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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
sETTING OUT AN ORCHARD.

1t is said of the training of child that
it should begin at least a generation be-
fore the child is born. The training of
tree is quite analogous. 1t should begin
at least year before the tree is planted
at all.
1t is preferable to put the ground Sc
lected into some hoed crop the season be-
fore, in order that the soil may be made
mellow for the trees. If there are any
spots where the drainage is net naturally
good, it is well to tile-drain them; if the
subsoil is hard it must be plowed deep
and well. All lumpy soil must be broken
fine, and it goes without saying that all
weeds should be thoroughly eradicated.
The location and mechanical condition
of the ground must be satisfactory or it
is idle to plant an orcherd. Much after
labor in cultivation is obviated, where
cultivation among trees is difficult at
the best, by care of the soil previous to
the setting out of the orchard
Then comes the question of the kinds and
varieties to plant. l do not know bet
to consult a reliable nurseryman, who
will know from the qualities of the soil
and climate the sorts most likely to sue
coed.
If one is really intent on having good,
well-kept orchard, there is no farm,
think, but will, with proper care, grow
some good variety or other or apple, pear,
plum, or cherry, to say nothing of the
berries and currents that are hardy every
where, and | think. too. that the grape,
peach and apricot can, with a little special
care, be made to bear in abundance.
c. A GREEN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
ALFALFA AS A HONEY CROP.

Alfalfa is one of the best plants
known for the production of choice
honey, as it is unsurpassed in body
and richness of flavor and the rich
white color renders it peculiarly attrac-
tive Wherever there are 100 acres of
alfalfa there is abundant pasture for
at least twenty-five colonies of bees;
this is especially true where alfalfa is
raised for seed. If the plants are cut
for hay just as they come into bloom,
the flowers will have but little chance
to secrete nectar. Another advantage
of bee keeping by alfalfa seed pro-
ducers is that the value of the crop is
greatly enhanced by the larger yield
of seed because of more perfect fertili-
ZatiOn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
FARM AND
GARDEN
ARTIcHoKEs FOR HOGS.

Hitherto the growing of this valu-
able tuberous-rooted perennial, has
been almost wholly neglected, and
greatly misunderstood, writes ]. P.
Vissering in the Nebraska Farmer.
Their great value as cheap, handy,
healthy hog food is conceded by all
who have had practical experience with
them.
AS hog food they cannot be excel
led. A good plan is TO plant all your
lots with artichokes about May l,
when your hogs are turned on pasture.
Then when your pasture plays out in
the fall-or about October 1-you will
have fine food in your lots for your
hogs, where they can root at intervals,
whenever the ground is not frozen, I'M
til the following May, when they will
have received as much benefit from
one acre of artjchokes as from several
acres of corn. They will also have left
enough tubers in your lots to re-seed
the ground for the next crop
1t is a hogs nature to root, in fact
his hogship is never happier than
when he is roofing, and an artichoke
can truly be called hogs drug store.
a wealthy hog raiser of the writer's
acquaintance, who has made $50 acres
of $500 land out of hog raising for the
pork market, says ne would not DE
without big patch of the tame arti-
chokes, as he has had no hog diseases
in his herds since they have been al
lowed to eat artichoke tubers.
A SOW will not eat her pigs if she
has been allowed previously to eat
artichokes, and hogs do not root up
pastures in the spring when they have
previously been allowed to root in the
artichoke patch TO their hearts con-
tent
hogs object in roofing is 20 OBJ
tain roots, which, as l said before,
serve the same purpose to him as does
the drug store to the human being
After he has eaten a goodly portion of
artichokes, the roofing notion will be
almost entirely out of his head, so say
extensive hog raisers who have grown
and fed the artichoke.
The artichoke can be as easily
grown as corn or potatoes, and on
land that will produce fifty bushels
of corn you can easily raise 500 bushels
or artichokes.
The writer frequently does this, and
has grown over 900 bushels per acre on
ground that had never been MANFRED.
Cut the tubers, plant and cultivate
precisely same as potatoes. They are
great soil enricher, and can be easily
e0terminated by blowing the young
plants under when they are about
foot high, as the old tubers have rot
ted, and the young ones have not yet
formed at that time.
Again [ say, grow the artichoke and
you will have a fine, healthy swine
food and no cholera
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
REIGN ON A SMALL SCALE.

Do not start beekeeping on large
scale, but let your apiary grow. Start
with about four or six swarms the
first season. You may lose some skips,
but you must expect loss Bees will
die as well as horses or cattle, but per-
haps not so often. and then there is
not such a large sum invested. Take
some reliable bee paper if you in
tend going in it very strong. Many a
farmers wife is in the bee business
to stay. They find it a light employ
ment, and many little article has
been purchased with the bees money.
Use the frame hives, as more money
can be got from them than any other.
Use one pound sections, as they look
neater and are in demand, as those
who buy the sweet nectar like to have
the combs so they can place them on
the table and not cut them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
THAYER's BULLETIN FOR APRIL, 'oe


The berry plant is delicate little ma
chine for the manufacture of fruit. From
the offal of the earth, it works out the
most delicious products for man. For
best results only best mechanisms can be
used and the operator should thoroughly
understand their construction, care, feed
ing and management.
The fine light colored fbrous roots, on
every vigorous plant, are the feeding
mouths, or suction pipes, that pump up
food and moisture from below.
The breathing leaves and feeding roots,
drink in life, health, beauty from sun,
earth, air and by the most secret pro-
cesses in nature give us the most perfect
combination of the useful and the beau
tiful.
Since a plant cannot move about in
search Of nourishment it follows that the
best food and drink should be placed
its use. A plant can take its nourishment
only in solution, therefore, both fertilizer
and surrounding soil should be at all
times fine. moist and mellow.
The loss from setting weak plants can
never be overcome. The loss from care
less setting, can never be made good.
The loss from poorly prepared soil can
never be recovered.
The first essentials in successful fruit
growing are:
Use no poor plants Do not set plants
carelessly and do not use ground until
well fortified and thoroughly prepared.
Neglect these three things and all the
woes of a careless grower shall be thine.
When plants are received, keep them
in cool place until ready for setting.
Remove all old leaves and cut back long
roots and broken branches. Never ex-
pose the fine, fbrous roots to sun, wind
or heat. In setting dip roots in water,
spread as much as possible and set in
fine mellow ground, with earth pressed
firmly about the roots.
The crown of the strawberry should be
just even with the surface of the ground,
neither too deep nor too shallow.
NJ. A. THAYER,
Sparta, Wis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
FRUIT FOR THE FAMILY.

No matter how far from market a far
mer may be he can grow a patch of
strawberries and be sure of a market al
home. 1t is astonishing how much fruit
of all kinds can be eaten by a small fam
lily when the supply is unstinted. There
are few neighborhoods where those who
begin by growing supply of strawber-
ries for home use will not find mar
ket springing around them from neigh
bors, who keep on in the old ruts be-
cause they think they haven't time to
attend to such small affairs US the cul-
ture of berries. They are small in size,
but more bushels of strawberries can
be grown per acre than any kind OF
grain and the fruits may be sold cheap
and yet bring more than grain profits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13

1t not only relieves, it does more;
it cures. We refer to One Minute
Cough Cure. Suitable for all ages, all
conditions, at all times. For sale by
Nelden-J udson Drug company.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13

Following these reports all standing
sang "Blest be the Tie that Binds
and closed with the Endeavorer bene-
diction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13

A pleasant surprise to the convention
workers was the announcement of
lunch to be served by the ladies OF
the Central Christian church. All re-
NAMED and partook of the many dam
tio- and s11hst q initials provided.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13

tension, Christian Citizenship, Evan
gelistic Endeavor, and the Rescue of
the Sabbath. This is new organ,
having just issued it's fifth number.
Fourth-That we as union CO.
operate in the movement to secure a
larger than ever before representation
at the international c. E. convention
to be held at Washington, and CO.
operate to secure a mammoth list
from the delegates en- route to San
Francisco in 1897
This session was followed by a de-
Avotional half hour.
Then came the one minute report
OF each society in which they told of
many plans tried and approved
Secretary Teller presided. Their
statistical report is as follows:
STATISTICAL REPORT OF SOCIETIES
OF UTAH C. E. UNION,
Year Ending April 1, 1896.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-13
Committee on resolutions.

Nothing so DISTRESSING. as hacking
cough. Nothing so foolish as to suf-
fer from it. Nothing is so dangerous
if allowed to continue. One Minute
Cough Cure gives immediate relief
For sale by Nelden-Judson Drug COM
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
"AuId Robin Gray"

Lady Anne Barnard wrote "Auld
Robin Gray when she was 21. 1t was
published anonymously in 1716, and
various persons claimed the authorship.
Lady Anne did not acknowledge it was
her own until two years before her death,
when she wrote to Sir Walter Scott and
confidcd tie history of the ballad to
him Itappcars that the gifted lady was
induced to write the song by desire to
sec an cid Scottish air, 1.-THE Bridegroom
Grat When the Sun Gaed DOOM" fitted
with words moro suitable than the rib
aldry which, for want of better, had
been sung to it, The name of ''Auld
Robin Gray was taken from an ancient
herd of Balcarres Lady Anne was a
daughter of james Lindsay, fifth earl
of Balcarres. She married Andrew Bar
nard, son Of Thomas, bishop Of Liner
ick, and they Went out to the Cape,
where Ec died III 1907. Lady Anne re-
turned to London and lived with her sis
ter in Berkeley square until 1912. The
sisters house WAS Il literary center and
was frcquente'l by Burke, Sheridan,
Windham, Douglas and the Prince of
Wales, who were all habitual visitors.
Lady Anne won the lifelong attach
ment Of the prince regent. She died in
1925, in her seventy fourth year. No
one has ever questioned Lady Anne
Barnard's claim to the authorship Of
the words of "Auld Robin Gray" and,
though | am not going to cast doubt
upon the word of the writer at this late
day, it is necessary to mention that
prior not only to the appearance but to
the writing of the world famous song
there was French ballad extant con-
tanning the gist of the story and the
plot. by Paradis de Moncrif, entitled
lies Constantes Amours d'Alix ct
d'Alexis. '-S. j. Adair Fitz Gerald in
T.lovd'S
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
CHlVALROUS CONDUCT,
The Cards We're Marked and Colonel Du
len Refused His Guests Money.

Il once had a sample of southern
chivalry," said Judge Wildly after he
had adjourned court and dropped into
the village tavern, THAT made a deeper
impression on me than anything l ever
read about the subject. After / was ad-
mittod to the bar l was pretty we'll run
down in health, for had gone faster
pace than is good for any young man.
There didn't appear to be any impera-
tive demand for my services in the
ranks of the profession, and, as my folks
still had some money that they were
willing to spend upon me, decided Oh
southern trip.
II did good deal of wandering
through that delightful part of the coun-
try and finally brought up i'll the north
ern part of Texas, where the climate
just suited me and many people in the
town had nothing to do but enjoy them
selves The hunting was good, and there
were always a dozen young fellows
ready to join i'll the sport. The girls at
the female seminary were charming,
and the clandestine firtations l carried
on will always be a pleasant memory.
''But | met my chivalrous friend in
Colonel Dulcn. His manners and con-
vcrsation bctokCned good breeding, but
he Vas lover of horses, cards and high
living. One day he told me that there
was going to be a stiff game of poker
and asked me if l would like to see it,
Notwithstanding it was Sunday, I went
along. We walked to the rear of the city
hall, whore he quickly unlocked a rear
door and stood on the inside acting as
lockout until half dozen young men
were admitted. Then he led the way to
the council chamber, and there the game
was played.
"Thc colonel did not ask me to take
Il hand, but some of the others did, and
gratefully accepted. 1t did not require
long to discover that it was the colonel's
day. In three hours he had all the
money, several Il o US and my gold
watch. Through it all he was suavity
itself and cool as a northwest wind. He
went with me to my room at the hotel,
locked the door, counted out what he
had won from me and laid it, with my
watch, on the table. 1 Indignantly de-
clincd to be thus reimbursed, but he
cColly disposed Of the matter by saying:
All the cahUS weah mawked, sub, so /
could have read them across the street.
That gang has been robbin me, and l
was gcttin even, sub. You played squah
ard had no show. See you in the
maTnin!' i-Detroit free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
The Punishment of the Baeno.

In former times the punishment Of
the bagnO (bath), one of the most clev-
crly cruel infections ever devised by an
official of the torture chamber, was ad-
ministered i'll Italy, probably i'll Venice,
Where the water of the lagoons played
so prominent IL part i'll its penal system.
The punishment was as follows:
The prisoner was placed i'll vat tho
sides of which were slightly i'll excess
of the average height of aman. In order
to hold il check the rising tide of q
supply &C water which ran into the vat
i'll IL constant stream the criminal was
furnished with IA scoop with which to
bale ont the water as fast as it came in.
The respite from death by immersion
thus obtained was more or less pro-
longed, according to the powers of en-
durance possessed by the victim. But
imagine the moral torture, the exhaust
ing and even hidcously grotesque efforts,
the incessaut and pitiless toll by night
and day, to staye off the dread moment,
fast app oachiaS, when, overcome by
sleep and fatigue. he was unable to
rtrnggle any longer against his fate
Montcur du Puy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
That Swell Count d'Orsay.

Mrs. Newton Grassland, whom the
count once took into dinner, remarked
that his halids, "large, white and appa1-
entity soft, had not the physiognomy
which pleascs the critical observer and
student Cf hands, for they indicated
self indulgence" He struck her, more
over, as being 'mannish rather than
manly, and yet with touch of effem-
macy quite different from that woman
like tenderness which adds to the excel
lonce of man" Thackeray met the
splendid humbug in 1850 and describes
him as Giving i'll a charming atelier,
which he has fitted up for himself with
arms ard trophies, pictures and looking
glasses, the tomb of Blessington, the
sword aud star Of Napoleon, and cru
cifix over his bed. And here he dwells,"
writes tie cynic, without any doubts
Or remOrsts, admiring himself in the
most horrible pictures which he has
painted, and statues which he gets Sdono
for him.
The count had received within 10
months Of his marriage sum of G20,-
000, whjla Lord Blessington arranged
that after hlS dcccase a similar sum
should re settled upon him for life. So
generous Il dower-a genuine pretium
quel.se, as it was-might have made
Inn kindly disposed toward his child
wife, WHO, three years after her mar
riagc, when she had reached the age of
10 grow to be Il remarkably handsome
woman. Not fer her was the brilliant
wit" and ''wonderful fascination"
which made DCrsay the pet of society.
That was reserved for others.
"Instcad of being the wife of her hus-
band and the mistress of her home, she
found herself Il supcrnumerary in cir
Gle with which she had 10 sympathy.
Disagreements followed, rebellion set
i'll, and i'll the autumn of 1881 she and
Count d'Orsay separated by mutual
consent. .-Academy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21

One has heard of Russian dirt. Mos.
COW is its highest expression, I'm sure.
Our baker is excellent (what kalatch
for breakfast this morningD, but he has
been put into prison twice for having
such, a dirty shop. In Russia! What
must it have bCen This beautiful house
was discovered to be i'll state of filth.
Eight muzhiks were sent for, and two
women, and they and st. Petersburg
servants set to work yesterday. The su-
pcrintcnding is difficult, for the men
i'll Russia-noble creatures!-will not
scrub, neither will they wash windows,
and they II, cdcd much persuading, pre-
copt and example. Mary Grace Thorn
ton in Century.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
Something Like Red Tape.

1t is stated that an opcratic star of
some note connected with one of the
principal Moscow theaters, wishing to
make short excursion into the country,
went to get her passport countersigned
by the local authorities. The presiding
official received her politely, and, hay
ing learned her business, inquired for
her written petition. :"
My written retitionn' cried the
lady. 81 have none. l never knew that
anything CT the kind was required -
"Not required, madam? On the con-
trary, nothing can be done without it. :"
"What am to do, then?"
Nothing easier. Be good enough to
take this sheet of paper and write ac-
cording to my dictation.
The applicant obeyed. and transcribed
word for word "a formal petition request
ing leave Of absence from the city for a
stated time, which was then duly signed,
folded and scaled.
And now," "quoth the man in office,
"you have only to deliver it.
'To whom, pray?"
''TO whom?" echoed the official, with
slight smile at the absurdity of the
question. 'To me, of course.'
The document was accordingly handed
across the table. The great man adjust
ed his spectacles, broke the seal, gravely
read over his own composition from be-
ginning to end, folded it and docketed
1t with methodical slowness, and then,
turning to the impatient artist, said,
with an air of official solemnity:
Madam, l have read your petition,
ind regret to tell you that | am unable
to grant it. '-Moscow Correspondence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21

Thee -" %p:'n ..;n;s about your
writings ',...t Ia. i r2:>mhlo Shake
sPearH S-'i .'.
"Do yal,.si ..,:;, i tho delight
ed author, WHO had brought his contri-
button in with his own hand.
Eyes, the editor continued, you
employ almost the same punctuation
marks. "-Rockland Tribune
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
He Had Heard Her SeY So.

That it is onlya step from the sublime
to the ridiculous is well illustrated by
the following amusing incident that
happened few Sabbaths ago i'll we'll
known church, and caused no little mer-
riment among the teachers. The super
intendent was telling the wee small
folks of the custom in certain countries
of claiming the prisoners hands and
feet together. And" she asked, "don t
you suppose that if some one came and
released them they would be very happy
and grateful:"
1t was unanimously agreed that they
would.
"And, continued tha Iporintendent,
coming to her point, Jesus was sent to
the world to release people from their
sins. Are any of you hero bound with
the chains of SIM" ''No," piped the
4-year old offspring Of the minister,
"Im net, but my grandmother is. -
Louisville Post.
At Hammelfest, i'll Norway, the polar
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
Pat Was AstOnished.

An IriShman was run over by troop
of horse and miraculously escaped I'M
hurt. Down upon your knees and
thank God, you roprobate," said one of
the spectators. "Thank God for what?
Is it for letting IA troop horse run over
nie?" asked Pat.-London Spectator.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21

"'J'hc Armenian era" began Tues
day, July 9, \. ID. 552, when the coun-
ell of the Armcnians formally separat-
cd from TIE church of the Greeks, thus
definitely establishing a separate &C.
slesiustical organization,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
MAKING PANSlES.

"Three faces in a hood"
Folk called the pansy SO Is
Thres hundred years ago. -
OF course she understood.
Then, pcrching on my knee,
She drew her mothers head
To her own and mine and said,
"That's mother, you and mel"
And so it comes about
We three, for gladness' sake.
Sometimes pansy make
Before the gas goes out.
William Canton in Sunday Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21

The most cultivated minds are usual
ly the most patient, most clear, most
nationally progressive, most studious Of
accuracy i'll details. james Martineau.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
A Big Drained Major.

An amusing incident occurred while
company of a certain battalion sta
toned in one of our garrison towns were
going through their musketry training.
Owing to strong wind blowing from
the right, the bullets kept falling to the
left of the target An old major, who
was in charge at the ranges, came over
to the color sergeant and inquired the
cause of the bad shooting. On being
told that there was too much wind
blowing from the right, causing the
shots to fall wide, he astonished the
sergeant by asking, Wouldn't it be
good idea if the targets were moved
more to the left?" The color sergeant
barely restrained a smile-London Tit
Bits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-11-21
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE,

In addition to above Train No. leaves
Piedmont at S:45 Il. m. !: arrives at Frostburg at
lO:;S Il. m, and Train No. 8. leaving Frostburg
at l:45 p. m, reaches Piedmont at 2:;3S p. m,
both trains stopping at all intermediate
stations.
son theatre nights, when admission tickets
are sold by Agents to performance ut theatre,
leave Cumberland at close of performance.
berland.
Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, 7 and sdaiy except Sunday.
Nos.5 and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days only.
Baggage car will be hauled on trains Nos
5 and g. l.. NJ. HAMILTON
July % Superintendent.