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rj 3i lis : - -". ?T s S! - -. C I,, A ONE AND ONE. Ska lMt ral tfliaamer rf tba ran Snlnee tarongh the open door. Ami Vamin Btragxllng ban upon lae wen-vera aebool-nonse floor, Messrs the (rave young master's chair A weeping maiden stands. Am with a nervous, puzzled eir. ittpoerea wonne ecane. It la bo aaa." abe eobbed, -to try, I ft right." .... "See here," the master aaid, and held The agorae to her sight. "This problem that has kept yon ere, Bad long ago been done, Sad you not aaid In adding, dear. That one and one make one." "Bat Isn't that " aha stopped confused. Her bine e aa sought the floor ; look was on the matter's lace 6he bad sot seen before. "Not quite, my dear," he gently said, "That is. In sums like this ; A But jet, I think, there are times wbeE Twobm not be far amUa." And then bat pshaw! why undertake To tell just what waa said? Full often has the tale been told, SiaeeEve and Adam wed. . The logic that the master nsed Ta make the matter plain, Waa need by man since earth began. And seldom nsed in vain. She swaying trees a tale of lore 8eemed wkispering to the brook. As man and maid adowu the glade, Their homeward journey took. Now, band n hand, they pass lile'a school. Their knottiest problem done : They're solved it by the good old role Of "One and One .Stake ke One." Yankee Blade. THE GHOST BELL It is many years since I was quartered with my regiment in Vienna. Among my acquaintances there was a young nobleman in the Imperial Guard Baron von SteingraflL A finer hearted follow could not be found in his ma jesty's dominions nor a better soldier in his army. Frank and gay as a com panion, he was a favorite with his own sex, and a good figure and good prop erty, made him not unacceptable with old mammas and young daughters. Friediich, however, seemed to be no marrying m&n, though he had nothing miogyniFtic in his nature. When our friendship had grovrn into close inti macy I happened to banter him on the subject of matrimony, but he assured me he had resolved never to marry. "Not," said he, "that I have any dis inclination to the matrimonial state, but fate, cruel and inexorable, has forbid den me to enter it" I stared at him in silent surprise. After a moment he told me how, when a child, ke had met a gypsy woman, from Bohemia, as he crossed a wood sear the Schloss. She had stopped him, looked into his hand and said: "Young herr, wbenyou go to marry a wife take heed. The way to God's altar lies through God's acre!" "Well!" cried I, laughiug, "that was a safe prophecy. A man cannot well get to the church door unless he walks through the church yard." Friedrich nhook List head. "That was not her meaning," said he, "but rather that lor ahe whom I shall wish to make my biide xnutt die on the bridal day. Therefore, 1 shail never marry." He shivered, turned pale, and added: "And now, Hauptman, let us never apeak of this again 1" A year passed by and I was far away in the north of Germany when I got a letter from Von Steingraff, It an nounced his coming marriage with a young lady of his own country. "My de-tiny," he wrote, "what it may beI must work out. I couid not resist my pavtsion for my little Boeschen. So come to me as soon as you can ; and who knows but your happier interpretation o: the gypsy's prophecy may be the true one?" 1 laughed heartily as I closed the letter. The old story I TVomau's tongue had overcome man's resolve pretty Koe-cben had whipped the withered gy y from the fieid. And o ayiiig 1 packed for my journey, and the morrow found me en route. At the clo.-e of a lovely autumn day I drove along the road between Saizburg and St. Gilgen where it skirts the picturesque little like of Mondsee. -Not far from this stood the schloss of my friend, built close to the ruins of a suppressed monastery and sheltered by a dark forest. Thither I worked my way but slowly for the approach was steep and circuitous, and by the time I reached the entrance and stood under the heavy arches of the doorways the sun had set and the great stone mass of building was lying in tue gloom. All was quiet and the place seemed des erted. I knocked at the heavy door and an aged servant appeared. I an nounced myself and was informed that the baron was deathly sick. On the very day that he had written to me he was prostrated with a serious illness and he was now in the eighth day, struggling with the delirium of fever. The doctors declared the case to be hoiteless, but were in almost constant attendance. One had just left and had aa:d he would return as the crisis would occur that very niglit I determined, of court, to await the istme. and iu a few moments stood by the bedside of my dearest friend and looked down on a poor shattered being, with flushed face, a burning lip and glazed eye, towing and raving, whose hand was unconcious of my loving pres sure, whose ear turned from words of flection. From time to time I could distin guish words through his mutter ings. which told me how the bewil dered spirit wrestled with horrible phantoms. With appalling incongruity be mingled the scenes of the bridal chamber and the charnel vault, now calling on his bride to wrap her grave clothes about her, now bidding the sexton pledge him a skull of wine. Terrible as all this was to hear and painful to see, I determined to watch through the night, and the faithful old butler begged to remain also. Indeed, I felt so nervous and distressed that I was glad of his company. When it wanted but two hours of midnight Fritdrich fell intoalethargic stupor. I left the bedside and went to sit by the fire. Old Klaus threw on a fresh log and filled a glass with Hungarian wine from a flask on the tablet 1 noticed that the old fellow's hand trembled, and his eyes were filled with tears. I spoke a few words of comfort and he bbed aloud: "Alas! Herr Hauptman, my mind misgives me sadly! 1 fear every mo ment that I shall hear the dismal ring ing of the ghost dead belli" At. this uncanny title I shivered. "But what may that be?" I asked anx iomJy. "Achl What an old fool lam. I forget sometimes, but forgive it" "But Klaus," baid I, "what did you Klaus bent toward me, his old face drawn with fear. "The bell that rings oat the life of every Ton Steingraff," 'aid he, with suppres-xed emotion. I suppose I looked both startled and in terested, and the old servant, glad of sympathy and attention, continued in a huhed voice: "Mayhap yon observed the monastery near' the castle, sir, as job came np the drive. Well, sir, a long time ago the Baron Steingraff of that day, who lived then in the schloss higher ap in the hills above the Kro teasea, had a quarrel with the abbot The baron waa a fierce and haughty awa that cared little for church and priest, and the abbot was as haughty in his way, so the f ned grew deadlier everv "At last the abbot swore on the holy xe'iesof St. Wolfgang that he would ex communicate the baron. And the baron wore by the cross on his wordhitt that he would tear the frock off the abbot's back and drive him and his monks out faith Tha abbot was good as his word, and so, on the feast of the blessed St Wolfgang, he and hk monks walked in procession through the church np to the altar, and the great book was opened and the anathe mas read, and then the bell was tolled and the lighted candles extinguished, and thus the baron was excommunicated. The bell was still tolling and the priests were on their way down the aisle when the shouts of the baron and his wild men-at-arms, his jagers and holzknecth rang at the walls, and sledges and great pine beams were battering at the gates. One mad fellow seized a splinter of wood and lit it at the altar and then fired the panels, and the roof and the dry wood were all soon in a blaze. The baron seized the bell rope and rang out a loud peal of triumph. But the abbot walked np to him, dressed in all his robes, and holding up his hands, cursed him in the name of the blessed Trinity, and said: "'As the evil one peals that bell now through your hands, so shall he peal it when he claims the soul as it passes from the body of you and your son and of your son's son. Amen!' "So saying, the abbot called his monks, and they went their way down to the Lake of Aver. But the baron and his followers threw themselves upon the holy men and tore their frocks from their backs and threw their books into the lake. The baron then seized the monastery lands and held them, too, for might was right in those days, and he built the present castle hard by the the ruins of the monastery, lest the abbot and his retainers should rally and seek to regain their old possessions. "Time passed on, and the baron had well-nigh forgotten that abbot or monk had ever dwelt within the old black ened monastery walls. One cold win ter's night the baron sat with his re tainers in the great hall drinking and revelling, as was their wont The wind howled in gusts fitfully, and in the pauses a loud knock was heard at the oaken door. The Thurhuter, when he opened the door, saw no one, though the moon was at that moment shining through a rift of the clouds, but he felt a cold blast sweep across his face. So he shut the door again, and thought it must have been the storm that deceived him. "The next moment those in the hall saw a monk in a black habit, with a cowl drawn over his head, enter and walk without a word to where the baron was sitting. Then the monk drew back his hood, and an old withered face, ghastly pale, but stern, and fierce, gazed undaunted on the baron. " 'Tausend sakerment!' shouted the baron, starting in a rage, 'dog of an ab bot, what brings you here? Trundle ont the shaveling, and set the dogs on him.' "The abbot raised his Bkinny arm, and said in a hollow and solemn voice: 'This night twenty years you and I met I am on my way to the abbey; follow me.' "The abbot retired as he came, no one daring to hinder or harm the holy man. " 'To the hangman with him cried the baron, choking with rage and springing after him. That moment the old bell pealed out with a wild c!ang from the tower. The baron fell to the ground. When they lifted him np he was dead. " 'Twas said he died in a fit Maybe so. But that very night one of the holzknechts returning to the village from the Biesen up on the hill where he had been working, declared that as he passed the tower he heard the old bell pealing, and saw a procession of monks following a bier and disappear ing within the ruins. Next morning tidings came that the old abbot had died the day before at St Wolfgang's, but where or when he was burled no- I body ever knew." urn luaus ceased ana sat gazing in the fire. "A strange, wild tale," I said lightly, unwilling to confess myself moved by the story. "Has the ghost believer been heard since that time?" Old Klaus shuddered. "Ay, sir," be answered gloomily, "whenever the soul passes from the body of a Von Stien graff, but I am not willing to believe that the evil .one dare claim the spirit of my dear young master one so good and noble as he!" and again the old servant fell to weeping. "Hush. Klaus, lest youdesturb him," I said, hastily, although a glance at my poor Fredrich well nigh assured me that few sounds would disturb him more. Then I paced the room and out into the hall and down the stairs, for I heard the sound of horses at the gates, audi knew that the physician had come. I let him go up alone, while I sat for a few moments in the chamber I bad been shown to on my arrival. I could not take my mind from the story of the ghost bell. I stole up once more to the sick-room. The physician sat at the foot of the bed. Iriedrich seemed to be sleeping I quietly. I hoped this might be a good sign, but, to my in quiry, the old physicion shook his head sadly. " 'Tis the sleep that will wake only in death." he answered sadly. "An hour will decide, but be prepared for the worst I can give you but little hope. Impelled by I knew not what, I sud- denlv asked "Doctor, what could have caused this suddea illness ? My friend has had the most perfect health all his life. He once told me he had never been ill. What could have caused this fever?" "God alone can tell!" answered the physician, piously. "The young baron was with me the day previous to his ill ness, and bade me gayly enough to dance at his wedding I never saw him looking better. He was on horse back and rode swiftly out to St Gil gen, reining up his stead for an instant to throw money to an old gypsy who stood, her hand outstretched, by the road. Always kind." added the good doctor, "always noble! I have known him thus as '.boy and man." And the usually cold man of science brushed his hand across his eyes. I took his other hand in my own and pressed it warmly. Then I went to the chamber below. Old Klaus crept after me for sympathy. I sat down by the fire with a heavy heart I took up a book from one of the shelves and tried to read. Not a sound was to be heard save the ticking of the great clock in the hall. I laid down the book and sighed. Just then the clock tolled the midnight honr. The deep bell struck twelve times, loud and clear, and mechanically I counted every stroke. Midnight! A sudden thought the crisis! Then my poor Friedrich might even now be passing the portal of eternity! I was about to speak to Klaus when I discovered that he slept exhausted on the hearth. So I rose noiselessly, and passed sad ly and alone into the great stone halL A breath of cold air struck my cheek. It came from the end of the halL I was pierced through and through with its chill touch. Certainly the outer doors must be open. I peered through the vista of the dimlv lighted arches toward i the entrance, and moved a few steps in that direction. As I did so I was sure I heard a muf- i fled knocking at the portal. I listened intentiy. and after a moment the sound was repeated, and followed almost im mediately by the slipping of a bolt Still I saw no one. and I concluded the sound must come from some other part of the Schloss. I was about to turn and desist from investigation when I again felt the icv blast swee; my face and threat Thoroughly startled, I strained Mmr ejes to s more clearly before ne, They beaune gradually aoemstoaedto the seau-darkness, and I perceived tha massive doors swing inward on their iron hinges to admit a tall, dark figure in cloak and hood. "A priest?" I thought instantly; then the thought was succeeded by another. "Fredrich is not a Catholic! Who had summoned him? The doctor, perhaps!" And then again, who was it that had admitted him? I myself had seen this figure pass through doors bolted and barred! I heard his muffled knock! I saw him, now, before me and yet of a certainty I knew that none had bade him enter nor had any hand unclosed the gates to give him entrance! Smitten with a nameless fear I stood, or leaned against one of the stone pil lars for support The dark figure now moved toward me down the halL Nearer nearer it came, and I saw that I was right it was the figure of a priest As he passed close beside me his cowl fell back and revealed an old, wrinkled, ashy face in which were set two Kleaminar eyes blade and evil, no looked not to the right nor to the left, but as he passed up the wide stair ne raised one thin, white hand above his head, amrthe dark sleeve feu back and showed the skinny, withered arm bare to the elbow. I stood frozen with terror to the spot, when a harsh sound smote upon my ear. It was followed by a shrill scream, and old Klaus rushed from the room and threw himself at my feet "God have mercy upon us!" he shrieked almost crazed with fright "The ghost belli" Again came the harsh sound the clanging of an iron belli It smote cruelly upon my sharpened sense wild, fitful, irregular and, God for give me! not as human hands would have rung it! I flew np the stairs Klaus close be hind me. In a moment I was in the baron's chamber. The physican laid his cold hand on mine I saw the truth written iu his face "It is all over," he said. "He is dead 1" a bent Circular Saws. Every saw-mill man knows that one of the most difficult and trying opera tions to which circular saws are put is that of log cutting, working up the rough timber into lumber. But not all sawvers are as familiar with the condi tions which govern the operation of the circular saw as they should be. These are the only tools used in cut ting and dressing lumber that within themselves have certain inherent condi tions to govern their speed, and a knowledge of this is an important part of a sawyer's ability and education. A great deal, of course, depends upon the material and manner in which the saw is made, whether it has been hammered "tight" or "slack" on the periphery. Assuming that on account of the centrifugal force the steel is stretched from the eye of the saw toward its periphery, a great deal would depend upon the condition of the saw at the beginning. A saw that is hammered loose at its periphery can be operated at a much higher speed than one that is tight or stretched. In explaining this let us suppose that a saw is started up and gradually in creased in speed. For a time, and up to a certain limit, according to the above conditions the stiffness or rigidity of the blade will be increased. Above this limit it begins to dimish, and at a very high velocity the plate becomes limber and pliant as a piece of paper, and if the speed is kept up, the periphery of the saw will assume an undulatory or wavy motion. When in this condition it is as sensi tive to pressure on its sides as if it were made of a sheet of paper. This, while it may form an interest ing experiment, is also valuable in the consideration of the subject of speed for such tools. It shows beyond a doubt that there is a specific speed at which saws should be run to do work to the best advantage and within the limits of safety and economy. Saw-mill men as a rule are not suffi ciently familiar with such matters, and only consider the subject with relation to tha amount of production. There is an important matter for careful study in the manipulation of saws, and a chance for the exercise of good judg ment in regulating their speed for the different classes of work to which they are put Manufacturers? Gazette. Band Vracway. Excursions across the territory of Uruguay reveal nothing of very great interest to the tourist The landscape in parts is pretty; some finely situated estancias are to be seen along the banks of the Uruguay; the vicinity of the Bio Negro, too, is especially interesting and characteristic of the fertile parts of the territory, which present a similar com bination of water, wood, and rolling prairie. But, after all, one soon wearies of looking at the same kind of view honr after hour, league after league,and province after province. The fences of posts aud wire are varied sometimes by fences of aloes and cactus; the eucalyp tus, the poplar, and other trees are also planted to form fences as in Chili; the roads, where one sees long teams of oxen toiling along with huge wagons, are as terrible as those of the Argentine; the prairies are dotted with innumerable herds of cattle and horses; occasionally you see two or three peasants wearing brown ponchos riding and driving ani mals before them; at long intervals you see one or two ranchos, or huts, where the peasants live. In the Argentine the ranchos appeared miserable .enough, but in Uruguay I saw many even more primitive, mere huts of black mud, with a roof of maize straw, a floor of beaten earth, a doorway, but not always a window. The cabins of the Irish peasantry give some idea of the Uru guayan rancho. It is a comfortless, unhealthy, rheumatic dwelling, less civilized than that of the Esquimaux, and more carelessly built than the most ordinary bird's nest Harper's Maga zine. Sixty-Fear f earn Married. Green County can probably boast of having one of the oldest married couples in the State. David Stickle and Mary, bis wife, are the happy pair. They have been living together for sixty-four years, having been msrried in 1826. The combined ages of the two is 174 years. Both are still enjoying fairly good health. Mr. Stickle was born in Washington County ninety-one years ago, and moved to his present residence in Morris in 1840. Eight children were born as the froitiof this union and three are still living. The old gentleman is quite active and his mental faculties are still good. He was always- an indus trious man, and he still cuts his wood and does many other odd jobs about the farm. Washington (Pa.) Repub lican. Hadn't the Snap. A legal firm in Albany, Ga,, was called upon by three different men to get divorces from their wives. None of them had any money, however, but one of them got the lawyers interested in his case after giving them a mortgage on his mule. The other two were turned away disconsolate. (aoine to the Miow There is a spot up among the Ande where it rains about one day iu a wee';, and they have built a hotel and made I summer resort there, jut that i eoii! j may see the show. The chap wii can J say that he has seen it rain is entit'ed t; '.swell around and expectorate over hi 1 shoulder. You never find man well treated J when God's laws are broken. OUR RURAL READERS WILL BE PLEASED WITH THIS DEPARTMENT. Atvaatac ef ranters dabs aa Imetl tatee Faraaa as the Tartar A Cea vealeatBUlalBC Steel Kalrtae; Pisa Car FraBt Oeaeral Femttry Mates-Fesnte Fertaialea; te the Heni sheet aaal nYltcfcea. THE FARM, ranters Claba aaal laetltatea. ffFTERsecuringthe II late crops and pro f viding for the physical comforts of his household, as well as the needs of his do mestic animals, the rural citizen may enhance bis welfare by dis charging impor tant duties in an other direction. During the long season of leisure upon which they are now entering American soil tiller will hsivn wt J rare opportunities to acquire knowledge pertaining to the practice and science of their noble voca tion. Among the sources of information relative to the best modes of soil culture and farm management, the discussions and other doings (lectures, essays, etc.) of farmers' clubs and institutes are the most valuable, though rural books and journals merit careful study. There fore, we urge ruralists to attend every session of a farmers' club or institute held within their reach, and to partici pate in its proceedings. Many States have provided for holding county Insti tutes the coming reason, and it is hoped these will be numerically attended and prove largely beneficial to the agricul tural Interest Farmers' clubs are also Increasing In numbers and usefulness. Of the great benefits derivable from these clubs thero can bo no question, and they should receive the encourage ment and support of the true friends of rural progress and improvement every where. The Sanaa of the Fntare. The Country Gentleman of a recent date prints a letter from Mr. C Wood Davis on crops per capita, and the con clusion he draws is "that good lands any where in the United States will be worth 5100 an acre within five years." This ought to cheer tho hearts of the farmers. Mr. Davis asserts that there is an ex act ratio between population and pro duction, but that this has not been made manifest for tho reason that we have been cultivating too much land and could at any time increase one product at the expense of another without making a "shortened supply of the lessened crop." But this is not to bo so another decade. Indeed, he fixes the limitation in 1895. His reasoning is cxhilerating: We cannot reduce tho number of cat tle other than milch cows below 530 to 1,000 people without making beef so val uable that tho farmers will rush into its production and thus create a shortago in some other product; nor make the milch cows less than 230 to each 1,000 of the population without making a short age in some other direction and putting up the price of everything pertaining to the dairy. The balance must be pre served. For each 1,000 units added to the population we must add 230 to 235 milch cows and a given number of horses, aud but for the surplus of beeves now existing we should have to add fifty to fifty-three cattle other than milch cows. For every cow, steer, or horse added wo must add about six to seven acres to our farms, and of this two and one-half to three acres must be in pasture. On these figures Mr. Davis, in 1891, believes that home consumption by 1895 will consume all the products of Amer ican farms, and that the price of good farm lands in the old Northwestern States will be $100 an acre. Iff Coald Be Young Again. If I were a farmer's boy intending to be a farmer, I think I would study very hard all the forms of "out-door science." Before and after school, and in the long vacations I would keep the run of all farm operations, learn from my father the masons for his plans and operations, and try to share in the plans and the re sults. I would try to become deft and skillful in all tho farm processes, such as hand mowing, pitching, plowing, care of stock, milking, shearing, pruning, and handling farm tools and machines. I would have, if possible, and read somo of tho best books on farming. As soon as I had a thoroughly good education in the common English branches, I would try to spend four years at a good agri cultural and mechanical college. If that of my own State was not doing good work for agriculture, or was not thor oughly in sympathy with industrial life, I would try to go to one in some neigh boring State where such was tho case. I would study the conservatism of fer tility, for with proper cultivation, rota tion of crops and manuring, any soil is inexhaustible, and for ages on ages it will yield food for man and beast The indestructibility of matter is the law that conserves productiveness. But by continued cropping, without sense or reason, certain food elements may be re moved from one place to enrich some other lands. If we raise corn and wheat In America to feed Europe for a century or two we shall certainly waste our pat rimony and exhaust the resources of fer tility in our lands, rich as they are. if. I. Chamberlain, in Rural New Yorker. rail Flowing. The benefits of fall plowing for all spring crops, except Indian corn, have already been demonstrated, and its great economy is so apparent to every intelli gent farmer that no further discussion of the question is necessary. The inau guration and making of permanent and other improvements should also now re ceive attention. Underdraining, and also surface drain age and the laying of pipes or logs for the conveyance of water, may often be done to advantage at this season, and will prove most valuable improvements. Now, also is a good time to provide a year's supply of fuel, as well as pea brush, bean-poles, etc. And it is not too early for gathering the ice crop and mak ing maple sugar, while those who have timber to cut and hall will do well to plan their work without delay. Fore casting and arranging in advance will greatly facilitate farm operations during the winter. THE DAIRY. Convenient MllUar stent Here is a milking stool invented by me, which is light and durable and very con venient, as it holds the pail securely in Its place. It is easily made and when finished has a neat appearance. For the top of the stool take a good oak board about an Inch thick and eight or wn inches wide by twelve long, tapering slightly to the front Next take two pieces Of oak or other hard wood about two by three inches and twelve inches long, for legs. The front ones can be made smaller. A is a board half an inch thick and six teen inches long, fastened at B by saw ing notches about a quarter of an Inch deep in the leg and securely fastened to it by a couple of sirall nails. Cist piece of metallic hoop which I have to admit the bucket easily. D Is a piece of stouter iron, fastened to X and T br 1 X 7aaal. JT Bastatn, In Jswm amd t aa Ayrshire Cew An Ayrshire cow geneially shows 13 per cent of solids, 13 to 16 per cent of cream, and 3K to 4 per cent of butter fat In the milking competitions of the London Dairy Show and the Oxfordshire and other shows, the Ayrshries have stepped far ahead of the Shorthorns, Guernseys, eta, in the quantity and qual ity of the milk which they yielded. The milk of the Ayrshire is pre-eminently suited for cheese-making from its com position and structure. All samples of milk under the microscope are seen to be composed of a homogeneous fluid, in which float little globules of butter fat These globules vary in size, and while in the Jersey they are comparatively large, in the Ayrshire they are small and not rising quickly but mixing with the curd butter, make an evenly rich cheese. The quantity of cheese yielded by such ani mal is about six hundredweights, esti mated in so many stones of twenty-four pounds each. . THE PIGGERY. Plga for Profit. The most successful poultry raiser I ever knew, a woman whose sales of poul try and eggs reached $3,000 a year, laid down as a rule never to be deviated from, to push all stock so as to make the growth as rapid as possiple, and sell just as soon as marketable. A man who has for several years grown 150 pigs yearly, .and sold them at six months old, says no farmer can afford to feed a pig longer than this. I have attained a weight of 200 pounds at this age, and found the cost per pound much less than when I fed longer, and made a weight of 300 pounds or more' and the risk of loss from disease is very much less than from older hogs. If pigs are sold at this age the spring litters need not be dropped till cold weather is over, say April 1, and will be marketed before winter weather sets in, so that no feed will be wasted in maintaining vital heat The fall litters can be dropped in time to get a good start before the cold weather sets In, and in a good hog house can be kept thrifty all winter and sold in early spring. I find it profitable to keep the fall litters till a month or more older than the spring litters, so as to finish them off for market after the cold weather is over. I find it profitable to raise two litters a year, for mature sows give the largest and most vigorous pigs, and the cost of keeping a full-grown sow is large, and the second litter will add to the profit To make pig-growing profitable thoy must be pushed from the start and at the same time good judgement must be exercised in feeding. Milk is tho best and corn the worst feed for pigs during the first few months when they are form ing bone and muscle. Yet I can make good thrifty pigs without milk, and can raise fairly good pigs with corn as the main food. Next to milk I prefer bran, oats and oilmeal, and can make fairly good and palatable slop from these, and push a rapid growth. The first thing to be done is to get the pigs to eating before they are weaned, so that their growth will not be checked when taken from the mother. Until four months old the growth of frame should be pushed as much as possible, but do not attempt to fatten them, and for this reason the less corn they eat the better. At four months old begin to feed corn, moderately at first but in ten days you may give them all they will eat, but you will get growth as well as fat, and moro lean meat, if you keep up the bran-slop until they are ready for market I believe in feeding three times a day just what they will cat clean, and so thoy will always come with a good appetite for the next meal, rather than to keep food by them all the time, as some do. I have for many years fat tened my own meat from spring pigs fed in this way, and 1 think I have a better quality of pork than it would be possible for me to buy. New York Tribune. Notes. Don't breed moro sows than you can properly care for. It is poor policy to keep pigs of all ages and sizes together. See that tho sows about to farrow are not left out some cold night, and a lot of dead or dying pigs found in the morning. Don't stint tho young sows you intend to breed soon. Oat?, wheat middlings, and a little oil-cake will bo much better for them than heavy corn feeding. Avoid too close in-breeding, keep in a good healthy place, and do not feed too much corn, and bog cholera will go by your pens much quicker than it will go by the pens rhere these rules are not observed. It is the feeling with breeders of pure bred hogs that within the coining year breeding stock will bo in great demand in many hog-growing sections. On ac count of the scarcity of corn farmers have sold off their stock too close. Of the extent of this error it is impossible to judge. Under pressing necessity tho short supply of breeding stock retained will repopulatc the farms with wonder ful rapidity. THE POULTRY-YARD. Mating the Breeding Slock; Unless you desire to hatch chicks, the males can be kept away from tho hens. By so doing, a larger number of hens can be kept together, instead of a male and ten hens, for if two males are put in the same pen, they will probably quarrel and fight, and be rendered useless. When eggs am desired for Incubation, mako up a breeding-pen of ten or twelve of the best hens in the flock; select from those known to be the layers and which have been free from diseaso of any kind; with them put a vigorous cockerel, not under eleven months old and of a pre ferred breed, and the result will be satis factory. Do not attempt to raise chicks by using eggs for incubation from the egg basket and which arc laid by hens that you are not sure were the ones that de posited the eggs in the nest; but make up a breeding-pen, consisting of selected hens, with a selected male with them, and you will then know the kind of chicks to expect and also know some thing of thcir(futurc prospects; but un less this is done, all your efforts will bo like working in the dark Farm and Fireside. Poultry Noteii. Fobce the pullets to early laying. One gobbler is sufficient for four hens. If you have any lato hatched chicks, keep forcing them ahead. It is much easier to make repairs to the hen-house now than later. Well-fed pullets will lay much earlier than those allowed to go to roost with out a well filled crop. No danger of getting tho growing stock too fat. There is more liability of not giving them enough. Fowls are fond of onions chopped up and mixed with their soft food. Onions are a preventive and remedy for many diseases. The first step towards having eggs In winter is to exterminate the vermin from your flocks and buildings and get your birds in good flesh. Don't forget to save the best young hen turkeys for breeding purposes. Kill the others for Thanksgiving if you want to out reserve your breeding stock first The best market for the fanner or gen eral poulterer, living near a city to cater to, is retail custom. Have a regularline of housekeepers to whom you deliver eggs fresh once or twice a week, and fowls whenever they arc ordered. The two earliest breeds of turkeys are the Bronze and the Narragausctt The former Is of a dark bronze color, with a lustre approaching gold, with dark or flesh-colored legs. The Xarragansett is of a metalic black, with salmon-colored legs. Pekdt ducks are the te?t for keeping on tloso farms where then: arc no ponds. They are somewhat untamable as com pared with the common ducks, but they are poor flyers and can be kept within a low inclosure and they endure confine ment well. They iiMi.rly begin to lay in February, lay a!out 3o eirs per-year and give quite an ;:i.:u:.t:t of clean white feathers. rivets.;-!?. T. Home. ' ONE THING AND ANOTHER. A Kansas man thinks It was worth 810,000 to a woman who slapped him and has sued her for that amount The young couple who were married on an Ohio tennis court are said to have resumed their rackets after the ceremony. A divokced man and a 12-year-old girl, accompanied' by her mother, asked a Hannibal, Mo., justice to join them In wedlock. The justice refused, saying that 81,000 would be no Inducement to him to bind a 12-year-old girl to any man. A man who died In Pennsylvania from sunstroke was insured in an accident insurance company. The company re fused to pay the loss and the widow sued the company, but the court decided that to be killed by sunstroke was not an accident but exposure. A girl under arrest at Newburg, N. Y., f.r horse stealing, has a checkered career. Within three months she is said to have married an old farmer, burned down his house, mill and barn, roasted his weak-minded son to death in the fire, and wound up by running off with a livery team and surrey and trading them for other horses and a wagon. VVhen Baby waa skk, we fare her CaatorlS, Wbea ate waa a Child, abe cried I or Caatorls, When abe became Miss, ahe clua to Castork, Wtea ate bad ttOnste tare themCaatoria, 'i THE SAMPLE CASE. "He can trace his ancestry back to the flood." "O, shaw, that's nothing. Everybody was in the swim then. Fob love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and groveling, and love of pleasure Is that which -renders us most despicable. One of the rarest pleasures In the world is to hear a friend say something good about you when he docs not know you are listening. To be a good patriot a man must con sider his countrymen as God's creatures and himself as accountable for his ac tions towards them. Queen Victokia still clings to the black dress which is the symbol of her widowhood. Indeed, black was always her favorite, even when she was young and unmarried, it being an expressed opinion that she "looked best in black." Mrs. Josie Armstrong died at Chi cago last Friday at the age of 115 years. Mrs. Armstrong is said to be the colored woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's wife, and it is alleged her son played with "Little Abe" beforo the latter had learned the art of splitting rails. A New York woman 20 years old Is now getting a divorce from her fourth husband. She was first married when she was 12. If she keeps up this gait till she is 60, what a record she will have! One husband every two years would mean twenty more, or twenty four altogether. ITS EXCKIXENT QUAUTTJES Commended to public approval the Califor nia liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. It is pleasing to the eye and to tho taste, and by gently acting on tho kidneys, liver and bowels, it cleanses the system effectually, thereby promoting the health and comfort of all who use it. STARBEAMS. The world, like the clock, Is going on tick to a considerable extent An Eng lish statistician estimates the world's indebtedness at 8150,000,000,000. There are freaks in growth as well as in decadence. ' A 5-year-old child at Eugene. Ore., grows faster on one side than the other, and the doctors are puzzled by the circumstance. Grasshoppers and the plague are pretty much the same thing to a farm ing community. In Tehama county, Cal., .grasshoppers have appeared. "Three men recently caught 500 pounds of grasshoppers in two hours." The wars of a choir are not at an end even when the obnoxious member has been expelled. A discharged chorister in an Ohio town took revenge on tho congregation by sitting In a pew and purposely singing out of tune. A mule in Anstell, Ga., is said to be so old that its age has been forgotten. It is put, however, at about 50 years. It served in the rebellion and in 1862, on account of advanced age, was turned out to die. Republics are ungrateful. There is surprise when you strike for little game and find big material. A Connr-ticut hunter shot up into a tree at what he thought to be an empty crow's nest, and was very much sur prised when a twenty-five-pound coon camo crashing through tho branches. There is no accounting 'for the ways of Cupid. He may bring about alliances in the most unexpected places. The first Mohammedan marriage in England was celebrated a few days ago when a Moslem lawyer was wedded according to tho rites of his religion to the daughter of a lord justice. "President Harrison has accepted an invitation to be present at the centen nial celebration in commemoration of Vermont's admission to the Union to be held at Bennington Aug. 1'J. He will be the guest of Secretary Proctor and may be accompanied by Secretaries Foster and Rusk and Attorney-General Miller. So Opium In PIso'a Cure for Consumption. Cores where other remedies t alL 25c. Hannibal Hamlin, while holding next to the highest office in the nation's gift, actually enlisted as a private in the United States service at a critical stage of the war, and, donning his "suit of blue" and shouldering his musket held himself liable to a call to the front, or wherever else the military powers that be might ordain . FirSAnrmstoaneaneahyXtKjniae'sGreat Kerr Restorer. No Fits after flrst day's ase. Mar vellous cores. TrostlM and sua trial bottle tree to Fitcaaaa. 8eatoDr.KllB.snArataauPaUa.Pa f&S lm Its Worst Feiat. I BxirroiT, Laf. Co., Wia.. Dea, "Sa, Bar. J. C Bergen roaches for thefoUowiag: Jamee Booney who waa suffering from St. Vitas Dance in ita worst form for aboat IX years waa treated by aeveral physlciaaa without effect; two botUea of Pastor Kocnls'a Nerve Tonic cured him. Saveel Press, the Crave. Hosts: Washinotoh. Iowa, Hah.. ISM. The wonderful discovery of Faster Koeaig's Nerre Tonic has erideaUy saved ase from toe grave or aa insaae aayloaa; and X and my kiad eld mother cannot thank yon enoafh for the happiness yon have bestowed anon as. for which we thank you many thousand times, aad wUl remember yon la oar prayers. VALENTINE BAPP. FRErTi A Vataahle) Book HeiTOWa Diseases sent tree to any address. and peer patients can aiso outam mis awrnnsn m as Thi. un(liu Imm nrmunul brthe Reverend Pastor Koenlc. ot Fort Wayne. Ind, since 1KH and lanow prepared underhis direction by the KOENIC MED. CO- Chicago, 111. feUB7DrwxsatSlper Bottle. Zews!lze,1.75. Bottles forty. i iVsBvaj :tan mmkmm S mtau. IMna. Mrtiias aa4 SaMkytuenlcn. A twIM flctm m Caret ! nfcI.IUHHI,l aVAUmi MENTOTRAVEZ. WeparSSe HUH I a to Sice mouth and exyens. STOJtK WEIA1MGTUX, Madison. Wia. p. a m. v. e B TUaft. What Is pronounced by leading rail road men the most important iaventioa during the last twenty years applied to the railroad business was exhibited ior the first time in Indianapolis. It is a car scale and is a simple piece of mechanism which can bo attached to any car, the weight of which and its contents Is shown with perfect accur acy. The weighing of cars heretofore, when given any attention at all, has been chiefly a matter of guessing, and the consequent losses of the railroad companies from overloading have been enormous. By this new invention the weighing device is permanently attached to the car without necessitating any change in the present construction, and It requires but a moment to ascertain the weight. Can't Ton Catch On To a knows mean of overcoming that obitlsete disorder, constipation? Of course you can. Then why don't you ? Aak those who hare tried it, and they will tail that Hoetetter'a Stomach Bittera la a matchless laxativa. effectual without vio lencethoroughly alterative, but perfectly reli able. It invigorates, too, no less than it ref lates the system, and it Is chiefly to this first quality that It owea the permanency ot its regu lating effects, sines, If rigor la lacking, in tho re gion of the bowels, the stomach or the liver, healthful activity in those organs is suspended. Deobstrnenta and cathartics in general are simply that and nothing more; they relax the bowels merely without invigorating them, and as thsir laxative action Is usually abrupt and violent, they really tend to weaken tha organs. Use the Bitters, also, for malaria, rheumatism. Indigestion, debility and kidney trouble. PERSONALS. Queex Victoria wears the blue rib bon of the Garter, and according to some authorities, the blue pencil of a censor. S. Baring-Gould, the novelist, is CO years old. The gentlemen in Wall street who have been "bearing" Gould are older than that in experience. II. M. Flaglek travels daily from his home on the sound to and from his busi ness in New York on a yacht that cost f28O,0OO. Mr. Flagler, it is perhaps un necessary to remark, is a Standard oil magnate. Senator Peffek, tho Wheeling In telligencer avers, "doesn't wear a neck tie, and looks more like a plain, every day citizen who got up late and dressed in a hurry, than ho looks like a United States senator." E. B. WALTHALL & CO.. Druggists, Horse Cavo, Ky., say: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cures every one that takes it." Sold by Druggists, ?S cents. The Chilean president, Balmaccda, does not possess the black hair and swarthy face that are characteristic of most Chileans. lie Is, on the contrary, as fair of countenance as any man of Anglo-Saxon descent, and his hair is auburn. lie is a fine-looking specimen of manhood, being fully six feet in height and well proportioned. His ap pearance would command respect any where. The cruelty in his nature comes from the strain of Indian blood in his veins. It Is believed that the French gov ernment has decided to accede to tho request of Whitelaw Reid, tho United States minister, to remove the embargo upon American pork, as it is known that tho government has agreed to bring forward a bill modifying the gen eral customs tariff of May. 1831, and fixing the duty at 20 francs per 100 kilos on all salted pork, ham and bacon imported from the United States. Out of Sorts Describes a feellna peculiar to person ot dyspeptic tendeacy. or caused by change of climate, season or life. Tha htomsch is out of order, the head aches or oes not feel right The Nerves eecra trained to their nt-nemt. tha rnlod it conf nsct and irritable. This condition finds aa excel'ont corrective in Hood's Sareipirilla. bich. by it rez ulatinc and toning poirare. soon restores harmony to the system, and Rives streagth of mind, nerves, and body. Hood's Sarsaparilla SoldbyaUdrunltts. St; six tor $5. by C. 1. HOOD & CO . Lowell. Ma-s. Prepared oaly I0O Doses One Dollar II Arll-OWaeVahaReaea Ihnsf IgiTT Ceajelexiea M pozzom's MEDICATED " COMPLEXIOH POWDER. ranis tytritrhwarsaTj fssts geslariftaijslsiam YOU NEED HOT FEAR that people will know yonr hair la dyed if yea see that perfect imitation of mature. Tutt's Hair Dye He one can detect It. It Impmrta s flee? color and fresh life to the hair. theaaur. fasiiyap- Ued.jrrlee.ai.01 ice. wnrknatsta. a. PILES A NAKKSIS sire Instant relief, and M an INFAIXI KLB U!tE tor PILLS. Price, at ; at drnnlsts or by mall. 8'i pie tr. Address "ANAKESIS." BoxStls, Kxw Yoax Crrr. THIS IS' FREE MOKAMHPRICC LIST) ffiNES ffiHAMUIUIXi I EMS' 98 LYE I Powdered aad rerfasned. m (patehtid ) The strongest and jmrett Lye made. 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Tur aaioiMSL ana eXSMMHE. Lealea, a DnnM r CMiiiay m toiMMaMwiikbU.i'kbiia. Taken sn rllla a pvatkMrt Ms 4. la naiapt br farMtataca, '.tf f ft CT i'sjs. Jr Xfn ti;M I AMll'Xr redaction of IA 11 Eel 3eat CVwgh IfadidBe, ffii iianaaaailii lwlpiciaaa. BS1 WSM Carta whore all elaefaHe. Pla n aad agisiaaTile to the ? iu taaie. Children take it wHhonjt nhjaaianai, By dragapata. J PtHtWftOW "Augusts Flower''' The Hon. J. W. Fennimore is the Sheriff of Kent Co., Del., and lives at Dover, the County Seat and Cap. ital of the State. The sheriff is -a gentleman fifty-nine years of age,- and this is what he says : "I have ' " nsed your August Flower for sevr . . eral years in my family and for my " own use, and found it does .me ' ' more good than any other remedy,. " I have been troubled with what I . , ' call Sick Headache. A pain comes t " in the back part of my head first, " and then soon a general headache . "until I become sick and vomi. " At times, too, I have a fullness . " after eating, a pressure after eating "at the pit of the stomach, and 1 sourness, when food seemed to rise " tip in my throat and mouth. When "I feel this coming on if I take a "little August Flower it relieves . " me, and is the best remedy I have " ever taken for it. For this reason "I take it and recommend it to " others as a great remedy for Dys- "pepsia, &c" 9 C. G. GREEN, S1e Manatactartr, Wertfcuy, New Jersey, U. S. A. The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. DONALD KENNEDY Of RfiiibBiy. Mas&, says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep Seated Ulcers of 40 years' standing, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, ex cept Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root. Price i.5o. Sold by every Druggist in the U. S. and Canada. GIHU60 IE6ICIL end S0R8SGIL mSTITUTE. & S.ECr.MbuhmaaVaaBeTOi-aL.CMWAM JOB TBa TBXATlfZirr op Alt; Ghmie and Sarcal Diseases. SURGICAL BRACES, AmiAMES FM DEFORMITIES AID TRIUES. Best FacflKlee. 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Medicines or Instruments cent br mall or ex pies3secarelYpackeO.no merks to Indicate contents or sender. One persona! Interview preferred. Call and consaltnaoraeod history of your case, and we will send la plela wrapper, our "PRIVATE MEDICAL COUNSELM",'" vateJOaeclal or Kervorn Diseases, IrapoteneT.HTrb lUs, Gleet and Tarlcocele.wlth question list. Address CIMAM REDKAL k. SRRSICAL IRSTITOTE. D. E. Car. Wanasfra. aad Van Btvea-tLCMcageJN. MiMfe Slate Medical Institute. 103 State St., Chicago. Onvteree ky the SWa. Authorized Capital SISO.OOO. Cnwaactea ky a Fill Staff of Physicians, threw f vriieas are aM Ceraiaa Socialists. FOR THE EXCLUSIVE TREATMENT OF ALL CHROMIC DISEASES. Mmph FttaUti tor M xw W UoaH. Bach Disease treated by a Physician, who makea R a specialty; Ave of oor staff receiving their enca tlon and experience In Kurope. where a Doctor muss study seren years Instead of threeaaaere. Ifaffllc- ted wlta CaUurrK Consumption. Asthma or ofi Lung TronbU. consult onr bpedallat. Oor tr-at-mentof Stomach. IAttr.Utart anA Kidmt Trouble ku MAMVaL JOmnnaUsm. OtUn, laps Worm MUSkinDts asses treaiea. OnrGermaa Xye aad Ear BpeetaJlss i.ii . i ..ai. waan nffnnDBnrM Irwiiiabla. cereS , Our treatment for EpUrptV. Paralysis and Jferroum TrauMeaaaaaaet wHa wonderful success. nilislsiTliisiri Men or Women hare ant npeaai proviaMB mane zor taeir irwauaeDt. ftrtctestprrvacT maintained ana all CONSULTATION FNIE. IT anai nil a llti anr inenann slflrssa In but 1 HJJH0IS STATE KOrCAL IIISTlTtJTE, IDDlhisaStraCMaaja. asaea DDLJ THROAT AN CATAMMnjUOHopiaBAaa nleaJraa4iarfasaitlreara4ly the aew ANTI8EP. awss:rerfrMbookaddrMaw1thra.TIIR NATION. ALAimiirria oa. i state st. Chicago. iu are sua O'.lett. aaii r.ractent. tWasnlaatan P.C saiciTdss f Tn""yr.-iaSfcynr' TlaevJaaenl BrStnBnaVn nn9EnniSesenBVnnW eVnnananVH nBnBnaHJiBnBKaBnBSBnBnfinBnBreBWaK I n9LnwawBfjBL ?. rmLHi SsEBEw ' BfaaV AsSjaaXsaCaMaBtaarfJaeaMaaa. 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