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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
W. W. SANDKItS, Publisher.
NEMAHA, NEBRASKA.
THE CITY OF THE DEAD.
They do neither plight nor wod
In the city of tho dend,
In the city whero they sleep away the
hours;
Hut they He, while o'er them ranpo
Winter blight nnil summer change,
And a hundred huppy whisperings of
llowers. -No,
they norther wd nor plight,
And the day Is lllto tho night,
For their vision Is of other lclnd than ours.
They do neither sing nor sigh
In Unit burgh of by and by,
Whero tho streets have grasses growing
cool and long;
Hut they rest within their bed,
leaving all their thoughts unsaid,
Deeming sllenco bettor far than sob or
song.
Though the robin bo a-wlng,
Though the leaves of autumn march a mil
lion strong.
There Is only rest and peace
In tho City of Surcease
From tho fallings and the walllngs 'ncath
the sun,
And tho wings of the swift years
Beat but gently o'er tho biers,
Making music to tho sleepers every one.
There Is only peace and rest;
Uut to them It Beemeth best,
For they Ho at caso and know that Ilfo Is
done.
Richard Burton, In Atlanta Constitu
tion. AUNT MAJtTIIA'S MISTAKE.
IJY FltANK 11. WIU.CH.
N all things Aunt
Martha wns very
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exact and partic
ular but in the af
fairs of her wid
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li o u s e h o 1 d, of
which she was the
presiding spirit,
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she was particularly precise, and espe
cially in tho supervision otheculinury
department. Tho kind-hearted yet se
vere old soul Iccpt after Matilda, the
kitchen girl, with u relentless persist
ency and a hawk-eyed vigilance which
often made the poor girl sigh for relief
from her surveillance, for anything
that was done amiss had to bo careful
ly rehearsed under tho direct super
vision of her inspector-general. As a
result the culinary skill of Aunt Marthn
came to be known and bragged of
throughout her wide circle of friends
nd acquaintances; and when anybody
wanted to speak in praise of anybody
else's pics or puddings the invariable
verdict was: "Most as good as Aunt
Martha's."
One evening a small but select com
pany of Aunt Martha's friends was In
vited to take dinner with her, in celebra
tion of her brother's birthday anniver
sary, nnd she had given every detail
of the cooking thereof her personal at
tention. The soup, meat, etc., had nil
received her approval before being
placed before her guests, but when it
came to the dessert, that she insisted
upon preparing with her own hands.
She made one of her famous cabinet
puddings, ns a treat for the occasion,
and there was general rejoicing among
her guests over the prospect of insert
ing their teeth in the much-vaunted
dainty.
The pudding had been passed ere it
dawned upon AuntMartha that she had
aiot made any snuce for it. Such an
oversight would havo been almost in
excusable on the part of anyone else,
and the dear old soul was honest enough
to declare that the error was even worse
lor its commission by herself. She was
compelled to confess that in her haste
she had overlooked that important item,
but springing to her feet she exclaimed :
"Wait a moment! I'll make sauce in a
jiffy," and darting into the pantry she
'"I TUT MACHINK OH. IN TIIK SAUCE."
fkirmished around for hardly more than
n moment and reappeared with a look
of triumph in her eyes and a bowl of
translucent, pakitable-looking sauce
In her hands.
"There!" she said, as she proceeded
to help each dish generously. "1 guess
we will have sauce if AuntMartha is a
little forgetful. I don't see, for the life
of me, how 1 came to forget it; but Jaw!
I'm getting old and careless."
This candid acknowledgment brought
a sly Kinllu to the faces around the table,
and to thoroughly convince their good
hostess of their willingness to forgive
her they all started in on the pudding
with a vim that bespoke a previous
knowledge of its qualities.
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The first taste had a queer effect on
the whole company. Some dropped
their spoons and raised their napkins,
sonic pnused with perplexed faces, and
others made a brave effort to go on with
the pudding. Then Aunt Mnrtha her
self tasted, then she smellcd, then
glancing wildly about, she cried:
"Laud sakca! What is it? Do you find
anything wrong with the pudding?"
There was no concealing the fact that
they did, but no one had the courage to
make reply. Their looks were enough,
however, and without further inquiry
Aunt Martha made a bolt for tho pantry,
from whence a moment later came the
ngonlzingexclnmntion: "Forever more!
if I haven't gone and put machine oil in
the sauce instead of lemon extract!"
Tho variety and intensity of expres
sions on tho faces around that table
would havo furnished a funny car
toonist with inspiration sufficient to
Inst a month. Some tried to laugh and
make light of the affair, but they were
those who had eaten the last of the ma
chine oil sauce; some looked sorry and
sober and others looked positively ill,
Then camo a moan from tho pantry
which caused a general scramble in
that direction, nnd poor Aunt Marthn
was dragged forth with her face in hei
hands and her whole manner denoting
the deepest inentnl distress. She was
inconsolable and declared in the most
decided way that she would never be
able to look any of them in the face
again.
They went in the parlor and tooli
Aunt Mnrtha with them, and by all
sorts of schemes tried to divert hei
mind from the sauce question, bul
without avail. She would break out
every few moments with self-condemnatory
interjections nnd bitter lam
entations, nnd it was not until her com
pany was leaving, with the most hearty
and sincere assurances of their enjoy
ment of her hospitality, that she could
summon even tho faintest smile to her
terribly-elongated countenance. As
soon ns they were all gone she lost no
time in hunting up Matilda and giving
her a very warm and emphatic lecture
upon the reprehensible practice of leav-
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"ID VA8 YOUIt OW.V SKI.FS."
ing bottles around where they did not
belong. "My stars!" she cried, "sup
pose that machine oil had been poison'.'
'Twould been used just the same, and
here we'd had a lot of cold corpses on
our hands! It's just a mercy of Divine
Providence that it wasn't carbolic acid
or some such deadly stuff. My land!
but I'll never hear the last of it. It'll
travel from Jerusalem to Jericho, and
they'll be calling their machine oil
Aunt Martha's pudding sauce, see if
they don't!"
When she had finished her lecture, nnd
Martha had a chance, the long-suffering
servant sjiid, in her most correct nnd
vigorous English:
"Aund Marda, I didn't vas pud das
boddle in der bandry, neider! Id vag
your own selps. I dink you vas make a
llddlo on der knife sharper und you
didn't vas toog id oud yet."
Upon thinking the matter over care
fully, Aunt Martha found.Mutilda was
right, and she shouldered tho whole
blame, and was further humiliated by
having to make due acknowledgment to
the girl, who, in the deptli of her sense
of wronged innocence, wns saturating
her apron with tears. After fully aton
ing for her injustice Aunt Martha left
the kitchen to Matilda, with tho assur
ance that she would trust everything to
her in the future.
The soothing hand of time gradually
healed over the terrible wound to Aunt
Martha's self-esteem, but she never
forgot her awful mistake, and regarded
the slightest allusion to it with severe
ly silent disapproval. Chicago Satur
day Evening Herald.
Heroic llcurlni; of an Klepliant.
No animal will face danger more
readily, at man's bidding, than the
elephant. As an instance, take the fol
lowing incident, which recently oc
curred in India. A small female ele
phant was charged by a buffalo, in
high grass, and her rider, in the hurry
of the moment, and perhaps owing ta
the sudden stopping of the elephant,
tired an explosive shell from his rille,
not into tho buffalo, but into the ele
phant's shoulder. The wound wus so
severe that it had not healed a year
later. Vet the elephant stood firm,
although It was gored by the buffalo,
which was then killed by another gun.
What is even more strange is that tho
elephant was not "gun-shy after
ward. lfer Infant babe had from its moth
er caught the trick of grief, and sighed
among Its playthings. Wordsworth.
THE FARMING WORLD.
CHEAP FOOD MATERIAL.
Economy lit Alvuyn la Order on the
Average Stock I'urin.
(rent waste of fooil Is the rule on
the average stock farm. This in espe
cially true on tho general farm, where
but a moderate number of domestic
animals is the rule. The waste Is not
the quantity but In the quality of the
food given the live stock. Corn and
oats are often fed freely to the brood
mares and older horses when not at
work, and when they tiro in high ilcsli.
The samo practice is found in feeding
dry sows, ewes, sows, etc., when they
tiro loaded with llesh and fat. Discrim
ination is not made in feeding for
growth and for Iho proper mainte
nance of good condition. The food of
support is too largely augmented in
many cases.
It is not safe to overfeed the breed
ing stock.
There is always diir.ffcr in the effort
ko limit food of going to tho other ex
treme. This may bo avoided by the
substitution of the cheaper grades of
food. The ensilage furnishes a cheaper
quality but a very satisfactory food for
making gain, and also maintaining
condition and vigor of digestion. The
various roots, vegetables and fruits can
bo substituted as a part ration for all
of the stock not fattening to a finish.
The bulky provender, too, should bo
used freely instead of grain, as the
grain can be more ensily carried over
to next year when it may be much
more valuable. A wise use of economy
In feeding. Ordinary salt and wood
ashes, kept accessible to the stock, do
good service in maintaining good
heath, as well as in giving full effect
to the food given to the animals on tho
farm.
There is, occasionally, a false pride
about the condition of one's domestic,
animals. Tho horse for work or tho
young growing animal is better able
to maintain vigor or make tho best
growth, if in good ilcsh rather than
excessively fat.
Grazing can be provided on most fnrmn
during nine months of the year. Tho
rye, early oats and winter wheat tiro
till the better when grazed judiciously.
This reserves tho blue-grass for rainy,
ivindy days in winter, and enables lim
ited acres of regular pasture to do
greater service. Oats can be sown in
March, and will afford grazing to colts,
calves and lambs after May 1, and to
hogs after May 20. Prom March 1 to
September 1 is a, good time to save the
good corn undjonts, in view of crop
possibilities. Economy is always in
order. Western Ilurnl.
CHEAP FODDER CUTTER.
A Homemade Device Which Will Answer
livery Ordinary l'tirpone.
We farmers must economize. If we
can make a device that will answer
every purpose, we needn't buy one, and
thus save the money to pay $2,000 ofll
cial salaries nnd inflation railroad fares.
I made a cutting box, to cut corn fodder,
etc. It is shown in the cut, which ex
plains itself. Pour pieces of scantling
2x2, and 2S inches long, mnkc the x
frame or ends. Two boards 14 inches
wide and 4 feet long, placed ns shown,
make the box. This'makes a box a lit
tle higher than an ordinary man's knee.
Place a bundle of fodder in the box. put
your knee on it, and with hay knife
fodder cutteix.
shear off the ends sticking over the box.
Push the bundle along and repeat.
Cut up to the band, then turn the
bundle around end for end, and go
ahead again.
For horses, I cut 3 or 4 inches long,
nnd think it short enough. With a box
like this I cut fodder for six horses and
three cows last winter, feedingabushel
apiece at a feed. Jt took me about ilvo
minutes to cut enough for one feed.
Ohio Parmer.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
A lot of old-time shocpraisers who
sold out a year or two ago are buying
up again.
Jt is a good plan to get the poorest
land on tho farm in grass and cultivate
the more fertile land.
There is no need of run-down farms
where those in charge grow clover
liberally and rotate with good judg
ment. Experiments with saehallne and the
flat pea at the Swits station for three
years resulted in tho condemnation of
both.
If the oats are covered two or three
Inches deep the plants will bo safer
from a hard frost or a dry spell than if
too shallow.
Tho director of the Oklahoma exper
iment station says: Teoslnte, a giant
grass, somewhat like corn, makes a
large growth.. At tho experiment sta
tion as much as 25 tons per acre of green
fodder was secured from a small plat.
This crop is troublesome to handle, and
tho fact that it does not mature seed in
this climate is an objection,. Journal
of Agriculture.
HANDY POULTRY COOP.
Ono Thnt In Kindly .Moved from Ono rrt
of n 1'lelil to Another.
During winter poultry men should
find time to repair old chicken coops
and make new ones. With ordinary
care more vigorous pullets enn be raised
by scattering them about the fields in
small colonics after buying, ns insects,
then form n very cheap and Important
portion of their diet. When biddy
brings forth her brood, place her in ono
of the coops with the movable run in
position. This allows hei to get to tho
ground. After sho leaves her chicks
the run is removed, tho roosts placed
In position and the family moved to
any convenient spot. Pullets may bo
sheltered in such a house until cold
weather or until they begin to lay. Tho
coops will accommodate 25 chicks or
10 well-grown pullets. It is 4 by 3 feet,
nnd 2Vi feet high at the eaves. The run
is 4 by 3 feet. The run and roof nro
built with a pitch of DO degrees. Tho
6UMMKII rour.Tiiv C00l
sills are of 2 by 4 material, and extend
ed ns shown in tho cut to facilitate
moving. The plates are of 2 by 2-inch
material, and extended each way 1 foot
beyond tho eaves for handles. Tho
sides, roof and lloor are of Jointed pino
boards. The roof Is covered with ono
thickness of sheathing paper held In
place by cleats. If this Is jointed It
will make a waterproof roof that will
last a number of seasons. The first 15
inches below each gable should be of
half-inch wire netting for ventilation.
Each end is provided with a door 1 foot
wide, one hinged, tho other arranged
to slide. The roof should havo a 2-inch
projection nil around to throw rain.
The run is made by nailing laths 2,a
inches apart, upon n frnnio made of 2
by 2 scantling. Two men can easily
move this coop from one part of
field to another, giving the chicks new
feeding room. American Agricultur
ist. SCIENCE IN FARMING.
It Will 1'uy Only When Joined to IMuIn
Common Sense.
The following, from a book recently
published entitled "1)99 Queries With
Answers," emphnsizes our warning fre
quently given that while cultivating
sciueuce farmers must use judgment.
The intelligent practice of agriculture
is now guided by science, nnd in the fu
ture it will bo ruled by it. Unfortu
jnntely. but :i small proportion of agri
culturists will possess scientific intelli
gence, and, consequently, the practices
and errors of tho past will be continued
by tho great majority. There will bo
three classes of agriculturists tho alto
get her unscientific, the practical culti
vator with sonic scientific attainments
und the scientific theorist.without prac
tical experience or capacity for mak
ing things pay. The agricultural ex
perimental stations havo done more in
tho last 20 years to disseminate scien
tific knowledge of the action of fertili
zers, plant diseases and cures, In
jurious insects and methods of destroy
ing them, than any agency which ever
existed. Agriculture is becoming scien
tific, but it can never be entirely so, as
no method or system can be depended
upon to produce a fixed result, conse
quent upon the uncertain effect of me
teorological happenings. No art will call
to its aid to interpret it so many scien
tific branches as agriculture, but all
that will never make it a perfect science
on account of tho unfixed quantity of
heat and cold, rain or drought, tho
variations of which defeat, all calcula
tions. FATTENING LAMBS.
I'rof. ItobertH TellH Whut Ilxpeilenoe Hun
.Shown to lie u Oooil Hutlon,
For fattening lnmbs Prof. Jtoberts
gives the following ration in the Itural
iN'ew Yorker:
Cornmcnl should form, in connection
with the other foods mentioned, one
third of tho grain ration. Cornmcnl,
100 pounds; wheat bran, 100 pounds;
oil meal, 20 pounds; peas, 30 pounds;
oats, 50 pounds. Mix nnd feed from
one-half lo one pound per day per
lamb. This will do when shredded
cornstnlks are used, but when clover is
fed there should be a greater propor
tion of corn, and V-ss of oats and peas.
If one feed is of shredded corn and ono
of clover each day, then the corn should
not bo increased, and the oats and pea.
diminished as much as when clover is
fed exclusively.
Sheep do not relish wheat as well as
the other grains, either whole or
ground. Hotter feed the wheat to tho
chickens. The grain alone would
give a nutritive ratio of one to five and
five-tenths. Tho shredded corn fodder
would widen it possibly one to six or ono
to six and live-tenths. It would bo still
too narrow for fattening lambs in cold
quarters; if kept in warm quarters, it
would be wide enough. Py substitut
ing a little corn for a part of tho highly
nitrogenous food (peas and oil meal)
tho ration could be easily widened. A
few mangels or some other succulcut
food would improve the ration.
SWALLOWED THE SHAMROCKS.
'Johnny" l'oivur Itolibnd by Fellow
Aldermun.
"Yarra begarry, but thot wnz tit div
ll's own joke oi. Johnny Powers, so it
wnz."
"Phwat joke hov yo rlfercnco t, Sooll
vonV" "Oh, bo th' ghost of St. Columbklll,
but Johnny waz mad. Pull your chair
oor t' me an' give mo a drag uv tit
pipe an' Oi'll tell ye how it happened."
Lieut. Smith pulled u chair close lo
that of tho patrolman, and tho latter,
blowing a cloud of smoke townrd tho
celling, said:
"Phwat joke hov yo rlfercnco t Sooll
Oirlsh an' I belli' Olrlsh will appreciate
tho joke. You see, Johnnny recaived
a lino bunch nv shamrocks fruni th'
ould dart lasht Chcwsday, and t' frlsh
in thlm up a bit befure he'd disthributo
thint t' frinds at his saloon St. Path
rick's dny ho pir. thlm In a dish av
watlier, an' set th' dish on the back av
lb' bar. They hadn't been there long
phwln Aldhernian Jllindc keni In. Yo
know how famoolar wan aldhcrmnn hi
nnither nldheriuan'.s saloon?"
"To be sure Ol do. Don't they drink
up wan nnlther's llker widoutas much
nssayin thank yo?"
"Well, dhin, while Johnny wuz busy
talkln business, dyez moiud, t'a brace
of folue-lukln' sthreet railway min,
Phode wns sehnoopln' around to t' see
phwln ho waz cumin' in on th' play.
Dyez git on t' mo curves?"
"Troth Ol do, but cum f th' pint."
"llowld yer whist. Phode wnz not
long In shpoyin' th' shamrocks In th'
dish, an' phwat did he do, but, tliinklii
they were wather crlssls, sprinkled
salt on thini tin' ate iviry dang wan,
shteins an' all."
"Pur th' luv av hlvln, do vo be tell In
me?"
"Thot's as thrue as th' hangln' av
Puck' Ilyon at Cashelcennel. Johnnie
saw th' lasht av th shamrocks dishnp
pear down tho Dootchmnn'H throat, an'
thin, shiny as a fox, he appeared t' take
it gud-nnturcd until he could lave
howlt av th' beer mallet."
"Did ho shtrolko Phode?"
"Did ho shtrolko him? Ilo th' pow
era but he lay his schalp open from th'
root av his nose f th' back of his neck.
They carried Phode home, an' it's tin
chances t' wan thnt ho will not be able
t' bo prlslnt at the next meetln' av tho
council. Dyez see?" Chicago Jour
nal. WHEN AN ACTOR SMILES
If a Slur TcIIh the Hlory It Humor In
Admitted.
It's funny how everybody laughs
when an actor tells a story. Any other
man might tell the same story, und tell
it better, nnd yet never be rewarded
with iv smile. A party of men, includ
ing a well-known player, wens seated
about a cafe table one .Saturday night,
and tho actor told a story. Said lie:
"There was a fellow named Jenkins
playing In the same company with mo
once, and he had a great crop of' fiery
red hair, but ho was a good actor, and
understudied the star, although he had
never been forced to go on in that
en pa city. Well, ono night about an hour
before the performance the stage mali
nger camo rushing into the theater
with the startling announcement that
the star was laid up and couldn't speak
above a whisper. There was nothing
to do but fall back on Jenkins. Put
there was his long, red hair. A hero
with such hair would be laughed off
tho stage. What did the manager do
but hustle poor Jenkins into a Imrjior
shop, have his hair trimmed nnd dyed
black. Talk about your expedients! Ac
tually had his hair dyed!" The listen
ers burst into paroxysms of laughter,
as though it was tho funniest thing that
had ever happened that is, all but n
quiet little man in the corner, lie
merely said: "I should think lie would
have worn a wig." And you could have
cut the silence with a cheese knife.
Philadelphia llccord.
How hlie .Spelled It.
Every one knows how to spell "hard
water" with three letters, but prob
ably some readers would be puzzled to
spell "yesterday" with six. A Cin
cinnati girl could tell them how, ac
cording to the Enquirer. Sho does
not go to school, but is taught by her
mother at home. Tho other night her
father was hearing her spell. One
word after another was successfully
disposed of, and then ho said: "Now,
Annie, I am going to give you a hard
one. If you spell it correctly I'll bring
you some candy. How do you spell
'yesterday?' " It was a hard one. An
nie thought of the candy, and just then
her eye caught the calendar hanging
against the wall. Then she answered,
with a smile of triumph: "P-r-1, yes
tor, d-ory, day, yesterday." Atlanta
Constitution.
Chicken .Snliiil DreHHlug.
To make tho dressing, first chill the
plate, eggs and oil. Put tho yolks of
two eggs in a soup plate; add one-half
teaspoonful of salt and stir with a silver
fork until the yolks nro well beaten and
mixed; add tho oil, drop by drop, be
ing careful to always stir in the samo
direction, adding a drop of vinegar
whenever the mixture begins to look
oily. Add only acid enough to keep tho
dressing from separating. Two eggs
will take a pintof oil. Season with. salt
and red pepper, and lemon juice, if
necessary. A perfeotmnyonaiso should
not bo too acid, as thnt destroys thu
flavor of. the oil, St, Louis llenublic .