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The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
MADE BRUIN YIELD HIS LIFE.
Woman Kills a Bear with Rolling
Pin and Carving Knife.

Woman Kills a Bear with Rolling
Pin and Carving Knife.
Florida has brave girl in the per-
son of Miss Marie Robinson, who lives
two miles from Fort Pierce on Cedar
Hammock. While she was making
bread the other day she was startled by
the appearance of a young black bear
close beside her, standing on it's hind
feet Raising a big hard wood rolling
pin she brought it down whack on the
bears snout. Bruin did not like this
treatment, and advanced toward the
girl, fencing with its forepaws. Again
Miss Robinson delivered a blow at her
advancing foe, but the bear had learn
ed wisdom, and he deftly parried the
blow with his right paw. He then
caught Miss Robinson's dress with his
other paw, tearing it from the shoul-
der In return she gave him a straight
right-hander with the roller, which
caught him under the ear and sent him
down.
Bruin scrambled up from the second
round, and was pretty mad. He shut
Heu up 10 the gin, Wdfily keeping Dolu
forepaws extending and growing an
grily. Miss Robinson again landed a
right roller, hitting him squarely be-
tween the eyes. AS soon as he recov-
cred from the stunning effects of the
blow he endeaYOred to grasp the girl
in his paws. Selling big carving
knife that lay on the table Miss Robin
son lunged forward with it, it's blade
penetrating the bears neck. A bright
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Orchard Cultivation.

An orchard we'll managed may be
made to pay several times as much foI
the land occupied and the labor spent
as the best field on the farm. But ii
will be poor investment if it is neg,
lected and suffered to go to ruin. Cul-
tivation is Indispensable to enable the
soil to contribute it's fertility to the
trees. The surface must not be left un-
touched, to become covered with rank
weeds or moss, to be bare and barren
There is nothing better than a crop of
clover, and this should be permitted
to lie down and decay on the surface
A plow should never be suffered in an
orchard. Only the surface should be
stirred, lest the fine feeding roots be
injured and the trees checked fn their
growth. A good narrowing in the fall
and two or three in the summer will
be all the cultivation an orchard re-
quires.-Coleman's Rural World.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
Sowing Crimson Clover for Fertility
-Venti1ating Horse StabIes-How to
Keep Milk Sweet-CuItivating the
Orchard-Sodding a Bank. zs4
The Value of Clover,


The following are some of the points
to be kept in mind in sowing crimson
clover for the North. Get home grown
seed, not imported, SOW early in June,
and depend on growth only up to De-
cember. Sow only with the object to
improve the soil; SOW to keep down
weeds, and for a winter covering to the
soil. The better the previous cultiva-
ton, the greater will be the growth.
1t is adapted to all kinds of soil, but
especially to sandy soil. If soil is rather
poor, apply 250 pounds Of muriate of
potash per acre to give it more Wig
orous start. If farmers will study this
plant, and use it judiciously, it will be
the cheapest way possible to build up
rundown land. Nitrogen, the most eX-
pensive plant food, need not be pur-
chased, only potash and phosphoric
acid occasionally, thus saving much OF
the present heavy outlay for CONNER
cial fertilizers.
The possibilities for Improvement by
the use of crimson clover are far great
er than farmers realize. 1t must not be
condemned ON one or two trials when
red clover has failed in many places
for the past twenty years.-Country
Gentleman.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Rinderpest is the dealilest disease
that can overtake cattle. 1t comes from
Asia, like so many other plaques, and
1t has recently ravaged English terri
tory in South Africa with terrible Sc
verify The Government was compell-
ed at last to take active measures for
its suppression, and to that end they
commissioned DR.. Koch to proceed to
the Cape and try to discover the mi
crobe that is the cause OF the disease.
The great German bacteriOlOgist has so
far failed to isolate the bacillus; but he
has achieved the greater practical sue
cess of discovering that the bile Of
animals that the disease had killed act
ed as vaccinating substance on
healthy cattle. BY this treatment the
plague may be successfully c0mbatted.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Bird Builders,

Among bird architects the weaver
bird takes a high place, for he builds a
verita BILE tenement house. Imagine a
structure built by birds that measure
but six inches from the ends of their
tails to the tip of their skillful little
beaks, which is large enough to shelter
five or six men; large enough to break
down, as it sometimes does, the tree in
which it is built. Nor must it be sup
posed the tree selected is either small
and weak, or brittle. There is a species
of acacia known in South Africa as the
camel tree, and this the social weaver
birds wisely choose for their nests, on
account of the toughnesS of its fibre.
The material of which the nest is com
posed is no less strong and wiry. 1t
consists OF grass which almost seems
as if created for the purpose; so long,
so flexible, so unbreakable and untear-
able are its blades, that it makes the
best and most enduring of mats \
single pair of birds often set to work on
a nest of this kind, carrying the grass
to a tree and commencing in wonder
full manner to weave it compactly into
a little rain-proOf roof. The next sea-
son the progeny of the parent birds
come back, select mates, and the old
homestead is enlarged to suit their con-
venience. The narrow structure now
widens, and beneath the compactly
woven shelter the nests hang shoulder
to shoulder and accumulate all the
more rapidly that the birds refuse to
use a last years nest, leaving it to
various rather disreputable tenants i'll
the way of bats, insects and reptiles.
while they move into cleaner apart
ments. In fact, the place is in every
respect Il tenement house, noisy and
thronged with a miscellaneous multi
tude of all sorts and conditions Of folks.
each family keeping house on its own
account The roof, however, unlike
that which covers the houses of men.
effectually keeps out not only rain. but
thieves and murderers; bird and egg
eating snakes and monkeys cannot ef-
feet an entrance, and the occupants OF
the nest are safe.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Weeding Rye from Wheat.

wherever winter wheat is grown, rye
Is regarded as a weed that needs most
10 be exterminated, though rye rarely
yields as large crop as wheat when
sown by itself. 1t is a curious fact
that whenever little rye gets among
seed wheat the proportion of rye in
creases every year until it becomes
more than half the crop. 1t is posi-
bic that growing both together will
give a larger crop than either alone. OF
late years wheat has been nearly down
to rye prices, SO that it does not matter
much If both grains are mixed and
gathered together when the harvest
comes. But as rye heads out a week or
ten days in advance of the wheat, it is
an easy matter to go through the grain
and cut off the heads of rye as they
peer above the other grain. 1t is well
enough to do this for the wheat intend
ed for seed, If for no other.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
SOdding a Steep Bank.

1t is no small task to have a steep
bank well sodded, either with sod or by
sowing grass seed. In the first place,
the water runs off too rapidly and
washes holes under the sod whenever
heavy rains fall. If sowing grass seed
on a finely prepared seed bed is de-
pended on, there will be more or less
outlying Of the surface, however rapid
ly the seed may germinate. The best
way to succeed is to combine both
methods, setting a row of well-Drepared
sod at the bottom of the bank and on
each side of it, and another strip of sod
each ten or fifteen feet up the bank
across the slope, SO that if rains begin
to gully the soil the washing may be
checked. If no rains fall, the surface
both Of the seeded and Sodded part
should be sprinkled with water that
has a little nitrate of soda dissolved
IN it. This will cause very rapid growth
Of the seed so soon as it terminates. Ii
will also make a vigorous growth of
grass on the sod, and enable its roots
TO catch firm hold ON the mellow soil
beneath. If this has been done in
March or early in April, the young
grass will be big enough to begin to cut
with q lawn mower by the middle of
June. The part seeded with grass seed
will make much better sod than that
where the sod has been transplanted.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

1t has been matter of pride among
those who wish to see women succeed
in walks of life other than those ap-
proved by the Old-faShiOned that when
woman has been given a position Of
trust she has seldom proved unfaith-
full to the confidence reposed in her.
And this is the rule. An exception has
been found, however, in a st. Paul
woman. who has been accused of using
for private purposes several thousand
dollars belonging to Il society of which
she was the treasurer. 1t is said that
she freely admits smisappropriating the
money, but gives as an excuse the fact
that times were very hard and that she
was obliged TO take the money to pay
Ler household expenses. Such naive
explanation is at least better than the
defenses set up by some of Chicago's
GefaulterS.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Since Victoria Was Crowned.

"Great social reforms belong to
Queen Victoria's s reign" writes William
George Jordan, in the Ladies Home
Journal, narrating the progress of the
world since Queen Victoria aScended
the throne sixty years ago. THE de-
grading practice of flogging has been
abolished in the armies ard naVies Of
America and England. Children are
no longer permitted to work in the
mines of Britain. Press gangs no longer
force men into the service of the
Queens navy. The Red Cross Society.
approved by forty-nire nations, has
softened the horror of war. The trans
portatiOn Of criminals, with its many
evils, has been suppressed. Execu-
tions are no longer conducted in pub
lie. The treatment of criminals mas
become humane. Factory laws and
building acts make life easier for thu
poor.
Inventive science has made marvel
Gus progress in every department dur
ing Victoria's sixty years as Queen.
Cantilever bridges have surprised tie
world Travel has been wonderfully
Quickened by street cars. cabs. troll
leyS, cable cars, elevated roads AID
other triumphS of invention. In 1881
there were no typewriters, no passen-
ger elevators, no modern bicycles, 10
soda-water fountains. no hOrSeless car
riages, no chemical fire-eXtinguishcrs,
no ironclads. no perfecting presses.
Fully chronicling the inventive pro
gress OF the last six decades would
make it seem as if nothing of real con
sequence to mans comfort had been
done before 1881"
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Fruit Item
Watch the new CRAFTS.

For currant worms one ounce of hele-
bore to ten quarts of water is about
right.
A cheap sprayer is doubtful economy.
Chip dust makes good mulch for
currant bushes.
Irrigation of strawberry fields is fast
increasing. Hen manure or a little nj
trate or soda in the water will produce
a great effect.
When fire blight occurs, we should
cut below the blight to sound wood,
cover the wound with wax or paint,
and remove and burn the affected
branches.
The Concord is the only grape ON too
many farms in New England. Other
good practical kinds are Worden, HUI
bert, Brighton. Green Mountain,
Moore's Early, Vergennes; each one
having some good point not possessed
by the Concord. - MasSa achusetts
Ploughman.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Young Trees and Bushes.


These require the same careful cul-
tivation given the currants and goose
berries. The soil must be kept loose
and mellow, fine mellow bed of earth
Is a great protection against drouth.
The soil should not be allowed to form
a crust. Seeding walnut and she'll
bark trees will need to have their tap
roots cut. This is done by taking a
sharp spade and, with a quick thrust
of it with the foot, cutting the root
clean off some six inches below the sur
face of the ground. After this
root pruning, give the trees a good
watering, and continue to water all
through the dry weather. Oak, poplar
and beech seedlings should be treated
In like manner.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Attorney Vincent, of Chicago, in his
speech in defense of Luetgert, made
the astonishing statement that nearly
every married man at some time or
other felt that he would like to choke
or do something to his wife," Mr.. Vim
cent has always been regarded as an
amiable and peaceable citizen, but it
is evident he should be more careful
what married men he associates with.
His experience appears to have been
extremely unfortunate.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
A New Stock Food.

The "new corn product Is the hard
outer shell Of the cornstalk-which has
been relieved of the pith-dried and pull
verized. In appearance it is a fine
brown substance. The pith is used in
packing in warships. AS there is a
great demand for the pith there is a
large quantity of the stalk left This is
cut and ground, making fine product
containing more nutriment, according
to some authorities, than timothy hay,
and being more digestible than corn
blades. 1t occupies less space than
baled hay, and is fed along with grain
to make balanced ration.-Portlan1
Transcript.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

WOrkmen have begun to remove one
of the historic landmarks of New York
City, the TOmbs prison. This remark
able structure, built in the Egyptian
style of architecture, is one of the citys
most noted sights. 1t has sheltered
nearly all of the great criminals of the
country at some time or other, and it's
massive walls could tell wOndrOus tales
of crime and misery were they supplied
with tongues as well as ears.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Remedy for Insects.

Gasoline is the latest remedy for i'll.
sects. 1t Is applied with a brush.
''Take any convenient dish or pot and
ill two-thirds with water, and the bal
ance with gasoline. The water will
retard evaporation, and assist in
spreading the gasoline to every infect
ed portion when applied. Most kinds
Of scale are killed effectually with one
application. We have not tried the
plan, but give it for what 1t Is worth
A remedy that would really kill scales
and tree lice without harm to foliage
Farmer
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
give nne?''

Forgive him? Would she? Kneel-
ing by the dying mans bedside she
wept softly, while he, with tongue
freed at last, rambled on deliriously
about old times. She did not leave
him until the end came. He died with
his hand in hers and a look of happi-
ness that his face had not borne in
twenty years.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Advocates of short skirts say that
few women would have perished at the
burning of the Paris bazar but for the
fact that they stumbled on their skirts
and fell in helpless mass. Three wom-
Ell who had been through a previous
enabled to escape.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
PROPOSED BRIDGE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI.

engineer achieved almost in a night
lasting fame. The Southern Pacific
bridge across the Mississippi above
New Orleans, while in one way less the
work Of genius than the first mention
ed, is really the most tremendous struc-
ture in the way Of q railroad bridge
ever planned. The best known engi-
neers pronounce it, taken as whole,
one Of the engineering marvels of the
century.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Ventilation of Horse Stables.

The necessity for working the horse,
and therefore for keeping him in work
ing condition, prevents him from hav-
ing the advantage which every other
farm animal enjoys of running freely
In the fields at grass during the sum-
mer season. There can hardly be the
change from old oats to new when the
new crop comes in without causing a
looSening of the stools, which always
means a weakening Of all the muscular
system. But though he must be kept
on dry food, the work horse should
have, as he is fully entitled to, the
purest air that blows. Stables in sum-
mer require thorough ventilation.
Horse manure heats readily and gives
off a strong smell Of ammonia. This
not only rots harnesses, but 1T Is also
very injurious to the horses. We have
known many horses to go blind from
being kept, in summer, in dark, poorly
ventilated stables. Whenever a horse
goes blind If the fact is investigated,
the lack of ventilation is more apt to be
the cause than anything elSe.-Ameri-
can Cultiyator.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Keep Young Ducks from Water.

Keep Young Ducks from Water.
1t seems so natural for ducks to take
to water that the phrase has become Il
proverb. Yet while very young the
duck is not a hardy bird, and if given
free access to water many will die.
This is particularly true of the i'm
proved varieties, like the Pekin, which
are better if kept from water, except
for drinking and an occasional wash
ing, all their lives. The wild duck is
possibly more handy, though this is not
certain, as the duck is such a prolific
egg layer that many Of it's young may
perish and still leave room for very
large yearly addition to the flocks.
Those who go to the expense of keep
ing ducks through the year cannot af.
ford such losses.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

A BOstonian who returned recently
from abroad had quite a struggle with
the customs officials at the Hub over a
small piece of the Giants, Causeway
brought home as relic. The naval
office held that it was granite and
should pay a duty of 8 cents. The col
lector's office pronounced it a crude
mineral, and, therefore, undutiable.
In the end the latter opinion prevailed.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

1t is said that ON the third rail cleo
trio system a man may walk ON the
third rail with impunity, but he will
be electTocuted if he touches one of the
other rails at the same time. Under
the circumstances, the walking could
hardly be pronounced good.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Had Cause for Tears,

Father (fercely) - Confound it,
What's that child screaming about
now?
Mother-Why, the poor dear over
heard the nurse remark that he grew
more like his papa every day.-New
York Times.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Charles Darwin must be placed
among the strongest advocates of for
eign missions. After visit to heather
lands he wrote: ''The men who de-
nOunce missions forget that human sac
riices, infanticide, bloody wars and
cannibalism disappear with the advent
of Christianity"
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
So Some Saw.

The origin Of the phrase, "At skies
and sevens," meaning sat variance, ."
is probably traceable to the fact that if
you write the numerals they all agree
in height until you come to six and
seven, the former Of which goes above
the others, and the latter below them
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

care not to expose the roots, loaded, as
they are, with the calluses, but cover
them at once and firm the soil, and cul-
tivate shallow the same day Of setting,
so that water may draw up around the
plant and nourish it at this critical
periOd.-American Gardening.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Some Americans in Mexico are living
where they can see POpOcatepeu and
Ixtaccihuati, and they feel greatly i'm
proved The effect of IXtaccihuati
must be especially revivifying.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

The discovery in st. Louis that 4
mummified corpse perspires may be use
full to the old-fashioned believers who
still hold to the opinion that judgment
after death comes in the form of heat.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

A part of the new soldiers monument
at Stamford, Conn, is relic that will
be greatly treasured by the town. 1t is
one of the guns with which the Kear-
sarge sent the Confederate cruiser Ala
bama to the bottom.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Under the new postofiice registry law
soon to be promulgated the sender of
registered letters is indemnified against
loss, to the extent of so, nc greater
sum being allowed on any one letter.
Ten envelopes are thus required to Sc
cure $1O0. This is, however, an i'm
provement OF the old law; in which the
Government was not held responsible
for any loss.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
No EYcuSo.

Toothache will 10 longer be accept-
cd bv the Geneva (SwitZerland) Post
office as an excuse for absence of en-
ployes. The Canton superintendent
has issued circular directing them TO
have their teeth extracted rather than
have the service suffer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Joseph Jefferson recently attempted
new role to round out his career, but
he found it so pervaded by realism that
he has abandoned it temporarily until
he recOvers from the inroads il made
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

1t is hard on Howard Gould that
he should lose $5,000,000 if he marries
the woman he loves. The woman a
man loves, however, is worth more to
him than S5,OOO.OOO.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Whenever Colonel Phoebe Couzins
''fears that she is about to be dragged
into prominence" in any way she
promptly confides her fears to the
newspapers to the extent of a column or
two
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Very Circuinsnect.

us Miss Straitlace circumspect? 2"
asked Miss Pert.
"Circumspect" cried Miss Caustic;
"why, she won't accompany n young
man on the piano without a chaperon.' -
-Tit-BitS.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

stream followed its withdrawal and
bruin was becoming groggy. Blow after
blow with the rolling pin fell upon his
head, and after a few minutes the
brave girl had the satisfaction Of see
ing the animal roll over on his side and
expire
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
Appeals to Common sense.

In controversies on mooted questions,
when ali arguments seem to fail, we
often hear appeals made to common
sense, as If that at least must be alike
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

The new tunnel under the Thames,
$500 feet long, cost 1856, COO, or less
than one-fifth as much as New York 5
uncompleted capitol at Albany.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21
ADVANCED ST. LOUIS sCHINAMAN
The First of His Race in America to
Use Electrical Machinery,

Use Electrical Machinery.
The Chinese can hardly be called a
progressive race; as nation they cling
to time-honored customs, and even the
Americanized Chinaman seldom
changes his shirt-like garment and bag
gy trousers for the apparel of his white
brothers. In this day Of mechanical
contrivances for saving labor, when
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Boston may have been partially JUS
titled in rejecting Bacchante. She GER
tainly was very brazen young wom-
an.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Every one admires the woman who
is so loyal to her husband that no one
dares pity her when he misbehayes.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

Hereafter when Gen. Miles leaves
the country the fact must be kept from
the Indians.
The Winslow mail., 1897-08-21

The more extensively man is en-
gagged in politics, the greater fraud he
is
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-07-03

Physicians cell as that tea ia in-
furious 10 the nervous .vslsm. As
the time of Is Introduction into
Europe much opposition was provoked
and much written I'm hostility 90 It's
use. Henry ~avile writes m 1873 o.
las uncle. Mr.. Secretary Coventry. IN
sharp reproof Of certain friends who
call for tea after dinner. instead Of
the bottle. He calls IL "a base Indiaa
practice. which I must ever admire
your Christian family for not admit-
;lng. Another w-ter. 40 about the
same date. calls IL "a filthy custom.
and adds; Men seem L. lose their
stature and comeliness. and women
their beauty
DR.. Samuel Johnson drew his own
portrait Of ga hardened and shameless
tea drinker. who for twenty wears
diluted his meals with the infusion OF
this fascinating plant. whose kettle
had scarcely time 10 cool. who with
tea amused the evening. with tea
solaced the midnight. aud with tea
welcomed the morning" 50 the great
doctor could have feared no III effects
Experience proves that the moderate
use Of tea sustains the body under
severe muscular strain without caus-
ing subsequent exhaustion: and il
forms an agreeable means OF imbibing
the quantity OF water necessary 10
human nutrition Lippincots'