University of South Carolina Libraries
- -- ~ ~-w- 2 - f ..a ..24: *~ - yr J /I r, S ./ e TRI-WEEKLY EDITION TWJNNB)RO, S.C. A RIL 1. 1898. ADORAT:ON. Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, bound less heaven. Thy voice, the voice of one who rides the storm, Thy coautenance illumined like bright Astra. Thy breath the fragrant breath of dewy morn. Amazing breezes daily sing tLy praises, Awakening streams thy goo dness s peaketh e.eb. Thine urms, unarmored, prove . thy great ness. Thy lp. thy lips my own would teach. Thy brow is calm, serene and hbly, Thy heart, unehastened,warm and. strong. Thy speech the tongue of men and angels, Thy pulse, th pulse brings life along, -Helen McQuade Day, B)ston. Sheer Luck. When the great pink diamond of Guznee reached Europe it created widespread interest and took immedi ate rank w%ith the historical stones of the world. It was compared with the finest gems in the royal and i:nperial regelia, savants wrote learned dis quisitions upon its beauties, and the magazines ind -ewspapers spoke of its-value in' a -way that made one's month water. Among others whose envy was aroused by the descriptions of the rtone was a Mr. Lamorock, a gentle uan who had passed under many zliases in his career, and who had only i ecently been released from Portland, -where he had been sequestered for mis t aking the proprietorship of a check. As he read of the great diamond his e fyes sparkled at the thought of its worth. There it was--100,000-and you could put it in your waistcoat pocket. F.ut how to get it? The er-convict, as he pondered oyer the sub;ec:, knew the task was no' an easy one. The papers imparted the confidezce that it was in Messrs. Bons field Brothers' safe at Bristol; but burglary was not in his line. There are grades of rednemeat in all profes sions, and he looked upon burglary as vulgar,besides which night watchmen, strong rooms, and electric alarms nade such work ha?ardoas and only ifor people better supplied with physieal strength than brains. The first.step was to obtain the con x ence of the Bonsfields. To get this? .trodietion. How?-to forge more ado he wrote a short " oeQEorieton &Co., the clbr~a ~ w=T Y temift ~tou ldcare to buy }eels and receive l. eip r rey singtheir sillingn ss to .inspect them. After studiously ex aming the caligraphy of their letter { /with a magnifying lens he set himself to practising a nu:nber of curves and flourishes on a sheet of paper. An hour's work seemed to satisfy him, and he then indited the following epistle: "Hatton Garden, Jan 4, 1896. Messrs. Bonsfield Brothers: Dear Sirs -As a client of ours desires to inspect your pink diamond 'known as 'The Light of Guznee,' with a view to pur chase, we should feel obliged if you would send it to us. Our MIr. Lamo rock will call upon you a few hors L after you receive this letter and will bear a note vouching for his identity. We shall be happy to undertake all risk and responisibility for the stone from the time it is intrasted to the custody of our representative, and we beg to remain yours faithfully. - "CorGLErosr & Co." When this production of his pen and brain had been caref ally serutin ized, our caligraphist composed another short letter, which stated that the bearer was Mr. La noroek,the rep resentative - of Congleton & Co. H e went out and bought half a do en Havana cigars, four of 'which he stea.ned open and unrolled. Smearing~ 'he interior portion over wi h a dark, treacly liquid, he rolled them up again with expert fingers and put them into his case. The first letter he had written he sent by registered post, going down to Bristol by the same train that took the mail. But on his arrival there he ---atdfor three hours so as to allow of it being delivered before calling.I He then went to their office and pre sented his credentials,the genuineness of which were not for a moment sus pected. The Bristol firm, who acted with great caution in all their business transactions, thought it safer that the stone should be under the custody of their own rep r. esentative; and determined that one r.hould accompany Lamorock up to .London, taking it-with him. This, however, was a contingency provided for both by Lamorock's* cigars and by a neat little revolver that nestled in the pocket of his great cost. It~was a bitterly cold day',and a bit ing east wind' made thorn 'hiver in spite of their coats and wraps; so much so that they mutually regretted that the operation of securing a reserved carriage left them no time to nav a visit to the refreshment room. They had just seated themselves comfortably and the train was already in motion, when an elderly gentleman * with a jovial red face'and black bushy ~J. whiske.-s opened the door an d bundled himself in. - Bonsfield was annoyed and Lamo rock disgusted; but as the intruder was profuse in his apologies, and it was too late to mend matters, they had to accept the situation with the best grace they could. After the lapse of a quarter of an hour he had talked their r'eser;e away, and proved him scio -ning a co:npaunion that they !l iace'.ne cguite friendly; and then Lamorock, who had grown suddenly .mible. ossed the others into~ accepting a cigar ap:ee. The jolly faced intruder was not to be outdone in hospitality. He opened his hand bag, and with a merry wink produced a flask of curacoa, which the intense cold made particularly acventable to them all, Lamorock, indeed, found the liquor so delicious that he took two glasses. Before they got half through their cigars he noticed with suspicion that the conversation began to slacken; and that his companions showed a disposition to go to sleep. Bonsfield was the first to succumb to somnolence, and La'norock even began to feel sleepy himself. He fought against the sensation by get ting up to admire the colored photo graphs beneath the hat-rails and by trying to fix his attention upon the passing scenery. He opened his cigar case, counted and examined the con tents, and looked puzzled. He was apparently satisfied that he not given himself one of the drugged eigars,for he puffed vigorously away at his stump, hoping that it would help to keen him awake. He once thought that the fumes of his companions cigars might be affecting him, and opened both windows. But he found the cold air had no effect. The in truder also began to look as if he would soon follow Bonsfield's example. He vainly tried to look wide awake, but his lids would droop hearily, his head would sink down upon his chin, and he would then pull himseli together by a supreme effort and try to sit up straight. Their respective struggles to keec awake, however, grew more and more feeble until the pair finally coilasped in their corners, and slept as if they would never wake agaia. I When the train arrived at Swinton Junction the guard discovered them all asleep, and after trying in vain tc rouse them up, the conviction dawnei upon him that it was foul play. The three patients were taken out and re. moved to the hospital, arrangement being made by the police that on theii recovery all three should be detainec in custody pending investigations. So, when tney had been brought round tc consciousness, they were taken to the police station. Harry Bonsfield easily established his identity, and was set at liberty but the information that the police ob. tained about his ompaaions, the revolvers they found in both thei overcoats, two tell-tale cigars,and twc equally damning cigar stumps, the remnants of curaooa in the flask andf sery suspicious false beard, all thes( inci:lents led to thei arrest. "' Lcton. .cotland Yard keeps the flask as a aiuriosity, for it has two compartments from -whieh'the contents can be drawn at the will of the owner by a slight pressure on a secret spring. Both compartments contained curacoa; but what was left of one sample was found to be drugged while the other was pure. The jovial gentleman,like Lamorock, had had his imagination fired by the accounts that the newspapers gave .of the great pink diamond. He had wormed it out of a clerk in Messrs. Bonsfield's office that the junior part ner was taking it up to town, and he thought the opportunity for which he had waited so long had at length ar ived. Tea':ing away to his lodging, he had provided himself with a flask and a revolver, and was jnst. in time to catch the train. When the whole facts were revealed in the police conrt, the natural astonishment of Lamorock and the jolly gentlema.n was past de scription. It beat even th'at of Harry Bonsfield. All the three actors in this scene are now firmly convinced that one of the incalcu'able elements con trolling man's destiny is sheer luck. London Sun. KING OF SNEEZERS. he Littic Farmer Broke Up a Camp Neering With a Sneezin- Spell, "Did von ever know a man who coula seeze loud enough to break up a camp neeting,to stop the taking of te.timony n court and causo a bellowing cow to stop in disgust r.n'd wonder what the oise was that was drowning its thun erous voice?" said an o!d fisherm.an acording to a western authority. On being informed that his sneezer as entitled to cake, and a1l the ac essories necessary to condnct an up o-date bakery, the gentleman con ented to tell more of his sneezing friend. He said: "While fishing in a mountain in astern Kentucky last fall, I went to he village near by one rainy moi ning o attend circuit court. The judge as delivering an impressive charge o the grand Jnry, and every ear was istening to catch- each word. when he stillness of the court was broken y an unearthly ker-chew, ker-chew, :er-chew, her-chew, etc., etc. The udge was thunderstruck, and instant y every eye turned toward the rear f the room, where a little,aunobtrusive ooking old farmer sat sneezing s if his head was coming off. The udge ordered the sheriff to bring the ntruder before the bench. 'Ihe of ender came forward, and the judge ad a fine entered against the innocent ause of the disturbance. "Two of the sneezer's friends were alled, who testi:iedto the muan's good haracter and high standing, but said hey could hear him sneeze three miles, nyday in the year. One said the neezer broke up a camp meeting with sneezing spell, and that he saw an eraged bovine stop a thunderous bel owing fit to lock in wonder at the uman who could make more noise han a ma I bull. But the old fellow ouldn't help it, and the fine was re itted." A Warnins. Senior Partner-We must discharge hat traveler of ours. He told one of y eustomers I was a fool. Junior Ditto- l'l see him at once and insist upon his keeping the firm's ertu-T?it-Bits LIFE AT DAWSON C Y. Interesting Facts About the 3a opolis of the Klondike. e. A journey of forty-five miles from Sixty-mile Post brought us t Dawson City, the wondr"ul city of he new mining district, populated al ost in a night. Although really "ixty-five id es distant from the Klon '-e, it is a typical mining camp, mi: us the guns. The laws of the Britis govern ment are enforced at Daws>n, and those laws prohibit the use .of fire arms; consequently few me i carry gans. In and around Dawso at the present time there are ab at foar thousand men and one hunc d and fifty women. Dawson, of co arse, is very primit-ive and very dirty,a though from a recent conversation w. ch Mr. Ladue I understand that ever, effort is being made to cleau: it. Th re are large stocks of provisions in 11 the storehouses, and it looks as hough there could be no hunger in th Klon dike. There will le little or n law lessness, an .1 the -e is a prababi ity of very little sickness. The taskan winters are healthful. In Sep ember ca- be seen quantities of black ducks wending their way southwar , aul even on the streets of Dawso you cani see the sparrow and he r its chirping. Here, as everywh re in Alaska, nature has stored her . trea sures in a safe of ice; in fact one writer has called Alaska the na ion's icebox, but to me it represent the future paradise of poet and p ter. Nature has done much for Dawso ,but the euerg.tingAmerican has done ore. He has built wareh>uses in whie he has stored acres of food, bui t om fortable log-cabins, erected a the re, established many saloons, bill rd rooms and dance halls. The su s of money spent in these billiard sal ons and dance halls are simply fab us; fortunes changed nands every ght at the different gamb ing devices. At poker in a single night $100,000 e quently changed hands, it being n th ing unusual to see $10,000 bet a single hand. Yet do not infer f m this that all the miners are gamb 's. Many of them never enter a saloo or dance hall. I have a little friend out ther n old schoolmate, who is teaching 1. She hugely en;oys her winters th e. She is at Circle City. She tak a daily ride behind t splendid dog; and, I tell you, it's great fun. ride a while, end then you get ou run; then you get in and ride a, No one really knows what aslei is n '. ' d team. e inhabitants manage to get considerable amusement. They have private dances, parties, and in the ',summer time tley -even, have .icuilcs The Arctic wiizters are 'mostr keenly felt by those miners who are obliged all through the'long, dark winter to live in tents and dagouts. Dawson City is rectangular in shape. It is laid out in town lots. Its streets: are sixty-six feet wide. It is situatedy on a stretch of low ground on th northwest bank of the Yukon, just.be low the mouth of the Klondike. Tow lots in Dawson City are selling now a $5000 each. Up To to the present time *55 cents at Dawson is the. smallest piece of money used; it is called four bits. Both Protestants and Roman Catholics have already established mission churches in Dawson. Thos e who visit Dawson next spring will see a live metropolis. A Heart's Oddities. Charles Kenyon, who lives with his father on a farm near Bkinghamton, N. Y., is one of the strangest men in the world. Every school chi!d is taugnt that the heart is the blood pump, situ ated on the left side of the breast, shaped like a pear and pointing down ward to the left. Charles Kenyon's heart is inverted ; it is on the right side and points upward to the right. In fact, his whole circulatory system is reversed. The arteries running from his heart are twisted and curled in his breast until they resemble a *Chinese puzzle, and one that cannot be solved by the physicians who have examined him. Notwithstanding this fact, he enjoys good health. An old theory was that the heart was the seat of reason and ruled the action of man, and although this theory has been dis proved by science, in Mr. :Kenyon's~ case it seems to apply. His every ac tion is governed by the heart. His heart is wrong side up and his actions are correspondingly queer. What he docs is done exactly opposite from the ordinary way. When at school his first inclination was to write backward, beginning at the bottom and right side of the slate. Of course, thes~e oddi ties have been to a certain extent over come.-Detroit Free Press. Tno Vitality of seeds. A very interesting meeting took place recently at the Chemical society, when Mr. Horace Brown delivered an address on the vitality of seeds that had been expose'd to very low temper atures for a considerable time. The late Professor G. T. Rlomanes had al ready shown that seeds could be kept in an almost complete vacuum for a year or more without undergoing any deterioration in their germinating properties. A later worker also adopted the inganious device of seal ing up seeds in Geissler tubes for a long p)eriod, when, on subsequently passing a spark, no glow due to in candescent carbonic acid gas or nitro gen was observed, thus proving thas the seeds do not exhale either of these gases when kept. Mr. Brown in con junction with Professor Dewar, has maintained seeds at the temperature of liquid air (180 deg. C.) for a con tinuous period of 110 hours. On sub sequently carefully thawing the seeds and testing them, they were found to be completely unaffected. They ger minated quite as freely as other test seeds which had not been so treated, and, in fact, no difference iu their be havior could be datant&a OUR NAVY'S DTs LINE ITS STANDARD EQUALS THA OF-THE WORLD'S BEST NAVI , Yo Laxity Allowed on America Men-of War - inele Sam's Ships Cl ,er Than Auy Other Naval Vessels Our-Tars Are Far superior to the Indolet%pari=ards. The discipline prese.rved Tn Anaeri can men-of-war not only t of every other navy in the: lading the na vy-of.Gre h.tt it is more rigid, more nore military and .sailorly, and m ada)irable in every way, tBi the dis cipline that prevails on the ships of several navies of the world tOat vastly surpass it in size and strength. The writer, as a man-of-war's man, ha i ample opportunities to tudy the discipline ruling warships of all the great navies of the world. He has .aale repeated and protracted visits to as many as a dozen men-offar, first a ,d fourth class, batt'eship i sd gIn ooat, of the -iritish navy, antl *& has ea'refully observed the whole routine of the day on at least ,too ships of every important navy, including the na :y of Japan. He is perhaps measur a:ly well fitted, therefore! to draw comparisons. Probably the safest standard friom which to draw conclusions s to the nature of discipline on a mian-of-war .s the standard of cleanliness,and from this point of view the most uscientific housewife might be quite as ompetent a critic as the naval expert, Nothin is more absolutely cock-suresd certain than that a dirty man-of-saii infallibly poiats to a siouohy, undisciplined crew, aft as we:1 as forwarg. A war ship's crew of oloexs an& men that does not possess su:ficient_energy and decency to keep its ship sweet a2d clean and scick- ands p.fronrcar head to mizzen flagstaff was never y4 known to be a well distiplined crew) There is a very high standard of clean liness and sanitation, onue a-o..wai of today-a standard nece?.varily higb when it is considerad how '. sely men are huddled together on "a oaval yes " sel. The ships of tr n'd State navy more nea even the medical depa cal stand ard of cleair- shins ol any other , inelud ing those o v7 is. not to say t ean, even if , an un juicers," as stance men call the B aefhip' -- "lip '.Blt tlif aterage 3tish' -War siot a clean, fore 'au af,as the averag American man-of-war--not by ' a lonf shot. A good many Biftish na:a jacks have got the -slatternls house mai4's habit of hiding dirt and of stow ing it away in corners, so that, while to the uncritical eye their ships migh present a general swabbing and shin3 l-ok, they could certainly not endure the sharp inspection of an American c,>mmandin:; o:ficer without some of the me a forward finding themselvet in a heap .f trouble for slouchy shi: policing. A couple of days after the Maine dis aster a Madrid disk. atch quotedWeyle2 as sayi.n .a that the "affair was no doubt due to the indolence of the ship's crew.' \M eyler has often been aboard the men-of-war of his own country. Therefore this remark s.auAdsdelight fully funny. Lhere 6onld be no*more realistic 1:ortrayal of the entire mean ing of the word "ind,>lence" than that exaibite<L by the crew of a Spanish warshiivFore and art, from all hands ae daw'n until pine downat night, tue dolce far niente on board a Spanish a ilof-war is almost of the dreamuy, blissful. all-perv*ading sort as that h ch obtains at high, scorching noon sne 'dabe shacks of Mexican peons. it, in the officers' quarters, a fair egree of cleanliness is occasional ly o be found on a Spanish war ves-el, at forward, where the men dodder brough their days, the average panish man-of-war is not alone dirty, is simply filthy. The fo'c'sle of the rage Spanish man-of-war is no bet i r in respect to cleanliness than the ain deck of a rank, evil-smelling East t ' le New York tenement house. There no bias or spread-eagle prejaidioe atsoever in this statement. It is is ply a matter of common knowledge w d notoriety among men who know si vies. Moreover, Spanish naval an lors are not alone (as a class) stupid, a pt, pluggish and pig-headed; they sa sullen and ugly and mighty didi in t to handle, especially by offcers ar o look upon all men forward as cn ng not much above the level of - wl*sts. The Spanish man-of-war's be~ n is fed barbarously, punished bar bei Ously and treated barbarously in m eral. ainone of the world's navies can get see men perform their routine and jaordinary work and their drills youh more snap, vim, ambition, de xtwi ation and genuine liking for the itjness than on an American ship of :erz It is a matter of pr:ide with a iu< ed States navy sailor to be up to wark of his rate, whether the rate i tof alandsman or a chief bo' th mate. The American bluejacket is t man of such independent spirit san'ihe would just about as lief get s a ;he brig in double ir'ons as to get hat a down in the presence of his nto 's for dereliction of duty, and in all ~al he sees to it that he does not nat ve such a calling down. If he ene~ t deserve it, he dcoesn't get it enei' American Davy.-Washington oesi .n ths Star. Flo iRussia. ging has become so indispens a-! uitssia that.some inventor has Flo edi a machine which :saves the le in arm. Under the flagellation >erfec chine taxes and arrears are ima speedily coleted, >f the . .~ tobbe BIRD-SONUS. To Hear Them Truly Requires en Ear particular.y Attuned John Burroug'Is writes for The Centas y an artie'e on the "Songs of American Birds." Mr. Burroughs says: I suspect it requires a special gift of grace to enable one to hear the bird-songs; some new power must be added to the ear, or so:e oostruc iiu reinovcd. There are not only scales - -n our eyes so we do not see; tne.e upon our ears so that we .r. A city womat who had c of her time in tie coan < ti once asked a well known ornithol ogist to take her where she could hear the bluebi:d. "What, never heard the bluebird?" said he. "I have not,". said the woman. "Then you will never hear it," said the bird-lover. That is, never hear it with that in ward ear that gives beauty and mean i irg to the note. He could probably have taken her in a few minutes wnere she could.have heard thecall or warble of the blneb.rd, bat it would ha.e fallen upon unresponsive ea s--upon ears that were not sensitized by love for the birds or associations with them. Bird-songs are not music, properly I speaking, but only suggestions of music. A great many people whose attention would be quickly arreste.l by the same volume of sound made by a musical instrument or by any arti fi cial means never hear them at ai:. The sound of a boy's penny whistle there in the grove or the meadow would separate itself more from the background of nature,and be a greater 1 chal.enge to the ear than is the strain of the thrush or the sung of the spar row. There is something elusive, in definite, neutral, about bird-songs that makes them strike obliquely, as it were, upon the ear, and we are very apt to miss them. They are a part o: nature, and nature lies about us, en tirely occupied with her own affairs, and quite regardless of our presence. Hence it is with bird-songs as it is with so many other things in nature --they are what we make them; the ear that hears them must be.half creative. I am always disturbed sien per sons not especially observarit f.birds ask)me to take e4e someo - As- Ifeel sfcold, o nas just heard some de. . pressing news; it will not let itself out. The song seems 'so casual and minor when you. make a dead set.at it: . h-Aave staken /persons to* hear thf hermit-thrush, and I have fancied thai they were all the time saying to them. selves, '"Is that all?" But when one hears td bird in his walk, when the mind is attuned to sinple things and is open and receptive, when expecta tion is not aroused and the song comes as a surprise out of the dusky silence of the woods, one feels that it merits all the fine things that can 'e said of it. Longevi*y Infinenced by Water. Solid and dry as the human body appears, says The Household, water constitates more than one-fourth of its bulk, and all the fanctions of life a -e -really carried on in a water bath, and, although the sense of thirst may ie trusted to call for a draugh't of water when required, the fluid can be im bibed most advantageously for niany reasons besides sati.sfying the thirst. In the latter stage of diges ion, when comnminution of the mass is in complete, it is much facilita-ed by a moderate dranght of water, whici? dis integrates and dissolves the contents of the sto.nach, fitting it for emul gence and preparing it for assimjila tion. Hence the habit of drinking water in1o:lerate quantities between meals coatrioutes to health, and indicates the fact that those who visit health resorts ior the purpose of imbibing the waters of mineral springs might profit by staying athoine and drinking more water and less whiskey. Water is the universal solvent of nature, and the chief agent in all transformation of matter. When taken into an empty stomach it soon begins to pass out through the tissues into the circulation to liquefy effete solids, whose excretion from the sys temn is thius facilitated. Very few people think of the nec essitv of washing the inside as well as the outside of the bodly,and he who would he perfectly healthy should be as careful about the cleaaliness of his stomach as that of his skin. Wonders of a Limes'one Pit. M. Martel, the well-known French cave hunter, has explored a natural p:it in the limestone of the Lo.e. e, France, with remarkab)le results. After descending a vertical shaft for about 200 feet he found an immense hall, sloping downward, and at the lower end a "virgin fo. est " of stalagmites, resembling pine and palm trees. Ma.iy of them are vei y beautiful, and one, over ninety feet in height, reaches nearly to the vailt of the cavern. Nothing like this forest of stone has been observed in any other known cave or pit. Ready to Exchan::e. An ambitious young man wrote to an author for advice. "I'm only making $10 a maonth at my business," he wrote, "and I think I could make a success in literature." The author replied, "I am only averaging 89 a month at my business. Tell me what yours is, and if you aro anxious to jumnp into literature, I'll swap with you."-Atlanta Constitu ioD. England has requested a bid from a Missouri packing establishment for furnishing 750,000 pounds of canned Brewers' Grain for Pig. Wherever brewers' g'aiis .can be hanlily procure.I they will be found an I extelient food for pigs, and especially t for breeding sows. Tney a -e suceu- c ent a id at the same time highly nu- 1 tritious a id ve: y greatly ine, ease the c :nilk dow, especially if pro(u ed di- 1 rect from the brewery and fed whi'e warm. Tuey produce an excellent quality of milk, too, for much the greater part of the nutriment in bar- c ey remains in ihe malt a ter the beer t and ale have beea extracted from it.- t Boston Cultivator. Soot as a Stimulant. There are those who would think it both o:>lishness and sin to whip a ,aded animal, yet who fail to reason c.hat the principle is the- same it try ing to sti nulate a plant lacking abun dant roots. In both cases, strength for the required work is lackiig. With thriving, well-rooted plants, there are few helps so good as soot. The finest collection of plants we have ever seen in the hands of an a nateur was pashed a*m6st entirely with soot. Cycla.mens, pri nulas, be;ouiai,c.Lllas, roses, all see:nel to revel in its uarky strength.-Floral World. Getting Rid ""f Wild Oats. This plant after it once becomes well established is somewhat difc,At toget rid of. It is, however, an nu and if prevented from adopted for sw yea s an4 me of see.s N G# gound,it w;1 tha . ,i-te " e g od._se~ iu a pear. : Possibly the best method is of see ing ihe land to field= .oats in spiti g, theR as soon ds the crop of gr4in has been removed, plow to a depth,of three or four inches. Jusl as soon as the wild oats have well starred go over the ground with some shallow going instrument, such as a'siiI-toothed - cuitivator.> This will kill the plants .already. growing and bring to the surface seeds that have not already sprouted. - These will germinate and before' the plants a"e old enough to mature seed tuey will be killed by frost. In autumn see:1 the land to winter grain if this can be grown, and after harvest the following ?eason plow the ground and give the sane treat nent as racon mended for the oat fields. Two yer-s' treatment of this kind if caref:ily per formed will kiLl almost any annual. New England Homestea. Mea:1ows an .-astures. - The 'United States departmnent of agric .titare ias i'sued as No. 66of the ararmters' Balletin series a pamphlet en Med "eadows an.l Pastuces;Eor-. ma zna and Cultivation in the Middle Eastern States," prepared by Jared G. 3mith, as sistant astrologist. In this bulle:iu it is stated hat two thirds of the annual fo?JA~r and forage3 crops of the states of k'eaasyl .ania, Se w JTersey, Delaware, .Ma -yland, Virginia, West Virginia ad North Ca olina, a naonnting to 2;., 000,000~ r.ons and valued at $150,00 ',000 is -mpl. lied by the grasses, clovers,t :owpeas, corn stover and ensilage oroduced upon the farm; therefore the mabject of inrove I methods of culti-e raLi.mn and the se ection of the va -ie.ies best adap.ed to the .soils of this region is a matter of prime-inter- ~ est to farmers. Tue pri-icipal topirs y discussed a -e the following: Gene -ai ~ prevalence and commercial value of I grasses, grasses as soil builders, fe:- ? tilizers for grass lands, methods of c preparing the soii, sowing the seed, vi-ie ies of grasses and clovers to plant, hay grasses, pasture grasses, clovers for meadows and pastures and ~ some grass mis.tures. ' - This bulletin, can be secured, free ~ of charge, from the e ecretary of a7ri- I culture. Washington, D. C.,or a mem ber of Congress. A Cow for Every Acre. Where little or no:hing is bought s there can be little hope of making e very acre keep a cow, as has so long a been the dream of miany dairymen. g t might be done if c.,rn alone we. e sed as feed. But cor'n is not a co.n- a plete ration, and thoagh more than g eough corn with fodder mi.fht be grown to keep a cow throngh the f; rear, it would be always more profit- ta ble to give other feed, such as clove- d ay, wheat bran or mniddlings, a d g iher linseed or cotton-seed n:Eal. s: We have known some milkmen r.e.. fi he city who kept faily as many cows it s they cultivated ac:es of land. But a: hey relied very largely upon pur- i: hased food, generally growing only al orn fodder, which they fe I green so et ong as they could, and taenleit :er cured pa he remainder or put it into the silo ix for winter and sp;ing use. It is a reat help if some crimnson c!over has. o: een sown on the corn ground. It ~i ill make enough growth before the s< ani needs to be plowed for corn in pring to well reray the expense of fa eeding and cutting the crop. But fr for the fact that it B akes two years to h; row a good crop of clover, ~it would b: ay to seel a piece of land ev ery year tI ith clover to be cut for hay. Three jtc qropna yeaor, nareating e to si.n o, mus of dried hay,- may becat ou .d. If a farmer ca; snceee eeping a cow per acre, even wi a chase of some grain feed, 'e m his co vs are good ones,rea-i ront from his land tSan he can. lost cul4ivated croys :Ul.ivator. -- Plant-Bed Cloth Ver.eu Glsa $ A. A. Halladay of Vermont rit.k Vith a greenhouse in which to , Dma.o plants, I.have found the. f plant-bed cloth for covering = ds be.ter than glass on manyc c: ounts. I use it almost wholly on ieds and like it- %e. y much. 1 raw haraier-and oetter plants aWed* loth than under glass, the beds :eD iot dry out and need: watering ' ten, there is no danger of ne plants and the screens do not _ o be taken off du.ing ' the here is likely to be-s cold 'nig - m a double thickness of sncr s'~ :. have saved all,my plants fro.a 2iidai ree.e (when my neighbors whv - rlass, lost nearly all .t)eir). ing thick heavy paper beweenj4 ;hicknesses of se dens - Make the screen- frame' the . sm ize as hotbed sash; usi+g -p "ra spruce one inch thick-andtib wide.- Planethemsmooth. ..., mnds square and;nailprith.elinc tt the corners. .Then: cut. the. the proper length andtaek to ro maae a -good sob of , his frame on a taIe 'orbench eloth on the frame An tt the centre of'each Neasnre and be stots t middle o .- '. ame, t me on right at 'the corn e tacks every three iici ess toward the orae de,up ab.)ut even.= m,nne youfinish at-thecorna ao wri les in theeth. 'to iak'ea doubledthickae s !These screens if properlp i -- cared for,r ilflast azy a are very uspif,l for coserg,ia . the fall to "keep from also for shadi" mediuIn -d piece:fromseveit eh yard. These'screens especially vilTable in the att ='" shading plants. - -..-: Food and-Butter. From what part of her food. does the cow make milk fat?g This ues lion is one of great ssienti&e interest to physiologists and of-pratical inter est to sto kfeeders au-I dairynen. It ' is a prob:e:n which has' ben fond gui-e difficult of solution; buitthe eW; York agricaltu -aL e :peri aeat s atilr + (_eneva) has su.t published a' bule tin (So. 132). upo. tnis saItect, giding bhe det ails of a m st interesting.-an& meccesfa, esperi.nent wvaica.eemsa to rove conAln i.ely taat.a? le'ast part >f the milk fat is produeed from athe ' yarbohydrates of the fo,ad, the' sugar, narch, etc. - - Finely chopped timothy hay, corn neal and ground oats we -e trea~ted in arge quantities with a chemical- sol' rent and were near.y'freed frohr-A .m thes~e ma:erials aid wheat gh.en vig3:ous, yoang. grale Je sey cede ras feel for ni ,ety-five days a ri. . " rhose fat coateat wa s less than to 'ances daily. Jpoa th a fat poorzfood he cow fed free'y and with,'ant injuryv - o ner health; andL not only produ ed, ood rich milk, not diyerent from h.r - ormnal product, but also seemed to row fat. The food an-i water she coanumed w-ere carefully weighed and a -alyzed, s were the mila produced andt the vrine as:l f etes excreted; a:nd -tpotr - uiase data the conelasions 'of the 'bul s.in are based. During the ninatiy-2 ye days she received1 only 5.7 ponnd's f digestible fat and produced 62.9 ounds of milk fat;so that 57.2 poun~ds f fat could not have come from, the it in the animal's food. Neither ould it have come from her body fac, y the percentages of fat ini the boidy f cattle, as previously determined, er whule amont of fat at the- begiu-. in; of the experi.nent was.dess- than. ix y-one pounds, and no animal ourd use up a 1 dhe body-fat without ppearing g: eatly emaeiated, and she -- 7 e2lmed fatter than at.tirst.. She gaine 47 pounds in body eight, and this could not have been ain in mau-cular tassue; for but little f the coasumed nitrogen failed to i-e upear in milk or excreta, and nitro en is necessary in flesh informna:ion. The fat could not have been formed -o.n the proteine,or xetrogen..u. mat irs, in the food. .L uring fif ty-nin. ays for which the record for nitro en and fat income and ontgo was ept the cow produced 38.8 ponds of it.- To form this a.nount of fat, a! iving the highest .tigures -given by iy invem.igator for fat .formation om proteine, would involve the met oiismn (change by physiological pro ~sses) of more than 75 poii~nds of ~oteine. But the nitrogen- excreted urine only acc untefor thdecom sition of less than, half this. amount proteine. So at least 21 pogidiif - t must have come from somie oili4r airea- than the protei.ne consumed. If all the fat was not produced.fromn t~in food,fat in the animal's body:or om porteine in' food, part of it must Lve been produc.-d from the carbo rdrates of the food. The details a ofI .e experiment may be obtained. fromi e bulletin, which will be se-at free a application to the statios,