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The Van Buren press., 1898-03-19
WIT AND WISDOM.

--Teacher--"When angry Won sh,.,.
count ten before you speak, pnna INN
"Oh, | can always think of somefbis
hateful to say without stopping
eount.'-Boston Transcript.
-Gharity-"Can you help US. Mr. 81.
nick? We are getting up a calico han
for the benefit Of" Sinnick : ar'
seems you women are bound to pet inv
print one way or another."-Trutb :"
The Object of solieitude-"Do IN,
think that the peace of Europe is tbrsst a
ened?" NO." replied the Chinese djnIo
mat; "what is really in danger Is ,
piece of Asia. Washington Star.
-Undoubtedly.-Jasper = What d.
you think HowelIs meant when he spolo
about one of his characters being !
'hen-minded' woman?p Jumpunna.
"Oh. [ guess he meant that she new,
thought about anything except her own
set."-Judge.
Discouraged. - First Legislator
after all, there's mighty little monev
in politics" Second Legislator-sYes
mighty little, these days. I don't knov
but I'm about ready to vote for bin
to let the people elect their own sen.
ators. Cleveland Leader.
"A Wise Precaution.-Little Bessia
--"Can't l have birthday party next
week. mamma?" Mother-"Whv. Res.
sic, your birthday isn't till next sum-
mer." Little Bessie-"I know, bus
Uncle Jack says ladies don't have any
birthdays after they are 25 years old,
so | want to have lots of fun before II
Is too te."-Truth.
Standardization say the oiIieerar.
rested you while you were quietly mind.
ing your own business?" Prisoner
"Yes, your worship" Magistrate
"You were quietly attending to yoar
own business, making no noise or dis.
turbanee of any kind?" Prisoner
"None, whatever, SIR Magistrate-e1t
seems very strange. What is your bust
ness?" Prisoner-"Fm a burglar"-
Tit-Bits.
Partly Unknown.-For an hour sht
stood silent before her mirror; it toll
her how beautiful she was, and she WA
too well bred to interrupt it. But a
last ii was through. "Do l really know
myself?" she sighed, thereupon. Next
she clasped her hands eonvulsively. M
face is familiar" she cried, but can
not speak my name" It was then tina
she began to regret ever having Marie
the Russian.-Detroit Journal
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HERE AND THERE.

The only permanent agriculture is
that which provides not merely for
maintaining. but for increasing, the
fertility of the soil.
The farmer must know what his
land will grow to the best advantage
under existing conditions, and he must
carefully adapt his means to this end.
Never attempt to grow flowers in
entire shade. Few. if any, will do well
Pansies will do pretty well, and even
they are improved by a little sunshine.
Each field on the farm is fitted for
special use the coming year Consider
the soil. the rotation and the needs of
the proposed crop, and then You can 90
ahead with safety.
The system which increases fertil-
ity naturally improves the Weld each
year, and puts the soil in such me-
chanical condition that it is less likely
to be injured by drought or excessive
rainfall.
The time will come when every
fiocl1-master will Just as regularly sow
some food every spring to provide pas
ture for his sheep as he win SOW seed
to provide food for them in winter.
There will be brighter day for sheep
then.
Kill off those old hens and give the
room to the yearling hens and early
pullets; they are the moneymakers: the
old hens and surplus male birds the
drones. Reduce the expense Of keep
ing the foelss 10y culling out the non
productive individuals
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Pasteur's widow has taken up her
residence at The institute bearing hef
husbands name. and is in receipt OF
pension of $4,000 dollars a year.
That famous old Partisan dandf'
Prince de Sagan, IS said to have reeoV-
cred his health sufficiently TO have pre-
pared for a journey TO Cannes, whittier
he will be accompanied by the princess.
-Cassius NJ. Clay has been confined
but once in 80 years to his bed. linen
he was recuperating from the tribe OF
1e knife wounds inflicted by man
named Turner, who died an hour after
the affair.
Mark Twain has been studying the
career of Cecil Rhodes, the South AZ
rtcan millionaire, and sums up his
conclusions us follows: II admire
him. l frankly confess it and
when his time comes, l shall buy piece
of the rope for keepsake
Frederick Weyerhauser, OF ST.
Paul, is, with the probable exception
of the ear of Russia, the owner OF
more timber than any man on the
globe. It is estimated that, with his
immediate associates, he controls l5,-
100000, 600 feet of standing white pine
Wisconsin papers say that Rev O.
p. Christian. of Milwaukee, who mar
ried the clipping daughter of eX-Minister
Robert r. Lincoln TO W. W. Beekwlth'
IS finding himself ia great demand as
tyer of matrimonial knots, couples go-
ing even long distances to be married
by the man who married Abraham Lin
coins granddaughter"
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, has
purchased one of the finest homesteads
in the Ohio valley, about ten miles
from Pittsburgh, and will hereafter
live there. The senator's abandonment
of Beaver county, where he began his
political career, for Allegheny, the
stronghold of his opponent, Chris
Magee, is a cause of wonder to Penn
SVlyania
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The low price of cotton is compelling
many farmers to plant far less acreage
of that staple, and to substitute such
crops as will enable them to raise their
own living at home and be independents
of the merchant.
Among these crops besides corn, arc
sweet potatoes, COW peas, sorghum ana
ribbon cane and rice. And it is thu
last mentioned crop that | would urge
the farmers of the coast region to try
the coming season. Select a mois!
piece of land, open burrows or ditchei
at the lower part to let off the water,
when dry enough pillow deep, pulverize
and harrow in your seed-about three
peclls to the acre, sown broadcast like
wheat or oats. When three or four
inches high stop up bitches to retain
water on the field, but regular rainfall
such as will make "A great corn crop,
will make a fair crop of rice. The time
to SOW is from last frost until July.
April and May being considered the
best months. In four or five months
the crop can be cut. If there is only an
acre or two. with hand sickle or cradle.
In Louisiana self-binding harvesters
are used. For home use no machinery
is needed. and harvesting and hulling
may be done by hand with simple home
made tools, which may describe later.
Farm and Ranch.
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A SPANISH ENTERTAINMENT.
Lively Fight in Madrid Between a
Tiger and n Bull.


In the Spanish capital few day ago,
before 1900 well-pleased spectators,
there was a combat between a royal
Bengal tiger and an Andalusian fight
ing bull, the tiger being a full-grown
animal, known for its ferocity. \ cage
II yards square by four in height had
been erected in the middle of the plaza,
and the animals were brought in. the
bull being the first to be released into
the inclosure. He Immediately began
to run round and round his prison, bel
lowingand throwing up sand and gravel
with his hoofs. The instant The tiger
entered the cage the great eat gave
roar and bounded on The bull, avoiding
the horns, and fixed on his fanks and
belly with both teeth and claws
The bull remained paralyzed fer a
few seconds, and then seemed To be
sinking backward 10 the ground. TIE
tiger, however, loosened its grip for q
second to take another hold, and In the
brief interval was hurled to the earth
by the wild plunges of the bull. Be
fore the tiger had time TO recover, the
bull was on him, and, plunging its
horns in the tough hide, tossed the
tiger into the air. This was repeated
four or five times, the bull varying his
tactics occasionally by crushing his adj
yersary against the bars.
When the bull desisted, the tiger lay
limp on the ground, and the crowd,
thinking be was dead. cried "Breyo,
toro!" The ball stood stamping for a
moment In the middle of the cage and
then, seeing that the tiger did not move,
approached aud smelt his enemy who,
however, was only shammng death,
and seized the bulls muzzle in its pow
erful jaws, so tina. the latter could not
move.
Eventually, however, the bull was re-
leased, and after stamping furiously on
the tiger, again caught him on its horns.
This time the tossing, stamping and
banging apparently really ended in the
tigers death. The cage was then opened
and the bull rushed out and back 10 his
stable. For precaution's sake the tigers
van was brought up, and, TO the gem
eral surprise, he rose TO his feet
glanced round as if afraid The bull was
still there, and then bounded into the
van. The tiger was found to have five
ribs broken, besides having number Of
wounds from the bulls horns. He is
expected to survive. 49, London Tran
script.
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An old itinerant colored preacher.
while conducting services at a pro-
tracted meeting, was interrupted by
messenger, who rushed in and ex-
claimed, eXcitedly:
"Parson, de lightnin' struck yo house
en- burned it ter de groun'!'
The congregation expected to see
the parson collapse under this informa-
ton. but he didn't.
burned de house down, did it?"
YES. sub
well. did it hurt de land what de
house WIZ ou?'
NO, sub
Thank de Lord fer dat" exclaimed
the parson. Thank de Lord de lands
lef! En- now Wen sing on page 227,
How Firm Foundation Thank
some brother fer de ne!''-Atlanta
Constitution.
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eonnei. him to make room for some

compeis him to make room for some
one who can. The farmer who can not
produce crops to sell on the markets at
a profit must give way to those who
can. II oats at 20 cents and cotton at
five cents can not be grown at profit
they will go higher. II is folly to bur-
den ones mind with the possibilities of
future prices and seasons; they are be-
vond our vision. We should first pro-
duee everything consumed at home as
near as practical. then select those
staple crops and stock best suited to
our tastes and locality, and then
give the full swing of our attention to
producing the largest yields with the
least expense If we will do this. prac-
tice economy. steer clear of debt, bad
trades and bad habits we will be doing
business at the old stand when all the
other pursuits and avocations OF man
have faded in the gloom. Many are
hammering at the mortgage, but it
will not be cracked. As a rule the
man who lives in IA community for
several years and can not get supplies
without a mortgage is beyond the help
of legislation or advice The farmers
troubles are not in his avocation or
legislation. but within himself He
lacks net brains, but ambition. To con-
centrate his mind upon his business
he considers hardly worth bis while
vt any village post office surrounded
by farms you will see 20 political pa
pers hande1 out to one devoted to agri-
culture. TeXasi is pre-eminently farm
and stock country, but has only about
a half dozen papers devoted to these
pursuits. The average farmer takes a
dozen days of recreation where the
business man takes one At the coun-
ty fairs, picnies, reunions, cireuses. po-
litical meetings, Christmas holidays,
camp meetings and first Mondays. we
find the farmer recreating. while the
merchant is sitting around ON double
duty. Is it any wonder he makes dol
lars while the farmer makes dimes?
The laborer is worthy of his hire. y
Brethren, let us pick our fints well be-
fore we fire.. c. Slaughter, in Texas
Farm and Ranch.
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BIT OF HUMAN NATURE.
A Hasty Conclusion About n woman
Tint Was Changed Later.

Two little girls occupied seats to-
gether on an elevated train the other
night. Both were scantily dressed, hol-
low-eyed and hungry looking. They
were Enthusiastically of that class known
as "cash girls" employed in the down
town department stores, for each ad-
dressed the other by number in lieu
of name.
Directly opposite them sat fashion,
ably dressed woman who was accom-
panied by well-groomed male escort,
Upon their entrance the conversation of
the little girls stopped abruptly and
there was something pitiful in the ear
nestness with which both watched
every move of the woman so stunning
~ gowned Two pairs of abnormally
keen though tired eyes thoroughly in
vestigated every bit of finery in her APP
parel, from the highest plume of her
hat TO the soft natty shoes which in
eased her shapely feet.
"Say, Seventy-six," whispered the
smaller of the two girls, leaning toward
her companion. "she's real lady, she
is. You can tell by her makeup. Amt
that beaut of a hat, though; and look
at that diamond breastpin. Whew!
I'll bet that hat cost all Of"
"Sh-" interrupted seyenty-six, in
an undertone, "shell hear YOU There
was a spell of silence as both girls
leaned back with their heads resting
against the top of the seat. They were
enjoying the dazzling picture before
them.
After glancing over a section of a
newspaper which the man had given
her. the woman folded it up and handed
ii back to him.
did you get the tickets" she asked
Eyes" was the answer, in an indif-
ferent tone.
Let me see them"
He extracted a small envelope from
his vest pocket and handed ii to her
"By the way" he remarked, Eve will
have to go tonight. / couldn't get
good seats for tomorrow, and rather
than miss it | took these"
Tonight" she repeated, in tone
of veXation. "You know well enough
that we can't go tonight. We have
another engagement
(Which we can conveniently cancel"
he interpolated.
Indeed, we will not" she retorted
with determined stamp of her foot
A protracted argument followed
which was not too low for the cash girls
to learn the drift.
You can go to Mrs. Browns alone,'
finally exclaimed the man. "and | will
take your mother to the theater. We
can call for you on your way home, if
you insist on going"
You'll not go to the theater with
anybody. You must and will 90 to Mrs.
Browns with me-" Thus asserting her
self, she deliberately tore the envelope
containing the tickets in minute parts
and threw them on the floor
They left the train at the next station.
he with disgusted look on his face and
she with head erect and defiant glare
in her bright eyes.
Scarcely had the rustic of her gar
ments ceased to be heard when Sew
enty-siX sagely observed: "You're all
on, Twenty-seven; she amt a real lady.
It's only her fine buds what makes YOU
think so, She's only an imitation, and
no clerk would take her to a window
If she wanted to make a e."-Boston
| Herald.
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A BOSTON BOYS POCKET.

Emerson Thoreau Beacon Street
Is a typical Boston lad,
A type Of all that is coed and sweet
And nothing that's coarse or bad;
Hi9 high-b1rn manner never fails,
And pure Is his rhetoric,
And he loves to read his nursery tales
In original Arabic
Little Emerson's pockets are
Stuffed with his precious Joys.
"Quite" as murmurs his dear mamma,
after the mode of boys
Treasured there is a wondrous round
Dear to the Boston child,
These are the things that might be found
IN his bulging garments piled:
Two pairs of specs" a notice when
The Browning club eonvenes.
Darwin's work on apes and men,
pot Of pork and beans,
A view or the Public Library.
A book on the Boston bar.
And a set Of the great Encyelope--
Dia Britannica.
a pass that's good for a Subway ride
And "fbsen's Dramas too,
A dit of goldfish salt and dried,
Boston stocking blue
But why tell all the things We meet.
We've proved our statements truth.
That Emerson Thoreau Beacon Street
Is a typical Boston youth.
Joe Lincoln, in L. A. W. Bulletin.
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OVER PRODUCTION.
Figures for Farmers that Tell Their own
Story.

We would call the attention of our
correspondents who refuse to see any
over production of cotton in a surplus
of about , ,000,0 600 bales, to the late cir
cular of Neill Brothers, of London.
standard authority on cotton. that 1.-The
crop is approximately settled at II ,00o,-
900 bales, an excess over last years
crop of 2,00O,00 bales They also state
that "spinners are everywhere well
supplied. and that the New England
mills have on had a stock of :. OOO,-
900 pieces of print cloth against
100000 pieces same date last year.
They also express fear that another
large crop will be planted to add to
the great surplus that will inevitably
be carried over from the present crop.
II this surplus which is increasing
every year, is not reproduction we
would ask in the name of ordinary in
telligence, what is it? The same per-
sons who now deny that there is any
over-production, earlier in the season
denounced all estimates that would
make the crop of 1897 equal that of the
year before, and declared that it was a
trick of the spectators to bear the
price, unmindful of the fact that it is
not to the interest of anybody that
prices should fall below the price of
production. At present 600 600 bales
from this country, added to the foreign
crop, is more than all the factories in
the world consume, and leaves large
surplus. At the present time factories
are overstocked with unsold goods.
This is especially true of the New En-
gland mills, and now comes crop of
100000 in excess of that which has
produced this result, and still we find
men who deny that there is or can be
any overproduction. They will prob
ably answer this in the usual way
that it is under consumption. The
wonder is that apparently sane men
can deceive themselves with so trans
parent fallacy,-Farm and Ranch
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Primitive Writing Materials

In olden times only one Kind Of pen
was used-that cut from a goosequill
with the feathers left on the handle.
The selection and manufacture of these
goosequill pens was patter of consid-
cradle care In the beginning and of con-
slant watehfulness and amending" I'LL
the pen was worn out. One of the in
dlspensable qualities of colonial
schoolmaster was that he be a good
pen maker and pen member. Ink was
not bought in convenient liquid form
as at present; each family, each per-
son, was an ink manufacturer for his
own individual consumption. The IA
Vorlte method of ink making was
through the purchase and dissolying OF
INK powder. In remote districts Of Yer
mont Maine and Massachusetts,, home
made ink, feeble and pale, was made by
STEPPING the bark of swamp maple in
water, boiling the decoction till thick,
ana diluting 1t with copperas-Alice
Morse Earle, in Chautauquan.
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snidrr Meh nnI1a.-

\ net OF spiders webs is being mann.
featured at the professional sebool NJ
Antananarivo, and will be used as an
experimental covering for a nayjgabla
balloon by Mr. Renard. the head Of tho
French military balloon school st
ChalaiS. The thread of several spidsrs
IS wound on winders, the quantity nro.
trced by each spider ranging from n,
TO ~ yards The covering Of the webis
removed oy repeated washhgs, the web
msas into a thread Of eight strands
"nlcn' when spun. is easily woven into
a s'u<e very fine, but exceedingly
strongly, y. Sun. y
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(nInInrfinn

Mrs. Cullen-An' is this yer new baby
Mrs. Doolan? Well. well!
Mrs Doolan-They say here in the
coort thot he luks loike me. Do yez
t'ink so, ma'am?
"Well, 10 tell the troot, he does lool,
a dale like you, but whin he gets
phwiskera all over his face it'll change
the resemblance so that it'll not be mo-
tieed at all at all, so 81 wouldn't moind
IT II Oh was you, Mrs. Doolan. "-Detroit
Free Press.
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Algernon-Tve such deuced cold IN
me head, you know.
William-You must still have that
Boston girl ON youah mind. old chan.
Puck.
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Mother-Harry Tucker is the worst
BOY in school, Tommy, and | want you
TO keep as far from him as possible
Tommy do, ma. He STAYS nt the
nead or our classes all the sime.-T1t-
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Every period of life has its peculiar
temptations and dangers; but youth is
the Tune when we are the most likely
10 be ensnared. This, prominently, IS
the forming, fixing period, the spring
season of disposition and habit; and il
Is during this season more than any
other that the character assumes its
permanent shape and color. and the
young are wont to take their course
Tor time and for eternity.
MIX put into stone jar. tied down,
ana placed IN an oven for several hours,
u very nourishing for nvalids aud
delicate children.
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4 bright uirtl.

The cuckoo is as likely to steal its
nest as to make it, but This fact does not
take from the point of the following
pun:
\ young Englishman. being asked at
dinner whether he would have some
bird's-nest pudding. said, turning to his
hostess: "Ah. yes; a birds nest pud-
ding. and what kind of bird may have
made it?'
"Oh, 10 was the cook who made it,"
was her prompt reply.-Short Stories.
1t has been found that pigs which
are washed puton fifth more flesh thar
those that Arc mwashed.
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At about half-past seven the same
evening a woman, tall, agile, and well
but quietly dressed, with rather thick
veil that hid her face, which, for the
first time in is months. had been de-
nuded of a brown silken beard and
moustache, left Mr.. Cox's house in Carl
ton House Terrace, and, walking to
Waterloo place, got into a cab.
She gave the driver an address, with
instructions for II to be reached by n
roundabout route, and placed beside her
on the seat of the cab a black hand bag.
The cab eventually stopped in oxford
street
The woman sprang out, paid the
driver, and hurried eastward Present
~ she encountered four or five cabs
plying for hire at the curb. With a
quick glance around her, she spraug
into one of these. gave the driver am adj
dress through the roof trap, and the
cab rolled eff at quick rate.
The cab ratified eastward past New
gate, the Exchange, through Fenchurch
street, and finally pulled upa few yards
from a small beershop in Whitechapel.
The woman alighted, paid the cabman,
and crossed to the other side OF the
road, where four laborers were standing
talking together. She went mp. and
held an animated conversation with
them for few minutes. Then the four
men moved of in different directions.
leaving the woman standing alone in
the shadow of a doorway. Here she re
manned until neighboring clock struck
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Lost: a Millionaire.
By c. Randolph LitehfieId.

II: sss u . u . " N II y n y 4. sss
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hEHRs. CoLLINs-CoX is in the wait
wi ing-room, and desires to see you