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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-26
A UNIQUE CHRISTMAS TREE.
It's Varied Fruits and What They
Contained.

Its Varied Fruits and What They
Contained.
1t was not an old-fashoned family
Christmas tree which reached from floor
to ceiling, but a very small one not more
than two feet high, standing in flower
pot, and set up expressly for one indi-
vldual. This tree was fashioned after
the one in Revelations, which bore
twelve manner of fruits" one for each
month in the year, but the fruits of the
Christmas tree were not strictly confined
within this limit, for on its branches, be-
sides Il banana, strawberry, a lemon, Il
a tomato, carrot, an onion and an Eng
fish walnut. All of these, excepting the
nut, were of home manufacture and each
one contained a gift.
The banana was made by using real
one for a pattern; the skin was pulled
apart, piece of yellowish muslin cut for
each section, and these sewed together.
The orange and grape fruit were made in
the same way, the brown spots being
painted with sepia. The onion was also
cut in sections ont of white paper muslin.
One or two pieces, like the carrot and
lemon, were made of tissue paper and
pasted together. The potato was cut
out of brown muslin, with here and there
a stitch taken through and through
after it was finiShed-with yellow
thread to represent the eyes. The to-
mato and strawberry looked like the PIN
cushions and emerieS one sees in work
baskets. only larger. Each piece of fruit
or vegetable was stuffed with cotton, the
gift being placed in the center. The hole
was then sewed up, and a loop of ribbon
attached with which TO hang the fruit
upon the tree. The halves of a real wal
nut were simply glued together, the rib
bon loop being secured in the same way.
OF course the gifts had to he planned
with reference to the shapes of the fruits
in which they were to be placed. The
carrot and banana contained the long
articles a hatpin and a fancy penholder,
while the round fruits held smaller gifts,
pair Of cuff buttons, a handkerchief
tightly rolled. a small buckle, needle
book, and a cork, having a silken net
crocheted over it and used as a scissors
sheath.
Besides the gifts already mentioned.
there are many little silver articles which
can be suited to the individual taste, and
which ,Fe just the right size to fit in even
the smaller pieces of fruit.
Such a Christmas tree as this is par
ticularly adaptable when a whole family
wish to combine in a gift for one person.
Or it might be used at a Christmas party.
giving each gu st piece of fruit contain
ing some tiny souvenir.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-26

A GALLOWAY HERD. ~ $ R . ds:sn
Author "Ths Raiders "he Sucka
Minister" BOG, Myrtle Peat" Etc. y = = \

what's more. III have you arrested for
bigamy. and then wbat'u become of the
kid. Il like TO know? ! can do IT, and
| will And he lifted his gloves from
the table and made as if he would 90,
The woman spoke. Her voice, natu-
rally low and sweet, had harsh falsetto
notes in it now.
I'D kill both him and me first-ay. and
you too. she said. You deceived me-
once. Herbert Perforated to me at
Paris. lied TO me at Boulogne, lied To me
IN London. and left me without far
thing. You had word sent to me from
America that you were dead-would 10
God it had been true-and | married a
man that loved me-married him good
and honest
Bah" said the man. How could
You marry? And if you did, you mar
rled drunken loafer that never drew Il
sober breath"
Hold your lying tongue, Herbert pey-
Ton, Don't anger me, or | may kill YOU
The man came round the corner Of the
table as If ia get at her. but turning sud
denly. he seized the child as it lay asleep
on the counterpane. having dropped over
innocently in the midst of the strife Of
tongues. As he lifted the child roughly.
It aWoke with a shrll and bitter cry-a
cry of appeal to the mother heart thar
could not go unanswered. The feeding
bottle which had been lying on the side
of the coverlet whipped over the bedside
and fell on the floor. With an oath the
man kicked at it and sent it crash
ing against the wall For a short
moment the young mother stood mo
tionless, one hand pressed hard against
her waist. then with sudden re-
turn of power she sprang to the table.
something flashed in her hand, and be-
fore the man could turn. numbered with
the child as he was he stumbled forward.
and 4 pain like that of burning with red
hot iron ran through his side. and the
waves Of a great ocean thundered in his
ears. He. sank down on the bed from
which he had just lifted the child The
mother took the child. which crowed with
JOY at the steady flare of the gas. There
was bright stain on the wilderness of
its dress.
The man opened his heavy eyes. from
which the fear had gone out You've
done for me- this time, Nelly; but. | say.
you looked handsomer than ever
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some conveyance To take me to a place
they call Drumquhat.
Dye ken Saunders M'QEhirrE" asked
the StatiOnmaster with delighted ring
in his voice. Come ben the h6Ose an
the mistressll sumo get We 4 dish o tea
an something 10 eat-an' for the bit
hairn. too he said noticing the child
with married mans understanding
Come yer ways; cots, iassie, | haze three
lasSie> o my ain" Soon they were in
stalled. and the mistress. a huNnn. capa.
bic woman, of somewhat less frank man
ner than her husband. gave them not nm,
kindly welcome
'Ay. an We are gaun to Drumquhat.
1ell haze come a lang road. nae doot,
though ye got Yer. ticket at Carlisle.
Dear. Stree to think that Saunders is
here this vera mornin' truckin' four
truck o nowt beas' for Fa'kirk Tryst.
He will be gled To see We. I'll see gin
he's at the cattle slip" And out the
good man hustled 10 find Saunders. In
minute or two he brought him
TO the door, tall. slightly stopped Gallo
way farmer, with Il shrewd and kindly
face. He stood To-. E-Lg with very
world OF pity and wof,ier in his ewes at
the stranger who stood up before him
with Il dumb appeal in her eyes.
My puir lass" he said. I'VE did RIGHT
to come 10 Drumquhat. The mistress
VIII sumo get We some color Until yer
checks. Az. ay; wen juist gang hame
the moo. The suner the BARN gets UNI
der the cover the better" aud he took
Il long look at the child.
As be helped her into the sturdy, bat
tered mar ket gig, he saw that the water
was running steadily down her thin
cheeks. He was too wise and experienced
To say a single word, but he laid his
hand gently on the young girls arm. say
ing Only after pause, whatsoever
cometh unto me
"Oh, that's not for me. can never
be for me"' she broke in
And Saunders M'Quhirr did not contra
diet her in words, but the touch of his
hand on her arm did not WAIVER. So
they drove through the dewy lanes, till
from the crown of the high Dullarg moor
land they saw the tree tops of Drumgu-
hat. Saunders went in for quick word
with his wife before the visitor had de-
seconded. As they came out Saunders
was saying to his wife. And the BARN ;
real An'erson o DeeSider
This is what the Mistress of Drumqu-
hat said to her visitor:
'Ye've gotten a stormy NIGHT to travel
sac far, but bonny mOrnin' to come To
Drumquhat, where we are a glad to see
YOU"
And she took the babe into her own
strong and mOtherly arms. where he
nestled close instinctively feeling the Sc
curity and strength of them As she
took a long, steady look at his face,
something caught her eye
Save us, what's that?' she said
But the visitor had already gone to the
back door with Saunders. They did not
use the front door much at Drumquhat
save when the minister came.
It was a long. irregular stain on the
child's white dress that she saw.
Continued Next Week.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-26
JOHN HAD NO SUCH TRIAL.
DIR. simpsons Reply to a Clergyman's
Condolences.

President A. J. Cassatt of the Penn
sylvana railroad comes naturally by his
love for horses" said a well-known anti
quarian to o writer in the Philadelphia
Record. at is hereditary with him.
His great-grandfather Gen. Simpson
whose house Is still shown in Franklin
county, where he frequently entertained
his friend, Gen. Washington. was fa-
nous for his horses. 1t is mentioned in
local history that he not only went with
his sons. servants and slaves TO the land
ing at Elk to protect the tonnage Of food
for Washington army at Valley Forge,
but also took a number Of horses for this
patriotic service. This same Gen. Simp-
son was also one of the q, frecmcn who
with servants and slaves joined Col. Ben
gard and furnished him with horses at
Bedford to fight the battle Of Sandusky
and rescue 200 women and children from
the Indians.
His son. DIR. John Simpson, grand
uncle Of President Cassatt, was a famous
h0rseman, and it was the pride of his
life to raise racers. Among these he had
one colt of special value IN which his
heart centered. He had also n son. Rob
ert who, like his father. loved fine
colt.
Zone night. while his father slept, he
surreptitiously took his colt for a spin.
The next morning. when his father saw
the condition Of his favorite. he reused
the village Of Shippcnsburg with his ire,
striding mp and down the streets with
loud-vOiced ordinations. At last the
clergyman came forth to reason with
him, relating that Job. who had lost
horses. flocks and herds. had had pa
thence. DR. Simpson paused. looked az
the clergyman and then said:
Why, hang it. man, Job never had
such a colt as that"
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CHAPTER III.-(Continued.)

- the last Anderson of Deeside, and
.l.a hest Of all their ancient line, was
.,-berel TO his fathers in an equal sleep
-bsr snowy January morning. There
,,srn TWO inches of snow in the grave
,,bea they laid the coffin in. As Saun-
.l.rs said: '.Afore auld Flee could get
KIM happit. his Master had hidden him
r.. Moses in windin' sheet o His ain.
l., tie morning when Flee went hirpling
in+o the kirkyaird he found at the grave
bond n bare place that the snow had not
a'.Trred Then some remembered that,
burrving by in the Notwithstanding
Leaning of the night of the funeral
tbey had seen someone standing immova-
lilo by the minister's grave in the thick
iy-drifting snow They had wondered
wby he should stand there on such Il bit
ter night.
inst the lad Archibald Grierson gone
IN stand Il while by his benefactor's
crave. but Daft jess was of another
opinion.
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But / do not stop now to know how
yOu came into rejection of Christianity
You frankly tell me that YOU do reject it,
You do not believe that Christ is divine
being, although you admit that he was a
very good man, You do not believe that
the Bible was inspired Of God, although
you think there are some very fine things
in it. You believe that the Scriptural de-
scription Of Eden was only IN alIcgory
There are fifty things that ] believe that
you do not believe, and yet you are an
accommodating man. Everybody that
knows you says that Of you. If / should
ask you 70 do d Kindness for me or if any
one else should ask of you Kindness,
you would do it. If, when you are in.
should come 10 you with vial Of mcdi-
cine and say, This Kind If medicine has
cured fifty people who were GUST as bad
ly of as yOu are; take it, and YOU re-
piled, II do not want to take it: | have
no confidence in it, / would say, Take
it to oblige me" and you would say.
"Weil. j. it will Accommodate you will
take it," Now. you have found that this
world is insufficient and you are sick Of
sin. | come to you with a gospel medi-
cine. II has cured hundreds and thou
sands and millions. VIII you take it?
NO" you say, II have no confidence in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

severe shortage next year In hay, ana
farmers should prepare to meet this
shortage now It can be met by sow
ing alfalfa between August Is and
September Is. Alfalfa sowed at this
time under favorable conditions Will
furnish a good cutting of hay next
May, and with ordinary conditions will
yield three to four cuttings OF hay next
summer.
The ground for alfalfa should be well
settled before seeding and only the sur
face made loose. Alfalfa will usually
fail If seeded in the fall on freshly
plowed ground. Well cultivated corn
fields, with the stalks cut and drawn
OF, give ideal conditions. Such fields
should not be plowed but narrowed
only before seeding. Wheat, oats, max
and millet stubble ground plowed shall
low, narrowed thoroughly and allowed
to settle before seeding, furnish good
conditions for alfalfa If such ground
is mellow, plowing may not be neces-
sary, as the land will only need to be
disced and cross-disced.
The best time to SOW is in the last
half of August. 1t is safe to SOW as
late as September Is if conditions are
good. The ground must be well set
tied, with a loose mulch on top and
well saturated with moisture SO as to
bring up the seed quickly and force the
fall growth. If either of these condi-
tions are lacking it will not pay to
SOW.
The best way to sow is with press
drill using 20 pounds of seed per acre.
Mix the seed with equal parts, by
measure, of coarse, cornchop or BRAN
Drill half the seed one way and cross
drill the other half. If necessary to
sow broadcast, use 25 to 80 pounds of
seed per acre, cover with harrow and
roll unless there is danger from blow
ing. 1t is much better to seed with
drill. Alfalfa should be sown alo2e.
The best quality of seed will give the
best stand and the most vigorous
growth and is always the most profita-
BILE to use, although it costs the most
Alfalfa will grow on any we'll
drained soil that will produce corn.
1t does best on well-drained bottom
lands that do not overflow, but in the
eastern half of Kansas, when properly
handled, is profitable crop on upland.
Alfalfa seeded last fall on upland in
Shawnee and Riley counties gave two
good cuttings this summer before July
5, while tame meadows and prairie
grass on adjoining lands yielded only
half ton of hay per acre.-H- M. Cot
trell, Agriculturalist Kansas Expert
ment Station.
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shiny, slightly elevated spots on each
of the segments.
The worms appear about the middle
of July and continue their destructive
work till the 1st of October. They
attack the little cucumbers just when
they are of right size for pickles, bore
round holes in them and feed on the
tender fruit. They are great feeders.
and as many as three or four will
sometimes be found in a single Gu
cumber. They develop rapidly and
reach full growth in three to four
weeks.
When about to transform, they for
sake the fruit in which they had bur-
rowed, and drawing together portions
of some leaf that lies on or near the
ground, spin light cocoon of white
silk. In this cocoon, if it is not too
late in the season, they change to
moths like the one here shown, emerg-
ing in about ten days. The late ones
pass the winters in the cocoons. The
moth is very strikingly marked 1t is
of yellowish brown color, with an
iris-purple reflection
Mary Treat, in her book on "In-
jurieus Insects says of it: The pickle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTuRlSTS.
Some Up-to-Date HINTS About Culti-
walton of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures viticulture and
Horticulture.
SOIL Analyst. q. a Guide.

The Ohio Experiment station re-
ceives many such requests as the fol-
lowing: will you make a chemical
analysis of my soil to determine wheth-
er need nitrogen, potash or phosphor-
ic acid, and, if SO, what will be the
charger"
To this request we make the uniform
answer that such an analysis would
be very expensive, and when made
would usually have very little value as
a guide to the use of fertilizers for the
reason that the chemist has as yet dis
covered no reagent which possesses the
same capacity for extracting plant food
from the soil as that of the living It's
sues of the plant To illustrate: Pot
ash is a characteristic constituent of
granite rocks, and soil formed from
such rocks may appear rich in potash
under the chemists analysis, and yet
if that potash be still in the form of
granite sand it will be yielded up very
slowly to the feeble solvents of the
plant.
Again: In some of the southern
states are immense beds of rocks con-
tanning large percentages of phosphoric
acid; but if these rocks are merely
ground and mixed with the soil their
phosphoric acid, which has resisted the
solvent action of soil water for ages,
will continue insoluble, and hence the
necessity for treating these ground
rocks with sulphuric acid, in order to
make their phosphoric acid available.
Still further: When a piece of marshy
land has been drained it is often found
that the crops planted upon it fail to
thrive, although it seems to be very
rich in nitrogen. The remedy here is
to add barnyard manure, something
which savors strongly of carrying Goals
to Newcastle; but the explanation is
that the semi-aquatic vegetation which
formerly occupied the land decays SO
slowly that cultivated crops cannot get
nitrogen rapidly enough for their
needs. When the manure is added,
however, it sets up a fermentation,
which converts the nitrogen bearing
materials into a more soluble and
hence available form.
For these reasons the only practical
way of learning the needs of a particu-
lar soil is to make experiments on
that soil, after the general plan OF
those described in the bulletins of the
Experiment station on the mainte-
nance of fertility, and thus learn
which combination of fertilizing ma
terials will produce the greatest effect.
-Chas. E. Thorne, director Ohio Ex-
pertinent Station.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
LANG ON AMERICAN HISTORY

He Says It Has Little. If Anv, of the
"Oscuro, Element
American history, as far as I know
1t, has not mystery enough for a really
exciting romance Nobody of the high
est Importance ever vanished away,
disappeared; nobody except a certain
reg1cfde, and he was of English i'm
portation. The amiable and beautiful
wife of none of your Presidents was
ever accused of plotting, with an Ad-
mira1 of your feet, to blow up the
President in the White House. the
question of her guilt remaining de-
Hciously obscure. Not one of your
Presidents. after fighting his way to
within a lance's lergth of a hostile
general, ever vanished away, leaving
public opinion uncertain as to whether
he had gone, literally. to Jericho, or
been put down a well. No occupant
of the White House ever had two
nephews who disappeared from the
state prison. nor did any sane citi-
zen ever turn up who claimed to be
one of these missing children Final
ly, your republic never kept a captive
In black velvet mask, concerning
whom it was disputed whether he was
a European diplomatist, q valet, q
royal duke, q distinguished actor, 4
member of the Bonaparte family. q
high-class Irish patriot, or-the right
ful President, whose place was being
occupied by an impostors The chron-
icles of Europe, especially of France,
Scotland, and England, are rich In this
kind of Rembrandtlike effects. We
have plenty of chiaroscuro. especially
of oscuro. and you have little, IL any,
of this element Hawthorne felt the
want; he had to invent his own mys-
teries. All your many historical nov
elists feel the want-Andrew Lang.
in New York Independent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

who fight imaginary woes Will come
out of breath into conflict with the
armed disasters of the future. Their
ammunition will have been wasted
long before they come under the guns
of real misfortune. Boys in attempt
ting to jump a wall sometimes go so
far back in order to get impetus that
when they come up they are ex-
hausted, and these long races in order
to get spring enough to vault trouble
bring us up at last to the dreadful
realization with our strength gone.
Finally, the habit of borrowing
trouble is wrong because it is unbelief.
God has promised to take care of us.
The Bible blooms with assurances.
Your hunger will be fed; your sickness
will be alleviated; your sorrows will
be healed. God will sandal your feet
and smooth your path, and along by
frowning crag and opening grave
sound the voices of victory and good
cheer. The summer clouds that seem
thunder charged really carry in their
bosom harvests of wheat and shocks
of corn and vineyards purpling for the
wfnepress. The wrathful wave will
kiss the feet of the great Storm Walk
er. Our great Joshua will command,
and above your soul the sun of pros
perity will stand still. Bleak and
wave strlck Patmos shall have apo
calyptic vision, and you shall hear the
cry of elders and the sweep of wings
and trumpets of salvation and the
voice of halleluJah unto God forever.
Dangerous Bride Paths.
Your way may wind along danger
hr-i1 10
and the scream of the vulture. but the
way still winds upward till angels
guard it, and trees of life overarch it,
and thrones line it, and crystalline
fountains leap on it, and the pathway
ends at gates that are pearl and streets
that are gold and temples that are al
ways open and hills that quake with
perpetual song and city mingling for
ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumph
and coronation.
Let pleasure chant her siren song;
'Tis not the song for me.
To weeping it will turn ere long.
For this Is heavens decree
But there's song the ransomed sine
To Jesus, their exalted King,
Oh. that's the song for mel
Courage, my brother! The father
does not give to his son at school
enough money to last him several
years, but, as the bills for tuition and
board and clothing and books come in,
pays them. So God will not give you
grace all at once for the future, but
will meet all your exigencies as they
come. Through earnest prayer trust
him. People ascribe the success of a
certain line of steamers to business
skill and know not the fact that when
that line of steamers started the wife
of the proprietor passed the whole of
each day when a steamer started in
prayer to God for it's safety and the
success of the line. Put everything in
Goo hands and leave it there Large
interest money to pay will soon eat I'D
a. Iarm, a store, an estate, and the in
terest on borrowed troubles will
swamp anybody. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

Care of Trees from the Nursery
Whether purchased direct from the
growers, or ordered through agents,
care should be taken that the roots OF
the trees are not exposed to the action
of the sun and dry winds. The prac-
tice of many farmers of placing the
bundles in their wagons and driving
home without taking any pains to COW
er them to prevent the drying of the
roots has undoubtedly caused the loss
of thousands of nursery trees. Wet
straw and blankets should always be
provided when notice has been re-
cefved that the agent from whom the
trees have been ordered is to make a
delivery, and, as soon as possible, the
trees should be either planted or heeled
ia. When received in the fall, unless
one has cellar, where the tempera-
ture can be kept just above the freez-
ing point, in which they may be placed
with their roots in the soil, it will be
desirable to heel in the trees in some
well-drained spot, where there will be
no danger from standing water. A
trench should be dug a foot or SO in
depth and about three feet wide, in
which the trees should be placed with
the tops inclined toward the south at
an angle of about twenty-five or thirty
degrees from the horizontal. The
bundles should be opened and the soil
thoroughly worked among the roots
and pressed about them. It is always
advisable to have the trunk and great
er part of the branches covered, espe-
cially in the case of peach and other
tender fruits, and whenever fruits
have not been thoroughly ripened Care
should be taken to have no straw or
IL.
good plan to use evergreen boughs to
alternate freezing and thawing, as well
as the rapid thawing Of the trees ;sfter
severe cold spell. A trench should
always be dug to carry OFF any sur
face water about the trees.-Michigan
Bulletin.