People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Page 7

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None better to be had. either as to quality or variety. Beans— Black Lima. Best variety. Burpee’s Bush Lima. Large beans; an immense yielder. Pole or Climbers. Golden Cluster Wax. A prolific bearer. / , Golden-Eyed Wax. Hardy, prolific, rustproof. Beets— Early Eclipse. None better; universal favorite. Lane’s Imperial Sugar. The richest. Cabbage— Brill's None such. The best of the new varieties. True Jersey Wakefield. The old reliable. Henderson’s Succession. An all season cabbage. Stonemason. The old reliable' late cabbage; very large. Carrots—' The New Chantaney. We offer but one sort because it is the best. Cauliflower— The Early Paris. One of the easiest to grow. Celery Kalamazoo Market or Broad Bibbed. Large, crisp. Cucumber —We offer one variety of cucumbers only this year; it Js called Thorburn's Ever Bearing; it will produce the entire season. Cress— Fine Curled. Crisp and choice. Egg Plant —New Jersey Improved Large Purple. The best beyond question. Leek— The New Giant. Unsurpassed. Lettuce— Old reliable Black Seed Simpson. Fine quality. Chartler’s Mammoth Head. Fine quality. Mangel— Golden Giant, a great prize taker. The newest and best. Has weighed 34H lbs. MuslemeUm— New Superior. A Cantelope of extra fine quality. Little Gem. Popular in Chicago market. Onions—Yellow Globe Danvers. Standard crop. The Prize Taker. This is American grown seed; Immense size. Extra Early Barletta. or English radish. Parsley—Hew Moss Curled. The finest. Parsnip— lmproved Guernsey. The best. Peas— The Strategem. This is, perhaps, the most prolific pea in existence. American Wondei. The earliest and best crinkled dwarf varieties. Early Prize. A fine new sort. Extra choice. Pepper- Mixture of the very best sorts—the Kuby King, Bed Etna and New Celestial. Pumpkin— Qua.ls.eT Pie. It Is early and keeps late. Dunkard Winter. It will keep good nearly all winter. Radish— White Tipped Scarlet Ball. Extra early. Improved Chartler. Best market radish. Rutabaga— Yellow Purple Top. The best yellow variety. White Bweet German. For table use.

Spinach— Hew Longstanding. None better. Sguash— Giant Crookneck. A great improvement on the old variety. Pike’s Peak or Sibley Hard Shell. Just as good a keeper as the Hubbard. Mammoth White Bush Scallop. Best early summer squash. Pure Hubbard. Standard winter. Tomato- Dwarf Upright Champion. Undoubtedly best. Golden Sunrise—Yellow variety. Unsurpassed. Turnip-Purple Top, Strap Leaf. Best garden turnip for either early or late. Watermelon A luscious new variety called The White Gem. Jordan’s Gray Monarch—A largesort; deep red in color and of very fine quality. FIELD SEEDS. Alfalfa— Abundant fodder crop. Corw-The Robinson yellow Dent-Large ears, extra early, light yellow, 12 to 16 rows on ear. Of this cor Mr. Barnard writes: WASfcO. Mich-, Sept. 22.1826. J. W. Wilson: I have Just come infi mmy two corn fields, where the men are finishing cuttiug up corn. The field of that so marked Robinson's Seedling, in package it you to-day, is a very superior corn. Yi, see the dates on the cards, showing time of r .wth—and the King on new ground is No. i: ot os early as the Robinson on older gr. d. The first three hills of the latter which - tepped up to test had three stalks in each i ‘l, and there were nine ears on the three lib ’ . every ear as fine as the two sent you (10 i? lies long). 1 cane near sending the nine e: *, but decided to get two of the King that y i might examine and compare. The Robb-- u has been raised on my place now for four ; - ars and will be the only kind planted next /ear. Of course as we have not begun husi-; ,g J can only estimate relative amounts it It seems to promise at least 26 per cer: iore yield than the King. If you wish to u on seed list, let me know, as I can select c; esced and dry It well. King of the Earlles. one ’ A»e best and most prolific of the ear.: Yellow Dent varieties of corn. The Famous Climax. A >lety of Yellow Dent. Undoubted: h rybest all around corn for mbit i 1 tude. It will materially increase your corn crop to plant this variety. . SPECIAL CJFFER; For your own clubbing. renewal and one new subscriber to each paper we will send a quart of either variety of the above corn by mail, prepaid, or a peck by express at your expense. For further Information about this splendid corn address K. O. Barnard, Wasepl. Mich. Crimson Clever-Best. Kaffir Corn —A non-saccharine sorghum. Has thequallty of resisting drought: early. Popcorn— We confine our distribution this year to the new Mapledale Prolific. Sweet Corn—We confine our distribution to one unsurpassed new variety, the new Country Gentleman. Mammoth Prolific—A splendid late variety. The largest grown.

WHITE HOUSE BABIES

PAST AND PRESENT CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN THERE. There Have Been Only Six Genuine White Home Bttblea—The Unee of the Majority of Them Have Mot Been Happy—Three Died In Atyeet Poverty. It was afternoon. I waa walking •lowly along one aide of Lafayette square, wondering why Jackson’s statue was given the oonter, while Lafayette, the “rightful heir,” was driven with his statue into a far and grudging oorner of the plot. The grind of wheels attracted my attention. It was the White House carriage just turning out of the grounda Within were Mrs. Cleveland and the two older children, Ruth and Rather. Mra Cleveland looked a hit wont. She is growing very heavy these days—the scales say 186 pounds. As 1 glanced at the White House party in the carriage I noted that the two babies looked hale and well Why doesn't one see pictures of the White House babiea scattered through the land? Cleveland won’t allow any to get out. A picture of Baby Ruth or Baby Esther would be as hard to find as King Solomon’s mine and be almost as valuable. The* president is opposed to scattering the likenesses of his near and dear ones abroad in the general land. Speaking of babies bom in the White Bouse, Baby Esther was the last The first White House baby was also a girl and made her debut during the faraway reign of Jackson, back in 1880. There was the space of 68 years between the first aod the last White House baby. Who was the first? She was the dapghter at President Jackson's niece, who was the wife of Andrew Jackson Donaldson. This first White House baby, Baby Donaldson, grew np and married a Mississippi gentleman—onoo a congressman —named Wiloox. Goners 1 Wilcox has now been dead full 80 years, and Mrs. Wiloox, who was the first to try the White House as a place wherein to be born, has since Grant's time been a clerk in the treasury department Jackson's administration produced two mom White House babies, both Donaldsons, both children of bis niece. The seoond and the third White House babies were, respectively, John Samuel Donaldson and Haohel Jackson Donaldson—the latter named after the president's dead wife, for whom to the day of his own taking off the stern Jackson mourned like a lover. The world waited until President Tyler’s time for the next White House baby to be born there. This baby was Robert Tyler Jones, the child of President Tyler’s daughter Mary, whose husband, Captain Jones, was a South Carolinian. This, the fourth White House baby—practically the seoond, for tho two Donaldson babies, the seoond and third of the line of White House babies, died long years ago as children—grew up to be a soldier of the Confederacy. He served as captain in Armisfceed’s brigade and was wounded several times. He is dead now, and his grave is vary new. He passed away a broken, shattered man, in bitter poverty, only a year ago. Until Robere Tyler Jones was dismissed the onrioos, searching the treasury, oould find two White House babies —Mrs. Wilcox and Tyler Jones—earning their meager salaries at desks from whioh they oould overlook the great house they were born in, not a stone's throw away. But the great house had changed bands many times sinoe their cradle days, and the new tenants were cold strangers to them. The fifth baby was Julia Dent Grant, daughter at Colonel Fred Grant, who was born there while her grandfather, the silent Grant, was president. There is nothing to remark about the fifth White House baby, beyond the foot that she was christened in the blue room, whereas the Jackson babies had been christened in the east room. Old Hickory loved children almost as well as be hated the British. ’ ‘There cannot be too many children,” said Jackson—and never had one himself. The sixth White House baby, and the last one—to date—was and is Baby Esther. When she was born, her father was entitled to remark that at all the chief magistrates since the dignified days of Washington, in bookies and silk hose, he, Cleveland, vase Hoe first to become a parent daring his term of office. Thus it will be abserted the list of genuine White House babies is but a short one—only six tn all, Baby Esther the last of the line. Three of the White House babies are dead—the two Donaldson babies and Tyler Jones, who med in tbe coils of abject, savage want. Of tbs others, the first, gray haired and old, bends over her desk for tbe bread she eats. The last baby has life all untried before her. These is the reoord. Hot would it show that to be born a White House baby is any absolute advantage. The hovel baby may liee to be wiser, happier and better off.—Alfred Henry Lewis in New York Journal.

Teed's Hollow.

Dr. Oyros Teed of Ghtaago, the arigjnator of a queer religion oalied Koreeh, boa evolved a theory of the earth that la Just as queer. Be say* that the earth to an enormous hollow globe, with a cruet about 100 miles thick. Thus far hie theory does oot differ greatly Cram that of the late Captain Symmea, but he parte company with the captain tn Baying that the human race and all the visible heavenly bodies are inside of the earth. Oonaequentiy nobody knows anything about the outer convex surface of the earth. —Stow York Tribune. ' - In all tbacltlasof Arabia, even at Che present day, dried locusts, strung on threads as dried apples used farpony to be treated in this country, are exposed for sale as an article of food To nail In position 1,000 feet of flocking 88 pounds of tenues®? oaUk 4ft untraf

BUSY QUEEN VICTORIA.

t«*T CooMtenttovia Ahoot Latter How Sh* Gotta tho DsOr Ram. Queen Victoria's private tetters comber many hundreds every yeas She writes to her numerous relatfTeA forgetting do annhmreary or oooaaicn on which a letter might beweiooma The London Chronicle says that to tbe younger members of the royal family she never fails to send birthday gifts, aonompwnted by a few loving wards of greeting. Every day the birthday booh Is consulted—not that birthday book fit which singers, actors and otfrerr personages are asked to bat that smaller volume reserved far relatives and inthnotok then there are numerous letters of a semiprivate nature which a» written by the queen bereatl—letters of oandateooe, letters of congratulation bo brides who hare been connected with the court, fetters to foreign monarch* Besides oQ these qpisttes, written In the blackest of ink on paper slightly edged with block; there are thousands which are penned by the private secretary and bfa —iSMta Tho queen’s day begins early and soda fete. After breakfast a meal which she still enjoys eating in tbe open ahr whan possible- -there are the newspapers and private correspondence defining attention. With regard to the formes; portions of Tbe Times and other Journals are read aloud to the queen by a lady apeafeOy appointed tor this purpose, very sorely does the queen nomroent on tbe news, except In the ease of a calamity. when her sympathy is quickly exnrcaoad tn « telegram. Inaccuracy tn an important newspaper as toscyul matters rises tbe quern grove aszoayama, and The Cfcronicto'S writer bos known on official to osU and cnruptoln at tbs misstatement and demand a reotUtaotioo. long ago an Utatemtad London paper gave a ptoture tn which her majesty was represented as holding tbe ana of her Indian attendant Within a Short «paoe at time a member of tbs royal household called on tbe editor to state the absurdity at each an error. “The queen la much annoyed at tikis mistake on Che part of your artist; as it might give onovobo offense to important persona to India She oould never take the arm at a servant ” This will show bow closely she watebes oven the pictorial press. When a good illustration appears of any state function, it Is a common incident tor tbe artist to be requested to visit tbe queen, very likely to wnsive a commission.

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Frank Leslie,b Monthly is the first of the Christmas magazines to appear, and it is in every respect a beuutiful number. Under the title “A Magic Island,” Beatriz B. de Luna writes entertainingly of the picturesque Catalinas of California; Cornell University described by Herbert Cropbie Howe in tho second paper of the profusely illustrated series on “American Universities and Colleges;” Major-General O. O. Howard tells something of the “Character and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee.” and among the illustrations to this article is the last portaitr of the great Confederate; there is an interesting paper on pottery by Lawrence Mendenhall; an excellent Christmas story is contributed by Margaret E. Sangster; in “Canoeing Down the Rhine,” Rochefart Calhoun takes the readers pleasantly from Basel to Heidelberg; Francis Wilson’s new play ‘Half a King, is described and pictured with portraits and views of the principal scenes; Varina Anne Jefferson Davis, the “Daughter of the Confederacy,” has something to say of the proposed Battle Abbey of the South; and there are numerous short stories and poems, andj an attractive young folks’ department, -More than the usual one hundred illustrations are given Iq this number.

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