Evening gazette, Thursday, June 8, 1899 · page 7

 

 

 

EVOLUTION.

' "A scientist announces that he human
race is an evolution from-the egetable."
—-Dally Paper.. '

If this be true, as Science tells, ’tis very
plain to see

‘In certain folk the influence of marl-zed'

heredity.

;Who can deny, it he shall try to reason out
their heads,

The dads of many a festive dude once
dwelt in cabbage beds?

And then what cannibals they are down
east in Boston town,

Who eat their own relations cooked and
served with bread that’s brown!

For (no one with 'a knowledge of\the facts
behind the scenes

Disputes that they of Boston are descended
all from beans.

And, oh! the politician! How he shows his.

' ancestry

In every secret deal he makes that knows
no honesty!

Just watch him ashe walks along so proud-
ly on the street, _ ‘
And say if there are lacking signs that

he’s a perfect beet!

The lover, too, so soft—eyed, with the ways
of turtle-doves, '

.Whom all the world smiles sweetly on,
whom everybody loves—

’Tis clear that he’s the offspring of that‘

sweet and unabashed
Original potato that in ancient days was
mashed.

But you, Phyllis darling, I cannot believe
that you »

‘Were ever in the garden patch wherein
such plain things grew;

Your fathers were not veg’tables,
everybody knows ‘

That you’re the fair descendant of some

2. sweet and blooming rose.

~I-Iarper’s Bazar.

The Bubble Boy.

By Charles B. Loomis.

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EORGE TRUESDELL had been ‘a
G naughty boy. His mother had said
that as soon as his father came home he
was to be punished. George sat in his
little attic room and looked anxiously
out of the window for his father’s com-
ing

Mr. Truesdell had gone to town with
a load of cabbage—he was a farmer——
Qand George knew that when he came

home and heard. that he had been
naughty he would tell him sorrowfully
ibut firmly to go out in the woodshed,
and—he hated to think of what would
.follow. After that, however, the skies
would be clear. But. that little five
~minutes was what bothered him.

“I wish I had a twin brother who
didn’t mind a licking, and then when I
*cut up papa’d attend to him and think
it was me.”

What was that speck rising out of the

birches, southeast of the road? Is it a .

cow? No; it looks like a bubble as
‘large as a- pumpkin and of all the col-
‘ors of the rainbow. I

Then a gust of wind blows it into his
.room.' It hits the shade cord as
passes it and bursts, and, presto, there
stands .a little fellow the, exact coun-
‘terpart of George.

“Hello!” said George; “who are you ?”

“I’m a boy that loves to be punished.
I love hard work. I love to study. I
love to be sent to bed a half-hour ahead
of time—”

“\Yhy, then you are the fellow I’m
looking for,” said George, impulsively,
“because I hate all those things.
\Yhat’ll you take to live up here and
get punished for .me and do all my
hard work ‘3”

“I’ll do it for my board and keep.”

“Bully for you. What’s your name ‘?”
said George.

"Better call me George, as long as
that’s your name. I’m only two min—
utes old, and I hadn’t thought, of a
name. But you understand that your
folks are not. to know that I’m here.
Whenever I’m needed you’ll hide and
I’ll take your place. The rest of the
time I’ll stay up here. and hide under
the bed if anybody comes into the
room. You can smuggle food up to me.
I won’t need much.”

Just then George looked out of the
window and saw his father driving
home in the ox cart. George groaned
aloud. '

“that’s the matter?”
double, the Bubble Boy.

“0, I’ve been bad, and papa’s going to
flog me." '

asked his

“0, let me be flogged instead. You :

don’t know how I long to feel a little
pain. I think I’ll like it as much as you
like pic.”

A few minutes later Farmer Trues-
dell went to the foot of the attic stairs
and called: “George!”

George’s double, with never a word,
walked out to the woodshcd. Mr. Trues-
dell took a birch rod down from its
resting place on two nails, and told the
boy to hold out his hand. Up in the
window George was staring wildly, and
feverishly breathing.

Phew, what a resounding thwack!
George heard it distinctly. He would
have cried out, but his double never
winced. Four cuts of the rod, and
then the double flung his arms around
Mr. Truesdell’s neck and hugged him.

“Thank you, thank you,” said he.' it
had been a pleasure to him. “As good
as pie,” as he had told George.

N r. Truesd ell was somewhat surprised
at this outburst, but he loved George
dearly, and was overjoyed to think that
the boy could take'his punishment in so
good a spirit, so he returned the caress.

Then the Bubble Boy went into the
kitchen and kissed Mrs. Truesdell and
said: “I’m sorry I was naughty.”

According to schedule he should now
have gone upstairs to relieve George,
who was wondering what was keeping
him, but this Bubble Boy was having

too good a time to go up into the hot .

little room. He saw cake and pies and
he smelled a good chicken dinner cook—
' ing, and. as he had never eaten in his
short life, he determined to stay and
have something.

Mr. Truesd ell had gone out to feed the

hens, and the double sat down by the .

kitchen window and sniffed longingly
at some apples.

“ ’N I’ll have ’napple?" said he. no,

it.

I

l seemed to have mastered small boy diar

' E loci; in a surprisingly short space of

time. His mother—she thought. she was
.his mother—gave him an apple, and
when dinner was served soon after, he
ate three times as much as George ever
did, and was so jolly that Mr. and Mrs.
Truesdell didn’t know what had come
over their boy. .

“George, after dinner I wish you’d
harness up Jack," said the farmer.

get a book on hens that he promised
me. I’m going to give you some hens
. and let you see what you can make out
of them with the aid of the book. I

don’t take much stock in hen books~

myself.”
The Bubble Boy smiled, but said noth-
ing. He was too busy with his third

slice of pumpkin pie to talk. After he‘

had finished it he said: “Can I ride
over with. you ?” ,

“I dunno. Kinder late for you. Well,
seein’ to-morrow’s your birthday, I’ll
let you.’ ‘

So it happened that a few minutes
later George, who had been weeping in

his room, not daring to go down and.

expose the trick he had played upon
his father, and yet feeling very hungry
and contrite, heard a sound of wheels
in the yard and looked out of the win-
dow. There he say the Bubble Boy
backing Jack into the wagon. Ina
few minutes his father came out of the
house and got into the wagon, and then
rode off, his double driving.
V This was too much for the poor boy.
If there was one thing he liked before
another, it was a ride with father, and
at night of all things. He cast himself
upon the bed and sobbed as if his heart
would break.

He rose from the bed and walked as

noiselessly as he could dowu the attic

stairs, but his mother, who was putting
Cynthia to bed, heard him, and called
out in an alarmed tone: “Who’s there?”

“It’s me,” said George in a weak
voice.

_ “You back so soon? Why what’s the
matter? Has anything happened to
your father ? Tell me, child! ”

“I didn’t go with papa,”
George. “That’s why I’ve been crying.

“Why, George, I saw you go,” said his
mother.

“It wasn’t me; it was a Bubble Boy
that floated in this afternoon.”

At this moment: the sound of wheels
was heard in the yard, and George said:
“There they are. They’ll be in in a
minute.” 7

In less than a minute his father came
in. “0, here you are,” he said to George.

sobbed

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“ I’M A BOY THAT LIKES TO BE PUN-
‘ ISHED."

“You ought not to jump out of the back
of the wagon in that. way in the dark.
I stopped and called to you and you
didn’t answer and I thought you were
hurt. And then I saw you running to-
ward the house.”

“That wasn’t me, that was the Bub-
ble Edy.” ‘

His father didn’t notice what he said.

“Where’s that hen book? I want to
show your mother that picture of the
wyandotte.”

“What hen book?”
mystified.

For the next few minutes his answers
were so bewildering to both parents
that they finally told him sharply to
go to bed. ,

“It doesn’t do to keep a. growing boy
up late,” said his father.

As for the double they wouldn’t hear

. another word about him.
- George went upstairs by way of the
pantry and appeased his appetite some-
what, When he entered his room he
; half expected to see his double.
; But as we all know Bubble Boys have
short lives. He looked out of the win-
dow. A silvery ' moon was riding
through steamy clouds‘and he thought
he saw an iridescent bubble floating by
its side.

“I guess I’ll take my own punish-
ments and my own pleasures after
this,” said he as he took a bite of
drumstick. “I know I don’t want any
more mean old doubles like that one."—
.Boston Globe. .

asked George,

\Vould Create a Demand.
A speculator, who had made a large
fortune out of a medicine for a disease

fine market for his patent would be
found in Australia. He knew there was
an enormous number of sheep in that

= country, so he sent out his son to open.

out this most promising connection.
The young man wrote to his father as
follows: “This: is a splendid place.
sheep are as plentiful as reported, and
I have no doubt we could do a glori-
ous business if we had the chance.
But before sending me out here you
i should have sent the sheep disease.
They haven’t got it, and, unlessyou
can let me have a box of microbes, I
had better come home.”—~Stray Stories.

A Sure] Sign.
“Charlie Youngpop’s baby is begin-
ning to talk now.”

.“Has Charlie been boring yozu with
‘ stories about it ?” .

“No. But I sat near him at the lunch-
counter to—day and heard him say ab—
sent-mindedly to the waiter girli
‘Dimme a jinky watter, please.'”-
Catholic Standard and Times.

“I’ve got to drive over to the Gages to

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Cigar Makers’ International Union
I .Is a Strong Body.

 

Beneficiary Features of the Organ!-
zation a. Tovver of Strength—
George ‘W. Perkins, of Uhi- .-
Icago, Is Its President.

 

One Of the most energetic and thor-
oughly organized trades unions in
America is the Cigarmakers’ interna-
tional union. In all movements for the
furtherance of the industrial welfare
of the people the members of this ster-
ling organization throughout the coun-
try are ever in the lead, notwithstand-
ing the fact that there is no branch of
production in which so many discour-
aging conditions have to be met and
counteracted. Prison and child labor,
sweat shop and tenement house produc-
tion, Chinese labor in the far western
states, machine competition and a con-
stant warfare with unprincipled manu-
facturers and dealers who counterfeit
and infringe on the use of their trade
label, these are some of the daily and
never-ending problems and contests
with which the international union and
its affiliated local organizations have to

contend. The admirable beneficiary
features of the union are a tower of
strength, and constitute one of the

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greatest elements of its success.
pays a “loan traveling benefit,” a strike
,benefit. of five dollars per week, three
dollars per week “out-of—work” ben‘e-
fit, five dollars per week sick benefit, a
wife or widowed mother’s funeral ben-
efit and a death benefit, ranging from
$50 to $500, according to length of mem-
bership, which latter sum is payable to
the heirs of a member of 15 years’
standing. '

During the long industrial and com-
mercial depression which began in 1893
the international union paid out in ben-
efits about $425,000 annually, the out-
of—work benefit being the largest item,
and which for the year 1896 amounted
to nearly $176,000. In the 19 years end-
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(President of the Cigarmakers’ Interna-

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benefits paid amounted to over $4,-
000,000.

The strongest and most interesting
features of the union are its system of ‘
high dues, its protective benefits, the
union “blue label” and the initiative
and referendum method of elections,
voting and legislation. The beneficiary
features have a cohesive tendency tha‘t
serves to hold the membership intact
during periods of industrial and com-
mercial stagnation, and the famous
“blue label” is given gratis to all manu-
facturers who pay the union scale of
prices and conform to its general reg-
ulations'.

The most notable achievements of
the international union was the suc-
cessful inauguration of the eight-hour
day on May 1, 1886, and the increasing
of wages from ten to fifty per cent.
wherever its organization extends.

George W. Perkins, of Chicago, one
of the most prominent figures in the
American trades union movement, is
president of the international union.
He was born at Williamsburg, N. Y.,
and has been an ardent advocate of the
principles of trades unionism almost
from his boyhood. He filled acceptably
all the local offices of the craft at Al-
bany, N. Y., and for six years was pres—
ident of the Albany Central Labor
council. He was elected second vice
president of the international union in
1884, first vice president in 1885 and
chosen national president 'in 1891, and
is now serving his third term at the
head of the organization. He is a pleas-
ing speaker, an able debater and well
known for his economic writings on al-
most every phase of the industrial prob-
lems of the times.

The Largest Strong Box.

. The western vault in the United
States mint,'now being constructed in
Philadelphia, will, it is said, constitute
the largest strong box in the World.
Its various dimensions are upward of
.98, 52 and 10 feet, and the several com—
partments into which it is divided will
have a total holding capacity of $112,-
000,000. To silver dollars. it may be
noted, this western vault will be de-
voted entirely; the other two, east and
north, being designed to contain silver
bullion and gold coins respectively.

New Method of Illumination.

A novel way of illuminatinga railway
tunnel has been devised in Paris. Re-
flectors throw the light from many'
electric lamps 16 feet above the sails
to the side of the tunnel, where it is
again reflected by burnished tin, a soft
and agreeable light. The trains auto—
matically turn the current on and off
on entering and leaving the tunnel.

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Waves Faster Than \Vlnd.
Waves travel faster'than the wind
which causes them. and in the bay of
Biscay frequently during the. autumn
and winter in calm weather'a heavy
sea gets up and rolls in on the coast 24
hours before the gale which causes it

 

arrives, and of which it is the prelude.

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HANDY GARDEN MARKER.

 

How to Make :1 Device That Is 0pc:-
nted by Hand. and Does Its “fork
to Perfection.

 

A light marker for making garden.
rows, to be run by hand, may be made
on the plan shown in the illustration.
The bar, a, is a strip of board about
four inches wide and six feet long.
Fastened to the center is a tongue, b,
with wooden braces to keep it firmly
at right angles with a. ’At each end of
the strip, a, is a detachable runner.
The center runner, c, is' attached to the
tongue. It will be explained later.
One of the runner attachments is shown
more plainly at f. It consists of a.
short, Wide runner firmly fastened to
a- strip of board 21/2 feet long. The

 

GARDEN MARKER IN DETAIL.

strip has two bolts with thumb—screws
so it may be fastened anywhere along

The strip, a, has bolt holes

the strip,’ a.
apart, along its entire

two inches
length.

The runners may be set to mark rows
as wide as four feet apart, andvas nar-
row as four inches, and between these
extremes, at any distance in an even
number of inches. The outside run-
ners in the illustration are set just
even with the ends of the strip, a. The
rows are then three feet apart. But
each runner may be set at least a foot
farther from the center, by means of
the bar shown at f, and still lap enough
to fasten. When the rows are to be
less than 2%, feet apart the runners
must change places with each other-
put (1 at e’s end and e at d’s end. Then
the rOst may be narrowed down to
four inches.

The advantage of having the center
runner on the tongue is this: By rais—
ing and lowering the tongue, as need-

. rd, all the runners may be made to

.: “h the ground all the time, even
the ground is uneven. This
7s made of light material
a. so it is no task to drag it

hand—Orange Judd

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Small Holding“. “: ~ of Crop-
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For several years price.
generally, been unremunera; .. .
production consequently limited,
a writer in the North American Revs m:

Farmers have refrained from hiring .‘

help and have contented \themselves
with what could be produced by the
family. I know of no farm that is
yielding to its fullest capacity; yet
some are producing more than twice
as much per acre as adjoining farms
equally good. To illustrate: A farm
of 200 acres, 160 of which are improved,
received careful treatment and above
the average condition of farms in the
vicinity, has a cash income of from
$600 to $700’yearly as the result of the
work of two men. An adjoining farm
of 40 acres, with the same labor, aver-
ages about $500.
acres, with a little more work, gives
about $1,000. Small holdings, diversity
of crops and profitable prices will more
than double our production without
any increase in the- area of improved

land. France, with nine times our pop--

ulation to the square mile, produced
over eight bushels of wheat per capita
for the five years ending with 1897.
Our production for the same period was
but little more than seven bushels per
capita. ~

HORTICUL‘TURAL NOTES.

As a rule all grafts succeed best on
trees of their own species.

No matter when transplanting 'is
done care must be taken to keep the
roots moist.

_ Bury the old bones and the old boots
and shoes under the roots of the grow-
ing fruit trees. .

A little trimming every year is far
better than a heavy trimming once in
three or four years.

Bonemeal and potash in some. forms
are staple fertilizers for any kind of
fruit trees or plants. .

Flowers may not add visible dollar
and cents to the bank account, but they
add imutensely to the comforts ofhlife:

In setting 'out trees dig holes large
enough to stretch the roots out full
length and but little deeper than the
tree is set in the hole—Western Plow-
man. - '

 

Profit from Garden Herbs,

There are certain kinds of vegetables
which have a good sale when dried that
are far too little grown. We allude to
such herbs as sage, thyme, fennel, cori-
ander and the like. ”More money is
often made from a sage bed than from
the same area5fif land planted in any-.
thing else. There is always a good de-
mand for it to use for stufiingwhen
pork, turkey or chicken are to be roast-

A river farm of 40‘

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' excellence by the fame of Williams’ Shaving Soaps.
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ed, and if the herb has to be bought at ’

the grocer’s or drug store, several times
what the farmer could wellafi’ord to
sellit for has to be paid. There would
be more profit in farming if farmers
paid more attention to the small items
which they now neglect, because they
seem too unimportant to be worthyof
notice. .. ~ .

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The sudden Epidemic of’ Grip has startled the coun
try. The doctors confessthey Lave no sure Cure

tbr it, and this is seen to be it no in the sudden death ‘
of Garcia and Ex-Senator Brice and the alarming in-

crease In the death rate.

 

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it kills the germs, arrests the progress of the disease at

once, and thkes all the evil effects out ofrthe system.

Colds, 'GripJnfluenzia,

 Old Coughs, Asthma
I'Catarrh, Pleurisv, Bronchitis
' IT is. A PERFECT REMEDY

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