Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1892, Page 11

strong dislike aalped Bill, probably \un uccount of Bill's calling him the Jack THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY TAY 1892 -TWELVE PAGI 11 BRIDE OF SKELETON CAMP foalped Bill Had Named Him Jack o Spades and it Rankled. REVENGE OF THE TONGUELESS DWARF ¥iad to Marry the First Woman in Camp— Sho Arrived and Was Willin'=A Ci tion tor Snakes—He Wilted and Levanted, Salt Lak: Tribune, In the gulch we found the ghastly grinning skeloton of a man the hones sached white by exposure, | and o a shred of clothing, his side a miner’s spade, n fow feet away a minor’s pick and a gold pan. Around the waist a buckskin money belt well filled with conrse nuggets, also acartridge belt and a45. Upthe gulch we found a ruined hut, from the ridgo pole hung a shriv- eled piece of bacon. Seattered about was the camp kit eaton with rust. Al dumbly telling the s of the lone prospector who* at last had struck it rich, who had washed his last pan and found his lust color. salped Bill, “*ho staked . but the old chap with the sand and hay cutter has jumped him aud he's gone to muke o new filin The money belt and the 45 told that 1o had not been mardeved, but had sud- denly died, and the body had lain thero for years until we, like him, in our search for the yellow god, had found his bleached bones. -« We washea several pans of dirt at the little stream near by and they showed rich color, Then we pitched our tent, gathered the bones of the lone prospoc- tor und buried them. calped Bill called it **Skeleton ¢ and o it has ever since been known. [Por several months we worked the rich field alone, but we knew that be- fore long other prospectors would find our camp. And so it proved. Larly 0n0 morning thers came into tho guleh tho oddest fizure T ever saw—a dwarl noarly as broad as he was tall, his shoulders square uand broad, his head proportionately large, his chin massive and jaw his hair was black and long, curling slightly at the ends: on his head he wore one of those broud np’ square flat eaps such us German immigrants wenr; his arms were so long vhat his hands could touch his knees whilo he stood erect, his legs were bowed and his enormous calves showed plainly through the rather tight-fitting pants which he wore. “Well, I'm damned! the Jack of pades just out of the pack!” yelled Iped Bill. Chalk White erept up to me and whis- pered, “Boss! sond him away—fo’ Ged he'll cunjer the camp!” 1 confess I nlmost shared the darkey’s fear, the stranger looked so weird and like some pictured gnome. Sc The figure had reached us and stood silently awaiting our eritical inspec- tion. “Whav do yer huil from, strangor?” asked Bill. The dwarf opened his mouth and showed us that his tongue was gone then taking asmall slate from inside his shirt he wrote rapidly for a moment and held ivup for us to read. “Tonguoe cut out by Injun. I'm on a prospeet. Can 1 stay here?” I read %o the others what he has writ- ten. *‘Boss, fo’ de Lor’s suke tell him no,” entreated Chalk White; “if you let him stay, boss, he'll hoodoo der camp, clse we'll all wake up some dese ore mornings wid our throats cut an all der dust gone “Its free digging,” “I don’t like the shape of the cuss, but nousedriving him away. If wo do, why he'll just spread the find and they’il swarm into camp like bees. So ho staid and built him a brush nut some distance from the tent. Day aftor day ho toiled patientiy, seldom coming near us, and 1 to have formed a said Scalped Bill, of Spades. Before long other prospectors found our camp, until we counted fifty men good or bad., Among them a delicate hoy who had one day reached the camp and fell exhausted to the ground In an instunt the Jack of Spades, who was near, was at his sido, loosened his shirt and Mathed s head and face with water, and when he revived lifted him in his strong arms and carried him away to his hut. Through the fever which followed the Jack of Spades nursed him as tendorly as awoman could by night and day until ho recov- ered and grow strong aud was ablo to stake a claim and work it, but strange to say his was the only elaim that did not pan out L Scalped Bill dubbed him *'the Chicken”and said e guessed he threw all the smaller color away looking for the big nuggots,.” One night I was wakeful not sleep, 8o lighting up the gulch, “The moon mado it as light as day, and as I slowly moved on I saw the form of man or beast, at first 1 could not tell which, up the guleh Drawing nearer I discovered it was the Jack of Spades. In his hand he held a pointed stick which he thrust in the ground and then pulling it out he would stoop over the hole for & moment, thea moving a step he repeated the operation, What was he doing? Looking about I'saw that he was on tho Chicken’s claim, but what mad freak possessed him? Istood in the shadow of a bank watching him as he moved about silently and” quickly. At last [ knew, he was “sulting” the Chicken’s claim. Aud it was true, for the next day the Chicken panned out twenty ounces of conrse nuggots. and from then and could on tho Chicken's cluim was tho bost pay- | ing ono in camp. One night the “*Parson,” whose red nose plainly told how he had fallon from grace, made some remurk about the f woman ineampand *twas about time fov a y into our Kden, “1'd give an ounce just to look at a woman, " said Genteel Je: I give vwi said Red Hy ticout to come 1 say, boys!” said tho Parson, *“sup- pose we play freeze-out, and the last man in the game shull propose to tho | first single woman who comes into camp,” And so it was agreed; each man, bar- ring the Jack of Spades, who deelined, the Chicken, Chalk White, and Wun Lun, a moon-eyed leper who had como Into camp, was to buy an ounce worth of chips and play poker until one man held all the chips, and the last man in the game was to ask the first single woman who came into the camp, barving niggoers, to be his wife, No matter how old or ugly sho was, if she said yos, he must murry her, und the parson was to do the splicing. . **Howld on by aid Danny Kerry, Ysuppose & mun and his wife comes inter ther camp un ther chup wot wins the. thoice was terhuve a row wid ther man and kill him: wad ther widder be con- tdered ther fivsl single woman, an wud my pipe I strolled | ther man who killed the husband have [ ter ask the widder ter marry him?" We all agreed no. And ®o wo started playing. Forty- seven men sat down in different groups, and the game lasted for ten nights, and at tho end Scalped Bill hela all the chips It was hard to tell how Bill felt when he cashed in and quietly asked the boys to drink to the coming bride. | “Bill, yer want ter keep your lamps full o’ 0il.” Yer don’t know what hour the bride cometh,” said the Daacon. “Bettor go down to Oretown and get yer bridal trowso,” sugjpested Pegleg Crane, enteel Jerry thought maybe she’d wear Bill's, Sealped Bill took the ban- | sod part and only said, “All 3 jes’ waaty p'rlaps I'll laugh when 'she gots hore.” | The Deacon thought we ought to buiid an arch and hang up a sign, “Welcome | to the bride,” but Genteol Jorry said it might boa year or so before she came, | 0 tho idea was abandoned. It was de- | cidea, however, that each man ‘‘ante’ five ounces for the bride, to be paid as | 500N as the coremony was over. The days rolled into months. At first | when we startod out in tho morning we would Took unconsciously up the gulch as though we expected to sco the bride | coming. Threo months passed by and | we had almost ceased to speak of it. The Jack of Spades had been a from camp for ten days to get supplies | at Oretown, He had” taken a mule to | ride und two pack burros. We looke for his _ return daily. Lato cne afternooa he rode into | camp and came quickly to me. I saw he was unusually excited, the perspiration stood out in great drops, and upon his face was n grin which no othor term than devilish can well deseribe. ipping from his mule ho drew his slat d nervously wrote and held it for me to see. I looked and read “*Sheis coming.? 1 did not compreher Sho! Who? I asked. Ho wrote. ‘*“T'he bride, be here in one hour,”” and then the dwarf grinned and tried to laugh, utter that horriblo sound made by mutes. a fow minutes every man in the camyp had heard the news and with one accord wo all sought Scalped Bill, Chalk Whito was the first to rench him, “Marse Bill, yer bride’s comin’, he bride cometh,” said the deacon. “Bill, are yer lamps oiled 2" Scalped Bill dropped his spade and stared vacantly about him, *Boys, is it gospel vrath? How do yer know?” he asked. It w plained that the Jack of Spades had seen her and that she would be in eamp in aboutan hour. she single?” almost Sl Bill Yos, the Jack of Sps “That devil’s imp!” muttered Bill. "he dwarf stood looking at Bill, his hands on his knees and his body stoop- whispered les had asked hor. ing, looking like some horrible benst ready to spring. We quickly seattered to our tents and propared to greet the expeeted bride. When we had all again assombled each saw that the other had mado some attempt at sprucing up and decorating himself for the occasion. The hair and boots of nearl every man showed the greasy bacon marks and whiter skins told of a special washing. The Parson had put on along black rubber coat and wore the only *‘biled shirt” in the camp. Seaiped Bill had on a brand now flannel shirt and a pair of pants whose wrin told of a tight squeezo in a miner’s pack; his hair was smooth and shiny with bicon fat; he had nd in his nervous hurry had cut his elieek and the blood yet slowly trick- led down the side of his face; about his neck he wore a bright red scarf, clum- knotted; his high top boots boro of u recent application of bacon rind. When he came up the boys groot- od him with a yell. “I30) aid the parson, *it is proper that a committoe should bo appointed to receive tha coming bride and welcome her to Skeleton Camp, and I don’t know any one more suitable for the office than tho bridegroom that is to be.” So Bill was appointed a committee of one to greet the future queen of Skeleton mp. Challc White could play one tune, “What Shall the Harvest | ’ on his mouth organ, so in licu of other music it was agreed that he should play that when the bride arrived. “Yorsoe, boys,” said Bill, I ain’t used t kind er thing and we orter use Lo wko “She’ll take him,” wrote the Jack of Spados. “How in hell does that er imp know?” “Maybe ho proposed for you,” said 1teol Jerry. "he dwarf grinned and grasping my arm pointed up the guleh. We looked ) and saw slowly riding on a white burro and foilowed by a Chinaman, a tall,thin woman dressed in black, on her heaa a man’s broad-brim felt hat, hor dress was short and showed her very thin ankles clad in gray stockings thrust in a pair of canvas snoe As she drew nearer we saw that she was at least 60 years old and so tall and thin that Chalk White whisper Boss, dis ere’s anudder skeleton cum tor look fur der one dut we buried.,” | Under the felt hatshowed a faded brown wig; one bony hand that scemea a claw rested apon the pommel of the saddle, the other held the reins; her fuco was the color of a new saddle and | the skin was drawn over the high cheek hones so tight, it scemed that to touch it with o knife would cause it to burst asunder; a bit of luce was about her neck and a knot of red ribbon fastened with a huge old-fushioned cameo brooeh, A deep groan made me turn and iook at Sealped Bill. His faco was bloodiess and his eyes seemod standing out of nis G head ue ho stared at the womn he was to ask to marry him. The Jack of | Spades almost danced in fiondish do- ! think we'y light. Boys:” gasped Bill, “boys I—T can’t 1—1 wouken. boys, L'l throw down my cards and quit ther' game. Taint right | ter ask a feller ter hiteh onter that er | old corpse. Boys, I ain’t handsome,but I'm an_ Apollo DBellview longside er | he Boys, sho's died and como | back. DIl throw up my hands. Yer an take my pile, but don’t, don’t ask | | me ter marry that | | 0,n0!" “shouted a score of voices. | | *“Yor took yer chance and yer ean't | buck out. It" ud been | been young un’ purty. k her! | A whipped cur with hanging head and i | | vight'if she'd | Go uhoad and tail between its legs never looked more did 3ill. Great rolled down his | wor nervously. | within ubout fifty | and sat waiting, At last Bill | i utterly dejected than bouds” of ‘porspiration face and his hands The woman had rod: foet of u | started slowly us though his feet were | woighted with load, the erowd foliow- Ving. Bill stopped. “Boys,” | **have any on yer got some whisk A flask was hauded him in which was }mmuz half & ping; Le vaised it to his lips | | und drained it, then we started again shing to the musicof Chalk White's | | **What Shall the Harvest Bo?” Scalped | B3ill, hat in hand, advanced, pulled his forelock and scraping his left foot said, “I ask yer pardon, but may we enquire if yer marn or miss?” Miss, sir, if you please.” responded the woman in a sbhrill voice, disclosing a very even row of store seeth. Seatped Bill groaned. “Well, miss,” he gasped, *yer sce I'm appointed a committee of oné ter wels cowe yer ter Skeleton camp and hope he asked, » | was \ bound him hand and foot, | 0ld maid to hurey on 1 ored and | he had & wife away back samewhe; | from Bill, yor luck will pan out well. [Applauso.] ‘An’ miss, yor soo bein’s a8 yor the first petticoat in camp, we wanted ter build srarch and give yor flowers an a good sond off with a band o' music and all them fixia's; but thisere camp’s new an’ we ain’t got those things yet, which we hopes yer'll excuse. Wo know dead sure that ‘What Shall the [arvest Be?’ played by a nigger on & mouth o ain’t jes the thing ter welcomo a lu but we've played ther full limit of game. An'miss, we hope ver w © boen too fresh like, but y: sce we've lived here nigh onto two years nd ther ain't been a petticoat near enough to shoot, and the boys got lone- some like, and one night we sot down ter play freeze-out ter soo who'd win the first single woman what came inter camp, and gol darn my luck, miss, but [ won. L know it's kinder sudden liko and sort o' a surprise party to yer, and we hope ver'll take time to think over take a month or longer Yeor see, ther make yor s freo and spe: my feelings, it yer like in’t no strings on yer to os, and I hope yer'll act out. Don't mind hurtin’ miss, cause yer sco I might | hiteh onter something else. An now, miss, if yer'll ullow me ter help yer off that jack, we'll escort yer ter ther b tent in camp and leave yer ter yer re- ons, Might we beso bold as ter ask yer nume, miss “My name is Lone, Miss Hannah | Tone,” sho sighed deeply. *Pardon my emotion, gentlemen, the suddennoss of your proposal overpowe “Wul, Miss Hannah Lone “allow me to introduce ter gentlemen of Skeleton camp, ™ Tho boys all howed and scraped and gave three cheers for Miss Hannuh Lone. and Chalk White blowed a blast on his mouth organ. “Gientlemen, 1 feel deeply the honor sou have shown me, and to you, sir, [ deeply grateful. I have lived the my fow and unprotected. I have heun men of the Wild West s m d Bill, you, the ummers and winters of alone the and hungry heart has always yearncd noble more intimate knowledge of their chivalry and honor. In my maiden hoart I felt the influence of my guardian spirit which said, ‘Go among these sons of nature and perchance you'll find some congenial soul seeking its other sell and in you it shall find its aflinity.’ In you, I soe my hopes realized.” 1 find” my 1 (Bill groaned) a noble soul, a din- mond in the rough, a mighty oak which [ liko a slender vine may cling to with tho tendrils of love, and lest you think I scorn your offer, [ in the presence of ide these your companions, Yes, take my maidon love to your manly heart, but deal kindly with it, siv. (Bill's groan arred the earth.) And now gentlemen, ay pormit me to withdraw to the se- :nt which you have so 1 until my nicces ard their husbands, who are on the way, a rive. Will you kindly conduet me. *Certainly, miss,” and with Imnu\mu kneesand stumbling feet Bill led her to the tent, the boys following and Challk White blowing his only nir. Arriving at the tent wo gave three cheers and a tiger and dispersed. As darkness came on and the camp fires were lighted, cast- ing fantastic lighus and shudows up and down the gulch, frequent bursts of laughter would peal out, caused by somo wit's joke about ved Bill’s bride. There was a light in alped Bill’s tent until late that night, but no one ven- tured to disturb him. I had been asleep for somo time when astrange noise at my tent awakened n I called out *Who's there?” the sound that came in answer I knew it was the Jack of Spades. Avising and looking out [ saw the dwarf lying on the ground, bound hand and foot. Quickly cutting him loose I led him into the tent and lit acandle. T have seen faces that might justly be termed in- fornal, but I have novér seenany ex- pression so fairly devilish as tho face of the dwarf asthe light of the candle showed 1t; his frame “hook like a man with tae pulsy; bis veins stood out upon b lusion of the to Kkindly provid his forehead “and neck like cords; his eyes bulged outand rolled horribly, while he muttered that horrid sound in striving Lo speak. “What is it?” T asked. He motioned fora drink and taking my proffered flask he drained half its contents, everal times he tried” to write on his slate, but his hand shook so with excitement that I could not read what he has scrawled except the word (L3t “Is Bill dead?” The dwarf shook his head *No.” **Did Bill tie you?” “Yes,” he nodded, and showed his teeth like a dog. “Where is he now?” He pointed up the gulch, “Gone?” He nodded his hoad acain and the truth flashed into my mind. Bill had skipped. Taking some matches I quickly went to 131ll’s tent, followed by the d warl. Striking a light, I saw in the middle of the tent floor a paper addressed to me. I read: “My OLp Parpi—I can't doit. I bave thought and ihought over the thing and the idea of marrying that old mummy and hav- ing to keep it warm on cold nizhts, just mado me crawl. I have tought grizzlies and moun- tain cats and Injuns and greasers, and pard I nover weakenod oofore, but to think of wak- ing up some nizit and touching that loathoer- skinned skeleton, almost gave me the D, T.'s, Pard, I'd rattor l1oalongsida tho skeloton wo found in tho guich, causo that one couldn’t move, All the dust I won at that devilish game of freeze-out I leave for you to give back to the boy: Givomy tent and outfit 10 the Chicke 1'd like to give my bride to what devil’s imp the Jack of Spades. ~Lard, gooa-bye. [ handed the letter when he read the referenca to himsolf ho scemed to loss control of himsclf, dancing about like a madman, and rushed out of the tent. Tho next day we learned from dwarf that he B, to the dwarfl and the hud suspected that Bill would leave, therefore he watched his tent, and when he saw Bill como out and catch his horse, he followed him and tried to prevent his going, Although the dwarl was a giant in strength, Bill more than a match for him, and and giving him a parting kick, rode off. The dwarf had sucesadad by rolling over and over, in reaching my tent, Later we leurned from the bride that the Juek of Spades had mot her party in Oretown and discovering that she was single, had told them of the richness of tho placers and ded the party to visit it, and had further induced the in advance and any other single ), thus cbliging Bill to him. Tk warf had uned a neat revengo and was ter- ribly enranged at Bill's escape. The bride straived u tear for Villiam, the lost partner chosen by fate,” but recov- suggested that the boys con- tthe oracle in anothor game of out, but every man in camp swore roach camp hefore woman got the sk her Lo ma; sult r Some moaths later I received a letter He had struck it rich in Old Mexico and wrote that he “‘would stay there until the bride of Skeleton Camp had been mowed down by the old man with the sand glass and hay cut- ter.” e Drunkenness, A disease, treated as such and nently cured. No publicity ary. Home treatment, effctual. Refer by lington Hawkeye, " & hnmphl».v. Shokoquor urlington, Ia erma- No infirm- Tarmloss and pormission to Bur- ond 20 stamp for Chemical Co., MOSTH OF MAY OF THE FARM. By D. D. T. MOORE. May—Month for activity, A-id natur by feriilizing, Y-oung stock nead attention. alwaysa month of activity with will prove unusually so this account of the which has caused most May farmers, on season, o t efforts to prepare and put in thel before it is too late to secure profitable production. Iven those who have ms tured their plan of operations with gr and provided forall possible con- encies, must necesarily be prompt soil-tili- r crops and vigilant in ordé# to rondor their | spring labors effective. Somo may find it advisable . change their plans somewhat , and wnt smallor area to hoedserops than they had intended, but whether planting few or many acres, every tultivator should make it a point to sed that whatover is undertaken be accomplished as well and quickly as oxpedient.; Above all things, do not attempt to plant more acres lh:m you cancultivate thoroughly. Thorough tillage tells, and tothe lack of this os- sontinl requisite, more than anything else, is due the complaint we hear so much nowadays, that “‘farming don’t pay.” Indeed, it fs* doubtful if there would not be comparatively few worn- out and abandoned farms in the older sections of the ¢ for the pernicious practice, forme: common, but now happily less pr lent, of attempting to cultivate a area than couid be properly till fertilized. untry had it not been Field Crov IPor these crops it is essential that the ground bo thoroughly prepared, good scod securod, and the ‘necossary fertili- P obtained and applied in season. Good tillage and pure sced are import- ant factors, and intelligent cultivators noed not be advised that home-made for- tilizers are the cheapest and ofteu the best, Indian corn, the most important and most generally grown spring erop, is of course the tirst to be considered. & requires a well tilled soil and liberai manuring is also essential. Use the best seed attainable and that sure o gormin- ato, as no crop depends more upon the quality of the secd than corn, and the utmost pains should be taken in its selec- tion. Tt is a rapid growing crop, de- manding n large amount of plant food and it pays to sow some quic acting fertilizer at the time of planting to start and ten the growth. Planting in drills more plants and & greater yield wnd is considered best on clean land; but hill planting allows the crop to be planted both ways, and is 1 ferablo on weedy soils. Tlie' chiof one- mies of sprouting corn arc various cut- worms and grubs below. the ground, and crows after it is up. Tarving seed corn will keep off insocts, Stir a pint of warm tar in a peck of seed until every seed is thorougily coated. Then roll in plaste Birds will have be kept off with scar crows of somo kind—clattering wind- mills being among themost effective. Potatoes should be planted as soon as wive to the ac the soll is in condition. The early planting of early varieties is advisahlo wherevor the beatle is likely to prevail. Parsnips and mangles are profitable voot crops, and rutabagas may be made so if planted on rich soil and well culti- vated. oot crops need much timely at- tention to keep down the weeds and pre- vent a failure, and the, well if this is done sonably ‘Sughr beets are rown to advantage in many localities, Soiling crops may be sown this moath —such as onts,pens and corn—and are in- creasing in popularity. voct corn is excellent for soiling, though other varieties are planted for the purpose. Oats and peas may be sown to advantage in some sections; use any leafy variety of oats, and m rowfut peas are best on rich soil. D ing in corn is preferable to broadeas sowing. One bushel tothe acre will give the best results when drilled in on rich soil. To secure a succession of green fodder, corn should be drilled 1n or own every two or three weeks untit the middle of July. Mes dows—Pastures —Fertiliz o irass lands, whether meadow or pas- ture, will repay any attention in the way of cleaning, fertilizing, ete., that may now be given them. Old mendows should be top-dressed this month, and if they are thoroughly dragged and timo- thy seed sown (especially on thin spots) it" will improve them materially. Meadows should be made dy for the mower by rolling: pick up whatéver rub- bish would obstruct the machine. Of course no sensible farmer will pasture his meadow in spring. Those who pus- ture their cows are advised thav shade and watering places are good invest- ments. On many farms all the way from the Atlantic to the Pac there is abundant room for improvement in the we and management of hoth meadows and pastures, and the latter especially should receive much attention from dairy farmers during this month. Home made manures should be made and uzed liberally at this scason, and as all animal and vegewable matter fur- nishes fertilizing matervial—and in fact, anything that will rot and decomposo produces the food for plants—seo that nothing of value for manuring purposes be wasted, but added to the compost heav or otherwise utilized. Cultivators cannot make too much manure for corn and other crops, and for top dressing, while commercial fertiliz ind special manures will pay farmers and gardeners large dividends. Green manuring af- ford ap and most e method of soil enrichment. Buckwhoeat is the best erop for & very poor soil, turning under two crops in a year. Burly tho next spring clover can be sown. fertil- ized with a dressing of plaster; and if the cropisa luxuriunt one, an enrly cutting of hay may bhs made; whon tho ds are partially ripe the elover can be turned under. Where wheat is raised the field is cross plowed very lightly, or the grain sowed upon the surface and worked in with the cultivator, Care of Live Stock, The heavy snow storms and cold rains in April_that have charactorized the backwnrd spring, have proved unfuvor- able to stockmen in most sections of the country, and prolonged the seeding sen- son; and while May usuaily brings warm weather and good pasturage, farm stock must not be neglected this montn, es- y while going from hay to gras ng teums seed extea care ana hb- eral rations to keep them in good condi- tion at this bu: be guarded tod and other iaju clean and sofi, aud when the eams come to the barn in a heavy s . 40 not Siall, plaasant s faxarile with the § strip them at once, but wait until they 3 have somewhat coofed, After the col- . " lars ave removed, bathe the shoulders | sile by Kulin & Co. and Sherman with salt and water, ( vlenty of succulent food, ve brood mur Cows should beiivery gradual changed from dry feedto pasture. It is a good plan to give salb'tu prevent ove eating of grass, Givershem grain and nay, and also roots if you have them. If brought up early andfed hay with grain or roots at night, and given” hay before going to pasture in‘the morning they will thrive. Calves ayd other young an- imals need good care pad feed now to Keop them growing. Sheep ought to be apprecia month when the time for wash lateness of the | to bo so delayed in their spring work | they will be compelled to uso extra | shearing has arrived and thoy are yield- ing big clips. But there is a difforence of opinion among farmers as to whether washing pays and many have discon- tinued tho practico. The ewes and lambs require attention until turned out to summer pasture which should not bo done until the grass is well started. ag sheep before they go to pasture he ticks that collect on lambs after old | sheep are shorn may be destroyed by using a dip of tobacco water of somo other decoction sold for the purpose Swine should be looked aft | fully now. Hogs should be fed r | but'no more than they will eat up ¢ They will thrive and fatten on clover, the “fattoning process to he completed lator by foedine grain. 1f allowed to run in the orchard also do good servic Special pigs will gain and by destroying many care should bo taken now to koep young bigs growing, as a set-back at this time will prove injuri- ou Poultry keepers who aim at profit should destroy dusting boxes, whitewash places and nosting boxes, and g birds plenty of range. Cleanliness great factorin successful poultry keop- ing. vermin, provide good roostit the Garden and Orchard, Tho vegetable and fruit gardens both demand attention this month, and it should be given even by tho busiost of rmers, -.whll'-\n residents and vil lagers. Good tables nd fruits are pu ble and healthful, and ought to be considered indispensable in the family. The seed catalogues are now so completo in details that it is unnccessary to give the times of sowing or the distance apart of the vacious vegetable ut we urge that the seed bed well prepared and en- riched, and carefully protected at night, where there are lato frosts, after the seed has boen sown, Plant raspborries and blackberrics ecarly, and set out cur- rants, gooseberri yevines,quin ote., that were kept |I||u\|, h the winte Manure and thoroughly weed the straw. berry bed, und apply a heavy mulch, Tt will pay 10 uso amulch of straw, bog hay or litter on currants, raspbervies and other fruit bearing shrubs, Fight weods and inseets as soon as they appoar, with sharp hocs, clbow g and insecti- cides, It isnot too late fo plant fruit trees in gardens and orchards, Trc that have been heoled-in to re 1 growth can be safely planted later than others. Remove caterpillar nests, using swab, with keroseno emulsion or line wush. Destroy the curculio on sight S0 Daily jarving the plum and other trees infestéd, and catehing the cureulios on sheets, is the best remedy. Sy yi with Paris green or London purple is the pa ea fo i i that infe: both rdeners and orch ould inform themsoelves in regard to the use of insec- tivides, and give timely uattention to their application to infested trees, vines id plants, These of our veaders en gaged in fauit erowing are advised to give the mutter of thinning timely attention. According to a pomologicil authority, the only way to make fruit growing is to sl good fruit at large price ay to have good fruit is to throw wway one-half or two- thirds of it while it 1s still young. This may be done before the flowers have bldomed, by t1 s operation of disbudding But this rarely removes enough, and ns soon as the fruit is setal share should be removed. If it appears that oo much still remains the number may be reduced when it is half grown, and still move, if need be, just as ripening is about beginning. So with grapes, certain number of clusters of which is apportioned 1o the age and strength of the vine. Of course precision like this is not looked for in m: culture, vet an approximation to it may be tried; but lot nothing bo carried beyond the point of profit. Biliousness. Symptoms. — Rilious attacks are accom- Panicd by constipation, loss of appetite, colic, vomiting of bile, and diarrhaa. ‘The bilious condition is too often neglected until it has led to bilious fever, or some other serious complaint. It is casy to keep the liver and biliary organs in thorough working order by using Na- ture’s own remedy. It regulates and stimulates the liver and bowels, purifies the blood, and keeps the system in a perfectly healthy condition. 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