The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, June 06, 1895, Image 6
US INSERN ATIONAL PRESS AsS'N i CHAI'TKII III.— (Continued.) Mo laughed as be accepted his cup of tea. . .t.i. “l’erhaps Horry would not l>o too bard on me if I ovcrstaid mv leave, forgetting the lapse of time in such charming; society as an unlucky sailor Is always suro to find in your house, Maud." Mrs. Griffith sowed a tiny seed, dostlned to bear later fruit, in her reply, as she selected a sandwich for her young kinsman with her own fair hands. “I fancy Harry would not be too hard on you If you disobeyed orders altogether.” The Harry in question, otherwise Captain the Hon. Henry Montagu Fit/.william, C. B., in command of H. M. 8. Sparrow, was a veteran officer of dignified, not to say severe, mien; an inflexible disciplinarian, who made the lives of midshipmen and subofhcials a burthen by reason of a vigilanje deemed little short of gulling tyranny and oppression. Lieut. Curzon found transition of mood and surroundings alike soothing and agreeable. The idyl of youth and beuuty in rags was dispelled by the presence Vf Mrs. Griffith am} Miss Ethel Symthe, who bestowed upon the deeply appreciative sailor nil those graceful and delicate attentions where with wily sirens on laud win the i hearts of the followers of the sea. lie was hot, a little tired and vfexod, with all u young man's sense of amour propre, that he had clumsily broken a cup on entering the room. The eye of that son of Mars, Captain Blake, was still upon him, with an undcflnablo mockery, as of one who had scored a point in the social game to the discomfiture of a rival branch of the service. Mrs. GrlilUh hud never been more sympa thetic in eordtulity of welcome. Miss Ethel Symthe, with her calm, fair face, and erect figure, was pleasant to con template. The softly modulated en couragement of their words and smiles pervaded his senses like a subtle per fume. oven as the silken folds of their yellow ten-gowns, all creamy luce and knots of ribbon, brushed his arm. He had regained his own sphere once more after that country ramble, which should have been too trivial to leave even u surface impression on his mind. It is m such moments of extreme re action from the unforeseen that men of impulsive temperament cast anchor in the home haven and become sedate husbands 4- *Jvs. Griffith, as the wife of a mili tary man of high runic, was the power behind the throne in the places where the general was stationed. The tact and amiability of her personal in i', fluence were pereeptibte at Gibraltar, Cyprus, and in India alike. 8he was aver the Donna Pin of the minia .tttro court of Urbino, organizing the festivities, adjusting all petty differences, giving zest and piquancy to gaiety. Her acquaintances ranged over moro than halt of the civilized world. Removed to a new station, the lady invariably adapted her tea room to the requirements of a large circle, as an Arab adjusts his tent Hence, in the palaco of the Knights Templar at Malta, the low chamber opening on a court had a design of bamboo across the ceiliAg; the walls were wain scoted with panels of cedar, palm and *ed pine; and the floor covered wiUi delicate matting. Vases filled witlx chrysanthemums; old screens of six panels, quaintly painted and heavily gilded; and divans oovered with drap eries wadded with silk, impartod, with the fragrant woods used in deco ratiou, a pervading hue of rich brown 'ifr. “THIS IS MV FRIEND MISS SYMTHE-” (o the room. In one corner was a £ curious household shrine dedicated to Buddha, with a brass lamp suspended ■' before it, und a shelf, with a circular mirror and tiny trays for offeriugs of flowers, rice, and incense. On the present occasion. MissSymthe had insisted on kindling a stick of in % Cense in a tiny brazier before the god, with a mischievous glance at an elder . I7 clergyman with a weak chest Arthur Curzon, soothed by these feminine flatteries, asked himself what scheme his cousin might be ma turing in her brain, on his own be half, with a sentiment of awakening curiosity, as his glance followed the movements of the Htout and handsome matron with the smooth black hair, clear complexion, and tranquil gray eyes. Mrs. Griffith was an inveterate matchmaker. No doubt she had a bride ready for him. Who, then‘lf Miss Ethel Symthe, of course. Did he not know feminine tactics? The young man was expansive in re sponsive greetings to the Ancient Mariner, otherwise Capt. John Filling hain, on tiie retired list, whose remi niscences extended over forty years of active service, chiefly in woodon ships; wars; the suppression of the African slave trade; or cruising off the Mos quito coast. He had shared the fresh impressions of life of midshipmen with Arthur Curzon's father, the admiral of many engagements. A lr I n rl I «r it 1 /I want lamnn wrootninrs rheumatic limbs in the winter sun shine of the Mediterranean shore, and with a countenance like the battered figure-head of a ship, the Ancient Mari ner scanned the new-comer through his gold-rimmed spectacles, and remarked to Miss Wymthe, sotto voce: “A fine lad, and he will prove an exceedingly clever man, if I am not much mis taken. A chip of the old block, as well. They are called the mad Cur sons, you know. II is father, Admiral .lack, fell in love with such a pretty girl, but withqut a penny. She was a nursery governess, or something of that sort He saw her crossing a thor oughfare near his club on a foggy morning. She had neatly turned ankles. Hear me! it seems but yester day! I was best man at the wedding. Wo were middies together.” “Fancy!” murmured Miss Symtlie, and a slight glow of auimatlon wanned her cheelt. "These young fellows are pampered nowadays,” continued Capt Filling ham. “In my time, we had to put up with salt horse and weevily biscuit, without too much complaint The uncle, Archibald, if 1 am not in error-” “John, dear, have another slice of bread and butter," interposed Mrs. Fillingham, a brisk matron, still proud of her dumpling form as revealed to advantage in a Faris robe. *.nOn s. . _ HE RECOVERED IT HASTILY. The Ancient Mariner frowned, with an expression of affronted dignity. He was fond of unraveling the thread of reminiscences of dates, places, and people, when he found a congenial listener. Mra Griffith gave the Lieutenant a gilded bonbonnlere, with the admoni tion: “Ethel is very fond of choco late.” The officer started from his reveries, and presented the box to the young lady. As he did so. the heavy medal fell from his pocket and rolled on the floor. He recovered it hastily. “What treasure have you there?” in quired Miss Symthe, who possessed an unusually sharp pair of blue eyes. “A G re co-Phoenician medallion,"was the careless rejoinder. “Where did you find it?” questioned Capt Fillingham, with interest aroused. “1 bought it,” said Lieut Curzon, and paused abruptly. “Dear me! You got it of a native, I suppose?” pursued the old gentleman. "No. Mr. Jacob Deal try sold it to me over yonder.” Capt. Ulake laughed in a cynical fashion. "Has Jacob Dealtry any pretty daughters?” he insinuated. “No.” said Arthur Curzon, with su perflqpus curtness. "Surely he has a granddaughter.” insisted Capt. Blake, playfully. The hot blood mounted to the brow of the sailor. “How did you know?” he demanded haughtily. . Capt . Blake slightly elevated his eyebrows, drained his teacup and re placed it on the tray. “Jacob Dealtry,” repeated the An cient Mariner, in a musing tone. "Where have I heard that name? There was a Capt. Frederick Dealtry on the west coast when I was first lieutenant on the Coquetto. I fancy the commander was a Dealtry, who got himself into a mess about the stranding of the Wasp at Salamis. Don’t you remember-” C "John. dear, some more tea will do you good.” said Mrs. Fillingham. who spoke with a hasty and an authorita tive lisp. “ The Ancient Mariner glanced detinantly at his. helpmate, while consenting to a judicious I replenishment of his cup, and fixed [ Lieut Curzon with his glittering eye. "Ah! Now IJhavc it!" he pursued,Ignov ; iug feminine interruption. “Jacob Dealtry was the mime of the merchant, or trader, at Jamaica, who disappeared so mysteriously after learning of the marriago of his only sun in Spain. I was in the West Indian waters at the time, in command of the Vulture. We gave a ball to the ladies in the harbor of Kingston on the very night Next day ttie whole affair was town talk. It was most extraordinary, you know. The trader was supposed to be well off, and he had disappeared without leav ing a trace. Ensign White told me afterward about the son's return the following year with his Spanish wife, and his search for the missing Darenb He hinted at foul play and robbery. There was something wrong. Stop a bit, though! Was the name Dealtry or Brown?" Capt. Blake laughed again his mirth less, jarring, little laugh. CHAPTER IT. ST. PAUL’S BAT. .X. „ . V RS. GRIFFITH invited her friends to a picnic at St. Paul’s bay on the ensuing day. The weather was fine, and the spirits of the party in harmony with the exhilarating tones of their surroundings. On one side the island, barren and arid, caught the pervading radiance of golden sun shine, and the shadow of passing clouds in orange and purple tints on ridge and hollow, vivid, yet delicate and evanescent. On the other the limpid waves of the bay rippled gently on the strand, und the blue sea spread beyond rock and inlet to the limit ot a transparent and luminous horizon. Everywhere was the permeating effulgence of. a southern light and color, dazzling to the eye and steep ing the senses in a soft languor of in dolence. The warm sea breeze mingled with the perfume of flowers in adjacent gardens. Occasionally a bird winged its flight across the zenith. Little craft steered into the bay as the storm-beaten vessel of the apostle is reputed, by tradition, to have once sought refuge here. The clergyman with a weak chest listened to the ruminating conjectures of the Ancient Mariner as to the much disputed voyage of St. Paul, and whether the island visited had been Melida, Melita, or Malta, while the ladies manifested a half-fearful inter est in the viper, and the possibility of descendants of the reptile lingering on the spot. Mrs. Griffith, handsome and suave, in her maize-colored draperies, appealed to her nautical cousin, Arthur Curzon, as to whether or not the wind Euroclydon was the northeast current which wafted hither the apostle of the gentiles. ‘ Very possibly,” assented the young man, with indifference; for Miss Symthe was in the act of transferring a rosebud frem her belt to his button hole at the moment. “'Tradition is a bore, don’t you - as buo young lady bestowed a similar gift on him. "Not at all,” she rejoined, in a tone of reproof. “All about St Paul’s bay is most interesting.”' Here the clergyman opened a Testa ment, which he carried in lieu of a guide-book, and read aloud several passages in the Acts. Capt Filling ham became inspired with a kindling enthusiasm of conviction. “I believe we are standing on the very spot where St Paul landed,” he affirmed, with a sweeping gesture of his right arm, which included sea and shore. “The violent wind had beaten the little chaloup about until the sail ors were in despair, and all the cargo had boen thrown overboard to lighten the vessel Only the prisoner Paul who must live to see Rome, was sus tained by unwavering courage, and strove to reanimate the failing spirits of his companions. A man among men, in storm and darKness!” “Paul was upheld by faith,” inter polated the clergyman. “On the fourteenth night after quit ting Crete, Paul counseled all of his companions to eat bread, and Strengthen themselves, and in the morning they sighted land, when the ship was driven into this bay by ' the tempest with such iury that the prow was buried in the sand, the waves washed over the poop, and the whole craft was broken up Am I right?” (X0 BE CONTINUED.) Jewelry In • Crave. The largest amount of jewelry known to be in a single grave was buried in Greenwood cemetery several years ago. The undertaker who had charge of the funeral protested against it, but was severely srubbed' for his interference. The family had its way, and in that grave is buried fully S3,000 worth of diamonds, with which the body was decked when prepared for burial. Sometimes families who desire 1 to bury their dead in the clothing | worn in life—in evening or wedding dresses, for instance—substitute less costly imitations for the jewelry worn in life, partly from motives of thrift and partly from a superstitious fear that anything taken oft a body when it is ready for the tomb will bring ill luck to future wearers, DAIRY AND POULTRY INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Bow Successful Farmers Operate This Department ot the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of Lire Stock and Poultrj. &HE MICHIGAN census office has Just Issued a very Interesting report on the live stock of that state. It contains much food for thought, and is as follows: It appears that the number of horses in the state June 1. 1894 was 663,362, of which 31,890, or 4.81 per cent were under 1 year old; 40,028, or 6.03 per cent were 1 year old and under two; 48,111, or 7.26 per cent were 2 years old and under 3; and 643,333, or 81.91 per cent were 3 years old and over. The number of mules and asses was 6,332. The number of cattle, exclusive of milch cows and working oxen, was 664,683, of which 242,220, or 43.67 per cent were under 1 year old; 198,648, or 35.80 per cent were 1 yShr old and under 2; 89,821, or 16.20 per cent were 2 years old and under 3; and 23,994, or 4.33 per cent were 3 years old and over. The number of milch cows was 506, 890, and of working oxen 11,267. The number of hogs under 1 year old, including spring pigs, was 837,365, or 80.89 per cent, and the number 1 year The number of pure bred (recorded) cuttle in the state June 1, 1894, was 19,994, distributed as to breed as fol lows: Alderney 3, Angus 67, Ayrshire 37, Brown Swiss 3, Devon 48, Galloway 653, Guernsey 83, Hereford 444, Hol stein 1,714, Jersey 3,852, Red Polled 131, Shorthorn 4,059. Dairy Opportunities In tho Sooth. To be sure there are sections in the south as there are in the north where sufficient good water cannot be ob tained, and it would be foolish in any one to attempt dairying anywhere un der such disadvantages. So far as cli mate is concerned the south can claim the greater advantage, writes L. S. Hardin in Home and Farm. To make good butter you must obtain a tem perature of about 60 degrees. There are probably far more days in the southern states during the year when the thermometer ranges near this point, taking all the seasons together, than there are at the north. The springB <nd falls are longer, so to speak, when sear 60 is the usual temperature. The winters are much milder, though Ae heat of summer is more continuous though not more extreme. If the dairy nan will work his cows all the year as he should do, he will get more fa vorable weather by far than could his less favored rival of the north. Tho separator does away with the need of ice in getting the cream, and the only trouble he need have is to secure a temperature of 60 for making the but ter. A deep well, or cold spring, or deep cellar, or evaporation of water along with making the butter in the early hours of the morning, will generally accomplish this. Some of these expe dients will do for shipping the butter just as they do at the north. Grass will grow in all the southern states If properly cultlvatned, though the mod ern methods of dairying are gradually Ins, and sure eno^'TT'' Brahma rooster ty eggs, on one sMe** bens and on th« (Vt ben. The visitor the rooster sat, secret! «ome of the darkens1 ^ out a special lot of mS"1 asked what he did eri would not sit anyi!i';1 replied that “datarw"' to set." pointing unZ? Looking under the bo* S surprised to find both ^ logs sticking throueh hMthf 1 rhe black rascal hid °lM 18 boles in the boxandtlS legs underneath, go rooster “was done bound s miring Into the matter man found that the da^S bens and one rooster. Thr« ^ were setting and the other Ing. The darkey, finding* tH®ehe? ?ccumulating quite ha sd to let up feeding theM and make him hatch a jJ*} ens.—Providence Journal ' * Grit Those who have kent th* fully supplied need not be1 will take at least a quarV^ year, and that the demand!, curs as regular as the daily ml fact that many hens are corn do entirely without grit, and * age to live and lay eggs, ^ umes for the constitutional vit, tenacity of life of the much al» You have taken her from he heath and placed her when your purpose to keep her and t localities she cannot find aim the shape of grit to run here with, and yet you neglect a this essential feature, and « athemize the breed, and all 1 general, because the poor, ON A CANADIAN STOCK FARM. ‘i*k PRINCE EDWARD 70fllflM roUHQF ihllS ggTj old and over, 197,786, or 19.11 per cent of the total number. The number of sheep under 1 year oW, Including spring lambs, was 1,181, 024, or 34.29 per cent, and the number 1 year old and over was 2,262,957, or 65.71 per cent of the total number. The census of 1884 shows the number of each of the several classes of live stock, but not the number at the differ ent ages as reported in the present cen sus. Assuming that horses and “other cattle" in 1884 include all ages, horses have Increased in the ten years 217,156, mules and asses 512, cattle, other than milch cowb and working oxen, 69,402, milch cows 99,186, and hog3 36,757, while working oxen have decreased 15,072, and sheep 633,954. _ The state totals of live stock as’above given include live stock in cities. The totals for cities are as follows: Horses: Under 1 year old, including spring colts, 241; 1 year old and under 2, 189; 2 years old and under 3, 1,802; 3 years old and over, 49,147. Mules and asses, all ages, 249. Cattle, exclusive of milch cows and working oxen: Under 1 year ; old, including spring calves, 691; 1 year old and under 2, 489; 2 years old and under 3, 289; 3 years and over, 438. Number of milch cows, 16,300. Num ber of working oxen, 16. Of other stock returned from outside at cities In 1894 there Is, compared with ;390. a decrease of 7,521 In the number of milch cows, uf 18,544 in working oxen, of 90,999 In hogs, and of 137,361 In sheep, and an Increase of 1,261 in mules and asses. The census of 1890 - shows 67, 979 colts foaled on farms in 1889. If the number of horses outside of cities under 1 year old, in the state June 1, 1894, be taken as the number foaled on farms in that year, which for this state is substantially accurate, the number foaled in 1894 was 26,330 less than in 1889, a decrease of more than 45 per cent. The decline in value of horses will readily account for this large decrease in the number of colts fdhled. By the census of 1890, 20,631 horses, mules, and asses on farms died in this state in 1889. This is 11,018 less than the number of colts foaled outside of cities in 1894. Assuming the loss by death as reported for 1889 represents with substantial accuracy the annual loss from this cause, the number of colts foaled in 1894 exceeded the loss by death by 11,019. The number of sheep sheared in the state in 1894 was 2,323,189, or 60,232 < more than on hand June 1. The total wool clip of the state was 14,696,322 pounds, an average of 6.33 pounds per head. The average per head in 1890 was 6.28 pounds; in 1884, 5.63 pounds, and in 1880, 5.42 pounds. In 1894 the average per head in the southern coun ties was 6.40 pounds; in the central counties, 5.92 pounds; in the northern counties. 6.49 pounds, and In the upper peninsula, 6.82 pounds. —~ „ , eliminating the pasture from the prob lem. The corn filled silo is taking its place. It is safe to say the refrigerator car will soon follow the steamship in making its own artificial refrigeration, and not depend on ice. To my way of thinking, the enemy has not discovered the lion that lies in the path of the southern dairyman. He can easily overcome the objections named. The fellow I would fear is the average negro in the dairy room and stable. He is by nature altogether too careless in his habits and frequently carries about with him too strong an aroma to trust in proximity with that highly sensitive article cream. If not watched with an eagle eye he lets the 8table fill up with filth and the churn become stale within, while the tins ac cumulate dirt in the creases and milk spilled on the floor has no terrors for him. He is all right if you use suf ficient discretion in picking out a good one and then holding him up to his work, but it will never do to let him think you are not on the watch for even the semblance of carelessness. Effect of Food on Battef. Carefully studied experiments In feeding dairy cattle show that the kind of food the cows consume has a pro nounced effect on the hardness of the butter. So far as the experiments have gone it appears (1) That gluten meal tends to produce a much softer quality of butter than corn meal or cotton seed meal, and, other things being equal, tends to lessen the churnability of the butter fat. (2) That silage produces a much softer butter than does good hay, but it is also favorable to the fla vor and texture of the butter product. (3) That cotton seed meal tends to pro duce an unusually hard quality of but ter, and that cotton seed meal and glu ten meal might be used together with excellent results. The standard of quality by which the butter is Judged is the quality made by feeding cornmeal and clover hay. The feeds tested for quality being those now largely used by dairymen in sections where grain is bought for feed.—Ne braska Cultivator. Setting a Booster. A citizen of Iiumford had canvassed the town in vain from end to end in search of a hen to set, when he hoard that an old darkey on the Boston, Prov idence & Newport road had a great deal of “setting stock.” As this was Just what he wanted, he lost no time in hunting him up. He found the old man building a hencoop in the rear of his residence. Approaching, he asked, by way of broaching the subject, how many hens he had setting. “Three hens and a rooster, boss.” “And a which?” inquired the poultry man. thinking he had not heard straight. “A rooster,” replied the darkey. Seeing a look of distrust on the vis , itors face he took him into a low build creatures do not keep healthy, and merrily, and lay abundantly;i* this time they go anxiously sear for the sharp-cornered mineral necessities crave, with their p working over a mass of ungro™ and their bowels'sorely irritate the passage of undigested grai_ their unnourished bodies the wj ed victim of disease and pre death.—The Cultivator. Bluenfess of Milk.—Milk u « from the udder may be deacr practically uniform composition however, we let it stand at re time we find, as all are aw* > . uniformity of the composition milk is disturbed by an ac «« J. which takes place rnore or ‘ess J on the surface of the milk, °““ fatty globules, which a mi ^ amination will show are ® ab t[r i distributed in milk; conc'.rrent^ this separation of the to ■ ® ^ the color of the main bo y served. By the removal of opacity of the milk |s ^ t 1 it is rendered more traM"® „„ has the effect of i“p" 'rf5tif oia tinge which is so charac (at milk. But, while most of Iects on the surface, tre^, certain percentage whi n the top. This amounts to per cent.—Exchange. re» Every Hen a. Prod“ ?ikfng for, the breed you have ® nd profit o much is in the succes “0nmon * same by the care and_c°m ^ treatment of them under J» be ship. Every healthy hen “ produC, on as a producer, but ^ tM c is more or less depen give! and kinds of food which J )n bjs, therefore the atten increasing hands the P°wer t bis stf11 * creasing her Proc l' .. jt isnot eXIH knowledge will should ed nor desired that one^ ^ ,b or pamper his j® {g0li roars? •’I or pamper his “ food, coat* more productive. P itlve quality flue, possessing ®utr‘;‘re than ^ all that I. desireu. MJ i positive injury to ti ,jberal aVf ?lace of bestowing at lace of bestow i ! sh0UiJ „ 0 n feeding. theJ°,X* and seek o do some scratching bave hi* inds of food when the. -Exchange. The Eggs •es are an anticioie .gte 0i «ss%x %>**** soluble compound. _ Secretary Thompson.,»f i0d00AW.0ute?or butter.