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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., SEPTEMBER 10, 1896.
MAYO AT REHEARSAL
HOW THE FAMOUS ACTOR TRAINED
THE MEMBERS OF HIS COMPANY.
Hla Fondnoan For “Pudd’nlicad Wilaon.’
Ambition* Attempts as n Manager Which
Failed—Hi* Uesetting IVuchaut For Ar
guing Was His Worst Fault.
“The late Frank Mayo, whoso sudden
death on a train near Omaha was such
a painful shock to the whole dramatic
profession, was one of the most severe
and at the same time most just man
agers that it has ever been my pleasure
to act under,” said Henry Davenport,
son of E. L. Davenport, the tragedian,
and one of the managers of the Girard
Avenue theater of this city. “He knew
how a part should bo played and in
sisted on the sietor playing it in that
way if it took ftO rehearsals to pe rfect
the role according to Mr. Mayo’s ideas, ”
Mr. Davenport created the role of
Judge Driscoll in “Pudd’nhead Wil
son,” Mayo’s last success, and played it
during the New York run of tho pro
duction. “During the rehearsals previ
ous to the first production of ‘Pudd’n
head Wilson,’” continued Mr. Daven
port, “Mr. Mayo acted every rolo in tho
play for tho purpose of showing the
members of tho com pan}’ how ho wanted
it played. Ho took infinite pains to
see that every lino was perfectly read,
every accent properly placed and every
bit of business brought out clearly, of-'
fectively and naturally. I would not
have it understood that in this matter
Mr. Mayo was a martinet or one who
assumed to know it all. No one admired
originality more than he. lie liked to
see an actor give his own conception of
a part, but when this was done ho de
manded a reason for everything.
“This was one of his p vuliur traits.
If a member of tho company made a
gesture or a pause rr emphasized a
word in a new or original manner, Mr.
Mayo would say, ‘Now, why do you do
that?’ IIo would get to the bottom of
the idea, and, if a good reason was ad
vanced for it. it found ready acceptance.
He was this way in everything. I re
member that ho taught me fencing
when I was a mere boy, and in return
I taught him what 1 knew about box
ing. I usually boxed about one minute
and explained 15. I would make a lead
or a counter or a guard, and Mr. Mayo
would say: ‘Stop, now. Why do you do
that?’ And when ho was teaching me
fencing ho would make a thrust or a
parry and then stop to say, ‘Now, you
see, I do this because, ’ etc.
“But to como back t > ‘Pudd’nhcad
Wilson.’ Mr. Mayo loved that play as
he loved his children. I remember some
time before the play was produced ho
became convinced that it needed prun
ing. Something had to be cut ont, but
ho hadn’t tho heart to do it. So he
went to my brother-in-law and said:
‘Hero is this play of mine. I know it
needs cutting down, but I can’t do it.
It is almost as much to mo as ono of
my children. 1 have gone over line aft
er lino and said: ‘I can’t cut this out,
nor this, nor this. I can’t cut anything
out. So I want some disinterested per
son to do it forme.’ And when the play
was produced, though he alone was re
sponsible for the dramatization, ho gave
all the credit for tho success to Mark
Twain in an address ho made before tho
curtain tho first night. That was hia
nature.
“Its great success was very gratify
ing to Mr. Mayo, and l:o deserved it.
He wasted several fortunes in the effort
to give the public first class produc
tions cjf tho classical drama, which they
would not receive. Mayo’s famous
‘Forty’was ono of tho best equipped
companies for the production of .Shakes
peare and other standard plays that
ever left New York. Wo carried < very-
thing, even suppers, hut tho people
would have none of us. Tho same treat
ment was accorde d Mr. Mayo’s *N( r-
deck, ’ his adaptation of ‘The Three
Guardsmen’ and several oth: r classical
efforts. But ho rose sup< rier to all these
setbacks. It was hard that his life
should end just as ho was ouco more on
tho road to fortune.
“Mr. Mayo’s county seat at Canton,
Pa., adjoined (hut of my father. It
was at his home that tho noble man was
seen at his best—and his worst. His
worst consisted of a penchant for argu
ing, Mr. Mayo loved to argue, and ho
would never let up uutil you acknowl
edged yourself convinced or fell into si
lence in admitat ion of his earnestness,
fain sincerity and his marvelous com
mand of language and voice. Mr. Mayo
bad on tho grounds of his estate a little
French chalet, which ho bought at the
Centennial exposition in this city. H»<
used it for a study, and there ho would
«it uutil « o’clock at night, when ho
would suddenly rememli r that ho ought
to have supper and proceed slowly to
tho house. Most always ho would find
Mrs. Mayo, my mother, his daughter,
now Mrs. El verson, and myself engaged
in a game of whist. Mr. Mayo would
cuter tbo room slowly and taken posi
tion behind bisdanghb r’schair. Final-
■ij *ho would make a play which her
father didn’t think was good, and ho
would break in with, ‘Now, Nellie,
why did you play that f aid?’ The gumo
would end soon after that, for Mr. Mayo
would insist upon arguing tho point
with Ncllio and kill the interest in tho
game at once.
“Mr. Mayo ouco told mo that he had
discovered tho seen t of true elocution.
You must emphasize < uly those words
which eoul bo left out of a seutonco
without destroying thoreme, he argued.
Thus, in the sentence, ‘Get thee behind
me, satun,’ lie maintain'*! that ‘thco’
and ‘mo’ were tho words that stress
should bo hud upon. Manifestly that
Was wrong, though up t > a certain point
his theory was com et But I didn’t at
tempt to argue tho point with him.
When acting, ho was always trying new
readings of lines, and wo never knew
when ho was going to spring a now em
phasis upon us. 1 lo was a lovable frieud,
an efilcient manager and a brilliant
actor. To work with him was a pleas-
mru. Philadelphia North American.
THE PORTLAND VASE.
A Masterjilcco That Lous Puzzled the An
tiquarian* of Europe.
Tho workmanship of tho vase mid
the material of which it in compost'd
long exercised the ingenuity of some of
tho greatest antiquarians in Europe.
Breval believed it to bo chalcedony;
Bartoli, Monrfaucou and others, sar
donyx; Count Fezi, amethyst; Do la
Chanssc and Misson, agato, while
Vcuuti decided that it was paste.
Wedgwood’s examination of the vaso
proved tho last opinion to bo tho correct
one. A layer of white ghiss had been
fused on a dark blue body, the exquisite
figures being afterward produced in this
layer by cutting down to the bine by
the gem engraver, after tho manner of
real cameos. Wedgwood also discovered
that tho vaso hod at eomo time lx < n
broken nm^ropnired. It was his opinion
that the head which formed the bottom
of the vaso was a piece of some other
work that had been cut down and in
serted in the plneo of the original bot
tom, which had probably been destroyed
at the time tho vaso itself was broken.
By the autumn of 1789 Wedgwood,
after many failures, had succeeded in
his arduous undertaking, and tho first
perfect copy, made in the famous jasper
ware, was finished. Several more copies
were subsequently made, though the
exact number does not seem at all cer
tain. These were of various degn es of
perfection and varied in size and color.
Originally sold at from 30 to 50 guineas
each, according to excellcnoo cf finish,
time has, cf ccnrso considerably en
hanced their value, and f» i mo years ago,
at the sale of the Martinoau collection,
ono sold for £294.
In 1810 the Duke of Portland placed
the vase in tho British museum, where
some 35 years afterward it was wantonly
broken to atoms by a drunken visitor.
After being skillfully repaired it was
placed for additional safety with tho
gems.
Anthorities are by no means agreed
as to tho subject of the bas-relief, though
various explanations have been offered.
According to the museum catalogue,
the composition represents on tho ob
verse Thetis consenting to be the brido
of Paleus in tho presence of Poseidon
mid Eros; on the reverse, Peleus and
Thetis on Mount Pelion, and on tho
bottom of tho vaso (now detached) a
youthful bust of Paris.—Good Werda,
rolling a Dangcronsi Chimney.
There is only ono way of saving a
chimney out of plumb from collapse if
tho bend increases—that is, to cut a
slice out of the masonry on the other
side, so that it may sink on that side
and bring itself straight. But that
method, though efficacious at times,
often weakens the structure. The only
other alternative is to pull down and
build afresh, and there are two ways of
doing that. One is to pull the chimney
down, stone by stone, beginning at tho
top, a tedious method and a terribly
risky one if the structure be totterhig
to its fall. The other method tho write*
has often seen practiced in Lancashire
and Yorkshire. At a mill a few miles
outside of Manchester, for instance, a
dangerous chimney had to bo “felled”
not long ago. and the contractor started
to cut away the brickwork at the base
on five ont of its eight sides. Once,
thinking it was about to settle on him,
lie and his men hurried away, hut tho
full did not take place, and they re
turned to work. The gaps were propp< d
up with timber and the structure sup
ported in this way till tho proper time.
Then the wood was soaked with par
affin and daubed with rosin and ignited.
The flumes and smoke poured up tho
chimney with a great roar, and the dar
ing man lingered at tho foot for a quar
ter ef an hour, feeding the flume at one
point so the wood might collapse there
first and the chimney tako that direc
tion in its fall. At length the balks
gave way, tho chimney tottered, then
leaned over in a circular fashion mid
finally roll unsod in the middle and f< 11
in a heap. Tho climber told the writ) r
that he distinctly pref< rred to bring a
chimney down in that way, for once,
while taking down a shaft in a north
Lancashire district, ho heard it groan
and creak and had only time to slip
down the rope and rush away when it
fell. —Chambers’ Journal.
WATCHES.
Borne Fart* Conceruing the Rtyles—The
Great Number of Watche* Used.
In this country almost everybody car
ries a watch. Probably nine-tenths of
the men and great numbers of women
and many young people carry watches.
In the best trade of the city many more
watches of gold arc sold than of silver;
cf all the watches sold throughout the
country about 25 per cent are of gold.
The percentage of gold watches Is in
creasing.
Tho fashionable watch of the day is
open faced. Tho sale of open farc'd
watches is increasing, especially in fine
watches, but it is increasing also in
watches of other grades. Of tine gold
watches sold in th** city probably two-
thirds are now made open faced. Of all
the watches sold in the United States,
gold and silver, probably from a quarter
to a third are now made open faced.
The modern watch has for one of its
characteristics thyinefs. A man’s watch,
which is now made more especially to
wear with evening dress and is all the
time growing in favor, is a plain, thin,
open faced gold watch, which takes up
but little room in the pocket. Perfect
in its simplicity, this watch is at tho
same time of fine workmanship and
great beaut}’. It se lls at $100. A gold
watch not so thin nor so finely finished,
but a very handsome modern watch and
an excellent timekeeper, by the same
makers and bearing their name, can be
bought in open face, the case of 18 carat
gold, for $05; in double case for $70.
But gold watches and gcxxl watches,
too, can be bought for very much less
than these prices—in fact, there never
was a time when watches generally were
made in such tasteful shapes, or when
they were so good for tho money or so
cheap as now.
Taking all tho grades together, the
American production of watches is
about 4,000 daily. Tho importation of
watches amounts to hbout tho same
number. One might at first wonder
what becomes of all those watches. A
great number are taken up annually by
the new buyers coming into the market
for the first time ont of the constant and
large increase in the population. Great
as tho percentage of watch owners now
is in this country, that also is increas
ing. Many immigrants buy watches as
peon as they get the money. Some men
own more than cue watch. Watches
wear ont or their owners lay them aside
for a better watch cr for one of newer
style. Watches arc lost and destroyed,
and when one comes to take all tin >e
things into consideration it will be » n
that the great production of watches
may ho in large measure easily account
ed for.—New York San.
-x -
THE CHILDREN.
Only to korp them so— • *.
Soft, warm and young—
Tho woo, feeble tlngera,
Tho babbling tongue. *
Tours (hat wo kiss away,
Smiles that wo win,
Cureless of know led fo, , -CJ
As RUiltless of sin. V |
Only to keep thorn so,
Frank, tree and puro.
Of our full wisdom
8)> lovingly sure.
Onr frown all they shrink from,
Our Hat their law,
Our storo whence all gladness
They fearlessly draw.
Only to keep them so—
Sweet hands that cling,
Sweet lips that laugh for us.
Sweet tones that ring:
Curls that wo train to wavo.
Feet that wo guide,
Each fresh step a wonder,
Each new word a prido.
Only to keep them so.
Women and men
Are the tinies that circled us
Lovingly then;
Gentle and good to ua,
Patient and strong,
Guarding onr weaknesses,
Bearing us long.
—London Tit-Bits.
AN!
ROTATION OF CROPS.
A DITCH CLEANER.
Not Patented and a Cseful Implement on
Most Farms.
One of the most useful of homemade
farm implements is a ditch cleaner
made by a Utah man and recently illus
trated and described in The Irrigation
Age. It consists of tho forks of a tree
cut about 10 feet long, on ono side of
which is n share of sheet iron. The
The System fteconmicndcd For Adoption
Throughout the Cotton lieSU
I Tho main features of thosysU m prac
ticed on the farm of tho Georgia experi
ment, station and recommended fer gen*
■ oral adoption throughout the e< it n belts
; is based on a three years’com , but has
j been occasionally modified according to
i the exigencies which ari-,'. The main
features of tho system are chiefly ap
plicable to the four leading crops—small
grain, cowpeas, cotton and com—buttlnj
, principle is also applicable to the small
er crops or those occupying relatively
i smaller areas. Tho three years’ course
| in these main crops implies a division
AN ARCTIC STUDIO.
plow 1s ho„vii, w d K i,i;vi'a;;,i" r »n;',i.«»«»■«*»;■«<* •*»»
through irrigation hitoh,.. ...J.l. | t'lnttl I>ar>«. SuppoKj that tho «.r»h ran
to be applied to an ordinary farm and a
beginning made, say fcv-pt. 1. Then, to
; quote from a bulletin on the subject:
First Year.—Onc-Uiird of the land
I should be sown in s^hil grain, mainly
! oats, devoting corn land to this. The
small grain should bo li lx ■rally fertilized
I with a highly aunnoniated fertilizer.
The oats should lx; followed i»ini< diate-
Jl.
Caro of tbo Earn.
During this “sweaty weather” the
dirt will accumulate in tho ears of tho
little tots old enough to play out of
dexirs, and it must bo remembered that
ear wax is not dirt, and mothers ought
to bo very careful in cleaning children's
ears not to gouge out the wax with sharp
pointed instruments. The wax is intend
ed to protect the ear and should not Lo
disturbed, except that part which lias
already worketl its way ont. Another
thing about ears is that they should not
be pulled and boxed. Perhaps this may
seem the most convenient and convinc
ing mode of punishment when the child
is naughty and the mother is tired and
cross, but it should never be indulged
in. Both pulling and boxing may in
flame the tissue that holds the auricle
in place and induce hardness of hearing
and even perfect deafness. The drum
head or elastic membrane just within
the ear has oft< n been seriously injured
and severe illness caused by severely
boxing tho ears.—Philadelphia Times.
Herrick’* I.ovo cf Music.
It has been remarked by Mr. Gossc
that Herrick “is alive as no poet before
or since to t he picturesqueness of dress,”
and the statement, though sweeping, is
correct. He takes note of each fold in
■Julia’s gown, ho writes lines upon the
ribbon round her waist, ho describes
the rustling of her walk and is in fine
as quick to perceive the beauty that lies
in dress as to comprehend tho splendor
of a full blown rose.
Music, too, did not go without appre
ciation from him. It would have lieou
difficult to imagine Herrick dull to tho
influence of music, although some of
cur poets have been ere dited with in
ability to distinguish one tune from an
other. But on the other hand there are
many musical poets, Milton, Gray,
Browning u..d a host of others. Speak
ing of Milton reminds ms that II< rriek
ueldicsse’s ono of his poems to Harry
Luwis, who was tho subje ct e,f ono of
Milton’s sonnets, Law on wrote (he nm-
fie to “Comus” and received from the
poet the praise that ho
Fir:* taught o.,r Englnli min in )jmv to Fpr.ij
T.'urd.-i with jui.t note unit accent, not to seal)
With r-Iidns’ curs, committing hliort mid long.
Both Herrick anel Milton seem to
have bee-n on familiar terms with the
musieiau, as both address him in their
verse .ns Harry. Senno eif Herrick’s songs
were se*t to music by him, and on his
eh nth Herrick wrote:
f’omo lmvo thco called Ampfclon; Homo of u*
JS'nmi-d thco Tcrpundcr or sweet Orpheus;
thin, some that, but nil in this agree—
llii .ic hud both her birth and elcuih in th<-o.
The difference between Milton’s praise
nqd licrriek’s is very marked. The
greater peot’s more considere el eulogy
was well eh served and dise-riminately
L. slowed. He rrick’s is spoiled by its
e xtravagance. —Gentleman’s Magazine.
A Little Wooden Shed Unlit Far Within
the Arctic Circle.
At the head of an almost unknown
bay, bcyonel tho waters of Inglofiehl
gulf, the Falcon found temporary rest;
and there, under a leifty peak anel in the
presence of a mighty glacier, wo erected
out two tiny buildings. Tho site was
chosen upon a terrace in tho bed of an
ancient glacier and near a rapid brock
that ran down to tho hay. Tho studio
formed a wing of the larger building,
anel was built eif three inch grcxived
pine 1 . It was nmelo with ehiublc walls,
anel had an air space eif one fexit com
pletely enveloping te»ps, side's and be>t-
tom, and an aelelitional air space of one
inch formed by felt covering tho walls
and ceiling. On tho side facing the west
were placed double doors, and on the
south a double skylight and a window.
Over throe of the exterior walls was
fastened the conventional tar paper. In
this small abode, the nor them most stu
dio in tho world, with a ground space
of J5 by G h, feet, and with a height of
Jess thaif 8, my comrade and I were to
dwell for more than a year.
On Aug. 2ti, 1893, tho studio was
made habitable with two folding beds,
trunks and hexes for seats and recepta
cles, and oilcloth for floor covering. A
long shelf was run along flip jvest side
cf the loom, near the ceiling, and under
tho skylight was placed a series of
shelves. A clock with a homelike voice
gave an air of habitableucss to the
room, and from tho ceiling was sus
pended a lamp with a chain for raising
and lowering it—always an object of
wonder and delight to tho childlike In-
uuit, or Eskimo. Near by were two
other dwellings, but of sealskin, the
homes of the Innuits Myo and Knsboo,
who, with their families, hud been in
duced to leave the neighborhood of Capo
Parry and como with us.—Frank Wil
bert Stokes in Century.
FOK CLEANING 1)BAINS AND DITCHES,
creeks by horses. It throws out gravel
and mud in a most wonderful manner.
Two men, with four horses, can do the
work of 50 ditch men with shovels.
The polo is used to raise the front of
the ditcher when necessary. A man
swings his weight upon the hack, and
thereby lifts the front, or points, from
the mud. A big hook is bolted on the
top, to which, by a long chain, the
doubletrees are attached. In ordinary
work two horses can pull the ditcher,
but in most cases, where the ditches are
ly by cowpeas, sown either in 3 to 4
feet drills or broadcast. Experiments in
dicate that, planted in the drill end
plowed once or twice, cowpeas will yield
more peas ns well as more hay. But
many pr. for sowing broadcast, li’ broad-
eaxf, four to five pecks are sufficient to
seed an acre. The crop should reci ivo a
dose of about 200 pounds of acid phos
phate and 100 pounds of kuinit p< r acre.
Experiments indicate that it i- dc< jOdly
best to convert the pea viie s into bay.
filled with mud and gravel, two teams The stubble may remain, and a light koc-
Drumtochty.
The locale of the district which Ian
Macluron Ims immortalized is pretty
well known, but Mr. Watson himself
was until recently ignorant of tho rx-
i '.once of a real Drumtochty. “I
thought that I hud invented the word,”
h" wrote lately, “hut for Bomo time I
have known that I am not an inventor,
but only a poacher.” Drumtochty, situ
ated in Kincardineshire, is a deep,
richly wooded valley, about two miles
in length. Away to tho north opens tho
valley of Glenbervio, tho fatherland of
Eolx rt Bums, and a fuw miles to tho
eolith is Fusquo, where much of Glad-
et« ne’s early life was passed and to tho
early associations with which tho vet
eran statesman likes to revert.—New
York Times.
The French Naval Unit.
The old distinctions of battleship and
cruiser, coast defense ship, lookout ship,
torpedo catcher and all tho rest aro to
disappear utterly from tho face eif
Frenc h waters. The key words of the
new scheme are homogeneity and au
tonomy. The fleet is to be homogeneous
through all its units, tho units to he
self sufficing for all tho various func
tions c f war. The archetype of this au
tonomous unit is tho Dupuy do Lome.
This vessel, generally classed ns an ar
mored cruiser, was launched in 1890,
but was not completed until some years
late r. She is of 0,300 tons displacement,
371 feet Jong, of 51 feet 0 inches beam
and 23 feet 0 inches draft. She steams
17.5 knots an hour with natural and 20
with forced draft ami is reckoned able
to make 4,000 miles at 12.5 knots with
out coaling, bhe is armored—and this
is her most distinctive feature—with
i. 7 inches of steel throughout herwhplp
length and almost over tho whole sup-
faeo of tho hull.
For heavy armament she carries two
7 <5 inch breechloaders and six 0.8 inch
canct quick firing guns, besides numer
ous smaller quick firers. Tho heavy
guns are so mounted that sho can fire
live of them ahead, astern rr on either
broadside. This formidable type Admiral
Fournier proposes to strengthen ami
develop into tho unit of his homogene
ous licet, which is to be equal indiffer
ently to every service demanded of a
warship. —Blackwood’s Magazine.
are necessary. To strengthen the plow
and make it more substantial, braces of
iron could be put in, extending from the
center crossbeam to either runner, as
in a sleigh. The machine is primitive
and a mere emergency makeshift, but
contains the elementary principles for a
line ditcher.
In constructing new canals it has no
equal, considering the expense of mak
ing. For cleaning drains the machine is
of equal benefit as in clearing ditches.
The eastern farmer needs such a cheap,
bandy implement as well as the western
irrigator. There fs no patent on the idea.
Some G by 8 good oak timbers will
make a better ditcher than an old tree.
,Creeks that overflow can be cleaned by
one of those machines so that a channel
will be cut by the next freshet. Fields
Can be easily drained of surplus water
by plowing furrows and cleaning the
ditches with this homemade huplcmi ut.
Salt IJ.>x For Cow*.
Keep salt whrie it is accessible to live
stock at all times, and this is done in
po pi ore satisfactory way than by the
pse of a covered salt box. A good one
has been depicted in The Farmer’s Ite-
view. It is 14 inches long, 9 inches
Wide, 8 inches high fit tho back and 6
inches in front. The box is firmly nailed
to the fence board or to a post or side of
i pi ember,
say oue-
m:
Tlio Hutton Wu* On.
“Aha!” And ho laughed fiendishly
ns he read from tho morning pnpep.
“The burglar shot at the man, whoso
life was saved by the bullet striking
against a button of his clothes!”
“Will,” nipped his spouse, “what
of that?”
“Whatof that?”said hens ho f it his
collar going up steadily to the nape of
his nock. "Oh, nothing, except that tho
button must have been on.”—London
Tit-Bits.
A Safe Mule.
“Basins, you infernal nigger, yoq
told me that mule was perfectly safe,
and when I went into tho stable be
nearly kicked tho Up of iny head oil.”
“Yea, Huh. I sayed the mewl wuz
safe, sah. But i f yo kin recollec’, t
didn’t cay nullln about wcddi r you was
safe in his wieiuity. Dat mewl is able
cm ugh to bo sufo ttuyvlmr. ”—Indian-
apolis Journal.
Safe Place.
fcho glided into tho ofllce and quietly
approached the editor's desk.
“I have written a poem,” she began
“Well!” exclaimed the editor with a
look and tone intended to annihilate,
but she calmly resumed:
“I have written a poem on 'My
Father’s Bam,’ and”—
“Oh,”interrupted the editor with an
extraordinary suavity, “you don’t know
how I am n Moved. A pixau written on
your father’s bum, eh? I was afraid it
was written on paper uud’tluit you want
ed mo to publish it. If I should ever
happen to drive past your father’s burn,
nox WITH Al’TOMATIC COVEK.
a building, as most convenient. Tho
cover is hinged and has a bevel shaped
piece nailed at the top to prevent split
ting; also to cause the cover to fall back
into position. The front end of the box
is cut away, exposing the salt, and in
trying to get it the cover is raised. Cat
tle readily learn to raise the cover when
they are salt hungry. The stake placed
tinder the box in front holds it firmly
in position, and the whole makes a
iffieap and convenient arrangement,'as
from a week’s to several weeks’ supply
of salt can be placed in the box at once.
I’ll stop and rend tho
Opinion.
poem. ”—Public
l.'nnIEu to Com par*.
He—Miss Kitty, I’ve heard it said
tiiat a kiss without a mustache is like
an egg w ithout salt. Is that so?
Hlu—Well, really, I don’t know—I
can’t ti 11—for in my life I never—
Ht—Now, now, Miss Kitty!
Bhe—Never ate an egg without JalL
— WooiiHiH'ket Reporter.
Itrmnniber.
It takes only five minutes to ehungo
wet boots and stockings, but it may
tako ten months to get over a cold
caught hy not changing them.—Brook
lyn Eagle.
l*aK».lo»'« Temple,
GamtiMug houses are temples where
the meat sordid and turbulent passions
cent< nd. There no spectator can is; in-
different. A curd or a small square of
ivory in ten sts more than tho 1(«^ uf an
fnr.ire or the ruin of an unoffending
group < f infants and their nearest rela
tives. —Zimmennanu.
If it were not for labor, men could
neither eat so much nor relish bo pleas
antly nor sleep so soundly, nor be so
healthful nor so useful, so strong nor so
patient, so noble or so uutemptod.—
Jeremy Taylor.
The ex-empress of Prussia, tho Em-
pr<rs Frederick, draws from tho English
treasury as a British princess tho sum
of £8,000 ovary year.
Solution p) tfie Fig fmliiKtrjr.
A Californian whose white Adriatic
figs developed a tendency, inherent in
that variety, to sour or ferment, writes
as follows to American Agriculturist:
In my belief the solution of the fig
industry in California lies in tho success
ful fruiting of the true or commercial
Hmymn. Of this variety many thousand
Jroos havo been planted, together with
tho Capri, or wild fig, for fertilization.
So far the domestication of tho Blasto-
phngu psenes lias failed after several
efforts. Nevertheless 1 firmly believe
that it will be accomplished in time.
Meantime tho white Adriatic will servo
as a makeshift substitute. In some eases
it yields a fair to good article, hut as a
rule makes poor goods. It is a pity, but
true, that the public will buy fruit en
tirely upon its appearance. There aro
blue and black figs grown in this state
that aro fully as fine of flavor as tho
white, both fresh and cured. Tho trees
bear abundantly and with certainty.
Unfortunately, outside of this state they
find no market, and even here, in tho
cured condition, will not sell against tho
white.
end grow th will be seemed before frost.
Ju-d before or soon afU r a kiikng frost
j the pea stubble is turned i v. ith a
j two horse plow. If convenient to pas
ture, cuttle and hogs may I ■ turned i n
successive portions of the p ate Ids in-
stead of converting tho \ii,, , into hay,
■ or a portion of the pi as may be picked,
S<*ccnd Year.—This name division
| should he liberally fi rtiliz>d and plant-
id in cotton. In the fall, say :-i
j sow tho cotton fields in ry<
j half bushel or less per acr , or in crim
son clover. This is especially recom
mended on land that is liable to wash
| during the winter, but the principal
| aim is to supply a growing crop that
j will appropriate and hold the soluble
plant food left in the soil.
Third Year.—Thp land previously in
cotton is tlio place tor the corn crop.
During the latter part of January and
by Feb. 20 the ground should be thor
oughly broken, flush, with a two horso
plow. On tho station it has not been
found profitable to fertilize tin* ecru
prop highly, but it should fe llow a high
ly fertilized cotton ere.p. (Jowjiea$
should be planted in the middles bti:
tween the corn rows, if wider than 5
feet, or sown broadcast at last plowing.
This completes the three years’course,
and the corn should be followed by small
grain and cowpeas, commencing again.
Jbe above is a g< ncral outline of tho
system, which may be modifie d accord?
ing to circumstances. For instance, iq
Homo sections tobacco may tako tho
place in part or in whole of cotton;
in the mountain region the oats may bp
found to succeed better if sown in tho
spring, etc.
Only ono of the three supposed divi
sions of the farm has been followed up
in the above outline. Cf course the oth
er two will rotate in the same order, so
that each year one-third shall bo in
small grain and peas, one-third in cot
ton and one-third in re rn. The sc three
principal divisions cover the main por
tion (ff the farm in cultivation. There
may be anothe r division • qual in extent
devoted to permanent pasture. Tho
minor crops of the farm, including
sweet potatoes, truck patches, forage for
soil feeding, orchards, etc., may have a
rotation among llieniselves and together
may cover an area nearly equal t i ono
of the main crops, so that in practical
operation a farm of 100 acres of “open
land” may be divided somewhat as fol
lows: Small grain and peas, 20 acres;
cotton, 20 acres; corn and p as, 20
here's; permanent pasture, 20 acre.-.; or
chards, vineyards, truck and garden,
foragei crops, peanuts, chufas, potatoes,
melons, etc., 20 acres.
Htitrkiug Coro Fodder.
To stack com fodder so you cun {■ i d
light along without disturbing the top
t'f the stack and exposing tlio whole)
thing to snows and rains, build a long,
ifl
Thla Shell I’cren Nat*.
There are thick rind oranges and or
anges with thin rinds, and indeed this
is true of all fruits and nuts in a great
er or le ss ele'gre>o. It is the province of
phi' fruitgrower to select those with tho
thinnest skin e»r shell when such thin
ness is desirable. As Meehan tedls in
his Meuitlily, this is always desirable in
connection with nuts. Every one will
dispense' with nutcrackers at the dinner
table, if iHissiblo. It Is said that by se>
les'tiem a variety eif pe'can nut has be-cn
oecure'd which lias a shell so thin that
it can be* crushed e-usily between tho
thumb and fingers A thin she ll would
be- enpe'clally desirable in this kind of
nut. It ought teibc morcprcfi ruble than
even a thin she ll ulmond.
It is propose>d to establish a birel
elay, which shall Is* devote d to a study
of tlio habits eif eiur common birds, with
a view to devcleipiug a public wntime nt
favoring their dcvedeipmcut and increase.
STACK eiF COHN* FOIIDKK.
narrow* stack. This is the advice of a
subscriber of Farm and Fin side', lie
says:
After laying ono end up straight,
with butts out, lay all the bundles cross-
ways of the stack. The stack ean the n
be all useed up by pulling the bundles
out from tho ouel, as shown in tho illus-
tration.
New* and Notru.
The agricultural department reports
an abundant eeirn crop in meist sections
eif the* e-eirn belt.
The in'w milking machine inve'iitcd
by Dei Laval of separator fame anel
named the laetator is attracting atten
tion United States Consul O'Neil has
Inspected this niHchiue* in Sweden and
gives it high praise.
Tin* us< of parchment paper for lining
butter packages is growing rapidly, and
it adds largely te> the Halablenes* of the*
proeluet and prervents soukage*.
The) proHpe*cts are) that the) largest
flow of hom y ever wound e ast of tho
Resky mountains to the Atlantic coast
will be obtained this se ason.
It is a good plan for fanners who
grow rye to save a few bundle** to
thrashed by hand and u-e the straw f<!
binding coruatalks.
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