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FABLE.
Prom the French.
A plowshare that long had idle lain.
Tarnished with rust's corroding stain,
Seeing bis brother pass that way.
All raidant from work at close of day.
Addressed him thus: "My brother, why
More brilliant and polished art thou than
1?
Our substance, is it not one in name?
Were we not forged bv hands the same?"
His brother replied in proudest tone:
"*I am what I am through work alone!"
?William West.
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| WINNING THE CAPTAIN. jj
1 i
"Women aboard ship," said the i
bo'sun of the British Queen, " is like
cats in a conservatory. They won't j
keep still for a minute. If they ain't ;
,3 - -1-: ii.. _ u: _ > r... a
up uiui us&iug lut? shipper u? jaL it i
is to the next port, they has to be get- |
ting themselves in a muddle with the
ropes and spars, aud a-trying to turn
a businesslike ship into a sort of 'tar- ,
nal boudcir, or whatsoever they calls j
'em, as is decked out with ribbons and ;
fancy touches.
44\Ye 'ad a woman once aboard the
Liza Jane, as was crossiug from Car- j
diff to the Thames with steam coal, j
and back agen with anything as we
could get hold of. She was on the
> books as a passenger, and when she came
aboard at Gravesend with a red
parasol and a brown 'audbag and
asked the way to her room we knowed ;
on the instant that there was some- j
-thing going to happen,and we changed j
our lives just as if we'd bin born ageu j
an'couldn't help it. Why, afore we*was |
oflf the Nore blest if sbe 'adn't begun i
a-talking to the cook about the greasy
knives and teaspoons, till the poor j
feller was in such a flutter that ho
took, a two hours' turn a-polishing
every bit o' brass as might 'appen to
come under 'er eye. Aud then she
started on the men. The ropes was
all sticky and nasty, she ses, aiid so
was the bul'arks, as she couldn't lean
agenst without messin"er blouse. Aud
the men never said nothing, but just
went below and fished out their best
" /vrto orirl faaI? fa coworvinf* oiror +V.A i I
lUgO ftuu VV/VU vv K>VAU|/4U^ M ?> MJ v?w
coal dust and tar when they ought to
ha' been below and in their bunks.
"The fact is, we was all knocked
'ead-over-'eels and silly with fear and
admiration. For, no mistake, she was
ias trim a gal as ever set a parasorl. '
That is to'say, we was all struck 'ceptthe
skipper, and he wasn't that sort J
Theydidsayas'ewasaVoman'ater,and i 3
didn't see no use in 'em; and I dare i
say as that was so, for when she was i
ion deck a-airing her best things, and i
a-making us poor chaps wish we was '
good-looking enough to lay our hearts <
at her feet, 'e was a-slinking out of the
way and only came on deck when he
knewed she'd be below curling 'er 'air
o$ getting 'erself up for another at- ]
tack.
"Well, this state of things continued
for a couple of days, and then !
one morning she came right up to me
as I was a-splicing lashings and poked
me in the chest with 'er parasorl. j
\ " 'Sailor,' she ses. 'What's your '
name?' j
" 'Bill Sniggs, miss, if yer please,
I ses, with my knees a-shaking as if 1
they was sprung. I
> " 'Well, Bill,' she-ses, 'you look to
me to be the kindeat-'earted and the *
hoaestest man aboard, and I want you
to do me a favor as I can never
repay. Will you?'
~ " 'I will!' I answers,serious, just as *
when they take 'em for better or .
wuss. And when she smiled and j
showed 'er pretty teeth and 'er eyes
shone like melted stars, I thought I c
should ha* had to back on the deck- 1
*ouse for support. ?
" 4Now, sailor,' she ses, 'I'm a go- s
ing to take you into my confidence.
. First of all, I must tell you I'm in ?
Jove.' I was almost a-falling on my J
knees to tell 'er I knowed it. 'Now, c
can't you guess with whom? Why,of k
course, with your dear good skipper. T
But, oh, dear; he is so horridly back- 1
ward. He won't even look at me.
He knows I came here on purpose to "
be near him and to talk to him, and
see how he neglects me and keeps out
of my way! Oh, sailor, am I so s
[ji - horrid and ugly?' t
" 'I told 'er as well as I could as I
didn't think the old man need take on c
so 'cos she wasn't 'arf bad to look at. ci
On the contrary, the was about as
pretty a picter as you'd see in a i
month's cruise.
" 'Well, sailor,' she went on, 'what ?
do youjthink I've determined to do? I
believe he won't have auything to do
with me simply because I'm a woman,
and some silly people think a woman J
can do nothing but receive admiration.
Now, if I could show him that I am 1
brave and strong and can thiuk and
act for myself perhaps he would learn ^
to love me. So I want yon to help
me. I want yon to fall overboard, and T
let me jump after you.' 8
"It come on me a bit sudden like,
and I sorter reeled with astonishment.
But she took 'old of my 'and and
squeezed it till I thought I should
faint away in 'er arms.
" 'Now, don't look surprised,' she 1
ses; 'I'm an Awful good swimmer!
I've won lots of prizes at our baths, e
and I'll see that we throw a buoy or
two overboard, so that we sha'n't be
in danger. And when it's over, sailorFll
give you ?5. Now you can't say
no to me, can you?you dear, kind r
man?'
"No. I couldn't, and that was a t
fact. It's bad enough -when you've
got a (lovesick maden grasping and ?
a-leaning on yer; but -when it comes
to five quid in 'ard cash dangling be- ^
fore your nose it's too much.
"So we arranged it that next day, if
the sea was smooth and the weather x
fine,- I'd sprinkle a few life-buoys
over-board and accidentally tumble s
$mong 'em. Then, with a cry as 'ud
bring the skipper on deck, the gal f
would dive after me, and we'd go
through a sorter life-saving perfor- j
mance; and if that didn't make the
old man fall on 'er neck and ask to be .
forgiven?well,then we'd 'ave to throw 1
'im in next, and let 'er 'ave a try at !
saving'im." jl
i ' IL ?
- "Well, next day was fine, with just I
a bit of breeze as kept the barque
steady under all sail, and as we were c
only makiug about four knots an hour, ; ?
I reckoned this was the time for the
' final scene. So I whistled to the gal
to get ready, and then 1 got 'old
of all the buoys I could find i ?
and pitched 'em astern when nobody j
wasn't looking. Next I slipped off . ^
my boots and dropped quietly over ^
the side.
# I
4'When I looked up I seed the gal ]
a-looking as if she was a-wondering j
'ow cold it was. And then all of a t
sudden she give a yell, and dived in (
and come swimming toward me like t
a fish. ' g
"Lor, the commotion there was on ]
board when they heard that yell! s
First,up come the skipper from below, i
He looked astern and saw the girl in t
the water. Off went 'is coat, and ! <
X- . .
splash 'e came after 'er. Then I seed
the cook rush out of the galley. 'E
took in the situation, and the next
momen\ 'e was taking a header from
the stern. Two seaman as 'ad 'eard
the cry next tumbled over, and before
I 'ad time to 'oiler out and tell 'em it
was all right the other two seamen
and the boy was a bobbing about in
the water.
"By this time the gal 'ad got to me,
and we was each of us 'anging to a
buoy. Away in the wake of the barque
we could see seven 'eads a-bobbiug
about, and one by one they they came
up to us and collared 'old of a buoy,
to wait for what was going to 'appeu
next. And all the time that blamed
barque was stauding away under full
sail as if nothing 'ad 'appened.
"Suddenly the skipper looked round
and said something as didn't seem to
just tit the occasion.
" 'Who's left in charge of that barque?'
he yelled.
"Xobody answered, and then 'e
looked round agen and counted us all
as we was a bobbing about together.
'E counted us twice, and then he
swore agen.
" 'How dare you leave the ship
without my orders?' he shouted.
'Don't yon see that there isn't a man
on the barque, and that we're left here
like a flock of fools while she drifts j
on to the nearest lee-shore?'
" Somebody beguu to giggle, and
the skipper swore as 'e'd blow 'ii
brains out if 'e found out who it was.
The gal said it was 'er, aud sure
euough she was a-laughiug away as if
it was the best fun in the wo: Id, while
there was the crew of tho Liza Jane
a-bobbiug about in the water, while
our ship was a-sailiug steadily away
by 'erself, without a 'and to guide
'er from the cruel rocks. It was an
awful moment for me, as 'ad bin
the unwilling cause of it all, and it
seemed as if the utter uselessuess of
women was a fact, after all.
"But there was the gal, still smiling,
and when a tramp steamer picked
us up and carried us to Plymouth she
wanted the skipper to report us to the
authorities as a picnic party as 'ad
got out of our depth. But the old
man was wild with tho loss of 'is ship,
and 'e couldn't do nothing but stamp
about and threaten to kill us all.
"We did 'ear afterwards that the
Liza Jane 'ad stood out to sea and
went down in a squall somewhere in
the region of tiie tropics. And that's
1.1--1 SMO
bo liaci v no iui vt c uo 10; ow vj VJ
on 'er agaiD.
"And when the skipper got over it
and come to look npou thing* in the
right spirit he sorter veered 'round to
the conclusion that a comfortable 'ome
and a good-looking wife wasn't- such
a poor conclusion after all. No more
was tbe fifty pounds each of us got for
our share, either.
"LIFT YOUR SKIRT, PLEASE!"
Being the Annoying Experience or a Young
Woman and a Strange Man.
She had noticed that men would
dare at her. It wasn't exactly her
'ault; beauty iu a woman could hardly
Oe called a fault, but the open admi ation
of men annoyed her, just a bit.
The strong wind had blown on her
:heeks the hue of the red rose that is
nil blown, and men looked after her
vith a detaining expression that
;eemed to say, "Hi, there, miss, you
lave dropped a flower." Of course
ihe hadu't,but it seemed so natural toy
hink she had.
One man?and he was every inch a
nan, and a good many inches, too ?
ictnally turned and followed her.
rhere was no doubt that he was folowing
her. She loosened the grip on
he trailing skirt she was holding and
[uickened her pace. There was that
nan just behind her. She tnrned to
jo into Petticoat lane, when the man
ictnally accosted her.
"I beg your pardon, madam, but
rould you mind lifting your skirts
nst a little?"
Heavens, the man must be crazy!
'Via tn-pna/i *a litni nrnl Innlrinff nvftr.
'"V WU1 "VU fcV UAUJy ? Q ? - ?- |
tnder, arouud and through him, but
lot at him, said, "Sir!"
"Beg your pardon, but would you
aind lifting your skirt just a little,
he fact is "
"Officer, this man is annoying me,"
aid the young woman, turning to the
>ig policeman.
"Say,you're rather a decent-looking
hap to be a-speakin' to women you
lon't know," said the officer.
"She's got my hat and is carrying
t away."
"What!" gasped the young woman.
Tour hat! Officer, this man is sim>ly
crazy*"
"No, I'm not," said the man. "The
rind blew my hat off and into your
railing skirt. Now, ?Z you'll please
aise your skirt just "
She did, and out rolled the hat, but
chat was the use of explanations?
?his explains, however, why our young
iromen in Kansas City wear short
kirts.?Kansas City Star.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
No action of love was ever in vain.
A trust is no honor till the trustee
Lonors it.
The personal ideal is the only powirful
one.
He who takes the pains will take
he prizes.
Restitution is the right hand of
epentance.
The best things are not always in
he beaten tracks.
A man with an aim, will soon be a
nan with a name.
.Justice is not made for the law, but
he law for justice.
Idealizing the lowly, really helps to
ealize the lofty ideal.
Selfishness is the substance of sin
md sorrow its shadow.
Only toy boats are disturbed by
jvery wavelet of change.
The great man's greatest discovery
s the greatness in other men.
The heart's reservations are the Imitations
of the life's usefulness.
v - - J Ji i _ * i:/sr
mere is a goou. ueai ox uiuereuce
between giving up and giving out.
Advertising other people's faults, is
i kind of advertising that does not
jay.
The man who cannot put the steam
>n the brakes as well as on the drivers,
will have Jtrouble.?Ram's Horn.
A Feline Patron of Football.
Portsmouth has a novelty in the
ihape of a cat who patronizes footjail.
She is a supernumerary belonging
;o one of the messes at Whale Island,
he home of the naval gunnery school
>fficially known as her majesty's 6hip
Sxcellent, At Whale Island there is
i football ground,where the Excellent
earn display their prowess. On the
iccasion of a match there this cat is in
he habit of sedately marching to the
jround with her two-footed mess comjanions.
She sits in the front row of
ip?ctators while play is in progress,
md on the conclusion of the match
rots back to quarters.?Westminster
jazetta.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,
A new method for overcoming
lessness has been suggested by
fessor J. H. Baldwin. It consists in
trying to picture another person as
asleep. The more clearly the other
person's sleep is pictured, the stronger
becomes the subjective feeling of drowsiness.
Professor Xussbaum of Hanover
claims that the plastering of walls
seriously affects the acoustic properties
of a room. The admixture of sand
with plaster spoils the reverberation of
tones. The best results are obtained
by using pure gypsum that has been
heated to white heat.
The sponge which grows either on
rocks or directly upon sandy bottom
l ?. U - ^
is eucaseu 111 a jet umciv mouumuc.
When the sponge grows in caves or
under rocks away from the sun the
membrane is pale in color, but it
always is full of a thick milky fluid.
As the sponge is torn by hand or cut
from its roots the diver gives the membrane
a squeeze that bursts it, the
milk being scattered over the bottom.
Tho milk is vile smelling and produces
an eruption wherever it touches
the human flesh, but the operation of
scattering the milk is considered very
necessary and also a diver's duty,
since the fishers believe that it holds
the seed of the sponge.
A new textile plant is being experimented
with in Russia, says United
States Consul Atwell of Roubaix.
This is tho "Apocynum venetum," a
bush about six foet high yieldiug a
silken fibre. It grows in Europe,
Siberia, Asia Minor, North of India,
Manchuria and Japan, and it has long
been used by the Turcomans in the
j manufacture of cords and woven goods.
It has never been cultivated, and grows
best in land under water for part of
| the year. The fibre has great strength
and its cultivation would require no
care. In 1895, the Russian government
began to use it for bank-note
paper, and tho results were so excellent
that the plant has since been cultivated
at Poltava.
In England, as is well known, tho
resources of the miuing engineer are
often taxed to their utmost in the endeavor
to work coal and iron mines on
a paying basis. The latest instance
of this is afforded at the Hodbarrow
mines iu Cumberland, where it is proposed
to build a largo sea embankment,
to keep the sea out of the
workings of the mines. Ten years
ago a wall was built, costing more
than $600,000, but the proposed work
will iro much further out iu the water.
and will be 9750 yards (3.8 wiles) in
length, enclosing a largo tract of land,
under which the iron mines will be
worked. The ore here is a rich one,
and well worth the enormous outlay
of money required, as it has been
proved to exist in vast quantities.
The estimated cost of the new work is
$2,500,000.
Perhaps nothing so well illustrates
the accuracy of modern astronomy as
the recent investigations into the variation
cf latitude. Professor Charles
B. Doolittle, director of the Flower
observatory of the University of Fenn-.
sylvania, announces that the result of
a long series of individual determinations
shows that the latitude of Philadelphia
varies about forty feet annually.
That such a small change can
be recognized is certainly one of the
triumphs of science. The first suspicion
that there was a systematic variation
in latitude was aroused by certain
observations made at Berlin in
188-4-85. This result was subsequently
confirmed by invest:gations set on foot
in various parts of Europe, as well as
Honolulu and Cordova. Dr. S. C.
Chandler has showu that the matter
can be explained by supposing the
earth's axis to revolve in an exceedingly
small elipse about its mean position,
the period of revolution being
about 427 days. The greatest possible
change in the position of the pole
is not more than twenty yards, so that
it will be seen that no very startling
results are likely to follow the discov
erv. It is just possible, however,
that the matter may be developed into
something or importance in the case
of boundary lines which are fixed by
latitude determinations. Th9 most
striking fact is the emphasis on the
point that nothing known to astronomy
is fixed or immovable, not even
the position of the earth's axis from
year to year.
Truth and Fable Abontthe Camel.
There are many fables told about
the camel. Biding him is supposed
to make people seasick. He has the
reputation of being very vicious. He
is supposed to have several stomachs,
and to go for several weeks without
water as a matter of choice. I can
only say that in nearly four years of
experience I have never met with a
case of seasickness or heard of it;
neither have I known a really vicious
camel, except wli6n they are in a state
called by the Arabs "saim," which
ineaus "fasting," and corresponds to
the "rutting" periods in stags. As
regards the camel's stomach, I believe
it is identically the same as that of
any other ruminant, or that, at any
rate,there is no formation of stomachs
which would enable him to do without
water.
His abstinence is merely the result
of training, and it is a fallacy to suppose
that he is better without water
or can work as well. In the camel
corps we watered our camels every
second day in the summer, every
third day in the winter, giving them
their fill of water morning and evening
on those days, but if in the summer
we expected a long desert march
without water, we trained them beforehand
by only watering every third
day. Bnt I never found that this improved
their condition. The Arabs
keep their camels longer without
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slower, aud their animals are grazed
on soft food, containing a certain
amount of moisture. This lowers
their condition and makes them inferior
to a corn-fed camel when hard
work and long, fast journeys have to
be done.
We always found that if we put a
grass-fed Arab camel alongside of ours
it failed in work and endurance. If
corn-fed, it cried out for water as
soon and sooner than ours did. I say
"cried out," because a camel, when it
wants water, moans continually, and
there is no more painful sound at
night in the desert thau the ceaseless
moaning of thirsty camels.?Cornhill
Magazine.
An Anclo-Saxon.
Simson?Willie, where did you get
that black eye.
"It's all right, pop. I've only been
civilizing the boy next door."?TitBits.
The death rate from disease in the
Dutch navy in 1898 was only 3.55 per
1000. Thero wore four suicides.
Eighteen deaths were caused by
cholera.
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One on the Musician.
Here is a good story of Joachim,
the violinist, as told by himself. During
one of his visits to London some
years ago the great virtuoso had occasion
to enter a barber shop for a shave.
The barber's acquaintance with illustrious
musicians was limited, and Joachim
preserved his incognito.
"Hair cut, sir?" demanded the obsequious
assistant, eyeing Joachim's
flowing locks with an aif of proprietorship.
Joachim intimated his perfect satisfaction
with the existing length of his
hair; but the barber was not to be so
easily baffled.
"Trifle long at the back, sir," he suggested,
diplomatically.
Joachim explained that that was the
way he liked it, and the barber was
lilent for a little.
"Rather thin on top, air," was his
next remark, whereby he sought to
convey his own firm conviction that to
Baciflce thickness to length in the matter
of hair was altogether a poor policy;
but Joachim only glared at the
barber and tossed hisi lion mane. And
the barber went on shaving, but in a
moody, discontented kind of way.
Hope springs eternal In the human
breast, and the barber's breast was
no exception.
1 J^ciwO
"JUSI trim tut" i*uge? iui j uu, on ^
Half an Inch all round, sir?"
Joachim remained obdurate, and the
barber's stock oi patience and ingenuity
deserted him at the same time.
He rented his indignation in the most
scathing expression of contempt that
suggested itself to his tonsorial mind.
"Well, of course, if you want to look
like a German musician," he remarked,
"it's no good talking."
How News Will Travel.
"While on a visit to the south recently
I obtained a box of your Tetterine,
recommended for all skin diseases.
I dud it to be a marvelously
good thing. I wish to get some more,
and would like to establish an agency
here for its sale. Please let me know
the price of one dozen boxes. W. C.
McCall, Granvilie, Ohio." At druggists
or by mail for 50c. from J. T.
Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
The Uncertainty of Fishing
Fishing Is notoriously an uncertain
calling. The motions of fish are past
all understanding. One season they
will visit every part of these shores
and those of Labrador in their countless
shoal6. The next season certain
bays or even a Whole shore will be almost
deserted. The herring are especially
fickle, and there are places that
were once good herring grounds that
have scarcely seen a herring for many
years. All sorts of theories are advanced
to account for this, some of
them ridiculous enough. But the fact
remains, and when the fish fail to
turn up in numbers at the accustomed
place destitution follows. From a very
early period the Government has
granted relief In such cases. It is far
easier to start doling out public funds
than to stop, and it has now become
a regular affair. The effect of such
doles may readily be imagined. The
baser look for them, ana the mghermlnded
soon accept the philosophy
that they have as much right to get
a share as any one else.?New York
Bun.
All goods are alike to Putnam Fadeless
DT*8,as they color all fibers at one boiling.
Sold by all druggists.
Found the Perpetrators.
"Mamma." exclaimed JohnDy, tearing
into the house in wild excitement, "isntthis
Indian summer?"
"Yes. dear," replied hismother.
"Well, 1 saw the Indians that brought it!
They're over at the railroad depot right now."
Attention is called to the very useful
articles contained in the premium list of the
Continental Tobacco Co.'s advertisement
of their Star Plug Tobacco in another column
of this paper. It will pay to save the
"Star" tin tags and so take advantage of
the best list ever issued by the Star Tobacco.
Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
most obstiuate coughs ?Rev. D. Buchmueller,
Lexington, llo., February 24, 1891.
Condensed Milk.
"Yes," said little Amy's aur.t," "you shall
come to the country and sec me milk the
cows."
"What's that, auntie?"
"Why, that's how we get mi' i for our cof- ^
iee tot ijichm
"Oh!" said Amy, knowingly, "we do it with
a tin opener!"
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pR FARM AND GARDENJ
Roots Exhaust the Soil.
All kinds of root crops are very exhaustive
of soil fertility. They are
all great users of the available nitrogen
that the soil contains, and the
turnips also require mineral fertility
as well We once grew a patch of
turnips in a tield of corn, where,
owing to the wet soil, the corn was
puJled out by fowls, and it was too
lat3 to replant it. The turnips were
a good crop, but wheu we came to
harvesting the oat crop that grew on
the field the next year,there was such
marked inferiority of the crop where
the turnip crop had grown that every
passerby noticed it What the root
clop appears to take is the available
nitrogen. "Wherever it is grown a
clover crop should follow as soon as
possible, to restore the kind of fertility
that t! e roots have exhausted.
FotHBh for Clover.
A crop of clover requires a great
deal of potash, we think in round
numbers about 45 pounds to the tou
of hay, not counting that taken by
the roots which is returned to the soil
as they decay. Naturally potash
would be one of the best fertilizers to
buy to grow clover, if thsre were no
potash in the soil. But is hard to
find any soil in the eastern states
which has not a good supply of potash.
The trouble is that it is not in a form
that can be dissolved and taken up by
the plant, or at least dissolves but
slowly as the sand disintegrates. To
assist in this work, of which nature
does a little each year by decaying
vegetable matter, the farmer needs to
plow in more vegetable matter, green
crops of almost any kind, heavy sods,
clover beiug the best, and stable manure.
It has been estimated that a load
of stable manure liberates more potash
from the soil than it furnishes.
Use of Lime.
The Rhode Island experiment station,
in reporting the results on a ton
of lime per acre applied to their land
in 1S94, say that the average of the
crops for four years siDce that time,
upon ten different plots, show that
after paying for the time, $7.50 per
ton, there was a profit of $45.10 per
acre in the five years, due to the lime,
as by comparison with unlimed plots.
The ten plots were all treated with
phosphoric acid in different forms,
but supposed to be of equal value.
The best result was where an alumina
ph sphate, ignited, was used, $62.35
per acre, and the least, $27.T>9, was on
basic slag. The first year on corn
the stover was increased iu every case
and the grain in all but two cases.
In 1895 the corn was followed by oats
and on limed soil the straw increased
in eight cases out of ten and the grain
in six cases, and in those cases the
oats lodged badly. In the next three
years all were in grass, and the limed
plots showed best results in every
case, being more than double in seven
of the plots. With such testimony as
this we shall expect to see a return to
the old custom of liming land, especially
for grass.
Asparagns Seedlings.
I believe I have a good method of
preventing the growth of asparagus
seedlings. Remove from the bed all
roots of plants as soon as incipient
seed buds appear upon the stalks.
The seed is scattered from the pretty
red globes borne by the female plants.
Eradicate these female plants and allow
no seed to mature, and there will
be no seedlings.
It requires a longer t-me and a different
process to arrive at the same
result in an old bed where the roots
have spread throughout the soil The
roots of the seed-bearing or female
plants caunot be removed. without
seriously disturbing the other roots
and injuring their productive power.
In an old, well-established bed, cut
the seed stalks two inches below the
surface as soon as the seed buds appear.
The foliage and leaves of plants
are their lungs. Persistently deprive
them of these, and they become seriously
crippled or die. The repeated
cutting of asparagus seed stalks so
weakens their roots that in time they
cease to send up these stalks. I began
this process about three years
ago, in a bed at least thirty years old.
When I commenced, prolably half of
the plants in the bed were females.
Last year I found not more than three
or four. This season I hope and confidently
expect there will be none, as
they have entirely disappeared from a
clump apart from the bed.?S. F.
Wilcox in New England Homestead.
Cement Floor* in the Darn.
Where cement floors are to be constructed
in the barn the work should
be done before coid weather comes
on. The quality of cement to be used
in these floors will be decided largely
by the pur pose to which they are to
be put. If the floor is of a basement
cellar for the storage of roots and
other products, the cheap cement will
do as well as the more expensive
kind, but if the floor i? to be for the
use of the stock it must be of the best
cement, preferably the Portland cement.
The constant trampling of the
stock, especially of sharp-shodden
horses, will soon wear away the floor
if it is constructed of inferior material
and the whole floor will prove an expensive
and unsatisfactory affair.
But if the cement be of first quality
and the floor well laid, it will give
complete satisfaction and will la3t for
a generation. If the floor is to be
outside of the barn where it will be
exposed to all kinds of weather, to
frost and heat, it should be not less
than 14 to 16 inches in thickness, but
in the barn, where moderate protection
can be had from the heaving of
the ground, seven inches will prove
sufficient. The final coating of cement
need be only one inch in thickness,
except for' the horse stable,
where two inches of the final coat will
give better satisfaction.
As a foundation for tliis, crushed
stone is better thau pebbles, especially
if the floor is to be exposed to
hard usage. Cement floors should
not be used by stock till some weeks
after completion. In the horse stable
at least three weeks should elapse, and
then the floor should be at first well
covered with bedding. When the
floors are to be used for cattle, sprinkle
sand over the surface before the cement
has set, to make them rough aud
to prevent the cattle slipping on them.
Barren Orchards.
The barren orchard is a distressing
sight, and is, of course, profitless;and
barren orchards are increasing. Certainly
no sane man wishes to waste
land in growing trees that bring him I
no return. If that is true, the barren
orchard must usually be the result of
not knowing how to prevent the bar- ;
renuess, and it is. Orchards by the
thousands are neglected, and their ;
owners are utterly ignorant of the cer
tain consequences of suoh neglect
Out of 100 barren orchards taken just
as they come, in any part of the country,
5 per cent, of them will be found
never to have had good tillage or adequate
care in any respect If a farmer
plants corn and leaves it without
cultivation, he will hardly expect a
crop. If lie is foolish enough to do
so, he will be disappointed. If the
stock-raiser turns his herd or flock
into the fields and compels it to shift
for itsolf for months and years, he will
realize nothing from it. These are
recognized facts. But an orchard
that has never been cultivated and a
fruit tree that is never fed are upon
the plane of the uncultivated cornfield
and neglected herd or flock.
The farmer who will carefully cultivate
his orchard, at least during the
first few years of its life, who will
keep the ground supplied with humus,
who will annually prune under an intelligent
system, aud who will spray
every season, will have a live orchard,
unless he has planted it on an unfavorable
site, made a bad selection of
varieties, or has been unfortunate
euough to get trees that were propagated
from stock that was unfruitful.
There is, however, another cause of
barrenness which in time will work
out the result, and that is overbearing.
If we permit our orchards to enjoy
off-year vacations, the time will
come when the trees will be unproductive.
Why? Because in the bearing
year they overbear, and their vitality
is being sapped. If the fruit
were thinued io these bearing years,
we should get as much fruit and better
fruit and save the life of the trees,
?Agricultural Epitomist.
The Dairy Food.
Formerly the dairyman planted the
smallest amount of corn possible for
food for his cows, and depended on
grass and hay whenever possible.
Today we are going gradually more to
corn and less to hay. The reason is
that we can get more from an acre of
corn than we can from hay, both in
quantity and quality. Corn far outranks
hay for the dairyman's need if
it is properly fed. Whether we cut
the crop for the silo before the grain
is ready for harvesting, or simply
raise it for the gr ain and feed the
.?talks to the stock, we get more for
?*** 1 ft U/M? ftrtVA "if flio lon^
uul lauul ?
were used for raising hay.
Corn is a wonderful food plant, and
is undoubtedly the finest in the world.
The ignorance of feeding the grain too
freely to animals as an exclusive diet,
and causing sickness thereby, does
not in the least injure the real value
of corn as a food. It merely showe
that the true way to use the crop for
food was not understood. Wherever
corn does its best,oats and peas thrive
also, and these crops are intended by
nature to supplement that of corn.
They should be raised in a limited
way with corn, and fed in conjunction
with it. Then the dangers to cattle
so often threatened by injudicious
feeding of corn will be averted.
With au ample supply of corn and
some oats and peas we have a standard
of ration that cannot well be excelled.
These crops should be raised
so that the dairyman need buy as little
by-prcducts as possible. The
fashion has become in recent years to
recommend the feeding of by-products
of factories, such as linseed and cottonseed
meal, and to ignore the byproducts
of the farm. Undoubtedly
this fashion ka3 helped the large concerns
operating in these by-products,
and the prices for them have steadily
advanced under the demand, so that
today when a farmer pays a good
round price for a ton of any of these
by-products it is a question whether
it would not pay him better to buy a
ton of oats or corn from a neighboring
farmer at the market price.
We should learn to depend upon our
farm crops for feeding, so far as possible,
and with a little skill in management,
it is au easy matter not to
be forced to buy any food for the
stock. In this age of sciqnce and intelligent
farming, every dairyman
should know something of the relative
value of foods, and of the relative
cost of raising them in different sections
of the country, but by the way
that some neglect their opportunities
and drift with tlie tide, it wouia seem
as if the business of dairying was
crowded with many left overs from
othor professions, and took to this
business as a last resort. Sooner or
later such people will learn that it
fakes skill, industry and intelligence
to be a successful farmer or dairyman.
E. P. Smith in American Cultivator.
Poultry Notes.
It pays to raise broilers the year
round.
A quart of feed for a dozen hens is
plenty.
Eone meal is excellent for making
feathers.
Don't feed heavily today and starve
your fowls tomorrow.
Keep fat hens on ground oats # and
avoid corn and wheat.
Care and feed affect results roore
than the breed you keep.
When shedding their feathers fowls
need rich feed in nitrogen.
It is not difficult to feed a complete
ration. The addition of a simple article
to a hen's ration may make an excellent
layer of her.
Eoosts should be kerosened every
week to kill lice. The platforms
should be cleaned daily and covered
with dry earth or plaster.
Monlting hens intended for the
show must be well kept in order that
they get their feathers early and in
consequence be ready for early winter
laying.
It is said that the United States
uses more eggs than any other country
in the world, 10,000,000,000 being
required during the year, or 133 to
each inhabitant.
There is quite a difference between
tViA cT?en. fresh bone, rich in its juices
- ? w O ? '
as it comes from the butcher, and
the hard dry bono which has lain out
in the weather for weeks and months
until it has lost all its succulence.
Coin 2000 Years Old.
One of the prized curios of the
Philadelphia mint is a coin which
is 2000 years old, and which
was coined at the ancient mint
of that other Philadelphia of the
far East,' mentioned in the Bible. It
is still in good condition and the inscription
is perfectly legible. The
design on the face of, ?he coin bears a
striking resemblance to the Goddess
of Liberty of our own currency, and
underneath is the one word, "Demos,"
which means "the people." On the
other side is the figure of Diana, with
her bow arched, and the inscription,
"Diana, Friend of the Philadelphians."
When the coin was struck
off Philadelphia was the most important
city of Lydia. The prize was
picked up in Europe by Joseph Mickley,
a celebrated Philadelphia violinmaker
and numismatist of high repute,
who presented it to the mint?
Philadelphia Becord.
Laying a Cabla With Looomotlvt*
A locomotive cable foyer was employed
recently in relaying the telegraph
cable connnectlng Randall's and
Ward's Islands with the Bronx district
in New York \~.cy. The distance
across Bronx Kills was GOO feet and
the new cable weighed about three
tons. The method pursued was as
follows: The cable was stretched
across Randall's Island In the line of
crossing and 1,000 leet of l^r inch
rope was attached to it and led to a
powerful freight locomotive, stationed
on the track running across St Ann
avenue, and this rope was passed over
a snatch block, placed on the line.
When all was ready the locomotive
moved off and the cable was pulled
across in 11 minutes 33 seconds,
though the strain on the rope was
considerable as the cal)le pushed
through the muddy river bed.?Engineering
News.
The Jewels o! Menelck.
The Emperor Menelek continues his
orders, and has the ambition to form a
crown of incomparable jewels. Necklaces
for himself and his wife, bracelets
to adorn the wrists, the arms and
the ankles, rings in large quantity, diadems
with very beautiful diamonds,
have been selected from the richest
cording to?the latest eccentric fashion,
will receive sixteen diamonds specially
prepared to be inserted in false teeth.
As a detail of luxury not yet adopted
by Parisians, superb diamonded gaiters
will complete her adornment
Prosperity for 1900.
Indications everywhere point to great prosperity
for the coming year. This is an Invariable
sign of a healthy nature. The success of
a country, as well as the success of an
Individual, depends upon health. There can
be no health if the stomach Is weak. If you
have any stomach trouble try Hosteller's
Stomach Bitters which cures dyspepsia. Indigestion
and biliousness. It majs.es strong,
vigorous men and women.
Montreal's Big Church.
All the exterior of the great Sacre Coeur
Church, in Montmartre, has been completed,
and the scaffoldings which have marked the
hill for so many year* will be soon taken
down. So far the church has cost about
$<1,500,000 and as much more will be needed
before the decoration is finished.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any cose of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Chknby <fc Co., Toledo, O.
We, the understgned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable In all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligation
made by their firm.
West&'Ibuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toieao,
Ohio.
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Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hairs Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting
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Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Next Eclipse of the Son.
The next, total solar eclipse will be May 23.
1900. The duration of totality ranges from
one m nute thirty-six seconds in Portugal to j
one minute six seconds in northern Africa.
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