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A MIMIGHT SHOT.
Very few people are -willing to ad
mit a belief in the visitation of spirits
to their former .earthly abodes, but
occasionally something happens of a
peculiar nature, startling1 those ac
quainted with the circumstances -into
at least a consideration of the possi
bility! A case of this kind occurred recently
on the southwestern suburbs of Little
Rock, Ark., and the party interested
is a well-known resident. The real
name is omitted, as the notoriety
would be exceedingly unpleasant for
a most estimable young lady, and the
point of location is left uncertain for
the same reason.
Some months ago a gentleman, who
will be called Walton for the sake of
convenience, purchased a commoaious
residence on .street, and moved
into it with his family The house had
stood for years, but having been ro
modcled. was at that time almost as
good as new. It was a two-story struc
ture, and contained three bed-rooms
up stairs with six rooms on the ground
floor, all well arranged.
Some years, ago the house was
rented, aud its last tenant, an English
man of peculiar habits, is said to have
died there under rather mysterious
circumstauce.-v His wife, who was
. young aud beautiful, strangely enough
followed her husband, and died of
heart disease one week after his
burial. The two were laid to rest
side by side in Oakland cemetery, and
as a matter of fact .soon forgotton,
save by a few who recalled their names
occasionally by chance. The old
house then fell into disuse and re
mained tenantless for some time. It
was, however, occupied last year, and
when Mr. Walton purchased the prop
erty, a few months ago, he was con
gratulated on the acquisition of an
elegant home.
At the same time he took possession
of the house, his daughter, a young
lady of some seventeen summers, was
away at school in the East and did
not return till after the new home, as
it was called, had been occupied home
weeks.
One of the three rooms up stairs had
been set apart for her use and the
others were occupied by oiHerent
members of the family.
Three nights after her return from
school, a younger sister, who occupied
an adjoining room, was badly fright
ened by a visit from some "unearthly
creature." She heard the rustling of
a shroud and looking up from her pil
low through the moonlight saw a
pale, ghostly face in the doorway,
and the "shroud" encircling the form
of the intruder was not whiter than
her-disheveled hair, which had the ap
pearance of having been torn in grief.
The apparition suddenly vanished,
and the frightened young lady
had straightway alarmed the house
with a piercing scream, which brought
out Mr. Walton with his shot-gun
loaded for burglars, an i his lS-year-old
son with a revolver and a pair of box
ing gloves. The young lady related
her experience, and was, of course,
laughed at aud told to go to lied and
turn her pillow to prevent a re-occurrence
of such frightful dreams. This
she refused to do, however, and was
permitted to spend the remainder of
the night with her sister.
The next night Mr. Walton was con
vinced acainst his will that .his little
daughter had spoken truly. He was
awakened from his slumbers about
midnight by some strange inthicncc,
and, looking towards a patch of moon
light, which fell through his window,
he saw a form and face which chilled
his blood with grave apprehensions.
It was the face of a young woman pre
maturely gray, and her long dishev
eled hair fell in masses over her shoul
ders. Mr. Walton rose up on his elbow,
and the face and form vanished. He
roused his wife and told her what he
seen. She advised a hasty examina
tion of tho premises, which was done
according, but. nothing was dis
covered. The remainder of the night
dragged heavily.
The following night the ghost made
its appearance again, and,, though
Mr. Vi alton was on the lookout, it es
caped him entirely ami vanished, ap
parently in the air. This was kept up
for a whole week and every night the
grayhaired. sad-faced woman made
her appearance in some portion of the
house. At last Mr. Walton reluct
antly yielded to his wife and inquired
of the neighbors concerning
tne history of the house. It
was then that the story of the
mysterious death of an English-
man and his wife crept out. Mr. Wal
ton was practical and couldn't believe
in such things, but he confessed to
himself that the affair was inexplicable.
He resolved to watch once more and
satisfy himself that he was not mis-
"taken. Accordingly, without commun -eating
what he had learned concerning
the house to his wife, he announced
his intention to make another attempt
to -solve the mystery. At 9 o'clock he
and his son posted themselves at the
rear end of a hallway which com
manded a good view of the premises
and waited.
Mr. Walton was not aware at the
time that the young man, in his fear,
had brought along his revolver, Tut
such was the case, and even then he
clutched the weapon in his hand trem
blingly. The two waited till midnight, and
no ghost appeared. A half an hour
longer aud they were just thinking
that after all there might have been
come mistake, when the old gentleman
caught the sound of a strange rus
tling, and, looking down the hall, saw
the mysterious form approaching. The
young man saw it, too. and clutched
his revolver more feverishly.
"Why do you come here?" called out
Mr. Walton in a tolerably strong voice,
as the form continued to approach, and
at the same moment there was a flash,
and the report of a revolver rang
through the halL The sound had not
died away when there was a piercing
scream from the point where the form
was bast seen, followed by a heavy
falL
My God!" gasped Mr. Walton "that
was Nina!" (meaning his daughter).
A lighted lamp was hastily brought -
irom a room, and there, prone on the
floor, lay the strange and mysterious
form.
The gray hair, which was nothing
more or less than a wig nsed in ama
teur theatricals, had fallen off. reveal
ing the face of the young lady who
bad -recently returned from school.
The father was beside himself with
grief and the foolish brother, who had
in his terror grasped his revolver in
tach a tray that it was "accidentally
discharged, .was paralyzed in the face
of what-looked to be an awful crime.
Everything was explained now at a
glance. At her school Miss Nina had
participated in several amateur theat
ricals, in one of which she wore a gray
wig. She was a - somnambulist and
d simply been rehearsing in her
dreams.
" m j unconscious form was lifted
Sxom. where it had fallen and carried
to Broom. A doctor was hastilv sum-
bat, happily, before he arrived
were signs of rctanuns com-
sciousness. An examination showed
that she had only received a slight
flesh wound in the left arm. She had
fainted when the shot awoke her. Her
wound was dressed, and she was quite
herself again before daylight It was
agreed between the family and the at
tending physician to keep the affair
quiet, and avoid all publicity.
The young man gave his revolver
away the next morning and registered
a solemn pledge never to own another.
Mr. Walton informed his wife pri
vately that he wouldn't believe in
ghosts if no were to see a whole grave
yard full of them.
Miss Nina will attend school again
this season, but when she goes her
mother will have arranged to have
her locked in her room at night.
When she returns to Little Rock next
spring it is likely she will tell her
friends of the affair and it will then
leak out who she is.
THE LIARS' CLUB.
'Ike Record on Fish Stories la Broken at
the Third Ananal Meeting.
"It was a most remarkable thing,"
said Alderman Cocoa, at the third
weekly meeting of the Liars1 club, as
reported in the Brooklyn Eagle.
"What was?" queried the inquisitive
member.
That adventure of mine in "
The Twelfth ward?" asked the L
M.
No; off Jamaica bay. We were
fishing for "
"Suckers?" interrupted the I. M.
once more.
"No, whales. Well we had a Jonah
aboard, and couldn't catch a blessed
thing.
One fine summer day, when the
sun shone on the bay and the catfish
sported in the waves, when wo sailed
quite far away to the land of strife
and fray, whero there. I knew it
would come that I'd drop into rhymed
verse well on this beauuful day.
with not a cloud in the azure sky and
all nature feeling on very good terms
with itself, wo heard a low, rumbling
sound in the distance. It was like
the moaning of the wind when whiskers
are scarce, or when tho board of ald
ermen sets up an opposition show. It
came from the land of the applejack,
which strikes several times in one
place, especially if taken through a
straw, and grew louder and louder.
Fear and fright were visible in
every countenance, and we finally
went below and battened down tho
hatches. Then it grew 'hot down
there! Why, one of us set an old hen
we had on board on an omelet souffle,
and she hatched out a dish of
scrambled eggs. All this timo the
noise was getting louder and louder,
and the ship was trembling from stem
to stern-post, and we were trembling
and shivering. Then it grew less
and less, until finally it ceased alto
gether, and we plucked up sufficient
courage to open the hatches and to
venture on deck. Well to cut a long
story short, a swarm of Jersey mos
quitoes had descended upon us and
had carried away every stitch of can
vas." For a moment, but a moment only,
there was an intense and dramatic
silence, broken only now and then by
the low gurgling of a disappearing
cocktail Then the I. M. gave a-pre-liminary
hem and started in at top
speed.
"I can testify to the truth of that
story, " he said, while tho assembled
liars looked astonished. I was sail
ing past the same spot about two days
later and heard the same identical
noise. It grew louder and louder in
the same fashion until we discovered
it to be that same identical swarm of
mosquitoes. But. gentlemen, every
one of those same mosquitoes wore
canvas pants made out of those same
identical sails."
A FAMOUS PHRASE.
Where Lincoln Got Ilia Expression of a
Government of the People.
Identical thoughts and identical
forms may be original in many minds,
asserts Charles Dudley Warner in Har
per s Magazine. The oration of our
day which has taken its place among
the few classics of eloquence is Lin
coln's short speech at Gettysburg. The
phrase most often quoted f.-om it is:
"That government for the people, of
the people and b3T the people shall not
perish from the earth." Porter's Rhet
orical Reader was published in 1831;
in 1839 it was in its fifty-second edition.
From this edition I quote the following
sentence for an "exercise," entitled
"New Social Order in America," and
credited to one Douglas: "The Europ
ean emigrant might believe himself as
one transported to a new world.
governed by new laws and
finds himself at once raised in the
scale of being the pauper is main
tained by his own labor, the hired la
borer works on his own account, and
the tenant is changed into a proprietor,
while the depressed vassal of the old
continent becomes co-legislator and co
ruler in a government where all power
is from the people and in the people
and for the people." The idea is not
new, though this premature Douglas
may have been the first to put it into
this form. When Porter published
these selections of prose and poetry,
Lincoln was 22 years of age, and be
ginning to read law. It is possible
that he may have read this very piece
in a school book which was widely cir
culated, and that this phrase may have
stuck in his memory. It does not mat
ter. The phrase in his mouth is as
pure as a gold coin just dropped from
the mint; it was his genius that set it
in an immortal oration:
Worth a MUlion.
Charlie So yon are to be married?
Gus Yes, and to the nicest girl in
the" world. Charlie, she's worth a
million.
Charlie You don't say so! 1 con
gratulate you, old boy.
Gus Yes,she is worth a million of
such girls as one sees in society.
Charlie Oh, Gus, (he murmurs as he
goes off) poor devil, I pity him. Texas
Sittings. '
SS.OO0 Short la His Account.
Oswego, N. Y., May 2. A warrant
has been sworn out for Michael Taylor,
freight agent of the Delaware, Lacker
wanna ST Western railroad, charged
with being a defaulter. Experts at
work on his books have discovered a
shortage of f-SOfift
MCABAGUAN CANAL.
THE UNDERTAKING IN THE
HANDS OF SPECULATORS. ,
Scatter Dolpa Think It Sheald II Cam
trolled sad Maintained by the Gov
ernment or the United States Benefit
to Be Derived.
Following the discovery of America
irly navigators sought to find a water
way through the continent which
I would afford a shorter route from
! Europe to India. When the hope of
J finding such a passage had been aban
doned, the construction of a canal
for the passage of sea-going vessels--
from ocean to ocean across
the Isthmus of Darien was suggested.
and the project received from time to
time earnest consideration by the
people of the principal maritime na
tions of Europe, and has had the atten
tion of the executive or legislative de
part meats of this country during al
most every administration.
It seems more than probable that the
Panama canal project is impracticable.
The construction of the Nicaragua
canal is entirely practical. The esti
mated cost of a canal's construction is
small compared with its importance
and value. There is not to-day in the
civilized world any other project for
the benefit of commerce comparable in
importance to it.
By reason of our wealth, population,
vast territory, extended coasts on two
oceans, extensive coastwise commerce
and important commerce by sea be
tween the Pacific coast and the Atlan
tic ports and the ports of Europe,
which must pass around Cape Horn,
the United States has a greater interest
in this enterprise than any other
nation.
So great is our interest, on account
of our position and commerce, that no
foreign nation should be permitted to
construct or when constructed to con
trol the canal. A grave mistake was
made and a great opportunity lost
ween the treaty between Nicaragua
and the United States, by which Nica
ragua authorized the United States to
construct and maintain a canal through
her territory, was withdrawn rom the
consideration of the Senate and failed
of ratification.
A company incoporated by Congress
now has concessions from Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, under which it is en
gaged in constructing a canal. With
out government aid it can only be con
structed with the proceeds of stocks and
bonds of the company sold in the mar
kets of tho world for whatever they
will bring.
Whoever controls the stock of the
company will, for the time, being, con-
j trol the canal; but whoever owns the
bonds will virtually own the canal and
will ultimately come into control of it.
If the canal is constructed by u private
corporation the control of it is liable
to pass into the hands of foreigners
and the canal may beoome the pro
perty of a foreign govornmeut- j
There are grave doubts ir- my'mind
whether the enterprise is not of too
jgreat magnitude for private r nterprise
whether the canal can be constructed
without government aid. The United
States should aid the enterprise.
The canal, once constructed aud con
trolled by the United Stales, would
practically become part of our coast
line. It would shorten the distance be
tween our Pacific coast ports smd our
Atlantic ports dud the ports of Europe
enormously.
If Congress fails to secure the con
summation of this great enterprise and
its control by the United Stales, it will
prove itself incompetent to deal with
the interest of a great people.
Miss Jessie Boles.
The accompanying portrait is of
Jessie Boies, the eldest daughter of
the Governor of Iowa. Miss Boies has
lately reached her 19th year, and is
KISS JESSZK DOIBS.
gifted with many accomplishments.
As her distinguished father has been
mentioned as a candidate for the Pres
idency it is not impossible that Miss
Boies may at some day become mistress
of the White House at Washington.
Making; Hangman's Hopes.
There is in St. LouU a firm of rope
makers and dealers, doing business on
North Main street, that has a side line
that it does not advertise. It is the
manufacture and preparation of hang-
ssan's ropes. Th firm tells a many as
100 of these ropes anaaally. Their
price of tie rope, with the noose ready
for use, iaf6. The ropes ate hand-made
aad of hemp, aid ome of tae employes
of the firm's North St. Louis rope-walk
ties the knot. A few weeks since the
sheriff of Madison county, 111., had a
man to hang at Edwardsville. He
bought a rope that he thought would
answer the purpose. The tying of the
knot he found, however, . to be aamore
difficult matter than he imagined, and
he went to St Louis to have the noose
made. The ropemaker charged him
$2.50 for tying the knot
Pictures In Salphnr.
In demonstrating that sulphur melt
ed at about 115 degrees can be cooled
in paper, a chem:ot recently happened
to use a lithographed card, of which
the edges were turned up. Upon tak
ing away the card he discovered that
the lithographed characters were
clearly and distinctly impressed upon
the cooled surface of the sulphur, and
remained after hard friction and wash
ing. By repeated experiments he was
able to get very fine results. The
Great Divide. ,
-SENATOR DOLPH.
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CHARLEY'S PRECIOUS HAIR.
Heartless Deception of a Trastlag Maid
by a Bald Toaajr Man.
He had the air. of a man of the world.
His dress was becoming and not ton
showy. He seemed to be an individual
who dined well, who would tell good
stories at the club.
Stretched out in the' barber's chair in
the hair dresser's room on School
street, says the Boston Herald, instead
of settling down with that indifferent,
self-satisiied air that usually comes
over a man in that situation,he seemed
troubled. He looked about from chair
to chair, yet he was not happy. The
barber shaved him, and was so im
pressed that he even forgot to talk ,him
to death. Then the man sat bolt up
right in the chair and too k an envel
ope from his pocket. It was scented;
the' barber could tell that. It was
written in a lady's hand, too.
The strange man opened it, took out
a note, read it over and over again,
then from its folds withdrew a lock of
hair. It was golden and the victims
who were waiting for their turn in the
chair saw him klsj the sunn' lock and
put it back in the envelope.
"Hair cut?" asked the barber, as he
rubbed the tufts of hair which sur
rounded a bald spot on the strange
man's head.
"No no; not for the world," he re
plied. "I cannot spare any."
"Man in next chair has hair like
yours, only a little bit more of it," sug
gested the barber.
"By Jove, he has," said the troubled
man, and he darted out of his seat and
almost jumped to the -occupant of
the next chair,
"Going to have a hair cut?" asked
the'strange man.
"No," was the rather curt reply. .
"Well, will you have a hair cut at
my expense?" said the man, without
hesitation, "I must send my best girl
a lock of hair, and I can't spare mine.
Come, how much is it worth?" and the
eyes of the colored boy who brushes
coats bulged out beyond his forehead.
"Sell it for a small bottle," replied
the man with a good growth upon his
head, and the stranger answered, "I'll
go you."
The barber began his work, and a
lock of the man's hair was handed
over to the stranger, who put it in a
little silver locket that bore a mono
gram. Then, when the work was fin
ished the two walked out together.
The stranger was smiling contented
ly, the club man grinned, the barber
laughed, and the customers gazed on
in astonishment.
"Wasn't Charley a dear, good fellow
to keep his promise and send me a lock
of his hair?" said the pretty girl that
night as she took the daintiest sort of
a locket from a little box. And all
was still but for 4he beating of her
faithful heart. i
CALLING UP BIG CAME.
nk'n You Wmt to Call : Moots
log
Mut Talk Mur.
Joe Francis, the well-known guide,
was in Bangor lately, remarks the
News. In relatingsomo of his exper
ience Joe :.aid:
While I was with a party in tho
moose-calling season, near Eagle lake.
we were out one night, and suddenly
came upon some young college fellows
who were on a hunting trip and had
evidently heard about calling moose,
but did not know anything about the
art, for one of them was innocently
calling, in a soothing voice, moosoy,
moosey," as if a moose were called in
the same manner as kittens.
A few nights later we were out
and heard a strange noise at a point
on the lake not far off. I said 1
thought there was some one lost, for
that was the only way I could account
for tho noise. When we got near
enough I shouted to the fellows, and
asked them what was the matter.
They replied that they were calling
moose. I told them to keep still or
they would frighten every moosH in
the state. I never heard such an un
earthly sound in my life as they were
making.
I tell you. when you want to call
a moos'o you must talk the moose lan
guage through a birch bark horn.
Early in the season when the bulls
are fierce, they are more easily fooled;
but it is no child's play, and If you
tackle one that has been called and
fired at then you have got to get in
some fine w s."
A SHREWD FOOL.
Perhaps Sandy Was Not so Simple as He
Was Supposed to Be.
An old gentleman, a resident of New
York city, and who in his early man
hood visited Sir Walter Scott at Ab
botsford, tells the following story ap
propos of the Wizard of the North:
We took a walk one evening just as
the sun was setting, and the panting
of a man near by attracted our atten
tion. I turned in the direction of the sound
and saw a ragged young man, with a
face unmistakably idiotic and the shred
of a woman's bonndton his head in lieu
of a hat.
"Ah!" said Sir Waltei- gleefully, and
he winked to me to note what fol
lowed; "here is my ain glide friend
Sandy Mclntyre, the wise man. And
whither are ye gangin', Sandy?"
"I'm oot huntin' for goold and siller,
Sir Walter," said the idiot, with a hor
rible grimace.
"Weel, weel, mon!" exclaimed .Sir
Walter. "What do vou want wi' goold
and siller?"
"I want to be rich, unco rich," re
plied the fellow.
"Well, I'll tell you what I'll do
Sandy."
"Tell on, Sir Walter."
. "I'll gi ye a thousand goold pounds
if you'll let me kill you."
'Na, na, Sir Walter," said the fool
like a flash. "I'll compromise wi' ye."
"Compromise?"
"Yes; I'll let you half kill me for
half the money."
The Ulsh-Uash and Wabash.
A river of size in Indiana is known as
the Wabash. A wild mountain stream
in the Tahconics. Mass., comes down
through a wonderful gorge in a series
of chasms and cascades, and continues
as a charming stream between the
Alanderand Cedar mountains and so
through the village of Copake Iron
Works, Harlem railroad New York, and
is visited by hundreds, if not by thous
ands of people yearly, and is known as
Bash-Bish. What is the true Indian
meaning of the terms Bash-Bish and
Wabash? What the connection in
which two streams so far apart, and
very unlike, are united by half their
etymology? Were those Eastern and
Western Indians giving kindred "".
kindred people ?
A
An old colored man, who recently
addressed a temperance saeetinr in
this state, said: "When I sees a nan
going home wid a gallon of whisky
aad a half pound of meat dat's tent
'rases lecture nuff for ma and 1 sees
it eoery day; I knows that everything
in his house is on the same scale
gallon of Misery to every half pound
of eofort" Boston TrareUm
THE FARM AND HOME.
a novel Method of banking
up celery.
Grawlag Oats on Rich Sell Hiring Help
Manias; Old Potato Tops Skim
MUk Calves Farm Notes
aad Home Hints.
Banking- Up Celery.
The most laborious operation in the
raising of celery comes in blanching
it Various devices have been in
vented to lessen tho labor, such as the
use of tile, paper. 'boards and so
forth; but there aro objections to all
of these, and one is the expense of
using them on a large scale. Some
times, in a small garden, they do
nicely. Another objection to such
things is that when it comes cold,
freezing weather, as it will sometimes,
before the celery can bo put away for
winter, with such slight covering the
plant will almost invariably freeze,
not only the tops, but the stalks, and
tben the injury is serious. And. as a
rule, the celery will rust much more
with other covering than it will with
earth. So whatever may be done in
special cases, we have to come back
to the banking up with earth for the
lr.r:er part of the celery that is
grown.
Now anything that will tend to
lighten this job will be received with
favor. I know, says a writer in the
Ohio Farmer. Here at tho station,
for tho past three years wo have been
raising our celery in beds about four
feet wide, and the plants six inches
by one foot apart This method, by
the way possesses some advantages
that are not gained by the usual , way
of planting in rows. The way of
handling, as thus described by a well
known writer on rural sub.ects 'the
gardener now gets on his knees, strad
dling the row, and gathering up all
the stalks of one plant after another,
in his left hand, pack the soil firmly
around with his right to retain them
in a compact and erect position"
seemed to be out of place in our beds,
so. we tried striug. by winding once
around each plant and then going on
to the next, keeping the string taut
enough to hold the stalks in place.
This was -a decided improvement over
tho way of holding the stalks in place
by earth until the rest of the soil was
put in. but when it came to taking the
string oft the soil wouftl be tramped
around the plant and the leaves and
upper part of the stalk would be torn
off. and the timo it took iu removing
it. made us almost want to go back to
the way of holding it up with our
hands. Ail sorts of suggestions were
mado to got rid of the troublo of tak
ing off the striug, until someone
thought that paper string might do,
and it would rot off and not hurt the
plant
In order 'o get such string we had
to hunt all over the city of Columbus!
It seems to have gone out of use. but
we finally found what we wanted.
Alter getting it we put it on several
thousand plants and then waited to
see if any injury was dona When
the plants were taken out for the win
ter if was found that very little injury
was done, and this happeued by the
careless putting on of the string. Tho
plants were held in position by a string
uutil a rain came and settled the dirt
around the plant and wet the string
enough so it would give way to the
growing plant Some of the plants
we gave a second bunking before the
string gavo way and let the plant
spread.
1 have helped try a good many in
ventions but I never had any that
worked so well from the start as this
one did. We invented a little device
for putting the string on. First we
held the ball in our hands, but this
was inconvenient So one day I went
into the shop and took a tomato can
and punched a hole through the bot
tom of it nailed it to a stick, and
then with a piece of pantaloons' suh
pendor. with the buckles, fastened it
to the right arm above the elbow, and
at the wrist, letting the string run out
at the bottom of the can and between
the thumb and front finger. With
this one can wind celery all day. if
his back does not get to aching too
bad. This is all the drawback I have
found to it yet
Sowing Oats.
How to grow a maximum crop of
oats on land rich enough to produce a
big crop of corn is still a conundrum
perplexing to the minds of many
readers, including the writing hereof,
says the editor of Farmer's Review.
We cannot afford to let the land down
in fertility by successive crops of corn
so as to make it poor enough to raise
a crop of oats. The rich soil raises
a heavy growth of straw and down it
goes when the first heavy rain or wind
cornea Result a, light crop of grain
and a twisted moss of straw, difficult
and expensive to harvest Now. both
a good crop of straw and a maximum
crop of grain is absolutely necessury
in cultivation on farms where stock is
kept to consume all the crops. Where
the grain is sold off cheap laud, the
owner, as a rule, cares little for a good
crop of straw; but where it is a desid
eratum, how can it be obtained?
Practice differs very considerably as
regards this subject Perhaps the
most common method of oat cultiva
tion is to take several crops of corn
off the same land and then cultivate
the oats in on the flat with corn
cultivators and seed the field down to
clover and timothy at tho same time.
The farmers that follow this plan say
that oats must be got in deep to do
well and they do succeed in growing
a pretty good crop of oats. There
are. however, at least two objections
to this plan: 1. The soil has been
allowed to go too long without a gross
crop, for clover does best on rich soil
and makes such soil much richer, thus
enabling the man who manures for
clover to keep up and even improve
the fertility of his farm. S. The soil
is left in poor condition for seeding to
grass when the oat crop is merely
cultivated in on the corn stalk field.
The corn rows are not properly ob
literated and when the field is in grass
they are readily noticeable, look un
tidy and make the mowing machine
seat a bard place for the driver.
Then there are the advocates of
shallow covering for oats. ' Some even
say that oats allowed to merely thaw
into the fall-plowed soil will make a
good crop. Others believe in drilling
the crop and then rolling after liberal
harrowing. Really, among so many
ideas, how are we to decide upon the
most practical and successful?
Malt Make-. Soluble.
The supposed mystery about the
use of salt is very easily solved. In
the small quantities, to which it is ap
plied to and!C promotes the decom
position of vegetable matter. This, as
well as the dissolution of tne salt It
self, furnishes carbonic acid gas,
which is one of the best solvents
known. Applied in large amounts
salt is the reverse of this, preventing
decomposition, as is well known to all
housewives who have kept aaythlajr
U sftlt Dickie. Salt oa Unci liberates I
pnospnate tnat nas gone into uouiu
ble conditions, as this mineral fertil
izer is apt to do at times.
Farm Notes.
Any of the sorghums will-withstand
drouth much better than corn.
It is difficult to carry on the farm to
an advantage with jnly olo lino.
Taking- one year with another it is
the early planted corn that yields the
best
Special farming cannot be adopted
with any degree of safety as to the re
suits. With all crops the farmer should
try to raise the maximum number of
bushels per acre.
One reason why many farmers fail
to make a profit is because they have
no settled policy.
System in farming embraces reg
ular order in planning th e work and
executing the same.
Wood ashes is one of the best fer
tilizers that can be used on grass
lands; scatter broadcast
Think about this. Are you a farmer
because you inherited a farm, or be
cause you love farm life?
Remember the go-easy s are going to
the wall, it's the gritty, enterprising
fellow that stays on top.
More corn per acre can be raised by
drill planting, but generally the work
of cultivation is increased.
Selling all we produce and buying
what wo consume helps tho railroads
if it does not help ourselves.
If in working the horsas thoy get
too warm take care to cool them off
gradually and loss harm will be done.
Don't refuse to grow clover because
you do not understand why it benefits
the land for succeeding crops, neither
do you understand by what power the
sun appears each day.
Is the manure pile under the eaves
of the barn? And do you buy com
mercial fertilizer? If these questions
are answered in the affirmative, y ou
are on the highway to ruin.
Home Hints.
To clear your voice for singing, try
a gargle of borax and water, or allow
a small pinch of the former to melt in
your mouth and swallow; this is said
to be used by the best singers.
Parsley is entirely effectual in re
moving the odor of onions after a
meat. The green sprigs should be
eaten as celery is. with the onions or
with the potato salad, not left to be
taken after dinner or supper.
The following process is said to re
store to a waterproof tho original
softness: Dissolve a teaspoonful of
best gray lime in half a pailful -of
water, wipo the cloak well with a soft
cloth wrung loosely out of this mix
ture, hang to dry and repeat the
operation in two hours.
Only a small proportion of the so
called codfish which has been sold
within the past low years has boen
genuine. The large bulk of it has
been fake. JSome of tho genuine, how
ever, can be gotten, and perhaps one
of the most convenient ways of pur
chasing it is in a shredded form.
Fresh-water fish is particularly nice
cooked in this way: Gut the fish in
small pieces, cover with lish stock,
add a little moro salt if needed and
simmer gently for twonty minutes.
The stock may be thickened or the
fish served with shrimp. oyjter
or llollandaise sauce made with the
stock.
If the rubber hot-water bag is found
to leak, or these conveniences cannot
be procured, heat common sand in a
pan in the oven aud pour it quickly
into a broad, short bag made of thin
flannel, with a stout cotton cover over
that You can reheat it in this bag.
It is well to have several shapos and
sizes to apply.
A sheet of glass a window pane
for example can be cut as easily as a
sheet of cardboard. The secret con
sists in keeping the glass, the shears
and the bauds under water during the
operation. The glass can be cut in
straight or curved lines without a
break or a crack. This is because tho
water deadens the vibrations of tho
shears and the glass. If the least part
of the shears comes out of the water,
tho vibration will bo sufficient to mar
the success of the experiment
To bake a potato you need a steady
oven and a good potato. Small pota
toes take half an hour, moderate sized
potatoes take three-quarters of an
hour aud larfje potatoes take an hour
to bake. When they are tender they
are done. They should be pricked or
cracked to allow the air to escape,
placed In a hot dish on a napkin and
served instantly. They are spoiled if
they have to stand. It is a good plan
to put the largest potatoes in first and
have a procession of the others ac
cording to size.
HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW.
Origin of a Tome Associated With it 1'op
ulur Sous;.
The tune to which this song is sung
is "Marlbrouck," which was once a
national air in France. In "Marl
brouck" the death and burial of Queen
Anne's great captain are burlesqued,
and, in what some French critics have
considered it scathing satire, the disas
ters of Blenheim and Ramillies are
believed to have been avenged. But
the fact is really the reverse, for if
read appreciatively "Marlbrouck"' ex
presses the' widespread terror occa
sioned by the mere name of Blenheim's
hero, and the exultation of the French
when they heard of his death.
The "complainte" is supposed to
have come from the Walloon country,
and it was unknown in the French
capital until fifty years after Marlbo
rough's death, when a Picardy peasant
woman coming up to Versailles to
nurse the baby Dauphin, brought it
with her and sang her littles baby
charge to sleep with the old jingling
rhyme. ' From this "Marlbrouck"' be
came popular in Paris and ultimately
it reached these shores. The tune
being a catchy one, we discarded the
French words and wedded it once and
for all to our bacchanalian chant of
"For he's a jolly good fellow," and
so a song written in savage ridicule of
England and one of her greatest gen
erals became one of the most popular
airs to which the latter's countrymen
pledge jovial cups. Notes and Queries.
A Lesson in Pronunciation.
A somewhat distinguished elocution
ist used to say that the opening line of
Tennyson's "In Memoriam" was a
grand test for the pronunciation of the
letter o. The line is:
"Strong Son of God, immortal love."
Here are four sounds of o. In "of
it has one sound, in "immortal" an
other; in "Son" and "love" another,
and in "strong" and "God" another.
A nice ear might seek to distinguish
between its sound in Son and love.
Very' little attention is paid to this
subject of pronunciation in schools,
and we have small sympathy with
those who think that it is affectation
to try to speak correctly. Instead of
objecting because teachers try to show
our children what correct usage re
quires we ought to be very glad of it.
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WEAR THEIR OWN HAIR.
AYiffa Seldom Worn by Actrease on tti
Stage.
Wigs arc seldom worn by ncti-essi on
the staffe, and, indeed, whv sStcttKt
they he, when so many young women
have beautiful hair? The smooth, d.irk
brown tresses Georgia Cayvan weuis in
almost every part are her own. Helen
Dauvray's hair is sleek, quite black iu
faet, and very heavy. Johnstone 15en
nett's hair is soft, inclined to curl,
aud of a dark brown that is a
little reddish by day. A few mouths
ago it was short like a boy's; now 1-he
can just catch it into a knob iu the
back, and she wears it brushed sleekly
back in shiny "Jane" fashion, all the
curl being suppressed. That queer
little poiuted growth in the middle of
her forehead belongs to her very own
hair, and she is a wise girl to show it.
"Oh, yes, of course, she pins on all
those circles of close braids at the back,
aud they hide the little knob 1 told
yon of," said the woman who gave
these hirsute facts to the New York
Sun.
"JJut it is there, else the curls would
begin to ripple and Jane's sleek head
would be ruined. Airs. Kendal's hair
is rather a reddish blonde by day. Kate
Claxton lias chestnut-red hair. She
does sometimes wear a wig, but her
wigs are made just like her owm hair.
Marie Ilurroughs has soft, dark
brown hair and lots of it. She sel
dom wears a wig. Annie Russell's hair
is a soft, pale blonde, just a pretty
shoulder length. It was her own hair
she wore in 'Elaine' and in 'Esmeralda,'
though most people thought it a wig.
Beatrice Cameron's hair is about the
shade of Miss Russell's, soft and nearly
the same length. If she wears a wig it
is almost always made the same color
asherown hair. Fanny Davenport's hair
is not heavy and by day the harsh yellow
dye hurts it, though very pretty at
night. Odette Tyler has this shade of
hair, and Sydney Armstrong. I have
heard that Clara Morris has red hair.
Usually she wears wigs. Modjcska's
hair is dark. She almost always wears
a blonde wig for the stuge. Eflie Shan
non's hair is fair and comes below her
shoulders. When she does cover
its soft prcttiness with a wig
it is usually one of hair a little more
decidedly golden than are her own
tresses. Julia Marlowe's hair is rich
dark brown, and she has plenty of it.
She seldom covers it with a wig. Hand
some Emma Shcridau always shows
her own hair. It is heavy, and a pretty
length. She wears it in so many dif
ferent ways in the different parts she
plays that she is often suspected
of donning a wig. Everyone
knows lieruhardt's short crinkle
of red hair. May Yohe has plenty of
Emooth dark-brown hair, though she
Viola Allen.
frequently hides it under a short wig
of reddish brown. Isabelle (Jrquhart
has quantities of dark brown hair.
Lillian Russell is almost always seen in
her own golden hair, real golden it is,
too. Rose Coghlan's hair is brown.
Viola Allen's, too, though she often
wears a reddish wig. Georgie Drew's
hair is dyed.yellow. They do say Ada
Rehan's hair is dyed yellow, too, and I
have heard she wears a wig always, and
that her own hair is red. Delia Fox
has short' hair, dyed yellow, and she
wears it in 'Wang.' Marie Jansen's
hair is dark brown. In 'TherOolah'
she wears a short wig of the same color,
and brushes her own front hair up over
it around the forehead. This is a frequent
trick of actresses wearing wigs, for few
wigs look natural around the forehead.
Minnie Maddern's hair is a beautiful
red and abundant. Maggie Mitchell's
is a crinkly reddish-brown, and Lotta's
is dyed 3ellow, they say."
Deceived by Appearance.
Not long ago a young Boston man
carrying a very large ear trumpet,
which was not for his own use. but
for his deaf father's, was crossing the
Common. A new arrival stopped him
with a loud question:
"Say. you tell mo the way to the
Providence deepow."
Bostonians arc nearly always polite
to strangers who inquire politely their
way around the crooked streets of the
Hub. but this stranger was not polite.
The young man raised tho ear trumpet
to his ear.
I beg your pardon." ho said.
What's the way to the Providence
deepow?-' the stranger raised his
voice
What did you say?" Twenty peo
ple had now collected.
What's tho way to the
Providence depot?" roared the in
auirer.. " -Why. Tm not deaf." said the Bos
tanian in a pleasant voice, and every
body except the rude stranger laughed
at the rude stranger's astonishment
Youth's companion.
No Grounds for Complaint.
Hostetter McGinnis The safety
matches I bought here are no good.
Clerk What's the matterwith them?
."They dont burn. You can't light
one of them to save your life."
"Well, you can't get any better safe
ty matches than those, can you?"
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the barn, near a well, from which
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whenever they want a drink they
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