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The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

posed the fight Of his followers with
fiery vehemence. When he found him
self alone, instead of joining the stam-
pede, he turned on us fiercely once
more. 1t semed as if he single-handed
and alone proposed to assail US again.
''As he whirled his mustang about |
drew bead on him. He caught the fash
of the sunlight on my rifle barrel, and
raised his spear. Then came a report
and a whiz in the air at the same time.
The Apache dropped backwards from
his saddle, and clapped my hand over
deep spear wound in my arm.
'''rhe lance had struck me IN the
1eshy part of the left forearm and
dropped to the ground. Moriarlty, VINO
was an old Indian fighter, snatched 1t
up and examined the head, which was
a section of an old knife-blade ground
to a razor-like edge. He dropped 1t III
moment and turned to me with
very grave face.
"T thought So he said anxiously.
"'Thought what? / asked, endeavor-
ing to staunch the flow Of blood that
streamed over my hand. What do you
meanT
"I mean it's pizened, sir was the
reply.
"And so it was. Upon the point or the
spearhead were still some spots or
thick green substance, vegetable poi
son used by the sayages to render their
primitive weapons more deadly in ef-
feet. Within five minutes / tainted
with the inexpressible agony Of the
wound.
Boys, I've been partially scalped;
I've been torn by the claws OF savage
beasts; I've been bored through and
through with leaden bullets, ana I've
went for days at time, under not
broiling sun, without so much as
drop of water to drink, but never BE-
fore or since have / experienced the IN
tense suffering, the terrible misery
which l endured during those few pre-
ceding minutes.
"When I recovered consciousness,
half pound of flesh, more or less, had
been taken from my arm. The opera
ton spoiled it's usefulness In a meas
ure, but it saved my life.
''The Indian? Oh! He turned out to
be Hawkeye, one of the most famous
chiefs of the Apaches. He and eleven
of his followers reached the happy
hunting grounds at about the same
time. My bullet had found his heart.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
JubaI's Call.

The daughter of DR.. Edward Hodges,
the organist, says that her father had
a delightful way Of calling all the chill
dren musically. One Sunday morning
when he was playing In st. Johns
Chapel, New York, he said to her:
II am going to call Jubal. Watch
him."
Jubal was sitting in his accustomed
place near the middle aisle. Doctor
Hodges voluntary began thoughtfully
and smoothly, but in the course of it, a
significant phrase of two notes was
twice repeated. It was distinct, and
yet so truly a part Of the improvisa-
ton that no stranger would have no.
ticed it at all.
The first time, Jubars attention was
arrested; the second, he turned and
looked up, but saw no sign. At the
third call, he deliberately took up his
hat, left the pew, walked straight up
to his father, and said:
"Do you want me, sir?
"Yes," said Doctor Hodges. go
home and get my gold snuffbox"
The errand was speedily executed,
for the house stood near. Jubal hand
ed the snuffbOx to his father, and re.
turned to his seat.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
ELLIS IN TROUBLE.


I've got letter parson. from my son
away out West,
An my Of heart is heavy as an anvil IN
my breast
To think the bog whose futur' I had once
so proudly planned
Should wander from the path O right an
come to sich an end!
told him when he left. us only three
short years ago
He'd find himself plowin' in n mighty
crooked row
He'd miss his fathers counsels, an his
mothers prayers, too.
But he said the farm was hateful. an be
guessed he'd have to go.
know thar's big temptation for young
ster in the West.
But believed our Billy had the courage
to resist,
An when he left warned him o. the
eTer-waltin' suares
That lie like hidden sarpjnts in Iife's path
way everywheres.
But Bill he promised faithful to be keer-
full, an allowed
He'd build q reputation that'd make us
htSHty plOuu,
But 1t seems as how my counsel sort o
faded from his mind,
An now the boys in trouble O. the very
Wustest kind.
His letters came so seldom that / some
how sort o knowed
That Billy was a trampin' on a mighty
rocky road,
But never once imagined he would bow
my head in shame,
An in the dustd waller his OF daddy 8
honOred name.
He writes from out in Denver, an tie
story's mighty short;
just can't tell his mother; it'll crush her
poor OF heart!
An SO | reckoned, parson, you might
break the news to her
Bills in the Legislatur', but he doesn't
say what fur.
Denver Post.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
THE POISONED SPEAR

at is rather a bad hole, boys, sure
nip and tuck between NC and ths devil
for little while, 1 tell you. I can't
even think of the thing now without
feeling my blood run cold
Does 1t ever Lurt me? Well, /
should say it daeA. can feel the
blamed stuff ranking in my bones this
very minute.
"Eh; what stuff? Why the poison, of
course.
"Well If you must have the story, I'll
tell it. seeing as I'd have to anyhow;
but rs it's getting late and I'm as
sleepy as a 3-weeks-old cub, I'll war
rant it'll not be very long and strung
out.
$50 you want to know how l come to
have that big ugly hole in my arm
there, do you?
''All right, boys, all right; you shall
know; you shall know. Give me q
match. somebody. This tobacco must
be wet, or green, or something. It's
forever and eternally going out on a
fellow.
"Early in the fall of the year 1868
or 1869, I'm not sure which, there were
some ten or twelve of us hunting wild
horses on the Upper Rio Grande, in the
northern part of the Territory of New
Mexico. The Indians were quiet enough
at the time and game wasn't scarce, so
what with plenty to eat, tobacco galore,
a cask Of rum and pretty fair luck
with the lasso, we watched our corral
getting full with contented hearts.
1--WE had been some six or seven
weeks in camp when one of the boys,
an Irishman named Mike Moriarity,
came in from an antelope trail that he
had been following two whole days,
with the startling intelligence that
there were Indians on the creek about
three miles above camp.
HE hadn't stopped to get close sight
of them, but from the fact that they
were mounted and that they numbered
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
The Idahn Paa~

The Idaho pear is a pear Of great
hardness and will grow where scarce
ly any other pear will. The editor Of
the Plowman visited the originator Of
the pear two years ago. The pear in
shape is more like an apple than pear.
1t is above medium size, and Is of good
flavor. 1t is not an extra keeper, but
it Is fine pear for as late as say the
first Of November. AS grown in the
East, or Middle West, it Is described
as being Of medium to large in size
9, 10 and IL inches in circumference,
Of Duchesse shape, though rounder,
flesh finer grained than that variety,
quite as good as the leading market
pears, flesh fine-grained, buttery and
melting, with very good" favor
Western Plowman.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Flower Beds.

Lay your plans, so there will be no
delay when the time comes for plant
ing. says an exchange. There is no in
vestment you can make that will bring
a larger proportionate return of pleas
urc than small sum devoted to flower
seed. 1t Is good time, while the men
have leisure, to prepare the beds. Ii
the ground is poor and the subsoil COM
pact it will pay to dig it out at least two
spades deep and fill in good soil Wien
it is done once it is done forever, and
an occasional top dressing Is all it will
need while you live. The men and
teams have leisure now; this work can
be done wherever the ground is not
frozen. If the soil is fairly good throw
out a spade deep, and then take out
another spade deep and haul it away,
replacing with good surface soil from
the woods or fields, mixing in some
sand, If needed, and some old manure,
or chip dirt from wood pile. A bed pre-
pared in this way, if the water does not
stand in it. will produce vigorous
growth and abundant bloom in most
garden flowers, and well repay the
labor. Some few kinds do best in poor
soil, or in special locations. but the
great majority thrive best in a deep,
rich, moist, but not wet loan. When
such bed Is once prepared it needs
only an occasional top dressing to keep
it in fine condition forever.-FarmerS
Review
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

The soul of Nine Blavatsky appears
to be a provoking restless affair, given
to wandering about the human temples
of India in a disconcerting way. Now
it has been located positively, accord
ing to one authority, in a young Brah-
man. while two or three experts are
equally sure that they have detected 1t
in other persons. The unfortunate part
of the Brahman's condition. however,
Is that he IS "too young yet to know
whose spirit is in him. so that the soul
seems to be leading sort of anony-
nous existence for the young Brahman
will be called upon to make use of this
spirit, for it will doubtless fit away
soon and take up a new residence in
accordance with It's previous nomadic
career. In the meantime the public
will continue to feel lively interest In
the movements of the celebrated soul,
which could only be Increased if the
directors of its itinerary would an
nounce some kind OF a program Of stop
ping places.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
GIeanings.

No inexpensive thing will insure
quality in butter as a quantity Of dry
earth to use freely about the stable. 1t
absorbs odors as well as liquids.
When hogs die from cholera, the
safest plan Is to burn rather than bury
the carcass and all that has been In
contact with it. Fire Is a certain puri-
fer.
If COW loses her appetite, treat her
as you do yourself Gf you are sensi-
ble), give her a change of diet. BY
the way, a warm bran mash is an ex-
cellent "change of Diet
Chicks hatched in September and Oc-
tober will be better for market than
those Matched in spring. But for show
purposes and to look at and admire,
hatch early-before the peach blooms
appear.
An overfed steer now sells In most
markets about as slowly as a half-fat
one. What is really wanted is the
well-fatted steer. The public will not
now buy any over-fat meat. The neat,
level, well-shaped, fine bone animal
sells best at present.
The intelligent poultry raiser, like
the dairyman, never fails In business
There is always market for his pro-
duct, and the conditions are such that
he can keep up production despite the
hard times; the constant income does
the business.
1t is not cold, but wet weather that
doubles up the sheep. Dry cold Is
tonic for them, but when the thick
woOlen coat becomes soaked with
water, and then the cold wind strikes
them, look away to the east for buz-
yards. Therefore make shelters for
sheep, that are always accessible.
Many farmers purchase farming
tools without any assurance that they
will meet the requirements of soil and
crop, the purchase price being, in many
cases, virtually thrown away. This is
not business. Judicious men do not let
the craze for something new to thus
get away with their judgment.
Turkeys are the nearest self-sustain-
ing of all domestic fowls. Give them
room enough out doors and they will
keep fat the year round. But it Is pru-
dent to teach them that there is no
place like home" and that there is al
ways little corn there later in the
evening. Turkeys need little looking
after or they may take up with some
other fellow" If there were no thieves
outside of the penitentiary there would
be more profit in raising turkeys.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Horses Fed on Beefste axis.

"Of all fadS that fashionable people
indulge in over their pets, 1 think the
strangest idea is that of giving their
horses meat as q variation to their or
binary diet" said a veterinary surgeon.
Beef only is used. 1t is baked until
quite dry and hard, then minced very
fine, and given mixed with oats or meal.
The animals, so far from refusing. seem
to relish the mixture, and it is thought
to improve their condition and courage,
but il continued too long they become
vicious and their coats deteriorate.
"A well-known titled lady expends
good-sized sum altogether in meat for
her numerous carriage horses and
hacks She has one mare that will
greedily eat beefsteak unmiXed with
meal if minced small, and it has one
per week | know a retired army colo
mel, too, a famous hunting man, who
frequently gives his hunters beef-tea
and other meat extracts in their BRAN
mash. Possibly it's not entirely mere
fad, for there is one London brewery
whose horses are similarly treated, and
a famous race horse that won some i'm
portant events last season was given a
partial diet of meat at intervals."-
London Answers.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

Thirteen American cities are now un-
der Mayor Pingree's potato patch plan
of using vacant city lots for the en-
ployment of men who are able and
willing TO work, but who cannot find
regular tasks at regular wages. In ey-
cry one of the thirteen cities such re-
suits have been obtained as to make
the plan no longer an experiment. The
same form has not been followed in ey-
cry instance, but the general idea is
the same, of Il municipality helping to
support its poor by giving them work
10 do, but at the same time getting a
fair return, so that their sustenance
shall not be burden on the taxpayers.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Successful Egg FARMING.

Egg farming, when properly carried
on, has proven to be one of the most
profitable branches of the poultry in
dustry. The writer has in MIND a
young farmer who runs a fruit, truck
and egg farm, and in a recent converse
ton with him, learned that the income
from his egg farm supported his fam
lily, while that from fruit and vegeta-
bles was put in bank. Five acres are
devoted to poultry, ON which are kept
500 hens, divided between the Brown
Leghorn and Black Hamburg. The five
acres are sub-divided into ten yards,
giving 90 hens to the yard. These hens
average 125 eggs per year apiece, max
ing 5,20S dozen, which bring an average
price of Is cents. making S7S1.2O. De-
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

or all the proposals that have been
submitted to the Government with re-
gard to the Palais Royal, at Paris,
which is now falling into ruin, the
scheme which finds most favor with
the Government and with the public is
that of covering in the whole garden
or square with a huge glass roof, con-
yeTting it into Il dollhouse or winter
garden for the reception of tropical
plants. The cost would not exceed
100000, while it would constitute a
popular attraction and feature of the
exhibition of 1900. and possibly restore
ton that formerly characterized that
Old-time center of Partisan life.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

no women among them he was pretty
certain that they were band of
Apaches OH the war-path.
This news was somewhat alarming,
to say the least, for we well knew what
our fate would be if we fell into the
hands Of the red devils, and a strict
guard was set that night for, previous
to that time, we had been living a hap
py-go-lucky kind of life, secure in our
fancied isolation, leaving the camp to
take care of itself, after we laid our
pipes by and rolled ourselves in our
blankets. No attack was made, how
ever, and three days afterwards a
reconnaissance of the creek above
brought the welcome news that the red
skins were gone
early that afternoon some one sug-
gested that we should visit the aban-
doned camp. and five of US, including
myself and Moriarity, set out for that
purpose. As had been reported, the
savages were gone and all that re-
mained Of the late cantonment was the
ashes Of the dead fires and the debris
of some Of their barbaric feasts.
I'VE we're still wandering over the
apparently deserted plateau when Il
hair-raising yell behind up brought us
about with 4 start to see score of
mounted Apaches urging their mus
tangs at the top of their speed towards
US
There was no time for hesitation.
We were close under a row of small
cottonwoods. which fringed the creek.
and in moment were out of our sad
dies. for we were mounted, peppering
away at our assailants for dear life,
and making pretty much every shot
tell. too.
"The conflict was a brief but decis-
I've one. Within fifteen minutes it was
ended by the complete rout Of the
Apaches. Or rather of all but one. He
was q heavily built fellow. radiant
with warpaint, and bristllng with TOM
ahawk, knife. arrows and long spear.
He was evidently the leader and op-
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Measuring Starlight.

An English astronomer named Min
chin has invented an instrument which
accurately measures the quantity of
light given out by a star. Stars are
designated as being of the first, down
to the twentieth magnitude, according
to the degree of light emitted This
has heretofore been judged by the eye,
which precluded anything like ex-
actitude. BY the new invention the
rough designation is presented by
numbers, which gives the exact ra ito
of one star to another in the light-giv-
ing powers. The star Arcturus. for ex-
ample, is estimated by the new process
to give seventy-five and three-quarters
times the light of Regulus. The in
strument will be of great use not only
in astronomy, but in meterology also.
The amount of light which reaches the
earth from stars varies according to
the state of the atmosphere; and the
inventor claims that forecasts of wealth
er can be obtained in this way which
will be far more accurate than those
obtained at present.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Cherries.

The Early Richmond is the prime ia
vorite. 1t is rapid grower, healthy,
vigorous and always fruitful. When
planted on different slopes the time for
picking this one variety may be extend
ed over twenty days. The cherry Is
not as freely planted as it should be.
1t perhaps gives better satisfaction for
the cost involved than any other fruit.
Suitable varieties like Early Richmond,
Montmorenci, English Morello and
Wragg, planted on average soil and
freely and frequently cultivated, will
bear In three years, and in the sixth
year will ordinarily yield forty or fifty
quarts to each tree. The Early Rich
mOnd and Montmorenci are the strong
or growers and ultimately yield the
most bushels per tree because they
have the largest number Of branches
and grow to larger size and can set
and carry more fruit than the English
Morello, and when in full bearing at
the age of nine or ten years the maxi
mum crop of the Early Richmond Is
about three and a half bushels per
tree, that of the English Morello about
two bushels per tree With fair care
these trees will live and do well until
the age of IS or 20 years, and may be
destroyed sooner by neglect and lack
of cultivation and the result Of severe
drouth without cultivation.-Green
Fruit Grower
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Feeding for Flavor.

A New York station bulletin says that
at the station dairy it has generally
been customary to feed once day some
dry fodder, preferably clover hay, and
silage twice with grain. Feeding of
corn silage did not produce any in
ferior quality of milk so far as chemical
composition would indicate, and no OBJ
jectionable flavor was noticed. If rad
ical changes in the ration were made
gradually and not suddenly, and no
spoiled or moldy silage allowed to
reach the cow. it Is probable there
would be little complaint Of any un-
pleasant flavor from silage. Of course
milk should not be exposed long In a
stable filled with odors of s;lage or any
others Objectionable. -At the Kansas
station the occasional taint noticed in
the milk when silage was fed was en-
tirely avoided by feeding the silage i'm
mediately after instead of before milk
ing
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
The MOS0uitO.

The female mosquito, after she has
filled herself with blood-the male in
sect is not a blood sucker-seeks out
some dark and sheltered spot near
stagnant water.
At the end Of about six days she
quits her shelter, and, alighting on the
surface of the water, deposits her eggs
thereon. She then dies, and, as a rule,
falls into the water beside her eggs. The
eggs float about for a time, and then,
In due course, give birth to tiny swim
ming larvae. These larvae, in virtue
Of a voracious appetite, grow apace,
casting their skins several times to ad-
NIT of growth.
Later, they pass into the nympha
stage, during which, after time, they
float on the surface Of the water. Final
ly, the shell Of the nympha cracks
along it's dorsal surface and a young
mosquito floats on the surface Of the
water while it's wings are drying and
acquiring rigidity. When this is COM
plete it flies away.
The young mosquito larvae, to salts
fy their prodigious appetites, devOur
everything eatable they come across;
and one of the first things they eat, If
they get the chance, is the dead body Of
their parent, now soft and sodden from
decomposition and long immersion.
They even devour their own cast-off
skins. In examining mosquito larvae
one often comes across specimens
whose alimentary canals are stuffed
with the scales, fragments Of limbs,
and other remains of the maternal in
sect.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

AS the cycling season draws near it
Is a pleasant thing to take down ones
copy of the-First folio, that facile
princeps of all bibliomaniacs, and read
of the scorchers and wheel men and
women that Shakespeare VOTED Of. For
amid all the wonderful pageantry of
the plays and the stately procession of
kings and queens, knights and ladies
fair, churls and clowns. the bicyclist is
there not whit different from his
present aspect. Did not Henry V. refer
to man on a bike when he said: "a
straight back will stoop?" The vixen
ish Hernia must have ridden wheel,
and she was properly petulant when
she could not keep up with her COM
panions on the silent steed, and said:
MY legs cannot keep pace with my de-
sires." When King Henry Nv. ran
down an old apple woman did he not
endeavOr to lay the blame on his wheel
by saying: what have | done my
safety urged me to-" Margaret, in
much ADO" declared she liked 'the
new tire eXcellently," and Romeo wore
out his pump. 81 am there before my
legs" said the scOrcher in "All's Well"
and even the immortal William is on
his fourth century run.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
Alabama displayed wisdom In ,

Alabama displayed wisdom in ex-
empting from taxation for ten years
any new cotton factories established
within her borders, and the first fruits
of it are APPARENT in the preparations for
the institution there of million-dollar
plant by Eastern capitalists who have
recently paid the State visit to look
over the ground and lay out their plan
of action. The intention is to make
finer fabrics than have hitherto been
made in the South, which is an import
ant industrial departure for that Sec
ton, promising to help toward the solu-
ton of some of its most difficult econo-
mic and social problems. Alabama
legislation SO hospitable TO capital
stands in rather marked contrast with
our own, which in many cases seems
devised with the intention of driving It
away
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05
DESTROYING Potato Scab.

1t has long been known that -four
of sulphur applied to anything was
good germiicde. The experience Of
practical farmer, as told by Horace F.
Wilcox, in the New York Tribune,
shows how this knowledge saved his
potato crop from destruction, though
planted on land where, year before,
the potato scab had entirely destroyed
ii. He first cut the potatoes, and while
in the pail with the sut surface fresh,
he put a pint Of sulphur on top of the
heap, allowing 1t to sift down so that
all got some Of the sulphur. The crop
was entirely free from scab, and many
of the cut pieces, used for seed, were
yet yellow with sulphur in the hills
when the crop was dug.
The Winslow mail., 1897-06-05

War with Spain would have no mean
ing in the ordinary sense, thinks the
Baltimore American. A feet would be
sent TO Cuba TO occupy it, and that
would be the beginning and the end of
the affair. Real powers have attempt
ed to invade this country, powers that
had sure-enoUgh navies to back their
troops, and they have failed utterly.
Spain's most recent military exploits
have been her war in Africa, where she
kept her army locked UP in n fort and
begged the natives for peace, and her
present series of material military exc
cutiOns in the ditch behind Moro Cas-
tie. Her soldiers in Cuba have eXhib-
tied some familiarity with their weap-
ons by shooting prisoners and non-com-
batants. but they have rarely gotten
close enough to an armed rebel 10 prac-
tice real Workmanship.