Beports of the exports of domestic
products show that this country will
be depended on more than ever this
winter to feed the world.
The demand for Southern pine in
creases and it is already shipped to a*
parts of the world. The extent of the
lumber export trade of the South is
not appreciated, declares the
Atlanta Journal.
More than one invader of the Klon
dike region will be ready, before
spring, to paraphrase the cry of the
ocean castaway. With them it will be,
"Gold, gold everywhere—but not a
loaf of bread!"
A Maine man sa}*s lie will try to
cross the Atlantic in a barrel. Many
a man lias succeeded in getting "half
seas over" by sticking to a barrel, but
this is the first time that the second
half lias been attempted, observes the
Chicago Times-Herald.
To facilitate the transportation and
preservation of Inn*, an apparatus lias
been devised at Buenos Ayres for
compressing it to one-tength its nor
mal bulk. In this form, as "h.iy bis
cuits," it can be preserved dry and
sound an indefinite period, without
losing its flavor or value us food.
Adirondack "camps" are not as
primitive as the name would 11112113',
some of them, on the contrary, being
as costly and as elegant as Newport
cottages. H. McK. Twombly owns
one in the St. Regis region, which is
paid to have cost not less than 31)0,000.
Collis P. Huntington fitted u]> a camp
in tho .same region a few 3*ears ago
which cost about $35,000, and White
law Beid has a camp constructed 011
the same expensive scale.
As a result of some experiments on
cows siqiposed to be infected with
tuberculosis, Director Phelps, of the
Storrs (Conn.) Agricultural Experi
ment Station, says: "Above all things
the experiments made by this station
6how that we nre deplorably in the
dark regarding this disease and its
danger to our herds, and through
them to the human family, and that
there is need of further study and re
search before we can deal with tuber
culosis wisely, either as individual
farmers or as a State."
According to the New York Ledger
a reconstructed adage reads, Eternal
vigilance is the price of safety of val
aable property, and in pursuance of
this idea an ingenious inventor has
devised an electric safe, which is made
with an electric lining, consisting of
thiu metal sheets and strijis of such
delicacy that the slightest rupture will
close the circuit and give the alarm.
The thrust of a pin point will jiene
trato this metal. The casing is of steel
and is built inside of a cover, which is
also lined with thin metal. There are
several sets of bolts, which are so ar
ranged that a considerable length of
time is required to move them. The
slightest displacement starts off the
alarm and long before the burglar can
get to the treasure in the heart of the
safe the neighborhood gets altogether
too warm for him.
"The growth of the iron industry in
the South during the past few years
has been truly phenomenal. For the
year 189G the total output of iron in
this section amounted to 1,833,235
tons; for the current year it will ex
ceed 2,000,000 tons. When the South
ern iron manufacturers first sent their
product to Pennsylvania," says the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, "it was
thought most extraordinary that they
should be able to invade thatterritory.
At the present time, however, they
ship to England at least ten per cent,
of their product. Southern iron, like
Southern cotton, now finds its way to
all parts of the globe, and some of it
lias recently been used in the manu
facture of basic steel by the Martin
process. It lias been possible to lay it
down 111 England at $7.50 per ton, and
it can bo manufactured for even less,
as the cost of production in the Birm
ingham district is reduced from year
to year. Tho chances are that nearly
one-third of the total iron product of
the country will come this year from
the South, the largest share of this in
dustry it has ever had. Nor will its
field be limited to iron, for the metal
is now being extensively converted
into steel, and it is predicted that the
South will ultimately furnish the steel
plates for our men of war, which it
lias been found impossible to get in
the East on reasonable terms. Much
of the Southern iron is being con
verted elsewhere into steel, and the
new steel mill at Birmingham, Ala.,
is now operating ten revolving steel
furnaces, turning out 1600 tons of steel
ingots per da 3', tho latter being con
verted at once into billets, steel rails
w bar steel."
THE GOLDEN SIDE.
Thore's many ft rest on the roaff of life,
If we could only stop to take it;
A.n<l many a tone from the bettor land,
If the querulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soil that is full of hope.
And whose beautiful trust ne'er failetli.
The grass is green and flowers are bright.
Though the wintry storm prevuilcth.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted.
For'the sweet blue sky will soon poop
through.
When the ominous clouds nre rifted.
There was never a night without a day,
Nor an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
—M. E. Crouch.
GG§GO Q G O O G
T .. _ n r> W
0, IN THE GARDEN OF ROMANCE. |J|
lO§OOGGGO G O Q G G G Q Q'
1— HE fact that he was
! —-vi riding a bicycle
I \ ' s ' have kept
Y'-'■'1 ?•*-. y him to remember-
V W ST that he was not
"\y A V \ living in an age of
romance. But he
Idi GRf forgot it. And to
live in the midst of
tyvJJraj? a matter-of-fact
SyJFworld and forgot
y j j that it is such is
' what makes most of
the tragedies of that world.
There were excuses for him, of
course. The first, that lie was young;
the second, that he was care-free, and
the last—and as the nursery rhyme
has it, the best—that he had come
from the early spring of New York to
that of Southern California.
He had ridden through willow paths
along the gravel roads that a month
before had been the bed of the San
Gabriel; he had crossed the shallow
gleaming branches of the stream time
and again; he had looked from the
green swell of the divide over as green
a valley, where wild flowers were
thick 011 the ground and where peach
and almond trees made pink and white
patches Just, across the valley the
mountains were half covered with
snow, but the air was warm from the
sea and the sky was bright blue. So
there was excuse for his forgetting the
bicycle and thinking the world a place
for romance.
A place for romance, but there can
be none without a woman. And there
was no woman.
He coasted down the incline of the
divide and made for the Monte road,
by tree-bordered byways and paths.
There was uot a flake of dust in the
splendid air. All kinds of picturesque,
Old World things ought to happen.
In a garden of, this sort man ought
certainly not to be alone. Some nymph
should come (dripping and glittering
out of the zanja; some slender figure
should push its way through the high,
green barley and the fluffy branches
of the peppers and stand beside him.
He forgot the barbed wire fence be
tween the barley field and the road.
The grasses and flowering weeds and
the peppers hid it. But the zanja
rippled and purled on, the bailey
waved in the wind from the sea, and
the sun gleamed on an uninhabited
world.
Then a bell rang out, just ahead, by
the road side, and the silence of the
spring high noon was filled with the
voices of children and 3'oung girls.
The woman entered the garden. She
was neither nymph of zanja nor sprite
of the field, only a black-gowned school
girl, who stood 011 the school house
steps and waved a handkerchief at the
passing tourist. The tourist was a man
and young—which was all the school
girl cared about. The girl was pretty
and willowy—which was all the man
cured about. He raised his cap and
motioned to a clump of trees down the
highway. Of course she would under
stand.
It was all a part of the romance
and the country, and she understood.
She left the calliug, screaming chil
dren and her older companions and
strolled toward where lie sat, 011 the
grass under the trees.; 11 was out of sight
of the school house. He watched her
black, lithe figure moving through the
flecked sunshine that came in through
the plumy branches of the peppers.
They were all alone in the midst of
spring and the garden, birds were sing
ing from the earth, the sun was shill
ing from the sky, and the soft wind
blew from the sea beyond the valley.
The snowy mountains were far awa'v,
md the world on the other side of
Yhem yet further.
Her name, she said, was Alicia,
flow sweet the double e's of the vowels,
flow different the stern Nelson to which
tie had to confess. But. even that was
pretty when she said it. How old was
she? She was fifteen. The heroines
of the poets were that age. Where'did
she live? Some vague way over there
aiming the pink blossoms. He re
membered that when he was a child
those questions had always, begun an
acquaintance; "What is your name?
How old are you ? Where do you live?"
All the wisdom lie had accumulated in
the years between then and now had
vanished. He did not want it. He
forgot that he had meant to reach the
hotel of the valley by luncheon time.
He was not hungry; but Alicia was.
She put her plump brown hand into
her pocket and brought out a news
paper roll. Inside of the paper there
"frits a tortilla and boiled meat. She ate
Yhese while she talked to him, and
vlien she had finished she started to
Iraw tho hack vf her wrist across her
Mouth; but remembering the teachings
)f school and the presence of the for
eign young man, she took out her
handkerchief. He had meant to ask
br that handkerchief, the white signal
ihicli had fluttered in the air.; but lie
flaw that, it was grimy and ink-spotted,
so lie asked for the wire ring she wore
Instead. Alicia parted with it as
though it had been vei'3* precious.
There is many a gem In the path of life,
Which we pass in idle pleasure,
That is richer far than a jewelled crown,
Or tlie miser's hoarded treasure.
It may be the loifr of a little child,
Or a mother's prayer to heaven, '
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web or life
A bright and golden Ailing.
And do God's will with a ready heart,
And hands that are swift and willing.
Than to snap the delicate silver threads
Of curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled
And sit, and grieve, and wonder.
Then she brushed the crumbs from
her black frock and stood up. "I
must go now," she said, with an acceut
that kept the words from being com
monplace.
"First tell me where 3*oll live," he
asked.
She pointed over to the patch of
feathery pink. "In the white house
in them trees."
"What is your father's name?"
"Mateo Manzelo," she answered,
winding one of her heavy braids
around her hand.
"I will come to see yon to-night,"
he told her.
"Yes," she murmured, with musical
indifference, as she went leisurely up
the pathway and never once looked
back.
The man rode on to the hotel and
returned to real life as lie asked if a
valise and a trunk had come and if
there were any letters for Nelson
Cameron. There was one. After he
had had his luncheon he sat 011 the
long piazza, from which the snow-1
capped mountains could be seen
through the climbing roses, and read
it. But the letter was dull, and the
memory of the brown hair and eyes
that had always seemed tlio most beau
tiful in the world paled beside that of
two soft black braids and two orbs as
soft and as black. There was a vague
promise that the owners of the brown
hair and eyes might lie in California,
too, ere long. Cameron was not so
pleased as lie tried to think he was.
He began to imagine the meeting of
that night.
It came about. Old Manzelo and
his fat, black-wrapped wife did not
object to him in the least. He walked
for hours up and down the moonlit
road, with Alicia's hand in his and
went from her—a Lord Lovel 011 a
steed of glittering steel—at midnight.
The poison was in his blood. He
had eaten of the lotus, and he forgot
home and the past. He gave reckless
rein to the course of young blood.
And so a fortnight passed away.
There were no more letters. They
were being sent to Santa Barbara,
where lie had told the brown-eyed
girl that the first weeks in March
would find him. He had not written
to her. He had meant to. But it was
the land of poco tiempo.
111 pursuance of the romance he was
living, 110 one day put on the dirty
overalls and coat of old Manzelo and
went with Alicia to the Sail Gabriel
railway station to wash and pack
oranges. Alicia was dressed in faded
dark blue, with a yellow handkerchief
around her neck and a pink bow in
her hair. She was very pretty, and
very open in accepting the open devo- ,
tion of the American. It was still just 1
a lark for him. It was rather more
tor her—a little more.
A tally-ho drove up to the station
and the driver stopped it, that his
party of toupsts might watcli one of
the really picturesque scenes left to
the United States. Some of the wash
ers looked up. Cameron and Alicia '
Manzelo were talking together and
did not. Both were gazing light love j
into each other's eyes. The boss of j
the gang eaiue up to the tally-ho with
u handful of oranges. The finest oue, I
all wet and glistening with its scrub-1
bing, he offered to the girl 011 the !
front seat.
"Thank you. What a splendid
one!" shepiained. "I am so thirsty !
that it will taste good."
"May I peel it for you?" he asked,
with an inflection that showed him '
English at once.
He had not offered to peel tliera for
the others, but this was a very beauti
ful woman,, with brown hair and a
skin that reminded him of the women
at home. While he prepared it, she
looked at the workers. And when he
handed it to her:
"Thank you," she said again, "and
can you toll me who that man by the
girl in the blue gown is? He is evi
dently not a Mexican."
He wondered why she should care
to know, but he answered:
"No; he is an American. All loan
tell you about him is that his name
seems to be Nelson. U is what the
girl calls him."
"The girl?" *
"Yes. It's a picturesque flirtation,
T gathered from her father. It has
been going 011 for some weeks, audtlie
old man says Nelson, or whatever his
name really is, means to marry her.
But it is unsafe."
"Very, I should say," said the girl,
reflectively.
"They rarely do, these whites that
make love to pretty Mexicans," added
the Englishman.
The pretty Mexican cast up her
dark eyes just then ami took notice of
the tally-ho. She had known it was
there all along, but she had not been
interested in it.
"The la<ly on the front watch you,"
she murmured to her companion.
Cameron glanced up. He caught
the unfaltering look of the brown eyes,
and the scales—the rosy scales of ro
mauce—fell from his own. He
dropped the orange that he held into
the water in his tub and started to the
tally-ho. But he took only a step,
then went back. The girl on the front
seat had turned to the others.
"Can't we get out for a while? I'm
sure we are all cramped and tired, and
I should like to watch this pretty scene
for a bit."
The Englishman helped her down,
but she thanked liim and walked away.
Her maimer implied that she would
make her own investigations. She
wandered among the boxes and the
tubs and trays, hazarding a word to
the washers here and there. Most of
them did not understand her. She
came up finally beside Cameron's tub
aud spoke to him. The on-lookers
fancied that she might be asking how
many orauges he had cleaned that day.
Alicia, a half dozen feet away at the
end of the tray, was unconcerned. So
the Anglo-Saxon conducts his tragedy.
"It is evidently more attractive here
than in Santa Barbara," the fair Amer
ican said, in cool, placid tones.
Cameron stammered.
"I can't blame you. It breaks my
heart, of course. But that can't be
helped. I can stand it—and better
now than later. Only I eared for you
a great deal—a great, great deal."
She stopped.
"Don't you now?" asked Cameron
baldly.
"Yes. I suppose I always shall,
too. But, of course, I shall never
see you again."
He started to protest, a little out
raged in feelings at her severity.
"Please don't make a scene," she
said, anxiously. "It won't do any
good. You ought to know me well
enough to know that."
Cameron reflected that Alicia would
have screamed, and cried, aud stabbed,
perhaps, but would bare forgiven.
That was her Latin blood. This girl
was Anglo-Saxon. She would never
forgive, but neither would she ever
forget. He understood—he was of
her race. So he kept silence.
"Did you tell her you would marry
her?"
"Yes." Ho did not attempt to
evade.
"Then you will keep the promise,
will you not?"
He did not answer.
"I must leave that to you," she
finished. "If you think you should,
you will do it. Good-by."
The cool possessors of hot young
blood parted after the manner of the
well-bred of their kind. The girl
drove away through the country of
romance. She was in Elysiau iields
and lier heart aud soul were in hades,
but 110 one knew that.
The man washed his fruit in silence
while the little daughter of the land
stood beside him, patiently waiting
for him to speak. When he did, he
said:
"We shall he married in a week at
the mission, Alicia."
"Yes," she answered, pleased.
And the romance was closed.—
Argonaut.
Housed In ii Steeple.
The only man in the United States
who lives in a church steeple is Heze
kiah Bradds, the sexton of the Baptist
Church at Westport, a suburb of Kan
sas City.
The room is small, scarcely larger
than a dry goods box. 111 that tiny
room he cooks, cats and sleeps. It is
just under the bells.
Through the small windows that fur
nish light in the daytime he can see a
portion of Kansas City. Above his
head the swallows twitter as they fly
in and out through the lattice work.
In his small room are a bed, a dresser,
a tiny stove and a table.
He has been sexton of the church
for several years, and has occupied this
room in the steeple since his wife left
him. Heme years ago he married a
widow with a grown son. The son
proved a bone of contention, and after
numerous quarrels the wife left her
husband, taking the furniture with
her.
Then the church trustees suggested
that Mr. Bradds move into the little
room beneath the bells. Church mem
bers furnished the room comfortably,
and since then Mr. Bradds has lived a
lonesome life.
Sense of Touch Wanting.
One has heard c? heartless women
and women without feeling, but that a
human being can exist without any
sense of touch seems marvelous. Yet
that is claimed for Mrs. Evartina
Tardo, a young widow in the West In
dies. Physicians who have known her
ease pronounce it a physiological
freak. She is said to be wholly with
out feeling, has swallowed poison,
been shot, bitten by rattlesnakes, re
ceived a puncture iu her heart from a
doctor's lance and had her neck dis
located, all without experiencing any
pain. Besides these experiments, she
can without injury drink benzine and
light the gas at a hollow needle which
pierces her cheek. This strange as
sertion is hacked by the word of
physicians of repute. As a child she
was bitten by a cobra, aud it is claimed
that her sensory nerves were paralyzed
and her system inoculated with
poison.
l'eter the Great's Ilut.
Two linndred years ago, on August
9th, Peter the (treat became a ship
builder's apprentice at Saardam, a lit
♦ village a few miles from Amsterdam.
T .t is trim aud picturesque. In a nar
row lane hy the-waterside is the hut
in which the Czar lived the life of a
workman. Nicholas 11. recently in
closed it iu a new building of brick
and stone iu the Byzantine style.
A Crne/ 011 the Alphabet.
Chemical names are occasionally
curious and long, as everybody knows
to his cost. Hero is another to be
added to the list: Diparaossiacetop
henoudiphenilpiperazine. It has been
given by an Italian chemist to a new
compound which, he has discovered.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
The Cookine mf Gume ISInU.
Moat game birds and animals, be
cause of a life of ceaseless activity, do
: |uot take on fat, and such should be
Janled, or cookad with slices of bacon
or salt pork placed on them. Do not
serve birds with heads on and nn
jdrawn, as is quite generally practised—
the latter point being a relic of sav
egery, the former an offense to sen
sitive nerves. It is pleasanter to en
joy a bit of choice flesh without being
so forcibly reminded that we are eat
ing dead birds. This is not the only
instance where realism is inartistic.—
Woman's Homo Companion.
Stuflod Tomatoes.
Stuffed tomatoes are excellent. Se
lect as many large, firm, ripe tomatoes
as there are persons to be served, and
ctxt them in halves. Heat a little but
ter in a porcelain-lined saucepan and
lay the tomatoes in it with the flesh
side down. Let them fry two or three
minutes. Make a stuffing of one
small shallott, chopped fine (a small
white onion will do); one clove of gar
lic—no more—also minced; the yolks
of two hard-boiled eggs, a tablespoon
ful of equal parts of chopped chives,
parsley and two salt anchovies, fresli
enened and chopped fine. Mix all
these ingredients thoroughly together,
stirring in a tablespoonful of butter;
season with a little pepper, and salt if
necessary. Lay the halves of fried to
mato on a buttered tin, flesh or cooked
side up, and cover each one of them
with one-sixth of the amount of stuf
liug prepared. Dredge a few fine bread
crumbs and sprinkle a few drops of
melted butter over each, and put them
in a hot oven to bake for ten or fifteen
minutes. Place them 011 a dry, hot
platter and serve.
KffK Soup.
Put one quart of fresh milk, with a
part of an onion, over the fire in a
double boiler. Blend together one
tablespoonful of butter with a scant
spoonful of Hour; moisten this with a
little of the hot milk before stirring it
into the Upiling milk. Season with
?alt aud cayenne pepper. Let the
mixture boil up at once, and then
strain into a heated tureen. Mean
while furnish as many eggs as are
needed, place them on top of the soup
ind scatter a little chopped parsley
over the whole. When serving this
Boup use great care not to break the
eggs. For a quick, sweet omelet use
the yolks of seven eggs and add to
them three ounces of powdered sugur
and whatever flavoring is liked. Beat
these ingredieuts together at least
fifteen minutes. Meanwhile add a
pinch of salt to the whites of the eggs
and have them beaten to a dry, stiff
froth. Gradually turn the yolk mix
ture over them, stirring it in lightly.
Put in a frying pan one tablespoonful
:>f butter aud place over the lire.
When the butter is melted turn in the
mixture. The pan will require to be
shaken to prevent its "catching" at
the bottom. The mixture should rise
quickly, aud as soon as it is lightly
colored turn out on a dish. Sift a lit
tle powdered sugar over the top and
serve at once.
Household Hints.
All cold vegetables left over should
oe saved for future use in soups or
salads.
Brushes of all kinds should be rest
id on the bristles to dry, as otherwise
the water will rot the brush.
Before putting away the season's
straw hats, go over them thoroughly
with a stiff old toothbrush dipped in
lemon juice and Hour of sulphur. This
will effectually remove the tail.
Save fruit pits, those from cherries,
olums, peaches aud apricots, toward
the autumn open fire. A handful then
tossed 011 the coals will add a glowing
dame and give out a pungent aromatic
idor.
To prevent lamp chimneys from
cracking, wrap each chimney loosely
but entirely in cloth; place them to
gether in a kettle and cover with cold
water. Bring the water to a boil, con
tinue the heat ten or fifteen minutes
iiul then cool off. By this tempering
ihey are toughened against all ordin
ary lamp heat.
Corn starch will remove grease most
effectually. Rub a little fresh, dry
corn starch into the soiled place, and
it will at once begin the process of
absorbing the grease. Brush the first
used off carefully from the garment,
and prooeed in the same way with
more until the disfigurement has en
tirely disappeared.
The unpleasant odor arising from
perspiration may be obviated in the
following way: Put two tablespoon
fuls of compound spirits of ammonia
in a basiu of water, wash the face,
hands and arms with it and the Hkin
will be clean, neat and fresh. This
is a cheap aud harmless wash, recom
mended by an experienced physician.
It is Maimed that the best mouth
washes may be bought in tablet form.
Two of them can be made into a wash
that will last a week. Orris root tab
lets are excellent, impartiug the frag
rance of violets. Keep the teeth
scrupulously clean, and at the slight
est hint at decay go at once to the
dentist—the best one that can be
found.
A piece of chamois skin will remove
any spot or stain from tan shoes if ap
plied within twenty-four hours. A
nightly rubbing with the san e material
will keep tan shoes looking fresh and
new for weeks. The inside of worn
kid gloves will answer the same pur
pose. These agents are far better
thau most of the so-called cleauers and
polishers.
Corn us Fuel.
A Minnesota farmer insists that corn
makes a better and cheaper fuel than
coal. Ho raised enough corn on ten
acres to heat his house and feed two
horses and a cow through the winter.
H. N. BANCROFT'S
Partial List of Ohio Farms
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
Location of Ashtabula County.
! ASHTABULA COUNTY, in which most of the
places on this list arc located, is the nurtheast-
I orn corner county in Ohio. Our lands arc all
i rolling, gravelly loam soil; with clay suhsoil.
There are live railroads running through the
county, two east and west and three north and
j south, giving case and quick communication
j and markets to HuiTulo and the east, and to
( Cleveland and the west, and the north and
I south roads put us in direct cjinrtlu ideation
I with Pittsburg and Oil City. We have at Ash
| tabula, this county, the best harbor between
j Cleveland and KutTalpon Lake Erie, where is
i handled the most coal and ore of any
I port in the world. This county for agrf-
I cultural products, statistics show we average
pei- li'-rc with th • best. 1 will be pleased to fur
nish any information that may ho desired, and
would solicit correspondence. Photo.
No. l A premium farm of 852 acres, one mile
i from Jefferson county seat, on the most trav
eled road in the county; 8 good houses, 8 good
barns, one new last year, will hold lsii tons of
j hay. the other 45X50. This farm isa beauty, all
under high state of cultivation, well fenced all
I over, well watered with springs and creek,
I adapted to all kinds of crops grown in Ohio, t)5
; acres ot wliout on the ground, over 130 acres of
meadow that will produce 830 tons of hay. and
j all can be put into meadow if desired, and can
• work machinery on every acre i' and will
: produce hay enough in throe years to pay for
; the whole farm at the price asked SSO per acre,
90,000 down. Tlio farm can be divided with two
j sets of buildings for each farm. Will give time
j to suit the purchaser. The farm is actually
worth 973 per acre.
No. B—A splendid farm of 100 acres located'on
main road from JetTersou to Ashtabula, as
I nice situation as there is on the road; first elans
land with two good houses, all in good condition;
, one house with 10 rooms, the other? rooms; the
j land lirst class and under high state of cultiva
tion, well watered with small creek and springs.
A second growth sugar orchard of SOO trees iu
open field. A barn, new last year, '10*74. This
, farm can be divided if desired. Will sell the
l whole farm fr #33 per acre, or will sellßo acres
off first if desired.
No* J—A farm of lit) acres of line land for gar
! dening, being the selvage of a marsh that is
well drained, very rich, half suitable for gar
j dening; now barn 80x30; four miles from city
i Ashtabula market town. Will sell the whole
• tract for $4,000, with a down payment of SI,OOO,
1 the balance on time to suit the purchaser. Buy
; it if you want a garden farm near market.
No. 4--A little 40-acro garden farm 4 miles
: from the city of Ashtabula, where there is a
i good market for all garden truck; new house
; 18x80, 8 sto ies, good cellar, splendid good
■ home, ail under cultivation, nearly halt black
mu k extending into marsh that is well drain
ed, good onion land, or will raise anything.
1 his farm can he bought for $2,000, down pay
ment SI,OOO, the balance on time to suit the pur
chaser.
No. 5—A farm of 77 acres located within 10rods
of the incorporation of city limits of Jefferson,
in sight of the court house, good house, two
story upright 18x80, wing 18x81. wood house and
kitchen 18x84, one barn 80x80, horse barn 80x30,
sheep barn 18x84, the best kind oi soil, fruited.
I sugar orchard of 830 trees, everything in good
I shape; will sell for S4, (HO, with a down payment
of $1,500, the balance will wait 13 years, with se
-1 airily on the farm, at 0 per cent.
! No. 0 A farm of 118 acres, three miles county
' seat and in plain sight, one mile from Austin*
; burgh, where there is a high grade school, land
! tlrst best in cultivation and producing largelv;
good house and barn 50x50; plentv fruit of vari
ous kinds, well watered; price SSO per acre.
Might exchange for good city property-
No. B—A very lino farm of 48 acres located %of
a miie from the depot of the Lake Shore rail
road. 4 miles from tho tine city of Ashtabula
and 4 miles from JetTersou, countv seat of Ash
tabula county, mile from church, store. P o
This farm is iu high state of cultivation and
producing heavily. House has 9 rooms besides
pautiy, clothes presses, etc.; barn 80x% with
wing 80x00, 8 stalls for horses, 18 for cattle, all in
•omplete order; granery ltixßl.eorn house IBx
-80, good O'chard of the best fruit, apples, pears
peaches, • berries ami grapes; as large as the
oai n is it was filled with hay ami grain this venr
H, ■.■>, an ordinary
it'll acre larm. 1 he improvements in hulMings
cost not less than $8,3i0 ami the whole farm
an he bought for #8.: (HI, with a down payment
wl,8l)o, balance in ten equal amount pay
ment*, which can he made easily off the farm.
>1 lemiid place to live, good society and very
! pleasant,
! *<> 51 A farm of 180 acres of fine land can
work machinery on every acre of it located
within 80(i rods of the city of Jefferson count v
se it of Ashtabula county, on the most traveled
roads 111 the county, in plain s:ght of the pass
ing trains of the Lake Shore railroad: the very
best improvements in the way ~f buildings of
all kinds, sotneof which are entirely new, large
commodious house with slate roof, plate glas
large verandas, stone walks, house heated with
ht water throughout, bath room, finally, all
he conveniences necessary to make home com
fortable and convenient; barn 1(1x80, with wiiur
:tix.i', new horse barn 40x50, with several t.ov
stalls, large granery and corn house, ice house
all buildings lately painted and in peifc-t ~r
der; plenty fruit and water, ly acre's wheat mi
it. iue in,i will nidi tiiiH farm luraiOnHi
i not over tivi -thirda what ii i s u. tiiallv wn'rn,
and with the aale will K „ the eiowa ham.w.
1 i-ullnatiira, muwlnit marUlno, horw.'fork* "'•
llne-tllild down, the haliinee l„ „| x '
nual p iyiiieiitn. l.oixl reason fur selliiin ui.
scud photograph if desired, i'lmto.
No. 10 A farm of 308 acres of choice :nnn ■well
adapted to any kind of crops when put In culti
vation, located 7 miles from Jefferson. 8 miles
from Dorset station on Lake Shore railroad,
whore there isa good market, one mile tiom p.
<>., three chuivhes, 20 rods from school, giod
society, nil room house 80x40feet, barn, 80 acres
cleared, 140 acres iu a lopping pasture easily
-leared, the balance in timber; enough timber
on it to pay for the farm at the price asked
$1,5t.'0 sl,UUodown, the balance on time to suit
purchaser; will accept SI,OOO iu lumber si wed
to dimensions. Buy it, you can soon make it
worth SSO per acre; no bettorland by nature iu
the township and is a great bargain for any
, body who has got SI,OOO in money and a team to
make the lumber, witli good market for all the
j lumber.
i No. 11—Farm of 158 acres located 'l\\ miles
; from county seat, Jefferson, on a good road, old
styled house, two barns, one ftixtU), the <vher
[ >ix7o, two orchards, one in trees, the best in
| town, 8 J acres iu ti nber, the balance in cultiva
| tiou. I'hefarm can he divided, making one farm
■<o acres and the other 78, both be well watered,
a part of it owned by a non-resident, their in
teres s are connected, will sell very rheap and
on eusy terms 11 you want a gi.od farm for less
! than It is worth, buy it; will take SBS per ac e.
No. 18 91 acre farm well located, miles
from county seat, in n good neighborhood; good
•8-story house, 80x40 barn, horse barn 84x80,
good orchard of apple mid other fruits, well
watered with springs, well and cistern, nil nice
i level rich land, will produce anything, owned
I lyation resident and can bo bought at a great
i bargain SBO per acre, with a payment down of
$I 0 JO* the balance on time to suit the purchaser,
j Buy it if you want a good farm of that size.
No. 13 Farm of 110 acres located at the bcau
! t ilul village of Austiuburgh, town of 1,000 iu-
I habitants, railroad and one ot the best institu
tions >f learning in the stute, endowed with a
1 capital of $40,000. This farm is under a high
i state of cultivation ami is situated as fine as a
I farm can he. well watered with springs, well of
j soft water at the house, house is a good one
witli 11 rooms, barn 98 by 54, with 5 box stalls,
Bgranaries, any amount of stalls for cattle,
j cheese and butter factory in village; this farm
i will suit any one wanting to buy nice farm; any
amount of fruit of all kinds; price SSO per acre,
j $8,500 down, the balance on ten years time, or
, more time if desired.
No. 14 A line farm of 98 acres land located W
■ mile from railroad depot. 8 miles from the city
of Ashtabula and In plain sight of the lake has
, the hnest farm house of any iu the county,
large and commodious; it also has a good ten
ant house for workman, two good barns, one a
hunk or basement,as nice maple grove of several
hundred trees around the mansion as you ever
| saw and as pleasant a home as there is In the
county. 40 minutes drive to Woodland Beach on
tlio lake shore, where you can have a picnic
every day in the summer if you want it. Will
make line summer resort for city gentleman or
a good home for any one. Will sell it for less
than the Improvements cost $8,000; might take
city property towards it if it would suit. I'lmto.
No. 15 A number one farm of 149 acres lo
cated within "Hie of railroad station on the
Lake Mhoro railroad, where there is a small
village, stores, P. (., schools, etc ; 111 acres in
cultivation, tho balance in ilist rate timber
with 700 sugar maple orchard, a good 8 story
house with 10 rooms, 5 closets, 8 pantries, barn
40x00, with basement under all for stabling,
water brought into each stall for watering stock
in winter. With this farm goes a saw mill, ci
der mill. Jell factory, feed mill, also sugar fix
tures lor 700 trees. OH) tin buckets, modern
evaporator for making the finest kind of maple
syrup, storage gathering tanks, etc,, 3 good ap
ple orchards on the farm, wind mill ami tank,
spring water in pasture, a nice and pleasant
location for a home. This whole outfit can be
had for SIB,OOO. There is a mortgage of SB,BOO
on the farm that can run perpetually by tho
interest being kept patd at 0 per cent, or can
pay it off at any time, which tho purchaser will
have to assume or pay. then pay $1.0"0 cash
and for the balance will take good city property
in some good town.
Please keep this list as it will not appear
again. Send stamp for circulars.
For further particulars address,
H. N. BANCROFT,
Real Estate Agent, Jefferson, O.
this paper to someone wanting to
buy a farm. Send for photos
Newsy Gleanings.
Yellow fever is raging on the Island of
Jamaica.
Tho Russian Czar's yacht, tho Polar Star,
cost more than $5,000*000.
Remarkable catches of mackerel are be
ing made along the Cape Cod shore.
Secretary Long has decided that the new
torpedo boats shall be painted a bottle
green.
The big Yerkes telescope was dedicated
to science, a few days ago, with Iltting cer
emonies.
Columbus, Ohio, with 100,000 InhafcHants,
has 1300 physicians, or one to every seven
ty-seven persons.
Peanut butter is being pushed Into the
market. It is said to be as good as ordi
nary dairy butter.
Pierre Lorillard and Marshall Field de
clared in interviews abroad that European
capitalists are still too timid to invest in
America.
As the result of religious revival in tho
Frankfort (Ky.) penitentiary 250 conver
sions have been made. Over 110 convicts
have been baptized.
Tho United States Life-saving Service re
ports 699 maritime disasters during the fis
cal year. Of this number but fifty-three
vessels were totally lost.
Recent sales of short-horn cattle show
an average value for eighty-six cows and
calves of $188.33, and for thirty-live bulls
an average value of $219.95.
Trouble is possiblo between France and
Great Britain over their conflicting claims
in Borgu, West Africa.
Paris is to have a pendulum bridge which
will swing passengers over tho Seine with
out exertion on their part.
Almost one hundred of tho most beauti
ful of New Haven's line old elms are report
ed dead and will have to bo cut down.
Captain Crowninshield, in his report
to Secretary Long, recommends that tin
personnel of the navy be increased by 100
officers, 1500 enlisted tneu, and 500 appren
tices.
A tilemaker named Guillout, his wife,
and four children have committed suicide
by the use of charcoal fumes at Cholsy-le-
Roy, France. Poverty was the cause of
their self-destruction.
At Danville, 111., Mrs. Carrie Corbett. n
widow, aged thirty-two, was awarded a
verdict for $54,333.33 damages for breach
of promise. The defendant was John Ger
naud, aged seventy-one, a retired capital
ist.
The report sent out from Fort Smith,
Ark., to the effect that tho Cherokee In
dians are arming themselves to resist any
attempt on the part of the United States tc
abolish their tiloal government, is denied
by tho attorney for tho Cherokees, W. T,
Hutchings.
For an hour and a quarter a mine en
gineer near Bourne, Oregon, was whirled
around with tho fly wheel, into which lie
had fallen, but when ho recovered con
sciousness after tho wheel was stopped, it
was found that he was not seriously hurt.
The wheel was a twenty-foot one, and was
making 125 revolutions a minutes.
CYCLING NOTbS.
There aro 135 league hotels s n Missouri.
Italy is tho latest country t* ;all a victim
to the cycle tax.
Sheepskin pads for hard cyote soats aro
now being largely used in Austria.
Thin manila pnper, also, Is now being
used for making tubes for bicycles.
Cycle frames manufactured from bamboo
fiber are n promise or the near future.
Bicycle riding as a remedy for asthma ia
strongly recommended by Dr. Marcet o!
London.
Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, it is said,
has been advised to learn to ride a bicycla
for tile benefit of his health.
I)r. J. A. Austin says that smoking is en
tirely out of place on tho bicycle, owing to
its bad effect on the breuthlog.
The latest sensation is to make a para
chute descent seated on a bicycle. This
feat was recently performed tit tho Crystal
Palace, London, England.
Cycling tourists in Germany state that
tlio ordinary road tramp does not exist in
that country. Government regulations do
not allow liim the use of tho highways.
Bicyclo pedals aro being made with an
adjustable extension ut tlie rear to slide
Into tho hollow of the shoe next to the heel
and prevent tho foot from slipping forward
on the pedal.
Mayor Strong, of New York City, vetoed
the amondmont passed by tho Aldermen re
quiring bicycles, light wagons not carrying
freight, und passenger vehicles to display
lights uftcr dark.
To assist in mending tire punctures on
the road a spirit lamp is attached to a rod
for burning out the puncture hole so the
plug will fit, tho bicyclo pump being used
to blow the lluuio and heat tho rod.
Bicycles are now being made with one ol
the tubes in tho frame plugged nt each end,
to be filled with oil through an inlet nt the
top, and drawn off below, so tbut a cyclei
need not run out of fuel for his lamp.
Tho Fowler Cycle Company, of Chicago,
one of the largest bicyclo concerns in tho
West, assigned. Liabilities are said to be
about $500,000, with assets considerably
under this sum. Tho company employed
500 men.
Dr. Conan Doyle, speaking of cycling,
says: "When the spirits are low, when tho
dnys appear dark, when work becomes
monotonous, when hope seems hardly worth
having,just mount a bicyclo and go and
have a good spin down the road, without
thought of anything but the ride you arc,
taking."
The idea of a ohainless bicyclo is not by
any means new. As far back as 1893, a
firm had put on tho market a bevel geared
wheel, and not a few of these machines
may still bo seen upon the road, and aro
apparently giving satisfaction, although,
for some reason, there has never been any
great demand for this type.
Master Thompson-Epigrams.
Dr. Thompson, the famous master of
Trinity College, Cambridge, is regard
ed chiefly as the sayer of sharp, witty
and often bitter epigrams. He safld of
Ely, where, as professor of Greek, he
held a canonry: "The place is so damp
that even my sermons won't keep dry
there," and at a college meeting, where
some of the young fellows were treat
ing with very little respect the opin
ions of their seniors, he said: "None of
us is quite infallible, not even the
youngest." Of an amiable and excel
lent scholar he said: "The time that he
spend 3 on the neglect of his duties he
wastes on the adornment of his per
son;" and of an eminent professor,
whose first lecture lie attended: "I lit*
tie thought that we should so soon
have cause to regret his predecessor.
Prof. "
The rookeries >f the plumed birds of
Florida are nearly deserted. The birds
have been disturbed so often that they
have left the old breeding places.
Many species are nearly extinct—even
the white egret Is becoming scarce.