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CORVALLIS
GrAZETTE,
SEMI-WEEKUY.
UNION Estxb. .Inly, 1897.
GAZIT Katab'. Dec. 1862.
Consolidated Feb., 1899.
CORYAIXIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1900.
VOL. I. NO. 31.
AN DREY.
Audrey knoweth naught of b(yi?ti TJ
Naught to captivate the wise; . j ,
But the soul of goodness looks . ! i
Through the quiet of her eyes. j'
6he can bake and she can knit,
Cunningly she wields the broom.
All her pleasure is to sit t
In a neatly order'd room. .
Touchstone, shaping a career,
Shines at each exclusive house;
"Such a clever man, my dear,
Tied to just a "country mouse?
"Married ere he dreamed of us,
Ere he knew what gifts he had
Strange that Fate should yoke him thus,
And very, very, very sad!"
Touchstone (let him mark it well)
When the social round is trod,
Bored by dame and demoiselle
Goes home softly, praising God.
New York Tribune.
HHAD been graduated two years,
and had a practice sufficiently
large, I deemed, to warrant my
taking apartments. Apartments sur
round a young doctor with an air of
prosperity which people like to encour
age and add to. A month later I was
comfortably, almost elegantly, estab
lished on the first floor of a handsome
North Side apartment house, with a
careful middle-aged woman to act as
my housekeeper and cook.
"Pretty well fixed, old man, eh!" said
Jack Winters, my college classmate and
chum, who had come over that even
ing from the West Side to make a
housewarming for me. "All you need
to complete your happiness Is to get ac
quainted wiin the pretty widow on the
floor above you. She's John Redmond's
cousin, you know, and a sweeter little
woman never "
"Thank you," I said, checking Jack's
enthusiasm Jack always goes off on a
tangent when a pretty woman is dis
cussed. "1 am trying to get patients,
and have no time for social pleasures,
and, besides, I don't mind saying it,
Jack, I'm not fond of widows."
"All I have to say to that Is," said
Jack, "you don't know Mrs. Traine."
However, my professional duties
were not so ardous that I did not find
time to notice a trim little figure that
flitted In and out through the big en
trance door, dressed always exquis.tely,
but quietly.
My interest in Mrs. Traine deepened
when I heard her story. Her husband
had been killed in a railway accident
three years before. The insurance
money was almost gone, and the little
widow added to the income that must
support herself and invalid mother by
giving music lessons to a few wealthy
girls.
A daintier little rosebud of a woman
it would have been hard to find. Soft
brown hair, tossed in truant curls about
the low forehead, a voice that spoke
always gently, blue eyes full of mirth,
and a complexion that looked like it
had been bathed in the morning dew.
Once or twice I had held the big door
open for her to pass out, and bowed in
response to the low "thank you." Ear
ly after my coming to the building a
boy on the top floor had been accom
modating enough to get hurt in the ele
vator, and I had been called in as the
most available physician. Luckily, I
brought the boy through so well that
bis parents as well as the youngster
himself, sounded my praises so loudly
that I found myself with quite a repu
tation and Incidentally a practice in the
neighborhood. Still, I had not met Mrs.
Traine, and I was beginning wickedly
to hcpe pffie accident ever so slight a
one, of course might happen to her, a
sprained aukle or wrist, that I might
have the joy of caring for. However,
the fates preserved Airs. Traine from
accident, and I continued to watch for
glimpses of her from my office window.
I had bowed the last patient out for
the evening, and settled ojyself for a
smoke before bedtime. My nseditations,
mingling with the blue curling smoke,
were Interrupted by a piercing- scream,
and then another. I rushed fjito the
ball. The screams came from the
Traine apartment above. In aiuother
moment I was knocking on the door,
which was opened by Mrs. Traine her
self, white and breathless. "Oh," sj'he
gasped, catching hold of my ariin.
"We've got him out there in the pan
try poor mamma "
"Who?" I asked.
The burglar. He was hid in the
dining-room mamma saw him, and he ?
ran Into tho pantry and I locked the
door and he's trying to jump out of
f&a window. J
I heard a noise as of some one trying
to push up a window, and opening the
pantry door there he was, a sure
enough burglar, evil-browed and sullen,
MBS. TKAINK CLUNtt TO Mt ABU.
who dropped the window and turned to
face me.
"You can't make a jump from that
window, my man," I said. "You had
better be quiet."
I turned the lock again, but Mrs.
Traine, divining my purpose, clung to
my arm. "Don't go," she cried, fran
tically. "We can't stay here alone a
minute." Then to my relief that same
small boy who had served me so well
professionally appeared on the thresh
old, attracted by the cries. Off he went
to call the police, while I tried to quiet
two hysterical women.
In a few minutes the burglar was
handcuffed and led away, but the shock
had proved too much for Mrs. Traine's
invalid mother. The fainting spell was
followed by delirium, and her daughter
and I watched by her bedside until
morning.
Of course, I was Installed as attend
ing physician, and never failed to call
morning and evenings. When the pa
tient was able to sit up I sometimes
read aloud to her as an excuse to re
main longer, watching the daughter at
some household task.
One evening I staid for tea, Mrs.
Traine wore a dainty gown of white
and blue, with a great deal of lace.
There Is no sight so welcome to a bach
elor as a pretty woman at the head of
a tea table. The next morning I pic
tured the pretty widow sitting opposite
me at my own breakfast table, wearing
the pretty house jacket I had seen on
my morning calls.
That afternoon I took Mrs. Traine
and her mother for a drive, and was re
warded by another Invitation to tea.
A reason for such close attention to
my patient was no longer apparent. I
was hunting about in my mind for an
other excuse to prolong the delightful
calls when Mrs. Traine knocked at my
door one evening.
"I have come to see you on business,"
she said, taking the seat I offered her.
"You have been kind to mother," she
went on. "Of course, we want to pay
you for your trouble. Would you mind
telling me, please, how much the
amount is?"
I saw the anxious look growing deep
er in the sweet face opposite me. How
much denial and privation paying a
doctor's bill meant to that little wom
an, already burdened with responsi
bility! "It must be a large bill," she said at
last, as I remained silent, watching her.
"You you've made so many calls."
"Yes, it is a large bill," I said, slowly.
There was a quick uplifting of the
blue eyes. "I hope," she said softly,
"that you won't mind if we don't pay.
it quite all at once; If I could arrange
to pay you so much every week until
the bill Is settled."
"No," I said, in business-like tones.
"I should prefer to have the whole bill
settled for at once."
My heart smote me for the alarm in
the face that was lifted to mine. I
leaned forward and took her hand. "Do
you want to know how much my bill
will be? Well, It's a great deal. Noth
ing less than the giving of your own
self to me, my darling, will satisfy my
claim against you."
"You mean " said Mrs. Traine, the
blushes diffusing her pale face.
"That I want you to be my wife," I
said, drawing her head down upon my
shoulder. "Is the price too great?"
Chicago Tribune.
The Art of Listening.
Would that there were more people
who know how to listen! We some
times deplore the fact that there are so
few good talkers; may we not rather
regret that those who can talk so sel
dom find people who know how to hear
them?
The habit of interrupting is one that
is certainly on the Increase. If one will
sit quietly by and take notes of a casual
conversation he will be disagreeably
surprised to see how few sentences are
allowed to run their smooth and even
way without some interruption. When
a story is in telling by one of a small
group It Is bound to be paragraphed by
exclamations, needless questions, or
would-be jocose speeches. To listen
properly one should look at the speaker
and think of what he is saying. Such a
listener is In himself an inspiration. We
sometimes hear It said of a man or
woman: "That person brings out all
that Is best In me in the way of con
versation." And generally the reason
for this is that this particular person
gives appreciative heed to what is be
ing said.
To look at a book, to turn over the
pages of a magazine, or to glance over
the columns of a newspaper is not to
listen attentively, and will sf.rve as a
damper to the most enthusiastic of
speakers. Harper's Bazaar.
Shakesp ara and the Bible. ,
In Shakspeare's name lies the key to
a wonderful cryptogram. The spelling
"Shakespeare" was the poet's nom de
plume, while "Shakspere" was his
name, an evident change from "Shakes
pear." In each of the two spellings
last given are ten letters four vowels
and six consonants. Combine these
two figures and we have the number
46, the key to the mystery.
Turning to the forty-sixth Psalm in
the revised version it is found the psalm
is divided into three portions, each one
ending with "selah." Remember the
number 40.
Counting forty-six words from the be
ginning of the psalm, one reads the
word "shake" In the first portion, and
counting forty-six words from the end
of the psalm one reaches the word
"spear." There Is "Shakespear" as
plainly as letters can make it. London
Answers.
Labor Day as a Holiday.
Labor day was celebrated first in
New York City. The celebration took
place on Monday, Sept 4, 1882. It la
now a legal holiday In thirty-five States
and the District of Columbia.
OUIi BOYS AND G12LS.
THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.
Qna int Saying and Cute Doings of the
Little Folks Kverywhere, Gathered
and Printed Here for All Other Lit
tle Ones to Read.
"Oh, dear, how I do hate work!" said
Lily.
"Have you got much to do, dearie"
asked her grandmother, gently.
"All that!" replied Lily, holding out
a long seam with a dismal sigh. "Oh,
do, granny, tell me about yourself when
you were little."
"Well, your dislike of needlework re
minds me very much of my own child
hood. You know it was not the fashion
then for girls to play games as you do
now, and I often got into sad scrapes
for running and climbing with my
brothers instead of sitting quietly at
my needle. One day my mother spoke
seriously to me and said I would never
be a useful woman unless I tried to
learn a little more, which made me cry
and promise to do my best. Finally,
she kissed me and promised that when
I should have finished a set of shirts
which I was then making, she would
give me a gold thimble of her own. I
really did try very hard; and at last the
shirts were finished and I went trium
phantly to claim my prize.
" 'Yes, you deserve it,' said mother,
when I put it on. 'But be careful where
you keep It.' I promised and flew to
the schoolroom to put away my work,
when one of the boys called out that
they were going for a walk. Down
went my work and new thimble on the
table and out I ran to join them. We
had a delightful ramble, and on our re-J
turn I went to the schoolroom, to find
my work there, but not the thimble.
High and low I searched, but it was
gone. In terrible trouble, I went to the
boys (not daring to confess to mamma),
and we hunted everywhere together,
but in vain. Suddenly Alfred looked
out of the window. 'Look at old Jack,'
he said. 'What has he got there?' We
"bad a tame crow, who used to live in
the garden, and was now hopping over
the lawn with something glittering in
his beak.
"'My thimble!' I cried, springing
through the window; and we both
raced after the naughty bird, but too
late. With a wicked croak of triumph
he flew toward the pond at the bottom
of the garden and dropped the precious
prize into the water.
" "O, you dreadful bird? I cried, and
fairly burst into tears. 'Never mind,
old girl!' said Alfred. And in a twinkl
ing he had tucked up his trousers and
waded in. It was shallow just there;
and, to my relief, he spied the thimble,
where it had lodged against a stone,
and restored it to me.
"Dear old boy! I love it for the mem
ory of that bit of help!" And granny
drew the thimble from a case, where it
rested in company with an old, faded
photograph. "I couldn't part with It
now; bnt some day you shall have It,
Lily."
More Play Needed.
It used to be that boys and men who
worked had shorter working hours and
less work to do in the same time than
do the men and boys of to-day. Conse
quently they had better opportunities
and greater inclination for recreation
of the healthiest kind. They felt able
to rise in the morning early enough for
gymnastics, their work the day before
not being so irksome as to make them
feel they needed every moment of sleep
possible, as is often the case nowa
days, and in the late afternoons and
evenings they could enjoy an athletic
game. The girls some years ago exert
ed themselves mentally and physically
much less than they do now, their
course of study usually being mild in
comparison to the average of to-day,
and few of them were in business or
the professions. Therefore their need
was less forstrengthening exercises.
Although the mental and physical
work that the men and women of this
generation do has greatly increased
they do not seem to have realized yet
that a counteracting force is absolute
ly necessary, for the number is growing
larger every day. We cannot help ob
serving it on the streets and every
where of men and women who slouch
along with drooping figure and drag
ging steps, the picture of undeveloped
physical manhood and womanhood.
There is nothing more pleasant to
look upon than a strong, graceful, hap
py young man or young woman, and
the last two qualities depend on the
first and all three on physical exercises
and development.
Therefore, boys and girls, yon know
what you must do to be happy and at
tractive, and It is your duty to be all
three. You can, of course, in varying
degree, and you ought to add much to
the beauty of this old world, whose fine
men and women are its most splendid
features.
A Hard Word to Say.
In the heat of passion Robert had
done something that he was ashamed
of and sorry for after the excitement
had passed away. "I wish that I hadn't
let my temper get away with my good
sense," he said; "but it's done and can't
be undone."
"But isn't there a way to overcome
the effect of wrong doing to a great
extent?" asked a voice in his heart.
"How?" asked Robert.
"By owning to one's blame in the
matter," answered the voice. "Confess
ing one's fault does much to set wrong
right. Try it."
Now, Robert was very much like the
rest of us he hated to admit that he
was in fault. "I'm wrong; forgive me,"
is a hard thing to say. But the more
he thought the matter over the more he
felt that he ought to say just that. "It's
the right thing to do," he told himself.
"If I know what's right and don't c -
it I'm a moral coward. I'll do it." So
ha went to the one that be had wronged
and confessed his fault frankly and the
result was that the two boys were bet
ter friends than before and his comrade
had a greater respect for him. En
change. A Word or So About Opportunity.
There is an old saying that opportuni
ty is kind, but only to the industrious.
As an illustration of this Idea we may
cite the old Perisan legend that a poor
man waited a thousand years at the
gates of paradise hoping that they
would open and he could enter. Final
ly he snatched one little nap of a few
minutes' duration, but then it was that
the gates opened and shut. Von
Moltke, the triumphant strategist of
the Franco-Prussian war, said:
"To win you must be at the right
place at the right time, with a superior
force."
The great Napoleon made that the
active principle of his marvelous mili
tary career. The rule holds good in all
the pursuits of life. .
Hilda's Do. fish.
Said a fisherboy to Hilda,
"Once I caught a dogfish, Miss!"
And ever since she's wondered
If the creature looked like this.
Mamma's Mistaken Policy.
"Mamma," said 3-year-old Flossie, "I
guess you don't know much about rais
ing children, do you?"
"Why do you think that?" asked the
mother.
"Because," replied the little miss,
"you always send me to bed when I'm
not sleepy and make me get up when I
am sleepy."
A Queer Alaskan Fish.
In Alaska there is a queer fish that
can be used as a candle when dried.
The tall of the fish is stuck in a crack
of a wooden table and its nose is light
ed. A good-sized flame will burn about
three hours. It gives a good, steady
light of three-candle power and consid
erable heat.
Ferment in a New Sense.
A little schoolgirl was told by her
teacher to write the word "ferment" on
her slate, together with the definition
and a sentence in which the word was
to be used. The following is the result:
"F-e-r-m-e-n-t; a verl signifying to
work. I love to do all kinds of fancy
ferment."
A Bright Boy's Fet irt.
"Tell me where the Lord Is, my little
man," said the minister to a bright little
fellow, "and I'll give you a penny."
"You tell me where he isn't," replied
the youthful philosopher, "and I'll give
you two pennies."
There Was a Difference.
Aunt Mary Now, candidly, Margie,
don't you think you have eaten enough
pudding?
Margie (aged 4) Well, I may think
so, Aunt Mary, but I don't feel so.
DANGER FROM OVEREATING.
Insanity Is Often Caused by a Too Lib
eral Indulgence in Food.
It Is well known to the few medical
men that many cases of insanity are
directly due to overeating and the con
sequent absorption into the circulation
of toxic matters from the intestinal
tract; and melancholia, whether in mild
or severe form, is generally due to this ;
cause. Violent paroxysms of temper,
whether in children or adults, are often
properly referable to a bad state of the
blood from this auto-toxemia, as is, in
deed, the exceedingly exuberant spirits
of old or young at times; just as we ob
serve in alcoholic poisoning, some indi
viduals are made temporarily jolly and
good natured; others are made ugly and
unreasonable. In view of this condi-1
tion of affairs isn't it rather a wise plan .
for us all to consider rather the needs
of the organism for food than the mere
question of palate-tickling; to aim Jo
eat good instead of bad food and
enough of it that is, not too much; to
have the conditions about right when
we take our meals; in brief, to try and
treat our bodies decently, even though
we act from a purely sensual point of
view? In no other way can we secure
the highest possible degree of pleasure
on the average, while by acting thus
sensibly we may enjoy practical Im
munity from disease.
The more exercise we take under
proper conditions, the more we are ex
posed to cold and the clearer we keep
from excess in clothing the more we
may eat; hence, in order to enjoy the
fullest measure of table pleasures we
must live actively, wear as little cloth
ing as Is consistent with comfort and
do considerable "roughing" sometimes
called hardening. With all this we '
should take our meals at times when 1
the body or brain Is not overtired and
when we "have leisure to digest." And, ;
of all things, we should never eat unless
we are hungry; to eat without an appe-
ate is self-abuse or the most stupid
sort, since It affords no pleasure and is
productive of disease.
An Illiterate Country.
Roumania would appear to be the
most Illiterate country in Europe. The
last census shows that, in a population
of about 6,000,000 nearly 4,000,000 can1
neither read nor write, and that only a
little over 1,000,000 have any education
at all. ..
A physician says a man should nevet
do any work before breakfast. Of.
course this doesn't apply to the tramp
who is compelled to work some one for
his breakfast.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Calling the Wicked to
Repentance.
T is possible to
know a great deal
of Christ and yet
not to know Him.
Demon posses
sion has not dis
appeared so long
as men go mad
for money.
It is better to
have your bank in
your heart than
your heart in the
bank.
Meekness with God leads to might
with men.
No prattle is so purposeless as that of
prayerless preaching.
You may measure a man by the
things that move him.
Religion is not a scheme to get good
crops from poor sowing.
It is only as long as God's sun shines
on this world that it is fair.
There Is only one place where gold
rusts, and that Is in the heart.
The worst Christian watchers are
those who are taking cat-naps.
The man who reflects deeply will soon
be a light instead of a reflector.
He who drinks to drown his despair
is trying to extinguish hell with fuel.
Heaven is our home, but there are a
good many of the family here on earth.
If the devil would play a harp or sing
a solo people would have him in heaven.
Diligence in business Is religious only
when the business becomes divine ser
vice. The fellowship of His sufferings
makes possible the sympathy with
others.
The distillery would be a blessing if
the devils they bottle up only stayed
that way.
A man's life never rises above Its
source, hence the need of being born
from above.
It is better to let your family wreck
the house than to allow fashion to ruin
your home.
Only the life that has mountain
heights to tap the clouds can have
fruitful valleys.
The hope of salvation from the sins
of society depends on our own personal
Bensibility to sin.
Only the man who can say "all my
springs are in thee" can go through the
dry and thirsty land.
There are too many Christians too
poor to give to the Lord who yet can
always rake together enough to go to
the circus.-
The value of your salvation is on ac
count of what it cost Christ and its
worth to the world depends on what It
costs you.
Had the woman who gave the two
mites been wise like some of the chil
dren of this world who now belong to
church, she would have kept her mon
ey and begged some flour to bake a
cake, to be sold to the highest bidder
for Jesus' sake.
HAIR SHOULD NOT BE CUT.
Erroneous Belief That Frequent Cllp
' plug Promotes Its Growth.
Does cutting promote the growth of
the hair? This question is answered by
the Frankfurter Wochenblatt In this
wise: "It is believed by laymen and
professional hairdressers that cutting
largely increases the growth of the
hair. This belief begins with the In
voluntary comparison of the hair with
a plant. As grass that Is often cut
short grows again and becomes thicker,
so, it is believed, the hair should do
when it is cut. This comparison, how
ever, Is a false one. A developed hair
is a perfectly formed mass of horn
which has nothing further to do with
the case in which the hair rests than
to receive from it from below further
growth and to be held firmly by it.
In this mass of horn, as in the
nails of the fingers and the toes, there
is no longer any sap in circulation; this
mass, so to speak, Is a product which
cannot be quickened and strengthened
by new nourishment, because the lat
ter cannot enter it. On the other hand,
what happens in a blade of grass is to
tally different.
"The blade of grass Is a network of
fine ducts In which Is constantly circu
lating the nourishment which the blade
draws from the root; It presents, In con
trast with the dead body of the hair,
a living, vegetating substance which
has a most intimate connection with
the condition of its root and which
dries up infallibly when it is separated
from Its root, while the hair will re
main unaffected for thousands of years
after its papilla has withered away.
We need cite only one irresistible proof
of this the hair on the heads of mum
mies. The root of the hair as long as
it exists can produce a new hair when
the old hair has fallen out, while the
root of many a plant gives existence
to one sprout only and then together
.with it declines and dies. The more a
hair is disturbed in its natural growth
by continually cutting off its ends the
less rest its papilla, the real producer
of the hair, finds; the papilla, being
constantly Incited to excessive produc
tion, wavers finally In its activity, de
cays and dies. For this reason a wom
an with a bald head is never or seldom
seen, as the natural and very slow
process of the growth of a woman's
hair is not disturbed. The 'individual
hair reaches a definite length; after
iyears it falls out of itself and a new
.hair begins to appear as soon as the
papilla has had time to rest itself thor
oughly and to prepare itself for the
process of a new growth. These are
the reasons which lead to the obvi
ously valid conclusion that cutting the
hair is rather Injurious than useful." ,
Batproof Cornhouse.
Many farmers suffer a great waste
from vermin In the corncrlb, and fre
quently It Is very serious. Rats are
especially a great enemy in this respect.
Unless the cornhouse is so made that
there are no hiding places, it is impos
sible to dislodge the rats from their re
treat. The cornhouse shown in the
illustration, which is reproduced from
the Ohio Farmer, Is made so it is inac
cessible to rats or mice, and there are
no hiding places beneath it. It is ele
vated three feet above the ground on
firmly set stone posts, neatly dressed.
The cribs may be made from six to
eight feet wide and of any desired
length. For 4,000 bushels of corn In
the ear the building should be 40 feet
long with cribs 8 feet wide and 12 feet
high. In building this one should use
6x8 timber for sills and 2x8 joist
The floor Is made of 2x3, laid a half
bach apart, so as to admit the free cir-
A RATPBOOF CORNHOUSE.
culation of air among th corn. The
studding should be 2x6 set three feet
on centers, with 2x4 girts notched into
the studding. The ends of this build
ing are sided with seven-eighth inch
matched drop siding put on horizontally
except the gable, which is put on ver
tically. The sides are covered with
1x3 inch strips set a half inch apart
and are put on vertically. The space
between the cribs Is twelve feet wide,
and is closed inside from the bottom of
the cribs to ground, forming an inside
shed, which is not accessible to any
farm animals. This Inner shed is
closed by rolling doors at each end.
The cribs are boarded np inside the
shed with three-inch strips placed hori
zontally a half Inch apart to admit air,
and by openinng the doors free circula
tion of air can be obtained in fine
weather. The shed is floored over above,
forming an apartment twelve feet wide
by forty feet long.
Well-Braced End Post.
The illustration shows an effective
way of securely anchoring the end post
of a wire fence. The post (a) should be
AN ANCHORED FND POST.
set at least three feet in the ground and
four is much better. The cross pieces
ill) are 2x8 Inch boards, 24 Inches long.
The stone (e) is firmly buried and
should just about fit the hole. The post
(b) is about six feet from (a), and
through the hole (f) the cable from the
burled stone Is passed. The brace (c)
is a 2x6 board securely spiked hi place.
When the posts and the stone axe being
put in position the soil should be
tamped until It is very firm. Secured
In this way, an end post will remain
immovable for many years.
To Make the Hens Lay.
If the hens don't lay, turn them out
and let them dig and hunt in the ground
for food, is the advice of T. F. Mc
Grew, in the Country Gentleman. Bury
small grain where they will find it
when they dig. This will Induce them
to hunt and while thus employed they
will find bugs and worms that will
quicken the production of eggs. It is
well tofollow this plan as soon as the
spade will turn the ground, for it adds
vigor and strength to the hens and in
sures strong, healthy chicks. The lazy,
idle hen is of no use, but to sit about
eat, and grow fat If she will not work,
she will not lay. If she will not lay,
her life should end, and her fat carcass
grace the table. You can always rest
assured that the indolent hen is a non
producer; soon she becomes too fat to
lay and too tough to be eaten.
.' Potatoes and Rye.
Potatoes do excellently well upon
land where a crop of green rye has
been plowed in, being usually very free
from scab, fair and smooth, says the
American Cultivator. Early potatoes
can be taken off ha time to sow rye,
which will make growth enough to
furnish a good fall pasture or a spring
pasture for cattle or sheep, and then it
e a
may be plowed under in season to plant
potatoes again or some other later crop.
We do not Ike the idea of growing two
crops of potatoes on the same land for
two years in succession, but there are
many other crops which would follow
well after the rye was plowed In, and
nearly all crops can be taken off in time
to sow rye after them, which will be
large enough to plow under In the
spring. But do not trust to the rye
alone as a fertilizer, but use it as an
addition to the other fertilizer applied.
Going Back to the Farms.
While the census shows that the cities
have increased in population more rap
idly than the smaller towns between
1890 and 1900, this increase is not gen
erally so great a percentage above that
of the towns as was shown by the cen
sus of 1890 for the ten years previous
to that date. This is more particularly
true in what are known as the agricul
tural States than in those where large
manufacturing industries have been
established in or near the cities. And
even in the latter case there seems to
be a tendency for many of the employes
to seek a residence in the suburbs or
some small town near by, where they
are retired from the noise and bustle of
the city, and where they can have room
to have fruit trees, garden and poultry
yard to occupy leisure hours, or such
days as they are not employed. And
perhaps some credit may be given to
the character of the immigrants who
have come to us. They are more largely
from agricultural sections, and prefer
to go to the country where they will be
classed as skilled laborers, than to join
the unskilled laborers of the city en
gaged ha the hardest kinds of manual
labor.
Beet Sugar and Bounty.
It has lately been decided that a State
has not a constitutional right to pay a
bounty to beet sugar growers or to the
factories for manufacturing the sugar.
Yet this is the way it is done In Euro
pean countries, either by paying boun
ties or by taxing the use of sugar at
home, and remitting the tax on that
exported, so that their own citizens can
not obtain It at home as cheaply as the
citizens of other countries. By this
policy Austria-Hungary produced in the
year ending July, 1899, 1,041,700 tons of
raw sugar from beets, and in the year
ending July, 1900, 1,100,000 tons, the
largest product they have ever known.
Germany also Increased her product for
the nine months from August, 1898, to
April, 1899, inclusive, from 1,495,804
metric tons to 1,554,492 metric tons for
the same months in 1899 and 1900.
Adapt the Crop to the Soil.
Alva Ager writes to the National
Stockman that last year he regretted
not having plowed up one acre of wheat
and planted it to potatoes. The soil
was too rich for the wheat, which
lodged before heads filled, and de
stroyed the clover seeded with it His
reason for not doing so was that he did
want to cut off one acre for a different
crop from the rest of the field. Result,
no returns for the labor done or seed
sown. Last fall he sowed It to rye, and
last spring planted it to potatoes,
adding $3 worth of acid phosphate, and
this fall he harvested over 200 bushels
of merchantable potatoes or $80 worth
as they sell there, besides the unmer
chantable ones. He thinks rock and
rye a good combination for his soil,
meaning the South Carolina phosphate
rock.
Weeds in the' Pasture.
A weed is as much "a plant out of Its
proper place" in the pasture as else
where, and where the pasture is de
voted to dairy stock it may be doing
more damage there than it would in
mowing or cultivated field. It takes up
food .and moisture that are needed for
the useful plants, and It sometimes Is
of such a character as to be poisonous
to the animal, and often weeds Impart
unpleasant odors and flavors to the
milk and Its products. If the pastures
could.be cleared of weeds and bushes
and their place given to better grass,
not only would they produce enough for
many more animals, but the milk prod
ucts would be of more uniform good
quality. If the whole pasture cannot' ' -be
cleaned in one season, clear a little,
each year.
Filled Cheese.
Here is what filled cheese has done
for this country since 1880: In that
year the United States exported 127,
000,000 pounds. It was that year that
our chief customer, Great Britain,
"smelled the rodent." The next year
the exports fell to 95,000,000 pounds
and has gradually decreased until in
1890 we exported but 38,000.000, of
which Great Britain took only 24,000,
000 pounds. Honesty is the best policy
in cheese making. Canada and Den
mark are now supplying the trade that
once was ours.
When Soiling Pays.
Nearly every dairyman has experi
enced the shrinkage that comes in mid
summer, when the pastures dry up and
grass Is scarce. It Is at this time that
soiling will pay and pay liberally. In
what better way can a person realize
from $23 to $25 per acre for his green
corn or green alfalfa? When the cows
look over the fence with longing eyes
at the corn, the efforts usually spent
In keeping the cows out of the corn
had better be spent In throwing the
corn over to the cows, says a Kansas
farmer.