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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1898)
V "7 $ r?Mt fire, m I THEBE are colonels and majors and generals and some old cap tains who bold that Isabel Hamp den wu the most attractive woman who ever graced the frontier, and In their time most women fteemed attrac tive because of their scarcity. She had been brought up In garrisons and large cities, and by the time she was 22 she knew the world rather well. Moreover, she knew men not girls and women, but men. Because she had been allowed to live In iots during most of what should have been her boarding -school days, and because she was pleasant to look upon and converse with at an age when most gliis are Impossible, men had fallen In love with her pretty much ever since she could remember. It was said that she hurt refused all the bachelors In all the frontier regi ment. This was not far from the truth. A woman who had married one of the rejected ones said that refusing was a habit Miss Hantixlen had form ed, and that It began to look ni if she might never break herself of It. In the nature of things this was re peated to the girl. Her good temiwr was one of her charms, "It Is so much beter a habit than accepting them all." she argued, sweetly. Nevertheless, she wondered If there were not some truth mingled with the malice. But Lieut. Lorlng was the last victim of her practice. He proposed to her. unfortunately for himself. Just after she had met young Ardisley. "I thought this morning that maybe 1 would marry you," said Miss Hamp den. "But I've changed my mind, some way." "Weren't you Just a trifle prompt In determining my Intentions?" he asked. "Has the event proved me wrong?" she returned. He lost his tenner. "Yon are spoiled," he said. "If yon knew how often I have heard that! Yet I do not think I am. I am simply sincere, and you are a little too vain, all of you, to grasp the difference. ! like yon awfully well no, now, don't misunderstand me. I don't love yon. And you are too nice a fellow to be married to a girl who only likes you. No," she repeated, "I do not think I'm polled. I have been so placed that men were making love to me at an age when other gtrls were playing with dolls. It's partly because I am pretty and partly, largely, because there are so few women out here. When I have been In the East I haven't made much of a sensation. I've grown a bit hard fwsl, pert) aim. Custom has dulled the edge which was fearfully keen and cutting, at first of being told that I am breaking a heart. Hut, though I am only 22. I've lived to see dozens of you marry and be happy. You'll do the same." "O, no, I shall not," moaned Lorlng. "O, yea, you will. Jack. And I shan't mind. Now I've promised to dance this with the new Mr. Anlsley, and If we fay out here any longer every one will galea s what has happened." "They'll know wlien they see me." "Don't be a goose, Jack. It's only the heart that la trying to take Itself aerl owly that exhibit the pain." "Don't discus a subject you know nothing about. Yon have no heart." As Miss Hampden walked off with Ardley, abe knew that Lorlng was wrong; that this tall boy, fresh from West Point, as new In experience of the world as the braaa button on hi blouse, was the man she was going to love. He would lore her, of course. It is to be feared that It did not enter her bead that be might not. She saw a ring. "Is that your claa rlngF ahe said. "Ye," he told her. "My I a Itr He cave It to her. and while she ex amined It be sat and admired ber. Mlsa Hampden raised ber eye and met hi. f ho smiled, bat tt was like no smile abe DOM'T a A MOH, JACK. bad ever bestowed ea a saaa before. lie looked at ber vary gravely, and ber hand dosed tightly ever the ring. la a moment abe wet efndytag U again. "t Uke tola. It'e aaweaal," abe said. "I an Ud yen tblali at, a I eeav celred the deeign." He HBieted to to told thai be mi ejevar. "leetaed!" waa ail ahe at aaa tbat IrwUffereatiy. "How cool! I saUar tfcamjfrt yeo'd eipreaa avprlae, aad gJee dm aotne credit Ton are aot addicted to flattery, It wetild Been." "Ira sot. arot ! dart tttaft It weald 1 have been tlaterlng to be surprised that you have done it. It struck me as be ing quite the thing you would naturally do." "That la very pretty." "It 1 perfectly true." It happened, oddly enough, that Ards ley chanced rot to have beard of Mis Hampden's reputation by the next night. He was rudely awakened to a knowledge of It. There were private theatricals In the hop room, and Mis Haminlen was the leading lady. Now the suitor was quite recovered, and he menu! to play a Joke on those In the audience who were not and there were some eight or ten, three of thorn married. He proosed to the heroine In nicely read lines, and was rejected by her with a ierfect!on that xpoke her practice. So tbe audi ence that; and It laughed. Whin the laugh had subsJded, the hero arose from his knees. He walked to the footlights and sighed. "Ah! well," he said, "I have one crumb of comfort. I am not the only man In thl place who Is In the same tlx." The astounded Ardsley looked about him, and he picked out the entire num ber by their faces. Mis Hamixlen dropped her head In her hands and laughed with the rest. Between tbe1 acts, Ardtdey made In quiries and learned tbe truth. He was bitten with a dewlre to obtain the un attainable, and he was not one to dully. He went behind tbe scenes. "Whom are you going home with, Miss Hampden?" "I fear no one will take me after the light Mr. (rravee has put me In." "May I lo so?" She nodded, and Anlsley went back lo his seat. "So you have refused the entire KOBBINO AS IF IIKK HKART WKHK UT TKRLT BROS KN. army?" be asked, aa they walked home. "Not quite." "The entire department?" "Well, a fair percentage of It," she admitted. "Are you going to refuse me?" "I can't say until you are offered." "I offer myself now." "And I accept you now." "Good enough I Will you announce our engagement to-night at supper r "At tbe risk of being adjudged Ineane -yea." "Put on th! ring until I can get you another. It will fit your middle finger. Now I am In earnest." "So am I." ahe said. They were very much In earnest, the event proved; and the garriaon derived unmixed plea u re from the total, un conditional, obvious orrender of Ml Hampden. 8b e waa is open In her In fatuation as abe had alway been In everything else. And ArdMley was equally Infatuated. He took back the class ring and gave ber a diamond which cost him three month" pay. They were altogether happy. So, jnat a fortnight before the day arranged for their wedding, tbe god demanded tbe first payment on their loan. AnWey waa ordered off on a scout. Mlea Haonpden clang to Ardsley and cried like a little girt, and did not be have In tbe least like a woman who had seen countless scouts. And she let him go to the ware remembering ber stand ing with her arm against tbe wall and her bead upon her arm, sobbing as if her heart were utterly broken. Ardaley did not come back from the root. He waa In a fight on what should hare been bla wedding day. Other were killed and tbetr bodies were recovered and borled, but Arda- ley'a body waa never found. There was a tale that a fire bad been aeon on the battlefield the night after tbe encounter, and In tbe mldet of the Are a tree with a form which might have been that of a man against It. There were Indian grouped around It Mia Hampden never hoard the story, fine never even gueaaed at what bad happened until twenty year after ward. Rbe waa the superb and eplrltlese wife of a mighty general, and site waa accompanying ber bnsband on a tour of Inapectloa In the Wet. Tbey were at an agency oaeday, and were vleltlng tbe levee. It was tbe agency of tbe In diana that young Ardsley had fought two decade before; and tbe General's wife waa nerving beraeU aot to ohow that abe remembered tola. The Oeaeral waa examining the trin ket that a nag aa a erring aronnd the aeek of a hetf-Mrad aqaaw "Here la a Weat Petnt otoaa rtoar be exclaimed. IIP UN wife p peHled her word of twen ty years pa!. "May I see It?" she asked, coolly. She took It In her band and turned it atHiut. She could nike out the design, though It seemed to have pasned through some heat that hud melted It, There was do doubln her mind. Never hel.ss, she looked Inside. The heat bad not affected It there, and the Initials were quite plain even yet. "D. A.," she said; "It was David Ardsley's ring. The flre did not touch the letters. I understand now why they never could tell me which was his grave." The General broke the string and picked up the class ring from among the scattered baubles. Tbe squaw was chattering and whining and clawing around on the earth. Tbe General held "MAT I BKK IT?" SIIK ASKED COOLLY. the ring out to bis wife. She raised the dark eyes that had been so bright and happy tbe last time It bad been held out to be. "Can I have It?" she asked. Tbe General put It In her hand, and the hand closed over tt. 'Thank you," she said Utlca Globe, WILL MEASURE DEW. Little Attachment for the Wind Osage at Weather Bureau. Hereafter the gentle dew cannot de scend at night nor a flake of anow fall without being registered on tbe Minne aKHs weather station rain gauge. Will iam Carlisle, a member of Weather Ob server Outram's staff, has Just perfect ed a little adjunct to the rain gauge registration machinery, which will hreafter make It possible to register absolutely so small a precipitation aa a thousandth of an Inch. In fact the minuteness of It registration la only limited by the delicacy of tbe acale maker'g art. Mr. Carlisle baa frequently noticed that abort and gentle, but perfectly ap preciable rainfalls have occurred with out showing any registration. On the other hand he has noted that alight reg istrations are sometimes made when there la no moisture falling. The regis tration la effected by mean of an elec trical connection between the scale of the exposed rain gauge and a graphic representation device In the office bo low. Tbe rain gauge Jar rest on one arm of a pair of delicately balanced scales, lialn failing In the Jar disturb tbe balance, the Jar aide settle and thereby close an electrical circuit which causes the registering device to record a certain amount of rain. At the tame time tbe balance la automatic ally restored. Mr. Carlisle ascertain ed that at times the preaaure exerted ou the bottom of the Jar by wind eddlea bad exactly tbe same effect a the weight of tbe rain. It waa obvtoua that what waa needed was a device that would distinguish between wind and rain. After much experimentation Mr. Car lisle hit upon the scheme of Introduc ing In the electrical circuit some addi tional clock work, the effect of which Is to delay the graphic register Ave sec onds. That Is to say that If a certain amount of ruin la caught by tbe gauge receptacle it will be five second be fore It la recorded. If the preasure ex erted on the stale waa Yeally that made by collected water It would still remain at the end of that period. If on the other band tbe disturbance of the scale waa momentary and due to wind preasure, they would regain their equilibrium during tbe five second and no record would be made. The ma chine can be adjusted to any length of time. Mr. Carlisle'! attention la now attach ed to tbe official rain gauge and worka admirably. It la probable that tbe In vention will be applied to all govern ment rain gauges. -Mlnneapoll Jour nal. Pithy Appeal. A certain reverend gentleman In Lon don, baring to preach a charity eermon, said nothing on tbe suMeot until tbe sermon waa ended". He then told the congregation that Utla waa a mere mat ter of buaJneaa, and aa each he would talk of It They knew aa wall aa ha that they had oartoaa poor to provide for, who looked to obelr puree. Be tbea read the text, "He that gtveth to the poor lendeth to tbe Lord," and add ed, If yon approve of the aaenitv, down with your money." Relieved. Jack-Do you know that yon remind me very strongly of my A not Jane. Al Ice-Ob. I'm o gtod. Jack-Why? Alice I waa afraid you were looking at me tbat way becauae I had a chunk of aoot or something on my noae Cleveland I-sder. The difference between what a man thing of blnmelf and what other peo ple think of him la a good deal Ilka what a man aaks for a piece of prep rrty and what rbe other man offer to Ho. . rlta.. t . tu pieeanr m receiving a laeta aa laager than It takaa to tM eaal. After that, eoanea tka ef aaawartat tt. ""ssfsaaaji OUR NAVY" IN A NUTaMELL fatereetina- Fait I nm rrniiiic ntum Ham's .Marine Fiablitiu Power. The I'nlted Stales U the fifth nafal power In the world. The navies of Great Rrllain. l-'rauee, Russia and Iialy rank ahead in the order named. Ger many ami the I'uited Stales are ulxmt tied. Our present effective, lighting force consists of four battle ohiiis of the first class, one battle ship of the sec ond class, two armored cruisers, eigh teen cruisers, fifteen gunlHmts, six dou-ble-turreted monitors, one ruin, one dy namite gunboiit. one iis)iutrh lut, one transport and cilit torpedo IkkiIh. The Iowa weighs nearly lJ.lMtf) toii, and as twenty ions is the average load of a freight car and twelve cars is a good load for a locomotive engine, it would take fifty hwomoti'ts to haul the great steel Ktri-;re. The mj wdH used is brown and in chunks the size of a caramel. A charge for the biggest guns weighs pounds and Is hoisted lo the breech by a der rick, the powder Ix-lng sewed up in burlap bags. Armor plates are tested by tiling steel projectiles weighing from lu) to l.TilMi pounds at them from guns charg ed with lAH) pounds of swder ami at a distance of nlsdit a city block. The biggest guns in the navy are forty-nine feot long, big enough for a man to crawl into; four feet in diame ter at their largest part and weigh 1U5,- 5(K) pounds or themilxjtits. There are six rear admirals in active service. The olliees of vice admiral and admiral are unfilled, so there Is no head of the navy excepting Secretary Long. Barnacles form on the hull of a ship, Impeding Ms seed. A six months' cruise will decrease the siced of a ship 15 per cent., and It must go Into dry dock. Sixty-one merchant vessels lx-long to the auxiliary navy. These ships are subsidized ami by contract must be given to the I'nlted States on demand. Some of the guns In the navy can flre a shot twelve miles, farther Chan a man can see, for the guns are aimed and sighted by machinery. The amount exiKnded by the navy department lu 1H1I7 was $:i4,ifil,5-lt. This Is a larger sum than has been ex pended In any year since tH'Hi. In a buttle the woodwork and arti cles of wood are either stowed below or thrown overlxmrd lest the men be Injured by splinters. Tbe origin of the navy department may be said to date from Oct. I.'!, 1775, whon Congress authorized the equip ment of two cruisers. The fastest vessels In the navy are the torpedo ixmts PorteT and Oupont, each of which Can travel 27.5 knots au hour. itftle ships cost from S2.&00.000 to )fn,7r,000, and cruisers from $(00,000 to 1,000,000. A good torpedo boat costs over $100,000. Itattle ships are for the heavy work; cruisers are commerce destroyers; mon itors are useful only for coast defense. The Indiana could lie outside Sandy Hook and throw 1,200-pound shots iu to New York at the rate of four a min ute. Those artists who show smoke In their pictures of naval battles are whol ly wrong. Smokeless powder Is used. All of the cruisers are named In hon or of cities, and the battle ships, except the Keaiyarge, In honor of States. The "grog" ration was alollshed In 18il.'l, ami since then the crew has been forbidden to drink while on duty. Marines are the police on loard ship. Originally they were employed to pre vent mutiny among the iatlors. The guns of a battle ship enn carry from six to twelve mile, hurling a 3hot weighing half a ton. Only i0 jst cent, of the enlisted men are Americans, and a smaller percent age yet are native born. Projectiles thrown by naval guns are ehaied much as the bullets shot by tbe ordinary rine. A big Iwttle ship has on board an electric plant capable of lighting a town of 5,000 inhabitants. The Itollers of the Iowa have a heat ing surface of eight acres and hold thir ty tons of water. Great Hrltaln has 2!4 torodocs and toqedo-lxat destroyers; Uncle Sam has only eight. Five hundred and twenty-six men and forty oftletTs are required to man the cruiser New York. Hat tie ships are covered with armor of nickel steel from five to seven Inches thick. We have four armored battle ships the Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts and Texas. A submarine tor)Htlo boat to be known as the Plunger Is now under construction. At present the tolal enlisted force of tbe naval militia Is 3,870 officers and men. Behind the heavy armor there la a padding of either corn pith or cocoa husks. It cost $.100 every time one of the big gun on board a ship la fired. The Brooklyn and the New York are our armored cruiser. SaHors are paid from $9.50 to $12..V) per month end hoard. An aot of Congrew In 1872 abolished flogging in the navy, The American nary ha practically ail been bulM atnee 1888. A captain lo tbe navy rank with a oolonel ki the army. ' Tbe oldest iron vessel la tbe Michi gan, built hi 1844. Five battle etdpe are now under con struct km. We hare only one ram tbe Katsh dta. Tbe ship are painted white. Frank Lee In Ohlcago Ttanee-Hereld. With a Free Hand. Wonderful are the decision some times mad by Mexican Justices of the peace, moat at whom are meagerly aaajfpod h nwtedfe. One each aa- tiilfi-rtnitor of the law, after a man had Iteen tried and found guilt of I murder, deliverd a loifg lecture to the I murderer Umiii the belnousnesH of bis! crime, and warned him never to apjx'iar In his court again upon such a charge. ( Then be !mipre-slvely prououiKied hen- j fence-- five dollars and twits and dis- ( missed the court, bis face beaming with pride and satisfaction over Mm I oratorical effort. Before another Mex- , lean justice of the peace there came a .Mexican man and lnsiid to lx tied in wedlock. The judige looked them over ; critically, and apparently had doubts j alxjut the compatibility of their tem pers, for he put a i.'ijp limit upon the combination, j'.ui as be pronounced j t lie wordii which made them man and wift ne added, with einiplisiH'i.s. "For; me space of two years only." As they went away he told tiliem if t-hey were disastutied with t-eir venture lx-fore that time to come back, and he would divorce them for 1 lie same fee. Still another of these wise judges tried a man for some petty offense, found Mm guilty, and lined him five dollars and costs. But till, was too much for the prisoner at the bar, who dus-lared that be could not pay the fine; that he had not so much money in the world. The justlce looked him over with line, large contempt for auy one so "ornery," shrugged bis shoulders, and turned to the marshal with the nonchalant alter native: "Very well. Then take him out on the mesa and shoot him." Many of thee Mexican justices cannot S)ik KnglUh. But that i not so much of a disqualification as it might appear, for the Territorial law commands ail court proceedings to be carried on In both Kngli.sh and Sjnanlsh. Kvery New Mexican court has 11s official Interpre ter, and every word siKifcen In ehtiher language by Judge, lawyers or wit nesses Is translated aloud Into the oth er tougue. It Is said that Mr. lluysnians, the au thor of that striking novel, "En Route," Is about to enter a monastery. Miss Florence Marryat Is publishing a novel with the title "A Soul ou Fire." It has In It an element of spiritualism. A new novel, named "Poor Max," by Mrs. Manuiugton Oaffyn (Iota) la to be issued shortly. She Is said to surpass In It all her previous novels, and to have left tbe sex problem In the back ground. The degree of success which has at tended the publication of "Like a Gal lant Lady," by Kate M. Oleary, sister of the late noted dramatic critic, B. J. Mcl'belim, has been sttch as to Induce that lady to begin another story which will shortly be given to tbe public. Frank R. Stockton's new novel, "Tbe Girl at Cobhurst," is to be published shortly by the Sctibner's, and will be the fresher for tbe fa4 that 1t has no where ajwared serially. It Is a love story. In which a matchmaking crot chety old maid and a French cook at tempt simultaneously to lead the hero's affections In different paths, with the customary Stocktondan Whimsicality of effect. Joseph Conrad's new story, publish ed within fine last few weeks In En gland. Is doing very well there, In spite of Its ungainly title. The Bookman says tbat Mr. Conrad Is jjellghted with the title given to the American edi Hon, namely, "The Children of the Sea," which flt the book to a nicety, whereas "The Nigger of the Narcis sus" mean nothing to tbe average mind. Mr. Conrad was trtoutly advo cated for the Academy prize which was obtained by Stephen Phillips. The enterprising nerw magazine call ed Success contains an Illustrated In terview with Anthony Hope In which tbe English author-lawyer ds quoted as saying that he had the usual expeti enee of "wasting good stamjm on re turned stories" before his writings b,? gan to bring him enough to live on. "But after I left the law for lltera ture," he says, "I wouldn't go back pride alone settled that." His Idea of the chief thing necessary for a man's success In story writing la the ability to Invent plots. "It'a born with a man, of course," he says. "Study will devel op and work perfect a style, but It won't give a bent to It. The ability to Invent a plot 1 a gift. I don't believe any one could train big mind to an in ventive state." A Little Datoh Garden. I passed by a garden, a little Dutch gir den Where nseful and pretty things grew Heartsease and tomatoes, And pinks and potatoes, And lilies and onion and me. I saw In tbat .garden, that little Dutch garden, A chubby Dutch man with a spade, Aud a rosy Dutch frau With a shoe like a scow, And a flaxen-haired little Dutch maid. iTi ere grew In that garden, that little Dutch garden, Blue finer flowers, lovely and tall, Aud esrly blush rowi And little pink posies But Grctcbeu was fairer than all My heart's In that garden, that little Dutch garden It tumbled right In as I pasted, 'Mid 'wllderiog mate Of spinach and daisies. And (Iretcbea la holding it feat Beaton Budget When There Wa Only Oae Paper; la the year 1700 there waa ealy aae newapaper la the United Btataa. ABUSING AN EDUCATION. Tbe Neglect of Helf-Culture ! Untaoae Wantefuliiea of Advantuue. In a thoughtful pajer on "A Waste of Education," In the Woman's Home Companion, Brand Buuuer Huddlesioa sjM-aks of the tendency of women to permit, their talents to rust out: "Mental culture may be the most costly or the most valuable gift of par ents to their children just as they care for It after they get it. It is certain that few would equally neglect a ma terial property of like monetary cost a they often do their educations. This, too, when money Is the very shortest tape-line by which a mental gift may be measured Perhaps it is due in part to the mistaken idea that when we have quitted the school-room we carry with us a stationary fund of knowledge that will, or ought to be, sufficient for our future. "Look at the plies of hard dollars and the Illimitable hours of time spent every year in the study and practice of music alone; except for the gixjd they are to teachers and to the makers of musical Instruments, the half might as well be wiped out of existence at one clean sweep. A decent little eternity might be made out of the time. And. this continues to exist and repeat itself generation after generation In the very face of the fact that music is an In comparable addition to home life, and, on tbat account, if for no more lofty or selttsh reason, ought to be perfected aud never neglected by women. "How many of your women friends will undertake to entertain even the family circle with a creditable per formance V Usually their pianos stand Idle from tbe period immediately suc ceeding their marriage until there are daughters old enough to be put at les sons; then the old folly will be repeat ed. What folly? Not the placing of children to study music or any other accomplishment that is for their good or that fhe purse will permit. Let them have all the advantages within reach, but also teach them appreciation; the folly consists in fostering through ex ample, and by a tacit acceptance of the existing state of things, the idea that It can be other than a sinful waste of time to acquire a good thing and then neglect it. No one has any business to learn a thing that is not worth remem bering. It is foolish from a merely utilitarian point of view. Thus it may not be possible or desirable for every mother to teach her own children, though some count It a sweet privilege to do so, yet H pays them to keep thor oughly posted, if only to Judge of tbe quality of work being done by the teacher, and to supply that home co operation which is so needful to the conscientious student ajjd tbe teacher," Knforced the Rule. Among tbe ironclad sleeping car rule long ago adopted, and strictly adhered tOv by the late George M. Pullman, was tbe absolute prohibition otf card playing of any kind in hi cars on tbe Sabbath day. Mr. Pullman took the ground from the very start, that it would be an insult to a large part of the Intelligent traveling public, wbloh does not In dulge In or indorse card pJaylng on Sun day, to permit the few who draw no such lines to play on his cars In tbe presence of the mauy who would not sanction It on that day. All his sleep ing car conductors, porters and other employes were given positive Instruo tloTAs to prohibit suoh pastime on Sun- day, from morning until midnight. And as far as known the rule was always strictly lived up to. Another positive" rule of Mr. Pullman was one refusing admittance to a Pullman car of any per son known to be under the influence of Intoxicating liquors when about to board a car. A case of th1 kind waa thoroughly tested some years ago on a road In Iowa. A prominent oftkiai of another road had been on a pleasure trip and -waa returning borne. He had been with some congenial companions and waa the worse for the night's out ing. He desired to take a midnight train for home, and several of hi friends escorted him to the train and proceeded with the official to the sleep er. The porter promptly met the party at the door with "That gentleman can't come In this car." In vain was It point ed out tli at he was an official and hie Pullman pass was exliihlted, but all to no avaM. "Makes no difference, gen tlemen, If It was Mr. Pullman himself no in toxical ed man can occupy this car. It Is aga.inM the rules." And tbe lntoxl catetl official sat up ail night In a day coach. Milwaukee Even la tg Wisconsin, Title in Job Lot. Heretofore American girls bare found It a comparatively simple matter to buy titles, but the American men have been compelled to remain plain, unadorned citizens, without handle to their name. All this la to be changed If a bill which the Italian government proposes to submit to parliament be comes a law. According to the provi sions of this bill any one desiring to become a prince may secure tbat title by planking down 8,000. Five thou sand dollars will purchase the title of marquis, $4,000 the title of count, wJkH title of baron will be sold In Job lota at $1,000 each. Here Is an opportunity for that claaa of Americans who pine for the mark of nobility. Perhaps, however, If they wait a little longer other Bnropeaa governments In straitened Circum stances will enter Into competition with Italy and title will be sold on bargala counter at big department atorea. Troy (N. Y.) Time. No Btonr In Manitoba. In Manitoba you can turn a furrow mauy mile long and not eacouatar stone as large aa your flee The earth. for a distance down from three to Ira feet, Is a rich, Mack loam, made bf centuries a ad centuries af tetatte. aajtaj ft i ' j J ' . v,