Manchester Democrat. [volume], November 26, 1902, Image 3

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MY THANKSGIVING PARTY.
THANKSGIVING
fittrty I guvc
nst nlglit,
And u»y guests
re
you'll mlud—^
A girl with
crutch, a stnw
mertug hoy
And nn o!d man
who is blind.
They don"t go out
every night In
the year.
In fact they're
iv
quite
But they conde
scended gr.a
__ do sly
To come to my feast Inst uight
•Turkey? Oh, no, but we had fowl
Which was very large for four,
Indeed,-Hhe old man iiml even the boy
Bold they couldn't have wished for more,
wo Virtue of us cared for cranberry sauce,
we had a whole uilnce pie
Twas. sent by tjiy country aunt, you see),
And the dinner was not so dry,
frqr we had^some coffeo-^two cups apiece!
,_Who eared if the cupswere small?
Why, the girl with the crutch was heard to
say.
That she couldn't drink It all:
Antl the stammering boy said he was sure
He would have bad dreams all night.
Ana the old mnu- mild he'd not eaten so
much
Slace the year when he lost his sight.
And that wasn't all, for after the feast
When the dishes were cleared away,
ne had some nuts by the bright coal fire,
And I tell you we were guy!
For the old roan told such funny tales
That our laugh made the old room ring.
And the girl with a crutch had a banjo, too,
And the stammering boy could sing!
"It teamed so strange to hear his voice
Move on qulte-'smooth and clear,
That I wondered If sometimes, perhaps. In
heaven,
.Whether that be far or near,
If our speech will be clear from the halt
aua Jar
with which It Is troubled now.
And If wc Can walk without the crutch
Which we nlways need, somehow
And It tve-shall-be no longer blind,
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nM of us are. In a way).
Ah, then there would be a feast, Indeed,
A royal Thanksgiving day!
And 1 know last night, as we laughed and
sang,
We forgot the long, hard year,
We forget all weakness and all wact -1
_In the light of our own good cheer
Tor gayer guests with a brighter wit,
I sure it were hard to flud
My girl with a crutch, my stammering boy,
And my nld man who Is blind.
—Farm, Field" aud Fireside.
NE year ago, Charlie had come to
I tli* city to make his fortune. He
was fond of farming and farm
stock hut they3 were slow means to
wealth. He would go to the city for the
fortune, and would then come hack and
purchase the best farm in the vicinity,
find have fine horses and big meadows
and—envious neighbors.
He was standing on a street corner,
tvith hands thrust deep down into his
pockets, mul wearing the same clothes
he had brought from home. But the
.clothes were soiled and worn threadbare
and shiny, and the shoes were unblacked,
aud the hat lacking part of its brim jmd
..long ago he had discarded such extras
as collars and cuffs. The fingers of one
hand plnycd idly with his two last half
dollars, both of which were owed for
the poor little room lie rented on ou-i of
the back streets and the other lingers
touched several pawn tickets, which he
had no expectation of redeeming. In
deed, he was wondering dully if there
wore anything else in his trunk which
could be pawned. He had had no break
fast, and there was no prospect for a
dinner—and this was Thanksgiving.
A few yards away, a street boy was
sitting -on dry goods box, swinging
his bare feet industriously to the time
he was whistling. But his eyes were
fixed on the listless figure of his neigh
bor.
"Say, country," he called, suddenly,
"what you rhinkiu' of?"
Charlie Hushed, but did not answer.
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Come, don't make an owl o' your
.self." the boy went on "there's nothin'
•jn this world to fret over,. Look here,"
'swinging his legs upon the box "no
clothes to spare, an' what there is ain't
much for cold weather an' my jacket's
lost an arm. an* my shirt most o' one
shoulder an* furthermore," pausing to in
dulge in another bar of the street ditty
he was whistling, "I ain't batf no break
fast. an' only a cold pcrtater for supper
last night an' still I ain't no spilt milk
to cry over." His legs swung back into
space and heat a lively accompaniment
to the conclusion of the tune. Then he
looked at Charlie.
"Now, what's broke with you?" he de
manded. "You ain't stalled, an* you've
got shoes on your feet."
"But I can't eat my shoes," Charlie
retorted "and the two pieces of money
I have left are to pay for my room. And
—and what's wo/se, I'm out of a job.
'Twasn't much—sweeping out ollices—but
It meant a room aud something to eat."
The street boy stopped drumming and
looked at him with more interest.
""lis sort o* bad," he acknowledged
"nn* you bein' from the couutry an* know
In* nothin' makes it worse. What'd you
come for?"
"Why, to get rich, of course," Charlie
answered, "what does any oue come to
the «'ity for?"
"Huh!" derisively, "an* here Pve been
loofcin* nhead to goin* into the coiu.try
to get rich. Say, do you have fellers like
me, an' like that crowd on the sidewalk,
up in your country?"
Charlie looked at him, and then at
the half-dozen disreputable men who
were smoking in frout of a saloon op
posite, aud the two or three women sort
ing over an ash barrel, and the squalid,
dirty-faced children playing and fighting
along the gutter, and answered, with nn
expression of disgust:
"No, indeed!"
"I thought so. Then the country's the
richest an' best place." He looked at
Charlie a little enviously.
"Say, you got horses an', cows.an* dogs
an* chickens, an' a pa an* ma, an* green
grass an'^^u' up there?" he demanded.
"Of course," with Qager recollection
.in his voice "and miles and miles of
woods where we go after chestnuts and
grapes in the fall, and big ponds to skate
on in the winter."
"An* you run away from them—for
this?" suatchiug his fragment of cap and
hurling it into the gutter as expressive
of his unutterable disgust. Then he
stood upon the box and stretched himself
to his full height, raising his hand as
though to invoke a benediction.
"My son," he sad, solemnly, "go home
an' eat the fatted calf an' your ma's
doughnuts. Tarry not. Hasten to pas
tures new where the calves flourish as a
green bay tree. If it be fifty miles, walk,
an* run when you get tired if a thousand,
walk an' run an' beg an* steal rides on
freight trains—only go, as my fallin' tears
implore. An' now"—here a paper.boy, at
tracted by his gesticulations, darted up
and tipped the box so that the orator
slid inglorious]? into the mud. Charlie
laughed in spite of himself, then his face
became grave. Beneath the lightness of
the .speaker's words had been an under
current of seriousness which appealed di
rectly to his discouragement and home
sickness. Yes, he would go home.
"Thank you for your advice," he said
"I'm going to take it."
"Honest?" with a ring of satisfac
tion in his voice. "Then fare ye well, nn*
if forever—hut, say," as Charlie was
starting down the sidewalk, "give me a
tip to your barrel an' mebbe I'll come
out a,n' spend my vacation with you next
summer."
Charlie laughed, and then, on a sudden
impulse, wrote his address and gave it to
the boy.
ft
"We'd like first rate to have you come,*'
he said, heartily, "an' we'd try to give
you a good time."
This is the proper end for the story
hut I want to add that the street boy
did visit them the next summer, and that
they gave him such a good time be con
cluded to remain and work for them per
manently.—Portland Transcript.
A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL
Significance of Thanksgiving Day
Shonld Not Be Forgotten.
There is danger that the religious sig
nificance of Thanksgiving day may be
forgotten. We so soon grow accustom
ed to our blessings that wo accept them
as a part of the general order of things
and naturally become ungrateful by pure
forgetfulness or indifference. But its a
matter of tact most things which come
to us come by the pure favor or courte-
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sy of others, and how unworthy do we
consider the ingrnte! writes Rev, S. T.
Willis in the New York Ledger. He is
one of tho most contemptible characters
with which we meet. We consider him
even uncivil who does not spontaneously
say or write "Thnnk you" for the favors
and kinduess shown him by his fellow
man. Aud this word of grateful appre
ciation is never lost. Even if it may
seem to have no effect upon him for
whom it was given, it will not be lost
upon those who hear, nor \vill-jts influ
ence be powerless upon him wh» bestows
it. A cultivation of the thanksgiving
habit will'make to grow the sense of ap
preciation, and as a result our spirits will
be sweetened, our souls enlarged and
tlie whole horizon of life beautified. Then
the ordiuary affairs of life will never
more be commonplace our conditions and
surroundings will always appear in a
fresh light. This is significant. Ihe
man whose family find in him a source
of endless delight and joy Is one who
does not suffer the commou relationships
und the daily intercourse to become col
orless and arid. Such a man keeps love
alive by cultivating the sentiment of af«
foction. His face, his voice, his deed,
makes the old courses of life brim and
sparkle with a full current of tenderness
and feeling. So it is agaiu with the
great artist who sees the common in nn
uncommon light and clothes the most or
dinary objects with beauty and charm.
In like manner the religious nature dis
closes its presence by the unfailing fresh
uess of its feeling for all relations and
seasons and customs and days. It num
bers its blessings daily, and daily does
it express gratitude because it feels deep
ly and gladly the weight of its vast in
debtedness. The years may differ great
ly in the comforts and blessiugs rhey
br!ng, but God's unbroken beneficence
knows do divisions of time. His bounty
is an unbroken eternity. All years,
however hard in the experiences they
bring, are years of blessedness it shonld
bo ours to receive what God sends aud
to be constantly thaukful.
The First Thanksgiving.
The fishermen were ordered "to scour
the seas for spoil," tho huutcrs "to
shoulder their matchlocks and bring in
such game as would allow the Mayflower
colony in a more special manuor to re
joice together." The result was a sup
ply of wild turkey, deer, bear and game
of every sort in such abundance as amply
to feed the colony for a week. They had
as guests the friendly chief, Massasoit,
and ninety of his Indians. The Indians
contributed to the feast five deer and a
"great basket of oysters." This was the
introduction of the young colony to its
afterward favorite shellfish and the worn-
E
en cooked them as they best knew how.
The menu of that immortal dinner has
not, alas! been preserved, but it is known
that the two dishes most fully appro
dated by the Indians as well as the
Americans were the "brown roast tur
key" and the pumpkin pie. The great
feast of the week was outdoors, for the
air was balmy and the sun bright. Mas
sasoit was there in all the bravery of
a scarlet coat trimmed with lace and a
copper chain, given him, some time pre
vious, by Edward Witislow. In a strange
medley of Indian garb and a borrowing of
ptiropcan costume, the guest of honor
was feted and entertained, cementing
there the bond of friendship with the
white settlers which held good forty-one
years.—Good Housekeeping. j-
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HOW TO COOK THE TURKEY.
Borne Practical Advice Given by
New York Clief,
There is a chef in one of the large
hotels of New York who is famous for
his roast turkey. Turkey uuder his
hands comes out net only a beautiful
brown, but of a delicious flavor quite dif
ferent from any other turkey that ever
was seen. The turkey meat is positive
ly rich, and even the white mcnt that is
generally dry has a moist, spicy taste.
This is his recipe for roast turkey:
Clean the turkey with as little handling
as possible and rinse with water in which
a little baking soda has been dissolved.
Now break up about half a pint of bread
crumbs, and into the crumbs chop two
links of pork sausage. Stuff the turkey
with this mixture and just before put
ting into the oven bind salt pork on the
breast of the turkey. Remove the pork
just before the turkey is taken from the
oven. When the meat is carved, its
flavor will be found very superior. This
is particularly to be recommended for
the Thanksgiving turkey, which, with so
AN AMERICAN THANKSGIVING.
many other dainties rivaling it, must
be very appetizing to be enjoyed.
An Impertinence.
"I understands dat you all had turkey
foil yoh Thanksgivlu' dinner," said Mr.
Erastus Finkley.
"Ynss indeed," answered Miss Miami
Brown.
"Who wah de hos'?"
"Who wah de which?"
"I)e hos'? Who did de turk'ey b'long
to?"
"Nobody fohgot hisse'f so fah as to ask
dat question," was the chillia? rejoinder.
"Besides, aftuh a turkey has been cook
ed dar ain* no way of 'dentifyin* it."—
Washington Star,
After the Dhmcr.
How little Johnny felt Thauksgiving
evening.—New York World.
A Mighty Feed in Store.
One of these days the three hundredth
anniversary of the foundiug of Thanks
giving will happen along. If it is kept in
the spirit of most centenaries, what
heavy and long drawn out feasting thcro
will be! cZ
Thanksgiving Discrcpancics.
Health waits on moderate poverty.
Fate's wisdom oft we question,
The man whose dinner's best Is he ...
Who has the worst digestion.
—Washington Star.
A Wclcomo Guest.
"Will you have any guests at your
Thanksegiving dinner, Mr. Oloversced?"
"Well, I've axed a turkey."—New York
World.
THANKSGIVING AT THE ZOO.
I HE GOURMAND AND THE TURK.
Turkey gobbles by
the Farmer's fence
The IJouriuand gob
bles litm from oil
the platter.
The Bird foresees bis
doom with dread
Intense:
The Gourmand fastft
—bis appetite to
flatter.
Kuril of the twaln's a
hero on his bent—
The Turkey eau't escape and will not try
It:
The gout has gripped the Gourmand by the
feef.
But for at least one meal he will defy It.
Upon Thanksgiving day, all Christians
dwell
Within a common hall of gastro-revcl,
And he's devoutost who his waist doth
swell
With grub he later wishes at the devil.
And so the Turkev «*ruts his little space,
A slave to placid etiquette of dying:
The Gourmand, having dined, the air wilt
grace
With groans whose ardor there is no de
nying.
The Bird regrets his fate, and can't be
blamed—
Too proud to fly, he scorns attempted flit
ting
The Gourmand for his part would be
ashamed
To eat less than a Turkey at a sitting.
Their mutual politeness Is most sweet—
The Turkey dies, and knows he Is a duf
fer
The Gourmand cats, and aches from head
to feet—
He'd like to die, but can't so lives to suf
fer.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
For tho Thanksgiving Pinner.
I think a Thanksgiving dinner table
should be differently decorated from one
for any other occasion. It should look
loaded. My centerpiece .will he a'vblg
scooped-out pumpkin, with the edges seal-
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loped, filled with fruit arranged prettily
on leaves—bananas, oranges, lady-apples
and grapes.
At one end of the table will be a rep
resentation of a mammoth pumpkin pie
(this for the benefit of the children),
made from a bread-pan, with crinkled yel
low tissue paper around the edges and
filled with sawdust, in which is conceal
ed trilles, one for each person present,
done up in yellow paper tied with wel
low ribbon. The ribbon bows and ends
will make the top of the pie. At the close
of dinner it will be passed, and every
one will get a pull aud a package. At
Ihe other end of the table I will have
a bowl of yellow chrysanthemums—the
flower of the Thanksgiving season. At
the four corners I will put horns of plen
ty made of cardboard covered with yel
low crinkled tissue paper. Out of one
of these cornucopias will pour chocolates,
out of another figs and dates, out of the
third nuts aud raisins, aud out of the
fourth candy fruits.—Anna Went worth
in the Woman's Home Companion.
liinklclaul'cr's Hard Luck.
"Yn, Mister IVuikelbaum, I had lots uv
drnble mit dut durkey," s-aid Kinklelau
fer.
"Noin, you don't said it."
"You bet. I nefer had so much druble
before. Mine wife says, 'Hans, you once
go to de yeastern market und buy a life
durkey for Thanksgivin*.' So I went
over dere und bought eiu durkey dat
weighed acht pfuiul, so dat farmer told
me. Vhen I measured him in do store
he weighed only five pfuiul, und dat farm
er cheated uie aus dirty cents."
"Dora spitzbube."
"Ya. Und on mine va.v to mine haus
he flied away und 1 had to give a fellow
funf und zwanzig pfennings to ketch
him."
"Sehr Teuei
"Ya. Und von I reached mem haus I
fell, und hurt inein e.ve."
"How unluckiest.'
"Yen I got home I put him in de yard.
Next morning vhen 1 from the bed got up
he vas gone. I discovered him founjl
under de haus und I vent after him und I
catched liim in de parlor of inein haus."
"How provokably."
"Veil I cut his head offs he fly on inein
suit aud ruiued it."
"You nefer said so."
"Und von I eat him he is tuff as leath
er. Dat's That conies to it for taken a
wife's advisable."—Detroit Free Press.
Seasonab'c.
A chap out In far Albuquerque r.- .v.
Wrote Kast In a hand rather Jheroue.
That If still In the mood,
Aud the walking was good,
He'd be home foi: his Thauksgiving tucrque.
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WHERE EDGAR ALLEN POE LIVED.
Tragic Story of the Fordhnm House,
Where His Wife Died.
Few lioines associated with men of
genius have attracted more sympa
thetic aud melancholy interest than
the little cottage In l'ordliam. Is'. Y.,
where the hitter tragedy of Edgar
Poe's life was played nearly to the
end.
He established himself at Fordliam
In 1810 with his youug wife and her
mother, the long-sulterlng and patient
Mrs. Clemm, hoping by his work on
various.iiewspapers and 'magazines in
the great city near by to inal:e enough
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TOES ItOl'SE AT FORDHAM.
to afford the necessary comforts for
his Invalid Virginia and himself. The
little cottage on the top of Fordhani
hill was by far tVe best home he had
yet known. It was only a story and
a half high.. On the ground floor are
two small rooms, a sitting room and a
kitchen, while above, reached by a
narrow stairway, are two other rooms,
oue of these, Poe's, a cramped little
box of a place, lighted by tiny win
dows, the other a bed room about the
size of a closet. Mrs. Gove, who visit
ed the Poes here, says: "The furni
ture was of the simplest iu the clean,
white-floored •Itchen, were a table, a
chair and a little'stove, and in the oth
er room, which was laid with checked
matting,' were only a lisht stand with
presentation volumes of the^Hrowu
lugs upon it, some hanging shelves
with a few other, books ranged ou
them, and four chairs."
Poe's wife, Virginia, only 25,.was
still beautiful, her large bhick eyes
and dark hair accentuating her pallor,
and Poe, proud, 111, and bltter-with a
n'ense of the injustice of the world and
his own inability to provide the com
forts required for his wife, was in a
constant fever of anxiety.
As the summer went on Virginia
failed And faded aw^nv daily air.l the
JilUll BK1DOE, POES FAVOKXTE WALK.
resources of the household were being
slowly reduced to the starving point.
Autumn came, the snow and the cold
and the wiuter seclusion, and atTaint
gre\v desperate.
Mrs. Gove, who visited them at ilife
period, found the dying wife in the
summer sitting room, which had been
taken for her use. The scene Is thus
pictured by her: "There was no cloth
ing on the bed. which was only stra\V,
but a suow-white count jrpnne aud
sheets. The weather was cold and the
sick la(ly had the dreadful chills that
accompany the hectic fever of con
sumption. She lay on the straw bed,
wrapped in her husband's great coat,
with a large tortoise-shell cat in her
bosom. The wonderful cat seeme.l con
scious of her great usefulness. The
coat and the cat were the sufferer's
only means of warmth, except as her
husband held her hands, and her moth
er her feet. Mrs. Clemm was passiou
atcly fond of her daughter. and= ker dis
tress on account of her illnes* .-tnd pov
erty and misery-was-dreadful, to sec.'*
Mrs. Poe died lu the little sitting
room on Saturday, Jan. 30, 1S47 rnd
from here her husband, wearing the
military coat,that had but lately been
her bed covering, attended by a few
friends, followed }ier body to its last
resting plnce.
For some time after his wife's death
the little house remained the home of
Poe and Mrs. Clemm. No»v there is a
movement on foot to purchase the'
house and establish it as a memorial to
Poe.
WHY PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT.
CJrcnt Pilea Krcctctl for Advertise
mcnt of the Phuraoha.
The interest of the Delhi and Flcuurvs
observatories lies for us in tho fact that
they recall a time In the past when
astronomers sought for exactness by
tho erection of iiuge structures of stone.
Of those the great pyramid is by fav tlw»
greatest and most perfect example.
Kritain has its own monument—Stone
honge—which has been claimed as, if
not indeed au astronomical observatory,
at least an astronomical .temple, aud
many attempts have been made to de
termine the date at which it was erect
ed. The difficulty, not to say impossi
bility, of solving this problem In. llie
present state of the monument may be
inferred fr.om the fact that the dates
which different careful observers have
deduced for its erection extend over a
period of more than 2.000 years.
The real work jjf astronomy was
never done in edtUcvs like these, says
a writer..in Knowledge. Nor, ludeed,
does it require much knowledge of hu
man nature, essentially the same 5,000
.years ago as to-day, to see that the true
secret of the pyramid, the amply suffi
cient cause for its building, was the
vanity of the ruling Pharaoh. Alike at
Delhi, at Gliizeh and on Salisbury plain,
as by the Euphrates, to "make a name"
was the exciting motive. Astronomers
may have been employed to superin
tend the work, astronomy, or the cult
of the celestial bodies, may have been
the excuse, but.the real object was ad
vertisement.
D:illlit-Laii(l.
Dr. Bobert Bell, who has been mak
ing a study of the west coast of Baffin
Laud, reports that the island is 300,000
square miles in area and the second
largest island In tltc world, being sur
passed only by Greenlaud.
Keeping Out of Trouble.
The new Ameer of Afghanistan has
declared against the admission of mis
sionaries to his country.
In order to simplify social :.ffaJrs,
is suggested that every Uoslcss have
a printed bill of fare, so (hat imp
guests will be prepared, wlfen asked
when they get home,. "What did \ou
nave to" eatV"
A sure-cure for .insomnia is to have
someone knock on- the .door and tell
jou to get up,
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tfjfrHMOT iMnim '"I "i. fii'i ij uiifiLji ii.iu
Handling Corn Fodder.
Where shocks are made of unbound
fodder it will be necessary to employ
the aid of a horse for building them
and they should
be well tied with
binder twine. Al
most any device
will answer for a
a
which to shock the corn. Herewith Is
sho\vn a device scut by a contributor
for tying, shocks that is very ueces
sary. After the shock is made as large
as desired, the shaft of this device is
thrust through the shock a little above
the half way distance from the bottom
to the top, the end of the rope is
brought around tho shock aud the end
passed over the smooth end of the
shaft. By giving the haudle a few
turns the compass of the shock will
be so drawn that it can be easily tied.
Shocks tied in this manner seldom get
twisted or out of condition.
For hauling in fodder we have two
designs. One of theme Is nn ordinary
sled-like device that is easily construct
ed and will be found very handy for
hauling fodder. It will be found espe
cially handy in loadiug fodder. Some
use this sled for liauliug and the
shocks are not torn apart iu hauling,
but are simply tipped over on the sled
and hauled away in this manner. The
other device cousists in a peculiarly
constructed rack to be placed ou a low-
wheeled wagon. By the aid of a sim
ple derrick-like contrlvauce on the roar
end of the wagon the shocks are easily
lifted on the wagon and placed iu a
position on the load. We kuow of sev
eral farmers who have used this de
vice, and they pronounce It good.
Many ways can be provided for mak
ing racks that will be convenient for
hauling fodder, and these are only giv
en as starters along this line.—Iowa
Homestead.
Winter Spraying of Fruit Tree?.
The sprayingjjf fruit trees during the
winter should not be neglected. Before
the leaves start the trunk •and every!
branch of the tree should be well spray
ed with a solution of one pound of cop
per sulphate in twenty-five galious of
water to check scab, codling moth, bird
moth, tent caterpillar, canker worm,
plum eurculio and San Jose scale on
^ifwle trees, to be followed up after the
blossoms fall by the regular bordeaux
urixture of four pounds each of sul
phate of copper and lime to fifty gallons
of water. Some prefer to use six pounds
sulphate of copper instead of four
pouiids, but we are not sure that this js
any better than the other, while for
peach .trees that have put out their
leaves the use of three pounds of sul
phate of copper to six or nine pounds
of lime Is thought strong enough for
fifty gallons of water. But we are now
speaking of a winter spray before the
leaves come out. The mixture of fifty
pounds each cf lime, salt und flowers
of sulphur is used on the Pacific coast
for the San Jose scale, but in our East
ern climate it does not seem to be as
effectual, as the frequent rains wash it
off. A mixture of pure lime made as a
thin whitewash and used on peach trees
two or three times in the wiuter has
been recommcndcd as a spray that will
keep the leaves and buds from starting
early enough to be killed by the spring
frosts.—American Cultivator.
Keeping Late Cnbbasc.
Late cabbage laid in shallow trenches
roots up will keep well if not placed
too close together in the trench. Dig a
trench about eight or ten inches deep
and two and a half to three feet wide,
putting some cross-pieces of wood in
the bottom of the treuch for suine odd
and end boards to rest upon, making
rough kind of platform, leaving a space
of two or three iuches beneath. A little
straw is spread over the boards aud the
cabbages are packed In head down in
two layers, the upper layer being placed
between the angles formed by the cab
bages of the lower one. A coping is
placed over to keep them dry and atten
tion paid that they do not get frozen.—
American Gardening.
The Infant Bee*
When one thinks that aijy bee that
walks out of its cradle, pule, perhaps,
but perfect, knows at our.e all that is
to bo known of the life a'jd duties of a
bee, complicated as they are, and com
prising the knowledge of an architect,
a wax-modeler, a nursr.*, a lady's maid,
a housekeeper, a tourist agency aud a
field marshal, and th?n compares that
vast knowledge witlr the human baby,
who Is looked upon, as a genius if it
gurgles "Goo-goo," and tries to gouge
its mother's eyes out with its fingers,
one realizes that the boasted superior
ity of the human brain depends large
ly upon vanity.—Rural World.
The Mitkhoimc.
In planning a house for handling tho
milk the main points arc ventilation,
sunshine, drainage and to have it liaudy
to an abundant supply of cold water.
The location should be where the air !s
pure, as milk absorbs odors and is eas
ily tainted and spoiled for butter-mak
Ing or any family purpose. The build
ing should have at least one window
on the south side, so as to allow the sun
to shiue in when desired, yet so ar
ranged as to exclude the direct sunshine
when necessary.
The Co-Operative Luundry.
The co-oporative laundry should be
just as practical as the co-operative
creamery. There Is no labor that is 80
dreaded by ttiQSe who have the hpuse-
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hold duties to perform as Is the work of
the laundry, and it is asserted that if it
wore not for this one Item of labor the
help question would not take on such a
serious aspect as it does at the present
time. It is suggested that a laundry for
rural communities would give great
satisfaction if not run.on tho co-opera
tive plan, but simply placed on a busi
ness basis like any other private con
cern. If women simply demanded that
laundry should bo done away from
home there is no question but what
their demand would be satisfied.—Iowa
Homestead.
Artificial Ice Ponds.
There are few better sources for get
ting good Ice than from a properly con
structed artificial pond, because they
can be placed on a stream of pure run
ning water, which can be let off during
the summit months, and allowed to flil
up before freezing weather. The bot
tom can be cleaned before the watfcr is
let in, and if there is no impurity above.
the ice will be much purer than from
the ordinary pond. A pond containing
one hundred square rods should cut
about twenty thousand square feet, or
live hundred tons, when the Ice will
average nine inches thick, and this
would be enough for several families
or dailies. For a single family with
small dairy, even six square rods would
till an icehouse ten feet square, twelve
feet deep, or about thirty tons, more
than many use fur a dairy. If the Ice
was thicker or was cut more than once
in a year, the amount would be largely
increased. Both these might happen in
ordinary winters in this climate. The
ideal pond should be about 3% feet
deep, and with a gravelly or sandy bot
tom. Water In the shallow pond
freezes more quickly than In a larger
pond or a running stream, and where
It Is filled quickly the ice Is clearer. A
grass bottom is allowable, If It be
cleansed by mowing and raking beforo
the water is let In. The shallow depth
prevents danger from drowning unless
one goes in head foremost. For the
smaller houses one needs no expensive
outfit of Ice tools. A straight-edged
board to mark oft tho squares, a cross
cut saw, and au ice chisel, a few pikes,
a runway, with blocks and ropes to
draw the ice up the run, are all that r**e
absolutely necessary. Two men to cut,
two to run It into the house and one to
pack It inside will make a good gang for
a small pond.—New England Farmer.
Cheese Press*
Here is a sketch of a cheese press that
we have found to be very useful It
can be made at a trifling cost. The up
rights are 2x4 iuch scantling, 4 or 5
feet long, with pieces of the'same fast
ened to the bottom for bases 30 inches
from the floor stout cleats are nailed
firmly to the uprights, upon which
rests a 2-inch plank, which serves as
a table upon this
plank is a cheese
hoop with a cheese
inside to bo pressed
above this is a stout
strip (2x4) with ends
resting in mortises
cut in the uprights
this strip should be i'Hkesb press.
5 or 0 feet in length uuder It, Iu tho
center. Is a block which rests upon a
rouud follower the exact size of tho
cheese to be pressed. The power is fur
nished by the eccentrics, or arms, which
are merely levers with unequal circular
ends these work on a bolt which
pierces the circle near the top to the
euds of the arms fasteu strings, which
are tied to the side of the table to'maiu*
lain the pressure. When the cheese la
placed iu the hoop, the follower and
block adjusted, by pulling down on the
eccentrics a pressure of auy required
degree Is applied upon the cheese. Both
the hoard aud strip being elastic, the
pressure is maintained as loug as re
quired.—Jacob Harper, in the Epltom
ist.
Fnrin Lands 18 Years Ahead.,
The prediction made In 1SS0 that the
population of the L'nitcd States would
now be eighty millions is fully verified.
By the same geometrical progression
the statisticians give us 120 millious
population for the year 11)20, only
about eighteen years from now. There
will be no more large farms in ihe
Middle States, when thai time comes.
About twenty-five acres will be the
average size of holdings, as now in
France, where the- price is $2."0 i:-r
acre. Our interurban roads will hasten
the time iu the United States, when
more people will have the comforts of
a country home, with their own cowa,
chickens, eggs, fruits and vegetables,
and still do business in town. Tele
phones and daily mail delivery will add
to the pleasures of couutry life.—Ex
change.
Chnrcnut fir Hogn. .:
Feeding Pigs*
An experiment made by the editor of
Hoard's Dairyman showed that plg
weighing one hundred pounds each, fed
for eight weeks on skimmilk alone, and
sold at the same price paid for them,
had gained enough to make the value of
skimmilk 22*4 cents a hundred pounds.
Another lot fed on skimmilk and corn
meal for the same length of time made
ten pounds of pork, and one hundred
pounds of skimmilk and cornmeal
mixed and fed together made eighteen
pounds of pork. Combining them in
creased their value twenty per cent.
The best mulch for a strawberry bed
is fine horse manure. Early in the
spring It should be raked off the rows
und worked iu close to the plants,
using salt hay or any clean material in
Its place on the- rows as a mulch after
the plants are well grown, so as to pro
tect the fruit from dirt and also to
shade the soil..
If all the land planted in corn in the
United States this year were massed
the area would exceed the British Isles,
Holland and Belgium combiued. or
four-fifths of the area of* France or
Gerxnaxiy
..'-sstsals.1
Thome—"How about that oil stock
you bought? Was It a good thing?"
Bramble—"No I was."—Judge.
"She smiles so sweetly when one
sends her a bouquet." "Yes! Confound
it! No matter who sends It!"—Puck.
Politician "Congratulations, Sarah,
I've been nominated." Sarah (with de- I
light—"Honestly/' Politician—"What
difference does that make?"
Painless dentistry: "Did your den
tist hurt you much?" "Not this time
his charges were very reasonable.0-—
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
"You asked her father for her hand?"
"Yes." "And he refused you?" "No,
he didn't He said I could have both
of 'em."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Hicks—"Did you get a peaceful rest
In camp that you expected?" Wicks—
"No you see, we sat up all night play
ing jokes on one another."—Somerville
(Mass.) Journal.
Tommy—"Pop, what Is an average
man?" Father "An average man,
my son, is one who feel? that he Is
a little better than his neighbors."—
Philadelphia Record.
A. little angel: Mother—"Willie, I
hope you never do anything so wicked
as to tie tin cans to dogs' talis." Willie
—No'm. I never do nothin' but bold
the dog."—Detroit Free Press.
She (to returned warrior, enthusias
tically)—"And I suppose you almost
lived on horseback out there?" He—
"Well, yes, toward the end of Lady
smith we did. It makes rather decent
soup."—Punch.
"What is the difference between a
monologue and a dialogue, pn?" "A
monologue, my son, Is a man's wife
talking to him, and a dialogue is his
wife and her mother talking to him."
—Town Topics.
Scheme That Failed—Tom (teaslngly)
—"Would you be sorry to hear that
am going to marry Edyth?" Maymc
—"Indeed I should." Tom—"Why?"
Mayme—"Because I really like Edyth."
—Chicago News.
"1 suppose, iu the collecting busi
ness," said the inquisitive man, "near-
1
ly every man you go to see asks you
to call again." "Asks me?" replied the
collector. "Some of them dare me."—
Philadelphia X^ress.
Modern science: Weary Willie—
"Please, mum, can't you give a poor
man some breakfast?" Mrs. Givem
nit—"Certainly. After you saw that
wood you may eat the sawdust. It
makes a fine breakfast food."—Ex.
Parson Jobson—"Ah wants ter speak
ter yo\ deacon, erbout de habit yo' has
ob goln' ter sleep In chu'ch. It wor
ries me." Deacon Jackson—"Oh, doan'
let it worry yo', palison Ah allers
leaves mail pocket-book at home, yo'
know."—Judge.
Pound of flesh: Financier (tenant of
our forest, after week's unsuccessful
stalking)--i"Now, look here, my man.
I bought and paid for ten stags. If
tho brutes can't be shot, you'll have to
trap them! I've promised the venison,
and I mean to have It!"—Punch.
Richard—"Hello, Bob, got back from
your vacation? Had a good time this
summer?" Robert—"I should say I
had. 1 suppose you haven't heard I
found a nice little wife up in the moun*
talus." Richard—"Did you find out
who lost her?"—Boston Transcript.
The Inquisitive Visitor stopped at the
editor's desk. "And do you
at us at
asked, interestedly. "Not all of them,"
replied the editor, pleasantly "only
those that need their English polished
up." Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune,
The librarian's humor: "What," we
ask of the librarian, "do you suppose
is tlMJjsreatest library book In the world
—the "fowik that Is in the most de
mand?" "cWttSg10'8 bank-book,'
respond confldeiitl^\Wtt^ytt^
from his work.—Baltimore American.
lie died iii town this summer. Dur
ing his last illness his wife nursed him
over the telephone from Newport
doctor treated him "by telegraph from
Bar Ilarbori'and a letter, written from
the top of the Alps by his clergyman,
was read over him at the funeral.—
Life.
"I—I have come," he began, address
ing her father, "to—to suggest to you
that a union of our families would—."
"I'm not in favor of unions," ttie testy
old Captain of Industry interrupted,
"ami I will not submit the matter to
arbitration. Good morning."—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Miss Kamra Feend—"I'd like to take
a 'photo' of your fariu-haud at work."
Farmer Brown—"All right—ef yew kin
spare the time." Miss Kamra Feend
—"Oh, this camera will catch him In
just one-twentieth*of a second." Far
mer Bj'own—"Yes but it'll take ye two
hours tew ketch him workin'."—Judg*.
"Is this a commission house?" asked
the tall man. "Yes, sir," said the com
mission merchant. "What can we do
for you?" "Well, If you sell commis
rbns, I'd like to buy one, If they're not
•3 dear, for my .son. I want a lieu
nant's commission In the army, for
.iy son wants to bo a soldier and he's
too lazy to go to West Point."—Balti
more Herald.
if you leftve all your property to
your second wife, your children will
certainly try to break the will." "Of
course. That's what I want them to do.
1 want them to have their full share of
my money." Then why bequeath It
all to your wife?" "Well, you see. It
will be easier for my children to break
my will than it is for uie to break Iter's."
—New York Weekly.
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s.
Kvcry hoghouse should contain a box
full of charcoal. This may be secured
by digging a pit in the ground, starting
the tire at the bottom and as it pro
gresses throwing in cobs and wood un
til it is full. When the fire is wok
started, cover the whole with a piece
of sheet Iron. The mass will be thor
oughly charred in a day or two and
can be taken out and used. Some feed
el's make a solution of twelve pounds
of salt and two pounds of copperas in
a pail of watfr and spriukle over the
charcoal until it is pretty well satu
rated. Hogs will remain healthy aud
in good condition if they are given
good feed and plenty of charcoal.—
American Agriculturist.
New Vso for Bees.
Down on Long Island the farmers
have discovered that persons suffering
from rheumatism and sciatica can ob
tain relief by allowing honey beetf to
sting the affected parts. This is a very
unpleasant process and entirely unnec
essary. The poison of the bee sting Is
chiefly formic acid. This acid is also
found in stinging nettles, in ants and
some varieties of the caterpillars.
There is no dltilulty in preparing for
mic acid, and It would seem that phy
sicians might hud it advantageous to
experiment with It as a remedy for
rheumatlclroubles—either In acid form
ur in formates. Certainly some means
can be devised of introducing it Into the
circulation less pamtul than allowing
bees to sting a rheumatic sufferer by
wholesale.
Quite nil Influential Feature.
l'udfly—Money Isn't tlic only tliiiijr.
Duilily—No, but It la tho only
that will buy most of the other tlilugs.
—Boston Transcript.
A patient suffering from typhoid fe
ver should take to bed during flrst
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