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Show FARM GARDEN. AND - h MATTERS 01- - ITREST ' actriculturists. TO t crn1' n RJeciJrtcl rrrgnf Ion. ASTROLOGY CRIME. A correspondent in Glacgow writes as small tracts of land by Irrigating follows: Fruit here is rarely eaten by raising water with windmill or other the common people, except when some power is entirely practicable, and is PLANETARY DESCRIPTION OF A brave youth had risked being jailed, being adopted RECENT MURDER. quite extensively. A and, under the cover of night, stolen a thousand barrels of water will cover an full. The orchards are acre to the depth of an inch. The Irpillow-si- p watched like a jewelers store in Amer- rigation Farmer of Kansas reports a, . Low-Bre- d Foreigner of Mean ITabits ica, and the pains and penalties for case of an a comwindmill with Killed A Woman in Bntler Harris brass-line- d picking even, a fallen apple are ex- mon a and pipe Lizzie the Case Borden Inno cessively severe. Our apples are gener- pump, cylinder 4x14 inches, cent ally good and retail at from 7 to 15 cents stroke,; irrigating nine acres of garden, United from Those the per pound. from which a whole family was supStates are hlways most in demand and ported, and left a profit S THERE A beside. The bring the highest prices. Notwith- water was pumped from a well in the standing the great imports from New into a reservoir built in a knoll enough heavens of every York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other above the ground to be irrigated to incident which places, fruit is exceedingly scarce, and flood it. The reservoir in this case was on never eat common the earth, transpires it, except 100 feet square, and built of earth. It people iton special occasions. It is exceeding- cost or the incident An but labor. pump nothing to to wharf down the go self but the natural ly interesting and a wheel will lift from a well (the Broomielaw) when thereat ships 20 to 50 deep 65 to 80 gallons a minute, of planetsequence come in with their heavy freights of with an be would This wind. law? asks the ordinary ary American fruit. I boarded a vessel one water enoygh in about eight New York Journal. pumped day last week and inquired how many hours to irrigate an acre with an inch In our minds eye barrels were on board, and the purser of water. And since, with good cultiwe see the future Nashowed me the manifest for 5,150. vation, that depth of water would. keep chief of over mus-a- n Apple 11 i Hints About Cultiva- tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof Horticulture. Viticulture and Florl , culture. gome up-to-Da- te ! t I 8-f- oot 2-i- 12-in- ch ( RE-flecti- on v ! TJ HEAT IS HIGHER II tA now than the prices reached at any Y time in 1894 by some 4c to 5c a bu, and 8c to 9c higher than a year ago, a few cents higher tha!n in May, 1893. It is generally conceded that prices reached 1 i . I during are 51-fo- ot 8-i- 12-fo- ot tional Nurseryman. lowest point" they crops growing nicely for many days it j some for years touch will be seen that such an outfit would Schemes of Tree Peddlers. The principal reason prove one of the most profitable investIt is natural that hardy trees and ments on the farm. If those who' are for this" opinion is that the low prices the should be in demand; and the interested will write to advertisers of turned has few years plants of the last fruit-tre- e The fakirs are quick to take ad- windmills and pumping machinery in to other crops. of attention farmers eviis vantage of this, and work the trade this paper they will get estimates of acreage seeded! to spring wheatwas last ail there is In it, says Prof. S. C. capacity and cost that will be surprisfor less somewhat than it dently in the Industrialist. Provel all ing. This subject becomes very imyear, and the same conditions appear Mason, and1 hold fast that which is portant one when considered in the to be true with winter wheat farmers things In this country; while in Europe nearly good, does not mean buy every new light of the fact that 10 to '15' acres of iron-cla- d that is offered at four land may produce more every state reports smaller acreage. The a ' latest thing that the less prices.-in a season than a quarter-sectio- n The United Kingdom reports gentry are offering to a needy drought-stricke- n farm. acreage of approximately 10 per cent. is the of of Is the known acreage peach budded on Canadipublic Too little Russia to state with any certainty of an stocks, whatever those may be, RnMian Thistle Dying: Out the area there.! With the extension of with the assurance that the sap in such It is reported from portions of the railroads through that country it . is tree goes, down when winter comes. police poring tomes in endeavor, to conciliate his judgment with cer- tain astral indications that may he puzzling him, or, perchance, the head of the detective bureau citing Lilly in maintenance of certain views upon an Important criminal jase, while Gad-buand Simmonite, Sibly and Zadkiel will calmly repose upon shelves alongside of Blackstone and Kent, sensible of the fact that theirs is the wisdom which unravels the skeins entangled by the craftiness of crime. An example of the miscarriage of as substantiated by evidence Dakotas, where the Russian thistle justice based upon the science in question is first made its appearance in this counus in the Borden tragedy in afforded try, that it is dying out, that where a t$w years ago gigantic plants were uni- Fall River, Mass., in the summer of versal that last year they grew but 1892. three"stQfour inches high, This but Strong masculine testimonies adconfirms The theory of some of the duced by a map of the heavens drawn ablest botanists in the country, among occurrence point them Prof. Lugger of the Minnesota for the time toof the man and not to a a conclusively experiment station, which is to the woman as the perpetrator of the deed. effect that the Russian thistle If there he verity in this least underto a belongs family of' plants That land stood and yet most ancient sciences, thrive only upon possessingsaline and those when properties, properties then the above is indeed a sad comare exhausted the plant will no longer" mentary on human justice in view of grow. The sea coast is the only place the frightful ordeal which the daughter where this family of plants is perma- of the house of Borden was subsequentnent, and while they may1 flourish on to forced endure. the new lands of the west! which are ly The name ofxBorden calls to mind more or less impregnated with alkali and other salines, for a (time, their the recent tragedy- in this city, which, duration will he measured by that of as usual in such cases, has awakened an the salts in the land. Ex. extraordinary amount of reckless speculation and vain theorizihgs. Digestibility Measures Nutrition. An astrological figure erected for the Wfi can make no advance In scientific of the deed reveals many salient time cattle feeding until we start on the basis of the equivalence of like food features to be considered in connecelements from whatever source ob- tion therewith. Jupiter therein would tained. As the Maine station puts it signify Harris, being lord of the sixth in one of their reports: Science has house (servants), and is posited in given practice no safer or jmore useful Cancer in the tenth (office of employconclusion than this: Cattle foods have nutritive value in proportion to ment) in parallel with Mars, who by the digestible dry matter they contain. reason of that affliction would denote In other words a pound of digestible the murderer. Harris was shot in the breast (ruled fat from one food is of just as much value as a pound of digestible fat from by Cancer) while answering the door each and every other food, and the hell in his masters house (the tenth) same of the digestible starch, cellu- or while in pursuit of his employment. lose and albuminoids. Moreover, the The states there were two men rule can be made wider and include who report attacked him, hut from the testidigestible dry matter as a whole without reference to the proportion of itsv mony herein shown only one did the parts: i. e., the digestible dry matter shooting ,and he is described by Mars of timothy hay, for instance, is just as in Cancer as of short stature and a valuable, pound for pound, as the di- bad complexion, without much hair and gestible dry matter of corn meal, roots it brown; the bodyi is generally or any other food material. Prof. H. and crooked. The temper is sour P. Armsby. and bad, and he is given to sottishcreaWeighing Wheat. A farmer of Min- ness; a mean, servile, unfortunate low some nesota has a '.scheme for reducing the ture, usually employed in at tluf business. charge for transferring central markets of the state, which Mars is in conjunction with the if put into force would cause a con- moon, which shows one of unsettled tinual blockade and much' dissatisfac- life and temper, and a favoHte of fetion. He wants the railroad commission to force the carriers to adopt ap- males. He is likely to die in a strange pliances for weighing and transferring country. From these significant points it is wheat from incoming to outgoing cars without putting it through! an elevator. probable that the slayer of Harris was The grangers claim that thje identity of a foreigner of low degree ,and that the wheat could thus be preserved, and the green-eye- d monster lurked behind the mixing of lots by elevator men to bring motive, for see, both moon and Venus, up grades would be prevented. This, feminine planets, are besieged by Jup-tthey argue, would tend to build up for and Mars, signifieator of Harris and sections raising superior grains a reputation which would be of great value his slayer, and are conjoined in the to them. It is claimed that this work butlers fifth house, which has rule over could be done at a cost of pleasures, thereby pointing conclusivers cent per bushel, as opposed to to a woman In the case. The tyro cent now charged by the ele- ly would perhaps not be able to follow vators for transferring and 10 days' a further analysis. Sufficient to say storage. Elevator and Grain Trade. that the scheme is replete with indications so significant that the initiated Value of Sweet Corn as Fodder. would evolve many startling facts While we have several varieties of therefrom. sweet corn, it is a waste of time and thought to give any ear to the Kitchens of Long Ago. new forage plants. Sweet1 com Is one of the most agreeable and nutritious The colonial kitchens lasted in many of fodders, and to think of displacing country houses until about fifty years weeds as ago. There are men and women still it with such the coarse sachaline, orj the costly living who vividly describe their glorlathryus sylvestris, is mere folly. Of low, with heavy rafters the smallest kinds, eight to ten tons per ies. They were small-pane- d windows, for acre of the most valuable fodder may lighted by be grown on one acre in sixty days, and glass was a luxury in those days. The by replanting the same land, not for- chairs had narrow, high backs and rush getting the fertilizer to restore the loss seats. . There was, besides, a rudely of fertility of the soil, ten more tons shaped settee. The great wood fire may be got in the next two months. burned its prodigious back log in the The cost of the two crops will be under chimney, and was never allowed to enacre, thus giving, unquestiontirely die out. Banked with ashca in ably, the best of all fodders, for all the evening, there was always supposed kinds of animals, either to be eaten fresh or made into silage, or dried, at to be a spark to rekindle into new flames in the morning. Not long ago a a cost of 50 cents a ton. Ex. woman died whose pride It was to say Protecting by Earth Covering. On that In the forty years of her married the evening of May 11th we cultivated life the hearth fire never once went out. our private garden, throwing up the If so dire a mischance arose a child loose earth so as to cover wholly or in was sent to the nearest neighbor with and corn. As frost part the potatoes to borrow fire, and from the was expected, we did not fdllow with & a shovel knot relighting was again pronged hoe, as usual. As might be glowing pine Along the walls were fesexpected, the covered parts are bright possible. of dried fruits and vegetables. toons and sound, while the exposed tips are not do dead. Many appear to be aware of the fact that even beans and cucumGlycerine. of bers can be covered with earth for one hay rum and glycerparts Equal and night without injury to that it is the ine applied to the face after shaving cheapest and best way protect young make a man rise up and call the wogarden plants from frost. F. L. Budd. man who provided it blessed. Applied The New Strawberry Bed. In setof strawberries. If pis- to the shoes, glycerine is a great preting a new bed tillate plants are used, plant every third servative of the leather and effectually row with strong, perfect flowering keeps out water and prevents wet feet. that bloom at the same time A few drops of glycerine put in the fruit plants row system I have found to narrow The the last thing before sealing them most be the profitable, rooting a few jars to keep the preserves from mouldrunners from each plant, cutting away help on top. For flatulency there is no ing the rest. This gives more room for cul- better remedy, than a teaspoonful of tivating, and yet enough young plants after each meal. It will preto form a continuous row, plenty of air glycerine cure chapped hands. Two or and sunlight to reach the berries. It vent and will often stop the babys costs but little to clean out a bed of this three drops stomach ache. It will allay the thirst kind, and it will last longer. Ex. of a fever patient and soothe an irriIt was the custom, years ago, for table cough by moistening the dryness of tl a throat. Japanese ladies to gild their teeth. ty j I , well-water- tree-peddli- T If REE ng THE SILK WORM. STAGES-O- F ry ed so-calle- eL - - f t j 1 ill-ma- de i -- gl-ai- silk worm feeding upon a leaf and near the top of, the cut is seen the perfect n forrd the moth, the scientific name of cocoons two right will be noticed is Sericaria morl. a is which tached to the tree. left the The above Illustra ion shows three stages of the silk worm, To the at-O- probable that the acreage may be increased, although it is possible that the increased cultivation of land would be put into other crops more than to wheat. The Argentine appears to have reached the top for the present at least with their large yield of last year. Australia has been for the last year calculating upon a reduction of its wheat acreage while going into diversified farming instead. The acreage of India is estimated by the best authorities to be not less than 1,000,000 acres smaller than last year. The narrowing of the area seeded to wheat is the chief reason in sight lor an expectation of higher prices in the coming few years, fors with the excep, presumably so deep as to be out of reach of such sudden cold snaps as the lately experienced. The modest price of 50 cents per tree, one-ha- lf down and the balance the third year, provided the trees bear; will doubtless find mny takers. The lamented showman, P. T. Barnum, proved himself a great philosopher when he said that the American people liked to be humbugged. That the average American farmer Is not entirely behind the rest of his countrymen in such matters is proved by, the numfrost-proo- f, blight-proo- f, ber of drought-proo- f and otherwise indestructible nursery material the agents are able to take orders for. Flax .In England. The Mark Lane this country and one Express (England) devotes some space or Two late seasons in Europe and Arto the outlook for the linseed crop of gentine, the crops of! the world have Central India, and regrets that the yielded per acre only about an average, for a good yield is very disprospect which it is fair to presume they will The fact that the English yield in the future, excepting on appointing. in the yield of flax is interested farmer some extraordinary occasion. Wheat in so distant a country as India Is a area had been broadened largely in of how marked Important example the last five or six years In is considered In feeding. Of the entire world,-- uniil the excess of course we have not yet reached th te production brought prices to such an extremity that it was not profitable point In this country when it is necesto look to the retention of fertility to raise That is the cause of the sary it full as they must in England, but It isfeedsmaller area seeded to this grain and of flax and the time that growing once started as it is.jis likely to conmore attinue until a shortage in production ing the meal should receive has in the here than it past. may occur that will put up prices so tention far a few years hence that area will Corn for Fodder. After the corn again be broadened, So far as the prospective yield per crop Is planted, an acre or two of fodbe drilled in for sum'acre this year Is concerned it seems to der corn shouldHowever abundant the mer feeding. be on tbe whole about an average. It be in early summer, by may pasture promises above an average in England, the latter part of July the heat of the a fair crop in Germany, Belgium, Hol- sun and the dryness of the atmosphere land, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, grass roots to stop .growing, Italy, Spain and most northern coun- cause theresult is a scarcity of green tries. There i3 no doubt that supplies and the The only way to avoid this state are ample for all the demands at the food. to prepare now an acre of is affairs present, yet they are decreasing faster of for every eight head of grown than in any other late year, although fodder fed. Thi3 amount bf green be to some of that decrease1 may be due, and, stock will give, in connection with what aad probably is, to ihe large amount food be can gotten from the pasture enough that was fed live stock. Still Is Is evito dent that the shortage that will carry the stock through the Summer y tion of 1891 in oil-me- al j a ) 3 neces-saril- come from decreased acreage in the next few years will consume drouth. Ex. j the A Handy Corn Crib. Missouri is said production without dropping prices so as to feed the grain to farm anito have a novelty in the line f corn mals. Minneapolis Market Record, storehouses. In Doniphan county is a May 17. corn crib with a capacity of 80,000 hill. When bushels,, built on athesteep sheller is set at shell to . Ead the old printer, who had preparing knocked off and board a down to be a waiter in a the lower end, runs 7 cme bushels through this is like old times, the entire 80,000 uere Irestaurant, arn distributing pie! the machine without requiring any Phlladel-t-Record. shoveling at all. ! j U n er f one-quart- er three-quarte- so-call- $10-pe- ed The Sportswoman Says the Exercise for the Sake of Science. IIUM0I t 13 LAUGHING GAS ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. France at last has contributed a outdoor summer sport to the list of pastimes In which womenkind love to Between th Dreamy Walties" Sentiindulge; and, naturally, what a dainty mental Sally at the Seashore A HuPaxisienne adopts In the way of a counman Weakness Flotsam and Jetsam try house exercise is not expected to from Tide of Fun. ho fti the least like the hardy English and Scotch girls golf, cricket, bicycle, or polo. No indeed; the Frenchwoman ETWEEN pretends to no sport in which dainty dreamy es dressing is not the leading feature, and esIn the intervening grace in movement not one of the calm. sentials for proficiency. Because she They sat on 'the can wear the most delicate of frocks veranda, and in moving show herself to the best Beneath a spreadadvantage, the fair visitors at various ing palm; chateaux have inaugurated the WatteAnd he whispered au-like amusement of trapping butlove In rapture, terflies. Now we are doing the same Alone, at last, are we! thing on thi3 side of the water; only we think we have improved immensely And she murmured, Yes, Its lovely. But Its horrid when theres three. on the French way of managing it. A sunshiny day and a flower garden are Aha! laughed little Cupid. really the first prime requisites for As he hurried a final dart, at and the Then butterfly hunting, shops they gathered up his arrows And made ready to depart. sell special outfits for the pretty business. There are nets made of colored While a shadow crossed their dreaming, A cloud rose in their sky silk and hung at the ends of delicate summer night grew cole er. The lacquered sticks, light as riding And each sadly wondered why. switches; and a tin-linbox, in which is a pasteboard square whereon the in- Nor guessed at all the reason; sect is impaled after having a few drop; BUt the little love god knew. of chloroform poured from a tiny bot- And scoffed at human wisdom. As the fickle sprite will doi, tle on its head. By a ribbon this box Alas! poor foolish mOrtals, is slung, like a fishermans creel, over Perhaps ones shoulder, fn a wide hat, a muslin That threesyou've never heard delightful company gown, and light morning shoes, the fair Is the third. Cupid when the dew has butterfly catcher, Llf. ' dried, makes her rounds of the lawn and gardens in search of hright-hue- d Vengeance of Basil Underdonk. prey. Dashing hither and thither" after Chapter i. an artful golden-winge- d No! a thousand times no! flutterer, she makes a pretty picture as she waves The fair girl raised herselfj up proudly ad her lips curled in cohtemptuou' her net and follows the victim. Priscorn. excuse marily exercise seems to be the "I spurn your proffered gold! Tout for tracking the poor little insect to his are idle. I have plighted my threats end, through these flower garden troth to Mortimer Dusenherry. Poor h Dianas insist it is all for the sake of may be, but I love him, and if I am more scientific knowledge of insect life, hlsn I cant be yourn. for the pleasure of making collections; Chapter 11. cot that was the Outside the humble and there does seem to be a fair show home of Irene McGilcuddy the slnistei of truth in all this. The butterfly fiends face worked in a of the millionaire all carry little books in which are UTake of hate. convulsive spasm printed in colors the pictures, and then! he hissed. But I will havehim, my names of all tin pretty papilliohs in revenge. the United States. When one is caught Scowling a few. more times. Just to it is compared with those in the ,book, keep his hand In as it were, Basil identified, registered, and no Triplicate Underdonk, the 'baffled bajnker, slunk iA pursued; for the sportswoman fol- out Into the night. Chapter ill. lows no chase for the mere joy of capForgive me, I was mad! ture. tlnderdonk held out his hand. I have come to your wedding, Irene, and as a mark of my esteem and affec- TRAPS ENGLISH SPARROWS. tion for you both, I have made over, as a wedding present, a handsome house on They Make Very Good Eating Baked in Halsey street, Brooklyn, the city ol a Potpie. homes. If every public-spirite- d citizen who And he was forgiven. has grieved over the almost total loss of song birds throilgh the pugnacity Chapter ir. of the sparrow wouldfollow the exHa! Basil Underdonk scanned his morning ample set by Jack Durney.a downtown youth, it would not he very long paper with ghoulish glee: The motorman arrested for running before the feathered songsters would Duse nberry has over return again in full force, says the been young Mortimer the teoroner, it discharged by Philadelphia Record. On the roof ol being proved of this latest fate the that a building in the back yard of the Dur-ne- y victim of the trolley was due to his homestead a sparrow trap Is erect own negligence, The saddest feature ot ed and is in full swing night and day. the affai is that Mr. Dusenberrj Not only are the feathered pests cap leaves as his widow a bride of a few tured by the dozen, hut all the friends short months! of the Durney family for squares Chapter v. around will testify to the fact that Ha! Irene Dusenberry, nee McGil nothing on earth compares with fat cuddy, did I not sweaKto bie revenge dl sparrows when cooked in a potpie. The A bride of two short morit is, a widow trap is one into which the birds hop now, and a burst of fiend sh laughtei to get the grain and bread crumbs came from the lips of Basil Underdonk. told me yoii looked like plainly in sight. Once inside the birds a You always In black! fright did not know enough to come out. The But a merciful unconsciousness came, sparrows feed more on a cloudy and and she sank senseless to the floor, windy day than on a still, bright day, while over her, happy in his hatred bjxt no matter what the weather is, it stood Basil Underdonk gloating gloat Is a poor day when the trap will not ing. New York World. yield fifty sparrows. Mr. Durney says he is going to get his trap patented His Careful Caution. and then induce the legislature to pay , "Will you so much apiece for dead sparrows. The landlady glanced across the table Then hell make his trap earn him a at his empty plate. have some more soup? fortune. With that spirit of cautiousness that Is fostered and grows rapidly in a The Chivalrous Booster. i boarding house atmospherje he replied In one of the yards of game1 fowls evasively: Um, er that is, ah, what kind el kept by the editor is a game bantam Mrs. Skraggs? ben the only bantam on the premises. meat have you moment a the For landlady assumed a She is a midget beside the stately hens But- that was expression. that compose the flock, and at feeding thoughtful a bluff. Presently she answered time they try to impose on herf But only , the proud lord of the harem comes to sententiously: j. Chicken. her rescue, and when she secures a Readily recalling many former experichoice morsel he stands guard and ences with the bony necks and meatless drives the big hens away. Wo to the wings, the border with the h6n that tries to' steal the bantams nose hastily passed his plate for mors food when the cock is near. A peck soup. from his bill or a drive from his spurs A Human Weakness. sends the thief scurrying away. The cock selects a morsel and calls the bantam, and while she Is eating he will not permit any Interference. -- t j j J I ed -- , . I ; j 4 ) to-da- y, - V-shap- ed -- 1 r i MIDSUMMER NEW GAME. IN HE BICYCLE. Two Chicago policemen on bicycles ran down and captured a murderer recently. Babylon, L. I., arrests and fines wheelmen who ride in . that place on Sundays. A gold brick valued at $150 will be one p f the prizes for the race meet at Louisville. Bicyclists must have their rights But they must also light their lanterns at night. New York World. So far as streets and highways are concerned, the bicycle is the wheel horse of reform. San Francisco Call. Everybody, including his sister and his cousin and his aunt, seems to te riding a bicycle. Syracuse Post, Foolish and careless bicyclists are causing more distress than the trolley or runaway horses. Los Angeles Express. n L. A. Johnson, the L. A. W. scorcher, has been declared a professional, and will henceforth race In that class. Bicycle teas and breakfasts are now quit? the rage in Gotham society. This settles any lingering doubt of the wheels social status. It has received its degree. Baltimore American. In England a new occupation h&s turned up In the cycling line in the person of. a professional valuer, who, for a trifling fee, gives his idea as an expert on the value of secern band well-know- -- wheels. Rev. Wayback (from Fenceburg) My little man, it pains me to see you wasting your time in such a frivolous way. Don't you know that life is short, that dust thou art and unto dust thou shall return? Cully McSwatt Yes, and you bet ye life, ole socks, were all out for de dust, see! Truth. Sage Reasoning. Miss Goodleigh Do you believe ther will be any marriages in heaven? . Miss Uptodate No. The Bible say In marriage there will be no giving no wedding are there where there, and won t be xnanj there bet presents you weddings. Justified. Hill You have a black eye this morn- Ing. MUI Yes. A man hit me for a dollar. Hill Did you hit back? t Mill No. He was In the right. It was bis dollar, you see. i V I |