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HENRY LEHMANN. lSO-162 Doaclss St., - OMAHA, lil DR. McGREW ISTHSOtfLT SPECIALIST WHO TREATS AIX PRIVATE IISEASES, Weakness and Secret Disorder of MEN ONLY. Ererr cure maraateod. IS years experiesee. Permanently located la lomata. Book free. 11th and FaraaxaSta.. SBnE. - aawS?sv"--i ii. m. iticTXSi m -awSsawMBwai SsIOtX SBBBBT sBfSBBBBBBsHKBsBslBst aBaea'aV MawawaBwMal sbtbwSh nUaa tHsKfffffKBBBBnBlVslTSBBBBr UVtsasm c S3& vceuea&r Mr 'ssHrx O BSwTw BSwl S fTBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBf - -' "' 8Uble Msssre Beat. Some discussion has been going on in southern papers ss to the relative value of barn yard manure and com mercial fertilizers. The barn yard ma nures in question resulted from feeding cottonseed meal, bran, corn and other ricli foods. One writer dressed his land with it, but came to the conclu sion that he would have had better crops if he had put the same money into commercial fertilizers. The edit or of the Southern Planter differs with him and says: No practical farmer was ever yet able to get out of any fertilizer its full value as shown by analysis. This is no reproach to the chemists. It is sim ply the result of the application of nat ure's forces to the extracting of the value of the fertilizers, as against the application of scientific methods of analysis used under certain known and fixed conditions. Although our corre-. spondent is of opinion that he could have gotten as good or even a better return on 400 acres dressed with acid phosphate, and costing the same money as the manure applied to the 50 acres, we will undertake to say that he could not have so permanently improved even 50 acres much less 400 acres with that value of phosphate. Sir J. II. Lswes, whom Prof. Massey will, no doubt, admit is one of the finest and most practical scientific farmers in the world, said in one of his annual reports a few years ago, when comparing the value of farm yard manure and fertilizers in practi cal use, that lie could distinctly see where he had applied farmyard ma nure twenty-five years before, and, therefore, would not venture to say how long such an application would benefit the land, but that the duration of benefit in the use of commercial fertilizers was onlv for a very limited period. In practice here, most farmers will aflirra that the ben efit is only to be seen for, at most, two years. An incident in our own experience will tend to support the views of Sir J. It. Lawes as to the last ing and permanent value of farm-yard manure. When we first settled in Vir ginia we bought a farm in Uooohland. The land was poor, having been badly run down for more than twenty years. Previous to that time it was known as one of the best farms in the county, and carried a heavy herd of stock and produced large crops. We plowed a field and applied 200 pounds of bone to the acre, and sowed in oats. This field was near the house. After the crop commenced to crow a large patch near the middle of the field pushed ahead of all the rest and grew luxu riantly. We were curious to know the cause for this, as the land there appeared to be no better than elsewhere in the field. We asked an old colored man who had worked on the farm when it was in a high state of fertility, and had known its condition every year since that time, if he could tell us the cause. He said: "Yes, sir, that place was where old master had his cow-pen, and it always, when put in crop, makes a good one. " Now, this cow-pen had not been on the spot for more than twenty years and yet the acquired fertility of the soil, when it was there, was returning results at the end of that time, and had continued to do so every time 't had been called on in the interim. This is entirely confirmatory of our own experience in the use of farm yard ma nure when made from well-fed stock. It has a value outside that found by the chemists, to which no other fertili zer can compare. The Yorkshire Hog. In point of fact, there are really two breeds of Yorkshires, and some claim three, says a Michigan agricultural report. These arc known as the large Yorkshire, the small Yorkshire and the middle Yorkshire. The orig inal Yorkshire was a large, coarse hog, lop-eared, long-noed, long-bodied and slab-sided; slow in maturing, but hardy: growing to an enormous size, and carrying a good deal of lean meat. Many of these characteristics are yet to be found in these hogs, but they have been greatly improved in form, and are now classed as the best bacon hog in England, They are finer in the bone than their early progenitors; their ears much finer; noses shorter, but still quite long, with more of the mole shape than other English hogs, which are generally dished, with a short snout The modern Yorkshire is a rangy, deep bodied hog, pure white head rather large, ears lopped, rather long in the leg, the back narrow and arched, with a drooping rump. They grow to a good size, are slow to fat ten, and always have a good deal of lean meat, or muscle, mixed with the fat. It is this characteristic which makes them prized highly by bacon curers, as their flat sides always have the streak of fat and streak of lean, which makes the proper combination for the great breakfast dish, bacon and eggs. Their hams and shoulders arc prized for this same characteristic. The small Yorkshire is a very different animal, except in color. lie is a smooth, broad-backed, fine-boned hog, his head finer, much dished, and the nose short and turned up. His makeup shows him to be early maturing and easily fat tened, and very similar in form to what is known in this country as the Suffolk. They are not so prolific as the large hog, but with a much quieter disposition, and are apt to fatten so quick as to interfere with their breeding, if fed at all heav ily. They are regarded as a family hog in England, where cottagers can only keep two or three, -as they turn everything to good account fed to them. They will not bear exposure, and are tegarded as rather delicate. The Middle Yorkshire is a product of crossing the large and small breeds, and is hardly establi&hed sufficiently to make it breed to a single type; con sequently they vary to some extent, both in size and appearance, resem bling sometimes one and sometimes another of the two original breeds. They are claimed to fatten more read ily than ttfe large, and are more pro lific and hardy than the small. They are liked by the small farmers, and are regarded as a profitable breed. Flowers and Bees. When the conditions are most favor able the flower sends out a frasrrance which attracts the bees. Prof. Gray t calls this perfume the flowers' adver tisement. The bees instinctively read I therein that they are welcome to all j the exuding nectar they bear away if they will carry the pollen on their legs I and bodies to the pistils, says a writer in Country Gentleman. It has been suggested that honey is placed in the flower to attract the bees. After a bee has found honey in one flower it will be yery likely to examine others of a similar appearance. In the spring, . when the blossoms first open, many of the bees, very likely the young bees that have never before seen a flower, will be seen examining the leaves, branches and even rough wood of the trunk cf a tree, until they find just where the coveted treasure is located. After a bee has dived deep into one blossom and tasted the nectar it knows where to look the next time. It is plain to be seen that flowers were not given their bright colors simply that we might feast our eyes upon their beau ty. Nature, that most careful econo mist, not only deals out honey in small doses, bnt she places it in the most cunning nooks and corners that the bee may be obliged to twist itself into all possible shapes, around and among the stamens, until the pollen is most surely dusted all over its body and legs. Within the flowers of the barberry there is a contrivanca by which on the touch of the proboscis of the bee the stamens spring forward suddenly and shower the insect plen tifully with pollen with which it may fertilize some other barberry blossom. The flower secretes no honey until the pollen is ripe and ready to do its work; than the honey slowly exudes into the nectaries, so that the bees may be kept coming and licking it out, in every hour of the day, and the flow of honey ceases just as soon as the pollen is ripened and gone. Another Teat on Milk Fata. The New Hampshire station has just published a bulletin giving the results of their trials on feeding fat into milk. In part the bulletin says: In previous investigations to deter mine the effect of foods upon the character of the butter product, we found the gluten meal produced a very much softer butter than did corn meaL This result was hardly to have been expected, since gluten meal is a by product from the manufacture of glucose from corn, and it might natur ally be supposed that the butters would have the same general char acteristics. The fact that the gluten meal fed was very rich in oil (con taining 18 per cent), sug gested the carrying out of an experi ment to determine the effect of oils upon the quantity and quality of milk and butter. In the course of the ex periment the following were fed: Cot tonseed oil, corn oil, palm oil, cocoa nut oil, oleo oil and stearin. No diffi culty was experienced in getting the cows to eat these oils in connection with their grain ration, and in several instances a decided liking for them was manifested. Without going into details, the butter-fat in the milk was at first in creased, but later fell off, though the fat ration was continued. The con clusions reached by the experimenters were as follows: The variations in percent of fat in buttermilk were quite wide, and -although they are given in the table I will make no comment upon them, as the very small quantities of cream churned probably caused imperfect churning. Now, in conclusion, 1 think that I may say that this experiment indicates: That the first effect of an increase of fat in a cow's ration is to increase the per cent of fat in her milk. That with the continuance of such a ration, the tendency is for the milk to return to its normal condition. That the increase in fat is not due to the oils, but to the unnatural character of the ration. That the results in this experiment tend to confirm the conclusions ex pressed in previous bulletins from this station, that the composition of a cow's milk is determined by the individuality ' of the cow, and that although an un- j usual food may disturb for a time the . composition of the milk, its effect is ' not continuous Crowing; Watermelons. The watermelon occupies a unique place among the fruits of this country. The melon grows from the seed and ripens a crop of fruit in a single sea son, says a writer in Rural Life. Last year we had ripe melons within nine ty days from the time the seed was planted. The watermelon requires no preparation and is eaten without any condiment or dressing of any kind. The best place for the melon patch is in the cornfield with corn on every side to shelter the vines from the wind, (round that has been in corn the pre vious year I think is the best, and if it was sod ground all the better. The ground should be naturally warm and dry and slope to the south so as to get the sunshine the whole day. Melons delight and thrive in the sunshine, and the warmer the better. The stalks should be removed from the ground in the fall so that it will not be tramped in the winter and spring by the stock and so get in bad condi tion. That is very important, as on a good supply of well-rotted manure depends the success of the venture. Plow the ground in the spring at the same time you plow for corn and work it just the same, being carefvl, how ever, not to work the melon ground at any time when it is wet After corn planting, or about the 20th of May, is about the right time to plant the mel ons. Mark the ground crossways with a marker in rows six feet apart, then with a large plow mark it the other way in rows twelve feet apart, plowing out a deep furrow. Next haul the rot ted manure and put a large shovelfull in the furrow at the intersection of the marks, after which fill up the fur row with the plow, plowing several fur rows to form a ridge, being careful not to obliterate the cross marks, as they show where the hill is to be planted. The ridge should be harrowed down to make a good 6ecd bed. Each hill will need some preparation with the hoe. Plant the seeds shallow but iirmly in the ground twelve seeds to each hilL After the plants are well started thin to two or three to the hill. Have a quantity of air slacked lime on hand and when the plants come up look out for the bugs, and when they ap pear dust the plants a time or two with the lime, which will protect them. Do not bother the plants mush when they first come up with the hoe. but culti vate the melon patch every time you do the corn, plowing over all the gound. One cross plowing will be enough, but they should be plowed the other way at interval as long as you can get through between the rows without injuring the vines. The hills should be kept perfectly clean from weeds with the hand and hoe until the vines cover the ground. SAFE IN HEH POCKET. "Rnrclar Whpro tin i-mi Uon -.... money? Biggsby Er it's in the) pocKet of my wife's dress. Burglar tto , pal) Come on, Pete; we ain't no Stan ley explorin expedition. Detroit Fref Press. The hen that lays well is one thai is moving around and scratching all the time. With the pure breeds there is uni formity of color, size and general characteristics. See that your breeders are healthy, vigorous and of good size. HUIar CoBtesaBoraaeOas 8waraas, The Canadian Bee Journal gives its readers the benefit of some experience in hiving bees when two swarms come out together. "As we walked into one of our bee yards the other day a swarm was hanging on a tree several rods from the apiary. This swarm had issued very early in the morning, probably because the weather of the two pre vious days had been unfavorable for swarming. As we neared the center of the yard, which contained about two hundred colonies, we saw the foreman run and pick up a wire tent hurriedly and set it over a hive, about which he noticed indications of swarming. The tent was scarcely over the hive before the swarm commenced to issue. After the swarm had about half issued, and the entire wire tent, which is about three feet wide, five feet long and five feet high, was covered with bees, the queen came from the hive, alighted on the front of the vt ire cloth and crawled up. Soon they all clustered on the top of the wire. Then, in a min ute more he raised the tent, lifted out the parent colony, and set another hive with combs in its place for the new swarm to occupy. Then by tap ping the wire a little with the lingers on the outside, the bees came down and commenced to run into the hive. In a very few minutes they were all in the hive with their queen. The wire tent was tipped back, the hive carried to its permanent stand, and the parent colony set back on the old stand again. By this means he hived the new swarm on the old stand by merely set ting the parent colony outside the tent to catch any stray bees that might return from the fields, and prevent the swarms from uniting with the one hanging on the tree. On the morning of the 17th, as the foreman went intc our home yard with some of the students, he found a swarm issuing. He immediately caught the queen and hived them. The work was scarcely over when two more commenced to issue. While getting the wire tent to place over this one, two more rushed forth, and it was evident that they all intended to alight in one cluster. Ueforc he got the tent over one, another started to isiuc. This one (the sixth) he secured from going in with the otheis. He might have got the tent over one of the other hives, but as they started to issue he rushed from one entrance to another, catch ing the queens. He succeeded in cap turing three, slipping them into cages and dropping the cages into his pocket Soon the four swarms clustered to gether on a tree; then he took a step ladder, a dipper and a light box with wooden sides and wire bottom, abonl 10 by 20 inches. Itefore going up the ladder, he placed hives at intervals in front of the tree; the queens he placed one at the entrance of each hive. He then commenced dipping off the bees, holding the screen under to catch anj that might chance to fall, handing each dippcrful down to the students, who poured them in front of the hives, dividing them as equally as possible. In a few minutes they were all sepa lated and running into their hives. While they were passing in the queens were liberated and allowed to pass it with the bees. Soon all the swarms were hived separate and set on theii new stands, as well as if they had alighted in different clusters and beer hived the same as single swarms. Wheat In Inttia. A readek of IJeerbohm's London List in referring to statements point ing out the increased consumption oi wheat in Bengal says: If what is stated there regarding the increased con sumption of wheat in lower Bengal applies to India generally, it is oper to question whether the supposed sur plus has any existence in fact Has it not rather been eaten up by the Hin doos themselves? The small Indian exports point to that conclusion, and if wc had only trifling shipments from a crop of 33,003,000, is it not a "logical couclusion'that we may expect still lest from a crop of 20,000,000, especially at the present level of prices? The com ment of the cditorof Beerbohm's List is as follows: The Ethiopian can not change his skin or the leopard his spots; but the Hindoo can change his food, and despite his invincible con servatism, is changing it So much, at least, is to be gathered from an ad dress delivered by Mr. James Turner to the members of the Calcutta AVheat and Seed association. During the past three years the local consumption of wheat in lower Bengal has almost trebled itself, having risen from 23.00C tons to 02,003 tons. Meanwhile, the quantities exported have declined. The natural inference is that the na tives are abandoning the pulses and inferior kinds of rica upon which they have hitherto subsisted, and arc tak ing to cat a more wholesome grain. The fact affords gratifying evidence of their increasing prosperity. Farm ers' Review. A plan for the completion of the Nicaragua canal by this government, by a new system of financiering, has been introduced in the house by Rep resentative Br3an of Nebraska. While some of the features of Senator Mor gan's project are repeated, a great in novation is brought forward by pro visions intended to increase the circu lating medium of the country, by pay ing for the stock of the canal company by an issue of legal tender note?, modeled off the greenbacks of 1S02. According to the bill the stock of the canal company is to consist of 1,000, 000 shares of S100 each, for which United States notes identical in char acter with those issued under the act of Feb 25, 1602, are to be issued, redeemable to the same extent and in the same manner as the notes of 1SG2. The secretary of the treasury is to purchase STO.000,000 of the stock of the company and pay fot it at par by the issue of the notes de scribed, which are to be kept in circu lation as a part of the currency of the country. Six million of the capital stock is to be issued to the government of Nicaragua, S.100,000 to Costa Rica, and the remaining S"23. 500,000 is to be held in the treasury until the govern ment decides whether to purchase it or permit it to be sold by subscription, except an amount not to exceed ?7, 000,000, to be used by the company in taking u its outstanding stock. Pro-vi-ion is made for an immediate issue of $2 0G0,000 as a working capital, and the issue of the remainder in quarter ly installments as may be necessjry tc carry on the work of construction. Queen Vic's Vegetables Every! day of her life, no matter where she 1 may be, whether in Balmoral.Osborne, ' Florence or elsewhere. Queen Victoria receives from Windsor castle a supply of flowers, fruits and vegetables. ! Seasons may come and go, but Queen ! Victoria's green peas are always on hand, while cucumbers, ' cabbages, , French beans, or any other vegetable . her majesty expresses a wish to see on her dinner table, are there the follow-, ing day, whether they be in season or not $hf Domichold. E Pluribuj TJnufc. Tho many and bright ar the stars that appear In that flsg, by our country unfurl'd; And the stripes that ar welling In ma jesty there Like a rainbow adorning the world; Thero light is nnsullied, as those in the sky, By a deed that our fathers have done; And they're leagued In as true and as hcly a tie, In their motto of "Many in one." Trom the hour when those patriots fear lessly flung That banner of starlight abroad, Ever true to themselves, to that motto they clung As they clung to the promise of God: By the bayonet traced at the midnight of war. On tha fields where our glory was won, O perish the heart or the hand that would mar Our motto of "Many in one." 'Mid the smoke of the contest the cannon's deep roar How oft it has gathered renown ; While those stars were reflected in rivers ot gore, When the Cross and the Lion want down; And tho' few were tho lights in the gloom of that honr. Yet the hearts that were striking below Had God for their bulwark, and truth for their power. And they stopped not to number the foe. From where our green mountain tops blend with tho sky, And the giant St. Lawrence Is rolled, To the waves where the balmy Hejperldes lie, Like the dream of some prophet of old, Toy conquer'd and dying, bequeath'd to our care, Not this boundless dominion alone, But that banner where loveliness hallows the air. And their motto of "Many in one." We are "Many in one" while there glitters a star In the blue of the heavens above; And tyrants shall quail 'mid their dun geons afar. When they gaze on that motto of love. It shall gleam o'er the sea, 'mid the bolts of the storm Over tempest and battle and wreck And flame where our guns with their thunder grow warm. 'Neath the blood on the slippery dock. The oppressed of the earth to that stand ard shall fly. Wherever its folds shell be opread; And the exile shall feel 'tis his own native sky Where its stars shall floSt over bis head ; And those stars shall increase to the full ness of time Its millions ot cycles has run Till the world shall have welcomed Its mission sublime. And the nations of earth shall be one. Though the old Alleghany may tower to heaven. And tho father of waters divide, The links of our destiny cannot be riven While the truth of those words shall chide. Then, 0 1 let them glow on each helmet and brand, Tho' our blood like our rivers should run: Divide ns we may in our own native laud, To the rest of the world we are one! Then up with our flag! Let it stream on the air! Tho' our fathers are cold In their graves. They had hands that could strlke-they had souls that could dare- And tberi slaves. sons were not born to be Up, up with that banner! call. Where'er it may Our miHfons shall rally around ; And a nation of freemen that moment shall fail. When its stars shall be trail'd on the ground. Georob W. Cdttkr. Is Scarlet Fever Dying Oct? A singular fact has been revealed by the carefulU kept death records in Eng land. This is a steady diminution in the number of deaths from scarlet fever, which fell from 14,27."; in 1SS1 to 4,!."G in 1S01. No adequate explana tion has been offered. As contribut ing causes, however, Dr. William Ogle finds (1) that the proportion of children to the population materially declined in the decade: (2) that the isolation of the sick and other sanitary practice became more general: and (3) that in some unknown way scarlet fever has been gradually assuming a milder form. The last, conclusion is justified by ample evidence. The part played by sanitation has doubtless been of some importance, as may be inferred from the fact that typhoid feverdcaths have also been diminishing. Dr. Ogle feels assured that epidemics of scarlet fever will not soon, if ever, again be the scourge to infant lift" they have been. Ex. Thirsty Babies. It seems strange, but true it is, that there are et in ex istence young mothers who never give their young babies a drink of water. Water is as necessary to a child's well being as good food and its bath. Two or three times a day the baby should be given a drink of water, say a table spoonful, at regular intervals. Try the little mite and see how he relishes it Furthermore, it will, if given at regular intervals, keep the bowels in good order. The other day, by the way, a prominent physician was called in for a severe case of vomiting and sore throat He prescribed a table spoonful of water and one of milk to be taken separately every hour. His patient laughed, but had the good sense to obey, and sure enough, in a few hours she was well enough to get up and attend to her work. Care of Wet Shoes. There arc few things more disagreeable than to put on a pair of stiff, brittle shoes that have been thrown aside to dry after a rainy day. Here is a formula that claims to eradicate the trouble: First wipe off gently with a soft cloth all surface wet and mud; then, while still . wet, rub well with paraflinc oil, using j flannel for the purpose. Set them aside i till partially dry, when a second treat- j ment with oil is advisable. They may then be deposited in a conveniently warm place, where they will dry gradually and thoroughly. Before applying French kid dressing give them a final rubbing with the flannel still slightly dampened with parafline and the boots will be soft and flexible as new kid and but very little affected by their bath in the rain. How to Cook an Old Hen. When so eminent a scientist as Prof. W. Mat tieu Williams thought it worth his while to experiment with this some what tough subject of gastronomic contemplation, it may not be amiss to profit by the result of his experiment. He took a hen six years old but other wise in good condition and cooked it slowly in water for four hours, then let it stand in the water until the next day, when it was roasted for about an hour, basting frequently with .some of the broth in which it was pimmered. It was then pronounced as tendrr and fine flavored as a young chicken roasted in the ordinary way, notwith- I btanding the good broth obtained by 6tcwing. Ex. Currant Fly. This insect will ruin the currant and gooseberry crops, if ' once it has gained entrance and is al- 1 lowed to go unmolested. In its per- J feet state, it is a small, two-winged fiv which lays its vnes on the fruit ' while it is small. The larva? enter the fruit yet green and feed on its contents, leaving a small black scar at the poirt of entering. The affected fruit ripens prematurely and shortly decays and drops to the ground, when on opening then, a small white grub will be found, about one-third of an inch long. Use powdered white hellebore; one ounce dissolved in two gallons of water, spraying the bushes just before they bloom, and again after the fruit has set Wm. StahL Recording the Trees. While it is important that every tree that is set in the orchard should be labeled, this work should be supplemented by an accurate record in a memorandum book. Even where a great deal of care is taken to make them legible and dur able, labels Eometimes become either indistinct or are lost A book record is much more reliable, and it has the added advantages that it can be con sulted at any time and with but little difficulty; that it shows how many trees, of each variety that is repre sented, the orchard contains; and also that it indicates in what year the tree was transplanted. Ex. Grilled Mushrooms. Prepared in this way the mushrooms must be large. After washing and peeling, score the tops with a knife and lay them for one hour in a pickle of oil, salt pepper and lemon juice. Place them tops down on a clo-e-barrcd gridiron and broil over a clear, slow lira Serve ou toast with a sauce made as follows: Chop the stalks and pieces of mushrooms that have broken in the washing and stew in broth for ten minutes with a little minced parsley and onion. Beat he yelk of one egg with a gill of cream and add slowly to the sauce. Stir the whole until hot without boil ing and pour it over the toast String Beans. String, snap and wash two quarts beans, boil in plenty of water about fifteen minutes, drain off and put on again in about two quarts boiling water; boil an hour and a half, and add salt and pepper just before taking up, stirring in one and a half tablcspoonfuls of but ter rubbed into two tablespoon fuls of flour and half n pint of sweet cream. Or boil a piece of salted pork one hour, then add beans and boil an hour and a half. For shelled beans boil half ' hour in water enough to cover and i dress as above. Baked Mushrooms. Tcast for each person a large slice of bread and spread over with rich sweet cream; lay on each slice, head downward, a mushroom, or if small, more than one; season and fill each with as much cream as it will hold. Place over each a custard cup, pressing well down to the toast: set in a moderate oven and cook fifteen minutes. Do not remove the cups for five minutes after they come from the oven, as thereby the flavor of the mushroom is preserved in its entirety. Cacli flower Tie up tin cauliflow er in a coarse tarlctan and boil in hot water to which a little salt has been added. Drain and-lay in a deep dish with flower uppermost Heat a tea cupful of milk thickened with two tablcspoonfuls of butter cut in pieces and rolled in flour: add pepper, salt and the beaten white of an egg, boil j p for a few seconds, strring briskly. Take from the fire; flavor with lemon and pour over the cauliflower, reserv ing about half the sauce for use at the table. Parsnip Fritters Boil the parsnips, and, when tender, take off the skin and mash them fine: add a tab'espoon ful.of flour and a beaten egg: make into small cakes with a spoon and put into boiling hot lar.l or beef drippings in a hot frying pan. When fried a deli cate brown put on a dish with a little of the fat in which they were fried over them and serve hot Scalloped Cacli flower. Boil in a net, then clip into clusters and set, stems downward, in a buttered bake i diah. Beat; a cup of bread crumbs to ' a soft paste with two tablcspoonfuls j of melted butter and four of milk. j Season and whip in a raw egg. But ter, pepper and salt the cauliflower, l and pour the mixture over. Rake ten ' minutes, covered, in a brisk oven, then s brown. Scefls in Manure. It is a prevalent belief that the heat ing of manure in the heap will kill the seeds of weeds that may be in it, says Rural Life. This is a very unsafe de pendence. The heat of the manure is rarely so much as 100 degrees, and al most all kinds of seeds will withstand safely a greater heat than this, es pecially if the heat is attended by moisture, seeds of weeds seem to be endowed with greater vitality and power of resistance than l hose of the useful plants, and thus survive when others will perish. Some experiments made during a few weeks past showed that corn, wheat buckwheat, cab bage and beet seeds withstood a dry heat of 104 degrees in an incubator for four weeks, when planted in a hotbed all grew in the usual manner. At the same time a thermometer placed in a heap of fresh manure marked steadily $." degrees, while a heap of dry horse manure marked OS deg., and when opened was found to be fire-fanged in the center. Thus it will not do to depeud on the com mon belief as to the killing of the J weed seeds, and the better way is to avoid their mixture wiin tne manure. The heat of an animal's intestines is a little over 100 degrees ami yet wc may notice that in tho excrements of any animal both clover and grass seeds and those of weeds will sprout and grow in the droppings in the fields, thus conclusively proving that 100 degrees is not sufficient to destroy their vitality. This fact will be shown if the drop pingi of the cows in the late pasture, where the clover was in seed at the time, are now examined, for the young plants will be found sprouting freely in them. llread for Chicken Food. The following method of making bread gives a complete food and will keep for several days: Mix equal parts of bran, shipstuff, oat meal, corn meal, buckwheat meal, and half as much bone meal, intimatery together says a writer in Minnesota Farmers' Institute Bulletin. Place in a pot a quart of beans and a quart of rice, with enough water to cook it well. Add a quart of milk, two tablespoonfuls of salt, a teaspoon ful of red pepper, and a tea spconful of tincture of iron. When the rice and beans are thoroughly cooked add a pound of crude tallow and slowly thicken with the grain mixture until thick enough to cas'ly crumble when cold. When adding ' the irrain throw in a little fine char- ' . -.-.-is nf .risvwl litvin It. Ml1! lsr ".t. If 1 1 ':,.. :',,. ,.. n(i i.,-,.. uianu .a; muti . mv vmuvij 'v , in an oven. It can be improved if a 1 p'ece of beef or a little fresh bullock's blood ceatlded to the beans an-l rice while cooking. The bread, being well cooked, can be easily d'gested. and will supply all the requisites of bodily growth. Three times :t week a few pinches of sulphur may be given a: any one of the meals to a brood. hei: heal niniirs. Mamie I believe in woman's rights. Gertie Then you think every wo man should have a vote? Mamie No; but I think e-ery wo man should have a voter. Harper"-Bazar. IMMMMMMM g Y Admitted to be KOYAI V the finest prep- f Tfci aration of the BwMilNO POWK wholesome bread, cake, and biscuit. A hundred thousand unsolicited testimo nials to this effect are received annually by its manufacturers. Its sale is greater than that of all other baking powders combined. AB;50LUTELY PURE. B-rtVAl QllflM ssVMAntrB ,w.w wrr...u -v.-uLn -wv., Soand Maxins. Atterd carefully to details of your business. Bo prompt in all things. Consider well then decide. Daro t do right Fear to do wrong. Endure trials patiently. Fight life's battle bravely, manfully. Go not in the society of the vicious. Hold integrity sacred. Injure not another's reputation or business. Join hands only with the virtuous. Keep your mind from evil thoughts. Lie not for any consideration. Make few acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not. Owe no man anything. Pay your debts promptly. Question not tho veracity of a friend. Kespect the counsel of your parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not, taste not, handle not in toxicating drinks. Use your leisure time for improve ment. Venture not upon the threshold of wrong. Watch carefully over your passions. 'Xtend to every one a kindly saluta tion. Yield not to discouragements. Zealously labor for the right "& success is certain. Fair and Beautiful Lands Across the Sea Give pronle to tho ocean vovaserof health and pleasure, but there is a broad expanse of waters lobe pushed that rise mountain high in rouli weather and grievously dis turb the unaccustomed stomach, more par ticularly if it is that of an invalid. More over the vibr.-ilioiiof the vessel's hull caused ly the motion of the screw of a steamer, a change of water and latitude, and abrupt transit inns of temperature, cannot, without medicinal safeguard, be encountered with impunity. For sea sickness, and prejudi cial inttui'iiccs of air and water, llostetter's Stiun:ieii Hitierx i. a standard safeguard. TourUts, y:u IitMiicn. mariners, commercial traveler, and people bound on a sea voy Ai:' or Inland jaunt, should alway be pro vided witii it. Incomparable for malaria, rheumatism, neuralgia, sleeplessness, loss of ap! elite, sick headache, biliousness and constipation. NonoDT but his immediate friends cares 5 cents at what hotel a man of brains puts up, but the whereabouts of a sculler, a rower, a walker, or a prize tig iter is a matter of the deepest inter est. When Traveling, Whether on pleasure bent or business, take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liver and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale in 50c, and SI bottles by all leading druggists. Manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. only. (ynmastic Training. The Spartans were rigid in exacting a gymnastic training for youths. Then the g.rls were expected to lie good gym nasts, and no young woman could be married till she had publicly exhibited her proficiency in various exercises. Hall's Catarrh Care Is taken internally. Price, 75c. Atmospherical knowledge no sits thoroughly distributed to our school. A boy lteing asked, "What is mist?" vaguely responded, "An umbrella." Billiard Table, second-hand. For sale cheap. Apply to or nddress, H. C. Akin, 511 S. 12th St., Omaba,Neb. ('rief and Business. Epitsph in a French Cemetary. Here Lies Mme. Bertram!, Wife of M. Bertrnnd, marble-cutter. Tins monument is a specimen of his work. Cost. 1.500 francs- MICHICAN LANDS. Fertile. Cheap. Health-. And not too far from good markets. The MMiitrnn Central will ran special Home Seekers Excursions on July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. IS, to points north of Laaslag, Sagi naw and Bay City at one fare for the rouad trip. Tickets good twenty days and to stop over. For folder giving particulars and describing land, address O. tV. Bag gies, Gen. Pasj. and Ticket Ag't, Chicago. Question propounded by the Petruil Free I'rrxs : "A dressmaker got mad because her lover serenaded her with 0 flute. She said sho got nil the fluting she wantetl in her regular business." Vimunnati Saturday yiffhl. If she went ou that principle why did she get milled? loa Don't Hare to go 2, COO miles to reach the land of the prune. The irrigated lands of Idaho along the line of the Union Pacific system are capable of producing the class of fruit seen in the Idaho Ex hibit at the World's Fair. 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On colored cottons and woolens, and on silks, dilute tartaric. acid is applied, cautiously. Gbkask. White goods, wash with soap or alkaline lyes. Colored cottons, wash with lukewarm soap lyes. Colored woolens, the same, or ammonia. Silks, absorb with French chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away with benzine or ether. On, Colors, Varnish, and Resins. On white or colored linens, cottons, or woolens, nse rectified oil of turpentine, alcohol, lye, and their eonp. On silks. use benzine, ether, and mud soap, very cautiously. VkgetableColors, Fbi'it, Red Wine, amd Red Ink. On whito goods, sul phur fumes or chlorine water. Colored cottons and woolens, wash with luke warm soap lye or ammonia. Silk, the samo, but mora cautiously. Blood and Albuminoid Matters Steeping in lukewarm water. If pepsine or the juico of carica papaya can Imj procured the spots are first softened with lukewarm water, and then either of these substances is applied. Karl's Clo-rer Root Tea. 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