The Czar of Russia tells his subjects
that be is an autocrat, as his father
was, and means to remain so.
M. Andre, a European aeronaut,
thinks he could get to the North Pole
in i balloon at nn expenditure ol
about $35,000. ne is still looking for
a millionaire to blow him off.
Tho New York World announces
that a prize of $100,000 is offered by
this Government for the best air-ship
for passenger and freight traffic. In¬
ventors have until 1900 to perfect
their plans.
Obrervis the Baltimore American:
All the reports of M. Felix Fnuro since
bin accession to tho highest office in
France indicate that ho will mako ono
of the very strongest Presidents in the
history of that romarknble country.
He is a solid, sensible mnn.
A movement is on foot in England
to celebrate the sixth centenary of the
British Parliament, which will be
rounded ont this summer. It wns in
1295 thnt Parliament first assembled
i>n the basis from which has grown tho
form of the present assembly.
The statistical fiend has been figur¬
ing out the cost of tho chain letter
business asking for stamps. He esti¬
mates that if the letter reached its
fiftieth number and brought back ten
stamps for each letter written it would
take 101,372,794,958,091,779 ears to
carry the stamps.
The examples of New York and Ohio
in founding colonies for epileptics is
about to bo followed by Illinois, an¬
nounces Hsrper’a Weekly. The medi¬
cal societies of that State and of tho
city of Chicago aro moving in tho
matter, and havo submitted a bill for
the purpose to the State Legislature.
The Atlanta Constitution nniiouncei
that "Bishop Potter, of Now York,
practically endorses tho plan suggest¬
ed by ltev. Mr. Rninsford, some yoars
ago, of having saloon attachments to
tho churches. In this way good
drinks may bo obtained by tho thirsty,
ana the desire for company bo grati¬
fied. ”
J. Ross writes in tho Engineering
and Mining Journal that sinoo tho
diamond discoveries in South Africa
the Brazilian diamond-mining indus¬
try has fallen so low that tho annual
output is now not over $150,000, when
thirty years ago it was upward of $2,-
500,000. Brazilian diamonds aro so
much smaller than the African that it
doea not pay to mino them against
African competition.
Tho political and financial pro¬
gramme of the Russian Government
for this year is of a comprehensive
character. It includes the improve¬
ment of pnblio credit, tho extension
of roads and commnnieations, tho de¬
velopment of commorce and agricul¬
ture and the promotion of tho export
of Russian manufactures. A special
tax is proposed on all merchandise
entering tho port of 8t. Petersburg.
Thero wero issued during the year
1894 20,803 patents. The inventive
Yankee is not losing his grip, tho New
York Mail and Express makes appar¬
ent. In proportion to population
more patents were issued to citizous
of Connecticut than to those of any
other State. Massachusetts ranks uext.
Rhode Island is third, New Jersey
fourth and Now York seventh. Mon¬
tana and Colorado aro fifth and eighth
respectively.
This season’s crazes in Eurogo liavo
been collected by an Italian editor.
In England it is clay modeling, the
chief viotiins being Mr. Gladstone and
Sir William Haroourt; in Faris it is
riddles, in Italy and Southern France
it is jumping beans, painted to repre¬
sent prominent persons; tlioy jump
beet on hot plates. In Belgium tlioy
have elow-smoking races; the pipe*
are filled with half an ounce of to
baoco each and tho winner is ho whe
can bold out longest without relight
ing. The record so far iR sixty-seven
minntee.
Kleptomania is the polite term for
common stealing when the thief lias
money or social position, remarks the
San Francisco Chronicle. Tho latest
instance of this vico of tho period
comes from Faris, where a rich old
ooliector of curios looted tho LouTro
and stole many valuable an relicts.
If these kleptomanios were treated
like ordinary thieves wo should hear
of them loss frequently. Because a
man has no incentive to theft except
sufficient _ . why . he
cupidity is reason
should be more severely punished than
one who steals from necessity.
What the New York Mail aud Ex
press esteems an excellent scheme foi
an international postage stamp is
shortly to be submitted to the various
Governments of Europe by the Ger¬
man authorities. The exceeding in¬
convenience now existing in the ease
of those who wish to inclose stamp;
for reply in a letter addressed to a
.oreig r i - _.;ii u_ F i i
l. . i ‘ - ’
a stamp bearing the names of all the
countries in which its value as postage
is recognized, together with a table
giving its value in the coin o: each
these countries, will become universal
if the scheme is adopted.
STAND STEADYi
TV light Is brenkin’ o’er the hillsi
Stau 1 steady!
The music's ringin’ from tho rills:
Stand steady!
The road witli all its dust and heat,
Will soon grow green beneath tho feet,
And for tho thorns—the roses sweet:
Stand steady.
The road is rough, the night is long:
Stand steady!
The morning comes with light and song:
Stand steady!
No matter how the storm-bolts fall,
There’s still « flag waves o’er the wall;
God made the country for us nil:
titftnd steady!
—Atlanta Constitution,
LADY GRACE,
w HEN Lady Grace
Cuthbert stopped
her little pony
carriage and spoke
m a few works to Gil
bert Acres, stand
a- ! ing great father’s without gate farm of tho his
m house, she did it
with an air of con
desconsion which
V; V would bavo been
■
quite edifying to
«uy American
among us all; for how could we com
prebend, in this land of freedom and
equality, bow very much beneath my
Lady draco the handsome farmer’s
son was felt to bo by her? It needs
to be born in oil England, or in some
other land where titles are respected,
and pedigrees remembered at every
step, to understand her feeling.
While sho talked to him, she pitied
him for his lowly estate. Bhe know
that he had had advantages that few
farmers’sons wero allowed. IIo was
au educated man, nud a liar.dsomo
ono. Bho equal acknowledged him her
physical and mental superior;
but, oh I how much she felt above him,
just because sho was Lady Graco nud
lie plain Gilbert Acros, yeoman 1 Yet,
in her motherless babyhood his
mother had nursed her.
Hho had not Understood that slip
was Lady draco then, and this, her
foster-brother, had been her play
mate. But at last the widower took
liis daughter home, und a govoruess
uud a host of toadying servants taught
her her importance, and Gilbert learnt
to know his place ; but not beforo cor
tain soft emotions taught him tho
dangor of forgetting it.
Loving her, he stood opposite hor
enrringo and listened to her, and
“kept his place.”
Her affectation was graceful, her
supercilious face a protty one, and
she had won his heart when her six
teen school-girl years had not quite
spoiled hor.
Twenty-one years belonged to hor
now. Bho was in society, and her
It scorn of common people was intonso.
seemed right enough to Oilbort
that, she should show lain by Lor
mighty air tho broad chasm betweeu
thorn. Gilbert understood it very
well; and tho quiet rospoot of his
But “Good-day, my lady,” proved it.
when tho pony carriage had faded
out of sight, and when there was no
one near to see or hear, he uttered a
prayer: “Let me bo man enough to
crush this love in my bosom. Teach
me to forget her I"
ratty Whimple could havo said
Amen to that prayer, had she heard it,
sho had always liked Gilbert bo. Lady
Grace watched Fatty often from her
high-backed paw in church, and
thought whnt a bold croaturo sho was
to try so hard to attract u mau who
did not oven hood hor.
Gilbert was just tho dirt beneath tho
feet of my Lady Graco, you know;
but bo was fur superior to that coun¬
try flirt. Ho had an education and ox
oollcut manners.
Fatty hated my Lady Greco for lior
haughty ways, and Lady Graco dis
liked Fatty for stopping ont of her
place and over-dressing, nud not be¬
cause of Gilbert. Oh, no 1
As slio drove ou Ihomeward, past
tho farmer’s well tilled fields toward
the mortgaged lauds of Lord Cuth
bert, the Lady Grace said to herself,
wlint a pity it was that no man In her
sot had Gilbert’s beauty and Gilbert's
wit, and Gilbert’s grace and goodness 1
and what a pity it was that ho was so
very poorly born 1
"How pleasant it used to he when I
wns a little school girl, to go to the
old farm nud talk to Datno Acres,”
sho sighed, “aud to ride the doukey.
What a nice boy Gilbert was, aud how
kind to mo! 1 almost wish I were a
farmer’s daughter, and not a lady.
I'm sure I wish 1 were a little school
girl ngain!"
But she was my Lady Grace, aud
she was not likely to forget it either,
That evening Lord Happercraw came
to dine with them, and thero were
also tho Duke of —, and tho Hon
orablo Mr. Spader, and other titled
ladies and gentlemen; and the con
versation turned ou marriage, aud
some one said that “as a lady always
fell or rose to the social level of her
husband a mesalliance was much
worse for hor than for a gentleman;
and how very true that was, thought
Lady Grace
I ha night, when the moon had set.
and ail the company gone home Oil
bert walked under the window of the
chamber where *h 0 sept, as Romeo
walked under that o Juliet; but she I
ka ? w nothing of it. Only she dreamed j
of hirn-a strange wild dream. ,
She thought that she was id a car
with Liora Ilappercraw, l ana
w0 „ hlitiu R Q *, auJ
that the coachman and footman were!
bedecked with white favors ; and that ;
ncross the road lay some ono cast 1
down, and my lord bade the coach- j
man drive on and he did so, aud then ;
„ jt;i horror she leaned over the car- !
riage all dabbled side and with saw the blood, face and of Gilbert, j
awoke, i
Grace But m arsiu the morning and she was Lady) Gil- I
he was “only
bert.” And in the morniug, in bis j
,-t-jdy, her lather -i.ld her that Lord ;
Happercraw hud asked his permission
to address her.
“I will not force your inclinitious,
my child.' h- sa:d, “but it is an ex
Cedent match. Though, if you prefer
the Duke of —”
“It will be betior to be the wife of
.1 old man t *n a bad young
It’, Ivilt’ billU. I
Lord Happercraw “wooed her'' and
she Tiehted tv lhe wooing. He was as (
old as her father and very grave and
slow; but he was kindly, and he was
better, as she said, than a gambler and
a sot who was younger. And tho
affair was decided, and she began to
turn her thoughts toward her ward¬
robe. The very wedding dress was
ready when a great calamity fell upon
her.
Her father died. Of course the
wedding was postponed, and the poor
girl mourned bitterly. Bho had only
bad her father in all the world to love,
and her lifo was very desolate without
him; but, tho year being gono by,
Lord Ilappercraw pressed liis suit
again, and ouco rnoro sho yielded.
Bho had seen more of Gilbert and his
mother in the interim than was good
for her, she knew. Bhe must remem¬
ber her position.
Again tho whito satin glistened in
tho hands of the needle-women. Again
the wedding day approached, and Gil
bert fought with himself fiercely. His
mother guessed what was going on,
and I fancy Patty did also, and both
Luted my Lady Grace for different
reasons.
“A proud, insolent croature,” * said
Patty.
“She’s a right to be proud,” said
tho old woman. “I blame her more
for other things.”
One night Putty had stayod at the
Acres’s farm house for some reason. A
servant had been sick and somo help
was needed ; and at two in tho morn
ing a hand hod shaken her softly, and
the old dumo’s voieo whispered :
“Get up! Look! there’s a»-tlre
somewhere. It’s Cuthbert House, /
think.”
“Oh!" cried Patty “It is the
house. I wonder whether slic is burn
ing in it.”
“God forbid 1” cried the old woman.
“What’s that?” she cried, and pointed
to a dark figure flying past tho win
flow.
“It’s Gilbert."
Away ho sped across tho fields, fly
ing rather than running. It was a
dark night. Tho flames flashed red
and lurid against tho black sky. The
wind drove thorn to tho westward, and
was so strong that tho two women
could scarcely fight against it. They
wero a long while in reachingthe spot.
Then they stood aghast. Homo ono
criod, “It’s his mother; she’ll never
geo him alive again 1” And they saw
that Gilbert was not without, and
knewliowaswithiuthohurniugbuild
ing. Suddenly
thero was a cry. Tho
little crowd stirred with ono aciord.
A black figuro stood at an open win
dow holding a burden in its arms, tho
flames pursuing it. Ladders were
lifted; strong men dasliod up thorn;
bearer and burden wero seized and
brought to tho ground. A faint voico
cried:
‘Tell me that she is safe 1"
And tho so who had unwrapped tho
folds of a blanket from tho other form
answered : *
“Sho is alive. Slio is not tpuchod
by tho flames. Wo’il bring her t6 in
u minute!”
And tho boys began to choer, and
tho servants to cry. An l Gilbert’s
mother got her arms about hei 1 son,
who whispered:
"Take mo home, inothor.’’
hoarsely* “Are^ycju hart?”
He -only whispered, “Tako me
home.”
And she led him away. Soon 1m
stumbled, tliou ho struck against a
fence. Then ho said, with a sob:
“Mother, I cau’t see anything. I’m
afraid I never shall, inothor.” And
tho two women, sobbing, lod him ba
tween thorn, aud got him homo, and
sent iu haste for a doctor,
The doctor camo as soon as my Lady
Grace’s swoou was over, for she must
ho attended to first, and found poor
Gilbort delirious,
“That would pass rooii,” ho said,
baud liis hair would grow again, aud
with euro his face would not bo
soarrod, but—’’ j
“Don't tell mo ho will bo blind!"
Bobbed tho mother,
“I wish I nood not," sai l tho phy¬
sician, “but it is the truth, uulosi God
works a miracle."
Lady Grace camo to herself that
night, but was ill for some wooks.
She remembered a good doal that sho
had told no one. Certain wild words
of love whispered in hor ear; a kiss
upon her forehead; a sweet thrill in
her veins that ma lo her forgot hor
terror oven when tho flames pursued
thorn. Sho had reposed for a fow
brief momeuts in the arms of the mau
who loved her, und whom she loved,
Her cheek had touched his cheek.
Her heart aud his had trobbed in uni¬
son. Never now could she forget,
Love was worth all tho world besides,
aud she loved Gilbert,
They her, hid the fact that ho was hurt
from and sho could only think
that ho feared to meet her nftor that
revelation, which lie had made at a
moment when death seemed inevitable,
Sho waited in vain for somo news of
him, and the first day that found her
strong enough, found her also driving
in hor carriage toward the Acres
farm. At its gate stood Fatty, with
her arms folded and her face half sad,
half angry, as she turned it toward
the ady
“Its kind of you to remember
Acres farm at last, my lady, she
said. “It s not as if he’d saved a
poor person a life. Wo t hought you'd
forgot all about it though he has
paidtench a price.”
“\ hat price? cried Lady Grace,
tell me, girl. Is lie ill?
“Is he ,11! cried Patsy, bursting ,
into tears. “Much an* one oared for
Gilbert Acres, so iuv L\.ivGraco was i
.° ’ ’
slfo
Then her auger aud thoughts of
her own disappointment got the bet
ter of Fatty altogether.
“I hate yon, my lady,” she cried ’
“when I see him sitting there stone
blind for life—all for your sake!
You’re mine l him for life, my lady;
as well have killed him."
And Lady Grace also forgot herself, -
Tears poured down her cheeks. j
“You poor-aouted creature!” she |
sobbed, “I suppose you think you
loved him, who would forsake him
how. Oat of my way! let me go to
him!"
Bo she pushed past her. and iato
the farm house, and passed the mother
at her work without a word, and onto
where a figure sat alone; and a face
she know, despite its woeful altera
tion. turned toward ! CE
t?rc.l.
“Gilbert:" she cried.
“Who is this''” ho cried. “Not
Lady Grace—not Lady Grace!’’
“No!” she said, “No, Gilbert!
not Lady Grace. Just your Grace,
nothing more, wjiile we both live, if
you will have it so.”
And the record of the church of
St. Elias tells u8 that within it they
were wed one day, and that only death
parted them.—New Torn News.
Takes a Wise Man to Know IJulter.
“It’s a wise man who knows when
he is eating butter nowadays,” said C.
S. Harding, of St. Louis, at the Coch¬
ran yesterday, “The remarkable in¬
crease in the monuftteture of butteriuo
accounts for this. Not a scrap of suet
or fat is ever thrown away now at any
slaughter house or butcher stand in
this country, ji- is all gathered up
and allows put it tbroug. to be -,td | je operation ‘Philadelphia which
as
print,’ ‘fine creamery,’ ‘pride of the
dairy’ ’or other attractive brands of
golden yellow stuff, put up in rolls
and prints. So general has become
the use of bath rine that many dealers
now adverb it openly, and their
patrons no V ;cr try to keep their
purchases amlf c quiet. I reckon every
hotel wording house in Wash¬
ington uMss' -t, in, the> kitchens, at
b:as *! "hereit place of but*
*f ’“em r 1B doubtless L >n d numbers their tables of
aa 18 ‘ the spots out
. the North
a ” est ,*■!*- t,n K s in nse “as be*
- > ;y “
CO! nt too gftniSi its _ manufacture
?,.*'*'• rei ‘ nn .y laws
that may be I for ita govern*
”? or ‘ V* s does every lung
‘hit , outtor v and it doesn t
B P od or * e ‘ * lko tbe genuine
f If be,r .
B ,l ’ au; ' * 1R J8 mat *e
now cause# it ’ even the most
[‘ebcate butter when expen churned ore his
11 ovcr *, ^he the C fact) lJU gingup °f, e s
, . . .
money in ae,
'V u8 y in g toa
A Remar
George W .on, Friar’s
HiH, W. Va., forty years old
and has the g lembrance won
derfnlly deve T e remembers
everything bt .ew or read and
can feats. perform, He can,! hand, ost remarkable recite the
names, birthday iur of death, ma
jorities and the iest details of the
lives of all the i lents in regular
order; cuu name 1 tho horses in his
neighborhood; i recito poonii* of
3000 words witt ; misssiug a word ;
can recount the ails of every visit
he has made in i. life; can name all
the people lie lia^ net in two weeks
aud every word very one of them lr.is
said; can quote ijjapter after olmptex
of tho Biblo and . m a like penchant
for human repeating in Jhirwry. He is hardly
woods mauy and inspects, sleeping in
tha ofton going for weeks
without washing fti» face. One of his
most intorestin feats is tho repetition
of every word of , k marriage ceremony
whioh he .K 1 - n | 1Q w ,\g twenty
one and ed a girl who was
his awe* ‘her man.
4' "s ceremony was
th* «d to re
.IP'S »p$
tho .tii:. J« » Ms
iu-: ing been a very
promising yoaug man before this girl
jilted him. Since then he has given
no attention to hi-, personal appear¬
ance and cares for nothing but read¬
ing and rememberiug things.—Wash¬
ington Star.
Curious Ways of Making Perufnics.
Most of tho perfumes aro made by
enfleuage—i. e., laying freshly gath¬
ered flowers in a glass case, the lid of
which is spread with a coating of lard,
half au inoh thick. This in tho course
of twelvo or twenty-four hours ab¬
sorbs all the essential oil. Tho flow¬
tho‘glass ers uro not spread thickly in the case ;
is evenly covered with them
aud little more, but tho coating of
lard requires many relays of flowers
before it is impregnated with sufficient
perfume. relays, of de¬
The number of course,
pen Is on tho kind of flowers used.
Bomo ovo changed thirty times, some
even ns many ns eighty, others only
five or six. The lftj'l is afterward
melted and mixed 4 spirit, which,
combining with the volatile oil, rises
to the top and is oaptwedaud filtered.
It is sad to see the flowers whioh havo
been used in making pomade when,
nil tho virtuo having gone out of thorn,
they are carted away to bo used to
promote tho growth of other roses,
which, iu turn, will die the same
death. They are a mere mass of somo
thing that looks lika dirty paper bad¬
ly reduood to pulp.—Longmau’s Mag
a zine. .
Au Emperor’s Curious Hobby,
Tho Germau Emperor, whose hob¬
bies take various directions connected
with engineering—inirfae, locomotive
aud military—possesses a splendid
working model of a railway, with en¬
gines, cars, points, signals and sta¬
tions. This ho works ostensibly for
the amusement of his children—iu
reaU affords ty for the pleasure and recreation
it himself. The designing oii and
workiug £ of smrtU steam launches
is anot er of the German Emperor’s
favorlto pastimes. ' Of these he pos
9esses n larg0 * number. He has re
contl Thames ive au order to a fam0 „ s
builder for a little electric
lannchi which> whea flm8hei l. will be
a , prettily furnished and speedy ^ £ n
floats> Ja tho * lao at
Berliu the wbole rtoor 8 AT , c o{ oue
great L room is t frequently the arena _ * for _
0 ma 1 maneuvers o w io.e
troops of toy soldiers, with raimio
cannon, artillery, ammunition wagons,
tents, fortresses and all tho pomp and
panoply of modern warfare. —Tid-B«ts.
Fnr.Bearing Chicken«,
A Louisville (Ky.) mau, who nays he
never drinks, tells of a farmer who
has produced which a breed of far-bearing
chickens, sport in io- water aud
cackle briskly iu the ruidst of almost
eternal snow. This was accomplished
by skin-grafting a selected cock and
hen with rabbit skin, half au inch at
a time. The process wa painful, but
succeeded admirably. Eggs of the
new breed sell rapidly at $1.75 a j
dozen and are hatched out by ordia
Ueus, who invariably d-e of fright 1
ary i
upon perceiving tae strange IP i* *r
auce of the:r offspring. — New Oriejux j
Picayune.
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REMEDT FOR RATS AND MICE.
^ These small „ but , greatly , destructive ,
vermin of the farm may be kept in
subjection without much trouble if
the right methods aro taken. First,
the buildings should be constructed
with special reference to them; this,
however, is rarely thought of by build
ers. No hiding places should be per
mitted Under the floors or behind the
fittings; the floors should either lie on
the ground and made of concrete,
through which rats cannot burrow,
or raised so high above it that cats
and dogs can go everywhere in pur*
suit of their natural game. Three or
four good cats, preferably emasculated
ones, and one good terrier—a fox
terrier is the best—or all of these,
will, if well fed, spend the greater
part of their time in hunting, and so
Very soon exterminate tho vermin.
Otherwise poison should be used in
such a way as to avoid danger to oth
er animals. This maybe done by
mixing a very little powrdered strycb
nine with tome fat in which cornmeal
is mixed; and putting small qnan
tities of this in holes bored in blocks
Of wood, so that tho vermin can get
at it and other animals cannot. These
traps are scattered about where the
vermin will be likely to get at the
bait,—New York Times.
HOW CREAM IS RIPENED.
The cream is best skimmed when
rather thick, that is, when it may bo
almost rolled up on the pan and lifted
in a sort of cake. It will then con¬
tain about twenty per cent, of milk,
and some milk must then be poured
into the cream jar with the cream, and
the whole stirred to mix the two in¬
timately. This stirring is done every
time the cream is added, and the third
milking should be the last before the
cream is churned. The cream will
ripen of itself if it is kept in a warm
place all this time, not less than sixty
degrees of temperature. At tho end of
this time the surface will glisten like
satin when it is stirred, and this is a
good indication of'its full ripening for
tho churning. Otherwise, the cream
may be sot ou the addition of the last
cream, by mixing half a pint of the
buttermilk from tho last can, churn¬
ing to five gallons of tho cream and
stirring it well; then, at a tempera
turo of sixty or sixty-fivo degrees, the
cream will be ready for churning in
twelve hours. This will yield the
finest flavored butter, that is fit for
the table in a few hours after it is
made, or for some tastes it is churned
for every meal, and eaten as it is
churned. Cream thus ripened will
make a very delicately flavored but¬
ter.—American Farmer.
HOW TO RAISE YOtlNO CHICKS.
*Vhen the chicks are all hatched
leave them under the ben undisturbed
for one day. They are tender and
dolicato and need thg vitalizing heat
of the mother. Let them remain with¬
out food until the second day. When
tho hen is taken from the nest dust
her thoroughly with fresh insect pow¬
der. Grease her legs lightly with
melted lard aud apply two or three
drops to the back of her neck. Do not
put any under her wings, as the chicks
aro apt to get it into their eyes, caus¬
ing bliuduess. Lice pass from the
lien to the chicks, so if there is one
louse ou tho hen it is one too many.
The first four or five days feed stale
broad or cracker crumbs moistened
with sweet milk. Do not make it too
sloppy. The principal fool should bo
bread made of equal parts fine oat¬
meal, bran, shorts aud corn meal. Add
enough soda and salt to season, and
three teaspooufuls of ground bone.
Mix with sweet milk aud bake in tho
oven. Crumble the inside of the bread
and feed it dry. Take the crust aud
moisten with a raw egg until the whole
is a stiff dough. Young chicks will
keep healthy and grow fast on this
food. Egg is the natural food for
young fowls and should be given once
or twice a day. Raw egg will prevent
bowel trouble, while too much hard
boiled egg will produce it.
Feed regularly every two hours un¬
til the chicks are a week old, then
four times a day will do. Give them
all they will eat up cleau but do not
leave any in the trough to sour. As
soon as chicks require food they re
quire water. Milk may bo given, but,
il should be sweet. If the weather is
cold have the water tepid. Construct
the drinking dishes so that the chicken
can drink without getting wet. Never
feed raw corn meal to chicks. BraD is
better than corq meal, as it contains
more mineral matter and is one of the
best bone-forming foods that can be
given to growing fowls; but it should
always be scalded. As they grow
older feed grain, either -w-liole or
cracked. Table scraps and garden
greens may also be given. Keep pul
verized charcoal and hue gravel within
their reach all the time. The young
chieks must bo kept warm and dry
til thev are six weeks old; a single
night’s exposure may bring on bowel
disease. When this appears it is gen
rrally attributed to the food, but the
real cause is cold
Do not keep the hen confined in a
coop unless it is a large one, and then
only in bad, wet weather. It is almost
impossible to keep a confined hen free
from lice. If she has her liberty she
will dust da ly and rid herself of the
pests, and the little chicks wiil learn
at au early age to wallow iu the dust,
Let them roam over the garden and
fields and they will gather a large part
of their food, and benefit the farm
and garden by ridding them of in
sects.—American Agriculturist.
CARE OF ORCHARDS.
Extrscis from a very interesting
paper read by J. H. Fi*hell before the
Indiana Horticultural Society: The
care of orchards for best results is a
subject ■which concerns all of us.
There is too much lack of hortical
tural know ledge among farmers. They
are not as 11 posted ou
ing as they should I It certainly
would be"to the advantage of every
wide-awake farmer and fruit-grower
0 J 01 n and .... a “ end f^ lar, ..... y tbe
jesting t meetings of such societies as
this. those who make a success in
fruit growing do so by intelligent in
dustry. It has-been said “if a man
would know anything he must think;
if he would have anythiug he must
work." Now if he will do either, all
things are so arranged that he may re¬
ceive rich rewards,
From the earliest times men have
turned to the soil for their support,
The products were few because their
wants were few. In process of time
agriculture was divided into depart
ments. The man who cultivated field
crops on a large scale was called a
husbandman or agriculturist. Others
tllat Cultivated fruits, roots and vege
tables were called horticulturists, and
one branch of the latter is my subject.
Fruit is the poor man's friend,
the rich man’s luxury, the laborer’s
physician, and the foe tc
quack doctors. There is no more
royal road to health than that lined
by trees of ripened fruit. The growth
of treefi > whether in the forest, or in
the orchard, takes from the soil the
necessary nutriment both for the for
motion of wood and the development
°* fmit. To secure tho most satisfao
t«ry development of fruit requires
health and vigor of wood. But the
growth of trees in a soil continually
cropped in soil exhaustion, and if con¬
tinued for a term of years with no re¬
storation of fertilizing material, the
conditions become unfavorable to any
healthy growth of wood fibre. It is
under such conditions as these that
fruit rapidly deteriorates or fails of
production.
Tho orchard set in young trees
should be cultivated annually and
some fertilizing material applied for
the bonefit of the trees as well as the
vegetables or small fruit raised, until
the tfe6s come into bearing) then the
cultivation should cease for a time.
Fruit trees require care and nutri¬
ment, and without these the results
aro not satisfactory. Healthfulness is
indicated by a vigorous growth and a
foliage of dark green, and when these
conditions exist the fruit will be found
smooth and of good size. Orchards
may be fertilized by spreading ma¬
nure over the surface of tho ground,
especially that portion of it through
which the roots of the trees extend.
Potash is a valuable fertilizer for all
kinds of fruit and can be applied in
the form of unleached wood ashes,and
being largely soluble are easily con¬
veyed to tho roots and immediately
appropriated to profitable use.
We would lay down these rules in
commencing: Select a situation best
adapted for the purpose, taking every¬
thing into consideration. If not well
drained see that it is. Scatter well
composted manure over the ground,
plow deep, and then if you cap g^t
them scatter wood ashes over the
ground and work them well into the
soil with a barrow. And depend upon
it there is no amount of pains which
you can take in this respect that will
not amply repay you in the end. We
look upon it as of the utmost import¬
ance to tho future welfare of the tree
that it should have a good start in tho
beginning and make an early and
rapid growth; this will enable it to
resist the attacks of disease and in
sects the better.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Charcoal is a good corrective of
bowel disorders in poultry.
Savo the poultry droppings. Storo
them where they will bo kept dry.
Diversify, diversify. That is not
the only secret of success, but is essen¬
tial when no special crops will pay, as
is the case at present.
The first thing to do in the spring
is to apply a liberal allowance of solu¬
ble fertilizer on the asparagus bed, as
asparftgrfs comes early in tho spring.
It is said that watermelons will keep
nicely until Christmas if they are cut
from the vine with tho stems on aud
buried iu sand out of tho way of frost.
Common sense will bring more eggs
than corn. Don’t you forget that.
Whatever food you use mix il
thoroughly with common sense, or the
food will be wasted.
Buy farm machinery as cheap as
possible, but do not buy cheap ma
chinery. The poorly constructed ma¬
chine bought at a low price is often
the most costly one in the long run.
Farmers who figure on their pro¬
fits should endeavor to estimate the
expense incurred in loss of fertility
so ld in tho produce. This fertility
must be returned to the soil or the
succeeding crops will bo lessened cor
respondingly.
Potash is essential to land bearing
f ru jts, and, th ere f 0re , allies is a vaiu
ab5e {erti]izer for such ground. In
usi flshe8 use jt a i one> for it has
wonderfnl power o{ liberating some of
the most valuablo elements in nitro
genons fertilizers.
_ Farmers must , have . au ideal , , to
wh,c h to T° r k ’ and not V®, C0 ^ tent to
g° along , about , as usual. There is
no s» ocess without nn aim, and this
aim sbo " ld b « “ hi « h °“ e aud
? DeT P b « nt to U l at aI1 , 1 ‘ lmes - Tbl6
IS a aw snccess everywhere,
The fact is now well established that
the cost of keeping a hen one year is
one dollar, and if she is any good, and
you feed her properly she will pay
back that dollar and give you another
in eggs. Y'on can feed her more than
a dollars worth in a year if you
choose, but the kindness will be mis
placed, for she will get too fat and
lazy to lay, hence your account will
balance on the wrong side.
„ Those who are starting incubatori
for the first time will do well to ex
periment with a small number of eggs
at first. My first experience with an
incubator was good—out of one thou
sand and eight eggs we got nine
hundred and three chicks. Chicks
can be kept too closely confined un
der glass. If being reared without a
hen, they need some dark, quiet place
to retreat to frequently for sleep,
which is food to them.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The saline matter held in solution
in sea water comprises one-thirtieth of
its weight.
Platinum wires made white-hot by
electric currents are now used as sari
for felling trees.
When the Gulf Stream passes out of
the Gulf of Mexico its temperature is
about seventy degrees.
A new marking oSe ink pencil has the
solid color at end in the usual
mallner and at the other end a TeC ep
tacle for a liquid mordant.
Typhoid fever cannot bo transmit¬
ted by Bewer gas, is the report of the
experts to the London County Coun¬
cil. The bacilli of the disease, also,
find, it hard to live in town sewage.
Male corpses float on their faces,
and female corpses on their backs on
account of the different dispositions
of fatty tissues. In the case of a lean
woman and a fat man tho positions
would be reversed,
When a ray of sunlight falls through
na aperture into a darkened room, it
is rendered visible as f.-ir as it extends.
What wo actually see, however, is not
the ray of light, but the particles of
floating dust rendered visible by it.
As a result of experiments in filter¬
ing the water of tlieMerrimac at Law¬
rence, Mass., it has been found that
ninety-eight per cent, of the germs of
typhoid fever and other diseases pres¬
ent in the water aro removed by
proper filtration.
It is asserted that a Paris jeweler
has put a number of manufactured
rubies into tho market which can be
distinguished from the genuine only
with the aid of n powerful microscope.
They are made of powdered small
rubies subjected to great pressure.
At tho Congress of Hygiene, Dr.
.
Korosi, of Budapest, stated that the
proportion of deaths among children
from weakly constitutions, or maladies
traceable to tho mother, was twice as
large among t’aa children of mothers
under twenty as among the children
of mothers over thirty, upon a com¬
parison of sever il thousand cases.
Wcllner’a sail-wheel flying-machine
is operated by wings revolving on on
axle. A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says that “their velocity can
be made to surpass by far that of rail¬
way trains, thus enabling them to oon
quer contrary winds.” Of course,
however, this does not apply until
after the machine has been induced to
begin flying.
Owing to the formation of a film of
aluminum oxide it has been hitherto
impossible to coat aluminum with
zinc, tin or lead by the ordinary pro¬
cesses, these metals sliding over a
cleaned aluminum plate with no ten¬
dency to alloy with it. This diffi¬
culty is now overcome by rubbing the
plate in the metallio bath with a steel
brush, when an even layer of metal
adheres.
The Public Schools ol Mexico.
I have it from pretty good authori¬
ty, says a recent traveler in Mexico,
that it is the purpose of the Mexican
Government, within four or five
years, to establish a cample* 0 ,, system
of public schools, Republic. reaching The into every
corner of the teachers
therefor cannot be obtained here,
nor for years to come. This will
make a demand for probably 10,000 or
15,000 teachers. In view of this it
will be seen how important it is for
those who have an idea of teaching to
study the Spanish language, so aa to
be able to avail themselves of the op¬
portunity which will thus be opened.
Kansas City has already moved jn this
direction by making Spanish a part
of her common school course. The
students of Mexico [are now ahead of
us on this question. They recognize
that English is the rival language of
the continent, and they go to col¬
leges in the United States for the sole
purpose of adding English to their
literary stock in trade. Mexico is
developing scholars who can hold
their own with any on the continent.
They are delving into every research
and are well read and liberal-minded.
The litorature of Mexico is now quite
extensive, covering the field of history
biography, political economy, science
and poetry.—Chicago Tribune.
Where “Blind Slews” Are Popnlar,
Although everybody in Philadelphia
eats oysters, it is doubtful if one in a
thousand ever heard of a “blind stew. ”
That is, of course, excepting tho deni¬
zens of “Fisbtown,” for what they
don’t know about fish and oysters is
not worth knowing. Bepresentative
Fow’s district is just on the borders of
“Fisbtown,” and Fow has become
thoroughly familiar with all the dishes
of that section, and his favorite dish
is a “blind stew.” He completely
stumped the chef of a leading Harris¬
burg restaurant, however, when he or¬
dered one, and the redoubtable legis¬
lator had to explain the mystery of
compounding it, which consists of sim¬
ply cutting out the eyes of the oysters
used in the stew. After explaining
what a “blind stew” was, Mr. Fow
also showed the oyster opener how the
bivalve could be separated from its eye
neatly and qnickly, and now “blind
stews” promise to become favorite
dishes with the law makers at Harris¬
burg. —Philadelphia Becord.
Ancient Remedies lor Hiccough.
The hiccough seems to be a modern
and dangerous disease, but the an¬
cients knew it and prescribed reme¬
dies that might now be tried advan¬
tageously. Galen recommended sneez¬
ing. Atius approved of a cupping in¬
strument with great heat to the breast.
Alexander believed in an oxymel of
squills. Alsaharavius made nse of re¬
frigerant draughts. P.haseS put, his
trust in calefacients, such es cumin,
pepper, rue and the like, in vinegar.
Rogerins looked kindly on calefacient,
attenuant and carminative medicines.
—Chicago Times-Herald.
The Colorado Canon.
The longest canon in the world is
that of the Colorado River, in tha
Western United States. It is also the
most marvelous of all the wonders of
nature known to contemporary man¬
kind. If some rich min would explore
it with a corps of artists an 1 scientists
as thoroughly as it deserves he would
confer au inestimable boon upon his
fellows.—Frank Leslie’s Weekly,
