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OLONEL' Beebe's
bat lay on the pi
azza floor, and
Colonel -iieebe
himself, his long;,
thin legs hanging from the hammock,
was enjoying indolently his Henry
Clay while he debated whether he
should go over to sec the major now,
or wait until it was cooler. He had
jast decided in favor of waitingwhen
he heard a trampling from the side of
the house..
For a moment he gave it little at
tention. Then the long-drawn bay of
a hound came to his ears. The colo
nel's feet dropped to the floor and his
head was raised. Another howl from
the invisible hound, and he pulled
himself to his feet, picked up hi3 hat
and turned down the low stone steps
in the direction of the sound.
As he came around the corner of the
house there was a sudden crunching
of the gravel on the driveway, a bel
low of mingled fear and anger, and
the colonel was knocked flat by a
yearling heifer, which, snorting its
surprise, trailed across the grass-plot,
hotly pursued by the colonel's hound.
The colonel quickly scrambled to
his feet, indulged in, an appropriate
amount of profanity and looked about
for the cause of his downfall. He saw
the heifer and the hound. The pur
sued was making at top speed for a
gap in the stake-and-rider fence,
where the crushed rails showed that
its head and feet had been at work.
As his eye fell upon the broken fence,
he again indulged in some highly
flavored remarks, and followed them
with an encouraging yell to the
hound. Inspired by this, the dog
promptly bit the heifer in the flank,
nearly tumbling it over in the gap of
the fence and drawing from it a cry of
distress. The colonel dashed forward
to urge on the hound, but just as he
reached the fence there was a shot
from the bushes, and the hound came
scurrying back, its tail between its
legs. At almost the same instant a
long-legged man emerged from be
hind a tree-trunk a little way off and
ran forward, ail the while endeavor
ing to pour powder and shot into the
barrel of the gun which he carried.
At the fence-gap he confronted
Colonel Heebe. There was a mutual
start as the men recognized each other.
Then the colonel recovered himself.
"Major Hawkins!' he broke out; "I
believe you have shot my hound?"
I have done that very thing!"' re
turned the major with decision.
"And let me add, sah, that I shall re
peat the performance every time that
brute of yours chases my cattle!"
The major and he were old cronies,
and, thought both were hot-blooded,
they had never had a serious falling
out, and the colonel tried hard to re
strain his temper. But this was the
third time that the major's heifer had
broken down the fence separating the
properties and made havoc with the
colonel's garden. The latter felt that
patience well nigh hadarceascd to be a
virtue, particularly hot in view of the
major's threats.
"Major Hawkins!" he began, and
there was a significance in the use of
the title; "I have no wish to foment
any trouble; but most .positively 1
shall not allow that 'cattle' of yours
on my place again. See that she is
kept off, please! As to shooting my
dog, sah; that is a matter which only
an apology from you can recompense
me for, and I trust you will render me
one immediately?"
"I will do nothing of the kind! The
best thing yon can do is to shoot your
whelp, and save me the trouble of do
ing so!" and the major tapped his gun
suggestively.
"Then all I can say," came slowly
from the colonel's lips, "is that you
are no gentleman!"
The major started as if he had been
stung. For the instant he did not
realize the import of the words. Then
a dull flush crept into his cheeks,
usually very sallow, and he said con
cisely: "You are a liar, sah!"
The fatal words were spoken. The
color leaped into the Colonel's face, and
the major's flush grew deeper while his
eyes returned the flash in those of the
other. The two faced each other in
silence for a momen t. Each was so
taken aback that for the instant the
insult of the other could find no
adequate return in speech.
Then the colonel drew himself up
and said icily;
"You can understand that this
means only one thing?"
The major replied with the slightest
of bows.
"I have a pair of pistols at my
house," continued the colonel. "With
your permission I will send for them.
The sooner this is settled, the better?"
The major inclined his head a trifle,
and the other turned and called:
"Israel! Israel!"
There was no reply, and again he
raised his voice. This time there was
an answering call and a shuffling of
feet, which gradually became more
distinct A little later a white-haired
old darkey came into view.
"D'yo call, marse kunn'l? he asked,
stopping at the edge of the bushes and
scraping with one foot while he finger
ed abattered straw hat.
"Yes," said the colonel. "You
know those pistols of mine in my
dressing-case? Fetch them to me:"
"Yo dewelin pistols?"
"Yes. Be quick!''
The darkey looked at the men in
turn, lie noted the attitude of each
and the look in their faces.
"Yo' ain't goin' V fight, marse?" he
ventured anxiouslv, not moving.
"That's none of your business, j-ou
rascal!" thundered the colonel. "Go!"
An instant the darkey stood, nerv
ously playing with his hat-brim.
Then lie turned and moved away.
The two men did not look at each
other. Somehow they disliked to.
The major stood his gun against the
fence, and took ;i long time to arrange
it to his liking The colonel stripped
the leaves froai a twig he broke from
a bush. Each hi. Ins back toward
the other. The tiiinulo went by. But
at last there was a slow stc'p, and
Israel came up. He came reluctantly,
as if he hoped that time would cause
them to change their minds. lie
looked hopeful y at them: but saw no
encouragement Both the colonel and
the major appeared as coolly deter
mined as could be. though the color
had gone from their cheeks
Israel could not prevent a deep sigh
of despair, which the colonel heard.
4 Shut up, yon black impl" tie mut
tered savagely. "Give .me those pis
tols!" "Will the grove .suit ouV he
asked, turning toward the major.
"Perfectly," sai.t the latter and the
three took up their way, the colonel
leading, the m i jor next and Israel, at
his master's command, bringing up
the rear and dragging his feet as
though they w re weighted. A few
minutes of walking, an 1 they came to
a small open spare surrounded by trees.
The colonel halted and faced about
'Wii 1 this do?" he asked.
"XCS,M sa' tn" major simply.
"There is no advantage in position,
I believe. The snn shines across the
glade? t-
"None!"
"But we had bitter toss for posi
tions anyhow." said the colonel, and
he deftly flipped a coin into the air.
The major railed "heads;" and
.heads" it was.
"I will take the southern end." he
said. The colonel bou-od acquiescence.
"I presume you will be satisfied if
Ittrurt attend, to Ihn ln-tilinr?" th
joloael remarked. 'Hn ha done it
LlMt 1 '-With- Utt i-lf <t Ql MLU.
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Quite!" returned ike mmajor, igasjr
iag the last words.
Then, Israel, load those pistols,
aad do it carefully!" coaiMMed the
colonel. "Do you hear me? as the
darkey stood gaping at ait with a
terror-stricken face.
"Yes, marse!" atuuablcd Israel, pick
ing up the weapons mechanically. He
moved over to a nearby stump, aad
for a minute sat motionless with'tha
Sistols in his lap. The colonel's tbua
erous tones brought him to move
ment. He glanced at the two
men standing stiffly at some distance
from each other. Then suddenly he
began to load one of the pistols. The
colonel, seeing him proceeding with
the task, turned to ths major.
"Ten paces? ' he asked.
The major nodded, and the other
was irritated-more than ever by his
silence but he went on. "We will
put the pieces under the nigger's hat.
Then we will draw them! Are, yon
agreed?" He eiipped off his words as
he continued, "Israel will count On
the three,' we will fire?"
This time the major vouchsafed
agreement in words.
A minute more and Israel came
forward slowly with the pistols, one
in either hand. At the colonel's
order, he laid them on a fallen tree
trunk and placed his hat over them.
The major drew one; his opponent
took the other.
The two men took position back to
back, and then moved away five paces
and wheeled about so as to face each
other.
"Israel," said the colonel a bit
huskily, "Count one, two, three, and
if I am killed, see that I am decently
buried!"
The major winced perceptibly at
this last order; but the next instant
was as calm and his face as impassive
as ever. Both men raised their pistol
arms, and, strange to say, there was
at least a momentary tremor of the
hands and a nervous twitching of the
lips as tbey looked into each other's
eyes.
"One!" counted Israel. The pistols
steadied and came into line with the
breasts of the men.
"Two!" Israel pronounced the
word distinctly, so that it cut sharply
on the sense of hearing.
An instant's pause, then: "Three!"
The pistols cracked together, and a
cloud of blue smoke curtained the
men and then drifted lazily before the
slight draught of air.
The colonel as erect as ever, quickly
bent to one side and peered past the
smoke at bis opponent His eyes fell
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upon the major, apparently untouched
also. For a moment neither spoke:
but there was a flash of joy in the face
of each, as quickly succeeded by
one of seeming mortification. The
major stepped forward.
"That was an inexcusable miss of
yours, Colonel Beebe!" he exclaimed.
"fto worse than yours, Major Hawk
ins!" retorted the colonel.
Ten
paces and a good light!
You
should
have hit to a certainty!
"The trigger of this confounded pis
tol pulled too bard!" explained the
major with haste.
"And that d nigger of mine
startled me by jumping just as we
fired," returned the colonel.
The colonel thought he heard a
smothered laugh at this. He turned
like a flash upon the darkey, a sudden
suspicion coming to him.
"Israel, you d nigger!" h fairly
shouted: "what was the matter with
the loading of those pistols? There
was something wrong! Confess it,
you black rascal!"
'Oh, marse kunn'l, don't be kill.'ng
dis po' nigger; but I didn't put no
balls in dose pistils! I didn't want do
major and yo' a killin''cach oder!"
"I've a good mind to horsewhip you
within an inch of your life '"be
gan the colonel.
"But yon won't!" broke in the
major.
Then the colonel looked at the
major, and the major at the colonel.
A smile appeared on the former's lips
and the latter returned it A moment
more, and the colonel extended his
hand impulsively. The major ad
vanced and grasped it firmly.
They stood there, holding each
other's hands for an instant, and then
the major observed slowly and em
phatically, as if he were stating an
indisputable fact which he had just
discovered:
"Beebe, I think we are a couple of
old fools!"
"1 quite agree with you. Hawkins!"
returned the colonel quite as positively
and, as if by one impulse, the two
locked arms and walked off.
Israel stood watching them for a
minute. Then he picked up the pis
tols and remarked sagely, but with
just the slightest of quivers in his
voice: "A coupl' o' ole fools!"
Their Brains Weighed Over 60 Oonce.
A noted physician wrote mo soon
after the death of Benjamin F. But
ler to inquire a? to the weight of
Daniel Webster's brain. He declared
that the figures were not to be found
in any .medical work in his library,
and that he doubted if one out of 100
of the physicians of the United States
could answer the question off hand.
In looking up the matter I prepared
the following list of noted persons
who have had sixty or more ounces
of brains, as far as examinations
have been made: Turgeneff, Rus
sian novelist, 71 ounces; Schiller,
German poet, , 63; Abercrombie, the
Scotch M. D., 63; Cuvier, French
naturalist. 64.5; Abercrombie, Eng
lish general, 62: Cupuytrcn. the
French anatomist, 62.5; B. F. Butler,
American general and lawyer, 62
ounces even.
In Honor of a Foreign Drily.
The ferapeum (or Serapion) was
an ancient edifice of Alexandria,
Egypt, founded by Ptolemy Soter in
honor of Serapis, a foreign deity, to
whom he createa a statue. It was
the last stronghold of the pagans in
Alexandria, and was besieged by the
Christians and zealously defended by
the pagans, A. D. 389, when Theo
dosius put an end . to the conflict by
an imperial order that the idols of
Alexandria should be destroyed. Ac
cording to some ancient writers
Pompey's pillar is a relic of this mag
nificent building. Three hundred
thousand volumes of the 703.000 of
which the Alexandrian library con
sisted were in the t-erapeum.
An Inderaemeac. ,
Ebony Hughes Don't 'yo want a
boy fo to bait yo' hook?
Luckless Angler Yes; If you'll
guarantee thai Til catch some fish.
Ebonv Hughes I done helped a
' man lap week, an be s got turnea
out ob de church fo' tell in de trujt
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SHORT OCEAN ROUTS.
A New Ua alragaiaal Ffwa
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Some time ago a syndicate of Eng
lish capitalists sent a corps of ea
giaeers to oxploro the Labrador
coast for tho -purpose of reportiag
upon the feasibility of adopting for a
line of steamships the shortest pas
sago between this country aad Great
Britain. Tho tenor of the report was
such that a company is being formed
to carry out the project The desire
of the company is not only to make
an appreciable reduction in the time
of passage between America and
Europe, but also the connection of a
far-off, but interesting, country with
the railroad systems of the United
States and Canada.
After careful study the engineers
selected Port Marnham, which is sit
uated not more than forty miles
north of the straits of Belle Isle, as
being not only the most easterly har
bor upon the Amorican continent,
but forming at the same time an un
equaled terminus for an ocean' com
merce, on the cne hand and railroad
traffic on the other. Outside of its
favorable position as the connecting
link between Europe and the great
West the surrounding country is
rich in natural advantages which are
expected to contribute to tho success'
of the steamship line)
The whole of the north shore of
the St Lawrence is characterized, as
in Battle Harbor, by an immense fish
ing industry (under the supervision
of the marine department of Cana
da), supporting a large fleet of fast
sailing schooners, which in the
spring of the year are engaged in
the sealing industry.
The country through which the
proposed railroad is situated is char
acterized not only by these many
commercial advantages, but it has a
most delightful climato from June to
September. It is worthy :of notice
that the snowfall along the route and
in Labrador is only one-half of the
yearly volume falling in the neigh
borhood of Quebec; besides it is of
extraordinary dryness; hence the
-value of this climate both in summer
and winter may safely be assumed
for invalids seeking pure, dry air.
Striking across Southern Labrador
the expedition found that the coun
try, which has hitherto had a bad
reputation as being inaccessible for
economical railroad building was
not only practically level for almost
the entire distance, but was also
admirably adapted for railroad con
struction so cheap, in fact, that the
entire railroad would cost little more
than the existing lines over the roll-
j ing prairies of the Northwest
The whole of the route selected
for tho proposed railroad is exceed
ingly picturesque and passos in the
vicinity of numerous lakes, says the
Railroad Gazette, many of which are
of large area, but of no great depth
It has taken, of course, a geological
age to form them, for their existence
is duo not to an upheaval or depres
sion of tho formation, but simply to
the long and continued atmospheric
corrosion, which has created some of
the prettiest lakes that human eye
has ever seen.
The whole of the route is timbered
with fir and spruce and little juni
per. The minerals found are peculiar
to laurentian formation, such as
plumbago, mica, iron and asbestos.
Titaniferous ores exist in latge quan
tities, but the other minerals havo
not been exhaustively reported upon.
The eastern terminus of the steam
ship lino will be Milford Haven,
which has often been spoken of as a
port of destination for transatlantic
passenger traffic. -
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One Man Against a Mob.
. In February, 1848, when the
irencb capital was in the throes of
revolution, a mob surrounded the
hotel de Ville and menaced the de
liberations of the assembly, which
was sitting within. At the Theatre
Historique, where Chateau-Renaud,
a French actor of no great conse
quence at the time, happened to be. he
heard of the turmoil, and a bright
thought came . to him. He put on
tho costume of a representative of
tho people in the 3'oar 1793. Then
be hunted up an old white horse,
mounted it, and, with a small crowd
at his heels, rode straight to the
hotel de Ville and through the mob
which was shouting about its doors.
Dismounting, he went into the hall,
whero Lamartine was presiding.
"Citizens," he shouted, "deliberate
in peace! No one shall come in
whilo I am here!" Ho went out and
remounted his white horse, and no
one did come in. One fantastically
attired man. with a terrible counte
nance, had completely overawed the
crowd, which probably would have
defied successfully a regiment of
soldiers. Argonaut
The Decimal Point.
In Both France and Germany one
fourth (J) reduced to a decimal is
written 0-25 (always with the period
at the top of the line), and in the
United States 0.2-V France and
Germany always use the comma (,'),
England and the United States the
period (.), the only difference being
the manner in which it is placed upon
the line. Sir Isaac Newton is given
the credit of originating the present
method of using the decimal po?nt,
his reason being that by placing' it
at the top of the line it could be dis
tinguished at a glance from the "full
stop" punctuation mark. "
A Sabatttnte for Coffee.
In the island of Reunion is a plant
known as the wild orange, which pro
duces a fruit, green at first, after
ward bluish, and verging into purple
as it ripens. This has been tested
and und to make a beverage in
every way equal to coffee, and at' a
much lower price. The product is
called mussaenda." and it can be
used alone, or mixed with pure coffee.
It is announced that about 24,000
acres of this plant are now being
cultivated. It is most likely, how
ever, that chicory, more than coffee,
will suffer from the introduction ,of
mussaenda"
J A Fatal DeScloacr.
The Confidante You appear to
have thrown over that good-looking
detrimental George Up per tree?
The Rich Flirt I was obliged to.
You see I weighed him in the balance
and found him wanting.
The Confidante Wanting what?
The Rich Flirt Well, wanting to
marry me, for one thing. Funny
Folks.
.
At the Theater.
He This is a stupid play, and
what a dull audience!
She They need stirring up. I
wish I had worn my big hat
He I wish you had. Then I could
at least have got into a row with the
man behind me.
The Perils of Sh owning.
Floorwalker A ladyv has
fainted at the bargain counter.
just
Proprietor What was the trouble?
Floorwalker .She foaad her exact
in UtisfMtlVlWtwt VftMwrwta.
FAJL AND JSmaAliSSZLiJSJ
HOGS AND " THEIR RELATION
TO MORTQACES.
sjlvn This lanpwrtaat Animal Better
CnreHew Water Gats Into Tile
Kaewlng retain Separate reaUry
PtaJdags an Moajnholi Help.
The Mortgage Lifter.
Swine have been, and still are, to
the farmers of the great corn belt of
the Mississippi valley what, in tho
past, sheep were to the farmers in
the hills of Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Eastern Ohio the
great mortgage liquidator. By feed
ing their enormous corn crops to
swine they escape the heavy expense
necessary to transfer their corn to
the market, and at tho same time
realized more per bushel for It when
marketed as pork than would havo
been possible if .sold as corn, writes
F. Dt Beck in Colman's Rural World.
Hogs havo not only enriched the
farmers but tHey have been chiefly
instrumental in building up Chicago,
Cincinnati, Kansas City, St Louis
and many more of our prosperous
Western cities. With such a favor
able showing I think they are justly
entitled to mere consideration and
better care than is usually bestowed
upon them by the general farmer. If,
with all the neglect and'gross mis
management that has been their
unfortunate lot in tho past, and they
have accomplished so much, what
would have been the result had they
been given proper treatment? In
the first place too many poor,
scrubby, ill-bred hogs havo been and
still are kept for breeders.
Every male pig not strictly pure
bred, and many that are, should be
emasculated before tbey. are two
months old; it is tho only perfect
guarantee that we have that they
will not double tfceir own disgrace by
becoming the sires of pigs of a like
inferiority to themselves. A few
(not so few, either,) spayed sows will
have the same effect A sharp knifo
properly handled is the chief agent
in the improvement of all classes of
domestic animals. It matters not
whether your breeding sows are pure
bred, cross-bred, high-grade, low
grade, or scrubs, they should never
be mated with a boar that is not
thoroughbred. Wc often seo a high
grade ' boar that to all appearances is
oqual to the pure-bred one, but put
him to tho test and his low origin
will crop out in his nigs us surely
as "night follows day." No im
provement ever was or over will bo
effected by breeding from any but
pure-bred males, and he who persists
in breeding to those miserable speci
mens we too often sec. that plainly
show their mongrel origin, are sim
ply committing self-robbery. A puro
bred male can now be secured at a
nominal price: there are thousand
raised every year that, while .they
are not good enough for the purposes
of the professional breeder, are, or
would be if bred to the common herds
of the general farmer, of incalculable
value in tho improvement in their
herds of which they are capable.
Swine breed at an early age. and
may be bred twice each year, and by
using pure-bred males and selecting
the best sow pigs and mating them
to other pure-bred males, in an in
credibly short time the poorest herd
of scrubs may be so improved that
for all practical purposes are nearly,
if not altogether, the equal of the
best thoroughbreds. 'Considering
the increased value of tho product of
the herd, all this improvement is
effected without cost
Once, and many yet adhere to the
customs of their youth, we were
taught that the brood sow bo poor.
a mere skeleton, at the time of far.
rowing, or she would neither farrow
large litters nor rear good pigs- Wc,
some of us, know better than that
now and endeavor to keop all the
brood sows healthy and thrifty a
very poor sow is neither. The sow
should not be fully fattened: that
would be almost as bad as the old
plan, but she should be fully half
fat. Never fear, if she produces a
large family, with the most liberal
feeding she'll be poor enough by the
time she weans her pigs.
"Tastes change," and the markets
change with them. We wero once
justifiable in trying to market our
hogs at as great weight as possible.
Then if any large, overgrown hogs
were to be had the medium sized pig
was shown small consideration, but
now he's "on top" and the former
favorite iB far down in the scale of
favoritism. In these days of small
profits 1 doubt very much if we can
afford to feed our pigs until they are
much more than six months old, and
if properly cared for and fed every
day of their short lives if they are
well bred they can be made to weigh
250 pounds, even more at that age.
There are many, very many reasons
for getting rid of them as soon as
possible.
How Water Gets Into Tile,
Professor J. M. Bloss of the On
tario state college gives in a recent
lecture on tile draining, some true
and some false theories. He claims
that water does not come through
the tops of tile, but from the bottom
where the ends come together. This
is generally true, though in
a severe rain storm, when the
soil Is drenched with water,
some of it is washed through vhc
cracks overhead, and to guard against
this a coarse gravel ought to novor
these joints so as to hold tho fine silt
that will otherwise spoil the drain.
But some water may and does .soak
through tho cilo when the ground is
saturated, and in denying this the
professor is in the wrong. He says
that porus tile ought not to be used,
arguing that it will dissolve by action
of the water. It will if frost gets to
it, otherwise not If the ground is firm
it is better to lay horseshoe tile than
sole tile. In that case nearly all the
water will rise up into -the channel
from beneath. We have often laid
horseshoe tile in soil where there
were occasional springs in the bot
tom of the drain. It is .best in such
cases to lay long, flat stones on
either side of tie drain, wide enough
for the tile to rest on. and long
erutugh to reach past the spring to
firm soil on either side. Drains thus
laid forty years ao are doing good
service, only showing action of frost
at the outlets, where the water in
porous tile sometimes froze in very
cold weather. Glazed tile are need
lessly expensive, and do not drain so
well as tile that are porous. Glaz
ing the pipe,- witn tight joints at the
ends, is used for city .sewers, but
such pipes are no good for draining
land of the surplus water that fills it
Keening Pntnteea Separate.
ThoM mAM mitintr nt varfnt'na '
among potatoes than there is in any
other farm crop:. The evU is in-
creased by the tendency of new
rletiea to sport and produce potatoes
of different color and shape from
those used as seedf. But in nost
t aoaai mam aarahiaailAaA In,
a iwaif sawvai wsfawswwa'sswwai ssa
KlUflH Va ejPUJVSUIaWiB viw wmw
field. No amatter, .apw distinct om
variety map be ,fromm aaother, when
No aMtter, jlcw
tee. men. striae a row oi aaotner aina
it is the most natural thing in tho
world to" dig one or two hills "just to
seo if they are different" Nine times
eut of tea these hills will be put
among the potatoes previously dug.
la this way after two or three years
potato seedv becomes hopelessly
mixed. It is very hard now to got
Early Roe that will bo wholly true to.
name. The sport Late Rose looks so
much liko the other that it escapes
unless tho hills are marked before
the tops die. JThe Late Rose has
green tops long after the other kind
hae withered almost out of sight
Where potatoes a:e cut and two
pieces placed in the hill tho mixing
is still more hopeless. We think a
least enough varieties, pure and
true to name, should be saved each
fall for seed. An even lot all of one
variety, looks much better and will
bring several cents more per bushel
in most markets than sorts that in
clude several kinds. Even for cook
ing they are worth more, while, of
course, for seed no one would wil
lingly purchase a mixed lob if he
could get any other. American Cul
tivator. Cntton Caltnre.
In an experiment at the Louisiana
station on the distance of planting in
which single stalks were grown in
drills from eight to twenty inches
apart in the drill, and two stalks
from eight to twenty-four inches
apart the results were not conclu
sive, but suggest rather greater dis
tance for cotton than is ordinarily
given. Two experiments, each on
four plants, made to compare the
yields of cotton with fertilizers (su
perphosphate, muriate of potash and
cotton-seed meal) as a top-dressing,
and at depths of from two to eight
inches, gave results in favor of tho
top-dressing or shallow application.
Tho tabu'ated results are given of
an experiment oh twelve plants in
which nitrate of soda, ammonium
sulphate and cotton-seed meal, used
in connection with minerals, were
applied, all at the time of planting
and in fractions during the growing
season. In general the results were
i:i favor of the application at the
time of planting. Farmers Voice.
Charalag.
?:-. Talcott says: "Churning should
end :i soon as tho little round pellets
of 1 .i.lj;- arc formed, and cold water
lie a.lel to froe tho little granules
of butter from buttermilk. After
turning tho churn a very fow times
let it cool a little, then draw off but
termilk anJ uJd a second washing of
cold water, and let it stand until tin
little pollets get hard. This morning
I churned with cream at seventy-two
degrees and mad? as nico little round
granules of butter in thirteen min
ute? as you ever saw, and then
stopped churn'ng. I now use a square
box concussion churn, tho same wo
uso in our Iavo creamery only a
smaller size.
ron'lrjr Picking.
Chicknus like sweet milk better
than sour.
Skim milk is as good for hens as it
is for pigs.
Eggs should be gathered at least
once a day.
Try warm, sweet milk us a tonic
for sick fowls.
For swelled head t batho the face
with a solution of salt.
Study the domands of tho poultry
markot and cater to the demand.
If you want to raise only eggs keep
the hens separate from the males:
Giviner too much sloppy food to
young chickens often causes soours.
The goose is a' good rustler and
will take care of itself when thcro is
pasture.
If chickens are not kept free from
lice and fed well, "cholera' in somo
shape is sure t come.
Never attempt to make an incuba
tor. Buy a good one and it will com
bine all the best features.
Hens that moult early generally
make good winter layers and should
be saved for that purpose.
Ducks grow rapidly, and, if prop
erly managed, can be put upon tho
market at a comparatively low cost
Poultry raising is no child's play.
It requires study, .observation .-and
experience to bring at to the highest
success.
If it is eggs insteatf.of fat you want,
feed the hens wheat and other egg
producing food instead of fat-producing
feed. . .
A writer says that if increased egg
yield is the object, select the most
constant layers and mate them with
a cockerel of the best egg laying
strain to be found; and we might
add, give the hens, egg producing
food.
A successful and extensive poultry
raiser says that it is very poor econ
omy to keep a lot of cockerels, simply
because they happen to be thorough
breds, and you hate to kill them.
Profitable poultry culture means
down the expense.
Hottsrhola' HHpe.
A lump of camphor in your clothes
press will keep steel ornaments from
tarnishing.
Milk applied once a week with a
soft cloth freshens and - preserves
boots and shoes-
You can' drive nails into hard wood
without bending them if you dip
them first in lard.
Weak spots in a black
may be strengthened by
silk waist
sticking"
court plaster underneath.
An inexpensive afghun is made of
white, cricket cloth, a material like
eider down, with tiny pink rosebuds
embroidered around 'the edge.
To make sweet apple pickle take
seven pounds of apples, one quart -of
vinegar and four pounds -of sugar.
Pare, quarter and core the apples;
steam them if -hard, and cook in the
vinegar, adding spices to taste:
- Beautiful napory, silver, china and
glass all set out with georaetr'fe'exact-
ness, and all exquisitely spotless and j
clean, are 'the characteristics oPthe
dinner table, and the choicer and
mete costly aad beautiful, 'the nearer
is reached the standard of perfection.
To wash red table linen, use tepid
water with a little powdered borax
(borax sets the color); hang to dry
in a shady place. The washing must
be done separately aad done qaickly
with very little soap; the rinsing
water should have arery l'ttle starch j
is it Iron when nearly dry.
A pretty article fo? hanging beside
the bureau to "hold .the button-hook
and other small articles" is made of
one of the wooden eggs used, in stock-
ing OarBtng. AY equair aietauces
aTOUBd taw Center SCreW in TOUr OI
the small brass hobks such as are
ned on bangle boards, then paint
w-,? e wni mo awornewna uny
flowers and attach a ribbon to two
opposite hooks to hanjr it by. The
egg-atay be gjlded initea.dof pluted,
if prt torti
U!Ufur2Xa.a..4
Nothing can be
the Royal Baking Powder
and give ras'good results.-
- No tother leavening agent will make such
light, sweet, delicious, wholesome food.
a-
-8
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, . V?.Gmta ""S
JiSSSSL chonfia? durug f. A .-cs.ful system of producing ar-,
lS.SiffSS?iT,a2a? areaa-atallseaMMisofthoycar. AscV
ri.VJ eonsictsoftw ,
man ais politics, ior nenaamaaeai;,,, :.i.:t ...,.,., i. ,...,
gross misquotation' from Horace. A ?moniVce machine, driven by tuo
judicious solemnity,-" gave judgment
jfmunjM, oir ttooeru x ae premier inrew
. . o- rfci- . rmi . ,
the guinea across
the table and l'ul-
teney held it up with the observation
w 4W i T J-V: .rrfir
had touched for a long time:'! At his
death the coin was discovered, care
.
reaVA-
fully preserved in a piece of paper with
a memorandum on it recounting 'the
circumstance. The Illustrated London
News.
The Light ef.the. Harem.
On the apper deck of the steamer wc
had a veritable light of the harem walk
ing about with her podgy broad feet
anil ,Ti ! in ortrkVA VVia wi o lt tln
powdered woman, .with blackenedyes,
i4.t?m u at iiuaiuuauiti 1441 a'imug
,v . T a as , n., rft n,A .,nt- III A
cloak, and roand her French hat and
slightly covering the lower part of her
face' was a white pretense at a yash
mak; She strolled the deck unsteadily,
clutching' a French novel, andis I be
lieve, the latest 'example of the eman
cipated female of the East; Fatraeh,
who has been at the boarding school in
the Champs Elysec; Fatmch, in short,
up to date. I fancy she had been pay
ing a visit in Cairaand.was.on her way
home to Constantinople. .1 took .pos
session inadvertently, of' lier chaiso
lounge, out of which the attendant
Mesrocr in a tarboosh and dingy tweed
suit, promptly turned me. Then he af
fixed on it an ordinary' visiting card
bearing the magic inscription: "Mm.
Bcshmy Pasha. "The Cornhill Maga
zine. '- . i -
Stats or Ohio, Citt or Toledo, 1
Lucas County. f I
Frank J. Chney mnkes oith that he Is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cnr.NEr
Co.. doinff business In the City of Tt!ol,
County and State aforesaid, and tbnt said linn
will pay the sum of OXF. HUNDRED DOL- I
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the useotlLviis Catarrh
Crrsi
. - FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn K to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6 day of December, A. D. 1886.
J SKAX I
A. W. GLEA80N,
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Hall' Catarrh Cure Is .taken Internally and.
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free..
F.J. CIIENEx &CO., Toledo.. O.
t"VSold by Druggist?, 75c. '
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Oil for Stlllinc tho Wjr.;
A German phj-sician has been making
a scries of experiments'to test the com
parative value of different kinds of oil
for the purpose of stilling the waters.
tile declares, that petroleum or paraffin
is of no use whatever, and olive oil of
little value. On the other .hand he
says that rapeseed oil and- oil of tur
pentine have considerable effect, but
the most effective of all oils is train oil.
Not satisfied with these ' experiments,
he then set to work with other fatty
materials and reports that he found a
solution of soap to be far superior as a
wave stiller to any kind of oil. lie says
that only a very thin solution of soap
is required, about one part of soap to a
thousand parts of water.
Lane's Medicine Moves the Bowels Kneh
Day. In order to be healthy this Is neces
sary. Cures constipation, headache, kidney
and liver troubles and regulates the stom
ach aad bowels.
There are people who never accomplish
anything because they undertake totlo.too
much.
Hanaen'a Magic Corn Salve."
Warranted to cure or ir.unoy n.-fundtl. AsU your
SrnfgMt for it: l'rur 15 rent.
The devil has trouble in introducing him
self to people who are busy.
I the Hafcy l Catling- Teelh.
Be sure and nse that old and xreH-tricd remedy, Mas.
Wnratow'sSooratscSrcrforChildriTetthlBf. p ;
The more we do to help others the lighter
our own burdens will become.
Coe'a Cewgh Balsam
Js the oldest and bet. It will break on a Cold tiutek-
r tbaa anything else., It Is alwaj s reliable.
:MWIT7. 4.J H.
Quite -Likely. r
"Did I understand ye, to read that
there was up'ards o' two hundred an'
forty thousand folks at that Chicago
show in one day, Ezry?" inquired Uncle
Tobias Slocum of his son.
"Them was the figgcrs," responded
Ezra, solemnly.
"An' there wa'nt no crowd even
then?" asked Uncle Tobias, after a
pause.
"No crowd any w'er's," said Ezra.
There was a long silence, broken
only, by the fluttering of the newspa
per in Ezra's hand, as the breeze blew
in at the window.
"Well, said Uncle Tobias at last,!
drawing a long breath: "
"I ain't prepared to doubt the pa
pers, an' I know they've got a, power
ful lot o' land set apart fcr that show,
but it does appear to me that if I'd' ben
on hand along with them two hundred
an' forty thousand folks, I sh'd have
calculated that there'd he here and
there a man!''
A cowardly dog is always showing his
teeth. .
Faith alwavs builds its house on the rock.
S t.jacobs oil sasvr
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structed CO bv 133 feet, having a floor .
of cork and cement, upon this being;
laid three miles of connected iron pipe;
through this pipe circulates a solution
of chloride of calcium, and uncongcal
able liquid, which., bpassage through -spirals
in the refrigerating reservoirs;'
is cooled to fcomo tiro to twenty de
grees below zero. The water over the
pipe is thus kept frozen, and daily-
. sweeping and Howling injure
siuuoux-
.uv
A Kact Worth Kemciuberln;.
Thcro nre.mniiy such of course, but here"
Is one which .specially ruinmcmU It.self. to
invalid-;, viz., tint In order to acquire vigor,
tho basis of health, that Invijoralion Uouly
paihlchy rc-estahlishhi;: the functions of .
dicslicn and assimilation upon :i pcrnia.
tient l.asK. Stomachics In name are number-. '
less. They impart a slight stimulus to "l
rctlte nothing beyond i'iK Much more Is,
rc'julrcd.'niid Hosteller' stomach IHltco
'tills the bill." This time-honored standard
jnvifforant builds uj an etiteetilel physinn
ami protects it against dSea-e by insurlns
the thorough conversion of the alument re
ceived into thetomaeli into blood and botl
ily tissue.. lot bed wlthincreaslnxstreturth
through this unfailing agency, the system
Is defended usnltist influences preliidjcial
to health. I'setlie Hitters in malaria, rlieii
niiitlsni. kldnevuud iiertr iitblo ami cou-
'stipatloii.
Gypsies mid Their l'ort rails. '
Gypsies are particularly superstitions
regarding portraits, and it is a rartty
to find'thc portrait of a true I'ohemiau
decora t'ng any art gallery or stove win
dow. They consider it most unlucky
to be photographed, and will only con
sent to have their profiles taken in con
sideration of receiving, without asking
for it, an old shoestring with which
thev can bind the spirit of ill luck cer
tain to pursue the person whose like
has been reproduce I.
Uebciiam's Pn.i-s quickly cure sick hc
nche, weak stomach, im'pnired distimv,
constipation, disordered liver, etc.
'' A Norwegian lsitliiir.
Ski racing is the national game of
Norwegians, and rare sport it is, too:
A ski consists of a pie'eof flexible wood
seven or eight feet long, six inches,
wide, and about an inch thick, with
tho end turned up in front, as is the
fashion in certain kinds of skates.
With a ski on each foot. Norwegians of
all ages, whether in town or country,
skim over the snow-ciad. hills and oven
compete with one another in regular
races. Ski running is a splendid exer
cise, well suited loa land where the
snow lies long and the hills are plcu-
-tifnl.
Khlloli's Conxtimptlon Curt
T miIiI on .1 siuifaiiT,.. it rum li..-ip.nt roiimti
ttmi. It l lite U-t Ciwk'li Cu. 35.ls..acLs.SUl.
Honor to tho l'igeon.
"It would have been a great calamity
to the country newspapers if there had
been no such bird as the pigeon.'
"low is that?"
"Why, in reporting a thunder-storm
accompanied by hail, they ould not
say: 'Hailstones fell as large as pig
eons' eggs.'"
vjA fc'oiti:Tni:ovT oit Con.ii, if .suffered to
progress.oftcn results hum incuralle throat
or lung trouble. "Jhiowv's Hko.ncuiai.
Tuocuns" give instant relief.
If you would discover poycity, try to
borrow money.
See Colcheter Spailinc Dootsailr. In other column.
Wo forget the sunlight when wo notice
the shadow.
MOXKY CAN" UK SAVKi
By buying coal by tho enrlond. Write to
.T.'.l. Thonins & Co.: 101S 17th Street. Den-
I ver, Colo., for prices on Colorado LonI, le
fore purchnsms elsewhere.
Coplinj: tho world with ice cream cnn not
be deended upon to warm up a church.
HEAD AND SHOULDERS
above every other blood-
puntler, manus uocior
Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. See the evi
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every case, on trial. If
it ever fails to benefit or
cure, you have your.
money oacic
in restoring your
strength, when you're
"rundown" and "iwed-
uu;" in cleansing your
blood from every impur
ity, whether it'n a simple
eruption or the worst
ecrofala; and in building up wholenome
flesh, when vou're thin anil weak there's
nothing to equal tho " Discovery." Iu every
disease caused by a torpid liver or impure
blood, it's the only gvamnteed remedy.
Mra. Emzabctii J. Hcsiiwaw. of SUIneu.
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with liver trouble ami other diseases that our
family physician mid he could not live. In
fact, tbey all thointht so. I jmve htm Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery nd PclleW
and they saved his lift. We have used the Dis-.
covery for throat and bronchial trouble, and
found auch perfect relief that we can rccom
SBcnd it very highly."
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