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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
rha Sane old story.

III ne udu BOIu AuG nC AONCG IN OhSSe1
/ reckon he had told me the same thing
10000 times" says she. But to save
my life / never could respond back to
him ~accordin. He had went off to coll
lege and wore fine clothes, bat he was
such a mortal, monstrous fcol. The
Rankinses have got plenty Of money,
and l can see wherein money would be
q mighty nice thing to have in the FAM
lily. But Gabe he is such a variegatod
fool. He told me / was an angel On the
earth-which, OF course, anybody ought
to know better than that-apd it
showed to me that he was either a fool
for the want of sense, or couldn't tell
the truth with a rest. / amt nobody's
angel SO far as I know. I don't even
make out like I am sproutin any wings
as yet. / am nothin more and nothin
less than a young American woman in
the plain and reglar way. If I ever do
git to be an angel-which / hope and
trust / may in the future hereafter
bless goodness / won't need any of these
mutton-headed youngsters in my bust
ness. I give out my private opinions
along that line to Gabe, but it was like
sayin your Sunday school lesson to a
lazy mule.
"By-and-by he told me how it would
jest naturally kill him to give me up
that he would die a slow and terrible
death if I didn't marry him. To be
certainly, of course, I didn't want to
break over the ten commandments and
kill anybody. Yet still at the same time
I felt like it would bodaciously kill me
if 1 had to mix clothes through good and
bad reports with such a unanimous fool
as Gabe. Bless gracious, a man that
didn't have no better sense than to turn
Loose and die for any Twin human wom-
an on top side of the green earth-well,
Susie Bell Pollard never was cut out to
fit into a weddin match with that sort
of a man. So at last / told him l was
mighty sorry, but the deed would have
to be did. 1 had M consolation. any
howl lowed if / killed him in a cir
cumstantial way they never could
prove it On me in the county court.
"But bless your sweet life, honey.
Gabe didn't keel over and die. He p0ked
off home and come back the next night.
He come in sighin and cryin and blub'
BERN and goin on powerful. Twas good
and tired by this time, but l had to stand
and take it as best I could. I stood
everything till the idiot fell down on
his knees and went to begin me. That
was really more than my sad and weary
heart could bear. 1 hauled off Cnce t.
spit on him, and 1 did atlast tell him il
he didn't git up and go on home / would
sick the dogs on him. And he went.
"They tell me that for a common
thing women are better than men. ]
don't know so much about that. But
one thing l do know amt a blessed
bit better than the Common run Of
women, and l don't reckon I am Sc
awful much better than the right sort
0 fmen. Anyhow, I don't want no grown
man cryin and sighin and kneelin ono
t prayin around me. If I ever do git mar
) ried-which I hope and trust 1 will il
: the fullness of time-giye me a maj
as good as I am. and one that could tel
the difference between a plain young
American woman and q snow-whit
/ angel"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
A Restful Accldsn

Jaspar-What has happened TO BUSH
boy? He used to be always busting
around and now | see him sitting on hin
veranda all day.
Jumpup-His inventiveness got him
into trouble. He patched a cane-bot-
tom chair with a porous plaster and
now he is trying to wear it oG.--N. =.
Truth.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Schoolteacher-Now, Master Thonap
SON, tell me the denominations into
which the money of the United King
dom is divided.
Master Thompson-Don't know.
Schoolteacher-Don't you know how
the money your father brings home
every Saturday night is divided2
Master 1hompson-'Tain't divideds
mother takes it al1.-Tit-Bits.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

White people, did yoS ever take any
particlar notice of q naturalLborn
blame fool in love with a rale handsome
woman? If you never did there is
yet a whole passle for you to learn in
regards to the ways and means of the
human
Tt never was no trouble for Miss
Susie Bell Pollard to catch a beau. All
she ever had to do was to put on the
bait and fling out her hook and pull EN-
in, comm and a gwine. Blamed If /
haven't seen her out at picnics and par
ties and candy pullins and ~protracted
meetins and the like of that, with the
boys so thick around her till she put
me In mind of the band wagon on a cir
Gus day.
Understand me now, 1 couldn't blame
thu boys for that. No doubt If l had
been a boy myself about that time l
would have been the lead dog of the
pack. But along in the fall of last year
Miss Susie Bell caught a naturaEborn
fool on her string-which, of course,
It want her fault, and nobody couldn't
blame her for that, Gabe Rankins is
the onlyest son of old man Lum
Hankins and his wife, and they are
tremendous we'll fixed in the way of
this worlds goods. The old man has
got land on top of land all the way from
Murder Creek to Caney Branch. and
the general talk around amongst the
people is to the extent that he is like
wise also plum lousy with cash money.
And as to the old Rankins stock Of
people, they have all got sense enough
to eat when they are hungry, and go
to bed when they get tired. and save
money. But Andy Lucas was wobblin
around powerful clost to the bulls eye
when he give it out over at the cross
roads one day that the young man Gabe
was way out on a back seat wheMthey
handed round the brains. Well, you
raley couldn't blame Gabe for that.
And neither could you blame the old
folks for havin a fool in the family. He
couldn't help it, and they couldn't help
It. Youcouldn't blame nobody. There
was nobody to blame.
The big break come in when old man
Lum took up a notion that he could
run his hand down into his flank pocket
and take his money and do what the
good lord, in His own good time and
way. didn't do-make a few brains and
put EN- in Gabe's head. The human
brain, fellow citizens and friends, is
a powerful skeerce and pecurious thing
The world don't give it, money won't
buy it and colleges can't make it. Bless
IGo1 4a. that ola - Tr~, Ana hoo,
me clean out OF sight in regards tc
savin money on general lines. But il
would Of been money in his tanks j.
he had only come over to see me about
that college business.
But the old man had the money, anc
Gabe he went to college. When fht
money was gone and Gabe' come hacI
home he had a few fancy college clothes
and yet no brains to speak of. If any
thing he was a bigger fool-or more diff
ferent sorts of a fool-when he got bacl
than when he went away. / never vii
forget the little piece of good advice
which Blev Scroggins give him the frs
time they met up together after Gabc'
return back from college:
Been off to college. have you, Gabe?
"Yes.1
"Didn't git lost gwine or comin'g"
"No."
Got back sase and sound ones
more?"
eyes"
'Bully for You, Gabe. Go and climb
tree, now, and fall out and break you
neck"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

IA species of frogs in Borneo has very
long toes. and these are webbed to the
tip. 1t can leap from a high tree, spread
its toes. and Is thus supplied With
four little parachutes, which enable it
to easily descend. For this reason 10 IL
called the 'ayingfrog."
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Stounder--Why do you always take
the poorest seat in a car when you en-
ter it. whether the car is empty or
not2
Rounder-Because if l take the best.
some woman will be sure TO come and
stand in from of me until common po-
likeness forces me to offer II to here
Harlem Life.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Gus De Smith is always Dragging
about his popularity.
al am getting to be more popular
every day. Another man asked me for
my autograph to-day"
Had to sign a note for last months
rent, / suppose" remarked q friend,
cynically.-Texas Sitter.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Dey tells me in de country dat SUGGEST
deshere days @
Depen's er heap on whut yoh goes an un-
dertakes ter raise.
An lots er young mems gwinter meet wifi
trouble, sho's yer born.
A-raisin' oh de ante when dey should be
raisHl o" washington star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
ON . ROCKY.
me People Are Natural and the
People Are Human
1 evsrIsgated EooP' In Love with q
Young American Woman-Essay on
the HuD1an BrnIn-In che Val~
Icy ana the shadows
II st want from the fsct that I am al
ready married, and il 1 didn,t have what

seems to me like
the best woman
m The world,
what you reck-
on / Mould do
this beautiful
Sunday morn
in2 I nj d
wash my love-
" countenance,
climb right up
into my Sun
day-go-to-meet
in clnth e s.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

THAT man in the next fat calls his
lively wife Blossom
"Grcat Scott! how inappropriate"
"What makes you say SOP"
Blossoms shut up when the sun goes
down.-Chicago Record.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
Not Their own, However.

Travelling Tank-I tell ye, I'd like to
be a doctor.
Bumm DeWay-Why-cause ye'd be
around bottles most of the time?
Travelling Tank-No, the doctor can
take life so easy, seel-Brooklyn Life.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Dick Wellof-H a fellow hasn't any
thing he can't lose anything, you
know.
Jack Poorfellow-Don't you believe
it. I've just been Tilted by a girl worth
a quarter of a million.-Town Topics.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
Hit the Bull,s Eve.

"Dunn is a good shot, isn't heT
every good. We were p%racticing
with our guns at my country place the
other day, and he hit the bulls-eye the
first time"
"Very clever"
Eyes; but he had to pay for the bull.
-Tit-Bits.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Before we were married, Henry, you
used to bring nae a pound of candy
every evening"
II haven't forgotten it, Amanda. BY
the way, dear, | l.ail your last dental
bill this morning. 1t was $47.5o."-Chi.
cago Tribune. Z
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
Sine was Not Alone

Little Miss Michel
Was riding her cycle
Along q new street, feeling gay
On a sharp piece of wire
She punctured a tire
And she had Il walk home, sad to say.
IN. Z. TRUTH.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Traveller Gin western sestaurant)-
There's a hair in this soup.
Waiter timperious)-Weli, ye might
know better n to lean y'r head so far
over wen yc eat.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Cardinal Gibbons has conferred or
ders on a number of STUDENTS at st.
Mary's college, Emmitsburg.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

.The wages Of sin is death.e quoted
the preacher.
IF that is the case" remarked Mr..
Grumps, soto voce, there Isl a great
delay in paying of some people I know
IN, Y. Herald.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

Were Mabel's eyes one-half SO deep
As lovers oft have said,
Her hazel orbs would stick a yard
Behind the mafcen's head.
m, Y. Truth.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28
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How did the critics treat Jingoli's
music9"
"Um. Well. the kindest thing they
said about II was that it was not orig
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Star.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

The letter F, while old. ia obscure
in origin and history.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-11-28

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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
Feeding Bees for Profit.

Many beekeepers must change
their location, go to the flowers, or
change their methods of management.
The beekceping public says at present,
and perhaps always will say, that sugar.
honey must not be produced, but there
is no objection to bees living on cent
sugar instead of lucent honey. 1t has
been estimated, and we think fairly.
that n colony of bees consume 60 or 20
pounds of honey during the year. If
a good portion of this can be cheap
sugar instead of high-priced honey, il
may make all the difference between II
fair profit and serioSs loss. A change
to n better location is preferable, il a
change can be made, as there is more
prof. in plenty of honey from natural
sources than in exchanging sugar for
honey in poor neutrality-suspicious.
Cultivator.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11

gether. The inner posts, A A, should
lean outward, so as to make the hori-
zontal width along the dotted line, f,
two feet more than the floor width at
II. The posts A and L are placed di-
rectly opposite each other, and braced
together as indicated at Y. The raftcrs
may be of the usual structure, which
would require cross ties, or joists, OF +;
or else truss frame may be made as
indicated at b b and G.. A roof on such
n truss frame will not spread, and the
hay carrier may be swung at d.
Fig. 2 represents the shed weather
boarded down to within six feet of the
floor. The door, A, may he hinged so
as to swing down, or may be made
double and open into the barn. In
either case the space for admitting
the hay should be at least six feet
square, and, in fact, eight feet is bet
ter. The rail for the hay carrier would
extend out at b, if truss roof is used;
in ordinary roof, the carrier would be
at top of rafters. If long enough posts
"a and +, Fig. y may not be bad, use
the longest available 2X6 pieces, and
spike strongly the lower ends TO short
posts placed well in the ground.
A drive crosswise through this shed
would be more convenient in many
ways. If the hay is TO be haled, the
bales could be conveniently stored. If
intending to bale, put the hay into the
shed in sections, ten to twelve feet long.
the entire width of the shed, as it will
be much more convenient that way for
getting out. Indeed, il will be the bet
ter way even il the hay is TO be hauled
out, in which case arrange the floor so
rs to back the wagon under at X. Fig.
2. \ shed of this style can be built 20
feet wide and is feet high, at cost of
only So to $3.50 for each ton of contents.
and it will last 20 years. The siding, 6
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
Indigestion In Poultry.

Indigestion is one of the commonest
troubles of fowls and one of the most
easily prevented. Grit takes the place
of teeth with fowls. 1t requires to
be sharp in order to grind up the food
and prepare it for digestion. Yet how
often is the supply deficient? Crushed
oyster shells or sharp gravel should be
accessible to the hens. Acidity of the
stomach is the result of indigestion. IL
may be corrected by mixing very fine
pulverized charcoal with the food or by
keeping supply of broken charcoal in
the neighborhood of the fowls. One OF
the best methods of giving it is TO char
n couple of corncobs once week in the
oven and then let the fowls have them
TO peek at. The feeding of charcoal is
excellent at all stages of the hens eXis-
fence, but il is particularly desirable
when the fattening process is going on.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
CHILDREN FILL THE RANKS.
Boys Are Being Recruited for the British
Army in the Leading CitIes.


To keep the ranks of the British army
full these days is no small task, and the
recruiting officers often are obliged TO
enlist mere children and Young men
who do not come up to the physical re.
QuirementS laid down for recruits.
These latter ARE called Especial enlist
nents." 70 keep the highland regi-
mcnts full the authorities have some-
:imes been compelled to enlist men
from the slums of London. The annual
waste of the British army from deaths,
desertions, rctirements and expiration
Of enlistments amounts to $4,000 men
extraordinarily more than the
whole standing army of the United
States.
In an article on the Land Forces of
the Crown in the Navy an, Army Illus
trated Lieut.. John Graham, of the Brit
ish army, says: "The annual waste of
the army must be made good, although
the state OF the labor market and other
circumstances may have stopped the
flow of desirable recruits. The conse-
quence is that the standard is sometimes
lowered to Il dangerous degree, both as
to age and physique. and the phenomena
known as the child soldiers ana White.
chapel highlander became rife in our
midst"
The inspector general OF recruiting
of the British army in his report be.
walls the difficulties which beset him in
keeping the British army in India sup.
piled with recruits not under 20 years
of age, these difficulties arising from
the constant enlistment OF immature
lads" or the enlisted men i'm the Brit.
ish army England furnishes 100000
men; Ireland, $4,000. and Scotland, l6..
OUG.--N, Y. Press,
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
NOTES FOR eEEKEEPERS.

Bees, small fruit and poultry make a
good combination.
The queen bee is the only perfectly
developed female in the hive.
The queen lives several years and is
useful as laying queen for three
years.
\ young queen is more liable TO pro-
duce working progeny and an old one
drones.
In the spring II frame of dirty comb
In put In the hive the bees will clean 1t
up and make IL III for use.
Worker bees are undcyeloped female
bees. and are Matched from the same
kind of eggs that the queens nrc,
A good. strong colony of bees. To-
cated where there IN plenty of honey
producing Mowers will. with good mnn-
agcment, produce 100 pounds OF comb
honey and siill allow another strong
colony 10 be made from it.--St. Louis
kepublIo.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
The Control of swnrmIng.

To control swarming, remove one Of
the prime factors. Brood is the only
factor we can remove and not defeat
our object-honey. The removal %,
brood, instead of decreasing the honey
yield, rather increases IL. We may re
move the brood by direct confscation,
or we can do II more gradually by the
removal of the queen. The first method
would be better where the flow Is very
short and profuse. the second better
where the flows lasts 40 Ia 90 or more
days. The cause Of swnrmlng IL In.
stinct; It's control, broodlessneSs, Other
methods az times seem effective, but the
only method of controlling swarmina
that In nj all times success, IN brood
leHspeEs. .soathern cuitlyatoT.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DURABLE Hay SHED.
AN Investment which No Progressive Man |
VIII Ever Regret,

AN Investment which No Progressive Man
VIII Ever Regret.
The yearly losses of western farmers
In hay and fodder, through exposure
70 the Gather, aggregate an enormous
amount. Extensive inquiry convinces
me that nearly or quite one-fourth of
the feeding value of all the hay and
fodder cut and put in stacks, riclls and
shocks is thus sacrificed. 1t is nothing
uncommon to see whole meadow of
little misshapen stacks and ricl<s SO
damaged and weather-beaten as not to
be worth over half what il would have
been il properly secured in the barn,
and kept in first-class condition.
The best and strongest cheap hay
shed have seen is that shown in the
accompanying cuts. Figure is an end
view of the framing. Posts A A, OF the
heigh required, say 16 to 20 feet long,
are set in the ground to form the franz
ing of the shed, while other similar
posts, Il l., are set four feet out from
the former-that is, at the bottom,
though at the top they are brought to-
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11

6 S, may be of cheap material. as the
slight slant inward will prevent the
water from running in. The floor, for
economy's sake, may be of rails or
poles.
The practice of cutting up and shred
ding the fodder is rapidly gaining
ground. a shed built built on the fore
going plan would answer admirably
for storing such feed. Stats would have
to be nailed across the lower openings,
OF course. The elevator would carry the
cut FODDER in at the door. A. L. is hard
ly necessary to say that when barn
room and protection for stock are to be
taken into account, in addition to econ
omy of handling, it is cheaper to so
construct the building as TO give up the
entire floor space to stock, using only
the upper part for fecd.--G. w. Waters,
in st. Louis Journal of Agriculture.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11

will not continually brood them, even
if cold, and the chicks become chilled.
The engraving shows device for keep
ing the brood warm. 1t is a coop with
glass top set on top of pen filed with
heating horse manure. 1t is, in fact,
a coop on top of a hot bed. The bot
tom of the coop is of thin boards, so
that sufficient warmth will go up into
the coop TO make it very comfortable.
The hen and the chicks are placed in
sideand sandand chaff given to scratch
in. y score of early chicks can thus be
raised that will set to laying early in
the fall.--Orange Judd Farmer.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-11
REsULr oE ENVIRONMENT.
Three French Ducks That Had Come TO
Hate tho Water.

1hree French Ducks That Had Come TO
Hate tho Water.
Hydrophobic ducks may seem a bit
strange, but writer in the Revue
Scientifique tells of such. These were
not mad ducks, but merely ducks that
hated what people have come to con-
slider their natural element. There
were three of them, and they had lived
some years in Paris, where they had a
small basin and their daily bath. Their
owner finally took them to the country
to live beside fine lake, thinking it the
ideal place for the amphibious. What
was his surprise on putting them into
the lake to see them instantly scramble
ashore and waddle, Indian-fle, to q
neighboring stable, whence they never
came out save for feed.
Never could they be induced TO re-
main in the water save by force or
fear, and there they always drew close
together, SO as to occupy no more space
than that of their bath basin in Paris.
They were thoroughly afraid of the
lake and they never became used to it.
In Picardy, it seems, young ducks
are often kept from the water in order
20 protect them from the water rats
and prevent them from eating things
that might injure their flavor when
they appear upon the table. Ducks
thus brought up until their full growth
OF feathers is acquired refuse to enter
the water, and If forced in sometimes
drown