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■ A daring FEAT. LAD’S ADVENTURE while BOBBING AN EAGLE’S NEST. !att ]j g With Infuriated Birds on a n Lofty Crag. Lee Hemingway, an orphan boy of years of age of New Braun- [els, ixteen adventurc few Tex., had an a ago with two American eagles, in lays barely escaped with his life. riiicli he Professor Mclnevy, the well-known Lturalist, who has been located few in h iat neighborhood for the last J [al erk-, in the interest of his ornitholog- collection, offered Lee 850 for a lest with living eaglets or eggs in it. [ though rather early for these birds L hat their young, Lee was soon Lie. L by watching the movements of a ir> to find where a nest had been Iiade. But as it rvas on the summit If [t,Ie the Big Injun, an almost unsurmount- bowlder rising nearly 125 feet L tho valley of the Guadaloupe, there Las no way of securing it except by Laling the sides of the rock, which, iowevor. has in the course of time be- ome coated by several feet of earth iul are covered with a tangle of Fines, Ac. It was a daring feat, but young Icmingway is a plucky lad of a stal¬ wart build, and who, dependent on is own exertions for a livelihood, ound the money offered a big consid- ,ration, and agreed to attempt the \ condition that the Professor feat on L'ould keep watch with a gun for the jetura of the parent birds. With a basket furnished with a lid slung to Ki; back in which to secure the eggs or 1-oung ing, eagles, he managed, by climb¬ scrambling and pulling himself lip band over hand, to reach the top of ■lie Big Injun, where he found the lest, as he had expected, with young birds a day or two old. Wearied out with his exertions, he rested for some ittle time, then placing the nest with ts contents in his basket and strap- )ing it to him, lie began to descend. I He had scarcely accomplished fifty' |feet of this when he heard the report of he ITofessor’s gun, and saw the two iagles returning. Unhurt, they paid io attention to the shot, but after blighting and finding the nest gone, ■wide at the boy with outstretched [wings and hoarse cries of fury. Lucking his head to keep their power¬ ful beaks and claws out of his eyes, Lee attempted to heat them off with Dne arm while he clung to the vines with the other, but they s.ruck at him Repeatedly' on* the head with their beaks, each time bringing tho blood, (which flowed into the boy r ’s eyes .and pearly,blinded him, while they bullet- led him unmercifully with their great Brings. Professor Mclnery waited until one )f the birds was far enough from Lee |for him to take aim without danger of hitting him, then fired, and succeeded in killing the eagle. She—for, as was (afterward (female—fell ascertained, he had shot what the into a small treo, or which (was scarcely more than a large good-sized sapling, had sprouted from a krevice in the rock, about eight feet a h°ve where Leo hung, and seeing her just above him gave the boy an idea to which lie owes his life. 1th t! e strength of despair lie drew himself up to the tree by the sense of alone, for his eyes were full of blood. Once there he braced himself with his feet, and, wiping his face, )0Ull d his handkerchief about his brow order that it might absorb the blood. He then caught the dead bird by the feet, and, with thi3 weapon, he turned on die living eagle, which had never ceased to beat and strike him. At the n xt ^weep Lee struck it as hard as lie could dare, not to endanger his posi- an ^ ron, ” ule< I to nieet its attacks the same way until, rendered furi- and incautious by its enemy’s re- s ' stance > it flow directly in his face, oiaws distended and beak striking tight and left. The boy caught it " both hands about its throat, and tho ^ furious aU his strength beatings held of it, its in spite wings* IH| til, choked to death by his grip, the -' at bird hung lifeless, when be ‘ ‘"PPcd it at the Professor’s feet. *h:e centlenian had watched the dosperat e struggle, unable to help the boy • except by random shots, hoping 4 . Uus however, to lighten the bird away, which, as has been said, he failed to do. Young Hemingway hung in the slender branches of the liitle tree for nearly an hour, battling exhausted na¬ ture now with the same courage he had displayed toward the eagles. Speaking of h s adventure, he says: I felt as if I was going to faint, and I knew if I did I would be killed by the fall, and I hadn’t fought those plagued birds so hard to give up to any such women doings as that, so just kept fighting against that awful sinking, and pretty soon I got over it, so when I rested I climbed down.” But just as he reached the foot of the rock the strength born of despera¬ tion gave way, and the brave boy fcl senseless into the Professor's arms. IIe was fearfully torn in the head and face, but the former wounds are for¬ tunately only skin deep, and, with the exception of one long, deep gash in the cheek, just below the eye, which is healing slowly, his face is nearly well, lie is obliged, however, to keep his bed yet, so bruised and sore is he from the buffeting he received. Remarkable as it may seem, the young birds in Lee’s basket were living and uninjured by the fearful journey they had made. The Professor, in consideration of the danger he underwent, and for the two birds not bargained for, has presented Lee with $100, and the boy is the hero of the hour.—[Globe Democrat. Coffee as a Disinfectant. An old colored man living in a dis¬ trict where the disease often prevailed once told the writer that one of the best preventive measures against yel- low fever was infusion of coffee. Some years ago he passed through an epidemic of that grave malady under the worst possible conditions. For at least a month he occupied the quarters of a large number of sufferers, pass¬ ing night and day among them, eating and sleeping in their midst. Recalling the homely advice given him he faithfully tried coffee as an an¬ tiseptic and drank freely of a very strong infusion five or six times a day, and continued the practice all the time lie was under exposure. He was for¬ tunate enough to escape contagion, but never attached much importance to the use of the coffee. Considering the results of recent developments, it would seem that the old negro was right in attributing antiseptic proper¬ ties to it. A series of experiments conducted by a German professor lias proved that they are quite marked. Several differ¬ ent forms of intestinal bacteria were experimented upon, and their develop¬ ment and growth were found in all cases to be interfered with by the ad¬ dition of a small quantity of coffee in¬ fusion to nutrient gelatine. In pure infusion the bacteria were x'apidly de¬ stroyed. The question as to what constituents exercise tho antiseptic effect cannot y'et be fully determined. The caffeine is certainly active in only a slight degree; the tannin to a somewhat greater ex¬ tent; but, presumably, of greatest im¬ portance are the substances that are developed by roasting. It is interest¬ ing to note that a cup of coffee, left in a room tor a week or more, remains almost free from micro-organisms. Cruelty to Condemned Prisoners. M. Bayol, the French Governor at Porto-Novo, on the West African slave coast, who recently made an extended journey through the kingdoms of Porto-Novo and Dahomey, gives inter¬ esting accounts of some of the bar¬ barous customs- still prevalent in- that country. The Dahomians are a bigot¬ ed and superstitious people, and all over the country there are innumerable “fetiches,” holy groves, rocks, or huts, consecrated to some pagan deity or other. Individuals who desecrate these “fetiches” by touching them are invariably put to death to atone for their crime, but before they are execu¬ ted they have to undergo the most pain¬ ful tortures at the hands of the Ama¬ zons, those ferocious female warriors which constitute the nucleus of the king’s army. The condemned crimi¬ nal, helplessly fettered, is at the mercy of the Amazons, and only when his vital powers are nearly cxnausted is the death-blow struck by the execu¬ tioner. Alice Duval (pouting) — Charley calls writing letters to me hard work, Blanche Stone—Does he write very often? Alice—Only three times a week ; and just think, he only writes a stingy old thirty-five pages each time. FOR FARM AND GARDEN, CHEAP DUST BATHS. There is nothing a hen enjoys so well as to dust herself in the yard when the sun is shining. After each rain spade up a spot about a yard square and keep it loose. When first spaded the earth should be moved .ml sifted, then returned. If this spot is kept loose by digging it up with a hoe after each rain it will afford a better dusting place than can bo provided in any other way.— [New York Ilerald. PETTED COI.TS MAKE POOR HORSES. Colts raised by hand usually make very disagreeable horses. Petted and teased by nearly all who come near, most of them bite, kick at animals and people, strike with the fore feet and are forever yoking noses into pails, tubs, boxes and barrels in search of food. They approach persons in the field, whirl around and kick suddenly. Sometimes they chase the milkmaid, and unless she is endowed with courage they will rob her pail of its contents, it is often trying to the patience to train them to the harness, for the tricks acquired in earlier life are apt to crop out frequently.—[New York Tribune. EXPERIMENTS WITH PEAS. Peas are more hardy than any other garden vegetables, and a slight frost will not injure them. But they may¬ be sown too early, for all that. The condition of soil and air at the time seed is put in the ground has appar¬ ently- more influence than heat or cold afterwards. In some experiments re¬ ported a year ago it was found that the peas planted during a Avarm day, and followed by warm weather, for 24 or 48 hours after, grew, blossomed, and bore fruit ready for picking earlier than peas planted on like soil a week earlier, when both air and soil were too cold for germination. A quick start in growth, even with so hardy a vegetable as the pea, counts for much, and is even more important for vege¬ tables like corn and beans, that only groAv in a warmer temperature.— [Courier-Journal. WHY SALT SHOWS ON BUTTER. Henry- E. Alvord says in the Chicago Times: It is not uncommon to see butter in rolls or prints, of good quality and tolerably fresh, with a coating of salt crystals all over the outside, giving it a stale and unpleas¬ ant appearance. This rr ay- be caused in several ways. If the salt used is of poor quality, and particularly if it is too coarse in grain, it fails to be Avell incorporated in the butter, and, chang¬ ing to brine after the rolls have been made up, it comes to the surface and takes the form of a crust. The finest and best salt, not worked into the but¬ ter, will act the same way. Again, if there is more moisture left in the but¬ ter than it will naturally lio’d, the salt joins w-itli this extra water to form brine; this brine finds its way to the cutside, evaporates, and leaves the salt covering. The best means, therefore, of avoiding this diffi¬ culty is to make the batter by granu¬ lar method, wash it very thoroughly, and allow it to drain and dry off well, while still in the granular form, be¬ fore adding the salt. Then mix in the salt as thoroughly as possible, having it of the beit quality and as fine as can be got; allow it to stand a little while before working and putting into its final form. This gives an oppor¬ tunity for all the salt to disolve before the working and then for removing all surplus brine. All butter, however, contains a pretty large percentage of moisture in the form of brine, and it must be kept in a moist atmosphere or else the Avater of the brine will evapo¬ rate more or less, leaving the salt vis¬ ible on the outside. Any good butter will show this dry salt if exposed long enough in very dry air. A PRIZE CROP THAT PAID. Many farmers, while approving of large crops,believe they are not profit¬ able. But Milton G. Shaver’s experi¬ ence in competing for the American Agriculturist oat prize last year, in Cayuga County, New York, resulted in a yield of 67 bushels per acre by methods which any practical farmer may adopt. A sandy loam soil was chosen that had been treated as is common in that region. It grew corn and potatoes in 1885 with very little manure, was in barley the next y ear, und was sown with fall wheat after a very light coating of manure, yielding about twenty bushels per acre. Tho grass seed failing to catch, the land was planted to potatoes in 1888, re¬ ceiving ten two-horse loads of strawy stable manure. It was plowed with a two-liorse team, and worked for half a day with the spring-tooth harrow. After once harrowing, 150 pounds of phosphate were sown broadcast; it was again harrowed, a bushel of Swedish oats were sown broadcast, followed by the harrow time. Then for the third two bushels more seed was drilled in with 850 pounds of phosphate. Finally, the land was rolled, as this is considered indispensable for all spring crops. Mr. Shaver says; “1 am seventy years old, and never saw a handsomer or stouter phee of straw, and but for the wet weather it would have yielded 100 bushels per acre. It weighed thirty-nine pounds per bushel, but no other oats in this region will weigh over thirty pounds per bushel, or yield over thirty bushels per acre.” Good seed, good fertilizers and thorough preparation of the soil did it. Why will farmers persist in sowing common or poor oats on illy-prepared soil when the same effort can be made to produce twice the result?—[Ameri¬ can Agriculturist. SHEEP- KILLING DOGS. A dog that kills sheep habitually should be confined. If it is thought to be valuable by its owner it is worth being cared for and kept at home where it can do no harm. The whole question in regard to dogs and sheep seems to be considered from a wrong point of view. There are other points of value than mere money profit, and although a dog may not be of any pecuniary profit to its owner, y-et the owner has an equal right to keep it as the owner of sheep to keep them. To kill ofi' all the dogs would be exceed¬ ingly unwise, for they destroy a large quantity of vermine and are useful in other ways, and not one in fifty of them perhaps ever attacked a sheep. But the owner of sheep has a right to the inviolability of his property against trespass by a strange dog as by a per¬ son ; and the owners of dogs should be compelled to keep them on their own premises or suffer the same penal¬ ty for the trespass as if it were com¬ mit ed by r a person. This would be an equality of rights and of responsi¬ bilities. And sheep owners should make an effort to secure a law to this effect. If tlie owner of a trespassing dog should be fined or imprisoned in default of payment for a trespass, sheep would soon live in peace, but to tax the dogs is clearly unjust.—[New York Times. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Bad plan—to borrow or lend tools. This isn’t the year to sow foul seed. “Haste makes waste” on the farm. Charred corn is good for poultry— they relish it. Manure tramped down by live stock does not firefang. Be careful not to overfeed if y-ou want eggs regularly. Bran and buttermilk make a good ration for laying hens. Never drive milch cows or fattening stock faster than a walk. Six trees suitable for special posi¬ tions: Sycamore, Black birch, Ash, Black Walnut, Chestnut, Beech. Movable loosts arc the best. Never put up roosts so that they cannot be easily moved at any time desired. Milk is one of the best foods for young or adult fouls that can be had. They enjoy it hugely and thrive won¬ derfully upon it. It is also good for water fowls.| If you have any milk to spare see that the poultry get their share. If you want trees that will grow where nothing else will, set out these: Silver maple, Carolina poplar, or Box elder. They are easily- transplanted, grow rapidly, but are short lived, lia¬ ble to injury-, sprout at the roots, soon become scraggy looking unless spe¬ cially attended. When sheep appear to be blind with¬ out any apparent cause it is probably due to indigestion and its result on the brain. The remedy is to give two ounces of raw linseed oil, to act as a purgative, and change the food, giv¬ ing only nutritious and digestible feed¬ ing. A feed once a day of bran, scalded and given cold, with a little ginger and Peruvian bark, powdered, will be useful. WORDS OF WISDOM. Expression is language. Sensation is self-revealing. I Polities is diplomatic slavery. Learning is degrees of inspiration. Words are out signs of expression. The best way to find out is to try it. Liberty is no more of a gift than gravi¬ tation . th( The effort to keep still continues motion. Strife is not smothered by seeking tc hide it. The hand can never execute anything higher chan the character can inspire. The man that has lived for himself has the privilege of being his own mourner. There are persons now in hell who might have been in heaven with half the trouble. ' Whenever we vary front the highest rule of right, just so far we do an injury to the world. It is fortunate that charity covers a multitude of sins, for in these days there is a multitude to cover. The present is the time in which to live and to work. The past is a recollection, and the future a phantasy. The one prudence in life is concentra¬ tion; the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipa¬ tions are coarse or line. Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that. A man cannot speak but he judges him¬ self. With his will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of his companion by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. We pass for what we are. Character tekehes above our wills, Men imagiue that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emits a breath every mo¬ ment. Most Horses Are Either Gray or Bay. A near-sighted youth, writes James Payn, on going in for his medical ex¬ amination. was advised by that guide, philosopher and friend, his crammer: “The doctor will ask you about the horses on the common; say ‘gray,’very rapidly, for all horses are either gray or hay.” This was, no doubt, a too hasty generalization; but it is the fact that to persons who do not concern themselves with the equine race, horses are very much alike. A young gentleman of my acquaintance, who used that animal merely as the means of locomotion— “the means and not the end”—was onco given a “mount” by the friend with whom he was staving to visit Reading races. On coming away he had taken the animal which was offered to him out of the crowded booth without investi¬ gation, and rode home on it. His host met him at the lodge gate, and with the quick eye of a proprietor perceived there had been an exchange which might or might not be a robbery, “Why, that’s not my horse, Ned.” “Is it not?” re- plied the enthusiastic equestrian. “It looked extremely like him.” I know an¬ other case, where matters turned out much worse. A good man of business, but one who was a very careless rider, Mr. A. was wont to come to town on horseback every day, and pul his horse up at a certain livery stable. Mr. B., a friend of his, used to do the like, and,on calling tor his nag one evening, had an¬ other brought out to him by the hostler. “That’s not my horse,” he said; “that’s Mr. A.’s horse.” “Then Mr. A. must have taken your horse by mistake, sir.” “If so,” said B., with gravity, “he is a dead man.” And so, indeed, it turned out. Poor A., riding home with loose rein and careless seat, upon, as he thought, his own quiet steed, was thrown and killed upon the spot by a buck jumper .—Frank Leslie's Monthly. Indians Rich in Land. The horde of homeseekers in the vi¬ cinity of Guthrie, Oklahoma, have had their hopes brightened considerably by the news that the Indian Commission will soon be in Guthrie to negotiate with the Iowa tribe of Indians for the reservation of 250,000 acres of fertile country about eight miles east of Guthrie. This tribe numbers only eighty savages; most of whom are decrepit and aged. They occupy the land only through the suffer¬ ance of the Government, but, having lived on it for years and liking it very well, they are loth to give if up. Still they are willing to make remarkable terms. Chief To-Hee, the blind chief, says that he wants money to build fences and school-houses, so that the youth of the tribe shall grow up to be civilized farmers. It is probable that very little difficulty will be experienced in dealing with these Indians. Allotments of land will be made to them, and sufficient will remain for 1500 homesteaders, each pos¬ sessing 160 acres. The opening of some new land would greatly relieve the situa¬ tion here, as every claim in the Guthrie land district is taken, and some are con¬ tested by from two to ten persons.— Chi¬ cago Herald. _ What One Lightning Bolt Did. In Jackson County, this State, a bolt of lightning shivered a shade tree, up¬ rooted five currant bushes, melted thirty- eight rods of wire fence, smashed a smoke-house, killed a dog and knocked down two horses, “all under the same liberal management and in the sains ring, and without extra cost to regular pat¬ rons.”— Detroit Free Press.