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Up a Balloon.
In a talk with Jehn Forepaugh last
night I heard several interesting stories
of adventures with hot-air balloons,
says a writer in the Philadelphia
News.
"We used to inflate the balloons and
send them skyward at every stopping
point of the Forepaugh show," he said,
"and I remember now one incident in
regard to these balloons which occur
red in 1874 at Chester. There was a
large crowd on the grounds, and a man
we called Big Smith was inside tlie bag
while it was being inflated. At last the
balloon bulged out, nearly full, and
Smith crawled from under. Twenty
live men were holding the balloon, and
Smith, after he got outside the machine
saw a oandy butcher named Mitchell,
standing near him. Before anyone
could count live, Smith grabbed Mitch
ell, threw him in the basket, and
yelled 'Let go!' The men dropped the
ropes, the balloon shot aloft like a rock
et. and the ten thousand people strained
their eyes as they saw it grow smaller
and smaller, until it was out of sight.
"When the balloon was first skippinj
toward heaven Mitchell's head coul
be seen over the edge of the basket as
he yelled, 'Help, for God's sake!
When the big bag floated beyond the
r-tnge of vision a dozen men started
northward—the way the wind carried
the balloon—in teams. They drOve
eight or ten miles,, and they found the
balloon with the wretched Mitchell ly
ing hopelessly in the basket on the
bank of a creek. Mitchell's hair had
actually turned white from fright in his
hour's ride in the clouds.
"Several years after that, in another
town, Big Smith was inside another
balloon while it was being inflated.
After it was full of hot air he crawled
over the edge of the basket and another
man got in for a trip through the ozone
belt. Some one yelled 'Let go!' The
ropes were loosened, but one rope, on
the side on which Smith was getting ont,
took a turn around his leg, clutching
him tightly, and as the balloon shot
sky ward it took Smith with it by the
ankle. His terrified companion in the
basket, who heard the cry of horror
that swept over the crowd, eould not
help him, for if he changed his position
the chances were that the basket would
upset or that the rope would uncoil.
After about ten minutes the balloon
came down with Smith unconsoious and
his head full of blood. However, he re
covered, and is yet in the show busi
ness.
When Baby was rick, we gave her CAS
TORIA.
When she was a Child, she cried Cor AS
TORIA
When she became Miss, she ddhg to Caa
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA.
WOT
aaleby MILLS S JOHOTOS.
MM Capld, oti A nniket'i dsft
In idle sport waa flitting
From place to place he chanced to
stray
Hear when ay love waa sitting.
"t* "*ow, here's a face, Dsn Onpid cried,
.««To shake my fllial duty,
j-1 For Mother Venna fomds her pride I
jQn far inferier beauty.
s£t: «r
"Tll paint a picture ere I go,
Of these enchanting features,
'And thoa admiring gods shall know
The loveliest of their creatures I"
From ont his quiver then he drew
His palet and his brashes
Then from his rose-leaf stole the hoe
To paint my lady's Mashes.
To catch the color of her eyes
He hesitated whether..
To rob the violet or the akiee.
Or blend their tintq together.
That problem solved, another vexed
His mind, and set them racking
Bis feather-brains, for sore perplexed.
He fonnd his canvas lacking.
Impatient to display his act
(His enbject well ezcnced it),
Tbe roguish god purloined my heart
And as a canvas naed lti
—A. W. Qundry in lAfe.
THE BASILISK.
A STORY OF TO-DAY.
CHAPTER V.
AWAKING.
ID
the midst of a terrible mental
chaos, a state of conscious inability to
comprehend my own personality, I am
brought back to a semblance of sense
by hearing a murmur of many voices,
whispered vmrestful words, which irri
tate my faculties without redeeming
me from the nightmare of a lost identi
ty. Sense slowly seems to permeate a
frame reluctant to revive but, surely as
the tide gains on the shore, the senses
left void by that earthquake ebb of con
sciousness are filled by its returning
flow. Gradually the relations of, mind
and body were resumed, but ere the
sharp and anxious whisperings con
veyed meaning to my mind, I strove to
feel the assurance of bodily existence,
and made a feeble effort to raise my
hand. The effort was a failure, but it
helped to restore me. I soon tried
again, and this time was aware of ex
erting muscular power. I raised my
right arm a moment, and dropped it
helplessly. I felt like one partially
paralyzed.
"Hush!" said a voice. "He moves."
This time the words were plain, and
I understood but where I was, or what
had happened, I still failed to grasp,
nor did I yet think or care to know.
The idea of reality was like light in
darkness to my returning senses. The
vague horror of a smothered person
ality had been so terrible, that instinct
ively I sought to greet the human
brotherhood on finding myself, under
whatever circumstances, restored to it.
I again reached forth my hand, this
time more strongly.
"He's coming round/' said a harsh
voice. Then louder: "Wait! don't
fetch a doctor."
I did not y$t attach much meaning
to what I heard. I chiefly craved for
some reassurance, some sign of sym
pathy. Again I lifted my hand to
wards the voices of fellow-men.
This time my mute appeal was not
made in vain. A hand took mine with
a delicate but comforting clasp. Feeling
that here was something to keep me
safe, even in the nebulous wilderness
of forgetfulness, I gave up the tension
of struggling to regain my footing
among realities, and slipped contented
ly into vacuity.
From a dreamless slumber I awoke
with clearer faculties, I remembered
with no effort the incidents of my
journey from St. Bartimeus's, my ar
rival at the lodge-gates, my progress
to the house, the gathering storm, the
opening door, the voice that had called
to me through the storm, then the crash
that had hurled me into insensibility.
This time there was no painful striving
to resume the powers of life. A feel*
ing of safety and rest pervaded me. I
no longer sought to move—to prove the
existence of bodily powers. I was con
tent to be.
Time had oot yet resumed its signi
ficance. I had no idea how long I had
been where I was no notion whether
it were day or night, or what day or
night it was. I did not trouble my
serenity of rest with speculating upon
it I might have been in a swoon of an
hour's duration I might have been
sleeping an enchanted sleep of many
centuries.
The touch of reality was again
supplied by voices. I awoke from an
ner spell of
other spell of slumber to hear the
sound of incisive whispering—that
whispering, which is of all sounds
the most irritating to nerves that long
for quiet, and of all means to escape
hearing the most futile.
"He must be moved from here,"
said a man's voice—Mr. Beaufoy's. I
remembered all about him and myself,
as if I bad no concern in the matter.
A woman's step came close to me.
"He is asleep—sound asleep," said
the voice of Miss Beaufoy.
This struck me as being quite true. I
was still outside all the active concerns
of life.
"There is nothing the matter," said
Mr. Beaufoy, close to me. "That's a
quiet and wholesome sleep. 1 was
quite right in not having a doctor in."
"He might be moved now," said
Miss Beaufoy. "There fe evidently
nothing the matter."
"He ought not to have been brought
in here, said her father in a tone
of great irritation.
"It was Hardy, brought him in. He
ought to have known better."
"Hardy is a fool. He was frightened
out of his wits by the thunder.
"The lightning, I should think. It
was enough to frighten him."
"Nothing was enough to justify him
in disobeying orders. And Mary, too—
she was in here."
"Oh,
MATT
doesn't matter. If she
had the sense to see anything, she
would never dare think of it or speak
of it.
"Where is sheP"
"She went to her room crying of
course. She won't soon forget what 1
said to her."
There was a cruelty in the way this
was said, which reminded me of the
tone I had noticed before in some of
Miss Beaufoy's remarks to her cousin.
It brought back associations still more
strongly, and woke me op more
thoroughly. I recalled also the hand
that had been, as it seemed, stretched
out to me in the abyss from the whole*
sale living world ox substance. That
clasp, so full of womanly sympathy
and help, could not have been from the
hand of the imperious creature who
spoke so coldly and so cruelly.
Mary Fortescue sent away in tears!
My coming had brought trouble to hei
already. I pondered over it with
ruthful feelings, while the whispered
conversation between father and
daughter went on unheeded. The note
of trouble being thus struck, what I
had heard began to gather some shape
and meaning to me. I'had begun my
new career here by causing evident in
convenience. My presence in this par*
tienlar roottt-waa muEtfasfly highly dia
to me that I
ottghtto fcpe&oriM tad dipirfc. tat 1
dia nothing. Jfty mind ran dn the idea
frith jomfe sort of satisfaction, bat I
could not think how anything of the
land was to he impressed in action.
fm Again Mr. Beaufoy's voice came to
iny ears—angry, evidently. It seemed
that he could not get the attendance
that he wanted. He was fuming, and
the calm tones of his daughter evident
ly did not assuage his annoyftnee.
"The man must have lost his senses
as well. He and Gibbs both out to
gether 1 must have him" (evidently
speaking of me) "ont of this before he
*'What does it matter," said Miss
Beaufoy, "if he does wake He can't
see."
Even this had a sarcastic zing in it,
as though not being able to see were a
defect worthy of scorn instead of pity.
"What of that P" said her father
quickly. "That other fbllow couldn't
see, but he found out a lot—a lot more
than was good for him," he added with
a short snigger.
"That'll do,father," said the lady, in
atone that served to show that she was
morally the master of the twain. "If
Jon
had been less fidgety he would not
ave been put on the track of any sus
picions."
"Hush!" said Mr. Beaufoy in a
fierce whisper. "D that Hardy!"
he added.
A low whistle sounded somewhere in
the room.
Perhaps that is Hardy," said Miss
Beaufoy.
A short conversation seemed now to
be taking place, by means of a speak
ing-tube. I felt more and more uneasy
—vaguely uneasy. The tenor of the
talk that I had heard gave rise to all
sorts of unpleasant ideas, not the least
of which, and one that gained strength
rapidly after its first inception, was
that I was in the position of a spy—an
involuntary spy certainly. For much
that I had heard seemed at first to be
external altogether to myself, but as I
regained more and more of the usual
mental balance, I remembered every
thing only too distinctly and my mind
busily employed its recovered strength
in reading the riddles presented to it.
I did not yet fully graap the situation,
but I realized enough to know that I
ought to assert my consciousness.
"That fool, Hardy," said Beaufov
"We can mftrc our friend now he
come back."
A further conversation ensued,
which I did not catch, I then heard
Miss Beaufoy say:
"Besides, Mary can look after him
then. It will be a blessing to keep her
employed in that, until she can take to
her music."
"She's a nuisance!" said Beaufoy.
"I don't know what to do with her."
"You must keep her," Miss Beaufoy
replied, with the same scorn which!
had before noticed. "She goes with
the property."
"D 1" said her father.
It was along time since I had heard
profane language. The blind I found a
singularly patient race, and I was the
more struck with hearing strong ex
pressions from the mouth of one who
had been painted as a precise and for
mal benefactor.
The power of motion seemed sudden
ly to have returned to me. I essayed
to move. The voices ceased. Steps ap
proached me.
"Hush! he's awakening."
I tried to sit up but the effort was
too much.
"How do you feel?" asked Miss
Beaufoy, in a more gentle voice than 1
had expected to hear from the whis-
Ealf-dormant'intelligence.occupied
ered colloquy which had my
"Thank you, I am all right," I
answered. "1 shall be able to move
presently."
A quick and eager whispering now
took place, the purport of which I quite
failed to gather. I then heard the
gentle chink of glasses, and presently
Miss Beaufoy brought me a draught.
"Drink this," she said in a tone of
command.
I had no strength to resist even if I
had wished to, but was thirsty, and
swallowed what she gave me. Then
oblivion fell upon me once more.
I awoke again to a strange vision,
the strangest I had had in all my years
of darkness. Time seemed to have rolled
back to the period before my calamity.
I opened my eyes—in tbe old sense of
the words I opened my eyes. A dim,
soft light met my senses. Hay and
wondered, and delighted in the vision.
I seemed to be in as mall room, with
some amount of luxury in its fittings,as
well as I could judge in the soft light.
Strange and beautiful was this vision
of a lost sense. 1 enjoyed it too ex
quisitely to move, or even to think
much. And all was very still.
Then I heard a sound—the sound of
an opening door. I turned my eyes that
way,- and sure enough the door was
opened. The vision had some consist
ency. Then there approached a figure
—a woman's figure. Dimly and
vaguely she seemed to me.
She came towards me. The
soft light played most realistically on
her dress. She stooped towards me,
and, the light fell most realistically on
shining hair. Two soft kind eyes
looked into mine for a moment, and
lest I should too soon wake up to my
darkness again, I dropped my eyelids,
and trembled with a hope that was al
most a terror.
[TO
BE CONTINUED.]
Kxaggeratlon.
The number of "white lies" told by
those who are supposed to be truthful
is remarkable. They simply excuse
themselves on the ground of didn't
think.
Git
is amusing to see some people try
to tell the truth. They give a slight
cough and clear their thoats. Then
they draw a long breath, there is a
twinkle in the eyes, their cheeks color
and they stammer because they are
afraid they will get everything correct.
Old offenders are not easily caught.
Indeed, some become insensible to the
difference between truth and falsehood,
having told a false one, that they be
lieve the false account to be the true
one and the true one the false one.
Forty cats in a fight means about
two.
A hundred times is six or seven times.
It's pitch dark, is more than half the
time twilight or starlight.
Fish and snake stories know no lim
its to time and space.
A million steps usually proves to be
a good many less than a million.
The following story is told as an ac
tual fact, and it is warranted not to be
exaggerated:
An old minister, who was noted for
exaggeration at all times and in every
conceivable manner, was one day
called to account by his little flock. A
committee appointed and properly cre
dentialed waited upon the man of un
guided and unchecked amplifying abil
ity to solicit from him a promise to
ever after be more watchful of his
weakness in that one respect. In ans
wer, denoting true penitence for the
wrong already committed, he said: "I
have shed bar'ls and bar'ls of tears
over that bad habit."—Toledo
*aa
Blade.
A PaeallarTasta.
They were speaking of a Buffalo
bride's trousseau.
"Were her robes made in Paris?"
one asked.
"Oh, no," Another one said "tbey
were aU made 3k Buffalo* She takes
pride in wearing^pothing but Buffalo
robes."
Bbtiitom.,
A ftbrijr ormitsBUidii
Oh. iisppy band of bluebirds,
BihVe prophets of flw 8pAi|f'
AmM the tall and tufted c»ne^
How btttlieBoiaelj yon dgg j- •$'
What messsge hannta yonr music
'Xid Antomn'a dnsky reign?
Ton tell ns Nature stores her seed-'
To give them back in grain 1
Your throats are gleeful fountains,
Through which a songtide flows
Yonr voices greet me in the woods,
On every wind thst blows!
I dream that Heaven Invites yon.
To bid the Zarth "good-by
For in yonr wings yon seem to hold
A portion of the sky!
Oh, happy band of bluebirds.
Yon could not long remain
To flit across the fading fields
And glorify the grain.
Yon leave melodious memories.
Whose sweetness thrills me through
Ah, if my songs were snch as yours,
They'd almost touch the bine
Wm. H.Hayne%
I
to
ber.
Harper's Magazine for Octo
OCTOBXB CHOP KBFOBT.
The report of the department of agriculture,
for October gives local estimates of the yield per
acre of small grains, with the condition of corn,
potatoea and other late cropa. The result cor
roborated the previous returns of wheat, con
firming the expectations of the light lncresae
from the first records of threshing, without
making any material addition to the crop aggre
gate. The average yield upon an area of fully
37,000,000 acres appears to be close tol2j£
bushels per acre, making the crop of an average
of a series of years. The area actually harvest
ed is now the principsl object of exact determin
ation. The result will vary little from an
increase of 100,000,000 bushels over the crop of
last year. The averages of the principal states
are New York, 17 bushels: Pennsylvania, 13:
Kentucky, 11.5: Ohio, 15.7 Michigan, 16.8
Indiana, 15.1: Illinois, 18.1: Wisconsin, 12.3:
Minnesota, 12.8: Iowa, 12.5 Missouri, 12 5:
Kansas, 11 Nebraska, 9.6 Dakota, 10.5 Cali
fornia, 11.5: Oregon, 12.5. The average yield
per acre of oata is 26.6 bushels, making a crop
of over 600,000,000 bushels. The Ohio valley
averages over 30 bnahela per acre, Iowa over 34,
with lower yields in Missouri, Ksnsas and the
Southern states. The Esstern states have high
yields. The barley crop averages 82 4 bushels
per acre, and the product will come nearly up to
60,000,000 bushels. The high temperature of
September and the absence of frost have im
proved the com crop prospects and made the
expectation 22 bushels per aere, and rendered
certain a crop of at least 1,650,000,000 bushels.
The final averages of the condition of the seven
states which produce seven-tenths of the crop
are: Ohio,90: Indiana, 93: Illinois, 74: Iowa,
78 Missouri, 68 Kansas, 65 Nebraska, 73.
HANDS IN WINTER.
Here is a capital hint from Pauline Adelaide
Hardy, who writes in Qood Housekeeping on
the preservation of the hands: "Many house
keepers have rough hands in winter, which
grow very painful, cracking open on the
knuckles, tne cracks extending into the palms
of the hand. They take their hands out of
hot soapsuds, or starch to hang clothes in tbe
wind. If they did not use hot water, and the
hands were thoroughly dried before going out,
this would be avoided. A pair of white woollen
stockings, cut oft rounding at the ankle and
sewed across, with a thnmb sewed in, make a
very comfortable pair of mittens for hanging np
and taking off clothes. Pin them fast to the
sleeves with large safety pins, before going out,
having first stretched the arm upward, then they
will not come loose and the wrists will be pro
tected. After bringing in the, clothes, if the
mltttns are put in the clothes-pin-bag they wUl
be kept clean and in the right place.
"Hands are injured in very cold weather by
lack of protection at the wrists, as large veins
and arteries are exposed. The blood is chilled
in.pas8in3 into the hands. Every one cannot
have handsome, white and shapely hands, but
every one can have clean and comfortable
hands."
THE MUSTARD PEST.
Mustard-seed as
an
independent crop Is
a val
uable one. Among other crops it is a weed.
This seed is also disseminated all over the grain
growing region of the West. The seed holds to
the soil for years, retaining its vitality until a
favorable opportunity for germination takes
place. The only way to rid a farm from the
mustard pest is to sow only clean seed from year
to year, and to be sure that none is carried back
to the soil in the straw or other trash from the
grain.
This may be accomplished in two ways—eith-.
er by burning tbe straw and using the ashes, or
by thoroughly decomposing until1 fully rotted.
This takes time and labor, bnt wherever manure
is valuable it will pay.
What is here said of the seed of mustard will
apply to the seeds of other weeds: They are
carried to the fields in trash and by various oth
er means. It is nonsense to say the seeds of
weeds are naturally inherent in the soil. They
come from seed, as do all other annual plants,
and in the case of perennials.also from tbe con
tinued life of the plants in the soil. A complete
summer fallow, by which the leaves of plants
are not permitted to grow, will kill any peren
nial, even the Canada thistle. The seeds of
annuals once eliminated from a soil will not
thereafter be found unless again carried there,
and reasonably clean cultivation will prevent
their spread.
TALL CALVES.
Cows that are due to calve at this season of
the year should be carefnlly watched, especially
if the date at which they are likely to calve is
not definitely known, and a matter of record.
The calf may be dropped away from the premises,
as the inclination of cows to steal away to a
remote part of the farm is well known. If there
is an opportunity for leaving the inclosure, get
ting off into apiece of timber, they are very apt
to do it. If the calf is dropped during a cold rain
storm it may not rally, as when first born it is
especially liable to be chilled. We remember
the loss of a calf in a herd of high-bred cattle,
the dam of which had cost up into tbe thousands,
simply by its being dropped in wet clover, the
shower that wet the grass having passed over.
It was discovered when an hour or two old, but
the chill was not recovered from. We do not
declare that the high breeding and fatness of
the dam—for she was fat—had nothing to do
with the liability to loss on the other bandr we
are qnite ready to admit that a calf by a woods
bull and ont of a scrub cow, might not die from
being dropped in wet clover yet, scrub cattle,
even though tough, can hardly be the depend
ence of farmers.—National Live Stock Journ
al.
TXntL CHEAPER THAN FOOD FOB HEATING.
T. D. Curtis, in the Rural New Yorker says
Dairymen who are studying economy will find
fuel cheaper than food for heating purposes.
It is better to have warm stables even if artificial
heat has to be resorted to for the purpose of
keeping the temperature above 40 degrees. Fab.,
than to put extra feed into cows, every cold
snap, to keep them from shrinking in their yield
of milk, because more of the food goes to sus
tain the proper amount of animal heat. It is
always a great waste to burn food tor heating
purposes, and in no way can it be done so
wastefully as in the animal system. Not only
is the consumption great, but the animal organ
ism is overtaxed and deranged by compelling
the animal to eat an extra amount of food to
keep warm. But where there is exposure to
cold, extra food must be consumed or the tissues
of the animal are drawn upon for fuel. This
causes decline in flesh and makes toe heavy a
draft on the vital forces. It Is therefore eco
nomical. as well as humane, to keep cows in a
warm stable, where they will not stud humped
np and shivering.
HOW TO KEBP HOUSES HAKDSOKZ.
A very pretty trifle for the,toilet table Is a
pincushion of three lace bags pinned together
at the top with a ribbon bow: a little sachet
mixed with the bran makes a pleasant perfume
in the room and -makes the pincushion more
attractive.
A delightful work for summer hours is in
beautiful and elaborate patterns of fagoting,
which ornament table cloths. It is not too
trying on the eyes, and has an effect which will
repay one for the labor expended,
Fine table damask has the worked monogram
in the center of the napkins and table-cloths.
Cedar oil is the sorest preventive against
the devastation of the buffalo bug, and if a weak
solution of it issprinkled on the backs of costly
rugs one need not fear the destruction of its
beauty.
Tonka beans are said to keep ont the moths,
and any one in the possession of fine camel's
hair shawls or snch treasures would prefer
this remedy to the usual camphor, which leaves
so disagreeable an odor In the garments.
Dinner cloths or tray cloths are now fashiona
ble when made of new Irish linen with colored
borders in so called pleasant-work.
Hosm.
Next to hasty pudding, asa wholesome, appe
tising we wonld place hominy and hulled
corn. Hominy of fair quality, saya the New
England Farmer, can be made by any miller
from good, sound, dry corn. The millstones
most be separated
so
kettle
—-IK U.
A-
or pail
prevent scofcfclaf.
the grain will be cracked
to the desired degree .of coarseness. It nrast
then be sifted to remove the fine portion sad
winnowed to remove the bran. At the South
and in Rhode Island only white eon is deemed
fit for human food, while in Massachusetts sad
many of the Western States yellow com is
groatfr preferred. To
cook
hominy, boil
In
set la another
a
kettle of
water to
It
rsqdiM a loaf
the*
for
&
flMl^ lSttfal bftt* life Ht!'1
tlbMt.
Homiajr that lodtt nicer than th» home-made of
conntfy ground «orn, can be bought la the city
saarkets, bat it is riot more wbolesonie nor more
palatable thta can be made by a little trouble in
thecoontry grist-m ill snd feraier's kitchen,
oonon oruxico.
Mexico
seems
to
be
developing is the manu
facture of cotton to afar greater extentthanin
the production of the crop. Official statistics
state that, while the cotton crop increased from
50,000,000 pounds in 187B to only 55,000,000 in
1888, the Importation of raw cotton there from
the United States rose from 20,500,000 in 1888
to 75,000,00i) pounds In 1884. There are eighty
eight cotton factories in Mexico and seven wool
en mills. There are also fifteen or twenty cotton
printing establishments in Mexico. The prin
cipal cotton manufactures are brown shirtings,
bleached goods being mostly imported from
England
XNSLISH HOP HARVEST.
English advices states that the hop harvest,
which commenced with the begining of Sep
tember, has under the flue and hot weather
been brought rapidly to maturity, so far as the
"earliest" are concerned. In Kent the hops
are first-rate and heavy, but it is thought they
will require more drying than usual. The hops
are also reported to be exceptionally free from
parasites, exccpt mold, and this is not found to
any considerable extent. In Snsaex, another
large hop-growing district, reports are equally
favorable, the quality being reported to be
"generally superb." In one part of Kent where
picking Was commenced the growth is excep
tionally fine, and it is estimated that the yield
will average from ten to twelve hundred weight
(English) per sere.
THE WELL FID COW.
It is estimated, and safely so, says the Dairy
man, that a good well*fed cow puts ten dollars
worth of manure on about the four acres of land
it takes to keep her for a year on most farms.
Putting that amount of fertilisation on the soil
of a fairly good farm soon makes it produce so
that one cow cannot eat the product of four
acres and the result is, more mouths to feed
and more milk, or larger grain crops to sell.
The above facts make the anchor the good farm
er clings to, when beset with the temptation, to
which the weaklings yield, to abandon dairying
and stock raising when milk and meat are dbeap.
He knows, or ought to, that increased fertiliza
tion is money in the safest bank in the world,
if be don't count it in hie purse this year, and
that to abandon tbe means of fertilization on
old and high-priced land, means hard times,
rags, ignorance and no music, either in the soul
or in the house.
Make your butter every day, and send it to
market as soon after it is made as possible.
When fowls are kej.t in a yard, it is best to
dig up a small corner occasionally to let them
hunt for worms.
Some oak timber, which in 1824 had served
364 years for roof beams in an English
church, is still doing duty as a seat in a farm
er's kitchen.
At the recent meeting of the Iowa Horticul
tural Society, it was recommended to plant
white pine and black locust trees for profit
also black cherry for high land, and black wal
nut for low land.
In making butter fix the percentage of salt
to be used and stick to it establish batter facto
ries in every dairying center, where the products
of the various small dairies maybe worked up
into one uniform quality.
There have been four convictions under the
Ohio oleomargarine law at Cincinnati. In each
case the fine was $50 the judge promised them
a fine of $500 apiece if brought before him again
for the same offense.
The average yield of wheat per acre in Great
Britain is slowly increasing, the present yield
being twenty-nine bushels, or about two and
one-quarter times that of the United States,
which
1B
estimated at thirteen bushels per
acre.
Poultry need far more care during damp, rainy
weather, than during the dry, warm weather of
summer, or the clear, cold weather of winter,
for dampness engenders numerous disorders,
many of which are difficult to cure. Therefore
it is better to apply the preventive than to ad
minister a proposed cure.
Always gather your own tomato seeds, select
ing the earliest and smoothest specimens from
the variety which you may prefer. It
maybe advisable to*pick these fruits for seed
before they are fully ripe, for. it is proclaimed
as a fact that earliness is promoted by seed from
immature frait.
The stock business in Colorado is reported
to be in .a depressed condition Owing to the
losses ocasioned by the severe weather of last
winter. One feature is the almost entire
failure of the calf crop. This, with the low
price of beef cattle, makes a bad state of things,
and large numbers of stockmen of limited
means will be oblige to sell ont.
It is related in a California paper that China
men are making money in Calfornia going over
stacks of straw abandoned by farmers and
clearing out mustard-seed in them. One China
man will save 100 pounds or more a day and
make better wages from what the white man
throws away than farmers have made from their
grain crops.
In its September notes Yick's Monthly says:
'Strawberries can be planted through the
month, and if well cared for and protected
through winter will be in good condition for an
early start in spring. The old canes of rasp
berries and blackberries can be cnt ont and de
stroyed. At the North, spinach seed should be
sown from the middle to the last of the month.
It should be jiven a rich, well-drained soil
deeply worked. Sow in drills from fourteen to
eighteen inches apart, and an inch deep."
A cement that will resist sulphuric acid, even
at boiling heat, may be made by melting caout
chouc at a gentle heat and stirring in from six to
eight per cent, of tallow. Then mix in enough
dry slacked lime to make the whole of the con
sistency of soft paste, after which add about
twenty-five per cent, of red lead, which
causes the mass to set bard and dry. A mixture
of caoutchouc in twice its weight of linseed oil
and the addition of an eqnal amount of pipe
clay, will form a paste that will resist the action
of most acids.
Avenged.
Cincinnati Gazette: Early in the
spring a great sensation was caused in
Jamestown, Ohio, by the suicide of
Miss Flo Johnston, a handsome young
lady of good family, who killed herself
with an old army musket, firing the
load into her head. The same day she
had been to Barnesville, about six miles
from Jamestown, and had called on a
young man named James Zeiner, with
whom she had been keeping company
for some time, and demanded that he
make gook his promise to marry her,
and on Zeiner refusing she drew a re
volver and fired at him, the shot not
taking effect. The young man wrestled
with her and secured the weapon and
persuaded her to go home. On the
way to her father's house she passed a
pond, and was evidently contemplating
drowning herself, but was prevented by
the appearance of sojue men but soon
after reaching home she accomplished
her object, living several hours after
shooting herself, and sending for
Zeiner, wh? refused to come to her.
Excitement over the affair was intense,
and the giri having manv friends in the
vicinity, Zeiner concluded to go else
where for a while. Threats were made
that he would be put out of the way if
he ever showed up again in the village.
On Tuesday evening he paid a visit
to the village, and between 8 and 9
o'clock went to the Cummings Hotel.
Going into the parlor, he sat down on
the sofa with Miss Cummings and
another young lady, and at about
9:15 some person on the outside, who
had been watching Zeinert move
ments, discharged both barrels of a
shotgun, loaded with heavy slugs,
through the window, the charges
striking him between the waist and
neck, filing his body full of slugs, one
or two of them striking him in the
head. His death was instant The
body rolled from the sofa, and the
floor of the room was covered with
blood. The screams of the girls who
were with him aroused the people in
the neighborhood, and soon the
majority of the inhabitants of the vil
lage were gathered around the house.
Word was sent to Jamestown, where
the parents, brothers and sisters of
Zeiner reside, and the father, who is
an undertaker, made preparations for
conveying the body home to his house,
from where the funeral will take place,
interment to be in the Jamestown
Cemetery, the same place where the re
mains of his victim, the unfortunate
Flora Johnston, are laid.
There is a great mysteiy about the
affair, and no person has any idea who
the person was who did the shooting.
Phillip Henry Said: "There are two
things we should beware of—that we
never be aahamed of the goepel, and
wenererbeaihame to it."
matfaait Harriet*.
Gath in Cincinnati Enquirferi &?eii
our Presidents have poor. Kick with
their marriages. Washington married
his adopted daughter, Who was Ids'
wife's grandchild, to his own nephew,
and the last 1 heard of them was the
sale to the Governihent of some of
Washington's old furniture by the
posterity. John Adams had a daughter
named Abigail, who married a young
Revolutionary officernamed Smith. In
taking care of Smith, who was but
mediocre, Adams incurred many
enmities.
The ladies may be further interested
in the subject of the marriages of im
portant people. Mr. Jeflerson had
veiy interesting daughters, and they
married Virginia politicians around
him, to very little satisfaction in at
least one case. Maria, the best-look
ing of these girls, died in 1804. Her
husband had been a sporting man and
horseman, and it appears that both the
sons-in-law of Jefferson required in
dorsements, etc., which brought the
old man's gray hairs down to mendi
cancy, in addition to his own financial
errors.
Aaron Burr, on the other hand, nad
one daughter, and she made a brilliant
marriage, but it was her father who
involved her and her husband in his
unscrupulous financial and political
tricks, ruined her husband,- and when
she embarked from South Carolina
with her child to seek her father she
met somewhere in this world an ago
nizing death it is a legend that pirates
took the vessel and made this brilliant
young woman and her child walk the
plank. No evidence, however, exists
on the subject, except heresay at that
time there were privateers and- pirates.
The most brilliant marriage ever
made in the political circles of the
country in the times of Washington
was that of Ann Willing io William
Bingham. They married early in
those days, especially where there
was money, and Ann Willing married
at 16. Her husband was desended
from a Quaker blacksmith, but his
family had for four generations made
prosperous marriages, and during our
Revolutionary War the husband got
out of the country and held a position
of half British, half American Consul
in one of the West India Islands to
which privateers resorted. He came
home very rich, and received as well
the Bingham moneys, and he chose
the daughter of Willing, who was
President of the United States Bank
and business partner of Robert Morris.
The Willings were the finest people
in Philadelphia. The present Secreta
ry Bayard is descended from one of
them. Freshly married in her bloom,
the bride and husband went to Europe
and remained away live years. They
were introduced at the Court of the
French King by Minister Adams, and
the young man was greatly admired as
the first American seen abroad. When
he returned, at the commencement of
Washington's administration, they
built the finest house ever seen ib Phil
adelphia up to that time, and not ex
celled perhaps in the present day. It
was filled with the best furniture to be
bought in France and the best pictures
from Italy. Along came you Barin
g,
the English banker, and saw the
daughter of this pair so superbly
brought up, with a town house and
country house, and he mareied her
and the larger portion of the Bingham
property, which amounted to $1,200,
000 in money, went to swell the capi
tal of the Barings. The young mother,
however, haviDg lost herself in society,
caught cold in an imperfect dress one
night, and was seized with consump
tion, and she died in the West Indies
at an early age.
She had a sister of whom great
things were expected, but along came
a dissolute French Nobleman without
any standing or propriety, and he
tempted thi3 girl to go out with him
one night, to the horror and wonder of
the town, and then made a com
promise with her parents whereby they
gave him money to send her home she
was divorced by the Legislature, her
fa! her having become United States
Senator, and so little was made of the
matter by the Baring family that she
was solicited in marriage by her
brother-in-law Baring, and after living
with him until his decease she married
another French nobleman and passed
out of notice.
President Taylor's daughter ran
away with Jefferson Davis. President
Monroe's daughter married her cousin
and they have left some decendants at
Washington and some in the State of
Maryland. Nellie Grant is the last
President's daughter to draw attention.
She saw a young, bright-faced English
man on a steamship and fell in love
with him without much reason or in
quest, and he turned out to be ap
parently a sort of boy's companion,
hardly ever looking up to the dignity
of acquaintance with grown men. He
therefore seeks his pleasure up in Lon
don when he has any money to spend,
and she stays at home with her baby.
A New Version.
It wasn't in Maine, but was not so
very far from Maine, that a big boy,
whose tale the historian well knows
and can vouch for, read at school, hav
ing been confronted with the Bible pas
sage, "For they shall 8train at a gn^t
and swallow a camel,1' thus laborious
ly and effectually:
For—they—shall—strain—at—a
goat—and—swallow—a—saw-mill,"
If ever there was a school "brought
down'' it was that one, and this read
ing of the passage has been proverbial
in all the country round about ever since
until the small boy of those parts think
that the camel version is altogether
heterodox.
in.w.mrn
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