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Used .tccimcns are already commanding a high prenjium in San Francisco, the pajiers of that city say, as high as fo Iniiiig paid for tho stamps, whilo the iiMid envelopes are expected to bring from 5 to $10 each. WAMIIXC A FINK ART. "Ever .ince spinning was a typo of ivoxatily industry frin apo to age, it has Leon expected Hint beautiful apparel should t-lothe women. From the classic robes of Aspasia to tho rich dress-, of Elizabeth, uud thonce to the wedding gown of Pur itan Priseella wo se tho attractiveness of dre.-s." Hut at this timo only has it be come possible for all woneii to bo tiecoin ingly attirod at a small cost, tho supply of beautiful inoxpou.-ivo dros fabrics now to be had, making it an easy matter. Yet lliero aro women who insist that the cx penst) of having summer gowns laundered is gi cater than the original cost, nnd that in the end light woolens or summer silks nre more economical. This is a mistaken idea, ns washing pretty lielongings is aflno nrt, which is vorv easv to leani. Anvgirl n mutter how delicately reared can wash i uei fjwi rtuiuiiiei );unii. jy iiiiiii. tuty , plenty of water, and a little pure soap aro tin nec-ssBry aids in tho work. To do it, fill a tub two thirds full of warm water, dissolve n fourth of a cake of Ivory Soap, (which will not fade tho most delicate rolors), add it to the water, wash tho gar ments carefully through it, rinse lirst in riot!' water, then in blue water, wring, dip in thin starch, hand on tho line in tho tibiide. When dry, sprinkle, and iron oil wrong side. Eliza K. Parker. Goodey'.s magazine for August opens ivith a bree.y contribution from the pen of Win. 1). McCrackcn. whose re rent works on travel and history have become very popular. Mr. MeCracken tells of the iiit-re.stiiig peoples who in tiabit. the Tirol, and under the eaption .if "Those Messed Tirolese,"' gives a scries of pen-pictures that cannot fail to please. The article is amply illus trated. A topic of timely interest is ''Woman's Work at the Tennessee Cen teenial." by Anna M. Ilciijuiniu. The 'lodey Company, Lafayette Place, New Vork. Shafcn Intfi Your Shoe. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for tho Feet. It cures painful, swollen, smart ing feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It is the Crcatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot. iircil, aching feet Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c In stamps. Trial package FItEE. Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Boy. N. Y. ' .n Innuendo. Mrs Henpeek Seems to mo you buy a great many trousers. Alfred. I notice you have on a new pair to-day. Mr. Henpeek Well, mj dear, when a man and his wife and his mother-in-law all insist on wearing the sanio garment it can't last very long. Voguc. Tliprn In a Clas of 1'rnple Wfto are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GUAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over V: ns much. Children may drink it with creat benefit. 13 cents and 23 cente per package. Trv it. Ask for GU.MX-O. A Oiieor I"rfcsioii. Window -gazing" is a profession in I.011 Ion. A couple of styli.-hlydressed ladies panst' before the wincfow of a merchant, remain about live minutes and audibly pi-awo ill" goods displaced inside. Then they pa-.s on to another ttore on their ' i;ir lis of m'.ins Kial I lie .1 -rl :-ei:n ins. You will enjoy this publication much belter if you will get into the habit of leading the advertisements: they will j afford a most interesting .study arid j will put o:i in the v:sv of getting same eivlle:st bargains. Oar adver- li.ers aiv reliable, tney send what they advertise loth'cr I can give yon :, position iv. the children's rlothln r Vj a t j.ent 1'iit you'll find it er aggravating Applicant Xot t 111 -. sir. ! worked tl'i-ee years in i v. icimn's shoe depart ment t-rimtl ':iin;i2xr ! niiii C.lrrrrlar. CriS 1..IIM.l Hill N 1(1 hm-,' T'Iller.l S.tr..,,f . uiIIiIj.ii. I'Uf .A,, v-.. ui'l.v...ni lnnn.a! Ye.i cannot make led.:ig him .n lis!i. v. ie a fool lv riip.i:pViar Kernels ".nt'i Casrarrt. "a::uy C.it!j.ir?ii cure ro-p-upatioa forever. yc. ii v. j,i- i : i. e-uj-.-!- , r fu J: soiiir. Most nior'a! . n( --r pi my nis til ;l:e have to. I sciiee cc :jo-J -113 ClotheSc (4 Tho good pill has a good corvt. Tho pill ccat nqrves two purposes; it protects tho pill, en abling it to retain all its remeui-il value, and it disguises tho taste for tho palate. Gonio p.U coats aro too heavy; they rill net dissolvo iii the stomach, and tho pills they cqver pacs through tho system as harmless as a, bread .. "a i'uiiut. uiaur uoaves are " J epeedy deterioration of exposure, Ayer's Sugar Coated Pills havo been found as effective as if. just fresh from tho labor atory. It's a good pill -with a good coat. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Cathartic Pills. W Kore pill particulars in Ayer's CurebooV. ico pages. Sent free. J. C. Aver Co., Lowell. Mass. CURE YOURSELF! I Vise Ril? C3 fur ttnnntnrl I difcbarci-. iiiCatuoiatii-n, I irntatiunn or ulcerations tf mucoup meznliranc. mu caaupoo. l-iule(Hi. and not j.trin. lrHtiiS CrtEUICitCa swl or poisonous. Smn.0J J ! y Bresriots, I r wnt in plain Trrarrr, hr -xirw. rreriaid. for fl.nri. r3 l-ottle. f:.T5. Circular sent on reqnett. PIANO FREE Send cs !0 ants tai a two ceat Ststnp and we vrill trail 10 you. Free. a 40 cent copy of oar popular and beautiful soht entitled 'The Oil Fashioned Bonnet notticr Weft." witu printe4 instructions box to obtain a new upright piano, or music box or bicycle, from us free of cost. Send your name. P.O., County and State plainly written, to ibe VhiteCityBirsic C., 41 8 26th SL, Chicaw.lll I. 'Il r--lf M lea C'! TyifS wmaf aii fisf fiUsTTq B Bt Coacb Syrnp. Tastes Good. CaN StaafeWbyUrnajjBt-IL They'd LeaT. :ss First Nighter "What! Every scat taken?" Ticket Seller "Every one; hut there will he plenty after the first act I saw a rehearsal." Work for Other. There are farm jrs in tho northern and eastern Ma'o-J who work for their neighbors a goo.l deal more than for themselves. Their own holdings aro small, but they ha patent reapers, binders and threshers that they rent, together with their own services and the use of their hordes, if necessary, therefor a fixed sum or a percentage of the product. Itnrieil for Two Onturiev. X'i the heart of a largo pine tree, three and one-half feet in diameter, James Mi'ler of Marinette. Wis., found a knife that was about a foot long and one and one-half inelie.? wide. The ago of the tree is est" mat "d to be over 20U years, and the knife was buried in it when th" trv wa. in it infan"y. for it is right n ar the heart and only about six feet from tii s base. What Ilcfeiid oit'it Counsel S.iiil. "And, your honor, when we reflect on the very strong safe, the bad tools, the poor light, cramped quarters and my client's natural weakness, am I not right in claiming he earned the stolen twenty thou-aud marks by the sweat of his brow?"' l'liegeiifle Maettur. 1.-sn Than Hair Tarn To Ituffalo anil return via the Wa bash K. It. For the (I. A. K. reunion the Wabash will sell tickets on Aug. 21 and 22, at less than Half Fare, with choice of routes via all rail from Omaha or Chicago to KufTalo or by steamer from Detroit, either going or returning. The only line running re clining chair cars (Seats free) from Omaha or Chicago to ISnifalo. All j trains run via Niagara Falls. For ticKcts ana lurtiier iniormation call on Agent connecting line or at Wabash Ticket office, 1113 Farnaiu Street (Fax ton Hotel block), or write Gi:o. X. Clayton, X. W. Pass. Agt., Omaha, Neb. 'Our Animal Friends" is an excel lent publication coming forth monthly from the American Society for the pre vention of cruelty to animals, Xew York city. Each number contains valuable information concerning the care of domestic animals, and this alone is worth many times the annual subscription, which is only SI. Ihit in addition to these articles of practical value there are always contributions from eminent men of science, and il lustrated by artists who know how to dra wanimals. CL'Ki:U IN TIIICKK MONTH. Knoxvillc, Tioga Co., Pa., Or. .7. C. Hoffman, Isabella Bidg., Chi cago, 111.: Dear Sir: Your medicine has cured me of the Morphine Habit in 3 months. I have no desire for the drug. I had taken opiates for more than thirty (.10) years. I am now most SI years old, and feel very grateful for your kind ness to me. GARDNER MATTESON, Care of Mrs. Uen Boom. IVrilmts Aii:usriiif!it. Jeweler- Your watch is magnc ti.eil. I hue you been near a dynamo or ridiiur. u l'ie electric cars recently. Jim lliekey No. but I've bven - er calling a good deal on a very at tractive oang ladv. Puck. Dcn't Tobacco Spi" r.nd Smike Your Lile Amy. Totpiil tiili.ieco -.-isi!y ;iinl furever. be tnns iiclie. full or lifr. in-rwand visor. taUeXo-To-U:ie. l!u- uciidcr-ivoi!.! i that tuaUo wca'c men stronir. lim-rsists. .'0c or t. Cure gu:ir:iiit ed Ito-i'nlel nntl - niiple fn e. Add res-, lerlins Itt-iredj to.. (Miicao or New York. !i- i: r At:r:,-:tf,:i. of 1.0 ( voiMKis" v.ei.r'it v-511 A m io-e e.aei,y two jo; :(! IkMwi-.-h tide water and th- top of a moitiitahi four rnih-s ..igh. I'Jii:. it is plain to lx,-s"'en.:-. Uvsiim- the force of the earth's attraction i- ms.ch le.. . on the moun tain lo; than i! is at -... l.-.ei. cari::cm. itc: stoi iixtr.mt i:-, Tin- ix-vt ei .- .,-, rv. njn r,-fu:ilj J(iu, moI!CJ if jou arc ni - iiUll.M wji It A goo-1 ui'tit is one who never getsin anybody's way. TZrm 1V!tjloiv'G Kcttiins Krnp rVirrMlii nSic'Iiii.t --tfi"nll t-eiiiiK r iliir. milinv uiati-ii:, ml l'-im. urtr v in.l i,ili, rLi nisaliutlie hit:r:i o.ie s co.il i s::iji:::is an i cvmeiie in co-.it.i-'e. xoo iignt, and permit tho tho trill. After SO vert 25 SB BRk POMMEL The Best Saddle Coat. Keeps Ixjthriicrani sill's per fectly dry in the hardest storr-s. Substitutes will diMrroiit. A-fc for I iSo7 Fish BranJ Pcrnne! ShcW I It is entirely r.e-v. If not for sale in I your tv-n. write for cataloirJi to A. J. IOWLK, Boston. Mass. PENSION! Get your Pension DOUBLE QUICK WritoCAPT.O'PARRELL. Pension Agaat. 142S New York Avcane. WASHINGTON. D.C ,;!'! g traki w riu n4umm fexJ BMMKMMMMSMaMMMa , - tLaP53RbBaaaiitf' m aJb&Sb i J IN THE ODD COENER. SOME STRANGE. QUEER AND CURIOUS PHASES OP LIFE. A Remarkable Cockatoo A Six-Toed Cat Serving as a Mascot for a Politi cal Organization la New York City Snail Farming. The Itcech-Trec'a Petition. It, I,KAVE this bar ren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! Though bush or flow eret never grow My dark, unwarm ing shade below: Nor summer bud per fume the dew Of rosy blush or pI low hue: Nor fruits of autumn. blossom-born. My green and glossy leaves adorn: Nor murmuring tribes from me derive Th ambrosial amber of the hive: Yet leave th's barren spot to me: Bi-are. woodman, spare the beechen tree. Ihrlce twenty summers I have seen The sky Krow bright, the forest ;reen; And many .i wintry wind have stood In bloomless. fruitless solitude. Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour; Since youthful lovers in my shade Tl.eir vows of truth and rapture made. And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a Ion;;-forgot ten name. Oh! by the sighs of gentle sound. First hi talli 1 upon this sacred ground Ity all that love lias whisper'd here. Or beauty heard with ralsh'd ear; As love's own altar honour me: Spare, woodman. sp;ire the beechen tree. A Kciiiarkaltlc Cockatoo. There is a ery renirkablc cocka too found in one of the islands of the Indian Cca.m, near New Guinea; it is is large as a full-grown pheasant, and of a jet b'ack color. The bird is dis tinguished for its immensely strong bill and the clever manner in which it uses this tool. The bill seems as hard as st"cl, ai:d the upper part has 'i deep notch in it. Now the favorite food of this cockatoo is the kernel of the canaiy nut; but there is wonder ful ingenuity required to get at it. for the nut is something like a Brazilian nut. only ten times as hard. In fact, it requires the blow cf a heavy ham mer to crack it; it is quite smooth and triangular in shape. The cockatoo might throw the nut down, hut it would not break, or it might hold it in its claws as parrots usually do with their food and attempt to crush it, but (he smoothness of the nut would cause it to fly cut of the beak. Nature, however, appears to have given the possessor of this wonderful bill an almost miraculous intelligence to di rect its powers, for the cockatoo takes one of the nuts edgewise in its hill, and by a sawing motion of its sharp lower mandible makes a small notch in it. This done, the bird takes hold of the nut with its claws, and biting off a piece of leaf, retains it in the deep notch of the upper part of the bill. Then the nut is seized between the upper and lower parts of the bill and is prevented slipping by the pecu liar texture of tho leaf. A sharp nip or two in the notch breaks off a tiny p.cce cf the shell of the nut. The bird then seizes the nut in its claws and pokes the long, sharp point of its hill into the hole and picks out the ker nel hit by hit. The cockatoo has a very long tongue, which collects each morsel as it is broken off by the bill. This is without doubt a wonderful process, for it is quite clear that with out the leaf nothing can be done, and it proves how certain structures in birds an made to destroy certain parts of plants. SiiaU-Iarnilnc. Snail-farminij forms a peculiar branch of agricultural industry in Franco nnd other countries, and the consumption of them in Trance is very laige. F.lihle snails vary greatly in sre; the large white ones are the real escarjret. but this term is usually em ployed to designate all edible snails adapted to table purposes, l.ut in the markets, besides rscargot, there are two other varieties, known as limaee and limaccn. the former being of me dium size and tho hitter quite small. Though the groat majority of the edi ble snails produced in France are of p a turn 1 growth, their aitiflcial culture is carried on to a very considerable extent. They arc propagated from August to October in ground especial ly prepared for the purpose, and fed with cibbage, clover, etc. During the wij-ter they are sheltered in houses cunposcd of brick and wood, and they are gathered and marketed from April to June. In the Tyrol from June to tho middle of August the snails are collected from every available damp place and taker, to the feeding-ground near the owner's dwelling. This is a bit of garden ground, free from trees and shrubs, and surrounded on all sides by running water. In this feeding-ground are little heaps of mountain-pine twigs, mixed loosely with v.ccd-moss. and these twigs when dry s re replaced by fr-h ones. Every day they are fed on cabbage leaves and grass, and when cold weather sets in tbey go under cover that is, thoy col lect urder tb.c heaps of twigs and bury themselves, and there seal themselves up for the winter When this has been successfully rcomplished they are cillected. pecked in perforated boxes lined with straw and sent off to Paris and other towns. Marrcilles enjoys a great reputation for special preparations of csargots. Snails are regarded as dainties and st mething of a luxury. On snail-farms the cost of preparing them for the market ;S greater than the cost of p: educing them. Kxtraorillnarv l'r-orily. The etracrdinai precocity of Chris ten HeinccACn deserves a record amongst instances of mental wonders. This remarkable child was bor.n on February C. 1721. at Lubcck. in Ger many, where his father was a painter. When only ten months old he could re peat every word said to him. At twelve m.nths such was his mental de velopment that he knew the salient events recorded to the Pentateuch by heart. At two years he had the his tcrcal parts of the Old and New Tes taments at his fingers' ends. In his third year he could have passed the mest exacting examination in univer sal history and geography, and could a'so converse in Latin and French. His fourth year he occupied in study ing chmca history and religion. This marvellous precocity was no mere feat of memory, for the little savant could reason on and discuss the varied knowledge he had acquired. Crowds flocked to Lubeck to see the wonder ful child; and in 1724 he was taken to -openhagen at the desire of the King 3f Denmark. On his return home he began to learn writing, but his frail constitution gave way and he died on June 22. 1725. Cliff r Xatnrallr Formed Glas. A cliff of naturally-formed glass is one of the many wonders to be seen in Yellowstone Park. This cliff, says Professor Iddings, is an elevation half a mile long by from 150 feet to 200 feet high, the material of which it contains being as good glass as any artificially manufactured. Its colors and structure are not only interesting to even visitor, but furnish to the scientific investigator phenomena of importance. The cliff presents part of a section of a surface flow of obsi dian, which poured down an ancient slope from the plateau lying east. It' is impossible to determine what the original thickness of this flow was. The dense glass which now forms its lower portion is from 75 feet to 100 feet thick, while the upper portion has suffered from ages of erosion and gla cial action. A remarkable feature of the cliff is tho development of pris matic columns, which form its liuth ern extremity. These are of shining black obsidian, and are from 50 feet to 60 feet in height, with diameters varying from 2 feet to 4 feet. The color of the cliff is mostly black, but much of it is mottled and streaked with bright brownish red and various shades of brown and olive green. Ilcielit of Trees Summer an-l Winter. It has, perhaps, occurred ..j a few of us that the boughs of trees occupy a very different position in summer and winter respectively, but Miss Ag nes Fry, says Public Opinion, has made careful measurements of the height from the ground of branches of both walnut and mulberry trees in August and December, and she finds that in some ca.es there 5s a differenca or as much as thirty-one inches in the height of the same branch from tho ground in those two months. One par ticular figure was obtained with a L-rarc'i of a mulberry tree, and it was ft.i:d that in December a weight of thirty-five pounds was not sufficient to lower it to its summer position. In other cases there were differences of ficm thirteen inches to nineteen inches in the distance in summeer and win er respectively of braches from the u round. No wonder, then, that the diagnosis of a tree in winter from its general outline is so difficult a task. Dcrlilc I by si TnnH-Up. A curious case occurred in one of the Sussex, Kng., courts a few years ago. It was a "horsey" case, and the evi dence was very conflicting. "It is a tcss-up," said His Honor Judge Mar tineau, when he came to consider his judgment. Counsel for the defendant "coked at the plaintiff inquiringly. "What do you say?" he asked. "All right," rcsponJ'.d that individual, tired of litigation. There was a brief ad journment, and just without the pre circts of the court the coin was spun. A matter of 70 or more depended upon the spin. A minute later counsel was informing the judge that the dispute was settled, and asked for judgment for the plaintiff. "Is that so?" asked his honor. "Yes, your honor," replied the loser, with rueful countenance." "Sl.-Totl Trilby." The Citizens' union of New York city has a Maltese cat with six toes. Six-toed cats from time immemorial have been regarded as mascots. Though burdened with the name of Trilby, the mascot is of a cheerful dis position and even temper. Are Thry Heathen? We rerer to the people of India often as heathen, but they are very like Clr.ifetians, in some things, and very unlike some boys who would be very indignant if they were called heathen. In India a certain bungalow was over run with mice. Sir John Croe, who has Iicd in India and written a book about it, says that a Hindu boy was hired to set traps and dispose of the mice. He bought a number of traps, and in great triumph took his employ er to .show him that in every trap there was a mouse. The days went by, but there were just as man- mice in the bungalow. The boy's employer asked him what he did with the mice. "Il-ive you set the traps?" "Yes, sahib." "How many mice did you catch?" ' Fifty, sab'b." "What did you do with them?" "I let them out again." "Put," said the master, "they were to be caught and killed." "Oh, sahib. I never kill anything," replied the boy. Even insects that torment men are not injured by the Hindu children.. When we sec how cruel boys especially can be to dogs and cats, how ready they are to stone birds and rob bird's nests, one thinks that there are heath en at home. The Outlook. I,: vet in a Water-Tank. A disused water-tank on the side of a lonely hill in South California is the place of abode of a once well-known Californian vaquero. This tank, In days gone by, furnished water for its pieser.t ccupant's horse. But stress of circumstarca caused horse and own er to seek fresh fields and pastures i!'-v, and when the man returned, af ter a few years" absence, he found the distr'c' had been abandoned by others r.s well as himself. The tank was per fectly dry. and. after roofing it in w:th the ruins of an old windmill tow er, and cutting a doorway in the side, the wanderer decided to make it his hcuse. A door was soon fixed up and a small window made; and a stove, a few choking utensils and a bed form the simple equipment cf this isolated curious dwelling. Xenrpipcr Mnsanms. Aix-ia-Chapelle has a newspaper mu seum forty years old and containing over 50,000 newspapers in sixty differ ent languages. Gera has a similar mu seum with 20,000 copies so far. It is believed that these collections will prove of inestimable value to histori ans. The oldest wooden building in the world is believed to be the church in Borgund, in Norway. It was built in the eleventh century, and has been pro tected by frequent coatings of pitch. It is built of pine and in fantastic Romanesque design. Irreverence. Wc live in an irrr-er-cct age, and our people do not poorer -, any tco much of the re5pect di:r :b . dead. Rev. Dr. Roseman. Hefcr Baltimore. Md. London's population h.c- about 70,000 every ye. r. w FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Somfl Cp-to-Dnte Hints About Cultiva tion off the Soil and Yields Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture and Flori culture. HE best mixture of grass seeds depends upon soil and cli mate and the farm ers' needs, says Mirror and Farmer. More regard should also be paid to the succession of blooming of the different varieties that may be sown, though this point was long since em phasized by Flint. Mr. F. I-amson Scribner, chief of the grass division of the department of agriculture and one of the best experts on grasses, in one of his admirable addresses made these very practical points: The best wild or native hay grasses are blue joint, fowl meadow grass, a species of ttly ceria, and one of the Muhlenbergias or "drop seeds." These are valuable In the order named, and often afford in our low-lying meadows a large bulk cf native hay of excellent quality. Like other species of grasses, they re spond readily to good treatment. Tim othy, meadow fescue, orchard grass. rye grass and redtop are the chief and best known of the cultivated or so called "tame" grasses for the produc tion of hay. In the markets timothy is the recognized standard by which the value of other grasses is estimated. It is the farmers' gold coin, although it does not appear to me to be equal in some respects to other varieties. Its clean appearance, even growth, fair productiveness, and easy propagation make it a favorite grass. The presence of meadow fescue indicates a good soil, and upon well-drained clayey land it is one of the best grasses we can culti vate; it is alike good for hay and pas turage. Where the soil is moist, but deep and strong, the large fescue (Fes tuca arundinacea) may be cultivated. It is one of the most productive of hay grasses. Almost equally productive on soils suitable to it is orchard grass, md by many of our farmers this is re garded as equal if not superior to tim Jtny. It has a serious fault, however, jf growing in bunches or tussocks. It s not a turf former, and when culti vated the seed should be sown thickly, and it is a good plan to add some other species as a filler. This objectionable habit of orchard grass may be over come in a measure by heavily rolling the fields in early spring. Were it not for this tussock-forming habit, or chard grass would make one of t'av best of grasses for pastures, because A. the early production of tender leaves. Rye grass, so popular in England, has never come into much favor here, al though it is usually recommended as an ingredient for mixtures designed for permanent pasture. On very rich soils, where the ground is fairly moist and the atmosphere humid, its produc tiveness is very large. It will make a fair turf if well cared for. and may be used alone for lawns, but not in mixtures. Red top is one of the finest and best of our hay grasses, especially for low meadows, but is less produc tive than other sorts. The require ments of a good hay grass are produc tiveness, hardiness and adaptability to the soil. It must also be nutritious, rich in flesh-forming elements, and possessing little fiber, and must be palatable to stock. Our pasture grasses are more numerous than those which yield us hay. The most important kinds are meadow foxtail, Kentucky bluegrass, English bluegrass (Poa compressa), certain varieties of redtop and species oi fescue, quite productive, and by many is very highly esteemed. It is recommended in all mixtures compounded for the production of con tinuous herbage through the season. Kentucky bluegrass is a good turf former and a good pasture grass where the land is rich, but does best upon strongly calcareous or limy soils. It is the grass which lias made the pas tures of portions of Kentucky and Tennessee so justly famous. English bluegrass is a better pasture grass for light sandy soil than Kentucky blue grass. It will grow on soils so thin and poor that little else will grow. On good land its productiveness is scarce ly inferior to that of Kentucky blue grass, and it is equally tender and nu tritious. It makes a very firm sod, and withstands the tramping of stock bet ter than many other kinds. The cul tivation of this grass in certain por tions of Virginia has changed poverty stricken districts to areas of wealth and prosperity. This has been ef fected by the cultivation of this Eng lish bluegrass and the raising of dair stock. Lowland pastures should al ways contain redtop in some of its varieties. It makes the cleanest, nicest looking and sweetest turf of any grass I know. The line-leafed varie ties should be selected for cultivation in pastures. Meadow fescue is a valu able pasture grass, as already inti mated, where the soil is good; and on sandy soils red fescue is perhaps one of the best species we can cultivate, associating with it English bluegrass. Itanmbach Strawberry (irontne. J. S. Stickney contributes to the or gan of the Wisconsin Horticultural So ciety the following paper: The very successful strawberry growing of Mr. Wm. von Baumbach has caused much inquiry as to his methods. Being his near neighbor and passing his plantation almost daily, I ira quite familiar with his methods. and with his consent will state a few of my impressions. I think the key note to all his success is persistent, thorough painstaking, to do everything in season and in the best possible man ner. His soil is only fairly good, such as may be found on almost any quarter-section of average farm land stiff clay subsoil, surface rather a h'aVvy clay loam, originally covered with a heavy growth of Oak and Maple; a strong soil but not easy to manage. He uses manure from the city stables freely, but not excessively, twenty to twenty-five loads per acre once in three years. For these many years, more than three-fourths of all his planting has been six rows of Crescent to three rows of Wilson, and his faith today is stronger in these than any other; still ho tries most of the newer kinds. Perhaps the most noticeable points of his management are: 1st, early and careful planting on thoroughly prepared ground. 2d, frequent, almost constant, culti vation. Light, fine-toothed cultivators are run after every rain, and about every seven days whether it rains or not. with very frequent hoeing and weeding, until new runners cover the row space; later, the runners are clipped to a iine by a cultivator with an axle and two revolving discs in front. All weeds die young. 3d, his treatment of pickers. He em ploys only those of such age and re sponsibility as he can trust with a six teen quart case to pick and fill, with the bottom course of as good quality Ml and mb well filled as the top. Every family represented by these pickers re ceives two quarts of berries each day for their own use, in addition to their regular pay. He is never troubled with strikes. 4th, he secures "top" prices and quick sales by filling very box heap ing full. Nearly all his sales are to one commission house and it is very common in early morning to see five or ten retail grocer wagons standing before that store waiting for his team to arrive. Half of his load, or more, docs not reach the sidewalk, but goes directly to those wagons. He is an noyed by other growers and dealers gathering his empty crates and re filling them, so much so that he now docs not stencil them. All these things are easy. Let us each try them one season. Perhaps we shall like them. Mr. von Baumbach is planning to keep debit and credit the coming season and, as far as practicable, a comparative tally with some of the later kinds, the result of which he will give us at the close of the season. Otimtinu In Hee Kreping. 1. Is it the old or new queen that goes out with the swarm? 2. Do you clip one or both wings of the queen? 3. If drones are killed how is it best accomplished? How repress the rearing of them? 4. When sections are not finished in the fall flow of honey can the bees be fed and cause them to finish them? If so, do you advise this plan? Answer: 1. The old queen goes with the first swarm and a young queen with each after-swarm. 2. A bee has four wings, a large one and a small one on each side. It is sufficient to cut the large wing on one side, and better than to cut a little irom all. L. A. Aspinwall reports that he has cut off about an eighth of an inch from the wings on both sides of virgin queens, and finds they be come fertilized all right, showing they can lly with that amount cut from both sides. (lie doss this to secure fertiliza tion from his own drones rather than to have them fly off to a distance.) But if the same amount be cut away from one side only it throws them out of balance when they attempt to lly and they tumble to the ground. If you cut off just the one large wing take off all you can conveniently. With only one wing cut away, the defect is scarcely noticed, so that if you care greatly for the beauty of your queens you will cut only one wing. But the very fact that such clipping is not so readily noticed makes it objectionable to one who has much work in the apiary, so I prefer to cut off all I can conveniently from both wings en one side, then I can tell at a glance whether a queen is clipped or not. 3. You can kill drones by means of a drone-trap in front of the hive, catch ing them in it and then destroying them. A better plan is to slice tho heads off the drone-brood after it is sealed. Much better than either is tho plan of having no drone-comb in the hive. Fill every frame full of worker foundation. But bees are sometimes so desperately in earnest about rear ing drones that they will work a few drone-cells in every possible place, and will even build some cells on worker base. G. M. Doolittle thinks it better to allow them one or two square inches of drone-comb in the hive, and this satisfies them, and gives the beekeep er no trouble to find it, so he can slice it everv two or three weeks. 4. Most bee-keepers decide that it is not easily practicable, and not piolit ablc. American Beekeeper. Scrub Conr Sojih'ntry. A correspondent in the Rural New Yorker makes a plea for what he calls the scrub cow by reason of tho fact that she is a better mill for the consumption of roughage, and as at the present prices of butter it does not pay to feed grain. This sounds very nice, and doubtless there are many who sup pose that it is true; but such reason ing is at the most somewhat super ficial. In the first piace what is "roughage?" Webster does not recog nize the word, so we may assume that it means the hay and coarse fodders on the farm. Now in the first place, we admit that a native cow may turn more of mouldy or weedy hay into but ter than will a thoroughbred that has for gereuations been used to good feed. But if any man will deliberately pursue that line of dairy farming that calls for the raising of weedy hay, and tho improper curing of good hay, then we may say Ephraim is wedded to his idols, let him alone. We all sometimes raise weedy hay, and at times get some of it improperly cured, but do not let us deliberately plan for such work. And even admitting that every year we must get some of our hay caught in too many rains there is no cow on earth, be she scrub or thoroughbrd, that will mako the best butter out of poor feed. Let us set as to feeding grain or hay: A ton of timothy hay and a ton of bran contain as lollows, in each 100 pounds: Protein. C-kydrates. Fa:. Timothy hay .. 3.0 43.0 1.2 Bran 12.G 40.1 2.0 And while the bran contains four times as much protein or milk-making food, twice as much fat and slightly more carbohydrates as the hay, yet tho price of the two is nearly the same. .Docs this look as if it did not pay to feed grain to cows? This is an ex treme case to be sure, as timothy is the highest priced hay we have, yet it is often the case that food nutrients may be purchased cheaper in the form of grain than in hay or coarse fodder. The fact of the matter is that the low er the price of butter the more need of the be-st cow, and the best feed where with to feed her. Spraying. Utah experiment .station publishes the following: I. Spraying is undoubtedly effective and pays if fruit raising does. II. Spray thoroughly and spray when it will do the most good and not before nor after. III. For fungous diseases spray with some copper salt, a simple solu tion of copper sulphate, 1 pound to 15 gallons of water, before the buds swell; later with the Bordeaux mix ture, and as the fruits near.s maturity use the ammoniaca! solution of cop per carbonate. IV. For insects which gnaw spray with Paris green or London purple, 1 pound to 'I'M gallons of water, apply ing it when the enemy is scn at work or earlier if he works within the plant. V. For insects which suck the plant juices spray the insect itself with hcrcseue emulsion and be sure that each one gets its share. VI. The aphis or apple-rcot louse is successfully combated by applying tobacco dust about the roots of the affected tree. The cost is about two cents per tree. VII. Neither spraying for injects nor for fungous diseases injure the fruit for ue as food. Six sea-going steamers heinjj con structed at St. I-ouis are bolipvcd to bv intended for Cuban insurgents. Kven the gosii helps to kep soma people straight. NEEDED DIETING. Aa Attenuated It or so That Kxeltod a oncer's Unnecessary Sympathy. A South Chicago policoman carao across an attenuated sorrel horso tied to a hitching- post the other day. Ho waited a few minutes until tho ownor arrived, and then said: Why don't you feed your horso something? I'd wager that he hasn't seen an oat sinco ho was a colt. Do vou feed him on tho photograph of a balo of hay?" Mr. Otlicer, you don't know that liorso or you wouldn't talk that way." I don't know the horo, but I know that you ought to Ihj run in for work ing a starved beast like that; it's a caso for the S. P. C. A. Do you weigh out his food to him on an apothecary's scales?" Officer, beforo you say any moro do mo a favor; get in that buggy and drive around the block, and when you p;et back here tell mo what to feed him; I'll do whatever you say." Tho policeman got into tho buggy nnd started off. Ho thought ho was in a morry-go-rmind driven by cyolono power: he braced his feet against tho dashboard and hung onto tho reins until his wrists cracked, nnd there was a shower of heels all over the road; tho buggy slewed around tho corners on ono wheel, and when tho hor.-o finally landed up against tho hitching post with his front legs over the shafts, tho officer was so dazed ho couldn't speak for a minute. Well," queried tho owner, "what (7o you think I'd better feed tho liorso?" If I owned him," answered tho policeman, sternly, "I'd food him on some cood. reliable anaesthetic." Viiltors to Lincoln 1'nrk In Chicago Will ho delighted with tho souvenir book of this beautiful spot now being distributed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Kail way Company. It is a magnificent uihIieu't:oii of W pages full to overflowing with delicious half ton pictures of one of ("Ttntion's nio-.t chnrining places of resort for citi7ens of the (Jret Republic. 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