The Corvallis gazette., June 18, 1897, Image 4

fliscellany.
A SONG FOR OLD FRIENDS.
the earth to the songs of the poe
Resounds in a deathless tone, -
Tihougn hearts be upon or below It
Though the winter be here or the June.
Of the numberless songs that are ringing.
Let the cadence of one song flow
For the Aprils fled and the living and
.dead
The friends of the Long Ago.
Bing the charms of the winsome Molly,
And the graces of Madeline f air
The heart of Sua that was Jolly,
And Jean with her glory of hair.
Bing of John and of Jim and the fellows,
Confessing we did not know
That so much of pure gold tb bosoms
sold hold
Of the friends of Long Ago.
The red of the April's blooming,
By the whispers of springtime fanned,
Cannot shine where the gloom is entomb
ing But they'll know and will nnderstand!
Xhey will know of one heart that is yearn
ing For the old year's genuine glow,
And their dust, long still, it will tremble
and thrill
The friends of the Long Ago.
Nashville American.
ATTACK OF LUMBAGO.
"Ah!" exclaimed my friend Thorley,
the eminent physician, throwing down,
the evening paper, which he had just
been perusing, and delivering himself
In his most sententious manner. "How
many complete comedies, and tragedies
for the matter of that,' may often be
latent in two or three commonplace
lines of print!"
"And what, pray, most sapient phil
osopher, has evoked from you that pro
found sentiment?" I Inquired, laugh
ingly. "The concluding sentence in this obit
nary notice of the bishop of X," he
said, taking up the paper again and
reading aloud the passage: "He mar
ried, In 1866, Margaret ta, third daugh
ter of the late Joshua Barker."
"Indeed," I said. "And is It a com
edy, my philosopher, or a tragedy that
lurks in that very simple historical an
nouncement?" "Umph! A comedy. At any rate the
comic element prevails."
"You knew the bishop In his young
days, I believe?"
"Intimately, and his wife, too. In
fact, I myself was a spectator of the
little comedy which resulted In their
marriage."
"You were?"
"I was," said Thorley, with an Im
pressive air. I saw that he was burst
ing to tell a good story. We were by
ourselves in a corner of the club smok
ing room. There axe men from whom,
In like circumstances, I should have
fled Incontinent, pleading an immediate
engagement. But Thorley was an ex
cellent raconteur and I had nothing
particular to do for half an hour. I
therefore lay back In my chair and re
garded him encouragingly.
"I believe," he went on, "that yon
would find the story rather diverting."
"Then, by all means, let me hear it,"
t suggested.
And, nothing loath, he began:
"It all happened more than thirty
rears ago," Thorley said. "I need hard
y say that the bishop had not, In those
lays, attained to episcopal honors. He
raa. in fact merely, the vicar of Pem-
ftorough, where I, a youngster, was
tarrying on my first practice, and
ivhere Margaretita's father was brew
ing indifferent beer. But even then his
reverence was a cleric marked out for
future, preferment, no less by bis aris
tocratic connections than by his in
trinsic personal merits: Nor by that
to I mean to imply that these merits
were inconsiderable. He was decided
ly intellectual, an eloquent preacher, a
rood organizer. And his bodily pres
race contributed an appreciable quota
to the effect of those qualities. He was
tall, imposing dignified.- Calm author
ttatlveness sat upon his placid and am
ple forehead. Solidity and weight
rwelled In the undulations of his capa
rdous waistcoat Severe -moral recti
tude helped to stiffen every line of his
upright and stately bearing. Evon
apart, therefore, from his Intrinsic self
he made a splendid figurehead for the
spiritual life of the parish. I suppose
his age must have been about 40,
though he looked older. And he was a
confirmed bachelor. So much so. In
fact, that the single ladles In Pembor-
pugh, of whom there were many, hard
ly regarded the vicar as a matrimonial
ly possibility; albeit, with his high con
nections and good prospects, he would
have been an excellent spec for the
best of them.
"Not that he was- a boor or a brutal
misogynist or anything of that kind,
Very much the reverse. He mixed free
ly in the social life of the place. He
enjoyed the: company of - ladies, and.
Indeed, in his sanctified way, was quite
t proficient flirt But to that deeper,
lasting sentiment which leads through
courtship to wedlock he was entirely
strange, and-1 honestly believe that the
bare idea-, of - matrimony had never
crossed his' mind. -
"Now I will revert for a minute to
the Barkers.
"I have said that Joshua Barker, the
head of that family, was a brewer of
indifferent beer. In spite of the qual
ity of his malt liquors he did a large
business, having many tied houses, and
was worth a considerable sum of mon
ey. But then he was the father of
fourteen children, so that his fine In
come was somewhat discounted.
shall not have much to say about any
of them, excepting his eldest daughter,
Margaret ta, whom I knew better than
any of the others and who was a great
friend of my wife's. In fact, the young
lady spent a great part of her time at
our house. And I was glad that she
did so, for my wife, having only lately
been married to me, and having come
from a house full of brothers and sis
ters, was In need of a congenial com
panion.
"Margaretta was a handsome and
prepossessing, girl; though even in
those days she snowed some slight ten
dency toward that richness of form and
feature which she has since abundant
ly realized. You have never met the
bishop's wife? Ah, well! ' She has
long measured a good forty-five inches
round the waist and is now the pos
sessor of four chins. But In her girl
hood she was pretty and fascinating,
and slight, and not a few local bloods
were enamored of her. These local
bloods, however, were all of the plebs
plebian, and Margaretta was a girl
of aspirations. She wanted to escape
altogether from the sordid vulgarity of
Pem borough society and to blossom
Into some more select and fashionable
sphere. Thus, at least, she frequently
confided to my wife, who, womanlike,
aided and abetted her In this ambitious
folly. ' .
, "My wife was talking to me about
Margaretta one day. She was deplor
ing the fact that there was no well
born and bred young men In Pembor
ongh to marry the poor girl, and re
move her Into that higher circle in
which she was so well qualified to
shine. And I said, laughingly:
" There's the vicar. He's splendidly
connected. - Why shouldn't she make
a match of it with the vicar?'
"It was simply a little Joke of mine.
But my wife (to whom this was evi
dently a new Idea) took it quite serious
ly. " To be sure,' she cried, clapping her
hands. There's the vicar. I wonder I
have never thought of him. Of course,
he's the very man.'
"I laughed aloud at the eager serious
ness with which she said it.
"'My dear I told her, 'I was only
joking. You don't suppose that the
vicar would look at Margaretta, do
you?
" 'And why not? demanded my wife,
bridling. 'Margaretta is good enough
for any man.'
" 'Perhaps so,' I observed. 'Far be It
from me to depreciate Margaretta. But
you see, my dear, the vicar Is not a
marrying man. In fact, for all his flirt
ing propensities, he is as confirmed a
bachelor as I have ever come across.'
" 'It Is a crying scandal that such
a man should be a bachelor, exclaimed
my wife. In an indignant tone. 1 call
it outrageous.'
' 'Especially with girls like Margaret
ta about, I suggested, slyly.
"But my wife was m no mood for
jesting over this affair.
" 'I wish you wouldn't make joues
out of everything, she retorted, quite
crossly. 'It is scandalous that the vicar
should remain a bachelor, it ought
not to be allowed, Everybody admits
that It Is the bounden duty of a bene
ficed clergyman to marry. Look what
an Invaluable help a wife Is In a par
ish! You can't deny that, can your
" 'Certainly not, my dear. It is quite
Indisputable.' I assented, for it was
after dinner. I was spoiling ror my
nap, and it was my hope that if I al
lowed my wife to silence me in argu
ment she would let the discussion drop.
Wherein,- to my great thankfulness, I
was not deceived. ' .
"But although no more' was said on
the subject just then, this idea which
I had so lightly mooted and which my
wife had jumped at with such eager
ness was not allowed by that persever
ing angel to rest The keenness with
which she threw herself Into her new
scheme, the energy with which she set
herself to execute it, excited my su
preme wonder and amusement No lit
tle dodge whereby the vicar and Mar
garetta might be brought together was
too barefaced for her; no little pretext
was too flimsy. She inveigled the rev
erend gentleman Into little dinners,
luncheons, teas, picnics, at which it
was Invariably managed that he should
be brought into close proximity with
Margaretta. She made them partners
at tennis and croquet, at whist and
four-handed chess. The vicar evident
ly enjoyed all this as a pastime for
Margaretta was very pretty. But while
he flirted with her, decorously and as
a clergyman should, and even some
times went rather farther than a cler
gyman should, he never went, nor uad
any idea of going, to the len'gth which
Margaretta pined for.
"You, my dear fellow, are a married
man, and you know the ways of wom
en. You will, therefbre, feel no sur
prise to hear that neither Miss Barker
nor my wife thought for a minute of
being content with these- unpractical
flirtations. Nor will It cause you the
smallest sensation of wonder to be in
formed that the entire blame for the
vicar's declining to toe the scratch was
shunted on to me. 'If I had been half a
man,' etc., 'If I had cared a fraction of
a straw for my wife's peace of mind,'
etc., 'If I had been at all like some oth
er husbands-she knew,' etc. However,
you, being married, have all this, of
course, at your fingers' ends, so I will
not go into that part of it Nor will I
dwell upon the piteous accounts given
me by my wife of poor Margaretta's
breaking heart, and of how she was
pining and wasting away, and qualify
ing for early quarters in the local cem
etery. That is an old story which I
will take leave to skip, and will resume
my narrative after an Interval of two
or three months.
"One. morning I was sent for In my
professional capacity to visit our vicar.
The complaint from which I found -him
suffering was of quite a trifling nature,
being nothing more serious than an at
tack of lumbago, and not a very severe
attack at that, for he was perfectly I
free from pain, In most postures, and
was only-very- violently gripped by the
malady when attempting to rise after ;
stooping or kneeling. "Still, of course,
this was sufficiently Inconvenient to a
clergyman, as it precluded his taking
part in the church services, and be was
particularly anxious to be well again
by the following Sunday;
"Now, there's no doubt about It, lum
bago does give rise to some very ridic
ulous situations. In fact the patient's
movements when trying if you under
stand me, to sidle round that particu
lar posture, In which he knows that he
will be gripped, and to gain the desired
perpendicular .by dodging, so to speak,
the muscles of his own back, are often
extremely grotesque. Take it, also,
that the patient Is one who prides him
self on the dignity of his deportment
as our vicar did and this grotesque
ness is appreciably enhanced. Indeed,
what could be a funnier sight to see
than dignity struggling with lumbago?
I, myself, though hardened by profes
sional' experience, have often derived
the hugest amusement from it And I
certainly did so In this case.
"Our excellent vicar was extremely
sorry for himself. He gave me a
graphic account of the torturing agon
ies which he had endured, in trying to
rise from a kneeling posture in church
where he bad been suildenly seized
and how it had taken him good five
minutes to regain his feet. I proscribed
some of the usual remedies, and prom
ised to call again In a day or two. When
I reached home the first question my
wife asked me was:
" 'Well, what Is the matter with the
vicar?
" 'Only a touch of lumbago,' I an
swered. " Then he will be unable to attend
the parish conversazione this evening,
I suppose?
" 'Oh, no. I have told him that he
may keep all his social engagements.
Church is the only thing tabooed, bo
cause the poor man cannot kneel, or
rather when he kneels cannot get up
again.'
"Oh! I am glad that he will be there
this evening. The parish conversazione
without the vicar would be quite the
play without Hamlet, would It not?
" 'Yes for Margaretta,' I replied,
jestingly.
"I said that on purpose to draw my
wife. But the shaft missed. She seem
ed, Indeed, not to even have heard my
remark, and I saw that she had sud
denly fallen into one of her absent fits.
Soon afterward she left the room and
went upstairs, humming a tuue, a
thing which she always did when she
was enveloped la a brown stud. -
"We both went to the parish eoaver
sazlone that evening. It was one of a
series of functions held quarterly by
the vicar and the church wardens to
promote social intercourse and friendli
ness between the members of the con
gregation. These gatherings took
place at the town ball, and consisted
of tea and coffee, twaddle and flirta
tions, for which last-named amusement
various alcoves in the lobbies and pass
ages were not inconvenient; thj more
so, as the said lobbies and passages
were but. indifferently lighted.
"At this particular function every
body, of course, was present, Including
Margaretta, her parents and other
adolescent members of her family. My
wife bore down upon Margaretta the
moment she appeared, and I saw them
soon engaged In a whispered conversa-
tion in a corner of the tearoom. I did
not observe them again for some little
time, being just then tackled by a
wealthy and hypochondriacal old lady
one of my best patients who insist-,
ed on recounting to me a long history'
of all that she hod suffered since our
last meeting. 1 was inexpressibly
bored by this tire -ome old person. But
I could not offend her, so was obliged
to listen. And v hen at last I was free
from her which was not for twenty
minutes I noted, with a grin of amuse
ment, that Margaretta (aided, no doubt,
by my wife), had made her pounce, and
was in the act of sailing out of the tea
room upon the arm of our stately vicar,
who did not. Indeed, seem at all loth to
lead forth this beauteous damsel into
the greater seclusion of the dimly light
ed passages. -
"I looked round for my wife. Ah!
There she was bobbing and nobbing
.with old Joshua Barker, not three yards
from where I stood! Presently I heard
her say to him: '' ":
"'Don't you think tills room rather
hot, Mr. Barker? Shall we go out into
the lobby for a few minutes?
" 'Certainly a. good Idea, answered
the brewer, offering ber his arm.
; "And off they went my wife throw
ing me a -.meaning but mystifying
glance over her shoulder as she passed.
That she was up to some mischief 1
could see plainly. That this mischief
was In connection with the vicar and
Margaretta I could conjecture with
tolerable certainty. But beyond that
general impression, I was quite in the
dark and, being detached just then and
seeing nobody about with whom I had
.the least desire to converse, I strolled
out myself into the lobby with the idea
of seeing If possible what my wife's
little game wa
"As I sauntered slowly along one of
the side passages, I heard the sound of
murmured conversation on my right.
Glancing in that direction, I descried
the vicar and Margaretta seated in con
tiguous chairs, screened by a big palm.
They were too much taken up to have
observed me. And, I am half ashamed
to confess it, but I did a -low thing. I
slipped behind a brawny plaster Her
cules, which stood adjacent and played
the eavesdropper.
'The vicar was bending close to Mar
garetta, uttering many pretty speeches
but nowise committing himself and
she was listening with heightening col
or' and downcast eyes, ever and anon,
..however, raising those features and
darting at him glances of radiant ten
derness, meant, doubtless,- to evoke
something from his lips more practical
than these empty compliments. Once
or twice I half thought that a declara
tion was coming; but on each occa
sion he pulled himself up just at the
critical point, .and turned what looked
like being a proposal into a mere piece
of flirtatious rhetoric. : It must have
been uncommonly tantalizing for Mar
garetta. But she kept her head and
her temper admirably, and continued
to smile on him as blandly as hereto
fore. "At last having, as I supposed, giv
en up all hope for that occasion, since
I was not then aware of the wonderful
resourcefulness of woman-rMargaretta
suggested that they should be rejoin
ing the others. The vicar agreed. They
rose from their seats, and as they did
so, Margaretta, happening to glance
down at ber particularly neat little
' toes, uttered a sudden ejaculation.
" 'Oh! Look! The ankle strap of my
shoe has come unbuttoned. Ob! dear!
I I if . it would not be presuming too
much upon your kindness, Mr. Travers,
I I '
" 'Don't mention it . With pleasure,'
murmured the reverend gentleman, as
he sank gracefully upon one knee and
proceeded to negotiate the strap round
her pretty ankle.
" 'Ha! my friend.' I chuckled to my
self from behind my Hercules. 'In
the gallant Impulse of the moment, you
have forgotten your lumbago. Facilis
descensus! - Sed revocare'- gradum!
Now--I shall see sport '.
" 'Oh, please, get up, Mr. Travers F
murmured Miss Margaretta, blushing
ly, affecting to be Ignorant of the true
state of the case. . 'Oh, please get up
Somebody will see you.'
"11 will you give me your
hand? gasped the vicar, desperately.
"She did so, in the prettiest confu
sion. The vicar clasped it with all the
fervor, of lumbago.
'Then it all came about more sud
denly than you would believe. For
there stood Joshua Barker and there
stood my wife, as though they had
dropped from the "clouds: . And Joshua
was shaking the still kneeling vicar by
the hand and saying:
" 'Congratulate you, my dear vicar,
congratulate "you! I ought not to in
trude just now. But I was passing, by
Jove, and couldn't help seeing and my
feelings as a father got the better of
my discretion. You have won a treas
ure a treasure, sir,' etc. ...
"At the same time my wife was kiss
ing Margaretta, who had covered her
blushing face with her hands, and God
blessing her and heaven knows what
beside, looking the while as Innocently
pleased and happy as a guileless child.
"It was splendid sport for everybody
except the vicar. And he-r-poor man!
was more taken aback .and flabber
gasted than anybody I have ever seen.
He never attempted to expostulate or
explain. ' Perhaps he meant to defer
the difficult and disagreeable task until
he could perform it by letter. If so,
the delay was fatal to him; for, before
the evening was over, everybody pres
ent had heard of the' engagement, and
the vicar had run the gantlet of a hun
dred congratulations. "By - accepting
j these, without repudiation as he did
he simply gave nimseir away, ana ren
dered any future explanation impose!
ble."
"He must have T:een extremely weak
minded.
"Perhaps. But then, you see, he was
In an uncommonly tight corner. He
had been flirting in a risky way with
Margaretta, and It was quite natural
that she should misunderstand what
occurred. Under , those circumstances,
to disabuse ber would have been a
delicate task, from which any man
I might well be excused for shrinking,
! At any rate, he did shrink, and the
' consequence was the little biographical
' circumstances which has evoked the
tory." London Truth. . ... ,
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How to Buy a Horse. -
If you want to buy a horse don't, be
lieve your own brother. Take no man's
word for. It, says an old horseman; in
Horseshoe rs' Journal. Your eye Is your
market - Don't buy a horse" In har
ness. Unhitch hiur and take every
thing off but the halter and lead him
around. If he has any failing you can
see It Let him go himself a way, and
if he walks right into anything you
know he is blind. No matter how
clear and bright his eyes are, he can't
see any more than a bat Back him,
too.
Some horses show their weakness or
tricks In that way, when they don't in
any other. But, be as smart as you
can, you'll get caught sometimes. Even
the experts get caught. -A horse may
look ever so nice and go a great pace,
and yet have fits. There isn't a man
who could tell it until something hap
pens. Or he may have a weak back.
Give him the whip and off he goes for
a mile or two, then all of a sudden he
stops on the road. After a rest he
starts again, but he soon stops for
good, and nothing but a derrick can
tart him.
The weak points about a horse can
better be discovered while standing
than while moving. If he Is sound he
will stand firmly and. squarely on his
limbs without moving them, with legs
plumb and naturally poised; or If the
foot is taken from the ground and the
weight taken from it disease may be
suspected, - or, at least, tenderness,
which is the precursor of disease. If
a horse stands with his feet spread
apart or straddles with his hind legs
there Is a weakness In his loins, and
the kidneys are disordered. .
Heavy pulling bends the knees. Blu
ish, milky-cast eyes In horses indicates
moon blindness or something else. A
bad-tempered one keeps his ears
thrown back, and a stumbling horse
has blemished knees. When the skin
Is rough and harsh and does not move
easily to the touch,, the , horse is a
heavy eater and digestion bad.. Isever
buy a horse whose breathing-organs
are at all Impaired. Place your eye at
the heart, and If a wheezing sound is
heard It Is an Indication of trouble.
Cultivating: Corn.
After the corn has been planted a
few .days,, take, the sulky cultivator,
put on the fenders and run through the
rows the way" .the corn was planted.
This cultivation -call be readily done
when the field is put In by the planter.
After the corn is well above the
ground, cultivate across the rows. A
third cultivation should be given when
the corn Is six inches in height These
three workings will mellow the soil
and kill off all the young weeds that
have germinated in the top soil. The
"sulky cultivator Is just the Implement
for this work, as It completely stirs the
ground, letting InJ,he air, dews, sun
shine and rain. The corn should . be
worked four times before it Is laid by.
For weedy land work the crop five or
six times at least "Shallow and fre
quent cultivation should be the motto;
the sod should be deeply plowed, and
the field put in mellow condition be
fore planting. . ,.v . -. . ,
Tethering; Cow., . '
The best way to tether cows Is to
have a head halter for each cow to be
tethered. Have a ring fastened secure
ly in the nose-piece; the chain can be
snapped into this ring, and the iron
pin at the end of the chain driven
about a fdot or more into the ground,
the cow Is then firmly held. Light steel
tethering chains should be used. These
chains are made especially for this
purpose. .They -bave a swivel In the
middle, and are twenty feet In length,
and the retail price is 50 cents each. A
cow should never be tied by the horns
or round the neck, as she may be
thrown down and her neck broken. If
fastened to a' neck halter she has too
much power and can easily pull the
pin out of the ground.
Orisrln of Berkshire.
A correspondent of an English paper.
thus states the origin of the Berk
shires: "The family of pigs in Berk
shire, which was the foundation of the
present improved breed, was of a san
dy or buff color, about equally spotted
with black; was of a large size, a slow
feeder, and did not mature till two
and a half or three years old. But such
as It 'was, however, it was highly "es
teemed for (he proportion of lean to
fat In the meat, and for the superior
weight of the - hams and shoulders
The Improvement is reported to have
commenced during the last century,
through the importation of a Siamese
boar, which was mated with the Berk
shire sows. This breed (the Siamese)
were generally of a black color, of me
dium size; quick to mature; very fine
on all points, with short, small legs and
head, thin jowls, dish face, slender,
erect ears, broad, deep, compact body,
well ribbed up; extra heavy hams and
shoulders: a slender tail, thin skin, and
firm, elastic flesh. After using the Sia
mese boar to the old style sows as long
as it was considered necessary, he was
discarded and the cross pigs then bred
together."
Extra Work Pays Best.
It never pays to shirk work on the
farm. Nature cannot be cheated. It
Is always the farmer who does his
work promptly, and who neglects no
"point necessary to make a good crop,
who succeeds. There is no money
made by growing poor crops. In most
cases, he who merely plows and sows,
without manuring, does a great deal of
work for nothing. "Let him that plow
eth, plow In hope, said one great apos
tle in olden time. This is the best pos
sible motto for the farmer. It means
that everything, before and after plow
ing, shall be all that labor and skill can
give to make the harvest a success. It
Is a sad confession that the old-time
farmer made that bis crop did not turn
out as well as he expected, and he al
ways knew It . wouldn't , No fa rmer,
coworking with nature, ought to ex"
pect failure. Seed time and harvest do
not fail to. those ' who do their part
of the contract ' If they do fail In ev
erything.'- despite the best care. -It
means that the locality where
this often occurs was not meant far
farming purposes. If It. Is fit for farm
ing, the season will be right to "make a
success of something.
- Planting Potato Peellnea.
. There Is no temptation to- potato
growers to economize by planting pota
to peelings for seed while potatoes are
so cheap as they have been this year
and last. .Yet very good crops have
been grown that way, and there are
growers who'" believe that for a very
early crop the peelings cut rather thick
er than usual, and cut Into pieces hav
ing one or two vigorous eyes on each
set, will bring new tubers sooner than
will sets cut through whole potatoes.
The truth seems to be that the potato
peeling Isapt to be pretty well dried
through when planted In cold,' moist
soil early in the spring, and It therefore
starts to growing at once. The thick
piece of potato, especially if fresh cut,
is moist, and this with the moisture
of the soil keeps the potato germs from
starting until both soil and seed have
dried. . ', :
Uniting Weak Colonies.
Beekeepers often have colonies thai
are apparently listless and unwilling
to work, even when conditions are fa
vorable for procuring pollen and honey.
In such case the colony thus affected
Is probably destitute of a queen, and
unless one Is quickly supplied the col
ony soon dwindles to nothing. '. Th
life of an active working bee In sum
mer is not more than six to ten weeks.
Were it not that the queen Is constant
ly depositing eggs for her new brood
the colony must perish. If a new
queen can be got, slip It Into the hive,
and within a day or two the bees will
be actively at work bringing in -honey.
Another way is to stupefy the swarm
with smoke and put it with one that is
known to have a queen. One strong
swarm is always worth more than two
or three weak ones, v
Feeding; Calves for Cows.
When calves are intended to ' be
grown for cows it is a great mistake
to feed them so heavily as to increase
the tendency to fatten. Often this can
be seen at birth in the thick, bull-like
neck and heavy bead. In such case It
is best to fatten and sell to the butcher,
no matter what stock may be its an
centry. But " frequently also the. calf
which seems to be all right for a good
milker Is fed so heavily and on such
fattening food that its tendency for life
to: produce fat and beef rather than
milk and butter is fully established. To
grow a good cow the calf should not
be stunted. That will Impair diges
tion, which is just as important for the
cow as It is for a. beef animal. Calves
intended to be kept for cows should
have much succulent food, with enough
of the kind of nutrition required to
make large growth.
For . Land or for Crop.
The old question whether it Is better
to manure for land or for crop Is not
much asked nowadays. The loss ol
original fertility of soil and the narrow
ing profits on crops require that farm
ers in these ymes should get as nearly
full returns as possible from all the
manure they apply. If they manure al
all for the future it is by seeding witb
clover, when they apply the fertilizer,
so that part of Its benefit shall remain
in the clover roots. Besides this, seed
ed ground does not waste fertility,
either by washing or' blowing away,
as that left naked In winter Is sure tg
do.
Muddy Barnyards.
It is not easy to underdrain the barn
yard. In most cases so rich is the soil
in fertilizing matter that much of the
fertility will soak into the underdrain,
no matter how deeply It may be put.
There it will develop a fungus growth
that will completely stop the drain
and make It of no value whatever.
When this once happens ther is no
way to clean the drain so as to prevent
new growth of fungus from appearing
in it. The best way to care for a mud
dy barnyard is to have it small and
bed it heavily with straw.
The Pistpen in Summer.
. As warm weather approaches sows
and pigs should be given wider range.
When grass starts the pen should open
upon a yard where fresh grass and
access to fresh soil can be had as freely
as the pigs desire. . There is nothing
like rooting, and the roots and grubs
that pigs get thereby, to keep them in
good health, and if -well fed they will
not do more rooting than is best for
the soil to clear it of insect enemies to
all crops, either in the orchard or in
the pasture field.
Rot in Cherries.
Many find . that they cannot grow
cherries on account of rot. . This is sk
most invariably from lack of potash
lii the soil, though It may occur where
trees are set in low - land filled with
stagnant : water during the spring
months. A heavy application of wood
ashes or of muriate of potash applied
now and with plenty of water to dis
solve it will make fruit that will ripen
without rotting. .
Farm Notes..'-'
Plan to grow more grass and clover
Study the requirements of the soil
as well as of the market.
Select the crops with respect to their
adaptability to the f arm.-
It Is not only an Item to Increase
quantity but to Improve the quality of
the crops. ..
Colts should be trained to walk fast
before attempting to Improve them in
any other gait
On the farm, as in any other line of
business, It Is an item .to save labor
and economize time.
The first hatched queen bee will de
stroy all remaining queen cells, provid
ed it is not in the height of the honey
flow.
Manure adds to the productiveness
of land as soon as It Is applied, but all
of the substances will not be used up
In one season.
". The farm products should be put In
tbe'for-m In which they will bring the
most money and yet leave the farm In
the most productive condition.
If the bees seem to dwindle in the
spring, look them over every day; close
up the division boards, taking out all
of the combs they canot coyer.
.While the farm may not always show
large returns In the way of cash, yet
with good management the farmer rni y
be reasonably sure or a good llvin,
How Tradesmen Ara Cheated
Two. dealers, one of chluaware
the other in suits and wraps, h'appj
to be discussing, not long ago, the
tifarious ways of small cheating
in vogue. ' , . .
"A lady she Is counted a very
lady Indeed," said the 'first; "sent t
on Christmas ve for a punebbo
be forwarded to the house oh appi
On December 26 it was returned
word that it did not suit But we c
see that it had been used and cai
washed. She had had all she needed of
it and then she sent it back."
: "Its ttie same thing," responded the
i other, "with our Easter business. Not
a year passes that we don't have suits
sent' home on approval and promptly
returned on Easter Monday. They
have been worn for the festival, and
then what was considered their most
urgent need was gone, and so they are
thrown back .on our hands. ;
, , His Kicnse,
The Pastor I don't see your husband
at church any more. r
The Wife No; he nevergoes now.
4 "What's the matter? i
"Why, you know. 'he's a vegetarian,
and he says there is too much meat in
your sermons to suit . him. Yonker
Statesman. ' ' ..--ws
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. Wkala-KUlias with Electricity.
A Canadian sea-oaptaln has Invented
in unuitw with which he thinks
whales can be killed by electric shock.
A harpoon Is fix ad at the end oi a long
metallic cable, properly Insulated, and
which serves in place of the usual rope.
Throiiirh tht cable an electric current
of 10,000 volts is to be sent by means ,
of a dynamo jcarnea ai ue wiuue-uwu
The Inventor believes that no whale
would be able to withstand the shock It
would receive the instant the harpoon
entered Its side.
' A Till OI MIST
Rising at morning or evening from some low.
land, often carries in its folds the seeds of ma
laria. Where malarial fever prevails no one is
safe, unless protected by some efficient medic
inal safeguard. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
both a protection and a remedy. No person
who inhabits, or sojourns in a miasmatic re-
f;ion or country, should omit to procure this
ortifying agent, which is also the finest known
remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, kidney
trouble and rheumatism.
In Lexington, Ky., there is a club,
the youngest member of which is 80
years old. All the others are over 90.
AN EXCELLENT SCHOOL.
- Hoitt's School at Burlingame, Cal., deserves
its high reputation for excellence. It is un
questionably one of the best schools for boys on
the Western coast. San Franctieo Call.
- Two cows two pigs, eighteen hens,
a. grayhound pup and a bull were given
to an agent by an Abilene (Kan.)
farmer for a cabinet organ.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
As mercury-will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable ohysi
cians, as the damage they will do Is tenfold to
the good you can possibly derive from them.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo., O., contains no mer
cury and is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys
tem. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. It is taken internally,
and made in Toledo, O., by F. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free. .
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A new nail making machine pro
puces as many nails in a given time as
were formerly made by 1,000 men.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD " CASTORIA," AND
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I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Eyannis, Massachusetts,
was tTie originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same
that has borne and does now jjF . on every
bear the facsimile signature of Cut F-cUc&M wrapper.
This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been
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years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought If.f i 7" on tno
and has the signature of&rfi"&C&X wrap
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