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Potatoes keep better n heaps covered
Soot thick with straw and a few inches, of
earth than with less straw and ingrowth.
People suffering from weakness of nervea
should seek relief in eating largely of cel-
ery, bleaohed, when not in season, 0744
The less sceenings fed to brooding mares
the,better. There is always moreor less
foul seed in screenings that is not geed for
them.
In all planting it should be remembered
that character of soil determines growth of
roots and that a young fruit tree is not
going to grow directly through a hardpan.
String beans maystill be planted for a
late supply, as the vines grow quickly and
bear well during the warm weather.
English hop prospeots are not good.
There are complaints of fly and weak vines
where cultivation has been at all indif-
ferent.
Pinola back the ends of the lima bean
=mere as soon as they reach four or five
feet in height, so as to force them to send
Out laterals.
There is no curculioproof plum. The
process of jarring the trees is always neces-
sary, no matter what variety of plum may
be grown.
Early rising, with the work done in part
before the heat of the day, and a good rest
at noon, will save the horses during the
warm days.
It is quite generally understood tlaat the
Canadians are now producing cheese which
sells at a higher price in the British market
than that made in Now York.
Sheep for breeding next season will do
well on pasture alone, but a mess of oats at
night will compensate for any lack of pas-
turage where the flock is large.
Shade trees sometimes require attention.
Woad ashes should be applied around all
kinds of shade trees at least once a year.
Theliedges will also be benefitted by ashes.
If the clover hay is musty and cense.
quently dusty, it ought to be sprinkled in
the manger ; if too musty, it should be
thrown aside for timothy or some other
bay.
Turkeys hatched ad late in the season as
July will be difficult to raise, owing to the
attacks of lice, unless given careful atten-
tion. They will also fail to attain large
size by the end of the year.
Age has much to do with the profitable
milk production of a cow. The best age to
purchase is from 4 to 6 years, and it is not
generally profitable to keep them beyond
8 or 9 years old.
Do not use a blind mare for breeding pur-
poses. The colt may be all right, but—
blind horses are of little value. This would
also apply to breeding mares affected with
ether diseases likely to be inherited.
A fruit grower now ships his berries
largely in pint boxes. Naturally enough
the smaller bulk carries better and the
berries go on the market in splendid con-
dition.
Hawks are very fond of young turkeys,
and when once they get a taste of their
tender meat and learn where a gang
"uses," will swoop down and carry one off
every day.
Hard water may be softened by adding
sal ammoniac. One can also use spirits of
sal ammoniac, one teaspoonful to half a
gallon of water. For waehing purposes the
dose must be stronger.
Flies are terrible annoyances to stock
during this season, and every stable should
be supplied with screens to windows and
doors. 'They are not expensive and will
enable the horses and cows to secure rest.
Good clover hay is always considered
equal to any other. It is the standard by
which all other grasses are coMpared and
no farm is considered fully supplied for
winter that has not had a crop of clover
grown upon it.
Butterine, as it is called in England, is
used so extensively that the dairymen have
applied to Parliament for a law compelling
its name to be changed from butterine to
maga.rine. They think they can head it off
in that way.
Of blackcaps a writer finds Souhegan
and Gregg both good. Souhegsai is Very
hardy and productive, berry a good shipper
and of fair quality. Gregg has winter
killed more or less, but nevertheless has
always borne a good crop of very large
berries.
To preserve stakes, posts, etc., placed in
the earth, from going rotten or decaying,
dip the ends of them in the following mix-
ture : Heat three gallons of tar in an iron
pot, then add one pound of lime and one
pound of coal powder and stir thoroughly.
The "English Cluster " is a fine hop to
yield; they generally grow so much in
cluster that they pick very nicely, and
pickers sometimes can average five or six
boxes a day in pioking. For the amountof
vines this variety generally yields better
than any other.
Buckwheat is an excellent crop for redtie-
ing weeds and for turning under as green
manure, while its blossoms afford ample
work for the bees. About five pecks of
seed are sufficient for one acre, but if it is
to be ploughed under the thicker it grows the
better.
If the lawn be frequently mowed it should
have an application of fertilizer twice a year
to prevent injury from frequent cropping.
A mixture of 200 pounds sulphate of pot-
ash, 100 pounds superphosphate and 50
pounds nitrate of soda per acre willbefoinad
excellent.
A box with entrance holes no larger than
one inch in diameter will be an inducement
for the wrens to take possession, as they
will then be safe frern the attacks of larger
birds. Wrens are excellent insect extermi:
/mica's and should be encouraged in every
possible manner.
The manner in which an animal IS faii:
toned in the stall—there to remain in some
localities most of the time for six or seven
months of the twelve—hah greatly to do
with its well being; thrift, health, itoprove-
.
ment, and consequently re profitable
returns maritally expected.
The best time for Watering CoWs is after
feeding and twice per day; say 8 6.111. and
p.m, is quite sufficient for meeting all
her Wante in the stable, but cow�tt pasture
are generally siippesed to do best with
Water in each lot, convenient to be had at
desire:
For the purpose of protecting tititd0Or
Weed strtigtures from decay and preserving
for thena a light brown color, there 18 per;
tiftPO nothing ee efficacious .ite erncle Petro-
leum put on Copicinsly Witlr. a coarse brueli,
What are tere d " Washeff" are liable to
Peale Of hy e?Tesnre to, !rest aP4 rain.
After a ten mile journey oh:4m a (Rudy
road, 11 your horse OM aside of 4i§ 9W4
iteeer4 to a Watering trellg11, do net Yenh
hie? around With the conunent that he can
wait till he gets home. He can not wait
andnet suffer for it. Let him drink, not
too much perhaps, hut just enough. He
will be in rapoli better condition at the end
of the trip. And so will the driver if he be
possessed of any kind feelings at all.
The man who carefully blanketed his
paws while being milked, so the flies would
not hip them and cause them to kick over
pail and mkker, mighthave obtained really
humane an at the same time lasting corn -
hart to the cows by allowing them to rest
in a darkened shed. The idea may really
be carried with profit to providing such
yefuge in pasture where biting flies are
numerous, The subject is especially
directed to dairymen.
Beware of bogus tree agents. Make them
ohow reliable oredentiale before you pur.
chase; the best remedy against imposition
is more intelligence on the part of the peo-
ple generally. They should know enough
to discriminate between the genuine and
the countetleit ; between honest, reliable,
trustworthy agents of nurseries of estab-
lished reputation and those who succeed in
imposing on the ignorant by selling imag-
inary fruits at wild prices.
There are times when horses will gall
that have worked for years without doing
so. This may be due to weather, altered
condition of harness, to peculiar state of
blood, skin, eto. In such a case give a
tablespoonful of the following powderthree
times a day in feed or otherwise Powdered
ihubarb, pure powdered sulphate of iron
and cream of tartar, of each six ounces;
mix. Use some gall powder to heal the
galls, which may be done while the animal
is at work.
In planting apple trees many dig a hole
one half or two-thirds large enough and jam
the roots in, leaving them at the bottom
turned up more or less and cramped and
crowded, then throw in a lot of coarse
manure and fill up with common earth and
think they have set a tree, when they might
about as well have thrown the tree away.
The roots should be all straightened out and
have plenty of room and the soil worked
with the fingers among them till spaces are
filled and then fill up with soil.
If weeds exist on grass lands they should
be pulled up if the mower cannot be used,
as the seeding of the weeds will soon
destroy the value of the grass plot. No
weed should ever be allowed to produce
seed, says the Philadelphia Record. Theo-
retically, good; practically, absurd. True
enough no weed should be allowed to seed.
But by the time the farmer had completed
the pulling process on some farms the pro-
perty would be in the hands of his children
of the third and fourth generation.
Don't be in a hurry to leave your farm
even if you have had to pull pretty hard
and both ways at once to make ends meet.
To go from a farm to the city and find all
the little things that cost you nothing on
the farm have to be bought is something
many never think about. A. little kindling
wood to make the morning fire, a cup of
milk to make something, a little piece of
butter, an egg or two and scores of little
things which you as farmers think nothing
of, when they have to be bought amount to
quite a sum at the year's end.
The plan of judging of the merits of cows
by a comparison of " records," instead of
relying entirely on pedigree and color
marks, is adding greatly to the value of our
pure milk cows. Not only the quantity,
but the quality also, is considered, and so
rapid has been the improvement that soma
of the records are seemingly marvellous.
Make a compost heap upon which to
place therefuse of the farm, such as tops of
vegetables that are not fitto feed stock,
rakings and leaves, and add a proportion of
manure occasionally. Upon the heap throw
soapsuds, urine and other liquids, care
being taken to have all material cut fine.
Dry dirt may also be added as an absorbent.
It will prove excellent for the garden next
spring, as its fine condition will permit of
its being spread evenly.
An inquirer asks the best summer and
winter diet for chickens and states that he
feeks cracked corn, shells. and garbage.
Corn should not be given in suramer. The
best diet in summer is meat once a day
with chopped grass, cooked potatoes or
other bulky feed. Feed twice a day. In
winter give meat and cooked ground grain
with potatoes or chopped cabbage morning
and wheat and corn at night. Fat hens
will not lay. Make the hens scratch and
work for grain. Never keep feed before
them. Garbage, gravel, ground bone,
shells, etc., are also excellent.
More care should be had by those who
pack butter in tubs to have them new and
well soaked in brine before any butter is
put into them. Careful dairymen put a
piece of thin muslin over the top of the
butter and then sprinkle Salt on it. It is a
better planjo put the muslin on the
bottom, well wet, and a layer of salt and
then pack the butter on top. In this way
there is a double protection against the
effects of the air and surrounding influences.
A dry and cool place is best for storing
butter. When the tubs get covered with
mould or are reeking with the condensation
of water from the air, the butter cannot
possibly be kept sweet.
A universal competitive exhibition of
science and industry will open at 13russels,
Belgium, -May 1st, 1888, and continuo six
months. Fifty-six committees, represent-
ing all industries and various specialties,
have framed questions whose solution
forms the basis of competition. Medals,
diplomas and 6100,000 in cash will be
awarded to exhibitors, who are given
special inducementby the Belgian Gov-
ernment in the way of transportation,
management and duties.
The barrel ofegga in process of hatehing
ClUBRENT TOMS -
Tim street railway managers at pyracuse
are sufficiently progressiVe to adopt elec.
witchi toyti tfowr;alittl jinn; p•anht ofievery
thr
ntevteeoe constructedecityi n
the country has donerrao, They have
selected the DafOor SPregee eyptere, Which
inyolyes the use of a trolley running upon
overhead wires. The cars are to be lighted
by electricity, and electric push buttons
will ireentaohlgeettoff.
hepassengers to signal their
de
SUSANNA MADollA SALTER, Mayor of
Argonia, Kan., is having a very puccessful
administration. When she was elected to
her present office her enemies predicted
that she would make a failure of her effort
to run the municipal affairs of Argonia. Up
to the present time she has roade no great
blunders. She is, however, tired of the
burdens of office and says that when her
present term expires she will retire to
private life and leave the government of
Argonia to the care of the sterner sex.
KArdatAuk, the jocund monarch of the
Sandwich Islands, may have signed the
new Hawaiian Constitution under duref3s,
but it contains one potent clause which
will doubtless be a valuable consolation to
his perturbed spirits, i. e., "The King can-
not be sued or held to account in any court
or tribunal of the kingdom." This leaves
the door wide open for the two most phe-
nomenal phases of His Dusky Highness'
activity, the amassing of "1. 0. u.'s" and
an illimitable programme of royal sprees. ,
Con. Ione H. Pimp, who lives at Plants -
villa, a little manufacturing town in New
England On the New Haven and North-
ampton road, is preparing to astonish the
world by his inventive genius. He elairas
that he has proved the practicability of
establisehing passenger traffic between this
country and England by means of pneu-
matic tubes placed under the ocean. He
thinks that in the future a man will be
able to breakfast in New York and take
lunch in London. All that Pierce needs
to establish his invention, so he says, is
money. But we regret to note in the pie -
tures of inventor Pierce a slight resem-
blance to Charles J. Guiteau.
Tun mysterious death of Mrs. Cleveland.);
pet monkey during that lady's absence
from home is a matter that will doubtless
receive investigation when the Mistress of
the White House returns. It has often
been observed that pet dogs, cats and par-
rots, cherished by their mistresses, but
secretly detested by the master of the
house, are subject to an unusually high
death rate when the woman that dotes on
them is absent and her husband is at
home. It is perhaps charitable to suppose
that the President of 60,000,000 people has
been too busy with public affairs, and with
preparations for his journey to the south
and west, to connive at the taking off of
the monkey. But a straight certificate of
death will be required before Mr. Cleveland
can be wholly relieved of suspicion.
DIE arrest of it Russian princess in Paris
on the charge of stealing, shows that even
the nobility has its kleptomaniacs. They
tell of an English Prime Minister, now
deadand gone, who was given to this weak-
ness. He could not see it pair of gloves or
a snuff box or any portable article lying
aboht without feeling an almost irresistible
desire to put it in his pocket. It is said
that one of the.duties of his private secre-
tary when they went home was to search
his pockets to see if he had picked up any-
thing that did not belong to him. Klepto-
mania is usually called stealing, but it is a
fact admitted by medical men that klep-
tomania is it disease. Victims of it have
been known to abstract the most useless
things, and even things that were of the
smallest value.
WATER CRESS can be successfully grown
where the ground may be alternately
drained and flooded, but it will grow on
the margin of any running streams after
it is once established. Or, ditches may be
dug from the main stream so that the
water will be a few inches deep and about
two feet wide, and the seeds sown or the
plants set in these ditches, after which it
will take care of itself. Peter Henderson
stated some years ago that many a farmer
in the vicinity of New York realized more
profit from the water cress, cut from the
margin of a brook running through his
farm, in two or three weeks of spring, than
from a whole year's hard labor in growing
corn or potatoes.
IRELAND is famous fOr its stout and its
whiskey, and it also promises to become so
for its bottles. An Irishman, Mr. Francis
Hazlett, has invented, and an Irish com-
pany have brought out, a mechanical
apparatus for blowing glass by the mouth.
Hitherto it has been considered impossible
to improve upon the human lungs, and so
the glassblowers of the world have gone
on puffing themselves away at 42 years of
age, which is the low average of life
among the handicraftsmen. The new
invention dispenses entirely with the
human lungs, and injects the air into the
molten glass by an air -pump not unlike an
ordinary syringe in shape and action. This
is fastened to the ordinary blow pipe and
makes little difference to the workman in
handling. Manifestly the invention is of
advantage to the workman, and as to the
employer, it will enable him to produce
bottles at two and a half times greater
speed.
You have often read wondrous and lying
tales of justice administered with unerring
judgment in Turkey. Here, says the Lon.
don correspondent of the New York Sun,
is a true story of Turkish justice: A drover
complained to a cross-legged magnate at
Rodosto that he had been robbed of two
oxen. Three Turkish gendarmes were sent
to recover the property, and soon discovered
two peasants going off With two oxen.
One of the men: WaS shot dead. The other
eecaped, and the policeraeri hastily buried
their man and banie back in triumph with
through the unusual and protracted heat, two oxen. But the Man Said those oxen
which started from Indiana last week, has had riot been stolen froin him, and it was
reached Jersey City and is now located at I plain that the peasant had been shot for
a grodery ;store on Bergen avenue. Ngt.idriying his Own cattle. ? situation was
, withstandirig the number of chickens taken uncomfortablebut Turkish diplomacy
from the barrel at Verielie way_ etatiOnsi I fixed things. Another Man was found to
there are still quite a number of embryos , swear he had been tabbed of the oxen, and
reinaining in the barrel. If the Bergen they were turned Over to him, whieb re -
avenue grocer wants to make his story 'loved tile gehaNrinee from guilt. They
available he nitat avkiat that the chicken§ did not go unpunished, however, for they
Plait out of the shells ready ,..in. and had baried the dead peasant without first
broiled with a pleee of buttered toast under washing the body, which in Turkey is a
h k n crime except in case of it soldier killed in
Ottle, For that PegligenCe they were fm-
larisone4-
Tll2 humine efforts of the malted states
and the Canadian GoYerumente to Protect
the lives of codfish and mackerel are
worthy of recognition by Mr. Bergh's
society. Canada. Punishes the ,American
who catches fish, and the United States
imposes a fine upon the Canadian who tries
to sell fish. The real secret of the trouble
is that A.naerioans have a depraved and
unnaturel appetite for fish, and contuma-
ciously persist in eating them in defiance
of the well -meant effort of the twp Govern.
ments to extirpate the evil of fish -killing,
This evil should be attacked at the root,
and fish.eating be made a crime punishable
by imprisonment without the alternative
of a fine. If the possession of fish bones,
scales, sounds or tails, or of fishing rods,
lines, bait or little brown jug were made
prima facie evidence of guilt, the fish habit
would be as completely destroyed as is the
whiskey habit in a prohibition town—
Bangor, Me, for example. The present
half -way method of reform only makes fish
come more expensive to the American
people without in the least lessening their
reprehensible liking for the article.—N. Y.
Standard.
THE parting of the two Emperors at
Gastien was, as the cable describes it, ex-
ceedingly touching. The veteran Prussian
was " overcome with emotion," and
"kissed Emperor Francis Joseph again
and again." A pair of lovers separating
after it month of billing and cooing by the
seaside could not have been more demon-
strative. Possibly the much.kissed Aus-
trian forgot in the excitement of the
moment that his effusive adorer some few
years ago thrashed him most effectually at
Sadowa, deprived him of the headship of
Germany, which his family had held for
hundreds of years, and left to him only the
empty shadow of his former greatness as
it German sovereign. Yet the humilia-
tions of that day when the fate of 3rerme.ny
was decided as much by the rapid march-
ing of the Prussians and the dilatoriness
of some of Benedek's legions as by the
actual conflict of arms cannot already be
entirely blotted from the memory of the
loser in the fight. The venerable Prussian
is said to still cherish the remembrance of
the first Napoleon's despotic oppression of
Prussia in the early days of the century;
and it may be imagined that soraething
more than kissing will be needed to wholly
cure the Hapsburg kaiser of a suppressed
longing for his day of revenge for a defeat
that is not yet twenty years old.
THOMAS NELSON it SONS, American agents
of the Oxford Bible Society, say that the
sales of the revised Old Testament are
steady; they are not increasing, but hold
their own. They are not, however, to be
compared with the sales of the King James
version. The revised New Testament is
practically dead, in spite or perhaps as a
result of the enormous sale when it first
appeared. The American Tract Society
people say that only 1 per cent. of the
Bibles sold are of the revised version. The
price of the New Testament has been re-
chiced from $1.50 to 80 cents, and from 40
cents to 15. James Pott & Co. report that
they do not even keep the revised ver-
sion in stock. The American Bible
Society is required by its charter to pub-
lish the Bible " in common use." It has
been waiting to see if the revised version
became the one in common use. It has not
as yet, and is not regarded as likely to. An
officer of the society, however, says that the
revised version will always have a sale as a
good commentary. The American Baptist
Publication Society reports a steady sale of
the revised version, to be used mainly as a
companion to the King James. The
Methodist Book Concern does not handle it
atall and never has a call for it. A represen-
tative of Thomas Whittaker, when con-
sulted, called the revised version it literary
rather than a commercial success, and did
not believe it , would ever supersede the
King James.
Canada on Her Dignity.
Uncle Sam—Say, Canada, you ought, as
a matter of honor, decency and justice, to
return McGarigle.
Canada—McGarigle, McGarigle, who's
he?
"An American office -holder who stole a
lot of money belonging to Chicago tax-
payers. We want to put him in the peni-
tentiary where he can't do .any more mis-
chief to the community."
"Did he have help?"
"Yes, plenty of it. Buck McCarthy and
a lot of others."
"Did you put Buck McCarthy in the
penitentiary?
"Well, when you cage Buck McCarthy it
will be time enough to talk to us about
McGarigle."--Ontalia World.
She Knew Where It Was.
Sis," he said, "do you know where my
baseball mask is? I've hunted high and
low for it."
" I didn't know you wanted to use it to-
day, Dick," said his sister, uneasily.
" Well,
see if I can find it for you," and
she went upstairs.
She found it without much trouble.
Sim Was All Right.
Mrs. Blobson—What's that? Oh, hor-
rors! The hotel afire!
Mr. Blobson—Yes, come on. We've no
time to lose.
Mrs. Blobson—But hero am in my
nightdress
Mr. Blobson—Good enough 1 Vm glad
you've got out of your ball dress and ihto
something decent.
Not Very Encouraging:
Featherly (to messenger boy)—" Did you
deliver the note to the young lady ?"
Messenger Boy—" Yes air."
reatherly--" And wha:t did she say ?"
Messenger Boy—" Shesaid : ' Oh, pshawl
It's from Mr. Featherly.' "—New York Sun.
A Promising Youth.
Magistrate (to Chinaman)—What is your
complaint against this young man, John?
I Chinaman (unable to collect a laundry
too =awe by and by.
It has been found that the plant which
precludes the licorice root of comMerce will
grow without irrigation or cultivation in
,the little valleys and fiats of Nevadahi T
ish,ere
is an indigenous plan of the same species
that grows wild everywhere on the ii
111.1at 44,E9ther
Now. here's a hand -glass, let nie try
If 1 Can this time see
?est one of all these funny thiege
MY.Mether eeeeiuMe.
phe says my eyes areytolets—
Arid,what she says ie true—
nut I think they are Net twe eyee
Donthey 1904 so to yen?
Olie says ray lips ere cherries red,
Azia makes Wiley° take II; bite;
They never leek like that to nip—
Hut mother's always right.
pile says each cheek is like a rose;
And this 1 surely know,
never would believe it—bat
What mother says is so,
no says my teeth are shining pewee;
Now that's so very queer. .
If some folks said it, Why, I'd think"--
, But then 'twas mother dear.
I only see a little girl,
With hair that's rather wild,
Who has two eyes, a nose and mouth,
Like any other child.
—Lizbeth B, Ceram, in St, Nicholas for Sep.
ember.
THU TIE.
'TWOS the counter for gentlemen's ties,
Where maid with the brightest of oyes
Made the quickest of sales
To extravagant males
Of the baubles frivolity buys.
Said a chap by her witcheries caught;
"Oh (leery, I say, have you got
Some wear I can buy
That will never untie
In a. strong, indissoluble knot ?"
" Oh, yes :" she exclaimed, "I can make
A knot that you never can break,
Except you resort
To a lawyer and court.
Now, what sort of a tie will you tako
Said the lad, with a face very red;
"You nifty tie me the knot as you said—
Will you tie it for me r
" Yes, deary," said she.
Soon the papers announced they were:wed.
RURAL JOYS.
Oh, let me drink from the moss -grown pump
That was hewn from the pumpkin tree,
Eat mush and milk from a rural stump,
From form and fashion free;
New -gathered mush from the mushroom vino,
And milk from the millt-weed sweet,
With luscious pineapple from the pine—
Such food as the gods might eat.
And then to the whitewashed dairy Illturn,
Where the dairymaid hastening hies,
Her ruddy and golden red butter to churn
From the milk of her butter -flies;
And 111 rise at morn with the early bird,
To the fragrant farmyard pass,
When the farmer turns his beautiful herd
Of grasshoppers out to grass.
Like Her Elders.
A story of the rising generation :
In one of the suburban towns there is a
young lady—quite a young lady she is, too
—whose somewhat boyish aspect and inno-
cently masculine tastes have won for her
the soubriquet of Tommy. Not long ago
she gave a little party to the children of
the neighborhood, and in preparing for the
event her mailer, in order to get at an
idea of the sort of young people her daugh-
ter would like to have attend, told her to
prepare a list of those she wished to invite.
Tommy went to work with zest and in a,
short time finished a pretty long list.
"There, mamma," said she, with an aix
of conclusiveness, " there's every singleone
that I want to come."
Her mother took the document and read
it with an astonishment that increased as,
her eye approached the end of the list.
Tommy had only one girl's name on the
,wholew"Why,
t!
Tommy," her mother exclaimed,
"do you want none but boys to come to
your party? What are you thinking of?
"Well, mamma," said Tommy, "you
know girls aren't any fun!"
But would your boys have fun if there.
weren't any girls?"
"Weren't any girls? Why, there'll be
Kitty Bickerstaff and me, and that ought
to be girls enough!"
The mother, however, insisted upon the,
nomination of a full quota of girls; but in
order to get it she had to make inquiries,
herself. Tommy's information was deficient.,
—Boston Transcript.
Couldn't Withstand Temptation.
The door of a Cannon street cottage
opened in answer to the bell, and the book
agent inquired if the lady of the house
was in.
"I'm her."
"1 have a little ,gem here, the Laurel'
Wreath of Poetry; it's one of the—"
"Don't want it; house full o' trash o'
that kind now."
"Maybe you'd like something in the'
religious line, now. I can recommend this
Eliza Spriggins' Faith Cure' as the most
inter—"
"All nonsense every word of it; don't
believe such stuff."
"Ah, then your inclinations run to fic-
tion. Here's a pleasing work, James the
Lumberman; a Tale of Tonawanda.'
Path, ehuo—, the'm'
things for me; you may's.
well' go ; I don't want any of 'em."
"This little book on the 'Preservation
of Female Beauty' is a treasure; I'm
81171-Fow"mtich is it? "
"Only seventy-five cents. I've sold 1,300'
copies myself."
She took it, and before she was rid of
him she'd aubscribed to Bunyan's "Pil-
grim's Progress," the "Life of Daniel
O'Connell" and an illustrated edition of
"Anonymous Poems."
An Economical Jury.
"How did it happen that you didn't find
that man guilty?" asked aNew York man of
the foreman of a jury in Dakota, "the evi-
dence wa dead against him." "1 know
that," was the reply, "but if we'd a found
him guilty we'd'uv had to hang him."
Certainly." "Wel], we're paying taxes
enough now. Hangin's is expensive."—
Washington Critic.
Where Woman is Solidi
Some things a woman doesn't know,Tof
course, but one of them isn't what she
thinks of some other woman.—Journoi of
Education.
She Caught On.
Husband-- " Sarsaparilla " (winking
knowingly),
Wife—" LE mon 1 without the wink I"
"The Boston bicyclist never vtakes
header," says the 2'ranscript.**Bnt intakalt
he ever was " projected from thei
periphery of his oirCular steed" a gleam Of
,intelligence oVerspreads his face.
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