FARH DEPARTMENT. Farm S(i!. Plant herbs on one side of the garden where they need not be disturbed. If liquid manure is used for water ing plants, dilute one half with water. Calves if to be raised by hand, need particular care from the start, if they make a good growth. It is the safest, wisest and most eco nomical plan for the farmer to grow and kill his own meat One of the most important requi sites in keeping cattle for profit, is to keep the right kind of cattle. Delay in feeding at the regular time, causes 1 he hog to become uneasy and. restless if he does not put in the time squealing. Hogs that are fed a good variety of food, supplied with pure water, and given warm, dry shelter, will not gen erate disease. In many cases if farmers knew the feeding value of different foods, stock could often be put on the market at a better profit By planting in long straight rows and using the garden cultivator, the work of giving clean cultivation may be greatly reduced. One of the principal reasons for trees only bearing every other is that they exhaust themselves by over-bearing and it requires a year to recuperate. If a young tree is growing very fast it will be best head back half its yearly growth, for trees that, grows so rapidly are apt to get bark-bound and split open; they blossom, but rarely bear fruit, as the blossoms fall off. To make such cutting back most effec tive it shoul j be done when the trees are in full leaf. After a fair trial, the bush lima bean hai certainly come to stay. It is very difficult if not impossible under present conditions, to feed a stunted calf with profit. With fruits it is rarely a good plan to risk seedlings, the better plan is to plant standard varieties. Troperly managed, a fruit farm ought to be made readily profitable in a grain or dairy section. Because a sow farrows a small litter the first time, is no criterion of what she will do the nxt Because a hungry pig will eat almost any kind of slop that is given them is not a sign that it is good for them. The forcing systems, if not carried too far, will produce more pounds, for a given amount of feed than the grad ual systems. 1 The superior animals are an example of what can be done, and should be a 'strong incentive for others to improve if possible. The peach and plum are nearly enough related so that one can be suc cessfully budded on the other. Peach stocks have no advantage worth not ing, but the prevalence of yellows may make it advisable to bud the peach on plum stocks. This is especially re commended for places where the soil is too heavy for successful growing of the peach on its own roots. American Cultivator. Home Hints. Iron or block tin plates are the best for baking pastry. To starch shirt-bosoms and cuffs, rub into both sides of the linen as much hot starch as it will take. When dried, add cold starch for the gloss Dissolve a quarter ounce of gum arabic in a pint of hot water, strain and let it cool. Add gradually one ounce of fine raw starch and the white of one egg. Apply with sponge or rag to the outside of the linen. lioll up in a cloth, and iron, without sprinkling, in one hour. You can ap ply a little hot water with a cloth just in the track where your iron is to go if the starch baa dried too quickly. Putting a flax seed under the lid of the eye to get out a cinder chich has accidentally lodged there may seem a curious method of abolishing a nuis ance, but is nevertheless quite effective. After the seed has been moistened by the secretions of the eye, it exudes a mucilage, which not only alleviates the irritation of a foreign body, but also frequently surrounds it and prevents pain from the motion of the eyeball against the cinder, and ultimately as sists in its removal. A piece of cheese-cloth squeezed out in vinegar and wrapped around Swiss cheeses wDl preserve them; and all cheeses except cream cheeses can be kept from spoiling by putting them on a thick layer of powdered charcoal and covering with charcoal the top also. Cheese should be kept under glass or in tin or earthenware, not in wood., -When doing housework if your hands become chapped or red, mix eorameal and vinegar into a stiff past and apply to the bands two or three times a day after washing them In hot water, then let them dry without wiping and rob with glycerine. At night us cold cream and wear gloves. ' ' To ; make a mustard plaster for young children mix one teaspoon ful of Dastard and three of wheat floor, with water to the consistency of a stiff bet ter, and apply between soft muslin cloths. 1 For adults: one part of an lard and jwo of floor. Fosllrr Pif kine- One rooster and tea hens are enough for breeding. Pullets that are just beginning to lay are not good setters. ICxtra large or odd-snapped eggs should not be used for hatching. Fasten a small box to the side of the house to hold oyster shells, ground bone or grit. At no time is it desirable to feel poultry an exclusive grain diet; they need more bulky food. One advantage with ducks about the yard and garden is that they do not scratch, although they are voracious eaters. Sheep Shearing. Z Cross-bred lambs ripen quickly. Good clover makes the best pasture for sheep. It is easier to count the profits than to make them. Sheep ought to g -t into a good condi tion rapidly on pasture. For mutton the butcher seeks a car cass that is round and smooth. Put enough good blood in the sheep to gel the best returns from tiieir pro ducts. Ewes that brings no lambs and wethers are the least profitable sheep to keen. Farming in which sheep do not fig ure, is lacking in a good means of keeping up fertility. Whatever the breed is, profit re quires that the greatest amount of mutton should be got out of it. Sheen eat closer than cattle and will seriously injure the grass plants, if pro per care is not taken. Eggs for Hutching. To have something in your columns from Filmore county, Minnesota, I send you poultry notes. It is best, to get your hens setting as early in the spring as possible. Kot too early to dull the chickens when hatched. The following rules should be followed in selecting eggs for hatching. Have the eggs of normal size and uniform, avoiding large or small eggs. Aim to secure eggs from certain hens, that are mated with a male of your selection, and col lect the eggs several times a day, dur ing very cold weather, in order to avoid having them become chilled. Wash the eggs and free them from dirt, be fore placing them in the nest, and make the nest warm and have it in a warm, and secluded place J. W. in Western IturaL Providing W ater for Duckl. Ducks that are kept in yards where there are no ponds, need a large quan tity of water. The troughs should be very large, so as to allow several buck etfullof water to be poured in, or the work of filling smaller troughs fre quently will entail too much labor. Ducks not only drink water freely, but they waste a large portion by throwing it out of the trough on the ground. Keep only a few adult ducks unless you can provide water with but little difficulty. A Lucky Man. A man with a long pennyroyal beard was seen to cross Washington street and creep under a little ladder that rested against a lamp-post says the Boston Herald. -Being aiked why he did, he replied: "Just to show super stitious people the fallacy of their be lief. I alwavs onen niv umbrella be fore going out, and never look at the moon over my right shoulder. I have broken every looking-glass in my house belong to the Thirteen club, and make my wife drop the dish-cloth every time she cleans up the table crockery." "Are you a lucky man?" "I get a few caraway seed in my beard once in a while, but upon the whole have little to complain of." ' What's the matter with your foot? You appear to be lame." "I knocked my big-toe nail off the other day while chopping kindling wood. But I was luky in not cutting off my whole foot. Don't you think so? "I see you have two fingers gone from your left hand" Tea, I got them too near a buzz saw about ten years ago, but I was mighty lucky in saving my arm. The saw was bumming at the time, and it would have taken off my arm as easily as it took off my fingers." -Yotx wear glasses; are your eyes weak ? "They are a trifle lame, yes. I had probably the best pair of eyes In all Coos county when a young man, but, unfortunately, one day I was fooling with a powder flash and the darned thing blew up. But by a stroke of good luck I saved my eyesight, though somewhat impaired." "I notice a beod in your back. Were you born so V "Not by any means. A few years ago I was as straight as an iron column, but one day I attempted to get aboard of a train that had started missed my footing, and fell between the cars and the depot platform. My back got a terrible wrench, and at one time it was believed that I was Injured for life. I came out of it pretty well, however, and every day l thank my luky stars that I did not go under the wheels "How came that nick m your left ear?- "A big bulldog chewed sbal out when I wasoalria rnnoH it sj a pretty bad affair, but J'm tarn. hod giaa i awn t die from hydropho bia," and the lack man continued his walk ap the street AFFAIRS OF WOMEN. rrrol. The more serviceable parasols are in the dark shades. A beautiful parasol in lavender has the silk top trimmed in roints with a 'ace ruche of a paler shade. Unfiles and puffs, ribbon and bee and flowers, all from the chief attract ions in the way of ornamenting the new sunshades Many very odd handles are formed of cooked sticks, twisted apparently with out method or reason, but with all they are very stylish and look real chic Make a large rosette of chiffon and ribbon, and sew it around the stick at the top. A large siik tassel or bunch of ribbon gives a pretty finish to the stick. Some girls who greatly love flower; would put a small bunch of buttercups or voilets (artificial, of course) here and there, all around in the chiffon puff on the handle and mingle a few in with the rosette on top. A very handsome parasol of red twilled silk and trimmed with black . f gauze. J he trimmings consist m full puff of gauze all around the edge and on the top at the center. It has a black stick resembling a genteman's walking stick. Fcmliilnltien. Two good listeners may be friends, but two good talkers never. Of the landowners in Great Uritin, on ' in every seven is a woman. Who pf.ys the highest price for a home? The woman who marries lor one. A'Tortv winks' nap" lying down is the best preparative for any extraordin ary exertion, either of ho ly or minJ. It is said that the average height of the American woman hns in the last two generations increased one inch, anil that the same increase has taken place in her bust and waist measure. Fair-haired people are becoming less numerous than formerly. The ancient Jews were a fair-haired race, and now they are, with few exceptions, dark. So it is in a lesser degree with the Irish among whom one hundred and fifty years ago a dark-haireJ person wat almost unknown. The women of P.pgdad believe that n doll mav eventually come to life and harm their children, and they therefore prevent their use. The girls, however, play with cushions and pieces of wood instead. In Siberia and Artie Amer ica, ivory dolls, clothed in furs, o' beautiful workmanship, are found. Shoulder Capes. Capes of cloth are trimmed with lace black, ecru, or white set on a shoulder-cape or a collarette, or else applied flatly to show the design, and richly ornamented with jet All height on the shoulders has disappeared for great breadth given by full frills of lace, or by bows of ribbon, choux, etc. The inevitable Watteau fold forms part of many capes, and in one instance this broad fold is in the front as well as the back. .Shorter capes are demanded bj young ladies, and are imported in vel vet with cloth lining and hood, or else in very light cloth with vestlike from of mousseline desoia Velvet ai'd ribbon trimmings are used upon many of the pretty wash dresses which are made with a deep hem-stitched border, a full bodice of white tinted cbambray, and a zouave jacket with bishop sleeves. l'urses are now being made with lit tle detective cameras in them, probably with a view of taking the thief who takes the pocketbook However, as there is no provision for pockets in the new gowns, the thieves may be thwart ed. The newest thing in scents consists of smelling salts perfumed with the scent of different flowers roses, carna tions, violets, lilacs, etc. The salts are the color of the flowers with which they are scented and are put up in hand some bottles. The "Yashmak" is the name of the new ' Oriental," or mask, veil, so dense in its meshes at the top that the features are almost obliterated as far as the nose. The more transparent lower half of the veil, however, permits the mouth and chin to be visibla Many of the white veils have borders of black lace in applique. Black lace veils are pretty with the pattern border worked in jet, which also makes the large veil fall gracefully. Gowns of English gray corded silk, with draperies of softest gray India cashmere, trimmed with cream white velvet arabesques overlaid with cut steel, are elegant in appearance. Veils for large hats are very long and wide and draped into festoons around the brim. Young girls are wearing white guipure lace pelerines over their dresses and cloaks. When worn over dresses tby are looped np on Ul, shoulders with bows of satin rii.i match the dress or the long satin sash w ine duck, vieux rose. v.i..- yellow and lilac, being reserved for married women. These lace winn er soft wolien malarial . hades, make nraUr imtunu. va tvi wra- Nnp, concerts and visits. I TALMAGE'S SERMON. His text was, I'rov. x.i., sSotuf.il man roasteth not that The which to took in liuiitine- and Fekeil. David, and Jerexia,., and Mcah..umon, of the text showed that some time thev had been out on a ! hunting edition p,ars lance 'swords and nets were en. ployed in this 'service. A deep pitfall wouid be 'toed. In the center of it there was ' - r.i.l .-round with a pole on ! which a lamb w ould ba f.u'ened, and ! the wild beiut not seeing U' l"lfa!! ly seeing' the lamb would plut.gf prey and uash down, its-If but on t for us ! raptured, limb were caught in gini, lor pierced with arrows The hunters i in olJen time had two mission, one to ! clear the land of ferocious hearts and the other to obtain meat f Jr thetiise.ves and families Tho occupatio-i and habit of hunters are a f.ivonte Bible smile. David s lid he was hunted by his enemy like a partridge upon the mountain. My Uxt is a hunting scene. A sportsman arrayed in a f?arb appropriate to the wild chase lets slip the blood-thirsty hounds from their kennels, and mounting his fleet horse with a halloo and the yell of the grey hound pack, they are off and away, through brake and dell, over marsh and moor, across chasm where a misstep would hurl horse an 1 rider to death, plunging into a mire up to the haun ches or into swift streams up to the bit, till the game is tracked by dripping foam and blood, and the antlers crack on the rocks' and the hunter has just time to be in at death. Yet after a!! the haste and peril of the chase, my text represents this sportsman as being too indolent to dresi the game and prepare it for food. Ho lets it lie in the dooryard of his honu an 1 become a portion for vermin a:id beaks of prey. Thus by one master stroke, Niloaion gives a picture of laziiien, wuen ha says: 'The sloth fill man roastetli not tiiat which he took in hunting." The most of hunters have the g.itus tlfy shot or entrapped cooked tha sams) evening or the next day, but not so with this laggaid of tha text. Too lazy to rip oil th) hide. Too lazy to kindle the tire, and put the gird.ron on the coals. Furthermore, indolence Is often a rev.ilt of easy circum stances. Bough experience in earlier life seems to be necessary in order to maKe a man active and enterprising. Mountaineers are nearly always swarthy, a id those who have toiled among mountains of trouble get most nerve and muscle and brain. Those who have become the bclivers of nation? once had no where to lay their head'. Locusts and wild honey have been the fare of many a John tin Baptist, while those who have been fondled of fortune and pitted and praise! have often grown up the lethargic. They have none of that heroism w hich come from fighting one's own battles. The warm summer sun of prosperity has weakened and relaxed them. Born among the lux uries of life, exertion has been uiinecs sary, and, therefore, they spend their time in taking it easy. They may enter into business, butthey are unfiled for its application, for its hardships, for its repulses, and after having lost the most of that which they have Invested, go back to thorough inaction. This costly yacht may do well enough on the smoothe glass bay, but cannot live an hour amid a chopped sea Another cause of indolence is severe discouragement. There are those around us who started life with the moit sanguine expectation. There en terprise excited the remark of all com peers. But some sudden and over whelming misfortune met them, and henceforth they have been inactive. Trouble, instead of making them more determined, has overthrown them. They have lost all self-reliance. They imagine that all men and all occur rence are against them. They hang their heads where once they walked upright, They never look you in the eyes. They become misantropic and pronounces all men liars and scoundrels They go melancholic and threadbare to their graves. You cannot rouse them to action by ttie most glittering offer. In most cases these persons have been honorable and upright all their lives, for rogues never get discouraged, as there is always some other plot they have not laid and some other trap they have not sprung. There are but few sadder sights than a man of talent and tact and undoubted capacity giving up life as a failure, like aline of magnl flcent steamers rotting against wharves, from which they ought to have been carrying the exportalions of a nation. gioav imamuai panic proauces a large crop of such men. In the great establishments, where they were part ners in business, they are now weighers or dray men or clerks on small salary. Again, bad habits are a fruitful source of indolence. Sinful Indulgences stmt up a man's shop and dulls his tools and steals his profits. Dissoluteness is generally the end of industry are those who have the rare faculty of devoting occasionally a day or week to loose in dnigences, and, at the expiration of that time, go back with bleared eyes and tremulous hands and bloated seeks to the faithful and successful perform ance of their duties. Indeed, their em pwytrs and their neighbors expect this amusement r occasional se.-.son t frohc an 1 wassaiL Some ofths bejt workmen and most skilful artitaiis have this mode of oiidu-ting them- their door n; selves, but, as the lim ro:i on, ihe season t,t di-ai nation becomes more nro'raeteil and me seas'ui i wum nuiuu.g. (,, . .. ..r ..... n. I. ........ 1 ... ,,! K.,lir.etv nx're limited, until the captured enip:o;ers iwcuiut u.o-.o.. - jiuma in iuvit;n2j, J .1 sKrilwl t'tl Atui tilt ! rnniu !.. w ivi.ii mi to a continuous aim Mover n..i and ruinous idleness. W hen lliat point has arrive! he rushes to destruction with asUmi'hing velocity When a man with n mng proclivities of aptite has nothing todo.no fornur eif-re-sjK'Ct or moral restraiut.or the be seech. n is of kindred can save him. The only safety for a man whofels himself under the fascination of any form of temptation is an employment which affords neither recreation nor hoi it' ay. Now, what aiethe results of indo lence? A niaiked consequence of this vice is physical disease. The healthi ness of the whole natural world de pend upon activity. The winds, tossed and driven in endless ciinils, sc::tte. ing the mists from the mountains and scooping out death damps from the caves and blasting the miasma of swamps and hurling back the fetid at mosphere of great cities, are healthy just tiecause of their swiftness and un coiitrollableiiess of sweep. But, after a while, the windfalls and the hot dun nours through it. and when tho leaves are still and the grain fields bend not once all daylong, then pestilence smites its victims and digs trenches for the dead. The fountain, born far up In the wild wood of tha mountain, comes down brighter for every obstacle against which it is liiveu and singing a new song on every shelf of ruck over which it bounds, till it rolls over the water w reels in the valley, not ashamed to grind corn, and runs through the long grass of tho meadow, where the willows reach down to dip their branches and the unyoked oxen come at even-tide to cool. Healthy water! Bright water! Happy water! While some stream, too la.y any more to run, gathers it.self into a wayside pool, where the swine wallow and filthy in sects hop over tho surface and reptiles crawl umoiig the coze, and frogs utter their hideous croak, mid by day and nieht there rises from the foul mire and green scum, fever and plague and death. Tin re is an endless activity under fool and overhead. Furlln rmore, notice that indolence endangers the soul, talari makes his chief conquests over men who either have nothing to do, or, if they have, refuse to do iU There is a legand that t. Thomas, years after Christ's resur rection, iK'gan again to doubt, and he went to the apostlus and told them about his doubts. Kach Hpostb looked at him w ith surprise and then mid he must be excused for he had no time to listen any longer, "ihen St. Thomas went to the devout women of his tin and expressed his doubts. They said they were sorry, butthey had no lime to listen. Then, H. Thomas concluded that it was because they were so busy that the apostles and t he devout women had no doubts. Idleness not only leads a man into associations which harm morals, but often thrusts upon him the worst kind of scepticism. Loafers are almost always infidels, or fast getting to be. Corsuuiate idlers i ever read the Bible, andjf they appear in church, can be distinguished in an audience of a thousand by their lisllessness, lor they are too lazy to hear. Jt is not so much among occupied merchants, in dustrious mechanics and professional men always busy that you hear the religion of Jesus maligned as In public lounging places, given up to profanity and dissoluteness. They have uo sym pathy with the book that says: "Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to oive to him that needeth." I never knew a man given up to thorough idleness that was con verted. Simon and Andrew were con verted while fishing and Lydia while selling purple, and the shepherds of Bethlehem watching their flocks heard the voice of angles, and Gideon was threshing on the threshing floor, but no one was ever couverteil with his hands In Mi pockets. "Beady! aye, ready! and yet when, God calls us to the work and the cause demands our espousal and interests dreadful as the judegmnt and solemn as eternity tremble In the balance, how few of us are willing to throw ourselves into the breach, crying "Ready! aye, ready!" Oh, I should like to see God arise for the defence of his own cause and the disenthral ment of a world in bondage. How the fetters would snap and how the dark ness would fly, and how the heaven would sing. You hare never seen an army like that which God shall gather from the four winds of heaven to fight his battles. They shall cover every hill vp hiiu itretcn through every valley and man the vessels or every sea. There shall neither be uproar, nor nor bloodshed, lie waste in the wrath, nor smoke, Harvests shall not track, nor cities be consumed. Instead of ( liM rrrnnna i,9 . .. --.... ....,. , vouvrs snail come the songs of those redeemed. Hut, my text Is descriptive also of those who hunt for opportunities, and, f ha rabbit they overcome biuiM,). morning tramp lies for weeks uncooked in the ih . - "J Srfl brought .!.,. '"1 ng pursuit in,,. ft . ,,UI,,'R. Ohv- . ! UV. overahunt, thing worm .i Agnppa when J1 athnstian. So1 man who went orro iiu. So Wjtll who have Lue skies full ofwirlK1, profit them nothu,,i roast not that Uci Oh. make M m onwit a hunqm greatest prize mtlJ is the love and pamj mat aim you eansar Thoroughly ce;,Vj., commonly oUiT,um and particularly g. ewi-speaKingiWj,y .aii eminent Cause, practicing in Toronta in illustration of tl J neil 1 was yoii!,; was a wealthy 0!Ji. liig caustic tiling i, wires, una SindajJ I was staying at In of her neighbor, J w ithout stmt. By way of cbanrisj proposed to real tobe of sermons I had wJ with me. - 1 r i i Almoin, loiiiid a uttf wnen loo late, di in the middle of art eminent of the ton I was afraid s!i selected it to ailmrcs not slop for fear u( tlie niicnse more v, read to the end. prrtt reading would fOjtK 11,1 l a year tome. - she said: " 1 laiik t an excellent serMij neighbor, Stamford,!, He q! ' WIumi a man is iijj about securil.g en)jk'i- let such a small oas;iVf, a uile htand in tlii'iijj pej, tno fact in rejardtoi traoaav foreman on the Cok'fT , ,r arm. sound road. lie aji; yiZ. tioii to AwwUflf i McObe and kisimtrt, mans' queries umall til the question came: j, "Are you married? . ried mini to tale Umtb. his wife can taxeca." hnilRP." The man arknowkcC wandered in ttw ( and Mr. Mc('absaii!: "Well, you can la j. . .t ... lima gel uiurni-u hi mu give you train." Jt was men seemed pretty sli'.'rtt men can get throoC business in n hour had arrived for the Ujj. applicant returntd, blushing bride andw "Well, I've 8l,!' give me thosi paw. .Killed with ato readiness of resource him the passes and B left on their lionej2 Intelligencer, uidii'ir"' Now. Mary that the neifi 80 tout of them. siM' a (I ' nw neonle here, bet foot foremost, 'i . it said Mary, l'llptM on the outside to W- th.nkin'if vo waif" uesi 1001 ioiciu" stockiu' at all. like, an" some crnn.1 ilrl " S lid lrl inelv: -there s nothtf niJ imnrpftlion ' ; lilt n i'iarm. Studied the clothf;1 i early a peculiarity i'. froa nf the IICVV i'-. oenevo ii; -', their . hands in '"llf had three wad''1! J; .. . ..n friu , AftmA I nam nil vwiuo v. i v. . "I ami tint a nair their name -Wt Press. Bay rum is m""' in r rum flm Urn" i 2 s s -- tlllation, and t" manner. The U,1 the trees and then JJ thev are phi"1 ia.J,K mm lino" , ';.Mrfr .. ..i-iillui mi SC'ht; III, ,iioniM' I ,ii r forms litJA very small q'in"M for each P'1!''! ufacuireof bay Jrf") the northern ejjtf those engs'V pkutlful In lb" ofsocs'l J