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Way back in 1835 our National debt
leas than $40,000.
According to the United States
Bureau of Geographio Nomenclature,
the proper name of Cuba’s capital is
Habana.
Hall Caine, the English novelist,
says that tho copyright question em¬
bodies as much menace of war as that
of the Venezuela boundary.
Many years ago Victor Hugo opined
that the time was nigh when the
millionaire of the intellect would take
to pitying tho millionaire of money.
A Congressman is quoted as saying
that when he first entered Congress ho
wondered how he ever got there, but
later on wondered how any of them
ever got there.
Pennsylvania proposes to abandon
the “district school” in rural locali¬
ties—famous as “tho little red school
house ’—and bunch the schools in the
middle of each township.
It is no disgrace for a great man,
when ho is bard np, to fill a email
place ut a small salary, philosophizes
the New York Herald. But when a
little man tries to fill a large place at
ft large salary, well, that is a different
matter.
A novel-reading class in English
literature at Yalo votes that “Lorna
Doono” is tho best English novel.
“Gentleman of France" ranks second,
thou como Howell’s "A Modern In¬
stance” and Stevenson’s "Treasure
Island."
it is one of life’s little ironies that
tho British rulers of India won’t be
able to sell opium to theChiueso much
longer, in spite of a war to open the
Celestial ports to its sale. The Chin¬
ese are raising it for themselves bet¬
ter and cheaper.
Sol Smith ButseU, the actor, ex¬
pressed regrot iu a speech made at St.
Louis that no modern writer had given
to the comedians who wero ambitious
to acquire something more than ephe¬
meral fame a comedy which was
worthy of their best efforts.
Now York lms moro Germans in its
population than any city of the Ger
muu Empire except twelve; more
French than any city of France ex¬
cept fifteen ; moro Italians than live in
any city of Itnty exoept eight, and
moro Irish than livo in any oity ia
Ireland except two.
• The world is becoming tho world’s
marki'MfcSCrhe editor of the India Wifc
ai ■ 1 * Aiotos mi ioouo vuuii no
“took down his lamp made in Ger-
1,1,1 ty, with its chimney made in Japan,
filled it with oil made iu Batoum, and
lit it with a Japanese match. Then,
taking a pad of German paper, he took
his American fountain pen, and began
to writo on the manufacturing and
commercial supremacy of Great Brit¬
ain !” Tho day is past, adds tho New
York Observer, when any one Nation
can claim a monopoly of tho world’s
wares and trade routes.
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There cannot be the slightest doubt,
maintains tho Chicago Timoa-Herald
that Russia with an Empire ^ already J
including , 10,090,000 nn . square miles,
with a populatiou from whioh an army
of 5,000,000 may bo mobilized, half
ot it m a mouth, ’ aud with .. a navy
rapidly ... approaching magnitude . . and .
in
potency that of Great Britain, will yet
risk her existence iu an effort to plant
her standard at the Golden Horn. Al
• ready her diplomacy has detaohod
from England every possible ally that
would not be an incumbrance. No
other European Power has a motive or
.h..bl^ Hie Mediterranean. tokM p B«U But, ba 0k if frum the
even
ambition of Russia be satisfied, aud
Constantinople become her southern
capital, it does not follow that Europe
will becomo Cossack. On the contrary,
the ultimate fulfillment of the predio*
tion is far more likely to be that the
Cossack, like Europe, will become re¬
publican.
We read every few days of the im
xnenso purses offered to nttra^ the
best equine talent to turf meetings,
and the winner of a notable event
frequently "pulls down” as much as
$50,000 or $60,000. Recently there
ended in St. Petersburg a chess tour
unmeet .bid »roa S ht ***,« «»
four leading players of tbe wor.d—
Fillsbury, Laskar, Steinitz and Tschi
goriD. The match, says the New York
Times, lasted a month, each contest
ants plavmg , eighteen . .. game., _ nd ,
Lasker and Steinitz taking the chief
honors. Here is what the tournament
1 ost the St. Petersburg Chess Club :
Lasker (total in prizes)....... • . fAOO
Hi emits (total iu prizes)....... .
rillsbury (total in prizes)...... 205
Tschigoriu (total ia prizes).,. 235
Traveling expenses to the first three
named players........ ............ 900
Hotel and other expenses for the play
frs. 650
Sundries 15c
Totals $S04f
The veriest skate at the old time
oittenberg track, adds the Times,
: Byuvi: neighed his disdain at such
. M. I-'.:.-i.’.
mBBjSSKKe'uc'' well us te attri-,
the silver lining.
There's never a day bo sunny
But a little cloud appears;
There’s never a life so happy
But has its time of tears;
Yet the sun shines out the brighter
Whenever the tempest clears.
There’s never a garden growing
With roses In every plot;
There's never a heart so hardened
But it has one tender spot;
W« have only to prune the border
To find the forget-me-not.
There’s never a sun that rises
But wo know ’twill set at night;
The tints that gleam in the morning
At evening are just as bright;
And thejhour that is the sweetest
Is between the dark and light.
Thert’s never a dream so happy
But the waking makes us sad;
There’s never a dream of sorrow;
But the waking makes us glad;
•b e shall look some day with wonder
At the troubles we have had.
A GUILTY MAN.
BY ROBERT C, V. METERS.
HE had nerved her¬
self to meet her
father. She glanced
in the mirror and
saw how pale she
was. Her fat h’e r
would be pale, too,
but how different bis
pallor from her own—his a pallor like
none other in the world.
A shiver passed over her. Did she
love her father? Her anger went out
to him, not her lova } her love was for
Jaok, and he could never be anything
to her. Last ni^ht she had written to
Jack and told him the truth, and the
truth would separate them forever.
She was tho daughter of a thief!
YVhal uselessness it had been for her
mother to move hundreds of miles from
the old home ; it had been done for the
husband, not for the daughter. For
the daughter there had been a half
year’s residence in this new place, and
a learning to love a man whom she had
last night declined to marry. Her
father had wrought this unhappiness
as ho had wrought so mu ah more.
What grief had not her father
wrought! The day he went to prison
for tho defalcation in the bank where
he had been cashier aud her mother’s
father president, had not her mother’s
father fallen dead? The world had
said the old banker could not stand
the disgrace. And what more? Had
not hor mother’s mother, always an
invalid, been stricken by her hus¬
band’s death, and never been told of
her son-in-law’s crime? There had
been a mass of deception, the poor
feeble woman being led to believe that
her daughter’s husband, whom she
loved os a son, had gone away on busi¬
ness, and letters writton in his prison
cell had been read to her, and they
told hor of great prosperity in the
West, with a cheerfulness that was ap¬
palling. Yes, tho girl almost hated
nor father as she thought over tho
events of the past four years. And,
yot, would sho havo hated him save
for .Tack?
Bj.o proved her hands^fiercely to her
eyi s.
f- uldenly she started; there was a
step on the stairs, her mother was
bringing her father up to her. How
should sho meet him him? Had it not
been for Jack, she knew how she should
have met^him! But her father had
forced Jack from her.
The steps ascending the stairs
stopped. There was a cough outside
tho library door. She knew the sharp
little cough—she used to fly to meet
her father, four rears back, when she
heard that little cough in the hall in
the dear old home. Now sho did not
move from the chair she sat in.
She heard a voice outside the door,
her mother urging her father to enter
tiio room. Then the handle of the
d ° or tu f ued ’ ^ ud her mother led in a
strangely aged -
t man.
The girl rose ; her father stood be
fore her, expectancy in his face. She
weut slowi y to aQti held herfore
head up to his lips. if Her mother
1,1 looked angrily -i at , her, ‘but ,, , she , went
back to her seat and caught up some
sewing,
“Annie,” said her mother, sharply,
“isthis the way to meet your father?
Do you know that all that has oc¬
curred has been more to me than to
anyone else in the world? And yet I
forgive because I love. And you, who
have a lover—”
any longer. I wrote him last night;
I told him the truth, and that I
^oulJ not marry him.”
The father shrank iu his chair.
"Ah," said the mother, "now 1 un¬
derstand.” She turned to her hus
baud. "Mark, do not mind it, dear,
Ybu have me, aud I shall never fail
you. Have I ever failed you? What
is done, is done; it is all wiped away ;
it is only remembered by your daugh
ter, not by me, and you are as much
to me after all the mistakes and suffer
iugs as the day when I stood by your
side and vowed to be a loving and true
wife till God should part us in death.
We always spoke of you, mother
an d I.”
“Your mother,” his dry lips said,
"where is she?”
bear a
little more?”
He looked at her.
“Annie,” she said, sternly, ' “get me
letters."
J.he girl went and took from a book
casQ a packet whioh she brought to
her mother.
“My letters to your mother,” the
man’s lips seemed to say, * “and un
opened.”
His wife fondled his hand.
“It was only a few months ago,” 6 he
said. "I could not tell you the truth
any more than I could tell her. The
truth would have made you unhappier,
and I wished to tell you myself. She
loved you as she loved me. One morn
ing one of your letters came, and until
I could read it to her, she asked me to
let her hold it. An hour latey we
foun d her with the letter held up to her
heart, and she was very white and
quiet. There had been no struggle
whatever, no pain. We laid
besid-^ ather, whom she bad
ceased grieving for, and who had
her every comfort in life, even
sure, he could hardly afford
^k^auces ordered all her and by her
over,
over, for both of them, dear; and you
were always kind and good to them.”
A long, low sigh broke from the
man. Then silence fell; the sound of
the car bells in tbe street came dis¬
tinctly to them, and the ticking of the
clock on the mantel was strangely
loud.
There was a movement on the part
of Annie; she rose and came and
kneeled beside her father’s chair.
“Father,” she said, “you must for¬
give me. I am not very happy. I do
not mean to be hard, but 1 can’t go
back from my reasoning. You have
not only mother, but you have me
also; I will do what I can, I am sure
you knew that, and after a while you
will not miss anything in me.”
“Go back to your seat,” command¬
ed her mother. ‘'Do you know that
you are in the presence of a broken
heart? Doesn’t your father accuse
himself of more than yon accuse him
of? Who are you with your paltry
love troubles to coiae to him iu a time
like this?”
“Hush, Mary!” said her husband,
"hush!”
The silence fell again.
Annie sat alone; she was apart from
everything; there was no love for her
any more. Her father had expiated
his sin in the eyes of tbe world; iu her
heart the sin that had been his still
lived. For there was Jack, and she
bad given him up because of her
father’s guilt. There was a nar¬
rowing of the radius; no mat¬
ter for Jack, if her father
were only an innocent man! Love
surely created a desire for purity, for,
since she had learned to.love Jack, her
father’s sin had grown and grown
upon her, and before that the sin had
been tempered by her pitying love
and her prayers for heaven’s forgive¬
ness.
The daughter of a thief! Oh, why
had she met Jack? Why had she al¬
lowed herself to care for him ! Why
had she let herself feel glad when she
knew that he loved her? Why had
she greatly desired that he should tell
her that he had given his noart to her,
and demanded her own in return?
How many sadly confused questions
did she put to herself as she sat there
in the miserable silence! her mother
and her father farther from her than
they had ever been before, while she
vainly tried to accuse her heart and
her daughterly affection of trans¬
gressing, even though Jack called
through the silence, that, but for her
father’s crime, she might have claimed
woman’s perfect happiness on earth.
Her mother and her father ap¬
parently failed to realize how muoh
she was going through; it was only
her lack of response to their love that
touched them. Her adoration of a
man who might have been her husband
was merely a foolishness of hers, and
not to be placed in the same category
with her duty as a daughter—the
daughter of a thief! That miserable
word, that disgraceful word would
come uppermost to her. But for Jaok
would this have been so? The daugh¬
ter of a thief!
There came a tap on the door, and
it soun.led on her ear like thunder.
Her mother went to the door and
opened it.
“Mark,” she said to her husband,
"it lb coon; sne wfttLes to speak to uie
about dinner. We are going to have
all tho things you used to—all the
things you like. Of course, the ser¬
vants know nothing, dear; you have
been West, you know. The servants
have only been with us since we moved
here. Would you like to come down¬
stairs, or will you stay here in the
library?”
“I will stay here,” he said, in his
hushed way. "Here.”
"Very well,” returned his wife. "I
sha’n’t be gone long. See, here is all
the old furniture, all your bcoks, just
as you used to like them, and the
pictures.” She leaned over and kissed
him before sh9 went out and closed
the door behind her.
Annie was alone with her father.
She heard him moving carefully
around, taking up a book, only to lay
it down again. He went up and looked
at his wife’s picture hanging between
two tall book-cases, then at that of hie
wife’s father. Before this last picture
he lingered, making no sound, but
looking, looking at the face of the old
bank president who had fallen dead
the day his trusted cashier and his only
daughter’s husband had gone to serve
a seutence in prison. Annie could not
see him, but she knew all that her
father did. Her back was toward him
as she leaned over her sewing, and her
heart beat fast when he turned from
the picture at last and swiftly crossed
the carpet.
When his hand was laid upon her
arm she almost shrieked aloud.
"Annie!” said her father's voice. It
was a firm voice now, no quaver of
doubt in it, and it forced her like a
command she dared not disobey.
She rose from her seat and faced
him.
Despite the physical changes in him
she saw before her his old self—
strong, not nnbrave, not disloyal, not
a criminal.
"You have given up your lover,” he
went on, rapidly. “You have given
him up because of me. Pay attention
to me. I will tell you what I had
hoped never to tell a living soul on
earth. And I must speak before your
mother comes back, for she must
never know. Bat you mast know,
and the man who had asked
yon to be his wife and whom you re¬
fused on account of me. I will go to
him and I will tell him as I tell you,
that I ba,e wrecked no life, that I
have not wrecked my daughter s hap
piness. Do you hear me? I have not
interfered with your right to be happy
with the man you love. I have been
adjudged a criminal, I have served a
criminal’s sentence. But I am an in
noceid man, anil,” he turned and
pointed to the picture of his I wife’s
father, "that man knew it. sacri
fled, not your mother, not yon, but
my own standing in society and the
minds of men for the sake of my wife’s
father and his invalid wife.”
She gasped, she understood him,
and she trembled from head to foot.
"I w a,” he
wen*
father’s sin made me a prisoner; it
was he who took the money, and I the
blame. I have proofs of all this, and
1 am glad I never destroyed them, for
I must show those proofs to the daugh¬
ter whose lack of love makes my word
of no accoant”
“Father!”
There was a quality in her cry that
told him more than many words; she
sprang to his arms, her heart held
olosely to his—he was innocent; he
was innocent! and though her life’s
greater love might be over and done,
the man who had asked her to marry
him had not loved the daughter of a
thief!
There was some one in the room,
though neither of them heeded till the
girl’s name was spoken by the new¬
comer.
“Jack!” she cried out, and clung
tbe closer to her tether ; "Jack I”
“Toa did rot hear me knock, e. 4
if- to obey . ’ 1 your Came note; to , tolt you 7°V love hat irlTr me as I
lore yon, and you will be my wue.
And coming m here I have heard
what your father »ld to you. Tour
father-—will he not let me call him
?^ he looked e V^ deeply erS , , , into , the young r . , man ’ „ . s ,
e ^f^rr
"Well, T, well,” „ „ said .... the bustling , library. voica .
of the wife coming into the
“And Jack here! Mark, my dear
Annie- Mark is this the happy end
of all your sadness and pam?
"Yes, ’ S 0 id the "guilty man, as he
placed the hand of his daughter into
that of her loyer. "Yes. -Godey s
Magazine.
Senate Pages Still Collect Autographs.
The pages in the Senate are once
more happy. They are as bright a set
of boys as one would meet in a ten
days’ journey, but their youthful
brows have been o’ercast with a griev¬
ance. Now that grievance has disap¬
peared, because, like the little patriots
who petitioned General Gage on Bos¬
ton Commons, they drew up a bill of
rights. Here is the document:
Whereas, is Tho prohibition of autograph
collecting detrimental to our interests, and
as it is necessary for the support and com¬
fort of our wives and children; therefore
be it
hereby Resoived, That we, the undersigned, do
protest and pray that we may be al¬
lowed to enjoy the privilege granted our il¬
lustrious predeoessors.
This commenication, duly addressed
to Mr. Bernard G. Layton, Assistant
Sergeant at-Arms, was presented by a
committee appointed for the purpose.
Mr. Layton, who is nothing if not
good-natured, looked at the youthful
petitioners and then read the imposing
document. Taking a lead pencil from
his pocket he indorsed it on the back
as follows;
How could a man resist tho plea of so great
a lot of statesmen? I cannot. Therefore
autographs will be allowed to be secured any
time before 11.80 a. m. aud beginning illteen
minutes after adjourment. Layton.
So the boys have taken out their
autograph books once more, and they
are as happy as the proverbial clam
when the tide is high.—Washington
Post.
Our Electoral College.
Ex-PresD 1a vt Harrison, in writing
uf tho "T.vj ’den! al Office,” in
interesting tint; L.ii fl’cb bit iT- • Oi * *J A/iAi ormation ua t l,'/ ,r regain
ing < u method of choosing a Chief
Magistrate. “The origin of the Elec¬
toral College,” he says, "has been the
subject ot much speculation. Tim only
American precedent is found in tho
first Constitution of Maryland, where
provision was made for the choice of
State Senators by electors ohosen by
popular vote in specified districts. Ixs
the Massachusetts Convention Mr.
Bowdoin said: ‘This method of choos¬
ing the President was probably taken
from the manner of choosing Senators
under the Constitution of Maryland.*
An attempt has been made to find the
suggestion of the Electoral College,
as we have come to call it, by some in
the method then in use of choosing
the German Emperor, and by others
in the method of choosing a Pope, by
the College of Cardinals. Sir Henry
Maine thinks that the members of the
convention ‘were to a considerable ex¬
tent guided by the example of the
Holy Roman Empire.’ And as Mary¬
land, where the Electoral College was
first used, was a Catholic colony, the
suggestion seems plausible. Bat there
was this difference : our electors are
not a permanent body, but fresh men
chosen every four years.”
Stages as Chicken Coops.
One of tho old Broadway stages, of
the kind that had plenty of gaudy
decoration and a picture on each side,
is now doing service in a New Jersey
town, as a chicken coop, where it was
seen the other day by a New York
Mail and Express reporter.
The stage has been lifted from its
wheels and the body placed on four
posts. A large oak tree spreads its
branches over the coop, and a stream
flows within a few feet of it. The step
behind has been retained, and the
fowls go to and from the roost through
the same doorway that once the arts
tocracy of Fifth avenue used in the
palmy It is days coincidence of the stage that coach. the pictures
on the sides that the ravages of time
have been most lenient with, repre
sent a barnyard group of ducks in a
pool and chickens busily scratching
the earth, while a rooster perched
upon a fence, is expressing his satis
faction with vociferous crowing. Peo
pie often express wonder a: to where
the old stages are now.
Nighlinsal^s a Nuisance
autnoress, ^r lss ^esba S.retton, the English the .
spent some years on
borders of Eppmg forest. Her house
* ber f was given up because the “night
“ g ^ e f wa rb*ed so vociferously as to
9 P 01 1 her mgnm rest. There is a
etory about the late Mr. Robins, a
f ^ Q ° aa Ea S ll3 b auctioneer, who, in
°®f nn S an estate »or sale, said the
oni Y drawbacks to the desirability ot
*be property were “the litter ot rose
leaves^ gales, and the noise of the nightin
A Rat Whips Six Cats,
on house rat which has
■ba a match for six cats
fS^fcigly and in in a Homer, square
a man
it in a trap in his
|^®ago. ^■try looking, It is ordinary but
a
in both method
York Sun.
AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FAR31 AND GARDEN.
THE EFFECTS OF CARROTS ON THE MTLK.
If the milk lessens in yield when
roots are fed, it is not the fault of the
roots, but of something else. Carrots
are especially good food, given in
moderate quantity—one peck a day,
for instance. This thould help the
milk, rather than diminish it. Mangels
are next to carrots for feeding to
cows. Parsnips are the best of all
roots for milking cows. —American
Farmer,
THE IiETTCCE BED.
B.I. T - I.Ijl I.™ i™"’ .Ul
j ,f ko mnch better , In e „ rliest
ieum peci S .,,_ I mix lettuce with other seVda, ’_
c „ v „ th onioDi beel Blm
bar ,l uw . gtrmb;atlri(a variet ie S . The
l e t,„c e comes up soon and makes it
to k J row clcor of „ ec(i9
nntil the te , Eced< „ e „ p The let
lace then is palled as space is needed.
Lettuce radishes, too, are sown
together the summer through, mak
ing a succession of both, | aud hav
ing them ori and tei der> Root
crops oooup litt!e 8paoe at tirst
that lettuce does not inter fere at all,
and the m is a beuedt loosening
the earth about them. I often mix 1
other seeds> putting Cftbbage as x want
them to stand, with early lettuce or
ra( jishes, and tomato seed with later
crops that are to be pulled up. Thus
I economize space, time and labor.—
American Agriculturist.
DISEASES OF POULTRY.
If fowls are kept clean and well shel¬
tered from wind and wet, and not
overfed and have a duo proportion of
both soft and green food, and a never
failing supply of olean water, they will
usually remain free from disease, un¬
less infected by strangers. When dis¬
ease does occur among fowls it may
usually be ascribed to our variable
climate, to dampness aud cold, to in¬
judicious feeding and to an ill venti¬
lated roosting house. We would there¬
fore recommend, says an authority, as
a cure in chief for all the ills to which
poultry is subjeot the practice of the
old saw, “an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.” And a good
general rule for the cure of sickness ie
that it be killed without delay, for
unless the bird or birds be valuable
ones, it will never pay to attempt a
cure, and rarely so if they are. A dis¬
eased fowl, as will be the result of
general observation, is never kindly
treated by its healthy companions,
and, as most of the diseases to which
they are liable are highly contagious,
if not killed and thus summarily dis¬
posed of, it should be at once removed
from the flock and confined by itself
for treatment.—Farmer’s Voice.
EXPERIENCE WITH ROUP.
We are having it right now—ex¬
perience with the roup, says H. B.
Greer, of Nashville, Tenn. We have
just come in from treating four hens
with the “swell eye” roup, the kind
Imtil j>»akes their ey-' s
| tigeuVj and then
vi'osed,
feBter, or fill with a poisonous canker,
that poisons the whole system and
causes the afflicted bird to waste and
dwindle away to nothing but bones,
skin and feathers.
The four hens we speak of all came
from the same yard, where about six
weeks ago we noticed one hen afflicted
with the disease, took her out, treated
her and cured her. No more were af¬
fected by it for a month, when a rainy
spell, followed by cold wind and
snow, caused it to break out again,
and worse than before.
Bat, we do not fear it, for we have
a dry roup cure, that will cure it every
time, when applied at the onset of the
disease. It is made up in tbe form of
a powder, and applied by means of a
little blower that costs ten or fifteen
oents at the drug store. Tbe remedy
consists of powdered alum,sulphur and
magnesia, of equal parts, all thorough¬
ly mixed together, and applied di
reotly to the eyes, noBtrils and mouth
of the siok fowls. It is'the best rem¬
edy we ever tried.
Most roup cures are solutions that wet
the head when applied and cause addi¬
tional cold and inflammation in that
way. Whereas the powder we name is
healing and soothing from the start.
The sulphur eradicates the poison, the
alum draws and heals aud the magne¬
sia soothes and modifies the effects of
the other two ingredients. This, be¬
yond a doubt, is the best handy, sim¬
ple and home-made remedy for roup
that there is. Anyone can obtain it
at the local drug store.—Farm, Field
and Fireside.
THE FARMER’S HOME.
There is much about some farm
homes which might be improved. The
feeling that appearances count for
little on the iarm is wrong. Farmers’
kitchens and homes are as susceptible
to improvement as anything else on
the farm. The question which needs
attention is what is best to cook, and
not what is easiest and most quickly
prepared. of the American Frying pans are the curse
Nation. Things are
fried and fried until there is appar*
ently no relief. Methods in cooking
and arrangements in cooking should
be observed. Farmers are busy, but
they do not fail to live the best lives
in the best possible manner. Because
a girl lives in the country is not a rea¬
son why she should wear dowdy cloth
W Just so Ion* as a farmer neglects
to observe "yj the courtesies ’ “ of life so
]on that life fail t 0 reac h a high
standard J
The h me maker must hftye ft wide r
know j edge tiua any other pei . B(m on
the “ farm, She mujt be a physician,
6 * ecm and trained narse> She must
^ ohemigt and knQW how to com .
bine foods; an artist to make a pic¬
ture of her table; a politician to per¬
suade her husband and train her sons;
a musician to make and execute plans
of harmony, Domestic science has
gained gTound for twenty • years.
Every farmer should give this more at¬
tention. His daughter is quite likely
to have little opportunity to secure
education in that line. The much
needed change in farm life cannot be
brought about by an overburdened
mother. The hope which will lead the
farmers into higher and better lives
the possibilities which are They open to
theu iv-. daughters. oau
be educated. Careful plans for
daughters will afford them the oppor¬
tunity of beooming queens as hoHse
wives during the next generation, ami
then will the future hope of the farm¬
er be realized.—New England Home¬
stead.
"staggers.”
Daring the late summer and fall, in
a section of Eastern North Carolina,
an epidemic among horses has annu¬
ally occurred, amounting to a loss each
year of perhaps ten per cent. The
matter appearing of 60 much import¬
ance. the consulting veterinarian of
the Experiment Station (Dr. F. P.
Williamson) was sent to make a per¬
sonal examination. The following
has been gleaned from his report:
The symptoms as given are sudden in
their development. Sore throat,
water coming through nose on at
tempting to drink, rapid breathing,
loss of appetite and one of three
things—the animal either walks around
in a circle to one side over any object
in the way without apparently seeing
it (“blind staggers”), or remains per- 1
feotlv still, with eyes partially or
completely closed, without taking tbe
slightest interest in surroundings un
less less arnnsed aroused (“sleepy ("sleenv staggers”), stae r a r ers”l. or or ! !
dashes about furiously without regard I
to self, people, or things, (“mad stag
gers”). . An obstinate constipation
accompanies oaoh case.
The land lies very low in this dis
trict, there being many swamps and
ditches through the farms, and on 1
each side of the road the ditches are
tilled with reddish brown stagnant
water. The vegetation is very rank,
the dews are very heavy, and do not
dry off before noon the next day?
The horses have very little protection,
as a rule. On some farms there are
no barns at all for housing stock. The
animals are simply turned in a rough
shed to eat, then turned out again,
exposed to wind, raiu and sun. Wher¬
ever they aro stabled it is claimed
they are never affected, as shown by
the experience of one farmer who has
not lost a single oase in several years.
Another, who had not lost a horse in
thirteen years, let his run to pasture
night and day this year and lost them.
Another had four pasturing; three of
these he put up at night, leaving one
out at all times, exoept at feeding.
The oneleftout died,the other three are
in good condition. Many other cases
might be noted, but this is enough to
show that where the animals are pro¬
tected from the weather (the heavy
dews, rain and wind storms, for this
occurs always after a rainy, hot sea¬
son) they are free from any sickness.
Two animals dying from the disease
were found by autopsy to have died
with pneumonia (complicated with
pleurisy in the first case). The stag¬
gering gait, the sleepy, half-uncon¬
sciousness, the madness are caused by
the toxine taken into the blood from
the diseased lung tissue, or from want
of reoxygenation of the blood, the
brain is not properly fed, animals be¬
ing affected according to individual
disposition. The euggest'on would
be to provide better stables and take
more care of the horses. Keep ani¬
mals in stable at night if at no other
time. Animals already affected should
be given a bolus or a drench of Barba
dnes aloe 5 * one ounce, ealomel one
dram. If this remains inaotivo six¬
teen hours, follow with one quart raw
linseed oil. Every three hours should
be given four ounces acetate oi am¬
monia, two drams nitrate of potash,
two ounces sweet spirits of niter in
drench. Food should be restricted to
gruel, bran mash, or something easily
digested. About three or four buckets
of drinking water should be given a
day.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Warm barns save feed. This ad¬
vice is now in season.
Rennet acts more slowly on pasteur¬
ized milk than on fresh milk.
Pulverization of the soil is one of
the open secrets of succefsful farm¬
ing.
If you have any late chicks that aro
peeping out a sad existence, either kill
them or furnish them stockings and a
warm bed.
If your nearest town imports pro¬
duce from a distance, why not supply
that market yourself? Tfiere’s money
in this hint.
Break a piece of cold butter, and if
tbe grain is perfect tho broken parts
will resemble the broken parts of cast
iron or steel.
Never disturb the bees during the
winter unless absolutely necessary.
Quiet is one of the essentials of suc¬
cessful wintering.
Even if you are sure you can guess
at the temperature to within half a
degree, always use a thermometer in
the cream before churning.
One way of making a nice entrance
to the hives for the winter is to spread
sawdust over a considerable suri'ace in
front of the hives and fill up level to
the entrance
Frosty nights call for a little meal
in tho manger and a lot of straw on
the floor. If the meal be sprinkled
on cut hay, it will prevent the cows
from eating it too rapid,y.
The American breeds— Plymouth
Rocks, Wyandottes aud Javas—still
head the list as the general purpose
fowls, although there are other varie
ties which are heavier, but do lay as
well.
The red raspberry is a good honey
plant, the flowers lasting three or four
weeks, and furnishing a honey that is
excellent iu quality, while the berries
prove better and more abundant if
bees visit them frequeatiy.
Snow or ice is not an egg produce,
go do not labor under the impression
that your hens are going to give you
baskets full of eggs if the material
furnished them is cold corn moistened
with what snow or ice thev can
"
pickup.
For trimming grape vines in the
winter, they may be cut rapidly and
well with no splitting, by using a large
and very sharp knife in quick blows,
without handling the vines at all. The
several portions will fall as neatly as
if cut off more slowly by tue best
prunning shears.
If farmers do nothing more than
get rid of their-scrub sheep it will be
a blessing to them. There are more
scrubs among sheep than of any other
animals. When farmers are forced to
resort to the improved back breeds they
will at some day look upon low
prices m blessings.
AMBITION.
Because I built my nest so high
Must I despair
If a fierce wind, with bitter cry,
Basses the lower branohes by,
, And mine makes bare?
Because I hung it, in my pride,
So near tne skies,
Higher than other nests abide,
Must I lament if far and wide
It scattered lies?
I shall but build, ami build my boat
Till, safely won,
I hang aloft my new-made nest
High os of old, and see it rest
As near tho sun.
—Dollie Radford.
riTH AND rOINT.
"All the world loves a lover. ” "All
the other girls do, at least. ”—Dotroit
Tribune.
First New Woman—“Awfully bold,
i 8n ’t he?” Second New Woman
.. Yes; ft reg ular tomgir!.”— Detroit
Tribune
Let dogs delight to bark and bite;
To do so is their fate.
They can’t be turned; they never learned,
You see, to arbitrate.
—Washington Star.
"You are fagged out; you must
U P headwork. “Why, that
spells ruin. I’m a hairdresser.”—La
Petit Provencal,
— Young Girl—“Have you a book of
sample letters for lovers? ' (Clerk
smiles). It’s for my mamma. ”—
Fliegende Blaefcter.
You should never send your lovo by mail,
For if you do tho latter.
You break perishable the postal law exclud¬
ing matter. —New York Herald.
Te. cher—“Where were you yester¬
day?” all*Billy Pupil (whimpering)—“It liipnerlized was
Smith’s fault, he
me an’ made mo go skatin’ with him.”
—Truth.
All men would have of wealth a share
And no one need his lot deplore,
If all would work as hard as men
Who havo so much they need no more.
—Puck.
"Beverly, did you make that match
between Jack and Kitty ?” “Not much;
I never encourage young people to
marry ; they always expect me to give
them a present.”—Chicago Record.
“Oh, how can I leave thee, my jewel,
My precious one?” Sadly ne spoke.
But the case was an urgent one, iutosoak. very;
So the diamond was put
—Kansas City Journal.
Bloobumper—“Miss Tenspot fired
young Dimling’s heart, did she?”
SpattS--“Yes; but her father did
much better. Ho fired the rest of
Dimling’s anatomy.”—Detroit Tree
Press.
Gadzooks—“You don’t mean to say
that so homely a girl as Miss Plainface
is able to get engagementis Zounds—“Certainly; as an ar¬
tist’s model?”
she poses for the designers of posters.”
—New York Tribune.
“If you don’t do something on thia
bill before, the 15th I intend to sue
you.” "Ah. And will you permit
me to recommend Sharp & Steele? I
reoeive a percentage on all they get
out of me.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Maria,” he said nervously, as ho
sat straight up iu bed, "there’s a man
ir> the house!” "William,” she re¬
sponded, ‘‘jvu aio hanging very-j-JJJtr. tho
are my bloomers over
back of a chair.”—Washington Star.
"Yes,” answered the Olympian
Jove, "it has struck us. Hear that
dull, sickening thud. Yes? Well,
that’s Juno practicing with thunder¬
bolts. ” And tho king of gods and men
continued to partake bitterly of cold
ambrosia off the window sill.
“What is the trouble between
Axleigh and his wife?” “Only a little
family jar. He was saying that ha
would give anything if he could havo
a wheel, and she suggested that he
might take ono of those ho had in
his head.”—Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Matchmaker—“I wonder yon
do not make up to Miss Singleton,
She’s a splendid girl, a bar or lley— any
man who gets her.” T
"Did you ever notice that Irgain
is almost always disappointing when
you get it home?”—Boston Tran¬
script.
*‘Whlte Salt” in Alrlea.
A "medical man” has been writing
interesting letters from the Congo
Free State. He says that, of all the
white man’s possessions, the one most
coveted is "white salt,” so called, to
distinguish it from the home product,
which is a sort of black cinfter-like
substance, and so scarce as causa
muoh suffering. Tnere ard many
parasitical diseases, both external and
internal, caused by its lack. If H white
man gives them a spoonful, it is most
carefully divided, und if in the distri
bution there has been a miscount, the
"over-looked ’ man will lick the palm
the hand in which the original
treasure lay to secure the last grain,
Some poorly injormed person lately
produced an article called, “Why
®“> tr in h8 ', aDoied ba
oa ‘ » oase ,or “ W.* „ ltho “j
? alt - Ho , lttle pll3 \ ? 8 1
knowledge , , and had never read how (1 the ,
Buried Alive ior a Week.
It was on January 13, 1797, that
Job Boden, a miner in the County
of Derby, was a-digging at the depth
of forty-five yards when earth and
water fell upon him and filled the
mine. On the morning of the 20th
Mr. Boden was found, emaciated, but
alive. Such was the vigor of his con
stitution that hs was able to return to
^is wor ^ the space of fourteen
weeks, and he had several children,
0116 of whom was born within a twelve
month after tbe accident, When he
waf3 buried prematurely he was
forty-nine years old, and he weighed
about 170 pounds.—Boston Journal. (
Where Total Eclipses Are Bare.
It fg a fact well known to a strono
mers that the average number of total
an( j partial eclipses in any one year
j 3 f our . that the maximum is seven,
and the minimum two. Where only
two occur they are always both cf the
sun. There are a great many more
eclipses of the sun in the course of a
year or a hundred years than there are
of the moon ; this fact notwithstand
ing, however, London, the metropolis
of the world, seems to be a place where
such obstructions of the sun’s light
seldom occur.