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IMEW YORK PRIZE POLICE STEED — * . . / ‘ . ' - ■ ■ LIEUTENANT CORBETT MOUNTE D ON THE FINEST POLICE HORSE IN THE CITY. 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 • •• - /' : . / V V it/ \ / ** I, *.tKilvv* • \. /• rl > ***?&*.*£ 5* " K+*~ Framework of Swing. 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 v— .. jv..;>• 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. _ [ ~ i i- ■ 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. One of E**entiaU of the happy homes of to-. I, v • fund of information as to the J, t n of promoting health and ln '‘H right living and knowledge ai best products. ° lhp 'wif, Products of actual excelled reasonable claims truthfully and which have attained to wfi?"' 11 acceptance through the approval !??' Well-Informed of the World not t viduals only, but of the ma:’.v J' the happy faculty of selecting and ing the best the world afford" ” iJ ' One of the products of that rl known component parts, an S' 1 remedy, approved by physicians and, mended by the Well-Informed ! t 7 World as a valuable and wholesome laxative is the well-known Syren a? and Elixir of Senna. To get its W t effects always buy the genuine, j>. I factured by the California Fig xnly, and for sale by all leading druggi^ TOWER'S FISH BRA®' Oi „£D GARMENTS , are cut on la™- pattens, designed ,to give the wearer ,me utmost ccmfori UGHT-DtiRABIE-CLEAH QUARANteed XAJERP3Q0 f * SUITS *3OO SUCKERS nu Mtr umnn sic*/or mi ns* AJTOWtt CftiOjTOauia y 'oWt iAW&A* CO dWPIt Taton-r . )QL A361F 1 ED A PVERT J SS^ENTs) CU REF It Pll.es U AMPLE TREATMENT of Red Cr^ O and Fistula Cure and book t>xylainine Pil sent free. REA CO..l>ept.B4.Minnrauolis.Mfe People who have little knowledge, 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.