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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
A WORLD OF
why the Apartment House Manager
Had u Case Of the Blues.

Why the Apartment House Manager
Had u Case of the Blues.
The manager Of the apartment house,
a we'll fed, well featured, well dressed
man, was standing in the main door
way Of his establishment. which, by
the way, is owned by an ont of town
capitalist, who is not the most generous
provider in the world and insists upon
the flat being conducted upon the most
economical lines. The manager was not
happy, however fair he may have APP
peared to the eye. and he heaved a long
drawn sigh as a friend approached and
greeted him.
"What's wrong?' inquired the new
conner.
"Oh, we've all got our troubles!'
was the vague and lugubrious reply.
"You oughtn't to have any"
"But I have, just the same"
"What, for ~instanceY"
"Well, I'm worried sick because I
haven't got an elevator boy
"There shouldn't be any difficulty in
removing that trouble, I should say"
"There is. I've tried 40 and can't
get one to suit"
"You must be very hard to please"
1T isn't that" sighed the manager.
''I'm all right, but it's this way: The
old man insists on having the elevator
boy wear a uniform, and he furnishes
it. Uniforms cost money, and when the
last boy retired he left a brand new
uniform. and the old man won't get
another. That's the rub. / can find
plenty of boys Of sufficient intelligence,
ample experience, Industrious habits.
good moral character and fine address,
but I'll be darned if ! can get n that
the uniform will fit, and there you have
it. Now what the dickens am ! to do
Amt that enough trouble for any one
man ?'-Washington Star.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
THE WORD BLIzzARD,
Said ia Have Been Used I'm south Da-
LOta In the Sixties.

A wen known book of reference
states that the Chicago Advance was
the originator Of the word ~"blizzard'
OIL the Sth Of January, 1880. Old tim
ers in South Dakota take exception TO
the statement. a story is told by the
editor Of the Hutchinson County Her
aid, who commenced his newspaper
work on the Dakota Republican. at
Vermillion, in August. 1867.
The Peake family, Swiss bell ringers,
arrived in vermillion by stage. and
William Peake, manager Of the bell
ringers, said to a party Of friends. II
would like to see n Of your billiards.
l have heard SO much about" Mr.. True
answered: "All right. We will order
one for your special benefit and have
it here when you come back through
here from Yankton."
After showing three nights in Yank-
ton the troupe started homeward to
Sioux City, Mr.. Peake being On the
outside of the stage with the driver.
The morning was warm and balmy.
Mr.. Peake was astonished at the ac-
lions of the driver, who suddenly whip
ped up, and asked what the matter
was. 4. G. Williams, who was driv-
ing, answered that he was afraid Mr..
True's order was going to be a little
ahead Of time. LOOK to the north
west" said he. There vas the blizzard
approaching in all It's fury. In almost
a minute the binding snow was being
whirled through the air. and Mr..
Peake withdrew to the inner part of
the stage. 1t was n of the most ter
rife storms known to the territory,
which Is saying considerable. The
Peake troupe was compelled to wait
several days at Vermillion until Mr..
True's blizzard had blown itself out
Sioux Falls Argus.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
Storing Souashes For Winter.

II prefer to leave the squashes where
they have grown until a light frost has
killed the leaves" says an Iowa CORE
spondent Of Orange Judd Farmer. ''Se-
lect, II possible, a good, dry day, go
through the patch and eve the
squashes from the vines without cut
ting or breaking them. Then place
some hay o straw in the bottom Of
the wagon or wheelbarrow, and place
each squash carefully in the same,
handling them like eggs, SO as not to
bruise. Take them to a dry, cool shed
or upper room, and there leave them
as long as safe from freezing. After
this they should be taken to a dry, cool
cellar or pit and laid, not over two
deep. II deep preferred, IN shelves,
the lowest Of which should not be less
than n foot from the bottom of the
cellar. The cooler they can be kept
without freezing the better"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
Eating Like q Bird,

1t isn't as polite as 1t Is intended to
be to say that a person has the appe-
title Of a bird. If a human being ute as
much proportionately as does the av.
erage bird, the sight would be disgust
Ing. In n shrike there have been
found the remains Of 70 caterpillars, "A
bugs, n field mouse and one leech. A
field hawk that was observed for q
month is credited with a record CT
1000 mice In that time. A tame owl
ate seven mice, n after the other,
and three hours afterward ate four
more. The robin eats on an average Ia
feet Of worms daily.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
READ THE BIBLE II TIMES.
Began From Curiosity and COntin-
ued Through Interest.

wi sAIau u
ued Through Interest.
A stout, elderly man was noticed
gazing earnestly at a display Of 'Bibles
in all languages in a show window.
A stroller passing halted to see what
this mar was gazing at and remarked
that there was a fine assortment OF BIZ
bles.
Yes" said the man. but l have one
at home older and bigger than any Of
them" There did not seem to be any
connection between the age and size Of
a Bible, SO for lack Of anything further
to say the stroller asked the man If he
had ever read his big Bible through.
Eyes," was the reply. II have read
it through II times"
"Holy Moses!" calculated the stroller.
"What do you think Of the Bible after
reading 1t through SO many times|
"Well, the Bible Is all right. | will
tell you how | came to read it through
the first time. An old circuit rider
who used to visit my fathers house
when l was a boy one Sunday preach
ed a sermon from the text. For a man
shall be Judged according Il the deeds
done In the body asked him II that
text was to be found in the Bible, and
he said. OF course it is.' | said |
did not think 1t was. and he proposed
that we both read the Bible through to
find 1t. We did not find 1t, but l found
so many things which interested me
that I kept on reading the Bible till |
have gone through 1t II times."-Port-
land O%regonian.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
Fall Gardening.

It onion sets are put out in October,
they will furnish slender white stems
for the table about two weeks from
the beginning Of growth in the spring.
One.third ounce Of seed or quart Of
sets goes to 100 feet Of row.
Parsley Is q biennial. If wanted in
early spring, parsley may be sowed in
September in moderately fertile soil.
During the cold weather the plants
should be covered nearly to the top
with leaves, held In place by brush.
One-fourth Of one ounce of seed will
SOW 100 feet Of drill.
II sowed In the fall, spinach can
usually be wlntered under Il mulch,
which should be removed early In the
spring. The drills should be a foot
apart and the seed covered about an
Inch deep. Thin to 6 inches apart and
finally, as the plants grow, to ~ inches
in the row. New Zealand Is a new
variety, quite different from the com.
mon, and the plants should stand three
feet apart. Perpetual spinach IL sown
In rows a foot apart, In very rich soil
and thinned to give room. Half an
ounce Of ordinary seed Is right for 100
feet Of drill. Twenty-Five plants OF
New Zealand are enough for a family.
These suggestions occur in the very
useful farmers bulletin, No. "a, on
vegetable gardening.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
Concerning the Apple Crop.

Commercial apple sections in the
middle and central states will have an
irregular YIELD, with considerable guam
titles Of fruit In the aggregate. Michi-
CAMS crop about as good as last year,
but not a full one. So with Illinois;
but Wisconsin and Nebraska will turn
of only moderate quantities. The i'm
portant apple sections Of the south
west, including Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas, will have a good many ap-
pies, but nothing like a full yield and
quality Of fruit very irregular, much Of
it suitable only for the cider mill and
evaporation. So far as the west Is con
cerned, the fact Is worth carefully not.
ing that the crop Is largely from old
trees; these have a fairly good show
ing, while young orchards have very
little fruit.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
The Real Reason.

Long ago he had taken the resolution
always to be perfectly honest with his
children.
"My son" he accordingly observed,
II am beating you with this trunk
strap not for your own good, but be.
cause I am hot under the collar No, it
does not by any means hurt me more
than it hurts your
In the face Of such a luminous exam
pie it would be strange IL u boy did not
grow up to be IN honest nan
1t was perhaps possible to overdo this
thing and render q boy SO honest that
he would be unable to earn his living
in any Of the learned professions, but
that difficulty, If it existed at all, was
theoretical rather than practical De-
troit Journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13

The slLo.
Fast or Slow Filling-Latest Fancies
In Covering.

Fast or Slow FillinE-Latest Fancies
In Covering.
Fast or slow filling of the silo Is de-
bated, but the only difference amounts
to about this: With slow filling there is
more time allowed for the material to
settle and one gets more material into
the pits II he Is Il week about it than
In two days. In Ohio we use the rapid
filing. Where Il fills two silos and
ran do so 1t Is n good plan to fill into
n a half day and then the other. The
carrier Of our machine carries over one
silo and throws into No. 2, so by sim
ply removing a trap slide in the carrier
over No. !, or replacing 1t, the sllos can
be alternated In filling without chang.
ing the machines. We know Of no tests
that place greater feeding value upon q
slow rather than n fast filed silage. In
a fast filled sil0 there Is Il greater show
of space after 1t has settled. TO over.
come this loss Of storage, some silos
are provided with a top rack some s
feet high, about the top Of the silo, and
lAiS lawn 10 iiAIGOs anu us lllC slluSc Dc'
low 1t settles It finds It's place in II few
days in the pit, which when settled
will be trimming full.
How shall the silo be covered to pro.
tect 1t from the air? Does 1t need any
cover at all more than the roof above
It? Some sllOs now are even denied
this protection. Certain 1t Is that no
n now covers silage with plank. pn.
per and weights. The most simple
cover, and extensively used. is no cover
at all, simply putting the litter about
the cutter upon top Of the sllage, max
ing 1t firm by %treading and leaving 1t.
allowing the top layer of n few inches
three or four, possibly six--to mold
and rot and seal itself away from the
air. A few (the third or fourth day
after filling and some treadlng)
sprinkle 20 pals Of water on the sur
face Of the sllage and thus hasten the
molding and sealing.
As good a plan as we know Of Is to
copy the last method and add to 1t q
bushel Of oats, raked into this warm
wet surface. and grow a cover Of ont
roots mixed with the decayed silage.
The growth will soon fall down and
die, making a we have never
seen eXcelled and SO matted that it il
easily taken off. Others pat OH wet,
old straw. and some use sawdust wet
down, and yet others m mt
once to feed from the silo as soon as
filled, and hence need no cover.
In the winter, on approach Of very
cold weather, it Is n good plan to put
some boards YER the silo and cover
with a half ton Of straw. This holds
In the heat, keeps out cold air, and
more germs find In the warm silage q
pretty good home to COLOMBO in, and
then In cold weather the cows get a
warm breakfast, instead Of now and
then an iced menu.
John Gould discusses silo methods In
the foregoing words in the Ohio Farm.
er and also afirms that reports from
all sections Of the country this year
(1S00) give to the silo greater promi.
hence than ever.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
lnE YlLIINds GAZETTE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1899.
LiFe n LOVE.


True love Is Of 4 birth sublime;
It knows not space. 1t knows not time;
II has a guerdon from above,
For love is life, and life is love.
You, with your dangercd gift Of scorn,
Would seek to make true love forlorn; u.
Yet know wlIere'er your wish may rove
That love is life, and life is love.
You faunt new loves before my eyes,
note them with a sca't surprise;
You cannot spoil the tral3ur troye
That love is life, and life Is love.
We mortals are compact Of change,
We have a thought OF wondrous range
For boy and girl, for man and wife,
Yet life 10 love, and love Is life.
ls't well to judge by human skill
What warrant serves true love to Kill?
It stands, through all your nescient strife,
That life Is love, and love ~ life.
match remembrance with your word,
The truth may pierce you like a sword,
The truth may be a keen edged knife,
Yet life Is love, and love 10 life.
False love is like the winding sheet
Figured in snow and blinGins sect;
The shelter whence you dare not move
Is-love is life, ard life is love.
Herries Pollock in Longran's Maya
zine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
The Turnip Flea.

1.-THE tulnip flea Is still alive and
shows this al that he has tastes
for all sorts. Of meat, although hen
bane (IIyoscyamus niger) Is his FL.
vorite food. The leaves Of young sug.
ar corn he attacked this season, In
force, causing the young plants to
grow slowly and the outer ends Of the
leaves to turn brown. used a dilu.
ton of whale oil soap, but found that
frequent stirring of the soil every day
or two and n or two visits a day and
brushing them from the leaves were of
the most service. This insect 10 very
fond Of the tobacco leaves all through
the growing season, from the small
plants in the bed until frost comes In
the fall. All plants Of the night shade
family, this insect Ia found feeding on;
and 1t IL almost impossible to grow the
eggplant In this neighborhood without
using paris green freely" writes q Mis-
souri, gardener to Meehan's Monthly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
The End.

what have you been writing, my
dear" asked Mrs. Beechwood Of her
laughter.
'"These are the last sad writes, man.
ma" replied the girl. "This note tells
Mr.. Homewood that l have ceased to
love him."'-Pittsburg Chronicle-Te le-
graph.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
With Pleasure,

McSwatters-I always love to hear
that girl e door play 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner"
Mrs. McSwathers--I thought you said
you couldn't stand her piano playingY
McSwatters-Well, when she plays
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" it's a
sign she's got acknowledgements
Herald.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13

Charles Darwin was so weak in
health that but for the wife and chill
dren who saved him from trouble and
gave him the leisure Of a peaceful
home he would probably never have
made his great discoveries.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
Not . Military Cook.

His Wife-And what did she say
when you offered her $13 a month?
The Suburbanite-She told me con.
temptuously they got as much as that
In the army.-Brooklyn Life.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13

Men quite incapable Of writing them
selves down fools In the old way do 1t
very readily with the help Of q stem
ographer. Detroit journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13

The carrier pigeon was In use by the
state department of the Ottoman en-
pire ~ early % the fourteenth cen.
tury.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
o II Happened.

Jones-What a funny looking house
that ia across the street.
Smith-Isn't it an oddity. thought
/ understand the owner instructed the
contractor to follow all the plans sug-
gested by his wife. Ohio State Jour-
nal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13

There r many people who will
never grow rich, because their habit IL
to spend all they get. Evening Wis
consiu.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13

It's a long life, but devotion to the true interests and
prosperity Of the American people has won for it new
friends as the years rolled by and the original mem
bers of its family passed to their reward, and these adj
mirers are loyal and steadfast today, with faith in it's
teachings and confidence in the information which it
brings to their homes and fresidcs. As a natural con
sequence it enjoys in it's old age all the vitality and
vigor of it's youth, strengthened and ripened by the ex
periences of over half a century. 1t has lived on it's
merits, and on the cordial support of progressive
Americans. 1t is
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
HANDLING CORN FODDER.
How to Do 1t Most Prohtnbly-VaIu.
able Feeding stun Wasted.

H
The problem OF how to get the insst
out of corn fodder is yet unsoi7ed by
many farmers. In former years it was
the practice to husK the corn in the
field and then turn the stock on to eat
the fodder, but this practice was very
Wasteful. 1t destroyed much valuable
feeding stuff, as In the fall and early
winter the ground would be soft, and
the tramping of the stock did more
damage to the land than the stalks
which remained to be plowed under in
the spring did good. The longer our
farms are farmed the more it costs to
maintain them to n standard of paying
crops.
It Is necessary, In order to get the
most out Of the fodder, to have It cut
when it contains the most nutrients.
and that Is when the corn Is glazing. In
shocking the corn the shocks should be
made large SO that less surface will De
exposed to the hot sun and rains. The
ears should be husked before winter,
sets In and the fodder secured under
shelter, or, IL necessary, 1t can be left in
long shocks well built so that it can be
fed out from one end and not leave
much surface open to the weather.
All stock will eat corn fodder, but it
Is especially good for cattle. A great
many feeders put the fodder in the
hangers for the cattle to eat what they
want, and the stalks that are left are
thrown In a pile to be returned to the
land later. A. better way Is to have a
feed cutter and cut all the fodder; then
the refuse a be placed in the cutters
to absorb the liquid manure or 1t
makes good bedding.
When this practice Is followed, when
the farmer W. his corn fodder as
economically as his hay and grain.
then more stock can be kept on our
farms, more manur will be made to
be returned to III land. and the fertil-
ity Of II land will be increased az
well as the size Of our pocketbooks.
says a Prairie Farmer correspondent
In concluding the foregoing advice.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
4 Covering For Tree wounds.

A Covering For Tree Wounds.
Best Of all coverings for all ordinary
purposes for wounds and bare places
on trees 10 common linseed oil paint,
according to an Orange Judd Farmer
writer. 1t II easiest Of all In applica-
ton. 1t lasts for years on the dead
wood, It does not kill the tender bark
or check Its growing.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-10-13
The Deceitfulness of knowledge.


In reply to n question about the SAFE
ty Of feeding second growth sorghum,
Waldo Il. Brown writes to the Ohio
Farmer: If any one. says that second
growth sorghum Is sure death to cat
tle," he ought to read what Mark
Twain said, "It's better not to know 50
much than to know so many things
that amt So" l have grown sorghum
for sever years and cut each year the
second growth and fed to my cattle.
and last year that which we fed Off In
July grew to maturity and was cut and
fed early enough so that the third
growth was large enough to cut before
the frost killed It. There have been
some mysterious cases Of poisoning
from feeding sorghum to cattle. but l
believe that 1t ls>as safe feed as clover,
and with hundreds Of farmers now
growing and feeding 1t in my part OF
the state l have never personally
known Of NJ animal being injured
from eating.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-28

CHIEF Bennett stationed himself
on the Walnut street crossing of
Main street last night ana warned
all the reckless scorchers that they
must keep within limits or they
would be placed in limbo. The move
was very good one and it should
be kept up. There has been too
much reckless riding especially
across the street crossings.
You don't need to get hot, just go
to Smiths and get parasol and
fan; that, with the summer dress
you get there will not be the warm
est thing in town. but the coolest.
A FELLOW who persistently com
plains of poor business, hard times,
and asserts that this town is mo ac
count" is generally 'sno account
whatever himself and ninety nine
times in a hundred does not earn his
own living
Buy the celebrated Regain hat at
Waters
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-28

SToP at Whittington's Barrel and
get a drink OF ice Water Free.
You can get your tire pumped up
for nothing at Guy Willey's.
THE preliminary work necessary
to begin the Morgantown and King
wood railroad is being done as rap
idly as possible. Every one hopes
there will be no hitch and that il
will be vigorously prosecuted to com
pletion 1t will he valuable thing
to large part of our county
Mr. NYE's telephone is 5s. Orders
for his excellent goods receive
prompt attention. Mr. Nye always
keeps the very best goods the mark
ct affords.
Guy WILEY is agent fof the Vic
tor. Crescent, Monarch. Defiance,
Racyele, and all the best wheels
made
TIE work of finishing the upper
floors of the Postoffice building is well
along and will be completed soon.
The building is the solidest and best
one IN town A great deal of iron
was used in its construction. Will
Sheets and Clark Baker have been
completing the wood work in the up
per stories. 1t is very handsome.
SHOES. Shoest! Shoesii!! That
cannot be beaten for the price at
Waters
WHITTINGToNs have the RECALL
shoes at $3.50, all styles.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-28


THE wedding last night caused con-
siderable excitement and formed the
basis Of a great deal of talk over town.
SOME of the players are greater
sights to-day than they were yester-
day.
Dow JONES of the county home
has been landed in Jail on charge
of fighting with one of the other in
mates of that institution. He has
been pleading with the sheriff to be
allowed to 60 up to Marion county
where he will make arrangements to
get married. The latter however
has proven obdurate and the fond
swain has to remain in durance vile.
PEACHES Is, to % cents can at
Kidd's.
THE boys baseball team is said TO
have been abandoned owing to in
ternal dissentions and the young
financiers are now engaged in di-
vision of the spoils. Some Of the
greatest games of the century are
thus prevented from taking place.
ONE of the largest and newest lines
of shoes in the city at Waters.