TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION Of INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
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Gakdek hose should be appropriate
wear lor a lawn party.
Pool moms for women seem to be
a super refinement of civilization.
Thk cook-book recipe is too often
like the disappointing novel It does
Lot come out right
The dentist who devotes himself
to pulling aching molars is neces
sarily a painstaking fellow.
Aktek children have passed the
colic and teething stage you tan
please their father by complimenting
them.
Ok cour.-e the New York is all
right, but who has sto.en the differ
ence in her speed between her former
trials and her last oner
(jt'EEN Victoria has discovered a
fondness for American cranberries.
Slowly but surely our country is win
nine it way in the regard of European
potentates.
GxiDALL, the chief English maker
of playing cards, has died and left
$800,000. lie found the manufacture
of cards a much more profitable busi
ness than many have found the use
of tuem to Le.
One Buffalo man choked over a
castor-oil capsule he was trying to
give himself and another rJuf.alo man
is choking over a policy he tried to
put down the throats of the Ameri
can people. Experience is a bitter
teacher.
SANDiEoo,Cal., has solved the prob
lem of idleness, and lurnishes work
to every able-bodied man upon her
streets. Those who refuse to worn
and continue to beg she Dromptly
transfers to the chain gang. The
professional tramp is giving Sa&
Diego a wide berth.
A fire in a museum at Passaic, N.
J., caused a panic among the freaks.
The "three-legged man," in making
his escape, forgot his third leg. The
principal damage done was to the
complexion of the tatooed Circassian
Princess. She waited to rescue some
of her belongings, and the firemen
Inadvertently turned the hose on her,
with the result that most of the tat
tooing was washed off.
"Plimsoll'sMakk" is a mark placed
on British merchant vessels, indicat
ing the depth to which they may be
loaded wth safety. It is placed in
accordance with a bill enacted by
Parliament, at the instigation of
Mr. Samuel Plimsoll, M. P., on the
sides of all vessels registered in or
hailing from British ports. It must
be above water, and there are heavy
penalties against the shipmaster who
puts to sea with this "Phmsoll's
Mark" covered.
Even the circumnavigation of the
globe has been reduced to the busi
ness of a schedule. One of the great
steamship companies has beeuu a serv
ice which involves rounding the
Cape of Good Hoi on the outward
passage and Cape Horn on the return.
The total length of the voyage, in
cluding sto ipages at principal sea
ports in the British provinces of the
South Pacific Ocean, will be a little
more than the circumference of the
earth at the equator.
Last year America expected a visi
tation from the dreaded scourge,
cholera, and the United States Board,
State and County and City Boards of
Health, unitedly went to work to pre
pare for it The result was it did not
come. So observer ever before noted
so grand an object lesson in the ben
efits of sanitary work. It saved the
country millions in money, to say
nothing of the miseries and sorrows
which attend such an epidemic. Will
the people be as wise next year and
the next? Having demonstrated the
power to check and control the plague
by a wise observance of sanitarj laws,
it will be criminal not to enforce such
laws In the year to come.
TeS years ago scarcely one of the
following words were common. Now
they have forced their way into die
tionaries, even those published in
Great Britain: Antlpyrine, aqua
relle, bacteriology, blizzard, to boom,
to cable, centerboard, cocaine, cow
boy, to cycle, dude, dynamo, faddist,
flabbergast, glissade, hypnotist, Im
pressionist, lanolin, logrolling, ma
chine gun, maga.lne rifle, manatma,
massage, melinite, mentnoi, mug
wump, neoplatonism, occultism, phll
atelist,; .photogravure, platinotype,
polypody, prognosis, quadriform,
raagefinder, referendum, rellgoslty,
saccharin, ship railway, sloyd, tele
aathy. tuberculosis, vaseline, and
xylophone.
How cone the news of a meeting
beli la Batata Pa., by a large
number of heirs, of a person who is
alleged to have furnished supplies to
Washington's army at Valley Forge.
The heirs hae a little claim of about
$4,000,000 that they propose to ask
Congress to liquidate. So far as his
tory is concerned, there were no sup
plies in eiidence at Valley Forge.
Evidently the legal fool-catcher has
set his net in Leading. It is strange
that, with all the publicity given to
such schemes, the busiuess still pros
pers Some people seem to be lorn
with the instinct of the cattish to
gulp at eiery bait and swallow the
hook.
Many agricultural colleges now of
fer short winter courses in agricul
ture. They are doing all they can
to widen the opportunities for young
men to get instruction in agriculture.
The courses are carefully arranged
and th,- instruction is practically
fr.-e. Many have attended the e
winter schools of agriculture with
profit and plea-u:e- Mure will do so.
There never was a time when there
was greater need for young farmers
to have ail the instruction in agri
culture they can possibly get. The
winter school of agriculture cannot
give them all they need, but what it
dues give them is most valuable.
The educational work of the chuol
does not stop when tne students re
turn home. Not a lew will continue
the study, readng and investigation
com menced while in attendance at
school. That is one of the objects of
the short course in agriculture, to
stirt the young farmer in the right
road. Through these snort courses
the agricultural colleges have gained
students for the full, regular courses.
The circumstances attending the
execution of Painter at Chicago were
sickeningly horrible. Ky the break
ing of the rope the wretched man
fell several feet to the hard floor be
low. Mutilated by the fall he was
taken back and suspende 1 aain until
the physicians pronounced him dead.
Whether be was conscious and suf.
fered from the fall before the second
suspension no one can cay with cer
tainty, but it was an accident which
should not have happened. There
bad been ample time for preparation
the weight of the prisoner was known.
and it should have been a simple
matter to provide a rope capable of
holdimr the weight tlrmiy and se
curely. It will not be a matter of
surprise if the dreadful details
shall arouse a public demand
for some kind of reform in pub
lic execution by which such an acci
dent as this will be Impossible.
Painter's hanging was something
more than punishment. It involved
unuece-sary torture, and this is not
included in the legal penalty. Itought
never to occur again. There is no
reasonable excuse for it.
The opinion has been openly ex
pressed during the last half of 1893
by men of high standing on the other
side of the water that a great war
cannot be put off louger than the
co uing spring. Italy is now in tne
throes of civil war, and the report is
just at hand that France is lending
the revolution in Sicily material help.
Late accounts have it that Germany
has succeeded in the construction of
a perfectly manageable balloon, which
will convey very considerable amount
of freight, but it is said the Germans
are keeping everything about the
balloon In the dark. It is suspected,
however, that when war comes these
balloons will be used for dropping
dynamite bombs on belligerent war
vessels, headquarters, and cities. Cer
tain metropolitan journals more than
a year ago made the suggestion that
balloons would be made to do just
this kind of service in war, and if en
tire success can be achieved in the
cases we have named it will almost
certainly lead on to radical revolu
tion In the art of war among nations.
Of course it must be conceeded that
a good deal of the talk indulged in at
the European capitols. and a good
many of the statements that are sent
out regarding the war prospect are
merely sensational; at the same time
we cannot reject everything of the
kind that comes to us through the
common public channels.
Didn't Know What Work Was.
Farmer Hard fist What under the
sun is the reason that boys are such
no account critters nowadays? Here
is our son, Jasper, pretty nigh crazy
to leave the old farm and try to git a
job in town.
Mrs. Hardflst (meekly) Perhaps
he thinks the work won't be quite so
hard. '
Farmer Hardflst Work? Why,
shucks, Polly, be don't skurcely know
what work is! He hain't done a thing
since supper but milk the cows, feed
the horses, slop the hogs, split and
carry In the wood and kindlin's, shell
a little corn, ketch the colt, and turn
the grindstone for mu about half ao
hour. He's tad all the rest of th
t me to himself, extent the few min
utes It took him to mend the bridl
I broke thlsmorem. W.at In th"
name o' thunder makes all the boys
so crazy to leave tbe old farm? Life.
Gira a friend a club, and be
very apt to bit
you orer the head
with it.
THE SERVANT QUESTION.
rt
Teud Problem DprMdlsf aaew la
America and fcaf land.
The servant-girl question is again
engrossing attention both in the East
and in England, savs tbe San Fran
cisco Argonaut. Tbe revelations of
Elizabeth L. Banks, an An erbau
"newspaper woman" who went out to
service in London aud then related
her experienceao the i aiiers. are read
with avidity. In Newloric, Miss
Kate Gannett Wells is lecturing
mothers ot families, whom she holds
responsible fur the inconveniences of
modern senant-gir ism. lu both
countries the trouble is that the line
between mistress and servant is not
drawn with sufficient distinctness:
tbe relative duties of each are too
vaguely defined: tbe mistress is al
ways complaining of the encroach
ments of the domestic, and the later
is resenting the selfl-h thoughtless
ness of her employer. The servant
says that the mistress does not seem
to rememter that cook and houe-
made have feelings: the mistress
wails that her servants bave no affec
tion for her. Over.and above all this,
the question of wages is an unceasing
source ot inction. l lie market vasue
of a trained servant is constantly
rising. The mistress thinks she is
badly treated when a S' rvant whom
she has trained demands an advance
in consequence of the training.
In this city, John Ch.n.iman has
eltiowed the servant-girl out of the
kitchen, to the advantaze of the em
ployer. He is not so quarrelsome as
the Irish girl nor so lmpertinent.and
he does his work better. He has his
drawbacks. He will not stand inter
ference, and be thoroughly under
stands that his relation with his
master is a business relation, into
which sentiment does not enter. He
will leave a house where hehasscrved
for ten or twelve years without a
pang; whenever a Geary law, or other
similar enactment, reduces the suit-
ply of house-servants he will insist
on an advance of wages with a child
like and bland smile but witn iron
firmness. He is a master or econo
mies. But his morals do not require
looking after, and he is almost in
variably honest
In the East, the handling of the
servantgirl question has suffered
from English example. In the old
davs, the servants were "help." and
dined at the family table. Their
footiog resembled that of the valets
In Moliere's comedies, who were con
fidants and advisers ot their masters.
Hut with the influx of English man
ners, new relations between the mis
tress and maid were imported. Helps
became servants, and dioad in the
kitchen. Thus far no harm was done.
The house-maid could not have felt
at home in the family circle, nor
could the remarks she injected into
the general conversation bae been
Improving. But the mistresses of
American hou-eholds went further,
and seemed to desire to Ignore tbe ex
Isteneeof the maid, except as an In
strument of service. They avoided
recognizing her in the mornings iind
only addressed her to give her an
order. This was a wholly unneces
sary slight to the girl. It was En
gl sh. An Englishman will call and
dine at a house for years, and never
by word or look recognize the ex
istence of tbe man who for all that
time has opeued the front-door for
him or changed his plate at the table.
Tbe Englishman's idea is that be be
long's to a different order of created
beings from the butler and the foot
man, and that his self-respect would
suffer If he addressed them except on
official business Thackerav hit oil
the notion when he tells of an En
glish Duke, who being addressed in
a crowd by a stranger, beckoned to
his Aide-de-camp to answer the re
mark. It does not seem that the spheres
would crumble if American ladies
admitted by word and act that their
servants are human beings. Th lr
soc;al position might survive in juir
ing about their health when they are
ill. But a mistress of a household
will undo the benefit of kindness If
she breaks down altogether the con
ventional barrier between mistress
and maid. A servant who is placed
on a footing of absolute e uality
with her mistress will not perform
good work, and wnen It becomes
necessary to exercise authority, the
attempt will involve a quarrel.
Shipping Molaxflp in Hulk.
Almost all the molasses which
comes from Cuba to the United
States is brought in the same tanks
In steamships that are used to carry
petroleum as a return cargo. The
ships' tanks are al-out sixteen feet
deep and bave a neck seen feet deep
They are i umped full of oil at Brook
lyn or Philadelphia, then taken to
Havana, and the oil Is pumped out
into the tanks of the refining plants
there. Molasses is brought from the
interior of the island in huge hogs
heads which are erupted Into storage
tanks. A suction pump drawing
about 10,000 gallons an hour fills each
ship's tanks to within about two feet
of the top that amountof space being
required for the expansion of the
molasses. It might l supposed that
the petroleum would have a bad
effect upon the molasses, but it has
been shown that the;contrary is the
case, and as nearly one-haif the im
portation Is made into rum and tbe
balance refined Into sugar, a little oil
Is not of much ac ount. The tanks
are cleaned after the molasses has
been pumped out by turning 1 1 a
powerful steam jet, which wast es
down tbe sides and liquefies whatever
molasses may he left In the h ttom of
the tank, and tbe suction pump
finishes the work.
A cargo of molasses, which formerly
required ten or twelve days, can now
be unloaded iu forty-eight hours,
while tbe difference in cost of hand-
ua to eay nothing of tbe saving of
time, amount to a large sum.
Tbe tfrst attempt at handling
molaes In bulk was made by the
brig Novelty in 1877. She was fitted
w'th a lining and ber whole; hold
was used without partitions. She
made several trips between Matanras
and Boston, but was not successful as
a dividend earner. Mnce the pnsent
system of dividling a vessel's hold In
to tanks was devised and put in prac
tice on steamers the profcts of the
trade and the steamship companies
have largely Increased. Albany Ex
press. Oleatial Collision.
Astronomers are yet discussing the
new star which suddenly flared up in
the constellation Auriga In February,
192, and which afterward turned
into a nebula. The general opinion
is that a collision of some kind oc
curred out thofo in the heavens It
is plain that it must have been a
pretiy serious collision to produce a
bla e visible some millions of millions
of miies away, indeed, the puzzling
thing Is thai so great an outburst of
heat and light should so soon have
disappeared. If two suns, or two
great worlds had met in full career
and smashed one another, the heat
developed would have suillccd to
make them glow like a conflagration
in the sky until long a tr the new
star in Auriga had lo-t Its brilliancy.
On this account the opinion seems
to be gaining ground that the col
lision to which tn appearance of the
new star wasdue must hae ccurred
either between two swarms of me
teors, or Irf twt e i a huge solid, daik
body and a cloud of celestial dust
If it was the meeting of meteor
swatms, then he smallnessof tne in
dividual met ors would account for
the rapid loss of light after the sud
den biaze at the moment of the en
counter; and if it was a solid sphere,
an extinguished sun, for instance,
plum; ini: through cosmic dust or scat
tered nebulous matter, the fact that
only the surface of the ereat lody
would probably be heated I y the col
lision might account for the quick
fading of the star
But what a glimpse into the mar
vels of surrounding space is supplied
by such facts and theories as these!
How filled must the heavens be, even
where they seem the blackest and
most vacant, with scattered meteors,
celestial dust clouds and wandering
bodies that once, perhaps shone as
living atars, but now are dark and
invisible except when fired Into tern
porary brilliancy by collls on!
In view of such facts it no longer
seems quite as wonderful as it ome
did that the earth, traveling with
the sun through tbe universe, contin
ually encounters strange particles of
matter that come darting down
through Its atmosphere in the form
of fire-balls.
Knowing how well the air protects
us against such missies, one can look
forward with a uanimity, and even
with eagerness, to the possibility that
our globe may sometime m et a
swarm of straying meteors capable of
illuminating the atmosphere so brill
iantly that the light may even at
tract the eyes of dwellers on other
plaueta, and set them to wondering
what strange thing has come to pass
upon the earth.
1 pheltl His Itoputat Ion.
We genearally find that a person
who brags is usually a coward, but
in this case the old man upheld bis
reputation.
An old cobbler in Amity street,
who was largely patronized by the
young bloods once boasted that noth
ing was cat able of fiighteniug him.
Two young men once determined to
put his courage to the test. One or
them pretended to be dead, while
the other went to the cobbler and
asked him to sit up all night with
the corpse. The old man, who bad
some pressing work in hand which
had to be delivered next morning,
took his leather and his tools with
him, sat down near the supposed
dead body, and set about his task.
At midnight they brought him a cup
of cafe noir to keep him awake,
which he gratefully partook of, and
then immediately resumed his work.
The coffee, however, put him in such
a happy frame of mind that entirely
forgetting the presence of the corpse,
he struck up a lively song, beating
time all the while with his hammer
on the lapstone Suddenly the im
aginary corpse raised itself into a sit
ting posture, and exclaimed, in a hol
low voice:
"People ought not to sing when
keeping wat' h over a deathlied."
The cobbler shook his head, gave
the young man a smart rap and
said:
'People shjuldn't talk when they
are dead."
This was the last time anybody
tried to frighten the old cobbler.
Value of the Krle ( anal.
The Erie canal Is often called a
priceless inheritance to the state of
New York, and it Is conceded by the
press, also by hundreds of eminent
statesmen, that the state of New
York has Income the wealthiest In
the Union through the agency ot the
Erie-Hudson waterway, which con
nects the gr. at chain of lakes with
the Atlantic Ocean. According to
the evidence of highiy-respected
merchants given before legislative In
vestigating committees ' the actual
direct cash lieneflt to the stale from
canal commerce In foots up to
over 1 2, 000,000; and the indirect
benefits in various ways to the masses
throughout the common wealth are
simply Inestimable. liuffalo News.
Another Three.
Someone has said that the three
hardest words to pronounce consecu
tively are, "1 was mistaken." Let
the person who believes this aster
tlon try his artlulatlng power on the
names of the lakes In .ho State of
Maine th ee, for P. stance lluknz
tyahnb, i'H.uornumjfohlo, Mahoga-pragobgug.
REAL RURAL READING
WILL BE
FOUND IN
PARTMENT.
THIS DE-
Value of Corn Kodder a eleruilned by
Eiprrlurnt-Winter EierrUe- for Live
Sturk-lluw to Feed Straw Stabling
(oai lu Wet Heather.
Corn fodder.
1. All parts of the corn plant con-
tain valuable food materials the dry
matter containing neirly the same
composition, says the Philadelphia
Press.
:2. The corn stubble and busks on
tain nearly ',0 per cent of ttie total
digestable matter produced by the
plant, ai.d the blades only 11 per
cent.
'. Com husks or shucks contain 72
per cent of digestible matter.
4. Corn stubble or butts contain
64.5 per cent, of dige-tible matter.
5. Corn blades ot leaves contain
64.2 per cent, of digestible matter.
'. Top corn fodder contains .'." ier
cent of digestible matter.
7. There is more digestible mat
ter contained In the corn fodder from
one acre than In the ears.
8. Ihe c rn fodder from one acre
yields as much digestible matter as
two tons of timothy bay.
There Is enough digestible mat
ter produced by the corn todder
grown in the Southern States to win
ter all tbe stock in those States if it
were properly preserved and prepared
in a palatable form
10. l!y cutting and crushing the
com stalks cattle will eat and utille
nearly all of them.
11. Corn fodder furnishes a food
rich in digestible cartiohyd rates.
12. t orn fodder, when led alone,
will nearly maintain cattle, but should
be supplemented with some food rich
In nitrogen when feeding for the pro
duction of growth, flesh, or milk.
Winter KlerrUe for I.lve Ktcx-k.
On disputed questions men are apt
to take views that are extreme. Amid
the din of the battle of controversy
there is danger mat the truth will
tie obscured for the sake of momen
tary vlctoty. It Is to )c feared that
so it has leen with this question.
Some have contended that all cattle
need exercise, and daily, in winter.
Others have claimed that they do not
need any exercise, and yet others, In
cluding tin- writer, have said that
the question is yet undecided, since
instances are on record wherein beef
breeding stocks and dairy cattle have
been kept tied in the stall the whole
of the winter for years .n succession,
and without any apparent harm hav
ing come to them in consequence.
On the other hand, It has been
affirmed, but apparently without sus
taining evidence, that since keeping
animals tied thus is unnatural, It
must Inevitably lead to an undermin
ing of the constitution and stamina
of the stock. In considering this
question we should bear in mind that
the improvement made in the various
breeds of live stock during recent
centuries has been made possible by
subjecting them to artificial condi
tions and that the highest attain
ment in utility, for the time being
at least, has been attained when the
divergence from these conditions has
been greatest. Exchange.
How to Feed Straw frolltably.
There are some farmers who keep
stock of such poor quality that they
cannot afford to feed it grain. Tnelr
only way of wintering stock Is to pro
vide coarse fodder, like straw and
cornstalks of which enough will be
eaten to sustain life without much
chance of adding to growth or llesh.
There is no profit in this for unless
there is some gain by increased
weight the maintenance ration will
cost more than the Increased value of
animals in the sprins. There seems
to be more reason in the objection of
those who have the best stock that
they cannot afford to feed it much
straw. They surely cannot If corn be
the chief grain fed, lor both corn and
straw are largely carbonaceous. Some
grain or other feed that contains
more nitrogenous nuirition will make
straw feeding more rofltable. With
a large feeding of bran or wheat
middlings considerable straw will lc
eaten. So, too, it will when linseed
or cotton-seed meal Is fed. Sheep
that are fed b'-ai.s and bsan straw
will eat the straw of other grains in
considerable quantities to vary their
ration, which has not enough carbo
hydrates. t'rlbliliK In the flflil.
It saves a good deal of labor in
husking corn to throw the ears in a
txix as they are husked. Some will
fall outside when fast husking is at
tempted, but It is easier to pick up
the scattering.! han to leave all fin the
ground. There Is a further saving In
the fict that these boxes at night
may I piled one on another to the
height of four, or five, or six tiers
and a couple of wide boards laid
lengthwise of the crib will protect
them fiom ruin or smoke. Those
who grow sweet corn for se d often
provide bxe. to hold their entire
crop, and leave the corn thus crlblied
In the field until it Is dried out
enough to market With slatted
boxes: built up one row wide corn
will dry cut very fast. The boxes
need not le very expensive
Hlrble I nder Ktraw Siaeka.
Provl ed the stac Is held up by
strong wooden supports, a stable un
der the stack makes one of the best,
cheapest and warmest winter shelters
for any kind of stock, says an ex
change. It "ho'lld )f built so that
auima.i cannot cat away the stack
here 10 hs no i pelts, as they will
often do when fnd to get their liv
ing f om -'ack. In olde i times
t'.kof hay "-ere often loft
to bit
,t.i.er' away
young stock, with tbe
result of wasting a good deal of tbe
hay and towards spring having an
overturned stack, killing calves ard
sheep lmpris med under it. There is
little of th s kind of wastefulnese
among farmers now. Tbe wonder is
that such management could ever
have been so common as it undoubt
edly v. as
The Jeawlea Cirape.
The Jessica is a variety of
which originated in Canada,
early, with small bunch and
and of tfood flavor. Like the
erape
It is
lerry,
1 sla
ware, it has the fault o' setting too
many bunches and if allowed too ver
tar it is not as good nor so early ai
it should I. Nearly al". kinds ol
grapes need thinning, which is easily
done by pinching off one or two of
the blossom buds on each shoot just
as soon as they Income visible. Two
bunches are enough on any shoot,
and some of the latter varieties are
more sure to ripen If the bunches oo
a shoot are reduced to one.
V hat One Man Keallxed-
My hens yielded me a protlt of 12. 93
a head, oesides the eggs etc , we
used In our family, and that would
carry It up to over $3 per head,
writes a bright man to the Massa
chusetts Ploughman. My sales were
at common market prices. I don't
Keep any fancy stock, no thorough
breds mine are mixed breeds. This
is only one of the things on a small
rami that makes small farms pay. I
don't know of any o;.e who has been
able to come up to those figures witn
sales at ordinary market prices on
mixed hens.
Farm ote.
Monky spent fnr Ba trces '4 wel1
Invested if they are cared for after
setting.
If best of all fruits are grown,
there Is little danger of overstocking
tbe market
Ik well done, either root grafting
or budding will give long-lived trees. '
In order to keep up a supply of
small fruit, plant several varieties
which riien at different times.
Rvk Is good for a young orchard
and if it is near the poultry yard will
furnish excellent winter pasture for
fowls.
It Is the comfortaUecow which fills
the pail with milk and the milk with
butter fat Bemcmber this to ur
proflu
Cakeki'l packing and handling,
clean, stout packings and a near-by
market are the three desirable things
for profitable fruit growing.
It is generally admitted that for
stock cooked food Is the lit, but the
labor and fuel required for the pur
pose adds too much to the cost of the
food.
Tintow dish water around fruit
trees, currants, gooseberries, etc
Coffee grounds are said to be valuable
when put around shrubbery and flow
ering plants. .
Wiikn buylug sheep it is Just as
well to get those which are prolific,
so long as they have other desirable
qualities in addition. Tbe Shrop
shires Dorsets and others are of Ibis
class.
Wheat bran Is an Indispensable .
feed for butter cows. Even on the
best pasture a daily food of bran will
pay well. It has recently been as
certained that the heaviest bran is
not better butter producing food than
that wh ch Is lighter. It should not
weigh more than eighteen or twenty
pounds to the bu.ihel.
Pumpkins ought to be promptly re
instated in the position they held In
the estimation of the old-time farm
er. They furnish an excellent addi
tion to the food of swine and milch
cows and can lie grown at very little
cost Put In a Held of them with the
corn, if you think It will not pay
to grow them alone
A pooii farm need not necessarily
remain so. A good farmer will make
his farm a savings bank. It may ie
quire several years to bring it to a
high degree of fertility, and the farm
er may be compelled to live In a fru
gal mariner, but in a few years the
farm will b- more valuable and the
farmer wealthy. Beginning at the
totto i) and gradually improving is a
sure road to success.
On k of the best modes of educat
ing the boy to tbe importance of
pure-bred stock Is to buy hlrn a few
pure-bred fowls and allow him the
proceeds. It will not be long before
he will familiarize himself with tbe '
"points", and legln to advertise his
birds and eggs for sale. He will then
be disposed to study the points and
characteristics of animals, and take
a great Interest in all classes of
KtOCIf. ,
It Is the Mind That Mens.
How do we see? Did von ever i-hin
to think'.' 1 have asked quite a num
ber of people lately, and tbey reply;
With our eyes, of course, how else?"
or words to that effect Did you
eer realize bow much of our Tislon
is mental? We see nothing properly
and definitely until tbe mind lends
its perception. We may be gazing at
apicture, yet tie unable to see any
thing but a confused mass of color
because the mind is seeing faces of
scenes a thousand miles away, per
haps. Call the mental vision back
and the figures on the canvas take
their proper places, at once we see
the picture, Or shut your eyes.
v.aii uu nut bvo tne iace or inose vou
love or hate as clearly as you ever
saw them with tbe physical means of
sight? How many times ne glances J
at his watch, yet, when asked the
time as he replaces It in his pocket,
is unable to tell simply because be
looked cnly with tbe eyes and not
with the mind also. Boston Adver
tiser Wiikn a man helps his .m,
her work, she has to dron what. .h. t.
' doing to wait on him.
