Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 9

eee Cneeeres Se The Cake That Was Burnt. There was a little cook, and she made a little cake, She put it in the oven just to bake, bake, bake; Tt was full of plums and spice, And of everything that’s nice, And she said, “An hour, I reckon, it Will take, take, take.” And then that little cook went to have a little play, With a very charming cat across the way, way, way; She forgot the cake, alack! It was burnt, well, almost black, And I wonder what the cook’s mamma would say, say, say! The little cook ran off, and confessed her tale of woe, For to find her cake a cinder was a blow, blew, blow; “Cheer up,” the mother said, As she stroked the golden head, “For accidents will happen, we all know, know, know.” Fuzzy, the Woodchuck. Dorothy lived with her grandpar- ents on a little farm among the moun- | tains. Se loved animals, and was never without a pet of some kind. One | | for water, so I’se got to dig it.’ day as Dorothy’s grandfather was taking the cow to pasture, he noticed three little creatures playing near a large rock. He thought they were young foxes, and he started to catch one; but before he could reach place, two of the little fellows had tumbled into their hole. The other was about half way in when Dorothy's grandfather grabbed him. It was not x, but a baby woodchuck—a queer, little ball of fur, with beady black eyes, stumpy tail, and big yel- low teeth. The baby woodchuck bit and scratched and struggled to get away. But at last he was tied in a handkerchief, and then he was carried to Dorothy. Dorothy was delighted with this new strange pet; and though her grandfather said woodchucks rare- iy became tame, she was sure this one would. She named him “Fuzzy,” and then took down her old squirrel cage, and lined it with soft hay and piaced him in it, with some fresh-cut clover and a little dish of water. days Fuzzy was very wild. He be- haved very badly. He insisted on spilling his water, and he would snap the | For a few | and bite whenever his little mistress | replaced it. that Dorothy did not mean to hurt him. Then he gave up biting. In two weeks he would drink from his dish without upsetting it, and would nibble clover from Dorothy's hand, and let her scratch his funny ttle head. In a month Fuzzy had grown to twice his size, and had become so tame that he would let Dorothy take him in her | arms and ca him about. One day little Dorethy forgot to fasten the cage door and Fuzzy walked out. But he cid not go far, and went back to his cage of his own accord. The door Wus never fastened again, and all day Fong Fuzzy would play about the ver- anda or nibble grass in front of the house, wire house for the night. One day Dovothy’s grandmother was baking cookies, ,and she gave one to Fuzzy. It was funny to see the little woodchuck taste it then taste again, as if he were not quite able to make up his mind whether he liked it or not. Finally he it and he ate it all. From this time, cookies were his favorite food. AS soon as Dorothy’s grandmother began to bake he would run to the kitchen, and sit on his haunches in the door- way, and wait cooky was given him; then he would scamper Off to one of his grassy nooks | and eat it at his leisure. Several times during the summer Fuzzy wandered off to the woods and spent the day. At last one cool Octeber day Fuzzy went off and did not return. Dorothy was afraid some one had killed him. All winter long she mourned for Fuzzy. One fine morning in April as Dorothy was walking down the road with her grandfather they espied a big red woodchuck sitting on a stump in a field. “Oh, grandpa!” cried Doro- thy, “see that woodchuck, doesn’t he Jook just like my dear old Fuzzy?” “Perhaps it is Fuzzy,” said her grand- father. “Call him and see.” Stepping to the side of the read, Dorothy waved hher hands and called, “Fuzzy! Fuzzy! come here, Fuzzy!” And what do you think happened? Why, the big red woodchuck first looked at Doro- thy for a minute, with his head on one side, and then came running across the field—and it was her, dear old Fuzzy, coming back to her after his long winter sleep. Dorothy took the great red fellow im her arms and hugged and kissed him. Fuzzy seemed to share her de- light. He rubbed his nose against her cheek and grumbled down in his throat as woodchucks do when they eased. aoe course Dorothy carried Fuzzy home and fed and petted him, to make up for all the time he had been away. That afternoon Dorothy’s grandma got her baking tins and rolling pin. moment Fuzzy heard the he started up and ran to the sts door, and took his place again, to wait for his cooky. During nis Jong winter sleep he had not for- gotten ‘about the cookies. One day Porothy’s grandpa found that his out And the decided that he did like | patiently until his | - | venting it at short range in order But by-and-by he saw | but he always returned to his | | creatures with the | their retreats, | ly snapping a shutter, vegetables had been nibbled off, and as Fuzzy had never been known to go into the garden he thought some wild woodchuck had made his home close by to be near Fuzzy. That night he set a trap. The next day when he visited the trap, there, caught fast by one leg, was Dorothy’s Fuzzy! Poor Fuzzy’s leg was broken. He moaned and groaned while it was being ban- daged. He was put to bed, and Dor- othy smoothed him and petted him, and cried over him, and she felt that Fuzzy understood how sorry she was for him, After a long time Fuzzy was able to go about as well as ever, but he never again showed any inclination to go into the garden.—Little Folks. ‘Teddy's Nap, Teddy was oyt in the back yard, digging a well with an old iron spoon. He had on his grandpa’s straw hat, which, of course, kept falling down over his eyes. “Teddy,” called granama, “it is too hot for you to stay out any longer; you must come in now.” It was time for Teddy’s nap, but she didn’t say so. : “I ain’t Teddy,” said the little boy; “I'se grandpa, and I’se diggin’ a well. My bossy-cow is all ‘tarvin’ to deaf “But grandpa comes in to rest when the sun is very het, you know,” said grandma. “You may go out to work again when it is cooler, just as grand- pa does.” Grandma bathed the hot little face, and took off his dress and his shoes and stockings, so that his neck and his arms, and his little pink feet might cool off, “Grandpa lies on the lounge to rest, you know, Teddy,” said grandma. “But I don’t want to take a nap!” said Teddy. “Nor does grandpa; you see, he just lies down and reads the paper, and if he gets sleepy he goes to sleep; that’s the way he does.” “All wight!” said Teddy, seizing a newspaper and climbing on the lounge. “But I want some grasses, grandma, I can’t see to read wivout grasses, you know.” Grandma found some eyeglass bows with no glasses in them; and Teddy held them astride his nose with one hand, “Mus’ I read to you, grandma?” he asked. “If you please, sir; the news.” “The news is—er—er,” staring at the upside-down paper, and seeing the picture of a boat; ‘“there’s a awful storm and the boat’s all turned over, and the people’s all drownded dead!” “You don’t say so!” cried grandma. “And there’s a war,” continued the little reader, “and the men wiv guns shooted some uvver men, and—and” Here the little feliow began to yawn. He stared hard at the paper, but his eyes would close; then down dropped the “grasses,” and Teddy was fast asleep. I'd like to hear Hunting with the Camrra. The new sport, begun by natural- ists, of hunting all manner of wild camera, spying upon them in the supposed privacy 02 studying their habits, domestic customs and individual traits, offers a pursuit infinitely more significant, more elevating and of greater value to humanity than the sport whose vista is bounded by the sights of a gun-barrel. It certainly ealls for a higher courage, and inso- much is a more manly occupation. Tracking big game to its lair, circum- to get it in a good light, waiting for it to strike an effective pose, then calm- while unfet- tered by cumbrous weapon and am- munition, is a braver deed than touch- ing a trigger at rifle range. It cer- tainly demands superior skill and yields superior results. When the ob- ject of the chase is some little harm- less animal, it is usually a much more difficult feat to secure its reflected im- | age than it would be to slay it with a charge of shot or to land it with a hook. Through camera observation, a vast new department of education is being opened up to the student, a vast field in delightful surprises, and a tender, intimate appreciation of animal life, which cannot help but make better and wiser those who probe its myste- ries. The hunt with the camera is an up- lifting occupation, educating to a new reverence for the humblest of created things, and free from the brutalizing influences of sport which has killing as its end. It is an ideal pursuit for young peo- ple, many of whom have shown them- selves most successful in the delicate finesse, the patience and stealthy movement essential to drawing near their quarry without disturbing it. In field and orchard, in canyon and vale, among the high mountains and in the forest depths, among birds and insects and shy four-footed things, weird and fascinating life stories are waiting to be unfolded which have never yet been told.—San Francisco Chronicle. Who has never done thinking never begins doing. The Goat Basiness. The common conception of the goat business is doubtless derived from the; comic papers which depict the festive animal masticating tin cans and the- atrical posters or butting furiously in life or pictured upon a bock beer sign. But there is a serious side to the busi- ness and it is, of course, that phase of the question in which the Farmers’ Review is interested. Great regions once covered with dense forests of pine, fir and hemlock—denuded of their wealth of trees by man or the ravages of forest fires—are fast being settled by pioneers from abroad whose arduous duty it is to clear such lands from second growth scrub and weeds after the remaining timber has been removed. To such men the goat now “comes as a boon and a blessing.” It supplies him with milk that doctors consider the very best substitute for mother’s milk for infants, so rich yet easily digested is it; it revels in green herbs and tender twigs thus utilising as food the very things the pioneer desires to get rid of; it produces an- nually three or four pounds of silky mohair which sells for two or three times the price of wool, does not re- quire washing and is ready to spin without special preparation; its skin is in demand for mats and rugs and furnishes the choicest of lap robes for the baby’s carriages; its flesh is nu- tritious and when young, as tender as spring lamb; it is docile and wonder- fully tame when hand fed; it is much more healthy than any other domesti- cated animal; it does not suffer from tuberculosis, hence there is no fear in using its milk for infants; it usually brings forth two kids each year and is cheaply and easily raised and fed. So it will be seen that the goat is bound to have its place in the agri- cultural industry of the country and already it has taken an important po- sition in California, Mexico and south- western sections of our country. At the present time there is a widespread desire for information upon this sub- ject from men who are settling the lands of northern Wisconsin and are investigating the virtues of the goat as a brush clearer while at the same time breeders of Angora goats in other parts of the country are looking for cheap feed on rough lands for the maintenance of their flocks for the production of pelts and mohair. It can readily be understood that for poor families settling in wild districts where cows cannot well be kept, and indeed having scant funds for the pur- chase of cows, the goat, capable of picking up its living, costing but from $6 to $15, and producing from two to four pints of cream-like milk per diem, to say nothing of valuable mohair and tender kid flesh, must be considered a most suitable and desirable animal. So great has the demand for goats al- ready become in the west that buyers are now collecting large flocks in Calt- fornia and Mexico for shipment to Iowa and other states* where dealers have engaged in the goat supply busi- ness and there is good reason for pre- dicting that for many years to come there will be real profit in the busi- ness of local production of goats for the express rates are so high that ship- ping from California makes the price of the animal somewhat too high for the purses of poor folk. The Angora goat is strong of constitution and ab- solutely healthy and we consider the business to have a healthy, sensible foundation and excuse. Taking every- thing into consideration we are there- fore free to advise the breeding of goats on all suitable lands and think that many a farm boy would find pleas- ure and profit from embarking in the business on a small scale. If after further investigation .f the subject he agrees with us then let him go it! Improving the Seed Corn. The Illinois Seed Corn Breeders’ As- sociation takes pride in pointing to its record of one year from its primary organization. From the moment of its first meeting it has constantly kept before the farmer everywhere and in every way the importance of improv- ing the Seed Corn of the state. By presenting the matter before the va- rious Farmers’ Institute meetings and at all gatherings of. the Live Stock men the interest in this respect has been greatly awakened and today no subject is more strongly fixed in the mind of the corn growers than the necessity of the improvement in seed corn. We believe there is no matter of greater importance before us than the Breeding of Corn for Seed and Feed Purposes. Since it is well known that all the available corn land is now under cultivation, that we have not in ten years materially increased the yield and have not at all increased the quality, and that against this fact that in ten years corn products have great- ly increased and exports of corn from 31,000,000 bushels in 1891 to 210,000, 000 in 1900. We must raise more bushels and better quality per acre if we are to keep up with the onward march of progress.—F. A. Warner, Secretary-Treasurer. In his efforts to grow crops the in- telligent farmer must ever try to con- ceive and add to the stock of avail- able plant food in the soil. The fer- tility of a soil is measured by its pow- er to produce crops. A soil may have many hundreds of pounds of plant food per acre, and still be unfertile, while another may contain littie plant food, but may have that little in an available form and thus be produc- tive, i. e., fertile. A favorite way of applying wood ashes is as a top dressing to mowing or pasture lands. This encourages the growth of clover and some of the bet- ter grasses with a tendency to crowd out inferior kinds of grasses, weeds and moss. Kangaroo skins to the value of over a million dollars‘a year are imported trom Australis to the United States, The Witness Scored. ‘The cross-examiner was a smart man, whose object was to disconcert the wit- ness and discredit his testimony. “What did you say your name was?” was the first question, “Michael Doherty.” “Michael Doherty, eh? Now, Doher- ty, answer this question carefully. Are you a married man?” “Ol think so; Oi was married.” “So you think because you got mar- ried that you are a married man, do you? Now, tell me whom you mar- ried.” “Who Oi married? man.” “Now, don’t you know better than to trifle with the court? Of course you married a woman. Did you ever hear of any one marrying a man?” “Yes, sir. Moi sister did.”—London Spare Moments. I married a wo- As a Last Resort. “No,” said Mr. Walkindell, impatient- ly, replied the young woman, “I will not marry you. I have told you so a hundred times before.” “Miss Emily,” pleaded the youth, “that is the only thing on which we have ever differed. Won’t you agree to arbitrate it?’”—Chicago Tribune. Wonderful Case in Indiana. Buck Creek, Ind., July 15th.—Mrs. Elizabeth Rorick of this place had Rheumatism. She says: “All the doc- tors told me they could do nothing for me.” She was very, very bad, and the pain was so great she could not sleep at night. She uesd Dodd's Kidney Pills, and she is well and entirely free from pain or any symptom of the Rheumatism. “Are you still using Dodd’s Kidney Pills?” was asked. “No; I stopped the use of the Pills some time ago, and have not had the slightest return of my old trouble. I am sure I am completely and perma- nently cured.” Many in Tippecance county, who have heard of Mrs. Rorick’s case and her cure by Dodd’s Kidney Pills, are using the Pills, and all report wonderful re- sults, Appearances Deceptive. Tom—Who was that fellow we saw at the Swellman’s yesterday? Dick—Oh! that’s the oldest son. home is in the West. ‘Tom—Oh, no! I mean that fat, coarse- looking man who acted so boorishly. Dick—That’s the one. He’s the family skeleton.—Philadelphia Press. His Are You Using Aflen’s Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Of Course, “What did the lawyer say when you explained your case to him?” asked Mrs. Baxter. “He said it was fees-ible,” replied Mr Baxter.—Detroit Free Press, PATENTS. List of Patents I ed to Northwes Northwestern Inventors. Carl N Barquist, Pelican Lake, Minn., pbundle-carrying attachment for har- vesters; Madison Cooper, Minneapolis, Minn., indirect air circulating system for cold storage apparatus; John 1. 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