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The Bad Queen Bes& Mi m iiumiIIhh dim, ttatrf, ta which Qmm ?t A* did with the amorous to the an>is*> diinit, of her *tth m. 36MC *"rTT Mm abo uW flnnti ibkuos cor uq. ?Ighlng, hngaliMm, ard drawing htm WNB2Wi? mat only hor lover. Irat the keenest politicians la Europe: and yet. with ?or private correspondence now be tsv as. we see thai the whole oomedy was a lie. so far as *she was con earned; and that la what seemed her anuinefts of ntter aeff-abandonment la her lore she eras coolly calculating how to wriggle.oat of ber compromise while leaving her saltor In the mire. Wlieu at MBgth ?he poor lad was ca lohd ists leaving England with the fslflllment of his marriage still de ferred. the qaeea traveled to Grave with him to m? him thirty ?? the way. for he tearfully resisted priic to the teat moment. la (dp?d grief et leering **her husband." as she celled him, she wept end veiled at the parties: bet an eyewitness of the scene Mis ?s that as sooa es her per sistent lovers heck Was turned she sought the privacy of her chamber, not to Indulge In her grief, hot to dance for very joy at having got rid of htm ao easily ; end scoffed at hie simplicity to hla own false aenrant tflmler. When later It oerred her political purpose to extort terma from the king of France by again pretend* 2ng fcer Intention immediately to marry hla brother, she celled down curses upon her own -head In audi ap palling language if she did not (n*flll her promise this time thst so sea toned a vessel as the elderly French smbasssdor declared that It made bis blood ran cold; and aolld old Cecil himself, who wss deeper in the plot thsn say one. whispered In swestrk.-k* en tores to Lsdjr Stafford that if the queen fa'led to keep thla pledge surely Gol would send hor to hell for such blasphemy."?Martin Hume in Har* tor's. Mixed tbe Speeches Up ?he Rlohaoid lfews-Lender In Inu the Springfield Republican that Patrick Henry's famous argument In tto so-called parsons' cause, which so shocked Her. James Maury's counscl. Ater Lyons, that he cried out. "The gentleman has spoken treason and I am astonished that your worships can tear It without emotion or any mark of dissatisfaction." wss not made In BL John's church. Richmond. In 1775. tat In Hanover Court House In 1763. Henry won his cause, and when the ??sort adjourned the delighted people carried him around the court ja.nl on Choir shoulders. Parson Maury shared lawyer Lyons's opinion that treason had been spoken to the_Jurors. lie wrote not long afterwm|M Rev. John Camm that It w^plaln^Hlck Henry thought "the res road To popularity fsere Is to trample under foot the In terests of religion, the rights of the Church and the prerogative of the Crown;~ and the indignant Frcder icksrille parson added an emphatic expression of his conviction that aucli conduct "manifestly tends to draw the people of these plantations from ..heir allegiance to the King." There was talk for * while of prosecuting Henry, tut nothing came of It. Two year* later, in 17?5 and In the louse of burgesses at Williamsburg, he made his speech on the stamp act (he "If this be treason, make the most o* it!" speech. August 12. that year. Ppv. William Robinson, commissary for Virginia, reported to the Bishop of London: "He blazed out in a vio lent speech against tko authority of parliament and the king, comparing Iiir majesty to a Tarquln. a Caesar and a Charles tho First, aud not spar ing Insinuations that be wished an other Cromwell would-arise." Tho St. John's church speech (March, 1775) was the "Give mo lib* erty or give me death!" speech Where Aloney is Made Birmingham. England, has a mint .srhlch, In addition to turning out mll Dons of English coins, docs more in <be way of supplying foreign govern hwnU with coin than any other j Money-making establishment la the world. - A few days ago it shipped the first installment of a huge Egyptian order for 10,000.000 plasters. The consign jswnt weighed five tons,, was con veyed In sixty cases, and valued at 4|15,000.000. For well over a contury Birmingham has taken tho lead In Ibis literal kind of money-making. As Car back as 1797 one firm coined un der contract for the British govern ment 4,000 tons of copper coin, val ued at about $4,000,000. Among the countries and governments which feave gone time after time to Blrmlng Jural for their money are India, Tunis, Canada, Turkey. China, Hongkong, Haiti, 8arawak, Tuscany, Venezuela and Chile. In some Instances, notably In that of China, tho coins were not mado in Birmingham. As a matter of fact, no Cbineso coin has, so far as Is known, ever been made outside tho Celestial empire. The pride and prejudice of tho Chinese have to bo humored, so the firm sent out a complete plant with men to operate it, and tho coins wero struck In China. No fewer than eight separate plants have been sent out to China In this way. For tho new kingdom of Italy the same thing was done In 1862, 1,000 tons of "blanks" being shipped to furnish the raw material. Again. Id Marseilles, when tho re-cstablishment* of the empire under Napoleon III. rendered nocessary a new copper coin age, 750 tons of metal were in this way turned into money on French soil. A Pledge of Constancy st. as the (MinlnR pigeon wines Its wld?. uiMrrtnx way. As the dawn streaks the Bant at morn* inr. and the twilight follows day. 'Aa the breath In the stair's rod nostrils speaks of the wood-sequesiered pool. Where tho fearful huntsman's chuso bo lone, by the water clcar and oool: ft. as tbe trembling Needle knows the north, and the craft cruise true, the love in say heart shall falter not. but always follow you. 8|>rlng, ye the birds} They know the Hp and up from the Southland ft. ye tbe crass grow green again; not faithful mere than If qu'7sr of sap In the tree's tare limbs by the Skin s rayed messengers Of Lave npstlrrod. as the thought of thee the sap of my paaslon stirs; And the blush of the rose at the kiss of spring shall follow not more true Than the blush of my love that falters ?Mi bat always follows you. Sweet, as the nwallow finds lis neat and the robin tlndB a hour. A* tho worn child turns to Its mother'* breast when the way Is drear and lent;. As tho ejroa of age feast hungrily on youth that Is spent and oped; As Life shnll drift llko a river on to ths Ocean of tho Dead; As season shall follow season, aad tho ? swing of the stars bo true, 80 the love In my heart shall falter not, but always follow you. Sweet, as the bono of Heaven springs^ unsown, in the souls of men; As the seed shall burst with the germ of life snd the grain grow ripe again; As the tide shall rise on the beatsn beach In tho sweep of the restless sea; As the hungering heart shall find Its own and the prisoned soul be free; As Heaven shall ope at the word of God and the promises be true, 80 the lovo In my neart shall faltsr not, but always follow you. ?J. W. Foley In Nsw Y< York Times. Weakness of tbe Czar (Shortly after the present war had %egun a nnmber of dignitaries and officials gathered round Gen. Kuropat kits one day Ud asked him how things srsrs going on. With a mcJIelons twin* fck la his eye the war minister re plied: "Uke yourselves, I know only what to published. The war Is Alex Mi's buslnoss, not mine." When three Ministers Implored the csar to eraeo ate Manchuria and safeguard the peace ?f the world, he answered: "I shall keep the peaoe and my own counsel as well." To ono of the gran' dukes who, on the day before the rupture with Japan, raguoly hinted at the possibil ity of war, the emperor said: "Leave that to mo. Japan will never light My reign will be an era of poace to the end." The following comments are made we the csar's conduct of public bust dom by ? high Russian official: lift Is over struggling with phantoms, fighting with windmills, conversing with salats or consulting the spirits of tho doad. But of th? means at band for helping his people or letting them help tbemselTcs he never avails him self. Books ho has long ago ceaaea to road, and sound advice he Is in capable of listening to. His ministers he receive* with groat formality and dismisses with hsughty condescen sion. They arc ofton kept in the dark about mattois which it behooves them to know thoroughly and early. In his study ho is generally busy signing replies to addresses of loyslty, or writing comments on tho various reports prosentod by ministers, gov* ernors snd oilier officials. Ho Is en couraged by his courtiers to beiiovo that all those replies and comments are prlcoless.?Chicago News. The Newa of the Day. Thirty-four years ago Franco was Wed by the government of the notion al defence, which consisted of twelve of the beat known members of the Opposi tion under the Rmplto. Among them >irere such famoua name* as Leon Oam feotta Julea Simon, Jules i-'avre and Oen. Trochu. Bloven of t^o twelve are dead now and moat of them are forgotten. .The last aurvlvor la Henri Rochefort, Who la hla time has been Journalist, <000Wet, member of the Government and Odds and Ends. The present Secretary of War, whose dignliy equals that of any Judge on tbo Supreme flench, Is known as "BID" Taft to all IiIr Intimates. In his case the nickname would seem to bo a token of goneral good will a>id friendly feel* ing. John Welsh, the man who fired the first shot under Dewey In the battle of Manilla, is at present In Milwaukee on recruiting serrlce. He was with Orldley In Japan when he died and took hit last message to his wife la Brla, Pa. I f CHAPTER V. | Continued. She stopped him by ttklag his hand. She left It Oiled?filled with her own, well-worn purse, containing such slen- { der savings from thf proceeds of the poultry yard and dairy as were legltl* 'mately hers to give. Daphne's bus* band must not'go awsy from .them In anger, nor feci hurt by her offering. It was a little loan that. If his cash ran short, might prove useful, and that "he could return when things were look*, lng brighter. She wished him all sue* cess; was confident he would meet with work If be sought for It In ear* ?nest, and?and. meantime, would lie promise to 'write home faithfully, for {Daphne's sake? Well, reader, for a moment Barry Chester hesltsted. To accept Aunt |IosIe's money was an action that, even to his conscience. I suppose, bore an unpleasant resemblance to the robbery of a child. At all events, he hesitated. Then?the good moment passed; he thrust the purse sway Into his pocket; 'muttered tsome Incoherent words abont pride, about 111 fortune, about speedy repayment, snd. without looking into Annt Hosle's face, was gone. It was probably tbe most foolish ac tion of Henrietta Vanslttart's life; yet ?wus It one of the follies thst bare a ! sweet taste in tbe memory. In tbe ' [dark days to come this was the so!l 'tnry moment, ont of her whole inter- J course with Barry Chester, to which Aunt Hosle could look back unpalned. With her ready promptness at distill ing the soul of goodness ont of things evil, she rcmeml>ered. not that Chester accepted, but that he hesitated to ac cept her gift, and from this frail prom ise argued that self-respect, that honor, m'.ghl have come to light still In that lost heart. "If life had been kinder to him?' This wus an unfailing apolosy of Aunt Hosie's for ill-doers virtually past the nale ?f r.oolosy. "We women, whose portion lies in sheltered plaees. know : so little of the fleece temptation that a I man has to withstand. If life had been ' kinder to him!" Life pressed with piteous harshness .p.non Daphne from that day forward. >7o tidings of B#"ry Chester reached Flef-dc-!a-I!?lne for more than a fort night; and lortr before the expiration cf that time the Import of his abrupt departure had become matter of com p-.on talk even cniong the wor'.d of fshcr-folk In Querncc Day. He had f'own. not from Ills wife alone, hut from his debt*, of honor and otherwise. "In short." so. tardily, he wrote to Danhne. "his return to the islands was impo?-ei?>l?\ She might write. If there could he any good?he fal!cd to see It?In such n correspondence. Let ters went to a certain address. Lon don, would he forwarded to h'm. But b > must beg her not to look for con Mant replies. If anything In tl:c slmne ??f improved ivoney prospects befell him he would let her know fast ^itougli." And not one word of affec tion. of rcuret at leaving hnr. of in quietude about her state. The letter tulsiit as well have been written to | Miss Th"0'V>ra. to one of bis creditors, to any inditT"rent man or woman on I errth as to h?r whose love followed i him nicht and day. whose thoughts | Were o"e praver for him. whose pros nccts. for evil or for hapnln'-ss, were hound po Irrevocably with his until lieth should set them apart! ITer heart was crushed; her faith fulness stood th? shock bravely. Poor Barry was an Idle correspondent, just that. As soon as there was clia?rle? news to co'rmun'cate his letters would grow lonr"-. and?she, oh. s'ic would e-re ho?*s?!f pprforce. of this foo'lvh habit of fretting over their separation. r*'d he content. As }o the stories set pttoat about hint by wicked toncni^s. Daphne believed none of them. When his P'-osuccts brlrrhtened his creditors wovld be nald. of course. A noor two or three h.undred What was this to a man of Barry's talents. Bar I rv's resources? Give him time to look about him for employment, time to set going I he Interest of his frlenrt*. nnd all would come right. Meanwhile Meanwhile, when the earl? clouds of cherry and hawthorn lay white uoon the billables. l'sul opened his bh'eeyes uoon the world. Daphne, as I have said, had stood up resolutely at first. H*r heroism ended now. With pbysl ?al weakness came reaction froin the moral tension of sll the past nnhaopy, s eepless weeks, and 'twas lonjc before the doctors could pronounce, er Aunt Dosle believe her to be ont of danjrer. She spok? of her husband In her de lirium onlv, not asking for his pres ence: she locked with dull, unwelcom ing eyes upon the child. Alas! and worse was to come. When, at last. h?r pale 11ns did murmur Barry Ches ter's name, with what resnor.se must she he met? IIow could It he broken to her. faintly strussrllng/back from 11'" stillness of the dark valley to the rrin and $!are of living, that he had deserted her forever; that the tiny baby who lav tv>on lior breast tVns worse than fatherle; Twice only had Mr. Chester written during Daphne's lllt.es*. [n the Ilrst letter acknowledging, without vote or consent, tbe p.ews of tils son's birih, lu second coolly announcing his own departure for America. !?!:< at tempts at flndlnu work in Knil-nnT. I'"* '" ? " ** '" ?*'. in'-r-tii Ihnt lie tboaght could bo relied upon?all had proved empty/ At the present uiu rM*. a(t?r poyUgjM* passage money to New York (where he would most Ukely starve), ht stood without a Im pound note In tho world. Useless for Daphne to dreact or further corre-. VoedencSL Thf masriage had bren a **?eir?this was how Mr. Cheslcr ex pressed himself?o -sell" for both of than. Let It be forgotten! He hoped that ahe possessed sufficient Christian charity to forgive him an? paiii he ?Ight have caused her. and that she would trouble herself no more about hla exlatence. lie was starting for America under a fictitious nsme: any efforts msde with a view to tracing him must therefore be labor In vain. The past was past and done with. The best thing "tor both of them was to I embark on a new life that should blot' out the errors of the old one. I In fewer words, be had abandoned ! her and her child forever. Daphne bore the blow with a quiet*: * that, for a girl of her age and i temperament, boded no quick recov ery. Amid the tumult of thoughts that thronged her brain. tho one. per haps. which stood forth the clearest? the Impossibility of her. Daphne Ches ter. having done with happiness. Nine teen years old and the sun shining Into the hearts of spring's first roses, the birds chanting np and down'the Innes? there was. literally, as yet *no place In the existing fabric of her thoughts'* for the realization of her own despair. It needed time?time, whom the superficial name llealer! the slow engraver and nerpetuator of grief In human hearts?to teach lier to b*? wretched. The Initiation over, the A. B. C of suffering mastered, she was no inapt or laggard scholar for tho future. I In marrying Harry Chester she had Invested her all?or she believed so; I and are not our beliefs the sternest facts we know? In losing him. her j docket was struck. She was bank rupt. Aunt ITosle. with love-born keenness of Insight. saw that the poor child's wound was likely to fare best if left to Nature's curing, and when they were*' ulor.c together?by n!o*?e 1 mean, of course, with little r*uul?the name of i Barry Chester drowned gradually Into disuse. But Miss Theodora, with sur face sympathies?sympathies for the crying outward disgrace, not for tho | stifled Inward groan?was far from approving or practicing such reticence. Theodora was ail for heroic treatment 'n the iuoi':il ailments of others, tin? blacksmith's hand of iron rather than the surgeon's hand of steel. Theodora, during Daohne's illness, had exercised her conscience by writing a kind of circular letter to such of Mr. Chester's relations as she had knowledge of (in cluding. r rather believe, the War wickshire Stamers). and had accumu lated facts that she considered It a sacrcd duty to lay before the girl In her hour of darkness. "Pacts that will at least show you. child, what Kind of a man you waste your regrets upon." "Barry Chester comes of a doomed Siock." go. in an unrighc feminine uand. wrote one of Miss' Theodora's nnknown correspondents, a Chester herself by marriage, smarting, possi bly. under wrongs that infused gall into her ink. "His father was worth less, his grandfather worthless. The boy was born, us every Chester must be. to a hostess inheritance of evil. AUho:vjh I do r.ot know Mrs. Barry Chester,"* the writer ended. "I tell her honestly that I congratulate her on her good fortune in linving seen her husband for the last time. From fath er to son the Cliesiers have brought shame and desolation to the heart of every woman who has loved them. It will be so to the end." Facts with a vengeance, these. Facts, each of whose written syllables seems to Daphne's seul to look up at her with cruel human eyes, and whose influence sank, like the stain of so-ne dark poison tlower, through all the yet unopened pages of her young life. "Born to r. hopeless inheritance of evil," even n? tho babe. Just begin ning to smile np in her face, must be! Rhe felt hers l'. and. what was desrer than herself. :be child, to be in the grasp of Inc orable law, marked-out victims of n< sslty. If she had grad*. uated In the very newest school of scientific Calvinism, bad llsteued to the last "hi;.? teaching" of Bile, phos phorus and .'/^spalr, her morbid sense of slavery to circumstance could scarce have been profonnder. And the other worl<";y utterances of plo-is friends?pov ?ricss. like a'.l seemly phrases tip ilfylng nothing, against the shoek 01 any great crisis?the Job like consols; ,:is of the elder Miss Van sittarts. evciything save the Influence of Annt Hoslt-'s healthy, upward-look ing spirit, tended to sink her more helplessly in the slough of fatalism: the most dreary creed, however learned, J owerer formulated, that ever serv.d to render human life nn sweet. The. r~ < opened, fell from their ntalks; ; a rang harvest songs as heart w! . then shone harvest moons ns sllvr >s of old. And then tho woods i.v.l from red to dun. the c)?UI November rales begun to swcef> up from the A'lautil; and Daphne, wan deling r.lone under the gray skies by uovumor Terrell, of Georgia, has on his staff Col. J. 8. Ralne, wbo Is a ?tickler for the respect due the State Rxccutlvo and members of his family. This was shown the other day at St. Louis, where the Governor and party aro visiting the Fslr. Col. Ralne knocked down a camel driver In tho streets of Jerusalem because the drlvor refused to permit Mrs. Terrell to dis mount when she discovered that ahe did not like to ride. The blow brought re sults. The camel was stopped and forced to kneel] while the wile of the Oorerqer dlstnc^usted. Emperor William, In Axing the court* of study for Princes August William. Oscar and Joachim, h?s prescribed a course of comprehensive lecturea on commercial subjects. These will em brace railway progress and problems In the United States. 8beflleld Ingalls. eon of the late Sen ator John J. Ingalls. sgaln haa been named for tbe Kansas legislature from th? 3rd Representative Dlstrlot by tbe Republican committee In Atchlaon. He wac named by the committee aeveral months ago, hut there waa some talk to the effect that the aomlnstion waa sot regular Mi to formally vltMrew. rhlch u the BbremWk lifelkrtt of Mr ho-j 1BC. Had Chester lived, her onhappiness. however acute, most, with the pros* nm of time, hove become checkered, j Berry Cheater, IWhc. most Infallibly here weoted money, lofellihly hare fallen back upon the Uin Vaosittarta for help: and Daphne, thirsting to foe give ma any terms, wooli. you mj bo sure, have relented over the very first letter that Implied reconciliation and asked for feormtsna. . But no each opportunity came to her. Within a year of their separation Mr. Chester died, miserably as he had lived. In London?the Uttle project of starving In America proved a fiction with which he had staved off the dla tasteful nece?slty of working for bread in England. A few persona) trifles of no value wore sent to the ladles of Flef-de-Ia-Relne by the keep er of the lodging house lu which bo died. a!ra a doctor's and other bills all of which, the poor gentleman as* sured her. his relations wonld nuke It point of honor to pay. Not one mes sage of contrition or of love?not a re membrance of the woman Whose harv p.ncss he had wrecked, or of his child! Oive likes, at least In fable., to think of the most purposeless of human lives as rounded off Into something of har mony by the approach of death. The Inheritance of evil rested on Barry Chester to the ctul. Without a thought beyond the groveling satisfaction of the hour he had lived out his term of human animation, and dying breathed uot a word to release one heart that loved him from Its legacy of desola tion. This wrs why h?r face, amid Its pure lines and coloring, wore the un expectnnt look of age. Tills Is how her accoimt with the world cauic to be closed at two-and-twenty. CHAPTER VI. Clue-Stockings a la Mo^Tc. That civilized men. with all his re> rources, cannot attain to a new sensa tion was a truth guessed at by think ers Fouie time before exhausted young gentlemen of the nineteenth century bad reduced It to a maxim. Still, without making pretence to such an anachronism as absolute new ness. the relative position of Sir John Severn? and Mrs. Chester must. 1 think, he admitted to contain some un wonted element:! of originality. For a young and beautiful woman, modest as she is beautiful, to sink at i jour feet and in the tirst hour of ac quaintance cover your hand* with j kisses is nn experience that. I make bold to say. falls uot to the lot of one man out of a million, and as .recards 1 that millionth?well, unless he be a Very hardened cynic Indeed, let him look to it narrowly that he become not on the instant a slave! Sir John Severne is tlve-and-twenty, I less of a cynic than some lads who I have not left off their Eton jackets, and with a heart, up to the present tluio. untouched by passion?yes. al though he signs himself the most de voted of Clementina llardcastle. and for three years past has worn Clem entina's portrait against his waistcoat. So. when on. the day succeeding Paul's llshing expedition the young fel low finds himself again approaching Mrs. Chester's presence, sot's her, a'ar off. quit the baud of workers in tho l:ay Held, and walk unabashed toward him. her hand outstretched, the frank est smile of welcome 011 her lips? when this moment comes, young Sev erne. to his surprise, discovers the meaning of the word "shyness" for tho first time in his life, and colors. "I was beginning to think the lanes were playing you false again, or?or that you had gone away to England without remembering us." Thus she greets him. her round, soft face, with its linlo of pale gold, its full-loading hazel eyes, seeming as the face of ono of Raphael's virgins, in Severn's sight. "And I wanted so much to thank you t^rioutdy for your great goodness. I could not sleep last night for thinking how cold, how poor my words must have sounded; but indeed," her volco sinking in a way that threatens tears, "I was too wild with terror to know exactly what I said or did." Happily for Mr John, who can feel quickly enough?too quickly, perhaps ill situations where 'twere wisest to feel nothing, yet possesses the true British incapacity for uttering graceful sentiments at the fitting moment. Paul just now runs up beside his motner; Paul with Ills clothing reduced to a minimum, his tattered straw hat a few degrees more tattered than yes terday, his sunburnt Hurlllo face aglow with excitement. "Hullo, Musslcu I'Ang'las." he cries. All the neatly framed thanksgiving speech that Daphne has laboriously taught him forgotten. "Allons done!" Holding out his hand, patronizingly, if Sir John. "Allons Jouer a 'pousse m? J'qnaral' avec les babonlns!" And In five minutes' time Severn! finds himself among a crowd of glrU and children, now pulled this way. noW that, through the mazes of catch mei that-cntch-can, whllo Paul, sturdll* grasping his hand, shrieks aloud wltn triumph over every fresh Instance In which Mussieu l'Ang'iaz shows his Ig norance of the game. All throughout the neighborhood of Flef-de-ln-Heine the farming Is strictly, co-operative, the Ideas as to paid laboi held by these peasant lords of the soil being pretty much on a level wltli those of small English farmers of ^ hundred years ago. To be Continued. The co-at of tiio pension roll Is $1.75 a year for every man, woman and child in tho United States. Queer EnplTsh Court Decision*. A new act of false teeth wan award ??rt last May as damages to a Clapton 'oachman who had bitten upon a small chble which had somehow got Into a -teak-pyddlng hrt was eating at a cof 'ee shop, and broken anil strained tho ?et of teeth he was lining; while "tho Irst and second pick of the next Utter if pups" was the amount of damage* ?ravely entered for a Plalstow dog fancier who had hml a little troublo with another of the craft as to the disposal of some pedigree fox terri er*. \ , Hare you a workshop In which to repair tools? Whittle trees, hoe handle* and (he like shopld be repaired rainy days and uot left until tbe busy time when they are needed most. Tho Wftd im * . Kow Is the time Is raise your crop it weed aeed for next year. Ho great IVout ef care Is fteedtd to seflUre a large crop but you trill bote to huatle next year in order to keep down tbc.r | progeny. ?lata a Seat ?Im Saw* Feed tbe sowa that nave summer pigs slops ratlier than too much grain, and don't encourage tbe ptga to eatj much corn yet. Give them siop. But don't feed sour slop. We've told you that before. Patting StrmwUwrlee. Autumn Is uot considered as good a time for setting strawberries as tbe spriug, but there is a word to ue aa.d. If tbe ground Is ready and there is time to set them they will get estab-. lisbed before cold weather. Next spriug Ihey will be ready to grow and ?.1I1 get a good start before the new beds are set. They will bear a small crop If allowed to do so, but It is J better to pick off the blossoms and i let the streugth of tbe pisnt go to the | new growth. A grest difficulty Is the) fall drouth. If the ground Is molat the | plants should grow well enough.?Na tional Fruit Grower. A Omri Wait*. "One of the,most universal wastes on the farm/' said the late Colonel J. H. Brigbam, Assistant Secretary of Agri culture, "arises from the practice of keeplug acrub stork, which Is likely to occasion loss mther than profit. Co Incident with this is the common waste resulting fi-oui careless feeding and lack of proper shelter for and atten tion to farm stock. Tbe neglect of probably the majority of farmers to keep close account of the various de tails of farm expense nud production results In farmers continuing to raise | this scrub stock whereas they would otherwise weed it out without delay." t'runtnic Cumati. The fruit is borne on both old and new wood, but the best fruit Is pro-1 duced by one, two and three-yenr-o:<l canes. After throe years of age the old wood should bo cut out, leaving from four to eight stems of varying ages not exceeding three years. No wood over three years of age should be kept, as It then bccomes hollow and rough barked, and harbors, worms. In fleet eggs and fungous spores. To de stroy these the old wood should al ways be cut out, gathered and burnetl Immediately after removal, and not left lying around, as Is sometimes done. The old idea of training the currant In the form of a tree is not now con sidered profitable, but rather the plant Is allowed to sucker, and send up many steins, the number being limited as above described.?N. K. llomestcad, in the Mirror and Farmer. Hoi Cliolera. 1 think calomel u sure cure If given In time for hog cholera. I do not know the minimum dose that will cure, nor do I know whether It will salivate or uot. 1 have not salivated any. Last year 1 had three sows and one Ittter of small pigs. 1 put ubout one fourth teaspoouful calomel In wheat bread, three pieces; two sows ate and got well; one refused and died. .1 car ried the pigs about seventy-five yards to a chicken coop. They would neither kick, blink their eyes, nor squeal. 1 gave each About as much as two doses for a growu person. They staggered back and all got well. I think a good plan to give calomel (say to a dozen hogs) shell three or four ears of corn, pour a little sorghum syrup on each grain, sprinkle the calomel on, stir so as to get the calomel as evenly through as possible; then feed. 1 liave cured hogs several times in this way. Hoping your readers will profit l>y n?.v experience, I am, respectfully, J. \V. Jones, in Home and Farm. Cte*n Nett?. A flltliy nest Is an eyesore In many a hen house. To obviate this a mova ble box, one that Is easy of access, but cannot be roosted upon, should be 1 used. The cut gives sucli a one and has been found by constant use for I , I ? ? ? years 10 bp ahead of nil others. They can bo made In two sect Ions, hut in that case a w>lkl partition should be In the centre to prevent hens Hulitlng and breaking eggs.?W. U. German, In The Epitouilst. A Ooml Pre*?? ?*?!?#. In giving the readers of this depart ment the beifcflt of the method most used for the preservation of prrs, It in done with the hope that tl;e okkh thus preserved will be lined at home, or. If ?old, sold strictly on their merit*. It Is the selling of preserved ejrgs as "strict ly fresh" that has ruined the poultry business of more than one mnn. If one has strictly fresh eggs Hint ho can guarantee In midwinter, fell them as such and demand the highest price. If the ettgs offered are preserved, s:iy so. The beat cgR preservative now known is water jriass, or, In other words, a solution of silicate of sodium procurable at any drug store. I'ut tne solution In an earthen vessel, add nine times Its bulk of water, and put in It a* many eggs as the somtlon will ?ever. Then place a cover over the vessel and place It In a cool sella*. Eggs preserved now la the manner described will keep In good cot dltiou for seven or eight months. It la nec essary that the eggs be perfectly fresh when they are pnt In the preserving fluid, or they will not keep as long as stated. | t \ ? , Tsmh m Wiw?. Ia ilae casea out of tea when thrush occurs It Is duo to the horse standing In tilth, so that the prevention of the trouble is plain to be seen. Investiga tion will prove that the majority of the how? afflicted with thrush are heavily fed and given little exercise, and, as stated, stand In filth. While there sre many honest differences or opinion as to what material constitute* the best floor for a horse, It Is certain that the floor must be kept reasonably elenn or the animal will contract dis ease of some kind. The best treat ment for thrush is to cleanse the foot thoroughly, soaking It well in water a* hot as the horse will stsnd. If neces sary, and then place calomel lu all the crevices of the frog, covering it with oakum to hold It in place; this .dressing mnst be. changed dally. Place the horse in a large box stall and provide a heavy bed of straw so that there 'will be a sort of cushion for the feet at all times. While the horse Is In the stall and not fit to exercise a great deal, cut the rations down, beins careful that the animal has sufficient variety to keep the bowels In good condition. As soon ss the animal can be given exercise It should he taken out of doors several times a day. The dressing should be faithfully applied until the discharge of matter ceascs. A Grlml tono Frmme. A correspondiMit has drawn an ont llne of what he lias done with an old wheel that had passed its nscfuluess on the road, and he says: "1 there fore made a grindstone frame of it. and It works so well that If 1 could not procure another money would not buy It. In const ruction it is very sim ple. Anybody handy with tools can ? BICYCLK (SHJND8TONX* make It. The seat ia two-inch chest nut plank. You will notice that the sent plank has a nock (that Is so the less can use font pedals). The sprocket, of the bark bicycle wheel C Is on the axle of the grindstone. A is the sprocket as It belongs on the wheel chain to connect with the grindston* sprocket; B the frame Inserted in the scat, a one-Inch hole being bored it* the same; 1) a single leg to prevent It from being front heavy; K ft foot pedal, connected with the front leg it* connection F to pedal bar <3, both made of hard wood one by two inches. ?>*? Hay. Farmers who Intend making oat bay should keep carefill watch on the crop that It does not become too mature. For bay, oats should be harvested when the grain is in the dongh stage, not when ripe enough to thresh. When cut at this time there will be no dan ger of losing any of the gvain, aa It wlM not shell, and the qnali y or straw will also be worth much more as n feed. The stems and leaves of the plant can all be saved and they will cure into very good feed for almost any, class of stock. Of course If the crop is intended for eecd or grain, it shonld not be harvested until thoroughly ma tured. It should be remembered, how ever, that a day or two of nice grow ing weather will make n great differ ence in the condition of any crop, cs peeinlly when near maturity. For this reason we say, keep close tab upon them, and no matter what tlipy are to be harvested for, endeavor to do the cutting at just the right period. Weather conditions may sometimes in terfere with one's harvest, and that, of course, cannot very well be helped, but as far as pogsiMe every farmer should make It a point to have all con ditions under his control and then see that everything Is done exactly oo time. Every year there are many dol lars' worth of crops lost by neglect in harvesting them at just the right time. Overripe crops, especially grains, are alway's bandied with great loss, even at the best. Be on time, and by so do ing save pounds of roughage feed when in prime condition and every bushel of grain when mature, and when It wil) cost the least to harvest.?Farmer'* Guide, Farm Hint a. A cross-bred animal should never b* chosen as a breeder. There Is no single breed that pos sesses only good qualities. 4 Nothing so surely Impoverishes tb# farm as the selling of hay. With improved stork, to insure su<> cess, must come improved treatment ? Any kind of live stock will depre* elate In vulne when cut short iu their rations. Always sift coal ashes before putting them In the dust box for the uso of poultry. In hot weather especially, horses sub ject to colic should be handled with great care. t All things considered the best place to put manure is on a freshly plowed soil. Haul out as fast as made. A little care In the matter of water ing atid feeding horses will prevent much sickness and consequent loss. In breeding, other things being equal, the more vigorous animal tends to Impress Itself upon the progeny. It Is much easier to tell how a thing4 should he done than it is to demon strate the advantages of a plun by, experiment. w rubllc revenue of Great Britain tho quarter ended June 30 was flfc, 4R-20 below ths sauie quarter las! year. '