The Sully County watchman., July 07, 1883, Image 3

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ALIUK I'l K U. nKI'AIITMKNT.
JUNE IS the month for weeds as well
roees, and the proper time to kill
them is before they appear.
SOD lard plowed now and planted
with turnips will be excellent for corn
next year, as the .d will be welt rot
ted.
THK purest butter ever made may be
come tainted and poisoned mono short
hour by objectionable surroundings.
IT is said that a well-kept tl c,k of
poultry is the moat profitable thing
about the farm, not excepting the milch
oow.
Mix charcoal with the food when
fattening turkeys. The charcoal cor
rects Hcidity of the Btomach and pre
vents ^digestion.
SOAP?I. DS may be used for nearly
everything in the kitchen garden. It
iialso good for n lawn, and it may be
employed along with hny manure.
IK the cows leak their milk when
coming home from the pasture at night,
it will probably pay to milk them three
time* a day while the pasture hold*
good.
THK cauhfliwer is a most delicious
vegatable, and should be grown more
geuerilly. It needs a very rich noil
the treatment in the main should re
sembled that given the cabbage.
PLOW or spade uy the poultry yard
once a month through the cummer.
It gives the fiwh fresh earth in which
to dust themselves, te say nothing of
the worms and gravel so necessary to
them.
IT is essential to success with Paris
green for potato bugs or other pests
that it be pure. Much that is offered
at reduced rates is adulterated and dear
at any price, as it can not be depended
upon.
FIFTY yearn ago it was accounted
very wasteful to put manure any
where but iu the bottom of the furrow,
or under a thick covering of soil, to
make compoA for meadows. Now,
practical men and sciential agree in
commending nature's own way of mak
ing laud rich solely by surface dress
ings.
IT is said that "a species of wild po
tato has b(jen discovered on the taole
lands of South western Arz«ma, In alti
tudes of 8,000 to 12 000 feet. It is
spoken of an bupeiior
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ta.-te and tl «vor
to the best cultivated potatoes. Ex
periments in tlie cultivation of the^)lant
lie being made in the State Agncnl
tural School of California."
Frnit Notes.
Prof. G. H. Frerch writes to theCar
bondale, III. Free Prmn in reference to
anew s'rawberry instct:
Mr. C. H. Allen, living near here
asked wie a few days ago what it was
that was eating his strawberries and
what he should do firlt. Upon in
quiry I found that the insect was at
Myriapod, a species of Onilopod, relat
ed to tje Centipede of the Southern
Statfs. They did not eat the vines nor
3the green berries, to any appreciable
txtent at least, and were to be found ir
rip*.*!, MI/test.fruit. the
hole interior being eaten out. i found
orther that they were in a patch that
ad been set several years and iu
:hat ouly. I think I have seen the
same insect iu my celery every winter
when it is banked up for bleaching
and to be kept through the winter. 1
is a slender, brown worm, many joint
ed, a single pair of feet to each joint,
and and two or three inches long. My
impression is that this species usually
feed* on soft or partially decayed veget
able tissues and its attracted to the
strawberry because of its soft condition.
The mulching of strawberries for the
winter, or even the leaves and weeds in
the same place for several winters
would he conducive to their develop
ment.
It seems to me the only remedies
necessary are more frequent or closer
picking so that Mie fruit docs get over
ride, and not planting strawberries on
the same ground again till some other
crop has been raised that will leave the
ground bare during the winter.
The Farmer ami Fruit (.-rower says:
"Contrary to Frot. French's experience
we found the insect in a new patch and
none in the old ones, though it might
have been there also. This insect will
not caueo auy uneasiness with the
berry growers, as but few berries are
infested with them, and those berries
are the large ripe ones, which the pick
ers are sure to eat, wornr.a included.
If the pickere do not complain there
need be no alarm felt. 2tit this tci
force to the ai'gtment Hgainst f-»l!
mulching and in favor of trowirg the
paten and bumirg after tho crop is eff,
as is done by urcwt-rfc cf us, ar.d
then mulchit in April.
Colmsp'p Xr.ral World *ajs (hat the
Sharpies* tuincirii hfie fcCCC 3SSHJ
new ad mi ere C»K tetcu c. tte Ht.
Louis markt-t. Ice Wccarci, a for
mer favorite, is steadily declining in
the estimation of producers urd coc
sumers, too, in this section. IhpCres
cent has made a pot sLowir.g hi the
berry market, lacking BO much it: beep
ing qualities, whiie the Chas. Downing
h«ts enlarged its list of friende. The
general shipping trade, now the moat
important to receiver*, will risk in fill
ing orders very little outside of the
Wilson, which they still regard the
ft
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reat berry for commercial purposes,
will be ibfEcult to displace it.
In the same paper Rufus W. Smith,
of New Jersey, says: "With u\ in New
Jersey, the Wilson is a string grower,
and more certain *o yield than any
other variety a large msrkefaUle crop
of farm berries. I have had several
growers tel! ~~ie this. lhi-i season, and
Hicst erf these mou liavu from 12 to
different varieties fruiting this season.
They also have stated they see no
signs of its running out. Mr. Henry
Campbell, of eehold, N. J., received
premium of $30 la»t season from the
New Jersey Suvtei Agricultural Society
for the best acre* of ktrawberries, he
having raised 8.704 quarts of Wilson
strawberries, which sold for upwards of
*870.
Oi the other varretieslwe are ceitain
to hear that they are **u\o soft," "have
green tips," "leaf bligHts," "sets too
much fruit," "i:«ed hig'i ulture,' ad
infinitum while uo high Ir commeuda
1MB can be gim (bauel variety thu
to cnmpajWit in firnmew, i!• r. v \,to
the Wili-uiM In fact the Wilson has
more gooR qualities to remmend it
than any other well-known strawberry,
and I am not surprised to find the
growers it convention making this tact
known, afAl I think t'• at any horticul
tural society which rnn by fruit
growers, and not by men who have
plants of new varieties to sell, would
testify to the same. The Wilson has
come to stay at least it will be the
leading one for years to come. The
only new variety which shows any signs
o! becoming a competitor for public
favor is the J.m. Vick, and its merits
f.re yet to be proved. The Manchester
will have hard work to convince grow
ers that it ojght to supercede the Cres
cent. and it will never fiil the place
now occupied by the Wilson. I thi..k
no pi.iiilate variety w 11 this.
(jeranitims in the Window.
Dr. George Thurber in American
Agriculturist: It is very rare to se- a
well-grown geranium in window cul
ture. Eveu if the plant* bloom fairly,
they are often drawn up, misshappen
things, not pleasing to look upon. In
the majority of cases plants that have
been set out in the garden for the sum
mer are a'lowed to "go its you please."
The roots finding an abundance of rich
soil, the tops ^row off at a famous rate.
At the approach of cool weather the
plants are taken up as they stood. If
any e ltting is doue, it is done at the
root*, to bring thorn within the limits
of the pot, and the plants are placed
in the window. As a consequence of
such treatment, the majority of th*
leaves fade and fall, and show a lot of
long, iauky stems, with a small tuft of
leaves at the top. This condition of
the plants is due eith* to a lack of
knowledge or to timidity. Amateur
cultivators as a gener.vl thing, seem to
fesr to use the knife could the plants
antler pain they would not be more re
luctant to cut. The proper method is,
to prepare the plant fur taking in long
before the time for lifting them but it
is too lato to advise that, as it is to sug
gest pruning them at the time of tuk
irg them up. Even at this late day it
is better to cut back the geraniums to
a good shape than to let them remain
us they are. Of course, each pl int
will have its own needs in this respect,
and only general advice can be given.
Cut back tho long stems in such a
manner that the plant will form a low,
rounded head, ai.d remove altogether
sucn branches as will make the head
too much crowded.
Improvement nl Ha ry L'att.
Feeuing C-'Uits before breeding iu the
improvement of animals. Breeding
cannot improve a race any further than
the race has already progressed. It may
serve to lix every step made in a course
of improvement, and thrit is all. It is
by a course of feeding and training that
every raee of cattle has been prepared
for breeding. This tact opens all the
possibilities of improvement :o every
owner of a herd o? cows for he may
begin a course of improvement with it,
liist by feeding, and then by selection
and breeding. No dairyman need wait
for another to begin, nor think it nec
essary to pay large to a more enterpris
ing man t«» do tius work for him. We
do nui auo?r -,s» ^et the nirmatf j.ov-i
bility of a ds.iry cow. Jast as, vear*
ago. tbe i-heep men began with 4 or 5
lb. !ljeces. j»nd have fed and bred no
to 1- or 20 ib. and sometimea reach 35
lb. weight of fleece, and have increas
ed the careaas trom «i) to SOILs. up to
liiO or ISO lb., and e\en more, and a
the Jersey breeders en the island—for
ew ow it to tbem and cannot claim it
ourselves.
—Butter at lfi cents means milk at
1} cents a quart. At this price it would
pay to feed to pigg to make oork *or 22
lb. of new milk will make 2i pounds of
pork. But whv should not, dairymen
take a hint from other Industrie*? When
the markets are glutted with strawber
ries or peaches, whole carloads are
thrown into the river-* and tue remain
der then bring more than the whole
'would have done. Why should not
dairymen feed one half the milk to pigs
and poultry, and so bring up the price
of butter to !0 cents aud cheese to 12A
Every other interest besides agriculture
regulates the market v-iluo of its pio
duct by regulating the quantity of the
product, but farmers and dairymen
Uke what fortune sends, and tiiis is too
often a very meagvr recompense for
their labor.
—Col. Clough has little faith in Jerseys
for practical agriculture. Tney are rot
fit for oxen," he says, "anil when taken
to be slaughtered it puzzles the natives
to know how to make them lie on their
backs to be skinned." This we tiud iu
the New York Tribune. If the gallant
colonel was never nearer right in war
than he is in the peaceful art of agricul
ture, his record would lie but light.
What is practical agricuhurt? Rearing
beef or work oxet.? The dairy is of far
greater importance than grazing and
the Jersey is easily the Urnt lor the dairy
But we fancy the colonel never saw a
Jersey steer. Steers are not made of
loOO or $10,000 bull calves. But if he
tiad ever seen a Jersey steer, he might
have seen an active, fair sized ox and a
very respectable oarcass of beef.—THK
DA IKY.
Professor Alexander Agassiz is by no
meens an idler by the sea. He has been
hard at work for several weeks in his
laboratory on C.istle Hill, near Newport.
The interior of the laboratory contains
uiuks and aquariums, which are suppli
ed with salt water by a small steam
pump, and is furnished with work
tables, which are covered with black
and white tiles. The locality for the
laboratory ia all that can be desired f»J
the study of marine fauna. To avoid
jarring tho stands u?ed for microscopic
t4udy are arranged up MI a disconnect
ed floor, supported by brick pierd and
arches. A small steam launch is pro
vide^ for dredging.
Dr. J. S. Ford, of Hagerstown, Ud.
lived ty common| lace life, but wheu he
died ins neighbors .Hini that there had
been a streak of ecctintricUT in
character. In his will he lef' $20,0110 to
hi* wife and from $200 to $500 each to
aH the women now maids or widow.
whom he courted in .his youth. This
romantic remembrance qnired au
outlajf of $5(HX). Two weeks n«fore his
death he chartered aud paid for a
special train for the tue of t'ae funeral
parly.
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-A. I.
MITTA WHUFF"* |,H K RO.H.INCE
KlkeWii Ka(«|e4t* aVnac Phll«
«lelpblan or 4oot (-'aally Who MM
bled Awnj Si:t.O(M»«ril. Money.
Chicago
Hera
lit.
It has been a fact to most of the
friends of Miss Litti C-tbtree that dur
ing the pits', two year* her spirits have
been steadily declining. She plays
with her usual vivaci'y apon the stage,
but she has been sorrowful, almost
morose, of it for a long time. A. prom
inent rnanaqer ssid yesterday: "About
ten years ugo )tta fell head over ears
in love with a young Fhilsdelpbian of
excellent family. He loved with equal
passion. His parents, however, tlis
dained the little actress, partly on ac
count of her prefession, partly on ac
count of tiie disreputable old man Crab
tree, who called himself her father.
But they were elcvotenl to each other.
The wed-'ing-day was appointed. Sne
reflosed n him the fullest confidence,
but one night lie disappeared with $1.'5
bOO of her money. Search *as made,
and it ws* found be hael loH it in a
gambling-den. It was a cruel blow to
poor »tta. His parents reimbursed
the little girl, but it wasn't the money
she wanted. Njbody could give her
back her faith in mankind. By and by
the 1'hiladelphian died suddenly. 1
have heard he c.i!led for her farewell
kiss of tta oa his deathbed, but she
never knew it. Whenever she goe* to
Philadelphia she spends one day in vis
iting his grave heavily vailed, covering
the grave with flowers and sobbing to
herself until the sky darkens, and she
goes back to the theater. Tnat's the
story of Lotta's unhappiness, and you
will agree it's sad, njt to say roman
tic."
A. Pansy Man Who Was Not Fmtuy.
Floston bulletin.
"Is the man who gets up the fnnny
column here?" atsked a smirking little
chap as he poked a bulbous little nose
into tbe room
"Oh, yes," said a bald-headed man
with a disordered necktie, gr'tiled
beard and lace like that of an under
taker at an expensive funeral. "Walk
right in aud he caught the little man
viciously by the collar.'
"Want to Fee the 'funny man,' don't
yen?" and he butted the lit le fellow's
head through a seventy-five cent look
ing-glass.
"Like to look at the comic, wouldn't
you?" and he tore the intruder's coat
down the back and took a fresh grip
on the *hirt.
"Comedown from the country to see
the 'old clown,' havn't you? Liko to see
him stick his head through a-paper
balloou, say 'Hey, diddle diddle, the
fool's in the middle,'aud get cut around
the legs by the ring-ma-ter, suppose,"
and a No. 12 hoot collided with the
seat of the little wretch's trousers with
a shock like that of a dynamite Iximb.
"Th^ 'buffoon' ain't in tie is training
a new lekas*. Come right, in. Child
ren half price. Just going to begin,
Sit down ami he tnimcd the terrified
little visitors into a keg of printer's
ink.
'The 'queen's enter' will be along
pretty coon. Vv'an for the greatshew!
he yelled, as the little man madly tried
to e-sc ipe through two closet doors, and
finally rolled down stairs accompanied
by the water cooler, t#o inu iugs and
the paste pot.
"Want one more paragraph, Mr.
Graves," said a voice through the speak
ing tube, and the solemn man wound
a wet towlaround his head, sat down at
the desk and wearily wrote:
"Is a man getting up stares when ho
buys an eye-gla-s?"
THK Paper and Printing Trade Jour
nal c-ills attention to a source of danger
regarding which farmers should be IU
formed:
A worn of caution is necessary about
the ink pencils which have co-tie so
much into vogue lately. A most use
ful implement to the business man,
this innocent looking pencil can be
e-asily converteel into a treacherous
friend, and on no ecctwio:i should be
used to write signatures. The compo
sition eif the peucd is a peculiar com
bination, highly poisonous in itself—
aud iierein lies tho danger to signature
writers—competent to give otl two or
more ini| resi.ms on damped paper—
not tissue p.!per, be it understood, but
ordinary writing paper. Attention wa.s
first directed to the peculiarity by
official of the Bank of New Z aland,
anil experiments proved the easy prac
ticability of making a clear copy of the
filling in a check with this ink pencil
First, tne writsng of the ?heok is tran?
feired, upside down, of course, to a
flip of damped paper, and from that
transferred, right side up, to another
slip of paper. We tested this recently
in the case of a check written with the
ink pencil, and sent in from the coun
try, ami by simple baud pressure ob
taiued a very correct copy of the doc
ument.
It will be seen that the ink pencil in
very common use may at any time
lead to serious trouble. Toe hint to
business men will be enough, but there
may he farmers who must have practi
cal lessons bofore they will heed ftie
warning.
Pret deut Madlsou's Home.
Tho historic, home of Presideut Madi
son, Moiitpelier, Va., which was pur
chasvd two or three yetrs ago by I^-iuis.
F. Dot rick, of Baltimore aud W. L.
Bradly, of Boston, has been put u ex
cellent condition. A correspondent of
the Baltimore Suu, who lately visited
the estate, which contaius 1,065 acres,
writes about it as follows: "The old
mansion, one of the liuest in the'sonth,
is 1G0 feet long, with an average width
of forth five feet. It i* tw) stories
alave a bueiucat, which is entirely
abovu ground, aud is in an exertional
state of preservation for such aw old
budding, flurmg the past four months
a large forci i Baltimore artisans and
mechaairo have been engaged in fts
restoration. The prime object was to
retahi every line of the old colonial
st) 'u originally useel in it#construction.
The laad has been brought to a high
state of cultivation, and a large num
ber of acres art* uow n wheat, corn,
griss, etc. 'l aere are many points of
interest on tilt p!*c«-~UM old gr***
yarl, inclosed by a brick wall, wnere
Malison aud numerous of bi ancestors
rest the old mill, the him and cabins,
toe garden, containing about four a^res,
desgneei to represent the floor and gal
l»*riw of the old House of Representa
tive, and which pronounced a face
eim je, and also numerous other attrac
tions of great interest to visitors."
Modern Dairy Farm inf.
B^dern dairy farming, says the Hon.
Hirimrimith of Wise »nisn, starts out
wit!\ keeping ene cow on four acres,
and thi» should be the pa«s-word tc
every diiry lodge—"one cow to four
acres anil this should ba rapidly re
diiced until the undoubted possibility
is reac^eel of keeping one to every ..ere.
One of 'he principles of modern dairy
farming is to have our ceiwts give the
mo^t milk when dairy goods are at tiie
billies' price, which is invariably in
winter. It has been repeatedly de
monstrated lhat a good herd of cows
comii into milk in 8*p'embe/, Oct
her mid November will, in the average
give from 4 ~AR) to0,1X10 pounds of milk
annually. Tuis mt.k is worth, to sell
at a factory, or to manufacture into
butter or cheese, $1.!J0 per 100 pound*,
or S 60 as the average for each cow.
In otuer words, dairy farming with one
cow to eight acres on 100 produces $1,
100 .nuderu dairy farming, with one
cow to four acres, producet $2 tkiO, an
increase u $W
¥)•, by an emtiav for
feed and help, a net profit of $040, a
sum sufficient to
rai»e
MUS
the price of land
from $od per acre to $100 per acre. A
fundamental condition of successful
farming is large crops of corn, not le=s
than two ae res of fodder and four acres
of fi-dd cjrn for every ten cows, or a
total o." twenty-four acres for forty
(XJWS. All the manure of the farm
should be even'y placed on the&e tweu
ty-four acres during the winter, and the
land plowed previous to the 10.h of
May aud thoroughly harrowed, the
corn planted immediately thereafter
with a norse drill, the w« three and
one-ha feet apart, and the kernel
from seven to nine inches apart, aud
cultivated well before the corn ewmes
up with a fine tooth harrow. Fre
quently cultivate until the 10.h of July,
at which time, if the work has been
honestly done, it will be free from
weeels with never a hoe in the field,
and it is almost certain to produce fifty
bushels per acre i shelled corn and
thirty
of fodder, it takes less la­
bor to raise twenty-four acres of corn
a* described altove, than to raise nal
that amount planted iu hills and the
cultivatiou deferred until you can i-ee
the rows.
The Ham W titer of 1779-1780
Magazine of American liiftory.
The winter of 177'J SO was ene of the
most cheerless and severely cold ever
known in New York latitude. The snow
began te fall about the 10.h ot Novem
ber, ai.d continued to fall, attended by
piercing .vinds, nearly every day till
the middle of the ensuing March. In
the woods the snow lay a', least four
feet upon a level, and it was with the
utmest difficulty that tree* wtre extri
cated fr firewood after being felled.
The digress occasioned by the scarcity
of fin I waa terrible. Poor people burneel
fat to oook their ideals, gardens and
fields were shorn of their ornamental
and fruit trees for firewoix1—aople trees,
plum trees, cherry trees and pear trees
were ruthlessly chopped down on every
land. Tne situation seemed to justify
the pro eeding, and owners mude no
complaints. The beautiful shade trees
in Wall street, someo£ them a century
old, were sacrificed, felled indiscrimina
tely, and consumed in tbe Wall street
kitchens. Provisions became so costly
as to ~xhau*t the purses of tiie rich.
Fifty dollars would hardly feed a family
two days. The B.itioh Generals implor
ed the farmers of Island and
vicinity to bring the** produce into the
city, but they paid little heed to Ihe
prayer. The Hud-on was Irezm so
sidid that an nrmy with tho heaviest
artillery could have cr« gsed it on the
ice. (Xieof the writers of day tells
us that the whole river from New York
Bay to Albany was "mere terra firms."
Aud the ice was equally thick aud s'roi
in the East river. The round of New
Haven was frezsnaenss "the whele
thirty miles to the I/Mg Isiand shore,
with the exception of about two miles
iu tii(! middle." No man living had ever
before seen New York Bay frozen i.ver
from the city to Staten Inland but now
more than 200 heavily laden two-horse
sleighs crossed on the ice iu a bod^ at
one time, escorted by '200 horsemen.
The British men of war in the harbor
were hopelessly ice-b.iuad aad could
not move,
The Consolidation of Revenue Districts.
PKS-SUKE TOO UK EAT AND THE PRESIDENT
VIEI.OS.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-—The presi
dent to-day made several modifications
iu the receut executive order relating
to the consolidation of internal revenue
districts. In the original order the dis
tricts of Montana, Idaho aud Utah were
consolidated, aud J. Hollister, collector
of thef present Utah district, designated
as collector. This was- changed by the
designation of Thos. P. Fuller, collec
tor of the pre-ent Montana district, as
the collector of the new dis
trict, vice J. Hollister, dropped,
change was matte because o! the
greater collections in Montana elistrict.
TI«J i lost important change, however,
was in Kentucky, resulting iu the re
tention of one more district i:i that
state than wa« allowed iu the original
order, Under the new order, things
ai present in ti.h district will be re
tained with Jkio. W. Finn&ll, collector,
with headquarters probably
the
present
to
at
Covington. All the counties
iu the present ^th district
ivfr added to the 8 district, and all
of
7th di.-trict not added to
the 8th district by the original order
reorganiahig the. district will constitute
a new district,
be known as the 7ih
district. A. M. ijwape, collector of the
present 7 district, has been designat
ed collector of '.he new 7th district.
He will probably locate his office in
LexiDgton.
FEMAf.E MI STACHK WEARERS.
Torture* Home l'noll*li Women are
\S illlnic to I rnl-rio ti«at They .11
ay
l.ook I'wtljr.
While a mustsche may be a /ery val
uable acquisition to a gentleman with
an exaggerated mouth er »n imperfect
se' of teeth, it is the bine of womeus
existence. It frequently iuppecs that
brunettes are annoyed by having the
beauty of their faces n arred with a
faint mustache that needs but a frac
tion of encouragement in order to as
«ume proportions that would make a
callow youth fairly writhe with jealousy.
What to be done with this superflu
ous growth of hair is a grievous ques
tion, particularly if the lady is youny.
When a woman gets a husband she
gets wisdom in the bargain, wears big
shoes, loose glove s and makes no study
of the glass unit ss it be to see if her
face needs wishing. Home young
women attempt to conquer tbe annoy
snce by the use of a pair of acusors,
and the result is they find the evil
greater than ever.
"Individually, women are .Mich little
fools," saiei a down iwn doctor yester
day. "You would scarcely believe the
craxy thingi I am consulted about
every week. For instance, a lady de
sirous of having her picture taken wan
ted to wear a low-necked dress, but the
artist remonstrated because her collar
bone was tco prominent. Sae post
poned the engagement and c»me to see
me.
"I'll uive you any money if you'll lix
me." Here she pulled her dress open
and began to show me her poor, scraw
ny, bdby neck, t':at it were merciful to
keep from vulgar eves. I 'olel her
there was nothing she could do but diet
herself and get 1st. But mat would'nt
d-j she wanted me 'to hammer the
bones in to ne way or blow the skiu
out.' I told her that I was not equal to
any such tricks and she left saying:
Well, I'll have to see some quack, for
I am determined to have the thing
done.'
"The next glorious specimen of wom
anhood brought her pretty little daugh
ter, a child of four years, and wanted
to know if I couldn't do something to
keep her no-e down. *1 have bee:i rub
bing it down sinc« birth but it's no use
and unless something is done, and done
soon she will giow up sDub.noied sure
as preachin.'
"The next interesting conversation
was had with a fresh young lady of
fair compl-xion with brown hair and
a very preemptible little mmtache.
Thisbhe wanted removed as *he was to
attend a wedding in Indianapolis. S le
said she didu'i mmd it in the daytime,
because she always mxnaged to wear a
veil, but in full dress it waa too awfully
provoking. I told her that her imag
nation did a great deal to msgnify the
trouble, aud it she just let it alone it
would not bother her much. No, she
was not to be pacified in that style. I
couiii remove it of course, but if she
found her lip in a month or so covered
with a luxurious little mustache I
would repudiate all blame.
"8he did not expect this. She was
sure 1 war. mistaken, do 1 told her I
would experiment on her arm. She
took her dre.-s of! because she couldn't
roli her sleeve uu, and 1
selected a s^ot
juft above the elbow where I would re
move tbe hair. 'But if I should ever
wear short sleeves, aud a big tuft of hair
grew out—what then?' she inquired,
with, arch innocence.
"Then t/y the operation on your
leg."
"Another spot was selected above the
knee I deemed it excusable to play a
joke on her aud teach her a lesson. So
1 lathered up about two square inches
of her leir, got ashsrpraz -r and shaved
the section as bare as this knife handle.
I know she will watch the effect an find
it mere than she bargains for. Before
going I told her that if she 'ried the
same operation ou her lip she would
ie able to negotiate for a position with
B-trnum.
"Rub your Hpo well, apply biy-rum
or any strong perfumery, and you will
be able to lessen the growth. I showed
her how friction pi evented any accum
ulation of down on the fingers, and if
she has not already rubbed the skin cfi
of her upp-r lip it is bec.iu»e she has
been distrajted by the fertility of iier
shaven understanding."
Uusiuees Failures.
NFCW YORK, June 29.—Approximate
figures of the business failures over the
entire country for the half year ending
so-day, computed by Dun .Jfc Co., indi
cate a marked increase in the number
aud extent of liabilities as compared
/ith the corresponding two previous
years. For the first six months in 1S81
the failures were- 80'J for the firs' six
monshs in 1882, 3,597 first half 1883,
4 037. Liabilities show a greater in
crease. In 1851 the liabilities for the
first sdr months were $40 000 000 in
1SS2. $50 000 000 first six months of
18K» $00,000,000. The increase in
Mainlines for the last half year is attrib
utable largely to speculative failures
in the west but even deduc'.iug the in
debtedness springing from this cause
the increase in failures and liabilities
is very marked, it is noticeable, how
ever, that during the second quarter of
the year the mercautile disasters were
much lees than in the first quarter in
which tho bulk of increase occurs, so
that it is possible the worst part of the
year has bet n got over. Ii-poits as to
the busme-'L' outlock from 97 trade cen
ters indicate a me*t hopeful feeling as
to the future.
Grime.
W NEW YOBK.
KEW YOKK, June 20.—Jas. Ward,
who was shot 'ay Jas. English, last
night, made au anU-mortem statement
to-dav, in effect that he went with
Euglish into McFlory's saloon, though
he was an entire stranger to him.
While there £ngii«h began examining
revolvers and aid: "I have never
tri«d this pop I'll try it on you," and
fired the battel Ward's abdomen.
MIMUTH Hon It
^0?
A KENTUCKY ROMANCE.
The Lovr
it
Two Hroth'-.-N ud Twt
KfHnlttd.
Falmouth Independent.
In a certain part of our country there
livee a family, in which there are two
brothers just entering upon ihe prime
of youthful manhood. A short distance
from them—in fact, in the same neigh
borhood—there lives another family in
which there are two sisters also in the
prime of womanhoeai, beautiful, fas
cinating aud attractive. These young
people being near neighbors, aud com
ing in contact with each other ofteo.
aimost naturally, it would seem, fell in
love with each other, the eld^r brother
with one of the sisters and the younger
with the other. All went smoothly for
a time, and these young people enjoyed
themselves aud dreameel bright dreams
of the future, and no doubt in imagina
tion constructed fairly palaces of love,
and gardens like Paradise which
should he only filled with beautiful fljW
ers and fruits of happiness and unalloy
ed eijoyment.
Then, as a matter of course, the ques
tion of marrying arose, which must be
referred to the parents of the young
ladies for approval. The eldest brother
had no difficulty in obtaining their con
sent to his marrying the young iady,
and the wedding-dav was fixed upon.
Then the young brother v.cntlolhe
parents and made known his attach
ment for the other sister and their mut
ual desire to "splice and travel the road
of life together." But the old folks
were decidedly oppi sed to having more
than one of their girls marry into "that
family," and plainly informed him
that if he wanted a wife ho must go
elsewhere to get her, intimating hat
he should desist paying further atten
tion to the young lady in question. Bat
the young man wa^ determined ihv. if
his brother married one of the girl-* he
would marry the other. So he went,to
tbe young "lady of liis love," aud told
er the circumstances of the siluatiou,
and desiied her, if she loved him, to
prove her love by running ottwith him.
To this she aereed, and the night was
fixeu upon when tlu-y should carry oat
the mutual agreement.
But now comes the strangest part of
the story. The two younn lad'ies re
sembled each other very much in looks,
vcice, Ac., and by some strange freak
when the night of elopement came #nii
the yourg man went to the appointed
placs «f meeting, he found a wozaau
there whom he
thought wa
and'hus
'J
the right
one* but she wai not. UccoDciouo of
this, however, he took her to the place
where the marriage ceremony wy to
be perform eel before he found out that
he was with the wrong girl. MOM won
derful to relate, he thoaght that after
he wao gene to all this trouble be would
fijet married any sway, he »tk^d her
if she would have htm, and he, in or
der to carry out the ke, said she
would, aud they were married theu
and there. It appears that she had
overheard him making arrangements
to elope with he: sister, and, knowing
the place of meeting, determined to go
there ahead c* her
fool tue
young man, for w.vom she entertained a
secret likeing, although
w*8
eti to be married to his brother. ^ur
informant also i-tattg tha* £flt 'e?L
had lived together for some' i,®etficr
elder breather, determining to iit*ke_iho
most of the situation, took am
pelf the other si*u-r.
The Human Face.
In rmtWuts do men and brutes di fie
more than in their faces. The difference
i independe -tof culture, and based on
a difference of original design and plan.
Man's face alone was meant to answer
to every kind and shade of emotion, to
be an index cf the he^rt.
Take simply too pewer to smile—the
first smile of tbe babe, the maiden's
i-mile of love, the mother's smile of ap
proval or fondness, tbe cherry smile
of friendship, the breezy gooei-morning
smile, and the last smile that often lights
up the dying face of the good man, a*
if he already caught gleams of the life
to come—this lifts man away from the
brute almost as far as does the power of
speech.
To accomplish tuis, the facc is furn
ished with more distinct muscles and a
larger supply of nerves thau any other
part of the body.
One result is, that play ot expression
which gives the livirg face an interest
aud a beauty so far beyond all that the
sculptor can attain. Another is that the
face of the -peaker often anticipates
his words, anci always helps to interpret
aud enforce them,
A third result is that the face often
betrays a secret which the person seeks
to conceal, or attests the falsehood of
his uttered word's. A fourth is—siuce
every muscle is strengthened and de
veloped by use and weakened by disuse
-that cue's real character comes, in
time, to stand out on his features.
The avaricious, the voluptuous, the
lustful, the haughty, tbe vain, the shal
low aud silly, the hard, the stingy, the
fretful, the bad-tempered, ^n be lead,
often, by a single glance, aud that, too,
beneath artificial expressions put on as
a cloak.
So, too, the genial, tho kind-hearted,
the downright honest, the thoroughly
pure, the truly brave, the refined, the
self-controlled, are "known and read of
all men." Tbe latter are not only as sun
shine iu our dark world, but they are
among our best help to goodness.
Another imp rtant fact iu the case is»
that not only do the inward feelings act
upon the facial muscles, but. through
that reflex nervous action, which is a
universal fact in physiology, the action,
of the facial muscles reacts upon the
inward feelings. This increase? thu in
ward feelings by giving them expression.
But by checking tho outward express
ion we %IjiQ check the feeliugs them
selves. .O
Further, aii^ne who will resolutely
change the facial repression from gloom
and moreseness to cheeriness and hope,
will alm*Jt inevitably tiud a correspond
ing inward change.—Youth's Compan
ion.
General H. V. Slocum has ta'.i the
unexpueel lease ot General Sherman'*
house in Washington, and Congressman
ads worth will make his Winter home
iu the one in the same row that was
formerly occupied by Mr. Blame.
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