The Washburn times. [volume], May 11, 1905, Image 2

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Five Letters
and a Telegram
Gy OTHO B. SENGA
CopyriJ.t, 1905, by Otho B. Senga
Vvom Gertrude Gates, visiting at
Platte ranch, near Sidney, Neb.,
i * " r r young sister in Boston:
r Dear Helen—l am glad I told
yc.. vmy other letters of my trip and
the . •Ti and the beautiful scenery, for
hereaf. - * fear I shall write mostly
about I.iv 1 Burke. Oh, Helen, he is
Jir-t splem.iJ— So tall and strong and
comman-ling! He has charge of a big
ranch near here which is owned by a
wealthy man iu Chicago. Cousin Amy
says he will have one of his own some
day. He has lent me one of his horses,
A perfect beauty, and we shall ride to
gether often. The girls in our set
would envy me if they could see Mr.
Burke, lie is very handsome, and he
has the most delightful way of speak
ing. I don’t know a man in Boston to
compare with him. Don’t fear that I
“&OODBY FOR THIS TIME. I CAN f SEF.
LLOYD COMING.”
shall fall in love with him. I hope I
iave sufficient family pride to prevent
that. I think he is Irish. Don’t let
any one else see this letter. Lovingly
lours, GERTRUDE.”
. From Helen Gates to Gertrude:
“Dear Gertrude—lt’s just as well that
you have no intention of falling in love
with the Irishman. Mamma would nev
er forgive you. The three other girls
have married to her entire satisfaction,
and you know she has selected Pinky
Stauffer for you, the dear little doll,
with liis millions.
‘Qtf course I, a crippled dwarf, need
have no thought of marriage, but if I
were a tall, handsome girl like you I’d
marry a man, not a tailor's model.
And I wouldn’t care if he were a Fiji
felander if he were ‘strong and hand
aoipe’ and I liked him, as I believe
you’re going to like this Mr. Burke.
“Claude grows lazier every minute.
He has engaged a valet now, trying to
be as near like Pinky as possible.
“Mamma expects to see your letters
to me, but she shan’t. If she insists
rn scream, and she’ll think I am go
ing to lose my mind. Oh, I know how
to fix mamma. I wouldn’t do that to
papa' but he understands lots of things
that mamma doesn’t—girls, for in
stance. Write me all about the rides
and Mr. Burke. Your loving little sis
ter. HELEN.”
From Gertrude to Helen:
“Dear Little Sister—l wish'l could tell
yon of the beautiful life here. Every
thing is so free and natural, and peo
ple seem to be glad they are alive. I
know I am. It’s in the atmosphere, I
think.
“We go riding every day. I never
before* knew the real pleasure of rid
ing. Riding around the parks on our
horses, with their mincing little gait,
isn’t much like flying over the prairies
oil this horse of Lloyd’s. She takes a
long, swinging lope, and you feel as if
you and the horse were one and that
you were being wafted through space
without effort or care.
“I am very happy, but sometimes I
am half afraid, becam e I believe Lloyd
’fe in love with me, and if he is think
Sow dreadful to hav> to go back to
Boston and marry Pinky StaufTer! I
•oppose mamma and Pinky have set
the day, and I dare say Claude will go
Paris to buy the trousseau. The
mere thought of Pinky Stauffer makes
cie sick and faint. What a terrible
thing to have to pass year?; and years
So his company! I know I can never
forget Lloyd liurke as long as I live.
I wish I felt as near to papa as you
do, Helen. Perhaps if I only knew
&ow to tell papa he would find some
way to help me: Goodby for this time,
if ear* see Lloyd coming. We are going
for a long ride. GERTRUDE.”
From Mrs. Gates to her daughter Ger-
Srttde:
“My Dear Daughter—Your sister is
qpite ill—prostrated with nervousness
because I took your letter from her.
However, I always obey the dictates of
vjftrty regardless of the consequences to
mity one, and under the care of your fa
ster and Dr. Payne I trust she will
s&oat recover.
“I desire your Immediate return to
ifcxston. You may make Helen’s illness
an excuse to Amy. Give our kind re
®*rds to her sand-her husband and ex*
tend to them a cordial invitation to
visit us next winter.
“As for this person Burke, you will.
If possible, make your departure with
out seeing him again. If this is not pos
sible, I trust your sense of decorum
will suggest that you confine yourself
simply to that kind of courtesy that a
lady always bestows upon a worthy
person of the lower classes. Your affec
tionate mother,
“NANCY ARABELLA GATES.
“F. S.—No hint of this unfortunate
affair must reach your brother. Claude
Is an ideal gentleman; it would be a
great shock to h.is exquisite sensibili
ties to know that his sister had held
familiar converse with a hired pian. I
cannot imagine how you came to be so
unlike the rest of my children. Helen,
of course, Is not responsible for her pe
culiarities. , N. A. G.”
From Mr. Gates to his daughter Ger
trude :
“My Dear Little Girl —Your mother
gave me her letter to post, and quite
incidentally I took the liberty of read
ing it. With Helen’s permission I had
previously read your recent letters to
her. I have never interfered with your
mother’s discipline, but in this case 1
feel called upon to make a few re
marks.
“First, you needn’t come home until
you choose. North Platte ranch is a
healthful place, and you seem to be
gaining strength and much else that is
of great value.
“Second, If you care for this Mr.
Burke and he asks you to become his
wife say ‘Yes’ and count on my bless
ing and a substantial dowry. It will be
a refreshing change to have a real man
to call son. At present I have none, ei
ther by birth or acquisition.
“Third, there are no classes in this
country. Each man Is what he makes
himself. My grandmother was a Burke
and an Irishwoman, and I’ve always
been proud of the napie and the ances
try.
“Lastly, your father is very glad he
has kept near enough to one daughter
to learn how to help the other. Your
admiring father,
“JAMES BURKE GATES.
“N. B.—lf my son Claude and old
Pete Staoffer’s silly grandson are types
of ‘ideal gentlemen,’ I would rather you
would marry a hired man. J. B. G.”
Telegram to James Burke Gates:
“Have followed your advice. Dear
love to Helen. GERTRUDE.”
One Hen'ii E^kn.
The efficacy of “one cow’s milk’’ in
bringing up babies has become an es
tablished belief. Few are they who
have not at some time heard of the vir
tues of this system of feeding a baby,
but that the principle has a wider ap
plication is anew thought
A young architect in one of the large
i cities has a little son to whom he is
naturally devoted. The child is rather
delicate, and his father is desirous of
nurturing him according to the most
approved methods. The little man’s
appetite has to be tempted in every di
rection but one. Eggs he delights In
and gladly accepts one at each meal.
The father was born on a farm and is
inclined to be suspicious of any eggs
found within city limits, but not long
ago he discovered what seemed to him
an honest marketman.
“Can you furnish me with fresh
eggs?” he demanded.
“Yes, sir; we can,” was the answer.
“Perfectly fresh?”
“Perfectly.”
“Laid the same day?”
“Wei!.” said the man doubtfully, “we
could guarantee a small quantity that
way.”
“They must be perfectly fresh,” re
capitulated the fond father. “They
must be three in number. They must
be laid the day they are left at my
door, and they must be one hen’s eggs.”
Took a Walk.
An amusing anecdote is told- of Louis
XVIII. of France.
This inoffensive monarch took break
fast one morning; then his ministers
called upon him.
“Well,” said the king, “how are the
public affairs?”
“Getting along very nicely, sire,”
said the ministers.
“Hum! In that case,” said the king,
“I think I will go and take a walk.”
Next morning after breakfast the
ministers called again. “Well, how do
the public affairs get on today?” asked
the king.
“Very badly indeed, sire,” said the
ministers.
“Hum!” exclaimed the king. “In
that case I think I will go and take a
walk.”
Next day no ministers called on the
king.
“What has become of my’ministry?”
said the king after breakfast.
“Sire,” said the palace functionary
who was in attendance, “parliament
has turned out the ministry,”
“Ah!” said the king. “Then it’s they
who have taken a walk this time, eh?”
The First Tramways.
Tramways, as their name implies,
were originally made of pieces of wood
laid in line as a track for wheels and
had been used from very early times in
collieries and quarries.
The earliest recorded use of iron, was
when a “plateway” was laid at White
haven. We read also of cast Iron rails
laid in Coalbiookdale in 1767 and of
the combination of an Iron tramway
with wooden sleepers in a colliery near
Sheffield owned by the Duke of Nor
folk, which was promptly torn up by
the laborers, who feared a reduction of
wages, when the designer, John Carr,
had to flee for his life.
This tramway, which some have
falsely derived, not from “tram,” a
wooden beam cr bar, but from one
Benjamin Outrun, had flanges on its
outer edge, and it was not until 1789
that the flange was wisely transferred
to the tire of the wheel as we have it,
now.—London Express.
SWISS SCHOOLS.
The Coiirße of Study and tle System
of Trntninf?.
The education giveu in the schools of
is in many respects more
comprehensive and practical than that
offered in our curriculums. The girls,
for instance, are taught not only to
read and write and spell, but to cook,
to wash, to sew, says the Housekeeper.
In addition to being trained for the du
ties of homemaking and housekeeping,
each girl is taught some useful trade.
Many of the pupils are daughters of
rich parents, and there is little likeli
! hood of their ever having to earn their
own living, but the paternal govern
ment takes the view that every mem
ber of society should possess the abili
ty to be self supporting even though
the necessity to exercise that ability
should never .'iirise. No expense has
been spared in equipping the schools of
Switzerland for the teaching of domes
tic science.
The 1 \vs. too, have not been neglect
el in the* Swfss system of education.
Physical culture and manual training
l.u vi i prominent places in the curricu
lum. cud on leaving the pub
i; • school is equipped to earn his own
living. Fads and frills are absent from
the Swiss schools. The hard headed tax
payers want to see some return for
their money. They demand that the
education for which they pay shall be
practical and useful m after life. Are
they not right?
WHO IS INSANE?
Ho One or Every One, According as
We Ask the Question.
Who Is insane? No one or every one,
according as we ask the question. No
one in an asylum will admit that he or
she is insaue. Each in turn would re
sent such an insinuation. Certainly
no one out of an asylum will assent to
the charge of being insane. And yet
both parties readily recognize the in
sanity of others. An intelligent old
lady, once the head of a ladies’ sem
inary, wished me to discharge her
from an asylum, alleging that all the
patients in the hall believed her sane.
Seven women were privately asked
their opinions as to her sanity, and all
declared that she was very. Insane,
while asserting their own sanity. When
Informed of the result of the test the
old lady accurately described the spe
cial peculiarities of each of her ac
cusers. So iu every community the
private gossip is much concerned about
those who are called “strange,” “pecul
iar,” “dorauged,” “unbalanced,” “light
headed,” “a little off,” “out of gear,”
“wrong in the upper story,” “cranks.”
Few if any escape for a lifetime one
or the other of these epithets. Without
as within the asylum no one recognizes
his or her own mental deviations, but
readily detects the mental aberrations
of others.—Stephen Smith, M. D., LL.
D. t in Leslie’s Magazine.
A WONDER OF RANGUN.
The Great Shoay Dagon Pagoda Cov
ered With Pare Gold.
Rangun, the principal city ef Bur
ma, grew up around the sacred spot
on which is built the great Shoay Da
gon pagoda, one of Its principal won
ders. “Rising to a height of 360 feet,
its size is greatly enhanced by the fact
that it stands on an eminence that is
Itself 106 feet above the level of the
city,” says a writer. “It is covered
with pure gold from base to summit,
and once in every generation this gold
Is completely renewed by public sub
scription. Yet throughout the inter
val the process of regilding goes on
perpetually. Pious people who seek in
this way to express their veneration
and to add to their store of spiritual
merit climb up daily with little flut
tering packets of gold leaf, which they
fasten on some fraction of its great
surface. There is no more picturesque
sight offered by it than that of a group
of these silken worshipers outlined high
against its gold In the act of contrib
uting their small quota to its splendor.
The pagoda itself has no interior. It
la a solid stupa of brick raised over a
relic chamber.”
Worshipers of Wak.
The Borans are a strange people in
habiting the frontier between British
East Africa and Abyssinia. The tribe
are polygamists when they can afford
It, and by religion they worship the
spirit Wak, which requires constant
propitiation. This Is done by sacrific
ing their children and cattle. A Boran
of any standing when he marries be
comes a “raba,” and for a certain pe
riod after marriage, varying from four
to eitfht years, he is obliged to “throw
away” any children that are born to
him to appease Wak. After this period
he becomes a “gudda” and keeps bis
children.—London Express.
, Careful of Himself.
"When I was your age,” said the
gilded youth’s father, “I was at work
before 7 o’clock every morning.”
“Yes,” answered the young man; “if
I had all the business cares you used
to have maybe I’d get insomnia too.”
—Washington Star.
Explained.
Him—lt must be awfully annoying
for a woman to have hair that won’t
stay in place, like that girl in the third
row In front of us. Her—There’s noth
ing the matter with her hair. She has
anew engagement ring.—Cleveland
Leader.
After the Refusal.
Forsgpod—Do you think you have
been fair to me, Miss Hawkins? Miss
Hawkins—You have said so all along.
You called me the fairest of my sex
only five minutes ago.
When the soup has a greasy look
pour it, when hot, through a cloth sat
urated with cold water, and the fat
will remain In the cloth.
IWMVCWIN
NEW THINGS IN NEW JERSEY
The Jersey Belle Egghlant Is One of
the Season’s Taking; Novelties.
As might be expected in a state fa
mous for its gardening industry, the
New Jersey experiment station has
been doing some unique work in the
breeding of truck crops. Asa result of
this anew variety of sweet corn, the
Voorhees Red, was sent out last spring.
Tliis season four new things are an
nounced— the Station Bush Lima bean,
the Kelsey Bush Lima bean, the Sta
tion Yellow tomato and the Jersey
Belle eggplant.
Since 1900 work has progressed upon
the crosses of bush or dwarf lima
THE KELSEY. THE STATION BUSH.
beans secured between the Hendersoa
as the male and the Burpee as the fe
male parent. Out of the crosses two
have been selected. One, nearer the
Burpee, is named the Station Bush
Lima, and the other, approaching the
Henderson type, is called the Kelsey.
One of the chief valuable characteris
tics of these crosses is their remarkable
productiveness. Crossed plants often
show this tendency, and here there has
been a striking example of vigor and
fruitfulness.
The quality of the crosses is said to
compare favorably with that of the
Burpee, a variety of high grade. The
yield has been fully double that of ei
ther parent under similar circum
stances.
The Station Yellow tomato, a cross
of Golden Sunrise upon Dwarf Cham
pion, gets its fine color, between that of
a ripe lemon and orange, from the male
parent (Golden Sunrise) and the up
right or dwarfed habit of vine from the
female or Champion ancestor. Tim
plant and fruit are somewhat large'
than the Champion and the foliage less
“curled.” Thickness of the wall of the
fruit, with firmness of flesh, render
them desirable for marketing and add:-
to the percentage of edible flesh for the
table.
A cross between the New York Im
proved Spineless variety of eggplant
and the Early Long Purple is shown in
the second cut, the Jersey Belle in the
center, with the Long Purple at the
left and the New York on the right.
The fruit of the Jersey Belle, instead
of being long and slender and often
curved, as Is the Long Purple, or near
ly oval, as Is the New' York Improved,
is seen to be a combination of these
two extremes. No change in color has
developed. It is the handsome deep
purple so popular with consumers of
this vegetable.
The slices from a good sised New
York Improved ft-ult are too large and
not well suited for the frying pan or
▲ CROSS m EGGPLANTS.
for serving upon the table, while the
cross is a decided improvement in this
respect. In the Long Purple the fruit
Is too slender, but the small and nearly
seedless slices are superior in quality.
The Jersey B&ile retains the good
qualities of its slender fruited parent
and at the same time yields abundant
ly of fruits, with two-thirds of their
flesh free from seeds, or nearly twice
as much as in the New York Improved
variety.
v
Fall and Early Winter Lamb*.
Remember the term “hothouse” lamb
does not mean that you must grow
your animal in a semi-incubator. The
feeding barn should never be kept hot.
The feeder should exercise care that
his lambs do not get in a draft and. are
well sheltered, but see that they have
air. It will not hurt them once in
awhile to go out in the snow. Our fall
and winter lambs often weigh forty to
fifty pounds early in the spring and
bring from $7 to $lO per head, accord
ing to the market. All lamb feeders
who can grow alfalfa should not fail to
be without this wonderful hay. I at
tribute most of my success with lambs
to alfalfa. The past season I raised
SSO tons on my farm and use it freely.
Also I grow 2,000 bushels of oats and
barley, £,OOO bushels of shelled corn
and 300 bushels of soy beans on my
place, much of which was fed to sheep,
handling about a thousand head per
year, said Joseph E. Wing before the
Connecticut board of agriculture. -
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