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Bussift proposes to encourage cotton¬
growing by loans and subsidies to the
growers.
Negotiations arc in progress to be¬
gin the astronomical day, liko the
business day, at midnight instead of
at nooD.
Tourists to Jerusalem annually in¬
crease in number. Next to Russia tho
United States sends tne greatest num¬
ber of visitors to tho Holy Land.
Tho Chicago Record uvors that mat¬
rimonial statistics prove that the mas
eulino girl’s wedding usually comes
long after all her friends are niarriod.
The Sac and Fox Indians aro said to
be the purest-blooded red men in the
country. They neither marry in or
give in marriage outside their own
tribe.
The Texan Legislature has, by rose
Intion, invited cotton manufacturers
in the North to removo lo Texas arid
got the trade of Mexico and Mouth
America.
Edward Atkinson says that tho time
will some whon tho fiber in the cotton
stalk will be utilized, and there aro
important elements for tanning and
dyeing in tlio root.
Franco is abont to approach Italy
with a view to arranging a commer¬
cial troaty, and thus ending the Ion
period of commercial hostility, which
has inflicted heavy losses on both
countries.
Tho Livo Htook Report, of Ohioago,
says that every indication points to ft
decrease in moat supply, which if
likely to bo general in all branches,
and that (ho market is now in healthy
shape Rnd brighter for the producer
than for several years.
Tho New York Independent says:
“We have quite overlooked, many oi
us, the extensive and valuable forest!
of tho South. We aro already getting
lumber from neross our Northern
border. Would it not Do well to make
larger use of our timbor resources iu
the Month?"
Gladstone computes that tho habit
iia] speakers of the English langnago
have increased from 15,000,000 to 104,
000,000 during tho last 100 years, and
that they will number 120,000,000 by
the end of the yoar 1900. At that
rate of increase, which is seven-fold
each century, suoh speakers will in¬
clude not less than 840,000,000 by tho
yyl of the year 2000.
Modem proem*™* of preserving
meat by freezing it were uu a. cioak >
hy nature in her process of preserving
the gMunmtb* or groat woolly ole
U the far North. After the
of these animals has been' still
.» can
for bo eaten. thousand^ a(loBt , of jj,
T.Vl . reported to that scientist
mammoth flesh thus prosorvod
\ tastes a good deal liko leather.
Tho story is told of old President
Humphrey that he got a bequest all
unknown to himself for Amherst Col¬
lege, made by a woman, a stranger to
him, to whom lie had given up his
scat iu a stage coach. The story is
nearly matched by tho bequest of $13,
000 given to Dr. T»Image's wife by n
woman to whom .Mrs, Tabnago had
shown personal attention by visiting
her when sue was siok in a hospital.
A very serious fall has taken place
fn the price of horses iu Paris; alao iu
various French town*, says the Phila¬
delphia Record, This is said to be
mainly due to the extraordinary in¬
crease in the number of bicycles and
tricycles, the production being during
last year excessive—namely, ovor 100,
0(H) more than in the year prior.
The complaint is bitter on the part of
horsedcalers, who say the bicycle is
taking their bread away; but they
must, like tho rest of aociety, suffer
for the benefit of the million.
The New York Sun remarks: Form¬
erly men lived in palaces and eon
ducted their business in the plainest
of buildings. The many big white
edifices recently erected iu this city
indicate a change in this retpeet. The
semi-public corporation lead the wsy
Hi a movement which must improve
public taste. Some of these structures
show a completeness in detail, a
breadth iu total eflect which recall the
profusion of the Italian Renaissence.
Then the tendency was to seek the
beautiful in the surroundings of pub¬
lic worship, in places of trade and in
the famishing of the home.
In Lambeth, says the London Tele¬
graph, a milk vendor displayed a tin
plate, setting forth that all the milk
seld from “this establishment” ■ aa
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guaranteed pure as delivered at the
dairy farm. Au inspector purchased
a pint for analysis, aud informed the
milkman of its destination. “All
right,” said the vendor, “there’s its
certificate of birth, an l he tapped
the tin plate with a milk can compla
oently. “Perhaps certificate' I may be able to
send yon its of
soon,” answered the inspector, which
be did in the form of a summons, which
subsequently was transformed into a
fine of $25 for adding fifteen per cent,
*f water.
Song 3,
Strike mt ft note of sweet degrees-*
Of sweet degress—
T.ike those in Jewry hearts of old;
My love, if thou wouldst wholly please,
Hold in thy hand a harp of gold,
And touch the strings with fingers light,
And yet with strength as David might—
As David might.
Lingo. . ( long In songs of love
in songs of love—
No serenades nor wan bin airs
Hho deeper soul of music mo vet
Only a solemn measure bears
With rapture thftt shall never eanso
My spirit to the gates of peace—
The gates of peac‘\
Bo fed 1 whon Francesca rings—
Francesca sings—
My thoughts mount upward; I am dead
To every sense of vulgar thing-.,
And on ccloitial hlgliwayrt tread
With prophets of lhe olden time—
Those minstrel kings, the men Hutdimo—
The men sublime.
—T. W. Parsons.
TI1E REUNION.
v —i rH IIE pleasant into stage (he village July rattled day one
and drew up at
the store. The
/] G. A It. man, the
only passenger,
•limbed out of tho
lumbering Vehicle,
dragging after him
h i s nondescript,
traveling bag. He limped up the stops
in the wake of tho driver, who was
helping the storekeeper with the mail
pouch, and once on tho porch stopped
and nodded a gruff greeting at the
three men who were seated on the
beuch kicking their heels together —
tho Chronic Loafer, tho Bchool Teacher
and the Miller. The trio gazed at the
new arrival solemnly; at his broad
brimmed black slouch hat, which,
though drawn down over his left tem
plo, did riot hide tho end of a band of
courtplaster ; at his blue coat, two of
its brass buttons missing; at bis trou¬
sers, soveral rents in which had been
clumsily sewed together.
“From your appearance ono would
judge that yon had eomo home from a
battle instead of a reunion at Gettys¬
burg,” the School Teacher remarked.
“He’d nover come out of no battle
lookin’ like thet," the Chronic Loafer
crlsJ.
“I’ve corao homo ’foro my ’scursion
tioket expiied,” said tlioG. A. K. man,
removing his hat and disclosing tho
groat patch of plaster that adorned bis
forehead. “Gettoospurg was a sight,
hotter fer nio yesterday ’an in ’(53.
But I’vo got to the cud of my story.”
“So thot eamo old yarn you’ve bon
tcllm’ at every camp tiro Bunco tho
war is finished at last. That’s a
blessin’.”
Tho veteran seated himself Comfort¬
ably upon his upturned satchel ami
began;
I “For tho benyfitof tho Teacher, who
ain’t never seen at our camp fires,
I’ll repeat my experience at tho pottle
of Gotteospurg, and then tell yer all
’bout my seoond fight there. I served
ftg » corporal iu the 195th Penusylvany
c Volunteers, * an’ was honorably dis¬
i ’ ” M "
v&e Off- o vontuf***.
“Thol ain’t so. I got the tnalary
several other complaints that I got
d own forkin' ou tboAiwUr—* stoSUy. 1 '' btnd>‘ ,i -’
But thet ain’t
hero nor there. Our rotchmeut was
alius known as tho Bloody Ponnsylvany
lletchment, fer we’d boon in tho front
in every fight iu tho Wilternesa and
hod some very desperate ougugomonts.
Whenever there was any ohurtohin’
to be done, wo done et; cl there was
a fylorn hope wy was in et; if they
was a breastwork to bo took, wo took
it; an’ by Hie end of two years seek
fight-in* wo was pretty bad out up.
When wo come ter the light nt Get
tcespnrg et was decided as they wasn’t
many of us left we’d better be put to
guardin’ a kinder work baggage didn’t wagons. need many Thet men, was J
but took fighters in oaset the euomy I
give the boys in front a slip and
sneaked iu on our rear.
"The trains, with several brigades,
among which our retchment, was a ,
couple of miles behind Cemotary Hill
dnrlng tho first day's fighting; but ou
tho second day wo w as ordered back
hard about twenty-five miles. Et was pretty
ter have ter bo driviu’ off inter
the country watching a lot of mules
when the boys was hovin’ et hot bang
ing awny nt tbo enoiny, but there was
orders, and a soldier alius hes ter obey
orders.
“Tho fightin’ begin early on tho sec¬
ond day an* we could hear tho roar of I
the guns an’ see the smoke risin" in
oloulds an’then settlin’down over tin
country. We got our wagons going
au’ 1 tell yer wo felt pretty blue, fer
tho wounded and the stragglers begin
ter come hobblin' back bringin’ bad !
news. being Tlioy all would tell along how the the boys Em- |
was cut up
luettsburg road aud how we’d better '
they’d move fast, hobble fer we was losiu’, Then au’ then be¬ j
away agin.
sides the trouble with the mules and
wagons and the wounded, we had to be
continual watehin’ for them Confed’rit
cavalry we was expectin’ ter pounce 1
down on us. Evenin’.come an' we lay j
to an' prepared for the night. The
fires was started and the coffee set ■
boilin’, an' the fellers had acliaucet io j
set down aud rest for a while.
“Tho wounded and the stragglers
thftt jest filled the country were com- '
in' m all the time, sometimes alone,
sometimes in twos and threes, some |
with their arms their tied heads up in bandaged, all sorts of j i
queer ways, or
hobblin’ on sticks, about tbo inisera
blest lookin’ set of men I ever seen ■
The noise of the fight had stopped, n:i
the whole country was quiet, as though
nothin’ had l>e'n happenin’. The quiet
and the dark and the fear WO WHS
in’ ter meet the enemy at any moment
made et mighty unpleasant, and whst
with the stories them wounded feliys
fiV? 10 o clock w ,% I didn went ’* ^s‘very out on tne easy. picket At
lino an* aeeiued 1 hadn't been there
more than an hour when I made out •
Jark figure of a man cornin’ through
‘ h « fieldsvery alowlike. Me an’the
feliys w ith me watched sharp. Mud ten
he stopped and sank down in a heap',
Then he picked him-elf up aud came
staggerin’ on. He couldn’t hex? ben
more ’an fifty* yards away when
threw up ’ ti !■» uantii ’ tnd pitched for’a’d
on hi* face. Me as ’nether teller run
ont an’ picked him up an’ carried him
inter the fire. But et wasn’t no use |
he was dead.
“There was A bullet wonnd in his
ahoUlder and his clothes was soaked
with blood tliet bod ben drippin’,
drippin' as he walked tell hd fell the
last time. found 1 opened his coat and in his
pocket a letter, stamped and di¬
rected apparent to his wife—thet wai
all to tell who ho was. Sd I wen!
back to tho line thinkin’ no more of
et an’ never noticin’ thet thet man’*
coat ’nd ’a’ fit two of him.
"Mornin’ come, and the firin’ begii;
over toward Gettecspurg, an’ we could
»eo the smoke risin’ agin an’ hear th«
big guns roarin’ tell tho ground be¬
neath our feet seemed to stving up an 1
down, I tell you uns thet was a grand
sight; We Wits awful excitod, fir et
seemed like the first, two days bed gone
ag’in us, an’ rnoro stragglers an’ the
woundod come limpin’ back moro an’
more, all with bad news.
“I was gittin’ nervous, an’ thinkin'
an’ thinkin’ an' wishin’ I was where
tho bin was. Then I concided maybe
I wasn’t so bad off, fer I might a be’n
killed, like tho poor felly I seen the
night before. I remembered the let¬
ter an’ got et out. I didn’t ’tend ter
open et, but final I thot et wouldn’t be
safe ter go mailin’ letters without
knowin’ jest what was in ’em, so I read
et. Et was wroto on a piece of wrap
pin’ paper with a pencil, an’ in an
awful bad hand-write. But when I
got through it I sot plumb down nn’
cried like n cbil’.
“Et wiib from John Parker to his
wife Mary,livin’ out in Western Ponn
sylvany. Ho begins bo mentionin’
how lie was on tho evo of A big fight,
an’ ’tended ter do his duty, even if et
come to failin’ at his post. Et was
hard, he sayd, but bo know’d she’d
rutlier hov no husban’ ’on a coward.
Ho waft alius thinkin’ of her ’an the
baby he’d never seen, but felt Hftt’sfac
tion in knowin’ they was well fixod.
“Et wits sorrcrful, ha continyefd,
tliet she was liko ter be a widdy so
young, an’ ho wasn’t goin’ ter bo
mean about et. Ho idlers know’d,
ho sayd, how she’d hod a hankerin’
after young Milas Quincy ’foro she
tuk him. If ho foil ho tho’t sho’d bet¬
ter merry Milas, wlieu she’d recovered
from tho ’foots of his goin’. Ho ended
up with a lot of Inst goodbys^and talk
about duty to bis country.
“I sot right down an’ wroto thot
poor woman a few lines, tollin' hor
how 1 found the letter in hor dead
liusb mil's pocket. I was goin’ter
quit there, but decided et would bo
nieo to adil somethin' consolin’ fer
the poor thing, so I told how wo found
him on the field of battle, faoo to the
enemy, an’ how his last words was for
her an’ tho baby. Thet day wo won
tho light, an' tho very first chance I
mailed Mrs. Parker hor husbaud’B let¬
ter. Et scorned ’bout tho plum
blamedest saddest thing I ever bod tor
do with.”
“I’ve alius lie’ll cnr’ous ’bout thot
widdy, too,” tho Chronic Loafer re¬
marked.
Tho Hohool Teacher cleared his
throat and began:
Now night her course began, anil over heaven
Inducing darkness, odious grateful dlu truce'imposed, of
And silence on tlio war;
Under her cloud—•
“Don't begin no po’try jest yit,
•oher," said the v teran. “WaY
ua no more of Widdy Parker
tell last night, an then et eomo most
_
sudden. Our retchment hod a rcuu
j ou this year onjtho field, you know.
an'last Monday 1 \vcnt"T»abk to Get
toospurg for tho first timo seuce I was
honorable discharged, there-what’s left
* ‘The boys was all
„f ’em— au’ wo jest had a splendid
time visitin’ tho monymeuts an’ talk
in, over tho days back in '03. There
ivas my old toutmatos. Mam .Tamos ou
ono leg, an’ Jim Luclioubach, who was
near tuck down before Petersburg bo
the yoller janders. Thero was the
Oolonol, growed old an’ near blind,
an’ our Captain, an’ a hundred odd
others.
“Last night wo was a lot of us sot
tin' in tho hotel tailin’ stories. Et
eomo my t,,iru an’ 1 told about tho
dead soldier’s letter. They was a big
f„Hy j u n uniform leaning agin tho
bar watoliin’ns quiet like, an’who i I
begin be pricked up iiis ears a little,
an’ as I got furder an’ furder ho bo
g i n ter get more un’ moro 'interested,
i noticed. l!y an* by I seen him be
eoraiii’ rod au’ oueusv, au’ final, whon
i finished, ho walks’ era ist tlio room
tor whora wo was au’ stands there
starin’ at me, never sayiu' nothin’,
“A minute passed au’ then I sais:
‘Well, comrade, what’s you unsstariu’
so for.’ "
“Sais he: ‘Thet letter was fer
Mary Parker.
“ ‘True,’ saisT, surprised.
“Then ho shakes his fist an’ yells:
‘You fool, I’ve tended ’most every re
nuioc here seuce tho war hopin' ter
meet the mail that seut thet letter au’
wrote tliet foolishness ’bout tindm’
my dead body. Au’ after twenty-five
years I’ve fonn’ you.’ the llleys
“He pulls off his coat an’
jumps up. I, half skeered ter
death, yells: ‘But you ain’t the dead
man!’
“ ’Hoad !' ho yells, ‘never bo’n near
et. Nor did I ever ’tend ter bev
every blame fool iu tho army mailin'
my letters nut her. Never be’n dead,
Because you finds a man with my coat
on, thet ain't no reason he’s mo. I
u as gittin’ to the rear with orders as
livelv if. a cricket aud throwedoff thet
coat because el vriis warm runniu’.’
“When I seen what I’d done 1 jumps
for’a’d, grabbed his arm l was so ex
cited, an' yells: ‘An did she marry
Silas Quincy?' she didn’t,*
“ *Et wasn’t your fault
he said deliberate like, rollin’ up his
sleeves. ‘Fer l got home two days
after thet letter an’ stopped tha wed
din' party on their way to church.”'
“SightsI” cried the Chronic Loaf
or. —New York Sun.
Rubber Roots tor Pet D vr
Acre the water they sell india roll¬
er boots for pet dogs to wear while
taking their daily run iu muddy
weather. They lace up the side and
pronounced neat and useful. .
are very
As their price is $2 the set, they arc
easily within the reach of those whe
ou occasion pay 3200 for the dog that
will went them
It will strike the person a is not
an intense admirer of toy dogs thai
the world could hav got along very
well without this addition to ihetr iiu
pediment*, but since ,>gs stay
tbav might as t- ell « dr r gr
-Kew York V l
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culture or a dmAPEvrNE.
A grapevine must fruit,! bfe pruned closely
to get tho most To prune it,
proceed thus: Cut 'off all but one
main stem, leave { ree branches on
each side of thlfl ( ana/prune the shoots
from this close id tiije side branches;
leaving two buds made/ only. Train the
vino to a trellis of three posts,
with wires to tie Hi,; side shoots to.
These may be left five or six feet
long.—New York Ti me».
FARM MB RARIES.
The best speech before the great
public meeting of tt e New York Btnte
Grange was by Siste -/add, of Canton.
Mho contended that- .t tho farm there
is just as much rooni for culture, re¬
The finement farm and offers experience 1 the as best anywhere. places
one
for the keeping of r ibrary and for
the foundation oi enlargement of
such Mrs. Judd sug ; ested the plan of
setting aside the redl'ipts f'he from ono of
the best acres of farm to buy
books. If such a i an is impracti¬
cable, bny $10 w (ft: b of books each
year. Men who l ive not handled
books from infancy 1 - -e afraid of them,
and tho habit unless is taught seldom w| ;ile squired young in to read, later
booj f
life. A good , an investment
returning u high o of interest.—
American AgriculfiHfisi.
JAM of (horses.
The steady inte#st m everything
pertaining to theY better care and
treatment of horses*was plainly mani¬
fested by tho larg<5 Jm gathering which
collected recently thife Boston to hear
au address on subject from a
member of tlie Maiilichnsetts Humane
Bociety. Tho iiud»<ineo, which was
composed listened chiefly of horso owners and
drivers, spoaluir attentively to the re¬
marks of the I and applauded
frequently.
The chief point j raado wero that
kind treatment of tile horso was money
in tho owner’s poop t-, and interest
und laid sympathy foundation for Jhe dumb higher animal and
a r a
nobler civilization. Moro horses were
made unfit for nse by being improp¬
erly shod than by anything else that
limy happen to them. Carelessness in
putting frosty bits hi horses’ mouths
is another means of injury. No horse
is a good horso vIoKncO;— wlioso disposition is
broken by Now York
World.
CLEANLINESS IN THf POULTRI YARD.
Again and again it must be insisted
on that poultry neijds clean quarters.
Every onco iu a while we‘hear of some
dealer, usually everythin!’, a bej .inner who is quite
sure of losing a great
many fowls. On' mn, writing lately
in a Pacific Ooa. apor, says ho lost
several hundred hy not taking
Havi t
smelling houses MpMKj* in*
water should be 1 i such
foot, that they and should cannot b? ttpuch it with
day, morning and njoon. g changed twico
This is
own practico, and might add that I
have found commo water-pails
tho best thing to m| e Also, I bate
.
swab, made out of oloth tied on the
end of a broom bat idle, with which
sweep out tho pails i) ac h timo I reliil
them.
As to cleaning <>u t tho housos, per¬
haps tho best rule ii this: do so tho
hour your nostrils are in tho least
offended when you e ntcr them. This
means about onco in tivo days, with
me.
it Do does not not try to cloc| Y 0 r sick poultry ;
pay. our timo can be
more profitable cm ployed in taking
better care of thej, wo n creatures.
Roup, perhaps the worst of all the
discuses hens are heii to, can be cured ;
but my experience s that my time is
day, far too valuable to what to is Jjive ton ininues a
even, at bast a trouble¬
some business.—Newt York Independ¬
ent.
MANAGING TH t HOTBED.
To make the botbt ■d, select a warm
location, excavate six teet wide,
sired twenty-four length. inches Set st ijeep aud tho de¬
akes at each half
board length and encllose tightly. The
north side should bo twelve to eight
ecu inches above the surface of ‘"the
surrounding ground the south 6ide
six inches. A layer >f partially fer
mented horse manure ami half its bulk
of dry leaves should >o packed tight,
filling tho bed two- birds full. Put
on the sashes, allow \ o ferment, tread
it down and put in ah out six inches of
soil. After tho glass is on, let it stand
two or throe days, l’l it in a therinom
eter. If tho heat' of the bed rises
above eighty degree); do aot sow till
it goes down. More [seeds are lost by
the first heat of the Wl than in any
other I would way. not advise 4 j farmer in this
latitude to sow befooe the middle of
March. Lettuce and radishes will be
tho main crop. Sow „ little soace * in
- -
^ L tomatoes, per
l,,! -S 0
r t v nr LTt [■ S °f ^ j '
house. I/O not sow a iuoiiffreL some- j
thing your grandmother handed down,
Sow early scarlet radishes. Extra
Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage, !
Dwarf Champion tomatoes, and Ruby j I
King peppers. Radishes should be
sown in rows six inehes apart. Lettuce <
the same, but broadcast th other
seeds. As fast as vdu sow firm the
soil getting bv laving a broad plank ou it and J !
ou top of the plank, Make
the bed very smooth aa-d even. Now
take your prepared soil and cover the
seeds one-half inch. I sift it on.
Cover the boil with old carpets or
papers and put the glass on. Do not j
let that soil see the sun for two <Juy
then remove the carpets, Do not let :
the therm imeter get over seventy five
degrees under the carpet. Keep the
-oil moist all the time, never muddy.
Keep the temperature near seventy
five degrees in the day and near fifty
five degrees at night. Cold currents
injure warm plants as well as warm
s ice. The more air they get the bet
.w. Air th@m t-verv dan tf only for
a few minutes. Close the hotbeds
early i in the evening.—New T’nr.ion.i England
Homestead.
BREEDING ET rLANTS.
There seems to bo two processes
going on all the time in the animal
and vegetable world: The careful are
always improving nature ; the careless
are always letting the improved things
retrograde, writes A. D. Field. When
things are suffered to take this course,
it is said that they have “runout.’'
It is somewhat difficult to keep things
up to the standard, but it can be done,
Mr. Doolittle took the common wild
raspberry, and by selection and
culture bred up one of the most profit
able raspberries wo Lave bad. But
now the Doolittle is out of date. Tho
Wilson strawberry has had the same
history, and the Crescent is now likely
to go the same way. It has been said
that the introduction of tho Early
Rose potato has been worth millions
to the United States; but in our part
of the country the Rose has nearly
run out, and so far we have had noth
ing to take its place.
Whence does thi3 degeneration find.
come? Tho answer is easy to
In the case of the Doolittle, people
planted them, and when these went to
brush thickets they took tho worth¬
less tips to plant other rows. So with
the Wilson and Crescent strawberries.
People have been in tho habit of tak¬
ing puny runners from old foot-trod¬
den beds, until the varieties have
dwindled away. Just now, in tbesa
parts, tho Gregg is the popular rasp¬
berry. There are plantations of an
acre or so planted for the fruit. In
the spring tho owners offer tips for
sale. These tips have rooted them¬
selves late in tho fall, and aro about
ns large as a dog’s foot, The result is
that tho Grogg is becoming worthless.
I had occasion to take up sorno Gregg
tips in clods to fill a few vacancies.
They would fill a peck measure. These
will niako plants that will improve the
variety rather than run it out.
But a fact or two to illustrate tho
above assertions. Olio of the best
strawberry growers for many years in
Wisconsin planted only tlio Wilson,
from which ho gathered 300 bushels
por acre. Besides a proper prepara¬
tion and fertilizing of the soil, ho al¬
ways kept a rich bed of young plants
froin which to get plants to renew his
plantings. Peoplo have planted the
small and worthless Early Rose pota¬
toes and grown them on worthless
soil among weeds until the variety has
run ont. Tho troo pedlers of the West
buy up thousands of cheap strawberry
plants dug from between tho rows of
old beds and deliver these to cus
tomers.
I havo boon growing small fruit for
twenty years, and bave found that
thero is no need to let plant;; run mo^truo out.
aid up to
methods make tho land as rich as pos¬
sible, and set out plants, both of
strawberries and raspberries, from new
beds. During summer these rows
have tho best of cultivation. In tho
spring tho plants are so largo aud
thrifty that they astonish persons who
have been accustomed only to plants
from old beds. Instead ot' taking
late-set runners from old strawberry
beds, wo dig up tho whole row. Iu
this way we get plants that bave grown
in mellow soil aud bad all summer in
which to make their growth. Tho re¬
sult is that tho plants do not run out,
but are, instead, continually being
improved.—Rural Now Yorker.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Potutoes need a great deal of water,
particularly during the development
of tho tubers.
AH who have no greenhouses may
sow sood in-boxes iu a sunny wiudow,
or make a frame au l keep it iu a
sunny place. Keep it sheltered dar¬
ing the cold by a covering oi cloth
aud boards.
The crabapple is not only a beauti¬
ful tree whon in blossom, but its
fruit is superior to all others for pro¬
ducing jollies and preserves. It is
very hardy and bears a crop when
other vijrieties fail.
The farmer’s garden is generally
tco small, necessitating too much hand
work which never gets .lone. It is
planted too close in order to econo
mizo space. 11 should spread out and
6' V0 h°rse room,
Professor Roberts estimates that the
value of tho miuure produced on a
small farm carrying four horses,
twenty cows, fifty sheep an l tan pigs
during tho seven winter mouths
amounts to about $259.
Seouriug fleeces is gaining favor
with Western growers. They find
can’t sell soil for wool aud aro
getting tired of paying high freights
f or dirt tint can Vie left nt homo. It
is«,„ r o to come with free wool,
i* precautions * in introducing v
they f£ ^ eep are lnt expected ° 4, “T groundings, to remain and where mul-
6ho bj cou ff dored at this
time; a time when the sheep business
« being reconstructs 1 aud adjured to
. confronting * ..
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Grafting one kind of grape ou aa
othor klu ' 1 mst with success iu
m,lT1 Y 1:1 t1je Bating of the
Delaware oa the Ives seedling the
Delawares produce crops where they
before failed, a:i 1 excellent success
' rosnite 1 iu grafting the t’oo
“ :ss a so
cord on ihe lves -
Sheep that are not wei! fed through
th ter will uot be of much satis
fa* to their owner ia lambing
tin ilO y >r every dollar that is saved
by crimping the sheep now you will
two ia the spring. That is au ia
that the business of agriculture
cannot afford to pay.
The Wealthy apple is a seedling
rota a crab, aa 1 it possesses tue bard
iness of its parent. It originated in
Minn eta, and is remarkably adapted
to ec climates, as in the Northwest,
rapidlv » rowi in popularity
>T 1
kino for
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CREAKING DOOBS.
tf the doors are of heavy, old-fash¬
ioned make, the hinges should be
looked to now and then, as the weight
of the door often loosens the screws,
and the whole thing is thrown off the
balance, in which case, tightening the
screws will set it fight unless worn
very loose, then it may be advisable to
insert longer screws, which will pene¬
trate deeper into the woodwork. Locks
want an occasional inspection and a
q{ Qi] If the door has shrunk
Qnd n0 i onger fits tightly into tho
frame, a piece of baize or list nailed
round the framework renders it quite
tight and prevents draughts in winter
time.—New York Dispatch.
-
THAT TROUBLESOME MEHINGUE.
The secret Of making the meringue
for lemon pies so that it stands tall
1 and thick is in the baking. Whip the
whites of the eggs to a froth that will
no t fall out of the bowl when turned
upside down ; put in about a table
spoonful of granulated sugar for each
white, stir very little, spread it on the
^ 1 pj when they just done and still
cs are
baking hot Without taking them out
j 0 f the oven, and let them bake with
j the brown, oven open. the meringue If made hot will enough surely
j to become
fall and worse than nothing,
i<'j ve to ten minutes is enough to bake
the meringuo dry and straw-colored,
Sift granulated sugar on the top of
the meringue as soon as spread on the
pi e befoie I baking.—Philadelphia
Times.
Brown paper in the kitchen.
It is a very common practice foi
cooks to use brown paper ns an ab¬
sorbent for superfluous fat on crullers,
fritters, croquettes and tho like, aud
this custom has grown to be general
without any consideration of some of
the possibilities that attend it.
An export in the manufacture of
paper, upon seeing some of the corn
mon brown, unglaZod stuff used for
this purpose, delivered a lecture that
his hearers aro not likely ever to for¬
get. Ho showed them tho serious
danger by detailing some of the
sources of supply and giving the par¬
ticulars of some of the processes of
manufacture.
The paper stock is gathered from
every refuse heap and roadside, any¬
where and every where, without regard
to its previous uses or its immediate
condition. The material is put into
tanks and goes through a sort of wash¬
ing that removes the grosser impuri
ties. At no stage of its preparation is
it any way disiufoctod or made fit to
use.
“Asa matter of faet,” ho said, “the
practice of wrapping meats in paper
of this sort is attended with the great¬
est risk. There is no telling whether
a piece of paper used in this way may
havo been thrown from a siok room or
employed for purposes that would
render it utterly unfit for contact with
articles of food. ”
Regardless of this, freshly cut moats,
full of moistucf* „are wrapped’ in it,
„na n is hot an iiShsual thing for some)
one to ren-ark that he can taste thjB
paper afte> the steak has been cooked^
There o lg ht to be a very gathering strict sanl
ltary law Jointing the
waste and materials for
Every scrap of this staple should
through a degree of heat su^imjt
kill all known disease germs. fliL
not impossible or even difficult.
might entail some expense to the
nfaeturor, but this ia a small
compared with the results to
ity. Above all things, brown paper
an absorbent of hot fat is not only
wise from a hygienic point Old of
but positively disgusting.
is a thousand times more desirable
such purposes, and, in addition,
advantages on the score of economy,
A woman who has for years used
of linen iu this way, says that she
made all of her hard toilet soap by
dropping tho cloths into clear,
potash water. This cuts the
from the linen, and the liquid
boiled, then put in an earthen vessel
until enough of it has accumulated;
then it is boiled down, and the
is a soap that is smooth, strictly
gienio and more agreeable than
anything that can be purchased.
is better to eat fat galore than to
the system with germs of tho
horrible diseases simply because
is a fad for utilizing brown paper
cn absorbent. —New York Ledger.
ORANGE DESSERTS,
The-eimplest and most common way
of serving oranges is to peel, slice and
sprinkle sugar between the layers.
Whipped cream is an excellent addi¬
tion to this form of preparing them.
Other delicious desserts are as follows:
Orange Pudding—Soak a cap of
bread crumbs in a quart of rieh.sweet
milk. Beat three eggs until very
light, add a cup of sugar, a small
lump of butter, the juice and grated
rind of two oranges. Add this to the
soaked bread crumbs. Turn into a
buttered pudding dish and bake in a
hot oven.
Orange Short-Cake—Pare and slice
five or six oranges, removing all seeds
and bits of white pitb, sprinkle a chp
or more of sugar over them and let
stand while making the crust. This
may bs of any rich biscuit dough,
using sour cream and saieratns, or
sweet milk, lard and baking powder,
as one prefers. Bake on buttered
plates, with soft butter spread between
the two layers. Bake quickly, separ¬
ate and spread thick with the orange
both between and ou top. It liked a
cup of whipped cream may be spread
over the top.
Orange Pie—Grated rind and juice
of two oranges, four beaten eggs, four
tablcspoonfuls of sugar, one of butter
and one pint of milk. Bake with one
crust, spread a meringue over the top.
A good filling for layer cake is make
of the juice and grated rind of two
oranges, two tablcspoonfuls of cold
water and two cups of sugar. Set in
a pot of boiling water and when scald¬
ing hot stir in the yolks of two beaten
eggs, aud just before removing from
the fire stir the white of one egg
slightly beaten. When cold spread
between the layers of cake.—Amer¬
ican Agriculturist.
The largest price paid in Englan
during 1894 for a work of art at
auction sale was 357,759. This sun;
iwn by Mr. Charles J. Men
x for Reynold • * Lady Bstty
*i»e.
SELECT SIFTINCM.
England supports 200 daily papers.'.
New Haven, Mo., has a cob pipe:
factory. first light-
Sydney, in Australia, was
ed by gas in 1841.
P.oman women at one time used to.
shave and grow beards.
The Union Arch of the Washington
Aqueduct is 220 feet long. ‘
The longest lived birds are crows,
eagles, ravens and swans, all of which
are believed to live more than 10ft
years. session j
The longest continuous om
record in the Senate of the United
States was something over thirty
hours.
George Frost, ol Porterville, Cal.,,
sold off six acres of land sixteen tens.
of dried prunes last fall, the price be¬
ing S1500.
The first Bible printed in the point •
alphabet for the blind has just been
issued in Louisville, Ky. It contains,
1839 pages.
Siamese will never allow an, odd.
number of windows or doors to- a
house, on the ground that odd nirair
hers are unlucky.
Under Charlemagne’s laws an eye
was put out for the first tneft, the nose*
was cut off for the second and the en
tire head for the third.
John Fox, of Zeeland, Micb., is to
tally blind, but makes a business of
repairing sewing machines, and can
thread a needle quicker than quick. 1
The longest story ever told was tho
“Arabian Nights Entertainment,”
which has been the despair of story
tellers for nearly three thousand yemrt.
The longest fortification in tho
world is the Great Wall of China,,
which is 1250 miles in length, twenty'
feet high and twenty foet at its base.
The Mexicans eat salt with their
oranges, both because they prefer tke
fruit so seasoned and because it ia.
considered more wholesome with salt."'
In a New-York City public school
are’two hand-rails along the stairs, one
in the usual place on the top of the
balustrade, and tho other at about
half the height of the balusters; a
handrail for tho little children as well
as for children of larger growth.
Arrangements have been made for a,
telephone oxohange, the installation
of electric light and the construction
of water works at Buluwayo, South
Africa. Cecil Rhodes, the colonial
Napoleon, is erecting a magnificent
residence on the site of LoL'ong.ula ®
old palace.
A Double Runaway.
The elopement of Noble Stroud and
Mollie T. Yager to Jeffersonville was
attended with a sensational occur
rence. The horse attached to the
buggy iu which they were fleeing front
the young woman’s borne in Jefferson,
County, several miles back of Louis
ville, ran away and the couple haa a
na escape from being killed.
Mr. Stroud had been forbidden by
the parents of Miss Yager to pay his
attentions. It was arranged to elope
on Thursday rd-i*'- and at a late hour
MttOttd l-i-ftclied up his horse ado-cRued
1 his sweetheart. Preliminaries had
313 H , n agreed upon and Miss Yager was
in waiting. It was 11 o’clock when
the runaways started. Mr. Stroud did
not jog along. No time was to be
i os t, for pursuit was feared. Being
u-Si.V.w»w-T:dC- the road Stroud gave hia
steed theorem. N i
Finally the horse .got beyond.-***' aUviuto:
control. Miss Yager became
and leaped out of the buggy. As tha
horse continued to increase [his speed
Stroud decided that the best thing to
do was to follow the action of Misa
Yager. He climbed over the buggy
top and dropped on the ground. Ho
rolled over and over, but was not badly
hurt. Hastening back he found his
sweetheart running toward him. She
had escaped with a few scratches.'
Notwithstanding they wero several
miles from the city they proceeded ou
foot.
They came across the wrecked bug*
gy and found the horse near by.'
The animal was taken to a stable, and
the couple continued on their way to
the Fifty-first street ferry-dock, of
Upon reachingJilagistrate Hause’s
fice ho was found asleep, but he
quickly arranged his toilet, and they
were man and wife befora 8 o’clock.—
Louisville Courier-Journal,
India Rubber is Scarce. i
Ono of tho penalties that have to
bo paid for the introduction of tha
pneumatic india tire is the threatened scar¬
city of rubber that is said to ba
likely before long to cause a great
deal of inconvenience to the tire man¬
ufacturers. No doubt the consump¬
tion of india rubber has increased
enormously during the past three or
four years, and the material is sure to
come into still more extended nse with
the application of pneumatic tires to
road vehicles. But thero seems really
to be little fear that the supply of
india rubber will ever fall short of
the demand. In the first place tho
india rubber growers are beginning to
economize the plant which hitherto
has been treated in so wasteful a man¬
ner that a very large percentage of
the material has been lost. Now
French capitalists are making at¬
tempts to create an india lubber in¬
dustry in their West African posses¬
sions, where it is possible to produce
enough india rubber to supply at
least the whole of the home demand,
and probably to leave over e larga
surplus for the other consuming mark¬
ets. Supposing that this is insufficient
there is a possibility of artificial india
rubber being put upon the market ia
as large quantities as may be required.
A German inventor has just taken out
i patent in this country for the man¬
ufacture of artificial india rubber by
i chemical process that does not seem
to be without a certain danger to
those producing it, and though it may
have qualities very similar to those of
the natural rubber it yet remains to
oe seen whether it can be employed
Tor the making of tires.—American
Cyclist.
The Russian government has taken
entire charge of the sale of intoxica¬
ting liquors in the four eastern prov¬
inces of the empire. To prevent im¬
moderate consumption of drink, a
new experiment is being tried, which
consists in attracting people away
from the pin palaces by organ l.inj}
other recreation* and arrms«**w«nti
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