St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 49, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 June 1891 — Page 6

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Storing: Tools —How to Send Down Ground —Birds Pulling Corn—Pigs in Clover— Keeping Sows to Breeding — Selling Toung Pigs—Di jring Out Rubber Boots— Notes. STORING TOOLS. J ustration of the Carelessness Which Too Frequently Prevails. TjFHEN returning A fro,u a tittle lectur- £ VV ing trip in Ohio we

* were delayed some hours by an accident, and our train t “laid off” in one of \the finest agriculItural sections of Hilthat gem State. (Toward evening /the piuspects of getting to any town for supper *bec am e very > gloomy, and a half » dozen or more ' [ struck across t te fields for a farm k house, and were A much gratified at

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the devices adopted for storing farm tools and machinery. A good plow, apparently nearly new, had been left in one corner of the field standing in the furrow, just where, last fall, the plowman had finished his stint. Probably ; the timber needed seasoning—it was certainly getting it; or, maybe, it was left there for acclimation. Perhaps the farmer left it there to save time in the hurry of spring work in dragging it from the shed. Perhaps he covered the share to keep it from the elements and save it from rusting; or, again, perhaps he is troubled with neighbors that borrow,and left it where it would be convenient for them. He might at least have buiit a shed over it. Over in an adjoining field was a reaper , and binder just where the job was finished last fall in gathering the wheat crop; in fact a few bundles of straw—the hogs had taken the wheat—were thrown over the concern, and the hogs had a cozy nest among the gearing and on the bundle table, and in their zeal to get the warmest place had worn all the I dirt and rust off in many places, and the j constant friction of their bristles made ; the machine take a high polish in places, j Approaching the house, we passed j through the barn yard, and if this man ' does not act soon it will boa grave question which he can easier move, the farm buildings or the manure heaps. Passing to the house the same order prevailed, though we managed to get something to '

eat, aud paid seventy-five cents apiece | for some bread and milk and a greasy doughnut or two. After returning to the train, we wore tired, and ordered our berth prepared and were soon asleep and dreaming. We again visited that man’s barn; boards were kicked off, partiFons were half broken down, racks broken, floor a foot deep with manure—there was no room to throw it out —hay trampled under foot and wasted, grain squandered. The wagon had not been hauled under the shed, though it was raining. The harness was scattered about—hames in one __ _Blace, the breeching in another. The lines were used for halters. We again ' went into the house. A shed stood near > by in which a family wagon was kept for I the women to go to town in. The hens had appropriated it as a roost, and, however plain it once was, it was ornamented now inside and out. (It should be borne In mind that h&n manure does not injure growing melons, squashes, cucumbers, etc. This farmer bought these things in town). We peeped into the smoke- i house, but of all the fixings ever seen i this place beat them. A Chinese mu- j scum cannot compare with it. Onions, I soap-grease, decaying pumpkins, hogs’ | bristles, soap, old iron, rags, bones, ket- ■ ties, a broken spinning-wheel, a churn, a ! grind-stone, bacon, hams, washtubs, a ; barrel of salt, liones with the meat half ; cut off, scraps of leather, dirty bags, a I sack of corn meal, old boots, smoked j sausages, the ashes and brands that re- ; mamed since the last smoking, stumps of i brooms, half a barrel of rotten apples, j together with rats, bugs, earwigs, sow | bugs, and all the vermin usually found I in damn dirt. Two gentlemen told us the next morn- , ing that we did not dream half what ' they saw when they went to the house ! in the back way. The window near the । door had twelve lights, two wood, two of । hats, four of paper, one of a bunch of i rags, one a pillow, and the rest of glass, ; more or less broken and patched. Under this window stood several cooking pots, and several that were not used for cooking, and as they were debating whether to enter or not, such a squall arose from a quarreling man and woman that they feared violence if they entered. Two of us entered the front way and I escaped the circus and museum heard ' and seen by our friends. Amazing j change! a front door, a piano, pictures, i books, and smiles. The back door princi- j pally old junk, slop barrels and quarrels, i Oh, what contrasts can our most vivid j imagination picture. But what else can ! one or could one expect from a person I Who stored his implements and ma- I clnncry out of doors and spent most of his time at the grocery or saloon talking of hard times and the down-trodden I agriculturalist. My friends, the foregoing is no fancy 1 sketch, and its counterpart can be found in nearly every farming commui i y. Then the question is raised why the boys will not stay upon the farm, but seek the glare, glitter, and achievements of town or city life? This class of farmers have no money to pay for or time k read the agricultural paper, but will eagerly subscribe for some political blatherskites thrice told tales, and can always be relied upon to have a bottle ot whisky in the haymow or in a hollow log. These things ought not so to be; this is what brings the high, the noble, the exalted pursuit of agriculture into disrepute, and causes many of their neighbors to hang their heads in very shame. Such farmers as these are invariably dodging their creditor and waiving protest; their notes are seen everywhere, and finally they make a big sale, pay all their debts, but the Sheriff is the auctioneer. — Farm. Field and Stockman. Mow to Seed Down Ground. It depends largely, in seeding ground, whether it is to be used for permanent pasture or merely for hay for a year or two and then to be plowed up again. If for permanent pasture, we want the sod very thick, and a variety of grasses, so

’as to be fresh and succulent all through the season. If to cut for hay, we want only one or two kinds of grasses, so that they will ripen together. For a permanent pasture, a mixture of clover, timothy, red top, blue grass, fescue, orchard grass and some others may be used. From half a bushel to a bushel of seed per acre is none too much, as the sod must bo very thick to withstand the drouth and tramping upon it. The best grass for hay is timothy, as it sells the highest in the market. The ground may bo seeded on wheat, rye, barley or oats, but it is not a good plan to sow the grass seed alone as, if this is followed, a crop of weeds is sure to grow, | and a grain crop is much better than a weed crop. If seeding down is the main object, a less amount of grain should be sown. Some practice sowing lightly of timothy in the fall, and sowing with timothy and clover in the spring. From four to eight quarts of timothy seed per acre is used and from four to six quarts of elover seed. In mixing grasses always have one kind in greater proportion than the re°t. Oats make an excellent crop to seed with, as they shake the ground and keep out the weeds. But they must be sown early to do well. Barley is also good. Grass seed should bo sown after the grain, and not harrowed in deeply, because the seeds are so small. If the weather is dry at harvest, cut the stubble high, so i as to keep the young grass plants still shaded. A lieavy seed for mowing lands is one bushel of red-top, one-half bushel ol timothy and eight pounds of clover seed, For permanent pastures the amount and the kind of seed will greatly depend upon the richness of the soil and the amount of moisture in it. Grassseed may be sown on the snow on wheat or rye. It will settle down and as the ground softens the seeds go in and soon start growing. — Practical Farmer. Birds Fulling Corn. Blackbirds are often very troublesome ! about pulling corn when it first breaks ground and until it is too tall for them to handle. They have no fear of the lines around the field that would keep off the crows, and they are too numerous to be shot, and too brave to be afraid of scarecrows, or of a man with a gnu when he is more than a gunshot away. Corn they want, corn they will have, and it is the best way to let them have it. A peck of corn scattered around the borders of a ten-acre field, putting the larger part on the edge next the swamp, where they most do congregate, will usually satisfy their appetite while the corn is growing, unless they are very numerous, and they would rather pick it up than puli it from the hill. If one feeding is not enough, give another, as it takes but little more corn anil much less labor than it would I to replant the field. Do not poison the 1 corn, as the blackbirds, robins and other birds that would eat it are truuble-omo I only a few days in the year, and the |

farmers’ friends, in these days of numerous insect pests, the rest of the time. — American Cultivator. THE PIGGERY. I’igs In Clover. Pigs in clover, or those fed in clover ' either in the field or in the pen, are the best pork producers. The old idea was - to make pork from slop ami dirty dish : water, and a sole diet of corn, but now ’ that pork is made from good milk, clover and grasses, it is better, sweeter and । more commonly used. Grass-fed hogs, or those which are fed clover until autumn, and then fattened on the new i corn, are nearly alwaysexempt from hog i I cholera and other swine diseases. Clover ■ | and other sweet grasses are essentials in | । the diet of pigs as well as in other animals. The farmer that feeds his cows and horses on an excellent diet of corn, and denies them clover and grass, would be voted down as a lunatic or fool. Yet about the same sort of system has been applied to tiie swine for many years past, I and growers as well „. consumers are j awakening to the fact that sweeter and । more wholesome pork is I cing sent to । the markets. Germany and Pram- ■com- | ! plain of our pork, and often with good , I cause. No country in the world is so ] well adapt to swine raising as this, and more pork than can be consumed in the ’ States is grown every year. Foreign i markets are thus essential to the swine ! raisers, but these cannot be opened ami ’ kept supplied unJess more pains are j taken in sending abroad good, sweet, I wholesome pork. American pork has I received a bad name on the other side, but with the improved method of raising I swine on good sweet clover and grasses, and fattening them on new corn, there ! is every possibility of greater success in ; the business. As it may not be practical always to ; j pasture the swine out, it is a good plan ■ । to adopt a system of soiling which will; I keep the hogs supplied with green food in summer, and roots or silage in the winter. If the hogs arc given the run of the stack tney will subsist for months with but very little grain. A ration of hay or dry grass during the season when the pastures are covered I ! with snow will be very acceptable, and ' ■ greatly reduce the cost of wintering the I herd. Our pig money must now come ■ I out of tire pasture, the clover, the orchard, and other cheap foods. The old ; ' demand may have been for pork in the ; j lard sense, but the coming demand is for i meat in the muscle sense, and good, ■ sweet, wholesome meat at that. The ! active hog. which has the range of the * । fields, will produce this kind of meat I ! much faster and better than the inactive, j I sluggish one, penned up and fed on an । i exclusive diet of corn. Tim sluggish one I I will till up with fat, and the secretions ! will be dried up and the blood will I j thicken. The system of such an animal j is always more susceptible to disease, ■ and besides it is always more costly to produce fat than good meat, and to-day it is the least value as a food. The old idea seems to have been tobe- । gin to fatten the hogs as soon as born, . and as a result nothing but fat pork was produced. People liked this less and less, and then when the germs of a deadly disease were found in the great rolls . of fat the consumers became frightened. . Pork was no longer the meat of the people. The hog that is brought up to , make muscle and lean meat, and then , when needed for the market fattened on r corn, always pleases the butcher and the . J consumers. A ccmplcte change has thus [ ( been inaugurated in swine breeding, and ; i for the better. The result is going to be r more profitable for the breeders, and \ more and superior pork for the eonsuml ers. It will also blot out the bad name which American pork has received abroad quicker and more effectually than all governmental interference. The 1 whole trouble and remedy lies in the ' hands of +he swine breeders. —IF. E. ’ Farmer, in American Cultivator. 1 Keeping Sows to Breeding. ) The fact is not so well known as it

j should be that from three to five . after dropping her litter of pigs a sJW . wifi mate again. It is best with lar<> nr fully grown sows, to let them have as often as possible, as in our experience they do better and produce more thrift^t growing pigs by this method. The erf planation of this paradox is that thi method prevents the sow from gettin . fat, so as to injure her breeding, as shit is sure to do if left too long without pigtO suckling her. Sows thus treated only bear but will need liberal feeding* as the growing foetus and suckling pigs are drawing on the sow, besides the nour« ishment required to maintain her own existence.— A mcrlcan Cultivator. Selling Young I’igs. There is no way of making profit from hogs so easily and certainly as keeping a number of first-class breeding sows a’ “ selling the pigs when from six to ten weeks old. The price of pigs at this age generally represent both in the eye of the seller and buyer u considerable share of what the pig will grow to if properly fed. It is true the young pig makes more weight from same amount of feed than he does when older, but generally the man who sells the pig gets this profit, or a good share of it, without the expense of feeding. Notes. Uniformity in size, color and weight | will add to the value of a lot of hogs when they are ready to market. Rivalry among swine breeders is a good thing, so long as it doe.s not lead them to disparage the merits of others Os the seven to nine months roquueoß to feed a hog for market, from five to seven of them should be spent in good pastures. In a majority of cases it is the breeder and feeder that looks after the little things in the management that makes ! the most money. It is to the credit of hog breeders that • in comparison with other classes of stock i ’ fully as much improvement has been made, says the lowa Farmer. The best profit is not realized with the greatest weight in swine, says an exchange. It is medium weight ami early maturity that, is the most desirable. Many beginners get discouraged in attempting to improve the quality of their j hogs because prices get low, but this i should only be an inducement for further improvement, says a writer. THE HOUSEHOLD. Drying Out Rubber KooH, Many farmers would wear rubber boots ; more than they do if they knew how to I get them dry inside. A wet rubber boot ' is about the most uncomfortable fhiug 1 i one can put on his feet. Mr. M. 11. C. i Gardner, of Orange County, N. Y., tried hot oats, hot sand and a hot oven, with . poor success, and was about ready to 1 । give up rubber boots when he hit upon I the plan for drying >hown in thvillustra-j Jons. A stout wire is bent as shawnry I with loops large enough to admit the j । boot legs. There is a hook at the back to I hold the wire in place when put over th* J nil XS e stovepipe. The boots are thus out of ; the way and when a tire is kept overnight thev are perfectly dry and warm in the morning.— Kurai New Yorker. flints to Housekeepers. j It is said that sciatica may be cured by applying a coating of (lowers of sulj phur to the afflicted limb. Gold rope is much used for picture I frames. It should not be more than half i an inch in diameter, except for large pictures. Hemp and manilia are alsc | used; but hemp is better, for it is ; smooth. । A good plan for keeping butter cool I and sweet in summer is to fill a box with I sumd to within an inch or two of the top; | sink the butter yar?-in—।, ' thoroughly wet the sand with cold , water. Cover the box air-tight. The ' box may be kept in the kitchen. Foi: tender feet, take two quarts of ' cold water and add one tablespoonful of । bay rum and two tablespoonfuls of ammonia. The feet should be soaked in this for ten minutes, throwing the water upward to the knees. Rub dry with a crash towel, and the tired feeling will be gone. A useffL cement for mending earthern or stone jars, stopping leaks in the ; seams of tin pans or iron kettles, or j tightning loose joints of iron or wood, is I made by mixing litharge and glycerine Ito a thick cream. This will resist acids I heat and cold, if the article is not used I until the cement has hardened. ' j Macaroni should be used much more | than it is. It is a very good substitute , for potatoes when that vegetable is ' I scarce and high, as it is this year. Many physicians object seriously to the use of j , old potatoes after they have begun to I i sprout, and on their own tables use macaj roni instead. The. simple ways of pre- ’ paring this dish everybody knows. j Rattan and willow chairs should be , cleaned, like straw matting, with salt , and water. First thoroughly remove ' the dust. Then wring a clean cloth out of salt and water, rubbing chair or malting dry witii the other hand as you gq on, or, at any rate, as quickly as y Ou can. so that it may retain none of tbg t moisture.

A Fault of th© Scliooh. F Past>f wide educational experience re thl >ther day, this story of a small rapt* f whom she found in great rs an eS a ° ver ll is lessons. When she _'rite-^at had been his particular •A hat day, ho stated this arduous t fttminghn has two red apples, and ) crSythi? 33 two, how many red apples diVic Be J toth Aether?” ^^^thard?” the asked. hard,” he said, sadly. But surely,” she replied, “you know’ already that two and two make four; there can be no trouble about that?” “Os course not,” w-as the pathetic response. “Os course I know that well enough, Mrs. . But the process!— . 't’s the process that wears me out.” No one who has had much to do with schools, and especially with public schools, can help seeing the tremendous force of this infantile sarcasm. Multitudes of things which come so naturally into a child’s mind that they might almost be taken for granted, are virtually taken from him, and offered him again in such a formal shape, and so environed with definitions and technicalities and “processes,” that he is almost made unconscious that b® ever knew them. It is not confined to arithmetic. Many children who have grown up under ‘fei^cated influences write - better En<»H®—certainly more idiomatic, and often njo^re correct—before studying English ^mmar than afterward. ‘ Thev write ’ speak, by ear, and the rules confuse mere than they help. In the atudy of natural history I have heard exercises with “object lessons” that seemed to me expressly contrived to stultify ; the human intellect; and this especially iin normal schools, where one young ; pupil stands up before the others, makj mg believe that she knows everything, and her classmates sit before her making believe that they know' nothing. It is necessarily all a form and a “process.” They go through the questions which the children are supposed to ask about the object; and of course, if the real children do’not ask the right questions, they must be taught to ask them. They I I must wish to know what they ought to i wish to know,not what they really desire. When the young teacher faces real children, therefore, instead of studying their actual minds, she proceeds on a method previously arranged. It did not surprise me, in the discussion which elicited the anecdote with which 1 began, when a later speaker, . I a man who had spent many successful; j years as teacher and school superintend- , ; ent, expressed frankly the opinion that ■ I there were many schools which simply i stultified their pupils instead of enlight- ' ■ cning tiiein, and w hen he asserted, as a I general proposition, that at least 30 per - cent, of them in our public schools 1 were devoted simply to teaching over again to children, in a more elab-' orate way, what they already knew perfectly well in their own way, the time being given, in other words, to the “process,” not to the real thing It is some- j thing, I suppose, which all the best . teachers will admit as an evil, and something which they all struggle against all I the time. At some points certainly I ' there have been much improvement j made; thus reading and spelling are ; taught far more easily than they once —’■’i—.c',-- ■ —i. a J*** way । The same is true, W Htty schools, with i ’ grammar, geography, and history; and ’ when one considers what large schools i our teachers have, and of what hetero- j geneous materials, and under what | i uncertain supervision, one may well ; j wonder that they accomplish as • much as they do. They certainly ! j achieve almost everywhere some train- ■ ing in the elementary duties of obedi- * once, order, self-control, patience, and ' propriety. This is much ; and the time is j coming when they will impart more of ■ the substance of intellectual training, with less of the “process.”— Sabbath i Recorder. The Wizard’s Latest, Thomas A. Edison, the famous elec- ; trician and inventor, is preparing to astonish the world, by the exhibit he will make at the World’s Fair in 1893. “I shall have two or three things to show,” said he recently, “which I think will both surprise and please the visitors to the electrical department of the Exposition, which by the way, lam fully c nvinced, will be a great success. Two of these inventions are not yet ready to be described, or even characterized. : The third, however, is so nearly per- ’ fected. that Ido not hesitate to say I something about it. I hope to be able by the invention to ; throw upon a canvas a perfect picture ! cf anybody, and reproduce his words, j Thus, should Patti be singing some ! where, this invention will put her full > length picture upon the canvas so per- : fectly as to enable one to distinguish | every feature and expression of her 1 face, see all her actions and listen to the entrancing melody of her peerless । voice. The invention will do for the j eye what the phonograph has done for I the voice, and reproduce the voice as TAveli, in fact. nmrA cloarlv. I have alI readv perfected the invention so far as i >°be able to picture a prize fight—the lAwo men, the ring, the intensely in- . ierested faces of those surrounding it—i and you can hear the sound of the I blows, the cheers of encouragement and i the yells of disappointment. And when • this invention shall have been per- ■ ! fected,” said Mr. Edison with the trace ! of enthusiasm’s glow in his face, “a man . । will be able to sit in his library at home, ' and, having electrical connection with 1 the theater, see reproduced on his wail or a piece of canvas the actors, and hear ; anything they say. I can place one so ! it will command a street corner, and after letting it register the passing • sights for a time, I can have it cast them on a canvas so that every feature and । motion of the passers, even to the , twitching of the face, can be seen, and ’ if a friend passed during the time, you may know it. This invention will be called the ‘Kinetograph.’ The first i half of the word signifies ‘motion,’ and I the last ‘write,’ and both together mean ■ the portrayal of motion. The invention combines photography and phonograp by. ” i Mr. Edison occupied nearly an acre with his exhibit at the Paris Exposition. As he wishes to show at Chicago all that he exhibited at Paris, and numerous other things besides, he is desirous of being accorded a greater space in

1893. The electrical exhibit is ex- 1 pected to be the wonder of the Exposition. Removing Hie Kpnlermls. A few days since, says the Boston Herald, at the Massachusetts general hospital, a little instrument, invented by Dr. Mixter, wonderful in its simplicity, constructed so as to separate quite large portions of epidermis from the subcutaneous tissue, was used for the first time. The patient had been etherized, and had undergone operations for the removal of a cancerous growth from the left bre^ast, and the wound thus made was quite an extensive one. The instrument was Applied to the anterior portion of the right thigh, and three strips, about an inch wide by six inches long, were taken off and transplanted to the exposed surface of the breast. The operation of removing the skin and transplanting it to its new quarters did not occupy more than about six minutes. A very few days sufficed to restore the denuded surface of the thigh to its normal condition, leaving few traces of the reparative process to which it has contributed, and, other things being equal, the surface from which the cancerous tumor had beea excised will heal over by first intention, thus saving the patient from a prolonged and painful period of convalescence. Os course, every precaution is taken, by the use of sterilizing processes and anticeptic so-oner-ation thoroughly aseptic, so that the chances oi inflammatory disturbances from bacterial sources are reduced to the lowest minimum. The thickness of these delicate human plasters probably does not exceed one-sixtieth of an inch, and the resulting hemorrhage is not more than what

one sees on a slight abrasion of the skin, or it may be compared to the sanguineous oozing one gets from too earnest tonsorial attention. The advantages of the new over the old method oi epidermic detachment are obvious. It is expeditious, the sections of shaved cutiI cle are much larger and of more uniform thickness than can be obtained by the most dexterous manipulator, and the chances of successful grafting are enhanced by the fact that the skin is transplanted while the cellular elements are in their full vital activity. How Much Ko You Know? “General ignorance questions,” as they are called, being now in favor with ■ those who are intrusted with the duty oi ( educating our boys, says the London j A'eics, the private schoolmaster lias taken the trouble to suggest a string oi ! appropriate tests of knowledge of faj miliar things. The chief of these are: , “Why does an apple fall to the ground?” i “What is a jury and how are jurors elected?" “Explain as you can the ac- । tion of the electric telegraph.” “Whal I keeps the earth in position?” “How would you spend a present of £5 in books?” “Why do most leaves turn ’ color in autumn?” “What is the differ- ; ence between tradition and history, art ; and science, parable and allegory, mur- < der and homicide, simulation and disi simulation, bill and act?” “iSame some of the chief English daily and weekly newspapers.” “Name some of the planets that move round the sun.” Why does marble appear colder to the touch tnan wood?” “How many senses fcn-rn-we?” The author of this little plot | does not conceal the fact that he looks I forward to eliciting some “amusingly ' original answers.” Big boys, he thinks might also be tried with those old-es-tablished “posers:” “What would hapI pen if any irresistable body came into 1 contact with an immovable post?” and I “How is it that big rivers always ‘make for’ and flow through large towns?” The judicious schoolmaster will probably deem it fair to postpone these diverI sions till the holidays are over. Talleyrand's Residence In England. I resided in England during the whole of the dreadful year 1793, and a portion of 1791. There I was welcomed with the utmost kindness by the Marquis of I Lansdowne, whom I had known in : Paris; he was a nobleman of lofty views, gifted with abundant and lively powers of elocution. He was still free from the infirmities of old age. Some people brought against him the commonplace accusation of being too clever—an accusation by means of which, in England I as well as in France, people keen at a : distance all the men whose superiority ! gives them umbrage. That is the only reason why he never was in office again. । I saw him often, and he kindly sent me I word every time he received the visit , j of some distinguished persons of whom : he thought I should like to make acquaintance. It was at his house that I I met Mr. Hastings, the Doctors Price and i Priestly. There also I formed an inti- , । macy with Mr. Canning, Mr. Romilly, . Mr. Robert Smith. M. Dumont, Mr. , i Bentham, and Lord Henry Petty, the ; j son of Lord Lansdowne, who at that > ; time was already looked upon as one of . ; the hopes of England. All the friends , of Mr. Fox, with which gentleman I . i had, on several occasions, been on intii I aia ...j , ! stay in London as pleasant as possible. . —Century . j Very Careful. j i “Like many admirable people.” writes I a correspondent, "our Biddy had but i I one fault. She was tidy, honest and - obliging, but she would put kerosene j on the tire. Her mistress had remoai strated in vainand one morning entered , the kitchen in time to see her with the i oil-can tilted at a dangerous angle over 1 a grate where there were still a few r sparks. > “ ‘Now, Biddy, stop at once!’ cried I she, indignantly. ‘How often have I ; • told you not to use a drop of oil on the ‘ Ure’’ i I "Oh, sure, ma'am,’said Biddy, as she ; reluctently set dow n the can, ‘it niver I : yet did anybody harm.’ i “ ‘There are accidents every day from ) the careless use of kerosene.’ “ ‘Ah, yis, ma'am, but not when a I body's careful like me! But folks is i that afraid of having it used! Why, ■ Mrs. Windsor, at me last place, locked ■, up the can for fear I’d get at it! I rej member that morning well, for we'd all I had a bit of a fright.’ . I “ ‘Whv were you frightened?’ I i “ ‘Well, ye see, ma’am, that morning ■ ’ I'd put on a dhrop too much, and it > । blew’ all the stove covers off, and split i { the fireboard!’” — loath-a Companioih. 1 t

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