Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 5, 1892, Page 10

10 e —————— ALL ABOUT ANCIENT ST, IVES Pen-Pictures of the Cornish Fishing Vil- lage Renowned ia Nursery Rhyme. ONE OF THE ODDEST OF 0DD OLD TOWNS ple With That of Hunged Their Host “lor the Protector'’s Pleasure’—How the Pilchard is Harvested, Bu Ives Iy Compa (Copyrighted. 1892.) S Tves, Cornwall, Eng.. June 18.—In tho tonder reatm of nursery-rhyme loro thero is # no pleasanter mysticism than that whicn clings to the protty riddlo: As T wus going 10 St. ves Lmet s nin with seven wives, weh wife hid seven sack ach sack hud seven o Ench eat hid seven Kit Kits, ents, sacks and wive: How muny were there going toSt. Tves? So deep and lasting are the impressions of shildhood, that as I wamped around the southern reach of St Ives bay from tho protty hamlet of St. Earth, I found myself unconsciously scanning the highway far ahead for this same wicked old fellow who has puzzied tho heads of millions of little folk. But e was not to be seen, more than the “kits, cats, sacks and wives” are to bo taken into account fn the olden riddle. 1u truth, no man, woman or child was vis- 1ble upon the white and cirching highway. St. Earth nestlod there silont and appar- ently deserted against tho conse and the hill sido. The tide was out in the bay. A few fishermen’s boats rocked idly beside mossy old piers. T veaches of sand showed here and there shining and brown like the ks of hugo marino mons Gulls wheeled lzily above. Land aud sen fowl chattered in the circling marsh cdges, or dug in the sund and oozo. Ouly to the nortn, through the rift between thie headlands, was thero a singlo sign of life. On the sapphire blue of tho Irish sea were two far, whito snlls, But I knew the ancient city lay bohind the huge headland, and quickening my pace 800n 8tood at its sea-face und its highost ac- clivity. Hero tho highway tumbles into one of the oddest old towus in all Iuropo. No wonder that Londoncrs are coming tnis, to them, tremendous journey of 250 miles for summer loitering, and the grand promon- tories behind tho town are filling up with brilliant terraces; or that artists swarm to tno romoto place for its bits of antique i’ architec- ture, its quaint grouping of fisher folk and 1ts outreachings of wild and glorious Cornish coast. of Ancient St Thereare pictures and pictures of the Bay of Naples. But were I an artist I would stake my hope of remown on the picture I saw a8 [stood above the bay and ancient town of St. | The bay 1self faces the north. At your feet are purple heather and waving ferns partea from tho crystaline water by glisteniugsands, To tho right and east the green hillock of the eastern shore. Then the broad yellow beach of Porth-cock- ing, or the Foresand. Dominating this is the great headland of Pednolva. Beyond, gleam- ing like a field of gold, are tho magnificent sands of Porthininster; and further stiil, the headland and rocky islet of Godrevy, with the latter's white lighthouso sitting cameo- liko bevween the purple of the sea walls ana the tremulous blue of the oceun. Bofore you, the silent shimmering bay, with a few whito-winged eraft scarcely ing, 1t seows, the distance isso great from tho height'where you stand; the ocean bo- yond, shining and” blue and still: rythmic teaches of incoming tide-waves, ad- vancing and retreating, and breaking softly upon the shelviug sands i tiny ridges of sparkling spume; and here, to the west, a great mass of jumblod gruy—old St. Ives crouching in a little pocket of the rocks, l1ke & mass of mossy stone in some shadowy glen slecping away the centuries, uncon- scious of the thunderous sea. Up bere among the terraced villas you can form iittle idea of the guaint old town. The great road jumps intoit at a leap,and 1s broken by the fall into the oadest closes and wynds of any coastwise nook in England. One could almost hurl a stone u s tiled roofs: and yet it houses fuily 9,000 peo- ple. The streets are so narrow, the pave- ments 50 meager, such quoer turns are made, such shadowy arcaaes are penetrated, that the surest-tooted strauger pedestrian will meet many a bump and baog 1n most careful descent. 0dd Nooks in Labyrinthine Lanes. Then when you have reached somothing liko a level you have simply increased your difiicuities. ~All the lower thoroughtares aro scarcely morc that shadowy footpaths lead- ing bewilderingly from somewbero to no- where. This one, opening promisingly, brings you squarely against a solid wall of rock. Tnat one in half a dozen places lands you Plety vos. apou a flat roof, from wiiich you may easily step into the harbor, 100 feet beneatii. Another winds about s smgle structure windowless as a tonth coatury fortress. Descending another you find a n, whose roofs ure the Dassagews t of homes of a street above, Dozens lead squarely into opon doors of fishermen’s homes, Many are liko gulleries boforo others, Some wind through houses where tiving roums of thoe same house will be found at either side of a public passage. And thon inwhat odd nooks the little shops will be found. Thero 1s not a single street 100 yards in longth where a half dozen ops are coutinuously located. Kyen in these you must uceds often ascend or de- scend a story or more. The most are liter- illy bigden or perched in outlandish and out- sf-the-way spots, where, if not stumbled apon, one must repeatedly come with a zuide or find rediscovery hopeless, Here will be one perched in & hulf-timbered Eliza- pethun projection, away up there three or tour stories from the street, and you cannot fnd an entrance. And thers one will bo seen 8 many storics beneath a tiny esplanaded way, but app: ntly you cannot reach it witbout rope and tackld, Others aro whero Kitchens suould be. And still othors unex- ectedly confront you from dormor windows, dverything of tnis sort seems bewildering roversed from its properorder. 13ut nothing uver seems to bs bought or sold in old Sf [yes: tho artist gloats over the curious jum- ble: and it is all most winsome aud charm- mg to the stranger. Seen From the Waterside, 1f you come at last through this labyrinth lo the watcrside, you will waze back along the dorm penthouses and roofs of the strango old city, and up and on (0its torraced aelghts with increased enthusiasm for its rare quaintness and curious aspe Tiny iowers sbow hers and thero as 1f outjutting from natural rock. Bits of luxuriant foliage and masses of vines seem 1o spring from the roofs like rich clumps of emerald moss, Spires and wondrously high peaked roofs stand out against the gray and green back- ground like spearheads of unpolisbed steel, Above all, tho handsome terraces aud the rand old heights, where once the beacon- res were lighteo, Gray aud old as is this Cornish fisher town but two bits of extreme antiguity remain, Justn the rear of the White Hart inn by the wharfside is a huge pile of greenish slato rock. Built upon this rock, which forms its basotaent, is & tny ancient stone structure known as Carn Glaze house. It was the stroaghold of a smuggling, freebooting fam- iy in Queen Anae's Ume, and the myr weird tishor and soa-faring legends of S (ves have nearly all bad their origin in, or sear some reference to, this grewsome oid irueture, ‘The parish churck, built straight above the barboredge, 1t east window sprayed with ihe foam of the wild northern tempests which often lash the harbor furiously, was built fu the sixteen yosrs botween 1410 and 1426, on the site of an olden structure, found- #d by Saiut Ivo, a Porsiau bishop, who came sver trom Irelaad {u the ninth century to proaoh the gospel 10 the Cornish Britons. Curlous Wood Carvings. Sowe stone caivings and a most beautiful aud eurious fout of the old St. Ivo chapel are Mtiil presorved. Perbups the quoiutest cary- Ings in Lugland are to be found at the pres- a8t churoh. Thoy were the work of tue then rillage blackswith, *a haudye and devoute " who carved the oak of the benches and #hoir stails, not omitting to carve the foree, the bellows, hammer and nails und pincers of his own sturdy craft, Ho tbrew in a fair supply of Tudor roses, wonks and sugels, but, a8 Saiuts Andrew sud Peter are appro- Jrisle patrous of the church where couutless thousands of fisher folk have worshiped, the good smith also put them into overy conceiy- avle bonoficentattitude, and, as if to in- tonsify their protootion of the town of St. Ives aud 118 people, also wove fishes, saints and arabesques into most generous and pro- fuse relationship, 11 thess tvings aro curfous studies some of those in stone are equally outlandish. There are stono grotesques whose equals in | strange and me ingless hideousness can hardly be found elsewhore in Kurope. Se reprosent mocking, leering faces of men and beasts, Two are distending their mou with their fingers and protruding thoir | tongues. One1s a most horrible figure of an nd another wears o fool’s cap of the d. The stranger will bo impressed with thoe | extruordinary olovation of the sotl of thetiny churchyard.© When the place was first quite filled with the dead, the burial-pluce was covered over with several foet of sand, and interment went on anow. Threo times this was done; when it was finally found that to have repeated the process would have becn to bury the church itself, then & cemetory was sécured upon the height “For the History, tradition and legend have carved somo grim pictures upon the dim back- ground of the past in this old Cornish fish: town. One historical fact will bo suficien illustrative. its object being tho Catholic roligion, to which Cornubians re- mained greatly attached long after the Re- | formation, John Pavne, portrieve of St. Ives, wus one of the inferior leade After tho defeat of the Cornish, Sir Anthony Kingston, with o royal commissinn, was seeking ouvand punishing the rebels. He hung the mayor of i bofore his own door. St. Ives' poi receivea Authouy humbly and pre- red a good dinner in his honor at tho veu erable “George and Dragon” still standa in Market square, During the dinnor the portrieve heara the sound of hammering outside, and being dis- turbod was quieted by Sir Authony with tho remark that th to hang a rebel. Dinuer over, hi s, the com- missioner invited tho portrieve outside to in- spect the gallow “What say you, Master Portrieve?’ quotn Sir Aathion Ts von gibbet duly furnished for tho hanging of a traitor?" “Allscems ready, a'nt please you,” was the prompt roply. “Then,” said the commissioner, turning to a man-at-arms, “sccure Master Payno and hang him straightway, for such is the pro- tector's pleasure!" Master Payne was hung straightway; but the Cornish, who are Celts, like the Celtic Irish and Celtic Welsh, unpleasantly remem- ber these little afterdinuer jests of English protectors and kings. A Famous Fishing Port. Great was the olden fame of St. Ives as a metropolis of fish and fishermon, It s still the most important of all Cornish fishing ports. Fiva thousand folk live here on what is harvested from the deep. For a thousand years or more, from father to son. from inother to daughter, the line has remamed unbroken, has steadily row is the life horizon of and families that not a said, ever seo other English land thau the hills and headlands of Ives bay, save when at sea in their own boats, These bouts are il two-masted, lug-sailed, with round sterns, and range in tonnage from twonty to thirty tons, With complete outfits they cost from £300 to €650, Between (00 and 700 men and youths are employed tho year round in fishing. During the winter thoy eng ishing for congor, whit ing and liu curing a few cod, 1In March the spring mackerel tishing begins: and St. Ives men are always found o their own grounds, from thirty to fifty mile northy s in tho Irish sea. Her the the lastof June, when they sot out for the eastcoast Scottish bher- ring_fisherics, usually selecting grounds in the North Sea, opposite the Firth of Forth, or abreast of Coldingham and Berwick. During August they wul be found alo otector's Pleasure, 1y In the Cornish uprising of 1649, restoration of the hose fishermen ore of them, it is g the east rlish coast in the 1 borhood of Whitby, Scarboroagh and the Yurmonth of Dichens’ 1 s, bu lways back to St Ive utumn St. [ves herrin, fishing, arge numb home in time_for possivlo ruus of *pilchers’’ (pilchards), the “Fair Maids of St. Ives,” for wnich tho ancient seaport has been {amous for half a thousaud iHarvesting the Pilchard.} As pearly as can be deseribed the pilcha is the sardine of the Meuite It makes its appoarance at St. comes at all, in tremendous shoals during tho months of September and October. From daylight until sunset of overy day during these months watchmen called “‘uuers’ are stationed at lookouts on Carringeladen and Porthminster Hills ana Carn Crow’s island. Thew practiced eyes never fail in dis- cerning the approach of a shoal of these flsh, They come iu such vast numbers that the surface of the bay changes its color and often 18 broken into ripples and foam from the movements of the dense masses o fish, On sighting a sctool of pilchards the “huer” first blows a_terrific blast unou his speaking-trumpet. Ono blast is sufticient, All St Ives folk tumble from their b and rush wildly shouting, *Hova! hova the shore. Meantime the great seine readv-manned, have put out and ure whoily in surrounding the shoal by tho sig- naling of the “huer,” which is done with a hoop on which white' muslin is stretened, to which a long, hght haudlo is attached, It is called “the bush,” for in olden times & bush was used instead. hooting the saine is 50 rapidly don? at St. Ives that often the entire sioal of piichards will be literally impounded within ten min- utes time from the “huer's” trumpet sigual. Single catches of pilehards have exceeded 6,000 hogsheaas of salted and cured fish, Of late years th Ives pilchard fishory bas been uncertain; but in 1830 there wero 8,000 hall-casks of 214 pounds each taken. Thoy aro shipped to various Meditorrane ports for use in the Lenten soason, [wly being the largest customer, A People Simple and Pions. Tho St. Ives fisher-foll are noted for their simplicity and piety. They aro nearly all forvent Mothodists, honest, supc humble an L' Thoy live i mfort isier-folic of Ne Scotland; and the man is mo; his homo and velongings. most serupulously clean and thrifty folk of this sort I have e met. T'ne women, though strong aud brawny, have few of the Billingsgate characteristics of the fishwives of tho English east coast, of Scotlana and of Galway und the (rish’'west coast. 'Thoy mend the nets and “bulk’ or pack tho pil chards, They are very domestic, and their prayer-mectings and strict Sabbath keeping, though they are wofully ignorant, have done these St. Ives fisher-folk no hurt or harm S6Ak L, WAKEM —— Go Renson Why it Should, Mr. W. M. Torry, who has been in the drug business at Elkton, Ky., for tho past twelve years, says: *Chaniborlain's Cough Kewed botter satisfaction than any other cough mediciue [ bave cver sold.” There is good reason for this. No other will cure a cold 80 quickly; no other is so certain a preveutlve aud cure 'for croup: uo other affords so much reliof 1u cases of whooping cougli, vhaven in the master of hev are the “DIE WACHT AM RHEIN.,” Dedication of a Monument to the Author of the Fumous Song. Only a fow weoks ago France cole- brated the centennial unniversary of the birth of Rouget de Lisle, the author of *The Murseillaise,” by unveiling a monument in the natal place of the singer whese song has stirred the en- thusinsm of France through many decades. Oo Sunduy it was Germany's turn to unveil & monument to one of her great singers, whosesong, pitted in 1870 against that of Rouget de Lisle, came out vietorious—to Max Schueckenbur- ger, the author of “Die Wacht am Rhein.” Stear to say. thnacken- burger did not write bis famous song for the 1870 cumpaign. He was then «fiuul. and the dute of its origin is 1840, Max Schneckenburger, according to his own account, was born on February 17, 1819, and not on the 7th of that month, as many blographers state, at Thalbeim, near Tuttlingen, Wurtem- TR T respected merchant. The house in which he was born is stil! preserved. On the ground floor stands the store of Max Schnecken- THE OMAHA DAILY B tled in the Burgdorf, in canton of Berne, in order ts establish an iron foundry. He made a home for himself | there, marrying the daughter of the | Theim. He died too early —on May 8, 1849—when only 80 old. Ho was buried av Burgdor a slonder iron cross long marked his grave, The monument dedicated on Sunday is at Tuttlingen. Here follows the famous lied: A cry like thunde 11s hoard, ean rour and cinsh of sword, ue! to th' Rhine! to th' astor of Tha German | Who'll form the river's guardian line? Dear Fathorland, let ponco be thine, Firm stands the Watch uvon the Rhine! A hundred thousand hearts beat high, Firm is the whl and flashed tho eye. And Deutschiani's yoath, all strong bra Stand fi and i, tho sacred stream to save. nd thongh death ealls mo from the ranks, No foe shiil ever own thy banks; Rtich us in volame is thy ool Is Doutschland, aye, i herces' blood. Solong as German blood shall flow, nd arm can aeal w saber blow ylong as frm are hieart and » toe shall tread thy sae nd, strand, The pledgo is ta'en. the stroam runs by; The b imners flutter. held on high: Ihe Ruine! T} fne! The German Rbine! We all will torm its guardian line! Dear Fatherland, lot poace bo thin 'irm stands the Wateh upon the Rh ——— 1t Suves 1l C. H, with plensur Caamborlain’s Colie, Rtemedy has done my fourteon years, In the chita won, Wellsvillo, Kan., says : that I speak of the good Cholura and Iiarrhon family during the last nost obstinate cases EE: TUESDAY, JULY until winter. There need be no break in the supply. There ought not to be. Idonot know of a forty-acre farm in the entire west but where all the fruits should be grown. Only think of having, not just a taste occasionally, but a full supply for yourselves, your children and friends, from carly in'the season until winter, and, in addition, my good wife puts up a full supply in glass jars, so that theve is not a day in the year but that we e them if we ‘so wish My farmer friends, you may_have just as'full a supply as we do, and they are a comfort and pleasure to us that money could not buy. Digestibility of Cattle Foods, The Maine experiment station, W. H Jordun, director, publishes the follow- ing summary of ,their results in experi- wenting on the digestibility of cattlo fouds for the yems4801: 1. The Hunggrian grass, both when fed greon and afige drying, proved to be more digestibly than the average of other grasses—nitably more so than timothy. J Lhe di ing of the Hungarian gras into hay did npt, diminish its digosti- bility. This is.iy uccordunce with all former oxperictiva, 3. The corn plaut as sut for the silo is oue of the most digestible of fodder plants, rating in the experiments ns comprred with timothy as 100 cent of the dry organic mat- sted, while with the averago Sixty pe ter of timotiny was the various corn fodders was 72 por cont. The experiments of this yoar diselose no especial differonces in thed of summer complaint and diarrhea amwo g of the southern ficld and sweet my children, it seted as u charm, making it fodder nover necessary to call in a physician. 1 can AT Her B DRIk Wit vouLs truthfully say that in my judgment, based | (i EEIEOR G L e of on yours of experience, thero is nota med | FRERT SR iy % t icine in the market thut is ite cqual. uny of the foods tested ielapelaty e OF INTEREST T0 THE FARMER. The coming hog, says I C. Dawson of Towa, must be a rustler; one that has tho get up and grow to him; an animal of fine proportions, with cxtra top line, broad, deep hams, clean cut, smooth undaer line, free from ‘‘flabbiness,” or jowl, or belly, with deep bacon sides, the deepness extending well back to flank and forward to shoualder, not un- even and deep in centor, having a fine cut head, smooth and broad botween the eyes, jaw broad and tapering well and even to muzzle, eyes clear and prominent, with ears standing well out from the head, breaking evenly and smooth toward the point, but would cven prefer u standing up ear to a_drop or flop ear; as a drop or flop ear, flobby waste material being very small, aging not over 8 per cent of the whot . The gluten meal, which is n waste product in the manufacture of glucose from corn, was digested to the extent of 89 per cent of its dry organic matter, which does not differ at all from the figure given in the German tables for the entire grain. The treatment which the grain receives in converting the starch into glucoso does not sesm to affect the digestibility of the refuse. 6. The second trial of the digestibility of American wheat bran gives average figures ulmost similar to thoso obtai in the first trial, and shows this cattle food to be but slightly if an more di- ibie than good hay, and much in- rin this respeet to grain such as maize, oats, barley, ete. Blddy Tukes the Cike, »p breeders point with pride t that the ) is a double Our sl to the fa jowl and under line in my exporience she are not rustlers, and more in- | geared animal, so far as profit is con- clined to discase from theiv | cerned, and that cither the lamb or the nature of slothfulness, and these | ool on the pelt or off it, will ‘pay for bad points are genorally found togethe e Sl 10 bones shouid not be too large,but of fine and strong texture, firm, standing erect on their pins, tay e well from arm and thigh down to feet. Some “granger’s cow™ say here is milk overy hether for butter f once a your people have an ic that the size is the poiat to the brood mare that most desirable in theselection of a hog. < her way and give the colt and that large bones, no matter how rofit. iddy, however, beats badly shaved, is the hog for them; | them ail. First, there are ti claiming that large hogs must have ex- sh and bright, eash an traorainary large bones; while a good ar; young chickens w bone is desirable if well shaped, a small | tired and needs a couple of months va- bone is more to my notion than a big | cation, chickens which in from three to awlkward shaped one for this reason, a | five months e 1sh crop for which hog that has the right form and small | the world will pay a good price; then bone possesses the faculty of putting on | manure fit to grow premium crops of deep flesh and making big returns for | corn, and lastly the body of the hen his fecd, and carrving to market de- [ itself, a valuable product after yielding the other is and goes to mar- ut of low priced sirablo meat, while havder, longor feeder, ket with u large per ¢ meat, Millet and Corn Comy As many farmers will th millet as a catch crop, information as to its value will be welcome. The Hatch experimental station at the N ichu- tts agricultural-college, has been en- gaged in some work intended to estab- lish a1 of comparison between mil- let and corn. A full report of results has not yet beer published for the rea- son that the analytical work has not been completed,nnd feeding experiments with meals of millet and corn fed against each to milk cows, and of the straw ed. year sow three distinet protits, A double-purp animal is a good thing. bur_biddy dou- bles the double-purpose and cackles, as she hus clearly aright to do. Mionable bathing suit. The summer girl, like the prohibi- tionist, should never wet her suit. The givl wilt nothing but beingswung and rowed. The girl in the Paris bathing suit should always come in when it rains, Jur givl’s shos com o the house for a ser undone hurry ant to t t Don’t revive the poisoned ice cream stories, or your girl will think you av ainst corn fodder, ave still in progress, | YTk - W henetre R teaain periments ave | 1f you are unable to swim always concluded, especially that designed | choose a squally day to take the girls to test the value of millet meal | OUtin a boat. as a milk ration, it wilt undoubtedly bo | If you fall overboard don’t take off a valuable addition to our knowledge of | your flannel shirt, for you might not be this grain, as the work of the Massa- | able to get it on again. chusetts station is generally careful and reliable, Such analyses as we have show that, temically considered, millet is almost a perfect milk ration, and yet popular judgment scems to dis- wusi it for that purpose, as is shown by the fact that so few dairymen use it Definite results from well” guarded ex- periments will be welcome, and we are glad the Hateh station bhas taken the matter up. While full results are not yet ready for publication, bulletin No. 18 of the stution contains the following by way of a preliminary report: »e'the present | desive simply to call attention to the fact, that the millct When you meet a perspiring friend p»him on the back und ask him 'm enough for him. yuseen girl in a Paris bathing dress sitting on the sand you must neve think of asking her to go in the water. N York Y¥vening Sun: When a mad dog chuses you, don’t cull the po- fice. It is just as well to be bitten as shot. If you ave in love with a summer giri and get cut out, don’t challenge your rival. Remember that he won’t get he anyway. if you intend to cut down expenses by enormous cropping enpucity. 1v gave | spending the summer at your country us to the half acre 87.2 bushels of sced [ cousin’s, be sure to tell all your friends ghing forty-seven pounds per bushe corn gave us 30.6 bushels of garain. The- millet straw 191 pounds, the corn stover, 00 pounds. The 1 erushe moist- ened and sprinkled with meal is readily caten by both hc s and cattie; but it does not appear to be equal to the corn stover i feeding value. The millet soed ns shown in the results of foreign analyses appeurs 1o resemble oats very you will piss the season abroad. 1f you are bearding in the count it is not considered in good taste to ask the farmer how his one cow can furnish enough fresh milk for a score of board- ors. If you ure out bonting with your girl 1d “her aunt and the boat apsets, rescue the girl first, for they will think you are one of those bad men who play poker if you appear anxious about taking up the aunti closély in composition. So far as our i oo experience in feeding it has gone the | LeaveNwonrii, K, June 15, 00, meul from it appears to equal r. J. 1. Moore: My Dear Sir—I have corn meal in feeding value for milk pro- duction. The fertili it will be re- membored, were the same for the two headache all my life, au using “Mooro's vor had a caso of cen’ sutject to sick Over two years ago 1 be; I'reo of Life" fo™t and 1 OSLRIRY Be o W0 IWO | siclkc headacho since, except when the crops, Tho labor cost —considorably | podicine was at ono ond of the road and I at moro for the millet than for the corn. | fea ether Tt1s worth more than oy b The crop, howueyver, wus eultivated in drills and hand hoed end weeded, while in ordinary farm practice by judicious me. | heartily recommend it to all sufferers of hoadache, ~Very truly yours, W.'B. Lice, rotation it would be possible to secure ¢ Pastor First Baptist Church, good erops by sowing broudeast without | Eor sale by all druggists. cultivation. " The cost of threshieg also gEr— is high when the work is done by hand, as it does not thresh easily, On'a large seale the work could doubtless be done by & machine at a much lower cost. In short, I beliove the labor cost per acre can be brought as low as for corn. Small Fruits for Farmers, Can the ordinary farmer grow small fruits for his own family? Yes, by all means, and grow an abundant supply, not only for summer,but for winter, suys Our Country Home. Tt is often said that the farmer can buy his fruit cheaper than ie can raise it. But the plain fact is that unless he does grow it himself it is safe to say that seven out o eight never would have full sup- ply, or even half of it. If you have land thut will grow a good “crop of corn or potatoes it will grow a reasonably good crop of straw- 'ries, raspberries, currants, blackber- rios or grapes, We have strawberries on our table for about a month, and during the last week of that month we have the Marlboro raspberries. Sou- hegan, a blackeap, is a fow duys later; then comes the Cregg, a black, burger, the poet’s son, who, on the death of his father, chose the career of a mer- chaut. When 15 years old Schoecken- burger was wmade an appreutice toa worchant of Berue, and in 1840 he set~ and the Cuthbert, a red raspberry of very choice quality. Before they are half gone cowe the currants and the blackterries. Early graves are ripe before the berries are gone, and last THIS INFANT HAD NERVE. A Two nd Helped ki Little Charles Lee Burdon, the 25- months-old grandson of ILee Burdon, is being petted and caressed by the eiti- zens of Elmwood, R. L, both as a musical prodigy and more particularly in recognitior. of his wonderful presenco of mind and courage in the presence of death by drowning which he recently displayed under tho most tryiog civcuni- stances even to one of maturer years. Charley was visiting Grandpa Burdon on Greenwich street a few d 70, und clad in an ulster 1;‘“1 tight fitting bon- net, says the Prodidence Journal, was playing in the yard accompanied by his grandmother. Lhire is a cistern in the yard, ten feet in dgoth, about eight feet in circumference, and containing seven feet of wate, Itigsupplied with aniron cover, and precautions had been tuken to have it securaly fustened. Charley decided to make th investigation. Hlis grandmother left h!u. for un instant, and the child in somé dnexplainable manaer either succeeded in tilting the cover by partly ralsing iy or else us he stepped on the edge it wag iaised suftic to make an opening ‘ through the adventurous infant was preeipitated. The grandmother returned Lo the spot where she had left bim, but he had continue to enjoy | 1892--TWELVE PAGES. i B o | At Will commence Thursday, June 30, at tours of Sale, 10:30 . m, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m, bidder. disappeared. She cailed but no response was h a eireuit of the erounds the boy was di out to him, wd, She mado but no trace of nible. Happily she though of the cistern, and seeing that the cover was bottom side up sho ro- moved it from the opening and was terrified to discover Charle the surface of the water. He had proba- bly fallen into the cistern feet for and his clothing had buoy i he was able to float tempo The frantic grand nt call and he responded . She be- sought him to raise his head a little, and then called out to the gardener to come to the rescue. Peter hastened to floating on d to him, devise an immediate Mrs, Burdon realized tho the situation, and sec plan of action. | dire poril of ng a smail pitch- fork near by she 4 it, and with | Peter’s assistance made a desperate cof- | fort to fasten it into the infant’s cloth- ing, 1 vas dark and it w | with extreme difliculty that the exact location of :hild could be discerned. All the while the grandmotl was urging Charley to keep up courage and uttering words of loving solici- tude, nud the little fellow responded | with lisping assurances. Finally tho | handle of the pitchfork was thrust witnin reaching distance, and Charley was bidden to cling fast to it. He quickly clasped his hands around the | stafl and clung to it with dogged doter- mination. Slowly and steadily the weight was lifted 10 the st > of the cistorn, and | the wet and dripping figure was clasped in the arms of bis deliverers. Charley was cool and self-possessed, and w quickly tnken into the houso and sup. plied with an outfit of dry elothing, and hot drink was administered to him, He lisped that he was p he was o smart boy b in the water, ty wet, but that 150 ho swimed ———— ACCIDENTS ON THE RAIL.. r Death tion. the ¢ Startling Re awn utila- wrrent number of the Forum I'he Slaughter of Rail- way Bmployes,” contains some informa- tion that is really startling. There were employed in the year 1890 by all the | vailrodds in this country 749,501 men, of whom 2,451 were killed and 22,306 in- jured by various forms of accident, | This means one death for every 306 and one person injured for every thirty em- ployed. As most of the accidents oc- curred to those engaged in the opera- tion of the roads—that is, in the moving of trains—the proportion of aceidents to the number of men employed was o Tho number of An article in on more startling. ployes of this class was 153,2 number of deaths 1,430, and of injuries not fatal 18,1 that is one death in overy 500 and ono injured to every 12 men‘employed : ; In the last report on statistics on rail- ways in the United states, the accidents of the year and their results were clussi- fied as follows: Totals, Kind of Accldent — | Killed. | Injured from tralns A obstructlons, Unelussiticd Totals the spot, and in his perplexity could not | { He | grown by a mouk in the garden of a con- * Of the Stock of | N 10 law, and in resisting this the roads urg that these devices are now being su plied as rapidly as they could be under compulsion, but this is hardly borne out by the facts. The statistics gathered show that there were in use in 1880 a total of 20,928 locomotives, 1,892 of which were added during the year, though the engines fi with automatic couplers W 3 Tho total cars of all kinds in use was 1,164,188, of which 9 added during the year, but only 34,706 were supplied with coupler So that the increase of the use n} life- | saving devices did not even keep pace or begin to, with the increase of equip- ment, Tho companies certainly cannot long prevent the adoption of compulsory sasures unless they make a better ! showing of prog They are destroy ing life unneces: ly and ruthlessly if they fail to take measures, as rapidly as they can be taken now that these n ures are known and within their re to protect those who their busine: He mbar There w: 1 election at Miss., says n writer in th w York About noon of that d threo wld, miles out of town, I came acr 1old darky seated on n roadsid “Hello, uncle! bave you voted yet skked us I halted. “No, sah, I hain’t,” ho re- plied. *“Just going in, eh?” “No, sah jest waitin® fur my boy to come ’long.”” But aren’t you going to vote?” *“No, suh. DI’se dun got myscif so embarrassod up dat I can’t wote dis y'ar that?” “Wall, dar’s Kurnel Ricke he’s a dimocrat. Dar’s Kurnel Bebee ne’s a ’publican. If I o in dar bouf will want me to wote fue 'em. I T dun wote fur Kurnel Bebee den Kurnel Rickets | will step up an purceed to inquar’ all ‘bout how dat meat house doah was dun busted open an’ two sides o’ bacon toted ofl. I hain’t got much eddecashun, but I'se smart "nuil to sot right yere till the | is obor an’ dem two kurnels ¥ . first wheat raised in the new world was sown on the Istand of Isubelln in January, 1894, and on March 30 the ws were gathored, ‘The foundation of the great wheat industry of Mexico s said to huve been three” grains carried into that country by one of the staves of the Cortez company, The first crop of wheat raised in South America was The vent ot Quito, Garel 20 affirms that up to 1653 wheaten bread had never been used as an articlo of diet by the peoplo of Peru. - 1. J. Edmonds, Red Oak, Ia., reports tho foaling, May 16, of o bay filiy By Rodwald, 2005, dam May ouds, by Guelph, {; socond dam, Hessic Browning, by Viregll, The dam and grandam have both been shippod to Keaosha, Wis., to bo bred to Kedwald, e Tlhero are now over sixty horses stablod at the Holton, Kan.,, kito track, among tho trainers latoly arrivod thore boing It I. Leo of Toveka and N. H. Herington of Silver Lako. All tho drivers at the track pro- nounce it a wondorfully fast ono. L CPLOO PPN IO ;' WORTH A GUINBA A BOX,” ERTLIAMS GOVERED WITH A TASTELESS AHD SOLUBLE COATING, This shows that by far the largest pro- portion of these accidents occur to men engaged in coupling and uncoupling Leal As accidents of this kind are in a meusure preventable by the uso of automatic couplers and other new de- vices, they ery loudly for u more rapid adoption of these devices than the roads are showing. 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