Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-22

naI yeast CAKE. IL was colo, and ola NOT
know how TO keep the sponge warm. Finally
set my boiler upon the kitchen table, poised
on four bottles, and with a tiny lamp under
meath. Then put on the cover, of the boiler
sponge was ready to run over. mixed my
bread. and set it in the boiler turned on its
side before the stove, the dough covered WIN
cloth. Jack had not seen it. and il was finely
BAKED and cold at.dinner-time, when Jack had
nnlshed piOWIng and narrowing the ground
what surprise It was! for Jackis partlcu-
larly fond of good bread He asked where l
got that splendid loaf, supposing some neigh
Dor had sent it to me. ] did not answer him
directly and Jack turned TO Birdie, seated in
her nigh chair, and gravely asked her where
tnat loaf came from. 'MGHsmG-tObe, she re-
plled, pounding her plate with her spoon
thought Jack would not understand her word
for stove but he did, and expressed great
pFIqe IN my Skill Idont think ne Is as Proud
as am of his learning to pillow, and told MN
so. Last night q big empty house in the vii
lage WAS burned down-set on fire accident
any DY tranpS, lt Is said. We must be dOuDly
careful of hre-NO fire-engines owned here.
April l6.-The Daily PTOteuS sent Jack
twenty dollars last week for two editorials
y how rich we felt! We immediately bought
and set out lot of fruit trees and shrubs, also
some evergreens and shade trees. l made Jack
nlEe q man a week TO help him There IS an
old neglected strawberry pateh near the cot
tage. and three rows of raspberry bushes.
have spent hours on my hands and knees pull
ing out grass roots and last years weeds from
these poor strawberries. Then [ sprinkled
ashes over them. and from the first I have
poured all INV dish-Water and sOap-suds on
them; wonder if shall have one strawberry?
April III have such trouble to malIe'my
pretty little white LeghOrn hens sit. They lay
all the time, and every few days one of them
vii! excite my hopes by pretending to sit
give her a nest of eggs, and that seems to
Danish the last vestige of seriousness
In her Intentions, and in day or two find
her laying again. | am told that this ia a feat
ure' of the Leghorn fowl; very bad one, /
''My good neighbors the Wormleys moved to
the city to-day We are sorry enough to lose
them. Jack spent nearly whole day helping
Mr.. w: pack up his 'tares and penates, as he
said. Mrs. w. gave him some old chicken
cOOpS, some much-needed farming tools, and a
really. good Observation-Disclosures, but solid,
ana what much want. This will be nice in
our guest-chamber. and by-and-by we will get
a mattress and some bedding. With all our
poverty, though, we are able, thank God, to
help others. Jack has helped another neigh
Dor, Mr.. Hall, two Orthree times, when pressed
with his work, and have several times gone
over and helped Mrs. Hall with her washing,
for she is not we'll this spring, and she has q
baby two months old
''April 20.-Our new neighbors the Pillsburys
moved into the WOrmley house to-day. had
some fresh bread baked, and l kept thinking
ought to carry loaf to Mrs. Pilsbury. 1t
seemed absurd too, butwhile Birdie slept put
loaf IN a basket, covered it with q snowy
napkin, and started. Mrs. P. came to the door.
She had towel on her head, and looked
very tired told t her was her near
a spiritualist, l had been possessed with
the idea that she wanted a loaf of bread.
Her face beamed with pleasure. She said she
lOGS a spirituaEst and that bread was just what
she most needed, as, in the confusion of get
ting ready, the staff of life was forgotten. She
came out and chatted with me. and we agreed
to lose no time in getting acquainted. She is
almost as young as am, but has no children
yet. While talking in the shed a hen with
feathers all rutt1ed up came in and settled her
self in corner behind a saw-hOrse. Mrs. p.
threw her out of doors. She told me that that
hen had preserved her mania for sitting all
through the journey. She was incorrigible. l
timidly asked if [ could borrow her, not
dreaming of anything but refusal to such an
odd oil IEyal-
come to her services. But will she Sit l
asked if taken to my placer Sit! exclaimed
Mrs. z. That hen will sit in & pail of water, l
do believe. In less than ten minutes that
Brahma hen was comfortably sitting on my
twelve duck eggs in the corner. of my wood
shed. How nice if they hatch! Jack says they
may be last years eggs for aught I know,
Commend me to you Muggins, for faithH he
exclaimed, and then he had to play bear and
disarrange my collar and my back hair. He is
always behaving like big boy.
april 2l.-Our pease, planted some three
weeks ago, are looking lovely. Can it be pos
sible that am to enjoy the delight of prepar-
ing fresh, delicious green pease from my own
place? Dear me! do not get time to put down
sentf 0f @ We When 20 WE 9ef came fRe
spent almost a whole day raking up leaves in
the woods and packing them down in q big
square hole two feet deep, with the dirt re-
moved piled up in a bank along the north side.
We danced on the leaves to pack them down,
drove down stakes around it, and this was our
hOt-bed. Two old sheets sewed together served
in place of sashes. Our neighbor Hall (Old
Classy, Jack and call him-ShOrt for Cassan-
dra, because he is always predicting eviD came
by as we were adding the final touches. He
asked what manure we used, for the leaves
were all covered with earth. We told MN
leaves, sOap-Suds, garbage and boiler or two
or DolIlng water. -, you cant get any heat
without stable manure, said Old Classy. Some
days later when Jacks seeds were all in the
bed, Classy went by and Jack pulled a Their.
mOmeTer out of his hOt-bed and showed it
standing at eighty degrees. He looked incredu-
louS. Never did plants grow better in a hot
shall lots
one end we devoted to sweet pOtatOeS-plant-
ing a whole bushel as close together as they
May I've have christened our place
Mount Hope, because it is on hill, and Hope
is one of our Watch-WOr1S We do not wish to
be rich; but please God that our honest, hard
work may give the means to continue as
happy as we now are! | never was so happy
before. The ogre, the landlords agent, who
used to come with such mercileSS prOmptitude
every month and take away our painfully
saYed-up earnings, can not enter here. a poor
work, and we gave him some clothes.
May 2.-AH day by spells have been
out helping Jack make the garden; never
is inspiriting. The day was delicious Birdie
tOddled about, falling down every other min
ute, but always Growing with delight. She is
the dearest little cherub in the world. Yester-
day Jack lay down on the lounge and fell
asleep. He had been up long before sunrise
and was tired. / was doing my work and
watching her. She went about very softly, so
as not to wake papa. She was struggling with
al ner uCClo might, placing the CntllFS care
fully in a row before the lounge so that papa
might not fail of.
May 1O.-Jacks hard work, instead of hurt
ing him, as [ feared, is making new man of
him. He will not wear a brOad-brimmed hat.
He wants TO get brown, he says. .-... t .
May 17.-Eureka! Ny ducks have hatchedI
at least seven of the twelve eggs. Almost
all our planting is done. The tramp that came
to US last month returned some days ago and
asked to stay and work for his board. He
seemed honest and we could not refuse. l
took Mrs Piilsbury into my confidence and she
lent me some things to fix up room for this
newcomer. We call him our G. 6. good
genius) because he is so handy and so helpful.
He took some big crates, which he made him
self, filled them with sweet potato plants, and
carried them down to our one grocery store
and to our meat market. He expects that they
will sell al forty-ive cents hundred.
May 1S.-Our garden grows apace. We
have lettuce from our hOt-bed, and also
radishes. We undertake everything, Jack and
1. When we first came we read how to plant
asparagus, and made bed, dug trench two
feet deep, filled the bottom with Old boots,
rubbers, straw, weeds, and every rubbish that
could decay. Above this a load of stable
manure bought of Classy; then the earth, and
the plants we set down deep into this the other
day Jack says we are capable OF 'stagger-
ing into anything. At last one of my Leg
horns did seriously sit, and 1 gave her nine
turkey-egGs, bought of a person in town who