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Show CHILDHOODS DAYS. TUB SPANISH FORK PRESS. not sigh I do Am for childhoods days ningcr often do; I do not miwi those gjilele. sport Winch lelt me black and blue; I 'should not care to climb a tree And eat unwholesome fruit. Nor struggle with examples which Ken now I cant compute. udiiw nmM. huwMb liPAHISH rOUK, UTAH. Darn old Noah, he should have the ark. 1 There Is an epidemic of smallpox Among the fig pickers of Smyrna. Doll lyour figs. That ypung man who took the prize as a hat trimmer might make a bypor-'critic- al huKhand. May Ooelet Is at last to be a 'duchess. After this May will regard ; heaven as a mere annex. John L. Sullivan still umpires base ball games occasionally, and his decisions go without unwise dispute. If all men were like Harry Lehr, everybody could understand why MIbs Susan B. Anthony never got marrlod. The hupptcklng season has opened In central New York. What a Joyous word, by the way, 'hoppicking 1st In cabling that he Is aB "fit as a fiddle, Vice Consul Magelssen shows that he Is also as vivacious as a violin. With "Big Bill Devery on her side, why should Frau Coslma continue to foal that life has unlovely aspects? That threatening ama continues to burn large, ragged holes In the pages of the sensational revolution In Pan- newspapers. It begins to look as though the only thing which might even hope to take away the Americas cup would be a fleet of warships. It will never do to again speak of Vesuvius as "she or "her after learning that it has thrown rocks a distance of COO feet Announcement Is made of a tour of this country by the prince of Thurn and Taxis, but he Isnt to collect anything but Information. It Is more than thirty-threyears since France has had a revolution. If the French dont take care theyll he getting out of the habit. e Beirut may be trying to qualify as the new capital of the Turkish empire when the sultan has to pack his grip and move out of Europe. The dancing profesRors are in favor of greater dignity. But It isn't dignity that the lady thinks of when an awkward man steps on her train. Baron Ilcnrl de Rothschild has been fined $2 In Paris for auto scorching. The cable doesn't say how he succeeded In raising the money. IIow delighted Whistler must have been to die If he had prescient knowledge that the post mortem crop of Whistler stories would bold out like It has. Prof. Langley may take a fearful revenge upon the skeptics by sailing bis airship all alone Borne dark night and never letting anybody know It By beginning on the oyster early you may be able to enjoy a few specimens before the scientific gentlemen bob up with the annual scare about oystor bacilli. The Harry Lehr fashion of carrying purse attached to the wrist Is rather slow of adoption In this town, where the police are alert In searching for freaks and lunatics. A Even if the powers should succeed in restoring pcaco to Macedonia probably tho luckless Inhabitants of that region would not have the slightest Idea what to do with It Much sympathy Is felt for the pitcher on the Pittsburg baseball team who bad been released because he didn't come up to expectations, and who will therefore become a mere college pro- fessor. Few of us realize how many Insane people there are walking the streets, untramraoled and unsuspected. For Instance, a Rochester man recently eloped with a woman and her seven- teen children. The American golf players and the American dancing masters are to hold their annual moetlngs In St. Louts In 1904. If the management Is shrewd It will get these two associations in the bird cage on the same day. dispatch announces that njena Lunjevles, tho youngest sister of the lately assassinated Queen Draga of Rervla, Is to lecture on the causes of the tragedy In the music halls of Europe. This Is characteristically Improper. A cable Milo, In the New York city directory for 1903 there are over 3,000 Smiths and 1,500 Browns, and 9.000 names have It looks as though the prefix "Me. acre following tho the Hollander Into retirement before the mistiest) advance of the Celt. Anglo-Saxo- childhood On days 1 view, folks enjoy them mor That grown-uThan real children do. Washington Star, JL JSL IIOW I FOUND Col. A. Ilamld, It la Bald, thinks be would be a happy man wore It not for creditors and editors. about t Im glad that I no longer fear A room that still and dark; Im glad that cun sit up mie Without unkind remark. I oft auspeet, when ail these words Idled the two mosquitoes ho had In MY WIFE i V -- SCTIS QUINCE. (FT ELL, Walter, and you ure married? V Y Yes, I answered, and to tlie sweetest little woman In the world. Of course you think so, said my friend; but I cunnot understand how one who was such a continued cynic as yourself could bo so easily caught, lray tell me how It was? And so, with my feet on the old desk, and myself cozlly ensconced In one of the huge armchairs with which every Is or ought to he lawyer's ollh-adorned, I told my old friend, Ilarvey Burt, bow I found my wife. "You know, Harvey, that I was, as you say, a confirmed eyulc, sneering at all womankind, loving to flirt with them, It is true, but only to kill time, or for a little amusement. When the hot weather came on, I did not care a tig for Long Brunch or Saratoga; I had been to Newport and the Springs, and, by the way, they boro you horribly; and so I began to look about for some quiet spot where I could have a month's fishing and shooting. The vilattracted my attention, lage of N and I went at once, rejoiced to think that I might have quiet and peuce, no match-makin- g mnnimas, with marriageable daughters, no extra toilets for a dinner; but a quiet home, where I could do as I pleased. "N , you know. Is on Long Island Bound, and I rejoiced In the prospect of boating and bathing, without the nuisances that Infest a fashionable watering place. But as tbe lumbering old stage drove up to the door of the Aker-ma- n House, the only hotel in the place, X saw at a glance that my dream of peace was dispelled. Young women! Eah! Ilarvey and such young women! I assure you that I was eyed and commented on for at least an hour by three r four amiable damsels, who were on the lookout for 'something new. 1 ent to my room nud made ready for aupper, as they styled It, and bad the honor of an Introduction to several of them at the table. One attracted more than a passing notice, and In the evening I found myself flirting with Miss Ilall, after the most approved fashion. Such a girl, Harvey! You never saw the mato for her! Was she your divinity? No, my boy. Don't Interrupt me. No, she was not; hut she was the most young woman I ever saw rather gifted with a tongue, and a correct knowledge of Its se believing firmly luwhatTbaekcray says of Becky Shnrpe, That any woman with a knowledge of herself, and a little common sene, and persistence, may marry whom she likes. This was Miss Halls ereed. To make a long story short we flirted all the time, and until we were the talk of the house. But I began to tire of tho game, and to wish for something new. One night, ns I vowed Miss Hall to the vlllugc, we met a party of three coming up with Tim, our porter two ladles and a geutleman cue wns an Invalid. Ilarvey, that face, with Its look of utter weariness, haunted we. There's no use to describe it. It wouldnt bear It, but I thrugbt it the sweetest face I ever saw. It was more than a week lcfoie I saw it again, though I had been dreaming of It con"T" XT d good-lookin- tinually. Due night, as I came In from a bath, on entering the hall, I saw a pair of little feet, In red slippers. Laugh If you will, you rascal, but those slippers, or rather, their contents, finished me. As I advanced I saw the same face the Invalid was at last able to be dnvn-stair- s and I was Introduced to Ella Benton. Of course I dropped MNs Hall, thereby causing much scaml-il- . I bad thought to win an easy victory with the newt.omcr, but the cool way In which she repelled my attentions put me at my x its ends, and I made a mental vow to drop flirting. By what particular process I came to that It would be dUiioult to explain, I tried everything. I felt myself falling In love, and ruppose that I showed It. I proposed on n weeks acquaintance, and was quickly refused. Nothing dai ntcd.T determined on n change of bn-I c!ed her to consider mo her friend and only that, for lift a true friend. I got that foothold, trusting to kin Incss and little attentions to win, tut all failed. I saved her life. Ilarvey, taking a old and spoiling a suit of clothes In her behalf, end got coldly thanked In return. Then I tried the letting-alon- e process, and that was the most complete failure of all. 1 announced my departure. She wns sorry valued me ns a Mend, and nil that sort of thing, tut nothing more, riquc was mingled with despair la ray mind; I did not want to give her up. I had snM I vas going, mid I must go. I proposed again nud got no for nn nnswee. I Towed that I would set out nt mu's) for Alaska. She told me that it real! did n c, not eowcern her In tha least. I tot an. But I conid not gry and left N dgiva her face out of my memory. Three weeks ago while on trip to Montreal I stopped all night at Rutland, and the first name on the register at least the first that I saw was Ella Benton. I sent up my card, but sha would not receive tne. I came down In the morning, and turning to the clerks desk put my hand In my pocket for my wallet; I went back to my room no wallet. I was a stranger In the place without money. The clerk openly expressed his belief that I wns a fraud. Quite a crowd gathered around me as I endeavored to explain tb matter. Just at this moment a lady passed through the hall and bowed to me; though very distantly. It Yas Miss Benton. In u few moments she sent for me. I went up wonderlngly, and as I entered she arose and said: Mr, Hirst, I heard aeeldentaly, of Will you obliges of your misfortune. nip by using this cheek, which you cun replace at your convenience? I tried to stammer out a refusal, but ghe would not hear to It. "Well, said I, Miss Benton, I will accept your kindness, but I have no security to offer unless unless It Is myself. Which I will accept cheerfully, said tins little woman. Do you really mean It? said I, hardly knowing whether I was asleep or awake. Why, yes. she said. 1 am very strict about money matters, and as you have no other security I suppose I must take you. Are you satisfied? Why, you know tny answer, .of course, old fellow, and we were married then and there. But I say, Harvey. theres one thing Ive forgotten entirely. I never returned that check to my wife. New Y'ork Weekly. A Dlptomntle Incident. In Ills Chapters From My Diplomatic Life, In the Century, Andrew D. White writes: Least pleashig of all duties was looking after fugitives from justice or birds of prey evidently seeking new victims. On this latter point, I recall an experience which may throw some light on the German mode of watching doubtful persons. A young American had, appeared at various public places wearing a naval uniform to which ho was1, not entitled, declaring himself a son of the President of tho United States, and apparently making reading for a career of scoundrellsm. Consulting the Minister of Foreign Affairs one day, I mentioned this case, asking him to give me such information as came to him. He answered: Remind me at your next visit, and perhaps 1 can show you something. On my calling, some days later, the Minister handed me a paper on which was inscribed, uppnrently, not only every place the young man had visited during the past week, but everything he hud done and said, his conversations lu the restuurants being noted with especial care, and while tho man was evidently worthless, he was clearly rather a fool than a scoundrel. On my expressing surprise at the fulness of this Information, the Minister seemed quite as much surprised at my supposing It possible for any good government to exist without such complete surveillance of suspected persons. The Michigan Fruit Station. The Michigan experiment station is located at Agricultural College, near South Lansing. It has a branch at Haven devoted entirely to experiments with fruit. The cause for the existence of this branch station are the Lake peculiar soil along the shores of conditions quite climatic and Michigan unlike other parts of the state. Moreover this region Is a famous fruit producing region, and experiments made at Lansing would not be likely to apfruit-belt- . ply fully to the Cow Peas and Velvet Beans. On light soils especially cow peas and velvet beans prove valuable as fertilizers. They have been experimented with long enough tor people to be certain that their use as green manure Is fully justified. Even where crops of beans and peas are taken off and the rest of the plants turned under, the supply of nitrogen added to the land has proven of immense advantage to the succeeding crop. It is freely stated by experimenters that any kind of cow pea will furnish enough nitrogen to the soil to fully meet the demands of any following crop, that Is, of the next year. In some tests recently conducted, we notice that the Increased yield of the corn crop following the plowing under of cow peas and velvet beans was over 80 per cent When crops of velvet beans and cow peas were gathered and the hay was stored, the remainder of the plant being plowed under, the increase of corn was over 30 per cent, of oats over 300 per cent, of wheat over 200 per cent, and of sorghum hay over 50 per cent. The plants that seem to utilize most the fertility from these legumes, especially on light land, are oats and wheat, probably for the reason that these two plants begin to cover the ground at once and to send down rootlets that catch the nitrogen that may be leaching out of the soil. The plants that leave the land unoccupied for the longest time are the ones that profit least from the plowing under of tbe previous legume crop. Sub-Eart- j h A representative of the Farmers last week visited this fruit Re- station and found It in a most flourishing condition. The officer in charge is view Factories. The farmer is not generally looked upon as a manufacturer. Yet on his lands and under them, on the roots of all leguminous plants, there are at work tbe microscopic creations that labor In changing the free nitrogen of the air into soli nitrates that may Professor T. A. Farrand, who seems to understand the conditions of his territory most fully. The station is somewhat limited for space and has at present only fifteen acres of land, all of which is in The first plantings were made 14 years ago. The paucity of area has compelled the crowding of some of the trees beyond what we believe to be Professor Farrand has advisable. been compelled for this reason to set his plants and trees nearer together than he would If he had the room he needs. It was noticeable that all the soil was in a high state of cultivation, the marks of the weeder teeth being everywhere visible between the trees. All the fruit trees are headed low. The Professor says this is the only sensible way of heading trees. The apple, pear, plum and cherry trees branched just above tbe soil and one would have difficulty in reaching their trunks, because of the branches. ,We tree on did not notice a the place. Professor Farrand says that peach and pear trees should be set at least 20 feet apart, though on their ground they are but 16 feet apart. As most of these trees are twelve years old their branches are already too close in many instances. The apple and pear trees are sprayed with Bordeaux mixture on the formula with four ounces of Paris green added. This Is five pounds of lime, five pounds of copper sulphate and 50 gal Ions of water, besides the Paris green mentioned. For peaches they spray before the leaves are open for the curl leaf, using two pounds of sulphate and 50 gallons of water. After the fruit is set they spray with halfstrength Bordeaux mixture, or on the formula using no Paris green. However, Paris green could be used, if desired. Peaches are thinned to 6 and 8 inches apart. This is a more severe thinning than is followed In many of our orchards, where the breadth of the hand Is used as the rule for space between peaches. The Professoi recommends the Longhurst peach as a very good one The tree 13 hardy and very productive but is not as handsome as tbe A1 berta. It Is most excellent for can However tho growers ning. ol peaches near South Haven are golne largely Into Albertas. Kalamazoos and Engle Mammoths are most excellent varieties and are doing well on th( station grounds. It is noted that the early peaches are Inferior In quality. It is the belief of the director that apple trees should be set not less than 35 feet apart. As to tbe varieties doing the best on their grounds he mentions Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Stark and Yellow Transparent. Ben Davis does not do well here, as It can not bo grown to perfection Apples of this variety do not color up so well in this part of Michigan as they do In southern Illinois and localities on the same parallel. Duchess of Olden-beris doing well. Wagner la doing well, ami nothing Is better thnn Wealthy. Tho Greening is hardy but it is late In coming Into bearing. Gol den russets bear better than Koxburv russets, but the day of both of them has gono by, says the director. a Russian, bears heavily, but Is a poor grower. Among the pears Seckel was doing remarkably well. The trees with fruit and the size was very much better than is usual with this variety? In fact, one seeing tliem on tho market would hardly believe them to be Secl.el. So much for good care and culture. The Bartlett aro proving tho beat on the ground. Tho Koiffer has como to stay. Duchess is a good lato pear. Flemish Beauty Is regarded 0f llttlo or iio valuo for general cultivation us It scabs badly, and tho ordinary grower will not spray It. When thoroughly sprayed It Is all right, as it is heavy bearer. high'-heade- d be used by the plants. Every nodule on the root of a plant Is an immense factory. It may be smaller than a pea, yet In It are multitudes of the little workers. They existed from the be-- i ginning of tbe development of legum-- l inosae on the earth; but man has only recently discovered them. Before he understood that they were the friends of man, be regarded these factories as symptoms of plant dis--j eases, and various remedies were in-- ! vented for the cure of the said diseases. But later such efforts were found to be misapplied, and It was recognized that these same tubercles were part of the machinery of Mother Nature, by which she kept the soil soluble supplied with the forms of nitrogen, which alone can be taken up by the roots of plants. In the woods and on the prairies there are numerous forms of leguminosae, which help to keep up the balance required. There are the wild peas, the . beggar weeds, the vetches and their On all of their roots are relatives. the little nitrogen factories crowded with workers. Man Is able to assist these laborers and make It possible Imllan Have Hard Teeth. for them to increase-thei- r A remarkable thing and one which product very few people know Is that the teeth , This is a manufacture in which there of an Indian are much harder and In! is not danger of over production. every way stronger that the average Thrashing Broom Corn. white mans teeth," remarked a downThe removing of the seeds from town dentist; and I had ample oeca-sion, one morning last week, to test the brush is variously termed seed-- , and almost destroy every Instrument, tag, scraping, or thrashing. This is accomplished by bringing the heads In my shop. "A red man came In and wanted tne In contact with a rapidly revolving to extract a tooth and fix his mouth up cylinder the surface of which is set A thrasher of lu general. So I proceeded to work, and with teeth or spikes. after a half hour of tho hardest sort the kind now in general use in sec-- i of work and breaking my strongest for- tlons growing much broom corn costs ceps, I managed to pull tho aching mo- from $150 to $200. Such a machine lar. Another thing I discovered was with eighteen to twenty men to keep that the Indian's vaunted stolelsin to It running steadily, can clean the pain Is a myth. This fellow behaved brush from 30 to 40 acres In a day. worse than nn Infant of five years, and The seed heads are not drawn entirely through the cylinders as In thrashI was about to tell him to consult another dentist when he piteously begged ing grain, but are held firmly and mo to emnpleto the job, ns ho had been evenly by means of a toothed belt refused by many dentists to do the which carries an even stream of brush In front of it and at an work. angle Of course, I finished the job, though with the cylinders, so that, beginning at the top portion, the seed Is removed before I got through I had turned the edges of fifteen or twenty drills. I as the heads are carried farther and have often heard of tha hardness of tho farther between the cylinders. With Indian's tooih, but never before did I all the seed removed the belt deposits actually experience the ordeal, both for the brush on a table at the other him and myself, of working upon them, end of the cylinders. The feeding and lu the tnturo I'm of the opinion I, of the seed heads to the thrasher and too, will shirk the responsibility of the removal of tho cleaned brush and working upon them with ordiuary storing it In the drying sheds requires a force of twelve to fifteen men tools. Washington Tost. (fig. 5). Bulletin 174, Department of Agriculture. The MMng of Rnok. Books are now multiplied to such a Fatten Separately, degree that it la Impossible to lend The time of year Is at hand when them all or even to know their num- the poultry Is to be fattened ber nud titles. One large publisher for surplus market The usual way on the last year sold 1500 tons of a certain farm Is to to feed corn to all iet of hooks, or 3,000,000 pounds. That the flock, begin regardless of whether they Is only n drop in the bucket, when all are to be kept for egg laying or are of Poultry. the output Is considered. Fortunately to be marketed. In time our The heus experiment that are stations will one is not obliged to rend all that is to be marketed, also the young cock- doubtless take up tho question of published, cither by the volume or the erels. should be and conduct scries of from the experiIdea rest of the flock separated pound. Lubbock's hundred-bookand fed by them- ments to determine just what Its wns appropriated from a man who selves. Tho fowls that are to be kept ifar1 tieeessar- wanted to write a hundred folio vol- do not need a r" ,T largo ration of corn l!!l luit l tauo of one kind ume and employ the temporal and This la especially true of hens' tnie of cvTy other splrltunl power to compel people to which will at this time of old year lay on kind, though It may bo so It Is read thrm. New York Tress, fat very rapidly If they have all the pro ahiy safest not to do mueb corn they will eat. As a consequence But on the other hand 8w a Croup of Tornadoes, there At Onklcy tho other day the people they do not begin laying till lato in taut claim that In winter. It la doe witnessed the spectacle of five torna- the not result lu tho de Ti'dl.g impossible to acdoes whirling along at tbe same time. complish two different results with ' rluration of tho flock, If care They would dart their suakel'.ke tails one course of feeding. ta.rou, b?ee,t toward the ground, drawing them up to bo actually A good rule to commit to bred dart again, but only one reached the memory for tho of a making mayonnaise u earth. This one tore things up for three eggs to one quart of oil and half about twenty minutes In passing over a of cupful vinegar or lemon Julo 'lRor 'f flock .list of all a considerable aeope of country, and Sometimes tho ir.nv mayonnaise will thick, then vanished aloft In a purple-blaccn sufficiently with lees than one qua douiL-KHU- sas of oil. If It Is very cold. Tn W,"M lik0 ,0 JHjr Journal. ' them I j g ; wen-heav- s ?- - m' i The Feeding Floor. Is the cleanest J animal we have and if he g I cared for there will not be tide of droppings or urine 1, ' boghouse, says John Cowlne. ,"1 will set one corner off into , of closet and they will go forward to that. Give then 1 room enough to lie down more. It is an advantage to han hoghouse divided off into net.' you havent enough hogs to your hoghouse Bhut off part space; give them just enough), to occupy and no more. After have fed them clean the floor. What would you think of wife If she let the dishes set table from one morning to ur-Suppose the supper was served ot ' same dishes. You would say J self that you wished you married that woman. I would noJ think of feeding my hogs on3 ing floor that had not been ds Immediately after the last meal; I would of eating my dinner ol breakfast dishes without washir have done It for thirty years, j. small matter. We have a hoe made out of a 2x6 three ie, length; have an old saw fci lower edge. This Is wide enoig sweep oft three or four feet t time. If your floor Is smooth If you can do It Immediately! feeding you can clean It off as t, as if swept. By having the three feet high on one side yon clean it off month after month aa refuse will not pile up on yoi matter how wet or muddy it is, if hogs are confined in this bij their feed is always clean. 1. your hogs corn and water. 1 1 add a few oats and perhaps 1 1 or two of raw potatoes once 1 1 but my main feed would be con cold water. . The hog r 1 v f hl & 1 1 Crates for Fruit Packing, In the gathering of fruit, esp of fruits that bruise easily, peaches, pears and plums, It h visable to have a strongly built!) crate. Baskets are quite gene used, and we see pictures ot carrying bushel baskets heap holding them by the two hi: This is conslderel by the best pit, detrimental to the fruit, which it be rubbed together as little at ble. There is 6ome give abot baskets, and a basket on the p. full of apples does not retain Its entirely when lifted from ther The apples are pushed togethiJ ' posite the handles and are ih more or less in the other part cl basket. In a greater degree j cause the bruising of fruit. A bushel bag Is filled and is gen lifted by the middle. This the apples very closely togeth tbe two ends of the bag, and roll back again when tbe bag One Michigan packing t has made a picking crate that hold a little more than a buvhe is rectangular and composed of f Care Is taken to have the sit' the bottom close together, so tin fruit will not project below the t and receive bruises when thcr Is set down. This crate wlllY take the place of the other rw' j used in picking and deliveriujh1 0 - :rj Young Pigs. !) 5 Prof. R. S. Shaw Bays that It j tana young pigs should havecoti-- j access to forage grounds In tt yards h mer season, old S, weeks winter. When four will take a little sweet skta L to which some shorts or may be gradually added, and souio ground wheat A light F . ration should bo supplied the M j growing pig In addition to the bin throughout the forage season d k-- bo entirely cut off as soon reach the pea or grain stubhle f j During the winter season the j should have access to stacked clover,, or peas, from which they secure a largo amount of food. beets should also be supplied- -- Effects of Loss of PlQ1, From Farmers Review: i experience with spring pigs was satisfactory. From four crj one with her first litter and their second litter we raised three thrifty pigs. They no rnoro than 10U pounds carib w4 of this was made from pnsturi. rape that wintered. But conljtt was quite general this sprlnl of pigs, even from farmers tbw 0, well for their stock. of stimulus the standing production, ( toward Increased county will not market year than last 1. F. A')'6 County, Indiana. trj j ir-o-i New Name for Test The girl who expressed M sympathy tor ihe poor farmer.,! ot bis cold Job lu harvesting lf ter wheat la equal in x who ono Ihe to knowledge a desire to see a field of l0,a('L1 it was Just plugging "i. c damsel who asked which ! the most buttermilk Is rntl! whole bakery. A girl n k',f ' ' from the country who was , m'11' one she ever saw any I piled: "Oh, yes. Indeed 1,1 .If tickled me to death to c! two of the Lumets nt , f' |