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NO. 32.
VOL. VI.
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, The art of ruby'mafcing'la now ex
terisively practice'! Tha ffe'm'a'th'uB
produced are known Vo the trade as
''(fixna,u "and areMarpfely used for
Jewelling "wat'chee.
One effectrnoted'")y the New York
Ledger, of emigration to the West
and hard times everywhere is tlio fall
ing off in the valae of farm lands.
People in the central part of New
York State say that many holdings
can now be had for half of what thej
were rated at five or eix years ago.
These farms are neither abandoned
nor played out, nor has any marked
decrease in population occnrred about
them, but the farmers have the West
ern, fever and want more room, ot
they are anxious to get into town and
work at trades.
A Now York electrotyping firm is
said to have hit upon the idea of elec
trotyping articles of apparel which, it
is desired to preserve as mementoes,
A baby's first shoes, for example, may
be preserved, .indefinitely in metal.
"We. might give other instances,"
comments the Chicago Ilerald, "but,
although we should be sorry to dis
courage the firm, so far as our own
experience goes mementoes do not
generally take the form of wearing
apparel. . Bach things as Tommy's
first trousers and Johnny's first 'top'
hat would scarcely make good sou
Tenirs." .
There has been a singular dearth ol
invention in. naming the many small
lakes of the West, lamentsthe Chica
go Ilerald, and fine old Indian names
have been deliberately discarded.in
order that p6isons of unlovely sur
names might be honored geographi
cally. The Indian names when trans
lated aro often found to embody an
almost photographic picture of the
lakes upon which they were bestowed.
The' French names that superseded
some of the Indian names, and are
likely to bo superseded in their turn
by modern commonplaces, aro often
pretty and historically suggestive.
Good horses ' are cheaper in some
parts of the West now than - dogs in
tho East, for there are few dogs not
"owned by some oue, while -horses can
not be given away. All over the West
horses have, been nstounJingly cheap
for some time, and two or threo dol
lars has been a good price for a good
animal. A hundred head of ranch
horses sturdy, unbroken broncos from
Wyoming, were sold in Denver for
$D0 and the freight recently. It is
reported that a big stock firm in
Idaho has turned more than 250
ponies adrift to shift for themselves
during the winter, as it was cheaper
to do this than to provide food for
them. The firm could not get even a
dollar apiece for them.
According to Major H. H. C. Dun
woody, of the National Weather Ser
vice, the weather crop service of the
National bureau ranks next in import
ance to tho work of making forecasts.
The system of gathering reports upon
which the weather crop bulletins are
based has been greatly perfected in
re6ent years. The crop bulletins of
the States have been improved, and ore
now more complete thin at any pre
ious time,- and the increased circula
tion that these bulletins have attained
amply attests their value. It is be
lieved that there is no other class ol
information to which so much space it
devoted in the public press to-day. A
file of these bulletins, for all the States
for a year will form thejnost complete
history of the weather conditions
attending the - growth, and develop
ment of the several crops throughout
the .country, -More than ten thou-
sand crop correspondents are to-day
, co-operating with the National Weath
er Service through the State organi
zation ; three thousand voluntary ob
servers are furnishing monthly reports
of daily observations of temperature
and rainfall ; and over eleven thousand
.. persons assist in the work of distribut
ing .the weather foreoasts of the Na
tional Weather Service. 'This" lattoi
work has been more rapidly pushed
during, the "past year than any other
feature of State Weather Service work.
With the continuation of the present
liberal policy toward these service
" there will be in a comparatively shori
time ro important agricultural com
munity in the United States, with the
proper mail facilities, that will nol
- receive he benefits .of the forecasts,
"WINTER FANCIES.
Winter without
And warmth within
Tha winds may shout
And tho storm begia ;
The snows may pack
At the window pane,
Aui the Bltlos grow black.
And tho sun remain
Hidden away
The livelong day
But here In here is the warmth of Miyl
. Swoop yenr spltofulest
Up the fia,
VIU. winds-"3o !
Whnt in the world do I cure for you?
O dellghtfulest
Weather of all,
Howl and squall,
inl shake the trees till the Inst loaves fall'
The joy one feels,
In nn ensy chair,
Cocking his heels
In the dancing air
That wreathes the rim ot a ronrtnsr stove
Whose heat loves better than hearts can love,
Will not permit
The coldoBt day
To drive away
TUo Cxo in his blood, and the bliss of it!
Then blow, winds, blow 1
And rave and shriek,
And snnrl and snow
Till our breath grows weak -
While here in my room
I'm as snugly shut
As a glad little worm
Iu the heart of a nut !
James Whltcomb Riley.
BOOM LOG- BILL.
O moro moi- man
than Boom Log Bill
could be found in
the lumber camp.
No one' knew
whether his cynic
ism was natural or
acquired, but cer
tainly it was of o
high, misanthropi
cal quality. Many years ago
when Bill was a dashing college sopho
more and stood at the head of his class
in football, his fancy fell a-turning to
ward a young lady who occupied a
conspicuous place in the senior medi
cal department. They were bethrothed,
and so great was Bill's infatuation that
he became even mire oblivions than
ever to his studies and devoted him
self more assiduously to football. Both
graduated, Bill having somehow been
pushed through, whilo his fiance at
tained high honors. An engagemeni
of long standing followed. The rea
son of its duration was because Bill
could not find anything to do, and, al
though he would have been willing to
marry anyhow andehanceit, the young
woman with prudential foresight de
clined an jdliance without any visible
or apparent means for sustenance.
The pride of the football team was in
despair, but finally concluded to go
West. Here his fortunes did not seem,
to improve perceptibly and another
long interval ensued. One day as Bill
was following the lowly occupation of
digging a canal through land that was
to be irrigated a message was brought
to him announcing the marriage of his
sweetheart and asking him to forgive
her, as the years were fleeting and for
tune was a laggard so she had con
cluded to take time by the forelock
and become the bride of another, with
the assurance of daily sustenance. This
was a great shock to Bill ; he lost in
terest in his work and became simply
a machine as he plied his shovel in the
dry soil ol Arizona. His heart was in
the East and his labor became a veri
table task : the canal was interminable..
He did not even have the means to go
East and hunt up his rival.
Bill,' being a misanthrope, held him
self aloof from his companions ; mis
anthropes usually do. He was heartily
and generally disliked and detested ;
misanthropes usually are. When the
lumber men- came in at dinner time,
Bill took his place at the end of the
table in the cook shanty and the
greater his isolation the more he liked
it. Ha never had a word to sav ; not
so much as "Pass the pickles, please,'
or "Throw the crackers this way," bul
when anything wasn't handy he went
without rather than address himself to
the others. He worked as silently as
he ate ; even when a log escaped lrom
the skit? he did not use profanity ;
when a tree fell the wrong way he bad
no comment to make ; when the sugar
gave out in the cook tent he had no
expletives to hurl at unfortunate
Alphonse : when the meat was too
tough to masticate or the olco not
quite up to the standard ho 1 accepted
the conditions in an unalterably cyni
" cal manner, making no complaint 'or
praising "iothing. While the other
men seated themselves around the big
range and told a few stories in the
evening, when Alphonse was making
biscuits, he turned in and slept until
early morning when he silently dressed
and went into the woods. The cheer
ful toot of the mammoth horn at meal
time brought no cheerful light to his
eyes.
With this effective presentation of
a misanthrope, dead to the better
feelings of humanity, indifferent to
the enticements of good fellowship, it
may be well to proceed to thedenoue
raent. In a lumber camp, as everyone
knows, space is ntilized and the men
sleep two in a bunk. Bill's companion
T?as the antithesis tc himself cheer
ful, lively as a cricket, jovial and
manly a very Hercules in figure and
an open hearted, affable fellow who
had few ot the vices of his compan
ions he neither drank to excess on
periodical visits to town nor expended
all his wages in spring, when the logs
were in the streams and the camp was
over. He chaffed the misanthrope a
great (leal. Their conversations usu
ally were conducted on one side.
"Bill," said this hero of a thrilling
tale, "what makes you such a cross
grained cuss?"
Bill onlv snorted. , .;-.
"Whv don't you mingle with tho
y v ,
boys? I'm sure you're not such a
sour, disagreeable, detestable, unde
sirable, ugly, mean, unsocile chap
mi 1 1 L 1-
as ron eaem. xnev sav Denemu
rough exterior there is often a fine in
terior. It does seem hard to imagine
Jhat there is anything pleasant or nice
about you, Bill, but why don t you
surprise somebody Borne day by show
ing that you are just a trifle less self
ish, mulish, obstinate, set and cussed?
See if you can't make your nature be
lie your face."
Bill snarled and turned his face to
ward the wall.
"All right, old chap," remarked tbe
other. "Pleasant dreams." Then he
took a picture from his bosom. "You
nnclit to have somo woman to think
of, Bill," ho added almost tenderly.
"Then von wouldn't be such a sour,
contemptible, disagreeable chap." So
saying he pressed his lips to the pic
ture. Bill started and stole a look at
him. The face of tho misanthrope
became convulsed.
"Who is she?" he asked in a hoarse
tone of voice.
'So you are interested, are you?"
said the other, laughingly. "Who is
6he? My wife, to b'e sure. We
wouldn't be separated now but for the
hard times. And then there's the
baby to think of, Bill. But there's a
good time coming, Bill, when the
snow melts and the flowers peep from
beneath the covering of ice ; when the
hills are covered with verdure and the
world awakens to life and love. Then
shall once more be with my darling.
Good night, old chap. I only wish
you as pleasant dreams as come to me. "
With that he turned on his side o.nd
slept with the picture pressed to his
heart. In the misanthrope's mind a
thousand conflicting thoughts ran
riot, for in the sweet face he had rec
ognized his former love, while lying
by his side, sleeping so' calmly and
restfully in the same berth was the
man who had robbed him of that
which he held most dear, and changed
him into one of the most miserable
creatures in the world. With a curse
Bill opened his clasp knife and his
arm hung suspended over the sleeping
man, the blade direoted toward his
heart. Then the thought came to Bill
that to kill him it would be necessary
for the knife to pass through the pic
ture of his old. sweetheart.
Carefully he removed the picture,
and. holdinar it in his hand, raised
himself on his elbow and gazed at it
The tears came to his eyes ; finally
he replaced the picture, and, shutting
the knife, laid down by the side of the
main who had stolen his love, but not
to sleep. The other never knew how
near the cates of death were to him
that night.
The next day Bill was as cross as
ever. He ate his breakfast silently
and went into the woods without, a
word to any one, walking apart from
the others. All day he worked with a
woman's face ever in his mind and
Mind rn.ee consumins his heart. ". The
day was a Btormy one, and the great
flakes of enow spread a thick mantle
on the deep, white covering which
nb-nadv lav -unon the earth, It had
- ,
turned bitter cold and the wind swept
mournfully through the tall trees,
making them emit the most melan
choly sound in the world, the requiem
of the pines, when lost spirits seem
rushing madly by. Bat all day a temp
est, too, had been raging in Bill's
heart. Toward nightfall he started to
retrace his steps toward the camp.
He had been working on the out
skirts of the iorest, and the
foreman and the " others were
well on ahead of him. Suddenly Bill
came across a prostrate figure that ol
his buoyant companion lying sense
less in the snow, having been struck
by a falling tree. Loss of conscious
ness had been immediate, and in the
blinding snow his misfortune had not
been observed. Bill stood there for
some momenta. The battle he waged
with himself was a long one. Perhaps
if he left him there he might yet win
the woman he loved. His death would
be attributed to the blow from the
falling tree and the cold. He was nol
yet dead, but the exposure in that
cold would soon stiffen the motionless
form. With anger in his bosom, Bill
turned away and started toward the
caniD. Ho had gone some distance
j- - ---
when he paused and reflected. The
pathetic face of the wife arose before
him ; the pale, appealing face of the
woman he loved.
It was late in the evenier when Bill
staggered into camp with his heavy
load. A doctor was sent for and then
BUI" went to bed, assured that the
ntlior was out of dancer. When his
rival recovered he thanked Bill pro
fusely and slapped him on the shoulder,
and with a suspicions moisture in his
eyes, told him that he was the dearest
old cross-grained cuss in the world
and (bringing down his huge fist) he
would defy anyone to say otherwise.
The two shook hands and there was
eladness in the heart of Boom Log
BilL
"I have only one regrcT, Bill," said
the other.
"What is that?" growled Bill.
'T have lost the nhotosrraph of the
sweetest girl in the world."
The misanthrope hung his head and
said nothing. The other had no sue
picions. After all he was most con
cerned in looking forward to spring
tvhon he would once more hold the
original to his breast and the sad part
iaa would bo a matter of the past.
Detroit Free Press.
FUN.
Most servant girls have portable
characters, that is to sav a writteu
recommendation. Puck.
Mrs. Sniffwell " Why, Bridget, you
have been eating onions !" Bridget
'Shure, mum, you're a moind reader.
These are the days when you won
der what he or she has made up his or
her mind to give you. Buffalo Times.
Teacher "Now, Charlie, tell us
what you know about Croesus.'
fiWlifi "Dudes wear 'em in their
pants." Harlem Life.
Visitor "Have you any watch dogs
here?" Johnny Suburb "ISo'm ; dm
we've got some alarm-clock roosters."
Street & Smith's Good News.
It is always hard to associate quar
rels and unpleasantness with a nouso
that has vines growing over the doors
and windows. Atchison Globe.
Mrs. Binks (reading) "Women can
endure pain better than men. Mr.
Binks "Who says that a doctor or a
shoemaker?" New York Weekly.
Young Tutter "What we want in
our society, Miss Maude, are brains,
brains." Miss Summit "But how
are you going to supply them?"
Vogue.
"The telephone is like a woman ; it
tells everythings it hears." 'Tee,
that's so. And it's unlike a woman,
too ; it tells a thing just as it hears
it." Life.
"Father," said the' boy, "what is
insolvent?" "'Insolvent,'" was the
repiv, "is merely a long word ussl to
describe a short .condition."
ington Star.
-Wash-
Turned Down.
tv, wish to rezar.l me." he
tremulously asked, "only in the light
of a friend?'
She sifihed.
r wonldn't mind.'1 - the faltered,
"if it was a littlo darker than that.
meter in the cell;.!
V" fv O
caught her subtle meaninjj. Pucli.
CANAIGRE.
NEW CROP FOR SOUTHERN
COTTON DISTRICTS.
Canaigre Is the Prince of Farming
riant s, and Can Be Raised AU
Through the South Meth
ods of Cultivation.
$-2
"TV FEW years ago, says a Dallas
exas) letter to the New
York Post, several articles
appeared in Nothern jour
nals showing that canaigre could be
produced in the West and Southwest
at a large profit, and figures were pub
lished later by the Agricultural De
partment shewing the relative cost oi
cultivating and marketing the roots
and the prices received for them in
the open markets. In Arizona and
New Mexico tho plants were imme
diately brought under cultivation,
and large farms have ever since been
producing annually two tons of can
iagre roots. But it is only recently
that the plants have been cultivaten
in the Cotton States, although in Cal
ifornia and Tuxas it has been amply
demonstrated that this prince of tan
ning plauts succeeds satisfactorily
along all the rivers and valleys.
It has been demonstrated in the
last year that canaigre will grow not
only where the wild plants are found,
but almost everywhere in the cotton
belt where there is a sandy loam ol
moderate moisture. On the stiffer
soils it does not io bo well, but even
there it will produce paying crops.
Some of the more enthusiastic grow
ers in Texas assert that it will even
tually prove as widespread in its
growth as Indian corn. It is certain
that it is one of the greatest boons to
farmers in the cotton belt. It is prac
tically a new crop for the South, and
one of extreme value. The process ol
extracting the tannic acid for tanning
tiurnoses is not verv difficult or elab-
orate, and farmers could do their own
fermenting and distilling at a verv
email expense, and in this way in
crease their own profits.
At Tovah in the Tecos Valley ol
Texas there is a large canaigre plant
where the tannio acid is extracted
from many tons of the roots every
season. The farmers all through the
valley supply this factory with the
roots, and the industry is so popular
that the old crops are being aban
doned. Heretofore the large factories
have simply sliced, dried and packed
the roots for shipment to New York,
Chicago, or BostoD, where the tannic
acid has been extracted by secret pro
cesses, but the factories down here
will soon do their own extricting and
ship the concentrated article to the
large leather-making centres.
A visit to some of the canaigre
farms in the Tecos Valley gives one a
more adequate idea of the new South
ern crop than any description can.
The planting is usually done early in
the fall, not later than the first of No
vember if possible, and by early
spring they are in blossom. Loose,
sandy soil is selected, and after the
ground is broken thoroughly single
roots of the plants are dropped in
rows nearly three feet apart and from
six to nine inches apart in the rows,
and about five inches deep. When.
the young leaves begin to come upt
they look like a field of beet? or sweet
potato Tines, although as they develop
the contrast becomes more decided.
In fast, the roots of the canaigre
plantii have the general external ap
pearance of sweet potatoes even to
the time of digging, and they are pro
duced in hills of from three to a
dozer, varying in size and qualify,
The weight of each tuber is from two
to eighteen ounce?, and when a hill is
first pulled up, a stranger might be
forgiven if he declared that it was a
o
hill of wild sweet potatoes.
An acre carefully cultivated and ir
rigated will yield from twenty to
thirty tonn of crceu roots, which when
dried for nhiDinent will shrink to
seven or ten tons. The value of can
aigre-rooto properly dried variessome-
what in this country and in Europe.
Good roots one year old will yield
from twenty-three to thirty-three per
cent of tannic acid, while oak and hem
lock bark contains only eight to ten
per cent. In the rough, driel state
canaigre-roots sell to-day at from $23
to $30 per ton, and tho prices in Eu
rope range from to $39. The
tannic acid from canaigro is superior
to that obtained from any other source,
and it is especially adapted to tanning
uppers, fine saddlery, an I fancy
leathers'. It is said to be valuable in
the manufacture of dyestuffa ; and
mordants. According to the present
demand for dried canaigre-roota the
lowest estimate of the yield would be -$175
per acre, with the average prob--ably
at 225 per acre. The cost ol
planting and cultivating a crop of
canaigre is about the same as that of a
sweet-potato crop, leaving much
larger profits for the farmer.
The land where the canaigre plants
thrive is comparatively cheap and is
held in abundanceby many, farmers
and grazers who do not pretend to use
more than one-quarter. Sheep, cat
tle, and hogs roam over these wild
stretches, and many of them nibble at
the young leaves of the wild canaigre
plants. All through the cotton belt
further north experiments have been
made which show that this plant can
be raised tT ,ere almost as successfully
as in Arizona or Texas.
Canaigre ia a Spanish name, but its
speeifio botanical name is Bumex
hymenosepalua. It i3 found, growing
wild in the valleys and river bottom
of Western Texas, Arizona, Mexio,
California, and New Mexico. It has
long been used by the Indians and
Mexicans as a medicinal plant, and
when taken in sufficient quantity it ii
a purgative. .The leaves have the
general taste and properties of jhu-
barb, and cattle enjoy oatinga limited
quantity of them. The roots are
dark externally anl yellow" within.
The cultivated canaigre is much larger
than the wild, and cultivation and ir
rigation increase the yield enormously.
Female Pugnacity
Boys earlier inheritance is all in
the way of offensive -weapons, of bows,
bats, balls, and noise, with a tendency
to teasing and bullying, a feature for.
which the male has been famous, the
sufferer who was put upon being the
female the weaker vessel ; 'weaker
because the males fought with one an
other for her; had she fought with
her sisters for the males she could
have been the stronger and the big
ger brained. ;
The female, however, does inherit ft
pugnacious instinct, chiefly defensive.
She has had to fight on behalf of her
young ones, and in such cases the ma
ternal instinct becomes very strong
indeed. Children show this char
acter ; and I witnessed in one of mine n
very curious exhibition of what .
might be called perverted 'instinct
arising from a conflict of inherited as
sociations. She was quite a littlo girl
and was nursing her doll with all
possible expression of affection, lov
eng it, kissing it, and calling it all the
endearing names she knew. Up came
her brother and began to tease hei.
In an instant the pugnacious idea was
aroused in defense of. the doll, but,
having no available weapon in hand,
6he seized the doll by the hind legs
and, wheeling it aloft, brought its
china head down with resounding
force on the cranium of her brother.
He retired, howling and discomfited.
She, excited with her triumph, .re
turned to the caressing of her doll
with redoubled ardor, quite uncon
scious of the incongruity of her ac
tions, an unconsciousness which
heightened the comicality of the inci
dent. Fopular Science Monthly.
A Costly Mink Skin. .
"That is a very fine mink skin job
have," said a citizen to Frank Bots
fuhr. "It ought to be a good one,"
was the reply, "it cost me enough."
Further inquiry elicited the informa
tion that the mink had been killed on
Mr. Botefuhr's place, up on Cornell
Mountain. 1
It had made away with fourteen of
his prize chickens, valued at $14, and
was then caught in a trap Bet by the
man in charge. When it was found
that the animal was trapped the maD
took out a fine shotgun to kill it, bul
concluding it was not worth while to
waste powder and shot on so small a
varmint, struck at it with the butt of
tho gun. The mink dodged the blow,1
and the man becoming excited whaled
away at it again and smashed . the
stock of the gun. The making good
. 1 .1(1 - IV .
this damage cobs uiun, ou m
mink skin cost $26 net. Mr. IJote
fuhr is not anxious to get enough
skins at the same price to line an over
ooat. Portland Oregoaian,