LOVE SONNETS OF AN OFFICE
BOY.
1
I wish, some day, whea she's type-
writin’ and
I've took a note out
somewhere
They'd be some outlaws sneaX in
here and scare
That long-legged clerk to death and
then the band
Would steal her,
would dare
To try to save
away
To where they had their cave,
keep her there
And ast more for
could pay.
for the boss
and nobody else
her, and -they'd run
and
knife
And take the name of Buckskin Bob
or Joe,
track them
then I'd go
A-gally whoopin’ in,
And she would say:
came at last!”
And we'd stand there and hold
other fast.
And to. their den, and
“My hero's
IL
My darling, often when get and
think
things that
bother y
put
and chew
Around the
teeth
in it
split,
And vest
threw
stub
you
of geem to kind
ou,
You your wencil in your mouth
wood, and let your sweet
sink
Down till its
rday |
A away
lew
Behind the bookea
it.
I put it in my
done,
And 1 could
you ms
The places
I
tongue
every a,
And shut my
seemed to be
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. Capturing a Polar
Be:r Ali.c.
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CE CARER CCH) >
From March to Sept r. 1887. 1
made my first Ar :
tain Gray ol
four hundred
power. At
had taken
strong sNiron
excited consid
speculation as
I was greatly
that it was mear
Captain Gray bh
if not a
tured and brought
liberal offers had
an animal, if uninj
than a cub had
secured, and thore
of fun in taking a
It was late in
several polar be
and I frequently disc
means of taking one
a kind of lasso made
goer"—a portion of the harpoon
about twenty fathoms long. constr
ed of Manila fiber, attached
diately to the harpoon
At the end thi
running loop, and then tied it
thin twine to the } f a long
hook, allowing the line from the
to run through ms; nd My inten.
tion was to use oy boat-hook pole
to put the loop ad,
then break the the
lasso with the bo this
aside, and then hold
lasso.
To
crew,
full-grown
ptain Gray
the best
alive
out of
line
uct
imme
of line I made a
boat-
1 '
00D
over the bears h
twine conyos
at-hook
“he
ting
lay
bear by
the conservative
this apparatus appeared
“new-fangled” be the slightest
use. I resolved, however to test the
gear at the first opportunity.
One afternoon a bear was reported
to be swimmi nz from a large floe,
about half a mile away, toward the
ship. A boat was quickly lowered
and manned, and I took up my posi.
tion, with my bear-catching apparatus,
fn the bows. On seeing us In pursuit,
the bear whipped short round and
made for the ice which he had left.
‘He was too late, however,
ully the boat overhauled him. I pop-
ped the loop over his head, snapped
the twine holding 1t to the boat hook,
and had on my line the heaviest “fish”
I had ever attempted to land
How he struggled and lashed the
water, churning it into foam. now and
minds of the
to of
that held him!
of no avail and
short-lived,
Unfortunately for this bear and for
ourselves, 1 had had the tip of my
left thumb taken off by a seal-knife
a few days previously. In the struggle
with the bear I lost the bandage, and
my thumb began to bleed profusely.
In order that I might tie it up again 1
handed the end of the line to the har
pooner behind me.
After working at the bandage for a
couple of minutes, | turned round to
find the bear drawn up to the ring.
bolt, with his tongue hanging out,
The harpooner had hauled him up
tight to the bows, and had made the
Hine fast to the thwart,
In response to my hurried order to
“slacken off,” the man got the line
free alftor some fumbling, but it was
But his efforts were
his resistance was
too late; the bear was dead. Feeling
vory much like executioners, we towed
the carcass to the ship. It was a male
cub, a little more than half grown
The next morning a bear was sight.
ed, lying on% large "sconce-plece” |
about a mile across. “Now's your |
Jackson,” sald Captain Gray, |
So |
two
my tackle was fitted up
boats were lowered, and
crews—a8 we considered it a
business—were called for and selected.
I started off in command of one
boat; the first mate had charge of the
second. We pulled round the floe to
again,
the mate's
hundred yards in
meantime, a party of
who had been landed
ters edge,
rear. In the
men with rifles,
ship,
in order to drive him
Gradually the shouts and
came nearer and nearer,
the bear slowly coming
our boat
The suppressed excitement became
as the critical moment drew
near. “Steady now, not a word, but
Kee oars free!” | whispered, as
I clutched my lassoing apparatus more
firmly.
The bear came
about thirty y
after ¢ al
gop toward
p your
to the at a
ards from our boat
glance at as if
very small fry,
few moments
-“
on his voyage
off from the
water
spot
and
16
he
to
floe
shouted and off we
Five st: of
eir utmost for a min-
the be
uarry materially
in hit
rful swimmer
to head
al we
JUL pairs
distance
the
“ful
back for the
were in the
had
ad
1e course he first
’ rhe :1
we overhau
purt placed us
radually
within
irom
neck by
run wale
have
The men in the
eA
toward the
paws with an
in vain
rilliant
Was passed
I struck
wad
for
him
magical;
the water as {if
A heavy oar he
but a wet swab was
syed
Wp back into
t had hit him
mind a bit,
horrible and
thing quite outside the
ized warfare!
The wet however,
all its terrors for him, and
as indifferent to this as to
times atte a
pr it
almost to capsiz
varbarous—some-
pale of civil
swab goon lost
he became
the oar.
became
h the boat listed
tg he the weight
of the bear hanging on the gunwale,
his gleaming teeth and furious
eyes within three feet of my face as
anv slight mistake
and
would have enabled him to take pos
sesgion of our craft and completely
turn the tables on us,
After half an hour of this tooth-and-
nail struggle his tremendous st.ength |
began to give out,
Thus he was
Slowly we paddled back to the Erik,
which steamed down toward us. On
The moveable bars in
the top were then secured, and the
been engaged in was over,
“I thought he would have eaten the
lot of you!" was Captain Gray's ex-
clamation, aa I came on board.
The bear was a huge male, and from
knowledge I have since obtained of
other bears, by accurate weighing, 1
estimate that he must have scaled
nine hundred and fifty pounds.
Our captive behaved like a lap dog
during the rest of the day, and gob-
bled up some pork eracklings the cook
threw to him ag if he had been accus-
tomed to dine on board ship all his
life. His apparently gentlemanly
and “nice” Wohavior waa the subject
of general comment; but these {lin
glons were to be rudely digpelled the
following morning.
A great uproar on the main deck
wos heard at about seen o'clock, and
i
i
i
i
deck. Hurriedly tumbling into a coat,
up I went with a rifle, to find that the
apimal had forced its head and should.
ers through the top of the cage, and
that several of the crew were up in
| the rigging, as they expected him at
any moment to take charge of the
Not wishing to smoot him, I picked
up a capstan-rod and hit him a heavy
cage. Then I
he placed a paw on the top bars, which
wire, 1 brought the
kept him in check until spars were
lashed over the aperture he had made
One of the sailors had played a hose
He objected to a bath and
monkey, found the top was
weak,
gee our captive, there was more
citement. Captain Gray, very rashly
walking about on the top of the cage,
which was'nearly level with the deck,
to slow our captive off, fell, and a foot
slipped through the bars, Instantly
the iit.
I jumped down to the
sistance, and both my
through, so that the
pretty good larder with
ex-
bear seize
captaln’s
legs
animal
in reach,
as-
slipped
had a
nched him
broom-handle
captain's foot.
ourselves into
Fortunately, a sailor
in the mouth with a
making him release the
and enabling us to take
a place of safety. This
uite cured Captain
he part of bear-tamer
Happily, the
foot only the
of his and
hold; these
the fle
two
experience
Gray of playing
bear had fixed
canine teeth on
#0 had not got a
teeth had torn thre
sh, and the captain was lame for
fterward. He had a
escape, as he might have had
off had the bear secured
in
one gia
jaw,
but
months
fucky
his leg torn
a firm grip.
Without any
was safely nded
when he
being remove
further excitement our
at Peterhead
again nearly
d from the
price
in September,
loose in
Youth's Companion
Broke
hip.-
POISON VS. CONSUMPTION,
Remarkable Results From Injection of
Formic Aidehyde
many cases al
, absolute cures have
: who were
imptives of the
lowing the
life in.
“first-class
Tear COns
t h
AR
las
Mos opeless « : have, fol
treatment, been
accepted by
panies as
The
Dr
tive
of the new treatment
Maguire, the consump
ialist and physician to the
Hi ital. Some time ago
determined to attack the
Be w way. The antiseptics
had to be so mild as not
stomach, where they un
inventor
Robert
8x
Brompton 61
Dr. Maguire
bacilli in a
st 0 used
0 injure the
worthless. So with hypo-
injections: while pricking the
ungs was risky and not to be too often
repeated. Dr. Maquire thereupon de
cided on injection into the veins, and
and anxious search he
selected formic aldehyde as the injec
tion. The hole in the punctured vein
near the elbow ia so small that it
voluntarily heals up withont
ment after each operation.
of 1
ractically
ormic
he solution in 170,000 of for
bacilli. If, then, such a solution can
introduced into the blood vessels
and the lungs siuiced with it, the cure
is apparently accomplished. But
It
he
which was reduced by as-
the right ventricle, could be freely em-
ployed, while solutions of 1 in 1,000
The lungs are impregnat-
ed for the space of about twenty-five
i
i
of experiments the effect has been
solution is a sure germicide, and the
consumption specialistis, remembering
a proper reluctance to calling any
thing a consumptive cure until
efficacy is beyond all doubt. There is,
“eure” to describe some of the results
which have been achieved. In many
two months’ treatment at the most,
such cavities as had been formed in
the lungs had healed up, and every
trace of the bacilli had dicappeared,
That is to say, such a cure had been
effected that If the patient then sub.
mitted himself to another medical
man, ignorant of what had taken place
the latter would indubitably declare
that the patient had never had cone
sumption at all, Take an instance,
one of the most remarkable imagin-
able. Some time ago a young man, a
bank clerk, came for Dr. Maguire's
treatment. He was in one of the last
stages of consumption. In less than
two months from that date there was
not a trace of consumption about him,
and, most convincing test of all, he
was accepted by an insurance office
as a first class life! London Mall.
THE CARROT CROP.
One of the best crops that can be
grown, and which may be planted as
early as the ground warms, is carrots,
The earlier the seed is put in the bet.
ter, 80 as to give the planta the
whole of the growing season, and also
to allow them a good start before dry
weather comes, It is essential that
a plece of ground be selected that was
woll cultivated last year, in order to
avold weeds as much as possible, If
of weeds,
of weeds until the
YOUNG ANIMALS
LIGENTL?
keep the
is the
of them,
the farmer
them the
a study
and see
INTEL.
To growing
to pet a profit
reason
careful
stock
best way
and by
should be
best of attent
of what feeding them
that balanced ra-
tion as nearly as gsible,
At the station,
matured
to give
ion and make
they get a
Alabama pigs pastur
cow-peas, and
almost
ght
sively
1
with corn made
the gain in live wel
ar pigs fed
gained
i cow-peas
on
Pigs also
corn,
more rap
and core than
About five pounds of
qual to a tr r
ni ifle over
ight pounds of ground corn
on ground
UNFLOWER SEED Son POULTRY
Generally King, fowls
to
i ant
geem
#o
WOT BOG
very
‘
rate quantities it is
vided the seed can be
al
ces comparable with
grain foods, it
every few
ourth
can
y ¥
wholeasal
Sibley
DIFFERENCE IN
Every
ent
dividuals
me who
VAry greatis
The abi
are returs
in successful
it it
ighir
and keeping
d used in bul
the lllinols
station, Professor W. J
dairy department gives
testing two cows Bo
of no known breed
years old and the
feed consisted of a fair quality
hay and green feed available
the season beginning about
and a mixture or
made up corn meal
Can oe
by the care r and test.
an
ietin
account
¢
{ee
sixty.
six, issued by
Fraser of the
thin
th
ing One
other six years
result ir
grade
was nine
The
were
ver, dur
April
concentrates
ginten meal,
10
of
Both cows were
ment and feed,
every 100
produced by
produced
this is a vast
given the same treat.
but it was found that
pounds of butter
Nora, the other
187 pounds
difference it
While
herds in Illinois
in summarizing Professor
one
may produce twice as much but.
ter fat as another on exactly the same
Cow
may produce five times as
profitable” cows of [llinois. He is
all dairymen
keep a portion of their herds at an
every three
Decide upon a profitable
Dispose of any cows that do
not come up to the standard. Bread
the best cows to daly sires of known
————
HE TWO KINDS OF FERTILIZER.
Fertilizers may be divided into two
classes, direct and indirect. A di
rect fertilizer Is one which Is used
for the plant food it containg. Any
fortilizers that contain nitrogen, phos.
phoric acid or potash, are direct fer
tilizers. For example, nitrate of soda,
is a direct fertilizer, and is used upon
land because of the plant food, nitro.
gen, it contains. An indirect fertil-
izer does not contain any of these
plant foods already contained there.
A well known example of indirect fer.
tilizger 1s common lime, or common
salt; gypsum also belongs to the class
of indirect fertilizers, and has been
used quite extensively for such pur
pose in late years. If any three of
these different fertilizers mentioned
are used they will liberate and make
avallable for plants some of the pot-
ash which is already in the soll,
The most common of direct or nl-
trogen fertilizer, gtable manure.
Each ton contains approximately ten
pounds of nitrogen, which is enough
to furnish food for a great many plants
for one year or longer, as it is vot all
removed from the soll by the plant
roots for three or four years. Other
nitrogen fertilizers that are very good
are dried blood, fish scrap, cottonseed
meal, hoof meal, ground leather,
guano, and all refuse from the slaught.
er pen. To obtain the best results,
direct fertilizer should be applied as
| near to the time when the growing
| crop needs them as possible, It is a
bad practice to scatter fertilizer over
{the surface of the coil, and leave
{it exposed to the sun and ztmosphere,
{ It does not take it long to leak sut en-
i tirely and lose its strength, © ehould
{ be thoroughly stirred into the sofl so
| that the beneficial gases and products
it contains will be well distributed
through every particle,
Different lands and different crops
require different fertilizers. The
farmer by a few simple experiments
upon samples of soll selected from his
different fields can correctly ascertain
what fertilizer is This can
be in the wil: fur.
nigh a pastime interest.
ing and profitable.
and fill them with
field yon desire to
gathering the
of it I'lant in the
that intend to
| Let remain as
i the the
portion tkat it would
the field Then
see if there is any
of fields, and a number
can be experimented upon in this
the Dennis H. Stovall
Epitomist.
DIVERSIFIED
is
needed,
done winter, and
that is both
Take small
the from
experiment
from all parts
pots the grain
plant the fleld.
it is, 2 stir into
fertilizer
two
pots
the
soil
up
on, soil
you in
one
other the pro-
spread
results
A number
of fertilizers
be over
await and
benefit
Way
during
in
winter
Agricultural
FARMING,
in modern sci
us that special
more
farming In
and mors
the fu
on the
he has to
come
impressed up
that
aver.
farmer take this
3 other words
yor 1a
man
8 in
$ rua
loge
one
ket may or later all in
8O0N
accident
Special
to the
be
Crops
farming is needed
there
ism in
point of knowing all
known concerning one, t
That the specialism we
want on all farms today, whether they
are in the North, South, East or West.
The farmer who can raise the finest
possible crop of wheat or corn breed
excellent sheep, cows or pigs, and add
a small fruit or vegetable garden to
the place knows well that he has pro
vided against ordinary of
drought and It is
not much to ask any farmer to
study three crops like these so that he
can excel in all He may make one
his special hobby, and carry it to a de.
will rahadow
up
iz to
wo or three
in
pecidents
gecta
too
ove
or to windward that may come in to
im in time of a storm. Drifting
worst practices so prevalent in most
parts of the country. We heard of
forthwith we abandon
and try the new with which we have
Naturally, we
fail to attain expected results, anl
the next year another report of some-
body else's success with another crop
stimulates us to imitate him. Thus
we may abandon one crop after an-
other and reach out for vain things.
We cannot succeed in this way, because
the knowledge which we purchase
with experience is lost each year, and
hence we make no advancement. We
must pin our faith to a few crops, and
make them our specialties, studying
them in the light of modern knowl.
edge and personal experience, which
will enable us to improve a little each
year—A, B. Barrett in American
Cultivator.
Honors for a Composer.
Herr Anton Dvorak has been ac
corded a rare distinction by the Em-
peror of Austria. He is the first musi.
cal composer who has been made a
member of the Austrian house of
lords. Dvorak was born in a suburb
of Prague in 1841. He was the son
of an inn keeper and evinced his musi.
cal genius at an early age and receiv.
ed his training in the. government
schools. His “"Stabat Mater” secured
his European reputation, 2
The worst thing about hope is that
we always expect it to be realized,
The crust of society is formed of
people who have the “dough.”
GREATER.
The old time sages who
In figures were expert
Said “every man before he dies
Must eat his peck of dirt.”
But in these later days,
Before man's race is run,
"Tis figured that of things unclean
He eats about a ton.
Chicago [ribune,
“You must find it wearing to be the
wife of a genius.”
“Yes, 80 many fools want to know
hoy I am able to get along with him.”
~ Chicago Record-Herald
NATURALLY
“1 attended a marriage
mutes to-day.”
“1 suppose it was a quiet
New York World,
of two deaf.
wedding.”
WIN
attack
AND LOSE.
Ine
f
i
grip has made
ng your grip
York World.
the tactful
the
is
answered
have
that she
Siar.
so fat?”
of the
fat
A SOURCE OF
‘Our are
said
SADNESS.
delusions
sweetest
gentle
the
things in life, the opti-
mist
“How about the man who thinks he
he ¢ynic.—Washing-
askeq t
ARRANGED.
will not
m will rry for.”
“1 can assure that | wi
“You will endeavor to express your
gelf in moderate language?
“No at all i shall simply
to be sorry.”"—Washington Star
EASILY
“1 hope you say anything
be so
I not
refuse
DIFFERENCE,
Yes, d like this
much?
Pair of pants?
Customer--1 never wear
want a pair of trousers.
Tallor—To be sure. We will make
you a pair of trousers for $10.-—Phiila-
delphia Press.
THE
Customer
goods. How
Tailor
piece of
Five
“pants.”
JUST A PLAIN BILL.
Tutcher--You haven't a $6 bill
about you have you?
Klutcher—Yes, I have.
you guess it?
Tutcher—1 just thought you might
have.
Klutcher-—] just got it this morning.
Here it is: “J. Klutcher to A. Taylor,
Dr. to trousers, $5."—Washington
Star.
How did
AN AMBIGUITY.
“Love,” said the poot, “is a mystic
influence; it is a message and a re
sponse voluble in a flash of thought; it
conquers time and distance. and its
exchanges require no medium for
transmission,
“That's not love”
cal man. “You'rs talking about wire
less telegraphy now.'—New York
Commercial Advertiser,
sajd the practi.
NATURAL MIRRORS.
The Lawyer—You say that you
were walking behind this woman,
could not distinguish her figure be
cause of the cape she wore, saw noth
ing of her face, and yet knew that she
was a very pretty woman, How do
you account for that?
The Witness—Well, 1 could see the
faces of the men coming toward me
Life.
The value of the property of the
State of Florida in 1880 was abont
$32,000,000, To-day it is *200.900.000,