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Clover Heed.
If tlie farmer wants a crop of clover
seed, he should cut tho first crop ns
early us possible, says Hoard’s Dairy
man. The clover plant is a biennial.
That means that it takes two years for
it to blossom and seed. Now, if the
first crop is allowed to stand until it
blossoms, and the seed commences to
form, there will be but very little seed
in the second crop. The point is, to
turn all the seeding instinct and power
of the root into the second crop.
Hence, the necessity of cutting the
first crop much earlier than is usually
done, when it is cut for hay alone.
Preventing Egg-Eating.
If an egg is broken tlie.hens will eat
it, and it is by eggs being broken that
the hens learn the vice, as they never
eat eggs unless they first find one
broken. The only way to prevent the
hens from eating eggs after they once
begin is to make a nest with a top,
compelling the hen to walk in to reach
the nest, and have the box raised ten
inches from the floor, so that the hen
cannot stand near the box to eat the
eggs. When she goes on the nest she
cannot do any harm, as she must come
off and stand up to eat the eggs.
little* For Chicken Raiser*,
f P. H. Jacobs, in the Poultry Keeper,
gives a few rules that should be often
referred to by chicken raisers:
Ten hens in a house 10x10 feet are
enough. The yard should be at least
teu times as large as the floor of the
house. Ten weeks from shell to mar
ket is the time allotted a broiler chick.
Ten cents a pound is about the aver
age price of hens in market for the
whole year.
Ten cents should feed a chicken ten
weeks, and it should then weigh two
pounds.
Ten months a year is usually the
highest limit of time during which a
hen will lay.
Ten hens with one male is about the
proper proportion.
Ten quarts of corn, or its equivalent,
should feed a hen ten weeks, if she is
of a large breed, but ten quarts for
three months is a fairer proportion.
Ten pounds is a good weight for
males of the larger breeds, one year
old.
Ten eggs is the average number to
each pound.
Ton flocks, each consisting of ten
hens, are enough for an acre.
Ten chicks, when just hatched,
weigh about one pound.
Ten hens should lay about 1000 eggs
during tbe yedr. This allow s for some
laying more than 100 eggs each, while
others may not lay so many.
Moulting.
From July to December is the moult
ing or shedding period for the poultry.
It takes about one hundred days from
the time a hen first commences to moult
until the process is completed. Some
hens will commence to moult much
earlier than others, thus finishing be
fore the cold weather sets in. This is
very desirable, as hens seldom lay
during the moult, or the larger part of
it, therefore if they commence early,
thus finishing early, it will be a deci
ded gain, for then they can be gotten
in a laying condition before cold
weather, and we all know what that
means. The feathers are composed
largely of nitrogen aud mineral mat
ter. The first process is the loosening
stage, when the feathers loosen and
drop out, at times leaving the bird
almost naked, thus cold and disease
(from exposure) are apt to follow.
Hens should be carefully housed if the
weather is at all cold or damp. When
the new feathers commence to come
in it causes a great drain on the
hen’s body, especially of such sub
stances as goes to furnishing nitrogen
and mineral matter. Corn, -wheat, etc.,
furnish the hen principally with car
bon (fat), etc., while grass, bugs,
worms, etc., furnish the nitrogen and
mineral matter. Thus we see that the
foods best adapted to the moulting sea
son are the nitrogeneous foods. It
will be seen from the above that at this
period the hens should have unlimited
range, so that they can themselves
gather a good supply of such articles
as they need.—The Epitomist,
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Lifting Large Kocks Out of the Ground.
Field boulders are usually buried
either w holly or in part in the surface
of the ground. To pull such a boul
der out of the ground requires an enor
mous amount of power, unless much
hand digging is given beforehand.
The sketch herewith shows a way to
lift the .stone as it is dragged out by a
team of horses or oxen. The inclined
WAY TO MOVE HEAVY STONES.
stick can be placed as near to the
boulder as is practicable aud as it
rises to the perpendicular it of course
lifts the stone. The bight of the j>rop
will depend upon the size and depth
of the stone. The knack of “knowing
how” to do such things often saves a
vast amount of work.—American Agri
culturist.
How to Grow Pickles.
Before we can think of pickling cu
cumbers we must grow them, and that
is not always an easy matter, especial
ly where the blight (leaf-blight,
bacterial blight) is a sure annual visi
tor. This disease often (perhaps
usually, here aud in many other local
ities) sweeps through the patches, first
taking a plant here aud there, and con
tinuing its attacks until every plant in
the patch," long before the end of the
season, has succumbed. The way is
to plant on strictly new soil, prefer
ably some sandy or mucky loam,rather
moist than otherwise, but thoroughly
drained. Persistent spraying with
Bordeaux mixture seems to have good
effect in keeping foliage healthy, aud
if Paris green is added to it, in keep-
ing the beetles in check. Good culti
vation and repented hoeing are abso
lutely necessary, but the vines in
these operations, as well as in picking,
should be disturbed as little as pos
sible. It is the large number of
marketable pickles which is wanted
rather than large size of the individual
pickle. The size most in demand is
three inches in length. The more
promptly we pick the three-inch size,
the more pickles the area will furnish,
and therefore the greater the returns
and profits. An experienced grower
says in Michigan Farmer:
“The larger the number grtyvn on
a given territory the more profit, hence
they should be picked very close. The
bulk of the crop should be of the
smallest or medium size. Those over
looked can be utilized, but the fewer
the better, and none must be allowed
to mature. Care must be taken to dis
turb the vines as little as possible; in
this regard children with their bare
feet are preferable to grown people,
and our experience leads us to believe
that children can, quite as easily as
grown-ups, be taught to pick them
clean.”
A Handy Farm Holler.
The ordinary farm boiler, or set
kettle, is unhandy from the fact that
the contents after each boiling must
be laboriously dipped out. The cut
show's a boiler that avoids this difficul
ty, for the boiler itself is made of
sheetiron (the heaviest to he obtained),
A SET KETTLE.
and rests upon the top of the brick
work, so that it cau he raised and re
moved. It has a haudlo at one end
and a lip at the other, so that it can bo
emptied directedly into pails or tubs
or car, be pulled off the brickwork
upon a wheelbarrow and wheeled away
to the barn or hog house. A light
cover sets upon the top when over the
fire. If the boiler is to be used out of
doors, it should lie made of galvanized
iron to prevent rusting. If the boiler
is very large,an iron rod can he placed
across the middle of the opening in
the brickwork to support the bottom
of the boiler. This arrangement will
be found convenient where food is
often boiled for stock.—New York
Tribune.
Dairy Dots.
Taste decides the merit of butter.
Color is subservient to taste in but
ter.
Quality is of more importance than
quantity.
Bad w'ater will make impure, un
wholesome milk.
It is uncleanly to wet the hands
while milking, and should always be
avoided.
To improve the milking qualities of
a dairy herd, use bulls only from the
best milkers.
Dairy heifers should always be han
dled familiarly from the first and there
will be no trouble.
The chief advantage of the creamery
system is cheapness of product from
the saving of labor.
No dairyman can make uniformly
good butter unless his cows are fed
liberally w ith wholesome food.
Dairying has one advantage in that
its products are always in the line of
food, and hence always in demand.
Proper management of the dairy
gives the farmer a continuous income,
something he does not have with most
lines of farming.
Feeding and general care and man
agement have as much to do with in
creasing the product of the cows as
breeding or blood.
If the air is warmer than the cream,
the purity of the cream and the fine
flavor of the butter will be impaired
by exposure to it.
After cream becomes sour the more
ripening given it the more it depreciates,
and the sooner it is skimmed and
churned the better.
The milk cans, pails and other ves
sels should he kept clean by first wash
ing in tepid water and then scalding
thoroughly in boiling water.
Clean pastures, with good clean
water and proper care, is the surest
preventive of bitter milk. Weeds,
especially ragweed, cause bitter milk.
Iu a majority of cases kicking cows
are made so by cruelty and harsh words.
To have gentle cows it is essential to
treat them kindly from the time they
are calves.—Agricultural Epitomist.
Go pliers Destroy a Canal.
Ail Oklahoma City enterprise has
been ruined by the gopher pest. It
was thought that the rapidly flowing
North Canadian River could be used
to operate all the mills that could be
placed ou its banks at Oklahoma City.
The fall was nearly thirty feet and it
was expected that 2000 horse power
would l>e developed. A canal five
miles long was constructed, at an ex
pense of $40,000. It was diked part
of the way and the river was crossed
twice. The canal is twenty-five feet
wide and four feet deep, and when
four inches of water was let iu at the
head gate an electric light plant and a
large flouring mill were run with ease,
but au unsuspected enemy soon caused
disaster to the enterprise. The banks
of the canal were of porous, sandy
soil and gophers attacked the dike,
the holes which the animals burrowed
widened into crevasses and the sandy
discs were easily swept away, causing
constant and expensive repairs.
Finally the entire canal became
wrecked, and farmers are now plowing
up the right of way and the canal is
gone, _ _ . -
COOD ROADS NOTES.
The ltosd Question In Arkansas.
Road overseers, do you know that
you are sending countless souls to
eternal punishment? It may be that
you are. Men, women and children
in Johnson County are cussing, people
in the Indian Territory are cussing,
some in Kansas are cussing, and now
and then we can smell the essence of
profanity from Illinois and Indiana—
in fact, the entire Western Hemi
sphere is cussing by sections about the
condition of our roads. Mend the
roads for the Lord’s sake as well as
for your own. You know yon travel
the same roads that these other people
travel and may become profane your
self.—Clarksville (Ark.) Herald.
Value of Good Koa<l*.
It has been urged by some that
farmers living near the city are bene
fited by bad roads in the more distant
districts, because they can manage to
get to town and realize a higher price
for their produoe, while those living
farther away are unable to reach the
market. With a similar fallacy it has
been stated that the country merchant
is benefited by had roads because the
neighboring are compelled to
sell to them and take their goods in ex
change.
The increased value that good roads
bring to a farmer’s estate will more
than recompense him for what he con
siders a loss iu the price of his pro
duce, and in addition he reaps the ad
vantage of purchasing his necessities
at a lower price. It is the complete
and free interchange of commodities
within our own borders which brings
the greatest good to the greatest num
ber.—G. D. V. Rollo, at Cheboygan
(Mich.) Institute.
Ex-Vlce-Preslrient Stevenson’s Views.
Adlai E. Stevenson, the ex-Vice-
President, lives at Bloomington, 111.,
in the centre of a district the roads
of which are notoriously bad, and it is
no wonder that he should now be in
favor of* good roads. The ex-Vice-
President expressed himself quite
strongly on the subject in the follow
ing language: “I am in full sympathy
with the efforts now being made to
secure good roads throughout our
country. This is a living question.
There is little difficulty in getting
from one large city to another, or even
in crossing the continent, but the im
portant question is how to get from
the country home to the school-house,
to the church, to the market. It is a
gratifying fact that this subject is now
undergoing thorough discussion in
many of our States. Tho result will
be beneficial. Like other important
questions, it will work out its own
solution. I agree with Governor
Markham that "good roads mean ad
vanced civilization.’”
For Good Road* In South Carolina.
The Board of County Commissioners
of this (Richland) county are seriously
contemplating an effort with the next
year to macadamize the roads of the
county. Recently they made an ex
periment on 150 yards of road near the
city to ascertain the cost of putting
down such roads. While the official
report of Captain Sligk, in charge of
the county chain-gang, has not yet
been filed, it is understood that the
test proved most encouraging, Rich
land County is in fine financial condi
tion, aud she can well afford to start
the work. The Board, however, is
anxious to get the next reassessment
of realty before going into the matter
for the whole county, but by a very
short additional tax being added next
year the work can be begun and car
ried on. Again, the bonding plan is
opon and can be adopted. A steam
roller will cost $1650, and a rock
crusher, elevator, etc., will cost as
much more. There will practically be
no other outlay. Richland is fortunate
in having a granite foundation. In
the upper portion of the county granite
can be secured at almost any price,
and the cost of hauling will be noth
ing. This is usually the heaviest item
in the making of macadam roadi. The
County' Board seems to be very much
in earnest iu the matter.—Columbia
(S. C.) State.
Ituilrtlng Country Road* by State Ahl.
At the Rock River (111.) Chautauqua
Mr. Otto Dorner, of Milwaukee, de
livered an interesting address on
“How Shall We Obtain Better Roads?”
He said, in part:
“I am glad of au ppportunity to
say to a gathering of farmers that the
League of American Wheelmen pro
poses to help them in bringing about
a proper division of the cost of good
roads, so that the city people, the
capitalist, merchants and manufac
turers, the wealthy corporations, rail
road, insurance aud telephone com
panies, in fact, every class of people,
shall contribute to the cost of building
them.
“The League of American Wheel
men believe that many of our country
roads should be built by State aid;
that a part of the cost of good roads
should be paid out of the State tax,
which would be levied upon all prop
erty and all classes of people alike, so
that every taxpayer shonld contribute
a proportionate amount, according to
to the amount of property he owns.
We propose that the States shall help
to build roads and divide their total
cost between the people of the locality,
who are most directly benefited, the
adjoining property owners whose land
rises in value as a result of the im
provement, and the State as represent
ing the entire population.
“This is not a Utopian plan; it is not
a theory only', but lias been adopted
in practice with great success iu New
Jersey, iu Connecticut, iu Rhode
Island, in Pennsylvania, and, iu a
modified form, iu Massachusetts. New
Jersey has become famous for the fine
roads she has built. These were con
structed by a State aid system under
which their cost is divided abou.t as I
have indicated. The farmers of New
Jersey are enthusiastic ’ over this State
aid System, and the towns aud coun
ties are glad to pay their share of the
cost of these roads so long as the State
pays it part. The country districts in
New Jersey are overwhelming the
State authorities with petitions to as
sist in the improvement of local roads,
and the Legislature cau not appropri
ate funds for the purpose sufficient to
meet the demauds from the farmers.
“The New Jersey Commissioner of
Public Roads tells me that a large part
of his time is occupied in listening to
the pleadings of farmers that the roads
in their districts shall be the first to
receive the benefit of the Btate aid,
“Our suggestion of State aid is now
also being advocated by the leading
representative farmers of the United
States as the proper solution of this
great road building question.”
Sick Headache.
In a talk on “sick headaches,” a
doctor says that there are three things
which must he attended to in order to
relieve the pain. The light in the
room must be darkened, so that the
eyes, which are so sensitive during
an attack of “sick headache,” will be
relieved from any strain. The tem
perature must be kept even, although
the patient may prefer a lower one
than is ordinarily comfortable. The
hands and feet are usually cold, at
least during a part of an attack of sick
headache. When this period prevails,
a hot mustard foot-bath, soakiug the
hands in hot water, and putting a
warm piece of flannel about the body,
are often of inestimable service iu
lessening the pain and shortening the
duration of the attack. While employ
ing these measures, a mustard leaf—
such as your druggist sells in little tin
boxes—applied to the back of the
neck will be found to be a valuable
accessory. Persons who suffer habit
ually from “sick headaches” can near
ly always predict the advent of an at
tack; and if they can, an emetic of hot
water, followed by a laxative dose of
salts or magnesia, might save the
pain they otherwise may suffer. It
is, as a matter of routine domestic
treatment, a good plan to wash out
the stomach in the beginning of the
attack, even when it has not been an
ticipated. This may be done without
much discomfort by swallowing enough
lukewarm water to give the stomach a
feeling of tension. The rejection of
this clears the stomach of mucous and
irritants which may tend to aggravate
the complaint.
Hent or Siinatroke.
Direct exposure to the rays of the
sun is not necessary to cause heat
stroke. A hot damp atmosphere is
more likely to cause it than a hot dry
atmosphere.
Anything that lessens the vital pow
ers of the human body predisposes to
sun or heat-stroke.
A hot supper with wine, and a few
drinks in the morning before going on
a parade, has caused many a business
man to fall prostrate under the influ
ence of excessive heat.
It is a dangerous thing for any per
son not accustomed to marching to
join a parade on a hot day. If it is to
be done, eat very sparingly of animal
food, do not drink any alcoholic
liquors, wine or beer. Eat fruit freely
aud drink an abundance of water.
As soon as a person falls from a
sun-stroke he should be taken to a
shady place and his clothes removed.
Apply ice water over his chest and
body. Do not be timid about it; ap
ply it boldly, freely aud persistently.
Lose no time in getting a physician,
but be sure aud keep up the cold ap
plication until he arrives, as irrepara
ble injury may result from neglecting
the patient at this critical moment.—
H. Duncan Stewart, M. D., in the
Healthy Home.
California’s Gold.
Come down to the hard realities of
arithmetic and the scales and Cali
fornia will turn out probably three
times as much gold this year as the
whole of the frozen Northwest. Prob
ably no part of the world will be more
the gainer than California by these
discoveries. An increase in the pro
duction of gold is of little benefit to
the world at large. The gold-finders
create anew effective demand which is
mostly supplied by producers iu their
immediate neighborhood. The real
gain to the world by the placers of
California lies in the development of
the agricultural, horticultural and in
dustrial resources of this magnificent
region, which otherwise might have
lain dormant for another half-century.
We cannot look for any such gain to
the world by turning attention to the
bleak, inhospitable shores of Alaska.
It is true there are great industrial
possibilities in the fisheries and the
coal mines, and these no doubt will
feel the stimulus; but the country ns
a whole will never make good resi
dence property. The Californians who
go there will all come back to us to
spend their money when they have
made their everlasting fortunes.—San
Francisco Examiner.
Hoiv to Drink Water.
A physician writing in the Sanitar
ian thinks that the avearge person
does not know how to drink water.
Then he proceeds to give the follow
ing advice:
The effects produced by the drink
iug of water vary with the manner in
which it is drunk. If, for instance, a
pint of cold water be swallowed at a
large draught, or if it be taken in two
portion with a short interval between,
certain definite effects follow—effects
which differ from those which would
have resulted from the same quantity
taken by sipping.
Sipping io a powerful stimulant to
the circulation —a thing which ordin
ary drinking is not. During the act of
sipping the action of the nerve which
slows the beats of the heart is abolished,
and as a consequence that organ con
tracts much more rapidly, the pulse
beats more quickly, aud the circula
tion iu various parts of the body is in
creased. In addition to this we also
find that the pressure under which the
bile is secreted is raised by the sipping
of fluid.
Novel Cooking Method.
In Bosnia one of the Austrian bat
teries had to go into action just as din
ner time came oil, and the artillery
men, resolved not to lose a meal, (Hit
their meat into small trips, placed it
on the breech of their guns aud cooked
it by tbe heat of the metal. They
found it delicious, and voted the bif
stek ala cutasse ile cannon infinitely
superior to beefsteaks ’cooked under
the pommel of ’the saddle, Tartar
fashion.
The Kaiser ami Nansen.
When Kridtjof Nansen passed the
day with Emperor William, the Em
peror introduced his children to his
guest in a characteristic manner. After
dinner the young Princes were called.
They filed in and stood “at attention”
in military style. “Shake hands with
this gentleman,” sai’d the Emperor.
“Look well at him. Some day you
will be able to understand what his
work is, and then you will be glad to
be able to say you have met him,”
A WHITE BUFFALO EOBE.
JIM CASPION NEARLY LOST HIS
LIFE IN CETTINC THE PRIZE.
Ho Killed tlio Hiirtalo, One or the' Tliroo
Seen Since Ison— The Rare Animal
Was in a Stampede—Thrill in a In
cident of the Far Western l’lains.
“In living twenty years in the plains
country beyond the Missouri in the
time when herds of buffalo covered the
prairie I never saw a white buffalo,”
said Martin Wriugshy, formerly a Kan
sas hunter and ranchman, in the New
York Sun. “But it is certain that
three skins at least of this rare animal
were in existence at a time subsequent
to 1866. The one best known is the
stuffed skin of the white buffalo cow
that stood iu the museum of the State
House at Topeka, Kan., in 1881, aud
probably is still in existence in care
of the State. Th e second was carried
at his saddle by Roman Nose, the
Cheyenne chief, who led the grand
charge against Captain “Sandy” For
sythe’s band of scouts in the memora
ble fight on the Arickaree branch of
the Republican River in 1867, in
which the chief was killed. The third,
taken in 1871, was for ten years in
possession of the hunter, James Cas
pion, who killed the buffalo that origi
nally wore it. Of where it went after
be disposed of it, I have not the least
idea.
“Caspion was one of a party of three
hunters who with a wagon train and
saddle horses went, in October, 1871,
out on the plains of western Kansas to
hunt buffalo. On October 12 Caspion,
with Sam Tillman, started out on
horseback in the morning to look for
buffalo, leaving the third man to fol
low along in the wagon. In order to
bring a greater range of country into
view the two horsemen separated,
keeping always iu sight of each other.
Late in the afternoon, riding up the
slope of a long ridge of rolling prairie
and looking over the crest Caspion saw
ahead of him twenty-five miles away a
range of steep bluffs. Between him
and the bluffs, the nearest buffalo
being within long rifle range, was the
great southern herd, which every sum
mer fed northward from Texas and
New Mexico, remaining iu Kansas and
Colorado until the storms of winter
drove them to the south again. There
were tens of thousands of the beasts
in view, as Caspion said, but what
particularly caught his eye was a milk
white buffalo feeding among the others
at the distance of a mile away, its
whiteness contrasting strangely with
the dun tints of the beasts around it.
“Having signalled to Tillman on the
ridge behind him to come up he dis
mounted and lay watching the herd
over the summit, trying to think of
same way by which he and his partner
could get possession of the white
buffalo’s skin. When at last he turned
round to look for Tillman it was to see
him riding for life back over the route
they had come with fifty Cheyenne
warriors after him. The chase was a
short one. A shot crippled Tillman’s
horse, and the Indians closed about
him. The hunter emptied two sad
dles before the firing stopped. Then
with Tillman’s scalp borne aloft on a
lance the Indians turned and came for
Caspion. He had to run for it, and as
he could not ride to right or left with
out giving the Indians the advantage
of being able to cut him off, he put his
horse ahead straight toward the buffalo
herds.
“This naturally started a stampede.
Caspion was well among the buffalo be
fore the unwieldy beasts knew what had
happened and got fairly to running.
Then his horse was carried away iu the
rush, aud the last thing the hunter
saw, before the dust shut everything
from view, was the Indians coming
over the crest of the hill he had just
left. After this it was all crowding,
jostliug, and smother as his horse was
hurried along in the press, and after
darkness fell the buffalo still were
going. At last he could tell by the
‘feel’ of the ground that they had come
to a very rough and hilly country—the
bluffs in fact that he had seen in the
afternoon, The herd, unable to scale
the bluffs, had to divide, most of the
buffalo turning to the left, but some of
them following the valleys between the
eminence. Caspion’s horse was forced
by the buffalo into one ol’ these valleys
and carried along with the column that
crowded the narrow defile. It was
not so dusty there as it had been on
the open plain, and presently when
the valley widened, letting iu the light
of the moon, be saw ahead of him the
white buffalo. They came to a place
where a deep ravine, worn by water,
cut close against the side of the bluff.
The buffalo that were nearest tbe hill
side kept their footing. The others
were crowded off into the ravine, and
Caspion could hear them falling to the
bottom. His horse passed the place
safely, and as the valley widened be
yond lie took this chance to rein his
iiorse away from the buffalo and got
from among them. Finding a safe
nook among some great rocks, he
turned in there and passed the rest of
the night, with the buffalo pounding
past him for hours after he had rolled
himself iu his blanket.
“In the morning light only two or
three straggling buffalo were to be seen
in the valley. But, looking over the
edge of the ravine, Caspion saw scores
of buffalo lying at the bottom killed or
too badly hurt to get away. Against
the bank was leaning the white buffa
lo, a young bull with its leg broken.
Tbe hunter climbed down into the
gulch, shot the bull with his pistol,
and took its skin. Having secured the
tongue aud a cut of meat from the
haunch to serve as provisions, Caspion
rode along the valley until he came to
where it opened out on the plain to the
south. Five miles away was the main
herd of buffalo which the baud of
Cheyennes were attacking, riding in
upon it from three sides. Coming to
ward them from the eastward were the
Indian women on ponies drawing
poles behind them on which to pack
meat and pemmican, showing that the
baud was not a war party, but was out
on an autumnal hunt. The Indians
had killed Tillman and chased Caspi
on, simply because they happened to
run across them, and the chance to
kill a white man was too good to miss.
■f*iey were busy now, and Caspion,
circling widely to north, rode back to
where the wagon was, without moles
tation, though it took him all the day
fco do it. The body of Tiliman was
found and buried. Then the two sur
viving hunters, turning to the north,
continued to hunt until they had a
load of buffalo and antelope meat and
skins to take back to the settlements
with them.
“Oaspion kept the white buffalo skin
live years, believing that its posses
sion brought him good fortune. He
sold it at last for $lOO while on a spree
at Fort Lyon. The same year he was
killed by the Comanclies in New Mex
ico.”
A DOCTOR’S "DON'TS."
“Don’t take a hot bath and then get
into a draught to cool oflf,” said Dr.
John E. Thompson, “just because the
mercury is up to ninety degrees, ami
you think it won’t hurt you. It will.
Take a spray or sponge bath prefera
bly every time. Hot baths are weak
ening, whereas a sponge bath stimu
lates the superficial nerves and cools
the skin. The hot hath, on the other
hand, relaxes the sympathetic nerves,
reaction sets in and the sweating pro
cess begins.
“There are a great many things peo
ple can do if they do them properly.
For instance, when a person becomes
exhausted from the heat he immedi
ately rushes up to one of the ice-cold
soda wafer fountains and drinks water
that is absolutely arctic in coldness.
Now if he would take a mouthful of
water, gargle the throat with it, and
spit it out, and then take a swallow of
water, his thirst would be quenched
without deluging the stomach with a
lot of cold liquid.
“I am a great believer in hot water,
taken inwardly, winter and summer.
When I get up in the morning I drink
a cup full of scalding water, just as
hot as I can stand it. Then I take a
little calisthenic exercise. Then comes
my spray, and then I am ready for
breakfast. I have an orange, a cup
of black coffee, and now and then a
soft-boiled egg. That is all I want,
and a breakfast of this kind should be
sufficient for most people, except day
laborers, who want something more
formidable in the way of food.
“For dinner, especially during the
hot weather, I recommend plenty of
well-cooked vegetables, and above all
a plate of soup. I look upon soup in
the nature of a well-meaning poultice
for the stomach.
“Eschew pastry, and if you should
happen across a piece of pie for want
of something better, take off the crust,
eat the filling and don’t meddle with
the dough.
“Iced tea is a very nice drink, but
it is very severe on the stomach, liter
ally killing a good digestive organ. If
you drink it at all let it be in small
quantities.
“For supper let us recommend clam
boullion with whipped cream. It is
nourishing and ever so much better
than tea.
“And now let me say something else.
Drink plenty of water. People who
drink plenty of water never suffer
from kidney troubles. Lots of water
keeps the glands in perfect order.
Eating kills more people than drink
ing. A i arty eater should drink
large quantities of water, not at meals,
but between meals. The recent- death
of one of our late millionaires here was
due to nothing else but hearty eating
without drinking sufficient quantities
of water. And in summer, more than
at any other season of the year, every
body should drink plenty of water.”—
Dr. Thompson, in St. Louis Republic.
Our Wheat Crop.
Precise agricultural statistics may
be possible in the next century, but
they have not been obtained hitherto.
The United States Government’s esti
mate of this year’s American wheat
crop is 450,000,000 bushels. But some
' private expert estimates go almost as
high as 600,000,000. Bradstreet’s con
siders 550,000,000 a reasonable fore
cast. Full allowance having been
made for the home demand, it is esti
mated that we shall have about 160,-
000,000 bushels available for export.
For the year ending June 30 we ex
ported 140,000,000 bushels. The
shortage in the European crop is esti
mated by such continental authorities
as Beerbohm to be more than 100,000,-
000 bushels, as compared with last
year. The demand for the American
surplus, therefore, is certain to be
very firm, with the result of better
prices than farmers have been ac
customed to obtain for a number of
years. An interesting development
of our wheat trade is the rapidly in
creasing demaud that comes from
China and Japan, this being fostered
in part by the chauging customs of
the orient and the gradual improve
ment in standards of living, and in
great measure also by the marked pro
gress of steamship navigation across
the Pacific, which has reduced freight
charges and has made wheat an avail
able return cargo for the great steam
ships that bring oriental wares to
Puget Sound, Portland and Sail Fran
cisco. When once we actually secure
waterway across Nicaragua or the
Panama isthmus there will be a large
outflow of breadstuffs from the Mis
sissippi valley to the orient by way of
Galveston and New Orleans. —Review
of Reviews.
How Kill*.
Last Saturday afternoon Will Pough
(colored) was struck by lightning and
instantly killed while at work on Mr.
E. M. Tharpe’s plantation. The man
was plowing cotton when the bolt
struck him. The horse he was plow
ing with was knocked down but not
seriously hurt. Pough’sstraw hat was
torn up, but there were no marks on
his body. He was very limp, however,
and it seemed that every bone in his
body had been uujointed. A piece of
the singletree was knocked off, but
there was no other damage to the plow
stock. Pough’s wife was standing
about thirty yards away, and she was
knocked down and considerably
stunned by shock. When she got up
her husbaud and the horse were both
down. There were evidences that the
horse had stumbled along about fifteen
feet before he fell and carried the man
with him.—Marion County (Ga.) Pa
triot.
The Sumac Industry.
Sicily is the great producer of this
commodity, used so largely in leather
manufacture. Last year the one port
of Palermo exported 446,000 tons,
worth $2,120,000, or about the same
amount as the previous year. As
shown in a special article in our
columns some months ago, the gather
ing of wild sumac in our own country
is not very profitable, trade preferring
foreign on account of quality and
cheapness. —American Agriculturist.
WORDS OF WISDOM,
Find a way or make one. Every
thing is either pusher or pushed. The
world always listens to a man with a
will in him.—Marden.
The only worthy end of all learning,
of all science, of all life, in fact, is that
human beings should love one another
better.—George Eliot.
A loving confidence in the God we
have offended is the key to his heart,
the key which unlocks the treasury of
his grace.—Rev. E. M. Gouldburu,
D. D.
The are no songs comparable to the
songs of Zion, no orations equal to
those of the prophets, and no politics
like those which the Scriptures teach.
—John Milton.
If yon would he well with a great
mind, leave him with a favorable im
pression of you; if with a little mind
leave him with a favorable impression
of himself. —Coleridge.
When God sends darkness, let it be
dark. ’Tis so vain to think we can
light it up with candles, or make it
anything but dark. It may be be
cause of the darkness we shall see
some new beauty in the stars. —The
Story of William and Lucy Smith.
Restraining grace is an amazing
work of God. It is more wonderful
than his setting a bound to the sea,
that it cannot pass over. Think what
a hell every unconverted bosom would
become if the Spirit were to withdraw
and give men over to their own
hearts’ lusts.—M’Cheyne.
The universal reign of love, creating
new economics, anew commerce, new
politics, anew social life, supplanting
greed of gain with passion for service,
and mutual competition with mutual
helpfulness, unreal as it seems to ns,
immersed in the struggle and held by
the habits aud ruled by the ideas of
to-day, is yet the destined result and
fulfilment of the centuries aud ages of
divine teaching.—Philip Moxom.
Creation is the organ, and a gracious
man finds out its keys, lays his hand
thereon, and wakes the whole system
of the universe to the harmony of
praise. Mountains and bills, aud
other great objects are as it were the
bass of the chorus; while the trees of
the wood, and all things that have life,
take up the air of the melodious song.
—Spurgeon.
High Heels Convicted Him.
“I never see high heels on a pair of
shoes or boots,” volunteered an old
detective officer to a Star reporter,
“but I am reminded of the capture of
Atzerodt, one of the Lincoln assassin
ation conspirators. It was the high
heeled boots that he wore that brought
about his arrest. It came in this way.
Lewis <T. Weichman, the War Depart
ment clerk, on the night of the assas
sination of Lincoln, who was one of
the boarders at Mrs. Surratt’s, gave
considerable information as to the
conspiracy. It was at first thought
that he was in the conspiracy himself,
but he managed to clear himself to the
satisfaction of the authorities and was
never prosecuted. With another de
tective officer I went to Mrs. Surratt’s
house about daybreak on the morning
after the night of the assassination.
Shortly afterward a man came to the
house with a pick iirjd shovel. He was
dressed as a laborer and sant fig- had
been employed to do some digging iu
the yard and wanted to see the lady
of the house about going to work.
Mrs. Surratt, who resided in H street,
near Sixth Northwest, had been placed
under arrest during the night. The
make-up of the man was very perfect,
so much so that for a time he com
pletely threw us off from suspecting
him. His story was very clear, and
there were indications that there was
work needed to be done in the yard. I
told him to wait there, and later on I
would see about the work to be done.
He took a seat on a box, and it was
then I noticed he had very high heels
on his boots. On a further examina
tion I noticed that the boots were not
the boots that laborers wore, but were
line calfskin, and showed that they
had been polished the day before,
though the rain during the night had
washed much of the blacking off. This
convinced me that all was not right,
and I locked him up. In a couple of
hours I ascertained that he was none
other than Atzerodt, the man who had
been selected by the conspirators to
murder Vice-President Johnson, but
who had failed in his purpose. As it
was, it was his high-heeled boots
which first directed my suspicions to
him, and it was his high-heeled boots
which hung him. When he was ex
ecuted he wore the same high-heeled
boots, and they were buried with
him.”—Washington Star.
Bullets of Solid Bold.
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
Secretary of State for the colonies, has
received a dispatch from her majesty’s
high commissioner at the Cape stating
that in the fighting at Fort Martin,
near Hartley, South Africa, on Satur
day, the noted chief, Mnshingombi,
was slain and between 400 and 500 of
his followers were taken prisoners.
The Government forces occupied all
the positions at Marlies Kraal, where
they captured more than one hundred
prisoners.
A dispatch from Fort Salisbury says
that the British forces took the na
tives completely by surprise. When
a charge was made upon the stock
ades the natives fled to their caves, in
which they were afterward captured,
Mashingombi’s maiu cave being de
stroyed with dynamite. Mashingombi
was wounded during the attack and
died soon after being taken prisoner.
Two bullets made of solid gold were
found after tbe fight.—Washington
Star.
Eccentric Provisions For Death.
Dr. and Mrs. Thayer, of Framing
ham, Mass., had their coffins made ac
cording to their own designs. For a
long time the two coffins were finished
and exhibited before either the doctor
or his wife died. It took ten years to
finish the work on the caskets, which
were of carved rosewood, beautifully
ornamented with silver. They cost
$5OOO apiece. The doctor died two
years before his wife did, hut she had
his body placed in an ordinary coffin
aud went on exhibiting the rosewood
coffins and delivering especial lectures.
She died not long ago, and left money
for the building of an elaborate mar
ble tomb where she and her husband
are to lie side by side. It is to be
lighted by electricity for one hundred
years.—New York Tribune.