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Son of a Siamese Twin,*
W. L. Bunker, of Milan, Kan., who is
taid to have raised the largest wheat
crop In Sumner County, is a son of one
of the famous Siamese twins. When
the twins had become rich they settled
in North Carolina, bought two large
plantations adjoining each other, and
married two sisters. They divided
their time between the two places,
spending a day and a night on each
alternately.
About 1886, ten or twelve years after
the death of the twins, two of their
buys came West and settled near Milan,
where they still live.
W. L. Bunker has a large farm well
stocked and fenced, and is wealthier
than the average Kansas farmer. He
is proud of his lineage, though he sel¬
dom mentions it. He is now about
forty years old, and says remembers
well how the twins went about from
one plantation to the other. He has a
family of several children, and the
home suggests a quiet refinement not
often surpassed by the country place. ^
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The man robs others who does not make tha
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Let Us be Broad.
A difference of opinion exists, more
or less, when nil questions are consid¬
ered, between all men. And disagree¬
ments are apt to be the result, leading
ultimately to dissensions. Let us try
to avoid it.
Let us be patient. Let us not be too
dogmatic in our opinions, for fear we
may be guilty of that of which we may
accuso others—of erring. Let us ap¬
peal to reason and be patient with
others when they do not admit its
logic. A man seldom if ever compre¬
hends his error at once; nor as quickly
admits it. But if you are not dog¬
matic, the truth in what you have said
m$y, and probably will, occur to him
afterwards.
And when discussing with others do
not be sensitive. Put a kind interpre¬
tation on what is said; and if you can¬
not* give it such a construction as that,
then feel a compassion for the man
aud do not hold him responsible. Treat
him as one who is seeking the truth,
but embarrassed by prejudices. If both
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Immigration Hgures.
The highest, immigration record, ex¬
cluding the arrivals of aliens not so
c lassed, is that of 1SS2, when the pro¬
digious number of 788,1192 came, fol¬
lowing the previous year's (>09,431, till
then unprecedented. In 1883 there was
a heavy falling off to 603,322, and the
decrease went on until 334,203 was
reached in 18S0. Then the tide again
turned, and with some variations an¬
other climax was reached in 1892,
when the figures were G23,084,the third
highest mark, and not far behind that
of 1881. But then began another ebb,
with 502,917 in 1S93, followed by 314,-
407, then 279,948, then by 343.207, and
now this year by an astonishing reduc¬
tion to 230,832, as shown by a special
bulletin of the Treasury Department.
THE TUKN 0E EIEE
Is the most important period in a wo¬
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thousand approaches this perfectly
natural change without experiencing
a train of very annoying and some¬
times painful symptoms.
, Those dreadful hot flashes, sending
the blood surging to the heart until it
seems ready to burst, and the faint
feeling that follows, sometimes with
chills, as if the
heart were go¬
ing good, to are stop symp¬ for % <
toms of a dan-
gerous nervous
trouble. Those
hot flashes are %
just so
many calls
from n a-
ture for ' V
help. The 4; .jl
nerves are crying out for assistance.
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The Vegetable Compound is an in¬
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THY BROTHER. /
When thy heart with joy o’erflowlng If thy soul, with power uplifted,
In Sings a thankful prayer, Yearn for glorious deed—
thy With joy, O let thy brother r Give thy strength to serve thy brother
thee share. In his need.
When the harvest sheaves ingatherod Hast thou borne a secret Borrow f
Fills thy barns with store, th^thfwSSSg
To thy Ood, and to thy brother, Take to 5 brother uruiuer ^
Give the more. ' For a guest. ^
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Share with him thy bread of blessing,
Sorrow’s burden share;
t w When thy heart enfolds a brother,
God is there.
—Theodore C. Williams.
A LYING * LOVE.
J R.
H if Gilmour, solici-
B tor, Wakefield,
in the County of
York, w&s be-
M lieved by a great
number of deep-
* sighted people to
,
( be one of tbe
' ' H j| England. 'cutest lawyers He in
4
/ \ » Avas
% more, He was
au astute man of
f the world, Avho
dearly loA^ed pleasure, but who had far
too bard a head to ever allow the un¬
ruly jade to run away with him His
wife had died in giving birth to his
only sqn, Frank, and he Avas certainly
one q? the gayest widowers Wakefield
had ever seen.
He hunted, he kept a liberal table,
and he made love Avitk a reckless
liberality that not a little scandalized
some of the good people of his native
town. At the period of our story he
Avas fifty years of ago, upright as a
dart, tall, slim, with a young, fresh-
colored, hairless face. His appear¬
ance had not altered since he was
thirty years of age, and it appeared
probable that another twenty years
might pass over him Avitkout produc¬
ing any material change.
One day his son, who, without tak¬
ing the trouble to notify his father,
was about to marry the lady of his
heart, received a letter from his father
ordering him to go to Wakefield uj ion
business of the utmost importance.
When he reached his home lie was sur-
prised to learn that Mr. Gilmour had
been called suddenly away to the
North. He had, howeA’er, left a mes¬
sage to the eftect that his son Avas to
remain in Wakefield until his return.
He stayed in the pleasaut, sleepy
little town for some ten days, at the
eud of which period the post brought
him two remarkable letters.
One was from lady love, It con-
taiued three words:
“Goodby for ever.”
The other was signed by a Mrs.
Chagibers, under whose roof Frank
biyi first met the woman of his choice.
It implored him to return at once to
Paisley. Some villain, she said, had
stolen Rosa’s heart from him, and the
poor, bewitched girl had run away
with her neAv love,
Frank read these letters Avitli
amazement, At first lie refused to
belive that liosa, whom he had loved
with such unselfish devotion, had
tricked and jilted him. He had such
faith in her truth and purity that it
her seemed impossible for him to associate
with aught that was dishonest and
cruel. During his tedious journey to
Chambers Paisley he promised himself that Mrs.
had been mistaken, and that
Avheu he came to thoroughly sift the
matter he would find that his darling
Rosa had been wonderfully misjudged.
But when he entered the little house
his heart fell within him aud nearly
all his hope fled. The good old lady
had so changed that he scarcely kueA\ r
her. Her eyes were red w ith Aveep-
ing and deep purple rings surrounded
them. The kindly face Avas worn aud
haggard and was sadly thin.
He took both her trembling hands
and pressed them geutly in siience.
Then he led her to a chair and said:
“Tell me everything. Do not spare
me one detail, I can bear the truth
better than doubt.”
Ere she could speak Mrs. Chambers’s
tears flowed fast.
“My tale is a short one,” she said at
last. “Dear, dear! it all seems like a
nasty dream. Sometimes I sit here
and fancy that her bright face will ap¬
pear before me as it used, and that all
that troubles me is but the wandering
of an idle, foolish brain. I am sorry
for you, Mr. Gilmour; indeed, indeed
I am.”
“Come, come,” he said; “compose
yourself, aud let me know the Avhole
miserable truth.”
“Soon after you went away,” said
the tearful woman, “I noticed a great
change in Rosa's manner. She be¬
than came absent-minded, dull, and more
once I ssav that she had been
weeping. I pressed her to tell __ tne
Ihe cause of her sorrow, but she al¬
ways maintain 3 d that she Avas very
happy and she had nothing to grieve
her. She went out more frequently
than she had been in the habit of do¬
ing. ana often **t inconvenient hours.
1 did not care to chide her, but I con¬
fess that her frequent absence from
dome perplexed me. Perhaps I ought
to have inquired more strictly into her
movements, and God forgive me if I
did not take sufficient care of her.
Thinking that she Avould soon leave
to be jonr wife I felt that it would be
ungracious of me at such a time to
scold her or to compiel her to pay more
attention to her duties. One after-
noon a into gossiping woman, who of ten
comes Rosa my shop, told me she had
seen gentleman Ayalkiug in little arm in arm with a
fare in the outskirts a of used thorough-
the town. I
lost my temper, and I declared that
the woman’s statement was untrue;
N evertheless I questioned Rosa on I
the subject. She indiguantly denied i
the accusation, but something in her ;
manner conA’inced me that she was 1
guilty. I cannot properly explain to
you Avhat a cruel shock this discovery !
was to me. I was too upset to pursue !
the subject then, but I resolved that
when evening came, and after the j
shop was closed and we were alone,
that I would strive to bring her to a
sense of her duty to me. But I never
saw her again. Within half an hour
after I bad spoken to her she had
flown, aud this was all she left beMnd
1
Mrs. Chambers drew a crumpled let-
ter from her pocket and gave it to
Frank; then she buried her face in her
handkerchief and appeared to be dis-
mclmed for further conversation. This
was the letter Rosa left for Mrs. Cham-
bera. It was written hastily and there j
was a certain hardness about the phrase-
otegy that bespoke a heart numbed by
15
\ 011 , ha\ e , been ... kinder to me than
my mother ever was, and you wiU think
Lan?* vouasldo “L’T,! \ 1 k T T 1° haVe eave DO
r fHs St' A: T n n 1 1
go go now iow. it is all foi the the best—for t
ymi,^ 01 Mr, Gilmour, for my wretehid |
So it ended. She had forgotten to
a h? n her name.
‘ I 8 there nothing else?” he asked,
M a low tone—“no other clew?”
F° r slSm© time Mrs. Chambers re-
mained silent. After an effort she
,HA M> though still hiding her face:
“She did leaA-e something else, but
n °t willingly—not knowingly.”
“What did she leave?” he asked
anxiously. After
another pause she placed a key
in his hand, saying:
“That is the key of her bedroom. I
have kept it locked ever since she left.
On her dressing table you will find
Something I picked up from the floor.”
She turned from him, for her heart
Avas so full she could scarcely Speak.
He pressed li,er forehead gently with
his lips and left her.
As Frank went Up stairs, lightly
holding the key she had gi\-eu him in
his hand, he muttered between bis
set teeth:
“I will find the man who has taken
her from me, and when I find him I
will kill him.”
He paused before her door. He
turned the lock Avitli strange reluc¬
tance, and when he stood upon the
threshold of the little room, which AVfts
still fragrant with the odor Or SAveet
flowers, he again hesitated.
fehe had gone and was unworthy of
Mm; she has proved truthless, and he
uf all men should no respect for her.
Still that apartment seemed to him
sacred, and a feeling of guilt took
possession of him as he entered it. He
walked to the dressing table aud at
first he saw nothing. Then he noticed
that a photograph Avas on the centre
of it, lying face downward. He thrust
his hand out greedily to secure it—
the thought running through his brain
that it avo,5 the likeness of the ------ man
AA'ho robbed him of his love, and that
he would not have much trouble
in tracking him.
He picked up the carte, There were
some words written On tbe back of it,
and these lie read AA'itli a feverish
haste. As he perused them his face
became even more pallid tkau before,
and beads of perspiration stood Upon
bis forehead. These words Avei*e:
“Yours very dearly. Gregory Gil¬
mour.”
He let the thing fall from his hands,
As it fell it turned, and now it lay upon
the dressing table face Upward. This
face Avas Ms father’s—the face of Greg¬
ory Gilmour, of Wakefield, solicitor
and esquire.
Mr. Gregory Gilmour, Composed,
pleasant looking* rind dressed irre-
proach&bfy; times availing, sat in liis easy chair, some-
more often studying his
almond nails. Before him—white,
passionate, a fiery indignation blazing
in his eyes—stood his son, speaking
hoarsely, and trembling as he spoke.
“I swore in my heart, ” Frank de¬
clared, Avith intense though subdued
earnestness, “that A\’hen I discovered
the man Avho had stolen her from me I
would .kill him. I had scarcely so
sworn before the horrid truth was
made manifest to me that the scound¬
rel Avas my father, and, being my
father, his villainy must go unpun¬
ished.”
Mr. Gilmour smiled.
“Well done, Frank! Quite melo¬
dramatic I declare. When I was your
age I would have done the same thing
myself; though perhaps not quite so
well—not quite so well.”
“Don’t mock my misery,” the
young hard, man cried, impetuously. “It
is a a bittter, a wicked feeling
to cherish, but I despise you, I abhor
your name. I Avish to God I had died
before I kuew r this shame.”
“Sons,” said Mr. Gilmour, with a
tinge of bitterness in his tone, “are
sIoav to pardon their parents’ errors.
This is strange, seeing how much
parents have to forgive. Even now r I
am doing a great thing—-I am pardon¬
ing j’our insolence.”
Frank turned from the speaker Avith
a gesture of impatience aud disgust.
“Come, young gentleman”—Mr.
Gilmour spoke authoritatively—“I
want to talk to you. Don’t run away;
so far you have had all the conversa-
tion to yourself. You must now’ listen
to me. ” Seeing that Frank evinced
no disposition to remain in the room,
he cried, sternly:
“Sit down, sir! While you are in
my house you shall obey me.”
Sullenly Frank threw himself into a
distant chair, and his father again
smiled.
“I’ve a little story to tell you.
Frank. It is all about the young
lady you kuow by the name of" Rosa
Noyce. Last year, while you were
away in Scotland, I became mixed up
with a very extraordinary forgery
case. The crime had been committed
in London, but one of the principal
sufferers chanced to be my very oldest
client, and so it came that I was con-
suited about tbe matter. I need not
bother you Avith the details of the
case. The important facts for vou to
know ai 4 e simply these: The culprit
was a man named Morris, a heartless,
designing knave, who, unfortunately
for society, had the fascinating man-
nerof a cultiA-ated man of means. Men
of the world were deceived by his
plausible tongue and his elegant ex-
terior, and he was particularly success-
ful in blinding the ladies. Some time
before his conviction he had won the
confidence and affection of a voung
lady of blameless life and good familvT
He induced her to run away from
home to be secretly married to him
Shortly after this union the infatuated
girl discovered the true character of
the fellow who had tempted her to for-
get her duty to her father. She was
wedded to a penniless swindler of the
worst class. What the feelings of &
confiding, stainless girl would be
upon making such a disco\*ery you
can garded perhaps understand. She "re-
her husband with abhorrence
and she hated himself for ever having
listened to him. She resolved that j
she would ieave him forever. Taking!
nothing with her but a small handbag
she escaped from her husband’s house, j
and was never heard of again by her
friends. Some thought that sh^ :
eaa was
7° th D?’ th “ A e ^
abroad , ‘ 11 happened that before her
r™"? known her t0 and ^ her fe L family, l0W Morris and during 1 hftd ;
the time we were pro.ecutiug him I j
tfcooght of tU poor
girl. He was sentenced to a long term
of imprisonment. What I hftvfe to tell
you Mechanically now directly the concerns you.
young man did as
he WAS told. A change was slowly
passing over Uni his face. His head was
fO 10 b He
looked lpto his father's eyes eagerly.
^My placed friend at Glasgow, in whose
office I you some time back, re¬
cently wrote to me to the effect yourself that
you were making an ass of Paisley,
Uver some obscure girl at
Mr. Redfern had seen you with her at
Glasgow, and it had come to his
knowledge that you had taken a house,
and it was pretty evident that you in¬
tended marrying her almost im¬
mediately. Since you had not thought
it worth while to consult me upon the
subject, I determined to see for myself
the woman you contemplated giving
your name to, I wrote to you asking
you to come here, and I journeyed to
Glasgow. Mr. Redfern accompanied
me to Paisley. I was saved the trouble
of calling upon Mrs. Chambers, for in
the street we met the young lady to
whom you were engaged. To my
amasement I recognized her. She was
Mrs. Morris, the convict’s wife.”
“I was afraid that was coming.” said
Frank, in a low, nerveless tone.
“I had always sympathized with the
girl’s unhappy lot, but my sympathy
WAs not sufficiently strong to close my
eyes to the fact that the bigamous
marriage she proposed would irretriev¬
ably ruin my son. I had more than
one interview with her, and at these
interviews I urged her to abandon
you. She said that she could never
look you in the face if she jilted you.
I advised her to leave Paisley. I pro¬
vided her with the necessary funds. I
had, I thought, at least saved my son
much pain and suffering.”
“You pleaded must forgive me my violence,”
Frank in a scarcely audible
tone. “I am sorry for the words I
used to you just now. Still—still.”
he went on wistfully, “perhaps I would
rather have been left in ignorance.”
“Wait until Vou have heard all I
have to say;” he smiled at Frank as lie
spoke. “When T saw Mrs. Morris at
Paisley I had no idea that her wicked
husband was dead—”
“Dead,” cried Frank* joyfully,
“dead?”
“Yes, dead. The foolish girl did
not tell me so. She imagined that I
objected to her marriage with my son
because her husband had been a con¬
vict, and not because I thought he was
still alive, It appears that lie died in
his (jell—— ,s
“Thank God for that!” Frr.nk mur¬
mured, forgetting how indecent his
gratitude was.
“Now that the girl is free,” Mr. Gil-
monr Avent on, “I confess I am indif¬
ferent whether you marry the young
lady or not. I may, however, mention
that within the past feAv days Rosa’s
father has also died and hits left her a
large sum of money* nearly £15,000,
and that Rosa, herself is in this house
at this present moment. ”
Frank started' from his chair and
ran to the door. Suddenly he paused.
Turning to Ms father he said:
“On Rosa’s table I found a photo¬
graph.”
“Possibly,” Mr. Gilmour returned,
dryly. “It seems that at one of out
interviews I dropped it— pulled it oui
Avith my handkerchief, or something of
that kind, and she carried it home with
her, intending to give it back to me.
In a few days you’ll knoAV Avho it was
intended for. I am tired of being a
bachelor. There, you mercenary
young rascal, go and comfort your
£15,000.
Ere his father had fiuished-speaking
Frank had left the room. In another
moment Rosa was nestling in his arms.
“When I Aveut to Paisley,” he
whispered. “I thought that you were
a Lying Love--”
“And so I Avas, ” she said, dropping
her swimming eyes; “but I could not
--.” She said no more. His pas¬
sionate kisses smothered her words.—
Boston (England) Guardian.
Shows All the Fires 1« a City.
The tojioscope is A machine that ex¬
hibits to the eyes of the observer a
Avhole city and all the fires that break
out in it. It is now in use in Vienna,
Austria. The toposcope consists of a
good telescope, which is solidly at¬
tached to an arrangement of levers,
while graduated sections of a circle
are arranged horizontally and verti¬
cally in such a Avay that the moving of
the telescope sideways or up and
dowm results in a change of the posi¬
tion of the hands attached to the
levers in reference to the graduated
scale.
It is obvious, the stability of the
apparatuses being assured by their
being firmly fastened, that AvheneA'er
the telescope is focussed upon the
same object the hands Avill point to
the same figures on the horizontal and
on the vertical sextant, aud, since an
index of the Avhole city has been made,
it is a matter of but a few seconds
Avhen a flare is discovered at night to
direct upon the spot of the toposcope
on the respective side, to read off the
numbers, to read off the numbers, to
look up the object aud to wire it to
the central fire station, with all the
details observed.
Local conditions are necessary for
the successful operation of this appa¬
ratus, but in this case they are almost
perfect. St. Stephen’s tower is over
500 feet high; the great area of the
city is situated in the broad valley of
the Danube, allowing au uninter¬
rupted panorama to the city limits.
The atmospheric conditions are also
favorable. The toposcope up there
works so accurately that even at night
the exact house aud number were
often given to the central by the
watchman on the towel*, while the
next fire alarm box, being at a dis¬
tance of three or four blocks, could
not have given the exact location of
the fire, and this would have delayed
the arrival of the fire department"ac¬
cordingly.
Diving With a Purpose.
The telephone cable running from
the Battery to Governor’s Island parted
the other day, probably because some
craft ran afoul of it. Three men Avere
sent out from the battery in a rowboat
to grapple for the broken ends. They
were unable to raise them. Then one
of the men, Leon Cholet, who is an
expert diver, put on a bathing suit and
vanfshed under water, nearly twenty-
five feet. He made a line fast to one
of the broken ends and it was hauled
up. He came up for a breathing spell,
and then went down and got the other
end. The ends were spliced and the
repaired cable was lowered to the river
bottom.
Feathered Fem in France.
AU the feathered creatures in
France, from the barnyard hen up, are
in because‘the deadly fear of their" lives That te
Government aTecree^ hno mLpowe^ in«t
ma Uy promulgated
citizens to shoot sparrows on sight
As there is a considerable part of the
difference community which does not know the
between a an«rrc«- an .4 ^
oriole or eu eagle, th«e is g*u g m\
oireiei; _
>6pular science.
The difference between a planet
and a star is this; A star shines by its
own light; a planet by light reflected
from another body.
The poles of Jupiter are flattened
almost exactly like those of the earth,
The phenomenon can be plainly seen
with the telescope.
In the Useful report of Dr, Lifituer,
State Entomologist of New York* it
is stated that the little red ant, a pest
introduced front Europe, has the single
redeeeming feature that it is ftii active
and efficient enemy of the bedbug.J
The Pleiades contain six stars visi¬
ble to eyes of ordinary keenness,
though twelve or fourteen have been
counted in this cluster by persons of
extraordinary eyesight. sixty A two-inch
telescope shows about stars in
this cluster. *
Our present knowledge Of X ray3
may be summed lip by sayirig that the
rays from a discharging apparatus are
a, mixture varying in absorbability aud
intensity, that the composition de¬
pends chiefly on the duration of the
discharging cumuli; diffel-fifit th.dt. different
bodies absorb kinds Of rays;
fend that thfi X bays . are produced by
the cothode rays and the phenomena
of both are probably of the same na¬
ture.
The scheme of covering the Sahara
frith forest is pronounced by M. P.
PriA’at-Deschenel utterly impractica¬
ble, the arid plateaus being hopeless
desert. On a limited scale, however,
tbe valleys—most of which are favored
frith a small amount of water—may
be successfully planted with tamarish,
acacia, eucalyptus end poplar* the last-
named tree having unexpectedly
proven the most suitable. In the for¬
est shelter vegetables and fruit trees
may be grown.]
William H, Dali, of the Smithsonian
Institution* says in Science that “dur¬
ing the early days of the whale fish¬
ery, several well attested instances
occurred of Avhales struck in one
ocean, as the Atlantic, being after¬
ward killed in the Xorth Pacifle* that and
vice versa.” This frould indicate
Some whales are great travelers, for
tb get from the Atlantic to the North
Pacifio they would have to go many
thousands of miles* passing either
around Cape of Horn* Or around the
northern end North America And
through Bering Strait.
Men bf science sometimes make ex¬
traordinary demands upon the skill of
instrument makers. An interesting
illustration is furnished by the in¬
strument called the “microtome*” the
purpose of Avhicli is to cut excessively
thin slices* or sections, of various
substances, such as animal or A’egeta-
ble tissues, for microscopic examina¬
tion, Microtomes liave recently been
invented* which* it is claimed* Can cut
successive sections each Only one;
twelve-thousandth of an inch thick!
The edge of the knife Avhich makes
such cuts appears perfectly smooth
and Straight when magnified fifty
times.
An International Hencoop.
Amaza Barrow has a chicken ranch
not far from Nogales, Arizona, on
■which he has divided matters between
conscience and thrift with true Yan¬
kee ingenuity, says the New York Sun.
Barrow’s local nick name is Old Hon¬
esty, and those Avho know him best do
not hesitate to declare that he wouldn't
take an advantage even in a horse
trade. He is a sur\’ival of the severe
old Puritan morality Avhich held that
to take a piu was as had as to take a
pocket-book, and he governs his daily
life by its principles. But that does
not hinder him from being as anxious
as the next man to get hold of a good
thing. chicken So AVhen he decided to start a
ranch near Nogales he saw at
once him the big advantage it would give
to'groAV his chickens across the
line in Old Mexico. But he Avanted
to supply the Arizona trade, and to
pay duties would eat up his profits.
But to Yankee ingenuity the thing
was easy enough. Barrow just built
an international henhouse. American
money changed into Mexican means
nearly $2 for $1, while the cheap prices
of labor and products increase the ad¬
vantage of the buyer. But Ms chickens
and eggs Avould command far higher
prices oil the Arizona side of the line.
If he bought his grain arid other feed
for his chickens iri Mexico he Avould
get it for about half Avhat it would cost
him iri Arizona. But Amasa Barrow
Avould not smuggle chicken feed across
the boundary. That Avould be steal¬
ing. So he built a long coop or pen
half on the Arizona side and half ex¬
tending down into Mexico. He buys
all his supplies on the other side and
stores them there in sheds. Never a
grain of his chicken feed is carried
across the border. When he wants to
feed his chickens he opens the gate
between the two parts of the pen and
drives the flock into Mexico, where
they feed on Mexican grain. When
they have eaten their fill he shoos
them back to the other end, where,
under the folds of the Stars and
Stripes, they lay their eggs and hatch
their young.
Indian Race of Gleaners.
People sometimes wonder how the
Indian s at the Soboba reservation across
the river, manage to live. It seems to
be the wife who is the provider in all
cases, and she has to Avorkfor what she
gets. They are virtually a race of glean¬
ers. The female portion of the toAvn
across the river seems to ha\-e discov¬
ered that a new fangled potato digger
had been introduced into the A-alley.
The digger was Avarranted to leave po¬
tatoes enough in the ground for seed.
Ever since the season for digging was
over the squaws have been surrepti¬
tiously visiting every place Avhere the
digger had been and have been quietly
working away. They did not ask per¬
mission, though this Avould not ha\e
been denied by most of the ranchers.
Johnny Botterell does not hesitate
to say that possibly a third of his crop
aves left in the ground. He says the
Indians come over in the morning and
stay till nearly noon, going away Avith
a bag of spuds each. They dig the
potatoes with sharpened sticks so as
not to disturb the ground. Now that
same of the potatoes are beginning to
sprout, they dig doAvn gingerly and re¬
move the tuber and set the plant back
so that no one will miss the spud.—
Hemet (Arizona) News.
Joining Baltic and Black Seas,
The cost of the proposed Black Sea
and Baltic Canal is estimated at $100,-
000,000. The route is from the Gulf
of Biga, on the Baltic, along the riv¬
ers Duna, Beresina and Dnieper to
Cherson, on the Black Sea, northwest
of Sebastopol, a distance of 994 miles.
The depth proposed is twenty-eight
feet, so that war ships may be "able to
traverse the canal from one sea to an¬
other. A height of fifty-one feet
would have t-o be overcome, necessi¬
tating, of course, tfle use of locks.
Considerable trade AVGuld be devel¬
oped by such a canal. Its early con-.
■traction it, however, mL well A3'
ittied, ...
agr icultur al.
Blue Grass Pasture.
There is no better pasture gras3
than the blue grass, which in some
parts of the country is known as June
grass, Its roots run near the surface,
and the pasture is therefore sweet and
good so soon as the grass starts. In
midsummer these shallow roots have
another great advantage. They are
benefited by the light rains which which only
penetrate one of two inches, and
wilt not reach down to the Clovers,
frhose tofits run more deeply. The
Clover roots strike down into the sub¬
soil in time of drought, and the clover
grown then is best. With June grass
the best pasture is in .fuiie, as inter it
Will probably be dried Cut too much. —
American Cultivator.
Securing Loaded Hay'.
Where heaver loads d£ hay must be
drawri fiver rdugli farni roads tfi reach
the bird, there is constant danger
that the top may slide Of. The
accompanying cut shows an Two easy way
to guard against. this.. light
topes Ar,fi tied to the ends of the rack
—aii eiid fit each corner. The looped
v H I!
/
SECURING LOADED HAY.
ropes are then carried up ovef the
loaded hay, the loop of one rope being
passed aud pulled through the tightly* loop of the binding other
back thits
the top of the load. A hitch Can be
taken to hold tile ropes firmly in posi¬
tion. When not in use the ropes can
be seeiired at the ends of tile hfty rack*
tying then! loosely to one of the
rounds.—NeAv England Homestead;
How to Get Well-Flavrired Milk;
Nothing sd itud markedly affects tli<
flavor Of niilk* coiisfiflueiitly blit¬
ter dairy arid feed. ciieesri, ris know thO character bf the
All that the finest
produced and niost delicately flavored lionejf blos¬ is
from the Avkite clover
soms, arid pastures thickly sprinkled
with the. sanie pldrit produce a feed
front which comes number one milk
dnd Butter. Goarse grasses impart a
i ; ank flavor to dairy products sis a rule
aud should be excluded froni the ra¬
tion Of the niiich cow. Thousands of
acres Of pasture land that would otlier-
Avise be .id the Best bf condition; are
practically .spoiled weeds and by being dVerruri
■frith noxious BrisheS:
Iri the West; alfalfa imparts its
peculiar though not- unpleasant flavor
to niilk; .n hile ill the grerit dairy dis¬
tricts Bf the East; eveyy ope is now
familiar Avith the taste, of ensilage milk
arid butter. Valuable forage , crops
which lire now the \ r ery foundation of
modern dairying, cannot be discarded
because they transmit their strong
vegetable flavor to milk, but by thor¬
ough aeration of the fresh milk much
of this unpleasant foreign flaA-or can
be eliminated, and at the same time
the keeping quality of the milk be as¬
sured.
Where noxious vegetation abounds
as in neglected pastures, the remedy
is not to palliate the evil, but to re-
mov’e it. The milch cattle and dairy
methods may be improved, but not
Until the coavS graze iii a pasture con¬
taining only SAveet nutritious grasses
are ble. dairy methods correct or profita¬
flavor It is for not a hobby to dote on fine
dairy products, If you wish
to have your dairy goods Sought after
in the market and command best
prices make flavor a specialty, Of
Course while feed primarily affects milk
flavors, it is in constant danger of COll-
tamiuation from outside causes, but
Will filth.-—American not be injured by taints 01 4 stable
Agriculturist,
Poultry Notes.
For Scalding poultry have the water
fta near the boiling point as possible,
but do not have it boih
Lanterns in the poultry house it
winter will raise the temperature per¬
ceptibly. Hang from the roof.
When chicks dd w’ell finder yoitr
system of feeding, do not bother your¬
self about other systems;
When the fowls are restless and con¬
stantly picking their feathers, they are
infested with A’ermin.
It is not too late to hatch out young
chicks, especially, if they aro Leg¬
horns, Hamburgs or Minorcas.
Bisulphide of carbon as a vapor bath
for the fowls and as a fumigator for
the house, is death to lice.
Charred corn on cobs is a good way
to feed charcoal to foAvls and nothing
is better for bowel troubles.
Do not allow strange dogs in your
poultry yard — and do not allow your
own dogs to chase the foAvls.
Guineas are among the most prolific
of layers, but not so well adapted to
the uso of those Ai-ho ha\-e small range.
Where turkeys are kept growing con¬
stantly, as they should be, a very lit¬
tle extra feeding will fit them for inar-
ket.
Select all the nice eggs for sittings,
don’t use small or ill-shaped eggs,
they rarely hatch and never give sat¬
isfaction.
When the fowls are busy scratching,
the hens laying and singing and tlie
cocks crowing these are signs of good
health.
That hen that is always scratching,
except when on the roost or on the
nest is likely a first-class layer. Lazv
hens are no good.
A hen is a hen, in these United States,
but some hens are worth 820, and___ some
twenty cents, and generally the twenty
center eats the most.
Young chicks should have dry feed
and plenty of water to drink, "it is a
mistake some make not to give them
plenty of water.
Sloppy food means death to young
chicks. Supply them with proper
food, fresh water, grit, and sunshine,
and they will grow like weeds.
Do not allow your fowls to roost in
the stable. Provide a suitable house
for them alone.
It is claimed that a pen of pullets,
without roosters, will produce eg^s at
one-third less cost.
It ai ill cost some small amount of
cash and a little time to make all brood-
era and coops for chicks vermin-proof
but it will pay in the end.
There are plenty of people who can
make $2o per yeai; off of twenty-five
hens, but they are scarce who can
make $500 per year off of 500 hens.
A hen should be at her best at four
years of age, and if not too fat the e™
from her then will s
chicks than those produce stronger
While from'pullets.
the digging your potato crop sep¬
arate small ones anc* keep them
for your fowls. The morning mash
will be much better if it contains
tatoes ~ po¬ 1
.
Horton, Kan., a man went to
mmiX: s w *
•■-L. £
m 1
Is the name to remember when
buying Sarsaparilla. It has been
curing people right along for
more than 50 years. That’s why.
THE BALLARAT GOLD FIELDS.
^
Miners Kicked the Sand About and Picked
Up Fortunes.
The Alaska gold fields are not the
richest in the world for virgin gold;
nor are the ’'finds” there more sensa¬
tional thail those til the famous Aus-
traliail fields in Victoria. The fevered
excitement and mad rush to the Klon¬
dike gold fields recall the sefines and
human pictures of the Ballarat and
BendigO (Sandhurst) gold fields of Aus¬
tralia. Ballarat and Bendigo proved
to be the richest finds, and the richest
auriferous bed the world has ever seen.
For more than three years after the
first discovery of gold pn the field,
“toe-pick” miners talked the Valleys
and the ravines hunting for nuggets
on the surface; perhaps on no hundred
fields in the world were so many and
valuable nuggets ever found than bn
those neighboring fields of Ballarat
and Bendigo, in the. colony of Victoria.
“Toe-pick miners” Were thoSe with¬
out tool or pan, who simply walked
about the field and picked tip the yel¬
low “pebbles” as they could find them
among the sand and stones which they
scattered with the toes of their shoes.
They kicked for gold, strange to say;
they Avere highly rewarded for their
sillV effort—silly from a miner’s stand¬
point. A singular example of the luck
of these “toe-picks” was a young lover
who had heard the marvellous stories
bf gold at Ballarat. He was a “new
chum," but he had a sweetheart. One
morning he bade her tearful face good¬
bye, picked up a big lemonade bottle,
and left Geelong for the fields; sixty
miles up the Black Hills, promising
her that he would return and marry
her as soon as he had picked up the
lemonade bottle full of nuggets, which,
he assured her, wouldn’t be much
longer than it would take him to walk
there and back.
Reaching Ballarat, the young en¬
thusiast begun kicking the stones and
dirt about in search of his treasure.
No more earnest or persistent miner
“dished” under the rod of Mount BUn-
ingyong, where the rich find was first,
made. He had iio tent, so he slept lit
the open, with his bottle ih his clutch.
Weeks passed in and out. On the sixth
Sunday he Walked into the home of his
sweetheart and handed her a yellow
lemonade bottle. The Virgin nuggets
made it yellow. It was full of gold*
815)000 Worth, The couple married,
and Upon this foundation built their
fortunes in Geelong) Avhere they now
live, Unbss tile old “home yearning”
has dri\en them back to their native
heath in England, Facts like these set
the public mind mad.
In less than eighteen months from
the Sensational find at BUningyong,
50,000 people tennted On the Ballarat
field, picking, dishing Or kicking for
feold. From that day, in 1854, Until
now there hate never been less than
40,000 miners on the field. There are
now nearly iOO.OOO people In the city
bf Ballarat living bh the hundreds of
miles of drives beneath it, the Band
and Albion claim alone having nearly
100 miles of drives, and Bhafts nearly
3,000 feet deep. So mad was the rush
and so eager the cfowd that no one
thought of taking time to build a
house. For years—until the alluvial
country was immeasurably turned over
or pegged into fixed claims and the
Bendigo “rush” diverted the stream—
the city nf Ballarat was a city of white
tents. The first brick chimney was a
curiosity. It still stands.
The gold escorts which brought the
famous tre sure into Melbourne gave
that 100 miles of country the aspect of
a military patrol. Every tongue told
of the new Eldorado, but no one told
of the suffering and chagrin of the un¬
lucky ones, and no one found his head
cool enough to figure out the loss an
alluvial field was to the country. Men
foolishly sold their farms, stock,stores,
boats, jewels or whatever, and rushed
pell-mell to this excited canvas city,
half prepared, and either ate and
trampled out their gold in search of
more gold or had it mercilessly taker
from them..
Crow Puts Out a Locomotive Headlight.
A peculiar accident happened this
morning to the engine on passenger
train No. 1 at McArthur junction. As
the train was speeding along througn
the darkness the engineer and firemen
were startled by a crash in front and
then the headlight went out. They
thought at first that a stone had been
thrown into it, but an investigation
show’ed that a big crow had flown
matter, reports that there should 03
straight into the light, shattering the
glass. The light threatened to ex¬
plode and finally burned out. The
crow, which had broken its neck, was
fished out in a badly singed condition,
and was hanging up in the roundhouse
t’ni3 morning.—Chillicothe (O.) News.
It is claimed that Lake Erie pro¬
duces more fish to the square mile
than any other body of water in the
world.
A Beautiful Blotchy Face.
Ri S b * off W say, “Impossible!” And so it
.
is. letter. Eczema, Ringworm or anv other
2 caI T. ugly skin disease makes the handsomest
face hideous. Tetterine will cure them. It's
the only cure-certain, safe, sure. 50 cents at
i'SBSSS&XZS&fg?* “*»«*• J -
-ftbiSSutoiSSf* i ° Xebr “'“ ttls '‘ u
A Prose Poem. ! j
KE-M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco
And Cigarettes
A re absolute remedies for Catarrh,
Hay Fever, Asthma and Colds; i
Besides a delightful smoke.
Ladies as well as men, use these goods.
No opium or other harmful drug
L sed in their manufacture.
EE-M. is used and r jeommended
By some of the best citizens
Of this country.
If your dealer does not keep EE-M.
Send 13c. for package of tobacco
And Go. for package of cigarettes,
Direct to the EE-M, Company.
Aa 4 Atlanta, Ga„
m will waif* foods fcy su&
_
A Few Facts About Garlic.
About three-quarters of the garlic
used in this country is imported from
Italy. It comes in hampers containing
about 110 pounds each. Garlic is raised
in this country in Connecticut, in
Louisiana, in Texas and in New Mex-
ico. Ali garlic, both imported and
American, is put up in strings or
bunches, something like the bunches in
which Onions were once commonly
sold in this country, but much longer.
American garlic is shipped in crates
and barrels; some from the far South¬
west comes in long cylindrical baskets.
Garlic is sold by the pound, or by the
single bulb, which is sold for a penny.
In its commercial form, whole or dry,
garlic does not yield the strong smell
for which it is famous. In a whole¬
sale produce establishment, where gar¬
lic was stacked up in quantities, there
was nb noticeable odor from it. But
if one bf the several smaller bulbs of
which each root is composed, and
which are called cloves of garlic, 09
broken off and broken in two, the pow¬
erful odor becomes perceptible.
The aggregate consumption of garlio
in this country is large, and our ex¬
ports of it to South American coun¬
tries, which include American garlic
and imported garlic resliipped, amount
to enough to be reckoned in tons.—
New York Sun.
GEORGIA LADIES
tell the: truth.
tne&l
m Bullards, Gh., writes: Eight
|3k years ago i bad Slow Fever
3 months. Five Doctors atj
S3 tended me, but I continued
to grow worse until Icom-
jS* ‘-S” -0 menced taking Dr. M. A.
Simmons Diver Medicine
s V- - ' r rjf well three times before a day, and Package I wes
IW [ one
was taken. Rave taken a
f } few doses “Black Draught,”
but did not think it. cleansed
I§l*sl§ig£p§i my Diver as well as Dr. 21.
A. S. L. M.
Female Complaints,
Thera arc two critical and even dangei on3
periods is la foaials Ilia, rfbe-a the arsatesS
care necessary,
T'le first, when the girl passes from child*
hood to womanhood; if ttutongh ;gn«ranc4
or interfered neglect this mysterious development is
with or thwarted, even in the
smallest degree, they are liabi c to soma
each malady hysteria, frequently proving most serious, j
While as at the fits or even consumption
second period, raile d “ri.angfl and
danger. of life,” there is often much distress
At both these perioda of life Df.
Simmons Squuw Tine YYiiio is invalu¬
able. andit is recommended thata dose ofit
bo taken twice a week for some time, be¬
tween. and during 1 the menstrual periods,
and for strengthening the system wo
strongly urge the nad of Dr. M. A. Sim¬
mons Diver Medicine, a dotd lit bedtime*
.f) Seville,
» Ga., says: I havfl
used Dr, M. A. Simmons
S Livor Medicine Jn mV
m I). .X W cess family in for 20 years with of Indi* buC-
jt many cases
gestion and Sour Stom*
Fv ach. I think it superior to
4® “Thodford’s Black Draught”
m E .and and I ‘‘Zeilin’s Bhall recommend Regulator,” Dr,
__Hive, M. A.s. L>. M. as long M1
,
caused Hysteria
H of constitution, by natural or acquired feebleness
mental Bufferingand.chiefly,
derangements menstrual irregularities, of the sexual system, such aa
monte* the generative delayed develop’
organs, Of too strong
sexual propensities. Daring a fit, the
patient’s should have clothes abundance should be loosened; eha
an of fresh air,
The sudden, of copious and continuous and appli;
cation cold water tothe head face will
cut the fit short. Between the paroxisms*
Dr. M. A. Simmonsl.jverMcdicirjoshould
ba taken to correct torpidity cf the bowels,
and a conce of treatment with Dr. Sim¬
mons adapted Squaw Vina vYino which is specially
to remove the uterine disorders.
CHRONIC DISEASES
ot all forms
Rheumatism. SUCCESSFULLY TREATED.
tion, Neuralgia, Indigestion, Bronchitis, Palpita¬
etc.
CATARRH
of the Nos*. Throat and Lungs.
DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN.
I rolapsus. Ulcerations. I.eucorrhea. etc. Write
for pamphlet, testimonials and question blank.
DK. S. T. WHITAKER, Specialist,
205 NorcroS 3 Buliding, Atlanta, Ga.
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IS NOT APPRECIATED.
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& from being broken by the flame’s.
Agents wanted. Address
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