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A BOAT.
A boat went drifting slowly,
Over the starlit sea.
And I watch'd beneath the moonlight,
And wonder 'd dreamily.
Bavin? no arm to guide her,
Havini no hand to slecr.
To what unknown rocks beyond us
She is driXting-aSsins her&
ko seed to watch her further,
For I cou'd never tell
If she found a quiet haven..
Or went out with the swell.
I think our souls resemble.
On life's strancc sea afloat.
In drlftinjr silling anchoring .. .
That solitary boat! Cecil Lorraine
HORKOfi-STEICKEN.
When Marguerite Ourdac .married
Antoine Soulet, and he carried her
miles below Petit Ansc to live in a
little cabin situated close to tho edge
of a profoundly melancholy bayou;
her friends in Vcrmillionvillo gave
her up as one dead. They had never
liked Soulet. His homely, massive
body seemed but an index to a
morose character, and all pitied and
wondered at Marguerite, who had
ocen such a little chatterbox and so
gay and happy, and who realized
nothing of Soulet's tempestuous
nature,
Marguerite was a lovely girl,
strong and litho of limb, with vivid
coloring and groat dreamy brown eyes
and small hands and feet she was
skilled in all sorts of work, could
cook and sew and weave home-spun
clothes, such as the men in Acadia
wear. Altogether her life had been
one of continual industry and was in
nocent and harmless. She met
Soulet at a Saint's Day ball, and in
spite of his huge, awkward body and
homely visage she was attracted to
him from the first and shortly after
ward married him, although pre
viously ho had thought no human
life necessary to his own, being con
tent to live alone with all that was
solcmncst and grandest ill nature.
Their little cabin was a low-eavcd
affair, and when they were first mar
ried Marguerite had planted grape
vines and rotes about it until after
five years its unpaintcd walls and
curled shingles were masses of yel
low and whito blossoms. Thoro was
a deep thicket back of tho house,
where swamp camellias, blood-red
roses and monstrous passion-llowcrs
filled the air with their perfume and
formed a background of almost bar
baric beauty.
At first when Soulet would leave
her alone to go away for any purpose
Margucrito was almost afraid of tho
strange silence and olusivo shifting
of the trees, when moved by tho
wind, but after a time sho grew ac
customed to the pro found melancholy
and loved her home, content to work
hard for their little baby git'l. Sou
let was kind, and loved her with a
fierce jealous devotion that was some
times trying to her lighter nature,
and if once in a while she had a
vaguo feeling that the old gay life in
the little village was better, she was
careful not to let her husband know it.
Soulet was in tho habit of frequent
ly going on fishing excursions, so
Marguerite thought nothing more of
it than usual, when he signified his
intention of departing early ono
morning. indeed, if anything sho
hurried him away.
"You aro not afraid," said Soulet,
in the soft Acadian patois, observing
a certain thoughtful expression in
his wife's face.
She shuddered slightly and glanced
in the direction of the forest, where
gigantic magnolias and livo oak
seemed to wave their misty arms.
Xo,"' she said lightly, and there
was a feverish glow in tho brilliancy
of her face. "I'm not afraid, there's
nothing to hurt me."
So Soulet lcisscd her and started
with his fishing-pole thrown over his
shoulder.
Sho watched him as he went in a
straight line through the knee-deep
grass, which was fragrant with
flowers, until he came to the bayou,
where he got into his bateau and
rowed away until he was hid from
her sight by the masses of moss that
lined the banks.
It was a clear day. and the air
was filled with a pure blinding heat.
Great piles of lleecy white clouds
floated in the sky and a cicada from
somewhere in the live-oak uttered
the only sound whicli disturbed tho
silence.
When Soulet was out of sight
Marguerite hurried from tho house
and ran back towards the woods.
The groat, nielaucholy, low-lying
forests had always been full of sig
nificant moaning to her. They
seemed to threaten and the mon-
I strous half-humanlike growths which
i leered up from the twilight recesses
! were full of imaginable terrors and
t it had been 011I3' when in her hus
band s company that she ever went
there, the ran breathlessly on until
suddenly she stopped at the entrance
of the shadowy place. Leaning
against a great rank, knotted vine
which hunsr twisted and coiled about
a cypress tree, she peered intently
before her jind lifting her voice
called, 'Theodore, Theodore, dear
Theodore:"
Tho pale gray and dusky green
mists echoed Jier ery until the woods
seemed alive with spectral voices
shouting that name.
For a moment a supernatural ter
ror took possession of her. Tho
black shade of a buzzard's wing as it
passed elo&e to her face and the un
bearable reverberations affrighted
her, and she called again in a frantic
voice:
'Theodore, Theodore! It is I,
your own Marguerite!"
Presently there was a crackling of
twigs aud a rustling sound, like somo
forest creature was rising from his
lair; then a man's form emerged from
the darkness, and walking waist
deep in the saffron-tinted llowers, ho
reached her side.
Marguerite threw her arms about
his neck and clung to him in delight
Tho sunshine filtered through
some scarlet creepers and fell upon
the man's face. He was not much
more than a boy, but tall and slightly
built, with an easy bearing and a
smiling countenance. He wore a
pair of trowsers and a shirt of native
homespun and bad an old straw hat
on his head. His complexion was a
clear olive and his eyes sparkled with
unconcealed pleasure.
"You didn't go against me," he
said, returning Marguerite's caresses.
She released herself from his ten
der grasp and looked in his face and
smiled.
"No, no! Nothing on earth would
tempt-me to do that. You know I
told you yesterday, but come, Antoine
has gone for the day. We can enjoy
it together and be so happy."
She clapped her hands like an eager
child and led the way back to the
cabin where she prepared a hearty
breakfast.
They spent the long houis of tho
spring day together, sheltered from
the heat by the vines about the porch.
Marguerite worked at her rough loom
whilo Theodore lingered near playing
with the child or talking to her in
the soft accents of their nativo region,
while she, very pale, with a steadfast,
frightened look, repeatedly clasped
him about the neck and with great
tears brimming" from her eyes be
sought hint to 'take car&'
Contrary to nis usual custom; Sou
let returned before sunset, enjoying
in imagination his wife's delight oyer
a rare species of water lilly which he
carried wrapped in magnolia leaves.
A delicious langrouS light streamed
'over the littlb rbse embowered cabin.
The blossoms on the walls were mov
ing with a gentle gulf hreez'e and the
fluttering of some birds that made
their homos there. Butterflies glit
tered, like glints of yellowlight in
and out tho green foliage, and from
away off came the hoarso call of a
bittern.
Soulet felt tired, and when he had
moored his bateau to a cypross knee,
he walked slowly through the tall
grass which stretched far away to
tho right in interminable undulating
plains of emerald tints. The breeze
bending, the grasses in long furrows
brought the hoavy odors of jasmine
and magnolia and the silence was so
absolute that Soulet involuntarily
wondered if the baby were still
asleep.
He lifted his face to the cloudless
skies and drew a long breath as
though breathing in something of
the boundless freedom of the an and
vast prairies. No ono was in sight,
and he went through the sweet
scented house without finding "his
wife, although the baby, naked save
for one short garment, slept peace
fully on an old quilt near the door.
There was ono spot Marguorito
ever loved, a shaded nook just half
way between the cabin and the forest
It was close behind one of those cir
cular pools that abound in Acadia,
and which the superstitious will tell
j-ou were tho ancient places wfaero
humane were sacrificed in Olden
times. The little pool was fringed
with a few orange and magnolia
trees and some blush roses and tall
lilies. Soulet and his wife had often
gone there in tho first months of
their marriage, and ho knew it was
yet her favorito spot, so ho went in
that direction with tho magnolia leaf
enveloped lily held carefully in his
hand. He caught a glimpse of his
wife's dull yellow nankin gown gleam,
ing through the green foliage like
threads of gold, and quickened his
usually slow pace. Suddenly ho grew
very pale, and tho blood seemed to
leave his swarthy face, and ho stared
ahead of him with a wonderful emo
tion in his deep-sot eyes. A terrible
tremble ran through his huge frame,
and he looked ajain with a dazed
questioning. Tho lily dropped from
his nerveless fingers, and his lips
straightened into an acrid
lino, while his wholo expression
hardened into ono of extreme cruelty,
and an agonizing pain seized him.
He saw his wife and her companion
sitting upon a fallen log with their
backs to him. Her head lay on his
shoulder and his arm lightly clasped
her waist Once in a whilo as sho
moved Soulet could see tho scarlet
lips, the gleaming eyesand'the round
brown arms, with their yellow sleeves
rolled abovo the elbows as they
twined about her companion's neck.
He could not hear their conversation,
but she seemed to be entreating and
tho man expostulating.
"I never dream't she'd go against
me," Soulet muttered to himself.
Hate, the fierce, remorscloss kind
that springs up from baffled love
crept into his heart until tho whole
man in him seemed to change and no
fato scorned too horrible for the wo
man who deceived him.
"And sho was my wife," he hissed.
"Holy mother!"
Then his hands dropped to his
sides and ho stood rigid as stone and
gazed straight before him; then with
a smothered cry, like an animal
wounded to death, he turned and fled
to the house.
The 2-year-old baby was awake
and crying on the shadowy porch.
"She even deserts the child," he
thought, and snatched tho rosy little
one to his breast and moaned and
wept over her like a frantic thing.
Then suddenly, with a deadly cool
ness, he put her from him and rushed
to find his rifle. On the threshold
of the inner room he stopped, held
spellbound, for moving over tho bare
boards in shimmering waves was a
monster rattlesnake- Its rubyliko
eyes looked straight into his. Soulet
gazed at it His chest and sides
heaved like those of some untamed
animal . Ho raised his gun, he
cared nothing for his life, but she
with that thought came another, a
diabolical one. Like a flash he low
ered his rifle, turned quickly from
the room and closed the door, while
the ominous rattle of tho enraged
reptile sounded through tho stillness
of the cabin.
An unforgiving and deadly hate
was in his heart Ho grasped tho
child in his arms and slipped from
the little gallery and hid in the long
grass.
The afternoon sped away. Tho
deep red of the parting day settled
down over tho lonely place, painting
the roses over the cabin a richer tone
and making all the sky and earth
glow with a mellow light
Soulet lay so low in tho grass that
he could seo nothing, but ho heard
his wife and her companion return.
"I'll come no more," said tho man's
voice gliding into Acadian French,
if it troubles you; but I didn't kill
Danzor a purpose, and I couldn't go
without seeing you."
He could hear his wife's sobs and
her kisses, as she bade the mau fare
well; then the door slammed and tho
man passed him.
Soulet uttered a fierce oath and
sprang from his hiding-place, and be
fore the other realized ho was thcro
he was seized and flung in the air.
"Antoine! Antoine!" cried tho
other. "Don't turn against me. I
was going away where you would
not seo me."
At the sound of that voice Soulot's
scorching eyes grew radiant and ho
stood dumb-founded, for in an instant
he recognized his wife's favorito
brother, a reckless daredevil, who
was flying from justice. This dis
covery seemed to stun him. He
stood like one in a dream, while
Theodore poured forth rapid words
of explanation. Tho relentless hate
died out of Soulet's face and he
stretched his arms yearningly toward
the little house in an abandon of de
light All the savage sullenness aud
ferocity had gone.
"Mama," cried the child clinging
to her father's knee, "Mama."
At that sound another change
passed over Soulet's face. A moan
broke from him and he spoke in rapid
imperious breaths, while he stood for
a second like a lion at bay, his great
mane of ebony hair fairly bristling
as he heard a piercing scream from
tho cabin.
"Sho is there thcreT' he cried,
and with a few bounds he reached tho
little house where all seemed quiet as
death.
Ho flung the door violently open. His
wife was not in the front room, but
just Within the second apartment he
s&w a sight that almost paralyzed
him with horrdr. Marguerite lay
held to the floor by the heavy, abid
ing boils of the -snako. One undulat
ing fold was drawn tightly about her
slender brown throat, whilo tho mon
ster, with uplifted head, repeatedly
hurried its fangs id her bosom, while
all around and about her wore
scattered tho scarlot passion flowers
her brother had plucked.
When the sun kissed tho roses on
the wall again there was only a re
morseful man and a little motherless
child to meet in tho sweet home
place. N. Y. Mercury.
THE G1CGLING HABIT.
A. Habit Among Tonne; Folks That 1
Almost Incorrigible.
A serious aspect of tho giggling
habit is that it is so nearly incor
rigible. Mannerisms of all kinds
strike thoir roots deeply, but "ho!
ho!" and "ha! ha!" becomo part and
parcel of tho offendors against reason
and taste. That which makes the
listener nervous to irritability, fret
ting the amiablo into a desire to
smother the meaningless cackle in
the throat that gives it birth if he
cannot escape beyond hearing of it,
is practised involuntarily by tho
habitual laugher. Like tho famous
button on the learned advocate's coat,
with which he fumbled incessantly
while pleading, tho giggle, would, if
suddenly taken away, deprive its
slave of the power of speech To
command gravolj temperate articu
lation would be to strike dumb, writes
Marion Harland in Harper's Bazar.
Tho origin of tho obnoxious trick,
is, of course, in ycuth and inexperi
ence, and almost always in native
diffidence or temporary embarrass
ment. When tho girl has no fitting
wofds at Call, sho giggles. When the
lad is oppressed by a weight of bash
fulness, and would swagger it off, he
guffaws. In tho tyro's opinion a
laugh outdoes charity as a cloak for
every defect, and extricates him from
tho most trying position. Affecta
tion is ttn active ally in tho evil
work, and the ambition to bo agree
able brings up tho rear guard.
The intcrjectiorial damsel is usual
ly a gigffler as well. SUrpriso that
both faults ate not Cured by educa
tors before they are confirmed passes
beforo the recollection of tho fact
that education nowadays is accom
plished by means of text-books. And
text-books do not toach tho noble art
of conversation. Forgetful of the
cduccrc Which is the genius of their
mission, tho makers of manuals, and
thoso who apply them to growing
minds, drill and cram and "tamp," as
if blasting, and not permeation and
growth, were the business in hand.
Otlr girls and boys come out from
the schools with vocabularies nar
rowed rather than enlarged by tho
curriculum. Tho girl who took tho
Latin prize last year at Wolleslcy
giggles and makes giggle with tho
first-honor man from Yalo as effu
sively as Robin and Jenny giiflaw
and titter over tho music books at
tho village choir meetings Sedately
cheerful or animated consecUtivo
discussion of any topic appears aliko
impracticable to all. Tho "ohs"
and "ahs" tint round rosy mouths
aro separated by hyphens of giggles,
and fractured sentences arc bravketc J
by little shrieks, oftencr sharp than
soft
TOUGH GOOSE STORY.
Tho Western Woman, Who Hud Seen
Oueer Thlugg, llelicvzil It.
She was a Western woman, and had
been ontcrtaining a roomful of guests
in a hotel with some extraordinary
talcs.
She had just finished ono par
ticularly wild and woolly border
romance, when a young Southerner
present drawled:
"Madame, if any ono else in tho
world had told that story I should
have been compelled to doubt it, but,
of course, I cannot refuso to belicvo
you.
"Now," ho continued, as if by way
of retaliation, "you cannot fail to
appreciate a most unusual accurrencc
in my state. Tho past winter, as
you know, has been unusually severe
in tho South. Well, in November,
when tho wild geese were flying past
us, a flock of them stopped to drink
in one of our Carolina pond3.
"Being so much pleased with the
water, they loitered for a day or two.
But one time, while they were
paddling around, a sudden cold wave
swooped down without any warning.
A crust of ico formed over tho pond
in less than a minute, and there
wore tho geese stuck as fast as if
they had been nailed to a board.
"For several days the geese there
must have been a thousand of them
fluttered and squawked trying to
extricate themselves, but to no pur
pose. The people in the neighbor
hood watched their struggles with
more or less curiosity, and finally a
mountaineer and his wife ventured
on the ice to capture some of tho
game.
The geese made ono tremendous
effort in unison, and lifted the wholo
sheet of ice into tho air, slowly flying
away with it. Slowly tho ice lloo
ascended until it became a mere
speck in the sky and finally disap
peared altogether. The neighbors
arc now watching every day when
the weather moderates to see the
old man and his wifo drop from tho
clouds."
The Western woman looke'd up at
the speaker and remarked: "Well,
that certainly does seem incredible,
but I don't doubt it, for I've seen toj
many queer things myself."
Choice in Iror'S-iiiR.
An impecunious man stocd at the
corner of one of tho Jersey City
cross-streets during somo bad
weather, watching a brakeman as ho
helped to shunt a freight-train into
ono of the great car-yards. Tho
roofs of the cars were slippery and
wet the brake-wheels looked cold,
the brakeman had a red nose, watery
eyes and a general appcaranco of
discomfort, and he looked as if he
had been out all night Turning to
a bystander, who was also waiting
for the train to pass, the impecuni
ous one remarked, as ho looked up at
tho dejected and grimy figure, "On
the whole, I think I'd prefer to be a
banker." Argonaut
No Competition.
"You say you have no competition
in this line," said the traveling agent
to the merchant
"That's what I said."
"But there aro two other men sell
ing these goods here."
"I know it. But neither of. them
advectises."
Unfortunate. '
"So politics is lively -in your dis
trict? ,AYhats your candidate's
name?! .
"Rivers." ."
"Good name He ought to run
well." ' J
Ho ought, but I fear he's too gen
erally dammed.
FAttM AND HOUSEHOLD.
THE SELECTING AND BREEDING
OP SEEDS.
fVbat the Farmer Can Do for IHmaeir
Sweet 'Cora for, Cows Grafting
AjcricuUnral Notes and
Iloaaehold Helps.
Selecting Seeds.
It has teen a settled and firm be
lief from the time of the first writers
upon agriculture in tho days when
6tudious leisure of tho most ac
complished men was devoted to tho
care of their farms, and tho bright
est intellects of that or any other
ago, not including even the present
were engaged in the investigation of
Jho problems that even now give
rise to discussions and experiment,
that the best seed only should bo
used for planting. If the acceptod
axiom of breeders and physiologists,
both as regards animals and vege
tables, that "like produces like" bo
truo, then tho choice of tho seed is
as important to the planter as that
of a siro or dam is to tho breeder;
and tho ancient rulo of tho old
'writers of agriculture of twenty cen
turies ago, to the effect that unless
the seed is carofully culled and tho
largest and heaviest only is so'ected,
and plants always degenerate, must
tc the rulo of conduct for the farmer
of tho present, as of tho past
Tho analogy between tho repro
ductive functions of stnima'S and
plants is so close that it becomes
evident to the first beginner in the
study of physiology of plants, and as
th.3 parents of animals must be
selected under certain well-known
laws and rules, so must tho seed of
our farm plants bo most carefully
cclcctcd for year3 if wo desire to
have tho good qualities of them re
produce.!. This is thd rUle among
tho teed growers, to whom farmers
ai'e willing to pay largo prices
for what is known as pure or pedi
gree seeds that is, seed that have
been selected and grown under the
most favorablo conditions for many
years, until tho character has become
fixed and tho planter may to sure
of what his crop may be like. But
in some ways tho farmers may do the
breeding of his seeds for himbclf
with loss cost than the seeds can
bo bought, says Coleman's Rural
World, and with personal knowledge
of what ho may expect with reason
able certainty.
And this is more especially appli
cable to the corn crop than to most
others, for the full possibilities of
this plant are rarely even suspected
by those who have grown it all their
lives. It is easy, by tho planting of
the seed bred to it and by the best
cultivation, to produce at least 10J
bushels of gram per acre, an 1 this
large and satisfactory yield has been
surpassed, and even more than
doubled, by careful and skillful culti
vation, and what this means to the
fanner who will take the painsls not
a mattor of any question whatever.
Street Corn fur 'nv.
A question of dollars and cents
with dairymen is how to most cheap
ly and effect iv ly keep the cow3 from
drying up during the short pasture
months. When dog days come with
hot, drying winds, burning sun and
pestering flies, the usually kept milk
cow invariably slackens her flow of
milk down ono half, and often to a
yield of only one quart per da-, un
less a good soiling crop is grown and
bountifully fed: probably nono are
better than successively planted
sweet corn
Some years pjnee the writer gave
this a trial. Although but one ex
periment in this lino may hot be con
clusive, still its results were so satis
factory, we think tho plan can be
greatly enlarged upon and generally
adopted with much profit.
At the time mentioned I was milk
ing nino cows, pasturing them on
wild grass pasturo that gave good
feed up to, say August 1. I had
learned by experience that they
would give but little milk in fall and
winter un'ess kept to their flow with
.-.oiling crop, so on May 5 I planted
two acres of a largo variety of sweet
corn in rows forty-four inches apart,
grains eight inches apart in the row,
on good, rich corn ground, planting
successively same acreage and kind
of seed May 2o and June 5, cultivat
ing all as ordinary corn.
When pasture shortened I cut this
grown corn and hauled the cattle a
load night and morning, increasing
the size of the loads as tho drouth
and Hies grew worse; tho fodder was
eaten up c.lcan, and although there
was tome shrinkage in the flow of
milk, the cream then sold tested well,
and I realized same money per week
as from same cows when on full fresh
pasture, besides holding them to a
good flow of milk, the great essential
in profitable dairying, as farmers
know by costly experience that when
a cow is about "dried up" she cannot
possibly be brought back to a full
milk flow until calving time. They
alaO know that if a cow has to be
boarded nine months of tho year for
a three months' milking there will be
little loft for tho "boss" after paying
the hired man.
Farmers, if so good results come
from so light expense, all who milk
cows, even iLyou havo tame pasture,
can gain a good profit by planting a
few acres of sweet corn as a soiling
crop; buy the seed and thor
oughly test it before planting timo
that you aro sure it will grow; culti
vate it well, liberally feed out the
fodder and rest assured there is good
money in tho crop. E. L. Beard, in
Northeastern Iowa Journal.
Grafting Cherry Trees.
We aro asked how to graft cherry
trees and how to make grafting wax.
Cherry trees arc grafted tho same as
other trees aro grafted, of course.
If the intention of the inquiry is to
ascertain the method of grafting we
would saj' that either whip or cleft
grafting may be employed If the
stock and graft are of the same size,
whip graft. Cut a notch in the stock,
with one side lower than the other.
On tho outsido of this lower side
shave oil the bark and bring the top
of the piece to a sharp edge. Cut a
notch in the graft to fit over this
lower side of the notch in tho stock,
shaving off the bark from the side of
the graft that comes next to tho
higher side of the notch in the stock.
Place the graft and apply tnc wax.
If the stock is larger than the graft
! cleft craft, that is open the stock
I with an ax, or other, similar tool; !
i make the graft wedge shape, and in
I sert it. having the bark of the graft
to conform to the bark of the stock
on one side; remove the tool that is
keeping the stock open and apply
the wax. Tho wax should be so ap
plied that every part of the wound
shall be protected from tho air. The
following is a-good wax: Three parts
of beeswax, three parts of rosin and
two parts of tallow. Apply with a
brush when warm enough to run, or
draw out with wet hands into rib
bons and wrap closely about the in
serted graft. Farmers Voica.
Some Doa'ta la Horae-Shoelrig.
Don't have your farm horse shdd
unless the wall is' worn sd short that
the sole is wearing away. Until then
shoeing is unnecessary.
Don't allow hoofs' to become ragged
and uneven, but with a rasp keep'
them level.
Don't patronize an Inferior black
smith, nor leave tho shop until tho
horse is shod.
Don't have a shoo fitted until your
hoof is properly shaped by tho use of
a rasp too or heol lowered until th'o
foot is at the correct angle, sides
lowered until exactly level on a lovel
surface, and this cannot be done by
sighting ovor the bottom. The :black
sririth usually takes more off of tho
inner side, which tilts tho foot out
and the anklo in.
Don't have the hoof burned to fit
tho shoo, but fit tho shoo to the
properly shaped hoof.
Don't havo long, dull, nor uneven
calks and toes, as they frequently
produce strain3.
Don't havo heavy shoes or largo
and many nails, as they aro unnat
ural and harmful.
Don't allow rasp or knife to touc'i
so'o nor outside of the hoof, as they
protect and keep the hoof moist
Don't allow a horse to wear shoes
too long, Ixjcause tho hoof grows, the
Bhocs do not National Stockman.
Crdts-I!rcil Fotfrls.
There aro many who agree with the
Gcrmantown Telegraph in its state
ment that croos-bred fowls are far
better and more hardy from the shell
than the pure-bred. Following are
some of the benefits named by this
authority: Tho Brown Leghorn lays
thd smallest gs, tho Black Spanish
tho largest. here merely a com
mercial egg trade Is to be reached
this cross has its marked effects. We
may not equal tho Spanish eggs as
an average, but we make up a sort of
middle size just the size to sell well
in market. We can combine early
maturity with plump growth. The
Asiatic fowl grows elowly. but it
counts in weight. It would take too
long to get it to a broiler if left all
alone; but if we cross a quick grower,
tho Leghorn for instance, on these
Asiatic hens we get the quick growth
and tho body too. This is indeed a
decided advantage.
Farmers as a rulo havo a collec
tion of all kinds of fowls. Fanciers
call them dunghills. Showmen class
them as mongrels. But be they what
they will, if the males were killed Oil
and ,piKe -bred fowls substituted there
would bo more cS more spring
chickens and better health."
IIoniF-M;i(lc Clicrse for Homo Use.
It is always a surprise to us why
more clicc c is not used in farmers"
families except in the dairy districts,
where it is a staple article of farm
pre ducts. Cheese is nutritious, and
any farmer who keeps two or more
cows can make a fair sized cheese
that will take the place of meat and
be healthier, especially for growing
children. With a vat, cheese press
and other appliances, it is as easy to
make the milk into cheese as it is to
skim oil tho cream and make butter
out of it. Through tho hot weather
tho cheese will bo of better quality
than will hot-wcather-made butter.
American Cultivator.
In tlio Sleeping Itonni.
Sunlight is good for everything
but feathers.
Tho best number of persons to each
bed is one.
Away with heavy hangings, cither
abovo or below the bed. :
Beware a dusty, musty carpet;
better sweetness and a bare floor.
Do not fail to provide somo means
for ventilation during the night.
Charcoal isa blood purifier, and
should be koJt where the fowls can
get it. jf
If a foUring bod must bo used con
trive some way to keep it aired and
wholesome.
Keep the head cool while sleeping,
but not by a draught or cold air fall
ing upon it
Thoroughly air the sleeping room
every day; air the beds and bedding
as often as possible.
Let tho pillow by high enough to
bring tho head in a natural position
no more and no less.
A dark, out-of-the-wa,-, unwhole
some corner is no more fitted for a
sleeping room than for a parlor.
A feather bed which has done ser
vice for a generation or two is hardly
a desirable thing upon which to
sleep.
Agricultural Xot-.
Powdered charcoal mixed with soft
feed will aid digestion.
Laying hens need meat and such
egg-producing foods as wheat
A Connecticut ' paper says that
cooked rice is excellent for chicks.
Renters who have tho land for two
or three years should plant .small
fruits forborne use.
Shorts and bran, with a little corn,
will be found to bo an excellent feed
for horscj in summer.
Make yourself "solid" with every
living creature on the farm. Club
bing a bull or kicking a cow will
have an opposite tendency.
There arc swine breeders who
ahvays buy mill stuffs when the mills
are glutted with these by products,
because they can then be bought
cheap.
Apples, peaches, and in fact most
tree fruits do best on the northern
slope of timber ridge-. Clay soil
good enough to grow wheat is good
enough for fruit
The pigs should not be allowed to
sleep in the stables. The horses will
trample them to death; and besides
they do better in clean quarters than
sleeping in the manure.
If you arc in a prosperous live
stock business, take the boy into
partnership with you, as soon as he
is old enough. That is a good wav
to keep the boys on the farm.
If the pasture has no shade tree3
or shelter to protect the stock from
tho hot summer sun, a "sun-brake"
of somo kind should be m-M-during
leisure spells, so as to have
them ready. "
When planting pears, plums, and
perhaps other fruits, don't fail to
mix up" tho varieties, says Practi
cal Farmer. Many sorts are not self
fertilizing. By planting different
kinds together you insure better
fruit setting and better results gen
erally. To save cabbage from the green
worm, uso bubach or" Pyrethrum
powder, a tablespoonful to a gallon of
.water. This docs hot cost much, and
it is probably'more effective than any
other of the many remedies or In
secticides proposed, says a cabbage
grower.
Looking Forward.
Harper's Young People: Little Emily
hns been very naughty because her
mamma would not let her go out with
a party 8f friends, with whom they
were staying, add she Screamed so that
everyone in tho bouse was distressed.
Her mamma had to lock her up in a
room and tell her she should not come
out till-she said she would be good and
promised, not to cry any more. Every
now and then her mamma would go
and ask her to promise, but she only
screamed the louder. At last a silence
fell upon the house, arid wlien poor
mamma opened the door.thcre stretched
upon the floor, lay the pretty, weary
little form, and when "the dear mother
drew her to her and asked the oft re
peated question", "Will you be good and
promise not to cry any triore"?" the pret
ty eyes looked up, still full of tears,
andthe little girl said: '-Yes, mamma,
I'll be good ar.d promise not to never
to cry any more till some of my dear
relations die.-"
l'igcon English.
Manv nersons do not know and many
may interested m le irmnjr that lor 100
- ...X .t?
years pigeon English has been the re-
uulll'.uil iui; Li; va. t4.mv. M.i wis...
mercc for about 300.000,000 Asiatics and
Africans in all their dealings with
foreigners of other nationalities. The
English, Americans, French, Italians,
Russians, Gcrnrms and Dutch must all
use pigeon English in order to transact I
business with the natives. Pigeon'
English is more nearly a universal lan
guage than any other in the world, and
if your alphabet oduld be made -fone-tik"
would likely soon become a spe
cial language for all nations, especially
if aided by the 100,030,000 speaking
regular English dialects. What is
Uolapuk alongside pigeon English.
Minneapolis Tribune.
IV PbWder
All other baking powders are shown by the
latest United States Government Report to be
inferior to the Royal in both Purity and Strength,
(See Bulletin 13, Chemical Division .of U. S. Agricultural Drpt)
Comfortable.
Tired Traddlcs Yeh lcok awfully
comfortable to-day, eary.
Weary Wiggins An I'd orter. I've
jast stolen a ride in from Chicago on
a refrigerator car. Xew York llcr
aM. The pleasant effect and perfect safety
rw1 W tlallU
with which latlie-. mav use the Call-1
fornia liquid laxative, bynip of Fig.-,, '
under all conditions, makes it their fa
vorite reined v. To iret the true and
nf
trenuineartiile, look for the name
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed
near the bottom of the package.
Twisted loring tools are ali'of Amcricnn
invention.
We ent too much and take too little out
door exercise. This is the fault of our mod
ern -ivili7.ition. It is claimed that Gnrtiekl i
SStSLr1 he,1f Xatureto
P.-.,o..,.v r ..it.W-.xl in tiif m.-.SI cor. I
vice in lib!c times.
-? 1 1
i:tcs l'ark.
Estc l'ark. Co'o.. is a mountain paradise
reached ly the I'liion Pacific Systciii, hold
ing in fts eail.ra-c lihie Lake. Jlomitain
Craig, Palisndo Park and Foothill, all com
mingled, and is enchanted ground for hunt
er, artist and invalid.
It is easier to mean right than it is to do
right.
Tlif? Worm's Fair Favorite Hotel.
.
The fireproof BANCROFT HOTEL, Cain '
met A v. and -lUli St.. Chicago, M4 large
rooms, i- the placo for you to stop, ltates
one dollar, meals 0 cents. Near World's
Fair grounds. Write for circu!ar to reserve
rooms.
Thos-o who do right only when it is easy
and agreenhle are to I-e pitied. ,
IT the IIby 1- Cutliuc Trrth.
Be r cro anl use that old sn 1 well-tried rtmcily, Mcs.
Wisjlow's Soothisg STRcr for Children TeetMns.
Conscience tells us what is right and
should be follow ed accordingly.
FITS-A" flu stopped frer liy DR. EirtrS VRF.AT
aSRVr. KCYtORKK. No fit after limt d.iy' ue Mar
veloiu iuit- Treatianiin COtnil liottle free lo Kit
cue. SemttoDr Kl'ne.Wl ArcfiSt . Philadelphia. fa.
The Connecticut ovstercrop was damaged
$.X,X0 by one storm.
"Hamsun's 3Z:tKlc Corn alrc.'
Wirranfe.1 tj -uri r iwuicjr lefuadcd. Ask your
druii; fori:. 1'ruo ijitt.
Is it not 1 ettcr to quarrel for good or evil
than to bo wholly indifferent'
Middle l'ark. Col.
Middle l'ark. Colorado, reached by the
Union 1'aciIIc System, has a genera! ele
vation of about chrht thousand feet above
sea level. It is tho siwrtsman's paradise, ' g
as game 01 an sorts i- verypientiiui.
Mexico annually produces 70,000,000 in
gold and silver.
HELP IS WANTED
y the -women who
arc ailing' and snf
fcringj.or weak and
exhausted. And, to
every such woman,
ttou. For voting-1
girls just entering j
womanhood ; wo
Q"
men at the critical
"change of life"; women approaching
coniluement; nursing mothers; and ev
ery woman who is " run-down " or over
worked, it is a medicine that builds up,
strengthens, and regulates, no matter,
what the condition or the system.
It's an Invigorating, restorative tonic,
a soothing and bracing nervine, and the
only guaranteed remedy for "female
complaints " and weaknesses. In bearing-down
sensations, periodical pain,
ulceration, inflammation, and every kin
dred ailment, if it ever fails to benefit or
cure, you have your money back.
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Jeavinx the clinch ab'olutely smooth. KerjuirinR
no hole to be made in the leather nor burr for the
Kiref. They are SIRCNC. TOUGH and DURABLE.
Jlillions now in use All length?, uniform or
assorted, pat up in boxes.
Ak your ilmlrr for llicm. or fend 40c.
In statu p3 for a box of 100; assorted size?.
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BlAto Principal Examiner D.S. Paasion Burenu.
3 jrniu but war, 13 adjudicating claim, att aiuc
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vmM?&EJA
Gen. O. O. Howard aad 41m BeggatV r
-... r 1 1 ". lf. S ua la f.
mien ucncrai u. uowuraj am $,
Chattanooga a beggar, with a wfUiere1.
arm. from which the finirers and! itrCr
of the hand were missing, came ugo' -him
and asked for alms. The general,
with a twinkle in his eye, held out his
empty sleeve and said: "You are bet
ter off than I am, for yon have yoar
arm left, while I have lost mine." The
cripple gazed at the empty sleeve for a .
moment, and then extracted fifteen
cents from the pocket of his tattered
jeans trousers. "Here," he said, turn
ing to General Howard, "this is all I've
got, but you're welcome to it." There
-was a general laugh at the cxpease.of -
the distinguished commander of the del
partment of the East, and ho made the j I
man happy by giving him a siWer dpi- J 1J
lar. Argonaut
I Care Bjapepala n4 '"""ll,w
Dr. Mioop's KestoratiTe Servo ttlN ni Ire"
ilttllcHl Book lo prove merit, tor S tamp. -Urn
gUls,Soc. DR. suoor. Box W., Kaclntf.ia- . -
A Frefch Nobleman to be KaHed. .
A French viscount, who -is not sor -richly
endowed as he would like to btr'
has invented a novel moans for f.ath-
..rin-fhis nest. He advertise in t lie
Vrenah D.ir,ers a lotterv in which tho
,rre:it prizc will be himself and hia title.
Kin thousand tickets are to be is-
suod at twentV fracs each, which
will brine him in over S2.30O. Th
lady who draws the lucky number
will have the choice of two alter
natives. She mav marry tlie visconnt
w-th his fortullc 0r sqe may share this
.., . i, milt. rst forecoall
capital sum. but must hrst forego all
right to his hand.
For indigestion, con-.tipnt.oD, sick head
ache, wenk stomach, disordered liver tako
.Boecham's Pills. For sale by all drusSists-
Great Britain last year used 7,S"0 tons oC
Sli.lllUlK.-l J. - Jt ,.
Wo exported 582,200,000 gallons oCpetn-
Ieuni in 1895.. ,. .
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