St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 March 1891 — Page 6

AGRICULTURAL 10PICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Some Very Important Points Pertaining to the Farm, Poultry-Yard Dairy, Apiary, Household, and the Piggery. | "HE FARIL “

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strive to keep their dough from being sour. The first effects of exclusive feeding on this sour or vinegar food is generally to produce constipation; next diarrhea, as the bowels,more or less paralyzed by the contact of the alcohol, vinegar, carbonic acid gas, etc., become distended, ~ thickened, and pour off varying quantities of glairy, gluey, or watery fluid that comes mostly from the paralyzed cells coating the bowels. After awhile the blood becomes infected with the vinegary yeast; the red corpuscles adhesive and sticky; the fibrin filamentsy that naturally are very delicate and almost invisible under the microscope, become thickened into massive threads, which aggregate more or less, forming skeins, clots, or plugs which catch on the valves of the heart. These fibrin filaments sometimes aggregate into long concretions that run for several inches, blocking up the blood vessels, sometimes plugging up the smaller vessels completely. The heart meantime automatically beats harder to overcome the obstacle, and if the vessels are weak they rupture near the obstruction, and the bleod pours out under the skin, if this is the site of the plug, and makes it look red almost like a case of scarlet fever. Again from the paralyzing infiuence of the intestinal gases,there is, if the animal lives long enough, a paralysis of the hind legs more or less | complete. The hog will hunch up its back, and draw the feet together underneath. In worse cases it will move by its forefeet while the hindfeet drag. Internal organs are subjected to internal hemorrhage from the same clots floating in the blood stream. If the animal lives long enough there will be found in the lungs more or less breaking down ! and tubercular deposits, due to the vinegar yeast collecting there from the blood stream. The appearances so much resemble those in consumption in man that hog cholera has been termed a form of quick consumption. 1t is not contagious, save by contact, and hogs living among the dung of infected hogs. Swine that has been fed on good sWeet corn by the side of and in different pens from swine fed on distillery slop, and sufi’eréng from hog cholera, have not taken it—according to Dr. Salisbury. And swine affected with it have been cured by giving them good sweet corn, The practice of turning hogs into - fields of standing corn and living on it _ allows the corn to be trampled into the | dirt asd dung, to be wet with dews, m-ines - The omnipresent alcohol plant and vinegar plant begin their - work, and the hogs get a sour, green, - fermenting food like the distillery slop. If hogs everywhere were fed on good sound food. hog cholera would be much less. If the food is cooked thoroughly; the heat will destroy the alcohol plants and the vinegar plants, which some call i baccilli, and there wiil be much less danger of the disease. The immunity of swine fed on sweet, sound food, some } may say is due to the resultant health of | the animals resisting the disease. Be | this as it may—those who are troubled { with hog cholera should feed only good | sound sweet corn well steamed, and un-| less the cases are too far gone, they will | find! the disease arrested. Os course, l the animals should be protected from cold. | So long as swine, and kine, too, are | fed on swill, distillery slop, dungy and dirty soured corn, or swill that is indi- f gestible, with orange or lemon peel, j trouble with the bowels must b ex- | pected, more or less severe according to | circumstances. If those who are inter- | ested doubt these statements, it is casy 5 to prove or disprove them by trials accur- | ately conducted. Feed healthy swine on | distillery slop and nothing else for three i months, having other healthy swine! aloungside in adjacent pens fed with good i sweet corn and water, and then note the | results. Such a course would be much | better than arguing, aud could prove or ! disprove the assertion of Dr. Salisbury, l who experimented in this line many years | ago.—Ephraim Cutter, M. D., LL. D., in | American Agriculiurist. THI POULTRY YARD. Unscientific Science, In relation to science of the: kind in- | dulged in by closet professors, Poult/‘y! Keeper gives the following whack: Whenever a ‘‘Prof.” speaks people ’ ‘ take off their hats. The last item going | | the rounds is the following which the i “Profs.” give oat as science: —dn the-bubetin of the Tennessee Board | “of Health attention: is called to a condi- i tion of the egg, little known, whieh con- { siderably impairs its sanitary value as an article of food. Soon after it became the practice to transport eggs in large | quantities and to long distances by rail- | way trains, it was found on their arrival | that adhesion had taken place between | the membranes of the yelk and those of | the shell so that the yelk could not be | turned out of tne shell unbroken. ()n‘ examination by experienced patholists l this was found to be the result of true | inflammation; the material of the adhe- | sion was found to be precisely the same | as that of the plastic exudation in in-| flammatios of the lungsor bowels. Thus, | structureless and unorganized as it seems, the ezg, even fresh layed, is a living being and capable of disease from external causes, the cause of this inflammation being undoubtediy the shaking and friction from the motion of the cars, uecessarily rendering the egg more or less unhealthy, as the products of inflammation can never be as salutary in food as those of healthy growth. But we poor chicken fellows would say that the eggs were stale before they were gsent, and that the cggs had first begun

eee et At e e to adhere previous to decomposition, as they always do, journey or no journey. What these scientific fellows really discovered was that the yelk adheres to the shell, and that eggs become rotten. Wonderful discovery. Mongrel Fowis. The fact that a cross of pure-bred fowls often does better than either alone, has misled many into cross breeding too far. To get the best results, fowls at least onswne side should bea pure bred. That will make them half bred. Itis the time of year when poultry dealers are thinning out superfluous cocks, and some of the best can now be had at very moderate prices. This kind of change in poultry should be made every year or two at the farthest. ‘ Hens Laying in Winter, Cold weather is the chief cause why we do not get so many eggs in winter. Fresh meat and all other kinds of sum- J mer feed may be provided, but in our climate we cannot entirely shield fowls from the cold. Some varietics are less injured than others. They have large bodies, and make a good dea! of heat‘ themselves. This is the chief reason, probably, why the Brahmas are better winter layers than the Leghorns. THY HOUSEHOLD, Cannlng Fruit. Pare all fruit with a silver knife, and, as it darkens by exposure to the air, drop each piece as pared into cold water and prepare only the quantity nceded to fill two cans. ; Fruit looks and is better when whole, the juices are clearer and the flavor is more fully retained. It is difficult to cook a large quantity evenly without injuring the shape. For this reason it is better to cook only enonugh to fili a few jars at a time. “In canning a crate of berries it is well $0 select the finest looking quarts and can expressly for simple desserts at table. Such particular canning will not be necessary for cooking purposes. Cook fruit in a porcelain-lined or granite kettle. If tin is used it should be new. Cook evenly for fifteen minutes after it begins to boil. There is no necessity for using sugar in canning fruit, but one tablespoonful to a | quart of fruit is sometimes added. > i When ready to can, have all articles needed close at hand. Set the can on | two thicknesses of warm, wet flannel. Dip out the boiling fruit with a longhandled ladle, and fill the jar to overflowing. Run a knitting-needle three ! times down to the bettom of the filled | can, and liberate the air bubbles. Then, | i with a quick movement, break the bub- | bles lying on top, and seal without thv' loss of a seoond. Inten minutes tighten the tops again with your wrench, and | when the cans are cool wrap in paper, ’ and keep in a cool, dry, dark place. Be | sure there are no seeds or sediment unl the rubber ring before sealing. A fun-‘ l nel comes, which is a great convenience 'in filling the jars. Do not store )‘nurl cans of fruit on a swinging-shelf, unless you are certain it will bear the weight. ‘ In canning berries, dip out most of the | surplus juice, and seal, when boiling hot, in pint cans for the children.—FEastern Argus. A How to Make Good Bread. l - Fall and spring wheat flour mixed | makes the best bread. I takeaone-gallon | stone crock and put into it about one'! pound of dry flour, with a dessert spoon- { ful of salt and onc of sugar, then when I have boiled the potatoes for dinner I | drain the boiling water from them over the flour and stir it up. After a few moments I cool it with cold water to the \proper heat (in winter it requires to be: much warmer than in summer). In the meantime I soak two or three yeast cakes, according tothe number of loaves required, in a cup of warm water and beat it all up together in a stiff batter; this I call potatofoam. Cover it with a warm cloth and set in a rather warm place until next morning, then sift the | flour into the bread tray and turn the ifnum over it; adding more salt to suit | the taste, knead it up thoroughly, drawing the outer edge of the dough into the } center, as this breaks the grain and | makes the bread tender, then set in a | warm place to rise. { Two very importan® things are nerys- | sary to be observed. Never let the bread . get chilled while fermenting, and let it | rise well before molding into loaves, for i if it does not com® up the first time it will not the second. I never knead my lbrmld but once. When taken from the | oven turn the loaves npside-down and over them with a thick ecloth. In hot g summer weather if you have the least | doubt of your sponge being scur, take a little carbonate of magnesia, and dissolve Es . in warm water and knead into the dough, : and it will be whiter, sweeter and more ' wholesome for it.—Cor. Detroit Free Press. } Hints to Housckeepers. . WELD-VENTILATED bed-rooms will prevent morning headaches and lassitude. ArpLy linseed oil and turpentine inl equal parts with a soft cloth to the white | spots on your furniture. } WAax drippings from the tapers now so | fashionably wused for lighting pnr;ms.-sl can be removed from linen tablecloths with a hot iron and a piece of blotting | paper, or by dipping the part in eau de * cologne, which renders the wax brittle, so that it can easily be rubbed off with the finger. IF you insist on your dressmaker facing your gowns with velvet or velveteen instead of braid, you will lessen your sheemalker’s bills and be saved from the purple blemish on the instep caused by the movements of the skirts in walking. AL grained or varnished wood-work | shonld be cleaned with tea, made of | medinm strength and strained, after | which it shonld be rubbed over with ;L‘, small flannel cloth dipped occasionally | in boiled linseed ooil, and wiped thor- i oughly with a dry flannel cloth. Noth- | | ing is more convenient than a wooden ‘ | skewer for cleaning out crevices and | corners. i THE PIGGERY, l Feeding Pigs. i Pigs can be grown profitably without i milk, says Waldo . Brown in the Ohio | Fariner, but it will require more care to | make a palatable food for them, and to i induce them to eat enough of it. One of ffln' best substitutes for milk is boiled i mashed potatoes; a half bushel of these | to a barrel of swill will give an excellent | flavor, and also help its digestibility. 1 | think that, used for this purpose, the unl merchantable potatoes can be made profitable, but the arrangements for ‘(-oul\'ing must be such as to economise time and fucl. With only ten or fifteen ‘ pigs, a pot of potatoes can be boiled on .1 the cooking-stove cach day, but if one sl has a large lot he should have a stone ;l furnace with a sheet-iron pan, and plenty

OG cholera is due to feeding on sour swill, grain, or corn, distillery slop, the essence of the sourness beinga vinegar which iz formed in the food after ’ the alcoholic fermentation has had its run. The kinship of alcohol and vinegar is very close, as all distillers know, their great art being to stave off the vinegar fermentation. Bakers know it also. They

—— A ——————— — e s L . A | of light, dry fuel, so that by st; %"%fis fire when he first gets up, the pote’ i | will be cooked ready to mash by the timé breakfast is over. A short iron m very. quickly and eccnomizes 1 think a pan and furnace sufficient to cook two or three bushels at a tiy,e ea be made for about five dollars, L&? e | stone with clay instead of lime‘fi-*“‘% It will last much longer, as the ‘;'Z‘-;.f’*. harden the clay. The older hog.‘wé“!; very well with corn and grass, byt will, | I think, gain faster and make ch“f"f pork if fed with son.e bran and of| meal | slop also, and bran at seventeen ‘dollars | per ton is a cheaper feed than ¢orn ab | fifty cents a bushel, 2 Care of Brood Sows, , Brood sows should be kept separate. Even two in the same pen are ligple 10 injure each other Dby crowding g coveted places, or one lying on op against the other. The pen should be ample and free from obstructions and projections that may be run againsi. The pen should be kept clean and well bedded, and eare should be taken to keep the sows clean from lice. The food should be noyrjshing, but not of a fattening and heating nature, but rather relaxing as the time of farrowing approaches. In warm weather a good free range ought to be provided, that the sow may hayve & chance to exercise, have good air gnd & chance to keep clean. It is better not to fill the stomach too full in the morning, but let- the sow feel a sense of hunger, 50 that she will roam around and segreh for food. Vegetables, such as pUigtoes. cabbage, turni)s, apples. etc., gy be thrown to her in liberal quantitie A bed of sand or dry earth is the be " boards are used for a foundaty 1 them be tight and the sides bankedg g as to avoid all drafts of wind. Plenfyy 3 fine-cut straw or coarse grass shouid provided; and, above all, the sow shgt have pienty of clean, fresh watér to drink, andu free access to salt, bonemeal, wood ashes and charcoal. Whitewash the pen after giving a good scraping and cleaning. Carbolic acid may be used in cleaning and preparing for whitewashing. As the day of farrowing nears, feed bran mashes with oil meal, and see that the bowels are kept open and free. A little sulphur in the wmash will dono llmrm. Be sure to put pig guards all around the pen in time. These may be 1 ; an inch board, ten or twele inches wide, i put in like a shelf against the side of the ‘1 {pen and high enoug! for the pigsto ‘ readily go under, but not low enough so that the sow wili be likely to roll onto it. | Get the sow in the habit of being | handled and talked to, so that she will | not be disturbed by your presence at any Etinw. Have on hand any conveniences [ which the situation and conditions may , suggest, and watchfully abide the result. { If due care has been taken, and the sow | is healthy and in good condition, there i 8 | not likely to be any trouble in farrowing. | Nature does the rest, as a rule.—Mirror [ and Farmer. ‘ THE APIARY, I Bee Notes, l No orurer legitimate business pays i half so well as a stock of bees judiciously E cared for. i Mirrions of pounds of honey are lost { annually for the want of a sufficient ‘ stock of bees to gather it in. | A. L Root, in Bee Culture, says there i is no clover equal to alsike, for beesor | stock. i THE bees always go from clover head [ to clover head, and never from clover to any other kind of tflower. Every farmer should keep be ® care ot the ‘"’"“WM of <flowers blOTHing In orchivrg, meadow, glade, and ghen. | I is estimated that to collect a pound of honey from clover, 62,000 heads of clover must be deprived of nectar and ‘ 3,750,000 visits from bees must be made. BEES are no respectors of lines, lands { or persons, but roam at will for miles { around in quest of honey, which they [ carry home and store away. They { gather it from every nook and corner of { God’s domain, unmolested by landlord or | tenant. | A sBTAND of bees inany of the improved { hives should contain not less than 100,000 ’ workers I't';(i];_\' for the field. Such a i stand would be cheap at 810, for a colony of this strength will store several hun- ‘ dred ;.nri};\lx of }‘wtlv"\' during the season. { They should have ample storage ca- | pacity. t PERHAPS no other occupation is more { suitable or hails so profitable to the in- | valid as bee-keeping. Thousands of in- | valids all over this broad land, both men { and women, could begin bee-keeping with | little or no capital, and as their strength j increased allow their stock of bees to | multiply in "ike proportion until both | bee-keeper and bees grow strong and | vigorous. ; " ‘ THE DAIRY, ‘ Dairv Notes, | A~ exchange demands a general law ! taxing *‘filled” cheese, on the same prin- | ciple that oleomargarine is taxed, and }l'\-\mix'in: that it be sold under its true | name, as the oleo is required to bas, ! THERE is one thing to bear in mind, { says an exchange, and that is, that fine ihu'n..fr will sell when poor butter will | not. It therefore should be the aim of | butter makers to always make a fine quality. By fine we mean butter of fresh sweet flavor, of good color, and above all others must be clean. THE strippings, of course, are the richest part of the milk, showing twice as high a percentage of cream as ordinary milk, or from 25 to 30 per cent., and as the poorest milk is drawn first it | is evident that in leaving the cow un- | stripped we never do get hold of this { final rich cupful. | IN answer to a correspondent who % asks if there is any system of feeding by { which a poer milker can be made a goog 3‘ milker, the dmerican Stockman says no, | nov if she is naturally a poor milker, | There must be a natural development of ‘ the milk glands, a fact that anybody will recognize if he chooses to take ('u;;'_ nizance of the every day fact that onpe cow will give more milk than another { upon the same quantity and quality of ; Z fllllll, '| THE Prairic Farmer closes an article '] on ‘““The Ripening of Cream?” with the | remark that churning should be done at 3 the first appearance of acidity. Do not ! wait unti] the cream gets intensely sour 5 and stale. fn churning, the butter | should be granulated in the churn, ini stead of being gathered into a ]!lm‘p. It | should be cleansed of buttermilk by | washing and not by working. Af:.\} | lightly salting, it must be worked into a 1 \ solid condition with the slichtest workine | that will effect. - . = L e > Rarsing food from the plat 2 ’| is the best health litt Pl e

———— T ; THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. PRI S QTR o 43“3%%‘@ . THOUGHTS . P YORTHY OF CALM 1 = REFLECTION. o e |7, easant, Interosting, and Instructive { °°%Bon and Where It May Be found—A | Je®™med and Concise Review of the | Same, | , The lesson for Sunday, March 15, may be | found in IL. Kings, 5: 15-27. $. = INTRODUCTORY. | . Covetousness is the sin tnat is depieted gfiw and it is well for us that we | have two strong lessons on this strong- { handed iniquity. There wus never a day - when so much is to be dreaded from cupidvy and the desire for unholy gain. Never | were there such opportunities for money ] gem "x‘){‘_md never before such inducements | tos for it and lay hold of it in vicious, or, at least, in underhanded ways. And | never before, on the other hand, was there -such a demand that wealth should be right|ly used, being made a help rather than a : f)uudnnee to the kingdom. If so it must be | honest money, honestly gotten and honestty | given. God help us that we stumble not at this hazardous point. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. ' Returned. The distance traveled was about thirty miles.——All his company, ‘Like him impressed with the signal demonmfion of Jehovah’s power.——Stood bee him. Same word vsed inv.9of the lagt lesson; but now it is in quite a different mOod.——But in Israel. Peculiar Hebrow idiom; literally, But if. The same OXpreos- | alon is found in the original of Ps. 1:2 and | Gen. 32: 26 (4I will not let thee go, except - thpu bless me.”)——A blessing, i e., a presj ent. Benefaction comes as near as anyz_:”; .to the correct rendition. It is the Prd used at Ps. 3:8, which is thus made Il the more suggestive. It is translated - present-at 11. Kings 18: 31 (¢make an agree- | ment with me by a present»). | Befere whom I stand. The same expresession used by Elijah of himself. I. Kings [l7: 1. Elisha was the worthy successor of »the fiery servant of God.——l will receive gone. Another peculiar Hebrew idiom: If recelve any.——Urged him. From the waord meaning to hack. It is the word rendered stubbornness at I. Sam. 15: 23. Be content, or, be pleased. From the word meaning to wish, or be willing.—— Two talents. 2 x sl.soo,——Urged him. or | prevalled upon him; from the word mean- } ing to break. Translated compelled at 1) Sam. 28: 23. i WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. ! Now I know. After the trial comes cer- | tain knowledge. It 1s experience that teaches and establishes us. It is not «See | and taste that.the Lord is good, ” but «taste ‘ and see.” And this tasting wmeans whole- | hearted surrender. You cuannot taste Salt by partaking of one of Its elementary con- | stituents, or by looking at the whole com- | pound. You must put the real, full sub- | stance on the tongue, give yourself to it and | it to yourself. Naaman knew because he | had put to the personpl experiment. We | shall never iinow religion by looking at it ! from afar, by a(‘mirin; it, or talking about | it. We must appropriate it and have it as a personal possession. “To &8 many as re- | ceived hlm to them gave he power to be- | come the soils of God.” This man of Syriu | could speak of the gift of heallng which | wasd his, as the Samaritans later said to the | woman who cried, «Come see, {s this not the [ Christ?? «Now we belleve not because of | thy saying: for we have heard him our- | selves, wo know that this is indeed the | Chrlst, the Saviour of the world.» 5 I will receive none No compromdsing. | Elisha would accept of no reward for heal- | ing as It he, by his own hand, had wrought the cure. It way well give us pause in our | dealings with the woerld. It is not neces- | sary for us to say that the church should | agcept none of the world's money; for all | the wealth of the world is the Lord's, and | sometimes he turns the king's tribute ere | he turns the king's heart. But there must | be discrimination. When meun give as if it ! were a quittance sum for grace rendered, f or as If it were to purchase the gift, they l deser” a the storn refusal of Faul to Slmon, | the sorcerer: wThy money perish with thee t because thou hast thought that the gift of | Ml niny be purchased »ith oney (2 Elisha : ' . and, knowing the motive that prompted thoe present, he could not but refuse it. Doubtless our modern church falrs and festivals lay at least! témptations, not necessary but fl:‘"ikll'll!:ll.t for the mixing of mora! values at this point. That remuark of Dr. Gordon’s is| worth considering. We quote it in sub- | stance. There are some 1 Is where the water runs so low at times that they need | 1o turn to steam for a while. and they say, | “The power is given out.” It is what some | churches. turning away from the legitimate operations of the spirit, seem to be saying: The power has given out. ‘ Two mules' burdens of varth. It is absut as far as some people’s piety extends—two mule packs of earth. They carry a [ittle | holy water about with them for occasions | of worship. A sort of Lenten element it is, It does not interfere with the general course ! of life. The house of remi-sion is accessi- | ble still, the theater, the dance-hall, the card-table, and when they desire to be religious there s that rood of holy ground they ha laild. To be sure, they worship none other than Jehovah en they worship at all, but the worshipful times, like the worshipful spots, are sow and far between. It is the modera high-church, holygcround heresy. Naaman may, subsequently and upon reflection, have become a genuine believer in the one trae God. If so, it was when he Inade more than two mules burdens of earth sacred, but counted every place, that the sole of his foot mizht tread, given to Ged and holy unto him All is well No, it was not: ail was foul! S 0 gads the timec-servipg, self-pleasing Christian after the chaziot of the world. You ask him how things are coing, “«All well, all well,” he says, and notes not the terrible affront he is putting upon God by his unfilial and inconsistent behavior. But "} there are those that grieve. The prophet was pained, God's heart was picerced. There is no sadder, more distressing sight to-day, fa the presance of men and of angels, than tae spectacle of a Gehazi Christian, weukspirited we know, at best, and false-hearted | at his worst, folluwing, like a captlive. the world’s chariot wheels. All is well then | with the interests of Satan, not with the kingdom of God. A leper as white as snow. The picture is a fead™ful one; but grave dangers ""“i’;i.r" “1:“.““. l“(.’y,’-,,\.\‘ signines uncieanti- : 32\“:: estrangement. misery. ‘,i( ath. Is there s Yess texrible fate on ahead to-day for W& pooTisy, anfaithfulness and deceit? Is he church ?n any hazard of receiving mo4"rey upon false pretenses? Clear up the | record, tell the truth, stand by the Lord and | i\is prophet! Wlen men's souls are perishing, shall the moments be frittered away in fo.lowing the world's seductions? «Is it a | time to peceive money, and to receive gar- | ments, and olive yards. and vineyards, and | sheep, and oxen, and mon servants, and maid servants?” There have been times in history when, minding such things and for- | zetting the kingdom of God and his right- | eousness, the church has gone about a wretched leper. God forbid that it should | be so again, in any purt, so! ) Next Lesson —¢« Elisha's Defenders.” 2 | Kings 6: 8-18. : WueN Fox, the first of Quakers, was | sitting in ¢hurch and the preacher said | anything be did not like, he moved solL’ ¢mnly, put on his hat and kept it on unC | til the disagreeable remarks concluded. " | Thus arose the Quaker custom of wear- ; Ing hats in church. i “Is THIs the business office?” “BusiC f NOss office down-stairs.” “It says so . | OVer the daor, but I saw a club leaning £1 UD against the window and 1 thought there must have been some mistake.” 3 Learnrn him a great man who inhabits ¥ great sphege of thoughs.

S S SS aS ——___L_fi_______“_h‘“_— EACH MAN DREW ONE CARD, Plenty or Acfion in a Five Handaed Game of Draw Poker. .It was to be a gantleman’s g.me. Fifty cents was the ante and $lO the limit. . Five men sat around a big round table in the back parlor of an uptowr doctor’s residence. Fach man was able to draw his check for thousands and know that it would be honored. And each man was an experienced, careful, gritty player of draw poker. The party ~consisted of the Doctor, the Major, the ~Colonel, the Deacon and the Lawyer. For an hour the game had proceeded without any noteworthy incident. Then there was a jackpot on the table. It was a big one and everybody yearned to rake it off. In the deal the Lawyer got two pairs —tens and sixes—-but did not improve his hand in the draw. The Lawyer opened the pot for sl. Os course all the rest came in. The Doctor drew three cards to a peir of fours and got another four; the Deacon filled an ace high straight; the Major tried to do the same thing but failed, while the Colonel, intent on making a magnificent bluff, refused to draw a card to the ‘t‘hree” queens which he had received pat. With a careless air the Doctor bet a couple of chips, which the Deacon saw and raised to the limit. The Major covered the Deacon’s money and went $lO better. Then the Colonel did the same, and so did the Lawyer. On the second round each man stayed in and went to the limit. Then the more timorous fell out. Tliese were the Lawver and the Doctor. On the fourth round the Colonel failed to see the Major’s raise, and retired without even making a call. With unshaken confidence in his straight the Deacon came again. So did the Major, who knew that the only salvation was in Dbluffing the Deacon ; out of the game. But the Deacon was ;ti.ere every time. So was the Major. | Back and fourth they fought each other ‘unti! the chips were exhausted aund { bav¥ checks garnished the noble look- | 1D 2 Dot. I " i Major,” finally remarked the | Deacon, with all the self-possession he ( could ecommand, “I think this has gone ; as far as it ought to among gentlemen. | Besides, it is getting late. I call.” | “Ace high,” hissed the Major desper- | ately. | “Ace high here,” excl!aimed the Dea- ‘ | con with a smile that came from his | heart. t | “King next,” said the Major hops- ! fully, l { “King next here,” returned the Dea- | | con. ! { “Quecen next,” rejoined the Major, ‘ | with a genial smile. : | “Queen next here,” quickly added | | the Deacon. ’ I “Jack next,” exclaimed the Major | with the complacency of a conqueror. * i “Jack next here,” retorted the Dea- | eon with icy deliberation. i | It was a moment of painful suspense | | as the Major hesitated before calling his | last card. { “My last card is an eight spot,” he | finally declared as he threw down his | { hand. ' “And mine,” replied the deacon, “is a ten spot.” ; “Beaten on the run down, by thun- | der!” snarled the Major, carelessly. No, by jingo,” he added =s he again glanced at the cards, “the tarnall thing’s a straight., Why didn’t you say so bei fore, Deacon, and aveid all this mummery ?” | “Simply because 1 called you and | vou had the first say. Cold evening. { Major, isn’t it ?” | But the Major was so hot in the | region of his collar that he didn’t dare! | trust himself to talk.--New York Il(’l‘-‘ boald, ‘ ! An Inexhaustible Subject. ‘ | A genuive egotist is so interesting to | | himself under all phases and circum- | stances that he cannot eomprehend why ! sthers do not consider him of equal im- | portance. The idea that matters per- | taining to himself are flat and unprefit- [ ible subjeects to society at large seems ! imvossible, and when this is proved to be the case, the cause assigned for such a monstrous perversion of understand- ! ing is envy aud uncharitableness. There | are no events in the lives of such people | of minor importance, says Harper's | Bazar. If they do not like strawberries, | for instance, the fact is of such weight ! to them that they feel all humanity | onght to know it—ought to know that | strawberries bring out an eruption upon | them, that the reason they do not like { them is because they once ate too many | of them; that they never agreed with | their mother, or their father, or their | Uncle John; that their grandmother | did not like them either; that thoy are | glad or are scrry that they do not like | them; and what ‘hey think of strawberries in the ab-tract; and the same ? thing all over again every day through {he strawberry season. If a traveler comes with an account of new adventure he is not allowed to taliz long, for some journey of the egotist’s is recalled [ and descanted on till time is no more. ‘ { Nor is the family given any stiut of information regarding the habits of mind and body belonging to such persons as this—how they sieep, how they suffer, how thev enjoy. You would suppose, to Lear them, that the world counld not | roll round and recover its equipci-e if !thoy did not tully explain the greab % facts of thie universe in relation to thems- } celves—how sunrise strikes them, and | the short days, and the long days. and | the sight of al ride, and the passing of ! a funeral train; while their ailments are | sources of jereanial words. Yon have | a headache yourself. They had a headi ache so many years ago, and it was dif- | ferent from any other headache that ever afllicted moertal; it was their headache; it acted thus and so; and your | own becomes more maddening as you listen. Nothing, however, do these people care for the events, pleacant or painful, that come to others. Itistheir own that are the all-important ones. In fact, all that they are and do and hope to be is of such importance that it would blot out the sky itcelf if that ever were looked a* Lehind its screen. “So vou imagine the next world will be much like this one?” “Why, yes. ThLere will be lots of led-hot politicians [ there, I imagine.”

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