THE GEEAT CONTEST fOE THE ATLANTIC PASSENGER I RASE.
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EMIGRANTS DEPAUT1NJ FItOM LIVERPOOL.
The ratecuttlug Inaugurated on the western passage across the Atlantic affects ouly the first and to a lesser
extent the second-class passenger. This picture deals with the third-class passenger, who Is not affected, and whose
fire vpriofl from S27.no to $n:t.75. It shows a typical motley assortment of emigrants from all parts of Northern
Europe who make the pussage through the great British pirt. Xliey uie about to board a White Star liner st the
great landing stage at Liverpool.
THE PARADOX.
There grows a weed, so gosalps tell.
To wound the hand thnt lightly plucks;
I! ut bind it with a proper spell,
And poison from the vein it sucks.
'Twas Cupid's self that threw the dart,
CJavo me the simple for my smart.
When storms are high, so seamen tell,
And billows crumple all the main,
But dive beneath the angry swell.
And thou wilt find it calm again.
Since, Love, thou art a troubled sea,
My only refuge is in thee.
A chapman,, Holy Writ doth tell,
Found treasure in the earth concealed ;
But all he bad he needs must sell
Ere he might have the precious field.
Since thou has cost nie all I own
O f jove, what riches have I known !
Century.
The men la the store, watched the
young farmer a.sstst his wife into the
respectable-looking buggy outside, ar
range the packages, spread the laprobe
generously and carefully over the
young woman's knees and then, him
self uncovered, drive away.
"Clayton's goln' to take good care o
that there wife o' his," commented the
storekeeper.
"Foolish of L'm," declared Washing
ton Hancock.
"He'll get tired o" washln' up thnt
buggy o' his'n after a while 'n con
elude the ole waggln's good enough to
come to town to trade in," said Sol
Bnker, sagely.
"'Course he will." agreed Hancock.
"He'll have her out to the wood pile
spllttln.' stove wood, like as not. I've
knowed that to happen, too."
Baker had thp grace to look embar
rassed when the storekeeper snickered.
"There's wuss things than spllttln' a
leetle mite o' wood now an' then for a
women," he said. "Anyway, Clayt's
wifc'll take all the care he kin give
her an' then need more. If he ain't
washln' the dishes for her afore long
I miss my guess. She don't like no
kind o' work none too well. She didn't
hs a gal."
"Alnt a great hand to cook, they tell
me," said the storekeeper. "Most any
one o' the other gals could heat her out
when It come to flxln' up a menl. Seems
like Clnyt 'ud have took 'Lisheth or
Birdie If he wus set an bound to niar
rv Into the fam'ly. This tin's mighty
Black-mouthed, by nil accounts. I
could ha told him suthln' on thet wore
If he'd cum to me an' ast me."
"Why didn't you tell hlin, anyway?"
sked Marvin Parsons.
"It's a pity she's slack-mouthed." ob
served Hancock. "It's them kind o'
wlmmen that gits to talkln' about their
neighbors after a while. An' it's a fun
ny thing that It's alius the wlmmen
that does that. You might set In this
tore when Rufe an' Sol here was shoot
Jn' off their mouths year In an' year out
an' you'd never hear them say a word
agin' anybody not If you was stone
deef. But when a man sees a feller
In danger o' bllghtln' his life by takln'
up with a gid that's ornery an' no-account
he ain't doln' no more than
what's his dooty to give him the right
kind o warnln'. If a feller's got good
sense he'll erpheshlate a word In sea
son o' that sort an' won't git mad
about It Anyhody's apt to be a mite
keerless an' unthlnkln' In the matter o'
choosln' a gal when he's young. I bet
there hain't a married man here but
what'll say that' so."
The Btorekeeiier nodded Involuntarily
and Hancock grinned.
" 'S fur's takln' a word o' good ad
vice klndly's concerned, I reckon
there's the many n man would tell yon
that If soniebody'd come to him In time
an' let him know whnt he had a right
to expect from the gal he wus thlnkln'
marrying' lie'd never hnve married
the gal he did," resumed Hancock.
There's some what does git warned In
time. I rickerleck right well when a
cousin o' mine, Sain Hancock, thought
o' hltehln', up with a gal he'd met up
with when he wus n young buck. lie
seen the gal an tuck her buggy rldln'
once or twice an' he flggered to him
self that she wus Jest about the finest
young woman that ever set a foot on
this green alrth. He couldn't make out
that she'd got a fault or a blemish.
She'd alius acted that away whilst he
wus around, so how wus he to know
any dlffrunt?
"There wus one thing, though, an
thnt wus that Sam had a mighty level
hnld on him for as young as he wus.
He'd slip up on a trade wunst In a
while, but he never slipped up twlcet
the same way an' he'd made a-many
trades by the time he wus 20 years old,
No. Sam wasn't nobudd.v's fool.
"Well, there wus a feller lived neigh
bor to the gal's folks, name o' Ben
Crittenden, an' he knowed Sam an' he
knowed the gal. He flggered that Sam
wus a likely boy an' that It wusn't
right for him to stand back an' keep
his mouth shet when he c'd do good by
openin' It. So he goes to Sam one day
varieties of burr clover and meltilotns
have been found growing la alfalfa
fields In various parts of the State, and
they have been introduced solely
through Impure alfalfa seed. Another
extremely noxious weed has made Its
appearance In alfalfa fields la widely
separated parts of the State. Thte hi
ffjes charlock or wild mustard.
Cultivation of Potoe.
Grnftluic Method. r-nlHvotlnn shnnld commence lust afl
Apple trees are usually propagated fae ,antg begIn t0 ap
In the nursery either by budding or flbove tb(j ground Xne fied may
root grafting two-year-old seedlings. be gme ovef w,th a ght h(,rlw or
larger stealings may oe u.ncu uj, bettef gtn,( w,th a weeder. Tuis 8 a
the roots cut Into a great number of c n)ethod of cuItlvatlon 8nce a
sections five or six Inches long.- Upon ig n l8 also effec.
these the scions of the desired varle- !, i . prnt that mnv
IU uitiioiiio "J - "
have formed. In destroying small weeds
ties should be grafted by means of the
whip and tougue method f grafting,, 1 ,evelIn( rldgc8 Ieft , plantIng.
Ho SUUWU 1U IUB UCCUlUlJUlljr l"6
"l'es, slree, an' her temper hain't
none o the best I seen her belt her
young brother one day an' knock him
endways. If you take my advice, Sam,
you'll dror off.
"Snm studied a moment an' then be
got up an shucked his coat Ben look
ed down his nose. 'You ain't mad, are
you?" he says.
"'No,' says Sam, n-spittln' on his
hands. 'I hain't mad a mite, but I'm
Jest goln to waller you around a spell
to teach you to mind your own affairs
an' to quit tattlln' on gals.' An with
that he lit In an' done It"
"Did lie marry the gal afterward?"
Inquired Baker.
"Co'se he did," replied Hancock.
"Why wouldn't he?"
"You said he had a heap o' sense,"
urged the storekeeper.
"Not regardln' them matters," said
Hancock. "No man has. But there
wasn't no more wrong about that gal
than there Is about any gal, an I reck
on they got erlong about as well as
most, her an' Sam mebbe better."
Chicago Dally News.
tratlons. This grafting does not re
quire any wax, the parts being simply
held together by binding with twine or
ralHa. Boot grafting of this kind is
usually done during the winter time,
aud the grafts stored In moist sand or
soil until the ground Is fit for plant
ing them outside in the spring. They
should then be planted In nursery rows,
and In two or three years should make
trees large enough to transplant to per
manent positions.
Top grafting Is usually done by the
cleft method, as shown In the illus
trations. In this method the scions
are cut wedge-shaped and fitted firmly
Into the cleft made in the stock, which
Is usually cut off squarely where the
branches are from one to two Inches
in diameter, two scions being placed In
each stock. In this, as In nil methods
of grafting, great care must be taken
to cet the cambium layer, or inner
As soon as the rows can be seen th
cultivator should be used. If the
ground has become packed the first
cultivation may be deep and close to
the plants. Subsequent cultivation
should be frequent The conservation
of moisture by frequent tillage cannot
be too strongly enforced. The old no
tion that tillage must cease as soon as
the blossom appears Is wrong. It
should be continued as late In the sea
son as the vines will permit. ' As the
tops begin to spread ont and cover the
space between the rows they partially
shade the soil and thus lessen the loss
of moisture by evaporation.
The cultivator should be set as nar
row as the space between and keep It
covered with a loose mulch. Experi
ence and experiments favor nearly lev
el cultivation. Excessive hilling In
tensifies the Injurious effects of dry
weather. The best cultivator Is one
bark, of the stock and scion in contact having a number of small teeth, so that
1 will leave uie sou uuo aim wmyaia-
In at least one side, for it is at this
point that union takes place, and any
tlvely level.
"YOU llAI.Vl MAI! ARE YOU?"
an' he takes him out behind the barn
for a conf'denshal talk.
" 'Sain,' he says, 'I allow you know
that I'm a friend o' yours an' that I
hain't a troublemaker or a stlr-strlfe.
I've got suthln' to say to you nn' If I
say It I don't want for you to git mad
an' prance around on your ear.'
"'Certainly not,' says Sam. 'If
you've got anythln' on your mini you
say It.'
"'It's about Berthy,' says Ben.
,"'I hain't goln' to git mnd,' says
Sum. 'What about Berth ?'
'"It's this away.' says Ben. I
wouldn't say nothln' at all If I thought
you'd had the chance to know for your
self Jest what kind of a gal she wus.
But you hain't, an' I hnve. I hired
out to her paw nil through one harvest
an' I know whnt I'm talkln' about.
That gal's mighty shif-less, Sam Jest
shifless.'
"'Is thnt so?" says Sam.
" 'I wouldn't tell you If it wusn't so.'
savs Ben. 'An I wouldn't say nothln'
against her neither If you wusn't a
friend o' mine. She'll shirk off nn'
leave her maminy to do the work If she
kin, an' If she can't she'll Jest nbout
ba'f do It.
" 'That's too bad,' Rnys Sam, lookln'
thoughtful.
" The men In she cooks 'ud sicken
you,' snys Ben. 'Hnrvest time a feller
hain't partlckler, but they sickened me.
An' when she's around the house she
ain't slicked up the way she Is when
she goes to a church soshubble, I tell
you that.'
"'Shot' says Sam.
OLD COINS NEW TO HER.
C&ihler Refold to Take 2 -Cent Pleca
and Three "Eagle" Centa.
How little is known by the general
public of the United Stntes coins which
nre not now current was shown the
other day In an uptown restaurant,
says the New York Times, when a coin
collector In a spirit of fun handed to
the cashier in place of a nickel one old
fashioned bronze two-cent piece and
three small copper-nickel "flying eagle"
cents.
The cashier, a young woman ot
about 20, looked disdainfully at the un
familiar coins, and then refused to ac
cept them, saying she had never seen
any such money as that before; that
she didn't believe they were "good,"
and didn't propose to accept them.
The patron protested that the coins
were genuine, and pointed to the In
scription "United States of America,"
as a verification. But the young wom
an remained unconvinced, and summon
ed the manager. " He, too, was dubious
about the authenticity of the pieces,
looked thein over carefully, and said
he had never seen anything like them
before. , He finally , told the cashier to
take them anyhow, nnd he would re
lieve, her of all responsibility In case
they turned out to be spurious.
The last two-cent piece was Usued
by the United States mint in 1873,
while the flying eagle cents were struck
only in 1850, 1857 and 185a Nearly
25,000,000 engle cents and more than
44,000,000 two-cent pieces were coined.
To collectors It Is odd that In a pe
riod of fifty years this vast number
of coins should have disappeared to
such an extent that the present genera
tion never heard of them.
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BAiiPLEti or top OBArnno.
failure to connect the cambium layers
of stock and scion is sure to result In
failure of the scions. In top graft
ing, the wounded surfaces should be
covered with grafting wax. A good
formula for this Is: Four parts of res
in, two of beeswax and one of tallow,
by weight, melted together. Top graft
ing should be done early in the spring,
before growth commences.
In nil this propagation work great
care should be taken to select scions
from trees bearlns the very best type
of the varieties intended for propa
gation. Nurserymen, as a rule, are not
careful enough in this respect and take
scions from any trees so long as it is
of the desired variety. H. L. II.
Pitch Pork Attachmeata.
In gathering up freshly cut grass ot
hay, etc., with a pitchfork a small
quantity adheres to the prongs of the
fork each time a
pile Is lifted. In a
short while the
fork becomes
clogged and useless,
It being necessary
to remove each par
ticle by hand- ' In
order that this
cleaning may be
done almost auto
matically, a Wis
consin man has de- cleans or hat.
signed the attachment for pitchforks
shown here. A transverse clearer bar
is arranged below the tines of the fork.
guides on each end of the bar partly
encircling the end prongs, permitting
the bar to slide freely on the prongs.
Tlvoted on the handle of the fork Is a
bar which connects with other bars ex
tending to the cleaning bar and to a
sleeve which slides on the handle. By
moving the sleeve on the handle the
cleaning bar slides over the prongs of
the fork, removing anything adhering
to them.
An Electrical Plant.
A plant hag been discovered In Nlca
rugua wulch appears to e cnargea
with electricity. If one of Its branches
Is touched with the naked hand a dis
tinct shock similar to that produced by
a battery Is felt Its Influence upon a
magnetic needle Is noticeable at a dis
tance of half n dozen yards, and as
one gets nearer the plnnt this Influ
ence Increases. If the Instrument is
placed In the center of the bush It will
assume a circular movement. The in
tensity of the Influence manifested
seems to depend upon the time of day,
Kansas City Journal.
There Is nothing a woman enjoys get
ting so much ns a letter from some
married woman that Is stained with
I tears.
About Con Tentinn
1'rof. Fraser of the Illinois Expert
meat Station says that a complete
knowledge and mastery of the dairy
business cannot be secured without
testing each cow. Many farmers and
dairymen think this testing of the cows
is too much trouble, and do not want
to "fuss" around with it but if they
considered the profits to be realized
from a herd of really good cows as
compared with one of poor cow or
even a mixed herd, they would soon nee
that it really pays to "fuss" around
with the scales and Babcock test
Where one cow will give good returns
for her feed and care there may be
another in the stall next to her that Is
not paying her board, but la eating up
the profits from the paying cow. But
Poultry Ttpa.
Eggs need to be turned In the Incu
bator. Don't neglect it
Don't expect prize stock from cheap
eggs.
Make the nests handy not only to
clean out but to gather the eggs from.
The wet grass Is no place for the
joung chicks, to run unless they are ex
pected to die of cramps.
A bushel of grain a year for each
laying hen is said to be the proper
amount to count on In estimating the
cost of keeping poultry.
Fowls like green food as well as any
other class of stock. They need it la
their business, so It Is good policy to
keep them supplied.
Ia, the Sheep Fold.
There is that sheep with hair In
place of wool. Get her out of the flock-
Wool Is what we are after, not hair.
As soon as the ewes have all been
served get the ram out. He will only
be a nuisance from that time on.
It Is a good plan to have a little yard
how is the owner to know this if he wltn a trou8h made on purpose for the
does not test them? A pnir of scales lamljs 38t outside the lot where the
and a tester do not cost much, but they 81leeP are kept
pay big profits on the investment It Isn't much trouble to count thk
Tr" ; sneeP every day- Better do It and be
The need of rigid lnsnectlon of flrri. rl" lu"t u" "l mem are r,tuu
cultural seeds such as clover and alfni. iue no naB tne credit of being the
fa has been again brought Bharply to larm mortSng6 raiser. But sheep will
the attention of the authorities of th do 11 3ust a" surely if they c.-e given a
Texns Agricultural nnd Mivhnioi cnance.
College. Dr. O. M. Ball of the depart
ment of botany has repeatedly warned
farmers and planters against the dan-
Recog-nlse Orchard Peata.
If you have an orchard or vineyard
you cannot learn ton snnn ta rocnimlza
gers of introducing highly pernicious the San Jose scale, coddling worm, cur
weeds Into alfalfa and other fields culio, mildew and black rot Do no
through impure agricultural seeds. It procrastinate this knowiert t,hi tha
has been pointed out that Russian this- orchard and vineyard are injured, of
tie, dodder, Johnson grass and several It will be too late.