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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

hunting and fishing some like the
Bradley Martins and the Carnegies
hiring shooting boxes in the Highlands
for this purpose, and taking party of
friends with them.
OF course this was very nice, but
only those of enormous wealth could
think of doing things in this style, so
the less rich had to bestir themselves
and do the next best, paraphrasing the
old saying about Mahomet comSag to
the mountain, by bringing the country
house season over here.
1t is now at its height in the hills.
Everybody who has an apology for a
house in the Berkshire and the Itch
field hills and, nearer home in the Or
ange mountains and along the High
lands of the Hudson, has it full of
guests, all bent on one thing, that of en-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
horticultural Hints.

When a good orchard can be es-
tablished it is an easy way to make
a farm more valuable.
1t is said that busting turnip plants
with wood ashes will protect them
against the fly.
Nothing is gained but much is lost
in planting apple trees too close to-
gether. Give them thirty feet apart
at least.
A moderate crop of good fruit
every year is better and more profit
able than large crop of inferior fruit
every other year.
A well-known horticulturist says
that by cutting out the black knot he
keeps his plum trees free from it,
excepting where his field adioins
neighbors who do not cut it out.
Fruit trees are more liable to bear
every year If they are not allowed to
overbear. While thinning fruit when
too thick gives better quality. II
also gives a better chance to the
tree for next years fruit.
The Rhode Island experiment sta
tion advises planting only three or
four kinds of straw berries for ordi-
nary purposes. 1t considers the
Bubach, Charles Downing, Gaudy
and Haverland the most desirable at
the present time.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

and naturally rich in lime, may re-
quire none. But lime is applied not
alone as food directly offered TO veg
citation. but to act upon and change
the soil itself.
1t neutralizes free acids which ex-
list in the soil This Is done with
quick-lime or air Stacked; the first
combining directly with the acid
the second by liberating it's carbonic
acid and then combining with the
acid of the soil, leaving the carbonic
acid to be food for plants Lime de-
composes vegetable fl bre, and reduces
tough ligneous substances, to con-
sistency in which they can be APP
propriated by plants. For this pur-
pose quick-lime should be used and
may be applied at the rate of from
twenty to thirty bushels to the acre.
Lime enters into ombination with
sand or slick, forming a substance
different from either of them. Ever
strong clays will be found to contain
much slick; and lime, by combining
with it, makes the soil friable OF
rumbling. -Farmer Voice.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

OF inherent mental dJIdlnlncnJS. III
less they are all these the hostess has
indeed a vexatious time, but when her
visitors are up to visiting standard she
has it comparatively easy.
OOne thing she must learn before all
else, to respect her guests personality,
and not to feel that she is obliged to
be at their heels or they at hers, from
the moment they cross her threshold.
In this fine weather everybody pre-
fers being out of doors, but when rainy
days come the hostess resources are
apt TO be taxed. Given plenty of horses
carts, books, newspapers, the life of a
visitor in country house is bound TO
be pleasant, and he should remember
that it is expected of him to do his best
to help his hostess, not only by anus
ing himself, but by entertaining his fei-
low-guestS.
Picnic parties, luncheon with the
hunters and such things are usually
great successes, and barn dances and
old-time straw rides will be thoroughly
enjoyed by most town folks.
Tea is another landmark of the day,
a time for the general exchange of con-
fidences, in the lamplight, in the draw
ing-room, but evening is without doubt
dinner, with great variety of food is,
of course, expected even in smaller
country houses. In extensive estab-
lishments, where the party is large, it
is delightful fashion to split up the
tables as they do in England, TO have
one large center table, with smaller
ones grouped around it. Each
table may be decorated in a
different scheme of color - one
of cream, one of red, green, white,
purple, and so on, with candle shades
and menus to match. The loveliest eff
fects can be had with some small field
asters and Michaelmas daisies and
greenery from the hedges and au-
tumnal leaves suggest endless posi-
bilities in artistic fingers. One word
more. Do not let your invitation
be vague. Much worry and annoy
ance will be saved if you will fol-
low the English fashion of stating
when your guests are to arrive and
when they are expected to leave. This
sounds dreadfully inhospitable, but in
reality it is not, and is done by the
most popular hostesses on the other
side. The information can be con-
veyed delicately in the note of invita-
ton, which should say that carriage
will await the arrival of certain train
on certain day and that the person
invited can return on whatever date
the hostess desires, only let it be
mentioned definitely, not in the
comprehensive "a week or two" The
day before the expiration of the visit,
if She desire to have it extended, she
should say SO, if not, it is perfectly
proper to ask the friend if he or she
prefers returning the following day by
the morning or afternoon train. This
is really the truest kindness a hostess
can show her guest, and one she owes
not only to the departing but the com
ing visitor
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
A Cheap Cistern.

A Pennsylvania farmer tells how
he built a cheap cistern. He struck
a circle seven feet in diameter and
dug down three feet, then another
circle one foot less in diameter and
dug three feet farther and broke
down the sides to slope; then with
a five foot circle he went another
three feet and cut away again, max
ing the cistern in the form of a Jug.
The sides and bottom were plastered
with cement directly upon the clay,
and the top was arched over with
brick packed up with sand and &C.
meut, and tile was put in to serve
as an overflow pipe about eighteen
inches from the top AS the average
diameter would be little more than
six feet. it would require nearly
seven barrels of water for each foot
in depth below the overflow pipe,
over fifty barrels when the water was
seven and one-half feet deep
His figures for the cost were: Two
days labor, 81; one-half day Of
mason, 81; two barrels of cement
81. so; 400 brick, 81. 40; total, 81. 80.
1t has been in use ten years and is as
good as ever excepting near the top
where he allowed it to freeze. anG
the cement cracked and pulled off
which could have been prevented by
covering with straw or other ma
terial. National Stockman.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
Household Helps.

Light scorch marks may be re-
moved by simply moistening them
with water and laying in the sun.
The skins of the new potatoes can
be removed more quickly with stiff
vegetable brush than by scraping.
All embroideries, and colored gar
ments also, should be ironed on the
wrong side, wherever practicable.
The toughest fowl can be made
eatable if put in cold water. plenty
OF it, and cooked very slowly from
five to six hours.
Instead OF toasting bread for pea
soup, porridge. etc, try drying it or
roasting it till crisp in the oven and
see how superior it will be.
Grease may be taken out of car
pets by covering the spot with pow
dered French chalk, laying a soft
brown paper over the chalk and COW
ering with warm iron.
1t is essential to health that the
air of the kitchen should be as pure
as that of the parlor; because food
prepared in foul air partekes OF the
foulness to a great extent.
If one wishes TO cool hot dish in
a hurry, it will be found that if the
dish be placed in vessel full of cold
salty water it will cool far more rap
idly than if it stood in water free
from salt.
Some women unwisely try to
enhance the brilliancy of their eyes
by exposing them to an air slightly
impregnated with powerful acid or
rub over each eye a tiny quantity Of
belladonna ointment. This artificial
dilation has again and again been the
means of injuring the sight Plenty
of sleep and good digestion are the
best cosmetics for the eye.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
VALUABLE HINTS ON GROWING
TOMATOES.
When to Sow the seed-Rules and Notes
on Feeding-A Cheap Cistern-Thc
Use of Lime-Borticultural Hints and
Household Helps. =
Tomato Farming.

The growth OF this highly esteemed
vegetable has become more general
throughout the country than any
other known to the gardener or the
cook, and it is made TO enter into
more dishes and to serve a greater
variety OF purposes than any one
plant known to the dietary of the
American world. 1t is no longer
garden plant in the sense that it is
not also farm product, for they are
grown in fields of from five to TWEEN
ty-fve acres, and made to produce a
series OF crops from early summer
until tho frost comes. Like the
most of our vegetable products
the cultivation of the tomato may be
made profitable or not. as The man
running the business has the capac-
ity to produce the earliest, sustain q
succession of good crops throughout
the season, and see that he has a
market for all that he can produce.
1t is always in season TO open for
consideration and discussion the
problem as TO how best we may I'M
derrake the work for next year. To
this end Colman's Rural World has
the pleasure OF submitting the fol-
lowing from a bulletin issued by
Cornell University experimenting
station.
"In discussing the use of fertilizers
for this crop IL is advised to use such
as are quick in their action in order
that the plant may bear an early
crop. Well decomposed manure or
soluble fertilizers are best adapted
to this purpose.
"ln regard to the matter of the
early or late setting out of plants, the
experiments for three successive years
show that early setting is an import
ant matter, and that the cold winds
of May do not injure the plants,
and even a slight frost does not al
ways seriously retard them.
"In regard to the best time for seed
and whether artificial heat is needed,
the experiments show that the earli-
est fruit is obtained from the earliest
sowing of seed. January 10; but
that by the end of August the seed
sown February "a had borne more
fruit 1t is advised to SOW some
seed early, about February Is to the
first of March, and to SOW again for
the main crop about the middle of
March. Frequent transplanting of
the plants makes them more stocky
and promotes early fruiting. Plants
grow min pots are better and earlier
than those grown in the bed or in
flats Plants grown from cuttings
seem to bear earlier and heavier
crops than those grown from seed,
but the results are not uniformly
alike in different years.
Seed saved from late fruit is much
more productive than seed from the
| first fruit Seed should be selected
from plants that bear early, but not
the earliest fruits from ordinary
plants. Seed from ripe fruit give
better and earlier fruit than when
| taken from unripe fruit
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

Able sCHNEBELIN. the able placed it
on an anvil. Then he hit the grains
with hammer, with the re-
suit of grinding the powder
into finer particles, but without pro-
ducing any explosion. Nor would
friction cause an explosion. When a
lighted match was applied TO small
heap of the powder it burned as though
il were grease or some fatty substance,
but there was no deflagration, says
Harper's Weekly. Nothing short of Il
Theoretically sealed quantity is sus-
ceptible TO conclusion. The cartridges
used at the trial were made up with
the regulation English army bullets,
and the range was 100 yards. The
bullets went through an s-inch plate of
Bessemer steel and through four inches
of the wood against which the plate
rested. These experiments were
made with the sporting powder,
which is not nearly SO strong as
the concentrated or warfare powder.
The difficulty with all of the smoke
less powders so far tested by the OIL
GERS of the Ordnance department of the
United States army is that they will
not keep. There are several OF them
that are admira BILE when entirely fresh,
but after two or three months they are
wellnigh worthless. This is a very
fatal defect. 1t may be that even If
the Schnebelite will not keep, that its
simplicity of manufacture is such that
it can be made in the field. But the
particulars of the new explosive that
have reached New York are not full
enough TO justify an expert in powders
in discussing the abbe's invention.
Clergymen are usually men of peace,
and it is most unusual for one TO exer-
else his talents in devising man-killing
materials to be used in time of war.
Very likely the Able Schnebelin takes
the same view of war as DIR. Calling,
the gun inventor. That gentleman
holds, on humane grounds, that war
should be made as terrible as possible.
If guns and ammunition were so pow
erful and accurate that it was sure
death to go into battle, then there
would be no battles and no wars. We
have surely not arrived at that point
yet, but we are very much nearer than
we were twenty or thirty years ago,
and it may be that the invention o.
Schnebelite is an onward step in the
direction toward universal peace.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
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Egyptian Donkey "Boxs.-

The donkey hoy" is one of the chief
features of Egyptian cities. He is not
always lad. Some boys are old
enough to have big boys of their own,
but they are nearly all active, and will
run alongside their donkeys for whole
day and show few signs of distress at
the end of it. Yet their food is only
oil and a bread made of maize and
bean flour.
Except when "doing" the Nile and
the more distant towns and ruins on
its banks, most of the sightseeing in
Egypt is done on donkey-back. The
animals are wonderful goers.
One curious habit their masters have.
Every time a donkey commits tres
pass its owner cuts piece off an ear.
Thus it is quite common to see a dom
key without any right ear at all and
with only a fragment of the left, while
some have lost both.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
Rules and Notes on Feeding.

The following rules are the result
of experiments by the Missouri ex-
pertinent station:
]. Feeding animals as much as
they can digest without injuring
their health.
2. Feed a balanced ration" l. e.,
one in which the composition is in
proportion to their needs.
8. Food is required to maintain
animal heat; save food by providing
warm but ventilated shelter for your
stock.
A. Stimulate the digestive capacity
OF your animal by variety of food,
salt, etc.
Stock foods are composed of sub.
stances usually arranged into six
groups
l. Water. The amount varies with
kind Of food, 1t is OF no economic
importance.
2. Ash. This is the residue left
after burning away the com bustible
portions. 1t supplies the mineral
ingredients to the animal body. A
portion of the ash has a manurial
value.
3. Protein. This is the nitrogen
Gus portion OF the food. 1t is Used in
the animal economy to form mus
Gle" aud all other heterogeneous por-
tlons of the body; it also aids in the
formation of fat. 1t is the most val
liable ingredient.
4. Fat. This substance produces
animal heat, or is stored up in the
body as fat for future use. One
pound of fat will produce as much
heat as two and one-half pounds OF
carbohydrates.
g. Carbohydrates. This group
includes the starches, gums, sugars,
etc. They produce fat and heat.
6. Fibre. This substance has
about the same composition as the
carbohy drates, but it is much less di-
gestible; it is of but little value.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
FUN IN FRAGMENTS.

What would you do if your hus-
band should join a club?" 81 would
buy one D."
Daughter-Mamma. what is a par
venue? dramatically, daughter,
don't know; it's something or otker,
though, that never had a grand
mother.
You have done very nicely" said
the traveller to the Pullman car porter.
Eyes sah!" "And l now propose to
give you tip THANK you sah."
ION the races"
Cool Headed Citizen-What are you
running for? The dog is going in the
opposite direction Fleeing Citizen,
bare-headed and frantic-A policeman
is shooting at it.
81 guess the doctors have given him
up" whats the matter?" Too
much of the worlds fair" 81 thought
he didn't go?" That's it, he's had to
listen to people tell about it"
Professor-I hope, sir, you have fol-
lowed my advice and are trying to inn
prove your mind during vacation.
Student-Yes, sir, have fiirted only
with Boston girls this summer.
Mr.. Tones will hardly speak to
me these days. He puts on airs since
he's gone into wholesale confections.
Awfully stuck up. Mrs. T., scornfully
WHATS he stuck up with? Candy?
"What has become of that young
Mr.. Brewer whom Florence dislilxed so
heartily" "He's here still and she's
very fond of him" Gle must have
changed greatly" "He has; he's de-
voting himself to another girl"
How did you get along with your
patient, Mulkins?" asked one doctor
of another. "We're both on the road
to recovery" 81 don't quite under.
stand" "He is able to be about, and
have had to go to law about my
bill"
She-You know, Reggie, that girls
are being called by the names of
flowers now, and my sister suggested
that / should be called Thistle. Reggie
oh, yes, see; because you are so
sharp. She-Oh, no; she said it was
because donkey loved me.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

ALL known cranks should be put
under lock and key. Prendergast's
crime has evidently stirred up the
fraternity to a dangerous degree. In
New York alone there has been three
cases of crankism since the Chicago
tragedy occurred. Crankism comes
I'm waves. One crime is usually
followed by several Others in rapid
succession. The police should look
to these. fellows. No known crank.
whether he is supposed to be harm
less or not, should be allowed to re-
main at large. Experience has
shown that they are all dangerous,
and they should all be locked up.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
Tennyson at Play.

Mr. Knowles, who was the architect
of the late Lord Tennyson's house at
Aldworth, and who knew him init
mately, says that his playfulness with
children was touching. His great
voice and somewhat awful presence
made them nervous at first, but he was
always most anxious TO put them quite
at their ease.
One of his games was of the romping
order. Dressed in his huge cloak and
tapping felt hat he would hop about
the floor as if he were big bird, chas-
ing them until they fairly shriel1ed
with laughter.
This is rather n pleasant picture of
the poet. One hopes he was often in
the habit of amusing BARNS as well as
himself in this way.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

cept to carry the queens train and run
errands for her, but they were so orna-
mental in their beautiful suits of silk
and fur that she wanted to have at
least six of them always in her pres
ence.
A page to Queen Bess was dressed in
a suit of light blue satin, with knee
breeches and blouse waist, all of a
piece. Around his shoulders he wore
a coat or cloak of deep royal purple
with band of royal ermine around it,
and on his head there sat very jauntily
a cap of white feathers. These pages
were of very good family, and when
the queen wished to specially honor a
lady she did so by choosing her boy to
be page.
The costume of page to Queen Bess
was so pretty that the boys and girls
who are going to little fancy-dress par
ties may want to copy it for them
selves TO wear. They can choose
cheaper material than satin and velvet,
if they want to get the suit up has
tily and for only one wearing. Silesia
and silkoline and the cheap cotton
prints make very good costumes for
pages of the court of Queen Bess.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

To PROVE a man guilty of grand
larceny only required four days in
CALIFORNIA; superior court. Some
delay was occasioned by the fact that
there was not shadow of doubt as
to the mans guilt, he having been
caught in the act. To garner from
the multitude twelve men ready to
swear that little circumstance like
this would in no way prejudice them
against the accused was naturally a
matter of difficulty.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
Artichoke for Hogs.

The large amount OF feed that can
be grown on an acre of Jerusalem
artichoke, and the fact that the hogs
will harvest the crop if left without
rings in their noses, lead farmers to
plant them for the hogs But they
are not very nutritious and hogs
need grain with this feed il they are
to keep thrifty. II they have enough
grain to fatten them they will not
root much. The artichoke is there
fore disappointing to those who ex-
pect from it means Of fattening
pork av low cost. American Guilt
vator.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

joying the most
enjoyable time of
the year in the
country.
OF course, for n
house party to be a
success, the guests
must be well Sc
lected. They must
be people with
nicely tri m m e d
edges and rounded
corners, bri g h t,
adaptable, not an
accortad ioh LOT
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
Use of Lime.

How does lime act upon soilsP we
are asked. Where lime is employed
upon the soil, it 10 either as a mere
article OF vegetable food, or, as a
chemical agent, TO change the condi-
tion of other ingredients of the soil.
All good soils contain lime; of ninety
four different cultivated soils in
Rhode Island, analysed by Professor
c. T. Jackson, eighty-nine contained
lime. Rufiin, in his essay on cal
careous manures. says. after large
induction of fact, that all soils
naturally poor, are certainly desti-
tute of calcareous earth. When
there exists in the soil, already,
enough lime for the wants of vege-
tation. the addition of more will pro-
duce no effect upon the crop. New
lands, and old land not run down,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

A RIOT on the very spot where
Christ was born reads strangely.
Unfortunately similar disturbances
have occurred before, so that the af-
fair has nothing to do apparently
with the new railroads and fashion
able resorts now being introduced
into the holy land.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
QUEEN BESS' PAGES.
Tho Virgin Queen Was Very Fond OF
Display aud Dress

Queen Elizabeth. who is known in
history as the virgin or unmarried
queen of England, was very fond of
display, and introduced many custom s
in her court which were not only
peculiar and snowy but pretty as well.
For one thing, she was very fond of
having a number of boy pages always
around her, and she wished them at
all times to be dressed with the
greatest elegance. There was no
special work for these pages TO do ex-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

BISMARCK 40 said to have certain
s'give-away" letters of the kaiser
which the latter is very anxious to
get before the chancellor dies Hence
his efforts to make up" Ehe IA
tally OF written correspondence Wis
ITS both great and small
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

The five children besides baby Esther
Cleveland who were born in the white
house were also girls One of these
girls, the grandchild of a President
says Harper's Bazaar, is now employed
in one of the departments in Washing
ton, ending, as she began, her days
under the governments roof-tree.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17

THERE was the spirit OF sacrifice
in that Gotham lawyer who, in order
TO clear his client "downed" drug
which was claimed by the prosecu-
tion to be poisonous. 1t is therefore
bafe to assume that he bore up under
the verdict which convicted his man
with a stoicism that, to less daring
barrister, would be impossible.