The Corvallis gazette., May 14, 1897, Image 4

fliscellany.
SINCE YESTERDAY.
The mavis sang but yesterday
A strain that thrilled through Autumn's
dearth;
He read the music of his lay
Id light and leaf, and heaven and earth
The windflowers by the wayside swung,
Words of the music that was sung.
In all his song the shade and sun
Of earth and heaven seemed to meet.
Its joy and sorrow were as one, .
Its very sadness was but sweet;
He sang of summers yet to be; , !
You listened to his song with me.
The heart makes sunshine in the rain,
Or winter in the midst of May, .
And though the mavis sings again
His self-same song of yesterday, j
I find no gladness in his tone;
To-day. I listen here alone. -
And even our sunniest moment takes ' " '
Such shadows of the bliss we knew
To-day his throbbing song awakes
But wistful, haunting thoughts of you
Its very sweetness is but sad,
iYou gave it all the joy it had.
THEIFT.
His mother had Insisted on calling
lilm Thrift. No one knew why she
had given him the quaint name. Then
when he was barely 2 years old, she
-died. She left bim with a great wealth
of silent love, but that, like bis name,
could not help him much, that Is, not
as far as one can judge things. Tbe
neighbors said it was a cough that had
"settled" that carried ber off. Proba
bly tbe cough bad something to do with
It, but a starved-out life of lack of af
fection andhard work had a good deal
more.
The neighbors also thought that Mrs.
iWatson never had much spirit. It
rwould seem as if they almost blamed
Iher for dying, and leaving a husband
,wlth a child barely 2 years old. They
'bad misgivings about the child, and
there they were right. Thrift was deaf
and dumb. His mother bad struggled
against the knowledge as long as she
could. When she realized It, she kept
love. But the cough came and settled
all the problems of her life for ber.
Thrift's father took her death as apa
,thetically as he had taken her all bur
Jlfe. Only Thrift seemed to realize
that fate was still against him. He lay
crying for hours alone In the little cot
tage, strapped Into his cot It was a
weird, pathetic cry. The neighbors
were kind to him. They took bim In
turn to their cottages, but the element
- of teasing children and rough handling
was discordant to him. The women
meant well, but It was a hard winter
and money and tempers were short.
Beside, Thrift's baby nature was hard
to understand.
Brightness' came into his life one day.
It came in the guise of a little dress
maker, Jean Lawrence. She brought
bim a black frock. She had been busy,
so had put off the making till she had
time. "No one else thought of the little
mark of respect It was a tribute to
custom, but It was the one tribute of
Mrs. Watson's life. .
"Pulr little Iambi" said Jean Law
rence, as she came In. ,,
Her eyes filled with quite unexpected
tears as she saw the lonely baby. .
Thrift could not hear her, but some
thing sympathetic touched his under
standing, for he held out his bands.
"Puir little thing," said Jean Law
rence again, and she caught him up
and covered him with kisses.
Then she put Thrift back in his cot
and untied the little black frock . the
turned to go, for she was In a hurry.
Thrift's mood changed. His blue eyes
grew dark in the Intensity of his pas
sion. . He kicked and screamed. His
fluffy, fair hair was ruffled. He looked
the picture of a little demon.
"Presairve us," said the little dress
maker. It was the first time any exag
geration of feeling had come into her
life. She was half fascinated and half
terrified by this unexpected burst.
"Presairve us!" she repeated still more
(emphatically. -
She never conld explain afterward
,what prompted her, but she stepped to
the cot, wrapped a blanket round
Thrift and did not stop to think till
she had deposited him safely in her
own house. It was characteristic of
Jean Lawrence that she had never rea
soned out why she had done this ac
jtlon. Certainly "she never regretted It
It was quite as easy a matter to settle
the disposal of Thrift with his father.
He was only too glad to be rid of the
burden.
The first clashing of wills occurred
over the same little black frock. Thrift
ungratefully refused to have anything
to do with it Miss Lawrence was per
plexed. It would never do to dress him
In colors on a Sunday. She compro
mised by making him a white, frock
with a broad, black sash. It set off the
child's fairness, but still more it satis
fled her sense of fitness.
Jean Lawrence always thought of
that ilsode as an epoch in her life.
The next epoch was the sudden resolve
of Thrift's father to go to America.
Jean Lawrence lived In a state of ten
sion till he had sailed. It seemed In
credible to her that he could wish to
leave bis boy behind. She only saw
the extreme desirability of Thrift In
any manner and way. Thrift's father
did not 4
It was soon after this that Jean
Lawrence's old lover returned to bis
native village. This caused more
thought In the village than Jean her
self gave to It It was ten years since
John Forbes and she had been going to
be married, and ten years is a long time
In a woman's life! Since Thrift had
entered her life she was utterly obliv
ious of anything except her work. The
more money she made the more she
could do for little Thrift
Jean Lawrence had always kept to
herself, and no one knew why she and
John Forbes had never married.
Her old mother was alive then, and
every one knew she would have liked
the match. John Forbes bad come back
grayer and ,older than be had gone
away, but be was richer and even
more able to afford a wife.
Time had not gone very well with
Jean. She was thin and small always,
and she had had a hard life of work.
Her sparse drab hair was beginning to
be sprinkled with gray. She looked
older than she really was. The vil
lage came to the conclusion that John
Forbes would go by ncr and peek a
younger and bonnier woman. The two
most concerned gave no cause for gos
sip John Forbes would sometimes stop
as be was passing the little cottage and
say a few words. There was never
any allusion to past times between
them. They called, each other Mr.
VnT-Vvoa anil Affsa T.a nrponpa at nrltnnulr
That was the dnly clew either of ihem
sad that there was a mutual past be
tween them.
On the Sundays that Jean went 'to
church her thoughts were always divid
ed between the bairn at home and tbe
psalms. To ber great discomfiture
John Forbes would sometimes overtake
her. They talked of the sermon, then
of the crops and the weather. By de
grees these subjects gained an easy
familiarity, and only varied with the
seasons.
No one was more surprised than Jean
when John Forbes asked her to marry
him. She stared at bim in emotionless
calm.
"Ye must gie me time," she said
John Forbes agreed to this quite pla
cidly. It was hard to understand what
he saw In bis first love in her faded
and aged old maidism. Possibly a ten
acity of affection and the same instinct
of faithfulness that brought him back
to the little village the little village
with no pretensions to beauty or pic-
turesqueness kept him true to Jean
One was the home, the cthe the wom
an he had loved. He saw no reason to
change because be had seen many fair
er homes and younger, prettier women,
Jean did not analyze her sentiments.
It was not her way. Besides, love nev
er entered her bead as far as it concern
ed John Forbes. She merely reviewed
the advantages as they concerned
Thrift The rumor that a new and
more modern dressmaker was going to
set up finally settled It, and she said
to John "Yes."
The day was flxedTor the second time
in their lives. Jean had given up her
house. She was waiting with tranquil
ity for this new step in her life. She
bad quite come to the conclusion that
she could not do better for Thrift.
One' evening John Forbes arrived
Thrift lay contentedly on the hearth
rug looking at bim. The last time John
had been at the cottage Thrift had been
In one of his passionate fits. This had
set him pondering.
After this there had been several
well-meant efforts at kindness on the
part of his friends. They happened to
coincide wjth his own views. They ad
vised bim to send Thrift away. Jean,
they said, would neglect every one and
everything for the boy. She would
wear herself out for Thrift, but not
bother with anything that did not con
cern him.
How far he believed this, or how far
a man's dislike to scenes or a natural
desire to have his wife's affection cen
tered in himself had to do with his
resolve, he could not have told. He be:
stirred himself, and with, infinite trou
ble and by some outlay he secured an
admission for tbe child to a deaf and
dumb institution.
It was this fact he had come to tell
Jean. He rather wished Thrift would
help him to lead up to it by a scene.
Thrift gave him no help. He lay smil
ing impenetrably.
. Jean was not quick at reading signs.
"Jean," be said at last, helplessly,
"we'll be merrit Tuesday."
"Ay," assented Jean, cheerfully.
- Her eyes fell naturally on Thrift and
she smiled at the boy.
"And Thrift?" be added, with a sus
piciously clear note of Interrogation In
his voice.
"Ay, Thrift," she repeated.
Then finding this even did not prog
ress matters, he said desperately, with
a snatch of humor:
"Ye ken I'm no merrylng Thrift?"
The old clock ticked through the
room. The peats spluttered on the low
hearth, in front of which on a curiously
woven rug Thrift lay.
There was absolute silence for a bit
Then Jean's voice broke It
"Then, John Forbes, ye're no marry
ing me."
Again there was silence. John said
In a quiet voice:
"I hae made a the arrangements for
him, Jean. He will gang to a schule
fa they'll teach him to read and write
and understand talk of a kind."
Will they teach him to talk like ither
fowk?"
Her tone was expressionless.
"No, they canna dae that"
"Then why should the bairn be both
ered wi' learning that'll never dae him
or any one else ony gude? Tell me that,
John Forbes."
'It will give him employment, Jean,
and beside " Here John Forbes, with
a man's tactlessness undid c-very bit
of good his arguments might have ef
fected. , He added, "Fowk tell me ye
just mak an idol o him, and that ye
bae nae ither idea but him.- A man
could na be expeck'd to stan that, i nd
ither people kenning it"
Jean had been passing through a cri
sis and she was but a woman.
'And if fowk care to gossip over my
affairs, John Forbes, and you care to
heed them, let them," she returned
vehemently. "If Thrift disna gang wi'
me, nae poo'rs will tak' me to your
hoose." '
John was annoyed by her tone.
"And suppose I say I winna hae
Thrift?"
They sat on In a strained silence.
John was too angry to move or speak.
Jean had no wish, either, to break the
silence. . '"
'Ye ken this Is the second time your
obstinacy has come in the way," said
John, finally.
"I mind," said Jean, briefly. "But I
didna mean ye to tak' it as ye did yon
time," she responded.
"I didna ken,' replied John.
It struck neither of them that there
was any pat Dos in tne sentence a
pathos of a ten years' mistaken alienee.
Are ye sure ye mean It noo?" he
asked, getting up.
"I certainly dae," said Jean, firmly.
"Then gude-by, Jean."
"Gude-by."
The instant the door was shut Jean
almost strangled Thrift with kisses.
Unfortunately the practical things
could not be settled so summarily.
Jean bad given up ber house and she
found it was let to the new dress
maker. She was not accustomed to
complications in her life. Alternatives
seemed to crop up, and they worried
her. At the same time Thrift was ber
one object Everything was directed
to this aim.
After some few weeks she got a tum
bledown little cottage about a mile
from the straggly village. It proved
too far, or the "hang" of the new dress
maker's skirts proved too much for
Jean's old customers. Work and pay
became scant. The little dressmaker
bore up proudly and bravely. She
stinted and starved herself, but Thrift
grew and flourished. There loomed be
fore her always a fear of the "charily"
where her boy might be taught and no
one knew at what expense of unki::d
ness. If the worst came to the worst, she
would ask John Forbes to get him in,
and she would become a servant. One
wintry evening the child was fretful
and ailing. A knock came to the door
and John Forbes entered. He did not
appear to notice the extreme poverty of
the cottage, nor the miserable attempt
at a fire. This fact brought a rush of
gratitude to Jan's heart. It was to see
If these things were as bad as report
said, that he had come. -
He took Thrift upon his knee and be
talked occasionally to Jean.
"Can I dae ony thing for ye?" he said
suddenly. "For the boy, ye ken,"
A little flush came in Jean's cheeks.
Bne faltered ber thanks.
In a rush of love for Thrift she began
faintly to realize, that she had not ap
preciated this man as he deserved. In
the same moment she realized she bad
thrown her chance away.
No Idea that she might work on hei
old lover's pity crossed her mind. She
began timidly asking him if be could
manage to send Thrift to the home he
had mentioned.
."Why, noo, when ye were so set
against it?" asked John, with a severi
ty that was not reassuring.
"It's circumstances," said Jean, brief
ly. 'I;:-
She felt that she would rather die
than let John Forbes know there was
nothing to eat in the house and no mon
ey. She would have risked everything
but for the fear of Thrift falling ill.
"Weel," said John, slowly, "I'll see
aboot it But hoo wull ye pay uie,
Jean?" .
The little dressmaker drew herself
up. ;
"There'll be no fear o' that, John
Forbes."
"But ye hivna tell't me in fat wye.
Jean?"
"In honest money by honest wark."
The pink flush had deepened into a
deep crimson on her cheek.
"But I dinua want your money, and
as for wark, sappose you come and
wark for me." -
"Na, na," said Jean, involuntarily.
She had had her chance of being mis
tress at the farm. She could not stoop
to work for another, as she supposed he
meant.
"Weel, come wi'oot doing ony wark."
Jean looked at him in utter bewilder
ment. "The difference a-tween us. lay in
Thrift. If he gaes awa' there's naeth
lng nede binder your coming to the
farm."
"I didna expec' ye'd think I meant
you," said the little woman. She was
thoroughly hurt "I'll thank ye a' the
days o' my life If ye'H dae for Thrift,
but I'm no seeking to be beholden to
you for myself."
"Ye'll be gey lonely wi'oot Thrift."
"Ay." :
Jean nearly smiled because she was
so near to tears at the thought.
"I'll be lonely at the farm."
"Ye can mairry," said Jean.
She suddenly felt that she had cut
herself off from every possibility by
her suggestion. She had done it for
Thrift all along; she would have mar
ried him for Thrift's sake, she gave him
up for Thrift's sake. Now. Thrift by
her own act was to go away from her.
And John Forbes was nothing to her.
The unexpected touch of kindness had
brought a rush of sympathy to hei
heart. She did not know it, but it had
broken down the barrier that her love
for Thrift had built up round her wom
an's heart. -
"Ay," answered John Forbes, slowly.
But ye maun ask me this time, Jean."
"Oh, I couldna," faltered Jean. .
She felt confused and trembling. She
looked down.
"And I winna, nae a third time."
"I'm no fit to be a leddy, noo,". she
murmured.
Then she looked up. John saw In her
reyes a look he had not seen for more
than ten years.
"Jean!". .,
"John!"
That was all the love-making that
passed between them, but they under
stood each other.
When John went out Jean seized
Thrift and kissed him as she had done
once before. But she knew that for the
first time since he bad come into her
life he bad only tile second place. She
thought she hid the fact in her inmost
heart, but John Forbes guessed it He
had the tact to bide the knowledge
from his wife. For the tact that love
brings is often the highest wisdom.
Waverly Magazine. .
Pasteur's Apology. -
Louis Pasteur was of humble origin,
and was always proud of it; but he be
longed to the peculiar race of Franche
Comtols, or old Burgundlans, who are
noted for Industry, simplicity and pig
headed persistence In any course which
they -deem right Pasteur's character
was a perfect exemplification of these
qualities. . .
He was a great patriot and a true
republican, and in speaking once In
praise of the chemist Bertrand, who
had risen from being an apothecary's
assistant to presiding over the world's
scientific congress, he uttered this max
im, which deserves to be remembered
by every one who is struggling to make
his own way jn the world: ?
"The true democracy Is the one that
gives to every individual the chance
to accomplish his maximum of effort."
An amusing anecdote is related which
illustrates Pasteur's candor and good
nature at the same time. One day, at
the Academy of Sciences, a position
which he took was actively controvert
ed by two men who knew not a tithe of
what he knew of the subject He
heard them patiently, and then rose
and with much animation answered
them, to the satisfaction of every on
present; but warmed up with tbe con
troversy, he forgot himself a little.
Turning to the two men, he said: :
"Do you know what you lack? You"
indicating one of them "lack the
power of observation, and you" the
other "lack the reasoning faculty!"
There was an outcry at this, and Pas
teur was rebuked by the President for
exceeding the proper limits.. Pasteur
saw that the rebuke was just
I am sorry," he said; "I was carried
away by the heat of the discussion. I
beg the pardon of the members to
whom I have referred, and of this hon
orable body."
Every one smiled at tbe frankness of
this apology. Then Pasteur added:
"Having recognized my fault, may I
not mention an extenuating circum-"
stance in my favor? All that I said
wastrue. Absolutely truer ,-And he
seemea to wonaer mat everybody pres
ent laughed. Including his two oppo
nents. Youth's Companion. .
Egg In Treacle.
In Jamaica and other West India Isl
ands, they have a very curious way of
preserving eggs fresh for a consider
able time. A layer of eggs Is placed at
the bottom of a barrel, and ordinary
black treacle Is poured over in sufficient
quantity to cover them. Then another
lniTfll la BlIfluH ntlll til ao1a . ,1 nn
on till the barrel is full. The idea is j
mm uu egg c-au ue nepi goou almost in- I
definitely if the air can be prevented ;
penetrating the porous shelkto the con
tents within. When the eggs have all
been used, the treacle is given a fresh
boll up and Is thoroughly saleable
again. In Northern- Russia the farmers
use warm tallow in precisely tbe same
way; but this is said to slightly affect
the flavor of the eggs.
He WocH.
"Would Willie miss his grandma,
If grandma were to die?"
He would. She always helps him to
; A second piece of pie.
Indianapolis Journal.
Some smart people are not In posi
tion to use their geaM. -
Chronic Rbeumailsm.
The Patient Had Suffered for Over
Thirty Years and Now Knjoys
, Terfeet Health.
From the Industrial News, Jackson, Mich.
The Industrial News, ever on"' the
alert to bring its readers all items of in
terest, learned of the entire cure of one
of Jackson county's prominent citizens,
Mr. Lorenzo Neeley, of Liberty town
ship, who had suffered with the twangs
and pangs of rheumatism for over
thirty years.
In order to give authentic facts, an
Industrial News representative inter
viewed Mr." Neeley and elicited the
following facts:
Mr. Lorenzo Neeley is 56 years of
age, and actively engaged in farming.
When 17 years old by an unfortunate
accident he hurt his shoulder, and a
few years after that he commenced to
have rheumatic pains in his shoulders.
This would not always trouble him, but
on taking a slight cold or the least
strain, or sometimes without any ap
parent cause the trouble would start
again and he would suffer the most ex
cruciating pains.
For over thirty years he has thus
suffered, and' for the last decade has
suffered continually' so that" he was
unable to do any work. To this the
frequent occurrences of dizzy spells was
lately added, - making bim almost a
helpless invalid. -j
He tried the best physicians but with
out getting any help, and has tried sew
eral specific rheumatic cures, but all
without any appreciable relief. About
one year and six months ago he read in
the Jackson Industrial News of a case
somewhat similar to hiswliich was
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After the first box he felt somewhat
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tban he has had since his boyhood.
Mr. Neeley is loud in his praises of
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Lenenhock and Humboldt both say j
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On the summit of Ben Lomond j
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A Kansas City doctor, who who was !
looking for a crazy patient whom he i
was to lock up in an insane asylum,
found the lunatic serving on a jury in
the circuit court
The bullet which killed General ;
"Stonewall Jackson" at Chancellors- ;
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Mr. Isaac B. Wheeler, of Highland
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t
- The owners of a Colorado sawmill j
started a well to supply water for their j
engine, and, at a depth of sixteen feet, !
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A thermometer was left near a stove '
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eoned two children so that their lives :
were saved with difficulty.
'- AH Fools' day is 200 years old.
Brady's Clavis calendaria, . published
in 1812, mentions that more than a
century previous the - almanac desig
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Day."
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With a better understanding of the
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BUYING FARM LAND.
DON'T BE TEMPTED TO. BUY
TOO MUCH.
Prevailing Tendency la to Bay More
than Can Be Cultivated, and the
Farmer Takea on a Mortgage that
Weighs Him Down.
- Bnytng a Farm.
A great many men when they set out
to buy a farm are tempted to buy three,
six or nine times as much land as they
can handle. They want a quarter sec
tion for each member of the family or
they want to play off as a farmer on a
mammoth scale. To carry out his plans
he has only half as much money as he
needs, and he borrows enough to carry
him through with the purchase at least
He at once comes under mortgage for
half the value of the land he has
bought He begins in the new country
at the bottom, has no money to improve
with or to pay hired help with. He
flounders In a desperate way until the
end comes. - He has no money to buy
fuel for the cold weather season, and In
case of a general failure of the crops
he has no moneyto buy grain or other
feed to carry his stock through the win
ter. - We know of cases out West where
men are land poor. They own sections
of land tracts so large that they can
not work them. It is choice land as
need be, but they cannot sell It They
are tied to It We know of another case
where a man' had a strong notion of be
coming the largest land owner In the
world.- He bought land until his boun
dary lines were counted by miles in
length. Then he went to farming. He
bought all the Improved patent farm
implements that were known, and left
the most of them out of doors the year
round. This kind of farming resulted
Just as such farming always will re
sult Huge fields of corn left to go' Into
the winter unhusked, the regular fall
work half done.
Another class of men must cut a re
spectable figure as farmers, and they
buy a half section or a section of land;
may pay for the whole or go In debt for
a part of the purchase money. The
land may be first rate, but the man has
more land than he can work. He can
not more than about half farm the land
he has undertaken tf work. He cannot
keep down the weeds nor property: fer
tilize his ground. The hiring of help
as wanted is very uncertain, these days
especially.
A speculator buys 8,000 or 10,000
acres of land in a good locality. ' He is
Interested in having settlements made
as fast around1 his purchase as possible.
He has bought with the calculation that
the settlement of the country will make
him a fortune. The speculator's land
is usually offered at a strong advance
on the price originally paid for it, .but
on long-time payments, bearing a
healthy rate of Interest. In this way
a good many farmers have been drawn
Into trouble and some speculators have
made money. It is, however,' the policy
of the government of this country to
.have all lands sold In small holdings.
A man going into a-new part of the
country to buy a farm should make his
calculation to buy just as much land as
be can pay for and have enough money
left to improve the purchase with. He
should have buildings of the right size
and for all purposes, and should have
fencing of. the right kind, so stock could
neither break in upon bim nor break
out. After fhe farm is well fixed ev
ery farmer should have a bank account
of $300 to $500, which Is far better than
to have a mortgage to nurse from year
to year. How much anxiety and trou
ble has the mortgage made. ;
We have seen it stated lately that the
amount of public land outside of that
which has been entered, exclusive of
Alaska, is 600,000,000 acres. Of course,
whatever the amount Is, the estimate
takes !n mountain, hill and dale, sand,
plain and every kind of worthless, un
productive land. It will yet be a long
time before all the land that Is really
desirable is taken up and put to prac
tical use. The Indian reservations,
when they come Into market, sell quick
ly, and they are all choice land. Rural
Home.
. - Fatten'na Calves.
.The first question which a butcher
asks about a calf offered for the sham
bles Is how it has been fed. If it has
been allowed to suckle the cow, the
calf is in his opinion all right, and will
dress as well as it looks. But this de
pending on suckling, vthough good for
the calf, helps to dry up the cow, and
to make her uneasy wheA the calf is
taken from her. The advantage of the
suckling process is that the calf gets
Its food slowly, and always warm. The
slowness with which the calf gets the
milk, and the muscular effort of the
mouth required to get it, mixes more
saliva with the nutrition and insures
better digestion. But the owner of the
cow may properly insist that the calf
shall not run with Its dam, suckling a
little every hour or two. Give it two
meals per day; as nearly twelve hours
apart as possible, and the last few
minutes milk the richest part of the
milk, the stripplngs, into a pall. It is
very rare that a calf will get from the
udder all that the human hand will
do. -It Is" this retention of the strip
plngs In the udder that ' tends to dry
cows so quickly " when their calves
suckle them. Exchange.
Dwarf Pears.
There Is one great advantage of
dwarf trees over standard. They come
Into bearing earlier. : A dwarf pear, for
instance, is produced by budding on a
quince stock and matures sooner than
if on a pear stock. Dwarf trees should
be pruned at the top, otherwise they
are liable to fall over. More trees can
be planted on given space tban of stan
dard size, but of. course each tree will
not bear as ' prof usely. The yield 13
nearly the same per acre for both. They
are in high favor with many, because
pruning, thinning, spray big and gath
ering fruit can be done so much more
easily from small trees than from high
ones. Fruit Garden.
Pekln Ducks and Water.
The Pekin duck is a very valuable
variety, but It has the reputation of not
being hardy. If left to swim all they
will In cold weather, the fowls will
stiffen and become helpless. We long
ago learned that this variety needed
less water than any other, and will do
well If only occasionally on warm days
allowed sufficient water to bathe and
wash themselves In. If kept from
water the Pekin duck is a valuable
variety, being very prolific and matur
ing early.
Enylnz Sweet Potato Fets.
. Most nurserymen and seedsmen are
glad to furnish sweet potato sets for
planting. They can do it, too,-more
cheaply than the average farmer-who
has no greenhouse can do it for himself.
More sweet potatoes ought to be grown
by Northern farmers. - They need a
warm, rich soil. - By selecting a cloudy
day, with probability of rain, the sets
will get rooted In a few hours and be
fore the top wilts. The home supply of
sweet potatoes can as easily be grown
by farmers as ordinary potatoes, ex
cept that It to cheaper and better to
buy the sets each year, as It Is very dif
ficult to keep the seed through tbe win
ter until planting time. ..; Those who
have greenhouses divide the seed In
winter, and may multiply the sets sev
eral times over from each eye before
spring. It is this muyiplicatlon of sets
from single eyes that makes it possible
to sell sweet potato sets so cheaply.
American Cultivator.
Bnbaoilina; for Orchards.
In setting out trees of any kind it is
best not merely to make a wide, deep
hole, but to thoroughly subsoil all the
land that the tree roots are expected to
occupy. If this is dene there will be
much less Injury from dry weather the
first summer, as the subsoiled earth
makes the best reservoir for water in
time of need. This subsoiling is Im
portant for land to be planted with
nursery stock, and Is commonly prac
ticed by the most successful growers.
Shorthorn Carrots.
The large, coarse varieties of carrots
most used for stock feeding are not so
nutritious as Is the shorthorn, which
grows most of its bulk near the surface
or slightly above it. As the shorthorn
carrot can grow more thickly In the
row, It is nearly as productive as the
deeper setting varieties, and it is also
more "easily harvested. .Five to six
hundred bushels df the shorthorn car
rot may be grown per acre. This is a
paying crop at the usual price of this
root. -
Peas for Poor Foils.
There is no better way to fertilize
poor land than to sow it with peas,
using phosphate of lime to furnish the
mineral fertility that this crop requires
to perfect the seed. It . Is not nitrogen
which the pea crop most needs otliei
than what the pea roots supply by dis
integrating air in the soil and liber
ating Its nitrogen. But to form the
grain both lime and phosphate are r&
quired. . With these supplied the soli
will grow richer every year.
Mineral Manures for Spring Crops
To be effective mineral manures foi
spring and summer crops must be ap
plied early. They need some of the
spring rains to dissolve the fertilizei
so "that the plant roots can make use
of it. Besides, as weather and soil be
come warm and dry there is less heed
of the. fertilizer, as the soil itself re
leases more of its own fertility under
such conditions.
Fine Seed Hed for Onions.
vThe roller is indispensable for prepar
ing onion ground either for seed oi
sets. -That with a shallow cultivation
to the depth of two inches will make a
better seed bed than will deeper tillage.
If the soil Is made friable deep down
the onion may grow large, but it will
1 : i l 1 . -i . : . . l . 1 i I
iitvt-ij' uv U111-& ueuiLtm aiiu grow a crop
of scullions.'
Gooseberry Culture.
I hare the best success with goose
berries that are not cultivated., I use
hard and soft coal ashes and cinders
as a mulch and find that the bushes I
treat in this way are in every way su
perior to those not treated with the cin
ders. I hall treat all my bushes, both
current and gooseberry, in this man
ner as fast as I can get the cinders.
W. B. H.
Among the Poultry.
Peking ducks are good market fowls.
Dampness causes leg weakness in
ducks. ,
The good layers are active and gen
erally on the move.
Dry earth is a good material to scat
ter under the roosts. '
When a thrifty bird is fully matured
it Is easily fattened.
Early hatched, well-developed pullets
make good winter layers.
Stale bread, soaked in milk, is a good
feed for young poultry.
Thrifty, 'vigorous one-year-old hens
make reliable winter layers.
Cleanliness and good feeding are the
secrets of success with poultry.
On the average It will cost one dollar
to keep a laying hen one year.
Leghorns and black Spanish lay eggs
with the whitest shells of any breed.
Scald-and allow them to stand over
night In a place where they will nol
freeze; this is one of the best ways ol
feeding oats to poultry. . .
It Is natural for some breeds of poul
try to moult lighter each year, and
hence what are often taken for defects
are only natural to the breed. St. Louil
Republic. -
. Title of Admiral. ..
It should here be explained that flu
title of "Admiral" was not used In En
gland in the earlier days, says the Lon
don Nautical Magazine. In fact, tbe
better opinion is that it was not so used
before the beginning of the fourteenth
century. He was called Capitaneus
Maris (Captain of the Sea), "Keeper ol
the seacoasts," "Captain of the King's
mariners." The title "Admiral" or
"Amiral," probably derived from the
Arabic amir or emir (prefer), was used
in foreign countries much earlier than
in England, and came to us from
France. r Prynne , ("Animadversions,"
p. 106) states that there were Admirals
and an Admiralty Court in England as
early as the time of Henry I., derived
from our ancient Saxon kings Alfred,
Edgar, Ethelred and others who had
the dominion of the British ocean.
None of these kings probably was more
potent that King Edgar, who, possess
ing an absolute dominion of the neigh
boring sea, sailed round about It every
year and secured it with a constant
guard. These ships being very stout
ones, were in number 1,200; some writ
ers even affirm that there were 4,800
sailing ships.
Longlived Monarchs.
Queen Victoria, who has the "honor of
having the longest reign of any crown
ed head, is now 77 years old. The Em
peror of Austria, Frauds Joseph I.,
who has reigned for forty-eight years,
is now C5 years of age. The oldest
king in all Europe at the present time
is Christian IX. of Denmark; he Is now
entering his 79th year and has ruled
for thirty-three years. Another king
Who has worn the crown for the same
length of time is George I., the king
of the Hellenes; he now has reached
the age of 51 years. The king of the
Belgians, Leopold II., has .reigned for
thirty-one years and is now in his 62d
year. Oscar II., king of Sweden and
Norway, has ruled - for twenty-four
years and Is now' 67. King Humbert
1. of Italy is in his seventeenth year of
reign and is 53 years of age. ;
- There Is one older whose date ' is
"from everlasting to everlasting." His
"years have no "end." His kingdom
"cannot be moved." He Is "the king
eternal, immortal, invisible;' "the
blessed and only Potentate, the King
of kings and Lord of lords, who only
hath immortality."
A Test.
Cleverton Do you know, Castleton
went up to my room while I was out
last night and helped himself to one of
my ' cigars. Do you consider , that a
man who does a thing like that Is a true
friend of mine? ' , -. -, - .
Appleton That depends. Did he fin
ish it? New York Tribune.
DON'T TRUST IT.
Because the weather is mild and the air
balmy we cannot connt on being rid of
rheumatism or neuralgia. The very sud
den changes of temperature or exposure to
draughts are both likely to increase rather
than diminish both complaints. For this
reason it is wise at this season to be well
prepared for sudden attacks, and to have
readv what is known as the best remedy
for all visitations of aches or pains. All
well regulated households ought to have a
nook or corner for a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil.
There are other reasons also why this
Master-cure should be kept at hand ; rheu
matism and neuralgia are chronic, acute or
inflammatory ,but to whateyer degree of suf
fering they may come, the old reliable cure
is the best for treatment and the surest to
give permanent relief
.The wild tribes of the Caucasus,
Russia, teach their children the use of
the dagger as soon as the youngsters are
able to walk. They are first taught to
stab water without making a splash, j
PHYSICIANS WISE IN THEIR GEN
ERATION.'
The above class of scientists recognize and
have repeatedly borne testimony, to the em
cacy of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy
and preventive of fever and agne, rheumatism,
want of vigor, liver complaint, and some o'her
ailments ana innrm conaiuons or ine system.
ExDerience And observation have taneht them
its value. They bat echo the verdict long since
pronounced oy tne puDiic ana tne press, imiy
the benighted now are ignorant ot America's
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The largest wolf ever killed in the
northern part of Montana was roped
and dragged to death near Nashua, Val
ley county, ' recently, and measured
seven feet from tip to tip.
HOME PRODUCTS ANO PURE POOD,
All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very
lignt colored and of heavy body, is made from
glucose. "Tea Garden Drips" is made from
Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sale
by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac
tured by the Pacific Coast Strup Co. All gen
uine "Tea Garden Drip$" have the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every can.
A French statistician has calculated
that the eye travels about 6,000 feet in
reading an ordinary-sized novel. No
wonder the eye gets tired.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
LiUCAS COUNTY. I
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the fins of F. J. Cheney&Co.,
Vloing business in the city of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said Arm will pay
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Hall's Family Pills are the best.
M. Levat. informs the Academie des
Sciences that steel tempered in com
mercial carbolic acid is much superior
to that tempered in water.
We will forfeit $1,000 if any of our pub
lished testimonials are proven to be not
genuine. The Piso Co., Warren, Pa.
An electric underground railway un
der the present one is the latest project
suggested in London. It would be used
for express trains only.
To aid in filing saw teeth straight a
new fileholder has a frame with two
parallel guides, between which the file
is fastened to make it run true.
Two cows, two pigs, eighteen hens, a
greyhound pup and a bull were given
to an agent by an Abilene (Kansas)
farmer for a cabinet organ. .
While chopping wood a farmer living
near Springfield, Ontario, Canada, was
struck in one eye by a chip and made
wholly blind in both eyes.
A man who has tried it says that two
or three dandelion leaves chewed before
going to bed .'will always induce sleep,
no matter how nervous or worried a
man may be.
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eral years' experience on the Chicago Board of
Trade, and a thorough knowledge of the busi
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