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The Burke County news., 1899-06-16
THE SOUL
OF a BOSE.
~ OLIVE HARPER.

There were thoughtful shades in
..p ,t. brown eyes Of Alice Dorrenco
, ,ae walked slowly along the path
ppliAL tIom the rivers edge to the
lva. He white dress and pale pink
jp1Jn- iuttele in the afternoon
lleeza. and made sharp contrast
y,th the vivid green around and under
Irt feet.
just now She was trying to solve a
roh.cu such as has been presented to
MOST women IN their time. Two men
oyel he each for different qualities
IoAu Strong had been her friend and
ever since she could remem-
I.r. and She knew his loyalty and
,Jolness but he was a plain, unas-
-ung person, caring little for society
5 arl eagance. His leisure hours were
ti;-n to the study Of mechanics. He
worked IN a machine shop as though
proud 80 ear the overalls and apron.
T. i, true that he looked like one of
tie cuJptured gods as he stood car
->~mg some part of great intricate
machlue. but
The other was rich mans son, and
n, long, slender hands were never
stained With toll.
Alice thought of both these men,
atrasting them, weighing them and
sometimes almost deciding in favor of
one or The other. One was educated,
bUt workman. The otheI was poll
she'd, but an iller. AS often as she
thought She hnd decided some new
question would force her to begin all
over again She had neither father
hol mother, and lived with her aunt,
nao had Just married widowed
.cr2yman With such an array Of noisy
rA.lrtn tia. Alice felt that she really
nU.. not bear to remain, and she
Ct.d think Of no better way ont Of
'he dI.l,calty than TO marry.
u .e married John she would &C
~ Live .n the house near the big works
Where his father had lived. She would
H."a}s have enough of everything
hH' unless John Invented something
valuable he would never he rich L
>a@ married Charles Sturgess she
would 60 10 New York to see life as il
l. n the best society Her imagina
Ton pictured this as an existence o
laHF-uhe beauty with no seamy side.
Nt.I She walked and thought, bu
aae 10 no decision She turne to
ward the lawn leading to the beautiful
hudson and had gone but few space
"onE the path when she came in sigh
" CHARLES Stur-ess standing beside
lose bush. whose buds were just uu
'"ing. He stood moment LOOKING
al the bush then chose the most per
'''' and loveliest bud of all and brOk
Oh short without stem.
AAee stepped forward just then, an
q d" bowed and spoke he tore the bu
~" taad pressed it to his nostrils
ne held 1t thus for brief space in
A@'l- the fragrance. then cast
upon the gravelel path and ground
''N p ont Of sight with hie hee'.
A..ra telt q chill pass over her. H
nus, nave noticed, as he smiled an
SAN
owe roses So.
/ shouldn't think il.
But do love to choose su u
The Burke County news., 1899-06-16
Depth OF CultIvatin- Corn.

At the Indian station cultivating
corn one and three inches deep gave
better yields than cultivating two and
four inches deep. The average re-
suits for nine years have been in favor
of cultlyating one inch deep
The Burke County news., 1899-06-16
AA AAA- Al - ~
) FOR FARM AND GARDEN. !
G.
Kill the Old Hens.

The keeping of poultry is a profit
able industry, but it will not be so ii
the farmer persists in having lot OF
Old hens that are merely pensioners.
and ought 10 have been in the frcasee
pot years ago.
The Burke County news., 1899-06-16
Well Bred Bees.

The apiarst is usually very care
ful breeder of bees. He rears queens
only from choice stocks, those that
have the qualities he wishes to more
fully develop. aud thus produces a
strain of bees much ahead Of the or
dinary. All breeding in this line
centres in the queen. If a colony of
bees do not come up to standard re-
quirements the queen suffers the pen
atty. and when she is dispatched an
entire change of stock takes place.
providing a new queen is introduced
in her place. Great IS the difference
in colonies Of bees or bees produced
| by different queens. This is true not
only Of different races OF bees, but
colonies of the same race or varetv.
Since the Introduction OF the Italian
bees into this country, color has be-
come an important factor in breeding.
as by color only can We designate the
Italian bee from any other at first
sight. Color of itself is not the only
difference, however. for the character
tstics OF the italian bees are qnite du-
The Burke County news., 1899-06-16


to the liver The sun will soon set
ana We can see the glory FROM
i must 50 IN. Excuse me- say.
ing tins Alice fairly few 10 the door.
and from there TO herroo1n. She had
had shock, and she needed solitude
TO measure the hurt The man smiled
gently, sauntered on to the river side
and looked at the sunset alone. He
could afford to wait. He was sure Of
her.
1n the meantime things were not
gong we'll at the machine works. The
engineer had always been reliable. and
with him In charge Of the great engine
that drove the ponderous machinery
all over the immense works no one
gave thought for his personal safety.
But this day, no one knew how it hap
pened, the engineer lay in a stupor on
the ground, and the pressure of steam
was SO great that the whole place
trembied as the whee.s whirled
around. Before the danger was dis
covered it was almost too late. Hun
dreds of lives were at stake, and there
was no one to save them. John sprung
to the engine to find that the SAFETY
valve was closed and out of order.
He leaped up and seized the bar with
his bare hands and bore his whole
weight upon it-though he felt it
burn its way to the very bone
He never knew how long he held o.
to the bar that let off the steam, but
when he regained consciousness, he
was lying outside on the grass One
by one the faces lie knew Gawned
dimly out Of the mist before his eyes
After awhile they took him home and
doctor dressed the burns.
Next morning John was sitting
propped up in an armchair with both
hands bandaged His face was rale
and dark rings around his eyes showed
his suffering, but lis thankfulness for
the safety of all those men over
balanced his pain. And yet there was
little hope that he would ever use
those hands again-hands that had
been SO clever to fashion wonders in
steel and iron. He closed his eyes.
Alice had heard the story that same
night. She could not go to him. She
hal no right But in the morning
she saw clearer, and, rising, she went
into the garden and plucked another
bud from the same bush and hastened
with it in her hand toward John 8
home. On the way she met Charles
in his immaculate morning costume.
Something new and decided in Alice 9
face caught his attention. He adj
yance1 iauntily. saving:
"May [ walk with you? l suppose
YOU are going to visit our mechanical
friend?"
''Thank you, no. I am going
alone.
''Ah! Well, will say goodby, as
leave here tonight. He watched hei
face and saw it clear, as if relieved.
''Then we will say goodby, an,
she walked Oh. as if IN haste.
Something like mist came into HI;
ewes and a choke in his throat as he
Murmnred:
81 am sorry, for she is as good a.
she is beautiful, and she deserves (
better fate than staSnatlon here
Alice was soon standing by John
side. He opened his eyes to see hel
hand ng him rosebud, while tear
raiped down her cheeks.
"What is it Alice? What trouble
you?" he asked.
''Oh. John, John! [ am so SORT
for your hands.
Don't cry, Allie, don'tcry They
be we'll in few days
But Alice sunk on her knees an
went on crying and kissing the hand
aged hands until John put thos
manned members around her an
lifted her face to his. She laid tn
The Burke County news., 1899-06-16


job of work can be done with them
The non swarmers continue 20 store
honey as long as they have 4 place to
store it, and do not lose any time
swarmlng or attempting to swarm il
the aparist does his part Farm.
Field and Fireside
Culti>ating A>paragn..
4 moderately light soil is prefer
able for the culture Of asparagus, but
any good garden soil viii answer. Put
cn all the wellrotted manure YOU can
plow under; and work the soil fine to
depth of eight or ten inches Ifthe
soil is we'll prepared on the start it
will require less work to keep ii in
G oil condition. Plants one or two
years old should be used, never those
taken from ar old bed. Set the plants
Is inches apart III the row, and the
ROWS three feet apart. This may seem
like considerable room. but it will be
found sufficiently close. for the roots
will entirely fill the soil IN a few wears.
Make the holes large, SO that the roots
can be spread out in their natural
position. Set the plants 50 that tho
crowns will be from five to eight inch
es below the surface. according TO
| the character Of the soil The heavier
the soil the less covering they should
| have. Cover only few inches deep
at first, tirming the soil we'll about the
roots, and allowing the remainder to
be worked in by the subsequent cul-
tlvation.
Give thorough cultivation during
the growing season. and in the fall cut
the tops and burn them on the ground
to destroy the seed, which, if allowed
to grow, will make a mess of young
plants-the worst kind of weed in an
asparagus bed The following spring
put on q good coating of fine manure
and spade it in with a spading fork IA
early as the ground will work well.
In spading, care should be taken
not to injure the crowns Of the plants.
This treatment should be repeated
each succeeding year. II the plants
have made n good, strong growth the
first season, they may be cut few
times the following spring, but it is
better to let them grow two years be
fore cutting that they may become
we'll established and have good,
strong root system. In cutting. use q
sharp knife and sever the stalk a
couple of inches below the surface Of
the soil. Always cut everything clean,
even though 1t is not fit for use, be
cause when few stalks are allowed
to grow up. the plant will cease to
throw ont new shoots.
For the first few years the bed
should not be cnt for more than thres .
or four weeks, but after the plants
have become strong and the crowns
large, the cutting may be continued
until the middle Or last OF June with
out injury. Then allow the tops to
grow and assimilate food to he stored
up in the roots for the succeeding
crops Fifty or 100 plants, if we'll
cared for, will after three years growth
produce all the asparagus an ordinary
family can use. II comes early In the
season, when everyone Is hungry fol
something green. 1t is very easily
prepared. The stalks are In the bes
condition for use, when they are from
three to five inches high. When they
. get too old they become tough and
woody. They will be tender wher
cooked il they will snap readily ~hs,
| h>px -Apartcsn ADvi~-.' ,nrrst
The Burke County news., 1899-06-16
The Value of the >eparatOr.

4. X. Hyatt tells in the Indiana
after using one five years. He bought
it that he might be able to feed better
the twenty calves !: year that he de-
sired to raise, and he says:
The separator gave us at least two
pounds more butter a day than we
could get by deep setting. We got
from three to five pounds more butter
a day by running it through the sep
arator at home warm than we were
credited with for the same milk at the
| creamery. Two hundred pounds of
milk fresh from the COW and warm
! from the separator seemed to make
more gain with young pigs and calves
| than double the pounds as we got it
, from the creamery. Microbes and
flies and rinsings do not seem to set
we'll on the stomachs of young stock.
| The separator would save us trip
every morning to the creamery, and
often an hour or two waiting for our
milk. 1t would save our aerating and
cooling our nights milk. 1t would
save three or four cents for making
our milk into butter, and we could get
three or four more cents for our but
ter if we made it than Elgin prices, or
from the factory.
That is strong testimony from aprac-
teal dairyman, and he adds that the
first year he raised thirtysix calves
instead of his usual twenty, and the
extra sixteen could have been sold for
enough to pay for the separator =
American Cultivation.
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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

ton. From hat I gathered that he was
the favored sutton. The other man was
a persevering lover, evidently, but not
nearly as likely to win as his rival, judg-
ing by the signs of parental inclination.
He was a young subaltern in a British
regiment stationed up country, and that
was how and where he had made the
acquaintance of Miss Edith may as
well say at once that his name was Crop
ley-Lieutenant Cropley. | soon picked
up the whole thread of Cropley's story.
1t was an old story; the only new feature
In it, to me, was the promptness with
which the young man had managed to
get leave of absence and sail on that
steamer as soon as he knew that the
coffee planter was going to be a fellow
passenger with Edith and her mother. |
think the mother was rather surprised
when Cropley bobbed up on board; but
whether Edith was equally surprised /
can't say.
with all my enterprise and inquisi-
tiyeness, I couldn't find out for sure
whether the girls sympathies were with
the coffee planter and her mother or with
Cropley-that is, until the morning after
we had all gone on board and waited a
night in the harbor. Until then, ! thought
she was rather Indifferent, with, perhaps,
a Slight natural preference for the
younger man. But then 1t was easy to
see that the poor girls health was feeble
"Cropley and / made friends very fast.
He was an ingenious, Whole-souled
youngster. From his way of talking to
me, as we sat together late that night
by the ships rail and smoked, watching
the lights of the harbor, it was plain
that he was anxious to find someone to
tell his troubles to. He was not rich, |
found, and the coffee planter, I guessed
was. If he could only get Edith to say
Yes he was quite prepared to leave the
army and go back to Ceylon as a coffee
planter. in hopes of being some day as
rich as his rival.
Bad move l said. The other mar
has a long start of you on that line. II
You give up your red coat, you throw
away your strongest suit, don't you see?
II don't know whether he did see it ir
that light, but ! do know that Cropley
seemed wonderfully comforted by the in.
tcrest I took in his affairs. He went tc
bed-or to his Ounk-in a more CHEEKY
mood that he had seemed to be in wher
We first struck up acquaintance. Mex
morning he was apparently in the best
of spirits.
I've been thinking over what you TOLD
me last night he said, putting at his pip
after tiffin, before the ladies had shown
up on deck. It's = rum thing he said
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NOTICE TO Cu-owNER.

To BENJAMIN Armstrong. your heirs or
assigns: You are hereby notified that We
have expended during the year 1893 one
hundred dollars UlO0.00) in labor and inn
provelnents upon each of the following
quartz lode mining claims. situated in the
Divide Creek Aiming district, Silver Bow
scr;ption of which Is found in the location
notices Of the said lode claims as recorded.
The Silver King. reccrded in Book +, page
206; the Sage Hen, recorded in Book =. pc &c
207; the Tacoma. recorded in Book J. naSe
70: the Goodwin, recorded in Book j. page
All; the Golden Bell, recorded in Book +
page 50, in the office OF the county recorder
Of Silver Bow county, Montana; that tho
caid Iabor was performed and the said inn
provements were made for the pu pose of
holding said claims under the prov;sione
of Section 1924, Revised Statutes OF tte
United States, ana the amendments thereto
concerning annual labor on mining claims
for the year 1888, when said labor and i'm
provements were made. II within ninety
.iays after the last publication of this no.
ttce you fail o: refuse to contribute your
proportion, amounting to ore hundred and
twelve dollars and ii.ty cents Sll2. SOY. OF
said expenditures. as a co-owner. your in
.erest In the SAID cl inns will become the
property of the Chdersigned, your CO.
owners, who have made the apove de-
Hcribed expenditure. according to the re-
uuirements Of the 6 i'd section.
PAT KIRLEY,
JAMES kIRLEY.
FRANK KIRLEY.
Dated this 9Th tsy Of January, 1899.
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CROPLEY. EDITH AND THE LASCAR
BY u PRESCOTT.

this business is rather like a game, isn't
it?'
II told him that both love n war were
huge CANDLES, and in both games 1t was
all-important to show a good front to the
enemy-or the adversary. This phlloso-
ply seemed to amuse him; but he GER
tainly practiced it that morning. When
Edith and her mother came on deck he
Joined them, utterly unabashed by either
the presence of the coffee planter or the
severe p~oliteness of Mrs. Judge. And the
plan seemed to work. too, for Edith
talked to Cropley. and listened to Crop
ley, and asked Cropley questions about
the harbor, and the funny boats, and the
pearl divers, which questions, for the
most part, he had to either refer to me or
give up
1T was a beautiful morning, and the
goose seemed to hang high for poor Crop
ley-so much so that his rival was be-
ginning to look as detected as a man in
s~potless white duck, with a shining.
freshly shaver face, can look. | made
up my mind to tell Cropley, at the first
opportunity. not to push things too hard,
or the mother might resort to stringent
measures and forbid Edith to talk to
him at all. That was the danger which 1
foresaW at that time.
But then Cropley suddenly burst into
a blaze of glory as a hero.
we were all standing at the stern rail-
five of us-looking at the small craft be-
low us dancing about on the light swell.
A native Seaman-a Lascar from some
piratical part Of the Malay peninsula
came skipping nimbly along the top of
the rail that was to hang in bighat from
spring hooks for some purpose or other.
He ~apologiZed for disturbing us and then
passed on. In less than a minute after
he had passed we heard the cry, Man
overheard! behind us. -
"Of course it was the Lascar who had
dropped from the ~taffrail. Everybody ran
to the starboard side of the deck, and
there was the poor devils head bobbing
up and down like a cork, while his ship
mates We're running every way at once
to get out life buoys.
you see there was no danger of his
drowning. You can't drown a Lascar,
unless you anchor him in ten fathoms
with a two-fathom cable. The danger