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Making a Lawn Swing.
Where there are no trees suitable
for attaching a swing rope, an arti
ficial arrangement must be made use
of, if the children are to enjoy the
delights of a swing. Not only are
strong points for the attachment of
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the rope necessary, but shade for the
swing is also needed, since its use will
be in the hot weather of the summer.
Jn absence of suitable trees, then we
•can erect some such framework as
that shown in Fig. 1, the four posts
of which are firmly set in the ground,
explains Farm and Home. These
posts should be four by four inches,
with cross pieces and braces three
by four. The height may be ten feet,
•or even twelve, above ground. The
width and length can, of course, be
what anyone may choose. In any
c<|e both length and width should be
well proportioned to the height to
make the whole look well.
To make a roof covering for this
frame, bend three thin strips of ash
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The Swing Completed.
or other pliant wood and secure them
In the places shown by the dotted
lines, running a cross piece of the
same along the ridge, as suggested,
to hold the whole firmly in place. It
remains now only to cover the top
with an awning, as shown in Fig. 2,
to make the whole complete. Thus
will be provided not only a shady
swinging place, but when the rope is
thrown up out of the way, there will
be a shady spot to which easy chairs
may be brought from the house for
the use of the “grown-ups,” while
the children will find it a comfortable
place for play of other kinds when
enough of swinging has been had.
Could Not Plead.
Lugi Pina, a prisoner at Bow street
Police Cout, London, surprised the
presiding magistrate by saying that
his original intention was to plead
“not guilty,” “but,” he said, “when
I heard the prosecutor swear on the
Bible that the purse contained £l6,
1 felt bound to tell the truth and say
there was only £9.”
Milk For China.
England sends to China every year
6,000,000 pounds of condensed milk
gfld 5,000,000 pounds of biscuits.
A Typical Frontier Army Post.
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fort srll^oklahoma
Holder For Muffs.
Up to the present time no pro
vision has been made for properly
caring for women’s muffs. It is im
possible to support them on the hooks
on the hat rack, and generally they
are allowed to lie on the table, to the
detriment of the fur. To show that
they can be very easily cared for a
Boston man has designed the simple
muffholder shown here. This holder
has a frame of wire, the lower wire
being movable. The muff is placed
in the holder by detaching the end
of the lower rod and slipping it
through the opening of the muff.
The hook is then slipped into position
and the holder suspended in a con
venient place by meaus of the hook
at the {op.—Washington Star.
Marvelous Electric Railroad.
Genoa and. Milan are to be con
nected by a marvelous electric rail
road, eighty-five miles in length,
which is to cost $47,000,000. The
excessive cost of it is owing to the
nature of the country through which
the line will pass. It will require
nineteen tunnels, one of which will
be twelve miles long. There will be
372 bridges and the road will be six
years in the course of construction.
The cost of the line construction
alone will be $500,000 per mile. The
line will be double tracked and there
will be no grade crossings. Trains
will consist of three cars, each ac
commodating fifty persons. It is pro
posed to run twenty trains a day, and
it is estimated that the daily traffic
will be 6000 passengers. Avery
complete schedule has been arranged
to take care of the express and local
traffic as well as the freight of that
section of the country. The power
will be derived from a 2 4,000 horse
power hydraulic generating plant.
Largest block of marble ever quar
ried in the United States. It was
taken out of a quarry near Knox
ville, Tenn., and contains 1000 cubic
feet. —Earle Harrison, Tennessee, in
Leslie’s Weekly.
A Forcing Effect.
Fresh manure has a forcing effect
and ,tends to produce stems and
leaves at the expense of fruit and
grain. It is therefore better for
early garden truck, grasses and for
age plants than for cereals or fruits.
—Weekly Witness.
Cow Peas and Wild Onions.
In locking over the Indiana Farm
er I saw some one wanted to know if
it would do to sow cow peas in corn.
I say yes, by all means. I usually
sow or drill them right with the corn,
but after the last plowing some sow
them broadcast and run a one horse
harrow between them. Some run a
one horse corn drill and set it so it
drills very thick. Will some reader
tell me how to get rid of wild onions?
I have them on some of my land,
washed off from a neighbor’s farm.
Is there any law governing the ob
noxious weed? lam trying to keep
them off my farm, but can’t as long
as he lets them grow and they wash
on my land. Can I compel him to do
anything? He never tries to kill
them out anyway. We can’t raise
anything but corn on the land, as the
onions seed. —Helen Massie.
You might make complaint against
your neighbor for maintaining a nuis
ance. There is no law against the
wild onion, as there is against Can
ada thistle. Wouldn’t your best
plan be to devote that piece of ground
to corn or-potatoes, and cultivate the
onions out? —Indiana Farmer.
Cover Crops.
One of the most important things
in the management of the soils is to
increase the organic matter content,
not only because of the effect it has
in preventing washing, but also be
cause of its value in producing good
tilth, in increasing the moisture ca
pacity, in conserving moisture, in aid
ing ventilation and in furnishing a
supply of nitrogen for the plant. To
increase the organic matter in soils
it is necessary to utilize all of the
vegetable matter produced. Farm
manure should be turned back into
the soil as soon as possible. Too
often it is left piled up against the
barn to rot the boards and leach
away. Weeds, stubble and cornstalks
should be plowed under instead of
being burned as is so frequently done.
Crops of rye or preferably legumes
should be grown and turned under to
increase the organic content and at
the same time augument the scanty
supply of nitrogen in these soils. A
crop of cow peas or clover is not
wasted if plowed under. The in
creased yield of the succeeding crops
may more than pay for it. The turn
ing under of cover crops will help in
crease the organic matter, but this
is too slow on land that is washing.
One or two entire crops in a four
year rotation should be plow r ed under
for a time at least.
All forms of organic matter are
aboyt equally important to the soil
from a physical standpoint, yet le
gumes are much more valuable be
cause of the large amount of nitro
gen w’hich they contain. A ton of
cornstalks contains sixteen pounds
of nitrogen, oat straw twelve, wheat
straw ten, clover forty and cowpeas
forty-three pounds. The soil being
deficient in nitrogen it would be
much better to turn under clover and
cow peas than other forms.—lndian
apolis News.
Growing Cabbage For the Family.
The man who finds it “cheaper to
buy vegetables than to raise them”
usually does without. The garden
foT family use is one of the economies
as well as luxuries of farm life which
we cannot afford to dispense with,
and a little work with the team read
ily fixes things so that a woman of
average health will find it easier and
more healthful to do the rest than to
do the extra baking which lack of
variety in vegetables requires.
Cabbage is considered an especially
hard vegetable to grow, “a woman’s
back being entirely unfitted for hoe
ing.” Granted, but it is not neces
sary to do any hard hoeing. She can
do all the hand work necessary and
gain strength by it. It will bring her
out into the fresh air, the communion
with birds qmd blossoms, the rest
from petty vexations of the kitchen.
She can’t care for a thousand or two
head for market; it is not her place
to try it, but she can do the hand
work in a patch large enough for
family use.
Select a plot in rectangular form,
planting in rows three feet or more
apart, and keep the soil light and
free from weeds until the plants get
too large to permit it by running a
one-horse cultivator between the
rows. A woman can easily follow be
hind, dislodging any dirt which may
have fallen upon a plant, and firming
the loose earth up about each hill.
Soil for cabbage can scarcely be
made too rich. Newly plowed soil
well fertilized with barnyard manure
or poultry droppings is excellent, and
not likely to be infested with club
root. Good garden soil, or any light
soil properly enriched, promises a
good return. Topdress before plow
ing. Fertilize additionally in the
hill, and as the summer advances the
weekly cleanings from the poultry
house may be worked in between the
rows to good advantage. This in
sures rapid growth, and plants in
this condition give the worms small
chance to find an entrance.—Ameri
can Cultivator.
To Keep Grapes Fresh and Whole.
Grapes may be kept fresh and
sound until Christmas and even for
several months longer by either of
the following methods:
First —Select round and perfect
bunches, carefully picking out any
that are unsound and being sure that
the grapes are perfectly dry. Handle
as little as possible and do not have
them too ripe. Place each bunch in
a small paper bag and tie it tightly,
to keep out the air. When all the
bunches have been disposed of, place
a layer in a small box in a dry, cool
room. If there are more bunches
than will make one layer, another
box must be used, as they must not
be packed one upon another. Ex
amine the bags every few days and
if there are any damp or soft places,
pick off the unsound fruit.
Second —Allow the grapes to hang
on vines as long as possible without
freezing. Gather them on a cool,
dry day, without touching the fruit,
handling it entirely by the stems.
ThisL is to avoid bruising it. In cut
ting-leave the stem as long as possi
ble. Pick over carefully, rejecting
all soft or imperfect bunches. Pack
on the same day they are gathered.
Provide large pasteboard boxes with
out a break, or new wooden cheese
boxes; which ever kind is used must
have tight-fitting covers. A supply
of dry cork dust will also be needed,
says the Agricultural Epitomist.
This dust may be purchased at al
most any drug store and is quite in
expensive. It is a non-conductor of
heat and resists moisture and is
therefore always in perfect condi
tion. Put a layer of the cork dust
in the box, then one layer of grapes,
another of the dust and so on, not
allowing the bunches to touch one an
other. Put on the box covers, tie
down securely and keep in a dry cool
storeroom or attic. Put up in this
way, they will keep in perfect con
dition for months.
Third —Gather perfect bunches,
from which a single grape has
dropped, observing all the precau
tions given above. Lay sheets of cot
ton on hanging shelves in a dry, cool
cellar. Wrap a bit of cotton about
each stem, securing it with thread
and lay the bunch on the cotton not
allowing one to touch another. Cov
er with another layer of cotton and
tuck the edges securely under the
edges of the first layer.
What Weeds Do.
Weeds injure the farmer chiefly in
two ways. First, by offending his
idea of the beautiful. This injury is
an important factor in the value of
the land, and, furthermore, it is one
that is felt by the whole community.
A farm with weeds is not only less
valuable itself, but it makes every
other farm in the community less
valuable. Second, by the crop loss.
This is the loss that receives the more
common estimate. The farm’s profits
are lessened in a number of ways, the
most iaymrtant of which are the fol-
soil of moisture.
The amount that must be
taken up by any plant
and exhaled out through
the leaves is enormous.
have shown that for most ac
tivated grasses from 300
pounds of water must actually
through the plants to produce a sin
gle pound of dry matter. In seasons
of drought, when there is scarcely
enough moisture to supply the culti
vated crops, it is easy to understand
the injury done by the presence of a
large number of additional weedy
plants. This is doubtless the most
important of the weed injuries, for it
must not be forgotten that the mois
ture in the soil is the all-important
thing. Ask the average farmer why
he cultivates his corn and he will say,
“to kill the weeds,” when, as a mat
ter of fact, it is, or should be, for the
purpose of conserving the moisture
in the soil. The weeds are killed
purely as an incidental matter. A
perfectly clean corn field needs culti
vating as well as a weedy one.
Weeds crowd the cultivated plants,
depriving them of light and space in
both soil and air. If corn or wheat
are planted too thickly they .cannot
develop properly, because the plants
do not get enough sunlight and the
roots do not have sufficient feeding
space. Similar results will be appar
ent if the extra plants are weeds.
Weeds rob the soil of food ele
ments required by other plants.
While there is usually more than
enough plant food for all plants in
almost every soil, the amount in a
readily available form is limited, and
the greater the number of plants
among which it is divided the slower
and less vigorous will be the growth
of all.
Weeds harbor injurious insects and
diseases. The overgrown fence rows
and ditches furnish most ideal places
for many of these troublesome ene
mies to live through the winter.
Weeds sometimes injure by killing
farm stock or by rendering their pro
ducts unsalable. Mountain laurel,
wild parsnip and a few other plants
found as weeds in certain localities
sometimes kill stock outright. Wild
onion, a very serious weed in some
places, often renders milk and its
products unsalable.
Weeds render certain products of
the farm unsalable. Weeds in hay
reduce its value, and the presence of
weed seeds in commercial farm and
garden seed not only reduces its
value, hut opens the way for intro
duction of a weed pest into anew lo
cality, from which it can, perhaps,
never be eradicated. —Vernon H. Da
vis, Assistant Professor of Horticul
ture. Ohio College.
A Revolutionary Machine.
A revolution in the sending and
receiving of telegraph messages is
gradually taking place throughout the
United States, owing to the telegraph
printing machines which are being
installed in the metropolitan offices of
the telegraph companies.
In sending, the messages are
“punched” or spelled out in the Morse
characters on an endless tape. The
tape is then fed into a sending ma
chine, where a wheel moves it along
and in the right direction. The holes
in the tape allow contacts to be made
which control the receiving mechan
ism. The receiving machine is some
what like an electrically controlled
typewriter. Electrical contracts made
through the holes in the tape cause
the proper type bars to be struck. So
fast is this automatic working that
the girl operators can receive and
send from 200 to 400 messages in
nine hours with one machine. The
machines work duplex, two messages
being sent at the same time. —Popu-
lar Mechanics.
The Joys of Youth.
A boy in the State School for De
pendent Children wrote his father
thus; “Dear Papa.—We children are
having a good time here now. Mr.
Sager broke his leg and can’t work.
We went on a picnic, and it rained,
and we all got wet. Many children
here are sick with mumps. Mr. Hig
gins fell off the wagon and broke his
rib, but he can work a little. The
man that is digging the deep well
whipped us boys with a buggy whip
because we threw sand in his ma
chine, and made black and blue
marks on us. Ernest cut his finger
badly. We are all very happy.”— Ar
gonaut.
Good English.
A French lady living in America
engaged a carpenter to do some work
for her at a stipulated price. She
was surprised later to find that he
charged more than the price agreed
upon. When she attempted to remon
strate with him, however, her English
failed her and she said:
“You are dearer to me now than
when we were first engaged.”—Suc
cess Magazine.
CONSTIPATION AND BILIOUSNESS.
Constipation sends poisonous matter
bounding through the body. Dull headache,
sour Stomach, Feted Breath, Bleared Eyes,
Loss of Energy and Appetite are the surest
signs of the affliction. Young’s Liver Pills
positively cure constipation. They awaken
the sluggish liver to better action, cleanse
the bowels, strengthen the weakened parts,
induce appetite and aid digestion. Price
25 cents from your dealer or direct from
the laboratory. Free sample by mail to any
address. J. M. Young, Jr., Waycross, Ga.
Hungry poets are not satisfied with
empty honors.
A Marvelous Eye Remedy.
Those who know what intense
pains come with some diseases of the
eye can hardly believe Mitchell’s Eye
Salve is able to do all that is claimed
for it, but a trial soon convinces one
of the extraordinary curative powers
of this little remedy. Sold all over
the United States. Price 25c.
Lots of men make good husbands
who can’t be good at anything else.
jl'o Drive Out Malaria and Build Uf
the System
Take the Old Standard GrovtTs Tast*-
lkss Chill Tonic. You know what yon
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui
nine and Iron in a tasteless form, and the
most effectual form. For grown people
and children. 50c. _
REVISED VERSION.
“George says that my beauty
him.”
heard that he said you
were efjjk. ;t° drive a man to
drink.”—Amusant.
There is more C’a'v.'b in this section of
the country than diseases put to
gether, and until the .years was sup
posed to be incurable, rA' , great many
years doctors pronounced it 'al disease
and prescribed local remedies, Iby con
stantly failing to cure with local ment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has p bven
Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Cos., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con
stitutional cure on the market. It is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon
ful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hun
dred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J.
Cheney & Cos., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Churches at White House.
In the past generation, or since
the time of Grant, the Methodists and
the Presbyterians have been far more
represented than all other denomina
tions put together in the White House
and among presidential candidates.
Grant, Hayes and McKinley were
credited to the Methodists, and Til
den, Blaine, Cleveland, Harrison and
Bryan to the Presbyterians. Greeley
was a Universalist, although various
kinds of eccentric, ethical and re
ligious ideas were attributed to him;
Garfield was of the Campbellites and
once had been a preacher among
them; Arthur had Episcopalian affilia
tions and Roosevelt is of the Dutch
Reformed stock.—Philadelphia Bulle
tin.
ENNUI.
Nothing’s like it used to be,
Nothing looks so good to me;
Joys are quicker in their waning.
Shows -are not so entertaining;
Girls are not so pretty, nearly,
Sweethearts love not half so dearly.
Fainter odors have the roses,
And the redbird’s song discloses
Loss of melody and gladness.
Spring brings not its former madness;
Summer used to be delightful —
Now it’s simply hot and •frightful;
Wine, that once brought joy and
laughter,
Gives naught hut —the morning after,
Poetizing once was fun —
Now, I’m thankful When I’m done.
Nothing’s like it used to be—
Whom to blame —the world or me?
—Cleveland Leader.
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sneers the Chicago Record-Herald,
are always willing to scatter that
little as far as they can.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for 0 ildren
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion. allavs pain. cures wind colic, 25c a bottle
At a factory at Longmont, Cal., 40. ■
000 cans are filled with peas every
day. The work is done by machinery
Hicks’ Capudine Cures Nervousness,
Whether tired out, worried, overworked, or
what not. It refreshes the brain and
nerves. It’s Liquid and pleasant to take.
10c., 25c., and 50c., at drug stores.
UNCLE SAM IN LAND BUSINESS.
His Lucky Bargain in the Alaska
Purchase.
An obscure paragraph in a recent
government report throws an inter
esting light on Uncle Sam’s pecu\w
aptness as a real estate agent invest
ing his own funds. The old gentle
man has made some of the biggest
real estate deals in history, an!
though none of these quite equals
the entirely abnormal, if not apoch
ryphal, purchase of Manhattan Is
land for $24, yet he has driven 3ome
very thrifty bargains.
The paragraph referred to says
that $7,000,000 worth of precious
metals is taken every year out of Sc
ward Peninsula, Alaska. Seward
Peninsula is only one of the many
profitable mining districts of tlm
northern territory, and the spe<ia.
significance of the figures lies in tlr
fact that they represent the en '•
original cost of the Alaskan Territory
That is to say, one district alone re
turns every year the cost price
the whole fabulously rich count-’’,
whose resources have hardly be-n
scratched as yet. Incidentally, it ■’
a pretty coincidence that Seward P? n
insula should make this showing,
since Secretary Seward, who negotia
ed the purchase of Alaska from P '
sia forty years ago, was both civ.
ctsed and ridiculed for paying r
“enormous sum” of $7,200,000 for a
of Alaska. —Kansas City Journal.
WANTED TO KNOW
The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food.
It doesn’t matter so much
you hear about a thing, it’s what ; ol j
know that counts. And coJ '
knowledge is most likely to cc
from personal experience.
“About a year ago,” writes a N
man, “I was bothered by indigestio •
especially during the forenoon,
tried several remedies without a
permanent improvement. ,
“My breakfast usually consist?
oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, co ‘ e
and some fruit.
“Hearing so much about b *
Nuts, I concluded to give it a
and find out if all I had heard 0
was true. „ n( j
“So I began with Grape-Nuts
cream, two soft boiled eggs, toaS ’
cup of Postum and some L' ,: 3
fore the end of the first w *
rid of the acidity of the stomac
felt much relieved. a ;j
“By the end of the second wee
traces of indigestion had ’ ‘ 0
and I was in first rate health 0
more. Before beginning tlliS c
of diet i never had any ap: e ir[ y
lunch, but now I can enjoy a
-at noon time.” “There * a *
son.” battle
Name given by Postum Cos..
Creek, Mich. Read "The ‘
Wellville,” in pkgs. ne<r
Ever read the above letter.
one appears from time to tu^' itußia n
are genu Lie, true, and hill
interest.