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THREE PROPOSALS.
OW many lumps?"
she asked anxious
ly, "one, two,
three?"
She holds my fate
with my cup in her
fair hands.
I see the slow
juices of the Flori
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der the sun's com
pelling kiss. I hear a rustling among
the yellow stalks of sorghum as the
wind waves their silken tassels. Vis
Ions of blood red beets, dissolved In the
Ichor of their souls, visit me. Verily,
all these arc sugar. And yet these
are not all!
' "Three." I make shift to reply, re
garding her gravely as she poises the
old Dutch sugar tongs tentatively over
my cup.
. As she offers the Assam-Pekoe in Its
Jeweled bauble of a chalice, a wave of
the fragrant liquor overflows upou my
wrist.
"Oh, I have hurt you!" she cries.
"Irremediably," I reply. Tfce word,
as I utter It, staggers with significance.
She lifts her eyes, under puzzled brows,
to mine.
"Surely," she hazards, softly, "the
pain will soon be gone?"
"It is undying," I aver solemnly,
"and yet." I add. "I cherish it."
"Then I may give you another brim
ming cup, since you woo pain?"
Alas, might she not have said more
truly, "Since you woo painfully."
"No, I will have no more tea."
"I may give you coffee, then?"
"Nor cofree."
"Chocolate?" Her hand rests upon
the fantastic lid of the silver box which
contains the perfumed powder. She
has lifted the carved handle of an apos
tle spoon to her lips. At the sight my
passion breaks its bounds. I bend over
hr until my breath stirs the lock of
hair in its warm resting place on the
nape of her wliite neck.
"Would you caress a dead apostle
with a living disciple so near?" I whis
per. Her answer comes so low thai I am
fain to ask for it again, and yet again.
The apostle hears it, and laughs in his
long beard.
For has not he, too, been kissed?
II.
A shadow from the old church tower
falls upon two figures, the shadow of a
cross.
Within their walled garden mission
priests chant midnight prayers for
souls in purgatory.
Betty's black eyes burn, her breath
comes fast; she is young and bold.
As she leans against a slender Cot
tonwood, the south wind whispers to Its
heart-shaped leaves, and the girl thrills
with the tree's tremulous reply.
Or do her pulses march with her
lover's at the touch of his arm against
her sleee?
"Betty?"
The man stoops to the black eyes, out
of which there leaps a sudden fire
nearer to the red lips, ripe as the blos
som of a cactus. From a clump of high
sage, ghostly gray even in the splendor
of the night's high noon, the soul of
the hour speaks in an owl's crj', once,
twice, three times, the thick, soft, echo
less notes robbing it. in a breath, of all
its safety and sweetness.
"They passed me in the canon. I
crouched behind a bowlder and heard
them curse each other for having lost
my trail."
The man shakes his shoulders at the
recollection. In the luminous haze
which has overspread the sky, the scar
let handkerchief about his throat
changes oddly to the likeness of a gap
ing wound.
Ho takes the girl's dusky face be-
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"MY WOMAN". BY THE LORD."
tween his hands and searches it avld
iously. "You love me, Betty!"
As her warm mouth meets the pas
sion of his, a passing cloud upon the
moon's fair face blots out one arm cf
the crucifix, so that the pair stand no
longer in the c-hadow of a cross, but of
a gibbet.
The girl dees not mark it, nor hear
the stealthy pursuing footsteps which
stoj: in the shelter of a projecting an
gle of the wall, as her lover whispers:
, "Alive or dead. then, the same trail
takets us. Betty? My woman, by the
Lord, my woman!"
III.
It stands under a shoulder of the
Mattcrhorn. where, even in the hc?t of
August, the quaking aspens shiver and
shadows of tee spruce make twilight
out of noon. I knock at the chalet's
door. A woman's voice from the lat
tice overhead "replies to ray summons.
"This is not an inn."
By the silver flutes ot the great god
Par. her voice! A'l the charms :ha
1 cannot sec ? e expressed in ii grace
of the fawn, eyes of dawn, hair of the
silky fineness of the spider web as it
hangs across the sunset, brow thought
ful as the Matterhorn's sky before its
stars have risen, heart brave and ten
der. "But I am not a common traveler." I
answer, boldly.
Liclit laughter drifts down to me.gay
as the golden motes that swim in a
sunbeam.
"How iR.-y my house servp me?"
"With a s'ch: of it fair mistress."
"I hear a s?e;r uron the stair. The
bolt of tfa !--r 5? 3r7Z A flood of
light str.-sr"- " " -'" ' -'Kht
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ter. My fee: ink Jn tr silken pile of
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eastern rugs. I hear a gold hammer
strike nine resonant strokes upon a
bronze shield. Upon a spit before the
fire place two birds arc roasting. The
air Is redolent of their juices and the
banquet of newly decanted wine. I
have journeyed from where the Matter
horn climbs its last height, and m7
student dress is splashed and stained
with mud and snow.
Dropping upon a velvet couch I
stretch my hands to the fire.
"Say to your gracious chatelaine that
she shall dine with me."
The old serving woman turns away,
mumbling.
I draw a heavy table into the middle
of the hall, and set upon it platters and
trenchers. The firelight flashes mer
rily on jeweled flagons and crystal car
afes. Placing her chair where the lamp
light will strike upon her face and
bring out the gold in her hair, I seat
myself and fancy her figure on the oth
er side of the table.
Two sleepy love-birds twitter over
head in a gilded cage.
One stirs, and flutters Its downy
feathers against my hand. "Elsie, El
sie." it murmurs.
"Elsie:" I cry. "Elsie!"
There Is a rustling among the cur
tains that hide the stairs. All my veins
run fire at the music of her reply, "I
am here."
I turn and see a slender figure in vio
let velvet embroidered with gold.
Above the low fair brow riotous locks
make sunshine In curling tendrils, but
whether the eyes beneath are violet
like the woman's gown or black like
the tips of the satin slippers under it,
or turquoise or sapphire, like the
stones that glimmer on my mistress
white hands, who can tell? Not I.
But if I cannot meet her eyes, I may
follow the mutinous curve of the short
upper lip and mark the cleft chin.white
as an almond's heart, and the rows of
pearls clasping the full fair throat.
I seat her. and we begin our meal.
"There is no salad." she says. At
a sign the old woman fetches me cress
and oil.
"Does it commend itself to you?" I
ask, when I have served my vis-a-vis.
"It commends you to me." she re
peats softly. I look into her eyes. But
by now the wine has given me cour
age. "Why are you not in your proper sta
tion, you who would grace a court?" I
cry.
"I am tired of courts. Ah, you think
the Princess Elise may not say so
much?"
The Princess Elise! She. whose
name is upon every tongue, my people's
queen, mine, if
Before I can speak I hear shout?,
snatches of song, the whizz of flying
arrows.
One strikes the door of the chalet.
"Sire, sire, admit us. In six hours
we were to seek you. The time is up."
Time? Ah. but the game Is still to
be won.
I drop upon my knees before the
princess.
"Elise," I cry, "my throne is empiy.
I love you. Reign with me. Speak to
me in the voice I have loved since first
it fell on my listening ear. I wait for
your 3'es."
Was it the echo of the bird's note In
his jeweled ring overhead, or did my
love reply? "Alexis! My king."
Mary Wakeman Botsford in Four
O'Closk.
The Caring of Tobacco.
To cure tobacco so as to develop its
fragrant flavor is no difficult matter.
The leaf is carefully cut from the stem
as soon as it begins to turn yellow,
which indicates ripeness. The leaves
must be carefully handled, and not
bruised. They are strung by the stems
on stiff wires, twelve or so on each, and
hung up in an airy place, not too dry;
an upper room Is a good placa for thorn,
or an open atttic. There they dry
slowly and fully ripen. They may stay
in this way until a damp day, when they
may be handled without breaking.
They are tied in bunches of twelve by
the stalks and slightly spread by twist
ing a strip of a leaf around these
bunches, which are called hands. As
the laands are tied they are laid to
gether, the tips lapping and the butts
out, in a square heap on which a piece
of board, for a small quantity. Is
placed, and a weight is put on the
board. They stay in this way for sev
eral weeks, warming up to some ex
tent, and this fermentation is necessary
to complete the ripening and to develop
the fragrance and flavor. After again
being dried by hanging a few days or be
ing spread, to check the fermentation,
the hands are packed in tight boxes
where they finally cure and became
marketable or usable. Nothing more is
needed for use. But it is a common
practice for home use to dip the leaves
in sweet water or diluted molasses, and
twist them into a sort of short ropes,
doubling them and thus making what
is commonly called pig tail. This may
be used in this condition for smoking
or chewing. Plug tobacco is made by
laying the leaves, stripped from the
stems and dipped in sweetened water,
into suitable moulds and pressing them
under a heavy press worked by a screw,
until they become solid cakes. Various
flavoring stuffs are used by the manu
facturers of tobacco for sale. Ex.
To Save the Matchmakers.
About two years ago, owing to the
numerous cases of necrosis among the
operatives, male and female, employed
in the government match factories, the
minister issued a circular inviting in
ventors to suggest a substitute for the
white phosphorus in use. Four manu
facturers submitted samples of matches
of the kind required, but owing to one
cause or another those supplied by
three of the inventors found no favor
with the general public, who had giv
en them a trial. The fourth Inventor,
M. Pouteaux. a chemist of Dijon, un
able to manufacture on a large scale
the matches of which he had submit
ted samples to the government, has
now been authorized to use the works
at Aubervilliers for that purpose. The
government engineers will be present
at the manufacture of the new matches,
and the public will be left to judge
their merits. Paris Correspondence
London Standard.
A Dangerous Ring.
The ring of the tyrant Caesar Borgia
contained a poison which he skilfully
dropped in the wine of any one whom
he wished to put out of the way.
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.
The Ketiel Bam Stonewall Noir Itclongs
to Tui'jn unil Wear a Koiuautlc
Same Specter at Ren. Cunter's Grae
Mm. Grant aud the Two tieneraib
The Fightinc Tciueralre.
i was eigni dcus
For the morning
watch was done.
And the Runner's
lads were sing
ins As they polished
every gun.
It was eight bells
ringing.
And the gunner's
lads were sing
ing. For the ship she
rode a-swlnglng
As they polished every gun.
Oh! to see the linstock lighting
Temeralre! Temeralre!
Oh! to hear the round shot biting,
Temeralre! Temeralre!
Oh! to see the linstock lighting.
And to hear the round shot biting.
For we're all in love with lighting
On the Fighting Temeralre!
It was noontide ringing.
And the battle just begun.
When tho ship her way was wlngtny.
As they loaded every gun.
It was noontide ringing.
When the ship her way was winging.
And the gunner's lads were singing
As they loaded every gun.
There'll be many grim and gory,
Temeraire! Teir.eralro!
There'll be few to tell the story.
Temiralre! Temeralre!
There'll be many grim and gory.
There'll be few to tell the story,
nut we'll all be one in plcry
With the Fighting Temeralre.
There's a far bell ringing
At the setting of the sun.
And a phantom voice singing.
Of the great days done.
There's a far bell ringing.
nl a phantom voice singing
Of renown forever clinging
To the great duys done.
Xow the sunset breezes shiver,
Temeraire! Temeralre!
And she's fading down the river,
Temeraire! Temeraire!
Now the sunset breezes shiver.
And she's fading down the river,
But in England's song forever
She's the Fightitwr Temeraire.
Henry Newboldt in Longman's.
II rm Grant and the Two General.
Vrey pleasant reading is that page
ot a recent Century Magazine on which
General Porter relates how General
Sherman once cross-questioned Mrs.
Grant in the presence of her husband,
who abetted him, and how the lady was
clever enough to get the better of this
formidable alliance. The two generals
were about to hold a conference in
Grant's headquarters, and Mrs. Grant,
wno was present, suggested that per
naps they did not wish her to overhear
all their secrets.
"Do you think we can trust her.
Grant?" asked General Sherman, with
assumed doubt.
"I'm not so sure about that, Sher
man," was the teasing reply. "Public
documents, in disseminating items of
information, are accustomed to say,
'Know all men by these presents.' I
think it would be just as effective to
bay, 'Know one woman,' for then all
men would be certain to hear of it."
The general laugned, and then ad
dressed the lady: "Now, Mrs. Grant,
lot me examine you, and I can soon
tell whether you are likely to under
stand our plans well enough to betray
them to the enemy."
"Very well," she replied with spirit,
"I'm ready for all your questions."
She was. indeed. Although Gen
eral Sherman folded his arms and
frowned upon her with the firecest
aspect of a pedagogue while putting his
questions, she was not to be confused.
She was thoroughly acquainted with
the topography of the region in which
the proposed movements of the army
were to be conducted, having made a
careful study of her husband's maps;
and she used her knowledge, reversed,
to prove the extent of her harmless
feminine ignorance playing the part
she had set herself with delightful
drollery.
When asked the course of a river,
she would carefully locate it a thou
sand miles from its native bed, and
make it flow upstream instead of down;
southern mountains she placed in re
gions of the arctic zone, and she
tangled railroads and canals in a web
of hopeless confusion. It was not long
before General Sherman gave up the
examination, acknowledging merrily.
"Well, Grant, I think we can trust
her!"
Rebel Ram Stonewall.
From the Leuer i'os.t: In looking
over a history of our civil war a few
das ago I chanced upon the name of
that rebel ram, since sold to the Japan
ese government, the Stonewall. And
as I sat and read the lines faded away,
and in their places came an expanse
of shimmering water, dotted with
junks, sampans and fisher boats, while
to the north and west were long lows
of blue-tiled and straw-thatched
houses, the old town of Kanagawa and
the new viliage of Homura. Beyond
Mississippi and Treaty points are sub
stantial go-downs of stcne, two hatobi
break the placid waters cf the anchor
age, and near to them lies a low vessel
with a long ram. over which ripple ,
the breach. The city of stone Is Yoko
hama and the water is the Bay of
Yedo; the vessel is the eld Stonewall,
now of the Japanese navy, known as
Adzuma, a name dear to all people
of the Sunrise Kingdom, a synonym
of love and wifely devotion. And there
by hangs a tale.
Down throgh the ages, back to the
year A. D. 110, the Aincs. supposed to
be the "original settlers" of Japan,
were causing nome trouble for the Em
peror Keiko, and finally broke cut into
open revolt So he sent his son, Ya
mato Dake, to subdue them. After
traversiug the southern shores of the
island of Nipon, and in each instance
being victorious over the fractious sav
ages, Yamato found himself at the en
trance to the Bay of Yedo, whore Com
modore Perry made his first anchorage.
Here he embarked with his army and
attempted to cress the narrow channel.
Hew was he to know that currents,
tides, winds and weather were very
treacherous where only a clear sky
and a smiling water greeted him? It
Is an old Japanese proverb that "A
sea voyage is an inch of Jieoku"
(hell), and as Yamato stepped into his
boat bo made a slighting remark
against the sea, whereat the sea god
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became very angry and proceeded xo
make the proverb good. The storm in
creased as the army gained the center
of the strait, and death seemed In
evitable. Soon the samurai began to
murmur that perchance a human sac
rifice would appease the wrathful god.
These whispers reached the keen ears
of Tachibana Hime, wife of Yamato.
Without a word she sprang into the
ngry sea and disappeared, and, the sea
grd being appeased, all became quiet
enre more, and the army landed and
pursued Its victorious way over moun"
ta!ns and plains. After conquering
many tribes, Yamato Dake turned his
face toward Kioto. In the beautiful
pass of Usui Toge, after climbing miles
up precipitous roads, he caught sight
of the distant waters of the Bay of
Yedo shimmering in the light of the
sun, and as the memory of the sacri
fice came back to him he cried: "Ad
zuma, adzuma!" (My wife, my wife.)
Since that time the plain of Toklo
Is spoken of in song and story as Ad
zuma, and at the head of Tokio Bay
Is a shrine erected to the memory of
Tacbibana Hime, In which is her comb,
that floated ashore at that place.
Theoretical War Ship.
It must not be forgotten that our
new ships are designed largely on the'
ory. Their weaknesses have not been
developed by war. They are therefore
products of the brain and not of ex
perience. The rebellion gave us some
useful lessons in naval warfare under
steam and without sails, but the im
provements In armor, guns and ma
chinery since 1S65 have betn too great
for any certain application of these
Jessons to present conditions. The bat
tle of Yalu, in the Japan-China war,
though a great victory in fleet fighting,
teaches us little except to avoid wood
and other inflammable materials in the
decks and bulkheads of a ship. For
two or three centuries during the sail
ing period experience had demonstrat
ed just the kind of casualty the sailor
might look for. He had acqulrred by
warfare, shipwreck and hazard on
every sea that seamanship which en
abled him to prepare beforehand with
almost mathematical exactness for
emergene'es. But our question Is, is
modern seamanship the same as It was
in Nelson's or even Farragut's time'
The answer is almost self-evident. It
cannot be, for the modern ship is a
machine, and its casualties can best
be foreseen by men with engineering
education.
We know by experience that when
a ship suffers detention it is because a
shaft or a boiler or a valve has given
out. What will happen on a battle ship
in action? Will a shell jam one of
the turrets so that it cannot be turned?
Will the communication between the
bridge and the engine-rooms be cut by
a shot? Will the splitting of a boiler
tube, a breakage in the steering engine,
the bursting of a steam pipe or the fill
ing of a compartment render the ship
helpless? We do not know. But we
do know that the ship whose parts ar6
in the most perfect order, so that every
nerve responds promptly to the call of
the commanding officer, will stand the
best chance; and we do know besides
that the crew must be fitted to the
machinery if all parts, guns, dynamos,
torpedoes and engines are to be kept
in this complete readiness for service
and If the effects of casualty are to ho
most quickly minimized. Atlantic.
Spcctrr at Custer's Grave.
A. B. Rumscy of Billings, Mont., has
a freak photograph of the battleground
where Custer fell. The picture shows
a giant Indian brandishing a knife
upon which is impaled the pigmy fig
ure of a man. Thf specter is leaning
forward above the famous Custer mon
ument, while a score of persons stand
around sightseeing in broad daylight.
Mr. Rurasey accounts for the pho
tograph in this way: He had been tak
ing pictures of the Custer monument
and also of the sun dance of the
Crows, who were holding a celebration
in that neighborhood. The view of the
monument was taken at noon when
the sun was very bright, and at a con
siderable distance away About sun
set Mr. Rumsey had an excellent oppor
tunity to photograph a big warrior in
the full energy of the dance. Seizing
a plate-holder, he slipped it into the
camera and made the exposure. The
plate chanced to be the one he had al
ready exposed for the Custer monu
ment. In the darkroom Mr. Rumsey
was staegered till he put twa and two
together.
One I'O'i'l t.rft.
A devoted family 01 the Society of
Friends, was deeply afilicted. They had
lost their property, and were left al
most penniless. The wife was sad, in
deed, and almost ready to despair; but
the dear old ma, wss cheerful. The
wife was almost ioady to "cuise God
and die." ?he was astonished at the
coolness with which her husband am
his lot; so she askrd him one day:
"Husband, how is it that you bear
this trouble so well? It almost crushes
me to the earth."
"Why. wife, we are not quite so bad
ly off as you imagine. We have one
bond left which we can, live upon."
"Why. husband, what do you mean?
I thought all was lost."
"Oh, no! Here is one bond, and I
will read it to you. It is in the old
famiiy Bible, and reads as follows: 'I
will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee.' "
His wife inquired: "Do vou call that
a bond?"
"Yes," he replied; "It is the word of
God, and cannot fai;."
We are writing to some who are in
trouble and need help now. Then take
the Quaker's bond:
"I will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee." God's promises are always "on
demand." and He will be with you in
six troubles and in the seventh He-will
not forsake you. Sel.
A man's intelligence must be far
above the averaee to enable him to. get
Us laugh in at the proper time whan.
a woman ie telling a funny story,
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FARM lANB GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST Td
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some Cp-to-Date Hints' About ColtUi
tlon of the Soil and Yield Thereof
Horticulture, Viticulture aud Flori
culture. rotate of
Veterinary Medicine.
f
i..cE the advent of
the bicycle and
electric car, the
statement has been
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made that horses
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become a
the past.
eterinary scr-
ill be re
quired no longer,
says Journal of
Comnarative Medl-
cine.
made4
first
shows
The same' statement was
when steam roads were
operated, but experience
that far more horses were
required to carry on the commerce that
developed as a result of improved fa
cilities for transportation than could
;e used under the old system, when
all inland travel was dependent upon
horse-power, and local wants were met
almost entirely by local products.
While it is true that some horses have
been displaced by mechanical agencies,
it is also true that the demand for
horse-labor In othpr directions has .in
creased correspondingly and in propor
tion to the activity, of the commerce
of the country. For the past few years
certain elasses of horses have been
very cheap, and this Is directly attrib
utable to the sudden increase in their
production, an increase that was far
heyoid ail possible demands, and to
he general depression of business,
which greatly reduced the demand for
horse-labor, as well as for that of man.
But good horses are and always have
been in constant demand at remuner
ative prices, and all well-informed
horsemen admit that the demand for
horses of good quality is greater than
the supply. Horse-breeding was such
an exceedingly profitable occupation a
few years ago, and there was such an
active demand for horses of a very in
ferior type, that any one with a little
capital could engage in the rearing of
horses and make money. That period
might justly be compared to the boom
period of a Western town, or to the
rush into any branch of industry that
is apparently simple, easy to carry on,
and promises large returns. But now
the business of breeding horses is es
tablished on a better, sounder and
firmer basis. The breeders of this
country are beginning to understand
that It is only by the exercise of much
knowledge, good judgment and con
stant watchfulness that horses of su
perior quality can be produced, but
that when these requisites are properly
applied, the reward is satisfactory.
Hordes will always be used for draught
work in cities and in country; they
will always be used for riding and driv
ing; and racing, the sport of kings,
will always continue. But the horse
might become entirely extinct, and an
enormous field for the employment of
veterinary knowledge and skill would
still remain. According to the statis
tics of 189G, the horses of the United
States number 15,125,057 and are valued
at more than $500,000,000, while the
mules of the country are worth ?103,
000,000 more. The cattle of the United
States number 48,200.000, and are worth
$873,000,000. The sheep are worth over
$65,000,000, and are rapidly increasing
In number ard value. The swine num
ber about 43,000t000, and are worth
more than $186,000,000. The total value
of the several classes of live stock men
tioned amounts to $1,727,926,084. This
total is considerably less than it has
been for some years, and than it will
be when the general business condi
tions improve and live-stock values re
spond to the resulting stimulation. The
export trade of the United States bears
principally upon the livestock indus
try, and exports of horses, cattle, meats
and dairy products are increasing from
year to year. No, the field of the vet
erinarian is not bounded by any pros
pective limitation of the horse's use
fulness. It includes the cultivation,
care and protection of animals that
supply us with-our most nutritious and
expensive foods; with many of the lux
uries, as well as necessaries, of our
diet: with warm clothing for our body,
head, hands and feet; with many of
the pleasures and comforts of life; with
agreeable, healthful and elevating rec
reation, as well as those that furnish
the common means of transporting
freight.
Maryland' Nnrery Stock Law.
As the shipping season is now near
at hand I desire to call your attention
to that part of our "Trees and Nur
sery Stock Law" relative to stcck com
ing from other states, which is as fol
lows: (Laws of Maryland, 1S96, chap
ter 290, section 58). "Whenever any
trees, plants or vines are shipped into
this state from another state every
package thereof shall be plainly la
beed on the outside with the name of
the consignor, the name of the con
signee, the contents, and a certificate
showing that the contents have been
inspected by a state or government of
ficer, and that the trees, plants or
vines therein contained are apparently
free from all San Jose scale. Yellows.
Rosette or other injurious insect or
disease. Whenever any trees, plants or
vines are shipped into this state with
out such a certificate plainly fixed on
the outside of such package, the fact
may be reported to any justice of the
peace of this state, and said justice
shall issue a summons for the con
signee of such package, and the agent
of the consignor, if he be known, to
appear before him on a certain day, to
be thsrein named, to show cause why
snch trees, plhs or vines should not
be st zed as being in violation of the
provisions of this act, and on trial
thereof, if said justice be satisfied that
the rrovisions of this act have been
violated, said justice shall order said
agent or consignee to return such pack
age of trees, plants or vines imme
diately to the shipper or consignor;
unless said consignee or agent shall
forthwith have said trees, plants and
vines examined by the state entomolo
gist of this state, and he certify to
such justice of the peace that the said
trees, plants or vines are apparently
free from all insect or disease, and if
such agent or consignee shall fail to
have such nursery stock examined by
the state entomologist, or fail to re
turn such package to the shipper or
consignee thereof, then said juEtice r.-i
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the petoe shall order and direct th
constable or sheriff to burn and de
stroy all such trees, plants and vines
as have been shipped into this state
in violation of law."
It Is not our purpose to enforce this
section for any selfish motive; but ex
perience has taught us it is necessary
for the protection of our nursery and
horticultural Interests. Our own nur
serymen have had their stock critically
Inspected, and it is flae them and their
Interests that they should be protected.
We. therefore, respectfully request (hat
outside nurserymen who have stock to
deliver in this state this fall or next
spring send us a copy of their certifi
cate of inspection, to avoid any un
necessary delay in the delivery of any
trees, etc., that may be shipped Into
this state. Willis G. Johnson,
State Entomologist.
tonreriiliin Sugar Beet.
The United States eonsul at Magde
burg. Germany, says that beet farms
and beet sugar factories must s'tfifid
close together. It is idle to grow beets
!f there is no mill at hand to ex'ract
the sugar from them, and it is idle to
build a factory If there are no beet
farms .at hand to supply the raw ma
terial. In addition to the adaptation of
soil and climate to beet growing there
fore the farmer must consider the suit
ability of the place for the establish
ment of a factory, and. conversely, the
would-be manufacturer must consider,
apart from the intrinsic availability of
his mill site, the possibilities of beet
culture on the surroundin'4 farms. The
requirements for beet culture are a
rich, deep soil, with a porous, well
drained subsoil and a generous appli
cation of suitable fertilizers. The cli
mate should be such as to assure fair
ly moist weather for the first three
months of the growing season and one
month of comparatively dry, sunny
weather following. Indeed, the iatter
is the more important, for the neces
sary moisture of the first three months
can be supplied by artificial irrigation.
When such conditions of soil and cli
mate do not exist there is little use in
trying beet culture. Where they are
found the farmer will be justified in
making some practical experiments
with sugar beets, not on a large scale
necessarily, but in small lots. In var
ious parts of hlB farm. If it be ascer
tained that beets can be successfully
grown In a given place the next ques
tion is whether a factory can be profit
ably conducted there. The essential re
quirements for a factory are water for
washing the beets, etc.. fuel for the
engines, and limestone for purifying
the saccharine juice. These must be
close at hand, or readily and cheaply
procurable from a distance. If they are
not there is no use In building a fac
tory and none in attempting to grow
beets. If they are a mutual agreement
should be made between the farmer and
the manufacturer, the former stipulat
ing to provide sufficient quantities of
beets to make the factory profitable,
the latter to take and utilize the prod
uct of the farms. All these conditions
complied with, the enterprise may be
undertaken with good promise of suc
cess. That there are many places In
the United States where it may be thus
undertaken Is nU to be doubted. But
that fact must be ascertained by ac
tual experiment in every case, unless
disappointment and disaster are to be
the result.
Eta mine the Rerry Viae.
The condition of the berry plant at
the close of the growing season is a
certain indication of the product the
following year. Let us examine: Is
the foliage free from rust and blight?
Is the cane mature and well ripened?
Is it stocky and well supplied with
strong vigorous buds? Is it free from
spot, specie and blemish? Are the
roots light, fibrous and strong? Is the
pith, the vital or essential part of the
plant, bright, fresh and firm. If so,
we are assured that with a fair season
and proper winter protection, a full
crop may be expected. In many local
ities I fear berry canes, now so prom
ising, are injured by early spring
frosts, severely freezing the young
shoots when but a few inches high.
This injury is observed only In the
pith, the life marrow being dark and
shrunken, a few inches above the
ground. The cane above and below
showing a fine vigorous growth. Canes
so affected are almost certain to ma
ture no fruit the coming season. Ex
amine them closely. In any event it
is important to save all good canes by
most thorough winter protection. This
is best done by bending bushes to the
ground and covering with fresh earth.
The process has been described many
times, but needs to be repeated again.
It should be understood that the roots
or plants are very flexible and may be
turned and doubled in any direction.
Now, in laying bushes down for win
ter, the bending must be in the root
and below the surface of the ground.
It is not at all difficult, but simply re
quires a little care and practice. This
method of protection is given at an
expense of seven or eight dollars per
acre. There is no doubt whatever as
to the great advantage of such protec
tion, and it should be practiced in all
latitudes where the thermometer ever
reaches 10 degrees below zero. Never
attempt to grow berries m northern
climates without winter protection. It
may be done any time after frosts and
before the ground freezes. Select a
time when there is no frost in ground
or bush, remove two or three inches of
dirt from base of hill, gather the
canes in close form, with a wide fork
or well protected hands, and bend gent
ly in direction to be laid, while second
party inserts fork near opposite base
or with foot pressed firmly against the
hill, it is forced to the ground bend
ing only in the root and covered with
dirt. The top of succeeding hill rest
ing along the side of preceding hill.
M. A. Thayer.
Swine Supply. The September re
port of the department of agriculture
says: Reports as to the number of
stock hogs for fattening show a de
crease of 9.2 per cent from that of
last year. The reduction is greatest
in the following states, the figures in
dicating the decreased percentage:
Miasissippi. 12; Texas, 10; Arkansas,
12: Tennessee, 1C; Kentucky, 16; Iowa.
18; Nebrara is the only state with 1,
OOd.OOO hogs or upward from which an
Increase is reported, the gain for that
state being 5 per cent. In point of
condition the reports are fairly uni
form. Only five states and territories
out of forty-eight report less than 90,
while only two, Rhode Island and; Ne,
bjaska, are as much as 100.
A BARK1.4G CAT.
Xnraed by a rotter Mother. B "-
Trait of the Uog.
James H. Maddox, superintendent r.f
the Missouri District Telegraph Com
pany, has a cat. Besides the usual fe
line complement of nine lives, this cat
has a past, and, unless ail signs fall, a
future which falls to the lot of few
cats, says the St. Louis Republic.
His name is Towser, and. although
his mother was a well-bred lady. Tow
ser has all the characteristics, habits
aiid frailties of a dog. In early kitten
hood Towner's mother fell a victim to
the deadly cat rifle of a small boy and
Mr. Maddox found a foster mother for
the kitten in a kind-hearted pet dog.
xrith a young family aud troubles of
her own. The canine mother took
kindly to the little foundling and Tow
ser, the kitten, grew fat and sassy wXi
ft litter of puppy foster brothers ana
sisters.
When the kitten was weaned he
showed no tendency to abandon the
dog'sjfe which he had learned to lead
and began to exhibit all the cmine
characteristics which he had nursed
with his adopted mother's milk. In
stead of mewing and caterwauling like
a melancholy orphan cat he began to
bark like the other puppies, and grow!
like they did, and he became the won
der of the friends and visitors at the
Maddox home. He was named "Tow
ser" and responds to the whistle of his
master like a sure enough dog. Per
haps the oddest trick Towser has learn
ed is that of wagging his tail, which he
does, not in the serpentine manner of
his ancestors, but from side to side, in
the vigorous and uncompromising style
of a dog. Towser expresses fear, too,
as he has seen his foster brethren do.
and runs to cover. During the hot
weather Towser suffered considerably
from the heat and might have been
seen sitting about in the shade, pant
ing with his tongue out. in the manner
supposed to be peculiar to the dog.
He has none of the sinister traits of
his tribe, does not parade along the
narrow edge of back fences in the dead
of night, and gets from place to place
in a dog trot or a real gallop instead of
in the soft-footed and obsequious man
ner of other cats. Towser has master- I
ed that mysterious free-masonry ot
dogs which has been tiie wonder o(
naturalists for all time, and seems to
have but little trouble in forming th
acquaintance of strange dogs which he
meets on the street corners and abots:
the bases of friendly lamp-posts and
telegraph poles. Occasionally he has
run across an ugly terrier, which, ac
cepting no overtures, would attempt to
rend Towser on the spot, and it is only
on such rare occasions that Towser's
feline propensities come to the surface.
When a dog attacks him he will climb
a tree or a fence, where he will sit
growling and barking at the enemy
until he satisfies him that he is not
really a cat, but a dog in all but phy
sical conformation.
Towser Is very fond of a run through
the streets with his master, and from
long jaunts over the granitoid pave
ments and rough streets his once vel
vet paws have v-i covered with cal
lous corns until his footfall is no long
er inaudible, and his toe-nails are as
rough and strong as those of a dog.
Towser has a pronounced antipathy
for women, and will rush at them,
barking furiously and growling as if lie
would bite them; his bark is worse
than his bite, however, for he has nev
er been known to bite any oue and lias
earned for himself the reputation or
being a very docile and intelligent dog.
or cat, as the case may be.
STORYETTES.
Booker T. Washington, the colored
orator, in a recent speech told a yarn
of an old negro who wanted a Christ
mas dinner and prayed night after
night, "Lord, please send a turkey to
this darkey." But none came to him.
Finally he prayed, "Oh, Lord, please
send this darkey to a turkey." And ho
got one that same night.
' In Hannibal Hamlin's earlier days,
at a certain caucus in Hampden, the on
ly attendants were himself and a citi
zen of large stature. Mr. Hamlin had'
some resolutions to pass which began
I by representing that they were present-
ed to a "large and respectable" gatlier
! ing of voters. "Hold on," cried the
' other man. "we can't pass that, for it
' ain't true. It ain't a large and respect
able caucus! There's only two of us."
"You keep still, brother," commanded
the wily Hannibal; "it's all right, for
you are large and I am respectable.
You just keep still." So the resolu
tions were passed without further de
mur. A Minneapolis man once invited a
friend to dine with him and neglected
to telephone his wife to that effect. To
make matters worse, both host and vis
itor stopped in at the club on the way
home, and consequently were late for
dinner very late. The dilatory hus
band undertook to explain his tardiness
while dinner was being served, and put
up a rather over-plausible defense in
the line of business complications com
ing up at the very last moment before
he shou!d have left the otlice. The
hostess heard him with ominous polite
ness, and then calmly said: "Perhaps,
but you really can't look me in the eye
aid tell that story." "No no," stam
mered the culprit; and then, as a bril
liant idea struck him, "but I'll tell you
what I will do; if John will kindly loo!:
you in the eye, while I repeat what I
said, probably we can make it go."
Hiit Mouth Wat .Saved.
The political orator dragged himself
out of the railway wreck and took ac
count of the damascs. One foot was
twisted out of shape, something was
the matter with his right hip, his left
elbow refused to work, one of his
shoulder blades appeared to have slip
ped over the other, his left knee was
bruised and swollen and part of his
scalp was gone. He emitted a loud
groan. Then his face brightened.
"Thank heaven," he cc'aimed. "M
voice isn't injured! I'm all right!"
Able to Stinc.
From the St. Louis Globe-Bemocraf.
Uncle Sam's fleet cf five torpedo boats
is called a "mosquito squadron." and
if It lives up to its name, the discom
fort of the enemy will be all that eculd
be desired.
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