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Show BULBS ARE PROFITABLE Very Little Attention Is Required MOTOR-DRIVE- iWS MOWER LAWN N Small Machina, Operatsd by Means of Gasoline Engine, Differs Utils From Hand Devices. After Planting. Many lawn mowers of the large type -- have for some time been equipped with gasoline engines as motive power, but Mott Brilliant and Gorgeoua of Sum the accompanying illustration shows a Plants Art Gladioli lawn mower of gasoline engine-drivemer-Floweri- n Succession May Bt Secured for tha Summer. th small type, ordinarily pushed over the lawn by the operator. The actual mowing machine differs little from the but device, of with bit a smartwoman. Any but attached to the handle is a frame ground, near a large city, can make work bearing a small air cooled engine, tnoney growing bulbs for market. Installment 19 The summer flowering bulbs require gasoline tank, ignition device and the for But powface of afflair tad greatly the gears required harriesslngjbe little attention after planting. er to the mower proper. The weight of changed, nevertheless. The old generThe canna, caladium, tuberous-rootebegonia, dahlia and gloxinia all re- the power plant ia disposed on the ation of statesmen had passed away, almost with the colony, and a youngquire to be started' in March for the er generation was in the saddle, not. best result, d flguro here withstanding a Many of the beautiful and there. mannas produce both fine foliage and died In the year Bland Rchard had flowa-- s. , of the Declaration; Peyton Randolph In sorting bulbs to be used for had not lived to see lk hedges, use long, narrow boxes, allowEdmund Pendleton, after . presiding ing for only one roar, and when ready over Virginia's making as a state, as to transplant, pull the boxes apart chairman of her revolutionary commitand slip out the bulbs without disturbtee of safety, was now withdrawn ing the roots. , from active affairs to the bench, his Many of our bulbs can be planted In fine figure marred by a fall from his the open ground. bora his old pow'er as an advocate brilliant and gorgwma of transmuted Into the cooler talents of our bulbs are the . the judje. gladioli, and these should be planted Patrick Henry, the ardent leader of out In the garden at internals of two the Revolution, had been chosen the weeks from the middle of April until first governor, in the year of the state's a of thus middle the July, securing Declaration of Independence; three succession of bloom for the 'most, of Small Lawn Mowtr. ' years later Thomas Jefferson had sucthe summer. ceeded him in office, the philosophical The tuberose and tigredia are both In such a manner as to be bal- radical of times of bulbs that frame Beautiful change; the choice can be planted where they are to anced in respect to the center of grav- of Mr. Harrison had but completed the ity of the mowing mechanism. round of the new variety in affairs. .grow. The operator walks behind the mar Men who, like Richard Henry Lee, In buying bulbs it is true economy to buy the best, securing them of flor- chine, grasping the handle in the same had counseled revolution and the ists who have them in proper storage. manner aa If he really had to push It breaking of old bonds, were now In all Their flowering period may b hast- All that is fequired of him is to keep things at the front of Virginia's busiened or retarded at will, thus timed It balanced and control the engine. ness; and younger men, of a fores and for special occasions or for a succespower of origination equal to hie own, " sion. ELIMINATION OF BIG VALUE were, preying forward as If to carry a new generation to the stage which The chief reliance for this purpose; ,, either in professional or amateur cul- Sufficient Attention Not Given to Cut- had known nothing but Independence and a free field of statesmanship. ture, centers in the various classes of ting Out Process for Betterment hyacinths and narcissus, and the list Among the rest, James Madison, of Farm Products. la being' yearly extended by new varionly a little more than ten years out eties. of college, but already done with serv(By A. O. CHOATE, Illinois.) Bulbs should have a rich, mellow The road jto much of the compara- ing his novitiate in the congress of the eon cf garden loam, sand and ferti- tive perfection in live stock, etc leads confederation, a publicist and leader lizer. i This coil should be prepared in the old dominion at thirty-twthrough elimination. some time before, as fresh fertilizer Edmund Randolph, of the new geninBy the elimination of weeda.of causes rapid and unhealthy growth ferior specimens, in the thinning of eration of 'the Commonwealths great and often decay. poor seed and poor plantain planting family of lawyers, like his forbears in It is important that your bulbs' we do away with most of the chancea gifts and spirit, was already received should be planted as soon as possible of failure and the production of rub- at thirty, into a place of Influence after they are received, as the mois- bish. among "public men. ture which they contain evaporates Marshall a War Veteran. I believe we have not given suffrapidly, and with it goes much of icient attention to this elimination John Marshall, just turned of their vitality. but a veteran of the long war process for the betterment, of our ght, In planting the bulbs see that both stock and none the less, having been at the thick , crops. ends of the bulbs are sound. If eiThis year, for Instance, I have found of the fighting, a lieutenant and a cap. ther end is' unsound the bulbs will that the elimination of poor seed po- tain abong the Virginian forces, from not grow, as the plant sprouts from tatoes and of course selection of good the time Dunmore was driven from one end and the roots from the other. seeds in their places, has Increased Norfolk till the eve of Yorktown. was, now that that duty was done, a lawyer my potato crop fully 20 per cent. When we carry this same principle In quiet Fauquier, drawing to himself MAKE A SERVICEABLE GATE of elimination Into other lines of the eyes of every man who had the One That Hao Been In Use for Several farming, and disposed of the scrub perception to note qualities , of force hens that barely lay 75 egga a year, and leadership. Years Shown in Illustration and and the cow that gives but little, or James Monroe had come out of the Never Sagged, to .go at ones Into poor milk, the unprofitable mongrels war at twenty-fivno or of of his. state, an councils breed the then, stock, particular public We have a gate that has been in ase for several Tears and has never and not until then, will be be on the equal among his elders. Young men sagged or given any trouble, writes road to a more satisfactory outcome came forward upon every side to take W. E. WhKe In Farmers Mall and generally and soon see loss turned to their part in the novel rush of affairs that followed upon the heels of revBreeze. ' Boards the same size were profit ' olution. used for all parts of the gate, put toWelcome Jor clinched.Washington. Summer Feed Experiments. Royal gether with nails and the nails -Mo. 9 galvanized wire is looped The animal husbandry department - Washington found himself no strangat the corners and run double to the of the University of Illinois is feed- er in the new state, for all It had ing 75 steers experimentally in dry grown of a sudden so unlike that old lot Ten breeding heifers are be- community In which his own life had ing carried through the summer In been formed, lie found a very royal welcome awaiting him at his homedry lot on silage and cotton-seehand-pushe- d dark-colore- gray-haire- d - ' Tbe-mo- st summer-flowerin- g summer-flowerin- g 1 o. -- twenty-ei- - j e -- d meal. There are also SO head of breeding heifen being carried Through on pasture; one lot on blue grass alone, one lot on .clover, alone, and another on hlue grass supplemented with silage, Tbe object of the summer experiment is to obtain a comparison between blue grass pasture alone, clover pasture alone and blue grass pasture supplemented with silage tor breeding heifers, . . Serviceable Gate, . bottom; passing each side of the boards and twisted tight in the open spaces. Clean Feed for Horses. Gate fastens to a heavy post with strap .Dont i feed dirty grain to your hinges. horses; The dust weed seeds and other foreign matter in the grain ia Fertilizing Apple Trees. disagreeable to the animals and InA Maine farmer orchardist had jurious. several apple trees along n stone Use a sieve to measure the grain wall The tree were not considered and give it a few Bhakes to allow the -of much value-un- til the .owner dirt and eeeda to fall out before feedplowed the field for a crop, fertiliz- ing. Some pour water over the grain ing it heavily and giving it liberal in the sieve or dip the sieve of grain cultivation. in a bucket or tub of water a few The trees got their share of he times. This is a good plan, as it re eneflt and produced apples last year moves all dust and smut, . The feed worth J285- .- Another old neglected boxes are kept cleaner by treating Baldwin tree was plowed and fertil- the grain in this way before feeding. ized. and it responded with - crop of apples that sold for more than all Degrees of Lumpy Jaw. the corn ra.sed on the acre of ground is an unnecessary prejudice There wheie the trees stood. cattle, according against lumpy-jato Dr. M. H. Reynolds of the MinneShould Not Worry Sheep. sota station. Considerable percentage Sometimes sheep get so fearful of these' cases are passed by government-dogs that they will start up and run inspectors as fit for food pur the moment a man or other object poses. Only the very bad cases, comes among theta. No flock of those where the disease afsheep that is as worried as this, ever fects several organs or parts of the can do well. The' very thought of be- body, are condemned. ing chased takes away from thtimse: fulness, - and sooner ur"ldter ill Planting for Future. .ruin tbfr foljj.'. When planting trees on the lawn It is well to consider thefuture and not . y rnf8 for Backing. Then plant trees too close If our teams are to be used much there will be no needtogether. of lopping off In handling heavy loads where back- limbs or having shade bo dense that ing Is necessary used a harness with grass won t grow, wide and heavy breeching. It 'try will add t& the horses confidence and Handicap in - Scaly Leg. backing Tow f r. Dens afflicted w ith scaly leg can hot possibly give the best service in .ErefH-Ai- r and Sunshine. vgg production, and rough shanks Frera - Iw -- , tant sis a.r prd f m shine--arimpor- look bad. wuljau Itod- - liens kept in a ' . rlose. stuffy ihopve wiiuout sufficient -- Avoid Disturbance. air and ertnfcine uwer lay the inatl and strangers aw Keep dogs number rf eggs. the flock. 7 coming. The old commonwealth loved a hero still aa much as ever; w as as loyal to him now as It had been In the days of the French war, when Dinwiddle alone fretted against him; received him with every tribute of affection, offered him gifts, and loved him all the better for refusing them. But be must bare felt that a deep change had come upon his life, none the Jess, and even "upon his relations with his old familiars and neighbors. Most Famous Man of the Day. lie bad gone away honored indeed, and marked for responsible' services among his people a Burgess as a matter of course, a notable citizen, whose force no man who knew him could fail to remark; but by no means accounted greatest, even among the men who gathered for the colony's business at Williamsburg; chosen only upon occasion for special services of action; no debater or statesman, so far as ordinary men could see; too reserved to be popular with the crowd, though It should like his frankness and taking address, and go out of Us way to see him on horseback; a man for his neighbors, who could know him, not for the world, which he refused to court. But the war had suddenly lifted him to the view of all mankind; had set him among the great captains of the world; had marked him a statesman in the midst of affairs more a statesman than a soldier even, men must have thought who had read his letters or heard them read in congress, on the floor or in the committee rooms; had drawn to himself the admiration of the very men he bad been fighting the . very nation whose dominion he had helped to cast off. He had some home perhaps the most famous man of his day. and could not take up the old life where he had left it off, much as he wished to; was obliged, in splte of himself, to play a new part in affairs. Befriended by Nature. For a few weeks, indeed, after .he had reached Mount Vernon, Nature herself assisted him to a little privacy and real retirement. was-a- n un- - The- )Snow lay P'led, i cinntTPtity severe one. fgFahe. upon the roads; -. ed all the country against far-awa- y -- winter-1183-4- 5 from I -- travel; he could not get even to Fredericksburg , to see hls sged -- mother; and not. many visitors, though they were his near neighbors, could reach him at Mount Vernon. feather In hla hat, holding fast to one finger of general' remarkable hand, which (so large that hand!) was all the tiny fellow could the-goo- manage, lit Fancied Retirement.. "At length, my dear Marquis," he could write to Lgfayette in his security, "I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac; and under the shadow of my own vine and my own fig tree, free from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those trsnquQ enjoyments of which the soldier, who Is ever In pursuit of fame, the statesman, whose jwatchful days' and sleepless nights arT spent in devising schemes to promote the wn- fare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for ns all, and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of his prince, can have very little conception.. I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself.' . . . Envi- These children took Washington back more completely than anything else to the 'old days when he had brought his bride home with her own little ons. He felt those days come back, too, when he was on hia horse la the open, going the round of good twelve miles and more that carried him to all the quarters of his plantation. Again a Farmer. Once , more he was the - thorough farmer.' ransacking books, when men and bis --own --observation- failed- - hip, to come at the best, methods of .cultivation. Once more he took daily account of the character of his slaves and servants, and of the progress of their work, talking with them when he could, and gaining a personal mastery over them. Contracts for work he drew up with ous of none, I am determined to be his own hand, with a minuteness and pleased with all; and this, my dear particularity which were sometimes friend, being the order of my march. whimsical and shot through with" a I will move gently down the stream of gleam of grim humor. time untin sleepwith my father." He agreed with Philip . Barter that The simple gentleman did not yet If he wonld aerve him faithfully aa realize what the breaking up of the gardener and keep sober at all other frosts would. bring. times he would allow him four dolWith the spring the whole life of lars at Christmas, with which to be the world seemed to come pouring in drunk four days and four nights; two upon Washington. dollars at Easter, to effect the same Men of note1 everywhere pressed purpose; two dollars at Whitsuntide, their correspondence upon him; no to be drunk for two days; a dram In stranger visited America but thought the morning, and a drink of grog at first of Mount Vernon in planning dinner, at ueon;" and the, contract where he should go and what he was drawn, signed, and witnessed should see; new friends and old sat with all formality.- -' every day at his table; a year and a A Thorough-GoinMaster. half bad gone' by since bis Philip no doubt "found short shrift before he could note In his diary of consideration from his thorough(June 30, 1785); "Dined with only going master If there was any drunkMrs. Washington, which, I believe, is enness In the garden beyond the limit the first Instance of It since my re- of .the eight days nominated in the tirement from public life for some bend, and found the contract no jest visitors had broken their way even In the end, for Washington had small through the winter roads. patience and no .soft words for a All Roads Lead to Mount Vernon. breach of agreement, whatever Its Authors sent him what they wrote; kind. Inventors submitted their ideas and He wonld help men In distress models to him; everything that was a generosity and wise choice wjth of being said, everything that was being means which few took the pains to done, seemed to find Us way, if no- exercise, but he had only sharp rewhere else, to Mount Vernon till buke for carelessness or neglec or those who knew bis occupations could any slackness In the performance of speak of Washington; very j Wly, aa a duty. Men who had cheated or "the focus of political intelligence for sought to impose upon him deemed the new world." him harsh and called him a hard masHe would not alter his way of llv; ter, so sharply did they smart after ing even in the face of such over- he had reckoned with them. whelming "interruptions. Washington exacted the uttermost Sticks to His Business. But he spent It. with the farthing. His guests saw him for a little aft- other hand, to relieve genuine sufferer dinner, and once and "again. It ing and real want, though It were demight be. In the evening also; but he served and the fruit of a crying fault In his home dealings, as in everykept to his business throughout, all the working hours of the day; was thing else, his mind kept that trait by at his desk even before breakfast, which men had . been awed in the and after breakfast was always early camp that trick, as if of Fate, of letin the saddle and off to his farms. ting "every act come at Its conse"Only at table did he play the host quences and its full punishment or relingering over the wine to give and ward, as if be but presided at a proccall for toasts and relax In genial con- ess wMth was Just Nature's own. When he succored distress, he did versation, losing, as. the months passed byi some of the deep gravity that it in pity, not in Justice not excusing bad settled upon him in the camp, and faulL hut giving leave, to mercy. If showing once more an enjoying relish he urged the government to pension for a pleasant story, an unaffected and reward Abe soldiers of the war, sally of wit. or a burlesque descrip- who had only done their duty, he himtion," as in the old days after bunt- self aet an example. ' Rewarded for Service. ing. There were black pensioners not a Strangers In Awe of Him. Strangers were often In awe of him. few about his own homestead. Bishop, It did not encourage talk in those who his old lived like a rehad little to say. to sit In the presence tired gentleman In his cottage there; of .a man who so looked his greatneBs even Nelson, the good sorrel who had In the very proportions of his strong borne film so bravely in the field till figure even, and whose grave and Yorktown, now went forever unsadsteady eyes so challenged the "signifi- dled. free in 'his own pasture. cance of what was said But, much as he loved his home Young people would leave off dan- and courted retirement amidst the ducing and romping when be came Into ties of a planter, the old life would not the room, and force him to withdraw, come back, was gone forever. He waa too famoul, and there was and peep at the fun from without the an end on it He could not go abroad door, unobserved. It was only among his Intimates without drawing crowds about him. that be. was suffered and taken to be If he attended service on a Sunday the simple, straightforward, sympa- away from home, though it were in walls thizing man he was, exciting, not awe. never bo quiet a parish, but only a warm and affectionate al- of the church groaned threateningly legiance. "The General with si few under the unaccustomed weight of glases of champagne, got quite mer- people gathered In the galleries and ry," a young Englishman Could report packed upon the floor to eee the hero who had bad the good lock to be In- of the Revolution. Not even a ride troduced by Richard Henry Lee. "and, into the far west, to view hia lands being with his Intimate friends, laugh- and pull together his neglected busi nese on the Ohio, was long enough to ed and talked a good deal," Resumes His Old Life. take him beyond the reach of pnbllc - As much as he could, he resumed affairs. A Trip Into the West. the old life, and the thoughts and On the 1st of September. 1781, with pastimes that had gone with Once more he became the familiar Dr. Craik for company, be set out on of his hounds at the kennels, and fol- horseback to go by Braddock's road , lowed them as often as might be in again into the west , the hunt at sunrise. He asked bul .For .nearly five weeks he was deep one thing of a horse, as of old. and In the wilderness, riding close upon that was. to go along. He' ridiculed seven hundred miles through the forthe. idea that he could be unhorsed., ested mountains, and Along theremote long rivers that ran inprovided the animal kept on his legs. courses of -The two little children, a tiny boy to the Mississippi; camping out as in and 'a romping, mischievous lassje, the old days when he was a surveyor not much bigger.. whom he had adopt- aqd a soldier in hla prenticeship in death-betook these Tery wilds; renewing his zest ed at Jack Custls strong bold upon hla heart, and grew for the rough life and the sudden adslowly to an Intimacy with him such ventures of the frontiersman. as few ventured to claim any longer But, though he had come upon his amidst those busy days in the guest- - j own business, it was the seat of a house. j ture empire be saw rather tbah bis Word Picture. jown acres scattered here and there. Lafayettes A Different Washington, It seemed to Lafayette a very en- When last he bad ridden the long gaging picture when he saw 'Washing-- j ton and the. little toddling boy togeth- - uta;es from settlement to settlement a very little gentleman with a and cabin to cabc In this far country -- - g home-comin- g x -- body-servan- t, of the Ohio, ha had been. a VirglniaD and nothing more, n colonial colcnc1 merely, come to pick out lands for hi comrades and himself, . their rewarJ for serving the crown against tha French. A transformation bad been worked upon him since then. Ha had led the armies of the whelk country; had been tha chief inst.ro' meat of a new nation in winning independence; had carried its affairs by hla own counsels as no other man had done; bad seen through ail the watches of those long Campaigns the destinies mod the hope that were at take. Now he taw the crowding immigrants come into the west with a new solicitude he had not felt hefore. A new vision was in his thought' rThls western country was now a rising world," to be kept or lost, husbanded or squandered, by the raw nation be bad helped put upon its feeL His thought was, stretched at last to a continental measure; problems of statesmanship that were national, questions of policy that had a seope great as schemes of empire, stood forefnost In his view. He returned home more engrossed than ever by interests not his own, but central to public affairs, and of the very stuff of. politics., A Stream of Letters. And sojiot the.letters merely which poured in with every mail, not only his liost of visitors, great and small , the governor of the state, the presi- dent- of congress, foreign noblemen, soldiers, diplomatists, travelers, neighbors, friends, acquaintances. Intruders but bis own nnbidden thoughts as well, and the very suggestions of hla own Interest as A. land citizen and drew him from bis dreams of retirement and forced him upon the open stage again; Even hunting ceased before many s sehsdhs were out The tavage which Lafayette had sent, ltt his kindness, from the Old World, proved too fierce and great a breed for even the sharp sport with the gray fox; the old hunting companions were gone the Fairfaxes OYVfc sea; Bel voir deserted and burned; George Mason too much engaged none but boy and strangefs left to ride with. Twas poor sport, .after all, without the right sportsmen. It must needs give way before' a statesmans cares. A New Sees bf Responsibility. Wash- - . Upon bis first to hard break lngton had found it himself of his habit of waking very early In 'the morning with a sense of care concerning the affairs of the day, as if he were still in camp and in the ' iqldst of public duties. of sense new New a responsibility possessed him, and more and more gained ascendency over him. He began to feel a deep anxiety lest a weak government should make independence little better than a reproach, and the country should fall into a hopeless impotency. At first he had been very sanguine. "Notwithstanding the jealous and contracted temper which seems to pre-- ' vail in some of the states," he wrote to Jonathan Trumbull In January, 1784, yet I cannot but hope and believe that the good sense of the people will ultimately get the better of their prejudices, and that order and sound policy, though they j)o not come eo soon as .one could wish, will be produced from the present unsettled and deranged state of public affaire. . . Everything, my dear Trumbull, will come right at last, aa we have often prophesied. - My only fear is that we shall lose a little reputation first" But the more Washington observed the temper of the time, the more uneasy he grew. - Like a young heir," he cried, come a little prematurely to a large Inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him. shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when compelled, perhaps, to do what pradencq and common policy pointed out as plain as any problem in Euclid, In the first instance . . . I think we have opposed Great Britain, and have arrived at the present state of peace and Independency, to very little purpose. H we cannot conquer our own prejudices." For the present he saw little that could he .done beyond bolding up the hands of the oongress, and increasing, as it might prove possible to do so, the meager powers of the confederation. 1 - - -- land-owne- r, boar-hound- home-comin- -' -- -- (TO BK CONTINUED.) Early Frtenda of Woman ,An tbe-ver- - it d. - ( g, u4reg. early Supporter of the womafl movement was Charles Kingsley, who. with John Stuart Mill, in 1869, attended the first woman suffrage meeting held In London. The following year, however, Kingsley withdrew from the movement In the course of a lettel written to Mill, who asked his re sons, Kingsley wrote; 1 am pained, it of a very large acquaintance of all ranks, to find the better, rather than the worst, women against ns; whlls foolish women, of no sound or coher. . .are inclined tc pc tronice ns In the most noisy and ent oponions demonstrative way.One thing Kingsley believed In the medical education I believe that if once of women. women can be Allowed to practice as freeTy as men the whole question as to the relation of the sexes . . will be made clear." And it is in Just that one branch of mediclne-th- at the womans cause has so far been ai vanced. London Chronicle. Some Punishment Judge, bow about putting this man on the Jury?" What about himr "He has been indicted for various minor crimes, but has always managed to wriggle out" Inthat esse he deserves to' be locked up. Let him serve- .: - |