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CHAPTER 111.
A few days after their first meeting,
while the soldier artist was near the
same spot making a sketch of Mount
Soledad, a prominent peak of the San
Andreas range, Alice came upon liiin
again. Long' before she reached the
spot where he sat she had seen him
bending over his work. With girlish
impulsiveness she determined to en
deavor to learn something of him, and
rode up to him.
"If I disturb you. you must frankly
tell me so and I will go away," she
said. "I sketch a great deal myself,
and naturally take a deep interest in
an art I so well."
"You '% not disturb me in the least.
MisS Sanford," he replied. "As but a
private soldier I deem it an honor that
the daughter of my commander should
take an interest in my poor efforts.
And you, also, are of artistic tastes?
Do you not find rare subject matter for
your pencil in this wildly beautiful
I country?"
"O, yes, indeed I do. I have many
sketches I have made about the fort,
and many mor - from rarely beautiful
spots in the tntain ranges here
abouts. You ketehing Soledad, I
see. May 110 ■ .:t it?"
"It is scarcely started yet," he re
plied, "but as you are an artist I need
not point out to you what it laeks to
coniplete'it."
She gazed upon the picture with
great interest, for every bold stroke of
the pencil and every delicate shade
proclaimed a master's hand. For some
moments she stood in rapt admiration,
her lips parted and her bright expres
sive eyes drinking in every detail of
the young artist's work.
"Your work is that of the finished
artist," she said. "Where did you
learn this?"
"At my liome in a far eastern state.
I developed a taste for drawing when
but a child, and every facility for ad
vancement in the art was placed at my
disposal. In both drawing and paint
ing I had the best instructors to In
found in th? country."
"And now you are —"
"Now 1 am Private Brown, an en
listed man of F) troop. Sixth cavalry,"
he replied, with a sad smile.
She looked into his eyes with a puz
zled expression, followed by a shadow
SHE GAZED I* PON THE PICTUBE WITH
GREAT INTEREST.
of pain, as her father's words were re
called, "the romance of crime."
"Mr. lirown. I cannot understand.
I—l hope—"
I!o divined her thoughts in an in
stant and quickly responded:
"No, Miss Sanford, not that. I know
what you would say. It is too true
there are many soldiers in the army
who enlisted to escape punishment for
crime, but I can truthfully assure you
that I never committed a crime in my
life. I confess that the position in life
in which I am placed is not of my own
choosing, that my servile lot is dis
tasteful to me. yet with uplifted ltand
I gave myself to my country for five
years, a 1 I will faithfully fulfill that
obligat; :io matter how sorely the
task m:i 'nfiict with my own person
al inclinations. In the ranks of life
you occupy a sphere far above my pres
ent one, Miss Sanford, yet you need
not fear*being tainted by holding con
verse with Private Brown."
"I do sincerely crave your forgive
ness," she warmly exclaimed. "It was
but a passing thought, and even before
you interrupted me your eyes told me
] the suspicion wronged you. But it
j surely could have been no ordinary
| cause that induced you to enter the
I army?"
"It was a result of youthful folly,
Miss Sanford. I owe my present con
dition in life entirely to my own youth
ful folly."
i "You excite my curiosity, Mr. Brown,
and a woman's curiosity, when not
gratified, is like a rankling thorn in
; her side, you know. Will you not trust
me with your story? Perhaps I may
be able to assist you. My father is the
commanding officer, you know, and
will grant any reasonable request I
may ask of him. I might be able to se
cure your discharge from the service
and enable you to return to a life for
which you are better fitted than you
are to perform the duties of a private
soldier."
"In scekiug to learn my history I am
sure you are actuated only by pure
womanly sympathy. I thank you for
this, thank you most sincerely, but I
cannot consent to you making an ef
fort to secure my discharge. I have ac
cepted the condition in which I am
placed as a deserved punishment for
wrong doing and as a severe school to
teach me the right, and under no cir
cumstances would I have my term of
enlistment shortened one single day."
Alice looked into his eyes for a mo
ment, and then began a new scrutiny
of the sketch. Her thoughts were not
upon the picture, however. She was
debating in her own mind the pro
priety of pushing her inquiries further.
She was burning with curiosity not un
mixed with sympathy to learn why a
man of his acquirements and unmlstak
ablo refinement should be found in such
a humble position. After a few mo
ments' reflection, during which he
watched her faco with growing Inter
est, she sprang from her saddle to the
ground, and requested him to tighten
the girth. While he was doing so she
said:
"It may be presumptuous for me to do
so, Mr. Brown, but I must ask you a
question even at the risk of being
thought impertinent. When I tell you
I am greatly astonished to find one of
your qualifications among men so far
beneath you in intellect and refined
tastes, I feel that you will see in my
interest some palliation for my action.
May I venture to ask if there is a secret
connected with the cause of your thus
banishing yourself from the ranks of
life in which you are fitted to move?"
"I fully appreciate the spirit of curi
osity which prompts the question. Miss
Sanford, aud I really regret that my
reply may deface any romantic mental
' yieture may have drawn me. 1
have nothing to conceal from the
world."
"Then will you not tell me some
thing 1 of yourself, if your story be one
you can properly intrust with a
stranger? I ask f>>r no confidence, Mr.
Brown, and assure you that curiosity
alone feeds my nature—with, perhaps,
a feeling 1 of friendly sympathy for a
fellow artist."
He reflected a moment with down
cast eyes, then looking in her face re
plied:
"I will tell you my story, thoug-h It
may lessen me in your esteem, and un
dermine any good opinion you may
have formed of me. It can be told in a
very few words. In the flrst plr.ee, my
name is not Brown."
"I was very sure of ' '.at." she said
with a sunny smile. "Brown is too
common a name for such an uncommon
"And yet illustrious men have borne
it. I recall one long since dead whose
tireless soul with knapsack
upon its back is yet reported to be on
an extended march. My true name is
Edward Thornton. I assumed the
name I now bear when I enlisted.
"My mother died when I was but a
year old and a few months later my
fathcr followed her, leaving me in the
care of a very wealthy aunt in the city
of Brooklyn. N. Y. She was my
father's only sister, and took me to her
own luxurious home and reared me as
her own child, lavishing upon me her
deepest love. 1 \v::s all she hail to love,
and from childhood the dear, good
woman fairly idolized me and gratified
my every wish. When I reached a
proper age competent teachers were
secured for me. and, developing a love
for study, I progressed so rapidly that
at the early age of seventeen I was the
possessor of a liberal education and
fitted to fill a responsible position in
the business world. As I before told
you, I acquired a deep love for drawing
and painting, for which I am now trnly
thankful, for the only real pleasure I
now derive from life I find amid these
western solitudes with my sketch book
and pencils.
"W hen my education was completed
my good aunt supplied me libej-ally with
money, and in her solicitude for my
pleasure and enjoyment paid little at
tention to my moral training. I was
of a lively, fun-loving disposition, and
in choosing my companions I selected
kindred spirits who would join me in
any wild lark that promised sport.
"One night at a banquet given in hon
or of the birthday of a young lady friend
of my aunt I listened to the smiling
entreaties of the fair hostess to drink
her health, and accepted from her hand
my first glass of wine. Ah! Miss San
ford, the first downward step toward
the depths of drunken degradation is
often taken at the invitation of a
thoughtless fair woman with a glass of
sparkling wine in her jeweled hand,
when she little dreams that what she re
gards as but a trifling act of hospitality
is the seal of doom upon a life that might
otherwise be bright and useful. The
wine seemed to flood my soul with its
rosy warmth and to quicken my senses,
and other draughts of the ruby liquid fol
lowed until I was taken home in a car
riage supported in my aunt's arms, in a
state of stupid intoxication.
"When I came down from my cham
ber the next morning feeling as guilty
as a felon approaching the bar of jus
tice, my aunt met me with a smile,
playfully chided ine for having taken
just a drop too much, and cautioned me
to be careful and not in future overesti-
mate my bibulous powers. That same
night I again sought the false cheer of
the wine cup.
* Lower and lower I went in my
downward course, the demon of drink
sinking its poisonous talons deeper and
deeper into my soul. No word of re
buke ever fell from my aunt's lips. She
continued to keep my purse well filled,
the good creature believing my crop of
wild oats would soon be sown and I
would then settle down Into respect
able, sober manhood.
"Two years ago this very day-—the
date is a notable one to me, for it is
the second anniversary of my enlist
ment —I went 011 a carouse with a
couple of my boon companions. In a
saloon in New York we met a sergeant
of artillery, then attached to a recruit
ing' office in that city, lie was u hand
some, dashing young fellow and I at
once took a great fancy to him and
asked him to join us in our revels. Re
tiring to a private room in the rear of
the saloon I ordered wine, and we were
soon deeply under the influence of the
seductive liquor. Our potations grew
deeper and deeper until my two com
panions fell intoa drunken sleep in their
chairs.
"The sergeant then suggested a walk,
but 1 told him that gentlemen of our
standing should ride, and I ordered a
carriage and we drove away. We
stopped at various drinking places
about the city, and I bei amc wild with
my frequent potations and ready to
second any proposition thai the ser
geant might make.
" 'Come i:ml enli: t with me, old fel
low,'he said. 'You will hare nothing
to do but wear a uniform and hang
around with me looking for recruits,
and we will have a glorious time in
this gay city.'
"In my irresponsible state I agreed
to his proportion and ordered the driv
er to take us to the street and the num
ber he named. I have a dim,indistinct
recollection of ascending a stairway
supported by the sergeant, of him tell
ing me to give the name of Kicliard
Brown, of replying to some questions
propounded by an officer, and then of
raising my hand and taking an oath.
A few moments later, with a lotof men,
I was taken to a boat and helped on
board, and there 1 fell into a drunken
sleep.
< HAPTEK IV.
"I awoke the next morning in along
room tilled with men, and in answer to
my queries was told that I was on
Governor's island and was an enlisted
man in the United States army. You
can imagine my amazement at this
startling revelation. I walked about
the room in a half dazed condition, my
brain being yet ;»:ostrate from the ca
rouse of the previous day. During the
forenoon 1 was supplied with the uni
form and neci ssary outfit of the private
soldier, and was notified that I had
been aligned to I'< troop. Sixth caval
ry. and would start for the far western
frontier on the following morning.
"After donning my uniform I walked
down to the water's edge and sat down
on a dismantled cannon to reflect on
my mad action. My brain seemed to
have shaken off the grip of the liquor
which had been the cause of placing mo
in such a distressing position, and I
thank God that I was able to take a
philosophic view of the matter. Ere 1
left the spot 1 began to look upon my
enlistment as a blessing. I reasoned
that ha 1 I continued to pursue the
downward course into which I had
fallen 1 would sink lower and lower
and onejlay till a drunkard'ttgxflva
In the I'nited States service T would
l>e vtnder restraint and bo far re
moved from the temptations **f a great
city and from the companions who
were fast leading me toward utter
ruin. In the service I could reform,
and by contact with hardships and pri-
I SAT I>OWX OS A I)IKiIA>TI.KII CANNON.
vations fit myself to cope with the
rougher aspects of life should fortune
ever desert me. Then and there I
firmly resolved to serve faithfully for
the term of my enlistment.
"I did more. Miss Sanford. I swore
in the presence of Almighty God and of
the spirit of my angel mother in
Heaven that as long as I should live
not another drop of Intoxicating liquor
should ever pass my lips."
The impulsive girl reached forward
and grasped his hand, the tears stream
ing down her cheeks. She essayed to
speak but coald not, and dashing the
tears from his own eyes he continued:
"With these resolutions firmly im
planted in my mind I returned to the
barracks with a lighter heart, and
wrote a long letter to my aunt in
which I called into requisition ull my
powers of eloquence to convince her
that it was all for the best, and that
my moral salvation was the stake for
which I was playing. I consoled the
dear old woman as best I could, and
promised her that if God spared our
lives I would return to her at the ex
piration of my term of enlistment as a
man of whom she could lie proud. I
did not tell her of my assumed name
nor of my destination, for I well knew
she would spend her entire fortune, if
necessary, to secure my release.
"I was sent to the west with other
recruits, and the experiences of niv two
years' service have been but the same
as those of other cavalry soldiers at a
frontier post. 1 have tried to faithful-
ly perform every duty assigned me. and
from the fact that I have never re
ceived a reprimand from those in
authority I aia I d to believe 1 have
been a good soldier.
"That is my story. Miss Sanford.
Vou may now understand my motive
when I repeat to you that under no
circumstances would I have you make
an effort to secure my discharge."
Alice had listened to bis recital with
thc deepest interest, and at its conclu
sion she again extended her hand and
said:
"Mr. Thornton. 1 respect and honor
you. Your determination to do your
duty faithfully and to bury your in
clination to lead a dissolute life in the
hardships and rigors of service in the
army is a noble one. I pray < .od that
your future may shine out all the more
resplendent from such a dark back
ground. There Is, I hope, no shadow
of deceit in my nature, and I frankly
tell you that I believe you to IK* a true,
honest anil upright man whose heart
is swayed by the most noble impulses,
even though you may wear the garb of
a private soldier. lam glad I met you,
and I shall highly prize your friend
ship and will do all I can to lighten the
dark hours of your service. You must
call upon me at my home and—"
"Pardon the interruption. Miss San
ford, but you have forgotten my station
in life iu your sympathy for the unfor
tunate man. In your kindness of heart
you lose sight of thc fact that Col. San
ford would nevor permit a private sol
dier to enter his house, unless in the
line of military duty."
A shadow flitted over her bright
young face, and in a tender tone of
voice she replied:
"Yes, I had forgotten. In contemplat
ing the man my eyes were closed to his
station in life. What you say is but too
true. Papa is unflinchingly firm in his
ideas of the impregnability of the so
cial barrier which separates the men in
tho ranks from those in official life.
Yet I hope to see you frequently when
you ure out sketching. I feel a very
deep interest in you, Mr. Thornton,
and I do trust unclouded happiness
may dawn upon you and ever remain
with you at thc close of your army life."
"God bless you for your cheering
words," he warmly responded. "They
touch rny heart with thrilling tender
ness, and the knowledge that I possess
one friend above the ranks of the
rough soldiers will be a cheering re
flection as I plod on in submission to
my self-imp* 1-cd [k-nance. I shall look
up to your sympathy as a bright star
illumining the dreary days of my term
of service, and the knowledge that you
arc watching me with friendly interest
will lighten every uncongenial duty im
posed upon me."
"Your term of service will soon pass,
and it must be a cheering reflection to
you that you will then return to the
enjoyments of civil life and to the so
ciety for which you are so well fitted.
I feel that a briglii future lies liefore
you, Mr. Thornton, and you will appre
ciate the blessings At life all the more
with this experience to look back upon.
But I innst go now. Papa will become
uneasy at ray long absence. Will you
kindly assist me to mount my pony?"
With his aid she sprang lightly into
the saddle, and once more extending
her hand said:
"Good-by. I thank you for the pleas
ure your sketch afforded me. You
must let me see it when it is com
pleted."
"I would be only too happy if you
would accept it as a gift. Uood-by,
and may the Master above bless you
for the light you have brought into my
distasteful life."
With a smile and a farewell wave of
the hand she was oil at a brisk gaflop,
but soon drew in her pony and permit
ted him to walk leisurely toward tho
fort.
Private Brown had strangely im
pressed her, and as she rode along
she endeavored to analyze her feelings
toward him and determine what It
was that caused her to feel such
a deep Interest in the handsome
young soldier. In her garrison life
she had met but few young men, and
these were mostly officers of the army.
True they were polished gentlemen
und studiously polite in their demean
or toward her, yet in the actions of
each she could observe an air of disci
plined dignity that seemed to cast a
chill over his social qualities, and
even impart an icy ring to bis laugh
ter when called upon to do honor to a
refined joke or sally of wit. In IYI
- Brown she read a noble nature,
unselfish and devoid of aught but man
ly pride, a nature luminous with the
gold of self-sacrificing heroism in his
battle with life. She saw in him a
gentleman of culture—a man as great
ly out of place in his pre ent position
lib a diamond in the filth of the gutter.
She recognized in his every action a
courtly mien which could not be hid
den beneath the blue blouse of the
lower ranks. She found herself draw
ing comparisons between this man of
the ruyks and the gaudily uniformed
• luct rs whom her father had taught
her were 'rue gentlemen, and Private
Brown did not suffer in the least by
thc comparison. By the time she had
rviiched her home the fact had fixed
it*elf la her minil that the had never
before l.iet u man who had so favorably
impressed her an thi-. private in the
ranks. <ke dismounted from her l>ony
an" 3 entered th.- house bre.ithing the
fcr\<-n?wish thiit uii!i';:rv r.ink were
i«nv by the ►.*> she could
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[TO BE CfJXTINTED.]
CRIPPLE CHEEK
How the Famous Mining Town
Sprang Into E ".istence.
For Manj Tears the Hie. I iehU
Merc I'ted an a C attle lianeh—Tho
Diacovery of u Drunken
Illaek««uiHh.
The site of C ripple Creek was for ten
years a cow pasture of two long-limbed
old Kentuckians of the names >f ' Bob"
and "Bill" Womax, who took up a sec
tion of land here under the desert land
act about 1 s?f>. In the early days of
gold excitement in Colorado, when
people crossed the plains with "I'ike's
l'eak or Bust" painted on their wagons,
some little gold was washed out here,
but not enough to encourage anyone to
stay. So the prospectors passed on
into the mountains and left the land
for thc Womax brothers to feed their
cattle on.
They didn't dream, says the Chicago
Record, that gold was there, and be-
coming tin d of the place aliout seven
years ago sold it to Bennett & Myers, a
firm of real estate agents in Denver
who had loaned them money. There
were 400 or 500 cattle on the place, and
6everi 1 hundred miles of fencing,
which inclosed about 50.1X1) acres of
government land. For all this Bennett
& Myers paid S-0,000, and when they
got the title they organized the Pike's
Peak cattle company, with a capital of
81,000.000. Hut before they got things
ready to put the stock on the market
President Cleveland issued his procla
mation ordering the cattlemen to tear
down all the fences they had erected
upon public land. That practically de
prived the new company of 50,000 acres
of pasturage and knocked the profits
out of ranching in Colorado.
In February, 1891, Bennett & Myers
got a letter from their foreman at the
ranch, saying that gold had been dis
covered there, and the prospectors
were digging holes all over the place,
which made it dangerous for the cat
tle. Several cows had already fallen
into these excavations and broken their
legs, and he asked for instructions.
They wrote back to him to run the
miners off the place, but he replied that
they were already several hundred in
number, and it was folly to think of
disturbing them. lie followed his let
ter to Denver a few days after and gave
his employers a description of affairs.
So they went up to make an inspection,
which resulted in the transfer of the
cattle to a less valuable pasture, and
the platting of a town site on eighty
acres of the pasture. That sold off like
hot cakes, and the town of Cripple
Creek was born.
The man who discovered gold was a
drunken blacksmith of Colorado
Springs, of the name of Dick Woden,
who havl been hanging ; round the
ranch for months at a time, and of
course found it by accident. lie at
once advertised the fact among all the
prospectors and mining men in that
part of the country, and they came up
in swarms to scrape over the beds of
the streams and rake out the grass
roots. A man by the name of Frisbee
was the first to discover gold quartz a
few weeks after Wootcn'sfind. In less
than six months there were a thousand
prospectors at work in the valley, anil
nc/w more than 4,000 miners are em
ployed in the hundreds of mines that
lie on that ran h alone. They have
taken out more than 87,000,000 or 88,-
000,000 in gold. The yield for the first
year was about SOOO,OOO. In 18U2 it
reached 51, 500,000, and in 1893 82,400,-
000. The ii iners' strike last spring put
things back enormously, but, notwith
standing between four and five months
that were actually wasted, the yield
this year will average ßVoO.Ooo a month,
or a total of §3,500,000. During this
month they expect to reach thc 81,000,-
000 mark, and next year the output will
be doubled.
I'ntil recently very few of thc miners
had been working with improved
machinery. Cripple Creek has been
emphatically a poor man's camp; that
is, the owners of most of the mines
were men without capital to develop
them, and they were compelled to put
ter alopg with the most primitive
apparatus until they had made enough
to buv modern machinery.
The Independence mine, which is re
garded as the most valuable in the
Cripple Creek district, is a good illus
tration. It was discovered and isowned
by a man named W. S. or "Hill"' Strat
ton, a carpenter at Colorado Springs,
who came up to the camp to spend the
Fourth of July in 18l>2. Wandering
over what is known as Hattle moun
tain, near the site of the present town
of Victor, he said in a jocular way to
his companion that he was going to
throw his hat down the hill and locate
a claim where it fell. He drove his
6take, filed his papers, and "worked
his assessment" according to law, and
after awhile he struck a vein of gold
that is said to bo richer than any other
that has been discovered here. lie
had no money and was very shy of
partners. A Denver syndicate offered
him 81,000,000 for the property, and at !
first ho thought th<y were joking, j
Little by little, as he got out tho ore, >
he was able to make improvenients, |
and upon the reputation of his mine he •
succeeded in pcrsuuiTing a Chicago firm ,
to furnish him a 850,000 plant that runs
bj' electricity, and is said to bo the best
in the Cripple Creek camps. Ho gave
notes in payment, and within tweuty
day after his machinery started was j
able to take them up with his profits, j
Tho mine is now paying $90,000 u
month net, the bankers here say, and
there are millions of dollars In the ore
in sight.
They call Hill Stratton "the king of
Battle mountain."
Tho florae ijmuie ISvrk.
A horse that belonged to a family of
Bloomficld, N. Y., for twelve years was
sold two years ngo. A few days after ;
the sale the animal returned to his old
master, and although the faithfulbcust
has been sold three time since then he
hns invariably returned. During his ab
sence a setter dog has become attached
to the horse, and the loving pair take
all their trips together.
Did It All.
A story of Scotch honesty comes from
Dundee. A small boy had taken thf
prize for an exceptionally well-drawn
map After tho examination the
teacher, a little doubtful, asked the
lad
"Who helped you with this map,
James?"
"Nobody, sir."
"Come, now, tell me the truth.
Didn't your brother help you?"
"No, sir; he did it trll."—Jlilwauiie« '
Wisconsin.
<£, } s tO S!H
CULTURE OF PLUMS.
A Ooc-Arre Orrhard R«tnrn« a Really
I.argf rroflt.
Probably no fruit is so sure of a
pood market as fir->t-class plums and
they have sold this season for from
to 54 per bushel. This shows that
there is money in plum growing, says
the American Cultivator. llut the
grower must understand how to raise
the strictly first-class fruits. ISlack
knot must bj controlled by cutting- it
out as soon as it appears, and the trees
must be given culture, and not simply
planted and then neglected
It mav be that plums are not more
generally raised because of the diffi
culties attending the raising of these
fruits. In many parts of the country
it seems almost impossible to raise
good ODes, but where they do well
under neglect they are certainly sus
ceptible of great improvement. A
good plum t.-ce of the Lombard type
ought to produce from two to four
bushels of choice fruits, and this means
that each tree would yield an annual
income of from SS to Sls. I'lurn trees
are generally small, and a great many
can be grown on one acre, so that the
profit from an orchard of this size is
really large.
A good method of starting a plum
orchard is to use the place for a chick
en range. The work of attending to
one would not interfere with the
other. Ttiere would be mutual ad
vantage and double profit. The tree 3
should be set in holes liberally sup
plied with bones, either whole or
ground, and the most salable varieties
are the Lombard, Niagara and Dam
son, although other good plums could
be selected from the Imperial Gage.
Purple Eg sr. Green Gage and Yellow
Egg. After the trees are planted far
enough apart so that sunlight can be
admitted to each one freely, the chick
ens can be turned on the range. The
trees situated between ten and twelve
feet apart will afford the shade the
chickens need.
The ground should be plowed and
harrowed or otherwise turned over
once or twice a year, and oats, wheat
or grass sown in it. The chickens, of
course, will pick most of these seeds
up, and scratch for them. ltut all
grain fed to them should be scattered
around in tlie plowed range, which will
Fct them to work scratching. Some of
them will grow up and provide freo
food for poultry. This also keeps the
soil constantly stirred, which is bene
ficial to the trees The chickens will
also pick off worms and insects from
the trees and keep tln-ui free from all
such pest ravages. The droppings of
the hens enriches the soil with the
very best fertilizer.
The trees then only need the further
attention of thinning out fruit a little
and the pruning in the fall. Two
thirds of the season's wood growth
should be cut back after the leaves
have fallen each fall. Illack knot
should be cut out and burned as soon as
it shows itself. A fine orchard of fruit
trees could thus be grown and they
would prove very profitable. The
fruit is easier to pick and handle than
apples or pears and generally more
remunerative.
FOR BERRY BUSHES.
A Trellis Suitable for a Small Falch of
Ranpbfrrlfi.
A good trellis for raspberry and
blackberry bushes is shown in the ac
companying sketch. Here we have
only single strands of wire, and the
bushes must be tied to them in some
way. The trellis, therefore, although
cheaper than the double trellis, is
hardl}- as convenient, but it will au
svver, and surely makes a little patch
of raspberries or blackberries appear
neat and tidy When blackcaps are
grown for evaporating purposes, as a
farm crop, they must of necessity be
grown cheaply, and spending a lot
of money for posts and wires is entire
ly out of the question. Close pruning
is the only practicable method of
keeping the bushy growth within
bounds, and providing convenient
chances for gathering the berries. The
TRELLIS FOR HE ICRY BUSHES,
danger here lies chiefly in neglect to
do the work thoroughly and in proper
season. Ido dislike to see the tangled
masses of prickly branches so often
found in larger patches. For the home
garden, however, there is no excuse to
allow this state of affairs. A good
trellis can easily be provided for the
6mall patch of berry bushes, and it will
pay many time . its original cost in the
greater attractiveness of the garden, in
convenience of gathering the fruit, and
■in satisfaction generally. Make your
arrangements for another fruiting sea
son accordingly. The illustration of
trellis shows how Mr. Charles Green
imagines plants of the Loudon (now
claimed to be one of the best of red
raspberries) to appear when supported
by the trellis.—American Gardening.
lion Fruit I* Refrigerated.
In shipping fruit to Europe, the
process of refrigeration is the same as
that for the manufacture of artificial
icc, so far as cooling is concerned.
Coils of iron pipe., tilled with strong
brine are set inside of large boxes
filled with compressed ammonia by
condensers operated by machinery.
Contact of the ammonia with the ex
ternal surfaces of the brine-filled coils
reduces the brine to such a low
temperature that when it is forced
through straight pipes which traverse
the ceilings of the refrigerating com
partments, the latter pipes become in
crusted with snow-ice about two
inches thick, and as the machinery is
kept constantly at work, day and
night, an even temperature of from 30
to 35 degrees is secured.
Careless picking of fruit, bruising
it. etc., arc like producing a valuable
picture and then defacing it
HIS FATIC.
Mr. Dude—l was thinking how much
1 resemble your carpet— always at your
feet, you know.
Miss Sly —Yes, yi u are very much
like u»v carpet. lam going to skaka
it
o 4H
GOOD DAIRY RATIONS.
Koo<l That U Calculated to Indar* ■
(load flow of Milk.
The best ration is generally the one
that induces a liberal flow of milk. It
has not been found practicable to take
a cow giving thin milk, and by select
ing her ration change this into rich
milk. Of course, very succulent food
is fav« rable to an increased yield,
with a larger iuerease in fluids than in
solids. The way to get a herd that
will give a paying yield of rich milk ii
to select cows giving rich milk and
then feed for an increased yield. Any
cow not giving milk tip to the legal
standard is unfit for the herd. Use
the liabcock test and discard the skim
milk cows.
Here are some rations that have
proved satisfactory in Pennsylvania:
Forty-five pounds ensilage, 7 pounds
hay, C pounds bran, 2 pounds cotton
seed meal. A Mount Pleasant dairy
man feeds this. His herd con
sists of llolsteins and Shorthorn#,
yield is 7.00.1 pounds of milk each per
year, testing 3.CS per cent, of fat. The
ration contains about 2 pounds of pro
tein, 10.0 of carbohydrates and 0.7 fat;
nutritive ratio, 1.6.
A Meadville dairyman with :t Jersey
herd makes an average of STO pounds
butter per year. Ilis ration is: 'H
pounds corn fodder. 5.1 pour. Is bran,
5.1 pounds corn meal, "• pounds cotton
seed meal, '2 pounds oil meal. This
contains more digestible nutrients
than the ti*-t ration. The nutritive
ratio is 1.7.
A dairyman at New Hope reports a
yearly test of 6 per cent, from a highly
carbonaceous ration. It is: 10 pounds
hay. 5 pounds cornfoddsr, 6 pounds
corn meal. 3 pounds wheat bran. The
nutritive ratio is 1:9.3. The yield of
milk was but 3,000 pounds per cow.
Corn meal, oats and bran—equal parts
by weight—will be found an excellent
grain ration. Feed what the cow di
gests well, but not to excess. It takes
an expert to make more than twelve
pounds of grain pay unless the price
of milk is high.
The effect of the ration fed by the
New Hope dairyman favors a moderate
yield of rich milk, if the cows give rich
milk. The effect of the other rations
is more favorable to a larger yield, be
cause there is mure protein in them.
Hut protein foods are most expensive.
Many Peunyslvania and other east
ern dairymen buy cows in the west
that were bre.l and raised out of doors.
They have strong constitutions. The
new owners feed them all the bran
they can possibly get them to eat and
soon use them up. then buy others. A
horse, worked to his utmost will soon
break down. So will a cow. Milk
giving is wort. For this reason mod
erate rations are given above. If any
dairyman wants to get the most possi
ble out of his cows in a year or two
years, he can feed for an immense
yield and take the chances.—E. C. Uen
uett, in Orange Judd Farmer.
VALUABLE FOR COWS.
Some Dairymen Frefer Alulae Clover to
All Other Varieties.
We are asked to describe alsike
clover and to state if it is valuable for
dairy cows. We give an illustration
of this clover. It grows from one to
two feet high; the leaves are oblong
and toothed; flowers are pinkish.
This clover was first cultivated in
Sweedcn. It is a valuable plant for
the bee-keep?r, and is first-class for
V |
jwu Mia jj
cows, and when irrigation or natural
moisture can be relied upon it is a
valuable plant. In the report of one
of our experiment stations it is said
that as a rule it does not reach full de
velopment the first year but keeps im- 4
proving with age. Tall fescue, tim
othy, smooth brome and other strong
growing grasses are usually sown with .
this clover in meadows as its stems -
are rather weak and it does not stand ,
up well when alone. In a recent con- ?
versation with an Illinois dairyman he 1
told us that he preferred it to any j
other kind of clover. —Farmer's Voice. J
Winter Multer-DulrjluK. 'ii
Winter butter-dairying !s growing. <]
The silo has solved the question of t
cheap succulent food for this purpose "3
Rolled or ground wheat and bran sup
piements silage and makes a Hue win- j
ter feed. Many butter-makers are f
realizing that by muking the bulk of ,
their butter in winter they average a j
larger quantity, a better prio« and a *
higher profit, besides a more even dis- ;
tributiou of labor. For tho butter- a
maker who docs not liavo ieo in sum- '»
rncr there are the follmviuß- additional
advantages: (!) The opportunity of
obtaining cream with less bad flavors,
which may be transferred to the but
ter. (") A solid, well-grain*4 arti
cle, resulting' from the crcaa being
kept cool when churned.
The Value of Mauur*.
Too much manure cannot bo applied
on land. In Europe the farmers often
spread it over the land to tho depth of
six inches. They are never afraid of
"burning up" tho crops withi manure,
especially when the manure is well
rotted and line.
Staxestnck.
Mother—lt won't do to take our
daughter to the theater so often. lam
afraid she already imagines herself an
actress.
Father —lies she taken to studying
Shakespeare?
Mother —N—o; but within the past
six weeks she has been engaged to half
a dozen different men.—N. Y. Weekly.
Appreciated Sympathy.
Wibbles Those rear-end collisions
must be terrible. I pity a man who Is
unfortunate enough to be tho victim
of one.
Yagley (who unexpectedly found his
best giri's father ut home the night be
fore) —Thanks for the sympathy, old
fellow.—Buffalo Courier.
t'auu and Effect.
Jones—Whisky, I notice, has different
effects in different parts of the metrop
olis.
Brown—How is that?
Jone > In the borough it causes
drunkenness; in Fleet street alcohol
ism; in Piccadilly, heart failure,—"
fear son's We*kiy>