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A Device For Watering-Trough. ‘Where a number of cattle are turned out to drink together there ie quite sure to be crowding and perhaps fight ing at the trough. A device tending to obviate this is shpwn in the cnt. Within the trough a board is fitted, which rises and falls as water is pumped in or is drunk out of the trough. At regular intervals are square or rouud openings, through whiapacuch animal can drink, one, and only one, at a place. Incidentally, the cnt shows an excellent way to put watering-troughs together at the ends. Let the end pieces slightly into the sides and bot tom, and “shrink on” a strap of iron, as shown. This will pull the joints together firmly, since the heated band A SENSIBLE DRINKING PEACE FOR CATTLE. shrinks in cooling, as does a wagon tiro when placed on the wheel. Put cleats under the board that rests upon the water to keep it from warping.— New York Tribune. Rotating Manures In Gardens. While the garden always receives more of the stable manure made on the farm, this is usually so deficient in mineral fertility that garden crops often suffer from lack of potash and phosphate, while the nitrogenous ele ments of plant food are au overabun dant supply. Under snob conditions the soil becomes heavy and impervi ous to air, or, as old farmers call it, “muck midden.” Almost all garden -vegetables requiro potash, and many of them need also phosphate to pro duce a successful crop. When the crop is valuable for itir seed mainly these minerals arc especially neces sary. Beans and pessary good ex amples of this. It is often said they grow best on poor soil. This only means that there must be enough mineral fertility to balance that which is nitrogenous, or thej&es will grow too much to leaf withojW either pod ding or filling os they should. Nitro genous manures are not needed at all for beans, as these are never planted until the ground is woll warmed, when cultivation is enough to cause the soil to furnish all the nitrogen seeded. Peas are hardier, and for giving them an early start some quickly available nitrogenous manure may be nsed. But both potash und phosphate may be usod liberally for both peas and beans, greatly increas ing the yield of grain without mach if any increare in the growth of haulm. But even those crops which do not require extra large amounts of miner als are benefited by letting the gar den go without stable manure one year, and substituting the same value or cost of mineral fertilizer in its stead. Even if there were no nitro gen in the concentrated fertilizer, the effect of applying potash and phos phate to land is to set free much ni trogen, and on land that has long been manured with stable mannres, this amount will probably be sufficient for the year’s crop. In a recent pub lication a well-known gardener tells how he long practiced a system of rota tion in which when he had got his gar dening soil overfilled with manure, re lief was found by plowing nnder 1000 to 1500 pounds per acre of the refuse hop leaves from a brewery after their strength has been extraoted. On an other occasion he took the waste stems from a tobacco factory, whioh he found rotted in the soil,as did the hop leaves, witl^ the result that the olara- my, sticky condition of soil, resulting from over manuring with stable ma- nure, was changed to a light loam that easily responded to any kind of manure in a single year.—American Cultivator. of the coop with hooks and eyes as shown. It is secured to the ground at the farther corners by crotohed sticks driven into the ground. This m An Id«»l Coop For Clilclc«. The usual arrangements for rearing little ohiok's are not, as a rale, the beat that might be had. The idea seems to prevail that any old box sot on edge, with a slatted front, is all that ia required. In such a coop the comfort and health of the old hen is lost and she soon gets lousy and quickly transfers the lice to the ohioks. This illustration shows an aprovement on the old stylo hen which is at once practical, « and inexpensive. The coop the nsnal way, except that r -‘-‘d in the side to remove ir™ plan of fastening permits the use of the frame on different coops. Over the top is a square of wire netting and over this netting is stretohed a length of waterproof cloth whioh will keep the pen dry in wet weather and shady during the hot part of the day. This cloth is fastened to buttons screwed into the frame, buttons such as ore used for fastening carriage curtains being just the thing. The arrangement permits freqnent changing of both coop and pen to dif ferent locations. A portion of the ground inside the pen in spaded and the small grain fed is scattered over it to teach the chicks to scratch. Mother hen will find a corner for a dust bath and keep herself free from lice, and the entire family will be comfortable and happy. The,plan is especially desirable for use with the late hatched chicks when the coop is so located that the snn shines on it during most of the day and when fre quent and heavy showers come up suddenly.—Atlanta Journal. ANIMALS CAN COUNT; Tho florae tlie Best Calculator Among; Them, According; to a Russian. An ornithologist, after many experi ments on parrots, holds that they can count up to four. A Bussian physi cian, Dr. Timofieff, extended these experiments to birds, dogs, cats and horses. He concludes that crows can count up to ten, dogs to twenty-four, cats only to six, but horses carry off the palm as calculators. In a village of the Government of Pokow, Dr. Timofieff studied a horse belonging to a peasant and found that tho horse always stopped at the end of its twentieth furrow. It did not stop when tired, but only after every twenty furrows. It was so exaot about this that its master reckoned the number of farrows that he had made by the number of times that the horse halted. The animal connted for the man. In another village Dr. Timo fieff saw a horse that calculated the verqfs (Russian miles) by the number of posts on the road, and the time by the striking of the clock. One day thiB physician was going to Valdai, when at the twenty-second verst one of the horses hitohed to the troika (a three-horsed carriage) stopped sud denly. The driver got down from his seat, gave some provender to the horse and drove on. This horse had been trained by its master when very young to gdt food at every twenty-five versts. There can be no doubt that the horse kept count by the .posts along the road. It had made a mis take this time of thr$e versts, but it was not its fault. Along the road there were three other posts besides the telegraph posts which looked very mnoh like them. Hence the error of three versts. This same horse was accustomed to get its food in a stable near which the town clock rang at noon. Dr. Timo fieff himself saw the horse prick up its ears and listen, but droop its head dissatisfied when less than twelve strokes sounded. On the contrary it manifested all kinds of satisfaction when it heard the twelfth stroke of the bell, neighing for its provender. Ready When the Next Hurricane Came* Ed Walter, a well-to-do colored man living near Sprague Junction, Ala., bad his crib and stables blown away by the storm which passed through there the other week. His house and family escaped, and he went at once to work ana dng a storm pit in his yard, in the event another such storm came along. The other day when the etorm that passed through that territory was seen ap proaching he took his family, not for getting his dog, and went into his hole in the ground. When the storm passed over he found his house scat tered over a ten-aore field and his honsehold goods in tho tops of trees. e of his meat was found 400 yards friflh^mLonstLHe thinks hut for his storolPHNMMMMtinber of his family would PeTefT Illinois Bonds. There’s a bight upon your name, Illnols, Illinois, It has compromised your fame, Illinois, Illinois; In the spring ana In the fall, When then’s lots of things to haul. We can’t use your roads nt all, Illinois, Illinois; We can’t uho your roads at all, Illinois. When it comes to raising corn, Illinois, Illinois; You can laugh them all to scorn, Illinois? Illinois; But it’s painful to relate That for highways out of date You’re the banner-holding Stale, Illinois, Illinois; You’re the banner-holding State, Illinois. See them stretching on and on, Illinois, Illinois; Like a ditch across the lawn, Illinois, Illinois; Full of mud so black and thick That a four-In-hnnd would stick With a load of twenty brick, Illinois, Illinois; With a lead of twenty brick, Illinois. Shake the moss from oil ycur back, Illinois, Illinois; Timo to tuko another tack, Illinois, Illinois; If you ha\$ a bit of pride, Don’t bo any longer guyed— Make your mud-roads hard and wide Illinois, Illinois, Make your mud-roads bard and wide, Illinois. —Illinois State Journal. The Warfare In Brief. Every added inohof rand makes the road many mile: longer. The farmer who ie mired in the mud up to his knees should be deeply in terested in roads. The improvement of a road should depend upon something mors than the wind and the sun. r The best method in which a town can pave its way to succesB is to pave its streets and improve the highways leading therefrom. Wide tires are growing in favor. Now that some of the States are build ing expensive highways, tax-payers insist that the roads shall be pre served. The San Francisco Bulletin points out that the county which cannot af ford schools and good roads is allowed to pass into the possession of men who want neither, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Penn., must pay $310 to a citizen who was crossing a bridge with a threshing-machine when the bridge gave way and dumped the outfit into a creek. Poor highways are expen sive. Shot a Raccoon la a Church Ore#*l«^ At Indianapolis, Ind., Carl Snyder, genial, of the Tabernaole Presby- tenan 'Chnrah, called the ohoir to gether, and as he attempted to take hifr aeat atthe big orgtfnin the dark ened church he was startled by’a growl and a snapping of teeth, while two Advantages of Improved Roads. One of the most interesting papers read at the New York State Farmers’ Congress, recently held at Albany, N. Y., was that on the “Advantages of Improved Highways,” by John A. C. Wright, of Rochester, N. Y. In part Mr. Wright said: “No subjects are so closely related as highways and agriculture. Material prosperity de pends upon production and trans portation. In production we have made immense strides, in manufac tures many-fold, and even on the farm each of us produces as much as all four of his forefathers of two genera tions ago. Besides the cost of produc tion there is the cost of getting whnt is produced to its best market. How much that is, we often fail to realize. It has been computed that the annual freight bill of each of us is $60. This is the transportation charge or what it costs us to more products over the highways whioh are of three sorts— the common highway, the railway and the waterway. The relative cost is most aptly shown by stating that the amount it costs to move a ton five miles on the highway, will move it twenty-five,miles on the electrio rail way, 250 mires 'on the steam railway and 1250 miles in deep waterways, “In improving, therefore, the com mon highway, we rednee the largest item in this freight tax. By pains taking effort we have found it costs thirty cents per ton mile on the ordinary road, such as wo bavo, and a smooth hard road-way would rednee this to seven cents per ton mile, or we would do the business for one- quarter of what it costs ns now. This is equivalent by tho above tables to getting each Ion carried for more than 500 miles by rail-and more than 1000 miles by water. “We have also found that the farm produots of this State reduced to tons are about 12,000,000 tons, and that at the average haul costs about $1.50 to move per ton, or a freight bill for primary transportation of agricul tural produots of $18,000,000 a year. If we bad good roads this coBt wonld be, to allow a good margin, less than $6,000,000 and the saving over $12,- 000,000 a year, or as much as our total State tax bill for all purposes. The common road, therefore, is the most important factor in transporta tion, so far as we are concerned, ahd the chance for saving in haul on it the greatest.” TUe South Suffers. A few years ago several families came South from the Western States and settled near Burton’s Hill, be tween here and Forkland. We hear that.soon they will pnll up stakes and retura&om whence they came. They say we have tho greatest country on top of tho earth for the laboring man, but no roads. As it is they ennnot haul thpir produce to market nor go anywhere oh business or pleasnre. Thns Greeno County will lose half-a- dozen good citizens.—Eutaw (Ala.) Mirror. Hampered Farmers* “To-day tho barriers between ns and the remainder of the county are roads that are almost impassable,” says the Waukegan (Ill.) Gazette. “In this the town is not -alone the sufferer. Farmed throughout the county are hampered and their work serionfiy re tarded because of miserable highways. Would it not be wise to labor throngh our representatives for tjhe passage of ' slonlatsd to.. remedy this evil?’ ’ Quito til* Boat!, whose plan for the THE ADMIRAL’S COURTESY. It Illustrates Anew Russia's Friendship For the United States. THE SOLE DISSENTER. A lieutenant in our navy, whose name for obvious renEons I shall re frain from mentioning, related to mo recently a good story, which 1 believe has never been told, which is authen tic, beyond doubt, and gives one of tho numerous examples illustrating Russia’s friendship for the United States, writes H. I. Dodge, iu the Voice. I give it in his words: ‘When Lieutenant - Commander Gorringe was sent to get tho Obelisk, now in Central Park, New York, he met with obstacles of a wholly unusual and unlooked-for character. It seems that certain interested foreigners had incited the Egyptians to rebel against the removal of the great stone from their shores, and A pretty formidable opposition had been secretly organized. Gorringe’s crew was by no means ade quate to combat this unexpected op position, and there was no American man-of-war in the harbor to render assistance. ‘A Russian flagship wasthere,how ever, and the admiral, learning of the plot to defeat the American captain’s purpose, sent Gorringe a very re spectfully worded note, in which he spoke in very high terms of the unique engineering feat which the Americans were about to undeitake in moving the Obelisk, and begged that Mr. Gorringe would do him the very great favor of permitting his officers and men to witness the great work. The request was, of course, granted, and early the next morning the wily Musoovite landed 400 men, armed to the teeth with fixed bayonets and pis tols loaded with hall cartridges, who formed a hollow square about the Obelisk. These men really saw very little of the engineering feat of mov ing the great stone, as they faced out when the mob came, and no one was allowed to go through the square without a pass from Mr. Gorringe. As the Obelisk was landed on trucks and moved down to the sea, the square moved along with it, and not until af ter it was safely on board did the Rus sians return to their vessol. “The next day the Russian admiral sent another very polite note to Mr. Gorringe, thanking him for the oppor tunity given to his officers and men to see the wonderful work, and stating not only the admiral himself, but the Russian Government, wonld always remember, with feelings of keenest pleasnre, Mr. Gorringe’s great cour tesy.” "Cheer up! Cheer npl cries the sons -bird As he sways on the Umber limb. He seems to feel As bis blythe notes peal That the world was mad* for him. “Cheer up” sounds soft In the breeeaa. “Cheer up!” Is the line that’s writ O’er the open book Of the field or brook Where the sunbeams lade and flit. I But man, superior mammal, For tho warning Is dlslnolined. He’ll oherish hts woe If but to show That matter Is loss than mind. “Cheer up!” says each jovial eoheT; That speaks from the sun-lit hill. “Cheer up!” soys the earth Ia Its vernal mirth. Bays man, “I'm hanged If I will.” —Washington Star PITH AND POINT. “Every time I laugh it hurts my „ side.” “That mnst be what they call ribald laughter.”—Cleveland Plana Dealer. Father—“Son, can’t you possibly- cut down your college expenses?”" Son—“I might possibly do without books.” “Yes, my milliner has lost her mind and been sent to the Insane asylum. “Poor thing! Too much headwork, L suppose.” “Did their marriage end tho fend between the two families?” “Not en tirely, it is confined to only ouo mem ber of each family now.” The Medium—“The spirit of yonr- hnsband is here, if you wish to ask • him any question." The Widow—“I want to ask him where he has been.”' He hurriedly dressed and went down town Wearing a gorgeous teek, • But hesnwns ho glanced in a looking-glass. That In Ills haste ho hud put -iilusl — A cuiT around his neck! —Chicago Tribune. “Did you say I lied deliberately?’*’ “Well, not exactly. My remark was- that you couldn’t toll a deliberate- truth. ”—Philadelphia North Amer ican. Paul Plodder—“I wonder if I liave- time to catch the train?” Policeman Rounds—“Yo have toimo enough, but. yes haven’t the speed, Oim thinking.”" —Boston Transoript. “Life is not all sunshine, Harriet.”' “Yes, I know that; but you know very- well, Julius, there are lots of days when I could carry a chiffon parasol if" I had it.”—Chicago Record. * The newest fashions now are In, p And from tho way It looks, Though coats und hats may chango, there’ll be - No change in pooketbooks. —New York Journal. Mrs. Findlault—“Now John’s gono- and got his life insured. But, then* he’s just like all other men. They have everything done for themselves, and never think of their poor, slaving- wiv'es."—Judge. “Well, Geordie,” said the caller, “what do yon think of your new little- baby sister?” “Oh, I don’t know,”" replied the six-year-old with a yawn, “She’s all right, I suppose. She re lieves tho monotony.”—Chicago Tri—"* bune. Van Twiller—“I dreamed that L committed suicide last night on your- account.” Miss Olduu (gushing)— “He! he!—er — hadn’t you better speak to mommer about it?" Van Twiller—“Oh, I wouldn’t dream of that!”—Judge. They wore discussing the household, expenses of the future, as young peo ple will do under snob circumstances. • “In Japan,” she said with a sigh, as she thought of his income, “a man can pay for a honse, food and two servauts • on $300 a year.” “Bat think of tho- o.ost of getting there,” answered.— Chicago Evening Post. A Disinfecting Steamship European medical authorities speak in enlogistic terms of the United States steamship Protector, whioh is the first naval vessel in the world to be equipped solely for the purpose of disinfection. . On the deck of the vessel, which is about eighty feet long, is a structure fitted with bathrooms. The soldiers, on coming on board, will take a bath and give np their old clothing, receiv ing new clothes in exchange. After the old clothing has been taken below and thoroughly sterilized, it will be returned to its owner. The sterilizing apparatus consists of a cylinder, a chamber and an exhauster. The chamber is of iron, and can be her metically sealed. The air » removed from the chamber by an exhausting steam jet. Tho generator is a copper cylinder divided vertically into two parts, a steam coil being placed in each part. The clothes to be steril ized ore placed in the chamber, and tho air is exhausted. Formaline is', placed in part of the generator and i steam- is admitted to the coil. When | sufficient quantity of formaldehyde gas is generated by the heat it is passed into the chamber. In half an hom ammonia, placed in the other part of the generator and similarly heated, ia also admitted. This serves to neu tralize the formaldehyde? and the clothes, now thoroughly purified, are removed and taken on deck for rostora- two totlioif owner..—ClHc^prjUcw-a. 1 ’’’ *■ ■ Tlie Shape of Birds* Egc. “Birds* eggs differ in shape as welt as they do in color,” said a well-known ornithologist. “For instance, the- eggs of the owl family are almost.' spherical, and are thus easily moved, by the parent bird in her desire to se» cure an equal amount of warmth to> each dnring the time of hatching. As she nests in a hole, there is no fear- whatever of any of her clutoh rolling- away and being smashed. On tho other hand, tho guillemot, whioh nests, or rather lays, her eggs on flat, bare* rocks in high, exposed latitude, lays* single egg so elongated and curiously shaped that when stirred by a violent- gust of wind or the bird’s sudden; flight it does not roll away, but sim ply spins around on its axis like a top. * In the case of plovers, snipes and. other birds that lay four large eggs, the eggs narrow so rapidly toward tho. smaller end that four of them in anest-f practically form a square, thus enab ling the bird to cover them the moro effectually,"—Washington Star./ ' A Kansas Girl In the Troaches. Here is an extract from a letter written by W. S. Cooper, an Ottawa, boy with the Twentieth Kansas, which; testifies not only to the bravery of *. Kansas girl, bat also distantly to a- romance: “Our lady nursp li u» in the. trenohes that night. I sat right next to me, at ’ *' ’ took a shot she bad an ready for me. They abet "are ftl. mmmm