Reports 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 generally 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 says he will try to
cross the Atlantic in n barrel. Many
a man has succeeded in getting "half
seas over" by sticking to a barrel, but
this is the first time that the second
half has been attempted, observes the
Chicago Times-Herald.
To facilitate the transportation and
preservation of hay, an apparatus has
been devised at Buenos Ayres foi
compressing it to one-tength its nor
mal bulk. In this form, as "luy bis
cuits," it can be preserved dry and
sound an indefinite period, without
losing it flavor or value as food.
Adirondack "camps" are not as
primitive as the name would imply,
some of them, 011 the contrary, being
as costly and as elegant as Newport
cottages. H. McK. Twombly owns
one iu the St. Regis region, which is
said to have cost not less than §OO,OOO.
CollisP. Huntington fitted up a camp
in the same region a few years ago
which cost about 835,000, and White
law Reid has a cam}) constructed on
the same expensive scale.
As a result of some experiments on
cows supposed to be infected with
tuberculosis, Director Phelps, of the
Storrs (Conn.) Agricultural Experi
ment Statiou, says: "Aboveall things,
the experiments made by this station
show that we are 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 wo 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 safely of val
uable property, and in pursuance of
this idea an ingenious inventor has
devised an electric safe, which is made
ivith an electric lining, consisting of
thin metal sheets and strips of such
delicacy that the slightest rupture will
close the circuit and give the alarm,
Ihe thrust of a pin point will pene
trate 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 iu 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 1890 the total output of iron in
this section amounted to 1,833,285
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 bo able to invade that territory.
At the present time, however, they
ship to England at least ten per cent,
of their product. Southern iron, like
Southern cotton, now liuds its way to
all parts of the globe, and some of it
has recently been used in the manu
facture of basic steel by the Martin
process. It has been possible to lay it
down in England at 87.50 per ton, and
it can be manufactured for even less,
as the cost of production in the Birm
ingham district is reduced from year
to year. The 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
has been found impossible to get in
the East on reasonable terms. Much
of the Southern iron is being con
verted elsewhere into steel, aud the
new steel mill at Birmingham, Ala.,
is now operating ten revolving steel
furnaces, turning out 1000 tons of steel
ingots per day, the latter being con
verted at once into billets, steel rails
er bar steel."
THE COLDEN SIDE.
There's many a rest on the road of life,
If wo could only stop to take it;
And many u tone from the better land,
If the querulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soil that is full of hope.
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth.
The grass is green and flowers are bright.
Though the wintry storm prevaileth.
Dot tor to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted,
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep
through,
When the ominous clouds are rifted.
There was never a night without ;i day,
Nor an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
0 G G O QOGO O OO GQGOQ. O
® T n -n #
,-Q IN THE GARDEN OF ROMANCE. Q
GOOOGGGGG G Q G G O 6 0 G
i — ".HE fact that he was |
I r- —riding a bicycle
| X' should have kept ,
r*'- f kim to remember- !
* ll r> lftt * ie wa9 U °fc I
A\\ giving in an age of j
romance. But he
' forgot it. And to j
live in the midst of !
/ Yjyffijr 11 matter-of-fact
world and forgot
'/ / 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 he was young;
the second, that he was care-free, and
the last—and as the nursery rhyme
has it, the best—that ho 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 breaches 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 on the ground and where peach
and almond trees made pink and white
patches. Just , across the valley the
mountains were half covered with
snow, out the air was warm from the
sea aud 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 not a flake of dust in the
splendid air. All kinds of picturesque,
Old World things ought to happen.
Iu a garden of j this sort man ought
certainly not to be alone. Some nymph
should come f 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 barley
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 young 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 on 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
cared 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 he sat, on the
grass under the trees, jlt 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 aud the garden, birds were sing
ing from the earth, the sun was shin
ing from the sky, and the soft wind
blew from the sea beyond the valley.
The snowy mountains were far away, !
Hid the world on the other sido of
Uiem yet further.
Her name, she said, was Alicia, j
CCow sweet the double e's of the vowels, ,
ow different the stern Nelson to which j
he 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
auKtiig the pink blossoms. He re
membered that when he was u child
those questions had always .begun an
acquaintance: "What is your name?
How old are you? Where do you live?"
All the wisdom he 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
>TRS a tortilla and boiled meat. She ate
Ihese while she talked to him, and
Irlieu she had finished she started to
iruw the iaek vf her wrist across her
ftiouth; hut remembering the teachings
>f school and the presence of the for
eign young man, she took out her
landkcrehief. He had meant to ask '
W that, handkerchief, the white signal 1
lliich had fluttered in the air; but he j
saw that it was grimy and ink-spotted, i
BO he asked for the wire ring she wore ,
Instead. Alicia parted with it us I
though it had been very 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 the miser's hoarded treasure.
It may be the love of a little child,
Or a mother's prayer to heaven. 1
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden lllling.
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
ends,
Aud sit, and grieve, and wonder.
—M. E. Crouch.
i Then she brushed the crumbs from
J her black frock and stood up. "I
j must go now," she said, with an aeceut
| that kept the words from being coin
j wonplace.
j "First tell me where you live," he
: asked.
j She pointed over to the patch of
feathery pink. "In the white house
iu 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 you to-night,"
he told her.
"Yes," she murmured, with musical
indifference, as she went leisurely up
the pathway and never onee looked
back.
The man rode on to the hotel and
returned to real life as he 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 on the
long piazza, from which the snow
capped mountains could he seen
through the climbing roses, and read
it. But the letter was dull, and the
memory of the brown hair aud eyes
that had always seemed the 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 be in California,
too, ere long. Cameron was not so
pleased as he tried to think he was.
He began to imagine the meeting of
that night.
It came about. Old Manzelo and i
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 on a
steed of glittering steel—at midnight, j
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.
Aud so a fortnight passed away.
There were no more letters. They
were being sent to Santa Barbara,
where he 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.
In pursuance of the romance he was
living, lie one day put on the dirty
overalls and coat of old Manzelo and
went with Alicia to the Sun 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
a lark for him. It was rather more
for her—a little more.
A tally-ho drove up to the station
and the driver stopped it, that his
party of tourists might watch one of j
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
into each other's eyes. The boss of :
the gang came up to the ially-ho with j
a handful of oranges. The fiuest one, j
all wet and glistening with its scrub
bing, he offered to the girl on the
front seat.
"Thank you. What a splendid
onol" shepiaised. "I urn so thirsty
that it will taste good."
"May I peel it for you?" he asked,
with au inflection that showed him
English at once.
He had not offered to peel them for
the others, but this was a very beauti
j fill woman., with brown hair and a
j skin that reminded him of the women
jat home. While he prepared it, she
i looked at the workers. And when he
j handed it to her:
| "Thank you," she said again, "and
can you tell 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 lean
tell you about him is that his name
seems to be Nelson. U is what the
girl calls hira."
"The girl?"
"Yes. It's a picturesque flirtation,
I gathered from her father. It has
i been going on for some weeks, and the
1 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 and took notice of
the tally-ho. She had known it was
there all along, but she had not been
1 interested in it.
! "The lady on the front watch you,"
| she murmured to her companion.
Cameron glanced up. He caught
i the unfaltering look of the brown eyes,
| and the scales-—the rosy scales of ro-
I mance—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 thaukedhim and walked away.
Her manner 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 beßide Cameron's tub
and spoke to him. The on-lookera
fancied that she might be asking how
many oranges he had cleaned that day.
Alicia, a half dozen feet away at the
end of the tray, was unconcerned. So
the Auglo-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 he
helped. I can stand it—and better
now than later. Only I enred 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, and stabbed,
perhaps, but would have 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." He did not attempt to
evade.
"Then you will keop 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. Clood-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 Elysian fields
and lier heart and soul were in hades,
but no one knew that.
The man washed his fruit in silence
while the little daughter of the land
stood beside him, patiently waiting
for liiin to speak. When he did, he
sniil:
"We shall bo married in a week at
the mission, Alicia."
"Yes," she answered, pleased.
And the romance was closed.—
Argonaut,
Housed in a Steeple.
The only mail in the United States
who lives in a church steeple is Heze
kiali 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. 11l that tiny
room he oooks, eats and sleeps. It is
just, under the hells.
Through the small windows that fur
nish light ill 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. Seme years ago he married a
widow with a grown son. The son
proved a bone of contention, aud 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 haß lived a
lonesome life.
Sense of Touch Wanting.
One lias 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
case pronounce it a physiological
freak. She is said to he wholly with
out feeling, has swallowed poison,
been shot, bitten by rattlesnakes, re
ceived a puncture in 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 strango as
sertion is hacked by the word of
physicians of repute. As a child she
was bitten by a cobra, and it is claimed
that her sensory nerves were paralyzed
and her system inoculated with
poison.
Peter the Great's Hut.
Two hundred years ago, on August
9th, Peter the Great became a ship
builder's apprentice at Baardam, a lit
t's village a few miles from Amsterdam.
. T .t is trim and picturesque. In a nar
row lane by the waterside is the hut
in which the Czar lived the life of a
, workman. Nicholas 11. recently in
closed it in a new building of brick
j and stone in the Byzantine style.
A Corner on the Alphabet.
Chemical names are occasionally
curious and long, as everybody knows
to his cost. Here is another to be
added to the list: Diparaossiaeetop
henoudiphenilpiperazine. It has been
given by an Italian chemist to a new
! compoufld whioli he has discovered.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
The Cooking f Game Itirrix.
j Most game birds and animals,
| pause of a life of ceaseless activity, do
ttiot take on fat, and such should be
1 larded, or cooked with slices of bacon
or salt pork placed on them. Do not
jserve birds with heads on and un
! jilrawn, as is quite generally practised—
, |the latter point being a relic of sav
' ftgery, 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 Home Companion.
Stufted Tomatoes.
Stuffed tomatoes are excellent. Se
lect as many large, firm, ripe tomatoes
as there are persons to be served, and
cut 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 aucliovie3, fresh
eueued and chopped fine. Mix all
these ingredients thoroughly together,
stirring in a tableapoonful 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
fing 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 on a dry, hot
platter and serve.
Egg Son p.
Put one quart of fresh milk, with a
part of an onion, over the fire in a
double boiler. Blend together one
tahlespoonful of butter with a scant
spoonful of flour; moisten this with a
little of the hot milk before stirring it
into the boiling 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
and scatter a little chopped parsley
ever the whole. When serving this
soup use great care not to break the
9ggs. For a quick, sweet omelet use
the yolks of seven eggs and add to
them three ounces of powdered sugar
and whatever flavoring is liked. Beat
these iugredients together at least
fifteen minutes. Meanwhile add a
pinch of salt to the whites of the eggs
and have thera beaten to a dry, stiff
froth. Gradually turn the yolk mix
ture over them, stirriug it in lightly.
Put in a frying pan one tablespoonful
:>f butter and place over the fire.
When the butter is melfotd turn in the
mixture. The pan will require to be
shaken to prevent its "catching" at
the bottom. The mixture should rise
quickly, and 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 iu soups or
salads.
Brushes of all kinds should be rest
ed 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 iu
lemon juice and flour of sulphur. This
will effectually remove the tan.
Save fruit pits, those from cherries,
clums, peaches aud apricots, toward
the autumn open fire. A handful then
iosseil on the coals will add a glowing
lame 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
ind then cool off. By this tempering
they 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 proceed 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
iu abasia of water, wash the face,
hands and arms with it and the skin
will be clean, neat and fresh. This
is a cheap and harmless wash, recom
mended by an experienced physician.
It is claimed 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, imparting the frag
ranee 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 cleaners and
polishers.
Corn us Fuel.
A Minnesota former insists that corn
makes n better anil cheaper fuel than
coal. He 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, lu which most of the
places on this list arc located, is the northeast
ern corner county in Ohio. Our luuds are all
rolling, gravelly .loam soil; with clay subsoil.
I here are live railroads running through the
county, two east and west and three north and
south, giving ease and quick communication
and markets to Buffalo and the east, and to
Cleveland and the west, and the north and
smith roads put us in direct communication
with Pittsburg and Oil City. We have at Ash
tnbula, this county, the best harbor between
Cleveland and Buffalo on Lake Erie, where is
handled the most coal and ore of any
port in the world. This county for agri
cultural products, statistics show wo average
per acre with the best. 1 will be pleased to fur
lush any information that may be dosired, and
would solicit correspondence, l'hoto.
No. 1 premium farm of 358 acres, one mile
eled road in the county; 8 good houses, 8 good
barns, one new last year, will hold 160 tons of
hay. the other 45x50. This farm is a beauty, nil
under high state of cultivation, well fenced all
over, well watered with springs aud crook,
adapted to nil kinds of crops grown in Ohio, 65
acres of wheat on the ground, over 150 acres of
meadow that will produce 850 tons of hay. and
fill can be put Into meadow if desired, and can
work machinery on every acre oi it and will
produce hay enough in three years to pay for
the whole farm at the price asked #SO per acre,
#O.OOO down. The farm can be divided with two
sets of buildings for each farm. Will give time
to suit the purchaser. The farm is actuully
wortli #75 per acre.
No. B—A splendid farm of 109 acres located on
main road from Jefferson to Ashtabulu, as
nice situation us there is on the road; tlrst class
hind with two good houses, fill in good condition;
one House with 10 rooms, the other? rooms; the
land first class and under high state of cultiva
tion, well watered with small creek and springs.
A second growth sugar orchard of 300 trees lu
open field. A barn, new last year, -'10x74. This
farm can be divided If desired. Will sell the
whole fnrm for #55 per acre, or will sell NO acres
off first if desired.
No* 3—A farm of 110 acres of line land for gar
dening, being the selvage of a marsh that is
well drained, very rich, half suituble for gar
dening; now barn 30x50; four miles from city
Ashtabula market town. Will sell the whole
tract for #I,OOO, with a down payment of #I.OOO,
the balance on time to suit the purchaser. Buy
It if you want a garden farm near market.
No. 4—A little 40-acre garden farm 4 miles
from the city of Ashtabula, where there is a
good market for all garden truck; new house
18x86, 8 stoles, good cellar, splendid good
home, all under cultivation, nearly halt black
muck extending into marsh that is well drain
ed, good onion land, or will raise anything.
1 his farm can be bought for #B,OOO, down pay
ment#!,ooo, the balance on time to suit the pur-
No. 5—A farm of 77 acres located within 10 rods
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 80x30, horse barn 80\50,
sheep barn 18x34, the best kind ot soil, fruited,
sugar orchard of 850 trees, everything in good
shape; will sell for #4,(K 1 0, witli a down payment
of #1,600, the balance will wait 15 years, with se
curity on the farm, at 0 per cent.
No. 0- A farm of 113 acres, three miles county
seat and in plain sight, one mile from Austin
burgh, where there is a high grade school, laud
tlrst best in cultivation and producing largely;
good house and barn 50x50; plentv fruit of vari
ous kinds, well watered; price ' #SO per acre.
Might exchange for good city property*
No. B—A very line farm of 43 acres located %of
a uiile from the depot ol the Luke Shore rail
road, 4 miles lrom the line city of Ashtabulu.
and 4 miles from Jefferson, county seat of Ash
tabula county, t v mile from church, store, 1' o
This farm is in high state of cultivation and
pro lm ing heavily. House has 9 rooms besides
pantry, clothes presses, etc.; barn 30x90 with
wing 30\ii0. H stalls for horses, 18 for cattle, all in
•omplete order; granery 10x81,*orn house JB\-
80, good orchard of the best fruit, apples, pears
peaches, cherries and grapes; as large as tin'
uiiin is it was tilled witli hay aud grain this year
The farm will produce as inueh as an ordinary
100 acre farm. 1 he improvements in buildings
cost not less than #B,fo tl and the whole farm
•an he bought for #3.. no. with a down payment
#1,300, balance in ten equal amount pay
ments, which can be made easily off the farm
81 lemlid place to live, good society and very
pleasant.
No 9 A farm of 180 acres of line level land can
work machinery on every acre „f it. located
within 800 rod#of the city of Jefferson eountv
■a* it of Ashtabula county, on the most traveled
|\m<l In the .•ouiity, ill I.liiia night the pan
ing trains of the Lake Shore railroad: the very
111 : l imiiriivKimnilH 111 till- way of bnUilln.a .if
all kinds, someot which are entirely new large
commodious house witli slate root, plate gins*,
large verandas, stone walks, house heated with
ht water throughout, bath room, llnany ail
the , ouvoniences necessary to make homo com.
lortablo and convenient; barn 40x80. with wim
:(Jx.', new horse barn 40x50, with several j,!!!-
stalls, l arge granery aud corn house. i.*<* hoi
all buildings lately painted and inpeif - t . rl
der; plenty fruit and water, 18 acres wheat on
the ground; title perfect, not a dollar ngaiiisi
it. The owner will sell this farm for #lO too
not over two-thirds what it is actually worth'
and with the sale will go the plows burrow'
cultivators, mowing machine, horso forks n •'
One-third down, the balance in six equal uii
Ess tsi ?""""•■■ u '
No. 10 A farm of 303 acres of choice jnna wofl
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,
w here there is a good market, one inile from I*.
tl.. three churches, 80 rod# from school, gi.od
society, a tl room house 30x40 feet, barn, 80 acres
cleared, 140 acres lu a lopping pasture easily
cleared, the balance in timber; enough timber
on it to pay for the farm at the price asked
$4,500. #1,1)00 down, the bulauce on time to suit
purchaser; will accept #I,OOO in lumber sawed
to dimensions. Buy it, you can soon make it
worth #SO per acre; no better land by nature iu
the township and is a great bargain for any
body w ho has got #I,OOO lu mouey and a team to
make the lumber, with good market for all the
lumber.
No. 11—Farm of 158 acres located B*4 miles
from county seat, Jefferson, oil a good road, old
styled house, two barns, one 30x1.0, the other
Mx7o, two orchards, one trees, the best in
town. 80acres in ti nber, the balum eln cultiva
tion. The farm can be divided, making one farm
SO acres and the other 78, both bo well watered,
a part of it owned by a non-resident, their in
teres's are connected, will sell very cheap and
on easy terms If you want a good farm for less
than it is worth, buy it; will take #35 per 11c e.
No. 18 91 acre farm well located, miles
from county seat, in a good neighbu hood; good
8-story house, 30x40 barn, horse barn 84x30,
good orchard of apple and other fruits, well
watered with springs, well and clstoru, all nice
level rich land, will produce anything, owned
by a Don resident and can be bought at a great
bargain S3O per acre, with a payment down of
#l,ooo' the balance on time to suit the purchaser.
Buy it it you want a good farm of that size.
No. 13 Farm of 110 acres located at the beau
tiful village of Austinburgh, town of 1,000 in
habitants. railroad and one of the best institu
tions of learning in the state, endowed with a
capital of #40,000. This farm is under a high
state of cultivation and is situated us line as a
farm can be, well watered with springs, well of
soft water at the house, house is a good one
with 11 rooms, bum 98 by 54. with 5 box stalls,
2 granaries, any amount of stalls for cattle,
cheese ard butter factory iu village; this farm
will suit any one wanting to buy nice farm; any
amount of fruit of all kinds; price #SO per acre,
#8,500 down, the balance on ten years' time, or
more time if desired.
No. 14 A line farm of 98 acres land located V 4
in tie from railrond depot. 3 miles from the city
of Ashtabula and In plain sight of the lake bus
ttie finest farm house of any in the county,
largo and commodious; it also has a good ten
ant house for workman, two good barns, one a
bank or basement,as nice mnplegrove of several
hundred trees around the mnnsion as you ever
saw and as ploasant a home as there Is in the
county, 40 minutes drive to Woodland Beach on
the 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 #8,0110: might take
city property towards it if it would suit. Photo.
No. 15 A number one farm of 149 acres lo
cated within % mile of railroad station on the
Lake Shore railroad, where there is a small
Village, stores, P. 0., schools, etc ; 111 acres in
cultivation, the balance in first rate limber
with 70" 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, foed mill, also sugar fix
tures for 700 trees, 6:10 tin buckets, modern
evaporator for making the finest kind of maple
syrup, storage gathering tanks, etc., 3 good ap
| pie orchards on the farm, windmill and tank,
spring water in pasture, a nice and pleasant
| location for a home. This whole outfit can be
* had for #IB,OOO. There Is a mortgage of #B,BOO
on the farm that can run perpetually by the
interest Wing kept paid at "per cent, or can
pay it off at any time, which the purchaser will
have to assume or pay, then pay #I.OOO cash
and for tho balance will take good city property
in some good town.
Please keep this list as It will not appear
again. Seud stamp for circulars.
For further particulars address,
H. N. BANCROFT,
Heal Estate Agent, Jefferson, O.
Holland this paper to someone wanting W
buy a farm. Send for photos
Newsy Gleanings.
Yellow fever is raging on the Island of
Jamaica.
The Russian Czar's vaoUt, the Polar Star
cost more than $5,000,000.
Remarkable catches of mackerel nro be
ing mado along the Capo Cod shore.
Secretary Long has decided thnt the new
torpedo boats shall be painted a bottle
green.
The big Yerkes telescope was dedicated
to science, a few days ago, with fitting cer
emonies.
Columbus, Ohio, with 100,000 inhabitants,
has 1300 physicians, or one to every seven
ty-seven persons.
Peanut butter is being pushed into tho
market. It is said to bo 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 iu
America.
As tho result ot religious revival In tho
Frankfort (Ky.) penitentiary '250 conver
sions have been made. Over 110 convicts
have been baptized.
The United States Life-saving Service re
ports 099 maritime disasters during the fis
cal year. Of this number but llfty-throe
vessels were totally lost.
Recent sales of short-horn cattle show
an average value for eighty-six cows ami
calves of $188.33, and for thirty-five bulls
an average value of $219.95.
Trouble is possible 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 purt.
Almost ono hundred of tho most beauti
ful of New Haven's fine old elms are report
ed dead and will have to be cut down.
Captain Crowninshield, in his report
to Secretary Long, recommends that the
personnel of the navy be increased by 10C
ofllcers, 1500 enlisted men, and 500 appren
tices,
A tilemaker named Guillout, his wife,
and four children have committed suicide
by the use of charcoal fumes at Choisy-lo-
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 Gar
liaud, aged seventy-one, 11 retired capital
ist.
The report sont out from Fort Smith,
Ark., to the effect that the Cherokee In
dians are arming themselves to resist any
attempt on the part of the United Statestc
abolish their tibial government, is denied
by tho attorney for the Cherokeos, W. T.
Hutchings.
For an hour and a quartern mine en
gineer pear Rourue, Oregon, was whirled
around with tho ily wheel, into which lie
had fallen, but when he recovered con
sciousness after the wheel was stopped, it
was found that he was not seriously hurt.
The wheel was a twenty-foot ono, and was
making 125 revolutions a minutes.
CYCLING NOILS.
There are 135 league hotel? 5 n Missouri.
Italy is the latest country t* '.all a victim
to the cycle tax.
Sheepskin pads for hard eyoio scats are
now being largely used in Austria.
Thin manila paper, also, is now being
used for making tubes for bicycles.
Cycle frames manufactured from bamboo
fiber are a promise of the near future.
Bicyelo riding as a remedy for asthma i
strongly recommended by Dr. Marcct ol
London.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, il. is said,
has boon advised to learn to ride a bioyol#
for tho benefit of his health.
Dr. J. A. Austin says that smoking is en
tirely out of place 011 tho bicyelo, owing to
its bad effect on tho breathing.
Tho latest sensation is to make a para
chute descent seated on a bicycle. This
feat was recently performed at tho Crystal
I'alnce, London, England.
Cycling tourists in Germany state that
the ordinary road trump does not exist in
that country. Government regulations do
not allow him tho use of tho highways.
Bicyelo pedals are being made with atl
adjustable extension at the rear to slide
into the hollow of the shoe next to the heel
and prevent the foot from slipping forward
on the pedal.
Mayor Strong, of New York City, vetoed
the amendment passed by the Aldermen re
quiring bicycles, light wagons not carrying
freight, and passeugor vehicles to display
lights after dark.
To assist in mending tire punctures on
tho road a spirit lamp is attached to 11 rod
for burning out tho puncture hole so the
plug will fit, the bicycle pump being used
to blow the flame and heat the rod.
Bicycles are now being made with one o!
the tubes in the frame plugged at each end,
to be filled with oil through an inlet at the
top, and drawn off below, so that a cyclei
need not run out of fuel for his lamp.
Tho Fowier Cycle Company, of Chicago,
one of tlie largest bicycle concerns in tho
West, assigned. Liabilities are said to bo
about $500,000, with assets considerably
under this sum. The company employed
500 men.
Dr. Conan Doylo, speaking of cycling,
says: "When the spirits are low, when the
days appear dark, when work becomes
monotonous,when hope seems hardly worth
having,just mount a bicycle and go and
have a good spin down tho road, without
thought of anything but tho ride you ar#
taking."
Tho idea of a chalnless bicycle is not by
any means new. As far baek as 1893, a
firm had put on the market u bevel geared
wheel, and not a few of these machine#
may still be seen upon the road, and are
apparently giving satisfaction, although,
for some reason, there has never beau 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 said of
Ely, where, as professor of Greek, h.*
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
spends on the neglect of his duties he
wastes on the adornment of his per
son;" and of an eminent professor,
whose first lecture he attended: "I lit*
tie thought that we should so soon
have cause to regret his predecessor.
Prof. "
The rookeries of 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 noarly extinct —even
the white egret Is becoming scarce.