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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10

q bewildered air as she came in to get
che breakfast.
'tCome, mother. make haste!!" shout
ed old Kisbee. GIVE got to get out
to the wood lots bright and early this
morning."
eyes, know, father" The old wo-
nan still stared around her. "Ican't
think what makes the room look so
queer. Oh, I know! Father, you've
torn those morning glory vines away
from the window"
"Of course I have" said he. "Dried
up old truck, keepin' out the light and
sir. What use were they?"
@But there we're lots o. flowers and
ouds on 'em yet, father. And in that
sheltered spot the frost wouldn't hev
touched for week to come"
"Mornin' glories don't amount to
aothin'," snarled Kisbee. "Besides,
I'm goin' to hev a. load dumped there
to-day. It's a handy place for the
wood pile"
||Father!''
goin'-to-hev-
wood-dumped- here-to-day. Don +
speak loud enough?"
"But, father, you always said you
was goln' to build kitchen out
there"
Il never said nothin O. the sort!'
81 want a Kitchen" pleaded the
poor old woman.
"That's a horse OF another color"
%neered the old man.
~ IL dare say Ipromised good manv
-Sollsh things then. There's some
promises better broken than kept"
phllosophically observed Luke.
And this old rooms damp, and the
walls has settled, and the ceiling has
zeit-and calculatin' to hev it fixed
up and put my bed here, when the
new kitchen was built. It ALWAYS
makes me feel so dreadful cheap when
&ne sewing society meets here to hev
our bed a-standin in the parlor, no
matter how handsome the patchwork
u.s." n
Luke wiped his hands on the roller
towel.
"Well, you've stood it thirty years."
said he' 'an' | guess you can stand it
a. little while longer"
DO you mean, father, that I amt
10 have a. new kitchen arter all?"
.sIhat's exactly what do mean"
Mrs. Kisbee said no more, but the
slow, bitter tears Of old age trickled
down her cheeks as she lighted the fire.
drought pail of drinking water from
the spring and began to fry the ham
and eggs in a little skillet.
II must have been awful wicked y
Thought the poor, old woman, 'for
I've most made an idol o. that new
kitchen, an thought SO much about
Sne best room with no bed in it! An
now I'm punished"
Her son George came over that
AFTERNOON from Farley's Mills, where
NE was foreman in a great shirt fac
tory.
"Mother!'' said he, give got some
ching to tell you. Tn engaged to
marry Susy Stopford. Why. mother.
what's the matter? What are Won
crying about? thought you'd be SO
pleased? -
"It's jest like all the rest g. the
auckr sobbed poor old Mrs. Kisbee.
ather's been an tore down all nv
mornln' glory vines, an ! amt eoiin,'
20 hev any new kitchen after all these
years, and now my only son has got
ENGAGED to one of the Shepherds, that
szasn't never friends with orr fnll,s,NY
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
THE HORTICULTURAL WORLD.
VARIOUS FARMING TOPICS
TOUCHED UPON,
The Cost OF Good Roads, Fall Work
In the fredericksburg Small
Potatoes--The Value OF Tar
Breeding Of Hogs--A Few
Pointers.
The Cost Of Good Roads,

Let me give o few figures as to the
cost OF good roads. I will take, for
the sake Of convenience, a county
which represents a fair average OF all
the counties Of the State as respects
it's mileage Of important roads. The
county to which I have reference has
about $50 miles of such highways,
which, if properly built ofstone, would
make it's country districts a veritable
paradise.
Considering that an excellent road
can be built for $4,000 mile, the
aggregate cost for the entire $50 miles
would be $1,15O,OOO The average
amount OF property for each county,
as shown by the tax duplicate for
1891, was SIG, Were this
tax OF $1,15o,00O to be paid at
once it would necessitate an assess
ment of 6 7-10 per cent or $69 on
every ST., 900 worth of property as
returned for taxation. Now, divid-
Ing this into ten equal payments, the
annual tax which the property
owner would have to pay on every
81, 900 OF assessed valuation would
be SOTO. But it is to be noted that
this does not represent just so much
extra tax. q
h In 1891 the taxes levied in Ohio for
road and bridge purposes were within
q few thousand of $3,OOO,OOO, and
the poll tax of the State amounted to
in the neighborhood of $1,000, 900,
making the total tax of the State for
road patch work" for one year,
about 100000, or 1920 for
every $1,000 OF assessed valua-
ton. Thus the cost for transporta.
ton from temporary working to the
permanent building OF roads would be
the payment, for a period OF ten
years, OF $500 where $1.OO is now
paid.
And what would this mean? It
would be difficult to enumerate all
the good points which suggest them
selves. It would mean, instead of ex-
pending vast sums Of money for a,
period Of ten years, and at the expira-
ton OF that time not many having
any better roads than now, that by
reasonable extra EXPENSE for only a
few years we would be able to build a
magnifcent system OF pike roads.-J.
M. IL. Frederick, in Good Roads.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
.SUSY'S INVESTMENT.

HE gray, dis
CO u ragi ng
light of the
q u t u m n
morning re-
vealed every
crack in the
dlscolore d
ceiling, every
flaw in the
uneven board
floor, and
Mrs. Kisbee
i 0 o k e d
around with
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10

between good and bad steer. One
great drawback to profitable hog rails
ing has beeLto great dependence upon
corn Tor feeding. Provide good clio.
Yer pasture in summer and supple
ment this in the early fall with ground
oats and middlings, with corn only to
hnlsh Oh, and q, good pork can be pro
duced at g good profit. -Colman's
Rural World. a .s.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
Bree ding OF Hogs.


Few branches of the stock business
demand more skill than the raising OF
hogs, but to such as can supply these
they are as generally certain to return
profit as any other kind Of stock. It
is fact we'll understood that q pig
makes more meat in proportion to
waste matter, and more also in pro-
portion to food consumed, when prop
erly fed, than any other domestic ami
NAL. They also mature 50 early and
are 50 prolific that they commend
themselves to farmers who have not
much capital with which to begin the
stock business. The very fact that q
start can be made with so small an
expenditure should be enough to in
duce all who 60 into the business to
begin with good stock, but some who
are particular about the breeding Of
their cattle, and even OF. sheep, seem
to think that one hog is us good as
another, but there is as much differ
ence between the growth and profit
from g high grade aud . scrub pig as
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
A Few Pointers:

| 49,
Give the hens chopped onions occa.
sionally.
Do not tryto winter more hens than
you can care for well. -,
Clean up, whitewash and get the hen
house ready for winter. ~ z~
Have you not noticed that fast
horses are apt to develop EAST men?
Stick to the breed that you have
done we'll with. Improve and build it
up rather than let it fall back.
Clean up the coops and give dose
of coal oil before putting away for the
season.
See that there are no cracks in the
hen.house through which draughts can
strike the fowls
In the Chicago market, small hen
turkeys sell better than others after
New Years. But have them fat.
There is no meat that varies more
IN price than poultry, between choice
fat birds and 'scallawag'' stock.
Do you think it pays to husk corn,
throw it on the ground and handle
again before it is in the wagon?
II you have no extra feed do not
buy a lot OF stock this fall because
it is cheap. It will be dear Ito you)
before spring.
Fattening fowls, young pulletR and
old hens kept for laying eggs do nosre-
quire the same food either in quality
or kind.
Crowd the corn husking if in shocks.
Bind the. fodder as husked out, and
draw to feeding yard or barn when a
few acres are ready. This will give
some in if bad weather comes before
oil is husked. Keep the fodder haul
ed in close up to tho huskers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10

A small herd Of cattle we'll fed will
pay better than large one that just
"pulls through
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
Fall Work in the Garden,

For early vegetables next spring,
like bunch onions, lettuce, spinach
and radishes the ground is always fit
ted in the fall, and we'll enriched and
pulverized says a writer in the Ohio
Practical Farmer. The onions should
be set not later than October, so
they will get a good root hold before
freezing weather sets in, and they will
be among the first green vegetables for
the gardener to market in the spring.
Onions for this purpose must be in
large sets. Or better still, those that
bore seed this year and threw up from
three to five seed stalks and will be
useless for seed next year; these, set
deep in the fall, in good rich soil, will
be the best for cary bunch onions in
spring, as they have matured early
and begin to take root earlier than
the field onion raised from the bed.
The outdoor lettuce bed must be
sown later, well pulverized and rolled,
the seed sown with hand drill and
late enough so that it does not all
come up until spring it will be all fright;
for lettuce will make stand and grow
in the spring long before you can get on
to your ground to prepare it on &C
count of the wet condition of the soil;
therefore, If you want to catch those
high prices that always prevail for
early outdoor lettuce you must SOW it
in the fall and cover it with fine litter
in the spring when it begins to freeze
and thaw; the tennis ball makes a
good variety for this purpose.
Radishes need the same treatment,
but will need no covering OF any kind,
as they are perfectly hardy. I find
two varieties sufficient for fall sowing
the scarlet turnip and the long red,
for succession.
Spinach can be sown the latter part
Of October or first Of November and
covered in the fall, in this latitude,
with coarse manure free from corn
stalks, and raked of in the spring aft
er it is done freezing. In sowing spin
sch an amateur should consult the
catalogs as to variety, as there are
two kinds, one to be sown in the fall
and the other in the spring. There is
profit in these three vegetables when
sown III the fall and we'll cared for,
and they come on the market early
and at the same time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
What Sort OF Ramp

The time is at hand when the great
majority OF sheepbreedera are accus-
toned to mate their focks, and it is
worth their while to consider what
sort OF rams they are going to use. A
great many have been saying-or act
ing as il they said-that they could
not afford to buy q pure. bred ram,
and 50 must content themselves with
the best common animal they could
get hold OF. Farmers who would not
touch q scrub bull for breeding pur-
poses with q 10 foot pole will accept
for their ewes the service Of a common
ram, OF whose antecedents they know
nothing.
There has been some excuse for this
IN times past, when pure-blooded
ram OF any of the fine breeds was
worth q small fortune, but the excuse
is no longer valid, as such rams are
not SO high priced as formerly. A
breeder who uses q common ram is
never sure OF the kind of lambs he is
gong to have. By sheer good luck
| they may run fairly well; but the prob
abilities are that they will be very un-
even, and that what is made on the
best OF the lot will be lost on the re-
malnder, or that at any rate the
profits on the whole will be consider
ably less than they would have been
had pure-blooded sire been used.
good ram soon pays for himself.
1t is more than doubtful if q poor one
ever does. =
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
COndensing Milk.

The condensing of milk is an. Ameri-
can invention, and the method in
foreign countries, as France and
Switzerland, as we'll as in England,
where the business is now carried on,
is precisely the same as the American
way. This is to evaporate the water
from the milk by steam heat in
vacuum pans, at such a low temper
allure as will entirely avoid danger of
burning it. So that not only is steam
needed to keep up the vacuum by air
pumps and remove the vapor from
the pans, but to furnish the heat. A
ten-horse power boiler, or one to
furnish steam for q ten-horse power
engine, would do all the work for q
small factory using 1,0OOlbs. of milk
daily. A two horsepower engine
would do the pumping required to keep
the vacuum perfect. This quantity
OF milk will furnish one fourth as much
condensed. u.- ~.t3.@
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-10
Feeding Small Potatoes,


Some fifty years agoi it was my dutr
to boil the small potatoes in a. big
copper boiler (buiit in brick, with an
oven firedraft underneath), and then
to mix them with barley meal and
feed them to the hogs. The method
used was to sprinkle the dry meal
over the hot potatoes and then
squeeze the latter with the hand and
thus thoroughly incorporate the
meal with them and make a. semi
wash or slop, by adding the water in
which they were boiled.
This practice Ihave followed in feed
ing in the West, using corn meal in
stead OF barley meal, as being the
cheapest and the best for fattening.
Potatoes, as food, are little better,
IT any, than green clover. Both serve
as slop food, or green food, as YOU
will; but both build the frame, and
then when the corn meal is added put
on fat enough to finish them for mark
ct. This, at least, has been my ex-
perlence and is my practice. NY own
impression is that enough value has
not been set on potatoes as a food
Tor hOgs.-Breeder.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
Total Eelipses ID enc Sum.

Every year there must be two eclipses
Of the sun, and there may be FIVE. These
are partial eclipses, however, except in
the comparatively rare case in which the
moon passes nearly centrally over the
SUMS disk and produces total obscura-
ton of his light. Since the invention of
the spectroscope, in 1850, there have
been barely score of total eelipses, and
a number of these could not be observed
because the belt Of totality fell at the
earth's polar regions or upon the oceans.
The belt of totality is narrow strip
never more than 40 miles wide-where
the point of the moons shadow falls upon
the earth. Total eclipses rarely occur,
therefore, at the same point Of the earth.
At London, for example, there has been
no total eclipse since the year 1140, ex-
cept that Of 1715, and there win be none
during the next century. Professor E.
S. Holden in Century.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
Worrns Eat LEAD Pipes.

In The Gesundheits Ingenieur the fact
IL communicated by a correspondent
that when tracing the leaky places in q
lead pipe there was found in one Of the
leaks live WOODWORK with its head
protruding in the wall Of the piping, the
outer opening of the cavity being Of OBJ
long form Z by millimeters. and the
inner surface of the same showing fine
indentures. That similar cases have oc-
casionally been met with appears to be
the case. the fact being stated in one Of
the best known German text books Of
technical chemistry that certain wood
worms sirex gigas perforate sheet
lead, the holes produced showing
rough surface, with fine indentures in
one instance holes up to 61S millimeters
diameter being found in sheet lead, the
latter affixed to some timber work.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28

Now Spring bringing flowers birds
Nature will will
privilege of supplying
fresh stock of which feel justly proud We have been fitted
felt completely confident ability with
prices generously favong the buyer such highly gratifying
We ask this feeling that dealings
mutually profitable and satisfactory In the first place line goods
for the and substantial quality
for dissatisfaction the The
goods effective the good judgment the
nothing cheap which sterling
the price asked We only goods
peon Of the buyer from first to last the time of purchase mainly
question appearances
durability You will find stocked with the goods that these
and time the genunes m quality viii coming
more.
Another specially stock profuse display
strictly that shown the first
pleased
the most critical refined We field exercising
vidua preference the Styles
lines most complete and comprehensive
selections of those odd extremes fashion that
the representing
ideas good sereeabe desirable goods
everybody
the this will find
expect lind i've energetic business house,
for fun bat for profit realizing the
is to out large quantities goods quick margins
exactly what will find doing
quickly DISPOSED of at the price point that
will make the people take the goods It win buying
closely into business methods perfect harmony with
interests We waiting mutual
benefit OF US both Welfare sellers goods grade quality
modern price doing business
that strikes you promising along
Tor we naE meet expectations and give
ed 70 state position fairly boasng
buse The we can b
anate at any time with quality price, We earnest friendly
. oo Just as well BY possibly purchase
feo merit ana obtain your future esteemed patronage.
IF Yours for mutual benefit
.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
A queens Collection to Be Seen.

Queen Margharita Of Italy has prom
ised the loan of her famous collection of
laces for exhibition at the Worlds fair.
Is will include the varieties of lace made
in the queens factories by women and
viii be displayed with the queens por-
Eait and many old books upon antique
lace. Rome has society now similar
to the Woman's exchange, where the
artistic work of the contadina is sold,
and from which representative work
viii probably be sent to the exhibition
Rome Letter. AN
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
Meaning 81 ..sophomore..

Says q Cincinnati literary man: 81 used
to think that the word sophomore was
made up Of the Greek word signifying
wise and the English word more The
word was thus applicable, / thought, to
the second class in a college, because
they were more wise than their fellows
In their own estimation. But it seems
that the word has purer genealogy and
q meaning even less fattering to the
class Of collegians to whom it is applied
It was first used at the University Of
Cambridge, England, and in it's infancy
appeared in the form ssoph-mor.' It was
composed Of the word .soph,' contrac-
ton for 'sophister,' and . Greek word
meaning foolish (moros).
''The college course extended over
three years and one term. The respect-
i've classes Of Students were termed
freshmen, or first year men; Junior
sophs Of soph-mors, senior sophs and
questioners. This nomenclature was
transferred to the American higher IN
situations of learning, and in the form
freshmen, juniors and seniors still exists,
while it has wholly disappeared on the
other side Of the water. New York
Tribune.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
The fisheries Of Lake SUPERIOR.

,At1ittle Port Arthur alone the figures
Of the fishing industry for the market
are astonishing, In 1888 the fishermen
there caught 100000 pounds 81 white
fish, 500, 900 pounds of lake front, $4,000
pounds Of Sturgeon, 10000 pounds Of
pickerel and 10000 pounds of other fish,
o. more than a million pounds in all,
They did this with an investment 81
$500 in boats and $4,000 in gill and
pound nets. This yield nearly all went
to Chicago packing company, and it is
in the main Chicago and Cleveland CAPT.
tai that is controlling the lakes fisheries.
Julian Ralph in Harper's.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
A woman.s Good Name.

Many people who would recoil with
horror from cutting human creatures
throat, which really does not hurt very
much and only Lasts a moment, will
murder woman's good name without
remorse or conjunction. and that hurts
worse than death for lifetime. It
is a meaner crime than murder. We
cry out, and rightly, too, against the
sensational and depraving habit Of max
ing heroes of robbers and cutthroats.
It is horrible thing to do. And yet /
have less Of hatred and loathing for the
late Jesse James than / have for come
people who have never been convicted
Of capital crime, but whose tongues,
we know, are worse than any knife that
ever severed a human jugular. R j.
Burdette in Ladies' Home Journal
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
when . Man wail.s.

The man afoot on the surface of his
own earth is the true king; the so called
monarch who journeys in q coach or in
q bomb proof railway carriage is, in
truth slave. The pressure Of the free
foot ON turf or road exhilarates the soul;
the magnetism Of our mighty mother
flows into our nerves and nourishes
their vitality; our blood dances through
our veins and strengthens muscle and
organ. The whole atmosphere is our
own; it flows rhythmically into our
lungs and unites Ms with the sky. The
horizon wooes and stimulates the eyes;
they become bright and gain power and
Judgment. Nature instructs us at every
step; her beauty must ever remain nm
known to him who has not thus placed
himself face to face with her.
Distant hills slowly draw near and
unfold to Us their wonders Of color and
form; winding valleys reveal their love
~ hearts to our orderly seeking, temper
ing their surprises by exquisite grada-
tions. The trees are companions; each
yields to MS its individual charm, and SO
passes MS ON to the new charm of its
neighbor. The forests veil from MS the
shy, as If to remind rs of the beauties, Of
this earth; the broad plains smile to
heaven, in intimation that earth and
heaven areinwardly at one.. Every in
sect, animal and bird vouchsafes MS
glimpses Of its secret life, which shuns
the monstrosity ofour machines. Julian
Hawthorne in Lippincott's.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-04-28
why southerner. Have Good voices.

Why SoutherneFs Have Good Voices.
Life in the country, especially IN our
southern country, where people lived
far apart and were employed oftentimes
at considerable distance from one an
other, and from the houses or homes In
which they ate and slept, tended, by ex-
ercise in communicating with one an
other, to strengthen and improve the
voices for high and prolonged notes. A
wider range to the vocal sounds was
constantly afforded and frequently re-
quired.
Hallooing, screaming, yelling for one
person or another, to their dogs, or ct
some of their cattle ON the plantation,
with the accompanying reverberations
from hilltops, over valleys and plains,
were familiar sounds throughout the
farming districts of the south in the
days gone by. It used to be said Of my
fathers old negro foreman that he could
be distinctly understood mile or more
away.
Hunting, which was enjoyed and In
4dulged In more or less by nearly every
citizen of the south, was also conducive
to this characteristic development. DIR.
j. Harvie Dew in Century.