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A woman may be mistress of herself
though chin a fall up to a certain limit
beyond which no conception of heroism
ceaches The model woman screams at
a spider and discusses the merits of
wired sleeves serenely while a priceless
vase goes crashing to the floor Such is
the standard of feminine courage the
foot rule by which a woman may be
measured Yet when not one piece of
china but two pieces and three and
four fall the standard becomes use
less A woman is not epectcd to bear
more
Yet more came There was a fifth
crash in the kitchen Mrs Melville
stopped in the midst of telling Ritchie
of the Sixth that anchovy paste was
to be struck off the commissary list she
stopped and looked appealingly at Mel
ville
Austin cant you do something
Austin gathered up his napkin put
Tiis hand on the table and started to
push back his chair then he sank down
again and restored his napkin to its
place on his knee If I go in there and
he gets impertinent Ill break his head
which would be bad for his head and
incidentally for my official neck
But its liead or china
Well there is plenty more china
and when that gives out the quarter
master has a new invoice of tinware
But seriously Austin there wont
be a thing left for the general to eat
-off of What are we going to do about
itr
I think the epidemic is over There
has not been a disli broken that I know
of in five minutes You must be reason
able and make due allowances for him
Matty Its hot out there Its hot here
too Its hotter than blazes every
where
I think my dear you are bordering
on profanity Of course its hot Within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant it
has never been even cool in Arizona in
July You really cant expect the
tor general to bring ice
dont you think he ougli
erals dinner
bility of my
Mr Ritchie
to do some-
thing
I must respectfully decline to enter
Into a family difference You and Mel
ville must settle the question between
yourselves Only let me suggest that
if it comes to the actual breaking of
lieads Id take it out on Sing and not
tn one another
There Austin fairly screamed
Mrs Melville jumping up there goes
another and yet you sit and laugh Oh
how horrid you can be
Sit down Matty and talk sense
Suppose I should go out there and at
tempt to reason with Sing In the natu
ral sequence of events it would come to
pass that in his present humor he would
be so ugly that I should feel obliged as
I said to break his head Apart from
the distant consequences of that act
you can see that the near ones would
De pretty bad Youd have to wash the
breakfast dishes and do the house
work and also cook and serve the
Therefore the inadvisa
reducing Sings head to
splinters is obvious isnt it
I suppose so but I do wish to good
ness Mrs Lawrences cook hadnt got
married
So does she the cook I mean since
OHalleran came home drunk two
nights ago and thrashed her Hes been
in the guard house ever since and Im
out a good man Shows what marriage
does Before he was married he didnt
beat his wife However it wouldnt
have made the slightest difference
whether she had committed matrimony
or not the Lawrences would never
Ihave had the -general nor even a single
member of the staff to dinner Shes
never dined the paymaster you know
I think its too bad a first lieuten
ants wife has to do it and all the rest
of the entertaining for the post
You are also the adjutants wife
remember
Yes of course I wonder whats the
matter with Sing anyway
Thats obvious approaching guests
Observed Ritchie stroking and curling
iis unduly military mustachios the
mustachios that have entwined and en
snared so many hearts in their silken
meshes since then in the whirl of
Washington society Ritchie was Mel
villes second lieutenant at that time
and as he was not married and didnt
like the bachelor mess he messed with
his senior and that young officers wife
Why didnt his cousin die then
Perhaps he realizes that the dead
Cousins funeral is a iitle worn as a
method of obtaining a leave
I should think so one died when the
paymaster was coming to dinner the
time before last and another when the
Indian agent was here and he polished
off two in anticipation of the paymas
ters last trip
Thats not all Austin pursued Mrs
Melville Generally he only slams
when he has lost at faro the night be
fore
In pursuance of his method of war
fare Sing precipitated a chopping bowl
and knife to the floor with a resulting
noise that only the falling of those two
homely utensils could possibly accom
plish Melville bit his upper lip and
-clenched his fist
I wonder if it would do any good for
-me to go out and speak him quietly
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actual carving knife dont get us mixed
up in any domestic brawl
Mrs Melville patted her
breakfast cap down securely took
a long breath arose walked resolutely
to the kitchen door opened it passed
through and closed it behind her
Melville and Ritchie listened Mel
ville leaned back in his pine Q M chair
with his ear bent toward the kitchen
Ritchie scraped salt into little ridges
on the cloth with his knife They could
hear the droning of Mrs Melvilles
voice then a pause She commenced
and paused again and yet a third time
her voice rising a little higher at the
last But Sing was worshiping the god
of silence
After the third venture Mrs Melville
came reluctantly out and resumed her
seat
Well
Well I told him
Yes we heard you But what did he
do
He didnt do anything much He
just didnt answer
Did he turn his back on you
Well yes
In short he didnt pay any attention
to you
I suppose he didnt
Melville took a biscuit and passed
the plate on to Ritchie What the dick
ens is one going to do about it he ask
ed of the opposite wall
If we were only nearer some town
or the railroad we might get some one
else But if we let Sing go it may be
months before we can get anybody else
I wouldnt mind cooking for you and
Mr Ritchie so much though its pretty
hard work but I actually cant get up
a dinner for the inspector general and
his staff and serve the dinner too
A pan went clashing and clattering
along the kitchen floor Mrs Melville
sighed Melville grew fiercer and Ritch
ie devoted himself to the mackerel The
shattering of a china dish broke the
stillness Thats six breathed Mrs
Melville
This time Melville bit his under lip
as he put his napkin on the table beside
his plate and pushed away his chair
Oh Austin youd better not go
ventured his wife mildly
He made no answer but strode to the
door and passed through Ritchie re
sumed the salt scraping and Mrs Mel
ville grasped both arms of her chair and
held her breath
At first there was only the rolling of
Melvilles deep voice then the sound of
a sudden scuffle Mrs Melville gave a
smothered scream and started up Sit
down commanded Ritchie pushing
back his own chair but keeping his
seat Mrs Melville sat down There
was only a momentary scraping of boots
and Chinese slippers in the kitchen
then a series of thumps down the back
steps and the scratching of gravel also
a low broken murmur from the yard
I guess remarked Ritchie calmly
that Ill go and see whos underneath
Mrs Melville did not atempt to move
again but she watched the second lieu
tenant anxiously He strolled to the
window and stood there one hand in
his trousers pocket the other stroking
the mustachios
Well ventured the young woman
finally
Ritchie turned around and came back
to his chair I guess Melvilles doing
about what he said he would breaking
Sings head
Weak cries like those of a litle child
came up from the back yard
Is that Sing asked the lady of the
house
It doesnt sound much like Melville
At the end of a couple of minutes Mel
ville went past the window and in at
the side door and a litle later he came
into the dining room by the front en
trance and resumed his seat The shuffle
of Sings slippers could be heard in the
kitchen The adjutant despite his
smoothed hair and newly brushed coat
looked so ruffled as to temper that his
wife wisely refrained from speech
Ritchie was bolder Has the police
party got to come around and pick up
the pieces
No I guess hes whole
Is he a little more reasonable
Oh hes doing the lamb act now
Tell us about it Austin begged
Mrs Melville
I just told him hed got to stop his
nonsense and behave himself Of
course I didnt want to say anything
ugly to make him madder He mutter
ed that hed go or something like that
and he flung the dish towel in my face
I was a little riled at that but I dont
think Id have done anything except
kick him outfit I hadnt remembered
the dinner I knew he had to be pounded
into staying So I pounded Thats
all
Mis Melville flew into the sitting
room a few hours later
Austin hes vamoosed
Melville stood up put down his news
paper and knocked the ashes from his
cigar Ill get him back he said
How
Send a deachment out for him and
bring him back
So Mrs Melville watched and waited
for half an hour and at the end of that
time heard the shuffle of feet and the
tramping of boots on the perch Sing
glided into the room followed by his
master There was a guard at the door
Here he is Try the force of gentle
persuasion Matty
v Melville was a coaxing little
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body she could have moved any ona
but a Chinaman NSing remained obdu
rate No he grunted me no come
back
Just to get dinner Sing you can go
afterward
No
She looked appealingly at her hus
band
Then you wont come- back and get
dinner to night Sing asked Melville
No
Guard take this man and put him
to chopping wood in the sun It was
rather a stretch of official and military
authority but even the commanding
officer who was to dine with the gen
eral realized the urgency of the case
An hour of wood chopping under
guard under all the untamed glory of
an Arizona sun brought Sing into sub
jection He appeared downcast per
spiring gasping and penitent at the
door of Melvilles quarters Missa Mel
ville Me wantee slee Mis Melville
No jrou cant see her shes lying
down
Yes Me wantee slee Mis Melville
Me tellee Mis Melville me come back
She no want you back Sing
Oh you go tellee
All right I go tellee her She no
come I think
Melville disappeared and brought
back his wife Her face was contorted
into an unrelenting frown
Well Sing she demanded severely
Mis Melville me come back
No I no want you come back
Me cookee good dinner Allee samee
heap good Sun heap hot makee my
head hurt moaned the child of the
Orient No breakee plates no more
All right she confessed reluctant
ly I keep you to day maybe
Really Mrs Melville said the griz
zled inspector general as he sat beside
his brilliant little hostess at the table
and looked its length at the goodly ar
ray of yet unbroken dishes I cant see
what you all make such a fuss about
these Western stations for Of course
theyre a little far from the railroad
but you have pretty good society you
dress well exactly as they do in Wash
ington so far as my masculine eyes can
tell you live on the fat of the land to
judg1 from what I see before me and
you certainly have excellent domestic
service
Mrs Melville blessed the happy
thought which had made her place the
general so that he could not see the
guard standing over the Celestial cook
out in the kitchen as the door swung
to and fro Yes she assented still
there are some inconveniences
You seem to have overcome them
We have temporarily she answer
ed Gwendolen Overton in San Fran
cisco Argonaut
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE
Woolen manufacture employs 220000
Americans
The man who will not improve his
chance is bound to lose it no matter
whether it has to do with seeking sal
vation or making a fortune
A 634 carat diamond the finest ever
found in Africa was discovered at
Jaggersfontein in the Transvaal on
the day after Christmas When cut
it is expected that it will be worth
300000
Charlemagne possessed a tablecloth
woven from asbestos He used to as
tonish his guests after dinner by gath
ering it up and throwing it into the
fire from whence he drew it cleansed
from gravy and other grease
New Hampshire has reason to be
proud of her free public library sys
tem Splendid work has been accom
plished since 1S02 and of the 233 cities
and towns in the State there are now
not more than fifty that have no free
public library
Negotiations are in progress by
which the Art Institute of Chicago
may become the possessor of the sixty
four paintings by Gustave Dore which
for the past few years have been ex
hibited in this country The price is
said to be 1000000
A cave alleged to rival in extent and
grandeur the great Mammoth Cave has
been discovered in Edmonson County
Kentucky in which Mammoth Cave k
situated The newspapers of that re
gion tell many stories of the remark
able character of the new cave
In commemoration of the victories
won by the Japanese troops in China
the Buddhists of Kioto Japan will
erect a gigantic bronze statue of Bud
dha in that city It will be 120 feet in
height and the cannon captured by the
Japanese during the war are to be used
in making the image
Tommy Was a Jewel
Owing to the illness of his regulai
office boy Dr Joseph Marcus some
weeks ago hired a new boy named Tom
my Jones Tommy was a jewel and
when Joe the first incumbent conval
esced the Doctor was loath to let Tom
my go But Joe wanted to come back
to his soft berth and pleaded with his
former employer A way out of the
dilemma seemed to present itself for
the Doctor said
Joe if you can put the other boy out
you can get your job back
Do you mean that I must lick him
Thats about the size of it
All right
When Dr Marcus returned to his
office that night he met a sight he never
bargained for The glass in the door
was smashed to smithereens A marble
clock on the mantel was minus dial
glass or hands and a handsome office
chair reposed on three legs but Joe
was in victorious possession nursing a
swollen cheek
Tommys gone he said with a grin
The Doctor said nothing but as he
made a silent survey of the wreck of his
household goods he imagined the scene
that 1 had preceded the eruption and
niada a mental vow never to advise
harshly again Cincinnati Enquirer
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OER ETJEAL EEADEES
SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL
INTEREST THEM
Great Claims Made for the Adams
Corn New Whiffletree for Thrc
Horde Plowing Handy Scaffold De
viceShallow Plowing for Barley
The Adams Corn
C P Augur of Connecticut writing
In the American Agriculturist says My
experience leads me to believe that
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DWARF EARLY ADAMS
Early Dwarf Ad
ams corn will give
better results than
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brought to my at
tention thirty fhe
years ago a sam
ple being sent me
from Michigan
under the name of
Squaw corn It
was recommended
as an extra early
table variety Ir
has been improved
byVears of careful
selection until
now I think it has
no superior for
either the extreme
north or the ex
treme south as its
early ripening
makes it desirable
cokn Vi size of ear in both
sections
For other sections of the country while
It may not excel other varieties it cer
tainly can lose nothing by comparison
It is a general purpose corn if such a
thing exists As early if not earlier
than the earliest sweet variety it has
large handsome ears that are tender
and toothsome on the table and sell
readily in the market Not only will
its size earliness and general appear
ance sell it but those who have tried its
quality are ready to buy again It has
unusnal vigor and will grow sturdily
on very moderate fertilization It is a
hardy variety and can be planted safe
ly a week or ten days earlier than the
sweet varieties There are four types
of the Adams Dwarf Early Early
Late and Zigzag Adams
The Garden a Help to Good Irvine
The farmers garden is not only the
best paying piece of land on the farm
but it is the one that if managed as it
should be best shows what advanta
ges farm life may offer It is not cred
itable to farmers that the residents of
cities and villages are able to secure
cheaply better supplies of fresh garden
vegetables than can the farmer It
ought not to be so Even in the matter
of earliness it is within the power of
the farmer with a good greenhouse to
compete for his own table with the
market gardener even in the winter
and early spring But if he does not
care to go to this expense he will be
Inexcusable if he does not provide an
abundant variety of everything that
can be grown in the garden in the open
lir If the farmer was obliged as his
wife is to provide the material three
times a day for wholesome and palata
ble meals he would pay more attention
to the garden than he does In any
well-ordered- family the garden ought
to furnish half of what is eaten during
the summer and fall months and the
half that will certainly give the great
est pleasure to unperverted tastes and
appetites
New Whiffletree
A rig that beats them all for three
horse plowing is shown by Farm and
Home The advantages are The team
is close to the plow and the plow beam
needs but very little shifting when us
ing a two horse or a three horse team
Fasten a standard 18 inches long at
right angles up and down to the end of
the plow beam It may be of wood or
THBEE HOKSE WHIFFLETBEE
iron Put a single tree at the upper
end of the standard for the middle
horse and a two horse tree to the lower
end for the outside horses The stand
ard must have 12 inches above and 6
inches below the plow beam to equalize
the draft between the middle and the
two outside horses To measure the
right length of the evener place the
three single trees in line on a work
bench Let the middle tree lap 3 inches
over inside ends of outside single trees
Cut the evener just long enough and
you will have a compact rig
Selling Young Pica
There is no quicker way to get mon
ey in pork than to keep a few breeding
sows and sell their pigs when ready
to wean or soon after There is always
a good demand for such pigs and at
considerably more than their pork val
ue It is known by everybody that the
young pig makes more growth with
the same feed than it will at any later
period of its life But the seller of the
pig gets the advantage of this without
being at any expense to care for and
feed the animal Therefore his profit is
greater than that of the man who buys
from him
Too Rampant Grape Vine Growth
Many American grape vines especial
ly those that are in part descended from
the native sorts require much more
room than do the grapes grown in Euro
pean vineyards Unless given consid
erable wood at pruning time the growth
of the few buds that are left by close
pruning will be stimulated too much
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This is a frequent cause of unfruitful
ness in such varieties as the Rogers
Hybrids There is such an excess of
sap flowing into the shoots that when
they blossom the tendency to wood
growth is so strong as to prevent setting
the fruit Such varieties should be
pruned long and if too many buds
start pull out every alternate one after
the fruit has fully set and the danger of
growing only wood has passed
The Early Planted Potatoes
Potatoes will grow at a much lower
temperature than corn but it is none
the less a mistake for the early plant
ing to put the sets In deeply while the
ground is cold and wet Cut potatoes
thus planted rot very easily For all
early planting we should use whole
potatoes cutting out all but two or
three of the most vigorous eyes This
will make a much stronger growth than
the whole seed not thus prepared Three
inches is deep enough to plant on heavy
ground though after the soil has been
warmed to greater depth potatoes will
do best if planted four and a half to
five inches deep Such potatoes will
not need to be hilled to keep the crop
from growing out of the ground and
the deep planting is also to some extent
a means of preventing the rot which
as it comes from spores bred on the po
tato leaf is most apt to attack the tu
bers nearest the surface
Testing Seed Corn
jLiere are every jear so many com
plaints and losses from poor seed corn
that the only safe way is to test it by
planting some under cover and in a
moderate warm place This is not
itself a test of how many seeds will
grow when planted in the open ground
but it will at least show whether the
seed has retained its vitality and un
der favoring conditions can be expect
ed to make a crop Knowing that his
seeu can be depended on the farmer
can be saveu the loss sure to occur if
he puts in more seed than is needed
with the expectation that some will not
grow This loss is most serious of all
for the seed with little vitality usually
makes a weakly growth and the num
ber of plants in a hill makes it impos
sible that any of them shall produce
more than nubbins
A Handy Scaffold Device
Perhaps the east end of the house or
barn needs cementing or replastering
If so and you dont want a quantity of
lumber used make an angle of 3 by 4
SCAFFOLD FOB BEPAIBIXG
scantling as shown in the illustration
and slide it up against the wall with a
stout pole or scantling Fasten it at the
bottom or let the end sink into the
earth and the more weight you put
upon it the more secure it will become
You will want at least two of these
angles and a board across them
Egjs aa Chicken Food
For very young chicks and until
they are old enough to eat whole
wheat there is no better food than egg
boiled hard so that it can be crumbled
It should be given a little at a time
and the chicks be allowed to run
around for an hour or two before any
more is given If the egg shell is crush
ed fine and added this will also be
eaten and it will furnish the needed
grit to aid digestion besides supplying
the lime which is essential in growing
bone and feathers Many chickens
suffer from indigestion because cooped
on wooden floors where they cannot
get either sand or gravel which all
fowls must have if they would keep in
good health
Stone as a Mulch
Wherever a stone heap has laid a
few years the soil beneath will be
found more fertile This is especially
the case where the whole or part of
the heap is composed of limestone The
disintegration of the stone is in part
responsible for this All rains and
snows contain some carbonic acid gas
which makes them a good solvent It
is from stone that the earthy portions
of all soils were originally formed An
other and in some cases the most im
portant benefit to the soil from the
stone heap lying above it is that the
stones act as a mulch shading the soil
and this enabling it to disintegrate the
insoluble particles and prepare their
plant food to be taken up by the rooty
of plants
Shallow Plowing for Barley
The roots of barley do not run deep
ly and the plant makes a much more
vigorous early growth if the surface
soil is merely cultivated instead of
being turned to the bottom of a fur
row with a plow The only objection
to shallow plowing for spring grain is
that it makes the plowing harder for
teams and plows when the spring stub
ble is turned over in the fall for sow
ing to winter grain But some farmers
have found that here also the shallow
plowing succeeds best Deep plowing
of stubble land only keeps the soU
loose to a greater depth allowing it to
absorb more water and thus increase
the injury to the crop from winter
freezing and thawing
When a girl is 16 the eligibility of a
young man depends a good deal on
what sort of a mustache he has When
she is 2G she is likely to think more
about his bank account Somerrille
Journal
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Pile and Storage
Where numerous magazines and
newspapers arc taken their weekly and
daily accumulation in the library la
apt to become a seriouslj burdensome
matter The newspapers and other
periodicals except magazines may be
placed on their arrival upon the file
sticks that are shown These are two
pieces of light wood hinged together
at one end One piece has a handle
and this also contains two pointed
brads with corresponding sockets in
the other piece of wood The paper Is
FOB NEWSPAPEKS AXD
placed between the sticks which ar
then closed and tied the brads holding
the paper firmly in place Each paper
can then be put in its place in the cabi
net new Issues being added as they ar
rive until the stick is full when some
of the oldest numbers can be cleared
out The closet can be used as a stor
age place for magazines and other peri
odicals it is desired to preserve while
the open shelf and the top of the closet
will accommodate the late numbers
while they are being read
Oyster Croquettes
Take twenty five good fat oysters
with one gill of their own liquor one
gill of cream one tablespoonful of
butter two tablespoonf uls of flour add
one tablespoonful of chopped parsley
the yolks of two eggs a quarter of a
grated nutmeg with salt and cayenne
Ko taste Put the oysters to boil in
their own liquor boil and stir constant
ly for five minutes Take them from
tie fire and drain Chop the oysters
very fine Now put into a saucepan one
pill of this liquid and the cream Put
together the butter and flour Add this
and the oysters to the boiling liquid
and cream and stir until it boils and
thickens Then add the yolks of the
eggs stir over the fire for one minute
take it off add parsley salt cayenne
and nutmeg mix well and turn out to
cool When cold form into cylinders
roll first into beaten egg then in bread
crumbs and fry in boiling oil or fat
To Make Strawberry Jelly
Boil three quarters of a pound of su
gar in half a pint of water pour it boil
ing hot over three pints of strawberries
placed in an earthen vessel add the
juice of two lemons cover closely and
let it stand twelve hours Then strain
through a cloth flannel is the best
thing mix the juice which has run
through with two and a half ounces of
gelatine which has been dissolved in
a little warm water and add sufficient
cold water to make the mixture one
quart Pour into a mould and set on
the ice to cool Ladies Home JournaL
Horse Radish Sauce
Chill one cup of thick cream and beat
It until stiff enough to hold in shape
Add half a teaspoonful salt half a
saltspoon pepper and three tablespoon
fuls prepared horse radish If fresh
grated horse radish be used add two
tablespoonfuls vinegar and one tea
spoonful sugar to the radish Keep
this in a cold place as it should be
stiff and thick when used If served
on the dish with hot meat put it in a
shallow sauce dish and cover the dish
with the garnish of water cress
Hints
Scald your bread jars twice a week
tt keeps the mould away
A good gargle for sore throat is com
posed of two teaspoonfuls of glycerine
Dne tablespoonful of lime water and
one teaspoonful of paregoric
To kill roaches make a paste of flour
not water and phosphorus using a half
pint of paste and about six cents worth
f phosphorus Place on small pieces
of board where the roaches come and
they will eat and die
An excellent cure for hoarseness is to
roast a lemon until it is soft all through
do not allow it to burst While still
hot cut a piece from the end and fill the
lemon with as much granulated sugar
as it will hold Then eat it while hot
Jellies made with gelatine ought al
ways to be covered says a physician in
the London Family Herald as when
medical men want to secure minute or
ganisms for investigation they expose
gelatine to the air or where the germs
are and it attracts and holds them
It is sometimes convenient to remem
ber the following items of cooks meas
urements One pint of liquid equals
one pound two gills of liquid make one
cupful four teaspoonfuls made one ta
blespoonful two round tablespoonfuls
of flour will weigh an ounce half a
pound of butter will make one cup
four cups of flour ake one pound two
cups of granulated sugar make one
pound but in powdered sugar it will
take two and a half cups to make one
pound
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