Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 13, 1896, Page 7

The Crush of Business, “Have you found a clue to the hor- rible murder?’ asked the casual in- quirer, “No,” replied the officer; “nothing new. But,” and his bosom swelled with the pride which comes of duty done, “I’ve arrested seventeen people for riding ‘S$ without their lamps lit, two for having bells so big as to look like jokes on the commissioners and three boys for playing ball in the streets.” “But you'll get around to it pretty soon, won't you?’ “M’yes. I hope so. Though we'll be kept terribly busy pretty soon looking after the dogs that haven’t tags.”— Washington Star. Escaped the Acrid Grapes. Spinster (reading the obituary notice of an artist whom she failed to capture twenty ago)—Great heavens! I’ve just escaped widowhood!”’—Fliegende Blaetter. Slightly Disappointed. farmer Stackins to whom he was visiting, “how tt’n ‘long with this college ed- ate, father.” good foot ball player?” I devote all my attention to my ‘Well, I s’pose it’s all right. But I dunno how “re goin’ ter let folks know ye’ve been ter college when ye git back among the neighbors. They’ll say they don’t see no reason fur yer comin’ all this way from home jes’ ter set down an’ read books.”—Washing- ton Star. What's In a Name? I suppose it’s somebody in the Pain- less Tooth-Pulling company’s parlors, on the first floor.” Fraternal Criticism, One amateur actor was talking about another to a mutual friend—a young woman. “He thinks he can play ‘Bob Acres,’ but he can’t.” “I saw him act in ‘Othello.’ ” “Yes, he thinks he can play Iago.” “Do you think so?” “No. He also thinks he can play Romeo. But he can’t.” “Ys there anything you think he can pla The young man thought a moment and replied. “Yes. There’s one thing I’ve known him to play right well.” “What is it?” “Seven up.” Fruit Painter. “T paint from nature, for economical reasons. When the picture is finished I eat my model.”—Le Rire. Predictions. “The fact is,” said the editor of the Basswood County Beacon, “our circu- lation is now equal to the total popula- tion of the county. Indeed, if it in- creases any we shall be obliged to lo- cate in some of the Western states where the counties are larger.” “But can you give me any idea of the results of advertising in your pa- per?” asked the prospective advertiser. “Results% Well, I should smile. Last January we published a four-line notice from the weather bureau an- nouncing the probability of a cold wave that evening, and let me tell you the paper hadn’t been out two hours before the thermometer registered 24 below zero. What if the bureau had advertised a meteoric shower.”—Truth. A Reminder. Down the postoffice steps Rev. Dr. Fyfthly carefully picked his way, ané then his feet suddenly shot out, and he went down right in the midst of a group of stock brokers. “Ah, good morning, doctor,” laughed the stock brokers, recognizing the min- ister, “you remind us of the wicked man, whose foot slippeth.” “Nay,” retorted the good minister, “but rather do I seem like a man who went down to Jericho.” “How is that?’ chorused the brokers. “Because he also fell among thieves,” murmured the doctor, as he got up and moved decoriously away.—New York Recorder. The Diplomacy of Slang. The man with an exceedingly earn- est expression had spent a good deal of time explaining the drawings which showed how his flying machine was going to work. “Now,” he saia to the patent attor- ney, “I want your candid opinion of that machine.” The attorney held the drawings off at arm’s length and said: “My friend, that is a remarkable ma- chine. I think I may truthfully ven- ture the opinion, without further in- spection, that there are no flies on it.” —Washington Star. Not an Intended Discourtesy. The Cuban correspondent rushed in- dignantly up up to the Spanish general and said: “It’s an outrage!” “To what do you refer?” | “The fact that you expel these other correspondents and give them the ben- efit of all the notoriety that attaches to the proceeding, and make an exception of me.” “It was an oversight, I assure you. You shall be expelled to-morrow. don’t want it to be said that we have at any time been deficient in the court esy due the press.”—Wasington Star. “That seems very much at man tached to Penks.” He is the sheriff.” An Indication. “Is Mr. Jones in?” It was the soft voice of a woman that asked the question, and the busi- ness manager rose at once from his seat. He glanced at the advertising man’s empty place and then at the hooks where the hats hung. “No,” he answered. “He here.” “I suppose you don’t know whether he will be back again this afternoon?” “He will not be back.” “Isn’t that his hat?’ “Yes, that’s how I know. He has taken mine.”—Chicago Tribune. Anxious to Reform, “So,” said the philosopher, “you want the price of a meal?” “That’s what I want,” replied the mendicant. “Are you aware of the fact that peo- ple nowadays devote altogether too much attention to what they eat? “Mebbe they do. I’m willin’, fer one, ter quit thinkin’ about it. All I wants is ter be kep’ from bein’ reminded of it so long before I get any.”—Washing: ton Star. “Yes. is not Why the Audience Left. ~Bdachlons Tambo—Why do you call that & mu- sical hat? Bones—’Cause there’s a band around it. Drowning Remembrance. “Do you remember,” said Mrs. Spat- ter, “the night we became engaged?” “I do,” said Mr. Spatter drily. Mr. Spatter was always dry. “I can recollect,” Mrs. Spatter went on, “just how the moon looked over the bow of the boat—we were on the , Water, you know.” “We were,” said Mr.. Spatter, “and I’ve been on the drink ever since.”— Chicago Tribune. Up in Polities, Mrs. Plunkett—George, you know the children missed the circus procession, and I really think you ought to take them down Saturday morning. Mr. Plunkett—What for? Mrs. Plunkett—Why, to see the Mc- Kinley band wagon. Every paper that I pick up has something to say about it.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. No Chance of It. Mrs. Hiram Daly—I have had to dis- charge a great many girls on account of their cooking. Katie Kohldsoop—You'll never have to discharge me on that account, mum. Mrs. Hiram Daly—I am glad to hear that. Katie Kohldsoop—No, mum, I can’t cook.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He Took This One. He—Tere’s one thing about me; I al- ways know enough to take a hint. She—Why, don’t you ever call on the same girl twice?—Life. HARVESTING CLOVER. to Cut Clover Enough. The dry weather, in many places, has caused the clover crep to ripen rather prematurely this season, and some fields are so short that it has been deemed advisable to pasture them in- stead of harvesting. In harvesting the clover crop be sure that you cut early enough. If you have consider- able to care for, begin cutting while it is a little too green, as it is most cer- tain to get over-ripe befcre you finish. When the heads are browning nicely it is time to start the mower. With fair weather it is a very easy job to make nice clover hay. I want my mewer to do its work of evenings. If the ground is dry, I start the Eureka seven-foot cut about 4 o'clock, ‘and mow until I have as much clover hay down as my force can get in the next day. I prefer evening to morning to do my cutting, for the reason that the grass is dry and the machine runs better, and it is ready to take up svoner the pext morn- ing than if cut when the dew is on in the morning. I don’t wait until the hay is cured at all, but as soon as it is free from moisture I start the loader, taking the hay right out of the swath. I use the Keystone loader, for the reason that it is the best swath-loader that I have ever seen work, and no dust or trash is taken up with the hay. ‘Towards even- ing I load all my wagons and take them to the barn, so they can be un- loaded the next morning, while the dew is drying off, and then all hands are kept busy 2nd no time lost. I like a light mow, and want the hay | put in close and snug, without salt or lime, as is often used. The hay be- | comes very warm, but after it passes | through the sweat it comes out nice | and brown, with no dust or mould. In this shape it is the very best kind of feed for all kinds of stock, not except- | ing the swine and poultry. | If the weather is unfavorable, hot | and showery, it next to impossible to | make good clover hay. While the soil is wet let the clover stand. It will be better to let it rot in the field than in the mow. It saves lots of hard labor to leave it in the field, and mouldy | clover hay is fit for nothing but ma- | nure. The only way I ever succeeded in making fair clover hay when the | weather was unfavorable, was to mow it away with wheat straw, putting in | a load of clover and then a load of | straw. This dry straw absorbs much | of the surplus moisture in the hay, and | cures it up in fair shape. Stock will eat considerable of this straw when it | is fed to them with the hay. I always sow the mammoth or sap- | ling clover with my timothy, but wen | a field is to be all clover I sow the | common red. I have tried alsike, but | it is too small. The sapling clover rip- ens with the timothy, and does not | grow so rank but what it makes ano excellent quality »f hay with the timo- j thy. Clover, ripening, us it dees, at a very busy season, is apt to be neglected and let stand until it is over-ripe, when there is little left of it but stem and | head. Better neglect the corn crop a} little than the clover field, if both can | not be cared for in the very best possi- | ble manner. We never want any tim- othy hay when we can get good clover. | The timothy will do to sell to those ; who do not know a good thing when | they see it—Warder, in Journal of Ag- ; viculture. Be Sure Early The Influence of Light and Shade Upon Vegetation. Sunlight is one of the most important agents in developing plants, the green color of their leaves, fruit, twigs, ete., being generated by its action. It is | not necessary to have the direct rays of the sun, diffused light being suffi- cient, though more rapid growth takes place in the bright light. There are some forms of plant life, however, that grow without light, such as mold and some kinds of mush- | rooms. Put all trees and plants usually cul- tivated cannot long exist in a healthy condition without its presence. Plants living upon air obtain most of their carbon from its carbonic acid gas, their hydrogen from its moisture | and their nitrogen from the ammoni- acal vapor which exists in the air. In the presence of light the carbonic acid gas is emitted and the plant deterior- ates. Vegetation in the tropics is won- derfully active, and this is undoubtedly | due as much to the brighter sunshine as to the higher temperature. | How necessary light is to the health | of plants, and how eagerly they reach | after it, may be seen in the sunflower | which watches the daily course of the | sun; the countless blossoms which | droop each night as the sun disappears | below the horizon. How potatoes in a dark cellar will grow several feet in | quest of light. On the contrary, shade has an in- fluence in promoung vegetation. Every farmer knows that when the ground | has been shaded for a time with a! dense growth of clover or straw, or} covered with boards, shavings, saw- | dust or any other fibrous matter, the | soil, though naturally hard and stiff, | will be found soft, mellow and rich. | This may be accounted for on the prin- ciple that decomposition of the vegeta- ble substances of the soil is more 1 ead- ily promoted by a close or stagnant condition of the air, than by the con- stant supply of oxygen from tune at- mosphere, or in other words, such a covering will prevent the escape of moisture, nitrogen, hydrogen and car- bonie acid gas, which accumulate and promote decomposition of vegetable matter and this enriches ..e soil. In | such a spot I have found it excellent | to start early vegetables. H Tt is upon this principle that fruit | trees can be made more productive by mulching with straw or old hay around | the trunks and over the roots. Shade } is also necessary to all plants in their infancy, or when they have been re- cently transplanted. Young plants will thrive better if they are kept shaded after they have been set out. Seeds germinate best when excluded from light, and those which are to be ; sown upon the surface or in shallow sof, also thrive better when provided with shade for a time. If it is desira ble to prolong the freshness of cut flowers, or to root cuttings or slips well the light should be excluded. Plants in the light purify the air by absorbing carbonic acid gas and throw: ing off oxygen, but at night they cor rupt the air by allowing the carbonic acid to escape without its being de- composed. For this reason it is con- sidered unhealthy to sleep in a close room where many plants are kept— Michigan Farmer. Sanitary Precaations on the Farm. I would have my barns so construct- ed or remodeled, if need be, that the rear of the stables, or the manure win- dows therefrom, would open into a small yard, graded to a sightly con- cave form, to prevent leaching from the manure. Porous soils should be paved with crushed stone and cement; in clayey soils, small stones laid close- ly together and well bedded in the clay answer the same purpose. Stable floors should be water tight with a concave gutter behind horses and cat- tle to connect with above yard, which at all times should contain absorbing material. All animal excrement, ex- cept from the hennery, should be placed in this yard daily as well as garden rubbish and litter. Road dust can be used to advantage on floors and in gutters. As it exists in many kitchens, I would abolish the sink drain. In its place fasten to the wall, about two feet from the floor, a zinc lined box with hinged lid, funnel-shaped, and at the bottom securely connect a well trapped 3 in drain to empty in the ma- nure yard. The drain joints must be well cemented and the pipe given all possible fall. My bath tub drain goes to the celery trenches. All house slops from the kitchen and the chambers are emptied into the house drain. The manure yard contents and surface | drainage of the barn yard can be haul- ed to the fields each week as compost- ed, to a similarly constructed yayd, un- til needed for growing crops. My sanitary privy consists of a zinc lined drawer of sufficient width and length to easily slip underneath the privy from the back. It is securely mounted on a sled with wide runners to which a horse can be hitched and every week the contents can be easily taken to the manure yard or compost pile. The drawer should be half-filled with muck or some other absorbent before placing it underneath the build- ing. Road dust is used over the box daily.—E. A. McIntosh in Farm and Home. Cultivating Potatoes, Soon after planting, and again just as the young plants are beginning to appear above ground, the field should be harrowed, inclining the teeth of the harrow backward. This is a cheap method of cultivation, since a wide space is covered. It is also effective in destroying small weeds, in leveling the ridges left in planting, in prevent- ing the formation of a surface crust, and in keeping the land covered with a mulch of dry earth, thus conserving moisture within the soil below. Sub- sequent cultivation should be frequent so as to accomplish these same ends. Almost any pattern of cultivator may be used provided it is made to do shal- | low work. However, if the ground has become packed the first cultivation may be deeper. Experience and exact experiments generally favor flat or nearly flat cultivation. Excessive hill- ing during cultivation intensifies the injurious effects of dry weather. It also results in breaking many of the feeding roots between the rows. The frequent use of the cultivator should be substituted as far as possible for hoeing. If a severe frost is appre- hended soon after the plants come up the tops should be covered by throw: ing a furrow to each row. Bees and Horticulture. The growing of fruit fits in more happily with the production of honey than does any other occupation. In this part of the country bees require constant attention during May and June, but for the remainder of the year very little work each month is necessary. When bees need the most attention the orchard need least. The next question is: Are bees of any ben- efit to growing fruit? They certainly are in that they aid in fertilization, and while bees are worsing on the blossoms other insects do not have an opportunity to injure them. By a prop- er selection of varieties the fruit grow- ing beekeeper can gather fruit and hirvest honey until the beginning of winter, at which time he has leisure to plow up his orchard and paint his hives——Will G. Spendlove, Anderson county, Kan. Farm Notes. Do not cut clover until after the dew is off. The young weeds stand the least ad- versity, hence, are easiest killed. Keep the machinery well oiled and the bolts well tighaened if you would have its life well lengthened. If you cut not the grass until it is over-ripe you will feed the stock too much timber next year, the hay will be so woody. If the ground is not too wet, put a heavy roller on the meadows and pas- tures that are being invaded by army worms. George T. Pettit of Oneida, Kan., writes us that his house was damaged and his barn wrecked by the cyclone of Sunday, May 17. Potatoes should not, as a rule, be grown continuously on the same land, but should be alternated with other crops. Barnyard manure may be free- ly used, but should, as a rule, be ap- plied to previous crops in the rotation. If commercial fertilizers are used, a mixture containing nitrogen in form of nitrate of soda, phosphoric acid, as su- perphosphate, and potash as sulphate, and in which potash predominates, is recommended. A Texas man inyented a machine to harvest the seed-heads of sorghum, Kaflir corn, Millo maize, ete. Attached to a wagon it cuts and loads the heads from three rows as fast as the team walks. J. F. Denham, Sturgeon, Mo., under date of May 21, sa: “We have been having one flood right after another | gor about a week—biggest of the spell yesterday. Army worms have eatep half of our grass.” Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, ‘DR: palces - MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. More Than He Needed. “Mamma, I saw a dog to-day that had only three legs.” “Weren’t you awfully sorry for him?’ “No’m; he had one more leg than I had.”—Chicago Record. Eleventh Minnesota Volunteers. The Eleventh Minnesota volunteer in- fantry will hold their first reunion in St. Paul during the thirtieth national encamp- ment, Tuesday morning, Sept. 1, in the council chamber from 9:30 to 12 o'clock. The regimental committee in charge of the reunion desire to obtain the names and ad- dresses of all survivors. ‘The chairman is W. C. Wilson, 212 Ma- sonic Temple, Minneapolis, and the secre- tary is Ben Brack, Lindeke, Warner & Schurmeier, St. Paul. He Knew. Husband (in the early dawn)—It must be time to get up. Wife—Why ? ~ Husband—The baby has just fallen | asleep.—New York Truth. H Responsive Both to Harsh and Sweet Sounds, The nerves are often painfully acute. When this is the case, the best thing to be done 1s to seek the tonic and tranquilizing as- sistance of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a superb nervine. No less beneficial is it for dyspeptic, Dilious, malarial, rheumatic, bowel anda kidney complaints. Use with persistent regularity. A wineglassful be- fore retiring confers sleep. A Yarn From Maine. A Dexter selectman, taking the annu- al inventory, called at a certain house and inquired if the family had any musical instrument ,and he was greet- ed with a reply in the affirmative. The readiness and joyousness of the ac- knowledgment was explained when the assessor was ushered into the pres- ence of a melodious infant in a cradle —and he immediately raised that hap- py taxpayer’s valuation $10,000.—Lew- iston Journal. The first omnibus In London started from Patents Issued. Washington, Special—Minnesota pat- ents granted: Alexander J. Bluntach, Olivia, lawn mower; Knute L. Frazer, Winona, shingle planer; Frank Locke and D. Kennedy, Silver Creek, wind wheels; George D. McKay, Minneapo- lis, underwaists; Hugh M. Whitney, Minneapolis, bag fastener. T. D. Merwin, patent attorney and solicitor, room 912 Pioneer Press build- ing, St. Paul, and Washington, D. C. A La Bike. Yeast—Spring has taken a header, I see. Crimsonbeak—Yes; guess she’s got to scorching a little too soon.—Yonkers Statesman. Fortunes are made in speculation; $100 invested in.one investment system will earn you $2 per day. Write for particular: Chandler & Co., brokers, 100-102-104 Kusot block, Minneapolis. A Play Upon Words. “A cyclone sufferer? Poor fellow! You shall have something to eat. Here!” “Thank ye, mum. This is excellent pie, an’ I’m very fond of chicking. Good-day, mum, an’ God bless ye!” “Where was the cyclone?’ “Oh, I was blowed up by a red-head- ed woman with a snub nose; looks somethin’ like you, ’bout half a mile back.” “Oh, you villain! That was my mother! Here, Towser! Towser!” “Thank you, mum; I won't wait.”~ New York Recorder. The Modern Beauty Thrives on good foo@ and sunshine, with plenty of exercise tn the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her sys- tem needs the cleansing action of a lax- ative remedy she uses the gentle and pleasant Syrup of Figs. Made by the California Fig Syrup Company. France boasts of a navy of 408 ships oi 200,000 tons and 621,000 horse power, and | 89 others in process of construction, Beauty’s bane is® the fading or falling of the hair. Luxuriant tresses are far more to the matron than to the maid whose casket of charms is yet unrifled by time. Beautiful women will be glad to be reminded that falling or fading hair is unknown to those who use Paddington to the bank on Saturday, July 4, 1829. QUICK CURE FOR ALL PAIN. ICKape Ayer’s Hair Vigor. olnia Why buy a newspaper unless you can profit by the cents you can get almost as much “BATTLE AX” as you can of ade brands for 10 cents. other high gr Here’s news that the cost of your newspaper to-day. expense? For 5 will repay you for We