The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, August 10, 1910, Image 3
RHEUMATISM Ik ?s?S7i7 V tfBBOOR fltSflf BVB)EiBBBBaBZr870SjBbx?BSSkl r r I Cut Uie hay at the proper time. Much depends upon the manage ment. The hrn wants plenty of freedom and plenty of food. Every days start the weeds get aieans two to catch up. The defects of the sow are as sure ly transmitted as are the strong points. The man with the largest crop is the man who attracts the most atten tion. A breeder must know how to breed, how to feed and how to heed every need of his stock. Give spinach plenty of rich manure In the fall, and a heavy coating of mulch. It will keep all winter. "One year's seeding makes seven year's weeding" is very true of the soil of a well-fertilized garden. Never pick berries for market when they are wet. And. when picked, hur ry them to a cool place out of the sun. If it Is possible the quarters for the sheep should be so arranged that the sun can shine in all or most of the day. The nonlaying hen Is the one that takes on fat, and such should be made r.s fat as possible in a short time and sold. Speaking about monster hogs, a Kentiickian bought one recently which when killed tipped the scales at 997 pounds. Plant sorghum to carry your hogs over summer. It is a splendid soil ing crop for pigs and should not be neglected. Sheep aro seldom profitable unless (hey are fed and sheltered during bad weather. Sheep should not be left to shift for their living. Care must be taken not to allow the cream in ripening to become too -our. for the butter takes and keeps the flavor of the cream. Cultivate sweet potatoes well before the vines spread over the rows. If you neglect this you will havfc diffi culty in eradicating weeds. While you are enjoying ripe fruits do not neglect to can and preserve enough for winter use. You will need it when frcah fruits cannot be had. Fence every square rod of available pasture land for the stock this sum mer. Grass and other forage can be turned into good money by the ani mals. Where a brood of chickens are raided with the hen it pays to have a tight coop, one that will protect from the weather and also from predatory animals. It is poor economy to permit colts to follow their dams over the fields this hot weather. Keep the colts in the pasture while their mothers are In the harness. Give the trunks of the fruit trees q good coat of whitewash before you sow the land to a summer cover crop. This, will protect them against insects and fungus diseases. Frotein promotes growth of bones find muscles. Young animals require plenty of protein to develop properly. Cotton seed meal, wheat shorts and Sluten meal furnish protein. In dry times, harrowing the plowed surface at the end of each half day's work will aid greatly in conserving soil moisture and in keeping the ground from becoming cloddy. Geese cost but very little if allowed the liberty of the fields with access to a pond or stream, but to attempt o make them profitable without these advantages will result in failure. Killing weeds Is but one object of cultivating corn. Whi'e important to kill weeds the preservation of mois Tiirc in the soil is equally so, and is done by shallow and frequent cultiva tion Cool your milk ?s soon as you can after milking. Ii you can't do it any other way. pour it from one pail to an other 0.7: where the pure, tresh air will strike it. But aerators are not very epenif at present. Most of us can afford one. Pip; coming any time in March or April wili be ready for the September or October market. If they are kept on a good clover or blue grass pasture this spring and summer with milk, shorts and corn for feed they will make a thrifty growth and be in good condition for finishing in the fall Count the cost of raising a calf till it is three years old; then figure up what it costs to raise a good three-year-old colt. Opposite the coBt of -each place the sum it would sell for at that age; note the clear profit on each --and you won't be slow in looking around for some good, well-bred brood Shade and water are Important. Give the work horse proper rest. Egg eating by fowls la a serious vice. The chickens have many pecks of fun at feed time. The gasoline engine is solving the labor problem on the farm. The nest of the setting hen should be kept clean and free from vermin. Gum exuding from the roots of the peach tree? Bores at work; get after them. It is the net result from a cow that tells whether she Is making a profit or not. It may be a little too late to plant strawberry beds, but next year get at it a little earlier. When the colt is dropped it should receive nourishment from the dam within the first half hour. Sow some turnips In succession every two weeks. A row 20 feet long will produce a large quantity. Agriculture Is an art which adorns the land so that it adds to man's physical health and mental pleasure. We can kill weeds by spraying, but they will not stay dead without rota tion, mowing and pasturage of the land. After the sweet corn has been used cut the plants and feed them to the cows. The land may then be used for late beans. Some of the world's most noted milkers gave a small quantity of milk with their first calves. Don't pass Judgment on the heifer. At no time is the skimmilk In a better condition to make the most of it than when it is fresh and sweet Just from the separator. Chicken money is easy money 1 there Is no milking, no churning, no fanning away flies nothing to do but gather the eggs and sell them. ' With a good supply of straw fon bedding much good manure can be made every year, and manure Is the very life and success of a farm. Root crops, such as carrots, beeta and parsnips should be thinned. Do not be afraid to thin them to a dis tance of five or six inches apart. The orchard should now be sown to some good cover crop, as cowpeas or soybeans, to protect the soil during summer. Do not neglect this longer. If your fruit needs thinning and you have not already thinned it. do it at once. It is better to thin late than to run the risk of injuring the trees. Prune blackberries and raspberries. Cut back the canes and remove all dead plants. This will greatly re juvenate the plants and cause fruitful- ness next year. I Select your seed from the best plants of your garden peas. The seed 1 may be saved and the yielding quail- ties of the plants improved if care is . used in selection. Keep the weeds down. A garden full ' of wet-ds is no indorsement for you as a husbandman. Late cultivation is ' neressar-, for wee'8 are not retarded ' by the summer sun. . If the flower garden crops are not making duo progress stimulate them . with nitrate of soda. A teaspoonful ( worked into the soil about a dahlia ' is about the correct proportion. I If the grass on the entire lawn seems sickly and does not make a , good growth, it may be that the soil j is sour. In such case give the entire lawn a aressing 01 iiuiu 10 swceieu the soil. As there is no proportion between equal things, your farm, to be pro portionally beautiful, should be madq up of unequals. "Unequal fields, un equal garden beds, unequal buildings, unequal rooms, and so on. Theoretically one would think that the work horse ought to rest at night ' instead of being obliged to graze for several hours during the natural rest- j ing period, but practically the effect of the grazing and the night exercise i is conducive to the very best kind of health and thrift Every farmer knows that sheep will 1 make better gains in flesh on a dry j clover hay ration, with the same amount of grain, than any other kind of farm live stock. The reason for this is that sheep consume a larger portion of the leaves of the clover hay and not so much of the coarse, woody stalk. The best investment any farmer can make with his surplus money is in im- j proving his farm. When some farm-1 ers get ahead and have spare money 1 they either buy more land or begin -to lend money for the interest it will j draw. These are not unwise things to do. but they are not the best things j to do with money. ( Dairying has the advantage In that it enables the farmer to ttvilize the labor of his family, the forage and crain grown on the farm, and to make the most possible out of a small farm. It may be said further that it brings a steady income every week with which to pay running expenses, this to the young farmer, is in many cases, no inconsiderable item. It is useless to hunt for some prep aration that will kill Canada thistles and quack grass. There is no such remedy that is worth anything. Cul tivation so thorough that it will pre vent growth above ground for one growing season, is the only effectual method of procedure. When growth above ground is prevented the roots must die, for they leave no lungs thraush which to et oxvc .1 anafaffifflfir i 1 SYNOPSIS. T.awrnc RlaltHey. lawyer. Ros to Pittsburg with the forced notos in the Hronson cas to ta'Ke the deposition or the chief witness for the pnwution. John Gilmore. a millionaire. In the tat ter's house the lawyer is attracted by the picture of :i cirl. whom Gilmore ex plains is his sraniWaushter. Alison "J'1 He says her father Is a. rascal and a friend of the former. CHAPTER II. A Torn Telegram. I lunched alone at the Gilmore house, and went back to the city at once. The sun had lifted the mists, and a fresh summer wind had cleared away the smoke pall. The boulevard was full of cars flying countryward for the Saturday half-holiday, toward golf and tennis, green fields and bab bling girls. ! gritted my teeth and thought of McKnight at Richmond. And then, for the first time. I associ ated John Gilniore's granddaughter with the "West" that McKnight had Irritably flung at me. I still carried my traveling bag. for McKnight's vision at the window of the empty house had not been without effect. I did not transfer the notes to my pocket, and. If I had. it would not have altered the situation later. Only the other day McKnight put this very thing up to me. "I warned you." he reminded me. "I told you there were queer things coming, and to be ot your guard. You ought to have taken your revolver." "It would have been of exactly as much use as a bucket of snow in Africa." I retorted. "If I had never closed my eyes, or if I had kept my finger on the trigger of a six-shooter (which Is novelesque for revolver). the result would have been the same. And the next time you want a little excitement with every variety of thrill thrown In. I can put you by way of it. You begin by getting the wrong berth in a Pullman car. and end " "Oh, I know how it ends." he fin ished shortly. "Don't you suppose the whole thing's written on my spinal marrow?" But I am wandering again. That is the difficulty with the unprofessional story-teller: He yaws back and forth and can't keep in the wind; he drops his characters overboard when he hasn't any further use for them and drowns them; he forgets the coffee pot and the frying pan and all the other small essentials, and. if he car ries a love affair, he mutters a fer vent "Allah be praised" when he lands them, drenched with adventures, at the matrimonial dock at the end of the final chapter. I put In a thoroughly unsatisfactory afternoon. Time dragged eternally. I dropped into a summer vaudeville, and bought some tics at a haberdasher's. I was bored but unexpectant; I bad no premonition of what was to come. Nothing unusual had ever happened to me; friends of mine had some times sailed the high seas of adven ture or skirted the coasts of chance, but all of the shipwrecks had occurred after a woman passenger had been taken on. "Ergo." I had always said "no women!" I repeated it to my self that evening almost savagely, when I found my thoughts straying back to the picture of John Gilmore's granddaughter. I even argued as I ate my solitary dinner at a downtown restaurant "Haven't you troubles enough," I reflected, "without looking for more? Hasn't Bad News gone lame, with a matinee race booked for next week? Otherwise aren't you comfortable? Isn't your house in order? Do you want to sell a pony in order to have the library done over in mission or the drawing room in gold? Do you want somebody to count the empty cigarette boxes lying around every morning?" Lay it to the long Idle afternoon, to the new environment, to anything you like, but I began to think that per haps I did. I was confoundedly lone ly For the first time in my life its even course began to waver. The needle registered warning marks on the matrimonial seismograph, lines vague enough, but lines. My alligator bag lay at my feet, still locked. While I waited for my coffee I leaned back and surveyed the people incuriously. There were the usual couples intent on each other; my new state of mind made me re gard them with tolerance. But at the next table, where a man and woman dined together, a different atmosphere prevailed. My attention was first caught by the woman's face. She had been speaking earnestly across the table, her profile turned to mc I had noticed casually her earnest manner. I her somber clothes, and the great mass of odd. bronze-colored hair on 1 her neck. But suddenly she glanced ' toward me and the utter hopelessness 1 almost tragedy of her expression struck me with a shock. She half closed her eyes and drew a long 1 breath, then she turned again to the. man across the table. Neither one was eating. He sat low i.- his chair, his chin on his chest, ugly folds of thick flesh protruding oer his cellar. He was probably 50. ba!d grotesq"e. sullen, and yet not without a suggestion of power But he had been drinking: as I looked, he raised an unsteady hand and sum-, moned a waiter with a wine list. The young woman bent acrons the table and spoke again quickly. She had unconsciously raised her voice. , Not neautiful, in her earnestness and stress she rather interested me. I had an idle inclination to advise the waiter to remove the bottled tempta- tion from the table. I wonder what' would have happened if I had? Sup rose Harrington had not been intox icated when he entered the Pullman car Ontario that night! For they were about to make a Jour Ity MAK5T ROBERTA RBSEHART Airrno r thb circular, staxscj IUCSTRXTIONS jW M. O. jKjEXTN COfYTUanT tgr DOORS - MERRILL COMPATty ney. I gathered, and the young wom an wished to go alone. I drank three cups of coffee, which accounted for my wakefulness later, and shameless ly watched the tableau before me. The woman's protest evidently went for nothing; across the table the man grunted monosyllabic replies and grew more and more lowering and sullen. Once, during a brief unexpected pian issimo in the music, her voice came to me sharply: "If I could only see him in time!" she was saying. "Oh. it's terrible!" In spite of my interest I would have forgotten the whole incident at once, erased it from my mind as one does the inessentials and clutterings of memory, had I not met them again, later that evening, in the Pennsylvania station. The situation between them had not visibly altered: The same dogged determination showed in the man's face, but the young woman daughter or wife? I wondered had drawn down her veil and I could only suspect what white misery lay be neath. I bought my berth after waiting in a Hue of some eight or ten people. When, step by step, I had almost reached the window, a tall woman whom I had not noticed before spoke to me from my elbow. She bad a ticket and money in her hand. "Will you try to get me a lower when you buy yours?" she asked. "I have traveled for three nights in up pers." I consented, of course; beyond that I hardly noticed the woman. I had a vague impression of height and a certain amount of statcliness. but the crowd was pushing behind me, and some one was standing on my foot. I Which Will You Have, I got two lowers easily, and, turning with the change and berths, held out the tickets. "Which will you have?" I asked. "Lower 11 or lower 10?" "It makes no difference." she said. "Thank you very much indeed." At random I gave her lower 11, aad called a porter to help her with her luggage. I followed them leisurely to the train shed, and ten minutes more saw us under way. I looked into my car, but it present ed the peculiarly unattractive appear ance common to sleepers. The berths were made up; the center aisle was a path between walls of dingy, breeze repelling curtains, while the two seats at each end of the car were piled high with suit cases and umbrellas. The perspiring porter was trying to be in six places at once; somebody has said that Pullman porters are black so tliey won't show the dirt, but they certainly show the heat. Nine-fifteen was an outrageous hour to go to bed. especially since I sleep little or not at all on the train, so I ! made my way to the smoker and passed the time until nearly 11 with cigarettes and a magazine. The car was very close. It was a warm night, and before turning in I stood a short time in the vestibule. The train had been stopping at fre quent Intervals, and, finding the brake man there. I asked the trouble. It seemed that there was a hot-box on the next car, and that not only ere we Iat but we were delaying the second section, just behind. I was beginning to feel pleasantly drowsy, and the air was growing cooler as we got into the mountains. I said good night to the bnikeman and went back to my berth. To my surprise, lower ten was already occupied a suit case projected from beneath, a pair of shoes stood on the floor, and from behind the curtains came the heavy, unmis takable breathing of deep sleep, hunted out the porter and together we investigated. "Are you asleep, sir?" asked the porter, leaning over deferentially. No answer forthcoming, he opened the curtains and looked in. Yes. the in truder was asleep very much asleep and an overwhelming oaor of whisky proclaimed that he would probably remain asleeo until morning. I was Irritated. The car was full, and I was not disposed to take an upper in order to allow this drunken interloper to sleep comfortably in my berth "You'll have to get out of this," I said, shaking him angrily. But he merely grunted and turned over. As he did so. I saw his features for the first time. It was the quarrelsome man of the restaurant. I was less disposed, than ever to re linquish my claim, but the porter, after a little quiet Investigation, of fered solution of the difficulty. "There's no one in lower nine." ht suggested, pulling open the jcurtains just across. "It's likely nine's his berth, and he's made a mistake, owing to his condition. You'd better take nine, sir." I did. with a firm resolution that If nine's rightful owner turned up later I should be just as unwakable as the man opposite. I undressed leisurely, making sure of the safety of the forged notes, and placing my grip as before between myself and the window. Being a man of systematic habits, I arranged my clothes carefully, put ing my shoes out for the porter to polish, and stowing my collar and scarf in the little hammock swung for the purpose. At last, with my pillows so arranged that I could see out comfortably, and with the unhygienic-looking blanket turned back I have always a distrust of those much-used affairs I prepared to wait gradually for sleep. But sleep did not visit me. The train came to frequent, grating stops, and I surmised the hot box again. I am not a nervous man. but there was something chilling in the thought of Lower Ten or Eleven?' the second section pounding along be hind us. Once, as I was dozing, our locomotive whistled a shrill warning "You keep back where you belong." P. screamed to my drowsy ears, and from somewhere behind came a chas tened "AH-right-I-will." I grew more and more wide-awake. At Cresson I got up on my elbow and blinked out at the station lights. Some passengers boarded the train there r.nd I heard a woman's low tones, a southern voice, rich and full. Then quiet again. Every nerve was tense. Time passed, perhaps ten minutes, possibly half an hour. Then, without the slightest warning, as the train rounded a curve, a heavy body was thrown into my berth. The incident, trivial as it seemed, was startling in its suddenness, for although my ears were painfully strained and awake. Coined By Missouri Judge First Use of Expression, "The Man Higher Up," Has Been Traced to Its Source. History may be doubtful as to the Identity of the man who fastened the "Show Me" tradition on the state of Missouri, but she will not be In the case of the man who coined the ex pression "The Man Higher Up." The first use of this expression was made by Elmer B. Adams, judge of the fed eral bench in St. Louis. Even the very case in which he used the ex pression has been fixed, and the arch eologists who have been carrying on the investigation defy the world to show them (being Missouri men), why and where they are wrong. Certain claims that the phrase. "Get it the Man Higher Up." was first used "y Theodore Roosevelt are scouted by the historians in question, who have gone into the inquiry with all the cau ion and precaution of true scientists. Nowhere in the folklore of the vaude-: J RfliSpl3wS2iWfBlBSH 1 3sfc xJsJPsMM I had heard no step outside. The next instant the curtain hung limp again; still without a sound, my disturber had slipped away into the gloom and darkness. In a frenzy of wakefulness. I sat up. drew on a pair of slippers and fumbled for my bath robe. From a berth across, probably lower ten. came that particularly aggravat ing snore which begins lightly, deli cately, faintly soprano, goes down the scale a note with every breath, and, after keeping the listener tense with expectation, ends with an explosion that tears the very air. I was more and more irritable: I sat on the edge of the berth and hoped the snorer would choke to death. He had considerable vitality, how ever; he withstood one shock after another and survived to start again with new vigor. In desperation I found some cigarettes and one match, piled my blankets over my grip, and drawing the curtains together as though the berth were still occupied. I made my way to the vestibule of the car. I was not clad for dress parade. Is it because the male is so restricted to gloom In his everyday attire that ho blossoms into gaudy colors in his pa jamas and dressing gowns? It would take a Turk to feel at home before an audience in my red and yellow bath robe, a Christmas remembrance from Mrs. Klopton. with slippers to match. So. naturally, when I saw a femi nine figure on the platform, my first instinct was to dodge. The woman, however, was quicker than I; she gave me a startled glance, wheeled and dis appeared, with a flash of two bronze colored braids, into the next car. Cigarette box in one hand, match i-. the other, I leaned against the un certain frame of the door and gazed after her vanished figure. The moun tain air flapped my bath robe around my bare ankles, my one match burned to the end and went out. and still I stared. For I had seen on her expres sive face a haunting look that was horror, nothing less: Heaven knows. I am not psychological. Emotions have to be written large before I caa read them. But a woman in trouble always appeals to me, and this womaa was more than that. She was in dead ly fear. If I had not been afraid of being ridiculous. I would have followed her. But I fancied that the apparition of a man in a red and yellow bath robe, with an unkempt thatch of hair, walk ing up to her and assuring her that he would protect her would probably put her into hysterics. I had done that once before, when burglars bad tried to break into the house, and had startled the parlor maid into bed for a week. So I tried to assure myself that I had imagined the lady's distress or caused it, perhaps and to dis miss her from my mind. Perhaps she was merely anxious about the un pleasant gentleman of the restaurant. I thought smugly that I could have told her all about him: That he was sleeping the sleep of the just and the intoxicated in a berth that ought, by all that was fair and right, to havo been mine, and that if I were tied to a man who snored like that I should have him anaesthetized and soft pal ate put where it would never again flap like a loose sail in the wind. We passed Harrisburg as I stood there. It was starlight, and the great crests of the Alleghanies had given way to low hills. At intervals we passed smudges of gray white, no doubt in daytime comfortable farms, which McKnight says is a good way of putting it. the farms being a lot more comfortable than the people on them. I was growing drowsy; the woman with the bronze hair and the horrified face was fading in retrospect It was colder, too. and I turned with a shiver to go in. As I did so. a bit of paper fluttered into the air and settled on my sleeve, like a butterfly on a gorgeous red and yellow blossom. I picked it up curi ously and glanced at it. It was part of a telegram that had been torn into bits. There were only parts of four words on the scrap, but it left me puzzled and thoughtful. It read: " ower ten, car scve " "Lower ten. car seven." was my berth the one I had bought and found pre-empted. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ville stage or of the daily press can be found the slightest reference to the man higher up previously to the date t in 190::. when Judge Adams, charging a federal grand jury in their investi gation of certain naturalization frauds wil ch were the talk of the country at that time, told the jury "to look not only for the little man who Is made a ' tool, but for the 'The Man Higher Up.'" 1 Farmer Boy Presidents. Prof. W. J. Spiliman declares that ' the farms have furnished this country j with 92 per cent, of its presidents. 91 per cent of its governors, 83 per cent, of its cabinet officers, 70 per cent, of its senators, 64 per cent of its congressmen and 55 per cent, of its railroad presidents. Ths Chinese Day. The Chinese divide the day in 12 parts. Each part is distinct in itself aad is of two hours duration. 4!rBs 9Y to cur" f sr C1? yur WSBbJJ money. MDNY0HS RflEDMATISM CURB Make die Liver Do its Duty eh sad bowels era i CARTER'S LITTLE UVUtNLLS GtMiat -u- Signature V ir .laBaaamiKIUQf ymnf Put a known Ttia'Bawoau ova in your vacation outfit Generosity. "I never deny my wife a wish.' "Indeed?" "No; I let her wish. It doesn't coat anything." Life. Taking Father's Job. "Why should you beg? You both young and strong." "That is right, but my father Is old and weak and can no longer support me." Meggendorfer Blaetter. important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA. a safe and sure remedy fof Infants and children, and see that 1 Bears the Signature of ( In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Yes, Indeed. Hostess (at party) Why. so silent. Miss De Muir? You've scarcely said & word since you came. Youthful Guast Really. Mrs. Lead er, I am having a very enjoyable time, but my father has to'Id me ICO times never to say anything unless I have something to say, and I suppose Hostess But. my dear child, think what a stupid and tiresome thing so ciety would be If everybody followed that advice! Qualified. A prominent western attorney tells of a boy who once applied at his of flee for work. "This boy was bright looking and I lather-took to him. " 'Now. my son,' I said, if you come to work for me you will occasionally have to write telegrams and take down telephone messages. Hence a pretty high degree of schooling Is es sential. Are you fairly well educatedr "The boy smiled confidently. "I be,' he said." Independent. Merely a Prevaricator. A doctor relates the following story: "I had a patient who was very ill and who ought to have gone to a warmer climate so I resolved to try what hyp notism would do for him. I bad a large sun painted on the ceiling of his room and by suggestion induced him to think it was the sun which would cure him. The rude succeeded, and he was getting better rapidly when one day on my arrival I found be was dead." "Did It fall, after all. then?" asked one of the doctor's hearers. "No." replied the doctor, "he died of sunstroke." Know How To Keep Cool? When Summer's sun and daily toil heat the blood to an uncomfort able degree, there is noth ing so comforting and cooling as a glass of Iced Postem served with sugar and a little lemon. Surprising, too, how the food elements relieve fatigue and sustain one. The flavour is deli ciousand Postum is really a food drink. "There's a teastn" VOSTUX CXRKAX, CO., Lt&. Battl Crock. UkA. CJAfMtaan