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W. W. HANDJCKS l'iililllir.
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A WOMAN'S PROBLEMS.
When lironkfnat things tiro clcniuu awny
Tlio fHimo old prohlotn's rMvtf,
For nlio iiKiiln nits down to thjnk
Of HomctlilnK appetizing
Tim dinner alio tnunt noon prepare,
Or Blyo tlili rook directions,
And finjnt l the Tollef alio feeli
When who linn mndo sulectlons.
When dinner tlilnKS nrc olcnred nwny
Tlio problem tlmt Li upper
Is Just tin! siuno, with ono word chanced
"What cnn I et for supper?"
Sim wants to lvo them HoinuthlnK now,
And Ioiir In inedltatlnn
Till rhaluu 1 mndo, and then begins
Tlio work of tpoparatlon.
When supper things arc cleared away
Aaln lior mind Is wonjed,
For thon sin- thinks of breakfast time,
Whun meals aro often hurried.
Sho ponders o'er It long until
Tlio uestlon Is decided,
Then unities 'round till she makes auro
That everything's provided.
Three- times each day, week In, week out,
This problem hu Is meeting,
And often she Is sore perplexed
In making plans for outing
For ono Ulcus this and nn likes that.
And what Is appetizing
To some- Is by tho other spurned
Ah food that they're- doKplslng.
That "woman's work is never done"
llni of ton been disputed,
Hut that she's worried Is a fact,
And cannot lie refuted.
Tho worry over what to out
Is greatest of these questions,
Anil Kind she'd bo It some ono clso
Would make the meal suggestions.
Pittsburgh CHroiilclc-Tehigriipli.
No Signs of Peace
Unr MHtlllHiik'ltiK III the
Auticrlf Uut.
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OX T1I1'2 street hide the AulifHy Hat
building' presented mi imposing
mid unbiokcn front to t he world. The
doorway in tlio middle, of it amis wide
mill beautifully arched, nil the windows
were trimmed with stone c.mlngs, nil
tin window shades wi'io alike. Tlie
Inndloid liml curcf ally seen to the Intter
olnt; lie hiiid that it made the building
look more lilce u nrlutto house, al
though not even n Klondike millionuiri'
would have been likely to build n pnlace
iim large and impressive lis the Auberly.
Hut the landlord miule n great point of
the prlviito-house-llke appearance of the
great bultding; he tented several Hats
annually solely upon this ground.
Tlio back of tlio Auborlj building,
lioweor, was less imposing. bong,
Hkolotonliko porches stiotehed along it
nt cery lloor, and these poi cites woie
not divided oil' into sections as were
the Hat to which they belonged. If
they had been so divided arious things
would never luio happened which did
happen. Hut the only point of division
which broke the long lino of the porch
on each lloor was a strip of two-inch
boarding which marked the place at
whioh one section of oraudn territory
was merged Into the next. Ami it wib
this little strip of boarding which
caused all the trouble between the Hal
lams and tlio MoXaughtons.
Mrs. Hnllum, to bigln with, instruct
ed tho man who sometimes worked for
her to build a support for- her poicli
box of flowers with this strip of plunk
for a foundation,, and she quite forgot
to mention tlio matter to Mrs. Mo
Ts'uughtun, who occupied the next flat
on that, lloor, until the box was In
place. Mrs. MoXtiughton, in spite of the
Kuiuiner-long filendsliip between them,
wiis inollnUl to look upon this pro
ceeding with disfavor.
"Such impudence!" blip exclaimed to
lttr husband, ms they sat at dinner. "To
put a box on top of my boarding with
out even consulting me. I'll just wait
until to-morrow and see what she says;
that's nil!"
Mrs. Hullum, however, being annoyed
in her turn by the disdainful glances
the bad received from Mrs. MoNuughton
upon tho occasion of their stopping out
upon the back much simultaneously,
wild nothing whatever, and Mrs. Mc
Tsuuglilon's anger increased mightily.
Tho next day, aided and abetted ju her
decision by the gossip of the building,
Mrs. llrewcr, who zealously fanned tho
Hume of the growing disiigiooiiioiit.sho
ordered tho man who occasionally did
u little work for her to take down the
box, lift It over onto tlio Hullum side of
tlio dividing lino and remove the sup
port upon which it stood.
Mrs. Hullum, bitterly indignnnt, or
dered her man to rebuild it uud wont to
Ihu mutiiu'o wlfh a sense of triumph.
Sho u'turned to find the support once
more demolished and to hear Mrs. Mo
Nuiigliton exultantly relating the story
to Mrs, llrcvvcr by means of tho air
shaft. That evening tho "two husbands
wore called Into the quarrel itiul ouch
Instructed to settle tho mutter. They
mot, pnollically nt llrst, upon tho buck
porch nnd argud the quest ion across
the miserable bit of boarding around
whioh tho trouble' hud grown. '
At hcurt ouch man was more than
' willing to let the matter drop, ouch
considering hh qiittrtfcl billy In the ex
treme; upon the surfuco, howevet't eui'h
was determined to uihold the dignity
of his wife'uml to luuliituiu her undis
puted light to the possession of that
strip of planking The consequences of
this Insincere attitude of mind wefe
Kcveral. The Hrvt and most noticeable
Was that tin two wives, who, from be
hind their icspcollW screen doors, lis
tened eagerly to the nlfruy, were proB-.
cntly Imploring them 1o stop liiifnmrr
Ing each other. -
"Dt.p't" notice him, dear; life, ifln't
woith it." M'rcnmcd Mis. l'fujhiiii, Wild
ly, rushing out and seizing her husband
by the Hill of hlseout.
"I wouldn't bcineau nlyself by touch
ing such a man!" Mrs. MeXuughton
shrieked, catching hold of her husband's
arm.
They managed to stop the fight, after
much persuasion and cntioaty, but
after this iiicedonl the two men, who
had gone to the city together and re
turned in company every uay since mov
ing into tile building, only glowered at
each other when nicy inei on uic rail
way plat form and took opposite sides of
the pavement as they went to and from
the depot. Nor did they longer go nvm
in arm to the suburban lodge to which
both belonged. The lodge met upon (lie
evening following tho buttle upon the.
pencil, however, and both attended. It
was while they were absent from home
for this reason that tho next develop
ment of the affair took place.
Mrs. McXaiighton, entering her kitch
en for a glass of milk before retiring,
was startled to see reaching forth out
in fiont of her window a hand, which
gleamed whitcl, out of tho surrounding
darkness. The superstition which Mrs.
McXuugliton has inherited from her
great-aunt upon her mother's side as
serted itself instantly, mid she screamed
ho loudly that .Icnnie, the hired girl,
came running up from tho court, whore
alio had been enjoying herself with a
joung man, to sec what was the matter.
When Mrs. MeNauglitou discovered tliut
the ghostly hand was attached to Mrs.
llnllnm's body, and that it was engaged
in emptying a coffeepot full of giounds
into a dish she instructed .lennic to
carry them buck to Mrs. Hullum with
a message to the effect that she, Mrs.
MoNaughtoii, knew that Mrs. Hullum
could not afford to lose them and to re
turn immediately. The grinning maid
i c turned presently with the message
that Mrs. Hatlain knew Mrs. MeNaugli
tou was fond of coffee, pitied her for
being too poor to buy the best quality,
and hud deliberately made her a pres
ent of the grounds.
Then Mrs. MeNauglitou made a huge
pot of coffee, curried it to the buck
MKS, HAT.hAM nEblVnuTO AN
T1MATU.M
jioich and carefully poured it over ns
large an area of Mrs, Hallum's territory
as she could compass. She tlnlshed b.v
emptying the grounds all over the door
stop. Then she retired to await her
husband's return nnd to think over the
affair with glowing wrath and con
tempt fur Mrs. Hullum, her erstwhile
friend and matinee companion, and the
next morning tlio two handmaids who
served the Hallnins and the Mc.Xaugh
tons, lcspcctivcly, also came to angry
words about the coffee giounds.
Later in the daj Mrs. McXaughton's
pot dog strajed across to the llalhim
part of the porch, as he had been wont
to do ever since the first of May, when
the two families had moved in simul
taneously, and was surprised to llnd
himself soied, beaten and thrown
across to his own portion of tho ve
randa. Mrs. MoXauglitoii witnessed this
Inhuman treatment upon the part of
Mrs. Hnllum with indignant tears, and
when, half an hour afterward, little
Johnny llnltum, '. years old, toddled
up to her door ho was treated to a
mild spanking and sent wailing home
to his mother. The Intter rushed out to
meet Jiliii us lie nmde his noisy wu
bunk to hcrnnd met Mrs. McXuughton's
triumphant smile.
Tito quarrel which ensued wns so bit
tor thnt nil 'the other tonnnts of the
hulli'liUg cuiiio to sec uud hear it, nnd
only censed when u policeman, resting
fn the alley, studied up to see what the
matter was. Tlmt night both husbands
sought the landlord, and next day he
appeared with a carpenter,' who utilised
the narrow strip of boarding which had
caused all the troublcas a "foundation
upon which to-rear a si's-foot partitipu
.between the two feet ions of the long
porch wliich' stretched all m'ros the.
building. on tljut lloor. Uoth woinen.
wore ineliiiod'Jo ioo'ont this, notion unou
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"Vt Tot?3 " IV'Sl' IW&-
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the pnrt of the luhdlmd at first, but
now :
"The impudent thing who lives next
door actually had n ilovvir box built up
on the strip of wood which edged my
norcli." is the way In which Mn. Mo
Naughtoii tolls lhcptoo."uud the land-' j
lord Uiiil, that partition put up so sue
couldn't annoy me unj longer.1'
"I never saw such an utiplensnnt
.neighbor as tho woman who lives next I
door," is Mrs, Hnllanfs version oi uio
affair, told to her friends and cronies
and such of the other women in the
building as have, espoused her side
the quarrel now become an Auberly
classic. "Why, thu landlord actually
had to have that partition built in older
lo procure n little peace forme!"
So the wily landlord prevented either
tenant from breaking the lease which
bound them to the Aubcrl.v Hut building
until the llrst Qf next May, nnd the af
fair blew over with no consequences
more serious than Mrs. llalhim and Mrs.
McNniighton no longer go to the mntl
nce together, while the MoXtiughton
dog mid the Hnllum baby aro not the
Warm friends they used to be. And ns
for the two husbands -well, it is true
that they still choose opposite sides of
the street for their walks to and fiom
tho depot, but it is rumored that thoy
have boon soon to nod to one another
when meeting upon the station pint
form, and H is reported that the wife of
each has been hoard to call the husband
of her choice it mean-spirited creature,
nnd to remark tauntingly that "she
wouldn't be the llrst to back down."
The other Auberly tenants meanwhile
arc divided into two factions that
which sides witli Mrs. McXuugliton and
Unit which takes Mrs. Hallum's part.
Homo of the families have moved into
the building since the active portion of
the quarrel washtoppod b, the building
of tlio partition on the buck porch and
only know of the trouble by hearsay,
but that alters the matter not a whit.
The quarrel between Mrs. Hullain and
Mrs. McXuugliton is as much a part of
the Auberly ntniosphcio ns the peren
nial complaint about the condition of
the alley or the unceasing indignation
about the uncarpeted upper halls. And
in the heat and bitterness induced by
the quarrel almost everybody has for
gotten just how the mutter started; it
is probable that neither of the two
original lighters could now state defi
nitely what was the commencement of
the trouble Chicago Cluoniclo.
WON A REPUTATION EASILY.
How i Xtivlec Surprirtcil Himself mill
HlN KrlumlH by HIm Masterly
Use of it (inn.
"I've often wondered." said a jolly j
looking man, "if anybody ever got thi
ol edit of being a good shot us ousilj ns I
did. I was visiting at a house in tho
imintrv. and one day the host says:
'Let's go out nnd try the shooting.'
There wore two or tlircL other gilosta
there besides myself. The host led the
waj into tlio hull, whore there were
uoniline- throe or four shotguns. Ho
handed a gun to mo, though really I
iiulu't want it; supplied one or two oth
ers of the guests, who did shoot, with
guns, and took the remaining gun him
self, and wo started out.
"It was a delightful trump, nnd a
novel experience for me, going gunning,
for I had never tired a shotgun in my
life. 1 enjoyed it all very much, but I
sort of studied in tho roar, a little be
hind the rest, to give tlio others n
chance at the game, with the hope that
1 would not be culled upon to shoot. 1
thought I should only ninkc a ridiculous
exhibition of m.vself, but. ns it hup
pencil, I tired tlio only shot tired that
daj, mid it was a bull's-eye.
"Wight in the center of a Hold that we
were crossing there Was a big dead tree,
00 or 70 feet high, and on the topmost
braneh of it sat a solitary pigeon. Tho
quick-eyed host, a keen sportsman him
self, turning around to see if f were
coming all right ho was walking just
ahead with the others spied that
pigeon.
" 'There's a chance for you,' ho said to
me, enthusiastically, as he looked up at
the bird, and 1 couldn't do any loss than
to make a bluff at it. I swung the old
shotgun up and tired, all in ono move
ment, nnd dropped the bird just as neat
as vou please. The host was delighted;
it would have been a good, fair shot for
anjbod.v to make, and In: was specially
pleased tlmt it should have boon mndo
by one of his guests. The rct had
turned in tlnu to see the pigeon fall. 1
hud protested that I. was no shot, nnd
they nil thought now thnt I was fur too
modest. And so by thnt single chiinco
shot 1 got tho loputation, nt least for
tho bioiuent, of being very luind.v with a
shotgun." Chiongn Inter Ooi un."
Uvperleuee II ml 'I'll null t III111.
"That ginss widow didn't catch .voiir
country cousin with her wiles."
"Xo, Indeed. Cousin Joe sn.vs he isn't
going to get .fooled the second time
with gie.cn goods." Philadelphia Hul
lotia. I'Iiiii n llrllllruif SeilNiiu.'
Mr. and Mi. HrmUoy-Martiu, if is
said, "will entertain during the forth
coming London season more brilliant
ly than Over.- ....
ltotitiliiK I'etor to l'nj I'niil. .
The individual who robs Peter to pay.
Paul usually strikes Paul for u larger
loan hit or. Chicago Daily Newfc. .
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AN OBJECT LESSON.
Immense I.hiuIm limited (Ivi'r n Cor.
reotlj .Mnoiiilniiilril Itniiil Neiir
Camden, . C.
Thc"illiistratjon shows one of the
ndvantuges of huving good ryads. The
size of u -loud Unit can he handled
is very much greater than that possi
ble to bo druvyn op a common dirt,
road. Itnlntivc to these roads, Prof.
.1. A. Holmes, says: In niacadami.ing,
the following general phut has been
adopted: Upon the graded nnd settled
t'urth hurfuee, u mufudum road, 1U
HAUX.1NG A BIO LOAD.
(Section of Macadamized Iload Near Cam
den, N. C.)
feet wide nnd about nine inches thick,
is constructed. Usually in tho center,
though in places on ono side of the
road, an oxouvution from four to six
inches deep is mudc in the ourth's sur
fuco, and the bottom is then carefully
rolled with a steam roller. Upon this ex
cavated surface is placed a hijer of Hold
stone about four inches thick, and this
is thou thoroughly i oiled. Upon this
surface is placed a three-Inch layer of
stone crushed to from ono to two inches
in sio,andaftortliishasbeon thorough
ly rolled there is placed a third layer,
about two inches thick, of ilnoly
crushed stone, including screenings,
and this latter is in turn thoroughly
rolled. Tho average cost of those roads,
including grading and macadamizing,
js about .$2,000 per mile. Farmers' Re
view. ONE-YEAR-OLD TREES.
4-eni(llnir to u Kitnum llorllt-iiltur-
11 Tin. Cnn lie Planted Mifely
lu Most Seetliius.
The injury and destruction to
nursery trees caused by the severity of
last winter has made it necessary to
sell ouugcr trees for u your or two to
come than are usually sold. Many who
wish to plant orchards aro doubtful of
the wisdom of planting apple uud pour
trees loss Ihun two yours old. While
there muy bo sumo objections to plnnt
ing one-yenr-old trees there are sevornl
points in their fuvor. In digging them
very few roots tire cut, compared with
the older trees. The lubor of sotting is
loss thiin with inrgor ones. There be
ing no side brunches the bond can be
formed to 11113' desired height nnd of
any stylo. There is loss danger of get
ting San .lose scale or any other like
pest on small and young trees than on
large and old ones. The original cost
of ono-your-olds is less than of older
ones. Thiw arc small and light, and
therefore cheaply transported. Tho
objections are greater liability of in
jury from careless persons In working
about them than if they were larger,
and later coining into benrlng. There
may be others, but these aro the two
that mo commonly raised. The latter
one is disputed by soine orchnrdists,
they claiming that the younger trees
htwing more roots in proportion to
their tops than largo ones giow better
and within a few yonis aro fully as
large and bear as soon as the older
ones. This bus come true in sonic cases
in my own experience, and I have sold
many thousands of one-year-old apple
trees to my Kansas neighbors and oth
ers, many of whioh f have had oppor
tunity 10 unserve until tutor Hearing
ago. Thoy wore v cry satisfactory w lior
evor well cared for. II. K. Van Deninr.,
in Farm and Fireside.
Wastefulness Is a ("rime.
One of the Important tilings about
pood farming that most of us have to
learn is to avoid waste. Wo pay taxes
on land that we do not farm; we only
half cultivate our Holds uud so wtist'o
both hind nnd ubor; we leave a large
pereontujio of the ctop In the Hold; wo
wu.sto time ami capital in raising in
ferior animals; wo waste energy In
tr.ving to do mine than one man cnn do
right: we waste money in bu, ii.g what
wo should raise' ours'olvos; wU waste
opportunities to Jnipi-ov'e our condi
tion. by stnj ing nwny from institutes
tlnd-fairs and by. mylo'oting to' rend
papers; w.ft.wuhre-7- in 11 thousand ways',
and then-.wo are ready to say "farming
lon'"t pay," And It is no vbhdc.r.-T-
f Montana -Fruit Giowcr. "..
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FARMERS' DAUGHTERS.
They .Slum I (I Ijenrn How to Milk
COu anil How to Harness !
Drlie u Horse.
The girls on a farm should learn to.
milk as well as the boys, oven if they
arc not expected to take full charge of
such work, in many countries milking
is thought to be essentially a wbinmi's
work, not only because It roquir'cs little,
physical strength when one is accus
tomed to It, but because thoy generally
are quieter, and do not get nngry with
the cow, ami hocause they are naturally
neater and the milk is cleaner. 'e be
lieve the furincr'sUuughlcr should know
hovv to milk and to harness uud drive u
hoi so. Oecnsions frequently come, per
haps in cases of an uccideut, when it.is
very important that a woilian should
ride or drive a horse perhaps to the vil
lage for a physician, and to find them
ignorant and helpless at such a time
nitty cause tlio loss of a life, and a life
long regret to thorn nnd to others. W
know on ninny fnrimf their education,
goes much further than this, mid that
many girls and young women can drive
the team mid manage the mowing ma
chine, horse rake, seed drill, or other
machinery on the farm as well us tlieir
biothors, if they have any, and wo know
no good reason why thoy should not do
so, as well as ride a bicycle, if thoy will
learn, though we do not care to advo
cate the regular employment of women
lu furm labor. Hut wo have soon u
woman, Now England born nnd bred,
who could handle the scythe and pitch
fork in tlio hnylicld or tho plow and
hoe In cultivated Holds, bettor than
most men and do it all day, too. Yet
she was as capable of doing good work
in the house or dairy room as she was
out of doors. We knew a noriiian in
western Xow York whose "boys were
all girls," as ho said. There wore some
half do.en of them, well educated, grad
uates of a high school in a neighboring
city, nceoniplishod musk-inns, refined
and ladylike, and yet any ono of tlicin
could go into tho harvest field and da
a day's work that would compare in
niuount or neatness with the best ol
fariuhnnds. And thoy wore also skilled
in housework nnd dairy work. Ameri
can Cultivator.
PLANTING CHESTNUTS.
How mi r.itxtem Horticulturist )!--titlncil
Siici'ckm After a Number
of KitllurcH.
Tin 00 years ago 1 came into posses
sion of practically tin abandoned ftirni,
l.'iO acres in chestnut and pine and 100
in tillage, with many hillsides- anil
places which could not bo cultivated.
I wished to get trees growing on those
places; how to make thoin grow from
the seed I did not know, nor could I
find anyone who did! so 1 wont to
work planting chestnuts in different
ways, to see which would succeed,
writes a contributor to Country Gen
tleman, 1 first took a six-tinod fork, forced
it into tlio turf two inches deep and
say lour incites lorward, threw a chest
nut under and drew out my fork. I
saw that one man was working sit a
disadvantage, so calling u man, I did"
the lifting of tlio turf and ho threw
the chestnuts. The result wns that
every chestnut grew, and thoy tiro now
two foot high. I thon plowed a half
acre, dropped a chestnut every two
.stop nnd stopped upon it. Not one
of the chestnuts gtow. 1 plowed n fur
row on another piece, every four foot,
dropped a chestnut every four foot on
tlio edge of furrow, nnd buck-furrowed
against this. Not U0 trees stnrted on
the whole piece; those which did
Rinrt wore whore they wore covered
lightly nnd nuture's conditions were
complied with. It is so simple and
quick to plant a seed witli iiinii and
fork, that I shall do more of it in the
future.
PROTECTING TREES.
Writ lip I iik the Lower liir! of tlie
Ti'iinlc with Tarred Paper Will
Keep A ami Mice nnd Itorertt.
Much protection against mice and,
borers can bo given young fruit trees by
wrapping the lower part of the trunk
with tarred paper, buUlo it as suggest
ed in the illustration. Dig nwny the
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PltOTUCTION FOIt TKKKS.'
earth about the tree so the paper can be .
put down below the surface. Then fold
the paper about the trunk according' to '
the diagram nt tho right, making the
edges' join as dp the edges of a. stme
plpe. This jyov cuts, the l-ntr'unee of in- . '
sect's tol.iy.oggs uiider tire burk,, When
the.pnpeV is in place, put buflc the earth
about it nnd tie the top of tlio paper
closely to the- tree. Orange .hidd
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