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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN.

The calf ought 10 be fed three times
day.
Unless the dam was good one, don't
try to raise heifer calf.
The separator saves labor in setting
milk, saves room and waste.
Rapid change from new to skim milk
may injure the delicate stomach of the
calf.
Barley is highly recommended as
food for cattle, ranking nearly as high
as wheat.
Both the dam and the bull should be
of good milking families, ii you want
calves to make good cows.
An exchange practically says that a
calf cannot be raised on skim milk. 1t
can be if it gets enough of it.
1t would seem timely to suggest
again that the playful dog ought to
be kept away from the cows.
If a heifer is fed upon fat-forming
food constantly you will spoil her as a
mixer. She will learn to take on fat.
Separators should be bought only OF
the most reliable manufacturers, for
unless made of The very best material
serious accidents may occur.-Westerr
Plowman.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
WHERE HE GETS HIS SAND.


The Sandman, o the Sandman.
When he rides into the town,
Then all the little children
Drop their pretty eyelids down.
They know when he is coming
And his power cannot withstand.
But still they always wonder
Where the Sandman gets his sandl
He gallops through the country
And he gallops through the street.
But the busy little children
Never hear his horses feet.
They never see him scatter
What ne holds within his hand.
And that is why they wonder
Where the Sandman keeps his sandl
He rides DER beds of peoples
And he rides Ger fields of hay;
And sure he gathers something
AS he gallops on his way,
To lay upon the eyelids
OF the children in the land,
Who rub their eyes and wonder
How the Sandman gets his sandl
But early in the morning,
When they wake as fresh and new
AS pretty little rosebuds,
With their faces washed in dew
Oh, then they are so thankful,
All the merry little band,
That in the wide world, somehow,
The good Sandman finds his sand!
j. Zitella Cooke, in Youths Companies
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

and rolled; the seeds sprout more uni
formly and the plants grow better,
while the work of wedding is lessened
and the appearance much more than
pays for the care in properly prepar-
ing the seed beds. But every farmer
does not have sufficient cash at his
command TO purchase all necessities
though the tools may be cheap and
small, hence some homemade imple-
ments are often brought into use.
Hand garden rollers may be made at
home by any person familiar with the
use of tools.
A cheap roller, large enough and
good enough for even the professional
kitchen gardener, may be made for
so cents or less, and with proper care
will last for many years. The ma
terial I used in constructing this handy
tool consisted of a joint of six-inch
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
THE BUNDLE BEE.
He Does Not Fear the Cold and Very
Frequently Is Found In the
Arctic Region.

In st. Nicholas there is an article on
The Bundle Bee" written by Bar
ney Hoskin Standish. Mr.. Standish
says:
This chunky, hairy, noisy fellow is
king of the cold. He stays with us
summer and winter, and is said to pre-
fer the Arctic region to the tropics.
l do not doubt this, for he will sleep
out of doors any cold night of sping or
fall without asking for an extra blan-
ket. Indeed, he is homeless for nine
or ten months of the year, lodging
wherever night overtakes him, on a
blossom, leaf, and even upon the
ground. If he has any choice in the
matter think he prefers the thistle,
where the spines are thickets. Per-
haps he is aware that these singers
will guard him from the skunk and the
snake while'his own are in a body stiff
fened by cold and drowsy with sleep.
There are three kinds of humble bees
reared in nest; queens, drones and
workers. The queens alone survive
the winter. They apparently spend
the first few weeks of spring waiting
for red clover to bloom, the first bios
som of which is the signal for nest
building. Before this they visit the
willows, hum a soft bass about the
lilacs, thrust their long tongues into
the honeysuckles and grow fat at the
exhaustless honey jars of the water
leaf, and then the play day ends and
labor begins.
Nest building with them does not
mean nest construction. One bee alone
could not do that; besides she is in a
big, bustling hurry now; she has act
ually seen a clover blossom. Out and
in among the dead, matted grasses OF
last years growth she goes hunting
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

"like the big girls" AS l had none
for them, they hunted up books" as
they called them, Selling upon stray
leaves from novels and pieces of
newspapers.
A good many grown girls and boys
were Just learning to read. They were
ashamed and awkward at the black
board, and at first did not progress
as fast as the little ones. They made
such uphill work, and was so discourage
ing, that / was afraid / would lose
many of the older ones altogether.
At this juncture, however, the mis-
sionary of the Church of England,
who was stationed for the winter at
Circle City, kindly helped me out by
the loan of number of books, states
and pencils. Among these books were
six primers and first readers. How
happy / was to get them, even though
they had to be divided among 20
children! / doubt If such medley
of books was ever before seen in
school room; a set of ordinary school
books for intermediate grades in
GLIDING a physical geography and a
worlds history; English readers,
spoilers and little paper-covered arith-
metics; 20 pages from "Christy's Old
Organ" about half of the New Testa-
ment; 100 pages from "The Woman in
White" parts of four other novels;
newspaper scraps and couple of the
queerest possible little religious
primers, published by London tract
society. The leaves of some of the
books were yellow with age, having
been taken into that region by some
miners who had studied them 80 or
more years ago. 1t was amusing to
watch the children spelling out the
words and trying to read in these
| scraps of old books and papers.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
WEELBARRow ROLLER.

stovepipe, split oak sapling and a
small two-inch board nailed across the
split just behind the roller. The pipe
was well riveted with wrought nails;
short apple tree limb, with old bolts
driven in either end, was put in the
pipe and packed solidly in gravel and
sand, and an inch board was sawed out
to fit the ends, and nailed in, after
tamping the sand and gravel. Anger
holes bored in either side of the split
handle made that fit nicely, and to
strengthen it wire nails were driven
through and bent on both sides. A
support to hold the tongue or handle
off the ground was made by mailing
an eight-inch peg in an auger hole at
the point where the split stopped. The
roller could be pushed or pulled back
and forth, over and across, and did
most effective work.
The small roller proving inadequate
as a clod crusher and leveler, where the
soil was rough and uneven, | made a
larger stronger and more durable tool
after the fashion of wheelbarrow.
In this | used the siX-inch stovepipe
filled with sand and gravel, and iron
spikes driven in a center square block
for an axle. The frame was made of
two by four-inch scantling, with boards
nailed across for bottom, and dash
board of eight-inch plank nailed to up
right standards just behind the roller.
This made platform for weighing
the roller, by giving the children ride
or putting in some rocks. The legs
may be left off, if desirable, and the
roller can be made of wood to suit
the circumstances. In this roller, how
ever, where much weight is needed, the
stovepipe is hardly heavy enough, and
round block of wood, even one foot
in diameter, is preferable. This roller
can be used in the same manner as a
wheelbarrow. and is very handy, in
expensive tool that more than pays for
its manufacture in one season, and will
last great many years if properly
handled.-Joel Shoemaker, in Farm and
Fireside.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
Copyright. 1893.

chemisette was of the cool, collarless
variety. Blue velvet Louis knots at
waist and shoulder repeated the tints
of the succory flowers upon the leg
horn hat and of the huge blue parasol.
A park toilette that attracted atten-
ton yesterday was of black and white
striped foulard; the groundwork
white, the stripe appearing at wide
intervals and somewhat pronounced.
Like so many of this seasons dresses,
the fullness was due to the cut; the
skirt was neither founced nor made
into a double skirt, but the fringed
trimming was so put on as to give the
appearance of long, dropping over
skirt with pointed sides. A tomato-red
velvet waistband was in daring con-
trast.
A pale coffee-c olored muslin was en-
broidered in delicate blush-rose pink
and made with chemisette of rose
toned gauze. The waistband was Par
ma violet color. A pink parasol was
carried.
A red and white foulard was ac-
centuated by Louis knots of black vel
vet and worn with a rustic hat of red
straw with other Louis knots fasten-
ing large red peoples.
A dark blue fouard had skirt and
shoulders frilled with white lisse
edged with light green velvet ribbon
With this appeared white hat turned
up in front and trimmed with toma'
to-red bow and four outstretched
| black and white wings.
The coolest shirt waists are made oil
linen batiste set into many tucks, al
ternating with insertions and finished
| perhaps, with transparent lace yoke
/ run with black or colored velvet rib
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
Melon Vines in Rows.

Most people are SO used to planting
melons in hills that they deem this the
only way. But very successful melon
growers think that making a very
slight ridge and planting the seed in
a row pretty closely together is bet
ter way. So soon as the vines begin
to run their tendrils clasp others, and
this keeps them from being blown
about by winds. BY making the ridges
eight or more feet apart the cultivator
can be kept running through them un-
til the vines spread out and occupy
the whole of the vacant space, which
they will surely do before the sum-
mer is ended. If the vines appear to be
too close together in the row the poor
est may be cut out without leaving a
vacancy, as would be the case if they
were planted in hills.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

perhaps for the abandoned nest of a
field mouse. 1t will be remembered
that these little animals build upon the
surface of the ground soft nests of
grasses, in which they winter. From
these they have runways leading in
different directions. The bee goes
down into the dead grass, scrambling
on as best she may, until she finds one
of these runways, following it up to
the nest. If it is occupied, she goes
elsewhere; IL not, the mouse nest
straightway becomes bees nest and
the little creature begins her prepare
tons for housekeeping.
She now collects mass of pollen in
which to deposit IN egg. As the egg
matches and the baby bee grows she
keeps this mass moistened with honey,
and he helps himself, eating out a
cavity larger than white bean. In
this he spins complete cocoon. When
this is done he takes long nap, in
which he changes from a grub into a
humble bee, with wings and legs. Mean
time the parent removes the thin coat.
ing of pollen from the upper half of the
cocoon and apparently spreads a yell
low secretion, or varnish, upon it, as
If to keep, out moisture. She is also
now busy collecting more pollen and
laying eggs in it and constructing a
rude cell or two in which to place
honey, as if for IA rainy day. The first
bees that hatch are worker bees, and
at this time are downy, pale, and baby
like in appearance and behavior. In
later summer queens and drones are
| raised
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

end inlet down the skirt and about the
founce with white valenciennes. The
fchu bodice showed chemisette of
tucked white lace and lawn.
Backyard parties have become the
fashion with women whom war or
business exigencies have kept at home,
and, given that not unusual possession,
grape arbor, or a sheltering tree
with vines to screen the fences, worse
places for outdoor teas or lunches can
bc imagined. One garden nook thus
thrown open was almost binding to
the eyes with fiame-colored nastur-
tiums overrunning everything. On a
broad back porch screened from the
sun and carpeted with Dhurrie rugs
tea was served by two sisters, one
wearing green muslin embroidered in
gray and sashed with red chiffon, and
the other gray muslin with rich en-
erald green sash and nasturtiums on
the shoulder
AT garden party in Brooklyn va
cant lot was made good to look at
with huge japanese umbrella canopies,
palms and banana trees. Organdie
muslins were in force. broadly striped
with flowers Ono charming costume
was patterned with garlands of roses
and trimmed with insertions of yellow
guipure. The sleeves, half long, were
met by suede gloves; the hat was a
$unburnt straw with crown of white
muslin and trimmings of long white
ostrich plumes. A turquoise-blue mus
lin dress was made very simply; small
tucks encircled skirt and sleeves from
top to bottom, alternating with bands
Of insertion in black valenciennes;
sleeves to the elbow were finished with
loop bows of black velvet ribbon. The
large fat Manila straw hat was
trimmed with black ostrich plumes
and turned up on one side, with an
enormous rosette of blue mousseline
de sole. And a foamy white parasol.
A vivid sulphur-colored muslin wa:
toned down with black lace insertions
A white spotted muslin was made will
.hree skirts edged with ecru lace
mounted over white silk foundation
Ths folded bodice with Transporter
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
TWO HANDY ROLLERS.
No Market Gardener Can Afford to Be
without One of These Con-
venient Implements.

The garden and flower beds require
firming of the surface after planting,
to insure even distribution of moisture
and perfect seed-germination. This is
necessary also in starting lawn, and
frequent rollings will destroy ant hills
and rout many soil pests that accumu-
late in neglected plats. In my own
experience | have fully proven the ben
efits of rolling, and would not attempt
growing a garden, lawn or flower bed
without some means of leveling and
firming the rows and beds. The sur
face does not bake so hard in spots
where the beds are properly leveled
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

bon. The old fight still RACES over the
question, thick or thin.
II wouldn't take that for gift, said
girl to companion, who was ex-
claiming over dainty thing in white
lawn. ITS sure to be mussed after
one wearing. White pique, now will do
you some service; it always looks
we'll"
"Oh. but pique is so hot" groaned
the first girl. II can't abide it," And
they continued to pull over the whole
stock of the saleswoman.
In one of the big shops the other day
delicately pretty girl, evidently a
bride, and as evidently from out OF
town, was choosing costumes with the
assistance of her young husband. A
white muslin was brought out, lavishly
embroidered with motifs in black
chantilly.
But that's so DID," objected the Gus
toner; "ahd besides it's half mourn
ing"
Not at all, assure you," said the
saleswoman. Positively there is moth
| ing else so fashionable"
1T wouldn't go at all at home, do
you think SOP" questioned the wife,
and the husband emphatically agreed
that it would not go.
Black and white has become 80 gen.
eral as to threaten monotony, and
do not think the unsophisticated bride
was far wrong III preferring a white
Swiss muslin with three flounces and
opening in front over a panel of fine
embroidered net; lapels of the same
net crossed over the V at the throat
and fastened under green velvet
bow. A Swiss muslin hat adorned with
green tulle and corn flowers completed
the outfit.
Another of the brides purchases was
a pale blue pique made with deep
shaped founce and intended TO be
worn with short tabled jacket of red
cloth, the front tabs longer than those
behind. The jacket opened upon {
blue lawn blouse whose broad collar
of lace and insertion turned over tn,
jacket collar and covered the shoul
ders ELLEN OSBORN
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
HOW TO Hypnot,xe n Hem.

Did you ever hypnotic a chicken?
1t is very easy thing to do. just catch
your hen, place it on the floor in front
of you, with its tail toward you. Take
piece of chalk and draw straight
line, beginning at a point just under
the hens head and extending a foot
and half or more. The bird will fas-
ten its eyes on the chalk, and in
twinkling almost she is unconscious of
anything but this line. You can cuff
her about as much as you please, but
her gaze will Immediately return to
the chalk line.-Rural World.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
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Quiet summer dinners with many
tanning. At an old-fashioned house
on Washington square the hostess
spreads no tablecloth, but arranges
squares of drawn work under each
CONVERT, setting silver candelabra and
bowls of ferns up and down the strip
Of rich dark oak in the middle. A stu
do dinner was served at round table
whose entire spread of rose-pink gauze
was pulled into mounds and hollows,
where. nestled pink. yellow, red and
white roses with their own foliage. A
low silver bowl filled with roses and
ferns occupied the middle. Poppy din
ners have been given, and dinners
where irises, yellow and mauve,
formed the principal decoration.
Chaplets and rosettes of nasturtiums
or sweet peas are arranged with the
wire bases that florists use and dotted
about table with vines or trails of
green connecting them.
Toilettes fer such midsummer fes-
tivities are as airy and diaphanous as
may be. The hostess at luncheon
party wore white Swiss muslin, the
skirt trained and adorned with lace
and narrow white satin ribbon. A
quaint scarf of blue chiffon was
thrown about the shoulders and tied
an front with floating ends. Blue and
white bachelors buttans with feath-
cry green entered into the scheme of
table decoration.
A guest was in black silk muslin.
dotted with white and adorned with
blue ribbon, Louis XVI. kaots, and in
sertions of both black and white va
lenciennes. Another lady wore navy
blue lawn as transparent az muslin
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

Prof. Wing, speaking recently to
the New York state dairy meeting of
visit he had paid to Europe, said: Our
butter in some cases is as good as any
in Denmark, but does not average as
good. There are some careless dairy
men there as elsewhere, but there is
not SO much variation. There is moth
ing done there that we do not do.
There is no milk secret. Their cows,
feed and milk are ordinary. Scrupu-
lous care, cleanliness and the use of
artificial ferments, which is almost
universal, are the causes of superior.
ity."-Farmer's Review.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
The month of the Toad.

Force a'toad's mouth open and hold
it in that position, and it will suffo-
cate. This is because he has no ribs,
and no way of dilating the chest; there
fore he must literally swallow air as
though it were food. Forcibly keeping
the creatures mouth open causes the
air to pass into the stomach instead of
it's lungs. Another oddly is its tongue,
which is hung in the mouth just the re-
verse of the human tongue, being at
tached to the front Of the jaw, the loose
end hanging back and down the throat,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
Daily Savings.

Nearly every person wastes enough
in 20 or 80 years, which, If saved and
carefully invested, would make fam
lily quite independent; but the prin-
ciple of small savings has been lost
sight of in the general desire to be-
come wealthy.-Farmers Union.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
SYSTEMATIC SAVING.
How Small Amounts of Money Can BE
Made to Produce Really Sur
prising Results.

The following shows how easy it is
to accumulate fortune, provided
proper steps are taken. Tie table
shows what would be the result at the
end of so years by saving certain
amount each day and putting it at in
terest at the raic of six per cent:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03
Tbi. Come. from Hoston.

where are we going, papa?" asked
q little five-year-old. ITO Cops Hill
surying ground" SIS that where all
the policemen are buried?"-Youth's
Companion
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

When the calf is four weeks old put a
little meal in the bottom of the pail
from which it has drunk its milk. That
will teach it to lap meal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-03

Do not work late among raspberries
or blackberries, or they will not ma
ture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-19

| three varieties gave an increased crop
OF ripe fruit as a result of spraying
with Bordeaux solution, and all of the
varieties showed an increase when the
amount of green tomatoes at the end
of the season r added.
The increase in crop as a result Of
spraying, ranged from q quarter OF a
ton to six tons in 1896 and from a quar-
ter to four and a quarter tons in 1892.
Observation and experience has
proven that the earlier the spraying is
commenced the more effective it is in
checking the progress Of the blight.
In fact, I believe that the best place to
begin the spraying is in the seed bed,
and probably it would be a wise meas
ure to spray the soil of the seed bed
and also give the seed a slight spray
ing before it is sown.
It is evident that soil may be con
taminated with the bacterial germ
producing the blight, hence two crops
of tomatoes should not be grown on
the same land in succession, MOI should
tomatoes follow potatoes, or any class
of plants that are likely to be affected
with the same blight. Also it would
be well to keep these DIFF rent crops as
widely separated each year as possible.
It may be well to burn the refuse mat
ter left on the f3Id at the end of the
season from all this class of crops, to
prevent the spores from winteriDg
over and being ready to attack the
next years crop.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-19
SUCH is LIFR.

W. T. Blackwell of Durham, who
has been twice poor and once rich,
says that when he had plenty of money
be could hardly get down to his ohce
wiUhou5 being crowded by people en-
quiring about his health anu in other
ways showing their interest in him,
but nov he is a poor man he is not
bothered at all by people who are 60
anxious about his welfare. And, yet,
Mr.. Blackwell Gays he enjoys tokens OF
friendship 10 chat he is a pcor man
more thC1 he did when he w29 rich,
for he knows that friendship shown
now is sircare. So wags the world.
There are thouc o1ds of men and wo
men who in days of prosperity and
success will extend to you the glad
hand and profess unbounded friend.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-19

ship. but let the shadow of disappoint.
ment and loss fall across your pathw ay
ard not a cheering smile, not a finger
of help is extended to you by a great
many of those who were your pre-
tended friends in the days of your
prosperity. Puerile sycophants they
are who desert you in the hour of
trouble, and yet you have to contend
with many of them in your journey
from the cradle to the grave. The
friendship of lots of people is like that
of a mus quito. they are friendly simply
for the purpose of bleeding you.-Mon-
roe E1Ouirer.