The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, November 16, 1886, Image 9
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FOR THE FARM AND IIOME.
CoTerliis S?eil lOvenly.
Most seeds of grain, especially thosi
sown In thy fall, arc apt to l>; covered tot
deeply. In a dry time the drill wheels
sink down into the soil and this carries
the twlx-s with '.hem. Gr.iiu seed is
thus tie posit el at a d-jptli of three and
(sometimes four or iivu inches. O.ie and
a half inches is ample depth, and il
mob-t one inch is sullicien'. If too drj
to grow at this depth, wait until after a
ram. i nc oau clioct of too deep covering
were plainly shown by a device wc
once used on a drill, throwing every
other tube ahead of its neighbor. The
result was that all the forward tubes
might have been empty. They were
piled over by the ridges made by the
back set of teetli, made a feeble growth
in the fall, and were all killed before
spring. The crop all came from the
half of tho seed drilled in shadow.?
American Cullinitor.
Harvesting Onions,
When tho tops of onions begin to got
yellow and fall down it is time the bulbs
are harvested. They should not be left
in the ground much longer tli%n this, as
they arc liable to commence a second
i * growth, which very much injures the
keeping quality. They may be pulled
with a wooden rake or light diggingtfork.
Some growers let them lie on-the
rground after pulling two or three weeks
tto dry; others put them in smnll piles
nfter three or four days to sweat, leaving
them thus two or three weeks, after
which thjv are acrain snread for a. dnv nr
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<wo aud then stored. The bulbs may be
put into barrels or spread upou the floor
-of a loft or storeroom. If on a tight
floor, they should not be piled more than
-a foot deep, though they may bo safely
piled threo or four feet deep in bins having
slatted bottoms. If kept over winter
they should be protected from severe
freezing.
Krnlt Tree* In Urua.
Trees which are allowed to grow in
tall grass rarely have enough vigor to
produce good crops, but a feeble growth
and 6mall, scabby 'and knotty' fruit
* usually accompany oach other. An
orchard should, therefore, never stand in
a meadow, unless the exhausting influence
of carrying off the crop3 of hay is
tnot with copious annual applications of
barn manuro spread evenly over the
-whole surfacc. With a pasture, grazed
short with sheep, there will be loss injury
to the trees; and additional top dressing
may be employed to keep them
in gt-od bearing condition. Peach trees
suffer most from neglect, or from standing
in thick grasp, and cherry trees the
least, and next to theso strong-growing
pear trees. A lawn or ornamental
grounds which are kept closely shaven
with the lawn mower, are nearly in tho
same condition as a c'.osely-gruzsd pasture,
and cherry and pear trees may be
planted in suitable positions in such
grounds, and bear good crops, provided
the lawn receives the annual top-dressing
of fine manure or compost usually given.
The owner 'will, of course, use his taste
and judgment in setting fruit trees in his
ornamental grounds, and not make an
abrupt or incongruous mixture of fiuit
and ornamental trees. The latter will
bo placed nearer the dwelling, and in
the more conspicuous portions of the
grounds^ the fruit trees in the rear, and
the one pass into the other by natural
gradation.? Country Gentleman.
Remedies for the Apple worm.
As a largo share of the fruit, with the
o*-:n n!>u:- r_n- a.
nvtw o?iu miuiu ii, luiitf 10 too ground,
the picking up of these wind falls and
feeding, orotherwiso destroying them,
or allowing them to be gathered by
?wine, will naturally suggest itselt as an
efficient method. Manufacturers of vine
gar find it profitable to pick up and pressall
windfalls. They yield a juice which
will make vinegar. The fact that mature
worms search for crevices in the
trunk in which to 6pin and undergo
their transformations, has suggested providing
them with artificial shelters for
this purpose. Pieces of old carpet, or
other woolen fabric, about five inches
wide, and long enough to go around the
trunk and lap, are fastened with a stout
tack. These bands should bo applied
the last week in June, and examined the
nrsi weeic id July, ana every ten days
thereafter. Any worms or cocoons that
may be found under them may be killed
- by running the bands through a clothes
wringer, or by crushing them otherwise.
' Within a few years the Western orchardists
have treated the apple-worm
upon the principle of "nipping in the
bud." As soon as the young fruit is set,
the tree is sprayed with a mixture of Paris
z green and waters-one pound of the poison
to fifty gallons of water. This is thrown
into the tree by means of a spraying or
sprinkling engine, in the hope that a
drop of the poisoned water will lodirn in
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tho eyes of the young apples. The newly
hatched apple-worm, in eating its way
into the interior of the young apple,
will be so effectively poisoned, that it
Y must give np its task. Should the small
amount of Vsrif green remain upon the
fruit, It would be too minute to be harm? .
ful; bat the subsequent rains thoroughly
' wash ft awsy, so that there can.be no*
danger in using the poison in this manner.
The chief remedies used in En*
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land a e barriers, to prcvcut the worms
from asccuding the trco to spin. Heavy
. paper is fastened around the trunks and
, Mneared with tar; this and other means
} arc employed as preventatives.?Ameri;
e in Agriculturist.
l'lowlnit Under' Cireen Crop*.
' The subject of plowing under green
' crops for the improvement of tho land is
one that is worthy of careful consideration.
There aro some points of interes
vuuut'viut wuu li wmcn uo not seem to
be understood very well; one of theso is
1 that no more is gained by tho soil than
is taken from it, and that consequently
1 the advantage derived from the nse of
1 them is very smal', if not illusory. An:
other point is that it is not profitable t?
grow any crop but clover for this purpose
and that only a heavy yield of this
is of any benefit to the soil. Now it
should not he forgotten that the larger
part of any green crop?as rye, buckwheat
or clover?is derived wholly from
the atmosphere, aiul tint while it consists
mainly of carbon, yet that earbou is
as necessary for crops as nitrogen or
miueral substances, as potash and phosphoric
acid are. Some persons thiuk a
crop of rye plowed under is of no valuo
because ryo is not specially rich in plant
food. But if it is not as rich in this respect
as clover is, it affords a mo-it usc.-.fill
and . valuable bcginuing, and paves
the way for the growth of better crops.
But what'is tho farmer to do whose land
cauuot produce anything better than ryo
or buckwheat? He must do the best he
can, and if lie can get no more than
' half a loaf this is better than uo bread"
at all.
Tho nilvnntnr?(ia nf nlnu'Snrt "nrloi
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green vegetable mutter are that some useful
elements of plant food aro gained in
addition to those which have been drawn
from the soil by the crop. That all these
are in a most available condition and are
quickly reduced by the rapid decomposition
of the green matter to a soluble
state. That, by the help of the small
contributions of carbonic acid and nitrogen
which arc drawn from the atmosphere,
the addition to tho soil made by
the crop plowed in provides materials for
a better crop, and a' fow repetitions of
the process will enable the soil to bear
clover or some other more valuable crop.
It is not a $ase in which the farmer has
much choice; he must do the best he can
To begin is the great point, and it matters
little how the beginning is made.
Farmers who are desirous of starting on
a course of improvement of their land
and cannot do any better should not hesitate
to sow a crop of rye this fall as
early as possible for plowing under next
spring.?Neio York I'imes.
Household Hints.
A little bag of mustard laid on the top
of tho pickle jar will prevent the vinegar
from becoming mouldy, if the
pickles have been put up in vinegar that
has not been boiled.
It is a great mistake to clean brass articles
with acid, as they very soon become
dull after such treatment. Sweet oil and
putty powder, followed by soap and water,
is ono of the best mediums for
b ightening brass and copper.
To cut glass jars, fill the jar with lard
oil to where you want to cut the jar;
then h.-at'an iron rod or bar to red heat;
immerse it in the oil. The unequal ex
pansion will check tho j \r all round at
me sunace 01 uxo oil, ana you can lift
off the top part.
A chair high enough for one to sit in
and use one's arms freely in cookery
manipulations is the most sensible aid yet
invented for woman. No man ever stands
to perform any work that he can do in a
sitting position. Woman is ever the last
to accept an easier method*
Recipe^
Boiled Carrots.?Scrape and wash
them, then split them in two, if very
large, into four, and cut them across;
they requiro long boiling to make them
soft.
Stewed Veal,.?Lay a knuckle of
veal in a saucepan with two blades of
mace, an onion, a small whole pepper
and some salt, with two quarts of water;
cover it close and let it simmer for two
hours.
Beef Broth.?Take a leg of beef, cut
it in pieces, put it into a gallon of water,
skim it, put in two or three blades of
mace, some parsley and a crust of broad;
boil it till the beef is tender, toast bread
and cut into dice, put it in a dish, lay in
the beef and pour on tho broth.
Black Cake.?Two cups of sugar,
one cup of molasses, one cup of milk,
one cup of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful
of soda, one teaspoonful of cinnamon,
one teaspoonful of c'oves, one
nutmeg, five cups of flour, one pound of
raisins, ono pound of currants, onequarter
pound of citron. This cake will
keep good several months.
Stewed Apples with Rice.?Scoop
out the cores and peel some fine russet
apples and stew them in clarified sugar.
Don some rico in muic with a pinch oI
salt, a few strips of lemon peel and sugar
enough to sweeten it. Leave on the fire
until the rice is quite soft and has absorbed
nearly all the milk; remove the
lemon peel and place in a dish; arrange
the stewed apples on the rico and put in
the oven until it is of a pretty golden
color.
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LAD IES' DEPARTS!EXT.
A Caitom of tl?c Tyrol.
fn some portions cf Tyrol u pccuTIur
and beautiful custom still prevails. "When
a girl is about to be married, before she
leaves her h mi' to go to the church, her
mother hands her a handkerchief, which
is called a tear kerchief. It is made of
newly-spun linen, and has never been
used. It is with this kerchief that she
dries her tears when she leaves her
father's house, and while she stands at
tho alt nr. After the mnrringe is over?
and tho bride has gone with her husband
lo their new home, she folds up the kerchief
and places it, unwashed, in her linen
closet, where it remains untouched. Tho
tear kerchief has oniy performed half of
its mission. Children arc born, grow
up, marry, and move away from the old
home. E.icli daughter receives from the
mother a new tear kerchicf. Her own
remains where it was placed in the linen
closet on the day of the marriage, and
there it remains, until her death,when it
is taken from its plncu and spread over.
thn Tftl?w*ir1 fonf?i?*a3 4-1%** ^ ???! * ?
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be reinovod until wc ure summoned to
come forth on the resurrection morn.
Amerlcnn 4>lrl? in Italy.
A correspondent writes from Milan
that the condition of young women there,
and in Italy at large, who wish to sing
in publ.c is deplornb'e. lie says the city
is full of American girls with operatic
aspirations that arc doomed to hitter
disappointment. Soma of them arc positively
tuffer.ng for lack of the necjssaries
of life. No one, he adds, can make
a career in Italy without money. Most
of our countrywomen pay for the privilege
of appearing on the stage; pay for
noticcs in the newspapers; pay for everything
like courtesy or criticism. Not a
few of them go there, and after spending
several thousands of dollars find that they
have gained nothing. A New York girl
wrote home not long sincc: '"The
amount of misery, blasted hope and
broken-heartedncss in this city (Milan)
can hardly bo described. It is dreadful
to think of unprotected girls coming
here where tho men have, as a rule, no
principle, and are absolutely destitute of
morality." The agents who undertake
to manage their aff lira are almost always
rascals of the vilest sort, such as would
not be tolerated in the United States.
Italy is, as respects an opportu lity to
sing, a delusion and a snare. The Italians
who have any connection with the
oj?era houses are morally robbers and
even worse. Their infamy can scarcely
be conceived in this country, where, happily,
they have no parallels.
Shopping in Horwar<
Tho friendliness and unselfishness of
the Tromso shopkeepers surprised us beyond
everything, as, after showing alj
the furs she had to a party of m-.irauding
Americans, a sturdy Tromso woman led
us to other shops nnd was about to climb
& hill with us to make sure that wc
should not miss a fine view that we had
been told of. She spoke English perfectly
and she had some lovely things in
her shop?the skins of black and polar
Dears, ot beaver, marten, squirrel, silver
fox and eider. There was one large
polar bear rug at |60 that every one
wanted at once, and the eider robc9,
made of the downy part of the breast of
the eider duck and looking very like
chinchilla fur, ranged from $15 to $30
and $40. These larger ones was of carefully
selected eider, and sewed together
with an eye to the soft shadings, and
after that a border line of grebe bkin was
set in the soft pile. As both sides are of
eider, they are the softest, warmest, most
luxuriously comfortable things to
draw about one, -but how the fluffy, delicately
tinted robes would look after a
little wear and tear is another thing. In
the silver shops are to be secu the endless
varieties of spoons on which Norwegian
housekeepers set their hearts and
in which they make a show of their
wealth. The true Norwegian teaspoon
has a long oval bowl, and the narrow^
flat handle is twisted in spirals and
topped with a knob like an acorn; bat
there are spoons as flat as a pancake
turner, with bowls round, and oval
bowls set sideways; bowls deep and
bowls shallow; spiral stems of extraordinary
length, and sp'ral steins of only
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mi iucu or so long, ana siems lurnea
backward in a coil until the spoon
can stand alone. A ppoon from Tronno
began the ultiraato dozen which I hope
to carry away as souvenirs of the principal
towns of Norway. The old silver
jewelry that Tromso showed was not attractive,
the clumsy rings and brooches,
like breast plates, being cruJe, and with_
out any special art or quaintness to rec.
ommend them.?St. Louit Qlobe-Democrat.
The First Crazy Quilt.
It will gratify owners and producers of
those sometimes distressful nhinr.t* ?
crazy quilta?to learn, via tho Edinburgh
Review, that they nro of most respectable
antiquity. The ".uneral tent of an
Egyptian queen1' formed part of the
sepulchral trappings discovered in 1882
in the royal tombs at Doir-ai-Bahari,near
the ancient Thebes. The lady whose
remains it had covcred was a contemporary
of the Queen of Shoba. Her grandfather"may
have bowed bo fore the chanua
of Helon when tho guest of Polydamna,
Nrifo of Thon." Hir son-in-law
Shisnk, fir^t kinjj of tho Bubasti:
dynasty, captured Jerusalem shortly at
the death of Solomon. Queen Isi-e
Ivheb, however, did not livo so Ion
She died young, and her obsequies mi
have been celebrated within a few yei
of 1,000, B. C.~ The date of tho "ter
is thus perfectly well ascertained. It
the earliest examgle extant of opus com
turn, or patchwork. Constructed
innumerable fragments of gazelle hie
finely stitched together, its surface ev
now retains tho gloss of a kid glo^
and displays in marvelous fresh no
rnnsi.ll'finir flm nntlnnil..
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tht-ir application, the four colors?red
blight pink, yellow (two shades), blui
green nnd pale b'ue?employed to pi
duce a striking, if somewhat gaudy i
corative eflcct, an cffect, to our idei
strangely incong-.uous with its son^J:
i destination. The shape, size and desi,
of this ample expanse of variegat
leather (201 square feet in arc?)correspoi
unmistakably to its purpose as a cano
for the royal coflin. A central pam
nine feet by six, was adorned over or
half of its surface with pink and yellc
rosettes on a blue ground; over the oth
with six flyiug vultures, emblematic
supernatural protection, separated 1
bands of hieroglyphics, setting forth t
enrthly dignities and immortal hopes
thd illustrious departed. Four attach
" flaps, chccknred pink and green, coi
piotod tho covering of the mortua
shrine. The borders, display, amo:
other emblems, gazelles kneeling
adoration on either side of a sacred ti
or shrub. The device (with unesseuti
modifications) was prehistorically d
fused in the east, anc* *- thought to ha
been connccted with tnv, old Aryan hoi
worship.
Fashion Notes.
Polonaises are revived.
Violet wood fans are tho fall fancy.
Two-piece fabric frocks aro tho ri
this fall.
Cloth of gold has jewels set in th? ei
broidery.
Sleeves arc no longer cut tight abo
the elbow.
Shoulder seams arc as short or short
than ever.
Shirred corsages and full plastrons a
all the rage.
Plaid velvets aro coming in vogue, b
they arc not pretty.
Vests of surah will bo worn with wi
tcr costumes of cloth.
Draperies are long and full and ha
no looping at the back.
Turnover collars arc a new feature
mantles and costumes.
Plaid velvet are used in combinati
for handsome costumes.
Sleeves are cut tight only from the
bow to tho wrist this fall.
Velvet bonnets are embroidered wi
bends of self-colorovl silk.
Vigogne and bourctte are the popu
P.iris cloths for fall frocks.
Big and little buttons are both wc
ou the same suit or garment.
Velvet striped brochc silks come amo
fall dry goods importations.
Fruit and vegetables are in the ascen
ant for bonnet aud hat trimmings.
Vertical stripes in dross goods of
kinds are the feature in full fabrics.
Combinations of silk with light wc
stuffs aro popular for autumn frocks.
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dress of wool, with velvet accessories.
Diagonal draping across the front
the bodice is seen on new Paris dressi
Brocaded borders and bands as well
crtical stripes are much favored
fashion.
Silk plush on woollen grounds,
striped broche effects, are seen on Nt
York dress goods countore.
The newest goods for tailor-ma
crowns are novelty suitinors imitati
men's trouserings and coatings.
Some of the plush broche border
woollen stufEi aro as ricli and dressy
well as co tly as silk velvet broche.
One-piece dresses of wool and of si
aro both worn and preferred by ma
ladies of unquestioned taste and fashic
Velvet, plush and beuded fabrics (
employed for mantles. The trimmia
aro of galoon, fur, bcadod fringes ai
feather band*.
Prophet* of ErII.
The locu?t who comes wit^ his s<
sighsin summer-time, and his "WJ" pi
dieting war, must now take a back eei
From a North Carolina contemporary '
L learn of a breed of educated spiders w
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scorn the initial letters. When they ha
anything to communicate they write
out, and thoy don't misspell wort
either. One spider ran out a wob &
then wrote acro?3 it in bright, silve
letters, "WAR" Another spun a w
and began to write. He embroider
across his silken home tho wo
'INDIA." Next day be proceeded ai
finished the sentence: "INDIANWAR."
Those educated spiders are b
looking citizens, in size as large as
honey bee, have eight legs, and wh
disturbed show anger, shoot out thi
tongues, and awing their cobweb tacl
as if they meant to jump and sting.
Atlanta Constitution,
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*t? CLIPPINGS FOIC TIIE UIII0US.
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|n< Female ^nrroters arc Numerous in the
City of Mexico.
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lsj According to a popular belief, still
!irf credited, u poisonous bite could be
cured by the blood of the viper which
ij darted the poison.
iu- There exists still a form of contract,
ol made in the time of Edward I. of Engle,
land, in which a man engaged to sell
e?! and deliver his wife to anotlur man.
'ef j A good Cremona violin has lifty-3 ight
as, | divisions. The back, centre, sides and
ol | circles are of sycamore; the belly, base
oi j bar, sounding-post and six blocks of
ah deal; the finger-board and tail-piece of
o- ?bony.
lc- A botanical phenomenon in which the
people of Leominster, England, take a
>cr pride, is a pair of trees?an oak and an
gn ash?which appear to have but a single
ed trunk. They grow together fur about
tid four feet and then divide.
Py Lust year the richest American mere'?
chant, II. 13. C'laflin; the richest Amen- f
,e" can railroad man, W. II. Vanderbdt, and i
)W Ihe richest American planter, Edinond I
icr Richardson, died. It is notable that not
one of the three died in his bed. One
l>y dropped dead at his desk, another in hii
he hall, and the other in the street.
| Ttr>n<jf rlnir is fn Rinnv Tn/lion inViol
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roust turkey is to Americans. Dog.s inn"
tended for the table, or its Sioux equiva[snt,
are always carefully fattened before*
"2 hand. It is used on all state occasions
ln and at the making of treaties, and army
ou officers say it isn't bad.
It was to Henry O'ltoilly, who rccentlj
died, that a New Jcrsuy railroad, forty
years ago, refused permission to erect
posts and build a line of telegraph air g
its road between Philadelphia and
York. The frank and absurd reason
given was that "the telegraph would inttrferc
with travel by enabling persons
il?. to transact business by it* means instead
of using the railroad."
m. Tho first slaves brought to the tarrito
y Sf the United States were sold fronc
VQ a Dutch vessel, which landed twenty af
Jamestown. Va., in 1620. The slaves in
the United States in 1790 numbered
tGr 097,807; in 1810, 1,191,304; in 1820,
1.543,688; in 183 J, 2,009,043; in 1840,
irt 2,487,355; in 1850 3,204,313; in I860.
4,002,990. See our Curiosity Shop book
>ut for 1885 for articles on Slavery in tht
Northern States. .*
in- On one of the islands in Casco Bay,
Maine, there is a numerous, thrifty, and
ve most excellent family in which John is
the popular front name nmong the males.
n To pievent confusion of identity they arc
respectively known as "John J.," "Johi
O.," "Heifer John," "Thundering John,''
on "Sharking John," "Dunk John," "F.atfoot
John," "Cap'n John," "John Eliz?
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John of tho prolific tribe.
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"Oriarlu of lllauket.*'
When Edward III. nsccnded the
throne of England he almost immediately
declared war against France, and shortly
,rn after prepared to invade her territory.
But the sinews of war were wanting, and
nS so tho monarch appealed tq his loving
subjects. English money-bags, howd
ever, were not then so plethoric as they
ha*'e become since, and little coin rr?m.
aU paratively was in circulation. Tho people
loved their young and valient king, and
I the war was a popular one. The English
raised large quantities of wool,
^ which they sent to Flanders for manufacture.
It was determined to devote the
wool crop of that year toward defraying
the expenses of th'j expedition. Aftei
^ the more valuable portion had been used
M there was a quantity quite unfit for the
by Flemish looms. This was bought up bj
one Sir Thomas B nuquette, who had it
in woven into a coarse but warm material,
;w and patriotically presented it to the king
a* a contribution to the comfort of the
<ja soldiers and as a covering for the horses
I nf thf? nnhlps nn/1 IrntirlilM Tim mot.
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rial was named Blanquette, or Blanquet,
e(j for the Marae of the donor, and wo now
spell it blanket.
llol?bjr*|ikrticto on Cats.
A cat is a curius auimal. It has fore
nJ feat and also^foro legs. Its head is at
n. one end of it/body aud its tale is at the
ire other. When it walks its hed gos bcigt
fore and its tale follows along behind,
ad Its frunt feet walks before nnd its hint
feet walks along behind. If a kan if
tido to a cat's tale it will not track when
its walks. It is not good for a cat to ti a
bunch of firecrackers to its tale eather.
re~ It is apt to walk too fast and get heated.
A cat*s talo is a good handel to pike the
w<! cat up by, but it is hard on the cats. Catf
cnu clime trea*. Dogs kant.* That is luck)
for cats. When a dog gits after their
" they kan clime a tre where they can sasi
** back without gitin hert. You kant hit?
cat. Wuuct I thru a buto at one and i
Q<* hit a nole ruster. The ole rustor he dide,
iry but the cat didn't.?Detroit Free Press.
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ed A Reasonable Supposition.
rd' "Mr. Fentherly," inquired Bobby;
ad whilo the desert was' being discussod,
-A 4'is you dog's name Rome?"
ad "No," replied Fentherly, in some asa
tonishment, "his name is Major. Why,
en Bobby?"
sir Becausc, Pa told Ma last night that
Lie you wore down at the Eagle Hotel, making
Rome howl, and I s'posed he was
talking about youi dog.''?/4ft.
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CHILOKEN'S COLUMN,
Aon'l Rob tlio Blrdi^ Doyi.
Don't rob tho birds of tholr eggs, boys I
I', is cruel and heartless and wrong;
And remember, by breaking an egg, b< j.i.
Wo may lose a bird with a song.
When careworn, weary and lonely.
Some day, as you're passing along,
you'll rejoice that tho egg wasn't broken
That gave j ou tho bird with its song.
On fltM M? nAn.
If you hud been walking past a larg?
apartment house in Brooklyn recently, on
a bright, sunny morning, you would have
seen a boy, about twelve years old,sitting
on the stoop in a rocking-chair, wrapped
up in a big coat. Ilis palo face nnd tired
look would have told you that he had
been quite ill. Near him on the stoop,
leaning against the railing, stood a
chubby, red-checkcd little girl, abont
three years old, holding in her arms a
small doll dress :d in a piuk dress and
white hood. Tue lit'.le girl hugged th<
doll closely in her arms, but her lovelj
brown eves were fastened on the boy.
Suddenly she dashed forward and put
the doll in the boy'd lap, and then rac 3
into the corner of the stoop trembling
with excitement, evidently wondering il
her precious doll w.*ru safe, nnd whethei
it pleased the sick buy to hold her.
The boy was perfectly astonished
for a minute, and seamed puzzled
what he should do with the
tiny doll?for bovs twolvu vmm
* - - J ?-old
are not very' much . interested
in dolls. In a second he picked it
up and hugged it closely in his arms, and
began rocking slowly back and forth.
The littie mother watched for a minute,
and then eoyly stepped up close besidt
I the boy and laH her pretty head against
his nrm and her hand on the doll. Sh?
wanted to give tho boy some comfori
and show her sympathy, and sogavehiir
her greatest treasure. He was a little
gencleman. There are boys who would
have shoved the doll buck and said, "1
don't want your doll," and hurt the feelings
of the little girl very much by refusing
her help; but this boy understood
what she meant and accepted her offer ol
sympathy. No doubt he received at
much comfort as he gave by holding th<
doll;, he must have been happier with
that little head leaning against him sc
lovingly.? C'lrintian Union
Ava's Joke.
I think it was the best joke I evei
knew of one little girl playing on another,
though it wasn't an April foo'
It couldn't be, you know, because it happened
some timj after the first of April.
It was wheu Ava was 5 years old, and
just beginning to go to school, blueeyed,
sunny-haired little maid, whe
seemed to find her chief delight in doing
pleasant tilings for people.
One day mamma put an extra nice
dinner in the pretty tin luncheon box.
There was a slice of frosted cake and
two jelly tarts, and a piece of lemon pie,
und a sandwich with turkey, instead ol
ham, which Ava did.n't like.
Right in front of Ava at scho >1 sat little
'Viny Catcs, who U'jver in the world
brought anything for her dinner but a
biscuit. I suppose may bo she didn't
have anything else to bring. That was
what Ava thought, too, deep down in
her pitying little heart.
Well, this day Ava was swinging her
feet while sho studied her lesson, and
she hit her toes against something that
rattled. She looked down, and there
was 'Viny's dinner-pail that had somehow
got pushed back?an old, little
bruiscd-up pail, with only a biscuit fcn it,
Ava knew. ?
A ,bright thought popped into He? ?.
head that minute. It was so funny she
had to put her hand over her mouth to Ss
keep from laughing right out loud in -M
school. 'Viny was saying her les-on;
and quick as a flash Ava took off the
cover of the pail and took out tho bis*
cuit, and put in her own nice luncheon
and put on the cover again.
And at noon when 'Viny Cates went
to eat her dinner what do you suppose
she said ? She said :
IIAU ...1. IJ T A. < ? * ? *
\jut wugiii u x gci> cmi wuercu a
get 'em?" And she almost cried; but
not because she felt bad.
And Ava, full of glee, ran all the way
home to get her own dinner, and tell x
mamma about it. * -.M
"She was so s'priscd, mamma, and
glad!" she cried.
And mamma was glnd too?very glad;
but somehow she felt her eyes grow
warm as she kissed the little glowing
[ face?Youth's Companion.
Recovered HU Voice. '
*
The DuBo's (Penn.) Courier tells an V
interesting story of a gentleman residing
near that place. Nineteen years ago he
practically lost his voice by going into
the wutor while overheated, being only
able to speak above a whisper from that
time until quite recently. About a year
ago he had an arm badly hurt, and haa
since then suffered more or less pain from
it. Occasionally he found reliof by
placing bis hapd on a large driving belt
in a mill where he is employed, through
the generation of electricity. Recently,
while doing this, he was surprised and
1 a ? ?k 1 iL.i * ? -
|)ieusuu iu uuu ne couia MIK U well
as any one.
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Disparage and depreciate no dne; an
insect has feeling and an atom %
shadow.
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