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the old rail fence.
I*t others in their songs rehearse
The beauties they may see,
And build a monument in verse;
So that it fitting be.
But I will raise rnv voice to sing
A fact without pretence, ,
That much despised old-fashioned thing, •
The homely old rail fence.
What would our dreams of childhood be
VV ithout its zigzag path'
And there what tloweis we used to sae
Before the aftermath!
The fields are there; like grass ablaze
The fire weed flaunts from thence,
But almost gone from out our gaze
We find the old rail fence.
The rapid march of progress has
Erased the landmarks old;
It is to day a thing that was,
A story that is told
The .pruning knife of Time has cut
With energy intense,
With other childhood relics, out
The honored old rail fence.
It was the squirrel’s safe retreat:
The chipmunk’s chattering oft
Made us advance with hurrying feet
Where he was perched aloft.
There Nature stored her wealth away
And oft we carried thence
A thousand jewels in a day,
Found by the old rail fenca
Arbutus, mullein, golden rod,
Felt its projecting care,
And though with hands full home we trod,
We had a world to spare.
Life gives, I know, so much to-day
The past to recompense.
But with sweot memories laid away
I keep the old rail fence.
— America.
“MISSUS,”
BY KATE A. BRADLEY.
“I say. Missus, d’ye want onythin’
from the store? I’m goin' to town to git
th’ mare shod agin the plowin’ temorrer.”
“Missus’ - looked scornfully over the
washtub at the shifty, uneasy figure in
the doorway.
“Phemare! She’s gone with only one
»hoea good three months, an’ now she
must be shod agin the plowin’! But
thet’s only an excuse to git with yer low
cronies in town, an’ ye inought as well
take thet as anuther, fer ye will go, spite
of all thet I kin say. Yes,” she snapped
as an after-thought, “you kin bring me
a yard of eight cent < ottou —unbleached,
mind. yow git out, an’ spend the rest
o’ yer morntn’ loafin’ round some bar
room. ”
Mrs. Loud, or. assliu was more generally
called by her husband and few scattered
tieighbors, “Missus,’’watched him drive
slowly off down the road behind the
patient mare without taking her arms
Irom Le -mis.
“Loo . siiiftle screeturl”shemuttered;
“nuui.if but a nuisance eon y way. Ain’t
no more use than a last year’s bird’s nedt.
Whatever I kum to marryhim fefl don’t
see ’’
bh • wiped tire suds off either arm with
her thumb and forefinger.
“ am I ouU !’’ she called, opening the
door sharply, “ef you am t back fer yer
dim er vou don’t g;t enuy here, that’s
all.”
“lh i !” she excla und after a few
foments of steady rub-rubbing up and
uown oer the boa:d, the rhythmic mo
tion keeping time to “On .Jordan’s
fctormy banks 1 Stand,” which was run
ning through her mind “That lazy
mot .ai s eleau forgot tite pail o’ water I
told i:itn to git half an hour ago. Ef he
never kum back twouid be a ’tarnal
taarey ’
Sam did not turn lbs head as Missus
launched after him her parting threat,
but ugged slowly on. musing to him
self.
•' t Missus ’ud only give a feller a
chance! aitin the mare needs shooin’
bad; an' a man’s got to see how things
is in town sometimes- though I can’t
never make her see it. that way, som;-
how.
! “A yard o’ cight-cent cotto ,” he re
peated aloud, to fix it more firmly in his
unstab e memory. “Alt’ inebbe 1 kin
find some little thing to sort o’ pa :’fy
her. ef so be’t as how f can git the mare
shod a' ore noon. An' I declar’ for't ef
I did:. . furgit thet pail o’ water!”
A m.m, a stranger to Bain, was walk
ing along the road a little way ahead.
At this point he stopped and looked in
tently up and down the broad, straight
big..way, stretching in sight for mites
ieither wav.
“C id d iy. my man,” he said, as Sam
cams up to him; “cau you give me a
lift, a- we both seem to be going the
same way ?” -
* “Beckon I kin, if you ain’t tew hefty,”
returned sam, cheerfully, pulling up his
horse; “fur a spell, ’sfur’s I go.”
The man, from his clothes and man
ner evidently a gentleman, climbed to a
place beside Sam and listened silently to
that worthy’s garrulous conversation.
■ “Thet little red huildin’ on yer lef’,
stranger,” he was just saying, “was
whar I fust larned ter stick pins in the
school mender's cheer, and ter ’’Here
the man broke in suddenly'. “Tell me,
isn’t that a wagon on the road a mile or
two back?”
* Thet speck way back by Tim Slo
cumk place? It’s a wagin sure ’null,
but it’s a good five miles away. You
kin see it so plain ka.se thec.’s a hill
thar ”
“Isn't this branc h road we are just
coming to the road to Kiugslow?” the
st:anger asked.
“r-pect it be," drawled Sam, regard
ing him with slow surprise.
**jViy man," said his companion, hur
riedly, “if you will drive with all your
might to Kiugslow, I’ll give you twenty
doilars if you get me there in time.”
Sam made no reply.
“i twenty isn’t enough. T il make it
forty,” said the man, watching Sam’-
tacc anxiously.
“ h, ’tahi’i th • money,” said Sam a
last, leisurely, “though I’ll allow ’ti
some ;n ett-ement to it man who’s go: a
wife to hunt. ’ Taint thet—it’s why
you’re m seen a’mazin’ hurry ail of a
suddiiit. o, stranger. 1 don’t b’lceve I
kin s and the rac.u-t. 'I lie h->-s’s only got
one sttoe on. an’ 1 p:omi-ed .Missus ter
be It tint fe diunt r."
Do you se e that spe k bn k there on
the re id.” a-ked the man. quietly.
‘‘Well, that is a buggy containing
two constables They are after me for
—Be er mind what. Mov, my man, if
you get me to Kingdow docks in time
to catch a boat waiting there for me, be
fore those men catch us, I’ll give you
fifty dollars. If not ”
The alternative was expressed by a
drawn revolver, pointed threateningly at
Sam’s blanching face.
He turned the mare's head into Kings
lpw road. The minutes and the miles
sped, by in silence, the stranger watch
fa'l,’with his lingers closed on the revol
ver, Sam silenly considering his chances
for escape from the fate he .saw only too
plainly hanging over him; that of arrest,
atul perhaps imprisonment for helping a
felon escape the outstretched arm of jus
tice.
“And what would Missus say!” Sam
groaned.
They were close upon Kingslow when
he spoke.
“i.ook’ee hyar, mister,” he said,
“You’ve gone about fur ’null with this
’ere boss an’ wagin.” And he began to
draw in the nearly spent horse. There
was a short struggle, then a pistol re
port, and Sam fell backward into the
body of the wagon and lay motionless.
Slowly and gradually the conscious
ness of earthly things began to return to
Sam’s darkened mind. He made an ef
fort to turn over and look around him.
“Wha—whar be If” he queried
weakly.
“You’re two weeks out at sea, my
hearty, and bound for a six months’
cruise to China, on the trimmest craft
that sails the blue,” said a cheery voice
beside him.
“A friend o’ yourn shipped you,”
continued the voice, afterward proving
to belong to the kind-hearted second
mate, “just after you’d hurt yourself
foolin’ with your revolver. He said
he’d promised you to, ’cause you had a
sick relation or something in China, an’
seeing your name was on the books, an’
he furnishin’ plenty o’ money for your
nuss n’, we had to take you along as
we’d agreed. Now go to sleep, an’ you’ll
he well before you know it.”
Sam had plenty of time to think out
many knotty problems during the weary
weeks that followed.
“Mebbe I war a trifle shiftin’ an’ on
easy-like for sech a woman as Missus,”
he said suddenly aloud one day. “’F
ever 1 git back, I’m blamed ’f I don’t
start a new count thet’ll please her. But
won’t the boys open their eyes when they
hear about this!”
When the clock struck one on the day
Mi-sus watched Sam disappear down the
dusty road, she took up her dinner and
sat grimly down to her solitary meal.
That finished, true to her word, she
cleared away the things and went on
with her work.
Evening came, but brought no signs of
the absent sam. When bed-time ar
rived she rose, shut up the house and
went wrath uliy to bed.
She unlocked the door in the morning,
smiling to herself as she wondered where
Sam had spent the night after finding
the house securely fastened against him.
“He'll be along in plenty time for
breakfast, with another errant ter do in
town -shillless ci eetur!’’ she thought.
About noon a neighbor drove into the
yard behind the old white marc. They
had caught her, he said, straying alone
over c.ingslow downs, but Sam was no
where to be found. The few drops of
blood in the bottom of theautgon, how
ever, hinted at a grave expiration of his
mysterious disappearance, and when, a
week later, the unrecognizable body of a
man was discovered a short distance
from where the horse was found, no room
for doubt was left in any id, even in
the most reluctant one of Missus herself.
From the day that the fact of Sam’s
death became evident to her, she with
drew wholly from the society and sym
pathy of her neighbors, and shut herself
up alone with her tiresome and persis
tent rellections. That one half wish kept
ringing in her aching ears: “Ef he never
cum back; ef he never cum back!”
And it was wonderful how great the
number of things she found herself
obliged to do during the day that Sam,
she remembered now, had unasscrtiugly
done and left ready to her hand.
Day after day dragged themselves
slowly across the burning blue aud dis
appeared in weeks and months. The
afternoon sun lay aslant the kitchen
floor, where Missus sat knitting sad re
grets into her winter’s work.
It was easy to see that these months
had mellowed and softened her severe
nature. She was thinking—as she had
thought many times before, with, per
haps, a touch more of self-reproach now
in the thought. “Ef I hedn’t ha’ ben
so lia’sli with him mebbe things would
ha’gone better. A man can’t be tied to
pots an’ tubs an’ on’ one spot a fut
squat’, the way a woman kin, an’ stay
satisfied. I spose. Though I never
thought on’t thet way then. Ef he could
only kum back now, he pi find things
different I reckon. An’ he might go to
town now an’ then —in reason.”
Footsteps were heard crunching their
way up the walk to die kitchen door.
There was a moment's hestitation, then
some one knocked, and as Missus rose
uncertainly, filled with vague, undefined
expectation, the door was opened wide
and a man stood in the doorway.
“8am!” was all she said, as she
stretched out both trembling hands to
ward him. but there was a look of lov
ing jov in her foce such a; Sam had
never seen before in all the davs of his
married li e
“Missus,” he stammered, “I—l furgot
ter git the water —but I brur.g the eight
cent cotton !”—Detroit Free Dress.
Flowers in icy Prison.
A big bunch of “jacks” and tea ro-es
frozen into a cylinder of ice drew the
eye of many a Broadway rounder to a
sunny window on the upper rialto.
Iloses and ice are two good things sel
dom seen in immediate conjunction.
The symmetrical icc block was about
e ghteen by tea in lies and round as a
mathematician could have wished. It
had evidently be, n in a mold which in
.urn had been in a patent refrigerator,
aid tue perfe tion oi th process was
such that the flowers immersed in the
mold full of water hud been frozen solid
before they 7 had a chance to wilt. Along
the delicate green of the.stems the ice
ne clless formed a beautiful fringe, each
petal had a waxy immobility, and the
hearts of the buds looked as solid as
marble. N>c York Work!.
When you come right down to the
facts in the cas ■. it’s the loose-fitting
straw hat that shows which way the wind
blows!— De r if . e o.
' ANCIENT ART OE DYEING.
AN INDUSTRY PRACTICED SINCE
THE DAWN OE CIVILIZATION.
How Science Has Revolutionized
the Business of Coloring Fabrics
—15,000 Chromatic Shades.
The art of dyeing has always been a
mystery, and the fact that it is less a
mystery now than it was in former ages
is... due to the fact that the scientific
analyst is be oming an important per
son, from whom it is almost impiossible
to withhold the secret of compounds.
It is one of the oldest of arts. 'The Hin
dus were skilful in the art, according to
the standard of skill recognized in the
earlier years of the historic period : and
the Jews, who probably learned the
mystery from the Hindus, could dye a
coat of many colors. But among the
Western ana Western Oriental nations
the Jews were for a long period the only
people in possession of the secret. They
practised the art exclusively through the
earlier and declining years of the Byzan
tine Empire, and from the time of ITiny
to the thirteenth century there is no
record of dyers who were not Jews.
This people had nearly all taken to the
art of coloring fabrics, and made it their
exclusive calling. A traveler who ven
tured to Jerusalem in the year 1100
found only 200 Jews in the ancient
capital of .Judea, and they were all en
gaged in dyeing wool. This possibly
was the cause of the slow progress of the
art among all the Western nations.
But so long as the art of dyeing re
mained a secret it is believed to have
been a very expensive art, and that only
persons of high rank among the ancients,
and during the earlier centuries of the
Christian era, could afford to disport
themselves in gay colors, or in colors that
were then thought gay, but which would
now be thought dull and faded. In the
earlier years of old Ireland color became
even a sign of rank, and its use was regu
lated by law. Only the king could wear
seven colors, the full number of colors
that the rainbow was then supposed to
present; and from the king the privilege
was graded down to the common people,
who may be believed to have appeared in
very sober habiliments.
This is the age of color; and in noth
ing else during the last thirty years has
science made such a forcible impression
on the usages of domestic life as it has
made through its contributions to the re
sources of the dyer. The very flowers
and fruits, though still beautiful and at
tractive on account of their odor and
flavor, have lost the transcending supe
rority in tints for which they were once
noted, and must consent to become only
common contributors to an ocean of
color, where every wave is a translucent
marvel. According to M. Chevreul, the
resources of the dyer now cover 15,000
chromatic shades.
This sudden advance in the art of dye
ing has been due to discoveries in chem
istry. Through all the many centuries
of history the world knew only of nat
ural dyes, aud down to the beginning of
the present century, or rather till past
the middle of this century, It still busied
itself with the discovery of new natural
agents. It had found indigo, cochineal,
logwood, madder, quercitron bark, su
mach, Brazil wood, and other vegetable
or wood dyes, and it learned by various
means to be more or less successful, by
the use of chemicals, in a process technic
ally known as mordanting, in making
permanent the colors produced by these
agents. But it had not learned to distil
color from the elements. It could reach
only the ]j*uudaries of an emjrire that
was not yet quite won. Finally, the
chemist Unverdarben discovered aniline,
a purely chemical agent, the distillation
from coal tar. The discovery opened the
way for an industrial revolution, which
is perhaps even yet only in the infancy
of its movement. This happened in
1820. But the utility of the discovery
was not known until many years later.
It was not until the year 18.>8 that the
tint known as Perkins’s purple, a pro
duct of aniline, followed soon afterward
by aniline red or Magenta became
known. Then the revolution was fairly
inaugurated, and since this latter date
the advance has been rapid. All that is
most brilliant in color is credited to this
new chemical agent.
But the body of the art remains un
changed. What are technically known
as the wood dyes have more substance
and permanency than the aniline dyes.
Indigo still forms the basis for blue.
The scarlet on the coats of the British
soldiery, warranted not to run, is mainly
produced from cochineal; madder is the
basis for crimson red and Turkey red,
and yellow is produced by fustic,
quercitron bark, or its concentrated ex
tract called flavine, and from Avignon
or Persian berries. The mordants remain
also unchanged. Chief among them is
the oxide of tin, called tin spirits by the
trade. This fixes the scarlet colors
founded upon cochineal; but alum is
used as a mordaut for crimson red, and
cherry red is produced with a tin mor
dant from ammoniacal cochineal. Turkey
red is produced from madder on an
aluminous basis. Thus ran the formula
in the old art of dyeing, and thus it runs
still. Aniline is rather a re-enforcement
than ah independent agent. Prussian
blue, however, is purely a chemical pro
duct, and its disco ve.y antedated the
discovery of aniiine colors.
But after the production of the simple
or primary colors comes the production
of the infinite variety of tints that go to
make up the total used in the industrial
arts. In this work the process of the
dyer differs from the process of the
painter rather in the means of execution
than in the principles on which he works.
Poes the dyer wish to produce a green
fabric? He may mix indigo (blue) with
fustic or quercitron bark (yellow), hand
ling at the same time the mordants in
accordance with the teachings of the
best experience, and the result will be
the desired color. I >ocs lie want orange ?
The dyes that produce yellow and red
will give him an orange fibre, and by the
same process of combination he may have
purple, violet, mauve, gray, drab, black,
or any one of M. C fievreul’s 15,000 chro
matic tints. But he should be a man
with a trained eye, and a person who is
color blind will hardly make a dyer.
Dyeing is one of our most important
industries, employing in New York alone
nearly 5050 men, at wages averaging
about $lB a week. It is an operation
that must be timed to a nicety, as the
best results may be lost even at the
moment of fruition. Then, again, no
; man can ever become a good dyer, no
matter what the length of his training,
who is in any way defective in his sense
of color.
Other material may be made to receive
coloring matter in a manner to change
its appearance as completely as the
appearance of these fabrics is changed.
The endolith c process in the treatment
of marble furnishes an instance. Marbles
subjected to this processareascompletely
dyed when it is thought worth while to
change the entire substance, as a skein
of silk, and made to imitate perfectly
the product of any ancient or modern
quarry, or to absorb pictures.— New York
Sun.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Leonite is the last smokeless explosive,
and its inventor describes it as meeting
all the requirements.
Sicily’s sulphur is estimated at about
30,000,1)00,000 tons, from which the
world draws 400,000 tons yearly.
A six-ton cab, carrying an ele trie bat
tery strong enough to run it forty miles,
recently made a satisfactory trip through
London.
Two substitutes foj the high priced
gum arabic—one from flax-seed and the
other from starch—are expected to serve
all purposes for which the genuine gum
is used.
The last French rifle, as described, has
a ball so small that a soldier can carry
220 rounds, shoots with a new smokeless
powder, and its bullet pierces a brick
wall eight inches thick at 500 yards.
The largest iron casting ever attempted
in America was recently made at l.ethle
hem, Penn. It was the base for the steel
compressor to be used in the gun steel
works, and 124 tons of molten metal
were used. It will be some weeks before
the huge casting will be cool enough to
examine.
Crooke’s radiometer, a remarkable lit
tle instrument in which tiny vanes are
rotated by the action of light, is being
used by French photographers for timing
exposures, an equal number of revolu
tions of the vanes corresponding to the
proper time, whatever be the degree of
brightness of the light.
Among the policy holders of a Ger
man Life Insurance Company, the deacb
rate of medical men in 1887 was 11.5 c
per cent, above the total average. This
was due to diseases of the respiratory
organs, consumption, and infectious dis
eases. There was only one case of posl
mortem poisoning out of 1052 deaths.
The output of the Birmingham (Eng
land) pin mills is 30,000,000 a day. Othei
factories in that country have a capacity
of 17,000,000 pins per day. France turn!
out about 20,000,000 a day and Holland
and Germany 10,000,000 each. The pic
machines cut the wire to pin size, head,
point, polish, sort and stick them in thf
papers.
In a work on meteorology Camille
Flammarion declares the atmosphere tc
be a huge machine, on which every liv
ing thing is dependent. There are in
this machine neither wheel work, pistons
nor cogs, nevertheless it does the work
of several millions of horses, and this
work has for its end and effect the pres
ervation of life.
According to the English Mechanic, a
very good way to anneal a small piece ol
tool steel is to heat it up in a forge as
slowly as possible, and then take two
lire-boards and lay the hot steel between
them and screw them up in a vise. As
the steel is hot it sinks into the pieces ol
wood, and is firmly imbedded in an
almost air-tight charcoal bed, and when
taken out cold will be found to be nice
and soft. To repeat this will make it as
soft as could be wished.
A process has been perfected and
patented for drawing upon wood by
means of a fine metallic point kept red
hot, so that the lines are actually burned
iuto the surface. A powerful oxvhy
drogen, or rather flame, keeps the point
always at a high temperature, and yet
the apparatus is so compact that it may
be used with the ease and freedom of a
pencil. It is furthermore, so adjusted
as to produce at will all shades of
brown, from the lightest shade to that
verging on black.
A Historic Fish Pond.
There is rather an interesting bit oi
history connected with the famous pond
at Fontainebleau, near Paris, whi h has
just been cleared of all its carp, perch
and gudgeon. The pond abounded
chiefly in fine carp, and when Prince
Frederick Charles, of Prussia, had his
headquarters in the historic chateau dur
ing the occupation of France by the
Germans, in 1870, he gave orders that a
wholesale fishing expedition should take
place. Nets and tackle were accord
ingly requisitioned by the troops, but
none could be found. The local anglers
had either hidden or destroyed their
piscatorial paraphernalia, and the “lied
Prince” could consequently taste but
very few of the carp for which he
longed. Now, however, the poird has
been cleared, as mud has been accumu
lating in it for the space of twenty-five
years, a state of affairs which caused a
sort of epidemic among the fish in 1887,
when the surface of the water was cov
ered with hundreds of dead carp. The
fish drawn out of the pond in nets have
been placed temporarily in the smaller
ponds around the chateau. London
Telegraph.
Foreign Ministers at Washington.
Foreign ministers demand the most
scrupulous observance of the stereotyped
ruies of etiquette, and watch with scru
tiny every attention and inattention to
them. A failure to seat a member of the
corps or his wife in the precise seat be
longing to his or her rank at the table,
would, probably, destroy the pleasure of
the occasion. Not one inch further from
the host or hostess than belonged to the
country they represent would be toler
ated. The placing of the diplomats in
line to he presented on occasions of cere
mony must be done in strict observance
of rank and importance of each. Hence,
persons dining or entertaining these dig
nitaries must first post themselves accu
rately on the status of every kingdom,
province and principality, if they expect
to give their guests pleasure and to avoid
a scene, such as has characterized occa
sions where -‘second class South
America” has occupied positions a few
paces above “first class Europe,” or
where little European provinces have
been given more conspicuous places than
greater kingdoms.— American Magazine.
About Cotton.
The cotton crop biing somewhat
backward this year, plowing may and
should be continued longer than usual.
As the main object of cultivation during
July was to encourage plant growth, or
development of weed, so the object is
now to promote the growth and maturity
of the squares and young bolls. The
plants are now, or should be, covered
with abundant foliage, and the process of
assimilation of the sap and the develop
ment of the embryo fruit will go on ra
pidly without much perceptible increase
in the size of the plants. The same vege
tative functions, however, are in full
force, being only partially diverted from
the formation of leaves and branches to
the perfection of the fruit, and the same
necessity exists, though in less degree,
for keeping the surface soil in an open
and porous condition. Cultivation should
now, as a rule, be limited to one furrow
of a wide plow or cultivator, run in each
middle. In spite of all efforts to culti
vate on a level, the stalks are now stand
ing on the comb more or le3s elevated
ridge or bed, aud examination will show
that this bed is full of the rootlets of the
plants. It is not good practice to plunge
a plow into the sides of the bed and tear
it away to the depth of three or four
inches, as will be the case where two
furrows are put in. It is best to run but
one furrow, right in the middle, having
the implement so set or adjusted that it
will cut to a uniform depth from side to
side of not greater than one inch. Deep
plowing must be avoided now if not
heretofore. It will be better not to plow
the crops any more than to tear and mu
tilate the roots at this critical period. No
point has been more definitely settled, by
scientific experimenters as well as profes
sional practical farmers, than that deep
plowing in the later stages of the growth
of any annual plant, is irretrievably ruin
ous. It will inevitably cause the plant
to throw off the greater part of its forms
and young fruit and to start into vigor
ous but belated growth. Taking the
average of the middle line of the cotton
belt, it may be assumed that all forms or
squares that make their first appearance
after the middle of August will be too
late to mature into perfect bolls before a
killing frost occurs; therefore all further
increase in the size of the plants and the
number of new squares after that date
involves a useless waste of energy and
should not be encouraged.— Atlanta , Oa.,
Southern Cultivator.
Dog-Wolves.
Ensign Howard, of the Navy, gives a
new proof of the crossing of wolves and
dogs. He says, in his account of Arctic
Alaska, that the natives keep all young
wolves that they catch and train them as
dogs for teams. Dogs and wolves are
reared together. The dogs, he says, are
more than half wolf, and have the char
acteristics of those animals. They are
without affection, but obey their master
through tear. One dog in each team
makes himself master and overseer. If
any dog shirks he will punish him. If
he cannot get at him while in harness, he
will not forget to give him chastisement
when released at night. They are capa
ble of enormous endurance, like wild
vrolves, and can fast anu work a long
while.
Russia imports annually 860,000,000
pounds of cotton, chiefly from America
and Egypt, but it is believed that recent
acquisitions of the Czar in Central Asia
are excellently adapted for cotton raising.
Some has already been grown at Khiva
and Bokhara, and an extensive system of
irrigation is being created to develop
other land for this crop.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
during the past twenty-three years, has
given more than $3,000,000 to church ex
tension and aided over 6,000 churches.
Don’t Kill the Old Hens.
When hens are shedding feathers they often
•top laying and grow fat. Most people consider
fat a sign of health. The fattening of moult
ing hens, however, as with some people, pro
dooes debility rather than health. Many of
the worst cases of roup are contracted, while
the hens are moulting.
The food of moulting hens, if largely vege
table is fat-forming,and not lequired for grow
ing feathers. Therefore corn-fed hens get very
fat. They need more nitrogen and phosphate
elements in their food when moulting,which if
not supplied they stop laying, because the
growing feathers have used all, and left no ni
trogenous matter to form eggs. At this season,
Wiling old hens and relying on young pullets is
a great mistake, where people have a few hens
and late pullets. Because, if properly fed, the
hens will have their new plumage and lay well
all winter; while the pullets unless specially
treated may not commence laying until spring,
when high prices for eggs have fallen one-half.
Again an old hen’s egg will hatch a more vig
orous chickens than a pullet’s egg.
John It. Jones, Suffleld, Conn., a breeder of
prize winning mottled Javas, says:
"I find Sheridan's Condition Powder,fed once
daily in the food, very valuable for moulting
hens. I have used it two years for exhibition
birds. It assists in growing new feathers,
makes the combs a bright red, and gives a rich
gloss to the plumage. It will also make hens
lay and the eggs hatch weiL I find when the
other egg-foods are used in quantities to torce
egg production the eggs do not hatch.”
The above is the experience of many people
in using Sheridan’s Powder. If fed to young
pullets now as directed, they will begin to lay
before six months old. Commence at once
using Sheridan's Powder. It helps old hens
through moulting, and gets the pullets in lay
ing trim before the season of high prices. Eggs
will sell very high this fall and winter. There
fore be ready to set all you can.
I. S. Johnson & Co., 22 Cus'.< m House St.. Bos
ton, Mass..sole makers of Sheridan's Condition
Powder to make hens lay, will send to any ad
dress for one two cent stamp,testimonials with
full information how to make a few hens pay
well; also how to obtain Sheridan's powder.
The amount on deposit in ilie savings hanks
of the United States is $1,235,347,371.
Why Don’t
Ton take Hood’s Sarsaparilla if you have impure
blood, have lo3t your appetite, have that tired feel
ing or are troubled by sick headache, dyspepsia or
biliousness. It has accomplished wonders for thou
sands of afflicted people, and, if given a fair trial, is
reasonably certain to do you good.
"I have been troubled a great deal with headache,
had no appetite, no strength, and felt as mean as
anyone could and lie about my work. Since taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla I have not had the heada: he,
my food has relished and seemed to do me good,
and I have felt myself growing stronger every
day.’’—M. A Steinman, 19 Grand Avenue, Grand
Rapids, Mich
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Bold by all druggists. $1: six for Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
I OO Doses On© Dollar
Amm to *8 a day. Samples worth *1.50, FHM
1% Lines not under the horse’s feet. Writ#
liar Hrews’er Saltty Hein Holder Co., Holly, Mlotu
Fine Harness Oil.
The following is the government re
ceipe for harness oil: One gallon neats
foot oil, two pounds bay berry tallow,
two pounds beeswax. Put the above in
a pan over a moderate fire. When thor
oughly dissolved, add two quarts of cas
tor oil; then while on the fire stir in one
ounce of lamp-black. Mix well, and
strain through a fine cloth to remove
sediment; let it cool and keep it in tin
cans.
The Best Test of Success Is Succe*si.
Tested and proved by over twenty-five years'
use in all parts of the world, allcock’s Por
ous Plastjlrs have the indorsement of the
highest medical and chemical auihorities.and
millions of grateful patients who have been
cured of distressing ailments voluntarily tes
tify to their mer.ts.
Allcock’s Porous Piasters are purely
vegetable. They are mild but effective, sure
and quick in their action, and absolutely
harmless.
Beware of imitations,and do not be deceived
by misrepresentation.
Ask tor Allcock’s, and let no explanation
or solicitation induce jou to accept a sub
stitute.
Don’t go to any fair that will tolerate insti
tutions you would not separately patronize.
The Longest Word in the Dicrionary
Is incompetent to communicate the inexpress
ible satisfaction and incomprehensible conse
quences resulting from a judicious adminis
tration of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, a
preparation designed especially for the speedy
relief and permanent cure of all Female
Weaknesses, Nervousness, and diseases pecu
liar to the fem le sex. The only remedy for
woman’s peculiar ills, sold by druggists,under
a positive guarantee to give satisfaction. See
guarantee on wrapper of b ittle. '1 his guaran
tee has been faithfully carried out for many
years by the proprietors.
The Hebrews in New York city have doubled
in number since 1880.
Conventional “ Monon ” Resolutions.
Whereas, The M non Route (L. N. A. & C.
Ry Co.)desires to make it known to the world
at large that it forms the double connecting
link of Pullman tourist travel between the
winter cities of Florida a d the summer re
sorts of the Northwest; and
Whereas, Its “rapid transit” system is un
surjpa-sed, its elegant Pullman Buffet Sleeper
and Chair car service between Chicago and
Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati un
equalled; and
Whereas, Its rates are as low as the lowest
then be it
Resolved, That in the event of starting on a
trip it is good policy to con-ult with K. O. Mc-
Cormick, Gen’l Pass. Agent Monon Route, 185
Dearborn St., Chicago, for full particulars. (In
any event send for a Tourist Guide, enclose 4c.
postage.)
The present crop prospects indicate that
there will be few small potatoes this year.
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