wnrnw JMlfflKMTC GIFT A Home of Our Own. The Pioneers of '49. T* FAJSM AND GARDEN.* "Very foolish, very foolish, Mary destroying Indian corn, which English but have your own way only don't I write this from under my own vim A Philbrook, Montana, correspondent farmers cannot grow. They attack let me be disturbed with it's cryin', and fig tree, from beneath a roof oi writes: The "Old-timer." thep^g the ears while in the milk, tearing off ,w# hj|, "BREAKING CALVES TO LEAD. Iri" that's all," said the captain, as he %^s my own. I am a landed proprietor, $ "Forty-niner!" A flood of recollections ttil the husk as far as they can and eating Ting-a-ling**' ranar door-Bell at "'It is comparatively easy to teach a Deeped over shyly and stole a look at taxpayer, the owner of a bit of ground, enter my mind, both kindly and amusing, the ends of the ears. This, of course, !ap Wetherby's. The captain and young calf to be led by the rope, and the "wave" **#&\'*&:<* cn wave ^4-w^** and a house in the freshness and beauty as I dwell on the many various^ spoils them for marketing. Growers his wife were sitting in front .of the if it is to be bred for a cow the advantage The next morning at ten Oj clock the of its first painting and papering and specimens of this k.nd that I have met* of sweet corn ai'e the worst sufferers, oal fire in the back parlor, waiting till of having this accomplishment policeman was on hand for that baby. polishing. Ever since our marriage, wlth during my sojourn in the west. as they often grow this crop in quantity it should be safe to leave, and seeing will greatly increase its value. Even "Now isn't it too bad," said Mrs. seven years ago, my wife and I havt There are three distinct classes. The near villages and cities, where the mahtf queer things in the glowing ash- in its calf age docility in being easily Weatherby. "but the fact is it ain't longed for this day to come. We have "old-timers," who have made a success sparrow finds shelter and food in Winter s. The "help"they do not keep servantshad led will give it more frequent changes rea'dy," and she slipped some money saved and "scrimped" and hoped and in life, and there are a large number of pthese, and is bred by the thousand in Summer. gone to bed, and the house of feed when tied by a rope, and thus in the man's hand for his trouble. prayed for it, and at last it has come. liberal-hearted men, who are pil-^gt Nothing but a war of extermination was shut up for the night. No one was insure a greater thrift and larger "I'm going to look over some things I We have paid out hundreds of dollars lars of strength in the territories. But|p can fully meet this evil wher- expected, and it was too late for callers, growth. It will prove an advantage so have put away," said the poor little in rent, and been moved and hustled it is in the other two classes in which| e\ er it shows itself. so there was a mutual start of alarm long as it lives, and the sooner this docility mother, "and give it some decent around from house to house, and place you find the fund of anecdote and inter-$& on the part of the pair when the door is learned the better for the animal KEEP THE MANGERS CLEAN. clothes to wear. Would it be too to place, in the nomadic manner too estins: characterises which make the W1 The more highbred and spirited the bell rang in that sudden way. and its owner. much trouble to ask you to come for it common among young married people "old-timer" the pilgrim's hero. It is| Ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling! horse the more daintv he will be about PIGS FROM TOUNG SOWS. this evening?" in America. those who have made and lost the for-S It was quite ghostly. Mrs. Weatherby his feed, and the greater care must be The first litter of a young sow will "Certainly not, ma'am," said the No one can know with what a breath tunes which were so easily got in the said: taken to keep feed boxes and mangers be a large one, and four to six pigs well officer. ~As he went out Capt. Weatherby of infinite relief I said last week to "palmy-days," and those who have free from filth. Almost any scrub "Mercy me, who is there, do you sup- fed and thrifty are more profitable than m* looked up from his paper and Mrs. Dane, at the close of a wearisome never made any great stake, but always would, however, refuse to eat out of pose?" a great number. As the sow has not winked at him. The officer winked moving day, "Well, my dear, thank "just missed it" mangers as they often are left, with "Like as not it's a telegram," replied yet made her full growth the pigs back aud looked very knowingly at the fates, this is our last move." portions of the unconsumed hay or the captain. The first of these last two classes are should be taught to eat as early as possible, Mrs. Weatherby. "Well, I hope so, for goodness's grain to be run over by the fowls while Then he went to the door. The wire the men who suffered all the hardships to diminish the demand on her Such a running and rummaging as sake," said Mrs. Dane with marked the horse is away at work. This is a of that indigant bell was still vibrating, of the trip from Omaha to California, for nutriment. They should be taken there was in that house all day! and by force. and the tongue itself hud just stopped too common condition of many farmers' and in the '60 went to Idaho and Montana, off when six weeks old and fed by themselves, night the baby had quite an extensive And wnen our two cherished Brussels wagging, and jet when the captain stables at this season, when increasing undergoing almost marvelous experiences, though one or two of the weaklings wardrobe ready dressed up in the carpets were being cut and slashed into opened the door, not a soul was visible. warmth dulls the appetite may be left a couple of weeks escapes from the Indians, little tucked and embroidered baby so recklessly, to fit the parlor and sitting The soft, light flakes of the last snow of and makes soiled food doubly offensive longer. With this help the litter will from starvation, and from cold which gown that had been brought out and room, Mrs. Dane said, gratefully, the season drifted into his face, and fell by its decay. Many a hard-worked make a more even lot of shoats. put into plain words in this day of palace done up for it, from the stock that "Well, it's the last time they'll have to cold, and wet on his cheeks. Mrs. horse gets off his feed, as it is said, coaches across the continent raises DWARF PEAS. once had belonged to those other be cut for they are down to stay now Weatherby was close behind, and exclaimed: and grows poor from this cause alone. suspicions that the imagination of the The dwarf varieties of peas are not babies who no longer need them, it that's one consolation." More care should be taken at this season narrator is getting the best of him. as popular as Jhey were a few years looked like a different baby from that The home we are so happy in is not to feed only what will be eaten "Mercy meljjglt was nobody." But the old saying that "truth is stranger ago. People took to them mainly because in the basket all paid for, but we see our way clear "Not even the cat," said her husband. clean, either of hay, meal or grain. than fiction" was never truer than the vines did not need the trouble "It ain't such a bad looking wave, to pay for it in time, and any kind of a "Old Prim can do a sight of If any remains when the horse is taken in this case. Most of them lost their and expense of staking. But they do after all," said the captain, bending his home is preferable to a lifelong paying mischief, but she can't ring door-bells. out in the morning to work it should fortunes by recklessness, thinking not compare in yield with the best of P, honest red face over it and holding out of rent. Young married people should It was some pesky boy, I suppose, who be removed from the feed box and what was made so easily could be the larger sorts. The little vines may a rough and rugged forefinger, which thought he'd play smart and then run start out in life with the fixed determination given to some other animal that will made again. The most of these be and sometimes are covered with 4 the baby instantly grasped, and laughed for it." of putting a roof over eat it outside of the stable. men, therefore, possess those qualities pods, but they are not large enough to and cooed over. their heads they can call their own which redeem them from the hold a full crop, and when once picked "What's that on the door-step?" asked IMPROVEMENT IN POTATOES. "Here's the p'liceman, mum. for the and this is not such a very hard thing the vine is done for. In the larger vulgar poverty of their present condition. Mrs. Weatherby, suddenly. The extraordinary increase in the baby," said, hannah, ushering that functionary to do in these days of loan and building vines there is more of a succession of The habits of years leave their "It's a drift," said the captain. "I use of potatoes as food which has occurred in. associations and cheap rates of interest. bloom, giving a longer picking from trace, and they will to-day divide their tell you what, Mary, there'll be a within the last thirty years is "Oh," said Mrs. Weatherby, looking My interest and taxes are not the same seeding. last meal with the stranger that comes jl, aor'-easter to-night, nor'-east by nor', not altogether due to changes in popular greatly disappointed, "I'm not half much more than half the amount I to the cabin door, and feel insulted' if I*JL} With wind that'll make the sails rattle. taste. We like potatoes better, it POTATOES WITH DEEP EYES. ready yet." have been paying in rents. payment is offered. But how bitter It's gettin' up now," and he drew is true, but it is because they are better. No potato is likely to be pupular for "But it's only the baby, mum they It is difficult to define the feeling one must his feelings be when he finds the In his uncovered head, and was about The improvement in quality began with market which has deep eyes. Whatever wants. One of the fondlings died last lias in a home of one's own. There is country settling up with large numbers to shut the hall door. the Goodrich Seedlings, whose madness its excellence in other respects, night, and this here one is to have its something in being a "lauded proprietor" of people from the "states," to whom "There is something down there, Si- of flavor commended them to this defect makes it less salable. There place," said the man. that tones one up wonderfully, he is but a tramp, and he finds himself las," said his wife, "right on the top many who had never been able to like is not only a great loss in preparing "I can't help it", said Mrs. Weatherby and adds dignity and earnestness to slowly wending his way to the poorhouse. *tep. Looks just like a big bundle." the coarse, strong-flavored varieties such potatoes tor cooking, but it is of "the child won't go until it's ready. life. You literally feel that you are What a fallfrom being the The captain peered out again. which preceded them. A potato cooking the most valuable part of the potato, Its clothes are not packed up yet!" somebody. Life takes on a new meaning honored guest at the honored board of "It's right 30U are my hearty. Sure dry and mealy is, of course, now which is near the skin. A smooth, "You see," laughed the captain, "my and new joys you have something some more fortunate partner to be as you live it's a basket," and he touched the kind required by the best stand aid even surface witn eyes not deeply set mate there will want a Saratoga trunk to live for and work for. I actually pointed out as an object of suspicion it with his foot. of excellence, though some old people onables the housewife to pare the for that wave's clothes before she gets felt a positive pleasure in paying "uy and a fit subject for the county commissioners' learned in their youth to like the ^Oh, it's the groceries for to-morrow potatoes with little waste, and if combined through with it. Say, Mr. Policeman, taxes yesterday, and felt sorry for the care. We who know treat ranker-tasting kinds, and still prefer that careless boy forgot them. No with elongated shape to bake just as soon as its ready I'll send for poor fellows who haven't any taxes to him all the more kindly, and to us he them. Those who like a soggy, coarse wonder he ran away when he rang the them unpeeled, which is perhaps the you to come after it." unburdens his soul. potato can have it in any of the finest pay. bell! Fetch 'em in, Silas, and leave best way to cook this vegetable. "Just so, sir," said the man, "just In the third class are found the witty I set out some rose bushes last week, varieties by leaving its top to be injured fcheni in the back parlor to-night. Hannah INSECT POWDER. so I'll return to duty, and you can let story-tellers, the men who spin the exulting in the thought that they were by the potato bug, or otherwise. will see them the first thing in the This valuable a to the farmer and me know when the missus is ready." mine, and neither they nor I were subject yarns so taking to the jouthfulear. Oceasiouly we hear such persons praising ^aaorning!'' gardener in killing small, noxious insects There was an amused twinkle in the to the whim or the interests of There are many smart, brainy men, the coarsest growing varieties as "Better take them into the caboose needs to be fresh to be most effective. captain's eye when he saw how relieved some real estate agent, who could who, through some fatal lack in their most in accordance w.th their depraved 'I mean the kitchen," said the captain. Its poisonous principle is volatile his wife looked as the man took his departure. give us thirty days' notice and then moral or mental make up, have never taste, but such people are growing "No it's locked up. Put 'em on and soon wastes away on exjosur to turn us adrift been anything but rovers. And, having fewer every year. 'that ehair by the door. Ugh! I'm the air. Those who deal in it usually All this happened a year ago. I was a vast fund of general information No longer am I a member of the -fihiverin' with the cold air," and the keep it in glass jars, safe from exposure, LICE ON POOR CALVES. reminded of it by receiving the following mighty and miserable army of house and actual experiences to draw upon, but when brought home it is commonly good woman sat down in front of the Currying calves with a comb dipped card, which had been sent out generally hunters. My rent days are done. I and with a vivid imagination, can left in papers until used, and that purchased comfortable coals again. in kerosene is recommended as a good by the worthy captain and his drive nails and tacks and hammer and weave fact and fancy into stories that last season is now presumably way to cleanse them from lice. Anv "We've a heap to be thankful for, good wife. pound when and where I please. kind of oil will answer the same purpose, will hold the audience of open-mouthed worth little or nothing. It is better to Mary," said the captain thoughtfully. THE BABY. When 1 come home from my office at as the vermin are killed by closing get new insect powder and throw the "tenderfeet" spellbound. "Y-e s, Is'poseso," sighed his wife Where did you come fiom, baby dear? the pores through which they night, it is home indeed to me. old away. Its cost is far less than the But they are going, and very soon a *he was thinking just then of two little Out of the every where, into the here. breathe. The best of oils to destroy loss from trusting powder whose And when one has children it is genuine, "old-timer" will be a thing of Where did jou get your eyes so blue? graves at Marblehead. They had been lice on cattle is that which comes strength has evaporated. Out of the skies as I came through. more necessary than ever that there be the past They have filled a noble made nigh on to twenty years ago, and through their skins as the result of What makes jour forehead so smooth and a place for them that they can call place in the history of the United Jthe vacancy in her heart and life had BREEDING GOOD LAYERS. good and careful feeding. Corn meal high? home a place that they can love and States, and the present generation owes .aever been filled. It is only the poultry keeper who A soft hand stroked as I went by. and oil meal are excellent for this purpose, remember as home throughout all much to the few who risked all that At that moment a queer little wailing makes pets of his flock, and knows the What maues your cheek like a warm, white making the coat glossy and giving their after live3. I hepe to see the the many could follow. cry rang through the room. The two rose? individual points of each one, who can the skin a velvety -softness indicative childien of my eight-months' old baby I saw something better than anyone knows. attain success. Such a one can do started and looked at each other. of thrift But where animals are 9. Work of Nature's Sculptor. Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? playing in this house some day. We much to improve the capacity of his "Sakes alive! Why what was that?" very poor their digestion is weakened Three angels gave me at once a kiss. have bought a good house because we We are accustomed to associate such hens by setting eggs only from those and strong or oily food must be given asked Mrs. Weatherby. Where did you get that coral ear? think we shall live in this city all our gigantic water-carvings as the Colorado with great care. A spoonful of linseed that prove the best layers. The professional "It came out of that basket," said God spoke, and it came out to hear. lives, aud we never want to go canon and the Niagra gorge with almost meal mixed with bran is enough to begin breeders all understand this, the captain "that fool ot a boy has Where did you get those arms and hands? through the miseries of another family inconceivable periods of time, yet with. This, if digested, is better Love made itself into bonds and bands. and when they offer selected eggs at a fceen and stowed a hand in the fo'cas- move. Whence came your feet, dear little things? than more, which would only clog the instances are numerous of the wearing higher price it is better if they deal tleI mean a kitten," and he stalked From the same box as the cherub's wings. stomach and make the coat more rough from the solid rock of gorges hundreds A home of your own is, I insist, the houestly to take them than eggs over to it and jerked off the cover. How did they all fiist come to be you? and stary than before. It is a good of feet deep by two or three centuries very best investment a young couple equally pure bred from the common "By the great horn spoon!" he exclaimed, God thought about me and so 1 grew. plan to give all young calves a Tittle only of work. Lyell mentions the case can make. It is something worth flock. Unless the breeder takes this as he jumped back about four But how did you come to us, you dear? linseed meal. It promotes thrift and of the Simets, in Sicily, which had been saving, and working, and living for. care in selecting his own stock, it will God thought about you, and so I am here. '"feet it's a baby!" and makes growth as ^ell as fat. It dammed by lavas in 1603. Iu two amL, Your presence is desired at the chi tstenmg Good Housekeeping. deteriorate, even though the breed may "Mercy me!" said his wife "Where is not safe to feed cotton-seed meal to party of our adopted daughter, Jid it come from?" a half centuries it had excavated a channel not be mixed with others. calves or any young stock, as they are fifty to several hundred feet deep, ETHEL, Increase of Cigarette Smoking. "From the skies, I should say: that's liable to be killed tiy overfeeding with OVERFLOW FROM THE BARNYARD Wednesday afternoon, Jannary, 30, 1SS4. and in some parts forty to fifty feet The habit of smoking cigarettes what the bell rang for. Well, I must it.American Cultivator. When the barnyard is on higher Ceiemony at 3. wide, although the rock is a hard basalt. among public officials is alarmingly on fc-lay this is an imposition." ground than adjoining land its overflow MR. AND MRS. SILAS WEATHERBY. He also describes a gorge in decomposed the increase. It is due, no doubt, to How It Should Be. from the roofs of barns and sheds Mrs. Weatherby was looking curiVjmsfly If any one expected a fashionable rock, near Milledgeville, Ga., that the fact that the cigarette affords a will carry off much valuable plant food. into the basket all she saw was 'Look here," said the editor of a gathering it was simply because they was at first a mud-crack a yard deep, means of satisfying an appetite or craving S'rill, it is better to have the barn3*ard Tags, two bright smiling eyes, and a Dakota paper on his return from a did not know the hoste and hostess but which in twenty years was 300 yards for tobacco and affords enough high and dry than to put it in a hollow, little round head covered with dark week's absence, to the office boy. "I A! very well. The great comfortable long, twenty to 180 feet wide and fiftylive pleasure to the smoker to last for the as is often done where water flows into haira wee bit of a baby, deserted and see you say in this week's paper that house was full of guests, but they were feet deep Liais describes a similar time it is wanted. "A cigar or a pipe it Near barnyards where its waste Alone. 'Maj. Shortcard, our esteemed fellowtownsman, mostly people of the Weatherby stamp gorge, of twice the length, in Braz azil, is too much of a smoke," said an official extends, the land should be kept in I'll go for the police," said the captain stopped in yesterday and good, plain, sensible souls, who* did not made forty years. But it is the low talking about the matter, "in the crops requiring the greatest amount of angrily "shiver my timbers if ordered his paper stopped.' Now what go through life junketing and dancing, lands bordering rivers that the flood office where you are liable to be called fertilizing, which will be furnished -I'm going to have people starving their ia the name of Great Scott do you mean so they carried into any occasion of enjoyment artist finds the plastic material that on at any moment's notice bv a lady gratis. If stock can be soiled the crops babies on my doorstep when there's by that kind of talk?" in which they participated an may be remolded with each passing seasonr- places provided for them as are desti- or summoned into the presence of a for this purpose should be grown near "W'y, gov'nor, them's just'bout your almost childish zest. And all the ladies With high water, the streams superior. In an emergency of the the barnyard, both for convenience in tute. The police will make short work words when he subscribed a while purred over chat blessed baby, and all rapidly wear into earthly banks, commencing kind the little thing ean be thrown cutting and securing the feed, and also v~c back, only you added, 'may his shadder of it, Mary." the gentlemen button-holed the captain new bends or cutting off old aside. The cigarette, you see, is because land near barnyards is "They won't kill it, will they?" asked never grow no shorter,' or somethinglike and made him tell the story over. ones, and even opening new channels cheap." Army officers as a rule were generally rich to begin with, and kind Mrs. Weatherby in a horrified that." for discharge. The great and turbulent "Found it on the door step,* you say noticed to be addicted largely to the can easily be made as fertile as desired. tone." "Well, s'posen I did, s'posen I did!" Hoang-Ho i$ noted for its devastations, f-o-u-n-d it on the door step? How $. habit of using the cigarette. They "Well, No, wife that's against the CORNSTALKS IN MANURE. howled the editor, "that's another says Dana. In 1850 it emptied very remarkable!'' find it cheaper in the long run than *(aw. But they'll take it where such Where cornstalks have been fed uncut -thing entirely." Then he was Maj. into the Yellow Sea now this mouth is "And in that very boatbasket, I cigars. Nearly all the young men and, -"-waves (he meant waifs) holong. If their long, woody substance makes Shortcard, and was esteemed and valued, dry and it has a new channel openinc mean, grounded, as it were, at my feet in fact, not a few of the old men in :*vfou ain't afraid to stay* alone I'll run the manure not only difficult to handle, and we felt interested in his shadow. to the Gulf of Pechele, nearly three, the prettiest wave that ever struck high social life can be seen smoking ou to the next corner and fetch one.' but reduces its value very materially. Yon don't seem to catch on to the hundred miles north of its former outlet, the shoals for memy eyes, sir!" them.Washington Letter. When the captain returned with the It is hard work doing good plowing first princ.ples of journalism. Now, and it departed from the old more It was hard to recognize the baby in 1 policeman he had to stop to explain the with loose,long stalks covering the surface, you should have put it like this: 'Old than this distance from the coast This,' its pink slip and coral ornaments, but Put Oud Dot Gas. I exact spot where they found the basket, and when they are turned under Pete Shortcard, the notorious tough of is the last of many changes, back and harder to recognize the basket, for it "Schacob," said Schaumburg one I ^-toow the bell had rung, etc., and so it the furrow the effect on light, dry soil this city, tried to bulldoze BS yesterday forth, recorded by the "Chinese during was one mass of flowers, and, tied dark, rainy day to his son, who is simultaneously L4was a full hour or more before they got is to nearly neutralize the value- of the by ordering his paper stopped. As he the past 3000 years. 10 with rose-pink ribbons, looked as gay in charge of the "sushpender fsinto the back parlor. There Mrs. manure. In a dry season such manure had never paid a cent and we took in as a peacock. I p. Weatherby sat with the object rolled up and baper gollar debartment," often does even more harm than good. ten cash subscriptions inside of two There was only one thing that came The Barbed Wire Fence. tf- in a shawl,'lying in her lap and baskIll On heavy and rather wet land these "Schacob, vonce more I dells you, put near marring the perfect enjoyment of hours we can probably live through it Already the accounts of cattle beingx *'J Jng contentedly in the rays of the fire. cornstalks may be beneficial by improving oud dot gas so ve saves a leedle dese the occas on. It was when the minister, Ta, ta, Shorty.' "Dakota Bell. struck by lightning and killed while a pale slight intellectual young man, h% "Here we are," said the captain in a its mechanical condition* especially hard times." J?J. stepped forward to beg the ceremony huddled together near a barbed wire brisk tone. "Now, Mr. Policeman, you for corn. But where cornstalks have "Vader, let burning dot gas. I The Ballest. in which the wave was to have a fence during a thunderstorm have begun been cut into short lengths, the stubs scharge dot next gustomer ten per an take the youngster off in the basket It may be said of base ball that its Christian name, and Captian^Wether-_ to come in. Losses of this kind it come in can't you?" %^Jr uneaten serve an excellent purpose as shent extra to make good dot loss mit rewards are as much greater as its requirement a\ by called out: PJ^^bS ^S^fp^ have become so numerous of late years a manure absorbent, and in this condition nh,- "It's a nice boy," said the policeman, ter gas." are mor-e arduoua than those "Ship ahoy!' that the question of insulating the make good manure for any crop. looking down on the tiny head basking "Schacob, I tole you vonce more put The good man stopped and looked of mediciae^ divinity, or law. It has wires of such fences is seriously discussed. perplexed. ln the firelight dot gas oud right avay, and den ven you this advantage, too, that no post-graduate SPARROWS AND INDIAN CORN. "Girl," corrected Mrs. Weatherby. "Stow the prayers, parson," said The humble rail fence is not 1 scharge3 dot gustomer ten per she nt course is ne6ded to command its Sparrows were imported from England, the captain "short services on this a thing of beauty nor a joy forever, but highest honors and emoluments. Its -I tell you what, Silas. I think I had extra ve makes choosh terventy per and even there farmers regarded ship if you please." it seldom betrays the confidence of a honor man walks out on commencement Isetter keep the baby till moruin'. It shent extra." ityThe these little thieves as about the worst The minister smiled, and the ceremony lot of trusting cattle that have assembled day, his education complete and don't seem exactly Christian to let it go gas was extinguished.Texas proceeded, and all the prayers possible nuisances.1 They are sure to $4% together in one of its friendly cornors da- and remarks of the occasion were condensed sure of an income of 2,000 or $3,000 a ju in the cold again to-night Siftings. be even worse here, where they learn for mutual counsel and support in by the celebrant into a single year. How many long years must the "That'll suit me," said the policetmaa. new habits and lose some of the natural A. number of families living in Salt Lake quotation: &* SJg the hour of trial.Chicago Tribune luckless lawyer or doctor struggle and "It's a good bit from here to checks oh their increase which kept f\ are preparing to remove to the new international "When my father and mother forsake toil before he can count on half as the Foundlin's, and it does,.seem at them in subjection in the old country. colony to be established la Lower California. me, then the Lord will take me Auiree-lnindred pound turtle was recently up." much?The Hour* ibome, sUV' *& _^ __ .One of their ^iew Requirements is in captured near 8t Augustine, Fla,