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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1893)
AH S'H AS A SERVANT. oacoiU loo arrUTlr Kfi Saaka Kan MM Bri. Those accustomed to "Beau Brum natlM colored waiters or neat house maids can hard! appreciate how rid iculous a Ch naniau first appears in Ihe ranaeif. nf waiter with hia shaved head, snake like queue, stiffly iaunuerea long, white coat ana thick-soled slippers; but with all, ay. a writer in the Washington Post, he serves the different courses "alle lite," and handles the table ap- rxtintaieots witii his long, thin fingers in a characteristic style all of his owr. When a hou-sekeeper employs a "China boy she must in the very beginning forcibly demonstrate to him in "pigeon English" his differ ent duties, else when she calls upon him to perform extra ones be never . fully comprehends. As an instauce, a cooic was one day directed by bis mistress to select and 'devitalize" two chickens lor dinner. He seemed ! never to have heard of a chicken un-! til be saw no way out of it, where-1 upon the wildest confusion and cacg- j ling issued from the poultry-yard, and t lie re stood "Ah Wing" frantic -j Ally swinging the ueck of the last of A score of chickens, as he calmly said: : "You tell me to killee cbickeo an' I killee chicken." As the household ; supply of coal oil was diminishing at : a great rate. Ah Wing was - ucslioned ; abnit it Much astonished, he asked: "lto you think I drink coal oil?" His conversation consisted much of the I phrase, "You think so.' When , meeting a visiting member of the . family whom his mistress presented ' as her brother, he pol teiy said. "You ; think so;" laughingly she told him she had always been tiught to be lieve so. . Chinamen are exceedingly secretive, and Douse wives seldom find out how fn,L ,-:" h, .w.w. . ,; 1 they prepare certain favorite dishes. he hastily gathers together his in gredients and utensils retires to the pantry or discontinues operations al together, and it is quite Impossible to get him to write out a formula of any kind. The young son of a family living near Los Angeles once pur chased an ostrich egg, and as an ex periment had the cook make an ome let of it, requesting him to write the recipe. It tioes without saving that the ounict was more powerful than delicate, and the description read: "One iieapee big egg he makee one beapee big omelee." Celestials have a penchant for sweet desserts, and to encourage new cooks families at tempt to partake of three different egg desserts at one dinner. It is a better and more economical pian to hide the egirbeater in the beginning. They also possess a gieat fondness for lettering and executing the most fautastlc designs, with cones, on pies and puddings. In these they often sadly mix their Sunday-school teachings and show a lack cf rever rence. Once at a large loarding house in Pasadena, the beautiful sub urb of Los Angeles, the cook shocked All the boarders by placing before them a pie, upon which was the fol lowing inscription: "Come to Jesus Marengo llalL" Another, in making out his grocery lists, always heads them with a scriptural quota tion as "Messed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Two packages of cornstarch, Ave pounds of butter." Sacred Serpent, Kgypt. A general belief in the divine char- After and healing powers of the sacred i serpent is to be met with all over! Egypt Even the myths which the; old Egyptians associated with the i snake are still prevalent Egyptians j of alt classes still believe that when 1 "a serpent grows old, wings grow out ! oi iws uouy, anu tnat tnere are ser pents which kill by darting dames in tbe victim's face. How all such be liefs are In this country need not le repeated to those who have seen the pictures In the Tom to of the Kings At Thettea The serer. or "flying ser pent," and the snake from whose mouth flames Issue are among the commonest ot the figures painted on tbeir walls. It Is not, however, as Kakod i-mon, but as Agathod i mon, that the divine serpent of ancient Egypt still main tains his chief hold on the belief of tbe Eg ptian people. Each house still has its lrtrras or 'guardian snake," commonly known as tbe har ras el-bet "the protector of the house" The snake is fed with milk And eggs and care is taken not to do it harm. A servant of mine, who was born at Helwan, near Cairo, has often told me about the tiuardian snake of his father's house. It was A large one, and used to come out at night for the sake of the food that was offered it and to glids o.er the bodies of the sleeping family. It never did any of them any mischief, "as it was always treated well." One day a stranger snake made its appear ance at the door of the house; the harras at once went ag.iinst it, and After a short struggle killed the in truder. The Contemporary Kcview. Early Printing. The following Are the earliest kaown examples of printing two In tfdfftooes, printed usually no one Me only of a single piece of vellum, tod two magnificent Bibles. of these, one Is known to be the first complete book that ever was printed hf the wonderlul new invention, which, as tbe early printers so often proudly ftate In their colophones. froduced 'letters without the aid of tKjr eort of pen. whether of quill, of fstl or of metal." T3s first pbee of printing which Is C-rrsilT dtted Is lb famous indul- ;rt f H:boU V. to each as i - "JCBwtrltmte money to aid tbo 1 tT CrprtH acAlast the Turks. ilMtBM hu the nrintarl .! JUXMi a copy In The lUgue Museum has the date No vember 15" tilled in with a ta Mr. iJutt tells us that in the years 1454 and 14 5 there was a larne demand for these Indulgences, and seven editl ns were issued. The may be divided into two bets, the one con taining thirty-one lines, the o'.ber thirty lines, the first dated example i '"'D "e former." This thirty-line edition is shown to have been printed by Peter SchoefTer de I i, iu .. iuai u. ! the lait1 letles whlch VccJur, in U ! WT 10 anoiuer raier inuu.geuce ; of 148 ', which is know. n to have come Saturday Ke- ifrjinbi press The view. M kel-ln-t he-Slot. There is an endless variety of uses to which nickel-in-the-slot ma chines will successfully lend theni- , ; acivcs. and it is scarcely surprising. therefore, that their number is grow ing apace. BrobaUy one of the lat estapphances of the principle govern ing their operation is found in the hot-water fountains which have len brought out in France, and which would seem to be eminently well adapted to supply one of the wants of principally tbe poorer clasps of a city's population. These fountains . are put up in the puolic street, and afford the convenience of supplying at auy hour of the day or night a cer tain Quantity or hot water in return ; for a coin of certain value, which Is ' dropped into the slot in the now so j familiar way. The dropping of the coin auto- ' matically governs the flow ol water ' from the street mains through the ; small boiler, heated by a series of gas i jets, and similarly regulates the j oiiantilv of gas which Is admitted, j and which is lighted by means of a I small, constantly maintained ignit j ing jet. A number of these machines i have been placed at different points in the streets of Paris, and appar- emlJ bave proved to be profitable In 1 For each coin inserted something like eight litres of water, at a tem 1 perature of about 1 10 degrees Fahren i belt, are delivered. Cassier's Maga i zine. i The Bengal Hoar. ' Possibly in moments of entbuslas u ' and wassail the Bengal boar may : have been overpraised. He has not a pleasant temper, his habits are : ojen to unfavorable criticism, he may fail in his family relations but he has plenty of pluck. He will light anything that, comes in his way; not even a tiger daunts him, and, what is more, the tiiier sometimes succumbs to the terrible tushes of the boar. j I have seen a boar bearing away j from such heroic battle the marks deep and frequent marks of a tiger's claws, and that boar swam the Ganges in flood a sufficient feat for an unwounded animal, and one that . should 6et at rest the question : whether pigs can swim. 1 A dangerous brute is that liepgal ! boar. Throughout the whole of my j sporting career only two ot my beat eis were killed, and one of these was i cut to death by a boar, a leopard killed the other: not one was either , killed or mauled by tigers. But my first experiences In this line were. 1 regret to say, less con nected with the migfty boar than with the s-jw, which, though it can- not rip up a horse's flanks or belly as j can the boar, can gallop a little, and, I instead of ripping, can bite. Black- wood's Magazine A Cantonment. The cantonment, at an Indian town, means the place where the English live. The native town is usuallv inclosed by high walls and accessible only by a few gates; it is brimful of jieopie who crowd its ba zaars or shop streets. (Juite outside the town and a mile or two away Is the cantonment, au unwalled dis trict where each house stands in its own inclosure or compound, and where the regiments, British or na tive, are quartered in "lines" or rows of huts. The cantonment usually has wide well-kept roads, with a grassy mar gin and avenues of fine trees, giving it the appearance of a great park. The English visitor, if he stays with friends, might le a week without seeing the native town at all, unless his curiosity prompted an excur-ion in search of it There is always in the cantonment a club, with a ladies' wing, (unless the ladies have a j gymkhana or club of their own. ) and, besides the various parade grounds, a polo ground or tennis court, so that a : visitor bent only oa amusement has plenty of resources. The Nineteenth Century. Story of the King of f pain. I The characteristic passion of the : King of Spain is for soldiers. Every thing about the army interests him, and he will listen to stories about battles for any length of time. II was once taken by the (,'ueen to the fonventof the Assumption. About sixty or seventy of the white robed pupils were sent Into the gardens to I see the King and sisters, whereupon Ills Majesty seeing an unrivaied op portunity for exercising his favorite talent, Immediately oiganized the grave but amused girls Into com panies. He then appointed tbe In fanta second In command, and giving the word "march," placed himself at the head of his charming army. On j meeting tbe Queen, who was walking ! about with several of the nuns and . court ladles, hs ordered "hall" and! "presented arms," following up his ' command by a chanting of the "Marcha Real," which was at once j taken up by the girlish voices, St. ' , James Gazette. i Whrn a man makes up a trouble with his wife, he doesn't seek to re move tbe caue of the offense, but to eoavince her she is aoreasonahle. hrinmurr I 'ljiiirr. Kickety wooden bouses. many stories high, seemed to lean all round I us m every i.sitjie d rection; each ! unlive its ne gblior in polor and be gbt though nearly ail w th U-au-i tiful carved shutters, hanging in ! pictures, ue angles Ir ui wimlows. in lucent of all other protection. In ' the warm suuiight, the brown and white tones r peoed into rich shades j of yellow and red, and here and there a pale-pink house, with emerald green window frames, threw in a strong dash of color; and aver ts neighbor's dark carved shutters would hang strings of red tomatoes arying in the but sun. Must of tbe bouses seemed full of people, who looked out listlessly from behind their man. -colored draperies as we pa.sea. Others, more curious crowded together on overhanging varaudas, which had absolutely "no visible means of support," but whose insecurity seemed in no way to affect tbe laughing, chattering group of people uocn tgiem. Eve y here and and there th irregular line of bouses was broken by a narrow street, wind ing away into almost black darkness. so sharp was the contrast between it and its sunny surroundings. The town seemed full of life and animation as the canal merged into tbe center street of the river. Women with great dark wondering eyes came down flight of steep steps to fill their earthen pitchers at the w iter's edge; men jiasseJ to and fro, rowing in eayly-painted lioats, and our coun try men and women mingled with the ere d under the great poplar avenue, by the riverside. We pitched our tents in a garden about four miles up the stream, and the next dav piepared to visit the city In a small boat. Srinager has six bridges crossing the Jhelutn at various intervals, and letween two of these all fishing is prohibited by the Maharajah who nominally Koverns the land, the rea son given being that the soul of a late Maharajah has passed into a fish, who resides in this part of the river! The Corohill Magazine. Activity of the Hene. Some Interesting scientific experi ments recently made demonstrate that the scenes are as a rule more acute in men than In women. The sense of smell in the' masculine su -Jccts experimented upon wa keen enouh to detect the presence of the hundredth part of a grain of prussic arid. The female subjects only de tected the poison by smell when the twentieth part of a craln was pres ent: proving that the sense of smell is five times as keen in men as it Is in women, bight was found to be general in the male and particular in the female subjects. The men took In the general aspect of a scene at one glance, while the women were only Impressed by some striking fea ture of it. The sene of hearing was proved to be Ave times more a 'ute In the males than in the females. The ticking of a watch was heard by the former at the distance of only two yards, while to the latter it was distinctly audible at a distance of ten jarcis, and even more. A woman only detected by taste, upon an av erage, the twentieth part of a grain of gall, while the men detected the pres nee of the sixth part of a grain; proving that this sense Is three times more a live n the latter than it is in the former- About the sense of touch ro definite conclusion was ar rived at The experiments were not comprehensive enough to demonstrate any decided superiority upon one side or the other. The practical result of this investigation is the establish ment of a reason why women bear physical pain with more fortitude than do men. It is that the organs of sense being less active, women are less easily affected by pain, or indeed, any physical emotion. Her IfopHeas Ignorance. The following conversation is an example of my wife's hopeless ignor ance of salmon Ashing. One after noon while I was out several neigh boring ladies chanced to call, and. as usual, over their tea, opened fire with the usual query as to my sport on the river. "ih, yes." said her ladyship, In an abstracted manner, 4,my husband caught a salmon yesterday." What size was it''' Inquired one of the fair visitors. "Eleven feet long." was the reply. There wa, of course, much titter ing at this. "Then it must have been eleven inches long," was tbe amended an. swer. Increased merrinif:nt ensued. ' "Well," said my wife, desperately, T know it was eleven something; perhaps It was eleven pounds." Blackwo d's Miga.lne. Not Wholly rcleft. "I am sorry to tell you," said the editor, "that we cannot use your poem." "Indeed?" "To be candid with you. It Is clumsy In sentiment and faultv In construction. The rhymes are all wrong, and altogether it is not cveu decent doggerel." Here the editor paused for breath and the poet said meekly: "Give It back to me, please" ' I don't think you can do anything with it." "Oh, yes; I can. I'll have it set to music and make a popular song of it" Avoid Gluttony. Sir Henry Thompson of England, says that, out of every ten patients who came under his knife, nine would never have done so had It not been for errors of eating and drink ing. j ' As soow at an old fool aciuirei a little sens ', a oung fool steps up to repeat All of his mistakes. AN EXPLORER'S WHIMS. Sir KlrharS tturtoa Waaa Uml Unl at m Crmak. Sir Richard Burton, the English explorer, was a man who had ways of his own. According to h s widow be spoke twenty-nine languages, and never paed a day without reading at least one of them, to keep bis knowledge iresh. He was luved and trusted by servants, children, and animals. A British sailor was put into prison at Trieste, where Burton was Consul. The next day Sir Kich- ard received a very dirty-looking note, addressed on the outside to The Council." The seat was Jack's dirty thumb. Inside was: "Bi'sriK, i am hin troll. Kiiin and Irt me hioui. Tim Thoukceh. The Consul was delighted, and promptly secured the man s release. His tastes were simple, as is prob ably true of most men who have been great travelers. His wife used to busy herself, Martha like, making his room com fortable, but if she put anything pretty Into it it was at once put out into the pasNage. He liked large. plain deal tables, and plenty of them; one for each piece of work on which he happened to be engaged. For a pen-wiper he tied s red bandanna to the table leg. His chairs, too. were hard, and he slept on a small iron bedstead, with an iron-wove mat tress and no sheets, but plenty of white, soft blankets. He would never have blinds or shutters drawn, as he wanted the last of the twilight, and the first gleams (,f dawn. He would bring in single wild flowei and put it in a vase, but if some one brought a bouuetor hot-house flowers, he found a way to get rid of it He had a .lice car for music, but loved only ihe minor key. "He would go to the opera to hear a new prima donna, but he could not abide amateur music, and If anyUxlv pro Iosed music of an evening, and a girl got up and nervously warbled a bal lad about banks and butterflies, he used to put his hand to his stomach and walk out of the room." He rubbed his old lothes, especi ally his lioots, of which he some times had a hundied pairs in the house. Once he lost a fencing-shoe and went to his bootmaker to get him to replace It "No," said that worthy, "but I wll! make you a pair " That did not suit Sir diehard arid. as his wife says, he carried that shoe all over the world, and every U it- maker he saw be asked to make him the mate to It: but not one of them ever would. For eighteen years he did this. There Is a superstition among such people, it appears, that if a niaa makes an odd shoe be will die For food the traveler liked com mon things, but was fond of French cooking, -'frencli cooking, English materials, and a god cellar," he used to say, "ought to beep anv man alive for a hundred years " Wher ever he went he was accustomed to eat the native dishes. Iiried codfish and sauerkraut were two of his deli cacies. One thing he could not lcar and that was honey, lie could hardly sit in the room with it though it might be in some secret drawer or cuploard. He divined its presence as some per sons divine the presence of a cat Sometimes after dinner his wife would say to him, '-What make you look so uncomfortable?" 'There was h iney in the room," he would answer, "and 1 knew they would think 1 was mad if I asked to have It removed; but I felt ouite faint" A Cantonment. The cantonment, at an Indian town, means the place where the English live. The native town Is usually Inclosed by high walls and accessible only by a few gates; it is brimful of people who crowd its ba zaars or shop streets, (juite outside the town and a mile or two away Is the cantonment, an unwalled dis trict, where each house stands in its own inclosure or compound, and where the regiments, British or na tive, are quartered in "lines" or rows of huts. The cantonment usually has wide well-kept roads, with a grassy mar gin and avenuesof tine trees, giving it the appearance of a great park. The English visitor, if he stays with friends, might 1 a week without teeing the native town at all, unless his curiosity prompted an excursion in search of It There Is always In the cantonment a club, with a ladies' w rm, (ujiless the ladies have a gymkhana or club of theirowu.) and, besides the various parade grounds, a polo ground or tennis court, so that a visitor !x:nt only on amusement has plenty of resources. The Nineteenth Century. A (story of trie King of Spain. The characteristic passion of the King of Spain is for soldiers. Every thing" about the army Interests him, and he will listen to stories about battles for any length of time. II was once taken by the vuecn to the Convent of the Assumption. About sixty or seventy of the white rol ed pupils were sent Into the gardens to we tnc King and sisters, whereupon His Majesty seeing an unrivaied op portunity for exercising his favorite talent, immediately oigani.ed the grave but amused girls Into com panies. He then apiolnled the In fanta second In command, and giving the word 'march," placed himself at the head of his charm. ng army. On meeting tbe Queen, who was walking about with several of the nuns and court ladles, ha ordered "halt" and "presented arms," following up his command by a chanting of tbe "Marcha Heal." which was at once taken up by toe girlish voice St James Gasette. - HOME AND THE FA KM. A DEPARTMENT MADE UP OUR RURAL FRIENDS. FOR Whrat ProdiM-tina lir mot lirrp I'm with th lamut of I 'op a In! too I 'ear Traosi I apron tablt 4ualilr of m rod itrr l.earral farm II tut. ublitalsi (or Wheat. The fact is pointed out that most countries, even Including our own, wheal production doe not keep pace with the increase of population. I'nder thee circumstance a con stantly ioeieasing price of wheat migtit be luoked for. This would naturally I the result if other causes weie not in .operation leading to the substitution of other articles of food iu place of wheat Tbe old saying. bread is the staff of life," is not k entirety true as i, useu to be. in cay and country alike, though wheat bread is as tomuion as ever, it is not by half so large a part of the three dally meals as it used to be. We can well remember the time when pota toes were far more sparingly used than they are r.ow. Once tney were common only at the midday meal. Then Kitatoes had to be served for break fast Now on thousands of tables they are found three times a day. Of course this Increase of po tatoes serves to lessen the amount of bread eaten, other vegetables alo come in for a large share of the dally food of the majority of the ix.pula llon. We are healthier, too, for the greater variety of the nutrition fur nished. It Is common to have on many Mbles, both in city and coun try, one, two, three, or four kinds of vegetables besides potatoes. I'nder such circumstances the amount of wheat bread consumed ts less tlian It used to be. other grains, too, take toe place of wheat notably the oat whi h In nutritive value is fully the ccjual of wheat, and rice, which is nearly so. Beans also are far more generally used than formerly, and their use is irreatly increased when ever potaux-s are dear. The bean Is even a bclt;r all-around nutrition for man than Is the average wheaten flour, albeit the new processes, which use more of the gluten and darker parts, make a more nutritive food than does the white, starchy (lour of olden time. I'erhap what most stands in the way of increasing the consumption of wheal is the larger protort:on of garden vegetables and the smaller fruits that are now consumed. These are so hea'thtul that without doubt IK-ople who eat fresh vegetables and small fruits Ireeiy are far letter i nourished than tiiey could be on the old diet of starch, flour, bread and; meat, mostly pork, toth of which had the disadvantage of being estiecially j hard to digest. As the country grows j older we are probably learning to use less meat of any kind, as with in creasing scarcity of land meat prod ucts become naturally more expen sive. Wc have often urtred the thought that the more extensile use of wheat as food tends toward a higher civilization. Vet we cannot say that there Is. on the whole, a poorer nutrition bv the substitution of other foods than wheat, which is taking place In this country. In the first place, what wheat we cat doe us more good than formerly, since we use more of its strength-giving elements, which formerly went luto the refuse as cattle feels. We need less wheat getting the best of It The substitution of oats, beans, peas, garden vegetables, and fruits arc also gains, though wt can hardly say as much for the potato, lhat is too largely starch to be either easily di gested or very nutritious. But in all other resjiects the substitutions are mainly licnuflcial. and especially the greater amount or fruit that will help make all our food more digestible. It Is likely that natural causes will for many years to come keep wheat above Lhe present or recent low ranges of : prices; but if It raises wheal to an j excessive price, it is comforting to i think that ther are many ways in j which we can use considerably less wheat than we do now, without suf- ! fer.ng in nsitriti-jn thereby, e.ther j physically or intellectually. Ameri- can Cultivator. I'f-ar Trrrt rriirutl(Mblr. I roi. Waiteofthe licparlment of Agricu lute, has recently given uiu h attention to the sub ect of inter mingling of fruit trees in orchards. He tells of a iear orchard In ir guiia. of I artlctts mixed with other sorts, which has become famous for 1 iieauiiK- n. sioca company was led ov tne success or this orehaid to I plant 10, (too Barlletts on similar soil nearby. In one corner of the great orchard stood a tree of ClaooV Favor- itc Around this tree the Uartletts i bore fine crop. Along one slJc of the orchard alsi siood now and then a tree of another sort Along this Hide the Influence of the cross fertil ization was also noted. I'rof. Waitr d, . I a ;arge number of the bios- ! co. us iii uie isarneii pear with runs (juito bar.and In no case were the blos soms fertilized, although the stamens seemed well loaded with pollen, ills extended observations favor the j licf that notooe thlrd of the varieties of the iear are capable of self-fertilization. In Iowa there are many block ol Jonathan and Willow apple trees thai do not bear, while on the same nob these varieties mingled with other sorts, are well laden w th fruit The moral from these oitservatiun seems to i: alternate the rows of all Ihe orchard fru t and small fruits. Farm and Home. Th U"a'l'r "t Vorn rmtlr.s There are many cause for varia tion In the fodder made by growlrg corn, some of them pertaining to the way It I grown and others to the kill, or want of skill, shown in cur- ing It Cora that is grown ao thickly that its stalks are thin and white is as nearly wi rthirM as such feed can lie grown. It has little sweetness and not enou.'h nutritijn to keep anything in good condition. For fodder alone corn mut be grown so thinly that nearly every stalk will have a nubbing on it The stalks from field corn that has lorue a crop of ears have more nutrition than tbe aieraue of corn thictly sown grown for folder al jne. tweet corn stalks I are tter than those of the ordinary m ' Held variety. This nnv in nart. owing to the fact that roasting ears are picied early, and as the leaves continue to eather more sweetness It goes Into the stalk after the green ears have been removed, l'lucking green ear from ordinary field corn makes the stalks richer, and such stalks are always preferred br cows when fed with others where the ears had Uen removed after being fully j ripen d. Hint! I lslrjrmrn. We bave culled from the writings of a New York man the following valuable hints to darymen: Bulky food should always be fed with concentrated food to avoid pos sible discomfort and injury from the latter. No calf should be raised for dairy purposes from a cow of weak con stitution or with organic disease. Th wise dairyman provides soiling crops to patch out the dry pasture during the summer time. It is fwxjr economy to turn a herd of cows into a large pasture and allow them to roam about all day when all they get is exercise. I ncleanliiiess In milking, not cool ing the milk (ulckly afu-r milking, bad fo-idder, bad air in stables and dise.ase in cows are causes of ta nted milk. Stunting the alfs growth Is rub ning into del t for the luture. You can prevent a cow's kicking by but kling a strap tightly around the body just forward of the udder. There Is a vast difference In milch cows. A dairyman in 1 Delaware County has cows in his herds testing from one-half of one ir cent of butter fat to eight per cent The Babcock test is revealing the true condition of things In the dairy. It costs less to feed and care for ; one cow than it does for two; there ! fore, every farmer who is keeping two cows and getting really but what one should pro luce Is losing money Tbe best dairymen practice the best J economy In feeding when they feed all the cow will eat up clean and no tno:e. ! It costs more to bring a cow back i to full How of milk In summer than it does to keep her up to It ' It is a good plan to keep a good ; milk. ng cow in the dairy as long as ' she is a good milker. A creamery s iould not lie started j until 'ioo cows are guaVant ed. i The milk tester and the separator are important factors in dairying, j The milk tester in the near future j will be a sine qua non in dairying. hrroti-nf for lilat It. Knot. My next-door neighbor had several j plum trees tearing fruit and all died I covered with knots, But lefore dylp-'l secured a tew sprouts and had some fine 'young trees, on which, when they ' xvere aiioutslx feet high, knots began j to break our on the trunks some j inches long. Having tilled a small I sewing-machine oil-can with coal oil, I gave the knots a dose: they stopped ; grow ing, but In about a month a few more made their appearance and some old ones tiegan to swell again. Then another dose finished them. The next year (last summer) a few spots appeared: they were treated before i they broke out, and all the trees are ! now very thritty, only scarred where j the large knots were, as the knots jdied and fell of! like loose lark, leav. 1 ,UK ucau "i""1 0,cr wnlc" lnc ucw very bady affected It is better to cut them down, they areso unsightly. The oil does not seem to have any bad effect on the sound part of the tree, but like all other medicine, too much might be injurious, but I'd rather kill it trying to save than let the disease have its way. liural New Yorker. A IOiik ( liane. There were two wanderers from ; the laud of the Harp and the Shaui ' rock, and chance had led them Into this part of Massachusetts. They were on foot. One or them could : not read at all; tbe other could read I onlvsutlicisntly well to be proud of lairing his accomplishments before i his coriMianifiiL Their lmirnovlmii had brought, then, int the neiM,r. hoo;l of Manuhester-by-the-.'sea. J'rcsently they encountered a sign post Mike stopped to read It and Bat stopped to hear him. Now tliesiin wn ver.- ulinnl an1 it said, "Manche-ter, Seven Miles," but it seemed to bother Mike and he looked puzzled. Bat waited until his patience gave out 'What dues It, :ivV' h A, i7n.rh...i..r rAt.,rr.Ai ui,A ' ' - s.va , .VUI lima i'l ISO slowlv. "Mon cha-ed her lvcn nioilcs." Cat picked up his bundle In dis gust "Sure," he remarked, "if he want ed her that bad Ol hope to Hlvln he got her." Boston Buget A Word That .Nearly dint a Ilfe. "Education," said Cncle Josh, "Is er mighty good thing, but sometimes It does more harm than good. ' 1 oncet knowed of a case where educa tion come purty nigh drowndln' a rale nice young lady." he went on. 'How was that?" "Why, she loll Into the water, au' bein' Ux hlgb-tonea to holler 'help,' she yelled on 'Assistance,' An' ther blame fool hired band thet heard her lost about live minutes makln' up 'is mind whether ter pull her out er. go home fur a dictionary." Washing ton Star. ' tr