The Corvallis gazette., August 28, 1885, Page 7, Image 7

MAKING STCMP FENCES.
A Creation That Is Pleasing to Some Ar
tistic Taste and Useful to the
Farmer.
One of the most noticeable features
of the farm lands in this vicinity, where
low hills and valleys make the scen
ery beautiful, writes a Willink corre
spondent to The JSew York Sun, is the
stump fence. There is an indefimte
ness of outline and a wavy irregular
ity of construction about the siump
fence' that entrances an artist of the
Delsartian school, but the stump fence
here is the outgrowth of necessity, and
not of artistic taste. When the land
was cleared it was fenced with rails
and the ground between the stumps
was planted with corn and wheat and
potatoes. After a time the soft wood
stumps, such as basswood, rotted
away, but fifty seasons of rain and
snow had no more effect on the pine
stumps that dotted these fields than a
spring shower has ou a duck's back.
At first the farmers tried to burn out
the stumps, but the wood charred over
and the lire went out; and then the
stump got water-logged in the next
rain, and all the ingenuity of a Ver
mont Yankee couldn't set them on fire
after that. The farmers tried blasting,
but a keg of powder put under the
heart of a six-foot .stump only served
to spiit it open and leave the two or
three parts apparentlv as firmly em
bedded as they were before. Finally
a machine was devised for pulling out
bodily the stumps that had resisted
the elements for half a century. It
was a simple affair. Three beams,
seven by eleven inches large and nine
teen feet long, were placed in the form
of a pyramid, with their tops united
in a heavy casting that had a big cast
iron nut in its centre. These beams
were suitably braced about one-third
of the way from the top. A cast-iron
screw twelve feet long and live inches
in diameter ran down through the big
nut in the casting and was prolonged
by means of a heavy vvrought-iron rod
to within two feet of the ground, where
the rod terminated in two hooks.
When a stump was to be pulled this
big frame was placed over it. Then a
hole was dug under the largest visible
root and a big chain was put under
the root and secured to the hooks on
the screw rod. An able-bodied horse
was then hitched to a lever connected
with the nut at the top of the timber
frame. When the horse began to
travel around the frame, the screw be
gan to rise and something had to give
way. That something was usually
the stum)), but occasionally the chain
broke or the screw stripped its threads.
As the stump raised, the dentist, as
the man who managed the machine
was called, walked around it and jab
bed a big iron crowbar down through
the sod.
'That's to let the air into the hol
low," said Farmer Kelly, one of the
best-known stump dentists of the
county yesterday, as he repeated the
operation around the roots of a big
stump that slowly rose out of the
ground. "We'd be lifting asrainst fif
teen pounds to the inch, besides the
weight of the stump, if we were to
make a vacuum down there, you
know."
As the stump came out of the
ground a chain called a wrapper was
put around it and the screw rod to
keep it from cutting over and then all
hands vigorously cleaned the dirt from
the roots with picks and crowbars that
were spoon shaped at one end.
'We get $1.25 for each stump pull
ed and put in the fence. The best
days work on record is $21.25; the
worst, one stump. That was six feet
in diameter and weighed about two
tons. It lifted more dirt than I can
estimate with it. When the stump is
out and cleaned it is trimmed a bit,
and then rolled on to a sort of a mud
boat and dragged to the fence line.
The broad, Hat tangle of roots faces
out from the tield to bo fenced, and
forms a barrier that no breaching colt
or critter ever tries to pass. The man
ufacturer charges 8160 for the iron
parts of the machine, and if the pur
chaser has not the skill to make the
wooden parts he can buy them all
roady for business for $40 more.
W ithin the last few years dynamite
has been used with considerable suc
cess to shatter the old stunts, but it
is dangerous to handle and makes a
good many failures, leaving the stump
partly split and more difficult to pull
than before. Besides that, a shattered
slump is no good for fencing. Stump
machines came in when rail fences
rotted out, and they fill the vacancy
cheaply and effectually. "
The Broncho.
A broncho is a horse. He has four
legs like the saw horse, but is decided
ly more skittish. The broncho is of
gentle deportment and modest mien,
but there isn't'a real safe place about
him. There is nothing mean about
the broncho, though; he is perfectly
reasonable and acts on principle. All
he asks is to be let alone, but he does
ask this, and even insists on it. He is
firm in this matter and no kind of
argument can shake his determina
tion. There is a broncho that lives
out some miles from this city. We
know him right well. One day a man
roped him and tried to put a saddle
on him. The broncho looked sadly at
him, shook his head, and. begged the
fellow, as plain as could be, to go
away and not try to interfere with a
broncho who was simply engaged in
the pursuit of his own happiness, but
the man came on with the saddle, and
continued to aggress. Then the
broncho reached out with his right
hind foot and expostulated with him
so that he died. When thoroughly
aroused, the broncho is quite fatal,
and if you can get close enough to
him to examine his cranial structure,
you will find a cavity just above the
eye, where the bump of remorse
should be. The broncho is what the
cowboys call ' 'high strung." If you
want to know just how nigh he is
strung, climb up on his apex. We
rode a broncho once. We didn't trav
el far. but the ride was mighty exhila
rating while it lasted. We got on
with great pomp and a derrick, but
we didn't put on any necessary style
when we went to get on". The beast
evinced considerable surprise when
we took up our location on his dorsal
lin. He seemed to think a moment,
and then he gathered up his loins and
delivered a volley of heels and hard
ware, straight out from the 3houlder.
The recoil was fearful. We saw that
our seat was going to be contested,
and we began to make a motion to
dismount, but the beast had got under
way by this time, so we breathed a si
lent hymn and tightened our grip. He
now went oil into a spasm of tall, still
legged bucks. He pitched us so high
that every time wc started down we
would meet him coming up oil another
trip. Finally he gave us one grand,
farewell boost, and we clove the firma
ment and split up through the hushed
etheral until our toes ached from the
lowness of the temperature, and we
could distinctly hear the music of the
spheres. Then we came down and
fell, in a little heap, about one hun
dred yards from the starting point.
A kind Samaritan gathered up our re
mains in a cigar-box and carried us to
the hospital. As they looked pityingly
at us, the attending surgeons marvel
ed as to the nature of our mishap.
One said it was a cyclone, another
that it was a railroad smash-up, but
we thought of the calico-hided pony
that was grazing peacefully in the
dewey mead, and held our peace.
SanteFc Democrat.
DOMESTIC HINTS.
Pretzel-Graphs.
Can the mother of a lion bo said to
be a ma-ligner?
A cyclone is like a waiter. It carries
everything before it.
What is the hardest thing to do
with a newspaper? Make a bustle.
Ladies ought to make good soldiers
none of them are afraid of "pow
der." Bathing dresses will be worn short
er this season than usual. It will be
only our modesty that will prevent us
from going to a fashionable watering
place during the heatel term.
We see a sign down the steet upon
which is painted, "George Winks."
We cannot see that the public are par
ticularly interested in the tact that
George winks. The only possible ad
vantage George can have in winking
is working in his winks on a soda wa
ter fountain man.
Fred Douglass sits ahead of Presi
dent Cleveland in church. Supposing
the clergyman was the sun, Fred the
moon and Cleveland the earth, Fred
would then be playing the part of an
eclipse of the sun.
Princess Beatrice is said to resem
bie an American sriri in many respects.
If that is so, the Lord pity the man
who, on 2 a week, has to till her up
with ice cream.
A voung fellow who had an encoun
ter with a dog belonging to his girl's
lather, sent the remains of his panta
loons to her by express, accompany
ing th parcel with a note saying that
hchad no further use for them, but
she could use them anil nobody would
be any the wiser. Carl Pretzel's Weeh-ly.
For custard pudding, one and one
half pints of milk, four eggs, one cup
: ful sugar, two teaspoonfuls vanilla.
Beat egsfs and sugar together, dilute
I with milk and extract, pour into but
I tered pudding dish, set in oven in
; dripping pan two-thirds full of water,
i and bake until firm, about forty
j minutes in moderate oven.
! Cake should never be disturbed
while baking, for if it is moved or
! jarred after it has risen, before it is
! done it is apt to fall and "make a
cradle." The oven should be as
near the right temperature as possi
i ble, not quite so hot as for biscuit, for
i if it is two hot, and the door has to be
! opened to let in cool air when the
I cake is partially cooked, then it is
: very apt to fall.
For macaroni pudding, take one
! cupful broken macaroni, one and one
half pints milk, four eggs, one cupful
sugar, one large tablespoonfnl butter,
one teaspoonful extract vanilla. Boil
I macaroni in well salted water ten
minutes, then add to the boiling milk
and simmer twenty minutes longer;
I remove from fire, pour on sugar, eggs
j and butter beaten together, lastly
I add extract; put in well buttered
pudding dish, bake in steady oven
thirty-five minutes and serve with
sauce.
j Sorrel soup is the kind that is
ordered by French women to- refresh
themselves after a long, fatiguing
journey. It is easily made. A good
quaintity of sorrel leaves must be
picked from the stems and washed,
then put them into a stew pan with a
piece of butter to steam. Ko water is
requisite. Dredge in, continually
stirring, a tablesnoon full or two of
Hour, unless the i-oup is clear. Add
enough of ay broth on hand, or a
tablespoonful of the fluid beef, al
ready seasoned. Serve with sippets
or dice of toasted bread.
As to low neck gowns Dr. Ham
mond speaks more specifically in the
North American Review, saying that
they have been worn for many gen
erations without apparent injury. "It
might be supposed, at first thought,"
he' continues, "that bronchitis, pleu
risy, pneumonia and many kinds of
rheumatism and neuralgia would be
the result of the custom; but such is
really not the case, all of these affec
tions being much more frequently
met with in men, who cover the chest
and arms with several thicknesses of
woolen materia), in addition to a shirt
of linen or cotton."
Any kind of fish may be served a
la creole by taking a can of tomatoes,
two onions, two tablespoonfuls of
butter or sweet oil; stew the tomatoes,
fry the onions in the oil or butter,
thicken with a little flour, add hot
water, sufficient to cover the fish.
Black bass is good cooked in this
way, cut four pounds of it into square
pieces, put it in the saucepan with the
onions, add fouir cloves, strain in the
tomatoes, add salt and pepper to
taste, cover closely and stew very
slowly for an hour. The fish should
keep its form. You may try halibut
or any fish in the same way.
There is a steadily increasing de
mand for metallic candlesticks of
good design. These articles pertain
to associations of medieval times, and
are appropriately produced in quaint
forms with ins-rusted and raised or
naments or engraved incised lines.
In one design an ebonized stand is
encircled bv two tiers of twisted
i brass supports richly Chased, each
j holding a candle at top, and from
j these spring segmental arched forms
j which meet in, a central ornament.
! Other frames are in standard form,
with straight and curved cross pieces
j richly chased, the row of supports on
! the former being at different eleva
tions, so as to present an arc ot light.
To make old-style strawberry short
cake requires three pints Of straw
berries,, one cupful of sugar, one
quart of Hour, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, half a cupful of but
ter and a capful and a half of milk.
Mix the baking powder with the
flour and rub the mixture through a
sieve. Hub the butter into this mix
ture; and after adding the milk, stir
quickly until a smooth paste is formed.
Divide" the dough into six, parts, and
roll each down to the size of a plate.
Lay the pieces in half a dozen butter
ed tin plates and bake in a quick oven
for ten minutes. Meanwhile hull the
strawberries, and after mashing them
a little add the cupful of sugar. When
the short-cakes are baked, spread the
sweetened fruit between them,, mak
ing three complete cakes. Serve hot.
If strawberries be abundant more than
three pints may be used.
He Won.
There were half a dozen men with
their chairs tilted back in front of the
hotel, and the talk was on the charac-
No Mermaid There.
He was leaning against the railing
at the ferry dock looking decidedly
out of sorts wiien along came an oily,
smooth-faced man and said:
"How are you oil!"
"What for?"
"Money."
"Haven't got a red."
"Say, can you tell a lie?"'
"I can!"
"Then you are the man I want Old
Capt. Smith, of Buflalo, is over in that
saloon and has got a crowd around
him. He's a great liar, but always
sticks to one anecdote. It is about
his vessel being wrecked, and of a
mermaid taking him in her arms and
swimming ashore. Now, then I want
you to go over and sit down and hear
the lie out. and when he is through
just get up and claim that you are the
identical mermaid who saved his use
less old life. I want to set bim back,
and it will be fifty cents in vour poc
ket." The matter was arranged and the
pair went over to the saloon. Capt.
Smith was feeling good, and in a little
time he worked around to remark:
"That was a curious thing that hap
pened to me in 1848. Did I ever tell
you of the wreck of the Marv Ann?"
" "No."
He sat down to describe the imagin
ary wreck, and when lie got along to
where the vessel showed an intention
to founder the chap who was to play
mermaid got the wink and picked up
his ears.
"Well, sir,'' continued Smith, "she
finally went down, and I found myself
struggling in the lake. It was twenty
fiye miles to land, and how do you
suppose I got there?"
"I have heard that a mermaid towed
you ashore." answered one of the.
gang.
"Humph! an infernal lie! I floated
ashore on the mainhatch cover, and j teristics of the negro. It seemed to
ATTAR OF ROSES.
never had a nicer ride in my life!"
The man who hired the liar seemed
completely broken down, while the
liar stumped off out doors with his
courage all gone. Smith had seen
them in conversation, suspected a job,
and left the mermaid out altogether.
Detroit Free Press.
Circulating Slanders.
Women, mothers, pious women,
women that are busy-bodies in church;
that think themselves pious: that
would be insulted at an intimation
that they are not pure-minded, or that
they arelacking in sympathy for their
kind, read the papers and make mer
chandise of the terrible afflictions of
their neighbors, gloat over these gloat
in2 narrations; have a sensation of
exhilaration at this crushing: calamity
to their own kind; patronize the pan
derers to their own cruel and corrupt
natures; make themselve accessory to
this invasion of the sacred privacy of
the family to make its calamity a pro
lit of the trade of scandal-mongering,
and are not a whit better than the pan
dering trader who supplies the wares
which their natures demand. Terre
Haute Mail.
A daughter of Gen. Ku.iruev Is a favorite in
Washington. She is a tall, attractive blonde,
with a willowy lisure, and may be seen daily
driving an unpietcndinc; dog-eart.
Nothing is more evanescent and unreltabl
than the mood in which a nation takes up
arms, The Xat 'oiu
be the general opinion that the South
ern negro was naturally light-fingered,
but all at once a drummer for a
Philadelphia saddlery house threw
away his cigar-stub and said:
"Gentlemen, here is a silver dollar.
I'll bet it can be left on the table in
my room up stairs for twenty-four
hours and no one will remove it."
A gentleman from Macon said he
would like to wager So on that, and
the terms were soon settled. It was
agreed that the drummer should go to
his room and lay the dollar on the
table, and if it was there at the same
hour the next day the wager was his.
Several marked the coin and recorded
the date, and the drummer was trust
ed to leave it as agreed.
Next day, at the same hour, a com
mittee of three visited the room.
Several colored people had been in
and out while engaged in their voca
tions, but the dollar was there.
"Gentlemen, is the negro honest or
is he not?" querned the drummer, as
he pointed to the coin.
We advanced to make sure it was
the one. There was no mistake. The
date 1879 was there the nicks in
the edge were there, but the drum
mer had taken it to a machinist to
have a hole drilled through it, and
had then screwed it down to the table.
It was there so tight and fast that
only a heavy screw-driver could loosen
it.
"I have won," modestly exclaimed
the drummer. Detroit Free Press.
An Aceonnt of the Manufacture of This Costly
Substance.
The following account of the manu
facture of this interesting substance is
condensed from a paper m the United
States consular reports. The annual
product in the district referred to
reached three tons in 1873-4, sellino'
for $500,000. In 1883-4 the product
was 4,600 pounds, but the cost of man
ufacture has been greatly increased of
recent years, and it sold for $625,000.
Attar of roses is produced on a large
scale in the province of Roumelia, on
the southern slopes of the Balkans,
and it is only the attar of these dis
tricts that is of any moment. Small
quantities are produced in India and
Persia, but they are used for home
consumption, and the same is the ease
with the attar of roses produced in the
south of France, which, although of
quite good quality, forms only a very
small part of the consumption of these
producing places. The attar of Tuni3
is of the best quality, but the quantity
produced is comparatively small and
the price high. Very little is exported.
The attar" produced in Roumelia is
made by distillation from rosa darias
cina, whose color is, as a rule, bright
red; it is sometimes, but rarely, white.
It is not very full as a flower, and
blooms in May and June. The rose
trees, when full grown, reach a height
of about six feet, and are planted in
rows. They have to be tended very
carefullj- from the autumn to the time
of gathering. The flowers when in
full bloom are plucked before sunrise,
only in such quantities as can be dis
tilled on the day they are plucked.
The distilling apparatus consists of a
plain tinned still, from which a long
curved tube is directed through a tub
filled with fresh water, and empties in
AS OCECS OF FRAGRANCE.
How Hyacinth, Tulips, and Croennes
are Cultivated In Holland.
Holland has always been and proba
oly will ever be the mother of bulbs.
Few persons, while admiring the beau
tiful flowers produced from Holland
bulbs, ever think of the care, time,
and trouble taken to grow them.
Bulbs have been cultivated there 400
r 500 years, as near as can be ascer
tained, but for several years past thev
have received more attention than
sver. Mr. Beerhorst, a bulb-grower
jf Lasenheim, near Harlem, Holland,
fvas interviewed in this city this week.
He said:
"Holland, as is well known, is all
low land, the greater part of it lower
than the sea. The water is kept off" by
dykes: you have another name here.
Erected here and there on them are
Large windmills, that pump the water
out when it inundates the land. They
present a very strange appearance to
an unaccustomed eye. We travel by
canalboats like, I understand, was
once done here."
"What Is the soil like, that you are
enabled to raise the finest bulbs?"
"The best in the world for bulb
growing pure, sandy soil. The rea
son Holland bulbs are best is owing to
the soil, temperature, and water,
which is as pure as is possible. We
have only to dig but 2 feet I believe
you measure by feet here to find wa
ter, not only in one place, but any
where." "How do you plant hyacinths to in
crease their number?"
"We first fertilize the soil, put about
sixteen bushels of manure on each 12
feet square, then we take a hyacinth
i bulb and cut across the bottom several
times, plant, and in June we lift. The
I ruin h-nlh will h ilivruii! inf-n anvnrn.1
a big bottle. Several such apparatus u ones rf t th.
,-ci nanallv srnnilinof nil smnfi nflnrrna 1 - '
are usually standing on stone hearths,
by the side of each other, ami, it pos
sible, close to a brook in the shade of
trees.
According to the size of the appar
atus, the still may hold twenty-five to
fitly pounds of roses, on which about
double that quantity of water is
poured, and is boiled briskly for about
half an hour. The distilled liquid is
collected in the bottle that stands at
the mouth of the cooling tube, and the
attar of roses, which separates from
the water, appears on. the surface,
where- it is skimmed. The distilled
water is again used for distillation,
and constitutes ultimately the rose
water which enters into trade;.
After a sufficient quautity of attar is
produced, it has to be totally freed
from the water, and is kept in copper
cans, tinned both on the- inside and
outside.
The rose trees attain theirmaximum
producing capacity in theiir fourth
year, say from 2,500 to 4,000 pounds
per acre. They are very sensible to
cold; fogs and rain are also very fatal
to the blossoms. But the yield depends-
caost upon the weather during
time of distillation; the latter lasts
sometimes ten days only, when the
weather is warm and clear,, whereas
it may require a month and raore if
the sky is cloudy, especially if rain
falls at intervals. In the first ease the
yield, is almost always- unfavorable,
as the roses are blooming at the same
time, and, as there is no time to gather
and work them all, ftie odor of the
flower soon vanishes, and the yield in
attar is much less in consequence, so
that 5,000 to 7,000 pounds of leaves
are needed to give one pound of attar.
When the weather is favorable and
the buds bloom gradually 2,500 to
3,500 pounds of leaves will give one
pound.
Pure attar of roses when distilled
with due care is at first colorless, but
soon takes a yellowish color.. No cer
tain method is known to-detect falsi
fication. Admixtures of alcohol for
"In September. The great fogs
from the sea drive the frost away, but
we always cover the bed with
weeds. We can not use straw, be
cause then the mice destroy our
bulbs."
"Are your winters as cold as- here?"
"No; we are a great ways further
north; yet our winters are not so se
vere. Probably the fogs help us some.
Our summers are not so intensely hot
as in this country."
"Are the hyacinths ready for sale
after the first year?"
"No, no; I would they were. The
first year they are planted close; the
second year we must plant them in
new soil, as they will not grow two
years in the same ground. Lveryyear
each bulb gets more space, until five
years elapse, when they are then ready
to sell."
"What do you do with the- ground
you can not use a second year?"
"We plant some other species of
Bower, and at the same time enrich
the soil. Thus we change their homes
alternately, and can always utilize the
ground. Bulbs have about six difler
j ent diseases, which I cannot name in
I your language. This causes much
j trouble and loss of money. Some-
times the soil gets tired of the bulbs,
! and refuses to grow anything. We
j give it a time to rest, and then we dig
; up a depth of four feet, put on a dou
! ble quantity of fertilizing matter, and
1 after another short rest it is willing to
! start to'work again. You know every -I
thing in life must have some time to
rest, or-it wears out, and is no good
I afterward."
I "Tell me something about your
tulips."
"Well, I plant the bulbs-the same as
the others, only they do not need cut
ting, as they increase themselves by
forming offshoots on the old ones. We
; separate tnose ana repiani. ve oio
j times grow from seed that makes the
! work. From first planting it is four
the purpose of increasing: the freezing ! y-'ars antil they bloom. The strange
capacity, or admixtures of spermaceti,
neither of which, at feast in the whole
sale trade, is now resorted to, are, of
course, easily detected. But the most
important falsifying medium is oil of
geranium, which some dealers order
even at Constantinople to be sent to
Kyaanlik, to be distilled over again
with rose leaves, and to be mixed
with attar of roses. MooSerate addi
tions of this oil defy detection. The
surest method of testing is by smell,
but it requires much training, andean
only be acquired by many years' pa
tience. It is still a widespread belief,
although an erroneous one, that the
quality of the attar of roses corre
sponds exactly with the degree of
its freezing capacity. The "stearop
ten," which is the freezing agent of
the attar, is devoid of an v smell what-
nvor Qnrl liic t Imr&f rrf Tin hfiflrinor i 2U.n t tell V
r lhr ,!.,, v tr the ,T.lll-iir nf Mm tt T" WOllld like tO
vu but, --" if-" -J . .
A certain freezing capacity is, it is
true, one of the claims which one may
lay on really good attar, but this only
because the admixture of other essen
tial oils has the effect of lowering tho
freezing point. The altar sets at 5-2
degrees to 63 degrees Fahrenheit, ac
cording to the quantity of stearopten
contained in it, it sometimes, but ex
ceptionally, congeals at a higher tem
perature; it then shows feathery,
transparent crystals, filling all the
liquid; specific weight is 9.87 at 67
degrees Fahrenheit.
Attar made in the highest-situated
villages is, as a rule, considered of
greater freezing capability, and of
more intense, but harsher flavor,
whereas the produce from the plain
shows a lower freezing point, and is
possessed of a sweeter and finer ilavor.
Scottish Agricultural Gazette.
part is they all bloom a coffee-colored
flower for a number of years, when
suddenly they will bring forth some
fine color, as those see who buy them.
Thus we know what our bulb is. They
never hold the coffee color, which is
quite pretty, any longer than four
yearsv This we arc sure of, but what
they will be in the end. we know not
until they show us. Crocuses are
raised the same way. The three bulbs
mentioned will grow nicely in water.
For forcing I always use sandy loam,
which is the best.
"How many varieties of tulips have
(ton?"
"Throe thousand just 2.500 too
uany. I suppose there are more
than that"
"What Is your native place like?"
The scenery ie, grand, elegant; I
1't tell you m yoiir language as I
We have love trees like
here, that is, the same kind, lhe
land is perfectly level. Everybody
grows bulbs the laborer, tailor, shoe
maker, as well as- the florest. All tho
houses some one storv, some two,
and none higher arc built of brick.
We build no pavemients, but we never
have any mud, and our roads, are al
ways dry and smooth, not full of hard
cobble-stones like here. In the princi
pal bulb-growing district, my home
Sassenhelm yoo can see millions and
millions of tulips, hyacinths and cro
cusses in bloom at once. Their beau
tiful fragrance is wafted for miles
wound. On one acre will be planted
ibout 400,000 bulbs. Can y&a imagine,
;hen, looking over a dozen acres in
oloom. what a vast sea, fit for a para
dise, it is. I wish I were able to de
scribe in your talk the grandureof it."
"Whatdoyou think of our country?"
"It is grand, it is graaa: iiooa ior
the poor man the rich, man can get
along anywhere. If I could not get
sdentr better than some at our place I
Our people
- Power of the Press.
The printing uress has made presi
dents, killed iinets. furnished hustles would come to America
for beauties, and polished genius with dress plain, live plain, and meat is the
criticism. It has made worlds get up greatest luxury. Some men who work
.-.-.I! .oil ..,- ;,, n.a ,-crv h.ii-il have this, fat rib moat: I
pulpit lungs of iron and a voice of
steam. It has set a price on a bushel
of wheat and made tho country post
offico the glimmering goal of the rural
scribo. It has curtailed the power of
king3, embellished the pantry shelves,
and bursted rings; it has converted
bankers into paupers, made sawers of
college presidents; it has educated the
homeless and robbed the philosopher
of his reason. It smiles and kicks,
cries and dies, but it can't be run to
suit everybody and the editor is a fool
who tries it. Creston Sunday Morning.
think you call it bacon. I am really
ashamed to tell yoa what wages they
get. Three dollars per week is the
average. Some get 4, and on rare
occasions $1.25 and SI. 50 per day is
paid, but the ordinary laborer here
o-ets twice as much as in our country."
ness,' and in his heart did not feel ha
was spending his foolishly thinking
of the really fine pictures which
adorned his country home, with a feelJ
ing of love and pride for the daoghtei
who had such good taste in decorative
art, and was such a "splendid cook,'
too, always trying to make home pleas
ant in every way. He had the money
to gratify her and was happy to do so.
The other stood with his hands in hirf
pockets, with mouth drawn down at,
the corners, and took the money from
his pocket with the air of a man taking
a seat in a dentist's chair.
This is h!s soliloquy homeward :
'Well, I know my Mary can paint
nicely; yes I know she earned the
money to pay for what few lessons she
has' taken, and she earned the $5 I
have spent to-day. I could have in
vested this in eggs that would have
hatched a lot of chickens. I would
have furnished the feed for them, and
she could give me half the chicken
bnt she wouldn't. She has awful high
notions thinks farmers might be gerv
tlemen and their wives and daughters
ladies, with their homes full of all
sorts of 'flummery.' Money jingling
in my pocket is sweeter music than a
piano, and the pictures on my govern
ment bonds and greenbacks are more
to my taste than any canvass painted
by the most famous artist. A farmer
does not need any painted landscape
when he can see the 'cows in the corn.'
I do not know why my children habe
farming so, unless they take afte
their mother. She is always complain
ing; she says she has notning for her
convenience, and even made a fuss
when I made the last deposit in the
bank. She wanted it to buy a dress
to wear to church (she looks awful
nice yet in the alpacky I bought her
five years ago). My barn is just a
model: my horses are all thorough
bred, as are the rest of my stock. My
carriage is as fine as any in town, and
everything on my farm is first-class
My house well, yes, it is a little
cramped, but the children will not
stay any longer than the law requires,
for I am afraid the boys are a little
fast. When I am gone how quick the
money will vanish wish I could take
it with me. When the time conies the
neighbors will be surprised at my bank
account. If the folks at home knew,
they would fret more than ever for a
new house and all the fine things to fix
it up. A farmer ought not to spend
much time in the house, and if the
wimmin folks are kept busy every min
ute they will not have much time to
think about it. I am a sharp, well-to-do
farmer, and have made money."
He did not say he had bowed hirru
self down to the demon avarice and
worshipped him, and will continue to
worship him until the weight of his
gold crushes him to the earth, and his
family care nothing for the departed
excepting the gold to quarrel over.
How many lives such as this has thj?
world seen? Does it pay to get money
and fail to have the love of our wives
and children?
"Fwlin' Away Mimey."
Mary F.dwood In Knral Sew Yorker.
That is what one farmer remarked
to another, while in town, each on the
same errand buying artist's materi
als. One seemed to enjoy the "foolish-
How Washington Belles Ride.
ChtEo Tribune.
The young ladies of the Domingnee
family are not only good tennis play
ers, but tine riders, and they and Miss
Margaret Blaine scour the country on
their well-bred chestnuts with a staid
groom in attendance. Miss Blaine is
a fearless horsewoman, and never
looks so well as in the saddle. She
has a remarkably tine figure, and her
habit, hat, gloves and equipments are
the admiration and despair of her girl
friends. Our environs abound in mag
nificent roads, and the bridle-paths
are as wild and primitive as if the Cap
ital was unbuilt and Congress non est.
A half an hour's sharp trot will bring
one into the heart of a solitude where
in the city become.-) as the figment of a
dream, and Nature and the birds, rab
bits and foxes have it all to them
selves. This is particularly the cas
about the neighborhood of Cabin John
and Tenallytown, but there is hardly
a place in which the great raking
chestnut, tho firm figure and flashing
gray eyes of Miss Blaine are not a fa
miliar'sight. Our belles, in the matter of riding,
rush things very much a 1' Anglaise.
They wear habits that come barely to
their heels, patent leathers with straps,
pot-hats, and in lieu of whips general
ly carry hunting-crops. The horses
are also rigged after the insular pat
tern, with serviceable manes and en
tirely impracticable tails tails whose
stub-cut keeps them, well out of the
mud, but makes the observer shuddei
for the season when gnats and horse
ties, midges, mosquitoes, and all the
other plagues of Fgypt shall swarm
and feast on those' unhappy equines.
Cl;pp;ng in winter and cropping in
summer are the "cut and come again"
that make the S. P. C. A. a reasona-,
ble society and a; wholesome thought.
Mrs. Wilkins Scores a Point
St. Mcbo'as.
"Mrs. Wilkins, said the head of the
family, as he looked over the top ot
his paper, "Iseo the men of science
agree that a man inherits his intellect
ual qualities from h:s mother. All men
of eminence have had unusually smart
mothers."
"Was your mother an idiot?" asked
Mrs. W. crisply.
"Think you're smart don't ye?"
sneered her liege lord. "I'd have you
know my mother was aa uncommonly
intellectual woman. She once wrote
a book."
"Ah!" said Mrs. W.
"And that accounts for my brilliant
intellect, 1 said Mr. w. compiacenuv.
"Will it soon bo settled, do you
think?" asked Mrs. W-, unheedful oi
her husband's last remark.
"Will what be seitled?"
"Why the suit.'
"What suit?"
"Why," said Mrs. W. calmly, "H
vou have inherited any intellectual
qualities the will must be disputed as
I have seen no evidence as yet that
you have come into your legacy."
Tally one for Mrs. W.
The unfinished statue of Salmon P.
Chase, made by the late Clark Mills,
has returned to base uses. It was sold
at auction in Washington, the othei
day. for what it was worth for old
metal.
Cider is called by a new e33ayisH
"wine with the bar sister.'