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REGARDING MEN AND WOMEN
According to a Woman Writer lira
Are Loyal and “Xaay to Get
Along With.”
Various apt, incisive comment* mag*
by Gail Hamilton almost half a century
ago on “Men and Women" are in most
respects equally full of force to-day,
with ail the vaunted progress woman
has made, says the New York Tribune.
"Men are strong; they do things, and
don't mind it,” admits this vigorous
woman writer. "They can open doors
in the dampest, weather. They can un
strap trunks without breaking a blood
vessel, turn keys in a moment which
women have lost their tempers and
lamed their fingers over for half an
hour; look down precipices and not be
dizzy. . . . You may strike them
with all your might on the chest, and it
doesn’t hurt them in the least (I mean
If you are a woman.) They never grow
| nervous and cry. They go upstair*
! three at a time. They put one hand
I on a four-rail fence and leap it without
touching. In short, they do everything
easily which women try to do and can
not.
“Moreover,” continues this commen
tator, “men are so ‘easy to get along
with.’ They are conveniently blind and
benevolent. Women criticise you, not
unjustly, perhaps, but relentlessly.
They judge you In detail, men only lfe
the whole. If your dress is neat, well
fitting and well toned, men will noit no
tice It, except a few man-milliners and
& few others who ought to be. If you
will only sit still, hold up your head
and speak when you are spoken to, you
can be veary comfortable. I do not mean
that men cannot and do not appreciate
female brilliancy, but If your are a good
listener and in the right receptive mood
you can spend an hour very pleasantly
without It.
“But a woman finds out In the first
three minutes that the fringe on your
dress is not a match. In four she has
discovered that the silk of your sleeves
is frayed at the edge. In five that the
binding of the heel of your boot le
worn out By the sixth she has satis
factorily ascertained what she suspected
the first moment she ‘set eyes on you,’
that you trimmed your bonnet your
self. The seventh assures her that your
collar is only ‘imitation;’ and when yon
part, at the end of ten minutes, she has
calculated with tolerable accuracy the
cost of your dress, has leveled her men
tal glasses at all your innocent little
! subterfuges and knows to a dead cer
I tainty your past history, present cir
; cumstances and future prospects. Well,
what harm if she does? None in par
ticular. It is only being stretched on
the rack a little while. You have no rea
son to be ashamed. Your boots are only
beginning to be shabby, and we all know
the transitory nature of galloon. Your
fringe is too dark, but you ransacked
the city and did your best, ’angels could
do no more.’ -You trimmed your bonnet
yourself and saved two dollars, which
wa3 just what you intended to do. Your
I lace is not real, according to the cant of
i the shopkeepers, but it is real—real
j cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may be, and yon
; never pretended it was Honiton or
! point. . . .
“But if men, in their strength and
I courage and independence, are enviable,
I men in their gentleness are irresistible,”
; concluded the writer. “You expect g*n
; tleness in women. It is their attribute
and characteristic. You do not admire
i its presence so much as you deplore or
[ condemn its absence. But manly ten
j derness has a peculiar charm . . .
and you meet it everywhere—in the
house and by the wayside ic
i city and country, under broad
cloth and homespun. You may
I travel from one end of the country to
i the other, and meet not only civility
| but the most cordial and considerate
| kindness. You may be as ugly as it is
possible for virtue to be, and tired and
travel-stained and stupid, ar.d your
neighbor of a day will show you all the
little attentions you could claim from a
father or brother or husband. . . .
Women —ould better improve the
rights they have before going mad after
others they know not of. If men will be
so good as to do the law making, and
stock Jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel
| ing and stump speaking, I shall be great
: !y obliged to them. . . . Am I en
■ thusiastic over this involuntary out
gushing of the stream of kindness which
flows so continually from men to us
ward? I have a right to be. A nation
of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, mag
nificence, but to womanhood, to the
highest impulses of human nature, to the
love element of the universe, Is a thing
to be enthusiastic about.”
The Picture Hat.
"I witnessed an amusing incident at
ore of the local theaters the other
evening,” remarked the theater-goer,
“A woman, wearing a large picture
hat, was seated directly In front of an
elderly man, who was straining hie
neck In an endeavor to see what waa
happening on the stage, and, of course,
It was only possible for him to see but
one-third of the performance.
“The second act had begun, and I
could plainly see that his anger waa
Increasing. At last, when he could
atand it no longer, he lightly tapped
the woman on the shoulder, and, In aa
gentle tone as he possibly could muj>
ter, said:
“ 'Madam, pardon me, but I paid twa
dollars for this seat, and your hat—'
" ‘My laat cost $25, sit-r-rl’ came tha
haughty reply.
“The conversation was at an end.*
—Philadelphia Preas.
A Busy Family.
“Wharia BUI?”
“Huntin’ rabbits."
"An’ Dick?” .
“Haulin’ firewood to eoatc ’em."
“An.’ tha old manT”
“Tradin’ a bale o’ cotton far a box
pf 1 " — A thBtl
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BERRIES FOR MARKET.
It Para t* Raise Them. Prarltsl Iks
Crap la DlspasaS Of la tha Rlflkt
Way aa4 Plaaa.
Having baen asked, by a farmer sub
scriber, if it will pay to grow berries
for market, in reply I will aay "yes"—
if the business is managed right, and
the crop disposed of in the right way
and place. A good many of our
towns are not properly supplied with
berries; what they get If any, are
second class—the overflow or refuse
from the cities, where the market la
often glutted. The commission men
send circulars out before the berries
are ripe, giving prices of berries shipped
from the south, inducing many heme
growers to ship. By the time their ber
ries get ripe the demand is supplied,
prices drop, and the berries being a per
ishable product, have to be sold for
what they will bring.
My advice is to grow berries for local
market towns that are not well supplied
Such places can be found in the west;
land can be bought for less than half
that close to iarge cities, pickers are
cheap, and, as a rule, more reliable.
Berries that get too ripe on account of
rain, and which will not do to ship, can
be eold In the home market; all the
rough handling of the railroad mem,
shipping expenses, commissions, etc.,
are saved, also crates and boxes. Them
when consumers get fresh, wholesome,
home grown berries, they often get twice
as many, and the growers in the local
market often can regulate the price.
It is a mistake to plant too large an
acreage. We have to pay two cents a
quart for pickers; one cent for straw
berries and blackberries and one and
one-half to two cents for raspberries.
The pickers can make good wages, i
have had boys and girls under 16 years
old make a dollar a day. I, 18 years
ago, sold as high as $40 worth of straw
berries in a day. I remember selling
five dollars worth of raspberries from
one picking off one row the length often
acres. Blackberries, 12 or more years
ago, were not profitable, as so many
grew wild; but of late years, growing
blackberries has become more profitable
—Jacob Faith, in Midland Farmer.
PROTECTION FOR PLANTS.
a Simple System Which WTTI Pay tot
Itself in the Coarse ef a
Single Week.
Market gardeners, and even the mak
er of a kitchen garden, feel the need oi
some wholesale means of protecting
newly set plants from the drying effect*
of sun or air. A cloudy day Is usually
taken for transplanting, but the sun
may come out with scorching heat at
any moment, and much harm be done te
unshaded plants. Make a reel, as shown
in the accompanying illustration, and a
lot of wire supports, using No. 12 wire
Make the reel roller and the wire sup
ports about a foot wide.
Now buy a lot of cheap cotton cloth
PROTECTOR IN OPERATION.
a. yard wide, and as long as the rows ol
plants over whtch It is to be used. The
cloth can be divided into three stripe,
each strip being tacked at one end to a
reeil, and at tbe other end to a 15-inch
rod of wood. Stick the sides of the reel
Into the earth at one end of the row with
wire supports at intervals along the row,
and pull the cloth along over the plants,
fastening the end at the laaf, wire sup
port, as shown in the cut. Occasionally
slip a wire support down over the cloth
to keep the latter from blowing off the
wire supports below it. Wind up the
cloth on the reel when the plants no
longer need cover. — Orange Judd
Farmer.
TRe Rlclit Way ef Frniiln*.
Set a green hand to pruning trees,
where limbs o? any size are to be re
moved. and the chances are ten tr- one
that he will commence on the U$per
side of the limb and saw it off, sawing
through until, by its own weight, it falls,
tearing down the bark and wood, inflict
ing an ugly wound which it may require
years to heal, and which, if not carefully
protected from the weather, will cause
such decay as to destroy the tree. To
prevent injury to the tree, saw one
fourth or one-third through on the under
side, and then saw on the upper side, or,
with very large limbs, to have them sup
ported by a crotched pole, held by an as
sistant below.—N. T. Tribune-Farmer.
Starting Eurlr Vegetable*.
Select a warm, sunny place, dig a
trench four feet deep, fill with horse ma
nure well packed down and made moist,
put on six inches fine soil, cover with
| sash and let stand a few days. Then
j plant sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes
and celery. If the bed is big enough, cut
choice Irish potatoes to one eye, fill
small pasteboard boxes with soil anfi
plant one In each- When soil is warm
enough they can easily be transplanted.
Cover the bed with heavy straw matting
and boards in cold storms. The back
j part of the bed should be raised so the
saeh slopes to the eouth to catch the rays
of the sun and carry off rain.—M. Pest,
in Farm and Homo
The milker should wash his hands
thoroughly with soap and water just
i before milking. Under no oondltions
| should the hands be wet during the
| ■liking.
ASPARAGUS HAS A LINEAGE
Romani Hold Vegetable in High Es
teem Many Tears Before
Chriat.
Of all food plants there is none which
has been so long known or been pos
sessed of so distinguished a lineage as
the asparagus. Its records reach back
almost to the beginning of authentic his
tory, and it is mentioned by the comic
poet Cratinus, who died about 425 B C.
The Romans held the vegetable in high
esteem. The elder Cato wrote a work
which is still extant, “De re Rustica.”
and it treats at length of the virtues and
proper cultivation of asparagus. Pliny,
in his natural history, written about
60 A. D., has much to say about it. He
feelingly observes: “Of all the products
of your garden your chief care should be
asparagus,” and he devotes several
chapters to its many good qualities and
the best methods of raising it. He as
serts that the soil about Ravenna was so
favorable to its production that three
heads grown in that district had been
known to weigh a Roman pound. This
pound seems to have been about equal
to 11 ounces in our day, so it would ap
parently have taken four of the stalka
to have reached a pound of our weight.
The asparagus being essentially a
southern plant, it is possible that the
stock growing In Italy was of a more
vigorous growth than that of our north
ern clime. It is found all around the
shores of the Mediterranean and
branches off into four or five distlnet
species besides the one ordinarily used
for edible purposes.
WON BY ORDINARY TALK.
Lack of Arm Gestures and Conversa
tional Tone Wins Heart of
Doubtful Maiden.
Congressman William H. Jackson, of
Maryland, was engrossed in discussing
with a number of colleagues the deca
dence of oratory,saystheNewYorkHer
aid. "Sane people are not emotional,"
declared the congressman, “and the con
versational delivery of speech carries
as much weight with an intelligent
audience as does the effort of a declaim
er who indulges in brilliant periods with
an arm-swinging acompaniment.”
"You are right," said a listener, “and
your statement reminds me of a young
lady who had two suitors. Both men
had about the same advantages and
prospects, but gossip declared that the
girl would decide in favor of the man
who was a lawyer, for he knew better
how to present and win his case. Goe
3ipe erred; the lawyer was rejected.
Later it was learned from a friend In
whom the betrothed had confided her
reason for her choice.
“ ‘Harry is convincing, but John Is
Just as convincing and does not have to
move his arms every time he wants to
say something.'"
BIG BEE RANCH IN ’FRISCO
Public School Principal of Coast City
Harvests a Third of a Ion
of Honey a Season.
There is a bee ranch with more than
1.000. 000 bees in the heart of one of the
densest residence districts of San Fran
cisco. It is owned by Philip Prior, prin
cipal of a public school, and is In the
little back yard of his home. For ten
years he has kept his bees there, has
harvested about a third of a ton of
honey each season and has been at no
expense ' food for his interesting and
industrious pets. Although it is a dis
tance of two and one-half miles from
the Prior bee ranch to Golden Gate park,
the bees make the trip there, collect
loads of honey and get back to the hive
in two minutes, making a bullet-like
flight at the surprising rate of 150 miles
an hour. Mr. Prior has demonstrated
this by having an observer watch cer
tain bee-favored places in the park and
exactly timing the arrival there of bees
he purposely sprinkled with flour as
they issued from a hive. He has also
kept time on the absence of the whitened
bees.
BIG PROFIT IN BATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $2,000 a Day
for Rooms Alone.
If you doubt’that the nickel and quar
ter business doesn't pay, consider the
money-making propensities of the aver
age seashore bathhouse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1,500 bath compartments. It costs 20
cents to rent one. On a medium hot
summer’s day some $800 are derived
from renting these rooms, for the com
partments are used In the course of the
day by about 4.000 persons. Bathing
suits rent for 25 cents each. There
would be 8.000 of them for such a pavil
ion, which means $1,000 a day if half ol
them are rented once; and it is fair to
assume that three-fourths of the 4,000
bathers pay five cents for the use of a
comb and brush—$150. A total of near
ly $2,000, to say nothing or the proceeds
from restaurant, bar, barber shop and
indoor baths.
Italy’s Emigrants.
In the past 30 years Italy has sent
more than 2.000,000 persons to the
United States, says the World’s Work.
A number of these have returned in the
course of time, taking with them care
fully hoarded savings. A very large
majority have remained in the United
States.
Japs Drink Much Water.
A gallon of water a day is drunk by
every Japanese who practices, as nearly
all do, the gymnastics known as jiujitsu.
Cuba’s Population.
The population of Cuba is now over
1.585.000, which is an increase of more
Lhan ten par cent since 1000.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRA
TOR’S SALE.
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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as
ancHlary administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott deceased, will offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder on a credit until October 15,
1905, at the front door of the Courthouse in New
port, Jackson county, Arkansas, between the
I hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three
o’clock in the afternoon, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF MARCH 1905
all the lands belonging to the estate of Isaac Scott
deceased, lying in Jackson County, Arkansas, to
wit: The s e 1-4 of the s e 1-4 of sec. 12, the n w
1-4 of the n e 1-4 of sec. 13. all in Township 12
north range 3 west; also thirty acres off the north
side of lot 2 of the n w 1-4 and ten acres off north
i side of the e 1-2 of lot 3 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 &11
| in the n w 1-4 of section 7 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 of
| the s w 1-4 of sec. 7, all in Township 12 north
range 2 west.
Said sale being made by virtue of the order of
the Probate Court of Jackson County, Arkansas.
Purchasers will be required to give note with
approved security and a lien to be retained upon
the land to secure the payment thereof.
Possession will be given January 1st, 1906.
Given this 16th day of February, 1905.
J. R. COX,
Ancillary Administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott, deceased.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS, x .
To the Creditors of the Merrill-Sellmeyer Lumber
Company:
You are hereby notified to present your claims
against the Merrill-Sellmeyer Lumber Company
of Corning, Ark., within ninety days for the pur
pose of sharing in the assets of such corporation.
Please verify the claim and file with me or the so
licitors. Respectfully,
W. W. TOLER,
Receiver of Merrill-Sellmeyer Lumber Company,
Knobel, Ark.
JONES & JEFFERY, Solicitors,
40w4 Newport, Ark.
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