f
JAV COUL D'S SONS.
(Two Young LleuUnanti Who Are
' Buaiad With Enterpr ises of Creat
a Pith and Moment.
It may easily be that the son of a
famous man in New York has a bleak
time of it, says the Sun of that city.
He U apt to be overshadowed by his
' father's prominence. Jay Gould be
lieves this.
Anybody who talks to Mr. Gould can
ot but be impressed with hi marked
pmlosophic temperament It has been
aid that he loses his composure about
once in every six years. On these oc
casions some of his closest friends be
lleve that he is imprudent even to reck
lessness. The rest of the time he is a
keen and calm observer of everything
and everybody around him. These
sasual observations on some of Mr.
Sould's characteristics, and they have
been spoken of many times in Wall
street, will go along with the remark
ji on out campaigner in the street.
"Either Jay Gould loves his sons
George and Edwin to the point of indis
cretion," said he, "or he has weighed
' them up in his keen way, and thinks
there's lots of sand in them.'1
The old campaigner meant that Mr.
Gould believed that his sons hud the
financial acumen to justify him in push
ing them to the front in the manage
mentof great corporations arid financial
, enterprises with which his own name
is so prominently associated.
George Gould is now practically a
veteran. Pages have been written
about this young man of 30, who for a
number of years has been hi fnih'
. right hand man in the management of
the Western L'nion, Missouri Pacific,
and other great corporations. George
Gould is practically in command of the
Western L'nion building. His father
seldon visits the building. He has a
wire from it to his home on Fifth ave-
J nue and in Irvington, and as his eldest
son is a proficient pounder of the key
he is in direct and confidential commu
nication with his father, (ieorge
' CieuVi -receives All bis father's visitors,
and in other ways some of the rays of
his fathers prominence crilrl him
So much has been heard recently of
fcdwin Gould that he can very proper
ly be considered a factor in the Gould
fame. Very few speak of him as Ed-
win Gould. Ho is Eddie Gould to
nearly everybody, and in Wall street
he has inherited the title of "Kid
Gould," which was bestowed on his
brother George when he was first heard
of.
This young man is 23 years old. He
was born in the old home of tne
uoums in union square. He has a
voice and a vote in the management of
; LWAA AAA irw i - "
w,vw,uw oi railroad, telegraph
and cable capital. He is at the Wes
tern Union building with his brother
George every day. He is a director in
the Western Union Telegraph company
and its cable companies and the Man
hattan Elevated, secretary and a mem
ber of the executive committee of the
St Louis. Arkansas & Texas Railroad
oompany, president of the coal com
. panies of the Missouri Pacific railroad
oompany, and president of the Pacific
railroad of Nebraska. At directors'
meetings his boyish face contrasts with
jnose oi such veterans as J. Pierpont
Morgan, Samuel Sloan, Russell Safe
. Sidney Dillon, and Cyrus W. Field.
He is more like his father than
George. He resembles him in voice
and ways. George Gould can be
easily recognized by his olive skin and
raven hair and mustache. Young
Eddie Gould's skin is even darker and
his hair and mustache blacker than
George's. He has a diffident air and
speaks very slowly and. in the low
tones which are so remarked with his
father. In manners he is very much be
yond his years. He acts like a young
Old man. One would think in talking
with him that he never thought of fun
or was interested In the amusements
of young men. He occasionally
smiles, but it isn't the hearty expres
sion of youthful jolity. In fact, in
many ways he is an eminently serious
young man.
But he is just the young man that
: would interest some of our fair coun
try girls. He likes the theater and
opera. He has the same enthusiastic
seat for the theater that the average
City young man begins life at 15 with.
Young Gould would make a fine beau
for thenktttle country maidens who
go to the theater every night in the
month and have a smothered regret
that there were any Sundays to keep
them at home.
He can telegraph any number of
messages, but he says he is not an ex
pert receiver. In business hours he is
all business, but in the afternoons he
dashes through the park and out on
the roads beyond on a dark-gray
MiiruuHjr uurw wuii a wnite tail, lie
if a member of Troop A of the first
dragoons, the first cavalry troop to be
admitted to the national guard of the
state. All the hesitation in young
Gould's manner departs when he talks
Of this cavalry troop. He is earnestly
Interested in its success, and frankly
Hid the other day that if he had a
hobbj in the world it was this troop.
Em believes that in time it will sur
MMthe famous Seventh in the pro
tMey and precision of its drills and
frees parades. He is convinced that
tiM i time is approaching when interest
" troops win supplant the furore
Widen the Seventh and other famous
wmirj troops excite.
speculations began to attract attention
and be relinquished them to take tht
place in his father's office. He infer-
entially expressed the idea, though,
that the Western Union building wat
near enough to Wall street to suit anv
reasonable person. If vo-ing Gould
has a fancy for tock speculation he
impresses one with quiet indication;
of shrewdness and a cool determiuatioc
m their management,
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
oiaim aim rai as roou. i
A Florida correspondent of the Ohk
Farmer has taken to-lecturing the til
ler of the soil on his familiar habit of
sending the best of all hU products tt
market, reserviug for himself and fami
ly only those that had been thorough lj
culled over. The correspondent begin:
with the statement that "If there i
anybody in the world v,-ho is entitlee
to a good, squaie meal threa times;,
day it is the man who labors with hand
or brain," and then insists th it farmer.'
as a rule are ill-fed and only about
half nourished. Their meat is gener
ally salt, which is neither as palatable
nor as nourishing as frer.li. To digest
it requires a much greater effort on
the part of the btomach ami with much
less results. To be sure it lasts much
longer than would fresh meat and that
is probably one important reason why
the farmer uses it. The. rule a- t'c.
meat is the one observed in the selec
tion of fruits and vegetables. The
bright and fair go to market, the shriv
eled ami gnarled go on his table. As
a result the farmer and his family gen
erally show an ann-mie condition' of
the blood. Their ears are nearly the
color of umber and are translucent. ,
Instead of feeding his children with
tne best part of his wheat, ho has all
his flour boiled, and requires them to
eat that, which is almost pure starch,
and gives the bran auU shorts to his
livestock. As the curre.-pondent puts
it, he drinks the skim milk and pours,
the cream out for the cat. The part
of the wheat which gties to make red
blood, the farmer does not have made
up into food for his family, but gives
ii w nis jugs ana calves. Kv his con
stant diet on potatoes, bolted Hour ami
hog, his food is reduce,! to suivh. and
starch and fat. The butcher nor the
J .. ..
ua&er uufs not treat uimselt and fami
ly as does the farmer. The best cut
in his shop the butcher usually sends
to his own table, while the product of
graham Hour is uniformly set before
the bakers children. But for the pure
air which furnishes the farmer's boy
with part of his nourishment ho would
be as puny as those urban children
pent up in dark and ill-ventilated tene
ments. The mortality anions' farmers
Profitable 1'arm Help.
The amount and value of farm help
hat can be profitaply employed de
jends on many circumstances. It is
irobably true that the great majority of
armers do not hire enough, and equal
y true that they hire more than
! they can make pay. We are used to
' sonsiderin? the low prices of frui
products as the chief factor in detor-
iiining what farmers can do. It is
jften said that prices are too low to
aire much. Vet on land able to yield
!ull crops, and if the farmer be himself
i man of energy and push, it is better
!or him to hire what he needs to keep
.t properly cultivated than to let such
and lie idle, or after planting to be
jvergrowu with weeds.
If the farmer himself be willing and
ible to work he will get enough out of
Bis employes to make it prolttable to
hire them. If ho be shiftless and in
ftieient he will probably run nshore
juickly whatever be his policy about
Hiring help.
It should be the farmer's aim to
make his land and system of cropping
food enough to warrant the largest
possible expenditure of labor. If he
is a good worker himself ho can get
more work out of hired help and thus
llTord to hire more. A diversified
lysleui of husbandry enables him to
Binploy more help by the month or
rear. This is best for both parlies,
because with greatly diversified crops
there is profitable work at all seasons.
File ability to devise farm improve
ments that will pay for themselves is
also another iiujKirtnut item. On the
millions of acres where underdraining
but it is vast!v more so in angle-worms
and weed-seed. They are a.l ami
perhaps shaded by an ient titles whoe
fruit'f ulness ended lng uu'- They are
probably skirted on two or three sides
bv a dense growth of brambles and
artichokes, but the side next the hen
house is open to all comers. 1'hey are
plowed and planted t odd jobs, nam
the owner cannot work in the field, and
ther contain but little more than the
usual variety of field crops. -.ouitoes.
corn, beans, peas, and perhaps a lew
cuetinibers and beets. They are boed
'once in a while." just enough w keen
the weeds thrifts and thev yield -all
that could be exacted. A real gar
den bears little resemblance to these.
If it ia hi.,!.,) and slIIIIIV. the soil is
I clean
Is most needed some portion of hired
help varying with the capital of its
J owner should be employed in that
work, 'three or four crops will pay
the expense by their ineiva-ed yields
(0n well-drained land, and the im
provement is for all time. If it needs
the extra crops for four years to pay
the cost of the drains it is equal to
twenty-live per cent, for the money.
j Not many kinds of business pav equn 1
to that.
Improving the productive capacity
Of soil in any way is generally so di
rectly prouuiuie mat tne man who is
Steadily doing it can well afford to hire
more help than can one whose land is
all the time growing poorer. It is be
cause most farmers have not enough
capital in proportion to their acres to
farm as they should that they do not,
and cannot afford to hire, if" the crop
Is to yield less than the cost of produc
ing it, the farmer himself is obviously
the only man who can at all afford to
a children would be even greater than! Jo it. This means for hi m a good deal
among city children were it not for
tne wholesome influence of nure ox
ygen, for as a rule, city children are
better fed than those reared on farms.
Cincinnati Times.
and it is
on these
oi nara worn lor little pay
not possible to hire men
terms.
' Market gardeners work bmall areas of
Land and employ more help on two or
three acres, often on less than one acre
than many farmers do on farms of 100 or
Olt . , . . - . . . .
ou acres, n is ODjectecl ttlat tins is
! gardening. It is, but gardening no less
i than farming is soil cultivation anu
governed by the same general rules.
Bar Out the Vicious.
The watchful officials at Castle Gar
den are to be commended for their
prompt action in the case of the re-
GtTrI ff:rim,I?,lhe --ket garden the employer!;
i.iuuouLiiii spirit j ouugeu to unaercirain and maneur in
which has for several year past ' most thorough manner, in order
pormpted bold utterance of opinion in ' thafc he may. Pa.v for tljo great amount
favor of restriction of immio-ration has i v help thali ho is oblied to hire,
been awakened by the coming to our tT COUnt,rjr Cmnl lhe farmers
shores of justsuch7 vicious elements a ' fa 1 "huTi W tiTl
British ex-con victs and ticket-of-leave more nearfyVeJ a nd ap'o'viro; , X
Fn,, T "abundant room in the j the conditions of that worked by he
Lmted States for honest men bent 1 market gardener, the more heft
Upon home-building, but we have suf-; farmer can ri rl mT. V 1 V,
ficient of the criminal class, and can aim can, ot Toverinto a
offer no welcome to the riff-raff and garden at once. Probably before it is
!5SEr,nK' f frelga the owne, will see the .dvTnS
oi laoor affainut t,h pmnim.m ' : " ' v" '-" at
- HJHU my
w.iYiuis upon arucies wnicn may be
""S' van urouauiv work-. t. ia n
good deal easier to find that limit than
to find the limit of hPl
it mi,!.. -"'-":" "-
thoroughly analyzed, the question wiH tonre Z't wh ' TJ! 'tT d"
offered . in competition
suns ot nonest labor.
with the re-
NY hen
be found to be simplv one of seleet.inna
as to the manner of taxing the honest
for the support of those who are kept
in duress for the good of .society in
general. The cost of keepins the vic
ious wnere iney can cause no injury to
iiiuuwjui aim mo nonest must, in
some way, come out ot the tax-payer'
pocket
Thlo W!
uuuuirauiue question IS 80
cioseiy united with that of immigra-
7" 1'iiviieiie mat reason, and nature
ursi law tnat or self-preservation-
cVl1lll i:ttr.fn n! 1 ... . , . .
cuecjjiess watcniulness
at ew York, Boston and other great
ocapuru!, against tne importation of
convicts and other vicious and irre
sponsible characters. Wisconsin, Mil-
wauKee.
Fly Time.
The flies come with the flowers,
When all the earth is fair,
To poison summer's hours
(Slap I missed him, 1 declare!)
They buzz around one's fare,
They tickle brow and eye,
Thny're found in every pface
(Slap! bang ! whack! Darn that fly.
(Wait till he comes again,)
The flies as all will own,
Make saintly men profane
(Now, then-slap: Ko, he's gone )
Boston courier.
farm
uegree as
if ;
v-
ZOWta? Gould la a mnmhe nf ih v.
. . r. , . " ..." mow
I W Athletic club, and when at
mbia rowed in the freshman crew
A Low London. "But we got licked,"
1 1 hwoeloslly said, in speaking of the
iJmkm. Before going to Columbia
.f-M Gould went to the New York
w. w MUKuagcs, out ne says he
ZWi interested enough to learn to
the languages Uught at the
When he went to Columbia he
rttaid three years. He quit the
1 two years before because, as
"a- M became interested in stock
-3tions on the Consolidated stock
'Wwrtoum exohage. He was a
ItS ?. cnange even
i2.5-?to' occasionally
'r1ah with kle speeula-
aaileiwta.lwraflaliedthe
iCpr- "fwoMn'twantto
A School of Devil-Fish.
Old ocean pilots and sea-going peo
ple who watched the school ofdevil
fish that played about the pilot-boat s
and the tug Cynthia, before the boats
got off in a recent regatta at Charles
ton, 8. C, says that such a sight is
very rare in the life of a mariner.
They played about the crafi for fully
half an hour, and were principally
ypung devil-fish from four feet long to
six feet, and they looked like great
bats. Some of them had 8hed theii
UHs, while others had caudal appen
dages fully a yard in length. As
many as twenty of these hideous-look-ing
marine curiosities were seen at one
time, and one was shot by one of the
crew of Neca, and after lashing the
waters of the sound into a foam it sank
out of sight.
An Eneg retic Teacher.
Signal Post, Cal., possesses a teacher
who believes in discipline. A local
paper remarks: 'Our
rai imifiwsMi si .4 .... ri. a rati viii ail
way pupil to his home and m,0?0? "" that ban
.itie chief reason why tman
not afford to biro more "help is because
j uieirianu is just rich enough to pay
I lnora a Poor living for workin" in, but
not good enough to allow anything for
cau ;i laoor. i ne nrst step out ot this
rut is to begin improving the farm.
Cultivate and manure a few acres
thoroughly, doing it at first without
hiring and by your own labor. That
will perhaps give you some profit,
which can be used to manure and till
other acres in the same wav. When a
farm has been brought up H0 that the
labor of one man, aside from its own
er, can be employed and paid Tor from
its produce, the next step is to still
further increase its productiveness If
the same careful system is continued,
each upward stou will 1 .i, '
v" line preceding until the
orougiu to as high a d
i"- unuer tne circumstances,
there is never a loss from rich land if
properly managed; but what may be
extra fertility for stneb-
farming might not be rich enough for
the requirement of the small fruit and
vegetable gardenerAmerican Cultivator.
The Garden.
ITie farmer who has no pardon t.
cheat and a failure. He cheats himif
and he cheats his family, and that is
the worst kind of cheating h fn. ,n
take half the good things he is entitled
to; he lives poorly when he might live
well; , he punishes his stomach and
eep n is pocket-book lean; he deprives
himself of hal f the satisfaction he ought
to take in seeing his crops grow and
L I t t,P'? y t0 eat- and the end
he probably drives his children away
f.om home and spends his declining
years with the dyspepsia. But vou say
Jll farmers have gardens. Ho they
w. nrF0,,r,h'1U of oun.bers, two
rPrn.r',CtC0rn and a few lonesome
thn ?lkB?m "0t a (?arden more
J U i bm wa,-fheel. five hun
d red bobbins and a loom are a cotton
in il l; and any quantity of stunted vege
tables cm worn -out soil, or any amount
or weeds on good soil is not a garden
W more than a clump of Trb
forest, or a cat-tall swamp a prairie
cornfield. All farmer. h,,v -Z
ni imii
SO
paper remark: 'Our pniro.n ,.,, . ; : nrs nave so-ca
iffffS. , a"-. -wnn. b tilled forTrhaU
j a century, h may be rich In fertilizers
and deep, it receives the own
er's earliest attention in the pprmg.
constant care through the summer
and attention late in the fall. It is
laid out systematically, thoiironnhly
cultivated." fertilized with intelligent
j regard to the crops 1o grow in it
j and it contains not only held crop.
' but a great variety of vegetables and
I several sorts of c,ie!i variety so
planted as to furnish everything freh
and eatable as early and as lnio as
possible, and perhaps iieM a large
j surplus fur the market. u"ti a gar
den will go furttier tonaiiN support
ing a family, add more to their i-um-fort
an lieallh and srueumre .-tore bills
than one fanner in IWeiity lias ever
lireauieil of. With a jjood garden to
go to a gou 1 lio i-ew lfe m-d never txj
al a loss to I; now nhat to get for din
ner from the tii-s! of Juiv u itii winter,
and from it sh:- can s--t a better table
than any miiouuI of money will pro
vide away from a ci'y market. Such 1
a gaiden costs a ;;ood deal of linn-
and care, and soum money, but it ;
comes to much more than it costs. ;
anu is, we beiiev tne lx;st investment
a farmer can make. Besides this
a fine garden is one of the healthiest
and plensantcst places on a farm. The
man who does not enjoy owning and
seeing one, who cannot get solid com
fort and substantial satisfaction in
working one, has not only a
sluggish soul but a stomach that sadly
needs to be refined and educated, es
pceially if he is one of that class who
iook upon gardening as very small
bu siness for able-bodied men, and when
the ground is plowed and a few pota
toes and a little corn planted, leave
the rest to the women and children.
Such a farmer deserves to In- fed on
-alt horse and Johiiuy-cike from De
cember to January. Our advice then
is. to all our renders who own land, to
make a garden, make it in a good spot,
make it big. plant it in not only sub
stantial of "garden sauce," but fruit
and relishes, a score of things of which
you perhaps know nothing but which
you can leirn about by a little
inquiry. Don't bo stingy "with your
fertilizers: don't be afraid of wasting
labor; don't worry in veil doing, biit
keep right tr. it, if you were culti
vating it to nipt v , tb!e of an epi
cure to whom mnnt.v '-af. no object; it
will pay you, ,iJ show jii how little
you have known of the blessings that
fdlow the ownership of a farm.
l'ractical farmer.
Farm otr.
It often does young grain good to
harrow it if a heavy rain has fallen,
packing the surface soil before the
seed has sprouted. The harrow
breaks the crust, lets in warm air, and
thus keeps the soil moister than it
otherwise would be all the
After the grain is up it will shade the
ground so that no second crust will
form.
A careless com planter may easily
damage the crop ten times the amount
ma wages, either by putting in too
little or too much seed, or dropping it
one side the right mark, so it will ba
miro to be cut out by the cultivator
U all every hill in its right placo and
uiree goou piants in H there need bo
ii nie naiiu moor used to make
crop.
It U perhaps an indication of the
depreciated character of much north
ern farm help that imiifs are coming
into such favor for doing farm work!
At the south they have long super
seded horse-i, which latter are mainly
used for road and pleasure purl)..
J he mulrs is a rough customer to
abuse. He U lively with his heels
u eniorees somewhat
treatment.
The earliness, productiveness and
valu - of the grape crop can be greatly
increased by judicious thinning of the
clusters. Cut them off as soon a, the
buds appear, leaving two instead of
three or four on a single shoot. The
Catawaba and possibly other lato ri
pening kinds may be profitably thinned
to one cluster on a shoot, this win
probably ripen and be worth more
than tlii-re or four unripe clusters.
it is not alone for
mint is Healthful, thouo-h its
AN ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS
A Courageous Act at the Time m
the Chyann War.
In 1874 the Cheyenne Indians reii,
dentin the Indian Territory becanw
restive and undertook predatory ev
ix-ditions, which aroused a like blood,
thirsty feeling in other tribes. A g,.
era! Indian war resulted, one of the
cideuU of which, set down In I'...
hot goapsud; they snoiuu i i -saui -.Meaai of Jlonor," speaks nohi.
,v,j ..!...! mfh co d water, men I .,i k; , v
- if inLon imm-oiaieir iei
once ii iw) : ,. - . j
held over a pail while boiling alr is
poured upon thm.
If so uufoi tunato as to ifh the
bosom of a f-hirt while ironing it, hang
in the sun. and it will be drawn out in
a few hours.
Carjiets will look much brighter
after eweeping if wip.-d Off Hh a uamp
cloth.
Oilcloths should never m washed in
rim.;,
fctouo
mhlifil drv with a cloth wet in
The same'tis-atuient ajijilies to i
or slate ticni'th.
A few drops of ammonia in a cup of
warm rain water, carefully applied
with a net swiige, nill remove tho
fcpit-i fi-om paintings nnd chromoi.
the
respectful
fh.,.,,.,.:-; . . . " "UUIUVB
T'1 . f,s!"";"lly ailapt it to
promote bodily growth. It is almost
equally a specific for brain exhaustion
and the student or writer who is f-iP.
fed out will find a glass of warmed
milk to relieve him better than a stim
ulant. Wold drinks, as indeed all
ice-cold drinks should be avoided as
they are very injurious to digestion
There may be conditions of temper
ature and moisture in the soil that will
make severe root pruning of corn by
deep cultivation, not only not injurious
but even beneficial. But the man
who cuu, off a root Uikes a chance Sat
t may hurt the plant. If the bJj
for com has been properly prepared
shallow culture will be all the cron
will need. If it has not been l
rather late after the corn is UD n 1 '
edv the original mlstako! P t0 nm'
The old fashioned notion that nas
must be bushed in gardens. Is growTn
out of date. The bush only nukee 5
harbor for weeds, end often prevent
Ail Arrostic.
Crrat source Divine! Tbou Kinirs of Klixfs!
Kternal Father '. Mi(fhty One !
Our i ",xi '. To ThM Coliunbia tirimr
ltiectful iUank for aUmtctua:
Glad hearts we on Thin"? IU.r lay,
Knwnitile o or s continent.
While oft, ut'irniU-ful, they thi day
Are thine fur our tirt pmideut.
Sldehl u. O lni. the nation shiei '
II. iid oet tins bml Thy ceptT ',iooyl
Imiiiie u to lti way to yield.
.Nor suffer un to l.rtter wrou
(inuit u. O (Jod. a fend desire
To live in peace and tiniiy !
Oh ' Mar we a a nation tear
XupnwerbiitThiue.no hiuK but Tlix!
- ('has -M L'utclieon.
rrotei tin? Trce from Kalitiil-.
A uui'syniau recommends tin.- follow
ing remedies: A teaspoonfu! of tinct-
1 un- of as-ofii tida in half a bucketful
; ol liquid day, nnul or muck of any
; kind, applied with a brush to the stem
j and branches of young trees will pre.
i serve mem iroiu inn attacks oi raouiw
j without injury to the trees. Two or
; three applications during the winter
will be sutlirieiit. A mixture of lime
water and cow manure made pretty
! strong forms an excellent anli rabit
composition. There should be plenty
j ol the latter ingredient, both to make
I it adhere properly and because, 11 the
' lime 1ki in excess, the mixture dries
too white ujion the trees and is un
sightly, whereas if proer!y mixed it
dries just the right shade of greenish
gray. W hen tar is objectionable on
account of its injuring the young trees,
a simple mixture of soot and cow ma
nure made thin enough to bu put on
witiia bruits will help to ward off the
attacks of rabbits during the ordinary
seasons. A mixture ot equal proor
tions of sulphur, soot and lime, made
up into a thick cream with liquid cow
manure, is also very effectual Incases
where a btrongiy smelling remedy is
not objected to. Where apjic.irancii
is of no consequence Stockholm tir
is recommended. Cas tar should
never be applied to young trees,
especially il the bark bo already
stripped from them. The blent
should be tarred from the ground
to about twenty inches in height If
the trees bo planted for ornament the
following plan is preferable If the ex
tra expense be no objection. Instead
of applying to the tree itself, stick
three or four stakes around each plant
at the distance of 9 inches or a foot
from it; then tie a piece of fresh t ired
line round the stokes at a distance of
9 Inches from Urn ground. The tar
should be mixed with an equal portion
of manure of about the same consis
tence as the tar or it may injure some
of the trees. A strip of tarod paper
tied round the stem is also of service
where the rabits are not very numer
ous. Strong subject may be daubed
with a mixture of equal "parts of gas
tar, cow manure and wator made into
a thick paint. If there be any marks
ui uio uiw;g vney stiould bo careful!
painted over. Amonir mise it ..,,,.,
remedies are the following: place a
thin layer of weeds or refuse round tho
stems, and fasten it with a tough reed or
t e of strsw. Hub the bark with some
thing distasteful to them, such m
strong smelling grease. The applica
tion of a pint of buttermilk and soot
when snow rails and again in March
is said to be an excellent remedy.
Wire netting or tying sticks or corn
stocks round the necks or plants ar.3
effectual remedies In severe seasons
where the rabits are numerous. -Ex-change.
f,ir the oersonal herim nln... , j,
, , -- uui OIQlen
j during a skirmish in Texas the whiu
men had sought shelter in a buffalo
r allow on the top of a knolL At thai
iioment it was discovered that one of
their number named Smith wa.
wounded, and had fallen outside of thi
shelter. Unless he could be brought
In ha would certainly be butohered.
but any attempt at bringing hint in
looked like certain death.
It was a hero's opportunity, a0d th
hero was there. A scout named Chan,
man laid aside his rifle, sprang out U
the wallow, and, running to Smith
tried to lift him. He thus tells his own
btory of what followed: "Smith wM
not a very largo man, but I declare h
seemed to weigh a ton. Finally I jar
oowii, anu ko um cuesi acrosi my back
and his arms around my neck. It Wa,
as much as I could do to Stagger under
him, for he couldn't help himself o-ia
bit liy the time I had gone Lj or so
yards ulxmt Dftofln Indians came for
me at the full speed of their ponies
They nil knew me and yelled 'Anon1
Anos! We have got you now!1 I puii'
my pistol, but I could not hold Smiih
on my hack w ith one hand, so I let him
drop. The boys in the buffalo wallow
ojiened lire on the i-ed skins just at th,
right time and I fired with my pistol
Thoro was a tumbling of ponies and
scattering of Indians, and in a minuia
tucy were gone.
"I got Smith up again and made for
the wallow, but before I could reach j(
another gang came for me. 1 had onls
one or two shot in my pistol, f, j
didn't fight, but ran for St When 1
was within about I) yard of the al.
low a little old scoundrel rode a!mo.t
onto mo and fired. I fell, with Smith
on top of mo, but a I didn't feel any
pain l thought I had stopped in a hole"
The Indians couldn't stay around Uteri
long, for thcs Imh made "it red-hot, so I
jumped up, picked up Smith and got
safe into the wallow. 'Anen,' m'ul or e,
you're badly hurt' "No, I am no'.'
aid I. 'Why, look at your leg.' ha
said,
Sure enough, the leg wh shot o1
just above the ankle joint, I had twv
walking on the lmj, dragging the foot
behind me, nnd in the excitement l
never knew it" Philadelphia I'rrsj,
An IntercHling iiggefim.
An trronaut now In ihi city makj
hn ink-renting suggestion. Ha any
body,"' ho says, "ever umv the bsilo-m
in the exploration of Central Africa, or
proved that it would not het ervicrbh
1ook at Stantcy, iuigg!ing for yr
amid forest, nwamps, and savage
tribes, yet unable to make hi r
into tho Interior, but would it not
possible for a skinful aeronaut to Xsikt
him in a balloon front the' esuu-m
coast of Africa, proccod In the direc
tion of Ujijl, and from there toward tht
sources of the Nile, surveying the
country a he wen t along? They would
sweep across tlm continent at tho raw
of -pet or fioy miles a day, that but n
hhort time would b needed for th
long journey, iiud they would m:t
with no obstruction from swamp, for
ests, or MViii'ea.
"The balloon would casilv earrv al!
the provisions and water required !jr
the party during their trip, and iho
acrotiuiiu might travel only during lbs
day, descendinir for rest t niuhL
Ve&rs ago Prof. Wise renealedlv made
voyage of l.(xi m!l,H In his balloon,
and compel mt feky-flyors might noa
bo found to JHilvo tho African tirnblrm
through a Voyagj In an air ship. It U
tho only way to do it, and 1 shall tell
Stanley so when he gets back here U
tenure." It in to lw undcnilood Ihnl
the ueronaut who mini.; the foregoing
remarks Is an enthusiast., on hid favor
lt; subject Xcw Vork lleiald.
coin-
Plowing the ground after tK--L I?
Ott The small varieties wrely 'do not
need bushing. With the large varle
ties sow a little more thickly in tht
than if they were to be bushed
They wi l fall down, smother eome of
the weeds, turn up and bear neaX
many as If they were bushed. ITmert
can Cultivator. -meri.
Hint to Houk7,n,
jo remove stains from
nuuuers, scour with
brick and soap.
Wash the hair in cold mwo tea,.
will keep the hair from lalllnTout
Tea or coffee stains will come out at
CUIJS .!
powdered bath
A I-etterhard to lUad.
A good story is told or a well known
young Pltuburger is going the rounds.
A few days ago the young man went to
j.u.,1B, - ,lu a tune.'" spent nil his
money and when he began to Bober tlp
found himself in jaiL He could not tL
released until his fine was paid. JU
therefore msnt a letter to ,
this r ty, requesting a loan to h-lp hhn
out of his trouble. !! iH a.it t "
worst penman in Allegheny countv
and t happened that thmatTu who'm
Ule,e C0 f1 CU''J ad
little of it e.xc;pt t)je Kie,miw T."
, fti ! , "oaounient that wore,
XfeSt.nHraK
:ruinrs h ,4
But the letter had ali Ii
f ty or sixty hand, betorTj t')
it. As one of the m . banted
iteonUIn h7T1 "V
"""n't for the wort "JujI'T'
living souL" The chagrin h
young man can h tm in of the
employ an armmnLLT ,le' or else
PitUburDispak,l1,:enH", her.
BwlfiorrinEi
'arm and thnutht ' m" tUron
cows uromuiiv .l,M''t-
"" he .ui kff the
the dj t We daily ,
charge of the l,,,"," : enUre
datnlghL 68 '' hom.
A Singular Sl-tliike.
A Hartford lady toll this true re!
tion concerning her anwstor, l'0
wiw a direct dewcendttnt of John KUot,
tlia great mUsiomiry and scho'ar.
This My Jivod In 'ew Haven and
had occasion to send to lioslon lor ft
number or kegs or nail. New Haven
at that time (about ITilo) not producing
the-Kt neii-nHurjev j,,' (i,,,, time the
tegs arrived, and on opening th'-m if
wit discovered that oim was filled with
SpatiUh dollar. The family wroUs ti
the Boston merchant telling him that
"ne of the kegs held winicthiug mors
valuable than nail. He replied thai
h had bought them for nails and hii
re-lKiiihibilitv therewith ended. Well,
Iney were kept nmong the family
treasure tor many year untouched
and unclaimed, until the death of t
head olthe houo, who In her will or
dsred that they be melted and cast
into a communion service or t
ew Haven church, which wm done,
Md It is sun probably in use.-Harl-'ord
(,'ourant
A Jail Court
I he seventeen persons awaiting trial
In the Somerset county jail, Pennsyl
vania, have adopted a code of la ot
Ihclrown, and elected Lewis, chief of
n McClellandtown gang, as the"
J'ige. A rew days ago two men pn
oners were caught stealing tobacco.
Jude Uml sentenoed them to
bumped agalnattbe prison wall, which
WM dono so vigorously that the watch
man thought a wholesale outbrra
M being attempted. He was on t hi
Point of alarming the town, lb
ituatlon was explained.
lhe Telephone.
The Electrical Review figures out
that U all the .telephone wires In thii
country were stretched In a contls
out line they would reach seven timet
round the earth, and that if the tne
ages transmitted every day were seijl
through one set of Instrument 1
ould, allowing two minutes foresee
message, require nearly ten )ar k
transmit them all.
