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Kaewit crawled eat aneorered withmada Aad aaaaBt aad battered with braises; w 6aya be: "A fellow with are ia bia blood Caa daaT ia jest wherever be chooses." "Tie better to go kinder modYale aad alow Aad aot get banged aad battered,'' aaid stow LDanao. I. Daaao tiaTeled alow, bat be got far ahead Of the rapid onraiher, I. Kaowit. X. Daaao atill aaM ; lt aa caref nlly tread." I. Kaowit atlU acid: "Let na go it." X. Kaowit brought ap ia ibe swamp of Doatcare; I. Dbbbo reached the beaatifnl load of Get there. S. W. Fom in Yankee Blade. ' BAFFLED. The sun dropped into the sea; long, flatteriog banners of cload, red as blood,, streamed upward toward the zenith; a little wind shivered over the glassy water. The oars of the boat mon nix gigantic fellows in uniforms of blue and white linen Bade a rhythmic splash in the silence. Mme. D'Erloff leaned back on her silken cushions, un der the white awning, and looked off into the flaming West. Without mov ing her eyes from the gold and orange aad crimson blaze, she said to the man beside her in calm accents: "Kindly cease fixing your gaze upon vie. It irks me. It grows monoton ous." Lena! ' "And do not call me by my name," she continued as before. "I never gave you permission." The man's sallow cheek grew paler. His dark eye emitted a sullen flash un der their thick brows. "Can no devotion win you? Can no man move you no man save that cold livered, blond stripling of an Ameri can?" He had gone too far. The woman tuned upon him and half raised the jeweled handle of the parasol she held, as if she would have struck him. He met her gaze unflinching. At that instant the boat rounded a verdurous promintory of the coast and they came in sight of the first traces and garden walks of tho D'Erloff villa. On the terrace, their backs turned to the advancing pleasure craft, were two figures. Mme. d'Erloff and her com panion saw them at the same instant. "Ah! Meester Phenix ! said Arville in an indescribable tone. "Speak of an angel" The woman on the silken cushion had not stirred. All life in her had become concentrated in the glance of the jewel like eyes. The second figure on the 'terrace was that of a girl in a silver gray dress; a figure slight and almost as tell as Mme. cTErloffa own. Against the collar of the silver gray dress there hung a schoolgirl braid of flaxen hair. The man, who was tall and blonde aV,o, had just raised the hand of the girl to his lips. Ten minutes later the pleasure boat , swung softly up to the white water stairs of the villa. Mme. d'Erloff stepped out Her companion, bowing low. stood with un covered head, that smile still beneath his' black mustache. A glnnce that was like steel clashed against his. "You were going?" said Mine. d'Er loff. ' "I don't wish you to go. Follow me." The smile grew deeper. He folio one swept in tnrongn too long, o; winaow, against wmen tiie nun cnrjaii swayed in the perfumed breeze That palpitating, changing red was still in the West She sank on a divan and turned her eyes i full upon him. She spoke very slowly, very clearly; her voice had not a tremor. "I wish to be revenged. Do vou hear? They measured each other an instant The smile had died from the Chevalier's lips. Once more a slow pallor had come over his swart cheeks. Not a pal lor of fear, of apprehension; a pallor of expectancy, of desperate determination. She made a motion that was like a shrug. "You have always said that you were my slave. That you would die for me, if necessary. Well, no one asks you to die. It is a smaller service that I want Prove your devotion." In her forced calmness, almost non chalance, there was something terrib!e. He who knew the fires of jealousy, of revenge, of insane passion beneath that icy chest, made one short step for ward. "Whatever you ask of me I will do," he muttered, below his breath. "But I expect my reward. I do rothing for nothing." She bowed her head. "I acquiesce in the condition." She motioned him imperiously to a seat beside her. Thereafter they talked in tones low as the wind which stirred the flowers outside in the pale light of a rising moon. To Monica Penrbyn, the slight, fair, shy young American compauion of Mme. d'Erloff, sitting without on tho moonbathed terrace, there came pres ently a slight step. "AU alone, mademoiselle?" taid the Chevalier Arville'a vibrant voice, keyed to a softness she had not heard in it be fore. "For one so young and so lovely it is melancholy. And alone you were all the afternoon, also, is it not so?" "I do not mind loneliness," said Monica, curiously rcrrous.in this man's proximity, instinctively shrinking away from she knew not what. Then the sensitive love of truth iu her constrain ing the words: "Mr. Phenix, too, came to see Mme. d'Erloff, and finding her ont, stayed a little and talked to me." "Ah, Mr. Phenix! A charming man." "He has been very kind to me," mur mured the poor child, staunchiiy. "Ah, mademoi-.ei!e,r roid the low ones so near to her, "who would not be matr "I near Mme. d'Erloff calling me, I think," hastily stammered the ' girl, moving away. Mme. d'Erloff, a scarf of lace about her radiant bronze-gold head, stood in the window of the gieat drawing-room, ia which the lights were blazing softly. "Did I not tee you tasking to the Chevalier on the terrace just now. dear lafld? Surely ye-. Be i standing there yet Go back to him. Enter tain hue n little. I shall have visitors far the next hour that wou'd onlv cause Go back, chere petite." watched the girl's slowly re- ;fnrm with eye from whose there suddenly flashed i a light keen as the blade of a sword. Taaalaaaarnagere -were crushed to- 'Mater till the jeweled -rings left inden- mmansred as Mood in the whi e fie h. "Maaatar Paaaixl" announced a serv a3t Ska tamed aad, all the unbridled aoment under control. with, her flexile indolence of ons the room. Theoft hand. ae pliant, so ataelr strong held, Lis and eVew him a little away. - i; it is cooler here. The lights mneh heat ex.2 ?laro." She lei the way into a email ad join- atVWl iegboedoir. She unwound the bee from her throat and head with her in imitable, supple grace and stood smiling before aim. i sent for you because you had been here this afternoon and I had missed you," she said. She leaned a little toward him and laid her hands upon his skoulders. Her warm, perfumed breath was on bis cheek. Her eyes shone into his like the stars in the night outside. Time had been when thk near ness, this caress, would have filled Phenix with rapture. He had been long in her toils under her spell. The awakening had come in part when the beautiful widow refused to marry him. "Why?" he had asked sharply. She bad thrown herself, weeping passion ately, on his breast But he knew why. He was a plain American, poor at that Mme. d'Erloff reigned like a queen now, while in case of a second marriage she lost by her husband's will the colossal fortune which surrounded her with her prestige of utter su premacy. But if she could not bear to abdicate all this supremacy neither could she bear to give up this hand some, cold stranger who" had taught her heart to beat, and there came strug gles and recriminations in whicn the woman's complex passion grew ever more intense, while the man's simpler love drooped and lost its strength. "I took Arville that tiresome Arville with me this afternoon," she mur mured. "You do not mind?" Phenix had acquired a dreary insight into her machinations. He knew that her ostentatious flaunting of Arville in his face was done to excite bis jealousy. "No," he answered a little wearily. "Why should I mind?" She started away from him: She had not intended to let him know what she felt, what she had seen. But her mask had dropped from her. . "You do not mind because you love that white-faced chit of a girl! That dependent! That child whose worth less services I engaged out of charity. A companion for me for me," she laughed sardonically, viciously. "But you I tell you that you love her. irnanix looxea at ner, turning a nine pale. Then he made a shrugging mo tion. "What folly! I have talked to Miss Penrhyn two or three times. I have felt great sympathy for her and tried to be kind to her. She is a friendless lit tle American alone in a strange land. As a countryman of hers could one do less? Does that constitute love ?" Her eyes held him mercilessly. "You do not speak the truth," she said. Again he shrugged his shoulders. Suddenly Mme. d'Erlofl began to talk of other things. As he was about to leave she held him back. "Why not go by the terrace and gar den? It is shorter." As he passed the terrace he started a little on seeing Arville sitting on a bench there and Monica Penrhyn be side him. No, he was not in love with that pretty child, but he would have liked to warn her. He had a deep dis trust of this unctuous Chevalier. This little American girl whose whole sad history a spendthrift father, a sickly mother, then death, poverty and the need of earning her bread he had heard from her confiding lips that after noon, was very inexperienced, very in nocent Dumb anger rose up in Phenix he wished that he could protect her. "Come to me at once. I have a special reason for asking your presence, Lena." These lines reached Phenix early one morning. He had not seen Mme. d'Erloff for days. He asked himself sometimes why he did not go away. Hi; unhealthy passion for the beautiful widow was a thing of the past And still he lingered on sometimes taking a boat and rowing near the gardens of the Villa d'Erloff, sometimes walking in that direction; but never stopping. He found Mme. d'Erloff enveloped in a epeignoir of white silk and lace, in the boudoir sue affected. "Miss Penrhyn has eloped with the Chevalier Arville," she said. There was a deep silence. "I do not believe it" then uttered Phenix. "1 do not believe it," she laughed. "You are flattering to me yet it is true. If yon had a fancy for the girl, I am sorry to give you such bad news. My self, too, I have reason to grieve. I thought Arville so absolutely, com pletely devoted to me and to me alone." "There is some mistake." "Oh, no, none. The maids found that her room was as it bad been left last night Aiid one of the gardeners remembered seeing her get into a boat at the foot of tho terrace steps with Arville late iu the evening. The man thought it was a row just for pleasure they were going to take. There was a bright moon, as you know." Phenix, blindly, had turned and van ished through the door. Mme. d'Erloff sat in the same place, breathing quickly, her eyes darkening what was that? Was he returning? Those were not his footsteps.' The portiere was drawn aside. The woman started up. "You!" It was Arville. "The game is up!" "Whatl" she trembled from head to foot " What do you mean ?" "Simply what I say." His eyes were lowering and sullen. "The game is up. She got away from me. " ""Idiot! Dolt!" "She got away from me. It cost me a good deal to persuade her to enter the boat. Then when we landed down beyond the grounds and she saw the carriage waiting she took fright Before we I and my two men could prevent it (the had shrieked out aloud for help. Some fishermen down the coast heard her. Two of them were quite near us dragging in their nets. How was I to imagine any human soul could be out there at that hour? They rushed up and the whole thing was over. By noon to-day the whole country-side will know that it was not an elopement but an abduction. When I Faw those two men rush up I jumped into the carriage, leaving the victim on the highway. My confidential man, whom I sent-out to" gather information at sunrise this morning says that she took refuge with the wife of one of the fishermen. "And you come here and tell me all this?" She made a gesture of dismis sal, such as that of a goddess sending a mortal' out of Olympus. "Go!" He sprang forward, seizing her wrist "You should keep your promise! Your promise to marry me in return for my instrumentality in your vengeance. I did what I could. Fate baffled, aa I claim, the fulfillment of your word." "Never! Hound! You? Never! He held her wrist the tighter. "Take care!" She laughed and furiously struck him acro?s the face. Along the dusty stretch of the hot road, shelterless under the mid-day sun, acloUd carriage dashed onward. Its one occupant a man, abruptly pushed his foot against the belL The carriage stopped. He sprang to the ground. He had just passed the solitary figure oi anosner man. The two stood confronted. "Few words are necessary. Mortimer Phenix," raid Arville, as he motioned for his coachman to drive on. "You marvel to ee me here aad alone? Ah, yes. I read as much in your face. I a'to read there that your do not know the truth. Thit little compatriot of yours whom you love is asscitas a dove iuaeote. I will tell yoa where you find her. " I will also teU you laomething else reflecting on our good aad beautiful friend Mme. dTEtloff. I abducted that girl to please our beautiful friend's jealous vengeance. I was to have had our beautiful friend's hand in marriage as recompense for the deed. She pun ishes my abortive attempt by withhold ing the fulfillment of her tow. I hate her, and I betray her!-thus r Phenix dropped his eyes away from him, glittering with malignity and re venge fastened on his. "One thing," he articulated slowly, "should reach Mmeu d'Erloff a ears. I had not love, only sympathy and friend liness, for her victim. She has taught me by her persecution to love her. This is the result of her schemes." In the fisherman's hut as the day was declining Phenix stood and hold Monica Penrhyn 'a hand. "I must go away somewhere some where " she was saying. "Heaven will guide me." "Will you go home, Monica with me?" She raised her head and a great light came into her eyes Phenix stooped and kissed her. New Tork Mercury. Ilia Mothers A rathotic story is on the police record of New Orleans, which has a meaning and lesson for every young man and woman A grave, middle-aged man, whoro ap-. pearance indicated refinement and cul ture, appeared one morning at the Central Police Station, of New Orleans, handed his card to the officer in charge, and asked leave to inspect the pri -oners in the woman's ward. The Sergeant recognizing his name as that of aWe:tern merchant granted the request Among the wretched women await ing trial was one over sixty years of age, arrested for drunkenness and va grancy. Her rags and tqualor, and the bloated face peering out of white, un combed hair could not hide the traces of certain dignity of bearing. The stranger went up to her, looked her in the face and took her hand in his, but she fctared at him witho et' ic ognition, and mumbled drunkenly. He turned away abruptly, unable to speak for a time. Then he said to the Sergeant: "This is my mother. I will look out for her. She shall never trouble you again." After the necessary formalities she was released, and betook her away. Her story was a sad and painful one. Her husband had died when her child was an infant She had made no effort to support it, but putting it into a Home for Friendless Children had given herself up to a profligate life. The boy was adopted by a stranger and taken to California. There he grow up, received a good education, went into business and was successful; but through all these comfortably happy years he felt a restless longing to find his mother, to save her from misery and shame, and make her old age pure and honorable. He came to the East, and employed agents to find her. It was after long continued search that he had discovered her, on this morning, among the drunken outcasts of a police court The next day. sober and clothed, though not in her right mind, she was taken by her son to his distant home. Whether or not in the little remnatit of life that was left to her she reformed her habits, and rewarded his long years of pious self-sacrifice with one gleam of mother's love, there is no record to tell. But surely each one of us when we read this unfinished story, and think of the love which impelled this man to seek out and care for this degraded woman, simply because she had given him birth, must turn back to our own homes, and ask ourselves how we deal with the woman sitting the:e, to whom we owe not only life but motherly care and devotion. Do we repay her in love like-tochers-?. xouths Companion Cremation aad Crime. It is said that the Pennsylvania Leg islators will take steps concerning cre mation in that State so as to prevent that process from being used to conceal evience of crime. The wonder is that laws covering I so great a danger have not already been enacted. A company is getting ready to build a cermatory in Chicago. It ought to go on with the enterprise. Cremation is the purest, cleanest, most gentle and kindly mode of carrying out the law of death which in time effects destruction of mortal remains by one process or an other. Conventionality makes .'burial seem more "natural." 'Ignorant super sjttdn has grotesquely opposed crema tion on the (pounds that it will prevent resurrectiojrof the body as if "in, .the thousands of years that-mankind have been'in the earth iu countries where in terment is the mode of disposal of the dead any vestige of the individual body except in phenomenal cases remains; as if the miracle of individual! body res urrection is not as easy of accomplish ment to deity out of sea as out of land, out of ashes artificially manufactured in a cleanly and heathful mode as out of ashes naturally produced by the chemi cal action of earth gases. Or are worms and vermin more becoming abettors of heavenly hopes than fire? the great purifier, for its very name is etymolo gically identical with purity. Cremation will become the universal mode of cleansing the bodies of the dead of impurities and perishable elements in the tissues, while it will preserve the part that may then be cherished accord ing to noble sentiment and without do ing violence to any creed or .belief in resurrection or in a future existence of i the same physical sheath in which the spirt has been incased. A cermatory i ought to be built in this city; and its : proprietors will themselves be foreitost in securing the enactment of law that will protect them from becoming in voluntary abettors or concealers ofy crime. 07 tcago aeraia. A Japaaeae Caoaetlcka Chopsticks, far from being awkward, aro.w mum cleanest Jibli of their mse tausrht in 'words. There rnan inde scribable knack of fixing one 'stick H firmly andhinging the other with the first and second finger, so as to play exactly upon the fixed stick, which renders the little implements perfect for everything except of course, juice, or gravy and soup. You can even cnt with them by inserting the points close together, and then forcibly separating them; and as for handinesa and precision of grasp, in a little wager at this very restaurant even 1 myself picked up with the haxhi twenty-two single grains of rice in one minute from a lacquered tray, being beat en by a Japanese lady, whose swift skill dexterously conveyed as many as forty nine. Scribner. King Omobu, an African sovereign, has gone over to the shades. He leaves seven hundred and six widow and a large family of children. His eldest son though of short experience, is be coming an adept in the marriage busi ness, he has four hundred and twelve Seta Oae. For the first time ia five Tears no one' J is just now planning to go over Niagara raus lor aa exaiiaitua, mmanxmmuj Be gins to look as if there was a fool-killer. j aad that he had set out to make bnsi- awa aancg uw year. Exhoktes Brother, do you want to be aaved? Young Broker (absent miadedly) Anything in it? wia'wii'w wauaTaw bub uamsMia QJiceiaa wscnw &-.&A av.T 1 f AGRIGULTURAL TOPICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. ShHUeeeFa tlac-Cave af the Stain IMtcher Stock Aa sew Maehiae Valaahle geeawatl far the Dairy The Bheea FeM. THE FARM, ShlfUeea Faralaa E have always claimed that indi rectly, poor prepa ration of tho soil before putting In a crop was a loss, but the following; relating to the wheat pest in Kan sas, taken from the Kansas Farm er, puts poor prep aration of soil in a new light Tho Farmer says: "Secretary Moh ler, of tho State Board of Agricul ture, and Chancel lor Snow, of the State University, after making a thor ough investigation of the reported dam ago done to tho wheat fields by a new pest says that all fields in which the seed wheat was drilled in last fall after prop er preparation of tho soil by plowing or by previous thorough cultivation of corn in 1890, were found to be in prime con dition. No bugs of any kind are present in these fields, and there is no indication of weakening of the wheat plant-In any way. "But fields in which tho wheat Was put in upon stubbie ground or upon poorly cultivated corn land of 1890, are in a damaged condition. Unfortunately, more than half the fields visited in a drive of ten miles south of Russell are of this character. The wheat plants do not Well cover the ground, and in many places are turning yellow. "In some of these damaged fields tho ?lants are infested by a small green bug. 'his insect is not the 'grain aphis' nor the 'oat louse,' as has been reported in some of the newspapcrs,but atrucheniip terous bug, rather smaller than the chinch bug, and not previously known as attacking wheat "It appears, after all, that the prima ry cause is entirely due to improper preparation of tho soil, and therefore not very complimentary to our fellow farmers.' A BomeOaade Ditcher. Take two pieces of 2 by 12-inch lum ber 12 feet long (10 feet will do very well, however). Bevel or miter one end of each piece so as to fit together nicely when the hindmost ends are abotij four feet apart Nail them together iu the form of a V (see engraving). Near the bottom, and about a foot from the ends of this frame, secure a brace of 2 by 4-inch scantling, set edgo up and well nailed. Put another brace about mid Way of the frame, and also near the bot tom or lower edge. These braces pre vent the pressure of the dirt from break ing tho frame. Nail some wide plank across the top for the driver to stand on, and also to lay additional weight upon if necessary. The weight of this ditcher can bo made to correspond with tho strength of yoUf team. Either two, four or even six horses can be worked to it, and the weight can be increased or dimin ished accordingly; Plow the ground well where you want your ditch, just as you would if a scraper was to be used. Follow the plows with the ditcher, alternately, until your ditch is of proper depth. For shallow, open ditches this device does tho work more rapidly, a good deal, than you can do it with scrapers. Farm and Fireside. Care of the Stallion. "Best and fat are the greatest enemies of the horse," Is a saying of the Arabs, and if every stallion owner; would cm body its truth iu his practico there would be little need to write anything further on this subject Its observance would be potent to improve the horse in health, strength, virility, endurance . and lon gevity, and by "holding up tho glass to nature" correct the irrational treatment and abnormal conditions under which he is often reared. Not that tho conditions surrounding the horse in a state of na ture should bo wholly imitated, for they do not all tend to his improvement in tho qualities adapted to man's use. But it is worthy of note that the wild horse is tough, sound and healthy, and making due allowance for the influence of natural selection or the survival of the fittest when we observe that he is sel dom in a state of rest, that ho lives un con lined in the open air, upon natural food, we may reasonably connect these as cause and effect, and safely consider exercise, pure air and simple fundamental conditions upon diet the which build up, by skill iu breeding ing, the highest and most pc type. Breeders' Gazette. THE POULTRY-YARrj. Aa Est; Machine. Fowls aro not a specialty on my farm. I seldom keep over thirty or forty and a mixed lot at that but I have eggs the year round in abundance, even when they bring 45c a dozen. Sly success I attribute to two causes: First I never shut thorn up, having my garden well away from the barns and the front and side yard for flowers well picketed, and seer nd, the "egg machine" is what docs the rest Tho fowls being always in a healthy, natural condition, the result of freedom, they only need food and pro tection from the inclemencies of the weather to do well. Green and animal food they find in abundance during eight months of the year and the remainder of the time I furnish it to them as I do grain the year around. The protection or egg machine is merely a tight shed with doors on tho south side so it can be entirely or partly opened. It is 10x20 feet attached to the west side of one of my barns and only part oi it is high enough for as man to stand erect in. Duringf snows and rold rains the doors are kept closed. All wet and snow are thus excluded. During cold, raw winds and the preval ence of warm rains I instruct the boys to throw open both doors and brace them back. . Here the hens can sing and wal low in the dust The sun can pour in its rays and the winds do not ruffle the plumage and tempers of my petsand-like a gently-handled cow they rewaidpar' I have found glsss altogether uneeflpsary and do not believe it to be needea any more than a ttove. Sometimes a cart, wagon or mowing-machine finds tempor ary shelter here, butl make it a rule to givo the fowls the sole ownership. Sweepings from the adjacent barn floor are thrown iu occasionally and the dust is so deep that the wbola grain ted morn ings has to be sought for vigorously until rly noon, and tie exercise is, l don't A HOME-MADE DITCHER. cfeofcfquinc nr- w' ?JTj-",'"auanananananananananaa-Xa-a af eoabt a factor la the production of eggs. Once yearly the foor (earth) Is hoed over and all the accumulations taken to the corn Held. Here Is where I get another profit The droppings are la fine shape for use fn the drill or planter, never be ing matted together. The dust does not" only keep the hen manure disintegrated, but also absorbs the ammonia which in most hen-houses goes to waste. Properly saved and used no manure Is better or goes further. -A. C. West, in Farm and Home Cater to the FaMie When poultry is raised for market, the poultryman can learn much in a short time by Inspecting the market stalls. The object should be to learn just what the buyers demand, and then aim to supply them. It will be found that all markets are not alike, and that a close observation on tho different mar kets, and also on the demands of the consumers, as well as the seasons when certain kinds of poultry are preferred, will give the farmer or poultryman an advantage which will enable him to se cure not only better prices, but how to breed for the best results in selling poul try. It is the buyer who Is to be satis fied, as ho fixes the price according to the quality and his desires. If yellow legs on poultry aro preferred in certain markets, and the buyers are willing to pay something extra for such, it is to the interest of the farmer to raise fowls with yellow legs. The best breed for his purpose is that which he finds will give the buyers the greatest satisfaction, and In so regulating his breeding he Is not liable to erf. Prices for Pare Breeds. It is supposed that breeders charge a high prices for fowls and eggs, but when It is considered that the breeding of pure breeds is a different matter from that of kcoping fowls without regard to merit the prices aro really very low. A set ting of eggs is the beginning of an in terest in poultry, but the sitting pro currcd, and at an outlay of only a few dollars, transfers tho stock of the most careful breeder to tho yard of the novice, for tho qualities of the parents are transmitted to the offspring. What it has. cost the breeder to bring his stock to Standard qualifications no ono but himself knows, but yet for a small outlay, he allows everyone tho privilege of possessing that which has given him pride, pleasure and profit In viewing the matter thus, it seems almost impos sible that a buyer can object to prices, and yet it is done. The best only pays, and tho best only should be procured while a beginning can be made at very little expense. Poultry Keeper. THE DAIRY, Valuable S fastest ions from the Resort el the Mew York Dairy Ceatereaco. Every ton of milk sold and taken from the farm takes with it S2.G7 in plant food, and every ton of cheese removes 521 worth, while a ton of butter only robs it of about 2G cents Worth. Every coW giving forty pounds of milk a day carries in her udder from the pasture to the sta ble, when she goes there to be milked, 5 cents worth of these elements, if she is milked twice a day. In a herd of twenty cows it amounts to a dollar per day. This loss must be replaced, if the fertil ity of the soil is maintained, or ruin in time to the farm will result In packing butter, some dairymen sprinkle a thin layer of salt between each layer of butter, and pack the butter Very closely. Butter should be washed in water at 50 degrees, and worked at about 55 degrees. The granules can then be washed when very small. It is almost impossible to make butter of uniform quality from milk set in open pans, owing to atmospheric changes. In cold setting these changes are not met witn. Milk often sours iu less than twelve hours when set in shallow pans, unless the cellar is below CO degrees in temper ature. To warm cream, set the can con taining it in a can of warm water, and stir the dream during tho process. Cool cream in the same manner. Set the can containing it into a can of cold water, but you may pour cold water into the cream. Do not put ice in cream, but substitute ice water. One cannot tell how much ice to put in, becauso he will have to wait till tho ice melts before he can determine the result Too much ico may reduce the temperature too low, when one would have to warm the cream again. Churn in twenty-five to thirty minutes if possible. Milk containing large butter globules produces cream that will churn quicker than that containing small glo bules. Select the cows for a special pur pose. A man starting a cotton factory does not purchase machinery for manu facturing woolen goods. If you expect butter from cows secure butter-producing cows, not beefy ones. Nervous excitement will cause the cow to withhold her milk. Bough treatment of.cows produces nervous excitement, which arrests the natural process of na ture. Fright interrupts the normal con dition, causing a shrinkage in the flow of milk. Wet weather causes a decrease in tho quantity of butter, because the pasture food of the cows is less nutritious. The quality of the cow's food affects tho quality of her milk and butter. Cows requiro more shelter now than they did years ago, because they aro more delicate than they were, as a rule itter bred, and finer in constitutional ructurc. SaltinK cream will not prevent it from becoming butter. Butter that is colored will not keep as well as that which is uncolorcd. Time devcloncs chemical changes in the color, which is a foreign substance. The quicker cream can be ripened uniformly the hotter tho butter will be. There aro two or three kinds of white caps in butter. One is dried cream, another is cascino. Cream should be churucd at a higher degree of temper ature in winter than in summer, since it is moro viscous. A pan that is half filled with milk will give better results in cream than one filled. Fill a pan half full of milk, then add another third of cold water. Set the cream at 98 degrees, or as near as you can get it, and have the water as cold as possible. More and quicker cream will result The strippings arc the richest part of the milk, because they arc the milk last secreted, and have taken up some solids that were absorbed in tho udder from the milk which has been first drawn. Oftentimes the came of streaks iu but ter is the' unequal distribution of salt in it. Reworking it after it has stood awhile, after being once worked, will also cause streaks. Frost injures butter. Butter that has been frozen soon gets off flavor when ex posed to a wanner temperature. Butter kept but a shprf time in cold storage soon spoils after'cxposing it iu a warmer temperature. Keep your milk, cream and butter away from severe cold and frost It is not desirable to mix cream a little sour with sweet cream in butter-making. You will lose all the sweet cream you put in. It will all go off in the buttermilk. Never mix sweet and sour cream just before churning. Hold the first skim ming at a low temperature until the sec ond is added, then ripen evenly. Cream and milk can be churned to gether, but it takes longer, and the but ter will uot come evenly. It is a costly method and should not be practiced. If cream is churned' before the proper time it will not be of perfect flavor, and more time will be required to churn the cream. THE SHEEP FOLD. From the Western Rural we compile ! the following: ; It is claimed that sheep tred in Neb raska are more than ordinarily free from disease. Look carefully after the ewes and the lambs. The one should be kept In good health and the other well protected. I Sheep cannot pull stumps nor eat stones, but they can do about everything else that it is necessary to do to clean up a piece of laud. j The better management of sheep dnr- Ing the last few years has resulted In I much less disease amone flocks. Moore j green food in winter and better shelter have been the chief improvemente. !! whrtara tanaah nt Kateaahiaaah -La Gritee-vft varybaj vlnlian ateae faith hare, aa4 the awrtaUty Mete ahowtta aheokiag lavaats ia aagravataa eases. An aleehelle athialf 1i saeeealef as a aasataatea atlaialaat aadirffi everpieve the heat spaeUe. Leaoaafl Mattmeatal aaa lasarfwa aaraWaaa eeehue spMtaoaa heals. at w - -r z unatvaalai u shofttfa aaaiaay. a sUfht ehaaaa el it; that- tt attacks aaaa, the leaf; that Whea we eeaaldar that waAthar ta ant ta those easily valaerable luaroaTeaaM tire, we mast adaUt the neeaeatty of repeUiag HattheoatastwittaauieareveBttTa. Hoetet- .- - - .- Q,.l .mm 4m .1m A ..f.ail. lar a pmth m mm aw ma i,h acatait malaria, dyspepsia, rheawtatisai. Itver and aidaey coBsphuais. STARBEAMS. Pexhsyxvahia Is infested with horti cultural thieves. They not only steal green apples, but they dig up and steal apple trees and grapevines. A journal says it is hard to face the world when a man Is flat on his hack. Yes, but when In that position it seems too easy for him to face the better world. A MAjrcrACTURTNO town not only keeps its people, bnt continually draws people to It Pittsburg In the last year grew more in population than in any previous year of Its history. The rabbit pest In Australia Is sup plemented with a visitation of locusts. In a portion of that country the roads and fences are covered to a depth of three or four inches with the insects. , There seems to be almost a countless number of "Other World's Than Ours." A photographic plate, exposed in Algiers, has brought out 4.80O stars In the region of the nebulous spot in the constellation of Lyra. THE SACRED DESK. A tekerabuc clergyman of Portland, Me., lately expressed the opinion that a heathen who had never heard a ser mon might hope to attain heaven, and another heresy trial case Is being pre pared for trial. Even in the aristocratic Church of England preferment often comes too late to leave much time for its enjoy ment The late Archbishop of York was 70 when he won his lawn sleeves, and his successor was 65 when he stepped into tho vacant throne. Ail Is not at haad that helps.' Ia othet words we cannot foresee wheaoe help may come to ua. bnt every sensible housekeeper should know that every grocer sells 8APO LIO. Interest and devotion can be expen sive. The wife of a Boston broker sailed for Peru to visit her sister, and when she arrived there she sent him a cable gram which cost him $700 to announce the fact. The most of the message, however, told how her dog fell overboard and could not be saved. How a Toarlst Hakes Money. Dear Readers: While visiting places of interest, I. spend my leisure time plating tableware and Jewelry and selling platers. I make from $5 to 815 per day. The work Is done so nicely that every person wants it I paid 25 for my plater to 11. K. Delno & Co.. Columbus, u. nay not nave a good time and money in your pocket, when for 5 you can start a business of your own. Write above firm ror circulars. a xourist. When Baby was dek, we gave her Castoria, Whea she was a Child, she cried f or CastorJa, When she became Mfas, she clung to Castoria, Wbra she bad Children, she save them Castoria James Whitcomb Ko.et Is extremely boyish in his manner. He dislikes busi ness, and when he gets on a train he has a very indefinite idea of the direction he is taking. He is as ignorant of the evcry-day affairs of life as he is of geog raphy, and takes but little interest in anything outside of his art. Josiaji Quixcy Is to deliver the Fourth of .7 uly oration before the Hoston city government, an hereditary function in the family. Josiah Qnincy delivered one July 4, 1708. Josiah Quincy delivered one July 4, 1S26. Josiah Quincy jr. was the city orator July 4, 1832. S ir rniUTHV. Mir. fMnrio Sontt. writes "1 find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable rem edy." Druggists sell It, 7ac. The temperance cause may be ad vanced as a business Dronosition. Jn i Vitw Vnrtr fit v thnv hsvn associations nf men who do not drink during business. In a big city where competition in all lines of business is so great, a cool and clear head is very essential. BROxenms Is cured by frequent small doses of Plso's Cure for Consumption. Xathaxiel Taft. of Middlctown. N V.. fnr fnrtv vears uast a locomotive engineer and for thirty-five years in the service of the trie railway, nas never met with an accident on the road. The Chinese are not to have a monop oly of the opium trade. The Russian department of agriculture and farming proposes to introduce the cultivation of opium in tnc Caucasian uisiricis. rTTS-An Fits stopped neebr Dr.Klliie'a Ureat Nerre Restorer. No tin attar flntt dy'a a. Map veUotu cure. Treattsr and !M trial botUo free to ntcaaae. beaAtoDr.aUlaa.marehst.raUa.fa The hand of time deals lightly with a woman in perfect health, cut all func tional derangements and dis orders peculiar to women leave then mark. You needn't have them. pr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription comes to your rescue as no other medi cme can. It cures them, ror periodical pains, prolapsus and other displacements, bearing down sensations, and all "fe male complaints" and weak nesses, it is a positive remedy. It is a powerful, restorative tonic ana nervine, imparling strength to the whole system in general, and to the uterine organs and appendages in par ticular. It keeps years lrom your face and figure but adds years to your life. It's guar anteed to give satisfaction in every case. If it doesn't, your money is reiumea. cjr.Tj. that a ail Mela i with aa wta IniJi tfc am t ! ailast the I Bccauae It Irnprovoa Mar l,aafca I ami la aa FraaantaaVlaTaia. Hfaoxan jbiv Jan a ,w Mavjaa.fj SaWBHaaaBaBaBBaBBaaBBBaaaaaaaBaaaaaByMBaV HeaBBBaiBBaBaBaaaBBaaBaBBaBiMaBaaaBaBaaBBBaBBv OURRENT NOTES. Tka atan who la hanged ends the raea efltfeiaatle. . . "What Is the first step, Mr. Soake, la learning to paint the town?" "A coarse of 'drawing, sir." "Correct,, aad what do wa draw?" orks, sir." Jcnca (soothingly) "Your wife was a bad when yon married her, Mr. Breezy." Breezy (sadly) "Yes, but she's la fall bloom now, I caa tell yon." Doixxx "Wheah to Weggie? Haven't seen deah boy faw a week." Chollie "Bed. Nehvous pwostwatioa. Been twying t' learn V play baccarat, pooah boy." Mas. Jkixtjt "I understand your daughter's marriage was a brilliant one.'!, Mrs. Fresco "Delightful. She got divorce within two years and alimony of 920,000 a year." Played Out HowotleattiUaadBUallsrezerasstoassre bear frost tixed. overworked woaaea. aad weary, aaxtowa atea. who do aot kaow where to tad relief. For tea latsase waanaesa ae coauaoaaadaodlacoar aclac we eazaeatly reeoataaead Hood'a Sanapa rUU. it is not a athaalaat bat awaetoaiatrada ally ealldiaf ap all Vxm weak eetaas la each away as to be of lasting beaeai. A fair trial will eoa Tiace joa of its merits. K.B. Beseratofet Hood's Sarsaparilla Solder an droaslsta. ll-.sixforfs. Prepared oeh ay 0. 1. BOOD A 00. Lowell. Mass. 100 Doses Otis Dollar The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. yfcOPefRc OIVIS ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts fently yet promptly on the Kidneys, aver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs i3 the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the dtomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it tho most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try.it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAM FRANCISCO. CAU tOUlSVIUE. AX MEW 1QKK. M.T. Tutt's Hair Dye OiaylialrwwBJakerselu.Bgdtoaa;loaay elaek bra aiaa-le application or this tyre. It Imparts aaatnral color, aetetaatantaae awely aad eeatalas aetata Injnrtoas to the fcalr. 8eIdbyalldrnircists.oraeBtbyez. rroa eta receipt or price, in. uacw t 1 n fiaee, .new zera. ttiA?g ggyggmraaa amVrV avX. mmmmf amrmSyVlT ammmmmmi J nkaNsNSnfitan TrjlEECWi'SPIU$. I 26cts. a Box. 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