rtm C1TIKKN, FltlDAY, FKIIRUAKY 11. 1010.
WARNING TO FRUIT GROWERS.
Crown Gall Is Warty Outgrowth or Ex
crescence Upon tire Apple.
Crown gall Is a torni applied to
certain warty outgrow .lis or excres
cences upon the apple, posr, peach,
raspberry, etc., forming chiefly on tho
parts below ground. On the applo
these growths aro more apt to occur
on grafted trees at the union of tho
root nnd tho clon, but they may form
nt any placo whore tho roots have
been Injured In transplanting, etc.
Experiments by tho department of
agriculture show that crown gall Is
caused by speclllc parasite. Every
orchardlst should carofully iuspect all
stock which ho purchases for setting.
All trees showing evidence of crown
gall should bo either returned to tho
shipper or burned, and future orders
placed with nurserymen - who can and
will furnish trees free from disease.
Under no condition should trees bo
planted which show growths of this
kind upon the roots, for not only will
It result in an unthrifty and unprofit
able tree, but It will also endanger
other plants.
Device for Husking Corn.
The husking device invented by an
Iowa man is sufficiently helpful to be
Hook Catches the Husks,
considered pretty Important, even if
it doesn't eliminate manual labor. This
device consists of an operating rod
with a husking hook on the end and
fitting In a tube which is attached to
the upper arm Just below the shoul
der. A strap goes around tho wrist,
holding the hook firmly in place along
the inside of the hand, and as tlia
arm Is bent or extended the bar runs
back and forth in the tube to give it
the required length. Equipped In thla
fashion, tho farmer or his men can
each do double tho amount of husking
that can be done by any man who has
only two arms to depend on.
Farm Notes.
When packing apples do as you
would be done by.
A weed killed now means 100 fewer
weeds next spring.
Plow up the old strawberry bed if
It is falling and start a new one.
Store early dug potatoes in a cool,
dry place. Do not put in the cellar.
Allowing a potato to take a second
growth spoils It for eating purposes.
Clip grapes off with a pair of
shears, Don't allow anyone to tear
off the bunches.
Mulched potatoes will not grow as
badly as the unmulched-if wet weath
er comes on.
Plowing the orchard lata encour
ages lato growth of wood which is apt
to winterkill.
Letting weeds go to seed means
that you are laying up trouble for next
year.
Large Profits in Farming.
The largo profits In farming in the
west In the past havo been due to two
causes: To tho appreciation in value
In farm lands, and to extensive meth
ods of farming rather than intensive.
But now that land Is becoming more
valuable, more intensive methods
must be employed. Notwithstanding
the fact that the farms of tho eastern
states have been cultivated for 100 i
years or more, the average yield an
acre for tho principal -crop produced
Is, In most cases, greater than in west
ern states on land that has only been
under cultivation a very few years.
Cabbage Worms.
Tho common cabbngo worm is
among the best known of all garden
pests, both ns a larvae and In the
adult stage, when It becomes the com
mon spotted, white cabbage butterfly.
The young plants should be sprayed
with arsenate of lad, 1 ounce to a
gallon of water, and the foliage kept
covered until they begin to head up
well. Water heated to 130 degroes
Fahrenheit will destroy all worms
which It hits, without injury to the
plants.
The 8orrel Horse.
There is no color of horse so In
sensible to heat as the sorrel. There
Is seldom any coat so silky or re
sponds bo quickly to good care as the
sorrel, and many horsemen claim
there Is seldom any horse with such
sound1 feet and limbs or possoHsfng
the enduranco of the sorrel.
To Guard Against Cut Worms.
Tar paper placed around cabbage
and tomato plants will keep off cut
worms. Insert the paper In the
ground, making a circle about I Inches
in dlamotor and 3 inches deep.
WHYS OF fljEJMPES
In This Bird Family the Male Sits on
the Nest and Hatches the Brood.
Whother years nre bringing changes
In the ways of tho birds or their
hnblts aro bettor known nnd more
carofully observed from year to yoar
there Is a growing, frequency In the
reports of wanderings from accustom
ed routes of travel. The northern
phnlaropes. familiar nlong tho Cana
dian coast In tholr migration to and
from their remote breeding grounds,
do not often wandor Inland. But this
season the decoptlve expanso of tho
great lakes and tho chnrms of the
Humber valley brought a straggler by
the overland route.
The phalnropes are peculiar In many
ways. They aro ploverlike birds, run
ning along tho shore or Rtandlug on
masses of woods gathering a supply
of minute Insects. But Instead of the
slender feet of the plover and sand
plpors they have lobod feet that rend
er thorn expert swimmers. They seem
almost ridiculously small and Insigni
ficant when swimming courageously
over tho waves In a breaking surf.
In domestic affairs tho phalarope3
havo adopted the most startling of
modern Innovations, and if they ever
establish political organizations the
chief question will be as to the wisdom
or otherwise of extending tho fran
chise to males. The female is the
larger, and In summer wears a gay
costume of black, white and buff, with
a reddish brown gorget.
In this she sports ibout on the
shore of her arctic summer resort,
whllo her insignificant partner, in
sombre plumage, sits on the nest,
hatches out tho brood and attends
faithfully to the duties of his appoint
ed sphere. Having the more impor
tant duties to discharge, he is natur
ally less consequential than his gay
and proudly satisfied partner. Some
day there may be a suffragette move
ment among the male phalaropos, but
so far they have been content to do
their duty as they are directed by tho
heads of their respective households.
When the period of domestic life Is
over they venture almost to assert
themselves and assume a place in the
mixed Hocks. The heads of the sev
eral households have then left off their
way plumage and the natural dispar
ity is not so apparent. On the south
ward journey there may be a passing
recognition of something approaching
equality, for travel and contact with
strange habits and unfamiliar views
of life may have its effect, even in
the lofty night flights and the days of
loitering recuperation.
EARLY GRECIAN COINAGE.
Mark on Gold Ingots to Guarantee
Weight and Purity.
The Invention of coinage is duo to
tho Greeks, most probably to the
bankers of Halicarnassos and adja
cent Asia Minor Greek colonies, who
toward the end of the eighth century
B. C. began stamping the small gold
and electron ingots which passed
through their hands as currency with
a mark of some sort Intended to guar
antee the weight and purity of the
metal; such Ingots very soon assumed
a round and more regular shapo,
which we find already In old silver
coius from Aegina, nearly contempo
rary with Asia Minor "beans."
Curious to say, none of the sur
rounding peoples with whom the Asia
tic and European Greeks were in con
stant communication, political or com
mercial, took up the wondorful Inven
tion which at present seems to us of
such obvious necessity that we scarce
ly realize how the civilized world of
old could have got on without it.
Ever-Busy Woman.
A newspaper writer, sympathizing
with women because there is no long
er any cradle to rock, or hardlv a
baby to care for, no home schoo" uc
necessary in the presence of the mod
ern kindergarten, no sewing to do i
this ready-made age, little how
work In this day of flats and su' s
and restaurants and prepared fonii .
asln with concern: What are we ,.o
lng to do with the woman out o a
Job? Let him put that question f
to face to his woman acqualntar.-
and dollars to doughnuts he will 'mi
them all so busy trying to keep
with their engagements that ti v
won't have time to answer his foo 1 ;.i
questions.
A Plea for a Real Home.
There Is no subject of greater
portanco than thnt of home and b o
life. Almost everything of Inte ;t
to tho individual, to the nation -"!
to the world Is bound up in home ' .
If the home life of a nation Is v'c n
or not what it should be, the nr.n
can never rise to an exalted position.
Home to many people Is simr'v a
place where they eat and sleep. 15' e
should be a place where the fu 'r,
mother and children can enjoy them
selves better than any other pis o
on earth. The attractive featurp of
most homes Is that there la no 'or
mallty, no stiffness, no forms of 'I
quette to Interefpre with comfort.
Woman's Life.
The Purposeless Man.
A man without a purpose In Ufa
is like a dog with no tall to wag
Shr Expected as Much.
"I never thought she would do ne
such a mean turn," said Mrs. Je"or
son Judd, "but then it was Just exact'
ly what I expected."- Kansas t':y
Times.
A Poor Way.
It Isn't llkoly that the Lord ever
intended to have preachers try to win
people to his side by being disagreeable.
UNCLE JEDEDIAH'S DOG.
Painful Silence Followed the Owner's
Tale About Him.
"No," snld Uncle Jedcdlah, reflec
tively, us ho leaned back against the
sugar-barrel at the postofTtce, "I don't
suppose anybody'd believe it, but that
there dogg of mine, Andy Jnckson,
hns been run over by thutty-two orto
mubbles since the bcglnnln' o' this
yerc season. On the Fourth o' July
three red honkers from up l'ortlnnd
way come n-slzzlln' along tho pike at
n forty-mllc-an-hour gait, whllo Andy
Jackson laid asleep In the mlddlo o'
the 'road. Every blessed ono of 'em
Jounced over him , nnd b' Gosh! I
thought he wns a goner sure enough;
but, after the last ono had passed
over him, ho opened ono eyo and be
gun scratchln' Ills left ear with his
off hind leg, llko he thought thoro'd
been a fly or two buzzln around, and
then he gapped a bit and turned over
and went to sleep ng'in. A week later
another feller come n-hlkin' through
on a little pink gas-buggy with a Noo
Jersey number tagged on to his hind
wheels, and that old dogg stood square
in the track of It just as if it warn't
any moren'n so much fluff. 1 never
expected to see the pore antmlle alive
ng'ln, nnd I turned my head th' other
way, drcadln' the spoktlkle I felt
shore he'd been turned Into, but by
Jlmlny! a half an hour later I found
him a-settln' on that there counter
Jest behind the sugar-barrlll catchln'
ilies. It's been the same all along.
Car after car has run over him, and
he's got so now when he hears ono
comin' he runs out o' the store llko
mad and lies down before it, as much
as to say that he likrd bcln' run over."
"Well, that's mighty funny," said
the stranger In town. "How do you
account for It, sir?"
"Wa-al, I dun'no'," said Uncle Jede
diah; "but I guess his bark is so thick
they can't break through to no vital
part."
A painful silence followed in
which the stranger Joined, looking
sternly meanwhile out of the door.
"Cnn I sell ye a muzzle?" asked
Uncle Jedediah. after a while.
"What for?" asked the stranger,
with a frown.
"The safety of the public," replied
the old man "I have reason to be
lieve, young man, that there be times
when you bite."
More Than Five Feet.
A certain newly-rich man had built
himself a fine house. He thought it
well to have a library, and went down
to a book-store, where he ordered
some books.
"What kind of books?" asked the
clerk.
"Why, books," replied the man.
"Books, you know; reading-books."
The books came and were installed
in the library. Soon after a friend
came up to look over the place.
"Here," said the man, "i3 my li
brary. Hero is where I love to get
with a book and a pipe, and forget
the outside world."
The friend was somewhat of a book
shade. He took down a book, looked
at It, and put it back; took down an
other, looked at that, and put it back,
and repeated the process several
times.
Then he asked: "John, where did
you get these hooks?"
"Oh, replied John, "I picked them
up here and there. Whenever I found
one I liked I bought it. It has been
the work of many years."
"But Isn't It strange that you should
have bought six hundred copies of
McGuffey's Fifth Reader?" Washing
ton Stnr.
SLIPPED OUT.
"Snarely came near being engaged
once."
"How so?"
"Tho night he was getting ready to
go and ask the girl, a fellow enmo
along nnd nsked him to go bobbing
for eels."
Little Willie Knew.
Little Wllllo, the son of a German
town woman, was playing ono day
with the girl next door, when tho lat
ter exclaimed:
"Don't you hear your mother call
ing you? That's three times she's
done so! Aren't you going In?"
"Not yet," responded Wllllo lraper
turably. "Won't she whip you?"
"Naw!" exclaimed Willie in diB
gust "She ain't goin' to whip no
body! She's got company. So, when
I go in, she'll Just sny: 'The poor
little niau has been so deaf since he'd
had tho measles!' "
Tricks In All Trades.
Strangor, "Zum Donnerwetter, now
you havo cut my chin a second tlmo!
If you can't shave better than that
you will lose all your customers pret
ty quick."
Barber's Apprentice. ."Not at alH
I am not allowed to shave tho regular
customers yet, I only shave strangers!"
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Themo:
PARADISE LOST.
BY REV. A. W. SNYDER.
Text: So he drove out tho man; and
he placed at the east of the garden of
Eden Cherublms, and a flaming sword
which turned every way, to keep the
way of the tree of life. Genesis, III.,
24.
The meaning Is that, as for our first
parents so for us, tho Almighty has
set certain meets nnd bounds, and
that within these wo will find prosper
ity and peace, and, furthermore that
in overstepping tho sacred limits ap
pointed for us to walk in wo will find
ourselves outside tho Eden that God
made; .yes, and often kept out of it
by a flaming sword which turns "every
way, to keop the way of tho treo of
life."
In innumerable ways wo see that It
is so. Thus it Is a beneficent provi
sion that the parent should provldo
for tho child and bring him up "in tho
nurture and admonition of tho Lord."
In conformity with this law wo find
peace and satisfaction of soul. Hut
let a man not bo content with a rea
sonable competence for him and for
his children and thore Is danger of
his becoming nt last a mero money
maker and of finally finding that a
flaming sword Is keeping him out of
the Eden of a happy homo and hearth
stone. Falling more and more under
the mastery of tho money mania, the
man becomes essentially a miser
that Is a misor-ablo man who has turn
ed to his hurt that which should havo
been for his good.
Or consider tho case of an ordinary
young man who, in a position of trust,
is plodding along at hard work nnd
small pay. He rends of millions mndo
In a day and the tempter tolls him to
iroke "a dash" for a fortune, ifc)
thinks ho can soon replnco tho money
taken to speculate with and no one
will ever know it. But his venture
turns out disastrously and the embez
zler becomes a fugitive or n prisoner,
inrl then finds that a flaming sword
which turns every way keeps him out
of the Eden of an honorable place
airong men.
Supposo that, by some rare oppor
tunity, a man suddenly gains a fo--tune
in a day, and that, too. with no
loss of honor or self-respect. But.
3von so, he has lost that which no
man can afford to loso; that
discipline of patience and proof
of principle thnt would have come to
him in the staid and sober process of
a regular and systematic work In the
world. Alas, of how many it may bo
said, ns it wns of Adam: "So ho
drove out the man; nnd ho placed at
tho east of the garden of Eden Cheru
blms, and a flaming sword which turn
ed every way, to keep the way of tho
tree of life."
The Enlarging Vision.
The grandeur of the Christian life
consiBtB In the ever enlarging vision
of truth which It affords to all true
disciples of the Master. Jesus 13 a
teacher as well as a Saviour, nnd all
who do his will are continually learn
ing now wonders of truth nnd grace.
It is a blessed thought that they who
follow on to know the Lord shall know
him over hotter and better. Jesus
said of himself, "I am tho Way, tho
Truth and the Life." Christ Is thus
our way to the truth, which in storm
becomes a stay and Instrument of life.
Crucify the Flesh.
Turn wholly from yoursolf and glvo
up yourself wholly to God with the30
words: "O my God, with all tho
strength of my soul, assisted by Thy
grace, I resolve to roslst and dony all
my own will, earthly tempers, selfish
views and Inclinations, everything
that the spirit of the world and fallen
nature prompt me to." This must be
the daily, tho hourly exerclso of your
mind till it Is wrought Into your very
nature, and you fool yourself as habi
tually turned from your own will and
earthly desires as you aro from steal
ing and murder. Wm. Law.
Servants of Christ.
Profitable or unprofitable? is what
every servant of tho Lord la called to
ask concerning himself. What the
Lord requires 1b faithfulness, what he
rewards la fidelity. It is not original
or fundamentally a question of ono
talent, or of five talents, or of ten tal
ents, iut of good nnd efficient uso of
tho powers one possesses, be they
6mu.ll or large. After n long tlmo the
Lord of the servants reckonoth them.
The period of probation ends at last.
For that final account-giving now is
our time for preparation.
Harmony.
There would not be bo many di
vorced people In America if they had
learned patiently to put up with each
other's faults. Harmony la tho thing
that makes heaven here as well as
hereafter.
Something to Go for.
Men do go to church, and in large
numbers, and with sympathetic soul,
when you give them something to go
for, something that satisfies their
highest intellects, their spiritual as
pirations and needs.
Household Remedies.
Under tho heading "Parts of Living
Creatures" Culpoper lnid down tho fol
lowing Tho brain of a haro being roasted
helps tremblings and prevents hair
falling off. The head of a coal-black
vnt being burnt to ashes In a new pot
and some of the nshes blown Into the
eyes cures blindness. Tho head of a
young kite treated tho same and u
dram taken every morning cures the
gout. Crabs' eyes aro good, and the
lungs of u fox dried strengthen tho
lungs.
Later ho observed that "the skull
of a man that was never burled, beat
en to powder nnd given Inwardly,
helps palsy, and tho small trlangul-ir
bone Sri the skull absolutely cures fall
ing sickness so that It will never comu
again."
Among tho household remedies that
one should always have by ono Cul
peper mentioned flakes of brass, salt
and brimstone burnt to ashes, young
swallows, hedgehogs, frogs, toads and
mice burnt In a vessel, thin Hakes of
lead with sulphur, the fresh lungs of a
fox dried, and many other savory matters.
No Blessings of Grief.
Prophet nnd poet and priest have
alwnys made stock talk of the chas
tening and beneflcinl effects of sorrow
and grief, which is utterly and bitter
ly contrary to the experience of the
modern experienced practitioners of
medicine, alienists nnd directors of in
stitutions for the Insane. Deep grief
in moderns Is a most" pernicious emo
tion which Is now drowned out ns
quickly as possible. Perhaps modern
man differs greatly In nervous struc
ture from his rugged, sound, quiet, sol
emn, sleepy ancestors. Anyhow, the
old truths of the blessings of grief no
longer maintain. Blessed Is the man
who sorrows, If that man be strong;
true he mny sorrow, but he will not
sorrow long, for some strong-minded
men can in n few hours or days cast
away n grief that would haunt a weak
ling into the grave.
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