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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1895)
J"" I , sssa--'- 9 'J f j The Question of Good Boada. The question of good roads la forcl- ay discussed by Mr. Philip Suyder, of XhitfhMa County, New York, in th Couatry Gentleman. Mr. Suyder favors the abolition of the present nad law Id hla State, and advocates the payment . of road tax la cash, together with other taxes the amount to be expanded !y eomniisslouers of highways, who alitUI appoint a road expert to supervise the work on all the highways. Mr. Snyder further cays: "Our road are now a ahame to our civilization, aud with ruore agitation and exposure of their failings, a large majority of the people will favor a system that abolishes thlg disgrace. "In the discussions thus far carried on, one important point hag received lit tie atteuiion. Much ha lieeu said about Uie road bed, and about drainage, both of which, of course, are of great im portance, but In my judgment nothing w of more importance thau to get rid ef many of the hill that now impede ravel and are as unsightly as they are aseless and damaging. Many of them can be avoided by a alight change of route, either by a road alongside of the hill instead of over it, or by going around the base. In many other cases the hills can be' cut through, and the earth and jock necessary to be remov ed utilized Jn filling adjacent hollows where mudholes have been the lead ing: feature since the indans left, and wny &e until the road taxes are paid in -cash. Of course this will cost some thing, but once done the cost Is done. It -costs a great deal not to do it, and shal is where tie .farmers and other Je!tors show their narrowness. Any Impediment to travel costs enormously, In tiro. In horseflesh. In the wear and tear of vehicles, in harness, and some times In human life. .Tbe one gain of not doing it is that the cost is extended over k long series of years and a little at a time. But the aggregate is enor mous, and the plan of postponement Is without the first element of business r common serrse. "Farmers have one good reason for dreading a change In the road system, and that is that the supervision requir ed will lead to abuse in the payment of large salaries for work, and the work Inefficiently done. Let them ex ercise common business senRe In elect ing honest and competent men to work the roads, and the danger will disap pear." Free Turnpikes. Judge Garrett S. W all, of Maysville, Ky., paid the people in his section are enthusiastic on the question of free turnplk.tr. Mason County has 30 jailes of macadamized turnpikes, and is !.::e a belt of blue-grass land as can Je found in the world. The county has paid iiiore Than one-half tbe cost of con structing the turnpikes, yet her citi zens have been compelled to pay from f.i().i to fVl.tMKl per year at toll-gates to travel their own roads. Recently the Fiscal Court purchased several of the roads outright and began to ex tend them and parallel several of the Vgh-toil roads, designing to ultimately ouy all the roads and make them free of toll. Tlris would have seriously In jured the income of some of the "Tumiiike Kings." anil they, under the guise of protecting the taxpayers, in duced one of them to enjoin the levy of tax to pay for the roads, and thus put off the day when their Income from tolls If bound to be reduced. The Cir cuit Judge dissolved the injunction, but the "Turnpike Kings" appealed to Che highest court and hope to delay If not defeat tbe will of the people- Waste I Taleut. Tite life of tbe English painter. Haw- i-H5. fnniSshes a stiauge and diseotir seiirK instance of the youthful precocity- jcfia,h often comes to mi tight. A t 2u jeur !? age be was the center of accla mation. Every one thought he wits mi"r:jdv great t,iirgs; perhaps, us one nt M contemporaries said, "become a iliclrttel Angeb, or something of the Uid." But. like the crab, he "walked back ward," and at the close of his life he Is descrilwd as having lived In a fool's paradise, content with himself, and fattening on the empty praise he bad won, but never deserved. Tbe mis ehivf lay in the fact that he was an txeellent boon companion. Everyone who was setting out for a "good time" wanted Hawkins as the center of It and He was only too glad to be beguiled. On one occasion he wa asked by a JSr. Ackers, a member of Parliament, to accompany him and one or two oth am to Paris, the host promising to give Blm a holiday and pay all his expense. Hawkins objected, "I'm busy on a picture," said he, "and I want to nnisb It for exhibition." "Never mind that" returned Ackera. "Bring It with you and paint It there." Hawkins yielded, aa be always did In fee end. and tbe picture wa put Into the can-taw. As they were driving long. Mr. Ackers asked to be allowed aa took at It and when It wa oocor ad, heaaJd: -What do row want for Itr "1 abaJI want 00 for It when it'a rali-aaail " answered Ha wklaa. Tar waU," fatanod the of Parliament "I'll give It to yon, and I'll finish the picture for you, tool" With that he kicked m hole through th can van. and tbe artiat hu thua aat f raa for an undisturbed Jollification. AXMEN OF THE PACIFIC COAST. Two Li pert to Benefit to Australia to Khow hat They Caa Do. There are probably no more skilled axuieu in the world than the wood choppers of the Pacific Northwest 8oiue of thera can aaw or chop a tree ao that It will fall in any desired direc tion, and it la even aaid, by the New York Evening Poet, that they can drive a stake In the ground and fell a tree ao that in striking the ground It will bury the stake out of sight Two of the picked lumbermen of the North west are to be sent over to Australia next autumn to compete with their fel low craftsmen in that part of the world. The following letter to the Pu get Sound Lumberman from Latrobe, Tasmania, explains the manner of the competition In which they will bo en tered: "In your issue of September, 1808, you mention the Vnlted Austra lasian Axnien's Aseociation, and also the fact that you have splendid axmen In the Pacific Northwest. Now these latter are Just what we want to reach, because we want to Induce the beet men among them to come and see If they can compete with tbe Tasman ians and Australasians in wood-chopping contests. We hold our next an nual exhibition at Ulverstone, Tas mania. Nov. IN and 20 next, for which I enclose a program. We are offering liberal prizes, and if two competitors come from the Pacific Northwest and come proving by reference from you that they represent your country in these contests we will guarantee them 23 ($12.11 each for traveling expenses. or too for tbe two; besides we will give free enlry to nil contests. They will have to meet our champion on level terms in the championship contests, but if they enter in the handi caps they would get start from our best men. Private matches could also be arranged." Old English Cookery. Down to the slxteenm century the extraordinary mixtures, Ixith as to in gredients and seasonings, which pre vailed gave an Indication of the tames of the period. Thus lilanc-niange, or. aa It Is generally spelled, blanc-man-ger. Instead of being merely a jelly of milk or cream, was formerly conqioeed of the pounded flesh of poultry, boiled with rice and milk of almonds, and sweetened with sugar, while a mixture of the same kind, but colored Wi.u blood or sandal wood, wa called a rose. Ruckuade was the name of an other typical preparation, and was made of meat "hewn In goblets," pounded almonds, raisins, sugar, cin namon. cloves, ginger, onions, gait and fried hertw. thickened with rice flour and colored yellow with saffron. Mortre-ws. a dish mentioned by Chan cer In his "Canterbury' Tales," was held in great esteem. It derived Its name from tbe mortar In which the meat used in making It was pounded, and as the recipe Is a representative one. we win give it a it stands in the "Formo of Cury": "Take henncs and porke. and sc.uf bom togydre. Take the lyre ( flesh of the hennes and of tbe porke and u.iek It small, and grind It an to dust Ta,.e bread grated, and do lac., .uereto; and temper It with the self broth that Is. the broth in which it was broiled, ani ayle (mix) it with ze-rke or ayern (yolks of eggs), and cast thereon- pow der fort (pepper) and boll It aad' do. thereto powder of gynger, saffroci and salt, and loke that It 1 stondlng itim. and flour It all with powder of gyn ger." Tale of a IViet'a Woe. A certain weekly newspciiter In Vien na had until recently Ufon its stafT a tame s't who had U con-tribute vTe to every numls-r dealing with current topics in a smart epigrammatic way. His Biliary, according to St. Paul's, was a sum equivalent to about $10 a month, and be was content with this smafl re muneration so long as he was the "enly poet" of this particular pair. When, however, lie began to find Its columns desecrated by tbe rhymes and epi grams of rivals In the name line of business, he addressed repeated ap- ( peals and protest to his editor; and then, finding (as inoat of us have done lu our tlme that this course was utter ly useless, be divided to strike. But he omitted to give no ice of Ills inteti tion, so the editor brought action against him and claimed damages. The. idea of an editor going to law with a contributor because the latter refuses to go on contributing Is a little difficult to grasp. Fortunately for the pot th court decided that the paper would really suffer no harm from tbe cessation of the defendant' contributions, and he got a verdict which was satisfactory to his pocket but not very complimen tary to his verses. How Georjre Peabody Idved. The great philanthropist, George Pea body, made H a rule to earn his money before be spent It He had a rugged boyhood and was willing to work. He. succeeded a a banker in Ixndon by no accident He wa cool, cautlou and slow. In 1849 he wa the only Ameri can banker in Ixtndon. Hla fellow bankers lived high. They gave dinner and banquet and spent money lavish ly. Peabody acted differently. He was always economical. He lived In a small hotel where there was bo loaf ing and no crowd. He never spohe a hasty word and kept hla own couuhpI. He lived for others aa well as himself, and thousand of A merles i youth have been benefited by hi IIImtsJ gifts to education, and the establishment of Peabody Inatltuta. . No one dare to be original In mk Ing arrangementa (or a wudding or a rnneral. AGRICULTURAL NEWS TMNGS PERTAINING TO FARM AND HOME. THE Drainaaja Will Drive Awajr Crawfish How to Ttat the Comparative Food Value of Potatoes The Caase of Small Ke Average fields of Cora Crawfiah Land. The only way to cure era dsn land Is to drain It With the water taken away, the crawfish will leave or die. The only way to do this Is with uuder dralns. It is hard to keep tile drains, as ordinarily laid, in order in crawfish land, as the varmints will everlastingly choke them or throw them out of line. I have had fair success with tiles In crawfish land by laying the tile on a plank. But the best way Is to drain as well as possible with drains made from pine poles, and then as the land gets dryer and the crawfish scarcer, run In the tljes between. In digging the ditches for tiles in su.'ta land, you will find that the water springs strongly out of the crawfish hoUst along the bottom of the ditch, while haiween will be tight clay. Now If you lay a tile on such a bottom It Is evident that it will not be good long, but the drain made with three poles will carry off, and lower the level of, tbe water In the soil, so as to bring about conditions destructive to the crawfish, which will not stay with dry soil above them. I once circumvented them bj wrapping the tiles with bag ging at every Joint and using an extra large tile. Hut the fact Is that there Is little crawfish land that Is worth the expense of the underdralns. I would underlay a little piece in a field to make all uniform, but a large tract of crawfish land I would move away from, rather than try to redeem It Practical Farmer. A Teat for Potatoea. Prof. Goff, of the Wisconsin experi ment station, mentions a simple way to test the comparative food value of potatoes. In making brine for beef, it is an old custom to put a potato In water and stir in salt until the jsitato floats. But If several potatoes are put In together some will come to the top sooner than others. Starch, the valua ble portion of the potato is heavier than water, and the tubers tltat con tain most starch are best for the1 table, being mealy whe cooked. By put ting a bushel of potatoes into a rrrel nearly full of water and stirring in salt, the tuber poorest In standi will first come to Uie top, and may 1h picked off. P.y stirring in more salt more po tatoes will rise. Thoee that remain at tbe bottom longest are worr'o th moat. The difference iR the table qiialf ty at the lightest and heaviest tubers Is surprising. The former will be soggy and salvy. tbe later flaky and farinace ous. Prof. t;otr think tlu market value of potatoes should he based on their r-"lfic gravity. There is no rea son why potatoe containing but 12 per cent of starch should sell for as much pr bushel as those eouuiuing 20 per cent Tbe latter re worth nearly double the former for fsd. The salt test is a clieap and easy otic, and a dozen tubers may ! tested in any ves sel. When th? pout:oett ar sold on their merits as food rntiier than on the amount of bulk they fill, farmer will have some encouragement to produce tubers that eontaln starch, rather than those that contain water. Ix-cause their food value and palatabillty will be in creased. The Caime of Small KKkb. The steady Improvement In the grade of poultry kept by fanners has resulted In the increased size of the eggs. This difference is so marked that the egir produc ed in the North always command In the markets a higher price than those from the South, where the improved breeds have 1-ecn more slowly iutro duced. In that section the undi-rsize of poultry and eggs is doubtless due chiefly to the lack of new blood The debilitating effect of the heat is some time given as the explanation, lin the true one is rather tbe lack of care and proper breeding, the indirect result of the climate, which, by permitting the birds to forage all the year round, re lieves the owner of much troublo, but at the same time checks his Interest in 1,,pr b,'st development Average V teldw of Corn. The average yield of corn in souue of the Western States where this is a uiaiu crop is only 2."i bushel per acre. This is less thau tbe English average for wheat though as every fanner knows. It is far easier to get a large yield of Indian corn than of any other train. A crop only 2." bushels per acre suggests many vacant spaces, or, what is nearly as bad, stalks that are d.-stlt'ite of ears. The large Ient corn grown at tbe West has yielded a pint of grain for a single ear when grown at Its lx-st If only one stalk Is grown with such an ear In tbe hill It would amount to more than r.1 bushels of grain with tbe hill three by four feel apart. A hill of corn ought to average much more than a pint of grain. We know mauy fields of Flint corn with comparatively small ears, where two or more would grow on a stalk and give fully a pint uf shelled grain. The largest crop of corn we ever grew was of an clght-rowed Flint corn that had small stalks and was very early. It was planted in hills 3x3 feet, and three grains In a hill. Every stalk had one or more ears, and the yield of corn In the ear was more than 1W bushels per acre on a field of six acres, American Cultivator. Making; the Soil Deeper. It la commonly said that plowing deep to tbe direct means of maklug the soil deep. It Is true that deep plowing opena a lower stratum to the action of air, but thlf only hastens the decompo sition of vegetable matter In the soil, and If this la not replaced the soil be came so deficient In hnmus that deep plowing la Useless, There la n better way to deepen anil tb.n to sow clore and every third or fourth year use the subsoil plow as deeply as It can le rim. This will enable tbe clover roots to penetrate the soil to a greater depth. Whenever a clover sod la plowed a considerable part of Its lower roots are left in the soil as they grew. These roots rapidly decay, and they enable roots of grain and other crops to go down deeply in search of moisture. This is one reason why hoed crops on a clover ley withstand drought better than If planted on timothv sod, whose rooia are an near me surntce. jo in axe the clover grow as large as tossible Is all Important The larger the growth the deeper the clover roots run and tha more the subsoil Is benefited. Farm and lmry Instruction. During the three months of January, February and March of the past fou years the courses In agriculture and dairying have Ix-en given at the State College, and In aplte of tbe Inadequate equipment have been highly successful. The number of students in these course has Increased from four in lSyj to fifty-one In IWCi, and a still more rapid growth is foreshadowed for the future. As an evidence of the wide. spread Interest in its work and of the great scope which it Is destined, If properly encouraged, to eventually en- Joy, it may 1k mentioned that lu the class of 180(5 there were represented twenty-one counties of Pennsylvania, besides four other States. Three courses are now offered one In creamery man agement, one in private dairying and one In general agriculture. A Chautau qua course of home reading In agricul ture is also maintained, and now In cludes nearly S40 members. Tbe exper iment station Is engaged, too, in valu able Investigations Into agricultural problems. The State should foster this work as befits Its resources, and tho farmers and dairymen of the State should avail themselves of the benefit of the college courses. Philadelphia Record. Phoapate for Barley. The barley crop mature very quick ly, and It roots do not run through the soil so far a to do those of oat and wheat which take a longer period to grow. For this reason the concentrated commercial fertilizers are especially valuable for barley. A dressing of 1&0 pounds per acre drilled In with tb seed will add two to five pounds per bushel to the weight of the grain. On land long cropped ft Is often very hard to-grow barley weighing 4H pounds per bushel without some mineral fertilizer. Only very little nitrogenous manure is needed for barley. It hn naturally a brond leaf, und If foliage In set to grow ing rapidly the straw will become too heavy and fall down, preventing head ing and filling of the grain. The min eral manure makes the straw brighter and stronger. This secured, the broad leave of the grain will lake from the air tlie carbonic acid to fivrm the starch which mainly constitutes the grain. Tnrnlns for Itncks. On th large establishment where hundreds of ducks are raised, the prin clpal fond for ducks is eooiied turnips, wltli a strut II projiorttoii of ground grain. Ducks and turnips ne adjuncts to each other on tbe duck farms, for without turnips the ducks emild not be made to lay so well. If the bens are confined lu order to protect ibe garden, they must hnve a daily supply of clwrp ped grass. Too much grain will cause them to become overfat and fewer eggs will Is obtained. The best egg produc ing food is h-au meat. Fertilisers for Onions. "Years of experience in raising onions and oiher croj either with stable man ure or fertilizer have thoroughly con vinced me that a liberal amount of plant f'od must be applied in order to obtain Kitsf:u-tory results, ),ilf fed crops being unprofitable," writes W. I'onuldson, of Topstield, Mass. He grew onions for eleven years successive ly on one-quarter acre, using phos phate, and raised at the rate of i" to 1.012 bushel per acre, an average of Sii7 bushel 'T acre for the eleven years. For the past three yea.ru this land ha given heavy yields. Notes. There Is a field open for tin Intro duction of a breed of rapid-walking horse. The horse that walks fast is useful in all departments of the farm, and Is also excellent for servtc on the road. Sow peas and oats together, and when high enough the crop may be used for soiling. A high comMnntlon of -the two provides a succulent itu-ss for tbe cows, which will be highly rel ished by them. The Pennsj lvauia station finds that currants do well on their heavy clay soil anil are little troubled with mil dew. A single application of white hellebore afforded protection from the currant worm. Whitewashing can Ik- done easily and rapidly with the sprayer. I'se a tliin whitewash and force It from the noz zle on to the walls. When dry rejsat the application. It Is excellent for puri fying the stables and jsiultry houses. The great stret In fancy butter-making, says a dairy writer, Is a studied purpose to keep all foreign substance and flavors out of the milk, cream, and butter, and have only original mater ial from start to finish, and fancy but ter results Subsoil some of the corn or potato land and record tesults of the experi ment Plow say u or 8 Inches deep, and follow with subsoil plow, or smal ler plow, and go 6 or 8 Inches deeper without throwing ont subsoil. The ex periment I worth trying. It N difficult to distribute a pound of turnip seed evenly over an acre of ground, aad small root will result If more la used. If the pound Is mixed thoroughly with a peck of aand, a quan tity Is obtained which can be handled and distributed with a considerable degree of exactness. COFFEE. Rome Valuable Points About Koaat- tbe Berry. When the wind Is In just the right direction, say the Chicago Record, the atmosphere of State street for some distance on both sides of the river Is heavy with the breakfast-time odor of coffee. The odor comes from the top row of windows always wide agape of a huge brick building close to the river, aud on busy days the blue smoke from the coffee-roaster p"'"" out In great clouds, mingling with tbe soot from the tugs In the water below. Here much of the coffee used In Chi cago is prepared for the housewife. It comes in great coarse gunny sacks, cov ered with all sorts of cabalistic signs In red and black paint, and as soon ax It Is unloaded workmen trundle It away to the elevator. It goes upstairs to a great, dusty, smoky room, redolent of tropical odors, where it I dumped Into bins a bin for each different variety or grade. Along one side of the room stands a row of great iron roasters, which give out a pleasant humming sound not unlike that of a swiftly run ning dynamo. They are simple but highly Ingenious machines. The inte rior portion s made of a hollow cylin der holding several hundred pounds, and filled with innumerable little boles. Underneath it a furua- lire is kept burning, It flame tsdng controlled by mean of an air blast When the raw coffee has Ix-en placed In the cylinder and the door closed a shaft leglns to revolve at a low rate of sjieed, turning the cylinder with it and thoroughly mixing up the coffee. Easy as It 'may Keen i, roasting Is In reality a very diffi cult process, (inly a man who ha had vast excrici)ee can be trusted to do It If the lierrie are roasted either too lit tle or bio much, some of the arouuaof the coffee is lost and It I neither so agreeable to the taste nor so exhllar Btlrig in Its effect. Each variety re quires a different time for roasting, and unless the master workman, who knows all als?ut such things. Is very careful, the purchaser will say that hi coffee has lxen adulterated. Indeed, Improp er roasting Is the prime cause for the abuse to which the boarding-house landlady 1 subjected. When tje coffee berries nave swelled up and become brown enough the fire! Is suddenly shut off. Then, In a cloud j of heavy blue smoke, the cylinder are raked empty and recharged. When the coffee Is cool enough It goes to the pack ing or grinding room. In the packlug room It Is shoveled Into barrels, palli. sacks anil pound aicr package, ready for shipment to- the retailers. In the grinding-riMiiii the coffee Is fed into the funnel shaped month of the mm bine, the wheels whir and the granulated coffee pours out of tbe nozzle below. It is then packed, usually in one-Kund paper parcel. In rtlis form it goes to the country trade The city consumer prefer to sec his coffee before It Is ground, and he therefore buys It at the grocery, and it Is put through Die mill before his eyes, fir be can take it home and grind it himself. Fifteen year ago most iHiffi went to the consumer in the green stale and It wax roasted In open pans, half tbe time being burned and made bitter niid biting and half the time It was not browned enough, resulting In a "weak" drink. Now fully it!' per cent, is rousted by the coffee booses, of which Chlcjigi has the largest in the world. Tills fact has tended to make coffee Isnter In Uiste, thereby largely Increasing Its consumption Europe srill continues to use tbe old fashioned methods of roasting, and the coffee is therefore poor and tea is the more jtopulur drink. Butt That Court Bight. A country justice of the pence called upou a rmired attorney some lime ago. and after presenting a statement of facts. askcl, ns a matter of friendship. for tt legal opinion upon them. This the attorney gave. When the attorney bad flnlshfcd, the "Squire" rose and said: "Well, those are Just the facts in u case I am a going to try next Saturday in my court and 1 knowed you would give me the right kind of an opinion, so I come to you. Tbe costs in that case will be Jiwt $7.50, and I am willing to divide wits you. When I was a cainli date, some of lite folks lu uiy county 'lowed I didn't know enough to run this oliice, and I intend to show them tluii. I do. The next case I have I will come to you agjin. and we will run that court right, or bust a hamstring a-trying." With that tlK- Justice of tbe pen.. dropied $3.75 on his astonished friemFs desk aud tsk his departure, sutislied that bis first case would gel the right kind of a decision when It came up ttr trial on the following Saturday. The Bride Wan Ijte. Mrs. Peevy hud Just returned from n wedding in the little country church, and was describing tbe is-ene to Ikt liuslxtud. who bad Is en too lazy to "fix up" and go to see it for himself. Of course she must tell 111 in who was there, and how the bride was dressed. Then she began U laugh, as If at tbo recol hftioii of something iina uncommonly Hinuslng. , "Of course I knew Untile Francis wouldn't le on time, even If It wna her own wedding." Mrs. Peevy remarked, as she carefully removed her bent bhu k kid gloves and laid tliem away In soft, white paper, as was her custom; "but I must say that her being fifteen minutes behindhand was rather unfortunate." "Did Sara' Gregg get tired out at the organ 'fote they come In t" Inquired Mr. Peevy. "lie told mo that Muttle's city lieau hut charged bin) to begin prompt at 7 oV1.sk, am) play till 'twas all over. I understand be wa to hnve $5 for the Job," "Well, he earned It," said Mr. Peevy, With a grim smile. "He began to play at 7 sharp, and they were to be there kt quarter past He played tbe music Just aa he'd been ordered, and at quar ter past 7 be struck Into tbe wedding march." "Was the couple there V Interrupted Mr. Peevy "No!" resided hi wife; "but ther wasu't anylssly quick enough to climb up tbe winding stairs to the organ and stop Samuel from going on. and he'i deaf, anyway. But when be got to that middle part where It g'-e ice-tum tee-tum-tee tum-1 can't sing It" broke off Mrs. Peevy, after three shrill at tempts each higher than the preceding one "I can't slug It but when be tfot to that place he twisted round on th stool, and saw that the procession wasn't there. "Well. It confused him some, and hi st.sk of iLusic Isn't very large, and I suppose be thought If there was going to le a delay ho'd better save It up. an' so he began playing hymn tunes; and be was Just starting ont Into 'Otne. ye disconsolate, when Hattie and her young man came In the door. , "I guess they were so flustered tbey didn't know what was being played, and as for Samuel he never l.s.ked round till he got to the end of the verse, an so tbe weddin' procession marched up the aisle to 'Come, ye IMsconso late.' " Kensillve Because of Her Age. Many persons show so strange a sen sitiveness to tbe question of age, that their friends may well avoid the en tire subject When Mrs. S. C. Hall was at least 70 years old, she met at a re ception a young clergyman, who was apparently delighted to see her. "Mrs. Hall," said he, "I remember reading your liooks when I was a child, and that I wa especially channel by the Irish stories." "Then, sir," flashed Mrs. Hall, "if you read my liooks when you were a child, you ought to know Is-tter than to say so!" The mother of Julia Kavanagh was a woman of groat Intellectual power and unusual force of diaracter, but even when she was SO year old she was ashamed of her age. one day she. went with her French maid to the cemetery at Nice, to visit tho tomb she had erected to her daugh ter. The two were standing liefurc the stone, when the maid Innocently read the Inscription. Julia Kavanagh bad then been dead seven yearn, and her age, fi-l. was of course worded. "Madame must le very old" re marked the maid, "old!" exclaimed Mrs. Kavanngh. "Why should 1 Is- old? What do yoti know about my age?" "Mademoiselle was 54 when she died," continued the girl, "and she ha Is-eti dead some time. Therefore niad ame must be very old." Mrs. Kavanagh said nothing, hut th next day she sent a mason to the ceme tery aud bad the telltale tigun re move). WH1 let. An amusing st.irr is told of iu.lwrt Franz, the famous German song-writer, and another equally cclcbraicd mttip.x er. The incident occurred.'' a''N-r Hie publication of Fran.' r.7nWi"r- "iii 1-clter to Edward I iatislick," In which be made severe criticism upon some musical work of the composer, Johannes Brahms. Franz bad occasion at that time to take a five or six honrs' trip by rail. In the compartment with him was a lit tle man Willi whom be fi ll into conver sation. The fellow travelers found each other delightful, and w Idled tho hours away In agreeable talk, which did not turn upon music. Wiwii tbe train reached Franz' des tination, he t.sik out his card -case, say ing to bis companion: "You have made me pass a mom de lightful afternoon; allow me to give yon my card." Tbe stranger seemed highly grat ified, and offered Franz his card in re turn. Each looked at the bit of paste board he bad receive.) In amazement The stranger's eyes opened w iden read ing Hie mime of his merciless critic, "Or. Itols-rt Franz." while Franz hlm wif was equally astounded at reading on tbe card in bis hand, "Johannes Ilrabrns." There wa no time for mutual ex planations, but each of the musician had discovered that however ilnir Ideas might differ from a musical staiidfoltit, they were at least adinlra bte traveling companions, and had found much to enjoy In each other. llorros I'lml Water. The Mexican burros have gd horse sense; i hey know In a "dry and thirsty laud" w here to dig fr water. A corre KKndent of the Pittsburg Tdspntch de s. i-itss tholr close observation of the surface of the ground and subsequent disi)very; We bad found in an arrnyo a suiil clent quantity of water to mal.e coffee, w hen we oltserved thn burros search lug fi water. They passed several damp places, i-xamlned the gionnd closely, when the leader halted uear us and commenced to paw a hole In tha dry, hot wind with his right forefoot After a while he used his left forefoot Having dug a hole something over a foot In depth, he backed out and wiibii. ed It Intently. To our surprise II soon comment ed to fill with water. Then he advanced ami took a drluk. and stepping aside, In vited. I think, the other to fjike n drink; at all events they prompiy did so. mid then went away, when we got down and took a drink from tbir well Tills water was coo! ,! ref .-eshliig; much better, lu fact, than we hud found for many a day. Land of Milk and Honey. , Switzerland I veritably ibe flni "flowing mltb milk and honey, and cat He upon a thousand hills." jreat at tention 1 paid to apiaries; the honer Is famed for Its aroma and delicacy though some b.urlst are disposed to doubt If that which I on every break fast table I all the product of the busy liUle bymenopter. Olrls never properly appreciate their fathers until they hare had husbands. V 7 4 I I.. !' .- -' ...