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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1898)
SOLDIER'S TARGET. AC'II man, a hr signed hit name on the enll.uncnt roll, r. nl' that war nii'iint fight, anil (lint fight meant kill. Tbl Idea ivaa furl tier drilled Into i t V a Uf In camp; It form ed the basis of tlie colonel's addreii a ,i to tin- front; It ibt 01ir uiUSKeis lu nu ...... . . I- . t r I. . aii- lit I.; It 01 lue curinj ioi mi ll' . t....i hnnma soldier tn i i u J . , ,,,r i I... I. 1. l..lil illlll Kill. n '' r-u. . upoii uh a limner ui uu.h l 1 1 ..r i 1 1 1' 1 1 1 v w .i i-.iitni-i- ...... ,.n.-r tti' win in mii- i" .iv'-. thou em iuiu w , I. Ill C had tlie snme teciing iu kiii I 1...... nl lli.. fnilil l.nr c .11 noi ..... C.iind mi exception. A Score . -i.i. ,...',.. i s iv ere onicreii uowu in Ii . . - . .i... ..... .....nl In reel l lie Dgtb of tlie enemy in tlie tnuge oi uf nlung a creek. Ambrose Davis me of us. He wan a man of no - ni:n everv day man who had laid .m Hie tools of a mechanic to take ... I.i,.f n until HP I III W'.'l HOI . .i,.,J.,din 1ml lie was ull otic i ..... ,.l it in li,,r,.i I nver f1,,. trek. Hie enemy In the fringe had a r . . .. i' ...i.i. rid fi'-l oil every iiiiiu. ..m nun I. 4 1,11 'I'.. 1. II ...... i iiillilon men means little, and yet mis kill. Zip! Plug! Zip! It was 101 Ulillfi 'J V eeii-v ........ .v i-.- l...l It..,. I.I- III,. . ALa .. ..-! I.ntli.t (lira nnin,. I.. lii.ii tit f..t DM ( till ' V III tl't I f crtocbtd down tod mn forward c iU'7 ,-el to right nud left. We, la .1... Ul...lt..l .if ..T'l.l'l Lllllll I.PII.I. DU Ull. I. I. I III III in.. IIU11 lu ii.-.eii'o 'I'l I.... I ... .1 1.... . ... -I I. ... I -M I rr L hi i hi ' iv hi.. in ii. mi i.i mv:s mis ii o n'ii iv iii uie ii ii,-'- wt where a farm road crossed the k. The enemy to the right and left , . , , . l . I 1 i . .. a . i . I III II'. HI II .I lllllll. III." I'.IIIIX "I llll ir.nii .14 ii tiri'.'1-.t u urk unit we u-ere rini? a lti'iiiI deal at random. An utlleer ..II ..I . . I 1.. ,1 t .1.1 , bis eyes he took a cool survey of the .1.. I t..m I.....I, ..f ... ll... 1. 1 1 1 IT.. piui-rui iiii i.iiv n v. uo vu mil. iiv .11 niiiiiu ' ."i oiiu. ui i.i. .in i f uius; nae hiionn il ii ii i i yei ne loca mi re as eooi ami eaiiii as vou c me nes oi i lie resi. i was 10 I le lit "I '. iv s nml coil hi have almost ii tie 'it w mi a s one: uie man IP w is Ii i r nor eiloiii liiiu'i,v..r i.i juts. I lien we watched the oilleer to am 1.1m ll....... .... 1.1. l...H.la 1 ..ll u:rly s e. iii s nasseil nwiiv. ninl we SI.HWKD TDK Ml ZZI.i: OK 1 I)ltil Ulil loob nl I lO rl i'iT - - i ill IUI t'lltl J ' - .milt.- m- in l .1 " r 'tti U bill, UUI Lll'n vt Iter In it . t a , . i.icn few sccitiuls to nerve hlmsolf up. - "Mil uill IU MM UllH-vi. aw PPl'BJ A .' ,. A. , ll.. , ! 1 nuui ui HUH ll mm. i it uc 'nnuiu iii is in lilt ."" - l l. . L. kla t10.l(.s .. II . .ail tB il... r-w.w i, IUIU IH'ltl MIVIll l" -. llt'liri dlllll ri.twii .1- iuiv .".uui tl3 1 HUHIHMI 11 1111 ii oi-v- - r-nvtl, (i mi hi It'UKUl IR'iilu it iMtis ini suuuiiiik hi uiiu. onot: Shoot! Whj the devil don't I turned to look at Davis, and ns I riirbt and flred Into the bushes. ftU laUa .1 ,i; . In s siaisiil 'ii' til rr till I 1 ii'nrni 18 L' I Oil . . . .. .. 1 I 1 . I .. I. I. o-".-i-3, uuu swiUKiiiK uiim ui ins Pi! . . . . i . . ui I rr-1 na lis lllllll 111 Iiu It i ii in. CI Inn KJ i . .i . kuv ii.ii. in 'ii i ',i . m n. ii u 1 1 i.i i . ... i.i... . Ia V is, I can't lu ll v. vnn nrn n enn- rn i. . - ... - .iiii- vnn ivitii i own mi r naa ou iiuv iu ih. Bum ai, mil wnrn an eut'iny ia:n under your .... vMini-i i luai. nu uiiiu i wM uuu down?" 1 M irolnir to. !r. hut I I - , "Ui me reply. 'Hut they were shooting at you to I know' Tht cnntnln ...mi.t Kn..n - M maD for not kllllnir in niwnitr na he! -- KMIHI III I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 ' ""iu have shot down a ral.hlt. nud! - uo one to nmt mat onvis i nun ire rue inr ii.mi ...-u r,,r. -:- .uri nine, am such was the eouauci or tne man that he ma.ie a corporal. When the enemy "iurw behind the work at York- I i . . . - our .MCI le an S refill to i' l- wW, w th Willis who, -e-ii.,.r. ..... m,..,r. .....ru ' "Pei'iai tareet. One d.nv three T 1 mxi ,,aaj -ws- ion Ptulea of nj were dragging up tome ! Of (hi tlAS W m .U . . ' Bun to Do nut In pol t on aniajo, ;.nd . private wore kill ? l ,r V"'rtr,h,,"r w!l located out ImT '""Mb'l"'"-"y made out hut t he rtng , to.. far f.,r our arm, n.t..ke.. A Herdan rifle was sent for, and Whetl t arrived n l'lt Into, ,e hands ,)f ,..,,,,., 1Jav ' and laid: "You are by k)B odda the beat shot ? ""J" company. With a dead-rest over that IM you can tumble that man out Of blf tree." Davl. bung baek and turned pale. Just then a brigadier rode up to give on order, and his horse had scarcely come to a halt when a bullet from the "harpshnotcr passed through the gen eral t bat IK. na not only a bit larded, but lucllned to reprimand that jw inww iind not lieeu dlpoael of. "hen he ftm the heavy rifle In the liamU of the pale-facsl and hcaltatlng corporal he ahouted out: "Hurry up, man. aud tumble him out of that before he ran nilnaril If brtng him don I II auk your captain to make a m-rgeant of you Ave mluutea uier; DTll advanced to a gturnp a fen feet anav nini i.n. ii ,i.,,i i, .....i .i..i hi rllle aemvs It. We who knew his nwiknmuMhip felt mm that iiis baUti VOald qMd true. 1U. took a long aim. ami we were holding our breath to hear the report of the rllle. when he drew baek. roae up and Midi "1-1 can't shoot that man!" The word were hardly out of bis mouth when the man lu the tree flred again, and his bullet struck down a I "ii . uaut within DTI feet of the briga dier. "Vou Idiot, but why don't you shoot?" shouted the ludlgnant general, as he topped forward. "It la cold blood, air-cold blood!" whispered Havls. who trembled In ev ery 1 1 tub, and wus as pale-faced as a Ill.'l.l In. in 'lou poltroon, you cowardl" raged the general. "Here, you man cut the "I" from tils sleeves, and you, cap tain, see. that he Is reduced to the ranks on the company roll! He ought to bo court-martialed and driven out of the annv lu it ltirrn.i-i " A sohller Htemii.il f.,r u i -,l nml u-Oh I.I I. . I.. I .1 I M sluuk away lu disgrace. Here was a a. ... ...... . ...Ill I. J I .1 .. . . ciiuiiHi iuui. . nviinivi till Ulll uui ii,-. in- 1 1 ' I'm liiuieil ill It oii.Hlllou 1U oe kiiiiii eutini 1101 ih' inuueei 10 ure upon uie enemy. 11 is soniierir dual - out of the ranks, and yet be refused to carry out a soldier's first duty to kill. We could not call hltn a coward no man Is a coward who will face death but we called him strange and won dered what was back of It all. The men of the company fell away from hltn, and lu a few days be Btood almost alone. When we followed up the ene my after Yorktown there was some h. avy skirmishing with the rear guard. Ambrose Davis was with the company, and upon one occasion, wbon the hun dred charged and captured a gun, he HIS r.l'N TO THK UIOIIT." led us all lu the rush aud was the first man to put a hand on It After that we said It was a case of "nerves." or that he had a henslltary fear of shedding Wood, and he was looked upon more favorably. We saw nothing more of the "strange ness" of Ambrose Davis until the battle which drove Meridian to make a change of lase. For half a day our reg iment stood In battle line, waiting to at tack or be attacked, and during this In terval our company lost two men killed and three wounded. It required all the nerve the men could work up to stand there and be shot at without firing a shot In return, but Davis showed no more nervousness than any of the rest When at length we moved by the left flank for n quarter of a mile and then dropped down to open Are and hold our ground. Davis was the man on my left and as I loaded my musket I noticed that he was firing high. Five minute later a lleuteuant came creeping along In rear of us and warning each man to aim low. I heard him cursing Davis, and twice after that ere we fell back, I saw the man firing Into the tree tops. The enemy crowded us back day by dav and mile by mile, and there was fighting over every foot of the hlgh wis We had a fierce grapple at I-air Oaks, and again at Savage Station, but all I knew of Davis was that be was with us. It was only when weturued at bay at Malvern H!ll that I found my self iH-slde him again. He bad been three times grar.il by bullets and that was proof that he had stood up to a soldier's work. Our regiment was sta tioned at the Use of the hill, strung along in the bad of a dry creek, and the binks gave us protecih.n and a rest for our muskets. As the enemy came swarming across the open every man a fafr target I had flred three or four time when my musket fou ed. and .. i i..l to clear It I watched Davis. He was Trlng over the bead, of the . ... . nor n ,s : U,n aas L Thirty f.t Our position was' LS.,hir L I, 2. crrled. The vuru" iu :l-1 The one wmcn couru ""L re.ll.td thU nt teat, and the Mlelagan todieawnjr. On our front "l.v dMd IM v,ve,l mb, , ;"r " MBld .e, and all tir'n- ad cea.,,1. when a man suddenly rose P rrmn th,. groini,! ..,. - ..i.,,,! ,,.., away and stood staring at us. A thou nud men shouted at him to e,.tue and siirri'Hiler, but after n i . .. .....in, i 4- l l mi uis n.iek and liogan moving away. I do not know why any of the hundred of men w ho had hltn in range did not Ore, but they did uot. Some were even vu.r,ug the man. when an ottlcer ot ,' juiniv.i uowu among us and shouted: "Shoot him -shoot hlm-wby don't some of you bring Ulm down?" His words were heard by Ufty men. But not a gun was raised. The otHeer was stormlug at us when Kavli sud denly lifted his musket and tired, and the retreatlug man Hung up his arms, urtlll.,... i . . wainm anout and sank down. Curses and groans followed, and Havls threw "ff or destroyed the parents of a rook down his gun and hid his face In h!i vv)' these crabs swarm out ami devour bands aud sobbed. "A splendid shot!" cried the officer. "and If I were your captain you would bl a corporal to-morrow!" Iav!s had done a strange thing. We looked at hltn and wondered over IL T'clr ''right colors, like those of the The heat of the battle ws yet atrong tiger, make them less dangWOM thau upon us. but the killing of the man their appetites would otherwise lie. sivtned little short of cold blooded mur- There Is little purple crab UoB m'r- the coast of southern Florida which "I 'Id I kill -kill him?" asked Davis of smi to food almost entirely upon the a man beside him when he could con- fruit of the cactus. This It 10 much re- trol I himself. solubles that you arc suddenly sur- "ies. you shot hltn dead, the poor prised to see one of tlie succulent little derUL Whjt didn't you let him get ball move away from your Angers b u";v?" . for, von "ro aware that It Is alive. Ton have all been down on me ba- S''P buck and the cvnh will resume Its cnuse i wouldn't kill," moaned the plan and seem to be us curious iboal shooter, as he hid his face again. I you as yon an about him, That night we fell back to the James 1 One of the most baantlfnlahtUl foi:nd Itlver. In the darkness and confusion ' along our coast Is that of a large sun 1 1 commands were mixed up. and It was J which climbs certain trees and grows night again before the company roll delicately fat on tlie young birds. The was called. Private Davis was among shell Is as thin as tlssu,. paper, oddly the missing. He had survived the bat-! curved and almost as transparent us tie the re.reat was unmolested If the finest glass. It belongs to the font alive he was bound to And his command ll.v of edible snails so prized as a dell within a few hours. And pet he never acy on the COM) of I rnnee.und If prop found IL When the returns were made erly prepared makes a delicious dish, up bis name was placed among the It Is most abundant about New Itlver dead. He had boon disgraced becauso ' Inlet, where the slight shake of a tree he would not kill. He had nerved hltn- j nliout sunset will bring a shower of self up at last to fire upon a human them to the ground. The breakage of a target and then? We spoke his namo ' shell seems to lie of little trouble to the lu whispers after that, and said only ' snail- he repairs the damage aud good words for ulni.-Charlos B. Lewis, moves on.-Jacksonville il'la.i I'ltlicu. iu ueuver .ews. A FORTUNE OVERLOOKED. Ihe Unexpected Kind Mude by the fcxecutors of Washington iistutc. "You may talk about the wonderful discoveries of gold iu the Klondike re gion," said a lawyer a few days ago, "but one of the richest gold finds of the year occurred right here lu Wash ington. 1 w ill not meutlon names, but the gentleman referred to wus known all over the country before be died as one of the wealthiest penslou ngeuts and publishers of the present duy. "A short time after the captalu (I will call him 'captiilu' throughout the story) died, his executors were, engaged In making an examluutlon of his effects. Ills will had been cnrefully drawn nud all of his real and personal properly was supposed to bo distributed urnoiig his relatives and friends, according to his lust wishes. One dny In clearing out the safe In the building which still bears the captain's name uu old chest wus discovered In one of the dark corners of the vault. It hud been there for yours, and wus supposed to contain only some plutes aud drawings of war pictures, used In connection with a book of ivur stories. The executors had passed the old chest by without exam ining Its contents, supposing, of course, that It contained nothing but the plates and drawings, as indicated by the marking on the outside. One of the clerks engaged In the work hnd curl- ; rslty enough to take a peep luto tho chest When the loose drawings wero removed a sight met his gaze that fairly took bis breath away. There, nestling among the Bheets of wnr pictures, nud at the bottom of tho chest wns an Im mense pile of gold coin, which, when counted, amounted to something over $,-,11,1 KM I. "There were gold plecea of every de nomination, from $1 to $20. The dis covery was so unexpected that the ex ecutors were nt a loss for some time to account for the pile of trensure. Tho latest will was carefully scrutinized, but nothing In It could be found rela tive to the unlooked-for gold deposit j Various theories were advanced to ex plain the accumulation of coin, and It wns finally concluded that the captain had followed the example of other cau tious capitalists during the Inst raid on the treasury gold reserve, and hoarded the amount found In the chest. Tho coin looked as though It might huve been dropped Into the chest carelessly. : for the various denomlnatlonsand dates were In liannv confusion. The eiecu- tors were unable to account for the Il(.rtnt,,n(ients of Its trains and dully omission of the gold pile In the will, hnaliMMl may keep their (Jllces soino for although the captain was a great frQen eU(, snender. he usually kept a clear ac- count of his securities. It Is possible that he may have loen quietly engaged ln hoarding gold pieces for n numlier of years prior to his death, and when . . a ... i ill . V. nmv hnvn containing the wnr pictures. Of course the gold was carefully counted and en tered up as a very desirable part of the eatate,' Washington Evening Star. Cartons French Legend. It Is asserted by the Industrlelles tr.ehn that thousands of flve-franc nieces are spilt Into halves by their French owners every year In the hope of "discovering an immense niuoea treasure. This treasury, according to the legend firmly lielleved In France, la-an order to pay the bolder 100,000 francs ln silver flve-franc coins. Win n Napoleon Bonaparte first set the flve franc piece In circulation the conserva tive mind of the French revolted against the numismatic revolution, and It was very difficult to Induce a French man to receive or proffer the new coin. Hence, according to the story, Napo leon gave It to be understood that he had ordered a check for 100,000 francs, written upon asliestos paper, to De con cealed In one of the new silver pieces. From that day to una uuiwi; um Jected to the flve-franc plcce,-Indu , trlelb t Echo. Pspr Telegraph Pole. Telegraph poles are now tnade of compressed paper. Those or that ma, t.-rla! are said to be more durable than terlalare . tho - W wood. CURIOUS CRABS IN FLORIDA. I Thcjr ""u r'"'"',r sh'n -'' rH ' ,"r',, aa l,,"'cU' I Ilaimilng the rookerlo of the Mrdl ln ""' ""'them part of the penlMUla u n hr!'' ,,luo ''rl,l, "'' " Ill the L'rolllld. uuilllv under ii In, no, I - w - w wnpn '"' ,lolu elevates his In n, "U.'1 protrudes his eyes with startling j ff,'-t. He Is able to take care of bin f"r ul" llncera are powerful an I llls sl" " K u,-1- Ho Is Often as Uw k4 as a suueer. Then' Is n pcrictual war between hltn and the blnls. H WODden MDtB tin' nrts ut night and tpproprUtM tbi bits of BOB left by the nestlings and the young tlieinsi'lven. If lie emi tlud a mothof off her guard. Hut he has to te sly or be Is killed by the stroke ot bayonet bill aud eaten lu his turn. When the illume hunters have drheti ; the orphan young In short order. Hut W,,H1' the mothers are allowed to do tbolr duty the erulw are Ideal scaeti W1 and devour the refuse as well as Insects that Infest the bird cities. Oala'i wife. Where did lie get her! Who wus her In-other' Hud she a Muter? Hud she a neither? Wns Mlie lire-. Villi mle Horn before hintory With her Identity Shrouded in mystery 1 Miild of Phoenicia, Brypt, Arabia. Africa, India, Or Min-klsncd Snnhla? Who wns her father? Was he n Tiklng ('ruining about JiiHt to Ins liking; Out of the WIiciicciicks Over the wutcr, Into the Where Bringing Ids daughter 1 Naftra of Norway, Deiiinnrk or Sweden, Lured by the chnrnm of the garden of a. blonde or brunette? Rounded or slender? Fiery or frigid? Untighty or tender? Wh.v lire her gruces Unknown to fume? Where did Cain meet her'. What was her name! Tell me. ye xiigcs, Students of Life, Answer my query Who was Oaln'l wife? Washington Star. New York the Its Iroad ( enter. "Iteasonlng Out a Metropolis" Is the title of an article In St. Nicholas, writ ten by Krncst Ingersoll. Mr. Ingersoll says: Itullronds began to he built about 1830, and the New-Yorkers were soon pushing them out In all directions, sup jlylng the money for extending them further aud farther north and west and connecting them Into long systems controlled by one head. Other men In other cities did the same; hut by and by It was seen that no railroad lietween the Centra) West and Last could suc ceed III competition with Its rivals un less It reached New York. The great trunk roads, built or aided by the Bal timore men to serve their city, and by the Philadelphia people to hrlng trade to them, and by the capitalists of Now England for their profit, never sue- i led, therefore, until they had been pushed on to New York, where the volume of commerce wns coining to be us gn at us, or greater than, that of all the other American ports put together. Now New York has become the real headquarters of every Important rail way system In the Dpi tad Slates; that Is, It Is here that the financial opera tions the money part of the manage ment nre conducted. thom.'li the Ail- Disfigured, hut All Thero. There had been a foot-liall game In a smart Western village. It had termin ated without any fatalities, and ytctofl and Vanquished had met at the prlnel- "Are the lioys ail here, landlord r asked the captain of the victorious eleven, as the proprietor of the hotel came to him to announce that every thing was In readluess. "Have you counted noses?" "Yes, sir," replied the perspiring laud- lord. "I've countisl them. Home of them are a good deal out of shape, but they're all bere."-Youth s Companion. The Hearer In I lump-. It Is posslbk.' that the beaver will sur vlve longer In Kurope than In America. It Is said that a few Individuals are mill to be found on the Btbe, tlie Hhlne, and the Danulie. and I'rof. (Jollett, of Chris thinla. estimates that there are now 100 Individuals living lu Norway, whereas the number In 1KS" wail estimated at sixty. Pwf. Collet! recommends Unit gorarnmanl protection be afforded to prevent their extermination. His Wheel. Visitor-And he Imagines that lit ghostajill the time? How horrible! j0 they cians omrnm . Atteiidant Ab. no! Madam will re iuemtN-r that this ll the era of the chalnleas wheel New York I'reaa. A man who has never made suo- ,D nlg pa,,, . t ln blt future, . . In bis let, is not liable to tuakw Torirs for FARMERS A DEPAR1 MENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL n.lLNUS I uu to Kiip the Ihllilren on tho r.irm i'i i Wax of m ,1,,,, : Pern rtooka n .. to Barnaul Beans I'lilolnl I'linllry I kkii.u. lo Keen Children on I lie tuiin We often hear It deplored that si many farmers' hoys and girls leave I lie farm so early, but It Is all In their bringing up, and nine times out of ten the parents are rcsMUlio. They do not make farm life attractive enough. 1 heard a young man of twenty three say that he wouldn't leave home for anything that he considered It Ihe prettiest spot on earth. Come to tllld out, that bo) never had to get up at il O'clock In the morning and work until sunset. He wus blessed Willi parents who considered their children of more IpxportUOa than overwork or money. I'lctisurcs were furnished nt home l keep Ihe boys out of danger, liven 1'oui'th of July was cclchruti-d splendidly at home that tlie boys bad no desire to go anywhere. I went lo one of those farm eutertalniueiiis, and l he re was a picnic all day lu UM or chard, with swings and Unit rides on the mill Hiud. lee cream and fireworks. The farmer was uot a rich man, either) he only looked out for the good ami enjoyment of his boys. Smile farmers and thai wives take time to Interest their children In beau tics around them, and set them to work milking collections of Mowers, leaves and grasses. They let them bring mosses and stones Into the house nml form little cabinets of their own. They encourage them to draw and pnlut pictures of all the birds and In sects they see, to learn their names and become acipialuled w ith their hub Its. Such children will Uot want lo leave the farm. Hut the aerage farm Is so dreary aud monotonous, w ith Its endless routine of duties, oftentimes ts COmpanled Wl til hurry and harsh words, uo wonder the young people want to leave the farm and hunt up something mure cheerful. There Is nothing lu the world so sweet, so healthful, as farm life when curried on right, ami "there's love at home." Let parents look to It that their children nre entertained, and so many of then will not want to leave the farm, but will In- satisfied to re main nt home. New York Tribune. Milking- (loml Corn Stunk. Something about the best way of making the com stook may be of Inter est. We never used the so-called "horse" which some usisl lo advise for building the atook around, which was to be withdrawn after the top of the stock hud been llt'iuly bound. A good stiff hill of stalks, all the better If It had three to five ears lo leuti the cut corn against, was always chosen for the center of the stook. Then we cut hills on each side, standing them up opposite to each oilier ami leaning slightly against the center hill. In this way the center beeainc of less lnisirt Blice and could be cut nway after the stook was llulshcd without making It sag to either side. Where we were, storms mostly come from the west, so we piled up rather more stalks on the east side In order to prevent It from blow ing over that way. For tying the top we usually had corn stalks cut three or four days before, ami allowed to wilt. Most of these would lietid read ily, and by taking two to each stunk the top could he Ii, niiiil so that It would not break. If I he top bund breaks the stook Is sure soon to lean over or fall to pieces, which menus falling on ev ery side. An Immense amount of corn Is every year lost by defective slook lug. The best of all bauds Is in ide ti osier willow, and we think every fanner who grows much corn ought also lo grow the osier willow for this purpose. One baud can be bound around the top, and another a foot lower down, Landing it so tight that the stock may Is- hauled by It when It is Daoaaaary to loml it on n wagon. American Cultivator. Harvesting I When the pods turn yellow and most of the green ones have nearly full sized I na lis In them, It Is time to har vest the crop. Full the beans and put them In Unall stead stacks. Drive two stakes down where the stack Is to Ik made, aud lay one or two stones, or a bunch of grass, between the stakes; then put the lien lis as pulled between the stakes, the roots out; press the beans down closely. The beans should he dried out Is. fore being hauled In. When dry haul In during the heat of the day and spread over the top of the mow. lleans girt leu In free from rain will be free from spots, and can be sold for an extra price. The tsiin ground should be given a thorough harrowing and drilled to wheat Tlie bean crop Is a very profitable one, as the demand Is constant, and Ihe price ranges from $1.40 to gl.SO per bushel. The beans can Is' threshed, cleaned and assorted during the rough days of winter. The bean straw Is excellent for sheep. Ilalllmoru American. Horses' Teeth. When a horse does not appear to thrive, as he should, on his food, and the most careful observation falls to account for his condition, It Is wise to have his teeth carefully examined, es-pi-Hally the Imekjaw teeth or molars. An Irregularity of those Is of Ii n ih" unsuspected source of the evil. The molars occasionally wear Irregularly; sometimes the upper Isirder overlap plug the external surface of the lower, while the Internal surface of the lower rlsi- to a rorrcsHiudlhg height within the mouth. In such cases sharp points are found where the wear has boon slightest, and these roughnesses lacer ate the Inside of ihe cheeks and cut the sides of the tongue, so that masti cation Is is-rformed not only with dif ficulty, but with alu. The conse quence Is that tlie foisl Is not pro;., rly prepared for the stomach, and passe through It without assimilating to a full extent Ita nutritive principles. (lermantown Telegraph. Why Ynunx Meat Is . Almost everybody llkii best the meat of youug animals. Hut Ihe reason why does not appear to be so geuerally un derstood. It will be Mid, of course, that the young chicken ! more Under and delicate, and h is a w.eter flavor Ibaii Ihe old fowl and the same also of the luuug pig or lamb n compared wild ihe old one of Ihe same species. The truth seems lo Is III ii the young animals' uie.it Is lust because ll It cr bei u either pluchiil and ItarTad, nor beta surfeited by over feed In if As proof of ibis we have seen rum pig killed which had btM stuut i ' I still more by m erf ling with corn as e en farmer know I liable to bap pen. The pigs were sickly, or at leasl had so s ii i r appetites thai they would eat very little, and were al lat kill. . I a It seemed linpiisslLle to make them grow. There was fat enough lu such pig, but It never seemed to u wlmle some fat. and we would much prefer a cut from a thrifty pig that weighed LVi to .'i Hiiinds. It Is a lesson that all feeders have to learn. Hint only by keeping the digestive organs lo good condition and making the animal fatten rapidly can gain he profitably made or the meat thus produced In uholesouie and of the Usl quality. American Cultivation. reeding Apple to low. We do not w onder that there I strong prejudice against allowing cows, and cioi'lally milch cows, to enl npph-s. For Hie most part It Is well grounded. While It Is Hisslble to give a milking cow a few rtpa apple without drying up her milk perceptibly, thai I not the kind of apple she usually gets. If the cow Is In an orchard w here apples arc fulling, she runs every time she hears DM drop and eats It griisllly, however wormy, sour, grata and bluer ll may be. All apples have some nil. acid In them, even Including those that we call "sweet.'' This malic acid, together w ith the UUUllfl thai Is found lu the apple Ptalj and sOptclalb III green, small up pie, contracts the cow's stomach. If she cats much of such fruit It gives her the colic Just as surely as It doe the small Imy. The cow's stomach wasn't made to digest such stuff, and so sure as It Is put Into her stomach, l here Is riot nud rebellion. Lvery out knows that giving vinegar lo cows, und rubbing her udder with vinegar, will dry her off. We Mleve that allow ing cows to eat many apples, even If they are ripe, has a bad effect ou their milk production. Exchange. nipiilng Wing. The most convenient way to keep fowls from flying over fences Is to clip one of their wings, but If this Is not properly done the clipping disfig ures the bird. The proper way to clip a fowl la to spread one of Its wings as widtly us Misslble and clip off the w Ide side of the primary or pinion feath.-i-s close to the shaft Do this with one wing only, and when the bird tries to fly Ita wings ulll not balance nud It can not lly over an ordinary feiu-e. Ily clipping off the w Ide side of Ihe feath ers only the clipping does not sh.nv w hen the w ing Is folded In lis natural isisltlon against the side. Cllppl ig notches In the wing feather Is nlso a good way to mark a fowl If hlcut men tion Is only to be desired for a short time. H will not do for a permanent mark, as the feathers are reuewed ev ery year.- Farmer's Voice. Cutting Teees In Pave Fnrests. Dr. I'Yrnow, chief of the forestry di vision of the Dipartmeiit of Agricii). tu re, says that trees must Le cut down and oughl to Le cut down, uot only for tvmmcrclnl and Industrial uses, Lnt nlso for the gissl of other growing trees, and all that the scientific fores ter usks Is that the cutting should Lo done Judiciously. Tlie Ignorant lum berman who dinH in look to the future cuts dow n all his forests at ono while the fin-ester cuts the trees so ns to make It a permanent Investment. Tim old fable of the man who killed the gOQOI that laid the gulden eggs has bOOfl wasted on many lumbermen tn the past, but It Is to 1m li..s .1 that the ot taMlshment of the school of forestry In Cornell I'nlverslly, the first lu the country, Is destined lo work a grenl revolution III the Ideas of Intelligent M'pliv -Fanners' HevlcTe. Asparagus-O rawing. The Missouri experiment station hai I ii experimenting for the past twt years w ith asparagus growing, and Inn successfully grown asparagus In Hit open Held In mid winter by running steam Into shallow funnels Isd weeu till asparagus rows. The asparagus Held was llrst covered with six or sevei Inches of healing horse manure, and the steam forced Into the soil from till green house Isiller. lly tills means o large yield of flue asparagus was ob tained throughout the months of Do cemher, January and February; till finest quality being gotten In tho mid' die of January, when the weather win coldest. Foliage nn Frail Trees. Abundant foliage assists In protect ing fruit on trees und vinos. Fruit ripens earlier on trees where the leavet have not been killed, nud as leaves take carbonic acid from the air and give off oxygen they serve to purify tho air while deriving fiusl therefrom, I'onllry Pickings. Too much 0OTO will give young ducks the cramp. Tobacco duet Is excellent for dusting lousy fowls. Itcans are a good feed lscause they are nitrogenous. Kggs sell better when sent to market In regular cases. Keep the turkey hens tamo by feed ing Hum regularly. The laying hen consume more food thai one not laying. The early pvDatl are tho prolltulde winter egg producers. Ten weeks from shell to market Is the time allotted a chick. Ten hens with one male make nlsiut the proper proportion. Ten tlis'ks, each consisting of ten hens, ore enough for ou acre. Scatter ihe grain at noon among lit ter, so tho fowls must exercise. Kgg shells ground to a powder make a good addition to Ihe mash. Greeu bone Is a valuable fo.nl - fur growing chicks and matured fowls. Ground oats, cornmcul and bran con stitute proper foods for poultry. Kteepcd clover, mixed with the morn ing hash. Is a great egg producer. k, . p cabhngc hanging lu the house within the reach of the fowls. After the second yenr tho hen's value as 1 winter egg producer leaseua. TENDED THE WRONG GRAVE. lout Widow Mourns for Knur Tears Over a Mrungsr' Tenth. To mourn for four years over the grave of a stranger under Ihe bell"' I t.iit II contained the body of her own husband Is the eXicrlellco of il bridge pott. Conn., woman. Mrs. Otto Jones I the name of the woman, ami she probably would have taken care of It utilll death called her bad It not been thut the true widow eventually paid u visit to the tomb III Mountain (irove cemetery to arrange the site for n shaft to the memory of In r husband. To to r gnat iirprlc she found the grave wus green, the grass neatly cut and the headstone inf inning her that there rested the Issly of Otlo Jones, 8be also saw a woman kneeling over the mound ai ranging some plant. Each widow ut once claimed that the body of her husband lay In the grave, and to settle the controversy derided to appeal to the sexton. Nnir by was another grave, neglect ed ami overgrown with Wttd. and brush. This, the sexton told Mr. Gould, was where the Issly of Mr. Could had been laid. Mrs. (iouM however, was certain that she w t right and Mr. Jones was equally Boat live that the disputed tomb contained the Issly of her dear departed. The sexton then got Ills spade and com menced lo dig the earth away which covonsj the casket. The Inix was un covered, and there exposed lew was the lalate with Charles II. Gould's name liMin It Mrs. Jones swooned and was carried from the cemetery. The mistake InUptMsl In the follow ing manner: Otto Jones died nearly four year ago. Mr. Jones a few I weeks after the burial visited the freshly made mound ami noticed thai there was a second one close by. She bad a small stone placed to mark the grave, which she cared for ever since. Charles ll. Gould, one of the beat known residents of the city, also died nlsiut four year ago. and his ldy was UltjCtrt lu a receiving vault. BtUrlll ' was deferred owing to litigation over claims made by several wniuen, Who allcgisl that the real widow was atl Impostor. An liivcnilgntloii prated the falsity of this claim nml Mrs. Coil I nud her child received Gould's prop erty. lu due time Ihe Issly of Gould was burled alongside that of Jones, his poorer nelghlsir. In some unaecouiil iMt miinucr Mrs. Jones got Ihe g in i nilxisl and her llowers ami tears an I prayers were offered on the grave of Gould. Not even Ihe sexton knew of the mistake, or If he did he did not make It known. Things went on In this way for three years. Mrs. Gould dii lded recently to erect a monument over her husband's grave, and ns the small headstone In ineinory of Jones marked the grave she claimed us her husband's she sought the d d. This showed her that she was right, but Mr. Jones was equally sure that her husband was hurled there until the sexton uncovered the box. A Cavern of Hhella. At Mnrgute there Is a remarkable relic of the past alsiut which very lit tle apparently Is knowii. Il Is an un derground cavern, or grotto, whose walls nre lined with shells. In Pta si n's Magaxlne this grotto Is described by Mr. J. Malcolm Kroner. Speaking of i his visit of liinjHH-tloii, Mr. Frnser says: We pass through a rough hewn pas sage, one hundred feet long, which suddenly emerges Into the so-called I grotto. Gas has been laid throughout the whole route, nud as burlier after burner Is lighted, the beauty and ele- I enure of one of the most fnutnsttc rollce of the pagan period reveal them selves. A large central column, supporting the arched roof, disclose a marvel of nr hllis turul design, eclipsing even the Alhambriilnii inoslac work. Innumcr able panels perfectly proportioned line the walls, the columns, and the arches of the cave each panel beauti fully flulsbed ench most perfect In de sign all different ltoses with buds, flowers, stems, nud leaves may all bo seen exquisitely worked In shells of different forms nud colors. lues, w it i small white grapes Intermingled with large black inliscntels, swords nud shields, fishes and birds, all tnstcfully arranged and enrrled out. The shells used ln the decoration of this wonderful cavern nre those which may ordinarily be found on the be i Ii 1 if any of the Ilrltlsh watering places. Gull and I'i I. in The robber gull of the Pacific cnasl Is one of the most graceful birds, nnd It always follows the pelican. The lat ter Is an expert at catching fish, which It sees from n great height diving with the swiftness of a bullet, and seldom missing lis prey. Hut, after gelling the lab lu Its huge Is-ak with the pendant sack. It Is unable to handle It readily, and always throws It In the air, catch lug It In Its pouch, which answers the same purpost! as a soldier's haversack. That Is the gull's opportunity. The In stnnt the fish leaves the beak of the big bird the robber swoops down with . .... . . . . ..... ImIh. tUe SWirilless OI MM." winu. nun wimi I the flsb reuches the distended Jaw ol ' in., nellcan. It Is snapped up, and tilt pellcau left far behind, looking foolish 1'ursult Is useless, for the pellcau Is l heavy flyer, while the gull Is one of tin swiftest of the feathered race. Fashion In Hulls' Bye. The mnjorlly of Kugllsh dolls' eyet are blue. Like everything elso they nre ruled by fashion, nud the reason ol the preponderance I that when the Queen ascended the throne she was very fair and had blue eyes. Conse quently every doll maker lu the country hegall to s lid blue-eyed dolls from their fin lories, and during the reign have continued to do so. Every nation has Its own standard of doll beauty. For Instance, lu Italy and Spnlu, where all the celebrated ln-autlca biivo dnrk eyes, and olive skins, n falr-balrnd, blue en d doll of native manufacture Is practb il ly unknown, lu Japan the eyes of tho dolls are small niul are set uslaut llko the natives. !.. Out.- n-l.nw In Abyssinia. Abyssinia's social code provide for a fair chance to young married couples by forbidding the bride's mother to visit her daughter till n year after tho marriage. Every time a man nt work In nn olttco gets up from his chair he takes n drink at tho water cooler nud prepares bit system for taking embalming fluid.