“GRAND OLD MAN.”
Simple and Regular Life of
Premier Gladstone.
P:ain Food at His Meals and
Plenty of Sleep.
Mr. Gladstone is in the best of
health, sleeps remarkably well and, so
far from having shown signs of de-
creasing vitality through an inability
to maintain the appetite for food, the
right honorable gentleman enjoys his
meals with the zest of a young man.
When he rises he invariably takes a
tepid bath, and every morning before
breakfast while at Biarritz he attended
churel, and since his return to London
has frequently taken a little walk in
the grounds of Downing street. His
first meal usually consists of hard-
boiled egg, a slice of tongue, with tea
aud toast. After breakfast he devotes
himself to his correspondence, and for
several hours is busy with his private
secretary and receiving such political
callers as may arrive.
For luncheon Mr. Gladstone takes
cold meat, milk pudding and cheese.
At 5 o'clock, if disengaged,
afteinoon tea. lhe dinners are se-
lected to his taste. Ile takes soup,
fish (if it is to his fancy), but usually
dines off one dish, which he selects
and does not depart from lle is very
fond of rice pudding and prunes and
rice, and upon either of these, but
more especially the former, he would,
if the etiquette of the dinner table
permitted if, make an entire meal. He
does not drink coffee because it is
seldom made to his liking, and, being
astringent, keeps him awake.
While at Biarritz a rule was made
that Mr. Gladstone should be left alone
at 10 o'clock every night. This rule
is likely to be adhered to still, and the
he has
was in bed fifteen minutes later. Mr.
Gladstone hus, with very rare excep-
tions, always slept well, and for some
time was in the habit of remaining in
bed autil noon. This was when he
some matter which specially engaged
him.
head, and reverted to his old
and thus regained his asual
returned to London he has risen early,
and is as vigorous and hearty as his
Mr. Gladstone
lives very plainly, his regimen being
guided by authority, but his appetite
iu London is good.
at Biarritz he was asked bow he slept,
to which be replied gaily: “Well, 1
have done my nine hours.”
His memory is as keen as ever and
at the Biarritz dinner table, as when
hie dines at home or with friends in
Loudon, his was the life of the party.
On one occaricn, when Mr, Tollemache
was present, there was a discussion
about classics and Mr. Gladstone
quoted, not single lines of Greek, but
whole passages. Oa the voyage from
Calais the chunuel was very stormy
and Mr. Gladstone lay down, but did
not suffer from seasickness. The re-
ports of his ill health and lessened vi.
tality have caused the Downing stree!
post bag to be unusually heavy and a
great deal of ill-afforded time has con.
sequently been expended in refuting
these idle inveations,—[St, James
Gazette,
—————— II AANA
The Last of Her Race.
Old Jennie, the last representative
of the famous River Indians now liv-
ing in this conutry and quite advanced
in years, is making a burial robe,
after the custom of the distinguished
members of her tribe, in which to be
laid away when the summons shall
come and she shall pass to tlie happy
haunting grounds, where the white
man is not and firewater 19 unknown.
The groundwork is of fine buckskin
and is superbly decorated with the
various kinds of money used by the
tribe for ge erations past and richly
ornamenied in a pleasing and skillful
manner with jewels, pebbles, beads
and other valuables used and admired
by the tribe in the past.
The robe when completed will weigh
fully 50 pounds, and as a relic or re.
minder of the peculiar customs and
practises of a nation of people now
practically blotted from existence is
most valuable and should be preserved.
friends could wish.
custom about to pass furever into ob.
liviou, Old Jennie was born and
raised at the foot of Table Rocks, and
during the wars was once captured by
the whites and later rescued by her
people. She lives about a mile and =
half from Jacksonville, up Jackson
creek, and to hear her tell in that pecu.
grievous outrages and nameloss
wrongs perpetrated upon
and their consequent annihilation from
the face of the earth would
stoutest heart with sympathy and al
most make one wish he could face
again the brawny braves who fought
and died for this fair heritage, and
for which sad fate old Jennic's heart
goes out in bitter wails. This paints
ing will be a valuable object lesson as
indicating the fust fleeting cycles of
time and the rapid mutations of human
customs and usages and will serve as
a moat fitting companion piece to the
Table Rocks, where Jennie was born
and grew up, chiefly on war-whoops
complexion, happy in her native sim.
plicity and blissfully
modern
(Fla) Times.
se rice ———————
What Bad Roads Cost the Country,
The Board of Trade in a Tennessee
islature, demonstrated that bad roads
were costing the people of that common-
wealth more than 87,000,000 annually.
Professor W. W. Carson of the Uni-
versity of Tennessee, after careful in-
hauling to the Knoxville market by
wagon to be £7.50 per ton—aggrega-
ting $1,250,000 a year on the total
tonnage hauled.
this hauling could have been done for
half the sum over good dirt roads, and
for one-sixth of it over good macadam
roads, saving $1,000,000 annually.
Professor Richard T. Ely of the
Johns Hopkins University and Secre-
| tary of the American Economie Asso-
| ciation, affirmed that poor roads cost
over £20 a horse, and
| Professor Jenks of Knox College, 111.
{ this country
the loss. From papers calculated by
{| Professor Carson for an agricultural
| experiment station it is shown thet on
| gravel
! half times the load, and on
| over three times tho load he can draw
on a dirt road.
the
{| United States, Judge Thaver says: +I
As to the cost of bad roads in
i have made a careful computation from
such data as I have been able to obtain
find
undersiond to be
bad roads, and 1
tax. what is
of the cost of
i they
1 think it a moderate
| estimate to put the other contributions
000 annually.
to bal roads by the remaining traflic
of the country st an equal amount,
making a total of $270,000,000,”
-_——
A Bird Story.
I hope, although the incident may be
| your readers as much as it did myself
| when I waa listening some nights ago
to the little lark of whom my story
tells, piping away in what the poets
call “dulcet strains” of the most melo-
dions music.
My friend, James BShanock, three
years ago, caught a young lark, and it
has been pouring out its song ever
since then from the cage, and a very
sweet note it is. Some little while
ago, as the afternoon was sunny, the
cage was hung outside in the garden
at that moment another lark was
carolling in the air, and Shanock’s
only covered with a fine net, and in
which there must have been a rent,
other lark.
he gently replaced him in his cage.
There were three witnesses, [ believe,
in this case.
The funniest thing, too, is about
the same timo James Shanock’s eat
brought him in a little bird quite
delicately, and waited for him to take
it from his mouth quite uninjured.
He is a great birdslover, and it looks
as if the cat, like everybody else,
knew this fact.
A
Fatal to the Intimacy.
Mrs. Smith—And how is your
neighbor?
Mrs. Brown—She's well enough, I
suppose. I haven't seen her to speak
to for six weeks.
Mrs. Smith--Why, thought you
were on the most friendly terms,
. Mrs. Brown—Well, we used to be,
but we've exchanged servants. —
(Vogue. ; fof
A I LS 2
The avoriio method of fishing in
FOR FARM AND GARDEN,
CULTURE OF HORSERADISH.
This root is grown as follows: The
soil should be rich and well prepared,
or the roots will not be so smooth as
they ought to be, Cuttings are made
of the small roots as thick as a lead
pencil and four inches long. These
are sot in the soil, care being taken to
keep them right end up, or the roots
will be distorted, In rows eighteen
inches apart and the plants eight
inches apart in the row. The soil will
need cultivation, of course, and when
the roots are full grown they are dug,
trimmed, and washed and bundled
for sale. The small 'side roots are
kept for planting. — [New York Times.
FOR MUNCHING TREES,
Which is the more profijable, tow™
manure at twenty-five cents a load, or
leached ashes at ten cents a load, to be
put around young trees and vines?
Answer by the Rural New Yorker:
A ton of good stable manure should
be worth $2 or more ss compared with
fertilizers for which must pay
cash. A ton of leached ashes on the
same basis will be worth not quite
£1.80 or over. Still the
manure may be cheaper to be used
around the It makes a better
one
sO
much—say
trees,
mulch aud coutains some nitrogen,
none of which is found in the leached
ashes. At the same time, at teu cents
a load and for a short haul, leached
ashes make a cheap source of potash
and phosphoric acid. In anaverage ‘on
of such ashes there are nearly twenty
pounds each of these substances as
well as 1000 pounds of lime. The
ashes are most servicable spread on
very light, open soll or on very stifl
clays. They make the former compact
and better able
the
to hold moisture, and
latter more open and easily
worked.
SALT AS A FERTILIZER.
It is not known chewists how
salt acts as a fertilizer, but the opin
jon is, says a writer In an
that salt has the power to liberate am-
by
exchange,
monia from soils that have been man
This
is the caso in sandy soils, where the
ammonia exists in fertile combinations.
The salt acts
ured with nitrogenous manures.
upon the ammoniascal
salts by forming soda in the soil, and
choloride of smmonia, which
into solution and
active fertilizer.
poor lands devoid of hufMuas and am-
very
on rich lands, where
passes
then becomes an
It is known that on
monia it acts as a indifferent
manure, while
ammonia has been stored up in clay or
humus, it acts well by eliminating the
ammonia and placing it in combination
suitable as soluble plant food,
also beneficial
by aiding in fusolable
potash and phosphate soluble, which
dissolves the bone phosphate and
transforms it into soluble phosphate
of lime. Salt isa benefleent so.vent
when added to the manure heap by
drawing mowsture and Keeping down
the fermenting heat in nitrogenous
manure and making it more soluble
and better decomposed as plant fool
when applied to the soil and crop.—
“Chicago Times.
Salt is
on soils as a fertilizer
rendering
TWO HOED CROPS FROM ONE SCD,
It was the practice of a successful
farmer we knew many years ago to
let his land lie in sod two and some-
times three yoars. By this tima the
clover had run out, and a heavy sod
of timothy and other grasses were
feeding on the decaying clover root,
He put all Lis coarse manure, Crawn
as made in winter, on this sod, and in
spring plowed sod and manure under
for corn. After thorough cultivation
daring the summer, the field was fall-
plowed a little deeper than in the
spring, #0 as to turn the partly desayed
manure to the surface. It was then
lightly plowed in the spring sud
planted with potatoes,
Our friend claimed that thus he got
the best results from the manure f r
both crops, as the second year it made
a large growth of potatoes withoun'
liability to rot that sn application of
fresh manure might induce. The po-
tato crop was then got off early, and
the land sown to rye or wheat and
seeded with clover in the spring.
There were no more crops, and no
more time between sod-plowiag and
clover-seeding than in the usual rota
tion. The plan has certainly its ad-
vantages where land is very weodys
as it is apt to become where too many
grain crops come in proportionably to
those that require, if they do not al*
ways receive thorough cullivation.—
(Boston Cultivator.
—
draughts; second—as much whole.
some food—if grain—preferably |
ground fine—as they will eat clean,
three times a day; and third, free
access to a mixture of salt and ashes,
to sods or suil. Another writer speaks
specifically of the great value of wood
ashes a4 a medicine for all kinds of |
farm animals, and especially for pigs.
He has raised swine extensively for |
more than twenty years without |
cliolera or swine plague, and has not
lost one per cent. of his hogs from
disease. He keeps wood ashes and |
charcoal mixed with salt, constantly |
before his swine in a large covered |
box with holes two by six inches near
the bottom.
The hogs will work the mixture out |
through these holes as far as they
want it. He selects ashes rich in |
charcoal, and mixed three paris of
ashes to one of salt. There is no
danger of the swine cating too much |
of this mixture, or of pure salt, if it |
is kept constantly before them, and
they are provided with water. The
beneficial effects of the combination
are quite marked, especially when the
hogs are fattened fresh
Wood ashes when given to horses are
on maize.
fonnd to have a most salutary effect,
The writer last mentioned says that in
thirty-seven
years’ experience upon
the farm he Las
lost but one horse,
and this was overheated In the horse.
power of a threshing machine during |
his absence, and the only ‘condition
powder” he hus ever used has been
clean wood ashes.
The ashes may be given by putting
an even teaspoonful on the oats twice
to keep the
ashes and salt mixture constantly be-
a week; but he prefers
fore the horses, amd has made for this
purpose a little compartment in one
feed box. His experi-
ence is that the best condition powder
three paris of wood
salt; when it is
given regularly, and reasonable care
corner of the
is a mixture of
ashes to one of and
and intelligence are used in handling
horses, no other medicines are neces-
sary.
ities of wood ashes their efficacy us a
Apart from the medicinal quai-
fertilizer is weil kvown.—[Courier.
Journal.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Plenty of eggs are beter than run-
ning a grocery bill
The Dorking is a good general fowl
for market purposes.
With most stock, breeds affect pro.
fit more that quality.
Barley makes a good grain food for
cither Logs or horses.
With
preventive of disease.
all animals cleanliness isa
Many good breeders prefer training
mares after breeding.
Pack horse radish roots in sand fo
keep to use in winter,
To make a success of farming one
must be schooled to it.
to sell
The man who has much
usually has less to buy.
Winter laying requires warm quar-
ters and plenty of food,
Pleuty of exercise in winter is very
essential to good health.
Even in winter it is an item to keep
the water troughs clean.
Corn lacks in muscle-forming and
strength-giving material
A visit to the poultry shows can
easily be made profitable,
Tho scraps from the table will fur-
nish food for a small flock.
The flesh of a well-fed
¢qual to that of a wild duck.
Poultry are never properly fed un.
less regularly fed every day.
Do not undertake very early hatel-
ing without a good brooder.
The question of breed must largely
depend on the fancy of the owner,
‘Bee that the guineas roost in the
poultry house with the other fowls.
In a majority of cases the best
market for poor chickens is at howe,
Every month has its disadvantages
as well as advantages in special ways.
Scattering a little sulphur in the
sleeping guarters will help prevent
lice.
A milk cow should never be driven
faster than a walk or be worried by
dogs.
Give the hens a place for them-
selves, and lot the animals have the
stables. .
The bost buiter and milk cows were
bred by once pairing animals that
were near akin.
You have a right to make butter as
you please, but the folke that want to
purchase have a right to price it as
BEET SUGAR
Result of Experiments by the
Agricultural Department.
Bugar Beets Can be Grown in
Nearly Every State.
The American beat sugar Industry
is a success, writes a Washington cor-
respondent.
Department of Agriculture during the
last two or three years, prove tlie en-
tire practicability of producing beet
sugar in the United States, and that
in quantities,
were grown in greater or less quanti-
ties In nearly every state in the Union.
i
§
]
|
sample beets were received from 29
states and territories.
This gives to the department offi-
grow to an enormous length as a sign
rank proving that he was never of high
required to perform manual labor and
also providing him with the means of
tearing the meat which formed his
ustal diet, — [Chambers Journal.
set ——
The Opening of Oklahoma,
The opening of the Cherokee
Strip,” said A. J. Myers of Bi. Louis
to the Star representative at the Ran-
dall, “recalls to me an experience that
I had in the rush at the opening of
Oklahoma,
“1 was on the eastern border of the
territory, There were about 500 set
tiers with me.
the line,
Deputy
sight,
We ranged all along
There was not a soldier or
United Marshal in
There was, in fact, nothing 1a
prevent any of us from crossing the
line before noon, the hour fixed in
the proclamation, It was 4 magnifi-
cent example of American
loyalty to the
Sates
love and
observances of the law
of the lund, for there was not a single
of the beet sugar question, a pretty
thorough knowledge as to the
bilities of beet culture and beet sugar
producing in the United States. Ii is
found that the sugar beet will grow
lying north of the Ohio River and
siretching soutbwaraly from the
ico and Arizona and Southern
fornia sppear to Le the best suited for
the production of sugar-yielding beets,
In many states itis found that be-
can be produced per acre.
The results of
indicate that the section
these experiments
of
“We and
were
all compared watches
There
three pistol stots promptly at noon and
1 have been through
the wa, but it was one of the most
A
Liorseback, w bile
exciting scenes I ever witnessed.
few of
there
is were on
were countless
schooners and even ox caris, 0 say
Men,
were {reazied
nothing of ihe people on fool
women and children
with excitement, and it wasa wild
rush over the praivie, the railroad,
miles distant, being the
point, I
mounted aud three or four of us were
fifteen ol-
was splendidly
the first to reach the railroad. It was
a grea race. The owners of good
of the United States and that it may
readily produce all the sugar that the
people of this country want or ever
will want should the population
come many times that of today.
hind us,
*“The settiers spread out over
ae
couniry, the botlomn lands along the
streams being the first selected, the
ments of the year have produced is to
show that beet is
only practicable but a profitable
sugar raising
dustry.
experiment station was carried
an accurate estimate of cost
sults, and showed that a net
aunaQ
over 810 per acre would have been the
resnit of the work in
extensive form.
carried on an
RB
Right or Left Handed,
The despised left hand makes good
jig claims in many cases to be tie
third
Those in advance, when they came to
being the second and choice.
they wanted,
it
a quarter section (hat
would drive
down,
their stakes snd hold
Considering the great excite-
ment under whicn the people labored
and the rivalry for the land, the shool-
ing affrays were remarkably few.” —
[Washington Star.
The Grand Canon of Arizona,
In Northwestern Arizona lies what
is known ax the Grand Canon district.
This embraces an area of about fifteen
thousand square miles. Its northerly
beginning, st the high plsteans in
miles broad, dropping, like a
In Arizona the platform is
hand that guides the reins and
with exactness the horse
one might say much more han, the
bands that wields whip. Dut
great is fashion, uusnswerable is
theory. :
It would appear that aslife becomes
more and more complex we are be-
the
limits
is encouraged, rather than himdered,
by every screw made in Birmingham,
and by every slap administered to the
shake hands incorrectly.
It is curious to notice the vagaries
of humanity in cases where no hard
aud fast line has been already drawn,
Although most right-handed persons
put on their coats left arm first, a con-
Jidersble percentage thrust in their
right first. Soldiers fire from the
right shoulder, but sportsmen ure
found who prefer the left,
In working with the spade tho pro-
portion of right-handed men grasp the
spade with the left and push with left
foot and right hand, though, when
using an ax, the same individuals
would grasp fartherest down with the
right The Persians mount their
horses from the right side, which is
the different side from that mounted
by Europeans.
The buttons on coats, eile, are
placed on the right side, and the shed
of the hair in boys to the left, evi
dently to suit manipulation by the
right band. The great philosopher
Newton records that at first he con-
fined his astronomical observations to
and extends southerly beyond far into
It
is the theory of geologists that 10,009
been by
feet of strain have swept
platform, whose present uppermost
is the carbouniferous, the
that the missing Permian, Mesozoic
and Tertiary formations, which belong
above the carboniferous in the series,
are found in their place at the begin-
ning of the northern terraces referred
to.
The climax of this extraordinary ex-
ample of erosion is, of course, the chasm
of the the Grand canon proper, which,
were the missing strata restored to the
adjacent plateau, would be sixteen
thousand feet deep. The whole re-
gion has been repeatedly lifted and
submerged and daring the last upheaval
the river cut its gorge. As the platean
deliberately rose before the pressure
of the internal forces, the river Kept
its bed worn down to the level of ero-
sion, Thus calmly does science ex-
plain away the wonders of earth's
wonders. ~— [New York Observer.
A
Sifting Salt.
My mother used 10 seat me before
a table in a rather high clair, give me
a long, slgllow tin pan, a little sieve
or gravy sirzsiner and about two
pounds of common table salt in
another dish, writes Mrs. H. H. White
in the New York Recorder,
1 then proceeded to have a minature
snowstorm by sifting the salt upon
the long tin, in some places piling
it high in drifts, I was fortunate in
having among my toys a “farmyard,”
consisting of a little house, some
wooden trees and all kinds ot animals.
These I distributed about ia my field
of snow, making paths throngh the