Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1896, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY. AUGUST 1, 1896--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. SHARP'S A QUEER RIVER TRIP ——>+ Into the Interior of Virginia by Steam- boat From Baltimore. ROUND THE RAPPAHANNOCK An Outing Amid Pleasant Scenes | and Reminders of the Past. SOME CURIOUS WHARVE -- “a for The Evening WwW Pica ar, HEN A MAN MET me last week on my way from the rail- way station in Wash- ington and I told him that I had just! returned from Fred- ericksburg, where I | had gone on a steam- boat from Baltimore, | he looked at me as if} I had just got back | from that silverit convention in St.} Louis and was talk- | n my whiskers. Nor was I great- prised that he should, because when I was in Fredericksburg some years ago ard in my wanderings I ran across a fine lary Steamboat in the little narrow river ide of the wn, I was sure that she had got in there during a fresket and would | er get out again alive. That was owing | to the fact that I t know the Rappa- | hannock river was le and had nice | forth nore. t week I have been und the Rappahi nd went more, No, are between whom I shall call a doctor, and we ternoon of . as its station an hour we stmoreland, one that ever fled aw k and told me 1 of Baltimore's is not the a the way The Doctor's Story. said the doctor, with the afr he was talking | hich is as prett: d and shaped up before. Down thers to our Point, and over the way is and ont yonde And that reminds me of that, as By x betwi After a long. the rd so nearly as he long time the soberest man in the | nim, and cama io his n when he the hate fre From the Steamer’s Deck. ith the cook hi slipped and, falling his leg. I told him 7 uch of a virtue | that he ought to r, and two later, to fur- ber inderse my tem ws, he was h pneumonia It of expo- re water. were get- d be expect- ia little red ad of the man in the ter boat chap, and I off to the pest house, and ybody in sight, including, with pneumonia and the it didn’t do any good, and 1 him ks he had a nice case of x and J had him sent down to the z > with the cor ingent got along so nicely with his pneu- his broken leg and his smallpox that was able be around before a great ile, and one I sent down to get some of him, for I was interested, and <ht he had very nearly atoned for be- Yer on a Christmas eve going out of more harbor in an oyster pungy, when I was dreadfully shocked by a reply to the effect that hy had been carried off by oedemia of the glottis.” On the Chesapeake. By 5 o'clock, that {s, within two hours from the time of startnig from Washing- ton, we were sailirg out upon the broad and ploctd bosom of: the Chesapeake, with the fresh breezes fanning our erstwhile heated brows and the earth and the hot- is where | 4 é | was to be desir ness thereof fading away on the horizon, where sea and sky were coming together. Then came the night and the moonlight and the music of the waters and the mur- murous whisperings of happy sweethearts in cozy nooks and corners of the deck, and the doctor, being a bachelor and a strang- er, almost had a spasm because there was no girl's cer handy for him to whisper murmurously Into. Capt. Burroughs of the steamboat kirdly offered his ear to the yearning doctcr, but the doctor sighed and would not. ‘Tho mouth of the Rappahannook {s twen- ty-five miles south of the Potomac’s mouth, and as the steamer passos this broad ex- panse of wind and wave she dances the cancan and high-kick step in a way that makes her subsequent quiet t relief. However, this ocours at 2 o’c! in the Morning, when if a passenger isn’t sound WHARF. asleep in his ule bed, he ought to be sea sick. At a Rappabannock Wharf. At 5 o'clock in the morning of the next I stuck my head out of the window to at th ight, and I actualiy We were on the bank above us in cool air of the morning the sand grasses waved in the wind, and shining in and out among the groves were white cottages with green shutters and red roofs, and up to a door in the gable of h one was a pair of stairs, thus en- abling a man to come in at any hour of the night and get to his room without having to climb stairs in his stocking feet. Thi rming spot was Irvington s-Creek, and Carter's creek Ig an of the Rappahannock. It was named for that Carter who came over from England as the king’s chancellor, and he was known, and is yet known, az “King” Carter. He owned all the land in the neighborhood that the king didn’t own, and was what in these days of populism would be called a bloated monopolist, be- sides beirg called several things not fit for publication. © was in thought I had landed in Florida. at the \ wharf, an sweet, A Townless River. Unlike the Potomac, the Rappahannock | does not run much to estuaries, and after we had done Carter's creek, ani made the run up {nto Curritoman river, where we found pretty littie bits of scenery and a hotel on the bank with most inviting ham- mocks under the trees, we came out on to the main stem of the river and confined our subsequent attention to that kind of navi- sation. A feature, however, in common with the Potomac is the townlessnces of the entire section along the river. The dis- tance from the mouth to Fredericksburg is 120 miles, and in that stretch of coun- try the only town which may be called a town is Tappahanncek, though Port Royal th her departed glory makes somewhat of a show on the river bank. T called the attention of an old Virginia an to the townleseness of this part state and he explained it fully and atisfaction. rhe sald with the true baron- “why should we wish to have towns to live in? We lived on our places, sir, as gentlemen 1. If we had lived Waiting for the Bont. in the town there would not have been any place for us to go to.” At first this was not clear, but as soon as it dawned on me what a wild and woolly time a man from the country could ana did have in the town about once or twice ear, I understood fully why townlessness J as a steady thing. Wharves were plenty along shore and story. One Christmas €V® | there was no monotony of travel, though eht us @ man with his leg broken. | there isn’t. much history connected with Se bas taker core Of Dine wae the Rappahannock, except that the first tall hands on | vhite men who went into the river went : t celebration of | there nearly, if not quite, three hundred ant thar he Was | vears ago. In the last war all the lower ij | thing nnock was quiet and the only Ike war that occurred there was one when a Yankee gunhoat bombarded hnnie battery at Ware's wharf, and even shells through the Ware home- pps ce a fires stead. The house is there yet in its pretty gruve occupied by a younger generation of Wares, white the shore for miles along there is taken up by Ware farms, which have been in the family since the old colo- nial times. Old Colontal Homes. At Sharp's wharf a Scandinavian colony from Chicago settled some years ago, but the funds of the projectors giving out, the colony lapsed and the plan failed. Here is one of the old houses with its surrounding lands, bearing the name of Melden Hall from time immemorial. Then, not far away we find Shandy Hall and Stanley Hall, and Sabine Hall and Islington and Cobham Park, and a lot more with names older than the United States of America. On some are the old colcnial houses with their high chimneys, their dermer windows, their hipped roofs, their broad porticoes, their dignified air of by-gone glory. Some of the old houses have tumbled to decay through neglect. but the most of them remain as monuments to the ideas of their builders that when a house was put up it was put up conscientiously and with the purpose of having it remain on earth until the end of time. At Bowler’s rock and from that point down the Rappahannock is great for fish and oysters, and farmers along the river make more money out of the water than out of the land. In fact, farming Is not a success in this section. As one farmer put it: “We can raise milions of stuff and nobody has richer soil than ours, but the more we raise the more we lose, for there any sale for farm products.” A Fertile Country. There is no question about the remark- able fertility of this soil. One farmer told me he had raised two crops a year on his place, one of corn and one of peas, the corn producing between forty and fifty bushels to the acre and the peas one hundred and eighty bushels. The profits that year, which was a good one, exceeded $175 to the acre. He also raised 400 bushels of toma toes to the acre, which he sold at 20 cents a bushel. Peaches, watermelons, sweet po- tatoes and all manner of garden truck and small fruits grow in tropical luxurianze, and with water freight to Washington and Baltimore, it seems as if the farmers of the Rappahannock country ought to be rich as cream a foot thick. But they are not. Still they are not unhappy. On the contrary, they live on the fat of the land and wouldn't move out of their country for any other country on earth. Land that was assessed at $30 an acre before the war is now assessed at $7, but no farmer is sell- ing at that figure, neither will he sell. “My boys,” laughed one as we were sing- ing the glories of the Rappahannock from the deck of the Westmoreland, “can make $2.50 a day each in the oyster season, and as it costs less than that to-live a week, ee have six days in which to enjoy them- selves.” That part of Virginia between the Poto- mao and the Rappahannock and includin; the counties of Northumberland, Richmond, Lancaster, Westmoreland and King ig known as the Northern Neck, and the Northern Neck News, a at Warsaw by W. Y. Morgan, is the arohimedean lever that moves everything down that ex- cept crops. Brer. Mot came the boat at returning from a democratic a way wi convention at Charies City, and I was pained to learn that he was not going to vote for MoKinley and sound BETs However, I presume a country edi- tor not responsible for hie financial views when the ourreacy he sees most of is cordwood, coonsking and en ocesastonal egg that some thoughtful subscriber lays on his table. Althcugh the land lics but little above tide, the health of the section is good. There may have been some malaria in tho past, but sirce the water supply has come from artesian wells, that is to say, within a few years, malaria has entirely disap- peared. These wells vary in depth from 200 to 300 feet, and they reach water wherever sunk. Everybody, nearly, has such a well now, znd they are the’ most modern institutions along the river. Wharf Architecture. At first blush one would hardly think tkere could be much of a difference in wharf architecture anywhere, and espe- ctally among people so closely allied as are those along the Potomac and the Rap- paharrock, but there fs a noticcable dif- ference. Wharves along the Potomac, par- ttcularly on the Maryland shore, carry only one building at their outer end, and that is usually a store, while wharves along fhe Rappahannock always have two more buildings, and I don’t recall ever ha or ing a store cn a wharf. Why this peculiarity should exist is a problem I don’t try to solve. When we reached Tappahannock the doc- tor wanted to go ashore and remain over indefinitely. So did T. This was owing to the fact that Tappahannock is the kind of a town which’ invites the man from the turmoil of the great world to come to its placid bosom and 1 Old ard quaint and quiet, it sleeps the whole day long as the Sentle breezes blow its leafy tresses, and one mey grow his lotus there and find it always afternoon. he citizens that Tappahennock could make a better showing of wild fowl and fish than ary town in Virginia, M or any otber place. One man conti sserted that over in the botton: had seen two shots kill 1 man said that reed birc The Potomac Style of Wharf. the neighborhood that the people had to sieep under reed bird nets, if they didn’t have screens to the windows and door; to keep them out, and Captain Bagby, a truth- ful man, said with a sigh that he feared the chub fishing was failing.as the last time he was out he had only caught 100 pounds of fish. When it is remembered that the chub of the Rappahannock is the active and energetic bass of other streams, Cap- tain Bagby's grief will be better understood. If the President hasn't tried Tappahannock, sy advice to him would be to take Joe Mil: ler and a scow to bring home his game and fish In, and go down that way on his next trip. Tappahannock Is the county seat of Essex county, and in October it has a grand fi und horse race that would be well worth making the trip from Washington to Near the town, along the i eld Indian graveyard, ing pleasing and ppahannock can cari a skull or a thigh bone or some they happen to come across sticking out of the sand ck of Layton’s in the country is the place formerly owned by that famous Vir ginian, R. M. T. Hunter, and now occupi by some of his children In this neighborhcod is the tinest hom: place on the river, the residence and farm of the widow of W. Pratt. ‘The is of ante-bel- utiful lawn, its es, Its broad bay windows, its cool g walls, its string of red steps lading down the grassy terrace to the lit- tle dock, with its pretty sailboat bobbing on the water, it const A pieture so sweet and restful thi steamboat in- voluntarily runs slower in passing it. Port Royal. ~t Royal we are treated to the sec- ond largest collection of houses on the river, and Port Royal lives now on the glory of the tradition that when the na- ticn’s fathers were deciding where to locate the capital of the new republic Port Royal missed it by only one vote. I am going to look up who cast that vote and send his name dewn to Port Royal, and ff those peo- ple don’t make it unpleasant for his mem- ory, then I'm not a judge of temper. I want to say for Port Royal, however, that next after Saarp’s wharf, there are no pret- tler girls on the river than the lasses of Port Royal. Salt water stops at Tappahannock, and whereas the river {fs clear and green from that point down, from that point tt is pure yellow golden, and is that way al- ways, from which it may be Inferred that sait in water has a tendency to drive the mud out of ft or to the bottom. Ky the way, Tappahannock and Urbanna, further down the river, and just a bit back in the country, are of the same age as Philadel- phia, which according to the books w: laid out by old Billy Penn in 1682. Phila- delphia has distanced boti: these town however, in everything except that beauti- ful and grass-grown serenity which has long been a feature of the city of brotherly love. river bank, and those pe souvenirs of F. house is not colonial, but it lum times, wide pore and with its t At P A Winding Stream. Leaving Port Royal, which we did about 6 o'clock in the evening, we found the river not any longer the river of the lowlands, but a stream winding In and out among the hills and making such sharp angles that at times we felt that the steamer would run her nose Into the bank and stop there, but at the turn the stream opened away to right or left and we went on and on and upward into the heart of the land. As night settled down upon the ver and the moon came out in the full- ness of her golden glory, and spread her mystic witchery over the world, it was as if we were sailing upon some fairy sea whose shores fringed in the shadows gave back no sound and whose waves bore us’! resistleesly onward into the realms of si- lence, Into the harbor of peace. , In the meantime the doctor was pawing the floor because there was no soft-volced maiden to talk to, and Capt. Burroughs, on the main jibboom, was straining every nerve to keep the boat from going aground and not getting to Fredericksburg before breakfast. It was 9:30 o'clock when we reached the erd of the journey by water, and the last twenty-five miles of that river is a memory of tortuous loveliness and twisted charms bathed in moonshine and framed in by per- fumed hedges that will remain with the traveler as long as he goes about the earth. At Fredericksburg the river is eighty yards wide, at its mouth, 120 miles away, it is seven or eight miles wide, and one can imagine how It feels to go all day, narrow- ing, narrowing, narrowing, until at ihe end the boat has to climb the bank to turn around. I mention this going ashore of the boat advisedly, because just across the river where the boat stops is the Washing- ton farm where our George in his youth chopped down the cherry tree and couldn't tell a lle. Strange as it may seem, no one who has owned that farm since has been able to raise any cherries on it. That's what Capt. Burroughs and Col. Scott told me in perfect confidence, Fredericksbur, Fredericksburg, which is at the Falls of the Rappahannock, and the head of navi- gation and tide water, {s a town of fifty- five hundred people and one of the most interesting towns in the United States. It is sixty miles from Washington, the same distance from Richmond, and as it oo- cupied the same position during the it ys not hard guessing to say what Kind of @ time it had between 1861 and 1863. As a matter of fact, more battles have been fought within ten miles of Fredericks- burg than in the same extent of country anywhere else on the globe, and more men were killed in those fights than have been killed in all the wars of Hngiand during ae record. Ni Newtatsticoen & i war fo) je governmen: should do poe be eee the Fred- rickeburs: ark and preserve those battlefields, where so much of the nation’s blood was shi Frederioks! old town, that's cry Hn what it is, and ite te are as Hever: say worse, Bill Sredericksbure ie never saw wi yu the ‘boat town In Virginis for the Invest. ment of northern cajfital by. northerners who can come there fo,live and handle it as men should handle ‘their investments. It is such a town gg genuine Yankees no A Typical Scene. could thrive in, for the old residents a so slow tkat the new thrifties never need bother about them at all, but go right ahead making: a barrel of money. The cd pacity of the falls of the river is about 4,000 horse power, only six hundred of which has been utilized in flour, silk, wool- en and sumach mills. Just think for a mo- ment, that for two hundred years th! town has thrown away ¢ er of three thous: And she is still at It. Ye has quite a variety of industri of them ha n fairly pro: y day the pow- ' lericksbury at lecst been wise enough to land to haye many mode tories rather thar cne big one to everything when it shut down. Fredericksburg temperate town, must be a arkably for one man told me that he had run a saloon and pool room for two years and his profits in that time were just thirteen cents, which is not so unlucky as if it had been thirteen cents the other way. lis Lost Opportunities, In churches and schools the town is well appointed—in fact, the town is all right every way except in the matter of git-up- and-git. Its location is fine, its transpor tion facilities unsurpassed, its nearness to markets quite cnough, its health good, its society excellent, its advantages as a manu- facturing center numerous, its surrounding country beautiful and fertile, and so on through such a list of good qualities as should make their possessor step proudly to the front and stay there. I might refer in passing to the fact that George Washington's mother lived and died in Fredericksburg, that George himself there often, and became a Mason th much more of that sort, but Frederi would be a very much better town toda she had neve pen any member of that illustrious fami! There are two the Star, a daily of itis ions, Embrey of the atterncy, and E ing tax collector. The power of the press in Fredericksburg is forty-hoss and no mis- take. As the best say in conclu men are the state Leaving Fredericksburg at rolied into Washington san absence In a dista traveled of ter and 100 by land, every foot (even the forty miles to Balti- more) was interesting, and the whole con- stituting an outing hundreds of people in ashington could’ take at able cost and greatly to the benefit their knowledge, their pleasure and their health, W. J. LAM — Hix Courtesy € Prom the Dallas News. When the that all the editors hold ditor White and Editor ar being mayor and city itor Rowe of the Lance be- is kept to the last, I want to ion that Fredericksburg wo- ited to be th a reaso of wt Hix Neck. sheriff went over to Golden | Mill to Luckey valley after Jim Sanders, who was wanted for shooting Dan Will- jams in a quarrel over @ guine of cards, he didn't even take a gun along. He found his man in a saloon, anf asked him to step up and take a driek. Jim complied, but kept a hand on his drunk they three or u sun, When they had sat down, and the sheriff told four funny stories. By-and-by ““puzzied Jim broke out wit here, Joe, did you come over after me Wall, I thought vou might want to jog aiong back with me,” was the reply. ot much! UH never be taken alive hen that settles it. Jet's hev another nk.” phey drank again, and the official told a very funny story abont a tenderfoo: ce in Golden City Jim laughe as the others, but presently grew nt tak won't worry was the reply. “I hey then a game of cards,” me alivs yout that, Jim,” nother nip and The game lasted until the sheriff had lost about $20. ‘Then he ordered drinks and sang a song. When the song was finished he said to Sanders: ‘Jim, heven't 1 made things pleasant fur you today You hey, Joe, and no mistake. ‘Treated you ntleman, heven't You certain ‘Thats my way ‘of doing things. want you to treat me like a gentleman. Go back to Golden City with me. “But I shet Dan Williams over thar.” “Of course you id.” “And they want to hang me. ‘Of course they do, but that’s nothin’ to me. I don't make the laws. I was sent out arter you, and I want to take you back. I could hev sne.ked in and got the drop on ye, but I knowed 'twould hurt yer pride. Now, 1 Heven’t I bin tender with ye, Jim? “You hev, Joe, but [ don’t want to be hun; “I s’pose not, but see how nice I've used ye. Would any other sheriff hey done it?” “No, I reckon not.” ‘Of course not, and won't I boss the job a as possible?) Just obleege me, Jim.” “Would it be a great favor to you? “It would, and it would show me that you was a gentlemzn to boot. I'ma gentle- man myself, and { iin appreciate a gen- tleman.” “Wall, Jo said Jim, after a moment's thought, “Il did say I wouldn't go, and I did think I didn't want to be hung, but to obleege you and to show these critters that I know what good manners is, I'll go along with ye.” And ten ai a necktie s the other if you are hung, q make it as eas vome right along to later Mr. Sanders attended jal, and was left behind when tarted for home. ——+00— _ Money-Moonings. From Punch, lina—‘And have you been thinking of me when you were away?” Hdwin— Yeu dear ts was thinking about you so, about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon!” Angelina—“How sweet of you, Carling! Do tell me how and what you thougntt" Hdwin—“Well, my own one, I phonene poy fond you Were of lobaters—and—: SUMMER GARDENING Practical Suggestions for the Amateur Who Loves Flowers. HOW BEST T0 PREPARE THE SOIL Directions for Making Cuttings for Winter Growth. ee WHITE AND I ROS RED N THE MONTHS OF July and August the flower garden reaches the height of its per- fection, the annuals put forth their rich- est blooms and the perennials make their Suu t growth for next season's bloom. The early summe Was so unusually cool that the plants ar not yet doing their SSS best, for, with” s0 much nd so little hot sun, they wi inclined to produce leaves rather than blos- soms. It is to be lamented that the flower gardens in the city. shington i one of the few cities in which it is possible for eve family, even the poorest, to have are so few a flower garden. Our front yards are a veritable blessing, and they might just as vel! be made beautiful as not. It is too late now to sow seed for summer bloom; Lut it is not too late to buy plants in the market and set them out in beds in the yard. A dozen or more varieties of plants can be bought in the markets’ for 5 cents eral kinds of geraniums, be- sweet alyssum, pansies, nastur- tiums, heliotropes, mignonette, petunias and verben: enty-five cents expended in this way would give you a bed of bioom that would last all summer long. But soine people say “It is no use for me lo try to have a garden, for everything 1 touch dies.” But of course we know that nothing dies withcut just ca nd this cause is more often neglect t cise. Successful floriculture upon the ob is pdience of certain rule: attendant these ru are not obeyed failure i tain. Itis Mrs, Jul Horatio Ewing who Amateur gardener is gardener for * aad she is right. One of the first requirements is love, and next comes phil- osophy. Armed with these, you cannot fail, th Suggestions. who heve gardens some -prac- stions may be welcome, though have been well cared for if the pla so far little is nee on but vig- ilance nal accomplish this, suppose you ag one hour a to your flower re- fore br grate ianage to get up so y I can promise that you will find that hour the sw: » all the You will need ral things dening outfit: A bread-brimu you will find on ; an old pair of gloves hands from the sun and the +0) trowel om gar cents (the che ing, eae 1Velope pencil to and g the small things in—a ‘ood enough, At this early hour you will find the gar- den all to yourself, with none but the birds to keep you company, so you need not by troubled by the fear that pa | ances will 1 your I warr a that by cht vill be your y morning hours spe den, Your attention should first | ; be dire to the that vou cannot loc ted soil. If that is hard so en it with your han it must be thoroughly worked and pulver- ized. Dix down at least eight inches and turn soil upside down, lite speak- ing, crushing all lumps with the prongs of your fork, Do not dig so deep as this i mediately a id the roots of your pi for they must not be distur the little, say two inche be Nothing is more } tirring of the soil 3 bet- | uent watering, and in time o takes the place of water. Twice a week is none too often for this cul- tivation. If the ground is not rich enough, tha spread some old and well-rotied manure over it and dig it in. If you cannot get old manure, buy some bone meal, five pounds for a quarter of a dollar, and sprinkle it lightly over the surface and work it in your fork or trowel. not smell very nice, but very good food for you manure is prefer the soil open and light. Let No Wee Escape. As you are digging, be careful to let no weeds escape you. Pull up every one, no tatter how little, and consign it to the care of your basket, and, when that is full, to the ash barrel. Kill every grub and cater- pillar you see, but do not put them in your basket, leave them in the soil for purpo: of fertilization. Don’t kill the lady bugs they live on the insects they find on you: plants. Now, having attended to the roots of your plants, we will look after the part that grows above ground. Cut off ever: dead or withered leaf and blossom, an every seed pod, unless you nt the seeds to ripen, in which case the blossoms now will become small and poor, and finally cease altogether. Cut off ali spindly and straggly branches; examine closely for scale insects, aphis and bugs of any Kind. Prune hardy roses a little, in order that they may give fall blossoms.’ Ke careful not to take too many leaves off in the pruning. Cut rather the small shoots and the tops of the tall branches, six inches will be enough to induce side shoots on which will come the new buds. Don’t cut any fresh shoots or leaves off Pick out the tops of the chrysan until August 15; this is to induce a strong growth of the side branches, each of which should be allowed to bear but one bud, if you want fine blossoms. If the black aphis troubles them, spray with tobacco water. This insecticide is made by steeping tobacco stems, and should be the color of weak cof- fee. If you cannot get the stems, buy a cake of tobacco soap for twenty-five cents. Some growers prefer Paris green ‘in the proportion of one teaspoonful to ten quarts of water. Sprinkle this on the plant with a whisk broom. It will not hurt the plant and will be effective on any that are trou- bled with bugs. Chrysanthemums are rank feeders, and require frequent applica- | tions of liquid manure to bring them to perfection. To make this, put a spadeful of manure in a bucket of water and let it stand till coffee color, then apply to the soil at the root of the plant. Vines and Rubber Plants. Give attention to the vines; trimming the ends of the new shoots will make side branches, if the vine is growing too tall and spindly. Twine new shoots about their sup- perts, Keep the soil loose around their Toots, ‘our rubber plant will be grateful if Will set it in the ground, pot and all, ina Shady place. Be sure to put some coal eshes under the pot to keep out worms. Any of your house plants will be the better for 8 sojourn in the garden if planted in ay. Spade manure around the roots of your cannas, and give plenty of water, gallons if oe can spare it, two or three times a week. ersevere in this treatment, and your one canna will have made 12 cannas by the fall. If you will pull out the flower buds as they appear the plant will be much larger and finer than if the buds are allowed to bloom, and the flowers seldom amount to anything unless the plants are particularly choice varieties, Keep fuchsias In the shade. Direct sun- light will kill them speedily. Shade they delight in, and plenty of water on leaves apd roots. If you have any ornamental shade trees or fruit trees or bushes under five years old, keep the soll well spaded around them for a distance of two feet and to a depth of twelve inches. Wood or manure spaded in the soll will be of great benefit. Prepare for Winter. It Ig not too late to root cuttings for your hemums | are planted clip winter garden. Clip fresh shoots of geraniums, verbenas, pansies, fuchsias, be- konias, petunias, roses, etc. In selecting rese cuttings choose a four or five-inch shoot of this year’s growth, pulling it from the parent stem, not cutting it, and taking the joint or heel with it. Cut off all but two leaves, and label it carefully, for no one wants a nameless rose. Root the cuttings of any kind in clean saand; silver sand is best; you can buy it from any grocer for 10 cents a quart. Put it in a tin or earthen pan, the latter fs best. In the middle set a little two-inch flower pot and fill it with waster. The water will leak out of the pot into the sand and keep it properly moist. Suck the cuttings in the sand and put the pan in a shady place. Never let the pot get empty of water. Roses may also be rooted in a bottle of water kept in a shady window. Be careful not to let the sun touch it. The cuttings should root in four weeks. Oleanders are also rooted in this way. When your cuttings are rooted get a number of two-inch pots and some potting soil. Put one-half inch of pebbles or char- coal in the botton: of cach pot and then holding the cutting in position sift the dirt ip around the reots gently with your fing- Jown firm when full, and re place in a shady place till “blished. Heliotrope may be rooted as above, or in a box under ela Pansies and Sweet probable at this Ume, cut them off close to the roots. They will send up new shoots for later bloom. sy seed now, for bloom in October, They require a shady place. They like the morning sun or the late afternoon sun; but the midday sun is abs: to them. They must have plenty of water and plenty of food. Keep your reots. Put law rep in the mes - same and the mo rf soms off every more you cut the more they will I This is true of any plant. Look clos They are deadiy © ne sweet pea. They are to be foand on the under side of the Kaves, and are very tny, indeed, no larger than the point of.a pin. Water will kill them surely. It 1s the lack of water that accounts for their presence, Sow ds of perenni: now for next summer's bloom. Perennials live through our verest winters and bloom year*after ar. A good glish daisy, dianthus, andytuft, phlox, sweet” w viumbine, campanula and mura. Pot seed! ehrysanthy ngs and rooted cu for the window garden, and remem’ if they have bloomed this summer they will not bloom this winter. Water you garden after sunset, and wet It six inches deep. A lite water is worse than none. Roses Best of Al After all, roses will give you more satis- faction than any other plant you can cul- tivate. The cost is slight at this season, many florists offering their stocks at very low prices. I know of two reliable florist who are selling hardy perpetual roses, ten for $1, and tea roses, 50 cents a doz: of the choicest varieties. Experienc proved that they will do well and bloom unul frost if planted now. If planted in fall they will not bloom until the fol- i ou invest nts not much to lose if Send off your order 4 pare a bed for them. nd rich all is well; if it s tug y good to you out a rried away and rep h you can have bre doui they 5 tall t vear they w lanted and set two feet apart dis large enough to set them t t vw, SO mu % it rden bed a yo 4 ‘ou will have re to nt roses foot apart each way. have to be twic way be © inches ¢ manure ov staked out. Dig down through t and sod to a depth of twelve inct the sod 1 hand through with the sp: ize it out of all likenc twelve Of course it would to give you t wo Ants, ie so to its iner rose bed can be made than this. It will be well to rake it clear of lumps and sto It is now all ready for the roses. If they come on a clear, sunny day, set them down in tas they are until the n the bed. ‘Take off all S, straighten the roots, ce for the plants, and scoop with your hands large to bold the roots without crowding. Hold the plant in position, and let the fine dirt sift thn fingers about the little root » are no lumps or ston filled press down ur hand. so that the soil will rm about the reots. When ali 2 inch off of each branch eful to cut off every bud y and leave them to na- or from the shock of ade them from the su if the weather is ver ain. In the course of will have fully recovered, an putting forth new leaves the soil and water them at least twice a weck. If the roses come on a cloudy day they can be set out at once. i Choice Varicties, r those who can afford to select their 1, being will be » After this stir ses at ) and 25 cents apiece, here is a list of excellent varicties that will bloom this fall: Tea roses; pink, La France, bon silene, Catharine Mermet, bridesmaid, Maman Cochet; white, Devoniensis, Marie Van Houtte, bride; yellow, Marechal Niel, perle des jardins; red, meteor, Queen Scai let, Papa Gontier; saffron, copper and rose, Cou whit and pi low, K. rdy perpetual roses—Carmine, Anne de 1 Diesbach, Dinsmore; pink, Bareness Roths- i, John Hopper, & a Paul Neyron, Victor Verdier: P minot, Marshall P. Wild: Wood, Magna Charta, General ton: white and yellow, Gi white and pink, Mabel Mor These reses are among the finest that nd will give you continued satisf: Y will winter successfully out of doors, especially if planted on the nerth side of the street, so that they have the sun on them all winter. If not, cover the sc about the roots with a layer of dead leay two inches deep, and lay a few y over them. DRY SWIMMERS NEED NO OCEAN. Lie on Their Backs Achieve Good Results, From the New York Herald. There are a countless number of women in the world who are deprived of the ac- knowledged benefits that accrue from the exercise of swimming, because they fear through timidity or some other cause to enter the water. For all such a champion nas at last appeared, in the person of a fashionable uptown physician, who has hit upon the very novel idea of dry swimming. That the Idea is a practical one is shown from the fact that the medical man al- ready has a large number of paflents who have taken advantage of it, and with whom dry swimming has become an everyday routine. Dry swimming is all that the name im- plies, and needs no further or more special arrangements than a few preliminary in- structions, a heavy rug, an easily arranged costume and the seclusion of one’s own apartment. 2 Lies on a Rug. First as to the costume. It can be any sort of a sleeveless garment, sufficiently loose to give freedom of motion to body and limbs, flexible, Nght and short. The rug is required for the double purpose of giving a resting place to the body and adding elasticity to the motions to be gone through with. The dry swimmer lies with her back on the rug on the floor, and as clesely as possible produces the motions of a swimmer in the water, varying them only when the changed conditions make it nessary. From the time these motions are per- fectly mastered the real benefits to the dry swimmer begin, by a strengthening and @ quickened natural development of almost every muscle of the body and a scientific toning of the nervous system. first motions that are taught are those of the arms. Allowing the arms to rest beside the body, they are first made te describe a circle, then brought above on a Rug and ough | Gladness Comes Wiha better understanding of the transicnt nature of the many phys- j ical ills, which vanish before properef- forts—gentle efforts —pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in | the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrap of Figs, prompt- ly reme is why it is the only remedy with millionsof families, and is Where esteemed so hig by all Jue good ly Its ial effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debiliteting the organs on which it acts. It i: all impor nt, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuir i ele, which is manufactured by the Cali- fornia I rup Co. only and sold by all reputable drnggists. If in the enjoyinent of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillfal physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and h the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. the head, with the palms of the haads lese together; a deep breath is taken by wimmer at the same time. As the S$ are returned to their original posi- tion the breath is exhaled. In this one action not only are the muscles of the aim affected, but the lungs st ned by the unusval motion. It is unusy for While it may have been practiced by many as they stand erect, the effect on re- clining body is vastly different In the next series of motions the 3 of the hands are placed on eith then the arms are shot suddenly urtil the palms are brought toe abcve the head, to be parted another circular motion, which br arms beside the body, Similar to the position taken The mot of the lower limbs consist in a series of kic! of less com- plicated order. There is oy the head, which s hig possible from the ing it up as many secon out feelng a strain. Ar the right arm tend angle to the } t posite the left a = Performe: are the motions in ution of them by an expe: mmer is so truly wonderful ver would be recognized. The Rapidly ail that they is to perform th pidly, one serie n- other, breathing appropriately at same tme. The sight of an ry swimmer is one cal-ul: provoke laughter unless one unde the bene- Pts derived. The phy n who brings forward the idea predicts that dry swimming will grow to be a regular tr all practitioners of adva The patients who have speak highly of it, tried ooo ze Tell the Time. From the Portland Oregontan. A jeweler near the junction has a novel clock in his show window. It puzzles and amuses crowds every day. There is simply a dial a foot and a half square, ay ntly lying on a box an inch in depth. There are no hands and no holes in the dial. In spite of this the clock tells time perfectly. There are two little Mexican beetles of the green- bronze variety that have been more or less popular as scarf pins, ete., and they about and mark the minutes and h ° ely. One of them rests on the outer circle of the dial and moves from one fig: ure to snother each hour. The other bug marches on the dial’s inner circle, and moves one-fifth of the space between the figures every minute. What tells the bugs when and how far to move is a mystery that #9 out of every 100 who look at them give up in despair, The bugs are plainly enough alive, else how could they walk? And there are no strings on them, so why do they not walk off about their own affairs ny ordi- nary bug would do in no time “The thin simple enough,” said the man who knows it a the clock yesterday Julius Cresar. 5 1, and has abit e. The clock has hands, only the: underneath instead of above the dial, they are magnetized time hand forges ahead its the and the little a couple of the ries undern: works. who knew The m went on to say that the jeweler was a shrew ow ; he sai the ‘d head off picion of magnets g those on the four corners of his ‘ust note, please, the nonu- will you? Oh, it's a cinch how the thing works.” es coe ie An Unselfish Creature. From Trati, For pure unselfishness the hen should lear the palm, for she clucks Joyousiy « the egg that is to furnish some one with an omelette, At the Asylum, From Puck. Visitor—“I suppose most of the patients are quiie rational on many points Doctor—“Oh, yes! Some of them quarrel about the different makes of wheels just as if they were absolutely sane.’ ERCGURIAL - = POISON ‘Is the result of the usual treatment of blood Potash remediee-ireve, to oe dreaded remedies——ro-e led disease—and in @ short condition than defore. common RHEUMATIS 8. 8. ss the most reliable cure. A few will afford relief where all else has fail from @ severe attack of Afcr m, my arms and legs being swolica to Batural size, causing the most exrcruci- 4. spent of dollars wit! bottles at rile ig