'mmtrii ( li'iillrnitnt on this foreign plant sii.vk : "I n addition to its value as a snpplenientiiry forage crop, I found this grass out; of the best me diums for the renewal of un old nioss bound or ot herwise deteriorated mea dow without thelosH of a year. It will grow in eighty days, so that it can be sown alter timothy is cut, and a crop of hay secured from it in time to plow the, land and reseed it to meadow again in tint fall, for which it leaves the ground in good condition. One year. 1' remember distinctly, a Hevere winter huil reduced my stand of timothy una , , ,. Hpouty piece of red, creik bottom so-! gar liey hind to a ' thing of hIiiciIs and ! patches,' but as it was lit, only for, Ineadow I did not want to break it up j for coin, n ml il, wuh iiscIcsh to sow it for oats. So 1 cut 1'iirly the Mtraggling ' timothy and at oiu c brnke it up about six inchcH ileep, turning smooth, ' even furrow, harrowed and sowed it to Hungarian grass. A timely ruin gave it an excellent Maud ; 1 cut and Nitved morn hay than tne timothy would have yiclileil at itH liesi, anil miu nan tune to res I it in tint ' t 1 iv and get u growth strong enough to withstand the wintur llllHllillg, "Hungitriaii griiHH is not (iernuin or any.utlier inillel; the Iliingariaii grass has black h I. the millet vellow. Mom Hungarian griisH K-ed in tlm Mtoren !m mixed, but that hliould be selected which has the highest percentage of black seed, (lermun millet, if howh very thick, makes a. tolerably good feed for nit tli.' mid lioix-c, though noteipnil, I think, to Hungarian, but for sheep the Hungarian is much fiierior, on account of ils fineness and gieuter amount of foliage. " The seed, being email and light, re ij uirt'H a very thoroughly prepared bed to w cunt lt.sgerininaliiiii.iind the more no since is sown iit hot weather. It is imperative that the land hliould be well harrowed with a line-toothed bur row. If the luii'l is left rough and cloddy some of the seeds w ill fall deep into the cracks and never appear above the surface, while others will lodge on lump. Iw lightly, covered, or not at all, and dry out. They will come up hciiI tcring, unil the rcMiltant buy w ill be so coarw'.as to be wholly unlit,. for sheep, and decidedly unlit for horses and fat tie. The land iiiu-t be harrowed until il is well compacted, ebe there will be air spun .- left below the surface, w hich w ill dry out in the milium r heat. Then the seed sin ulil be sown one and a half ho shi. In to the ut rc i not t wo much if the buy is for sheep ; one bu.-hel w ill ansvvi r if for ciitlb pint before or after a rain and lightly harrowed in, not brushed ill, lor it bru-h will soon wear out and go on it. knee-, leaving un sightly streak- or -earns. Last of all. lei il be rolled wry -inuoth, for there wdl be no sod as in an old timothy meadow to hold up Ihe mower knifv, and if the laud is uneven the knife will be conMaii '.ly cutting oil' the lop- of hillocks ami gitting gritty and dull. Some farmers are in favor of letting Hungarian grass stand until the -eed i- nearly unite ripe, but I prefer to cut i il much greener ihiin that uy when liieluad- are fairly in -ight. What limy he ga ilieil in seod is more than lost in foliage if it is left to ripen. TheCali foinia farmers are compelled to sow barley or when l for hay, and they al ways cut it green, because it is hay they want, not straw and grain. So with Hungarian gru-s. "Of con rse, when cut -u green it w ill icipiire thorough curing to prevent molding in the mow, and here in where the beginner isliubb' to make his great est mii-lake. The large, succulent heads ought to lie in the sun two full days, els- they will mold, and the sheep will consume all the foliage ex cept them, leaving the bottom of the hay iack full of tliem, like so many given, fu.zy culerpilluin, , Left ho long, in the sun, of cum si? the hav will look rather yellow, but is fur better this than moldy. II cut aslale us Septem ber the short days and heavy dews render il dilliciilt to cine Hungarian grass well, and it is absolutely neces sary to let it have at least two days of sunshine. It iN bet tel to sow it, if pos sible, by .1 one 1st, to bring i nit the cut ting farlier. licfore the dew fulls on the second day it -liould be raked and cocked up; but if it seems wry heavy on the pitchfork and the juice comes; out when a wisp of it in twisted in the hands, it must he uncocked, spread out say twice as thick as it grew on the ground, and dried the third day, else il w ill be almost ct'i tcin to mold in the mow. I prefer to rake it Ihe same di rection around the 'land' that it was mown, especially if it was lodged. In this way the rtko teeth are less liable to get fouled in the slubble. If the swaths are very heavy they should be carefully gone over with a pitchfork right after the mower and the thick places shaken out, or a tedder may be used if preferred. " IIHitH In I-ru M'-. r i' rs. (io ihrough the vineyard and take out all the suckers that start from be low the ground and use your judgment us to those above. They may sometime- he left as a sort of safely valve for a too luxuriant growth. Look carefully to the new grafts, if you have any, mid when you see that they are growing do nut fail to cure fully pull out all I lie suckers from the old stock. Sulphur the second time us soon as Ihe fruit is sel. Attend to your summer pruning. You can in ayieat mcii.-ure control the setting of a second crop, preventing it a great deal hy wit libolihug for a tiniu the pinching of the tips if the growth ; is vei-v vh'oroiis ! If vou have wines in the cellar thev fan be racked when they come clear. linn a weed-cutter in your young vineyards and in the old before the. v ineH get loo long. Keep the ground stirred and mellow in the young orchards, at least, and you can't do too much of il, n ny where. The regular Hiinnuei pruning or pinching of trees is not advocated, us a general rule. Shouts that are grow ing in wrong places may be removed and some attention paid to shaping the tree, but us a rule wait till the reg ular winter pruning time. , A good garden, well Hipplicd with choice varieties of vegetables and fruits, is one of the greatest luxuries of the farm and household. There, is no farmer but can afford to have a garden und take care of it in the best 1 ..i.i iossu ie. iiiuonvi. THE GOLDEN BERYL. ' i.riini... r N..r ! " "' v, " I- "'"" ".' X "'w " well-know u dealer in precloiiH slone.i un-; asked. " Th ily tiling I can tliinkofat this moment," replied the dealer, "i tlic golden beryl, w Inch has recently made ils appearance ill the jewelry market. The distinctive fealure of this -lone is that it is native only in this country. Il lias been proiiuimccd hv I'rof. Dana, nf Villi! College, as ilill'iTciit in color from any thing he lias ever before seen. Iteryl stones have been discovered in holh liemi- p r.plieres, ,'iud include various colors, aiming tliem llie eiiiclalil ami aipiu i marine. Formerly il. was classilied as mi diU'crciil specie- from I lie emerald, i bill modern mineralogists classify the : line green linl us the same species. ! The beryl has never attained any great popularity in this country, but I in Kiigland il is prized us highly as Ihe Inpu. in Spain. A blue beryl sur- mounts 1 1 1 - glove in the crown of (ireat ' liriliau. In the Hope collection, in London, there is a single gem which is valued al 4'i,."i()0. A specimen of api:i marine liervle found in I'ussia in H-1 was valued al II,IU"I. Many lieryl j gems have been brought. . here from Si 1 hcria, bul as the shine was not ''I'lii'r ; -Jlv known il was (Milled by .-nine oil ! name as the sapphire and oilier ori ental stones. The beryl is alw.'iy ; found in dcpo-ils of mica, with granite or gncis-.' The golden bery l was dis covered in a mine nf this eliaracler in I ( 'oiineeiieiil. Il is found attached to a rock coinpo-ed of 'piartz. tiirnialine. spar .ind iniea. I )i her bery I- have been I'liiiml Ihcrc, bul much w as ni:niic and lllllil tor gelll-. After Ihe gotden beryl had been de clared o he :i new mineral il was placed in 1 1 1 - hands nf a lapidary lo lie cul into gem-. The rc.-ull vva-lhe pro duction of a gem which has excited cmi-iib'i a Me study and inlcivst in the diamond trade. Three -I. tide-of golden cnl'ii- vv ere ohiuined. tin' wa- pro nounced, am! the oilier a -hade les than Ibis and :t I rille deeper I han the third, which is faint. Its liarilne-s is SI a- compared with the diamond .-lamlaid of 10 hy actual tc-t. This , i j 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 has heen found -ullicicul to en ; able il to ohtain ils brilliancy. Its spe ' cilic "l avitv is J0 iii'r cent, less than Ii.iim.cmI. nud ils den-ilv ranks next lo 1 1 1 -1 1 ino-l preeioll- of .tones. It- t ra ii .pal eiiev i- greater than i-cliaraeleri-tie of other colored gems, ami lie; lav of light il affords i--nnie-wlial -imilar to llialofihe diamond. The gems are being ii-ed in bracelet. Iirooche-, ling- ami ornamental de signs for evening wear, and in nearly evciy in-iaiiee an mounted with diamond-. Tliey rank in value with shine- other than diamonds. They are being exported in limited number.- lo I. undo. i and the cniit iuciil, mill have been i-hnvvn by the lllo court jeweler-. The civ l als have heen found in small ipianlilics. and il i- a ipics)u vv hel her uian v more will be obtained. Hill cv en a- it is. Ihcdepo-il is i:oiiid ered a i einark.ihlc one by expert luin-rralo.-i-!-.'- S. )'. lylt.'i: CIRCUS LEMONADE. h sinitiiii; simiei'r I'nriilvi'il i-nilrr fl thfi Ohnstly Fluid. "This is lemonade, is it not!'" in iiiired a liglil-haireil gentleman bland ly, as he stepped up ill fl out of a stand on the circus ground. The proprietor replied that il was ice cold lemonade, and generously threw in the information thai the price was only live cents a glass. d'll take a glass, if you please."' said I he si ranger, and it was placed before him. "If there is .my thing, I am fond of.' he continued, wit h much a ll'abilil y, "ic is good lemonade:" and he drew a lemon from one of his pockets, cut a hole in il, a'lid with great deliberation sipiee.ed I lie juice into t lie glass. Then from a liol her pocket lie took a spoon and a small paper sack tilled with sugar, with which he pri ded to sweeten the mixture. A crowd was gathering about linn by ihis time, and the proprietor of the refreshment sland was becoming red ami very liioisi. "I'll give you half a dollar lo go away l'roin here." lie said lo the bland gent Icioan. a n xioiisly . "My friend," said the smiling cus tomer, sipping with evident satisfac tion I hi' bev erage iie had mixed, "it afford mi' plea-iirc lo say that this is Ihe best lemonade 1 ev er drank on a show -gTou nil. II ere is your live cents. " And he finished the gla-s, pahl his money, and elbowed his ,t ay out through Ihe crowd. , Half an hour Inter the leinfuiade vender, broken up in business and dis- "i-co o. a pun- u green goggie ami a f'llsi' beard, was doing the ihree-card imilile act ill a secluded place among' Ihe can v as -vv agons and looking- about i searehingly for a light-haired and smib ; nig si ranger. ( 'hirmjti Tribune. I One Dose Was Enough. A prominent phy sician, w ho has since died, once w rote a prescription for a powerful liniment. He was nuled among the druggists for his chirogra pliy. He had a large practice, and oft en wrote in Mich basic thai it was tlilli clill lo read his prescriptions. The di rections written upon the a bin e-ineil-lioiied ''eeipe" were: "Apply locally a-directed." The clerk read il : "'I'ake ii leaspooiifiil I hcee limes daily." The I'alienl took only one dose, llmwr's Mttit:iiir. - There is a village in Wales with a flame containing seven.! v-l wo letter ird tw eiitv-lvvo svllablcs. A NIGHT IN POMPEII. Dri'lillllnir or Thing Long lli-iiil ami On no In the l ut'-l Hindi Temple ol Isls. The Italian tiovernmeiit has taken pos-e ion of the excavated city ol I'oiupcii. A law recently enacted strictly forbids ranger entering oi remaining after sunset. I was aiixioii to see the ruins by moonlight, and re solved to spend a night in that resur rected eil y of Ihe I'ollllllis, the law to the eonlrary not wit h-landiiig. The preceding night had been spenf on Mould Vesuvius, and early in lhe morning I aro-e from my lofly couch I unil ih'sceudeil Ihe shleof the mountain f Inward I'oinpeii along the same route that the lava, ind a-hes took eighteen hundred yeur ago when the unfortun ate cily wa buried. The earth exca vated from I'unipcii ha been thrown aroiuiil the city, making a wall twenty or Iwenly-tive feet high. The only en trance i through a gate with a revolv ing slile. where Ihe v isitor pay s forty cents admission, I'oinpeii i- a wonderful place. The old Inhabitant, subject- of the Km peror Titii, are .-till there - there in glass eases, hi the very posture in which they died eighteen cent lil ies ago. In t he court-V ai d of one house is still standing a pede.-tal bearing a bust of the owner nf the house Cornelius Kufus. LA" ard net of un. worn out with wainleiTiig among the curious, ruin and ii'lics of the dead pat. I sought a place wherein lo rc-l and wail the rising of the inooii. In the temple of I-is ..till stand, the altar where the l'ouipeiian prii-t delivered oracle- to the credulous people. The .lalue bend, whence isiied the oracle-, stands now as it then stood, on a pedestal, under vv liieli the cunning priests had hidden Ihi'lii-elv es. Into thi- i la-lit and -ei'iel ; place I crnvv led. I cfre-hed my -elf whhj a luncheon from my knap-nek and lay 1 down to re-t. The dcccnl from Vo-u- ; in- unil Ihe day'- -ighl ceing proved inn much for inc. I -auk into a sleep, nut deep, but di-turbcil hy dream of thing- long dead and gone. I saw old ; pagan prie-l talking Ihrough the! sculptured head to humbug the igno- I in 1 1 1 wor-hipper-. -aw the gaping; crow d of v oineii and men, w ith faces of awe anil reverence, receiving the Iving oracle-; then -iiihlenly, a il : -ceineil. a man of grave and revel end ; aspect, with long, (lowing heard ami i long hair, confronted the deceiving priest-, and with commanding gesture. ; ordered t hem away a nil ov er! in ned thu , oracle head, which fell with a cra-li ! amid the pagan's eric-ami -limit". 1 -tailed up wildly, -o vivid was the j scene. I found my -elf in dai Klie-.. : the -nuiid of rough voice-were shout- ing near by : J could not al lir-l realize j where I was. ; 'Ahimr Ini e ii!" (here he i!. -honied the iniigh voice Then a man ( with a lantern poked hi- head into the place, and threw a mldeii light upon j me. I w as Minded ami dacd. The : man began talking Italian a l me so ; rapidly that I became still more he-j wililcrcd. Was I dead and in hade?) The brigamli-li-looking fellow vv ith the j lantern seized tne fiercely, jerked n:e up ami oiil of my hiiling-plaec and.: dragged me along to the gale of the ; city, t luce in Ihe open air. my d.-t.cd ! sense- cleared ami I began to lake in( the situation. A tierce-looking fellow', with a bristling mustache and a showy uniform wcnl through my pockets and knap-ack, and then I w :i escorted down the high road to I'orlici. a village about seven miles distant, in the direction of N'aples. There I was lodged in jail, ind the ncxl morning brought before an nll'icor of justice, charged with the . heinous cl inic of sleeping in the dead city of I'oinpeii. Putting on an in no- I cent air. 1 -aid in my best Italian that my -intention were not felonious, that! 1 had taken nothing, that I had fallen asleep from over-fatigue- Vesuvius, ; siglileeiug and all that; and finally, as i mi purloined relics vv ere found upon me, j I was let oil' w ith a reprimand and a I warning not In do so again. j I discovered, on a -eolid visit, that ' l!a" siile through which the visitor en-j lei's I'oinpeii registers each person pass ing in. A l sunset another stile regis- lei- the exits; exit and entrances iuut j tally. Ihi this ev enlfiil cv e they -did not laliy, and ,, the silclil streets and I hoii-cs of the dead were searched with i the result described. - l-'rmii ".I Trmiijil Triii" lii .if Mi rin; tin r, j - Ho Was Scared Indeed. "Vou know Jimmy Say well'.'" said a traveler. Ye."' "Well, he's a great poker play er. " "f,V-',".' has the reputation of being ,.iie of the hell in the city. Lot of nerve. Never known to hack down be fore a poor hand." 'Ye, but I saw him scared nearly to death Ihe oilier day al a sniajl pair." "Indeed! W ho held it'.'" "The nurse. They were twills." .1 irhiinl Trun l, r. A story is told in art circles of a young American painter who returned from a course of F.iiropcau study w ith mil :i cent in his pocket. His ambition was eipial to the situation, and he hired a inagniticeiil studio, tilled il vvilh ithoice si nil's and brie-a-brae. and pro i' ceiled to take fashionable pupil of e gentler sex. having borrowed hi equipment from a fashionable liouse decoraloi', XV hose business he "boomed" it the houses nf his pupils' parents in return for the loan of the bric-a-brac and stuff's. Cliicain Tritium . -A foreign lady who had not be come used to Ihe F.nglish language was invited to parlake of some oysters. "O. It link you," she replied. "A little of i lilt juice, please; none of the beasts." MARTHA WASHINGTON. rai ls snowline Tht Hint W Not ri II, Mleil VVoiimn In till) Konsii or To-l. She did not spell well, and her gram mar would li udly stand the parsing of the public sijiool-s. Copies of two of her letters hi lief sister, Mrs. H.i.ssett, lie before me. They were writ ten at about the hi'gining of the revolution, side begins one thus: "I hare wrotu to y ou several times, in hopes it would put you in mind of me, hut I find it has not, had itsi Intended effect.'' Further on hhfl adds: "The rivers has never been frozen laird enough to walk upon the ice Bini o I came here." Among the mixspc-lt words of the letttr aiv: "Xavey" for navy, "lodetl" for loaded, "coles" for coals, distant" for destined, "clem" for clear, "hcare" for here, "plrscd" for plensed. and "greatful'' - for grateful. Com pany she spells "compaucv," and per suaded perswaded." In the fac-shnile of a letter that she. wrote, to William B. Heed, of .New York, in 1777, I m;o that she knew no other punctuation mark than Ihe ilasli. that tlm apostrophe) was u stranger to her, and that her writing, though jiot illegible, was. far from beautiful or !l gaul. The use of the capital was a. embarrassing to her as the use of tint punctuation point, and her letters look a- though the capitals had ljeen shaken out of a juuiiimotli peppce-box and iter ant led tn'lie'wh'erev'er they fell. One of her letters, commencing "My dear Fanny," was lately i oiniiiiniieated by Lev. H. K. Hay-dun, of I'eiuisylvaiiia, to the Minjaziur of Anirrirun llirtory. Il is dated "Mount Vernon. Aug. 7. 17SI," and the verbatim spelling and piuii-tiiation are (ireserv ed in the publi cation. Some of the sentence begin w ith capital and sonic without. She write- of ".My little nelly." referring probably to Nellie Cu-li-. and in the same line say that "Tut is the same claver (clover) boy you left him." tlm capitalizing the boy '" name, while she give no capital to that of ihcgirl. She vv riles Fanny "that tliethmeral had re ceived a letter from her papa" dated at "riehmond,'' begin the next sentence with a s-iiiull letter, and hi il capitalizes lirothers," "Families" and "tieu cral." A person use his he-1 grammar while writing, and he who makes ini lake here makes more in conversation.. Martha Washington may have !-eu well educated in the school of society ami in that of lifo. She wa certainly not o in hooks and literal lire. There w as no library to speak of al Mount Vernon, and (ieneral YVa-hingtoii was more of an out-door man than a stu dent. We have no record of hi wife being a reader, save that -he read a chapter in her Bible every morning after breakfast. She k.-.ew nothing about novels, and the American inouth Iv magazine, the great family educator of the present, w as not yet born. Martha Washington had, however, the best advantages of the day. Her whole life was pent among learned men and bright women, hut there is no record left that lie was brilliant in so cial couv -f s.'itioti. and you will read in x.iin for the lvporh 4. lion mots of Martha Washington. The truth seem lo he that Martha Washington thought woman's sphere was home, and that knitting and cooking were more iin ..irlant than writing letters and a ' lovvh'dgc of French. She is said to h iv e been a good btisiness-w oinan and lo have managed the large estate of her si husband cry ,:hly before :-he handed her share of il over lo George Washington. - ' 'o.-oiow''k. A BOOM STOPPED. Why C'U4ittir Take N' stock in a Cer tain Uiakolit Town. ' Having a boom h.re?" asked a jlra, :M a he put his head out of a car w iin' ivv at a Dakota station. "Naw !" replied a nativ e. 'That's slraiigo - -thought every place had one this spring." "They be. mostly," and the mail sighed and le.ined up against the depot. "Then why i-nt this town having one?' "W'y. you see, Strang',, it wasovviu' lo a little mismanagement. We platted a big Heighten Beach Boulevard addi tion over to the lake j'illiu' the town, and you know the land there is just a lillh bis soft. like. Well, the first spee'lalor that conic along the boy got too fa1, and took him down to it and he tarled to walk oil' across the lots, and I'm blamed if he didn't stick there and we couldn't git to him to pull him out." "How long ago did it kappeti?" "'limit two weeks."' "lie iiiil.-l he dead, then'.1'' "Oil. yes, 1 reckon lie's dead all right enough, but before ho sunk out o' sight he hollered lo other buyers that we look down and warned them 'bout the place, and somehow capitalists kinder got prejudiced ag"ln' our real estate and we haint bavin' no boom u-tail. I'm goin" hi move. " Dakota Ikil. How Bertie Knew. licrlie i-J'a, is that new Mr. Hanks an ice dealcri1 : l'a, -Yes Bi.Ttie-, how did you know? lleiMie I didn't know, only thought he was. for when the niiiii-toi prayed for lint weather yesterday he said "Allien'' awfully loud. (Vioyo.?1 Iiitrr Omul. The KnipiTor of Japan has been making a tour of the chief cities of his kingdom. Al. Osaka the authorities presented him with a handsomely en grossed copy of the ccn.Mis of the in habitants of Ihucity, one of its inter esting foal hits being that out of .'itti.OOO people 7 1H were over eighty years of age-- Iktrvil t'rei Press. r Frailty ftrtnfitii unit MoorMtly Hmalt llU ?onrinf Into fashion. Although in a gnmrftl rievv the mil linery on exhibition in the retail honsen i t the trade repealed the styles in than shapes of bonnet and hats, material and trimmings, there were certain: fancies ami features ob-jorvablu that were not very coii-piruou in thi; earlier importations. As a rule, the bonnet1 nrp small, it poke occasionally giv ing variety to tint headdress for out of doors wear, whiht the large hats seem somewhat larger in the eircuinforeiice of the brim than lire hat of the la-t season and thn crow lis a trrfh' less tall, the larger shapes varied by till ha. is and toiptes. In the bonnet the shapes v hiidt obtain are v ariation. of the little French cot tage Ixinnet-, the Knglish capote and the Manoii, the l:nt a special favorite with young ladies, anil for wear in vis iting toilets. The large hat which seem.- at present in favor is that with the moderately1 tall, slightly tapering crow n, and tlm brim very narrow, or forming only n shallow scallop at the ba.e of th crown, widening out to about twi inchi at the rijht side, projected afc the front, mid widening out until al most as broad a the crow n is tall, and curved up at the left side. A rival to thi particular shape Jips fpilr crown (or the same crown), xvitli tliej briiu wider at the right side and curved up at each side. New shape in turbans have a me dium trill, -lightly tapering crown, and e round or dome shaped crown, and the brim wide and pressed up piit elo-cA all .-troll ml. though the :sha4 in t iicb.ins are f reipieut ly lost or nega tived by the drapery, which smothers the crown em-npletcly and giws tht hat an entirely different aspect. I'rett . small bonnets with drapery of pl.vitod trd'eta ura. and gauze, velvet over the crown, have the brim of plain velvyi. completed hy a bow of sioine one or Iw of the im.-t destinetive or thi grounding culm in the plaid, sustain ing a li.Tou aigrette to match, a hunch, of din-suit- or strawberries, or a clus ter of in uia. verbena or other dower of similar character. There is, indeed, for thi sea-on a fureiir for mixtures of high colors: and varying the fancies alluded to are the hats and boimeU made of the braids woven in intermix ture of color. These braids havu been produced in great qualities, and form a coiispieiious factor in miiinary. Hats made of them are either self faced in the turning of the work of making on tht outside, or are faced with velvet, the trimming consisting of a hand of ribbon or velvet of thu darkest color in the braid around the crow ii. coinpletod by bow set at tlm left of the front, made of ribbons in alt the dors that are introduced in thn braid: a bunch of ostrich tips posed on he edge of the crown, the tips in tw or t hive shade of color, or shaded iu dyeing, in son. e model being Mipplc nie.Hary. mttm The bonnets of the braids in mixed color- are faced with velvet and trim med with a bow- made of ribbons in two distinctive colors, or iu all the col or seen iu the braid, completed by string of ribbon iu the darkest color employed. v The bow which trim hats when of the several color understood are gen erally of ribbon about three indie wide, and made of flat butterfly fash ion, and massed in a great fluster at the left of the front or at ihe left side, while the bow s are .still stiff and up right on bonnet, formed of loops of the several color-, sary to -ay, after that ribbon bow giiishing feature It is carcely neces what ha been said, are again a distin iu millinerv g'.trnt- tares. A. )'. Ih-rahl. 4 ADVICE TO OLD MEN. llitw They Slay Scsre Ciintentuieut itud Attain (.rent Aire. In the mutter of advice, old men hav been neglected. Young men, girls, married women and hoy have all re ceived the philanthropic attention of newspaper writer, but it seems that no one has the time to drop a few usi ful hints to the man li'i has done so much for the world. Th following suggestions are freely given: Did men hoiibl he careful of their health. They should not go to the theater in damp weather without a, shirt. It is alo advisable to wear something mi the feet. Old men will find it to their interest not to remain on a railroad track until after a train has passed. Well-read phvicians now generally agree that heavy freight trains, especially late jfs night, are hard to digest. Old men, especially in a cold climate, should not go in .swimming until after the tirt of January, nor recline on let) in thu evening. . An old man should nuirtv a very young woman. It teaches him that there is nothing in life after all, and ri eoiiciles him to death. Bv observing these and other rules, ii.me old men have attained great age. -. l',o(.iK' Trurrti r. A teacher iu Massachusetts: wast speaking of the dilliciilty of defining some very rout mon word. "Now there is the v erb 'to be.' What does it mean when I sav 'I am.' ' Maggie's hand was waved frantically around, ami her whole body eenied lo be in the throes of a mighty and startling thought. "Well. Maggie, w hat does it mean'.'" "It mean -it moans that when any body says as how y' ain't, an' thin y' are." llnrprr' k Itn.ntr. (Irav "Say, libick. why is the uiuon like a city attic window '.'" Black - "Why?'" tlray "liecaii.se it's a sky light, of course. "Uoslutt Huduel. . STYLISH MILLINtRIT.
