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- ,..- m- i. j a. . -V CorfeTit LegfaB Attrai Pfgeofta. A man who was recently afeked why piceons very seldom Yrchcd Q tlie branch of a tree, giVe the following' ex pl matlon: Vou have heard that story about a gimner goinjj to the woods in search of ame, when to his surprise Ln saw twenty-seven wild pigeons on one branch, ile knew full well that lio could not kill them all with one load, eo he aimed at the branch and succeeded in splitting It, and catchinpr every bird by the foot. After climbing th- tree, he took his penknife and cut t-he pigeon-covcredstick off and carried it through a certain town. This story h s reai-hcd the hearing of nearly eery p'.ifeon, hence their dislike for ttees. I Care Drtpepil kUd Ontlrlo. , . Ir hoop s Kc&turuttw Ncrvo rills sei.t frsewiui W djcal Ilcok to prvre merit, for 2c stamp. Drug ftt, a IML SaOoF. Box W., Ratine, Wla. Oucrr Facts About Gold. A cubic inch of gold is worth, in round numbers, $-10; a cubic foot, :'. ".2.160, and a cubic yard, S',79r,7G2. This is on the basis of SIS per ounce. At the beginning of the Christian era theiewr, 427,000,000 in the world, but iit the time of the dis-overy of America the total of the world's gold supply had i ein educed to $.17, 000, 000. The amount of u'old now in use is estimated as ue mg worth 510,000,000,000. a tS '"TtS !&&&; KNOWLEDGE ' Uringa comfort and improvement and teii'ls to personal enjoyment when ririiily usou. The many, who live bi-t-ter than others and enjoy life more, with I-s3 expenditure, by more promptly fiJaptins; the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the" pare liquid lasative principle embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the tite, the refreshing and tiuiy betieficial projx?rtie. of a erfect lax ative; effect nally cleansing the system, dii-jK-Hing colds," headaches and levers u:m 'crmancntly curing constipation. It has civen satisfaction to millions and wet with the approval of the medical profe-.ion, because it acts on the Kid ney?, Liver and IJowel.s without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from eerv olijectii)nablc substance. Svntp of riir is for sale by all drug gists in .10c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup C'o.ouJv, whose name is printed on every p lcVace, alM the name, Syrup of Figs and ltcing well informed, you will not accent anv substitute if offered. " I am ready to testify under oath that if it had" not been for August Flower I should have died before this. Eight years ago I was taken hick, and suffered as no one but a dVspeptic can. I employed three of our best doctors and received no benefit. They told me that I had heart, kidney, and liver trouble. Kvcrythiug I ate distressed me so that 1 had to throw it up. August Flower cured me. There is no med icine equal to it." Lorenzo K. Slshpeu, Appleton, Maine. -WORLD'S- Columbian Exposition 2is Souvenir-1 393 In benutifulnml bright colors, and tlio Di-muh inuilMiiiir ctch'tl n nil!:, taken from Oil Paintings nud the calibrat ed, world - n ii( miied uiodtle 3 cow n exhibition at the ULJ ro"' World's Fair. Oath tviS " t,ie famous portrait, . "Tan 1 Moro. of Christop On tho top t, niter )nher 4-TT'j--' Columbus, in tiicceii'er is 4L (! ' i an exact reproduction of tha s5fcsV.3? Santa Maria ia full Bail, VW'-Ji fcliov.in tlia 1 rnvo crew tint C'w' nssirtcd In d:proverinR AMERI- StWt. 5 CA. on the bottom it a dr :rn jseS showing two (iiobca tiiM'hl Srjjt? 2 anil '" 11W world on onesidtj f vjul ?' V i CLrittfpher Cotvmliv: 6nr- tV;aSf .T - f roundrdb Iiie civw. reprtent- tdpit' inn tlio firtt lnndinc on onr anrir.nn'i on tl.eotlieraroni l)l"to bird's eyo ticw of tho WfALD'S FAIR. la ;mnnmrcj one of tho Jai d- BouiL'-tnmlinost sitrractiveuiementorB yet issuttl Rs.i Souvtnir of tlio treat 7x;wiyjfiuu Can bfl riPt'd nan Bndge, ilnoli-Mark.crcsunornauieut, tor tlio parlor A 'o;tnl by Socict V. Club, Clivrchr, n:id fi Tiuhlir in ricne-fl. J'fuc. I1c.etiih.orttrofor3'Cs AGISTS UAIULO Everjrthcrc. Trirc prr Coi.. Si! Brxiiltemisforliruo lotn. Jlaiiislaiul delivered freo to cay part of tlio L.S. or Tanada. J. HcLEAN & CO., 157 S. Clark St. CHiCAuO. TV. Tais Vitt is c fte best WATERPROOF COH cK.d in the Vorld ! A. J. T0V.TP. BOSTON. MASS. If 1ST cfi "tol'DS' J . t cajicura tV n -' 'tltiate cao in to 0 Iaya. !--t h'm nfir paitlcnlirs rnd fuTk rateour rcliab llty. OK" tininrlal I aoklrj I t 00.001. 'XVlin mc-CJrj, ! 'Hi potnirm. SArfp nl i o. JiotSt'riaB fJii. e t: ractooacurp ndotir Jla l? yphiK-ae Ktliocn v tiinT thit .llciire jv-rniTi-iiMr. l' .nivpprot int l-!2 frcs. Cook HrsKcr Col. thlc3c.ir. P.so's Knacky for Cat;-rh U tlio Bst, FiFieU to V-:, unit Cheapest. TJJ'.Bllki r---j - - m Sold bv DrnsidstE or rent by mall. COc E. T. Hazeltlne, 'Warren, Pa. i Patents. 1 mcls-Marks. J:itnins:ioa suit ..!! e to I'sirnthbllitr of Ic m -nn. sm tr !:. eiiu.rt.'.iif.orllo" to Oct la:n.t" TJLZZZZZDTXSZ'l. "ACEiiTSra;. 2. C. THE KAX5S CITY VETERINARY COLLEGE. Inroirioiatrii Iit the it. Fori ntalnicaf, ai. rtirM, .J. H. Wattl, 1). V.".. 31i t. lstn tit, tS? Thompson's Eye ffator. SllCKAPOO Wk INDIAN at fe. CAnuif Tlie greatest Liver, 5 Mom:icli, lilooil and 5 Kidney Kemedy. ? ilndc of Root, S Baiks and HerhsZ and is AboolutelvZ Free troinT All Mine-nil Z or OtbcrJ Harmful In- S grnlients.a, Urupgl-t, SI m M Lmug-kine DoT- " or-T- per bottl er uoiur. r A e3for$5. ' Cl.t.Mii lill., Kp.lirttiA I'o.. S'Sealr Blscluw, Agmt. w Ilaa, Ct. m J V-3?T Ififr "iiiffiiGt Flower" BLOOD POISON g A SPECIALTY. H m m?&maaL iBffvja-w e?cs 3tM9 1 THE SLEIGH RIDE. The bells are ringing merrily, kling ltnjr. The whip is snapping cheerily, ping, pingt How sharp and keen the frosty air wo find. How swift the sleigh t' tides onward Ilk ihtt wind. What starts up yonder frightened, as we go? A timid hare, half buried in the snow, Novr running off as quickly as he can, Afraid it Is the dreaded hunter lnan. In forest shade no song of bird we hear Onlv the crows are cawing here and there, llut winter makes us lenient. I trow, And cen he melodious sccmr'h how. CAR'LYNE'S COURTSHIP. "I guess you ain't left much in the store," was the rcmart bt 'Manda Jano Perkins, atidly spoken, with a pinched shille. Cur'lyne otherwise 'Lj-no for ab breviation scrambled nimbly to tho buggy seat, whore she perched with tho poise of a bird on a boujrh, bo tween tho angular form of Miss Per kins and the stalwnrt, stooping bulk of Josh. She tossed her head and held fast 10 liCsr parcels. "I guess I bought what I wanted to. I guess I can do that," was her reply, with a confident look at Josh. I guess you kin, 'Lyne," said Josh's slow, mild drawl. ' 'Kin' ain't correct. Josh. Yon oughtcr say 'can,' observed Lyne severely Josh looked gently round upon his monitor. Old Bess, the gray mare, was moving her lank legs swiftly now, knowing herself bound for the outer country roads and home. As the buggy rattled with decrepit wheeze over the last streets of the town, the wind caught the wayward wisps of curling front hah under LV ne's best straw hat and made a rufllcd, pretty golden aureole about her face. Hushed with the delights of unlimited purchases in "store things." -Well, Lyne, I ain't no great on irrammar. But I guess you're right," was Josh's docile response. "You better send him to tho Fe male academy down to Burapvillc, too!" laughed Miss Perkins shrilly. Wouldn't do no harm to send others besides him there," Lyne flashed back, setting her pink lips in a lino that Josh had learned to know. The woman and tlm girl had no further words for each other after that, and Josh, his blue eyes trou bled and deprecating, gave his whole attention to Bess, until tho two neighboring farms were reached, and Miss Perkins was deposited, first at her own door. 'I tell you. if harm ain't a-bound to come to Josh Conway for tho way he spoils that there Lyne, then tho secrets and visitations of Providenco ain't what I take 'era to be!" '.Manda Jane stood among her folks in tho Perkins kitchen and delivered her self in quick, rageful, oracular sen tences of doom, as she tore off her Sunday bonnet, reckless of preserv ing tho strings from creasing. "You oughtcr seen the things she bought to the store! and Uosh's money a goin' like water, and her having no claim on him but being the child of his pardncr when he first began out : hci'c. 1 srucss the pardncr knew he C M. ! had a good thing when he up and died and left Car'lyno to Josh, for him to be her guardcen! First, Josh i sends her to the academy, to Bumps- ville. to make a fine lady of her, and. now there ain't nothin' too good for her nor no one can't speak to her!" What I look at is," remarked Mrs. Perkins, with a rigidity, "that it ain't rcspcctablo for a man no older than Josh to have a young girl livin' to the farm. He oughtcr marry some settled woman first" Yes, ho oughtcr marry 'Manda Jane!" ironically exclaimed old man Perkins with aloud guffaw at which the women frowned. Meantime Lyne. Josh having put up old Bess, was unfolding her store treasures and donning them one by onc, before tho square of dingy loot ing glass in the sitting room on Josh's farm. "How do you like1 me?" she said. And before Jo.-h's dHzzled vision she executed a pirouette ol her own in vention, all her ribbons fluttering, her color high, her gray eyes flash ing with fun and triunrph. Then she planted herself suddaily before him, arms akimbo: "What you reck on all this finery's for. anyways, J0M1?" hc queried. As he made no answer, only looking a4 her with a silent, absorbed, dogruke devotion which he had displayed from the day when, a crying chit in a short, black frock, lie had brought her first to the farm, she continued: "Why, to bring some of the boys down to busi ness, of course!" Down to business!" Josh re peated the words vaguel.r, with- a startled look. Yes. stupid! Ain't it tibnc I was married? Ain't I goin'to be eighteen next month? Well, then!" "If you want to marry, Lyne," Josh's words came slowly as was their wont, and the puzzled llook had deepened in his eyes, "I gtness I guess we kin fix it." But with a shriek of laughter Lyne had thrown both her arms about his neck. Gracious, you're just the biggest goose. Josh. 1 don't want you to fix anything. Ain't I got beaux enough, I'd like to know? All 1 got to do is to choose. And that's what I'm going to do, too! I'm going to get married, and you are too, Josh, 'cause you'd be lonely when I went. I'm going to marry well, no .matter who and you. you're goiniT to marry" she paused and stood away from him "'Manda Jane Perkins!'' "No, no, I ain't going to marry her or any one!" Josh exclaimed precipitately. But Lyne interrupted imperatively. "Sh! You don't know what's good for you, Josh, but I do. You need a wife and you oughtcr know there's lots and lots of girls would take you, if you'd only spruce up, because you" rrf handsome, and you're young yet; youre young, if you'd only give yourself a chance and not be so quiet and settled art4 act so liko an old man objlcr than Daddy Perkins! Now, I don't say Manda Jano would be my choice for you exactly, but I suppose you want somebody steady, and she's steady enough; and if she ain't very pretty or very young, and nin't P-o. ft p-ood tempci she's a splendid housekeeper. They do i?ay her preserve? are better than ico cream, and then, you know, Joeh. she's just dying to have you, and ai her folks.too. they're thinkin' all fhe time how nice it would bo if yem were a married man and Manda Jane your wife!" And with another ringing laugh, Lyne pirouetted again and flashed out of the room, leaving Josh word less and motionless, standing in the center of the ingrain carpet. . It was a full harvr moon that illumined the fields and the rough white line of the road with a light more golden than silvery. The blank plainness of Josh's farm house was transfigured into the rat-llov.- sem blance of Ionic marble. Even tho barn assumed beauty of mystie whiteness-, half hidden behind the branching Arches df the dark elms. There Were mysterious voices abroad in the night, low murmurings on ihd soft wind, a something in all nature lhal thrilled Josh Conway'3 heart with a mingling of half-trembling rapture and of unbearable pain. ThSse were new sensations to Josh; so new that he wandered about rest lessly from the barn to tho front piazza and wondered once or twice whether he were getting tho autumn grue-. Ho had escaped it every sea son for fifteen years, but perhaps this was the way a man felt when the chills of that locality were coming on. In his aimless pacings Josh arrived too close a vicinity to that farther end of tho piazza where a whito shimmer in a hammock indicated tho presence of Car'lyne. She was not alone. One of tho young men who so continually had come to the farm of late was with her. It was one of Lync's "beaux" one of those she said that sho would choose from. As she had also said she would bo IS next month. Yes, it was right that sho should mar'y. Eighteen? Could it be? Littlo Lyne eighteen. Tlio child he had cared for so ten derly a grown woman, with a woman's heart? Yes, of course sho would go and he would bo left to tho lonely days of his old bachelorhood. He could see her in her new home flit ting about with an important mein of good housewifery and with a now look in her laughing eyes. Again he was near tho piazza. But this time Lyne was not swinging in tho hammock. Sho stood revealed in a patch of moonlight The young man was bidding her farewell. Ho was a callow youth in store clothes. He leaned over eagerly and seemed to beg for something: whereupon, with a little coquettish laugh, utter ly new in the varied gamut of line's usual laughter, sho took a flower from her belt and gave it to him. Josh chose to see no more. He moved away. A few minutes later, tho callow youth having departed, Lyne stepped quickly to the end of tho piazza and called: "Josh!" There was no re ply, and sho waited a little before calling again. As silonce onco moro answered sho went slowly up to her own little attic room, where a vino nodded in at tho window, white with moonlight It's queer," she said. I certainly saw you standing near tho end of the piazza when I was saj'in' good-bye to Jo Finney." Mio undressed with long, ruminating pauses between. At breakfast, next morning, when Lyne wore a pink cotton frock and a wide white collar turned away from her round young throat Josh had already disappeared, seeming to be very busy about the barn. At noon Lyno herself was busy, standing amid her shining cans in the milk pantry, her sleeves turned up over her smooth white arms, when through the open door she saw the hired man ascending into tho hall with a small horsehair trunk, tho classic and battered piece of travel ing gear with which Josh took his rare jaunts abroad. At tho sirao moment Josh himself entered the milk pantry in his Sunday clothes. Lyne turned to him, suddenly becom ing very white. "Car'lyne, I'm going. I got to go. If 1 can come back tho day you'ro married, I'll try to. But I don't know. I didn't know anything about this. I didn't know how I felt about you till I saw you give the flower to that there young man and I knew it was him you was thinkin' of and and " He broke down and pulled his hat over his cyos. Lyne had seated her self on a wooden stool and was look ing up at him with parted lips, her breath coming in little gasps. "Yes! yes! go on!" sho cried, im patiently. Ho looked at her mournfully. Thrc ain't more to say, Car'lyne. But this house is yours, and every thing in it, till after. I guess it'll be better for me to go away some whercs else and and and I want you to bo happy and God bless you and him. " He was walking to the door. But he was arrested. A triumphant laugh broko out behind him and two smooth, bare arms caught him and held him. "Josh, you gooso! Oh, you blind goose! What do I care for Jo Finney or for anyone but you? I only pre tended last night because I wanted you to sec. And that's why I talked so about getting married tho other day. There ain't nobody in the world for me but you, and never has been from tho time when I went to tho academy, even. And I knew it was just tho same with you, Josh; girls always know. But you'ro so so stupid, you know. You'd never have found out yourself or spoken or anything if I hadn't acted it all out and put it in your head. Now, Josh, we're engaged, and you can send that trunk upstairs again. We're engaged, and I'll board at Mrs. Per kins' till we're married, and I can even be married from there, and " she stood akimbo bofore him in tho old way, mischief brimming from her gray eyes "and Manda Jane can be my bridesmaid. " But Josh, just then, could say nothing. He stood speechless; but his eyes spoke, and Car'lyne under stood thoir language Car'lyno knows. N. Y. Mercury. Watches In l'mbrcll-i Handles. Watches fixed in umbrella han dles may be pretty to look at, and to somo extent useful," said Edward S. Corrigan of Milwaukee, "but thoy arc out of place, and they are going to interfere with man's permanent and most pleasant privilege. Not withstanding a supreme court decis ion that umbrellas are property and may not bo purloined any more than a purse or a pair of pantaloons with out violation of the law, all mankind, excep. the most scrupulous, of course, hold that umbrellas are com mon property, and have no hesitation in picking one up in rainy or any other weat2icr, for tnat matter, whenever one is seen. Now a man who bori"0vs an umbrelia may be ar rested foi stealing a watch, which, of course, 13 a serious offense. He can, of course, plead that he was only borrowing an umbrella, but the watch is phtced so conspicuously in tho h.inrlln f the naranluic that such J n excuse would hold good only for a blind man. The Maked I'lain. The Llano Estacado is, perhaps, tho most and spot in the United States east of the Rockies. Scarcels any .rain falls on it. The steppey owe fbeir name of Staked plains to the posts sqt up through the wilder ness to guide tne traveler or tne car- avan, or. according to another ex I plauation, to the stalks of yucca j plants growing on them. PARADOX OF -TME POLE. All Points df the CoBflpaM Except tfatrl Vanish THerc; At the north poie ihoro is only one direction south. One cbtild go south in as, many .trays asj there ard pb'ints bn.itio compass card, bui. every oiie of the ways is south; cast and west have vanished. Tho hour of the day at the polo is a paradoxical concep tion, for that point is tho meeting placo of every meridian, and tho time of all holds good, so that it is always any hour ono cares to men tion. Unpunctuality is hence im possible but the question grows complex, and its practical solution concerns few, says McCluro's Maga zine. No one- needs to go to the polo to discover all that makes that point different from any other point of tho surface. But tho whole polar re gions aro full of unknown things, which oven arctic explorer of tho right stamp looks forward to find ing. And the reward he looks for ward to most is tho approval of tho few who understand and love knowl edge for its own sake, rather than the noisy applause of the crowd who wouid cheer him, after all, much as they cheer a winning prize fighter, or race horse, or political candidate. The difficulties that make tho quest of tho polo so arduous have been discovered by slow degrees. It is mrfrvelous how soon nearly tho full limits of northward attainment were reached. In 1596 Barnets discovered Spitsbergen in about seventy-eight degrees north ;in 1770 Hudson reacbed eighty degrees; in 1827 Parry, by sledging- on tho ice when his ship bo came fast, succeeded in touching eighty-two degrees and forty-five minutes. Since then all the enormous resources of modern science steam, electricity, preserved food, and the experience of centuries havo only enabled forty miles of additional pole ward advance to be made. Behring Strait between America and Asia is tho narrowest, Baffin Bay between America and Greenland is wider, branching into a number of ice-blocked sounds to the westward and tapering off into Smith Sound in the northeast The widest channel of tho three lies between Greenland and Europe, and this is bisected just south of eighty degrees. COOLIE SLAVERY IN CUBA. Tin Cbin'a Terrible Experience With a Ilrutal Taskmaster. It is said that the unfortunate Chinamen who go to Cuba to labor under contract on the sugar planta tions there are held, tho most of them, in a state of slavery to which the condition of the negroes before the war was paradise itself. Tho following is related as a typical case: Ono of tho Chinamen, Tin Chin, 'presented a. frightful aspect His head was as smooth as a billiard ball, not a vestige of hair remaining. His face was covered with long, deep scars, tho sight of ono eye was lost, his neck was distorted and his hands were shriveled and bony. Inquiry resulted in learning that he had been the victim of tho wrath of a notorious brutal Spanish planter. One day, threo years ago, when Tin Chin and a hundred other coolies were transferring boiling sugar from the vats in pails, the planter or over seer stood at the entrance to tho sugar house, whip in hand, snapping it at the bare backs of the coolies as they, bending under tho weight ol tho buckets, hurried past Tin Chin lagged a moment The planter cut the Chinaman with tho whip, and be cause the latter wriggled under the pain of the blow the brutal overseer grabbed up a bucket of the boiling sugar and with an oath, dclib..ately poured tho contents down upon tho head of the Chinaman. lie was scalded from head to foot. He fell insensible at the feet of his tor mentor, who savagely kicked tho Chinaman's prostrate body aside and again took up his position at tho entrance, whip in hand, ready at tho slightest provocation to flay alive tho next Chinaman who incurred his wrath. That night under cover of dark ness, some of Tin Chin's countrymen carried him to his den, and thcro ho lay for months, hovering between lifo and death, without medical treatment other than that which tho coolies could afford him. Much rather would the planter have seen him die, for then Tin Chin's contract would die with him, and no money would have to be paid for Chin's long years of service. Miuldie Canted ly a Will. A Paris restaurant keeper, recent ly deceased, left 2"i0,003 francs to two nephews on condition that instead of melancholy memories, that no one would believe, they should for one year each day affix a copy of ono of his culinary recipes to his grave stone, so that even after his death ho might benefit his fellow men. No less than 305 prescriptions wcro found among his papers. Unfortu nately the Paris tombstone commis sion which examines and decides up on tho inscriptions to bo placed upon ccmcterial monuments, refused to admit the fulfillment of tho culinary philanthropist's last wishes. What aggravates tho nephews' grief is the unpleasant fact that the court has now decided that they cannot now get those :W0,000 francs their uncle left them under certain conditions. Fanna tn Ocean' Deeuest Depth.. In the profoundest abysms of the sea are strange forms of lifo that never, save when brought up by the trawl, sec the upper light. Tlio work carried on by the United States fish commission vessel, the Albatross, has established tho fact that forms of sea life inhabiting the upper waters may descend to about 1,200 feet from tho surface, but below this, to a depth of 300 or 360 fathoms, a barren zone intervenes whore marino life seems absent But still deeper, strange to saj-, has been discovered an abundant and varied fauna, now to science, living under conditions of tremendous pressure and tho paucity of tho life-sustaining element of oxy gen. Cosmopolitan. A Pearl It oat. Not very long ago a London news paper announced that a jeweler of Turin had made a tug-boat formed of a single pearl. The sail is of beaten gold, studded with diamonds, and the pinnacle light at the prow is a per- t feet ruby. An emerald serves as its I rudder, and the stand on which it is I mounted is a slab of whitest ivory. The entire weight of this marvelous specimen of the jewelry craft is less than half an ounce, but the maker values it at 1,000. Knterprlce. Wool After starving for 20 years. I old Potts conceived an idea which re sulted in making his fortune. Van Pelt What was it? Wool Changed the sign over his shop from "Junk" to "Antiques." Truth. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ADVOCATING BARLEY AS A FIRST CLASS STOCK FOOD. Corn Bad for Breeding slock A Mddel itojj Ilon-io Quick Way to fclcar Land Canada Thistles Dairy Notes and Household Helps. Barley as Stock Food. That experience is the best teacher has boon considered a fact for ages. If my experience in feeding barley is worth anything, and I surely con sider that it is, I want every ono not acquainted with its good qualities to have the benefit. It is a lamentablo fact that the majority of farmers have fallen into tho deplorable habit of raising only corn and oats cvory year. A simple glance at tho asses sor's books for 1S93 showing acreage of difforcnt -grains raised in 1892, will attest to this fact All over tho country tho cry goes up about loss of brood sows and young pigs. Let it be painted in large red letters on fences and school houses; let every farmer paste it in his hat, or inscribo it on his dinner plate in letters of gold, that tho main cause of all this is corn. On this farm of 3,400 acros we raise all kinds of live stock, from mastiff pups and wild geeso to trot ting horses; and we raise lots of them, too Bear with mo a moment Do not think I am trying to adver tise tho Tarm; far from it. but I want to prove to you why I think our ex perience superior to that of a man who only farms on a small scale. We run oleven work teams of good Ken tucky mules, cultivating 70J a-rrcs, besides putting up "oceans" of hay. Our mules never wintered finer and got through spring work in as good flesh as this past one, and their feed has been barley. I fattoned a small bunch of beef cattle on barley for house use, and "quicker" and finer flavored beef 1 never put over the coals. By quick beef I mean that they fattened quickly, and as a con sequence the meat was juicy and ten der. We marketed over $3,000 worth of hogs last fall, and wintered all our shoats on an exclusive feed of ba-loy, and in tho fifteer. years this ranch has been in existenco shoats never wintered as finely. Our ewes on same rations sheared a heavier fleece of wool, and had a larger and stronger lot of lambs than ever before. Our entire band of brood mares had their regular feed of barley, and novcr had a stronger lot of foals with no trouble whatever in foaling. The stallions and colts nau tne same ra tions and opened up the spring cam paign vigorous and keen. 1 deem corn as certain death to breeding stock, writes William Berry in the American Trotter. Whilo its superior cannot bo found as a cheap and easier fattcner for all butcher stock, its fattening and heat produc ing qualities arc just what have the killing offect on breeding stock. Now, a word as to brood sows. Every year up to 18S9 our bunch of fifty or seventy-live brood sows were allowed to run with tho stock hogs behind tho steers in feed lots. They were all removed a few days or weeks as occasion called for to the farrow ing house, but the deadly corn had gotten in its work, and wo annually lost quite a number of sows and scores of pics. The litters wcro small ind so many either came still born or were so small and weakly that it was a sure case of the survival of the fittest In 18S9 wo introduced a radical change. Corn was entirely discarded, and sows put on a diet of ground barley and oats. Sometimes barley alone, and occasionally bran was mixed with it, but barley was tho main food. Now. mark you, since 18S9 we havo not lost a sincle sow in fattening, and all stillborn pigs could be put in a common water pai!. The litters averaged from thirty-three to fifty per cent larger in quality and numbers. Instead of four to eight, each sow would havo from seven to thirteen in a litter, and all healthy littlo fellows ready to scrape for their dinner at the drop of a bucket California is a great barley raising and barley feeding stat, and look at the results. Don't give all their suc cess .to climate. The only thing against my argument in favor of barley is that I am a young man, and to somo people that is a crime. And whilo I never was on a farm until seven years ago, yet during that time I havo made it a study, as I did my Ca'sar and Virgil in school, and havo raised mote grain and live stock than somo old cranks through whose hair the hay seed of sixty summers have sifted, and through whoso "gazalas" tho winds of sixty winters have whistled. .Simply be cause some of us "kids" don't do as they and their fathers did down on tho rocky hillsides of "Vermont," is no reason why "no good thing can come out of Nazareth. " Bcmember that alt this is gratui tous and free as air. It don't co-t any man a cent If any man wants to know of any further particulars all he has to do is to pay tho postage and I will do tho rest. I will just mention in closing that a ration of ground barley, oats and bran with a dash of oil meal occasionally, makes a nice feed for colts or other young stock. Quick lVayi to Clo r Land. By the existence of skill, much hard labor may bo saved in the clear ing of land. In this section land is cleared of small timber under three or four inches in diameter by tho following method: Take a log a foot in diameter by ten feet in length, with tho bark off. Have each end nicely rounded leaving a good o knot in tho center, to which a log chain can be attache! Fasten a pair of heavy mules or hor-cs to the smaller end and fasten the other end to the tree to bo taken up, about four to six feet from tho ground. Now drive around the tree, and as the roots aro loosened from the soil cut them with a sharp ax. It is surpris ing how quickly a tree can be gotten out thus, many of them in loss than ten minutes by the watch. The ob ject of the log is to bring the draft down where the team can get at it For larger trees, over ten inches in diameter, block and tackle must be employed, which will tak- somewhat longer. Trees can be gotten out by the roots in about the same time it take? to cut the tree down. March is the best month to clear land, as tho ground is soft, and with a steady team and three jrood active men good progress can be made every day. Baltimore American. A Model Hoff Iluute. G. II. C.Cedar Bluffs, Neb., writes Orange Judd Farmer: The building is entirely of pine lumber. The sills aro 'x 6 inch; floor joist, 2x8 inch; floor. 1J inch board. The two extra sills are laid nearly under tho alley partitions and extend the whole length of the building. They are" not mortised into the end sills, but they are laid under them, supporting tho floor joist in tho contor, and tho whole rests on blocks of stone. Tne sldos and dttds aro boarded upright and battened with 3 ibch battens. Tho roof is mado of grooved roofing and 6 inch battens. The walls insido aro linod up 2J feet for warmth. The building is 56 feet long and 26 feet wide. There is a steam generator arid barrels for water and cooked feed, with pens 8x10 foot and yards. Tho five pens on tho south sido arc divided by part ly movable partitions and are used for fattening hogs. Tlio troughs aro placed directly under tho partition betweon tho pens and tho alley, and a door twonty inches high and tho samo length as tho trough, hangs to this partition, the door having a sliding latch with which it may bo fastened to cithor side, excluding hogs until tho feed is in placo. From X to tho right hand end of houso, thirty-two feet, tho whole floor slopes six inches and this I considor tho fino point in my plan, since by using hoso or eavo sprouting in connection with tho water supply tho floor can bo easily washed, and tho manuro with the liquid bo pushed through tho shuto, and caught in a tight box placed on a sled or stone boat and removed to the field. The alley is six feot wide, doors four feet wide. With this houso I am ready for my sows to farrow any time after tho 15th of Fobruary. The cost of build ing was 225 with lumber at $22 per thousand. Canada Thistles Not Seeding. The Canada thistle propagates so readily from its roots that it docs not need seed to becomo an untolorablo nuisance in cultivated grounds. There aro conditions in which seed does not form usually on very rich, mellow soil where the root growth is unobstructed. In somo Western agricultural papers we havo seen communications saying that the Canada thistlo never seeds. The writers havo examined heads of bloom and havo found them entirely barren. But this negative evidence proves nothing. Wo have noticed both tho tccding and not-seeding spocimens. The latter wero always more rank in growth and usually had a red bloom. The thistles that fur nish seed have mostly a bloom very much lighter colored. American Cultivator. Feeding Shoats. If the shoats weigh under 100 pounds, feed two-fifths shorts and one-fifth oil-meal, by weight. If they woigh moro than this feed more corn and rather less shorts and oil-meal. These three feeds compounded as directed should prove eminently satis factory. Do not fail to supply hard wood ashes. Such shoats should not be loosely confined.but havo "exercise and should be on the hard wood floor just as little as possible. Thus fed and managed they should make a gain of from three-quarters to one pound per day on medium feeding and go into grass in condition to take a large amount of corn and make heavy gains. Uiilry Xotev. Good clover liay is one of the best of feeds for tho dairy cow. Good butter depends moro on tho butter maker than the cow. It requires no moro to milk and feed a good cow than a poor one. In dairying profits depend less on how much wo do than how well we do it Peas, oats and barley mixed arc highly recommended for cows. Tho crop can be -used for soiling and also in tho grain. What can I do to harden buttor that comes too soft? asks a lady. We presumo you have no ice. Then use cold water when tho butter is in the grain. Churn in the cool of tho mo"ning in very hot weather, to prevent the temperature of tho cream from rising too high for tho good of the butter. When the boy or girl begins to milk sec that they are taught to do it properly. As they begin thoy will likely continue. Wo have known boys to begin by stripping with the thumb and two fingers, wetting the teat with milk, to milk that way ever after. An exchango says that if a cow gets choked with an apple or potato, holding up its head and breaking an egg in its mouth is a sure cure. The samo remedy is recommended for horses under similar circumstances lloutehnld Help. A few drops of carbonato of ammonia put into a small quantity of rain water will prove a safe and easy remedy for cleaning spots from car pets. Is there any way to prevent a pine churn from giving a pine taste to tho butter? asks a subscriber. The taste will not be imparted after the churn isused a few times. Instead of putting food in tho oven to kcop hot for late comers try covering it closely with a tin and settinjr it over a basin of hot water. This plan will keep the food hot and at tho samo time prevent it from drying. The most judicious foods to serve with pork aro fried apples, apple sauce, tomatoes and sweet or white potatoes. If pork i- offoicd in tho form "of sausage meat, apple sauce or fried apples should never be omitted. An old and tried cleaning solution for black dresses is a haudful of fig leaves boiled in a quart of water till only a pint is left. Dip a brush or bit of s-pongc in this and rub tho spots and stains. Black cloth that is only dusty and generally grimy may bo washed in soap bark water, drying without rinsing. Tho juice of three lemons and tho thin, yellow rind of one, with two ounces powdered sugar to every quart of water, makes a rich and strong lemonade drink. Put juice, sugar and rind, cut into bits, into an earthen jar and pour over the boiling water, covering closely at once. When cold add pounded ice and serve. To clean gilt frames rub them with a little salvolatile mixed with cold water, or. after dusting the frames well, paint tho gilding with a camel's hair brush dipped in the fol lowing mixture: One gill of vater in which ono ounce of common salt, one ounco of alum and two ounces of purified nitre have been dissolved. To wash silk stockings, uso tepid water and white soap, ivory or white cast ile, and wash only one at a time, as on no account must they be al lowed to lie in tho water. Rinse carefully in cold water and squeeze, lay them flat on a towel, and roll tho towel up tightly, and leave to dry. Afterwards, to renew the gloss, rub them briskly with a piece of dry flannel. They will look like now. Until 1S40 Europe produced eighty per cent of the world's wheat; now j fifty per cent Tubla'ib ihS Cbsrnnel. Sir Edward Reed's pl'afi forcOnstruct ., j .. liritlatl Chain ing a ranroau acrusa n. ..-- . nel is to lay two mammoth tuDes oi steel plate ana concrete ivrcui-y "- diameter. The tubes would be made m lengths, atil when two lenghths were completed they Would be joined to gether in a parallel fifty feet apart and floated out into the channel to bo at tached to the completed length. All 4V.n vnflr is frt lu (InllP llboVC Water. Thus the end of tho completed tube is lo ue Kept nuuak uuiu u i.. .- e -- joined On. Then that will be allowed to sink, and the last attached part will form tho end of the completed part This plan has already been practiced with success in America in carrying the nin fnrtv inortps in diameter, for a water works a long distance across a body of salt water. In that case the sninnwr in pharire invented a ioint which remained tight as the completed tube first hung in a curve, and after ward adjusted itself to the bottom on which it came to lie. London Times. Angels and Faint. They were having a little conjugal argument about the fondness of women for rnsnieth"?. when he thought to clinch tho argument by exclaiming "Angels never paint" "Perhaps not," she calmly replied, "but, all the same, vou never saw an angel that wasn't painted." And the only way he could get out of it was by declaring she was an angel, which compelled him to ad mit that he had aeon at least one un paintcd angel. Vanished Races. That the world was inhabited long before authentic history began is now ono of the generally accepted facts. There are said to bo more than 3.000 prehistoric buildings in Sardinia. They are almost all in the fertile districts and are built in groups which are sep arated from one another by wide aud generally barren places. From Freedom to Despotism. Thero is said to be an oak in the Im perial gardens at St Petersburg which has grown from an acorn taken from a tree growing near the tomb of Wash ington at Mount Vernon. It was planted fiftv years ago by George Sum ner of Boston, the brother of Charles Sumner. Don't Blame the Cook If a baking powder is not uniform in strength, (, so that the same quantity will always do the sine ' work, no one can know how to use it, and unu- t formly good, light food cannot be produced with iiA . All baking powders except Royal, because) improperly compounded and made from inferior1 materials, lose their strength quickly when the can is opened for use. At subsequent bakings there will be noticed a falling off in strength. The food . is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted. It is always the case that the consumer suiters in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder. It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more economical because of its greater strength, but will retain its full leavening power, which no other powder will, until used, and make more wholesome food. c How Ho Got Ills Xamr. Apropos of queer names. Dr. Henry Cooper write, the New York Sun as follows: "Visiting in Canada some years ago on a farm near Lake Simcoe, I was struck by the peculiarity of the name of one of the sons in the family I was visiting. It was "Happen" this and "Happen" that until I was be wildered. I said to him when we were alone. 'Forgive me for being t-urious, but I can make nothing of 3-our name. Will you tell me what it is?' He flashed tip in a minute: 'You Yankees are too darn inquisitive; if you want to know about my name ask ma. When the opportunity occurred, I very respectfully sought information from his ma. 'Drat that boy,' &he said, hc sends everybody to me. His name is "Happcn-to-"be," and that was what be ere christened. When he was born I happened to be at a camp me ting, and 1 didn't want to forget it Now, I hope you are satisfied.' I was." ITALL'S CATARRH CURE Is a'lfquld ind Is taken internally, and acts directly upon he blood and rancons surfaces of the system. Bead for testimonials, free. Sold bv Dnirtf'3t9, 73c F. J. CHENEY & CO., Proprs., Toledo, 0. A Kissing Campaign. In a recent campaign in Alabama, political kissing was devoted to a high art One candidate, after making a speech at the Ulue Creek mines one rvening. led in a dance and kissed the boss miner's wife once. His opponent, hearing of this, went to the same place, also made a speech and led the danco afterward and kissed the boss miner's wife twice. It is said that the boss miner himself got very tired of the proceedings. Coo's Cough Ralsam li th oMpt anil Iwst. It n ill lrak ui a Cold quick er than aiijttilnjrels'. ItlsalwajsrelUblf. Iryit. There is no deod moro heroic than to say- no to j-ourself. cits ah tpp tnu by . itnrs out at ISHYK KKSTUKKK. No (It alter tint day' n ?Jar Telout cum Treatise al 12 00 trial bottlu f re to Kit CM. SencttoDr Kline. Wl Arch St.. 1-biladHphta. ha. Find n man who has no hobby, and you find one who is not happy. If the nuhy I Catting Tcethf lie faro and c;e tlist old and irrll tried remntr. Ma. 'Vi.istow'j ?00T!iitc Smcr for Children Teething. Everytimo a wie man makes a mistake it eaehes him containing. Go to Grass! That is what you ought to let yoir pastures go to. borne pastures haven't enough grass but what a few old lions would pick clean. Now if you w:ut luxuriant pastures or winter wheat fields sow Saber's 6eeds. Think of it'. Six tons of hay per acre and si Ety flve bushels of wheat Such yields make farming pay. Cut this out and tend 4 cents in stamps to-day to .fohn A. Salzer fceed company, LaCroase, Wis., and receive free a packajeof World's Fair Winter Wheat aud hi fall catalogue. It is human nature to hate the people who &how us that vie are littlo. Idaho Springs. Idaho Springs, in Deer Creek Cannu, Col orado, is thirtv seven miles from Denver, on tho Union " Pacific System. Hore nre found veritable healing w aters for Jhe j-eo-u!c. nnd the place of all others in Colorado recommended by physicians for consump tives. A kind word ton be made to striko harder than a cannon ball. Three Harvest Exenmlona Sontlj tus the Wabash Kail road. Un Aug. :s:na, cepi. iin uuu ucu ivw . thatrnhnah will soil round trip tickctf. to . ai c .. ,n.i- . . ,.. Tn.i. o) Ran 15th nml Ort. rexptMemFhis),Mississippinudi;oui-.ianaj fexecut New Orleans), nt one fore. plusr-.W, good returning -! davs from datie of tale. For ticket or folders givinj: a ascription of lands, climate. &&, call at Wat tsh office, 1502 Farnam Street, or vrrite G. N. Cut TON, NortbwMttra Fin. Agtnt, Oiaiha, Nab. Mode Miserable for Idfe. This you may easily bo if yoa fall tp-rem-edy the Indigestion and non-asslmllation or he tooil. which are the attendants-aad orig inators of nervousness, that ever presentt allmoiit which no narcotic mineral cdatlytv ornervirto can over do morp than temvjo faiJly rcllOAO'. Of course these remedies. bayVnp effect upon the organs of dlKestlom a 0 aImlliition. except to disorder and en feeble them, thus csravatins the orlgtnal dlmcultv. Amon(? tii most alarming and danserouV symptoms at chronic nervous &lTl Somali "Men is fho professional firmof Inablltty to sleep. Where toJsex- 5tsthre1s always a tendency to mcBtaJ cufiy WU TloT ; sVo'-ch BUternd avert evil I sSim-ncrs- No winner dt ?i, ooMineL re-umc fe tone, and the systcrui Lain In v?gor' hrouV. the a.M of this benign, ionic t ban sleep returns and tho nerreR Bww ".n.ull. (Thills and vcr. rheumo Tism. blllioiikiiess and constlpatipnyieiaxo. tho Hitters. Onlte a Chang la the Situation.' Lady What cute little dogs! Wath do you charge for them? Peddler Those dogs, mum, is the--cr the Alaska spaniel, mum. All the ladies of Alaska has had these dogs for pets for centuries, mum. Such dogs as these is worth 3"0 apiece, mum. ' Lady Humph! I've read a good deal about Alaska, and had formed the opin ion that ladies are rather scarce m that region. . ... Peddler Yes', mum'. that whats the matter. Ladie? h t so scarce there, that there fc More dog than thevtvant. That's why J can sell you one of the for S?.'0, njura. . - Ueeciiam- 1'iu.rf ake the Nace of an en tiro medicine iliest. ntld fchoiiy Lo kept tor uso in every family. ti." edit b?1- Frnm Stomach to Stomach. Not a man in a hundred who ttses. pepsin as an aid to digestion has any idea where it comes from or how it is obtained. It is really prepared from the gastrajui -e found in the stomachy of hogs, and the ability of the hog to digest anvthing and everything that will pass "down its throat is probably what led to the somewhat pecular idea of concentrating the fluid which makes digestion so easy in the porcine race. Hogs that are Kept wunoui ioou or ti ter for twenty-four hours before being slaughtered yield an immense quantity of grastric juice, and correspondingly of pepsin. The fact that this article is so peculiarly procured and prepared should be very comforting to those who find it docs not act upon their digestive organs in'the manner prescribed. th0 Pulf Coast Of T a Has the bestnct cheapest land in the Uni ted States and moro even climate than Cal ifornia. Rain enough fo raise four crops a year. I'lentv tinil-er ofil prairie. Lumber JO to f7 per thousand. For farther informa tion, write to Gulf Coast LariS and Improve ment Co., 1 S14 Fnrnam, St., Oiha, reb. It doesn't make a lie any whitor put it on a tombstone. "Han.onSl Magic Corn le." Warranted to run-, or moaey refunded. Ask your drucglit turlt. Pj li o 2i ci n ta. The joys uhuh live and grow aro those we share with others. Eatts Tark. Estes Park, Colo., is a mountain para dise reached by tho Union Pacific System, i,!,imr- i it nmiirnio HIuo Lake. Moun- tnin Crate. Palisade Park and Foothill, all commingled, and is enchanted grounu ior hunter, artist nnd invalid. EDUCATIONAL. OMAHA Fall Term or-en "epr. 1- Board Tor S hour wo. Sat' for III. Catalog. A JdiMJ Kohrboush Una.OmaWJl- A Free Hide to Denver, Colo. Rfad Tins' I V mean jut n'hat -xe say. The University Business CoM.rc.i: and Collhok of SiiorthaM" will, owiiijf. to the prevalent har-1 times, and for other reasons, pive free transpor tation from $ to 500 miles, to students who apme and take a Business or Shorthand course of sty dy. 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