Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — Page 2

MOTHER’S PLANNING.

Lonion Black and White.

AM invited down to Bulkeley-s on purr pose—l am perfectly aw,are °f the sact —■ an d I because I k now can mana £0 the situation. No

one ever called me a “nice girl,” but they have often said I am clever — and even spiteful. I am, He is an only son—l am an only daught.er. He has money and position. So have I. That makes all the difference. It would not be of the slightest advantage to either of us that we should marry, and yet there is an imbecile desire on the part of our mutual parents that Algernon Bulkeley and I should hit it off together. Algernon and I played togetheras children. lam two years his senior, though he does not know it. I am thoroughly acquainted with his character, but he knows absolutely nothing of mine. He considers me charming, but eccentric; pretty but not —‘smar tj’-’he hasn ’ t the slightest in ten -

IF I HAD NOT SEEN THE PAIR ADVANCING TOWARD US HAND IN HAND. tion of proposing. I am the standing dish on the sideboard, always there and never cut. Algernon knows I don’t want, to be cut and respects me accordingly. He and I are the best of friends and he is stolidly delighted when I accept his mother’s frequent invitations to Bulkeley. I have been down there at least a half dozen times this season. Why should I not? It is a charming place [it will never be mine,) the air is good and revives my faded roses. I meet nice people there and occasionally do a little flirtation on my own accoun t. A Igernonlooking tamely on. His father is devoted to me and his mother loves me like the daughter-in-law I never shall be. Algernon is a young mam with a heavy, dough-like consistency, with the air of . a gentleman. He has a bad figure, but he is faultlessly dressed. He has settled opinions on politics, the wheat crop and the poor laws. He does everything decently and in order, and never mixes his wines. I respect him, but as for

loving him--! No girl could, I think —no offense to Algernon. His mother loves him so jealously and keeps Such a strict watch on his tardy affections and pulls them up by the roots so often that it is no wonder that at the. age of twenty-nine Algernon is still a bachelor. Only to me does she allow a free hand, but should he tend by so much as the flicker of an eyelid to any other woman she notes it and makes life a burden to him. Algernon naturally prefers a quiet life and is careful to give her no cause for umbrage as regards other girls, but he distinctly discourages her plans for me by a carefully studied system of . neglect in public. The cold shoulder which Algernon heaves at me at breakfast,lunch and dinner is quite unmistakable. His program never alters. On Saturday night he hardly addresses a syllable to me. On Sunday he goes a long bicycle ride and comes home to supper hungry and sleepy. On Monday morning he breaks through the ice of his reserve —the end is so near—

and takes me a solemn walk around the garden. Then he talks twenty to the dozen—and all about himself. Oddly enough, this adamantine young gentleman has a heart of the softest, and it has been touched several times, as I happen to know — once in Australia, where he was sent to open his mind, and once in Hong Kong, where there is a girl he writes to. Then there is an American girl in Buffalo who sends him her photograph once a year ever since she left England. These are safe distances: Then, in town—Algernon goes up now and then, but I shall never forget the row there was when he wanted to take rooms there —Algernon, had a good time. He is like Tony Lampkin, too shy to cope with women of the world, and his social successes have been chiefly among young ladies one knows by name rather than reputation. No, that’s unfair; Algernon has too great a sense of his own dignity to—l only mean that suburban and bohemian tea tables know him best, where he meets people who are not quite Bulkeley “form.” If his mother only knew! She watches us promenading among the roses and hope springs anew in her withered heart and she expects great things. Algernon and I know better. There was a second-rate sort of musical girl with a banjo staying at Bulkeley last time I was there. It may be taken for granted that she was not eligible or Mrs. Bulkeley would not have had her down. I

don’t think I could have brooked a rival near the throne, even though I did not intend to ascend it myself. But Algernon took no particular notice of her. She spent most of her time upstairs with a headache, and only came down in the evenings to play to us. She had pretty eyes, but that was all, \ . On that particular Sunday morning Algernon went a bicycle ride as usual, Miss \Vakely went to her room with a headache and a cargo of peaches, and I to the high garden with Mrs. Bulkeley. I lay down on the grass a little way behind hen>and lazily surveyed her massive profile, which her son, unluckily, had inherited. She sat there, idly gazing straight before her. Poor woman! She was wondering if I was wondering where Algernon was. Not I ! I had a most amusing novel. “Where is Algernon?” she asked at last, fretfully. I answered cheerfully, “Out on his beloved bicycle, I fancy.” As I spoke I distinctly saw two figures walking by the brink of the toy lake. One was very like Algernon, the other —no, Miss Wakely n was lying down. “Algernon is profoundly cynical, don’t you think, Aloysia?” murmured his mother presently. “His views, if you once get .at them, on men and manners are ” “Most entertaining,” I replied. I was thinking of my book just then, and I had come to the conclusion that it couldn’t have been Algernon I had seen. ’

“Algernon is like his father. William was the most self-contained and secretive of men till I married him. I brought him out. I wish some woman would do the same with Algernon.” “You never give any woman the chance,” I thought, and slowly raised my eyes from my book. Good heavens! that was Algernon and Miss Wakelyn; and she “was drawing him out” with a vengeance! They entered an arbor on my left and sat down— the cold shoulder wasn’t in it. “My boy will make his wife very happy when he does make up his mind,” Mrs. Bulkeley continued, wistfully. “That time seems to be" fast approaching. You and he have always got on so well. Algernon and Aloysia—both beginning with Al. It is a strange coincidence!” What of that? The other girl’s name was Alice! I was getting rather angry. “Algernon is not a flirt,” his mother continued. “No!” I said, for just then her son stooped and kissed Miss Wakelyn, and even at that distance I could tell it was the first time he had ever kissed a woman in his life. “* * * I don’t think he could flirt, do you? He would think it beneath his dignity to trifle with a girl’s affections.” Then it was probable that the scrupulous Algernon would in a very few moments approach and present her with a daughter-in-law. He evidently meant business. Somehow, I had never contemplated Algernon marrying anybody but myself—and certainly not myself. In fact, I had never considered it seriously,but now I felt that Algernon had violated the tacit convention between us. He might have proposed and trusted me to refuse him! I ought to have been allowed to march out with the honors of war. I felt deeply defrauded and began to cast about for a revenge. I soon found it. I have mentioned before that I was not a nice girl. “Oh, do you think so, dear Mrs. Bulkeley?” I said, sneeringly. “Of course he never flirted with me”— she sighed—“but then he knows me too well"—she sighed again. “Still I must say I have seen dear Algernon “Moved?” she said, excitedly. “Moved is a strong word,” I replied, mildly; “bu—these quiet men are always the worst.” . “Aloysia, you frighten me!” . I meant to. I began forthwith to make things warm for Algernon. I mentioned the girl in Hong Kong — I’m not sure it wasn't Tokio, but I wasn’t sure, so I made it Hong Kong,

“Then there was Miss- Miss —I forget her name.” Mrs. Bulkeley, with the light of battle beaming in her eyes, did not allow me to forget it for long. Eagerly did she drink in all the details necessary for her son’s discomfiture —she had thought him foolishly, , idiotically immaculate! He would never hear the last of it, nor would Miss Wakelyn. A troop of cosmopolitan ghosts all ready to claim the faithless Algernon, who had given them hostages—that was the image I evoked! Oh, it was too funny! But the American girl was the best “draw.” I told her how Miss Valence had once pulled Algernon’s hair and called him Ally at a picnic before my very eyes. It is true he was only sixteen at the time, but I omitted, like a true artist, to mention that. I was determined that Algernon and the girl who shammed headache to meet him on the sly—l couldn’t do such a mean thing as that — should rue the day they treated me so unfairly. Mrs. Bulkeley had a way of pegging away at a grievance that had often annoyed me —and I they would have to live with her! They would have Hong Kong for breakfast, Australia for tea and Buffalo girl for dinner every day, and I hoped they would enjoy it. I suppose I should have gone on forever playing Algernon’s Leporello to an attentive parent if,l had not seen the pair advancing toward us, hand, with the rays of the sunset gilding her white dress aud his

curly and red hair, to meet the plentiful crop of dragon’s teeth that I had sown for them. I got up gently and stole back for my third volume. I think I said before I was not a nice girl, and now you know I am not.

SOME CYNICAL REMARKS.

Texas Siftings. . ■ -j-' He who fears death loses life. Fear is death to pleasure. The earlier a man has his eyes opened to the realities of life, the sooner he wants to close them. If there be such a thing as the fin ger of God, it must be eon nec ted with the arm of justice. Everybody has more or less cause to be unhappy. Happy is the man who is too busy to be miserable. He who is always complaining deserves to have good cause to lament. As there is no method of lengthening life, we must find means to shorten time. —r--The pessimist whois also a humorist turns his own shroud into a har--lequin’s jacket, and there is a more appropriate mask in this crazy carnival of human life. It often happens that Fate not only presses a cup of poison to a man’s lips, but even makes him drain it slowly, drop by drop. The proverb that man proposes but God disposes is false. Man does not propose, and God does not dispose. The world may forgive us for being weak but it never condones our superiority. That is the unpardonable crime. Man should endeavor to correct his faults, but he is a fool if he admits, even to bis friends, that he has faults. Men are always willing to deprecate your good qualifications, and to imitate your bad ones.

PEOPLE.

It is reported that when King Behanzin, of Dahomey, found that escape from the French was impossible, he summoned his aged mother and said to her: “I am going to surrender to France. My father must know of it. You, therefore, shall see him and tell him.” He thereupon had bis mother beheaded, while he calmly looked on, smoking a pipe. Herr Krupp, the great gun maker, presented 100,000 marks to the city of Essen in honor of the last birthday of the Emperor. The money is to be used to found a fund for the benefit of the Essen poor, to be known as “the fund of Emperor William II and Prince Bismarck.” His majesty gave permission to have his name coupled with that of the ex-Chancellor. Stories about Martial Bourdin, the anarchist who was kilted-in London, are coming out. He used to tell the the following himself: One day he was riding in a ’bus down fleet street. The vehicle was crowded, and Bourdin held in his hand a bomb. Opposite sat an elderly lady. Unable to reach his pocket for the fare, Bourdin apologetically laid the bomb in the old lady’s lap. With the old lady, however, ignorance was bliss. Things are not always harmonious when great men meet. On the occasion of Emerson’s last visit to England he sought out Ruskin and went to his house to see his pictures and other works of art there. Ruskin talked with amazing volubility about his treasures, until the sage of Concord, himself a somewhat reticent talker, could no longer bear the stream of pessimistic words. “At last,” he said afterwards to a friend, who had only recently made public the anecdote, “I could not endure it any longer, for his thoughts were black as night, and I took a sudden leave of him.”

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. Pulverized crickets are eaten by Oregon Indians. New Orleans has the first rice elevator ever built. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. —Longfellow. Paper has been made from banana skins, bean stalks, pea vines, fur, wool, asbestos, husks, hen plant and every kind of grain. The largest map in the world is in course of preparation by the Government. It will represent the United States and cover an acre in area. There is a mountain in Oregon which is slowly moving into the Salmon river. It will in course of time dam the stream and create a large lake. There was once a man in Wash ington who, through bad habits,lost every faculty he ever possessed except the ability to write shorthand. That he retajned and continued tc make money as fast as he could drink it up by reporting debates. The sect of Jains in India are the champion long distance fasters. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they abstain from food for seventyfive days. The French government has already ordered several splendid tapestries to be commenced in order to be displayed atahe great exhibi tion in 1900. It is slow work, as may be judged from the fact that a tapestry worker takes a whole yeai to finish a square yard. The tapes tries are to represent pictures of the four seasons and views of the Luxembourg gardens.

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Pruning Fruit Trees. In traveling through Pennsylvania and Maryland, the editor of Meehan's: Monthly has been especially struck with the want of correct information in regard to the pruning of fruit trees. In many cases apple trees are as thick with branches as if they were gigantic brooms. The branches should never be allowed to set as thick as this. Trees to be healthy require an abundance of healthy leaves. An abundance of poor and half-starved leaves is of little consequence. When branches are thickly crowded as these are, the mass of leaves are inferior and of very little good. Branches should be kept thinned out, so that those which are left have abundance of room to develop healthy leaves. In most cases under observation the trees have twice as many branches, as least, as ought to be left. It is, however, generally too late to think of pruning after trees have been left for-many years in this unkempt condition. The best -time for pruning is in the summer when the shoots are made. A proper thinning at that time, and carried on every year, would keep the omain branches in first-class condition. Pruning Ro*ei. It is often very desirable to have hybrid perpetual roses flower freely in the fall. To accomplish this the plant should be severely pruned after the June flowering. Some growers cut almost the whole of the flowering branch away, leaving fresh ■shoots from near the bottom to take their places. An abundance of flowers usually follows this treatment. Those who cut their rosebuds before mature, or as soon as their petals fade, have fall flowers freely.

Diseases of Carnatlonjs. ; During the last year or two a very troublsesome fungus disease of a rust has appeared among winter blooming carnations, to the dismay of the florist, cutting down the product of his plant nearly one-half. It has been discovered that this species of fungus belongs to the genus Uromyces, and on account of its affinity for the carnation has been named Uromyces caryophyllinus. Like so many of these, it easily gives away to the copper sulphates. Prof. Arthur says that the sulphates of iron, or green copperas have been found to be generally as effectual as the sulphate of cbpper, or blue copperas. He says that there is already prepared in the drugstores a mixture known as copperdi ne, which is ammoniated copper carbonate. This ready preparation may be of great service to those who have not the time or the disposition to make a mixture for themselves.

»’jßre-FauglngJl...... The warm summer days will cause manure in the heap to become overheated, the result being what is known vent the heap should be worked over and well mixed with absorbent material, sprinkling kainit over the materials as handled. The kainit will prevent the loss of volatile matter and also add to the value of the manure, it being a potash salt. Should the heap become too hot make holes in it with a crowbar and drench with cold water. Summer Treatment of Cows. At this season cows in full flow of milk need often to be milked, at noon especially, if the milking is done early in the morning and somewhat late at night. But when a cow thus milked three times a day will give more milk and better, she will do it at the expense of flesh Unless fed extra. There is absorption of fat from milk while it is in the udder, and if the milk is taken very frequently the cow has the greater drain on her system.

Experiments With Strawberries. Mr. George C. Butz, horticulturist of the Pennsylvania Experiment Station, makes the following interesting report upon the varieties of strawberries tested during the present season, and upon the comparative advantages of culture in matted rows and by the hill system, The lessons of the strawberry crop may be best learned while the experience is yet fresh in memory. It is customary to grow the plants in matted rows because this method requires less attention in cultivation. The berries are kept clean, no mulching being necessary, and as there are more plants per acre, the yield is presumably greater than in the “hill system” of cultivation. Arguments that carry some weight are frequently put forth in favor of the latter system, and trials are made upon a scale by the market gardener, but never with sufficient accuracy and attention to determine the relative merits of the two systems. The recent crop has afforded us results touching upon this question and they will be read with much nterest by persons cultivating the trawberry. Among 35 varieties planted side by side and cultivated in the two ways, 24 yielded heavier crops in the mat and 11 in the hills. The weights of the first picking, June 12, and the last July 5, were greater from mats in-each case by about 50 per cent. Kentucky, Cresent, Van Deman and Governor Hoard were better in hills than in mat. The heaviest yield of all the varieties tested this year numbering 40, be-

longs to the Greenville by the mat system. This variety has borne a good report as long as it has been grown here. The berry is large, ripens well, of good color, comes early and stays late. There was a quart of berries for every 8 inches of row caculated from the total figures of yield. The next in largeness of yield w-as Shuster’s Gem, another new berry of great merit. The roll of honor in yield and beauty of berry, as made up from reports of this season, is as follows: Beginning at the top with —1. Greenville. 2. Shuster’s Gem. 3. Ohio Centennial, specially noted as the largest berry which ripens well and has a fine color and flavor. 4. Park Earle, though one week later than the earliest, the yield’ was heavy and of good berries. 5. Van Deman, one of the earliest with a medium-sized berry and a constantly good yield through three weeks. 6. Crescent; this good old standard must at last -acknowledge defeat in point of yield, and . suffer greatly from a lack of quality in its berry. 7, Crowford stands next in order of yield and can boast of a good and" medium-sized berry. 8. Wilson’s Albany. 9, Governor i Hoard, and 10, Charles Downing. | The five earliest varieties were, in I the order of the heaviest yields at first picking, 1, Mitchell's Van Deman; 3, Crescent; 4, West Lawn, and 5, Shuster’s Gem. The five latest varieties were, in the order of the heaviest yields at last picking,!, Porker Earle; 2, Townsend; 3, Crawford; 4, Eureka, and 5, Ken tucky. Growing Peaches in Pots. Meehan's Monthly. One of the prettiest sights in ornamental gardening is a house for forcing fruits. It is not generally known that fruit trees can be raised in pots nearly as well as oranges or lemons—and aside from the beauty of a house filled with ripe fruit, is the satisfaction of having first-class fruits for the desert table. One of the most successful of these fruit houses, which but a few years age the writer had the pleasure of seeing, is on the grounds of the Hon. J. D. 1 Cameron, United States Senator, near Harrisburg. Notwithstanding i the ease with which fruit can be transported from southern regions to more northern ones, forced peachcan be had before the earliest southern crops are ready.

Paragraphlcally Put. The street scrapings of cities, the cleaning from gutters and ditches, and the garbage and refuse of almost every kind could be applied to our farms to their great advantage. Daily exercise is necessary for all horses unless they are sick; it assists and promotes a free circulation of the blood, creates an appetite, improves the wind and finally improves the whole system. Have- good cows and then keep them milking as long as possible each year. Especially arrange to have them giving milk through the winter months when butter is the highest. • After planting shrubs, vines, etc., watch them that they do not dry out. An occasional watering in dry weather will be necessary until they become well established.

In a comparison of silage with mixed hay for lambs at the Cornell Station, New York, four pounds of silage took the place of one pound of hay and proved cheaper at current prices than hay. This is the time of year to consider what you will do this fall about fruit planting. Keep watch of the market and see what is most in demand in your own locality and prepare to supply it. Don’t plant any thing just because all the neighbors have it. That is the way to make an oyer production. Make the milk room perfect in its .sanitary conditions. Have good ventilation, clean floors and walls, and harbor nothing that will produce bad odors. Never put milk into closely covered cans at once after milking, as by so doing it will have to retain any foul odors that it may have absorbed. By aerating, all animal and other odors may be removed, and this is the better way to treat milk that is to be set for cream in covered cans, or put into cans for immediate shipment or delivery.

MARK TWAIN’S PHILOSOPHY.

Written in the Calendar of Pudd'nhead Wilson in “The Century.” The Century for June. Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth. He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded o f what we are on the ether three hundred aud sixty-four. It is often the case that the man who can’t tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one. October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.

-[Special Correspondence.] Indianapolis, June 8,1894. The Capital City has been greatly agitated for the past week over the trials, conviction end sentence of the wreckers of the Indianapolis National Bank. The high standing and supposed wealth —of—alL the parties has made the case remarkable in all ways. Now that so many of the guilty ones are landed behind the bars for a term of years, the community has settled down into a comparatively dull routine with a feeling that justice has been done in spite of the powerful influences brought to bear to shield the offenders. The Coffins and Mr. Haughey have friends still, but considering their exalted station there has been a surprising lack of sympathy for them in their downfall. Few, indeed, will rejoice at the misfortunes oi men who have stood so high, but the uppermost thought of all who have watched the case from the time of the utter collapse of an institution supposed to be impregnable will be that the hundreds of innocent depositors —many -of whom have been ruined for life and must struggle on in poverty because of the criminal dishonesty of these men —have been in a manner avenged. William Finn, while trying to escape from officers, Sunday night, was shot and probably fatally wounded. A city paper states that all the men ever shot by Indianapolis policemen, and they have been numerous, have been shot in the back. Tfie impression is general that a great outrage has been committed. The man had not been known as a criminal and was guilty of no crime when trying to escape arrest.

More than 4,000 people visited the Soldiers’ Monument during May. At 25 cents each this brings in a revenue of over SI,OOO pel' month. The income from this source is likely to be permanent and sufficiently large to be satisfactory. In the course of time it will aggregate a fund that will go a long distance toward reimbursing the State for the outlay in the construction of the greatest memorial to a Nation’s defenders in the world. The naval astragal is now being placed in position and the great shaft is temporarily disfigured with scaffolding. Contracts have now been let for all the bronze ornamention designed by the architect except the Tower astragal, which will be arranged, for at an early day. The Monument, it is now believed, will be complete-4n~all details within four years. Gen. Lew Wallace is erecting an apartment house at Meridian and Vermont streets, three squares north of the Monument, that will be a notable structure when complete. The building will be seven stories in height, and will be arranged for twenty - one famiilies. Every modern convenience .will be provided. The building will cost $150,000 and tvill be quite an innovation in Indianapolis home life. State officials are discussing the erection of an official, or executive mansion, for the Governor. The law requires that the Governor shall reside at Indianapolis, and there is a real necessity for such a building to properly sustain the dignity of the chief -executive of a great State. Residences that are suitable for an executive residence are difficult to obtain at a reasonable rental and generally beyond the private means Of the incumbent of the office. Governor Matthews resides at No. 273 North Illinois St. Gov. Hovey had roomsat the Denison. Gov. Chase had a suite of rooms in the State House and his family lived at Danville. The next Legislature will probably be asked to wrestle with the subject. Indiana “can afford it," and should provide a suitable home for its Chief Executive in the near future.

Two men and a keg of beer camped out near the river west of the city last Sunday. While trying to escort the empty keg back to the city in the evening one of the men fell over a fence, —the keg falling on his leg and breaking it. The other man ran away and the unfortunate sufferer lay for two hours alone in great pain before he was discovered and removed to the City Hospital. * _________ # ♦

A globe of water fell near London in 1616, striking a gentleman sitting on his veranda and completely drenching him. It is known in history as “the water meteor.” The ex-Empress Eugenie has been engaged on her memoirs for many years. As soon as a page is written it is placed under lock and key, and not even her most intimate friends ever see it. The work is not to be published until twenty-five years after her death. The ex Empress uses in writing a penholder which is ornamented with diamonds. It was used by the fourteen representatives in signing the treaty of the peace of Paris in 1856, and was given to the ex Empress as a momen to.