Mynheer Joe. BY ST. QEORQE JWTHBORNE. CHAPTBB X. of a bub la .outlined Id ? feature* invisible, for a silboutte agalut the formed bj the moonlight Evidently the unknown bee of the climbing qualities of an alace ha baa clambered op the t of a wall teat feet in height, aided mtj a few running Tinea. rahear Joe abuta bla teeth togetb i a dkk, and then, turning part ly eiw, coolly watches the window, to breathe regularly, aa person might I remalna stationary for per a minute, and It is evident that la bending bis ear to listen Then the bead vanishes once takea advantage of the respite bis poaltion still more, as where be can concentrate Into giving a tremen Then be calmly awalta of events. long the bead resppesrs tl^ls time aeemlng to bare more than on previous occasions. the man stop there?his appear and gradually he bis way np over the sill of the dear. Ah, be la coming in, thla ivtted guest! he baa paaaed the Rubicon and upon the floor?Joe can just In the moonlight and at the time no tea another fact that fills with wonder. ? second head tea bobbed up beyond the line of the aflL Again be baa the dark silhouette agalast the light background. ~*Goafoek>nr thinks the traveler. ?54an any apartments about to be In Wflufl by an army? Has B1 Mahdl aant bla advance guard against Cairo, er are they Just common, every-day DBttbera bent on plunder!" Be la not the man to lose time In aaateaa epeculatlon. Precious seconds are passing, and something must be Cam at once ere more of bla unknown aaealee gain the room. fortunately this man Is accustomed to meeting emergencies, and thinks little of it under ordinary clr rtances. His plan of sction is almple and characteristic of his (The recumbent form upon the couch haooanes Imbued with sudden life. It VM If steel springs have been given to it. ? stone could not be shot from m catapult with greater rapidity than fia posers through space. There la hardly a sound to indicate Ma coming, and the crouching wretch apoo the floor cannot have sufficient warning to get out of the way. He hear* a rushing noise, and then some thing falls upon blm. Just as the eagle awuapa on its prey. ? brief struggle ensues, during which the unknown emits several cries ?f rage. The man at the window hardly knows what to do, as he can Mt tell the exact status of things In alde, but believing his assistance may he needed he starts to crawl over the ?t this Instant something comes J^alnet blm with crushing force. It la the body of his companion, whom iMynbeer Joe has bodily raised, with *11 the strength of his powerful arms, land tossed toward the opening. This conclusion proves too much for the fellow who Is In the act of clam bering in. He looses his hold, clutches at the body of his companion, and, locked in each other's arms, they go plunging down to the flags below. Joe hears the thud of their fall, and im mediately looks out of the window. He seea a writhing mass below. Then a man scrambles to bis feet and scut tles across the open, looklDg more like a skulking Jackal than aught else. . A groan from below. The second Yellow Is picking himself up now. He, too, moves off with a painful limp, as though his full has given him cause for suffering. Mynheer Joe laughs adoud in n mocking way. "Come again, my friends! The latch' atrlng Is always out!" he calls softly. , There is no answer. And the sec bud skulking form hides Itself, as did the first, among the shadows on the father side of the plasa. x The traveler still leans from bis .Window and ponders. There Is some thing about this business that putzles him, and causes bis brow to assume a serious, thoughtful expression. What did these men seek?his money or his life? The first thought Is, of course, that they were ordinary robbers. Cairo swarms with them In spite of military precaution; and there Is no more cun nlng thief In the world tbau lie of Kgypt?he cnu give his fellows all aver the globe points and beat them. A second Idea that has flashed into Joe'a mind le connected with the False Prophet. Kl Mahdl has emissaries In Cairo. Can It be tbat already the word baa been passed atnoug tliein to do him to death?blm, the sole foreign aurvlvor of the Kbartoom massacre? Kven this, though singular, seems to be near the truth, and yet Mynheer Joe baa a third Idea. He gropes after It la darkness, not being able to grasp the details and make a connected the ery of it "Well?" coiries In n mini volcc not ?tore than ftvr feet away from hi* Mn, canning Joe to turu bit head loo mediately. tie eeea a human head In the moon light, thrunt from nn adjoining wlu (low. It la Mr. Crimen who linn npo ken. Thea Joe rememhern the pecul iar clrcumstaneea of hia awakening. Gould It 1?e ponalhle that after all he heard m rolce whisper: "Mynheer Joe, awake?danger!" ?They have gone hut are not forgot ten," ronrmura Crimea, humorounly. "You aaw them, then 7" aaka Joe, ?akkly. **Wall, rather," re pi lea the other, chocfcllng; "and If that last fellow iJoo't fed wnt mnontw. Vm mista ken in mj imm." "I hope be will?It may lead to Iden tify tbe rwctL Mr. Grlmesf -Tee. "Was It yon who warned me?" "I whispered throofh a crack In the wall in about the spot where 1 be ttered your bed to be." "? thousand thanks. my dear sir. When I awoke I hardly knew whether I had dreamed It or .not. Then my eye caught the fellow's head at tbe window. I waited until he crawled in and then doubted both up together." "Very neatly done, sir, 1 must say. These rascally thieves arc very daring fust at present." "I have been thinking It over and bad about come to the conclusion that these fellows were bent upon some- I thing else." ~Rb! You mean murder? That they JPe ?oine of the Mshdl'a followers or tples, determined to have vengeance in you for the part you took at Khar toom?" says Mr. Grimes. "Perhaps so. Are you dressed, sir?" "Partially so. I couldn't sleep and was looking out of the window from *n easy chair when I heard a noise tnd caught sight of the sly rascals Hlmblng up tbe wall like a couple of monkeys. I was pus&led at first how w,rn you, and only bit upon that little scheme ss a happy thought. Glad ^know it worked so welL" "Would you mind coming Into my room?" ' ^?* all," responds the pseudo su rer king, cheerfully. "I am always it the service of my friends, and par Hwlarly Mynheer Joe." "I want to investigate something think I've got a clew to a still d&rk sr piece of business." "Good for you, my boy!" Mr. Grimes's bead vanishes from the window. When, a few minutes later, *e opens tbe door of Joe's room, ffhicb the lstter has unfastened, he Inds that worthy has lighted a lamp, srlth which the room Is fortunately provided in place of the ordinary can He. Mynheer Joe seems to be bending tow, aa If examining something on the floor. Has the man upon whom he pounced been wounded, and does Joe think he can learn anything from the 9talns left behind As Mr. Grimes bends over his shoul der he makes a discovery that forces an exclamation from his Hps. Upon the floor csn be seen the fragments of a small vial that has evidently been shattered by some violent concussion. This, in Itself, is not what wrenches that cry from the detective. He sees the matting covering tbe floor discol ored and eaten Into by some power ful agent. "What do you Bay?" asks Joe, sol emnly. Mr. Grimes rubs one finger over the ruined matting and feels the re sult almost immediately. "There can be no question about tbo nature of that acid," he replies, and bis whole manner is sober, as though he realizes tbe extreme gravity of the situation. Mynheer Joe nods bis hend. "It is tbe proof I was looking for. My suspicions now have a double foundation. 1 no longer grope in tbe dark?I see." One thing is as evident to me as tbe nose on your faou the lives of his fellows as mere stepping stones by means of which be could climb upward!" "Perhaps you are right, sir," bflys Grimes, reflectively. He canuot quite come to the convic tion that a white man could be guilty of such a dastardly piece of business. And I grow more poslffve of It with every breath tbat 1 draw. I have not yet told you of the first cause for ?uch a suspicion that came to me" pursues Joe. in tbe earnent way that marks his advance always. "Suppose you do?" "When I jumped on the fellow who 7uil CTlVhlD? hVTe' 1 U,U8t sent this vial iiyiug from his hund?see' ?nere ?: mi'iIca Iju- Haw i.i.,i smashed. My idea, of course, was to clutch hltn and toss the rascal through the open window, but he squirmed Hue mi eel. and hence I wns compelled to deal hint several blows about the r.bs to quiet him. it was during the progress of this little campaign that the fellow pave utterance to several tries. He wn? not n Moor nof nD Arab nor yet a fellah who called out but n Hindoo, beseeching Hralima to save him from the foreign devil." Mr. Grimes gives vent to an exprc* , n that marks surprise, and yet. be ing a very conservative man. be I? not wholly ready to agree* with bis friend. "You nrr sure there could bo no ml* tnlvi1?" lie nftkft, rcnllxinp what tlii? diarovery on the port of Mynheer Jof really mean*. "I can Hako my Ufc on It. Ilnr lope traveled over IniHn and apent mucli time nirons the nntlvea. 1 am competent to Judjre. The man 1 towed out of the window na though he tvere n bundle of atleka \va* be yond all question a Hindoo, and th? only om I have Mt to aU Cairo tow been the fean wham yoa potato* oal m ? foU^per of the boron, who woo to proTC.ao valuable to blni when I* reached W land of the Ganges.' -TLm t most fetteTo It?that bans la a flood In bio way So baa a loat bead. too. for already baa be aeen that yon are the man drsttood to give blm the moot trouble In connection with Molly, and be would in the atart knock yon out of the race." Mynheer Joe abruga hla aliouldeHu **I oee rery plainly that I shall hare to bo the death of thla, baron yet. or else be must take my life. Think of It. man: Ten hours ar." "Bah! That is not in Mynheer Joe's line at all. 1 am an American, and 1 bend my head to no man In obeisance, with all respect to the crowned heads ?jt Europe. Let the fight come off We shall see who wins." The boron will, at least, have an ad rersary in Mynheer Joe. wbo knows oo fear?one who has met danger in %U Its guises and wrested victory from many a threatened defeat When two such men meet in deadly nrray, the result is sure to be Inter esting?to those who may look on as spectators. Mr. Grimes cautions his friend to sleep with one eye open after this "Do you know what I've a notion to to?" says Joe, deliberately. "Gather up the remains of this broken vial, wrap them up securely, and by special messenger send. them to the baron In the morning, with some such line as this: 'First attempt a failure. Try again, dear baron.* Or perhaps 1 might say: 'If you could only have seen the chap who carried this plunge through the window, baron!'" Mynheer Joe is Inclined to be face tious, but his companion looks further and sees more clearly. "That would be imprudent, my friend." he says. "Tell me exactly how." "Well, you uuinask your batteries and let him know that yon have dis covered his advance. That is what we call bad policy in a game." "Ah, yes, I begin to see already." "Far better to keep him in Ignorance and then you have the advantage. He may never kuow that you suspect him. Let it be set down that some rascally robbers attempted to get in your room and you fired 'em out" "I had au Idea, you understand, that by letting this man know 1 was on to bis game 1 could hold him respon sible for the future." "Nonsens*! The baron would be re sponsible for nothing. He's as slip I>ery as an eel. Depend upon it, you can't meet him squarely. But If you ever get the better of hlin, it will be by usiuft his otvu weaitons." There is sound advice in this, which Mynheer Joe may prolit by. It must not be understood that he is ignorant of such characters. He has met all hinds and conditions of men during his years of travel, and even among the blacks of tlie African wilds been comJK-lied to overcome strategy with the same tactics. After a little more talk, Mr. Grimes retires to his room, aud Mynheer Joe throws himself down upon his cot again. It Is hardly probable that the sain* intruders will attempt anything more in that line, ut least cot on this ulght. ITo be Continued.] Cuts mill Uo(? In China. r.l.-.ck dogs and cats are the favor ites in Cl.iua In the line of food, be cause when eaten In midsummer they are believed to Insure health and ttreuglh. Couldn't Let a Sparrow Suffer. Here is the story of a simple, ever, day hero. Stretching from a tall sycamore tree to another tree In one of Phila delphia's crowded squares was a tangled kite string. Flying across It a sparrow had one of its wings caught, and the poor bird fluttered in the air helpless and screaming. William Dayton, a sailor who had Just come to port in a coast vessel, was one of the sympathizing crowd who watched the bird. Then up the sycamore he went, easily and gracefully, although Ire knew it was nt the risk of his life. As he reached the top. seventy-five feet above the pavement, the branches bent beneath his weight. Crawling cautiously on a limb he caught the string and the sparrow was released. The spectators cheered Dayton's act and a collection was raised for him. He was rewarded also by tho Pennsylvania Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Afilmals. The in jured bird was carod for In the near by police station until It was able to Qy again. Legal Document Drawn In 1789. J. H. Staples of Brunswick, Me., har a plan of 1.000 acres of land belonging to the original Cathance mill prlvl lege. The plan was drawn by Nathan Winalow and beara the date of Jan. 6, 1768. Much of ft Is v*c faded as to be illegible, but other parts are readily made out umcnnuL flpny three time*, flnt, Just as the bloom Is falling. next In eight or teu days. and then la ten day* the third time. Ton will atver fall In having plenty of froit free from being faulty when following the a bore plan. WaynCMf Wwfc Spread out the wlnf and dip about four er flee lnchea off every other feather. This Is quite as effective as clipping the whole wing and doesn't detract from the appearance of tbe fowl, a consideration to a fowl lover. This method is, I believe, original with me. To friiiit Ohtoku Ckcltm. Clean quarters, clean feed, plenty of gravel and charcoal and pleuty of range are the first requisites. Give a quart of strong poke root tea to two gallons water or milk once a week tbe year round, with a well balanced feed ration of corn, oats, wheat or rye, and an occasional hot bran mash. Follow tbe above and you will uever be both ered with that dread disease, cholera. To RMkiiyw Flirt. Remove the grease and dirt from your llles by washing them in warm potash water, then wash them in wnrusj water and dry with artificial heat; aM, place one pint of warm water in a wooden vessel and put In your files; add two ounce* of blue vitriol. fine!y pulverized; two ounces of borax, well mixed, taking care to turn the files over, so that each one may coine in contact with the mixture. Now add seven ouuecs of sulphuric acid mid one quarter ounce elder vinegar to the above mixture. Remove the files af ter a short time, dry. sponge them with olive oil. wrap them in poron* paper, and put aside for use. Coarse files require to be immersed longer *ian fine. To Drire m Vicious Cow. It is often necessary to drive a sing'e cow or steer some distance, and it is sometimes a difficult task, especially where the animal is wild and unruly. A good plan is to tie a small rope around each fore foot. an.', one rather loosely around the body at girt, pars ing the ropes from feet through the girt and taking the ends in hand be hind the animal. A light pull on either rope will stop progress, and if tbe cow goes too fast pull both ropes and slie will instantly kneel to your wishes. A few minutes will teach her to drive anywhere at 3-our will and you are safe from the most vicious one. as you sre behind her and can readily keep yourself there. While going along quietly tbe ropes are slack and not impede travel in the least. Prepare For Tomato Blight. Tomato growers sH over the country complalned of excessive blight last summer, and as this is one of the dis eases to which tomatoes are subject. It is well to be prepared for It by ad vance knowledge on the subject, hence this nfticle. Tbe disease may he easily recognized by the rusty patches on the leaves, the under sides of the leaf showing dark brown spots. There is but one remedy which has proven of value, sad that Is the Bordeaux mix ture, using the 4-4-50 combination; that Is, four pounds each of sulphate of copper and fresh lime to each fifty gal lons of wster. The mixture should be applied by spraying as soon as the trouble is noticed, and regular appli cations made at the interval of two weeks until tbe plant outgrows tbe dis ease and becomes so strong that it .will not be Injured. Wkat the Horn Known. The horse does know a few things, though some of us seem to question this fact at times. He knows when one speaks to him kindly; and although some so-called human belpgs may not always appre ciate the kindly tone, the horse always does. The horse that trusts bis master will do anything he can for hiin. Aiul that Is not tbe promise of a politician, eith er. The horse will do it, or die. About as fine a tribute as I ever beard paid a horse wns the statement of bis own er that be was sure tbe animal would leap straight out of tbe back door of a basement barn ten feet down if told to do so. True, faithful animal! And yet some men abuse him! Tbe horse knows the way home, no matter how dark it may be. nor how far he may have traveled from home. His driver may trust blni to make all the turns and reach bis own stable safely. Hny Hop*. The following sketch shows a good plan for a hay rope. Tbe cut describes It better than words. Tbe piece marked with an X Js tbe floor of barn. One extra pulley is used, which Is fastened to the singletree, tbe rope goes around It, and is fastened back to floor, as shown In cut. Thus you see, as the ropr goes out of the l?nrn double, tlio home has to an only hnlf ns far n* ho does in the old wny, when the end of rope in tied to Hingletree. I vine uiy rope In thin innuner nnd And Hint It pull* no harder, and, n? the horse goes only hnlf ns fnr. n lond inny ho thrown off mueh quicker thnn hy the common wny.?8. V. llnrtsoek. Rroiim In CaWra. One of the troubles of the former or dnlryinnn who rnl?e* the en I von born on the fnrm I* scour*, nnd mo?t olive* have a touch of It. bo inntter how well they are oared for. The u*e of dried kJood in this trouble is very general ?nd la most effective when properly used. There have been ninny rase* of complaint regarding It, but the trou ble waa due to Improper feeding. Only ? small quantity Is used, not over a taaspoonful at a time, and 11 must al waja be well b1z?4 with the allk ?r other food glTtn the coif. It ahonid bo fed dally on til the animal rowwi. So highly is dried Mood thot^ht of In some dairy districts It Is fed to cow# and cattle aa a tonic given In the grate or other mixed food aa with the calvee, and In quantities of a boot aa ounce to each feed. It la not a good plan, however, to feed It as a part of the regular ration for either cows or calrea. bat rather to nse It- for the calves when they hare scour* and for the coirs when they seem to need a tonic. VntlllMra Far Tomato**. While there is conshlmltle moncj In growing tomatoes for the csnnerief in Home section*. the work Is not sc profitable In others. The grower musi get the largest possible crop, of course, hut he must also get a well ripened crop, and to do this he must use # fertiliser that will give him the e less than ii the mixture is made on your odrer by # a manufacturer. Killing Off Old Htnii. After an experience of a dozen yean in poultry raising, all the way frou raising the mongrel of the harnyarf to raising thoroughbreds wLicb solf for enormous sums, the-writer ha( reached the conclusion that the Ider that the so-called old hen is a profit less bird is not correct. At present we have a large number of five-year old liens on the place, and the last winter all but one of them has laid ?s many eggs as the pullets, and tlieii eggs were much larger. True it ir that their lives of usefulness ar? nearly over as egg producers, and thai fhey will not bring much of a pr'ci in the carcass market, but they have paid well enough to have kept theic even though their carcasses do not bring enough to pay for killing them While it is not advised that all thf hens be kept until they are five year? old. it is claimed that there is toe much of this turning two and three year-old hens into the market to iuakt room for pullets. Treat the hen as an individual. If she lays as well ei better than the pullets, keep her for laying. If she falls off perceptibly when she is iu condition to lay. market her. The same rule should be applied to pullets, lor there are many that ore so poor layers thot their greatest value la In the carcass market. The Coinnrrrltl Onion. Although this voriety, the Commer cial, is put on the market for the first time this spring, it has been tested for several years by onion growers in different parts of the country, who pronounce it an exceedingly valuable sort. A single row on the test grounds of the writer yielded at the rate of over 000 bushels an aere, and while this might not be possible very often, under Held culture on a large scale, it shows the productiveness of the va rlety. Commercial Is nn Improved Prissetaker, nrul 6.iid to Lave been se lected from (lie latter variety for breeding purposes. In size the Com mercial Is not quite as large as the Prlssetaker, but It is more uniform, of better quality ami ranks first in tho line of keeping sorts. In color it is a beautiful yellow, anil will attract at* tentl^n on the market. The illustra tion will give one 11 fair Idea of the form of this new, sort, which is worthy of test in any section where onloiw may be protitably grown for market. Kconotny on the Farm. If many farmers would use more I economy on their farms than they do, there would be less heard of the ex pression that "farming does not pay/* On many farms, while the owners make a profit in some tilings, there a re many others that are at an cxprnse j sufficient to coiipunu' these profits, ami often greater. Where there is no econ omy there is no pay. One of the economies, 1 think, which needs to be learned is in the management of stock. Many farmers keep more horses than can be profitably employed all the year. Many farmers run several tonms through the plowing season, Which tVill not exceed four months, to cultivate their crops; the balance of the year one team is sufficient to do the work anil all others are Idle. A horse will eat at least calculation, $1 pe? week of feed, which Is just as good as cash, allowing nothing for ao cldetits, disease, dca.th and possibly a depredation In value. All through the winter, weeks and sometimes months pass without getting horses out except for exercise. The time and labor of keeping the idle teams Is worth some thing. not counting feed. If we les sen the feed our teams become poor and unable to do a full day's work. Again many farmers keep too many useless cattle, carrying them through the winter with scanty feed, so that they vre worth no uiore In the spring than they were the previous fall. It would be much more profitable to the farmer to sell off all but what he need* and buy good food for the balance, if need be.?Epitomiftt Oraval OmJ. The air Is full of talk about good roads, writes T. E. ltlcbey.. in The Rill torn 1st. It is "good roads, good roads'* everywhere you go. But isn't It about time something practical was coming to pass? All talk with no re suits amount to nothlug. so let us get down to the root of the matter. How ?re we *? really have good roads? Well, I have seen many plana tested but this is the best of all: Make good, deep ditches on each side of the road to carry off all water In digging the ditches throw all dirt Into the road and add enough from other sources tc elevate the roadbed to a good height above the ditches. The roadbed should be eighteen feet wide, and should be highest in the centre and sloping slight!? each way so as to drain all water into the ditches. Cut dowu the hill and till up the hollows. As a rail road company had rather pull a train four miles up a steep grade so it Is a vast deal better to observe this rule for wagon roads. And now to make the roads permanently good gravel them good. Better macadamize them if at all practical. But at least gravel, and that with thoroughly good gravel. If parts need tiling be sure to tile tbtui and do this properly. Let every hour s work be well done. There*is vastly more truth than poetry in the old adage that "what is worth doing at all is worth being well done." Fill in all small ruts when they first appear. It is much easier done then than when a foot deep Besides, it might save a wagon or buggy wheel from being broken or a horse from beiug crippled. It might even save a human being's 'mb or even bis life. Important* to Rural Dlatrlcta. Martin Dodge, Director of Publ?c Itoad Inquiries in the Federal Depart ment of Agriculture, recently made an address, in which he dwelt upon the importance of roads to the rural dis tricts. He spoke of the concentration of population and wealth in cities. lr virtue of an economic law which can not be resisted. This is hard on the country communities, but something may be done to offset it. Cheap trans portation is profitable alike to city and country. But in the country the ve hicle propelled by animal power ovei an ordiuury road is about as expensive as It was 100 years ago, costing ter cents a mile for passengers and twen ty-tive cents a ton for freight. Bui by the concentration of wealth in the towns the couutry i? deprived of the means of making the roads as good ai they should be. New boards of trad* and chambers of commerce in the clt ies are ueginning to declare that they are willing to contribute to a genera/ fund for the purpose of improving the highways of the country, no part of It to be used in* the cities. Mr. Dodge also spoke with approval of national aid to road building. Ancient Md Modern Road*. Among the men whose names wil live as long as civilization exists if that of John Lt, Macadam, the road builder. Not only has his name be come a part of the English language, but the kind of road which he built lias been adopted by all civilized na tions. The ancient Romans built stone roads, but they were different from and vastly more expensive than the macadam roads of modern times. They built a substantial foundation of rock, sometimes several feet in depth, and then covered it with a pavement of large. Hat stones. 'This kind of road will outlast any other. Indeed, souk parts of the Appian Way, the building of which was begun three centuries before Christ, are still in use and in good repair. It remained for John I, Macadam, a modern Englishman, tc prove that the great expenditure ol time and money required in the build Ing of the old ltoinaii roaus Jy wasted, lie demonstrated that a smooth, hard, enduring road could be built of crushed stone a few im-hes ir depth, properly spread and con:p.;< ?! on a foundation of earth. I'< ill Ming ftoaria Right. Albert Lewis, of Bear Creek. Pa. who makes his winter borne in Kt Augustine, Fla., has set au cxamph in road Improvement which may Iw I followed adxantageously in one degret j ami another in many parts of tin | country. Mr. Lewis likes to drive 1 lien he came to St. Augustine, ac j cording to a dispatch trom thai city he found such poor facilities for hii favorite sport that 1m> bought a boil' 1000 acres of land at Moultrie Point built a fine drive to his property, anc is now building public roads in tlx neighborhood of his own drive. A' his own cxpcimc and using his owe improved road machinery, he is ro builditig the Moultrie road, and ha? planted along a driv of alsurt livi miles cabbage palm trees, lie liai also shown a disposition to give ma terial aid to tli" county authorities if their work on the road. One msn o> that kind is worth a hundred resolti lions and is a splendid example o) enterprise and vigor.?Southern Pam Magazine. Mont I in port n fit IJiir*ll Colonel Klllehrew considered tin j io.nl question thr must important nm before tin* American public. Loading j tho world in everything else, tin ; Cultcd States wiik last.in good roads )Ii> argued that if the *ISO.OOO.OO* which In* claimed had boon practically j wa*t?d on rivers and harbors had beef I expended on wads, the <"Oiintry would be much better off. Mont State roa new system of road balding, whicl; would save a large percentage In till cost of construction. Instead of tlx ! present method of convex surfacel , with a putter at each side it Js pro i posed to build concave road* with ? gutter to the middle. ^ THE PEACH AGAIN. The time is to come when we are to lave the peach again. as in the old (ays wheu we were boys. We know sow to treat the trees now; so let ui *et to work and put In a few peach roes every year, on some northern and ^astern slope, where a warm si>ell in winter will not be apt to start the iudf. Get the best sorts, and take rare of tliero. and we will have peaches it our own raising.?F. H. Sweet BLACKBERRIES TAY. Perhaps it is safe in asserting that .n pro|M>rtion to labor and capital in vested no crop pays so large a profit at )lackherries. Growers who complain hat blackberries do not pay should irst estimate the expense. There sr? blackberry fields that havj borne crops Tor ten yearn, which have never re reived a pound of fertilizer or munure, md outside of cutting away the old Mines, with rough cultivation ki tli< spring, have received no labor. What olackherrlefc would do for the grower if treated like stra ?v berries is yet to ">e demonstrated by some. NOT TOO THICK. It Is not well to hare the plants too ?lilek in the hot-bed. Those removed nay be transplanted in flower |K?ts, ?gg shells, old fruit cans or tfmall noxes. and If well cared for they will srrow fast and l?e of fair size wtim the time arrives for planting them in the garden. Tomatoes and early cabhnge may be thus treated, and it will be found of great advantage. Age assists greatly in hastening the bearing period )f tomatoes, and by giving tlie plants care in the beginning, such as covering them at night, they may be grown out in the open air without fear of danger should the nights become cold. The (tame plan may be pursued with many Miter vegetables. PRWNING ROSES. EverhloonmV roses, the trees, are benefited by a good pruning. If rut hack to about six inches of the old wood, strong new shoots start out and furnish abundance of bloom. In the more northern States the plants are usually winter pruned. I. e . they freeze down quite closely to the ground; in that case all that is necessary is to eut * way the injured portion. Further ?outl>. where t(ie wood is not frozen, the bushes shoiSld be cut back about nue-lialf. Hardy roses bloom better for more moderate evtting. Yellow roses scarcely ever need any pruning. The whole matter must be regulatml by habit of growth. Trim to iipat ?liapely appearance, taking out all dead of diseased wood Just before growth starts in spring. STRAWBERRIES. Are you arranging to set out a new patch this year? It will paj- to do It, and will also pay to set the very best plants obtainable. "Blood will tell," and it is true of strawberry plants as well as of everything else. Were the strawberries mulched Inst fall? If so. nil right, if not it will pay to mulch close around the hills and thoroughly between the rows after they have been 3Ut. The berries will be much cleaaer, and far less liable to rot if the season strawberry grower attributed much r?f his success to his management of the vines when in blossom, never al* lowing the sun to shine on them three ?Jays tfi succession without thoroughly sprinkling them. If you have a hose, sprinkler" or sprayer, try it and note ~ults. A COMBINATION LADDER. A new ladder especially adapted for fruit growers' use has been brought to our attention by one of our sub scribers in Colorado, and from the fact that it appeals to us In every way wo lire glad to call our readers' attention to the siiuie and illustrate the same herewith. As will be noted from the Illustration it is a combination of the llep ladder, top picking ladder un?l scaffold. The three combined in one and with a weight of only thirty COMBINATION LADDER. pounds for the rutin- outfit. In the il lustrations yon will note that I'ig. I the ladder'is in use as a stop bidder in picking from low limbs or around tin* tree, while Fip. 2 tiu? same ladder will. seen fully extruded for top picking. No. 1. 2 and It combination form a scaffold, which is hiind.v for various purposes and is complete h.v using extension in Fig. 4. We consider it one of '.he best Inventions that linw come to our notice.?National Fruit U rower. Meil*l? for M iit>l< lnri?. Those present at the Klgar Festival Concert at (Movent flnrdcn were set wondering as to the medal* worn by Mine. Clara Hutt and Lloyd Chandos, the same being more noticeable on the gentleman's black coat than on the lady'* evening dress. The medal i? one presented J?y the Worshipful- Coin, pany of Musicians for the host muni' clan of a year, arid-while instrumental* 1 ists. composers, etc.. can boast of it? possession only three vocalists have so far been honored with its presentation, viz., Mme, Clara Hutt, Miss Muriel Foster and Lloyd Chandos. The orig? innl medal presented was a large one, And In the ease of the popular tenor re* fcrred to was taken away by burglar* at hiij house. The Worshipful Com pany of Musicians then decided to Strike a smaller one. to be worn ou nil ?pedal occasions by the possessor*.? London Tit Bit*. - ?.