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, ,. v rtr" f7rz& "vV-'K H S9C 30ZZS Docks seed other poultry. feed, as Trail a ANOTHER WOMAN CORED BrM&3r A MBM.M,ManHi .."iw . MBDii4 he I 1l !i I w , Q atatfaaf aBaiaaaaiaaaaaaaamwaaaaaiiLABrV XBiW. a BBaaaT'aBBSaBaaa? i i .Mares bred in November will drop their, colts the following October. What a great debt the world owes the farmer for the many good things tie produces. Never keep more hens than you can accommodate comfortably, because they never do well when crowded. ' The sale of saddle horses in New fork city has been 20 per cent more luring the present year than it was last, Give fruit trees plenty of light and root feeding room. There is always more danger of setting trees too close together than too far apart It may be necessary to have several pens and follow a system of line, breeding so that there may not be too much inbreeding or loose breed ing. Coaxing a little loveliness into what have been waste places is a modern mission, which is expected to have an influence in extending the reaction toward country life. Hay farming is sometimes called mining the land because it is sup posed to gradually remove and ex oaust the fertility of the farm in the same way that mining removes the ore supplies. One of the most common methods of blanching is by means of boards placed on edge along each side of the row of celery. This method is also in general use for blanching large Gelds of early celery. A horse that has been worked 12 to 15 hours during the day is entitled to' a good feed. Twelve quarts of oats, divided into three meals, and from eight to ten pounds of hay, given at might, make a good ration. , The apple maggot is one of the greatest menaces to the apple culture and is one of the most difficult pests to eradicate. It inhabits the interior of the fruit and to destroy it means the destruction of the apple itself. If hens are made comfortable In every way and have only thee grow ing of a normal crop of feathers, and are. fed liberally with nutritious pro tein? feeds, they will come through the moulting period in good condition and Will be ready in a short time to lay eggs for the high market , An experiment with milking ma chines by the Nebraska experiment station shows that the majority of cows yield their milk as freely and fully when milked with a machine as when milked by hand, but with some individual animals the use of the ma chine is not entirely successful. Fall is a good time to give the farm a general overhauling. Espe cial attention should be given to haul ing and repairing. The roads are good and the fields solid where the hauling must be done. It is a better time than spring to fix up the fences, as the ground is not wet Building of sheds and general repairing is best done when the material and ground are dry. Clover in wheat or oat stubble in tended for hay next year should not be too heavily pastured this fall. Cut ting over the field once or twice with the mowing machine will give the young plants a better chance to light and air, and the weeds and stubble mowed off will help form a mulch for holding moisture during the dry weather and keep the plants from freezing in cold weather. It' Is not an easy matter to cure cow pea hay, the vines, being so large and so full of sap, cure slowly, and with unfavorable weather the hay is apt to damago badly, if not spoiled before it is cured enough totack or put in the mow. The difficulty of harvesting and curing cowpea hay, its tendency to be come woody and the lower yield per acre, make this crop for hay produc tion less valuable than alfalfa where alfalfa can be successfully grown. Following the feeding of rye before other soiling crops mature, an unused pasture should be kept in reserve and tho cows turned on when the grass in the arly pasture is eaten short If a field of the farm is in winter wheat and another field in oats, and these fields are sown in clover in early spring and the wheat and oats re moved as soon as possible after har vest these fields may be used as dairy pastures for a short time to good ef fect, while the other pastures are recuperating. From early in the fall until the first of the year when tho severe weather sets in, a fairly good storage house for r the farm .can be found in any tight ' building that is provided with proper ventilation. Fruits and vegetables can be stored in such a building and be kept in good condition for many weeks with proper care. The manner in crhlch this can be done is to place the vegetables and fruits in the building, keeplng'the doors and windows closed -during the day and open them at sight By" opening the doors and win dows at night the place becomes chilled and the warm air is kept out during the day time when the doors amd windows are closed. Market your eggs at least oacesa .week; oftener if possible. - Develop, the digestive" apfetuV of the pig. and then crowd in the feed and pat on the'fat , . Sheep should be given salt Vvery day. Once a week is not sufficient They will not eat too much. An apple or a peach may do well in Texas or California, but 500 miles dis-Umt-of even 100 it -may not be de sirable. At the time for hogging dowa corn lJie soil usually is comparatively dry, hence little or no damage is done "rom the pasturing. To promote animal growth requires feed, and the shedding of hair or foatliora f-nlroo nlnpA cnnPr on B. fat animal than on a poor animal. r; In going into winter quarters, be rare that every ewe is in the oe. if condition. If any are below stand lrd nurse and feed them up at once. If a boy is often told that he Is not ?arning his salt he is more than like 'y to reach that conclusion himself ind his training will be made on that .lne. The Roman hyacinth and the po 'yanthus or cluster varieties of nar cissus are among the very quickest ind easiest of bulbs for forcing, eith er in water or in earth. Both for the house and for garden lie there are a number of small bulbs lot generally well known that are worth looking up if one cares for a ittle experimental trial. The moulting period for chickens is it hand. During this period we mav iot expect many eggs, for the vitality it the hens is heavily drawn upon for the growth of a new crop of feathers. Shell-pink Italian hyacinths, sur rounding a yellow crown imperial, will nake a lovely filling for a small lawn bed. The Italian hyacinths are very similar to Roman ones, but bloom rather later. There is little cause for complaint in regard to prices for cattle that are well fitted for the market this year. The man who markets the low-priced stock is the one who is reaping his deserts in low prices. In dairying there are some natural unfavorable conditions that can never be fully overcome. However, most of them can be modified to a marked de gree, and fairly good results be ob taiucd in the face of them. Alsike clover makes very fine hay when properly cured, but it cannot be depended upon for a second crop. It is not quite so good a soil improver as red clover, but it will stick longer and grow in more acid soil. A brood sow should be fed a varie ty, such as bran, roots, etc Corn is fattening and should not be fed in large quantities. It promotes neither growth of the sow nor pigs. Some green vegetable food should be given in winter. When pastures are short, all domes tic animals suffer for feed, and if they are expected to keep up in good flesh, health and vitality they must be sup plied with sufficient nourishing feed to meet all their vital needs. When pastures are short supplementary feeds must be supplied. The pig may not use its tail for switching away the flies, and it may require some feed to make the tail grow, but any sensible person knows that giving a pig a variety of good feeds has more to do with its fatten ing and growing than the cutting off of the tail or the slitting of its ears. Fall planting is strongly recom mended for such important perennials as peonies, German and Japan iris, and for many lilies. The German iris is one of the best plants for coloniz ing, holding its own finely, and admir ably suited to adorn the margins of a little stream or pond. Get after apple tree borers this fall. Dig them out of their burrows. It is an easy matter to find their location by the residue from their work. When found it can be dug out with a sharp knife, or killed 'with a small wire the wire being inserted and forced upon the insect where it is working. Do not Injure the bark more than is necessary in cutting out the pest Roup in fowls is a germ disease and hence infectious. When it makes it appearance In your flock separate th affected birds from the well ones as soon as possible. The symptoms o: roup are a slight cold, "sneezing, wa tering of the eyes, and a wheezing at night Disinfect the quarters immedi ately In which the well birds stay to prevent the disease from spreading. Bathe the head, nostrils and throat of the sick birds with coal oil. If there is no other trash on the farm for filling washy places in tho fields straw manure from the stables is excellent The straw will fill the places and catch and hold all of the soil that washes into them. The man ure in the straw will help to make the ground more productive when it is again cultivated. Never plow in a gully with fresh dirt without some trashy or brushy filling to hold it and catch more. Nitrogen must be maintained by le gume crops and the .best legume for the corn belt is clover. The clover crop should be le't on the ground. If re moved, not much, if any, nitrogen is added to the soil. If the crop is re moved and fed to average live stock and the manure given average care and hauled back to the field, the loss is pearly one-half of the plant food and three-fourths of the organic mat ter. If a good crop of clover is left on the ground once every three or four years, only the seeds being removed, it will supply sufficient nitrogen for quite large grain crops. feSaVaw 'aaw aHBS" ST L wa Paae. w "B h JW BaaY aaaa M w wB m bbW at aaT .HH-HavT .MLTm bbw B3ra 2flE9B 9KkBaarK'H "aW Baaaaav MaaaaVafJaaav aaaVaaaaHB 9 aaa tnaaaaw aBBBaaavV aa Jm r f aaaaaBaaaaananaT aaBBBstVaavVBaUIZr xa&Mftp9 "3SSJr amWM aB S- " ilrnfrfff Tnv yrzssi -vwnjnNX ctn . iiHfaiHiiiniiUBiH ! b wmu titmiamm-nMmmmmt w mrmi ulillllliiailK (J learned. The Royal Acad- ' 7aVri5Iav5Allal 17 Yt II . vlwQmirjjflv I Hlw Y'HMrwinm .. 1,1,1 ' w ' ' laaaaaaaaaaaaaBiHHBBBBBBBBn HHB5aiEi3 ByLydiaEPiokliam's Vegetable Compound Gardiner, Maine. "I have ben a great sufferer from organic troubles anaaaeTexexeawis weakness. The doctoraakllwoaki have to go to taa hospital for aa operation, bat I could not bear to think of it I de cided to try Lydia js..nnttaBVs veg etable Compound andSanativeWasa and was entirely cured after three months use of them.' Mrs. 8. A. Wrr.T.TAws, b. F. D. No. 14 Box , Gardiner, Me. No woman should submit to & surgi. cal operation, which may mean death, until she has given L.vdia.Finkhanis Vegetable Compound, made exclusive ly from rooU and herbs, a fair triaL This famous medicine for women has for thirty years proved to be the most valuable tonic and renewer of the female organism. Women resid ing in almost every city and town in the United States bear willing testi mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. KnkhanVs Vegetable Compound. It cures female ills, and creates radi- antk buoyant female health. If you are ill, for your own sake as well as cnose you love, give it a mat Mrs. Pinkbam, at Iiyaua, Mass Invitee all sick women to writ fcfer for advice, Ileradviceif.free, and alarays aelpf ul POOR BOY. Editor's Note. This account of a sev enteeth century scientific expedition was published In the Auburn (111.) Citizen. March IS. 1SSG. as an item of local in terest, there living at that placo at that time many descendants of Pauly, the en gineerthe Poleys. Parkses, Fosters, and other families being: represented in the list. The original manuscript in French was in the possession of John Pauley of Kansas, who was at the time of the pub lication visiting his Illinois kinsmen. This account is particularly interest ing at this time, as it describes the con ditions prevailing on the coast of Cali fornia. In 1769. an event fittingly celebrat ed by the Golden Gate City. The malady described by Pauly, which decimated the ranks of the French expe dition, occurred at the same time as sev eral other writers mention a very severe prevalence of scurvy in California, and was probably the same. HE observation of the tran sit of Venus on the 3d of June, 1796, was an object of interest to all the learned. The Royal Acad emy of Sciences proposed to the king, Louis XV., to make the necessary outlay to send to California for this purpose. The late M. L'Abbe Cbappe undertook this voy age with a courage worthy 'of his zeal for the progress of science. I was se lected to accompany him and we set sail for Mex ico in the month of September, 1768. After a perilous voyage of about 3,000 leagues, we arrived hi Mexico on Easter day, 1769. Time was passing; we stopped but eight days to re fresh ourselves. The viceroy procured us mules and provisions, and we undertook to perform by land a part of the remainder of our travels, which was about 300 leagues. Amid lofty mountains, dreadful precipices and arid deserts, we encoun tered new dangers every day. We failed from fear a thousand times. We were also oppressed by the excessive heat, which left us hardly strength enough to drag ourselves. A thousand insects of every species gave us no rest by day or night, and we had constantly to be on our guard against the very ferocious beasts with which the country is covered. Moreover, we lacked the nec essaries of life, for the provisions that we got in Mexico had been spoiled by the heat. We were obliged to live on wild cattle and whatever fruits we could find here and there. We made our halts near some river or spring, that we might slake the burning thirst with which we were constantly consumed; to find one it was often necessary to march a whole day's journey. Arrived In the evening in some valley, or on the side of some hill, we would endeavor to take upon the ground (et a la belle etoille), the repose which our cruel fatigue rendered so necessary. When scarcely asleep we were often aroused by a storm, and then by the impetuous torrents that came down upon us from the heights of the moun tains. Many a dark night we had to save our selves and our equipage, fearful at every step of tumbling down some of the precipices. After running a thousand risks we arrived at last at the port of San Bias, on the Pacific ocean; thence we embarked for California on a brigan tine which the viceroy of Mexico had had pre pared. The Pacific ocean, although very tran quil, is not the less dangerous on account of the (vigics) with which it is filled. The great calm which prevailed at that time caused us to despair of arriving in time to accom plish the object of our voyage. After six weeks sailing, during which we made but 150 leagues, on the greatest breadth of the sea, the shortness of the time caused us to risk a hazardous exploit. The part of California near which we found our selves was the port of San Jose so dangerous that no one had ever landed there. The access to It is guarded by the incessant waves that break impetuously against the rocks. The Spanish astronomers who were of our com pany wished to wait for a favorable wind to land at Cape St. Lucas, which was distant but ten leagues. The landing there is indeed less danger ous, but we did not follow their advice because we were pressed to arrive at the place of our des tination; we resolved to attempt to disembark at the first land we should discover. While these gentlemen were yet deliberating, four Indian -sailors and myself let down the long boat; we took with us half of the instruments. I agreed with the Abbe Chappe that if we per ished he might find other means to land else where with the rest, which would be sufficient for making his observations. I embarked then in the long boat with -my four sailors, steering di rectly for the coast; the nearer we approached it the more we were sensible of the difficulty of landing. We were constantly thrown back by the accu mulated waves, and our boat threatened all the while to ship water. -When on the point of losing courage, one of the sailors discovered, at a dis tance, the mouth of an unknown river. This dis covery animated us; we reached the coast by this mouth but with great difficulty. I sent back the loug boat for the Abbe Chappe and the Spanish astronomers, who arrived safely enough. Arrived on the peninsula the twenty-first of May, 1769, 13 days before the epoch of the tran sit of Venus. We found no (azile a pouvoir nous mettre a labir), the inclemency of the weather. The savages that repaired to us said that a con tagion was prevailing in this country which rav aged it completely. The Interpreter who trans lated this added that they said that in order to withdraw ourselves from the influence of this ter rible malady, it was necessary to remove some hundred or more leagues farther to the north. The means of undertaking this new journey, broken down with fatigue as we were; we had neither horses nor carriers to transport our bag gage; it was impossible to march on foot, and we shrank from a Journey through a desert. All these reasons decided us to occupy ourselves with no business but that which had brought us. We labored to construct an observatory, which was ready the twentj'-eighth day of May, six day3 before the epoch when we would have need of it We made our observations on the third of June, with the greatest exactness. The contagion made new progress every day: a general sorrow reigned in all this part of Cali fornia; we were not long without participating in it in a distressing manner. This dreadful malady came upon us six or seven days after the observa tion. We were wholly without succor; we could not be useful to one another, because we were at tacked almost all at once. The little medicine that we had brought from France was useless, from want of knowiug how to apply it. Nevertheless, the abbe, all sick as he was, con tinued his observations all the time. After ob serving an eclipse of the moon, he at last yield ed to his faintness, the delirium of his disease left him but little time to examine himself; he died the first of August, 1769. We were all dying (I and the companions of our voyage), when I had the sorrow to close his eyelids. Our situation and our want of strength induced us in this case to bury him without much cere mony. I devoted some moments to regret for the loss I had suffered, and In the height of a disease from which I did not expec to recover, I took the precaution to collect all the papers relating to the object of the voyage. I placed them in a casket with an address to. the viceroy of Mexico. 1 earnestly begged some Indian chiefs who were about me to make this casket safe In case we should all die, and to transmit it to the vessel which ought to arrive in the month of September to take us. My intention in this was to secure to my country this valuable depot. I remained in my condition of sickness, pain and wretchedness until the twenty-ninth of September. At last the captain of the vessel arrived, be had landed at the island of Ceralvo, which is situ ated some 30 leagues from San Jose. My joy was so much the greater in seeing him that he pressed me to quit the fearful place where M. L'Abbe Chappe and all the rest had died. We were car ried to Ceralvo. I forgot to say that this cruel contagion had taken from us the chaplain and nearly all the persons that formed our little com pany. , Although sick and oppressed with grief, I was compelled to undertake the perilous route which I had followed in coming, sometimes upon mules, sometimes upon the backs of the Indians, when it was necessary to cross the streams. With all this trouble, I reached Mexico the twenty-third day of November, 1769. There I was received by monsieur the marquis of Croix, the viceroy of that country, with a com passion worthy of that good patriot. He had had the kindness to send to meet me a carriage and his physician. Arrived at the capital of Mexico, and having paid my respects to the viceroy I was lodged by his orders at the expense of the city. When I left Mexico the marquis de Croix rec ommended me cordially to the commander of the Spanish fleet, in which I embarked. We land ed at Cadiz the twenty-first of July, 1770. The court was at the Escurlal. I had myself taken thither, and presented myself to the marquis d'Os sun, then French ambassador In Spain. He re ceived me with marks of kindness and consider ation, and gave orders to show me whatever they have to show strangers in this royal house. He catised me to dispatch in advance of the party, the strictest orders through the minister of customs, that at no pass on my route must be searched either myself or the chests in which were the observations which I bore. I did not arrive in Paris till the fifth of the fol lowing December. I sent to the Academy the ob servations that we made in California. This so ciety expressed the greatest satisfaction with my zeal and my services. They "presented me to the king, and to all his ministers. They solicited for me a recommendation of my labors. His majesty, Louis XV. granted me a small pension of SOOf. The government is too equitable to leave me in want in the flower of my age, afflicted with the evils which I have Incurred for the service, and indispensably obliged to have a servant to lead me. I hepe, then, from his justice and from bis goodness, that he will grant me an increase of the pension sufficient to enable me to accomplish with decency the rest of my public career. "Dear me! Why do you cry so bit terly?" "I'm cryin 'cause I'm so wicked dat I'm goin ter play hookey, instead of goin ter school, boo hoo!" The Soft Answer. At a dinner in Bar Harbor a Boston woman praised the wit of the late Ed ward Everett Hale. "Walking tin the outskirts of Boston one day," she said, "he and I inadvert ently entered a field that had a 'No Trespassing' sign nailed to a tree. "Soon a farmer appeared. " Trespassers in this field are prose cuted,' he said in a grim tone. "Dr. Hale smiled blandly. "'But we are not trespassers, my good man,' he said. '"What are you then?' asked the amazed farmer. "We're Unitarians,' said Dr. Hale." Washington Star. Expensive Silence. Little four-year-old Alice was lying on the floor whining and crying stead ily one afternoon, until, her father's patience exhausted, he called out to her: "Oh, stop, Alice, and I'll givo you a penny." Alice stopped only long enough to answer: "I can't stop for less than a nickel! Boohoo! Boohoo!" Tuberculosis Among Soldiers. For 1,000 active troops in the armies of the great world powers, the follow ing figures show the percentage ot cases of pulmonary tuberculosis: United States, 4.72; Great Britain and colonies. 2.4; France. 5.3; Germany, 1.5; Austria, 1.0, and Russia, 2.7. A Frencch Scholar. As William bent over her fair face be whispered: "Darling, if I should ask you in French if I might kiss you, what would you answer?" She, calling up her scanty knowl edge of the French language, ex claimed, "Billet doux." Tit-Bits. A Ready Explanation. "What is the reason you were so late in discovering the north pole?" "Well." answered the explorer, "you see they have such long nights in the arctic regions that I overslept." The angels are always waiting to open the windows of heaven, over the head of the man who will bring the last tithe into the storehouse. A BANKER'S NERVE Broken by Coffee and Restored by Postum. HELD TO STRICT ACCOUNTING Chinese Police Officials Ate Expected to Be Urgent in Preventing and Punishing Crime. In lemon-colored silk a Chinese dip lomat on an Atlantic City pier talked about Chinese laws. "Some of our laws, you know, are very stimulating," he said. "For ex ample, Chi owed money to a money lender. Chi would not pay, and the money lender hanged himself on Chi's doorpost Chi was condemned to death. Tou see, he was really respon sible for the money lender's death. "A son able to support his parents Is imprisoned for life if be won't do so. A son unable to support them is im prisoned for three years, as we hold and quite rightly that there must be something wrong with a young man who can't support his parents. "Our police are excellent, thanks to the stimulus of our law. When a crime is committed a sleuth is put upon the case and given, say 30 days, to land the criminal. If the sleuth fails, he himself pays the penalty of the crime, less two degrees. Thus, if the Sigel murder had occurred in China, a police official would now be undergoing life imprisonment. That, too, is a just and stimulating law. For if the police can neither prevent nor punish such a crime as the Sigel murder, then thsy should be them selves punished for their rank incapacity." Good Gunnery at Sea. If our navy's gunners can shoot lit tle targets so full of holes nobody is able to see the exact score they can shoot up an enemy's big battleships so thoroughly that nobody can tell or many care to know which guns won the victory. The target practice ofl the Virginia capes should make every American proud of our ships and ol the men in them. A banker needs perfect control of the nerves, and a clear, quick, accu rate brain. A prominent banker of Chattanooga tells how he keeps him self in condition: "Up to 17 years of age I was not allowed to drink coffee, but as soon as I got out in the world I began to use it and grew very fond of It. For some years I noticed no bad effects from its use, but in time it began to affect me unfavorably. My hands trembled, the muscles of my face twitched, my men tal processes seemed slow and in other ways my system got out. of order. These conditions grew so bad at last that I had to give up coffee altogether. "My attention having been drawn to Postum, I began its use on leaving off the coffee, and it gives me pleasure to testify to its value. I find it a delicious beverage; like It just as well as I did coffee, and during the years that I have used Postum I have been free from the distressing symptoms that ac companied the use of coffee. The nerv ousness has entirely disappeared, and f am as steady of hand as a boy of 25, though I am more than 92. years old. I owe all this to Postum." "There's a Reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Grocera sell. Erer rend the above letter? A aerr e appear from time to time. They are Kenalae, trae, aed tall ot kamu latertsc - v il T I V .
