Evening capital., March 20, 1885, Image 2

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EVENING CAPITAL
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ANNAPOLIS. MD.
THE I-AND OF THE AFTERNOON
An old man site in his garden chair,
Watching the sunlit western sky,
What sees he in the bine depth there,
Where only the Isles of Memory lie?
There are princely towers and castles high,
There are gardens fairer than human ken,
There are happy children thronging by.
Radiant women and stately men,
Singing with voices of sweet attune
The songs of the Land of the Afternoon.
The old man watches a form of cloud,
That floats where the axure islands are,
And he sees a homestead gray and loved
And a band that beckons him afar.
Oh, cheek of roses and hah*of gold!
Oh, eyes of heaven’s divinest blue!
Long have ye lain in the graveyard mold —
But love is infinite, love is trne;
Be will find her—yes, it must be soon;
They will meet in the Land of the Afte r
noon.
The sky has changed, and a wreck of cloud
Is driving athwart its troubled face,
The golden mist is a trailing shroud;
It is cold and bleak in the garden placet
The old man smiles and droops his head,
The thin hair blows from his wrinkled
brow,
The sunset radiance has appeared
O’er every wasted feature now;
One sigh exhales like a breath in June—
He has found the Land of the Afternoon.
Imitation In Birds.
I remember distinctly hearing a
thrasher often repeating in its madcap
song some notes new to my ear, which
could not be ascribed to any Michigan
bird of my acquaintance. After patient
ly waiting for some time in the glaring
sun of a bright June day, I heard the
notes so plainly that I was thoroughly
convinced they were an imitation of the
song of a Southern bird—the “chuck
will’s widow,” so called, a species allied
to our whippoorwill, and named—as in
our familiar Northern representative of
the family—from the words so plainly
uttered. This thrush learned, then, the
notes of the chuck-will’s widow at least
600, and probably quite a thousand miles
from Michigan, and yet reproduced
them so distinctly that one could easily
distinguish them, and from mere descrip
tions in books at once tell them the name
of the bird imitated.
Here, mounting the top of the tallest
tree near its nest, it pours forth ecstatic
melody, executing the most difficult
strains with the same ease that it deliv
ers the simplest notes. AU noises are
attempted; the schoolboy’s whistle, the
bark of a dog, or the bleating of a lamb
are equally well executed and issue from
its throat in a continuous, hrrmonious
strain, frequently of an hour's duration.
What wonderful mimicry; what a con
trast tib the best attempts of ventrilo-
Suists and imitators, traveling through
lie country to reproduce before audiences
a few mumbled sounds or attempted imi
tations of the sounds and notes uttered
by birds and mammals. —Dr. Morris
OM.
Snuff Eating.
City druggists have very many glimpses
in the inner life of their customers. “ I
want five cents worth of snuff,” said a
little woman, as she bent over the counter
of a drug store this morning and
whispered the order in the clerk's ear
with a mysterious mien. Glancing
furtively around to assure herself that
there were no witnesses to the transaction,
she added; “ It's for another lady. I
never use the stuff.” Picking up a
neatly wrapped little bundle in white
£aper, she placed it to her nose to assure
eraelf that H was the genuine article,
then flung down a nickle and hurriedly
left the store. “Here, Johnny,” said
the clerk, turning to a boy who was
standing behind ths prescription case in
conversation with a reporter, “put up
some more snuff. All those packages we
made last night are gone already. Hurry!
Here's another customer across the street.
Yes, our chief patrons are women. We
have no mtft callers for snuff at all. The
men chew tobacco instead. Of course
no woman buys the snuff for herself.
The purchase is made for a neighbor or
a friend. I have heard women complain
of the stuff, which they said they were
buying for another woman. The habit,
I understand, is very fascinating, and
when once begun is more binding than
either chewing tobacco or smoking. In
its strength to enslave the will it ap
proaches the power of narcotics.”
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Doctor: “Well, how are wc to-day:*
Patient: “Oh, I've had a miserable day,
doctor.” Doctor: “Rut your wife says
you haven't groaned at all to-day, while
yesterday ” Patient: “Good reason.
Thought there wasn't anybody 'round.
That woman is always taking an unfair
advantage of me.”— Boston- Journal.
Mr. Everts introduced into Washing
ton what is called the statesman's fash
ion of wearing silk hats. He wears his
hat clear over on the back part of his
head at an angle of forty-five degrees
until It pushes out his can at right an-
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FABM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Can of Orekaria.
The following remarks were made at a
meeting of the Farmers' Club of Mont
rery County, Ohio: The President,
Ohmer, called attention to the num
ber of old orchards in the western town
ships of the county, and said it was a
great mistake not to plant new orchard!
and do it right. *
Dr. Gish a>ked what course should be
taken to make fruit more fertile. He
said that in-and-in breeding had been
carried on so long that fruit, especially
pears, are seedless. Roses had degener
ated also, so that we could not get seed
from them.
Mr. Ohmer did not know as to roses,
but he was certain there was no failure in
fruit, and fruit trees that received proper
culture. In Michigan and New York
they fight the curculioand canker worm,
and they have thrifty, productive or
chards. He has just planted 1,500 ap-
Ele trees, 150 of them the Ben Davis.
[is apples pnid until two or three years
ago. Where the trees were set out with'
plenty of room they did well, but where*
close to fences or otherwise crowded the
crops were not so good. We do not
feed the trees enough. They should be
set out at least thirty feet apart, so the
roots can spread with the top. Then
they should be fed by fertilizers. Mr.
Waymiresayshe fed his Bellflower apple
trees with surface manure, and that they
produce well every year, go lam satis
fied that all of our orchards would do
well if they had been planted wim more
room, and were properly cared for. Turn
hogs in the orchards,’when there are
windfalls to eat the rotten apples and
worms, then in two or three years
there will be no codling worms or curcu
lios. Orchards around here were planted i
by your fathers, and you have all had
the money out ot them. Now, why not
plant young trees,start new orchards for
your children's benefit, the same as you
have profited by these old trunks?
Plant this falL Select big stalks rather
than tall trees. Buy from reliable nur
series, plant right, put corn and potatoes
between, but not* wheat, oats or grass,
for young trees want to be thoroughly
cultivated until they bear. Do not turn
in the cows or calves to break them
down. Feed the trets and you will have
big crops.
Henry Waymire said: “I experi
mented in my orchard, and have profited
by it. My' trees had not borne well for.
ten or fifteen years except little knotty
fruit, until four or five years ago. After
a hard winter I determined to cut them
down. I advised with my wife about k,
then thought I would spare the trees one
year more. I dug around the trees for
six or eight feet out, and around four
of them spread manure, leaving two
- without fertilizer. The next
spring all bloomed out alike and apples
began to show on all. but the fruit soon
began to drop from the two that I had
neglected, but the others were loaded
down with fine Bell flower apples, so much
so that ope split in two and was ruined.
Since then I feed them manure every
year, turn the hogs in until the fruit be
gins to get good, and I have plenty of
apples every year, and this season I have
as fine a crop in quality and quantity as
I ever had. lam satisfied that there are
hundreds of these old orchards starving
to death. A man adjoining me bought
a farm with a pear orchard on it. The
trees looked bad and blighted. He re
placed the old with new soil, fertilized,
and in one season he has increased the
yield and improved the looks of his or
chard. Another neighbor has fifteen
acres in orchard that blue grass has
starved out, so that he has not an apple
to-day as big as a hen egg, while I have
more than I want, and am getting one
dollar a bushel for what I will sell,right
at home. It's just like the pigs. Neg
lect tnem and they do not flourish; care
for them and feed them and they fatten.
Farm and Garden Notes.
The lady bugs are great destroyers of
animal lice.
Corn is splendid feed in cold weather
to keep up the animal heat.
Seed growing is a profitable pursuit
and the ground has not been half covered
yef.
Salt is necessary to every animal in a
state of nature, and under the care of
man.
Those who grow millet, sorghum, or
broom corn will find the seed the best
kind of food for small chicks.
The cost of pond construction for carp
culture is small, and once they are stocked
the cost of maintenance is small.
Soil covered with living herbage or
dead vegetable matter is colder in sum
mer and warmer in winter than bare soil.
Put sitting hens in a small box pen
with no roosts or nest, give them plenty
of ff od and water and treat them kindly
and in a few days they will get over the
fever.
A remedy for sitting hens is to put
them in an airy coop where they can
have fresh earth and feed them all they
will eat of mixed grain, fresh meal, etc.,
with plenty of grease or fat of any kind.
Give a little ground feed daily to
calves, and teach colts to drink milk if
you have it, and give them a few quart!
per day. Colts may be taught to drink
milk, either sweet or sour, by mixing a
little corn meal in it at first. If they are
grained heavily while young they will
always require heavily graining thereaf
ter to keep them in good order.
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As regards the keeping qualities of
washed butter, Henry Stewart, the well
known authority on dairying, tells us he
kept a fifty-pound pail of washed butter
a year; It then brought three cents a
pound above the price of fresh butler
sent to the New York market with it
from an ordinary commission man. It
was washed in tne churn with very weak
brine after the buttermilk had been
drawn off and was salted.
The American Cultivator tells of
dairyman who undertook to churn his
cream sweet, instead of allowing it to
ripen before churning; the result was
that the ‘'choice, aromatic, nutty fla
vored product,” which had previously
distinguished his dairy, was replaced
with butter “devoid of flavor or fra
grance, having a dead, neutral taste,”
and the weeks product sold at thirty
five cents per pound, instead of at sev
enty cents, the usual price for previous
consignments.
Because pure stock is costly many
farmers think to economize by breeding
from half-blooded animals. This is al
ways a mistake. A mongrel very rarely
reproduces even its own excellence in
its progeny. It is fortunate that this is
so. Were "it not there would be small
encouragement for breeders of pure
stock, and animals degenerate more rap
idly than they do. Mongrel breeding
shows its bad effects most quickly with
poultry, but it is equally bad for all
kinds of stock.
A good wash for roofs and buildings
is as follows: Slake lime in a close box
to prevent the escape of steam, and
when slaked pass it through a sieve. To
every six quarts of this lime add one
quart of rock salt and one gallon of
water. After this boil and skim clean.
To every five gallons of this add. by
slow degrees, three-quarters of a pound
of potash and four quarts of very fine
sand. Coloring matter may be added if
it is desired. Apply this mixture with a
paint or whitewash brush.
Household Hints.
It is worth recollecting that bar soap
should be cut into square pieces and put 1
into a dry place, as it keeps better after
shrinking.
A little borax put in the water in
which scarlet napkins and red-hordered
towels are to be washed will prevent
them fading.
An uncomfortably tight shoe maf be
made perfebtly easy by laying a cloth wet
In hot water across where it pinches,
changing several times. The leather
will shape* itself to the foot.
When roasting a chicken or small fowl
there is dauger of the legs browning or
becoVning too hard to be eaten. To
avoid this, take strips of cloth, dip them
into a little melted lard, or even just rub
them over with lard, and wind them
around the legs. Remove them in time
to allow the chicken to brown deli
cately.
It is a little singular that we who love
Trench fashions so much have not
adopted the convenient blue pverall that
Freneh children wear. It covers the entire
frock, having long sleeves, and is not at
all ugly. A child at play may be made
presentable in a moment by simply slip
ping off the overall frock and pina
fore being thus protected, are of course,
perfectly fresh.
A View From the Moon.
From Professor Langley’s article on
“The Planets and the Moon,” in the Cen
tury, we quote the following: The
truth is, however, that, looking at the
earth from the moon, the largest moving
animal, the whale or the elephant, would
be utterly beyond our ken; and it is
questionable whether the largest ship on
the ocean would be visible, for the popu
lar idea as to the magnifying power of
great telescopes is exaggerated. It im
probable that under any but extraordin
ary circumstances our lunar observer
with our best telescopes could not
the earth within less than an apparent
distance of 500 miles; and the reader
may judge how' large a moving object
must be to be seen,much less recognized,
by the naked eye at such a distance.
Of course, a chief interest of the sup
position we are making lies in the fact
that it will give us a measure of our own
ability to discover evidence of life in the
moon, if there are any such as exist here;
and in this point of view it is worth
while to repeat that scarcely any tem
porary phenomenon due to human
action could be visible from the
moon under the most favoring cir
cumstances. An army such as Napoleon
led to Russia might conceivably be viai-,
ble if it moved m a dark solid column
across the enow. It lit barely possible
that such a vessel ss one of the largest
ocean steamships might be seen, under
very favorable circumstances, as a moving
dot; and it is even quite probable that
such a conflagration as the* great fire of
Chicago would be visible in the lunar
telescope, as something like a reddish
star on the night side of our planet; but
this is all in this sort that could be dis
cerned.
“By making minute maps, or, still
better, photographs, and comparing one
year with another, much however might
hare been done by our lunar observer
during this century. In its beginning,
in comparison to the vast forests which
then covered the North American conti
nent, the cultivated fields along its east
ern seaboard would have looked to him
like a golden fringe bordering a broad
mantle of green; but now he would see
that the golden fringe has pushed aside
the green farther back than the Missis
sippi, and would gather his best evidence
from the fact (surely a noteworthy one)
that man, as represented by the people of
tte ' of \u“wor ld uriT*
preset century to a degree visible m
FOR FEMININE READERS.
Be m WssMtt,
be heard a gentle mo* * r,
A*'Se twilight hours b.,. a,
with a son on duty,
urgsa him to be a man.
B *dooeyed daughter. % „
love’s words quite as ready,
.“f the other duty
strive, fi. dear, be a lady. n
‘fSL Is ft something
oiat&si&siEF 5 "-
Like the fancy d
I. it one that
Tis not this to be a vntLn
Mother, then, unto yout
Speak of something
Than to be mere fashion’s
••Woman” is the brighter/
If you, in your strong aflfedr 1 *
Orge your son to be a true *
Uige ypur daughter no less str>
To arise and be a woman. W
Yes, a woman’ Brightest mode!
Of that high and perfect beauty,
Where the mind and soul and body
Blend to work out life’vgreat duty.
Be a woman; naught is higher
On the gilded crest of time;
On the catalogue of virtue
There’s no brighter, holier name.
—Montague Marta.
Han a* a Housekeeper.
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Some writer humorously says: Man
is a creature that has always elicited our
unqualified admiration; he is in many
capacities useful, and Oy a judicious ar
rangement of blue cloth and brass but
tons can often be rendered, to a certain
degree, ornamental. In the sphere of
action, for which his many estimuble char*
aeteristics have qualified him, we accent
him without a murmur; but when it
comes to having him foisted upon us as a
housekeeper, we indignantly reject him.
We have wintered and summered him in
that capacity, and he is ah ignominious
failure. For the ornamental part of house
keeper he is peculiarly unfitted; his soul
is closed, ana his vision dim to the truly
beautiful. He scorns bric-a-brac, and is
not susceptible to the ennobling and re
fining influence of that home angel, the
tidy. If there were fifteen tidies on one
chair he would manage to crumple ten
under him and get up with the rest on his
back. He is a sworn enemy to all deco
rative art, and if not watched will go to
bed on the pillow shams. He pulls the
bedclothes out by the roots when he gets
up; he leaves water in the wash bowl and
hangs the towel on the floor. He makes
a hat rack of the piano, and expects to
find his slippers just where he left them
last week.
His idea of being comfortable is to
throw open every door and window in
the house, and, as to becoming arrange
ment of lights and shades, his mind is a
perfect blank. He was never known to
make a knot of a towel and chase flies
out of a room, and, it he does not see
what he wants the minute he opens the
bureau drawer, he knows it is not
there, and you cannot convince him to
the contrary. He lacks adroitness, and
always draws out the weak-legged chair
for a visitor to sit in. His mind is not
nimble at taking hints. We have seen
a man, who understood Emerson, help
himself to the last slice of cake, witn
company present, and unblushingly call
for more, notwithstanding his wife was
kicking him under the table and wink
ing at him over it. It will readily be
seen that he is by nature and education
totally disqualified to act as goddess of
the home. His occasional presence is
necessary to have him patronize the de
serving institution at least three times a
day, and it looks well to see him sitting
around in the evenings; but it would
never do to leave him in charge of the
dearest spot on earth. He would bank
rupt domestic bliss in a week. Let all
who are interested in the preservation
and maintenance of the fireside humbly
petition the managers of this new move
ment to exempt a few able-bodied, in
dustrious women to continue the time
honored and laudable employment of
housekeeping; or, at least, to postpone
any radical change until a few men have
been taught to discriminate between ma
crame lace and dish-towels.
Fashion Mote*.
Fur is now unfashionable as a bonnet
trimming.
Tan and brown are the leading colors
for gloves for spring wear.
Gold and silver braid and all sorts of
gold decorative objects trim many spring
nats and bonnets.
The evening colors of the passing mo
ment are heliotrope, ecru, and rose in
, many different shades.
Cashmeres in soft, pale shades are to
be much worn by young girls during the
coming season. They will be trimmed
with watered silk or velvet.
The spring hats for children are very
pictures,jue. They have big brims of
crowns of etamine or gauze and
bupches of very natural-looking flowers
on top.
'the newest finish for zouave and Eton
jackets is to edge them all around with
smal fancy gold, silver, or other metal
buttons, set on so close as to touch, but
not iverlap, one the other.
Bangles are going out of fashion. New
engaAment rings are composed of a sin
of some precious stone—dia
mond* or sapphires (emeralds or topazes
they are indicative of
bad lulk.
furnishes enormous quantities
of dress and other garment linings and
yimmings to Europe, in the form
of the Milbert twills, three-leaf cotton
fabrics id twenty eight varieties of weav
ing, and unnumbered shades of color
and fast blacks.
"* Porcelain blue, red, brown and ecru
are the colors most to be seen in straw
bonnets; turbans, capots and pointed
' ftoaoes-.ne most popular. The Tam
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i wraps. The kt ter , 1
le Seat of War
aIR. E. Colston, f or '
t, contributes an art?n 5 4 I
.from which w equo !^ t . ! ®S I
deteription of & f>orti J ,** I
seat of war: H P \v K °. of I
rough the desert canntu trin I
*of that strange and ri or ® ‘ I
in which all the I
life are completely chJ ? Bdi I
itllva waterless I
reeks, rivulets or sprint I
*way from the Nile, the on i v I
is derived from deep wW™ I
tcanty, and far apart. | ‘ T*'•, I
are frequent. When I e xV, I
great Arabian desert, betweei th? v l * I
and the Red sea, i, had 7^' S ± I
three years; and when I travel 1 ** I
the Suakim route and throng kJ? I
fan, no rain had fallen for two year, t I
tween the twenty-ninth and the T' I
teenth degree of latitude it never J*' I
all. Water become, precis *"•" I
gree beyond the conception of those Jf I
have never known its scarcity I
of the Catholic mission at El (SS (fl
where water is much more plentiful VCI I
□ the deserts, assured me that.T!* I
pr before, water has been sold b 's I
I a dollar a gallon bv uC propne I
i {jj of the tew wu* tnat had not I
oco U P- long drought! I
oui the always scanty crop oi I
ffreatV 18 away trom the Nile, ami the I
ish a^ rt * of tllc fl° ck * nd herds per* I
populai! “ ‘considerable |rt of ,1* I
when ul * olloW9 naturally that I
the deser* ak,n e a i ourne >’ th ™fk I
* water A* e paramount question is I
I cieutto iMt’P'y m " t b f, c ? rri ,' d *
: five day* dbtf“ “f*‘ well be itmt I
jgoat aid ox. It is usually carried a I
| camels' pack i? ’‘spend. d from ik I,
water bottles of 1!' j” I
leakv from wear, T" r . c ' wl,, .' h b " I
sideralde portioi \ " lw:, - vB 'TIT I
ovooovatioo rru„ .their contents bt I
1 tS’TZZu i. ,n i‘ thing after rckb I
and quality of its vf ,lin l< ! 1
former. It may have bw*
preceding caravan, and i m(i „, * ■
quired lor a new supply n „•;„„ • I
As to the quality, dese’rt
ally bad, the exception bein w j R ,J j t JM
worse, though long custom ~hie s thil
Bedouins to drink water so
to be intolerable to all except tl._L.-l
and their tlocks. Well do I
how at each well the first skint* VK I
tasted all around as epicures
wines. Great was the joy if it I
pronounced ‘mova helwa,' sweet wa. I
but if the Bedouins said ‘moodi tipi I
not good, we might be sure it was tic I
lution of Epson salts. The best wile I
is found in natural rocky reservoinil
deep, narrow gorges, where the a I
never shines. As to ‘live spring.' 1 new I
; saw more than half a dozen in six the*l
and miles of travel.”
An English Conn ty Coart.
Very few of the cases entered os ilwl
bonks of a county court come to trial ill
all: that is to say, the court is chidyl
, used to compel the payment of mill
I debts which are not disputed. TbiiW-l
! ing the case, the roll is generally oiled!
1 twice before the arrival of the judge.!
i The names of the litigants are called owl
1 in a stentorian voice by the regiatrarorm
I his deputy; those who answer arem*rkd|
• as present, and thus the li-t i* clewdl
! of those against whom judgment it
' tered in their absence. should yoawl
i unfortunate enough to be absent
your case is called for the first time®**!
tion the matter as soon as possible totl
registrar. If your opponent is still ifm|
the building, the matter will be set rest*
at once. if he has gone home, you c-TI
have to pay his costs for the day W*J
your case is reinstated in the list. A*®*!
, as the judge arrives, and baa
any cases which may have been adjourn!
1 from last court-day, and the ••judgamj
| summonses” (a term which I w, ‘
plain presently), he begins at the ■
I the list, which, meantime, has <><* B ‘I
ther winnowed by the registrar ri
it a second time, and dealing oo I
spot with those numerous case* m l
there is no defence, and the del
; merely wants time to pay. u-1
caees which require to be heard • I
* one, you may have to hang ■
. room with your witnesses all as . ym
ing for your case to come on. m
reason it is wall to inquire,® -M
take out your summon*, w|> c
1 case will be near the top of the !£• ■
if it is a long way down, and w
* no special reasons for immedia ym
! it is better to take out your su®
■ the court-day after the
you will have your case he ' |
When your cr.se is fina if
* bearing you will boi
i are plaintiff, in a a-nall ,fM
end of the registrar * . J
, adversary, the defendant,
i ilar position on the other si
[ Magazif e. _
He Brought Back the Jk
f A farmer of Warwickshire yM
a flock of shaep to s
’ his dog to drive them hoM
of thirty miles, desiring
dog a meal at the ’ our f-V ' foosd #|
it to go home. Ihe d^ e }fed 1 0
dog & useful that he reso^^j^
[ it, and instead ofsendmg‘t^
l it up. The collie B**
* last effected its escape. ts
1 ing the drover had no {0 jM
' tain the sheep than be had jßtfl fl
r ®elf, the honest creature U
field, collected all tbe *?T,o t* S
1 belonged to its mister, an , drort
r son’s intense astoaisbm*
1 whole flock home agaio
‘ I