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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1907)
THE DINKEY BIRD. In an ocean far out yonder, As all sapient people know, Is the land of Wonder-Wanilor Whither children love to go; It's their playing, romping, Hwinging, That giveth joy to me, While the Dinkey Bird goes singing In the amfaiula tree! There the gumdrops grow liko cherries, And taffy's thick as peas; Caramels you pick like berries When and where and how you please; Big red sugar plums arc clinging To the cliffs beside that si a Where the Dinkey Bird is singing In the amfaiula tree! So when children shout and scamper And make merry all the day, When there's naught to put a damper On the ardor of their piny ; When I bear their laughter ringing, Then I'm sure as sure can be That the Dinkey Bird is singing In the amfulula tree. For the Dinkey Bird's bravuras And staccatos are so sweet, His roulades, appoggiaturas And robustos so complete, That the youth of every nation, He they near or far away, Have eHpecial delivtntion In that gladsome roundelay. Their eyes grow bright and brighter, Their lungs begin to crow, Their hearts get light and lighter And their cheeks are all aglow; For ii n echo cometh bringing The news to all and me That the Dinkey Bird is singing In the amfaiula treel Yes, I'm sure you'd like to go there To behold your feathered friend; And so many goodies grow there You would like to comprehend! Speed, little dreams, your winging To that land across the sea, Where the Dinkey Bird is singing In the amfaiula tree! Eugene Field. The Mills of the Gods I allow It must bo nigh onto twenty years since me an Caleb heerd that lecture; but It seems ns If I nilnd n'moHt every word of it yet. You see, there hadn't bin much (join' on that winter; an' bo, when along In Janu ary, Caleb come home from preachlu' I lied a had spell of nurulgy thut day an' didn't get out an' sod there was Koln to bo a lecture up at Nulieh on the next Friday night, I Jest made up my mind that I was goln But I didn't let on to Caleb then. You Bee a man's that queer, flrBt thing he'd eed would 'nve bin, "You enn't go with that nuralgy," Jest as If n body could not hev nuralgy on Sabbath an' be nil right agen by Friday. I Well, as I wns siiyin', I'd made up my nilnd to go to that lecture, bo l aez to Caleb on Monday evcnln' it hod bin ralnlu' an' gleetln' all day, an' he lied bin out at Mill town after feed an was ns cross an two sticks sez I, "You're not thlnkln' of goin' to that lecture, Cnlob," an' sez he, "What lec ture?" Jest as If he'd never heerd a word about It An sez I, "Ob, thnt heathen lecture you was tellln' me about on Sabbath dnyt" An' be got as mnd ns a hornet, an' sez ho, "There you go, Marin Aim Lurrabee, a snllln' at things you don't know a thing about. Here I've gone and told Undo Billy I'd take two tickets, an' now you don't want to go. I dcclaro If It Isn't enough to rile a Bnlnt." "Well," sez I, "I don't see any Ralnts Jest 'round handy; but If you've told Uncle Billy you'd take two tickets why you'll hnve to take them, an' if we've got tickets wo might as well go." An' go we did. You boo I'd read n bit of poetry onct nn' there was a line In It nbout "The mills of the gods grlndln'," an' I always wanted to hear soinothln' more about them mills. The man that did tho lecturln' wasn't much to look at nbout a lean on' hungry a-lookln' mor tal as I ever laid eyes on but ho could talk, an' no mistake, lie Jest talked about them mills till a body could almost hear the wheels hutiuiiln', lie went on to say how every mean act, every unkind word comes back to a body soon or late, nn' how many n time folks go on tlirowln' the doln's of days an' months nn' years Into tho hopper, not botherlu' ns to what kind of Join's nil' saylu's the grist is made of. I don't know ns I ever koerd a more ttntlsfylu' talk. You boo thnt man wnsn t tryln' to snow otr ills own lenrnlu', nor to make us boo how little we kuowed alongside of him. An' when a body lins goniethln' to sny, an' can say It without tryln' to do either of them two things, It's a pleasure to listen to him. Well, I never forgot that lecture, . Many an' tunny's the time I'vo looked at the hopper and watched for the meal, an' I've listened to folks a com- plnluiu' and flndln' fault with the nienl, when I'd seen them a tbrowln' In keltor-ekelter, not cnrln' whether It wns corn or cobs or even stones. Well, well I the mills of the gods purely grind fio. an' soon or late they icrlnd It all. But sometimes the menl makes bitter catln' oh how exceeding titter; but It's got to be et all the same. Now, thera was a second cousin of Caleb's Henry John Stone his name was he'd lived with us quite a spell when he was little, an Caleb an' me both thought a good bit of hint, though we never liked his closeness. He mar rid Mary Bully Lane. Nobody could btlp Hkln Henry John, he waa a barn worker an' that careful of his clothes, why, I mended more for one of my own children in a week than I did for him In two months. Well, they went to housekeepln' on a place jest next to us, oeionging to Henry John's mint Elmlra Stone was her name, an' she was a terror If ever there was one. Never married, "hed no use for seen worthless truck as men," she sed. I don t know as I ever seen any of them runnln' after her; but that's neither here nor there. She hed ber good points, too. Well, them young folks hadn't been married long till I seen eomethln' was wrong. Mary Emily was right proud an' high strung an' she wouldn't tell a thing, an' he never seemed to notice that things wasn't goin' Jest the same as they'd nlwns bin. Mary Emily worked from mornln' till night, milk In', churnln', feedln cnlves and chick ens, weeding garden, besides cookln nn' di jJi' all the house work. After the flrBt year she quit goin anywhere but to church. It wasn't thnt they wasn't gettln' along In a money way. Why, Henry John was always a brag gin' to me what a good worker he'd got nn' how well they wns gettln along. But there wns somethln' wrong all the same.- Mary Emily's face was get tln' that hard lookln' It seemed as If she hed forgot how to smile, an' folks got to tnlkln' about how slutbby Bhe went, nn' when they'd been married about seven years she took typhoid fe ver, nn' I went over to stay n week or two till they could get some one. I de clare nn' testify thnt I couldn't find clothes enough to change her an' her bed twice a week, nn' ns for the chil dren, I nllow she must have washed out their little dresses nt night nn' ironed them before they got up In the morn ln', not a one of them hed more than one decent dress to its buck. Well, Mary Emily died, nn' Aunt El- mlry Stone came to stay with Henry John nn' the children. Henry John was all broke up, couldn't do notliin' but talk to me nbout how good Mnry Emily was, how she Jest worked nway an' made things do, nn' never pestered him for money for finery, u'n' liow she made over bis clothes, nn' hers, too, for the children, nn' how he'd be savin up money nn' he'd got his horses nn' cows all paid for an' some In the bank, till I could hardly keep from nskln' lilm if her workln' was all he missed. Oh, I allow he loved her in his way, but lie was dose all the Stones was close with money close ns the bark on the "THIS HE11K ONION lllOl'S MINE..' tree. An' when a mnn holds his money so cloeu there Isn't much room for love or anything else to get near him. I look tho baby homo with me nfter the funeral, an' Henry John wnsxover quite often. Ho wns never done tnlkln' nlHiiit how lucky he wns to get his nunt to stay with htm. Sed sho hud a paper made out, snyln' that things wns to go on Jest the Biuno ns they did when Mnry Emily was alive. Ho wasn't to pay sny rent to her an' no wnges. "Jest think. Aunt Maria Ann, she don't want nny renl." sez he. Well, I didn't know what to think. I knowed Elmlry Stone hed soiiietliln' up her sleeve nn I tol.I Henry John to be careful what he put bis nniLC to, but ho sed he'd read It De fore he signed It ; seemed is If he was so tickled at gettln' her to keep h.iuse for nothin' ho dldu't look too close at anything else. It wasn't long until he told me she'd got him to draw out his money from the bank nn' buy a new mower; sod she'd even go to town with him an' added sonio more to what ho had an' got a letter machine. I got It out of him that she'd hnd the bill mnde to her. nn' h-ul resented It In her name. Hen ry Jobu didn't altogether like this, but there wns always the thought of havln' somebody koopln' house for nothin' to keep Mm from mnkln' a fuss; accim-d as If money almost shone so bright !n Henry John's eyes thnt It kind of dull ed his slulit for anything else. Well, It came along towards the lnt of June nn' Henry John seemed to be gettln peaked lookln', Jest like Mary Emily used to the year before she died 1 went over one dny nn' ho wns weed- In' out nn onion bed, n new one he'd mndo thnt spring under the settln' room window. Ho looked so worried nn' mlsernblo thnt 1 Jest pulled him down on tho porch step beside me. An' I, "Where's Aunt Elmlry?" sea I "Hows maw air lie ups an any, "She's goin to the market now," an' sea I, "How's thnt?" an' lie 'ups mid lelh me thnt she allowed as the farm was lien, she wns the one to sell the stuff. "But," sea ho, "this here onion bed's mine. I'm golu' to sell these on- Ions nu' get the money for them, or I'll know the reason why." I declare I felt like sayln' lots, but I didn't ; an' things got worse an' worse. till along In September I heered Henry John Jest a ahoutln' over at tha fence; an' I run out to aee what be wanted, an' ha was a wavln' an' motlonln' ma to coma over. Bo I Jest raa orar, think- In' one of the children hed fell or got ' hurt someway. But when I got there him an' Elmlry Stone was havln' It hot and heavy; seemed as If she'd sold his onion bed an' pocketed the money ; an' my oh my ! what a story he hed to tell ; how he'd worked like a slave nil sum mer an' milked, nn' raised calves that she sed wouldn't live, an' took care of the cblloeng an' run the farm besides, an' how she'd sold everything an kept the money; an' how he hadn't hed a cent to spend ; an' how he,wasn't going to stand It any longer. An' she was standin 'there a holdln' out a paper to me tellln' me to read It An' I sez to her, "Didn't you promise that things 'ud go on Jest as they did when Mnry Emily was there?" An sez she, "Well, ain't they goin' on Jest the same?" An' I set down an' Jest looked at her. I allowed she'd gone crazy. But Bhe Jest looked back at me. An' sez I, "Do you menn to say you hev done Jest like Mary Emily usted to do?" An she give me such a scornful look. "Me?" she sez, "me? well, I allow I'm not a fool. I didn't say who was goin' to be the Mnry Emily, did I? Henry John alwus allowed thnt Mnry Emily ought to be glad to work like a nigger day In nn' dny out nn' never see a red cent, nn' when she wnnted a callker dress she could come beggln' to him one of tho dollars she'd worked ns hnrd as him to earn. Sold yer onions an' put the money in my pocket, did I?" sez she, turnln' to Henry John. "Well, you kin Jest linnglne you're Mnry Emily an' I'm you. Lots nn' lots of times you done that to her nn' she wouldn't nsk for a cent. An' when she died folks hed to bring things to lay her out In. Well, you've bin Mary Emily for nigh onto a yenr now, how do you like It?" Henry John Jest stood there lookln' like he was goin' to fnll over In a fit, an' I was dumb. As fur thnt dreadful woman she went up-stairs an' come down again with her bonnet on, an' as she went out the door she looked at Henry John, an sez she, "You've had your lesson, see you don't forget It" Well, I went home to talk things over with Caleb, an' sez he, after I'd told him whnt she sed, sez he, "Well, she's a holy terror, but she's nbout right thera Henry John's only gettln' back what he give." An sez I, "Yes, the mills of the goda hev bin grlndln' nwny nn the menl isn't to his Hklu'. You mind that lecture, don't you?" An' sez he, "What lecture?" Jest like a man, wasn't it? An' some folks sed Almlry Stone hed made a smnll fortune out of the place that year, an' some sed It served Hen ry John Jest right, whilst there was some allowed she did it because she saw he was gltten that close an' mean somethln' had to be done to open his eyes. As for me, I never could Jest make It out to my satisfaction, but there's one thing I enn sny, It done him a power of good. When he married again there wuan't a better dressed nor a happier woman in Nubeh tnnn Henry John's wife. You see he nlwus wns a good mnn, but he didn't think; no, he Jest didn't think. I nllow It's nil for the lest ; but when I go npast Mary Emily In Nubeh churchyard I sny to myself, "If only." Hut there. Them that sleeps under the green quilt need no heart salve. An' that's more thnn enn be sed of the llvln'. Pittsburg Christian Ad vocate. STAPLE FOOD SUPPLY LIMITED. Comparatively Few Nntrltlve Pro duct of the World's Inhabitants. Certain great food staples - hnve proved themselves within the nge-long experience of Immunity to possess a larger amount of nutritive vnlue, diges tibility nnd other good qualities, nnd a smaller proportion of undesirable prop erties thnn nny others, snys McClure's. These, through an exceedingly slow nnd gradunl process of the Burvlvnl of the fittest, hnve come to form the stapled of food In common uso by the human rnce all over the world. It Is realty as tonishing how comimrntlvely few there nre of them, when we come to consider them broadly ; the flesh and the milk of three or four domesticated animals, the flesh of three or four and the eggs of one sjiecles of domesticated birds, three great grains wheat, rice nnd maize and a half-dozen smaller and much less frequent ones, one hundred or so spe cies of fishes and shell fish, two sugars, a dozen or so stnrch-contnlnlng roots nnd tubers, only two of which the po tato nnd the mnnloc nre of renl In- ternntlonnl Importance, twenty or thir ty fruits, forty or fifty vegetables make up two-thirds of the food supply of the ltihabltnnts of the world. Instead of wondering at tho variety and profuseness of the huma,n food sup ply the biologist Is rather Inclined to ejaculate wRh the Loudon footman Im mortalized by John Leech, who, when told by the cook thnt there would be mutton chops for dinner and roast beef for supHr, exclaimed: "Nothlnk but beef, mutton and pork pork, mutton and beef! Hln my opinion, hit's lgh time some new hanlmal waa hlnvent- edl" Not I'HID. Kadley I must confess I was pretty cranky yesterday. Did the girls say anything about it? Kaudor No. Kadley Strange they didn't notlca my behavior. Kaudor I guess they didn't see any thing unusual about It Philadelphia Press. A poor but otherwise atrlctly bon- est man says that tha worst thing about rtchea la not baring any. Flattery Is a kind of flypapar that .catches silly people. Handy Home-Made Tool. All growers of blackberries and rasp berries know that one of the most dis agreeable Jobs of the season is the cut ting out of the old canes on the plants of these fields. The easiest way of do ing this work is to use a sharp tool of some kind so arranged that the operat or may stand upright and work. The tool Illustrated may be readily made by any handy man, nnd will do the work required quite as effectually as a more expensive tool. Take the handle from a worn-out shovel or fork and have the black smith attach to It the end of an old scythe blade or, If one has no blnde of this kind, the blacksmith can fashion one from old scraps that he may have at small expense. Have this blnde fns- TOOL FOB BERRY GROWER. tened to the handle In the manner shown In the cut, and when working among the ennes of the berry bushes use It In the way illustrated. This tool will be found extremely handy for this sort of pruning any where on the farm. It will work quite well for cutting out suckers in the or chard as In the berry row. If the canes nre quite tall a straight handle may be attached to the blnde so thnt one may have it of any desired length. Such a tool costs but little, and If one has a considerable area In berry plants It rill pay to have several tools made. Deans. "Beans" Is the title of a recent farm ers' bulletin, by Professor Corbett the well-known horticulturist of the United States Department of ' Agriculture. Beans belong to one of the most Impor tant families of economic plants with which man has to deal that of le gumes. The bean furnishes food for both man and and beast, and at the same time increases the fertility of the soil. It Is, therefore, an inipor- tant crop, both In farm rotation and In marked garden work. The new bul letin treats fairly of its cultivation, care and use. Professor Wlaneko, of Purdue Expe riment Station, has Just issued an in teresting bulletin on soy beans, cow peas and other forage crops. The cul ture of cow peas and soy beans Is be coming important with many farmers. as they make good forage crops and at the same time add fertility to the soil. They belong to the legumes, and the cost of producing Is about the same as for corn, while their food value com pares very favorably with corn. Sev eral other classes of forage plants are described In the bulletin. To Paateurlae Mlllc. Pasteurizing milk Is a very simple process, the operator to be careful of the temperature, however, which is very Important When milk is boiled the natural flavor Is destroyed, and some persons object to It. .Milk is also Injured to a certain extent by boiling, To Pastuerlze milk, procure long- necked bottle, which must be scrupu lously clean ; pour in the milk and plug the tops with cotton wool, which ex cludes all germs. Tlace the bottles In a deep pan or other vessel and heat to a temperature of 158 degrees, using a thermometer. If the temperature .reach es 100 degrees the milk will have the odor of being boiled. Keep the milk heated for half an hour. The cot ton stoppers need not be removed un til the milk is desired for use. The bottles containing the milk may be placed In a refrigerator or some cool receptnele. Milk so prepared can be kept for two or three dnys. To sterilize milk It must be boiled, hence Pasteu rization is a different process. Ponltrr- A careful observer of poultry needs no better sign of Its condition than to watch the comb. A bright red comb shows that the hen or male Is healthy and vigorous, and If a hen, she will probably be a good layer. After the egg supply has failed the comb will generally lose its color. In cold weath er fowls with large combs must have extra warm Quarters, as they are very easily frozen. It Is frozen combs more often than 'anything else that makes Leghorns and Mlnorcas . poor winter layers. Aa their names Imply, they are natives of warm climates, as, Indeed, moat fowls are. They very rarely get into aa warm quarters In winter as they could And anywhere In the coun tries whera they hnd their original Some. .1 . . Bo Koonlaa. A cellar la a good place to keep bees. but, if sheltered from tha winds and exposed to tbe sun, a strong colony win . Yn nt of doors. Shredded Store. For winter feeding of stock animals this makes one of the finest feeds on the farm. . The modern husking and shredding machinery does excellent work, and Its man-eating proclivities have been largely eliminated. An or dinary threshing machine can be made to do good shredding, but the grain Is not left In the best condition. The greatest drawback in the use of both husker and thresher Is that they re quire a large force of men and teams, hence the work Is quite expensive. Perhaps the cheapest corn husking Is done with the little old. husking peg. But It Is almost Impossible to feed long stover without considerable waste, and the refuse stalks are a nuisance when It comes to handling the manure. These difficulties may be overcome by running the handhusked stover through a com mon cutter and shredder. This work can usually be done without employing ; much. If any outside help. In case ev erything Is hired, the cost of the work. added to that of band-bnsklng and put ting of the corn and stover in crib and mow or stack may equal or even exceed tho expense of machine husking and shredding. This is a point for each to decide from his own standpoint Agri cultural Epitomlst Composition of Crop. A bulletin of the Minnesota ' Experi ment Station discusses the composition and characteristics of the more common farm crops, as alfalfa, clover, peas, rape, corn fodder, timothy, millet, etc. In connection with the composition of some of the crops the protein eon- tent of the seed is considered. In the case of clover, alfalfa, peas, beans and rape two distinct types of seed are shown to recur, one of high and the other of low protein content and the relationship of the physical character istics of the seeds to the chemical com position is noted. The larger protein content of the seed is considered as a possible factor In the production of for age crops of high nutritive value. The quality of the forage In live-stock feed ing Is of great Importance, because by the use of more concentrated nitroge nous forage rations can be prepared requiring smaller amounts of grains and milled products. The result Is a material financial saving' of stock. How to Save Steps. In spite of the extensive development and use of corn harvesting machinery the fact remains that much corn Is still cut by hand. Therefore the ac companying sketch recently gent to the New England Momested by a reader will prove of Interest. He hns figured out that If the plan outlined Is followed a sixty-four hill shock, or stook, of corn can be cut at a minimum number of steps. The cir cles In the center represent the four hills tied together or between which the shock Is built. After the founda tion for the shock Is ready the man goes to No. I and cuts In the direction i iff' I iff S (S f3 i,r ! ' o o t & 1 it f.....J, O O (& b-'-f I P !p 0 - it m tt- . g.. if. n CUTTINO A SHOCK OF CORK. of the numbers until he reaches No. 8. After placing his. armful In the shock he begins at No. 0 and cuts to No. 16 again depositing his load and continu ing the operation In the way the hills are numbered until the shock is com pleted. It will be noted that In addi tion to saving steps this plan brings the cutter near the shock with his heav iest load, or when his arm la full of corn. Fruit from Seed. It is doubtful If there is any kind ot fruit that will come strictly true to va riety when grown from seed, as there is a tendency to deviate from the orig inal. One may secure something supe rior or the fruit mny revert back to some undesirable -kind. It Is a slow and uncertain process. Chestnuts may be grafted when 1 year old. The nuts are usually placed In the ground In rows, 6 Inches deep, early In the spring or late In the fnll, hilling over them If in tbe fnll, and uncovering In the spring. They are very unreliable In germinating and prefer a sandy loam. The European varieties are larger than the native. The native chestnuts vary greatly, no two trees producing nuts exactly alike In size, flavor, etc. The foreign varieties are grafted on the American stocks. Trees grown from American nuts can not be depended upon for quality of product A Peaceful Be. Beehives on every front porch, giv ing each family a supply of delicious honey close at hand, while at the same time the bees will Inculcate their lea- son of Industry, are a possibility, for the Department of Agriculture has suc ceeded in Importing from abroad what may be termed a peaceful- bee, which finds onr fickle climate to ita liking. The newcomer is known as the Cau casian bee. The name Is derived from Its native locality, and is emphasized by habits of Ufa which rank It distinct ly aa tbe white man's bee. It Is civil ised, dignified and high-toned. It rushes with reluctance into anything that amacka of warfare, having, in place of tha belligerent lnatlncta of others of Ita class, a predisposition to arbitration. THEVVEEKLY mm 1000 Norwegians defeated tha English at Fulford. 1108 Richard I. defeated the . French at the battle of Glaors. 1327 Edward II. of England murdered in Berkeley Castle. 1350 English defeated the French at the battle of Poitiers. 1415 Owen Qlendower, the Welsh pat riot, died at Monnlngton.' 1628 John Endicott's colony arrived at Salem, Mass. 1630 Boston, formerly Trlmountain, Mass., named. 1653 New England colonists declared war against the Ntantlck Indians. 1065 The great plague of London reached ita height 1675 Bloody Brook massacre at Deer. field, Mass. 1607 King William's war ended by the treaty of Rye wick. 1710 Expedition against the French sailed from Boston for Port Royal. 1714 George I. landed In England. 1745 Battle of Preston pans between the Royal troops and the Jacobites. 1747 Marquis da Beauharnais ended his twenty-one year term aa governor of Canada. 1750 Quebec capitulated to the British. 1762 St. John's, Newfoundland, retaken from the French by the British. 1776 The first Trinity church, New York, destroyed by fire. Built in 1608. 1777 Continental Congress left Phila delphia on tha approach of the Brit ish. .. .British victorious at battle of Saratoga. .. .British defeated the Americans at Paoli, Pa. 1702 Meeting of the first Parliament of upper Canada. 1793 George Washington laid the cor ner stone of the national capitol at Washington. , 1801 Robert Emmet, Irish patriot. hanged for treason. 1821 Central American States declared their independence. 1823 Samuel L. Southard of New Jer sey became Secretary of the Navy. 1838 Opening of the London and Bir mingham railway. .. .Anti-Corn Law League formed at Manchaster, Eng-. land. 1841 Railway opened between London and Brighton. 1847 Shakspeare's house, Stratford-on- Avon, bought for the British nation. 1850 President Fillmore signed the fugitive slave law. 1854 Allies defeated the Russians at the battle of Alma. 1856 The last national convention of the Whigs met at Baltimore. 1857 Massacre at Mountain Meadow, Utah.... Delhi captured by the Brit ish. I860 The American tour of the Prince of Wales began at Detroit 1S61 New Orleans banks suspended specie payment 1802 Battle of Antietam ended. 1803 Gen. Bragg began the siege of Chattanooga. . . .First day of the bat tle of Chlckamauga. 1804 Gen. Sheridan victorious at bat tle of Winchester. .. .Gen Fremont withdrew aa a candidate for Presi dent 1868 Revolution' In Spain commenced. 1870 The Germans Invested Paris. 1871 Lincoln's body removed to its final resting place at Springfield, 111. 1873 Financial panic precipitated by the suspension of Jay Cook & Co. 1881 Chester A. Arthur took the oath aa successor to President Garfield. 1801 The St Clair tunnel under tha Detroit river opened to traffic. 1804 Chinese defeated with heavy loss at battle of Ping Yang, Korea. 1895 Peary Arctic relief expedition left St. John's, N. F., on return home. 1808 Spanish forces began the evacua tion of Porto Rico. .. .French min ister of war ordered the prosecution of Col. Plcquart in connection with the Dreyfus caae. ; 1800 Anti-trust conference at Chicago ended. Odda and Ends. Methodist foreign mission schools have over 70,000 pupils. China and Japan together produce 125,000 tons of silk annually. Taken the world over, the annual av erage rainfall la sixty Inches. Coffee plantations In bloom are snow white and exhale a delicious odor, but the bloaaams die In a day. , The steel sleeping ears which the Pull- ma a company is building will weigh 23 per cent more than the present ears. ' As near as can be ascertained, tha on appropriated and unreserved public lands of tha United States amount to 79238,- 707 acres. ; A decade ago, m the fiscal year 1890 "07, thia country did a business with the La tin-American countries amounting ta 1234,000.000. In the fiscal year 1906 07 It bas done a bnalnass with the I tin. American oountrlaa In excess of $000 000.000