The Corvallis gazette., February 05, 1897, Image 4

fliscellany.
THE UNBROKEN HEART.
Be was sitting at the window, and his
little nose was fiat.
As he pressed his face to kiss me, with
his lips against the pane;
rhen I bent but without kissing in vex
ation seized my hat;
tt had jostled, and I knew that I would
barely catch the train.
Came just faintly, "Papa, kiss me!" as I
hurried out the gate.
But my time was all to scanty and I
really couldn't wait,
For I heard the distant whistle and I
knew that I was late.
And my work accumulating in the town.
He was sitting at the window, and as
townward rolled the train
I looked back to see the house and Into
distance watched it pass,
and I knew that he was crying with his
little might and main
For the kiss I hadn't time to press
against the window glass,
t could see him with his "choo-choos"
quite disowned upon the floor,
And his wooden blocks, forgotten and
-, my parent heart grew sore.
And I thought: "Dear God what what
if I should never see him more
At the window when I started for the
town!"
He was sitting at the window, and his
cry a little moan.
As my mental vision saw him all that
long and wretched day,
And my foolish, fearful fancy knew him
dying there alone.
With his kiss that still was waiting for
his papa, far away.
Be was dying of the grieving of the
awful, awful ache
Of his little baby heart that love had only
filled to break,
And I pushed the papers from me and de
clared that I would take
The returning train and hurry from the
town.
He was sitting at the window as I clat
tered at the gate.
And his tiny nose was flattened as he
Dressed it to the pane.
And I heard his joyful clamor, as with
baby heart elate
He screamed out a royal welcome with
his little might and main,
With a brown and sugared doughnut held
in either chubby fist.
And his cherry lips a-pucker in the quaint
est sort of twist.
To my arms he came a-leaping, and he
clamored as I kissed:
"Now, ven, papa, what yon bling me
fom ve town?"
Chicago Record.
GARRISON IN
A ROUND HOUSE.
"Smoky Hill was the end of the track
at that time," said the old engineer,
shifting his lame foot to an easy posi
tion. "We had built a round house a
square one with two stalls and room
at the back for three or four bunks and
a work bench. To protect ourselves
against the Sioux we had lined, or
wainscoated, the house up to about five
feet from the ground and filled in be
hind the lining with sand.
- "Indiana were thicker than erasshop-
pers in Kansas in the days of the build
ing of the Kansas Pacific, and scarcely
a day never a week went by without
a fight At first they appeared to be
awed by the locomotives, but In a little
while th
-rstltious fear had van-
lshed a
were constantly setting
lures t
called
.re th"e "big hoss, as they
gine. One day we were
out at t
ront with a train of steel,
some eigtti or ten miles west of the
Hill. It had been snowing all day in
little fits and spits, and near nightfall
the clouds became thicker and darker,
and before the sun bad gone down the
snow was falling fast. By the time
the last rail had been unloaded it was
pitch dark, and as the engine was head
ed, west, we were obliged to back up all
the way to Smoky Hill. The conductor
and the captain of the guard, composed
of government scouts, took a stand on
the rearmost fiat-car, and when I got
a signal I opened the throttle and be
gan to poke the blunt end of the con
struction train into the darkness. Or
dinarily, I bate running backward at
sight, but in a case of this kind it is a
real relief to know that there are a
dozen or more well-armed soldiers be
tween you and whatever the darkness
holds. Three or four men with white
lights were stationed at Intervals along
the tops of the ten or twelve cars that
made up the train. The house car, or
caboose, was next the engine, and upon
the top of this car stood the foreman of
the gang, and from him I was supposed
to take my tokens.'
"We had been in motion less than ten
minutes when I saw the conductor's
light (we were going with the storm)
stand out, and following this move
ment all the lights along the train's top
pointed over the plain, and I began to
slow down. Instantly a dozen shots
were fired from the darkness. Muffled
by the storm, the sound came, as If a
pack of firecrackers were going off un
der a dinner pail, and we all knew what
we had run into. 'Injuns,' shouted the
fireman, leaping across the gangway,
and they're on my side.' 'Keep your
seat,' said I, they're on my side, too.'
"Now all the white lights, following
another signal from the conductor, be
gan to whirl furiously in a short circle.
That was my notion precisely. If they
had prepared to ditch us we might as
well go into the ditch as to remain on the
tops of tie cars to be picked off by the
Sioux, so I opened the throttle and be
gan to back away again as fast as pos
sible. The Indians had prepared to
ditch our train. They had placed a
great pile of cross-ties upon the track,
expecting that when we struck them
our train would come to a dead stop.
This small party which had fired upon
ns was the outer watch, the main band
being huddled about the bead of ties,
where they expected us to halt, and
where most of the amusement would
occur. The track was newly laid, and
as billowy as a rough sea, but this was
no time for careful running.
"The old work engine soon had the
empty train going at a thirty-mile gait.
and then we hit the tie pile. The men
on the rear car, .which was now the
front, had anticipated a wreck, and re
tired In bad order to the center of the
train. The Indians, who had only a
faint notion of the power and resistance
of a locomotive, stood close together
about the pile of ties. The falling snow
bad made the rails and timbers so wet
and slippery that when we hit the stack
of wood the ties flew in all directions.
Some of them were thrown to the tops
of the cars and others flew into the mob
of redskins, knocking them into con
fusion. A fine buck, who must have
been standing on the track, was picked
up In the collision and landed upon the
top of the second car right at the con
ductor's feet. The fellow was consid
erably stunned by the fall, and, taking
advantage of his condition, the scoots
seized and "bound him with a piece of
oeu cora, taking care to remove an ug;y
kaife from bis rawhide belt The b&nl
tLJt
were so surprised to see the train plough
through the wreckage that they forgot
to fire until we had almost passed them
and a great flood of fire from the en
gine stack was falling among them.
They then threw up their guns, those
who were still on their feet, and let go
at us, but none of the bullets affected
our party.
"When we had reached the station
the Pawnees who were among the
scouts recognized our captive at once
as Bear Foot, a noted and very wicked
chief. When the Sioux came to him
self and realized that he was a captive
he became furious. He surged and
strained at the bell rope, but it was ail
In vain, and finally he gave It up.
When we had eaten our supper we
all went Into the round house soldiers
and all for we knew the Sioux would
make a desperate effort to secure their
chief before the night was out
"It was long after midnight when
one of the men on duty heard a low
scraping sound like that made by a hog
crawling under a gate. A moment
later the noise was repeated, and when
the same sound had been beard three
or' four times the lieutenant in com
mand flashed a bull's-eye lamp in the
direction of the door and the light of it
revealed three big braves standing close
together, while a fourth was just creep
ing In under the door. With a we-are-dlscovered
expression, the tall Indian,
who appeared to be the leader, glanced
at his companions. Then, as though the
Idea had struck all of them at once,
they threw their guns up and let go
along down the ray of light, and the
lieutenant fell to the ground severely
wounded. -
'Appreciating the Importance of our
capture, the captain In command had
set four powerful Pawnee scouts to
guard Bear Foot, the Sioux chief. It
was no sure thing that we would be
able to stand the Indians off till morn
ing, and as the storm had knocked the
wires down we had been unable to tele
graph to Lawrence for reinforcements.
The fact that their brave chier was
himself a captive would increase the
wrath of the red men without, and tak
ing even; a moderate view of the situa
tion, we were In a hard hole. I, for
one, would have gladly bartered our
captive and the glory of the capture
away for an assurance of seeing the
sun rise on the following morning, but
I dared not hint such, a thing to the
captain, much less to the Pawnees.
The four Pawnees with their pris
oner were placed in the coal tank of the
locomotive, while the fireman and I oc
cupied our places in the cab and kept
the steam up to 140 pounds. If at any
time It seemed to me the fight was go
ing against ns and the Sioux stood a
chance to effect an entrance I was to
pull out for Lawrence with the captain
and fetch assistance, provided I did not,
meet a west-bound train and lose my
locomotive. I rather liked this arrange
ment, risky as it was, for it was pre
ferable to remaining in the round house
to be roasted alive. Then, again, I dis
liked fighting that's what we fed and
hauled these soldiers around for. They
were so Infernally lazy in time of peace
that I used almost to pray for trouble
that they might be given an opportunity
at least once a week to earn their board
and keep. Now that the opportunity
seemed to be at band I bad no wish to
deprive them of the excitement and
glory of being killed in real battle, and
so sat nodding In the cab of the old 49
until the flash of the bull's-eye caused
me to look ahead. .
"The report of the rifles In the hands
of the Indians had been answered by a
dozen guns from the interior of the
building and Immediately a shower of
lead rained and rattled upon the wood
en, doors from without One of the
scouts picked the bull's eye lamp up and
placed.it upon the work bench, training
the light upon the double doors immedi
ately In front of my engine. Our men
knew how useless it would be to fire into
the sand-stuffed sides of the building,
and not caring to put themselves into a
position where they could fire effective
ly above the walnstcothig, they very
wisely kept close to the ground and al
lowed the Sioux to empty their guns
Into the sand.
Presently, bearing no sound from
within, the attacking party ceased
firing and began to prowl about the
building In search of a weak spot
through which they might effect an en
trance. The fate of the three early call
ers who had hogged It under the door
kept them from fooling about that trap
for the remainder of the evening. In
a little while the whole place was as
still as the tomb, save for the soft flut
ter of steam from jthe safety valve of
the 49. Bear Foot knew what was go
ing on... Even though he could see noth
ing, he knew thafhis faithful followers
were working for his release, and now
when all was silent he shouted from the
coal tank to his braves to break the
door and come In. Before the Pawnee
scouts could pound him Into a. state of
quietude be had imparted to his people
the particulars of bis whereabouts, and
immediately the whole band threw
themselves against the front of the
building. . :
"The house fairly trembled, the In
dians surged from without and the
great doers swayed to and fro, threat
ening at any moment to give way and
let the flood of bloodthirsty redskins in
upon us.
" 'Stand together,' called the captain
to his men.
'Put on the blower and get her hot'
I called to the fireman, for I knew the
frail structure could not withstand the
strain much longer. As often as the
fireman . opened the' furnace door to
rake his fire, the glare of the fire-box
lit np the whole interior and showed
three dead Sioux near the door. One of
them lay across the rail, and I found
myself speculating as to whether the
pilot of the 49 would throw him off, or
whether I must run over him. Now it
seemed that the whole band had thrown
themselves against the building, and
the yelling was deafening. Above it
all I heard our captain shout: 'Get
ready, Frank.'
" 'I am ready, said L
'All right' said he, 'shoot it to 'em,'
and I opened the sand valves and the
throttle. " ' I have often thought what a
4emp'tation It was for those soldiers to
leap upon the engine and make their
escape, but, although they all under
stood perfectly what was going on, sot
one of them took advantage of this 'last
'train out'
"Just as the "Big Hoss' moved with all
her ponderous and almost irresistible
weight toward the front of the building,
the double doors sagged toward me like
-the head gate of a great reservoir that
is overcharged and then I hit 'em. The
big doors, being forced from their
hinges, fell out upon the redskins and
they were caught like rats in a trap.
The pilot ploughed through them,
maiming and killing a score of them,
and on went the 49 over the safe
switches, which had already been set-j
for her before the fight began. The
confusion caused by the awful work of
Big Hoss, which they regarded as little
less than the devil, was increased when
the Indians, who remained unhurt re
alized that the engine was making
away with their chief, for he bad told
them bow he was belt) capttv 'In the
belly of the big hone.'
"All effort for the capture of the
round house was instantly abandoned
and the Sioux as one man turned and
ran after the locomotive. The captain
fin- command of the scouts, taking ad?
vantage of the confusion of his foe, and
of the fact that his force was in the
dark building, while the Sioux were out
upon the whitened earth, quickly mass
ed his men at the open door and began
to pour a murderously wicked fire into
the baffled Sioux, who, like foolish
farm dogs, were chasing the 49 out over
the switches. - .
"All the Indians who were crippled
by the engine were promptly, and I
thought very properly, killed by the
Pawnee scouts and the rest were driven
away with fearful loss. " .-
"It was a desperately risky run from
Smoky Hill to Lawrence, with no run
ning orders and due to collide with a
westbound special, or an jextra that
might be going out to the rescue with
a train load of material, but the officials
fearing that something might arise
which would cause us to want to come
In, had very wisely abandoned all trains
the moment the wires went down, and
so we reached Lawrence just before
day without a mishap.
"My first thought was of our captive,
Bear Foot, who had made track laying
dangerous business for our people for
the past three or four weeks, but upon
looking about I saw only four Pawnees,
and concluded that the fierce fellows
had killed the chief and rolled him off.
" -Where's Bear Foot? I demanded.
" "Here,' said a Pawnee, who was
quietly seated upon the manhole of the
engine tank, and he pointed down.
During the excitement in the round
house at Smoky Hill, the Sioux had
made a desperate effort to escape, and
had been quietly dropped into the tank,
where he had remained throughout the
entire run.
"Now, It's one thing to stay In a tank
that Is half filled with water when the
engine Is in her stall, and quite another
thing to inhabit a place of that kind
when a locomotive Is making a flying
run over a new track. After much time
and labor had been lost fishing for the
chief with a clinker hook, one of the
scouts got into the tank, which was
now quite empty, and handed Bear
Foot out
"When we had bailed him out and
placed him along side the depot where
the sun would catch bim early, the cor
oner came and sat on him and pro
nounced him a good Indian." Cy War
man, in the Evening Star, Washington.
CRIMINAL OCCUPATIONS DULL.
They Reflect the Prevailing Depres
sion in Other Lines of Trade.
"You wouldn't . think that business
depression and hard times would ex
tend to the commission of crime, would
you?" remarked an attache of the po
lice court the other day. "At least nine
people out of ten who thought any
thing about it would come to the con
clusion that the crime Industry ought
to be brisk when money Is hard to get
hold of. It might be expected that peo
ple would steal bread when they could
not buy it, get drunk at every available
opportunity to drown their troubles
and fight at the slightest provocation
for lack of something better to do.
Vagrants and tramps committing petty
depredations, It would seem, ought to
be plentiful, and the hum of Industry
In the police court ought at least to be
audible In hard times.
"But, strange as It may seem the op
posite Is true, and business in crime is
downright dull, though we are still
running on full time, and expect to
do so no matter who is elected. The
reason for it is Just this. The criminals
are all in jail or in the workhouse, and
there they will have to stay until their
sentences are served out When times
were good they had friends who paid
their fines and secured their release, so
they could start right in and commit
more petty offenses, and so get jugged
again. Times were, therefore, good in
the police court But now the endless
chain stops awhile at the jail and work
house, and business 1- dulL - It's just
like taking a few cars off a cable line
and laying them up in the sheds for an
hour or two. Passengers have to wait
longer for one to come along. You see
we have regular customers In our busi
ness, and the market is not so large as
might be supposed." Washington Post.
A "Cry of the Heapr,"
It was formerly the custom for young
men who were making a beginning iu
literature to treat the living "old mas
ters" in letters with great veneration,
instead of winning some notoriety by;
publicly ridiculing them. When, there
fore, they had an opportunity to ex
press some honest criticism of a mas-,
ter's work, the expression bad about it.
a decided piquancy.
It is related that, in 829, Chateau
briand, then held in very great honor,
Invited a group of literary people to
his residence at Auteuil to hear him
read his tragedy of "Moses." Among,
the guests were Alexandre Dumas and
Frederic Soulie, then young men, who '
listened respectfully, who even after!
they left the house at midnight, and
started back to Paris in a cab, did not; I
venture to express an unfavorable
judgment, but rode on in silence. ,,
By and by they came to one of the ,
octroi stations, where all persons who
enter Paris are required to "declare" or
announce any articles that they maj
have in their possession which are sub. J
Ject to the municipal import duty. The ,
agent in charge of the station stopped j
the cab in which the two young men
were, thrust his bead Into the door, and
said: "
"Have you anything to declare, gen
tlemen?" .
Whereupon Soulie exclaimed with
much emphasis: - j
"I have to declare, and that most '
solemnly, that the 'Moses' of the illus
trious Chateaubriand is a horrible
bore!" j
The octroi employe- was speechless, '
and the two young men drove on,
greatly relieved in their feelings.
Battle of New Orleans.
When the news reached Europe of
the battle at Chalmette, commonly
known as the battle of New Orleans,
and of the terribly, disastrous results
to the English army, the account at
first was not credited. That a trained
force from the pickTed regiments of
the British army, schooled in war, with
commanders of the distinction that!
Pakenham and Keene enjoyed, should
meet with such a defeat at the hands
of a "militia general," was hardly to
be believed under any circumstances;
but that out of a force of 6,000 strong
there should be a loss of 2,117 killed
and wounded on the British side, while
the Americans had only 6 killed and 7
wounded, was held to be impossible.
The Duke of Wellington was particu
larly savage in his denunciation of the
"Yankee lie," as he termed the first
vague reports that reached him of the
terrible and unexpected defeat. When,
however,.the facts touching the result
of the fight were substantiated, Europe
was amazed. Century. . - . . .
He who gives employment to Idle
mem la casting bread upon the watn
Of hi own fishpond, v
"It is a startling fact that, almost
without exception, the adulterated
teas are dangerous to health. Some
of them are actually poisonous." "
L : : N. V. Herald.
Yes; some not all. But
that isn't the point. - You
drink tea because you like
it not because it is good
for you. v .: ;'. - " '
The wholesome tea is
also the best-tasting: Schil
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Horse with a Hard Claer Drnnt.
. A Stamford, Conn., dispatch says: A
telephone message was received at
khe police office yesterday afternoon
asking that a policeman be sent tt
Summer street, as there was a horse,
there acting strangely. ; ehief Bow
man sent Policeman Kurth. He found
a bay horse, owned by a Long Ridge
farmer, reeling about, the street like
a drunken man. Now and then the
horse would fall down, and, after strug
gling, would regain his feet and stag
ger off again. Just as the officer was
trying to aid the animal from "the street
the owner' appeared. An investiga
tion showed thaj the horse, which had
been tied to the rear of another farm
er's wagon, had eaten the bay from
the bottom of the wagon, and then
poked the cover from a pall contain
ing two gallons of hard cider. The
cider had . washed down the hay, and
soon after the horse began to cut up
the queer antics. s " '
Determined women have- invaded
another educational citadel. The uni
versity of Edinburgh has granted the
degree of M. A. to Misses Geddes and
MacGregor.
THE MEANING OF IT.
Very often we give the wrong meaning to
a word and thereby make serious mistakes.
For instance, the true and literal meaning
of the word rheumatism is "aches or pains
of the muscles, bones and joints of the hu
man body." It is general and not specific.
Also the word relief does not mean cure.
Relief may be but a short cessation of pain.
But when we say St. Jacobs Oil cures rheu
matism promptly and permanently, we
mean it conquers pain quickly with no re
turn of it, unless the sufferer gives cause
for a new attack, and then it -wijl cure
again. It matters not whether it is chronic,
acute or inflammatory, it will cure. That
is sure, be Bure of it
There is a house in Paris occupied
by over fifty tenants who for twenty
years have never paid any rent, the
landlord being unknown.
TO GET OCT OS THE WAY
When trouble Is coming, is obviously the part
of common sense. An obstruction of the
bowels is a serious obstacle to health. To get
this out of the way is an easy matter with the
thorough laxative, Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, which, although it affords relief, never
gripes and convulses like a drastic purgative.
Dyspepsia, malaria, kidney and rheumatic
ailments and nervousness yield to this genial
family medicine.
America has over
islands round its coast
five thousand
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sumption far and wide. Mrs. Mulligan,
Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 8, 1895.
'The asparagus served at the Elysee
banquet in honor of the czar cost three
francs a stalk, or 90 cents a bundle,
and there were 200 guests.
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With a better understanding of the
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS
TKiNGS PERTAINING TO
: FARM AND HOME.
THE
Growing Strawberries for Home or
Market The Quality of Potatoes
How to Have Healthful Pork The
Orchard Should Be Fertilized.
' 'y Strawberries.
Tbere Is practically no difference in
growing strawberries for market or
for homo use except In the, amount
plantsd and possibly in the quality of
the varieties. Generally the most pro
ductive varieties are satisfactory for
home use. Sod plowed under should
not be planted to strawberries, as grubs
generally destroy plants. Land culti
vated the previous season -in any hoed
crop will be in the best condition for
strawberries. Coarse manure should
be plowed under, fine manure, nnleach
ed wood ashes or bone meal should be
applied as a top dressing and cultivated
in, either before tOe plants are set or
after. ... ; '"- - "
Plant In rows four feet apart and
eighteen inches In the row. Set the new
plants not less than ten inches apart
until the row is as wide as you want
it tad remove the rest. Every third or
fourth row should be staminate.
Few persons once Interested In straw
berry culture are satisfied without test
ing some or the novelties. The product
iveness of new varieties every grower
must test for himself. Set a dozen
plants of a variety and grow them un
til you are satisfied they are productive
enough to be planted with your stand
ard varieties. It may worry your pa
tience to wait a year or two to find out
the value of a variety, but it will tire
your patience a good deal more to plant
a thousand or two at a fancy' price and
get no returns. Strawberry Culture.
finality of Potatoes.
It Is evident that the potato crop of
1S96 is far below that of 1895, botb in
quantity and quality. ' So far as the
quantity ' Is concerned there are few
complaints. We had far too many po
tatoes in 1895, and there are plenty this
year. Put the quality of much of this
year's V.iv.p is not satisfactory io cither
producer cr consumer. The wet sea
son made the potatoes watery, leaving
many of thorn of inferior table quality,
and unusually liable to rot. Many de
cayed in the ground, and reports Indi
cate that many are being lost in the
bin. This is having quite an unfavora
ble influence on the market just now.
These potatoes must be marketed, and
the. result Is a liberal supply, while
dealeraa re loath to buy them freely for
fear of loss. This, however, Is expect
efl to bring about a more satisfactory
market-later on. Commission men are
advising those who have good sound
potatoes, and are' in position to hold
them . safely, to market them later,
when competition with the others is
past. National Stockman.
Crowlrrjr Healthful Pork.
A meat diet is not necessarily inju
rious to health. It may be so when the
animal that produces it has been fed
wrongly, or has been subjected to un
sanitary conditions. The meat most
widely used in this country is pork.
This is the kind of meat more likely
than any other to be unhealtbful. The
old-fashioned swill barrel, in which
milk, grease and refuse of all kinds are
deposited, often goes for weeks with
out the thorough cleaning which such
a receptacle should have every twenty
four hours. It is better to feed the
skim-milk by itself, and throw most of
the dish washings which are dosed
heavily "with salt on the manure heap,
where it will do more good than in the
pig's stomach. But the worst injury
to the pig and the one that causes the
worst injury to pork, is due to over
feeding with corn. We have often seen
hogs fattened until their eyes were
closed with fat and the animal could
hardly be made to cat more than
enough to sustain life. The body was
kept" in feverish condition for days and
even "weeks, and the animal was only
butchered, when, if the experiment
had continued a little longer, its excess
of fat would have killed it. There is,
we are glad to say, little demand for
such pork now. But pig pork fed with
milk and wheat middlings, making a
pork vltb" large proportions of lean
meat. Is both palatable and healthy.
American Cultivator.
Fertilize the Orchard.
The apple trees have borne an im
mense crop of fruit the last season. It
takes not only vitality in the trees
themselves, but also fertility In the soil,
to bring forth and ripen off such a bur
den of fruit. As a result, the trees are
In a measure weakened, and the soil
is exhausted of its material out of
which the growth of the year has been
sustained Just in proportion to the
year's effort of the trees. If, therefore,
the thrift of the trees and their power
of fruitage are to be kept up, they call
for special and unusual attention in the
way of manuring and of culture, to
make good or replace the draft that has
been made upon them.
The trpes, therefore, should be fertil
ized. Barn manure is always good for
this purpose, and always will give in its
testimony, applied In any way that
leaves it In the vicinity of the trees. It
never fails to assert itself. Applied as
a top-dressing, It, of course, must divide
its effects with the grass, the growth of
which it so vigorously sustains; hence
Its full value, when so used, Is hot real
ized In fruit production. The quantity
needed, therefore, under this practice,
Is greater than would be necessary If
the tree and Its fruit got Its full bene
fit. MainexFarmer.
,-K'p3nln Cre-m,
A good way is to hold the cream at a
temperature of 60 degrees for twelve
tofonrteen hours after the first taste of
acid 4s apparent, and then judgment,
formed from " experience, will do the
rest. The method for warming the
cream for ripening Is all right, but It
will be necessary to keep the tempera
ture of the room at about the tempera
ture It is desired to keep the cream. -
For a "starter some ripened cream of
buttermilk from the previous churning
Is often used to "start" the ripening.
A better starter Is made by taking some
skim milk from a healthy, fresh milk
ing cow, warm It up to 85 or 90 degrees,
and hold.lt at that temperature tiy It
becomes thick.- Put v Into the cream
from 3 to 5 per cent, of this starter,
and If the cream is held. at 60 to 65
degreesfor twelve to fourteen hours,
It will be found sufficiently ripened.
Hoard's Dairyman.
'- I'Oraes in Norway.
It Is said that In Norway a bucket of
water is always placed within reach of
a horse when be is taking his allow
ance of hay. "It is Interestius,", says
the writer of H'c incident, ; 'tj see with
what relish they lake a sip auc if one
and- a -mouthful of the other alternate
ly, sometimes only - moistening their
mouths, as any ra tional - being would
do while eating a dinner of such dry
food. A broken-winded horse Is scarce
ly ever seen in Norway, and the ques
tion hr whether this mode of feeding
has not a beneficial effect in preserving
the animal's respiratory organs." .
Farm Notes.
A good wagonload of cinders dumped
at the end of a bridge will prevent the
wheels from cutting deep holes into the
grade.
"A large share of the food in the corn
stalk is in that portion most easily de
stroyed by exposure in the fields. . la
some sections the top is removed from
the stalk while it Is growing by "top
ping," and stored In the barn. . 'V -
When an animal does not thrive it Is
not always necessary to resort to medi
cines. It may happen that salt is need
ed, or that linseed meal will lrove a
remedy. The cause should be first con
sidered before attempting a cure for an
ailment.
Some men shelter their stock in shedq
sided np with barb wire and roofed
with blue canopy, but it doesn't pay. By
setting posts in the ground and siding
up with cheap lumber, roofing with
slough grass or boards and battening
the cracks a .warm shed may be con
structed at small cost.
It is estimated that when a hog la
kept until it attains the weight of 200
pounds it should produce two two-horse
loads of manure from the time It was
eight weeks old. The estimate of ma
nure Is perhaps too high, but if a hog
produces one-half that quantity of
manure of excellent quality it will be
quite an item in the receipts.
Soiling gives good results and saves
the land for crops. . In tests made with
cows soiled on peas -and green clover
at the barnyard, and with others that
were kept on a good pasture, the cows
on the soiling food made more gain in
live weight than the others, and were
less annoyed by flies, exceeding the
pasture-fed cows also in the production
of milk.- -
Those who have not made such ex
periments will no doubt be surprised to
know that a small plot, about 50 by 100
feet,, will provide a family with as
many as 500 quarts of strawberries,
and with extra care and cultivation
even twice that quantity. There are
many plots near cities or towns which
can be , utilized for providing small
fruits or vegetables in a fresh condition
for use. -
A Canadian farmer reports that he
experimented and found that salt is a
complete remedy for wire worms. On
a patch of spring grain he plowed up
and resowed all but one acre, which he
left for trial. - He sowed 300 pounds of
salt on this acre and forty-eight hours
afterwards he sowed 300 pounds more.
The result was the wire worms com
pletely disappeared, and the grain look
ed welL
First Forefathers' Day.
In "Recollections of the Pilgrims"
there is an account of the first celebra
tion of Forefathers' Day, or "Old Col
ony Day,?' as it was then termed, on
Dec. 22, 17(59. The celebration was un
der the auspices of the Old Colony
Club, a society formed by the leading
men of Plymouth for the purpose - of
promoting social converse and pleasure
without mixing with the promiscuous
gatherings at the taverns.
On the morning of the said day, after
discharging a cannon, was hoisted up
on the hall an elegant silk flag, with
the following Inscription. "Old Colony,
1620." At 11 o'clock a. m., the mem
bers of the club appeared at the hall,
and from thence proceeded to the house
of Mr. Howland, Innholder, which is
erected upon the spot where the first
licensed house in the Old Colony for
merly stood; at half-past 2 a decent re
past was served, which consisted of the
following dishes, viz:
1, a large baked Indian whortleberry
pudding; 2, a dish jof sauquetach( suc
catash, corn and beans boiled together);
3, a dish of clams; 4, a dish of oysters
and a dish of codfish; 5, a haunch of
venison, roasted by the first jack
brought to the colony; 6, a dish of sea
fowl; 7, a dish of frost fish and eels;
8, an apple pie; 9, a course of cran
berry tarts, and cheese made in the
Old Colony.
. These articles were dressed in the.
plainest manner ("all appearance of
luxury and extravagance being avoid
ed, in imitation of our ancestors, whose
memory we shall ever respect").
At 4 o'clock p. m. the members of the
club, headed by the steward, carrying
a folio volume of the laws of the Old
Colony, hand in hand marched in pro-;
cession to the hall. Upon the appear-;
ance of the procession in frgnt of the,
hall a number of descendants from the
first settlers in the Old Colony drew up
in regular file and discharged a volley
of small arms, succeeded by three,
cheers, which were returned by the
club, and . the gentlemen generously
treated. '
Singing, speech-making, cannon-firing
and cheering closed the day's exer
cises. - -
Mother of Pearl.
. Pictures inlaid with mother of pearl
are in great favor this season. First
the picture Is painted, only It is not all
painted, for speckled over it are vari
ously Bhaped bits of unpainted canvas.
These spaces are left for the insertion
of splinters of mother of pearl cut to
fit. The result is an opalescent, Irides
cent effect that Is altogether lovely.
"The Maid of the Mist," Jauntily riding
the seething caldron of Niagara, is arm
orclad In rainbow colors, as though
plated with the sunlit spray that dashes
over It. The Washington monument,
tall and stately, no longer Is ghastly
white, but gleams with warmer hues
caught from sky and earth and sea.
There is fresh fancy for inlaid furni
ture, and tabourettes from Turkey
come with, a veneer of dark wood in
laid with mother of pearl of the most
beautiful tnts. Chairs of similar finish
are offered in quaint designs. A fording
camp chair from Damascus is in light
brown wood so like sandalwood that
the imagination catches the Oriental
perfume. It is carved in stripes and,
inlaid with large stars of pure white
pearl. Damascus and Bagdad and
American the Arabian Nights and the
new-world days! And all for less than
$20, so have the hard times reduced the
price of luxuries that they may be sold
at all, while so many have not money
enough for the necessities. :
Where Sleep Is a Disease.
On the western coast of Africa the
natives suffer from a fatal malady
known as the sleeping disease. The
person attacked' by it is seized with a
sensation of drowsiness, which contin
ues to Increase in spite of the efforts
made to throw it off. Finally the pa
tient sinks into a profound sleep, which
continues until death ensues. The most
curious feature of the disease is that
apart from the drowsiness the patient
seems much as usuaL
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