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DIVINE AWE. To tremble -when I touch her hands ?With .we :Lat no man understands, To feel soft reverence arise "When., lo?er sweet, I meet her eyes; To Bee her beauty grow and shine "When most I feel this awe divine Whate'er befall me this is mine, And where about the room she mores My spirit follows her and love? -G. E. Woodberry in Century. A STRONG MAN. The weekly coach was due at Sonth City, and all the inhabitants were ea? rly awaiting its arrival. The Diggers' Arms was, as usual, crowded, and against its hospitable walls' lounged those unable to get in. Suddenly a crack, ?ond and reverberating, sounded ip the clear mountain air, and with a whoop and a rattle the great coach lum? bered up. The driver, a cheery Yankee, who knew his men as well as he did his feoxses, shouted: "Eave you heard the news, boys? No! Well, I'll tell you North City has imported a parson!" "A what!" shouted the miners, jeal? ous of their own town. * 'Areal live parson, and, what's more, they've turned the old saloon into a meeting house." There was a long standing feud be? tween North City and South City, which -flated from the first gold rush, and many and useless were the buildings that the rival towns had erected to "go cae better" than the other. All looked toward Texas Joe, an old and tough miner, who by a brevity of speech and a quick use of his gun had long held the perilous position of dicta? tor to the neighborhood. Noone spoke-indeed ne one quite cared ta At length the oracle, shifting ids plug from one cheek to the other, said: "Pass the word that there'll be a meeting here of all the boys at 6 sharp. }? It ain't to Se allowed that a young above ahead village like North City is to take the shine out of ns. No, sir, it - ain't likely." Long before 6 the whole adult pop? ulation was collected near the saloon, ?nd it was clear that no room would ircid the crowd. Finally an open air meeting was proposed and carried-mo? tions moved by Texas Joe generally were-and the dictator took the "bar 1 rel." "Men of South City, " he began, "you 31*11 know why this here meeting is call? ed. We have been made fools of by the people away yonder, ' ' waving his hand Jttorthwarri, "and it ain't to be. They i Joave beer: presumptuous enough to get a parson, as if the inhabitants of these parts want either doctors or parsons, und are cracking on about it no end/ Now, I arin't more religious than most, ?till I say, " kicking his heel in the bar? rel to emphasize his words, "that it's a real disgrace to us that we ain't got a parson too. Now, what I say is this: North City have got a parson; South City will have one too. They have got a traveling cuss;.we will have a man of our own, a chap wot's got some edu? cation. That'll fix 'em up, you bet" A redhaired Cornishman, who hated Joe, ventured to say: "I vote we have a good chapel man; he'll be a sight cheaper and will be more of our own way of tninkicg." "Now, Treleaven, you dry up. 'Pis copals i know. Catholics I know, but I know not bing and care less about fancy religions, and we'll have one from the bishop or we'll have none at all." A chorus of approving voices showed that Joe had tbeeafexi?%he meeting, and tho Cornishman "SiFsily drew back "Now, it carn't be dene without money. I ain't got much, still I'll give $20,"-said the chairman. "I'll give $r>!" "I'.igive$10!" "Here, take my dust!" "Here's for the skyscraper!" were heard on all sides, and amid a scene of v.-ila excitement Texas Joe, aft? er counting the collection on the barrel ?ead, said, "We'll have the best there is to be g. x-we've got $400. " He beamed a? the crowd and saw genuine satisfac? tion on every face in front of him. Then, with a queer smile on his face, Treleavan pushed his way to the front and said : "T call that a good start, and now all we've got to do is to write to Frisco, for there's sere to be a boss there who will send us up the man we want. I vote that the chairman write and see to the whole job." A dead pause followed this, for almost every man knew that Joe conld neither reac ncr write. He rose slowly, with his pis? tol in his hand. "Now, look here, mates, there's a kind er nasty twang about the last speaker's remarks that I don't like. I ain't a pushing man, but of course I'll write if Mr. Treleaven wants me to. Say, do you now?" he asked, looking intently at the Cornishman as he did so. The crowd fell away cn all sides, for the air seemed a little heavy. "No. P'raps yonng Green, the last tenderfoot, had better write it. We oughtn't to put it ail on you,?Joe. No offense, " he muttered. "Ah," said Joe, "just as you like. New, Green, get paper and a pen." The crowd gathered again. "Give the boy room. Now just you write." With admiration the miners listened while Jj? dictated the following letter : SOUTH OTT, Cal., U. S. A. HONORED SIR-Xorth City have got a chapel parson and South City felt tuat the time has come to have a real college parson living in the town. A weak man ain't no use, cos we want a strong man fit to ira the show proper. We send $400 for exes. Yours truly, THE INHABITANTS oe SOUTH VIEW. "Now, boys," said Joe, "it's my shout." Sooth City was en fete. The miners, unusually clean, were waiting for the arrival of the man who was to fairly knock North City. Their hopes had been raiaed to a high pitch by the re? ceipt of a letter from San Francisco in? forming them that a real strong man was coming up to put them in the way they should go. The excitement grew intense as the hour drew near when the coach was due, culminating in a mighty cheer wnen the driver finally puliea np op; site the saloon.. Several passengers j down, bot no ono answering to the < scription of a strong man left the coat Finally Texas Joe said to the driv "Say, where's your new parson?" "There, sitting on his trunk,": plied the man, with a grin on his fae? All eyes turned toward a young, sl? der looking man, who, with eyes twi kling with amusement, was watchi his new congregation. Seeing that son thing was expected of him, he came f < ward and held out his hand. "Men of South City," he began, ir clear, musical voice, "I have been se up here to act, if yon will have me, "your new parson. Something tells i we are going to be gocd friends, and won't be my fault if we aren't. Then lots for me to learn from you and pe haps I can do a little for you too. " His face was ,so boyish, his hair curry and such an air of sincerity ai truth seemed to surround him that t miners, although deeply disappointe felt their hearts go out to him. *.*.*.? One sultry afternoon the parson South City was sitting in his room, prey to the deepest depression. With s the eagerness that youth and zeal cou supply he had done his best to raise h people, and he had failed and he kne it. He saw his miners, at first sham lessly and then openly, stay away fro his little church, and his heart was sic within him. He was wondering if were worth while staying on when h door was suddenly opened and a womal disheveled and wile?, eyed, rushed in. "Oh, parson, save my boy!" si gasped, and sank on to a chair, brea tl less with her haste. "Why, Mrs. Mace, what on earth : the matter? Is your son ill?" he aske eagerly. "No, sir, he ain't ill, but he's WOK nor that-the men are going to han him." "Whatfor? Surely he hasn't bee tried. What has he done?" "Well, sir," wailed the womat "he's got into bad company lately an a man accused him of horse stealing and-and"- looking fearfully around "it's true, sir." Young and inexperienced as he wa in the ways of a frontier camp the par son knew that horse stealing was one c the deadly sins, and his face grew pal as death. "I'm afraid, Mrs. Mace, that if th men have decided to hang your son n word of mine would stay them." " And you, a minister, to say that t me, a mother! Why, it's none ?he les murder, and you know it ! Oh, sir, ' she pleaded, "there's yet time to catel them up! For God's sake, whose won you preach, try and save my boy! Wil so one help a poor mother?" She wep bitterly, while the parson in imagina tion felt himself defying the mob, anc also in imagination saw the ghastly tragedy that would ensue cn his inter ference. "Come, Mrs. Mace, let ns go anc hurry, and perhaps we may do some good." Seizing his hat, he ran fron the room and followed the crowd o: miners whom he saw were making f OJ some trees about half a mile out ol town. When he finally caught up tc them, all the grim preparations were made fer the execution. The rope wai around the shivering youth's neck. Sis stalwart men held the loose end, ready at a signal to launch the criminal inte eternity. With his boyish face flushed with excitement, the "parson pressed tc the front and stood side by side with the man about to die. A silence fell on the throng, broken by Texas Joe, who said: "Now, parson, ibis ain't no place fojrjrcu. Judge Lynch has had his say, ano," jim Mace is geing to De nangea, and that's so." "And who are you to take upon your? self to judge and to execute?. Don't scowl at me and finger your gun, for I'm an unarmed man, and you know it. Have not you enough blood on your hands already without- killing this boy who has broken your laws? Give him one more chance, and you may be glad yourself of it one day." The fury that occasionally comes over men of quite meek dispositions was cn the little man who stood defying the whole mob. His look seemed to daunt even the men who held the rope, and it hung loose about Mace's neck. Joe saw his authority trembling in the balance, and with pistol raised said, "Clear him out of the way, boys, or I'll shoot him where he stands." "No, you won't, Joe," said the par? son undauntedly. "You know that would be murder, and they don't love you too much, even here, to stand that." No one spoke for a moment; then the Cornishman, Treleavan, shouted out: "A life for a life! If the parson wants Mace to live, let him be hanged in? stead." The mob shrank from this cold blood? ed proposal, and, seizing the psycholog? ical moment, the parson slipped the hal? ter from Mace's neck, placed it round his own and said: "Go, my lad, turn over a new leaf and leave this town. Go, and God bless you!" The crowd opened and Mace stumbled away, looking neither to the right nor left, leaving his rescuer standing with moving lips in his place. Then Texas Joe said, with an odd break in his voice for which he could not account: "Sa}', boys-there ain't going to be no funeral today, you bet! Take oif that necktie, parson, and 1 cal? culate South City will have to do with? out you in the future. We wrote to Frisco for a stroDg parson, and may the Almighty strike m<3 dead if you aiu:t a bit too strong for Give us yer fist, parson, aud" - significantly - "good by."-St. Paul's Gravel .Tor jt'ovl*. Now that there is so much snow upen the ground a good supply of gravel in the henhouse is most important. With? out some gravel in their crops with which to grind their food hens will often become crop boned and die. A good supply of gravel is necessary to enable fowls to make the most of the nutrition in their food. Lack of it is more Gften the cause of soft eggshells than an; other. The Repartee. i Even Dr. Johnson was won over by Wilkes' delightful manners until they were found by Boswell "reclined upon their chairs, with their heads leaning almost close to each other and talking earnestly in a kind of confidential whis? per of the personal quarrel between George II and the king of Prussia. It presented to my mind the happy days which are foretold in Scripture, when the lion shall lie down with the kid. " According to Boswell, "when Wilkes and I sat together each glass of wine produced a nash of wit, like gunpowder thrown into the fire-puff, puff!" But Wilkes hardly confirmed this, for he thought the famous "Life" the work "of an entertaining madman, " in which "much was put down to Boswell-which was undoubtedly said by Johnson what the latter did, and the former could not say." We can well imagine that an encounter with Boswell would have many charms for Wilkes. No man ever lived who conld adapt his wit better to his company. Compare his chaff of the alderman, formerly a bricklayer, who was trying to carve a turbot with a knife-"Use a trowel, brother, use a trowel"-with his reply to Mme. de Pompadour when she asked kim, "How far is it safe to go in j England against the royal family?" "That is what I am trying to find out, madame." There are few more really j witty replies recorded than that made to the prince regent, who asked him at dinner when he drank to the king's health, "How long have you been so loyal, Wilkes?" "Ever since I knew your royal highness. "-Cornhill Maga? zine. Sensitizing Paper. There are two ways of sensitizing pa? per. One is to apply the solution with a brush,- and the other is to float the salt? ed paper on the surface of the liquid. Thin papers like Eives photographic paper take the solution quickly and do I not require so many applications of the. solution if it is applied with a brush, or so long a soaking if floated on the liquid as do the heavy, rough papers like Whatman's drawing paper or cray? on paper. / The paper is first salted, and it ~i? better to have this done by the dealer in photographic goods, as it is much easier to apply the sensitive solution than it is to salt the paper. If photo? graphic paper is used, ask for fresh salt? ed paper, but if drawing paper is used tako it to the dealer and have it salted. The expense is very trifling, a sheet of j salted paper costing only a cent or twe more than the plain paper. The sensitizing solution is made of 240 grains of nitrate of silver and o ounces of distilled or filtered v.'ater. Dissolve the nitrate of silver crystals in the water, and then add strong liquid ammonia drop by drop, stirring the so? lution constantly until the brown pre? cipitate which is formed by the addi? tion of the ammonia has disappeared and the liquid is clear. Not more than 75 drops of ammonia should be added to the solution, and if it does not clear when this amount has been added clear the solution by filtering. - Hamper's Bound Table. A Sixteenth Century Letter* The following copy of a letter, writ? ten in 1595 by a young lady when re? siding with a lady of rank as attendant in her waiting room, an office carrying no menial service with it and ranch sought after by the daughters of gentle? folk, may be interesting : To my good Mother, Mrs. Parke, at Byoura ' field: DEAR MOTHER-My humblo dutyo remen bered unto my father and yon, &c. I received on Wednesday last a letter iron my I<??het and you, whereby I understand it ia rour pleasure that I should certifie yon what t imes 1 do take for my lute and the rest ol. my exer? cises. I doe for the most part playc of my lute after supper, for tnen comnionlic my Lidj heareth me, and in the morninges after I am reddielplaye an ho wer and my wrightiiige! and siferinge after I have done my lute. Fe: my drawinge I take an bower in the after nowne and my French at night before supper. My Lady hathe not been well these toe days, she telleth me when she is well that she will see if Hilliard will come and teche me ; if nhe can by any means she will. I hope I shall per? forme my dutye to my Lady with all care and regard to please her and to behave myselfe to everye one else as it shall become me. Mr. Har risone was with me upone Fridaye, he heard me play and brought me a dusson of trebles. ? bad some of him when I came to London. Thus desiringe pardone for my rude writinge, I leave you to the Almightie, desiringe Him tc increase in you all health and happiness. Your obedient daughter. REBECCA PARKE. Negroes With Ked Hair. "A man sees lots of funny things while traveling around the country, but the most peculiar sight I ever say was in Omaha the last time I was there," said Charles Killinger of Cincinnati. "While walking along the street there one day I saw two negroes with hair as red as any red hair you ever saw. lb was as kinky as the negro wool usually ls. It was a funny sight, and I stopped to look at them as they went down tho street. A friend of mine who resides there told me those negroes had come from the south some years ago and as . far as he knew were full blooded darkies. Six fingered people are not uncommon, but for freaks those darkies took the j cake."-Denver Republican. Mistakes of the "Publisher's Reader." I was speaking of seme of my expel?- j enees as a publisher's "reader." a few ! years ago, in a recent conversation, with j a friend, who told me that Mr. John j Morley had read "Mr. Isaacs" fer j Messrs. Macmillan and had advised ; against its publication on the ground ! that while it would be a mo.st creditable j book to have on their list, there would j be no sale for it. In the light of subse- ! quent events this is rather amusing, hut j it only proves that even so astute a cri?- j ic as Mr. Morley is not infallible.-in ! other words, that he is human.-Critic, j No Need of It at All. "Have you given up your idea of mastering some European language?" said the courtier. "Yes," replied the Chinese emperor. "What's the use? There is no means o? telling which I will need in order to talk to my neighbors."-Washington Star. . NIGHT. - The atm ha a swished ont of nor sight, Aud the moments sadly roll, For irv heart is dark with the thought lil night. And the night is in my soul. The day is set and never will rise, And my heart is sick and sore. For the sweet, sweec light of my true love'* eyc-s Will shine for me no mere. My very sleep of rest is shorn, . I am full of pain and care Sick with the thought of what I have boras And of what is left to bear. I see the rose with blushes fired, I hear the brook run by, But I am tired, so sick and tired, I almost long to die. For I know the sun will dry the stream, And the flow'ret fade in the frost, And I know that my dream is all a dream And the charm of the dream is lost There will never, never be any more light, For my hope and I must part, And my soul is dark with the thought cf night, And the night is in my heart. y -Alice Cary in New York Ledger. NEW YORK'S GROWTH. The City Has Xever Halted Since It Was First Fairly Started. Erness Ingersoll writes a paper on the Greater New York, entitled "Beasonin;: Out a Metropolis," for St. Nicholas. Mr. Ingersoll says: The people of New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island and certain nearby north? ern towns resolved to join themselves together into one city, which is now thc Greater New York. It embraces 341 . square miles of territory and includes a population pf nearly 3,400,000. Besides these at least another million dwell on the New Jersey side of the Hudson river, quite as near and ag closely identified with the great city on Manhattan Island as are those of the northern and eastern suburbs. Thi.= makes a population of nearly 4,500, COU which may be said to belong to New York, making it not only by far the largest center of human life and inter? ests in? America, but, excepting only London, the most populous spot on thc globe. How has it happened that this vast city has grown up where it stands': Why did not the American metropolis, arise somewhere else? Is its position ail an accident, or does history shew sound reasons for its situation? The earliest settlement here was merely a tradin; station that gradually became a small seaport, like a dozen others along the coast. Before the year 1700 these were so nearly alike that he would have been a wise prophet who truly foretold which would thrive. Indeed many men of that day firmly'believed that Newport and Annapolis were to be the two great American seaports. Great cities arise at the points where the greatest number of people find it convenient to meet at first for business and later for pleasure. You cannot force a city td grow in au unnatural or unsuit? able situation, and it is no easier to pre? vent a city from growing in its proper place. But the conditions that change a village into a big town and expand the town into a city or metropolis aro not the same in different parts of the globe and vary with the march of the cen? turies; so that now many an ancient j world market, like Nineveh or Mem? phis, has totally disappeared, while towns like Berlin have lately increased with amazing; rapidity, after a long his? tory as small and insignificant places. As for New York, it has never halted or gone backward for a moment sines it was fairly starred on its career in [ 1623. _ - I Try Holding Your Breath. The modern quick moving elevator, when it sinks suddenly, gives many persons an unpleasant, qualmish feeling. Into a well filled elevator in a big ?hop ping store the other day stepped from one of the floors two women. "Do you know," said ene of them to the other, "that if you hold your breath going down in an elevator you don't have that unpleasant feeling; you don't feel it at alL" Of course nobody in the elevator lis? tened intentionally, but- nobody could help hearing what she said. Conversa? tion instantly ceased, and everybody drew a long breath. The elevator shot downward in silence. "Ground floor!" said the elevator man as he threw back the door, and the women streamed cut from the cay upon the floor, talking now gayly, and there was one at least who said that the plan was effective.-New York Sun. One For the Debsitiny Club. A group of half a- dozen physicists, ali eminent ; a sheet cf paper, a pencil. With the latter one of the group draws a pulley, a cord over the pulley, a tree, a bough from which the pulley haugs. To one end of tho cord is attached a stone, to the other cord clings a mon? key. Tho 6tone balances the monkey. If the monkey proceeds to climb up the cord, what will happen? Will the stone rise or fall? Heated discussion ; break up of the party; no result. Can any of your readers help to settle this question? -Alfred Jingle in Engineer. The Smallest Kloctric Motor. I What is Miid to be the smallest elco- j trie motor in existence was made to be j wpm as a scarfpin by D. Gordin, a jew- ! ?ler and watchmaker of McKinney. 1\ >;. | Complete it weighs 1 pennyweight grains. The iront of thc motor is Pi highly pi?"i?hed ??old, and the commuta? tor segments are also of gold. Viewed from the front tho motor presents only a poid appearance. The field magnet? j are made of two thicknesses of No. 22 ! sheet iron scraped down and polished, j These are held together wit ii gold screws and wound with No. 28 silk covered wire. The armature is of tbe four pole j type and is wound with No. 3G wire, j The little brushes arc of hammered co])- j per and tire, of course, very thin. There ! is a small poid switch on a black rubber base, made with a pin, to be worn on ] the lapel of tho vest. A small chloride : of siiver battery, carried in the vest ? pocket, furnishes current for the opera- ? tion of the little machine. The motor runs at a very high speed, and its hum? ming can be distinctly Heard by any one standing nea.r the wearer.-New York STATE AID FOR ROADS. A Recognition That This Is the Sointion of the Good Roads Problem. The strongest impetus which the good reads movement has received in many years past was the passage by the New York legislature of the Higbie-Arm stroi.^ good roads bill, says the Chicago Times-Herald. It is significant of the rapid growth of public sentiment in favor of state aid to highway constriction that the oppo? sition to the me? re could muster only 39 votes. TT - chis bill, which has become a lav, "je state appropriation for this-year to expend for highway im? provement will be $50,000, which, it is estimated, will amount to 1 cent per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or 2% cents on the average ?2,500 farm. The size of each year's appropriation is fixed by the legislature, and as the good results of the law become more discernible and more generally recog? nized it is not improbable that public sentiment will demand in a few years a much larger appropriation. Under the provisions by which a county is author? ized to apply for a portion of the good roads appropriation the law becomes a home rule measure. If the appropriation should be increased to $1,000,000 in any year, the average tax on each ?2,500 farm would be only 50 cents, which seems a trilling expenditure considering the immeasurable benefits that accrue to agriculturists through good highways to the markets. With such a notable example of what the state can do in the way of encour? aging the construction of good highways afforded by her neighbor, New Jersey, the wonder is that New York did not inaugurate the state aid system long ago. Under the New Jersey law the state bears one-third the expense, the size of the appropriation being deter? mined by the legislature. Under the stimulus of state aid nearly every coun? ty in the state is now building macadam roads, while there are already so many miles of stone roads in the state that it can be traversed in every direction without leaving them. Nineteen c the 21 counties cf the state have this yeal made application for their shares of the appropriation. The action of the New York legisla? ture is gratifying recognition of the fact that state aid is the ultimate solution of the good roads problem. CARE OF THE TEETH. Important Points In Use of Toothbrush That Are Often Neglected. It is but a little thing, says the hos? pital, yet on its proper use dependa much of the happiness of modern man Why civilized teeth should be so rotten is a question which has often been de? bated, and probably the true answer is more complex than some would think. Many good mothers are content to put all toothache down to lollipops, but that sugar in itself is not responsible for bad teeth is proved by the splendid "ivories" often possessed by negroes, who practically live upon the sugar cane and thrive upon it, too, during the whole of the season when it is in ma? turity. Dental decay is common enough, how? ever, among negroes in towns, and it seems clear that the caries of the teeth, which is so common among civilized races, is due not to any particular arti? cle of diet so mnch as to digestive and nutritive chauges imposed upon us by our mode of life, and to somo extent by the fact that by hook or crook we do somehow manage to live, notwithstand? ing our bau teeth, whereas in a state of nature the toothless mau soon dies. Recognizing, then, thac until the tima arrives when some groat social reformer either mends or ends our present social conditions, cur teeth will teud to rot and that, whatever the predisposing causes, the final act in the production of caries is the lodgment of microbes ou and around the teeth, we see that fer long to come the toothbrush will be a necessity if the health is to be main? tained. It is only by frequent use of this lit? tle instrument that those minute accu? mulations can be removed which are the root of so much mischief. A few elementary lessons in bacteriology would, we fancy, greatly startle many people and certainly would show them the futility of trusting to one scrub a day. The fact is that if people, instead of looking at the toothbrush from an aesthetic point of view and scrubbing away with tooth powders (?) to mako their front teeth white, would regard it merely as an aid to cleanliness, they would see that the time to use it is aft? er meals and at night, not just in the morning only, when the debris left from the day before has been ferment? ing and brewing acid all night through. They would also see how insufficient an instrument the common toothbrush is unless it is used with considerable judg ment. One of tbe secondary advantages of ??pending a good deal of money on den? tistry is that at least ono learns the value of one's teeth. By tho time we have got them dotted over with gold stoppings aud gold crowns we learn to take care cf them, eveu although that may involve the troublo of cleaning them more thai, once a day aud using ? perhaps more than enc brush for the j Suiting: Both Parties. Peor Wife (to husband, whose loud snoring keeps her awake)-Charlie, | Charlie, do stop snoring. Turn over on j your side. (Nudges him). Husband, only half awake, grunts, turns cn his side and continues to snore. Wife bas a happy idea. Remembers j a lino from an article culled "How to ! Prevent Snoring. " Gives her husband i a secoud nudge, which elicits anotbei j grunt. "Ob, Charlie, if you'd keep ; your mouth shut, you'd bo all right." Charlie (semiconscious)-So would you.-Loudon Answers. Good Sewing Machines from $10 00 up at Randie's I' \ ou want a good, honest eewicg machine ; trade, see Randie. ? NEW YORK'S ROAD LAW. By Its Provision? the State Will Aid lr highway Construction. In spits of opposition, mostly fros: rural districts, the state of New Fork has placed a road law on the statute books. The measure is not mandatory. It carries no appropriation and there caa be no cost to the state unless a:a item of |50,000 or $100,000 be placed in the supply bill to carry out the provision? for state aid. If no county in the state wants good roads, then even this appro priation will be returned to the treasury of the state. In other words, the law will depend for its operation on the desire for good roads. If a county wishes to take ad? vantage of its provisions, the law di? rects that the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution asking the state en? gineer for plans and estimates on the work of constructing certain improved highways. When they get this information, the supervisors are to adopt a final resolu? tion declaring their intention of geing on with the work. This done, the state engineer is authorized to take charge and build the highway. The state pays one-half the cost of the improved road, the county 35 per cent and the locality benefited 15 per cent. The whola matter of acting under the law is left with each county to decide for itself. The only mandatory section of the bill is one providing that if a ma? jority of the property owners along a highway petitions the supervisors foran estimate of what it would cost to im? prove that highway, then the super? visors must adopt a resolution asking such information of the state engineer. The second step is left permissive, and the supervisors can refuse to order the building of new roads. The opposition to the bill meant sim? ply that a considerable number of the farmers of New York do not know what a good road is, remarks the New York Times. IE they did, they would not con? tinue to believe that a dirt road made with a scraper was "good enough.'* Nothing is good enough for traffic that becomes a bog for several months in tho year. In every community in which good roads have been introduced they have been found to more than repay the expenditure upon them, and no farmer who has used them would think of go? ing back to the old system or want of system. A few sample miles of good road in every county would form an object lesson that would convert the community. Such an object lesson will be provided under the new law, and after that the cause of good reads will &ke care of itself. Fodder Corn For the Lambs. Plant a bit of fodder corn, none of the sweet kinds, in readiness for the weaned lambs by and by. It is food and cool shelter for them. Plant in rows 30 inches apart and plant ten inches apart in the rows. By using the succeeding ! early kinds one may have fresh feeding all through the summer and np to frost. Before the flock is turned out for the ! summer the feet should be put in the j best condition. The sole should be pared and the toes clipped; otherwise there may be trouble with sore feet.-Ameri? can Cultivator. Uve Stock Points. v* We cannot commend too strongly to j live stock breeders the planting of for? age crops. If in the fall and early win? ter one has not plenty of clover to feed breeding ewes, the best substitute is a mixture of oats and field peas nnthrash ed. They bring on the winter lamb tc perfection both before and after its birth. The peas supply nitrogen, which is the strong component of clover itself. An excellent way, perhaps the best way, to mix the peas and oats is to sow them together in the field, two bushels or oats and one no^hel of peas to an acre. Cut and cure like hay. Lambs very soon learn to eat. When yon are hurrying them on for market, give them so soon as they begin to eat in addition to their mothers' milk a mixture of cornmeal, oats and bran. Put it in a creep where the grown sheep cannot disturb it, but where the lambs can get it whenever they choose. It will bring them on amazingly. A good grain food for a brood mare with a colt is a mixtura of two-thirds wheat bran and one-third ground oats. Add two tablespoonfuls of linseed meal a day if the animal is constipated. Tim? othy hay goes with the above grain diet. If the mare is wanted for work, give her in addition a little corn. Hungarian grass makes an excellent food for horses and cattle. Sheep are also fond of it. Hungarian grass hay may be sown early in June. Its nutri? tive value is higher than that of tim? othy, but not equal to clover. Cut this grass and enre it as soon as the first brown begins to show upon the heads. This :s important. The most nutritious coarse food for horses is clover. It is, however, very bulky and a horse's stomach is compar? atively small. The horse fed on clover hay must therefore have a liberal supply of OP* . to balance the ration, and givo him enough to eat. With timothy hay wheat bran makes a good ration mixed with the oats. Here is Dr. C. D. Smead's prescrip? tion for worms in a colt: Go to the druggist and have him put up for yon the following: Tartar emetic one-half ounce, granulated tugar three ounces; mix, divide into six powders. Give one in a feed of wheat bran every morning for six mornings an hour before any other food is given. After the last powder, before any food is given, give as a drench one-fourth ounce of Barba? dos aloes and a teaspoonful cf ginger. ood's Best to take after dinner; prevent distress, aid diges? tion, cure constipation. Purely vegetable: do not gripe or cause rain. Sold by all druggists. 25 cent?. Prepared only by C^L.Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. P ls