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[AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE XO FARM AND GARDEN. "Work the Bulls. They lea in a few days to work single or double, in horse power, cart, Wagon, plow, harrow, on farm or highTXTAt? T'Katr KonAmo oa Knrmldca fln^ (ifl Idle as the gentlest oxen, are much less dangerous than horses, and in some things do more satisfactory work. I worked them many years. Working makes them better sires and their progeny more hardy and thrifty. They should be well fed and cared for, and the vast amount and variety of work done by them will many times overpay tho expense of their keeping. If worked properly they acquire no bj\d habits. When worked double they never fight or annoy each other when out of harness, in pasture or at the manger.?JS'eio York Herald. Mineral Manures for Onions. Onions need rich soil. It can hardly be too rich, but burnyard manures, unless thoroughly decomposed, are not the thing to fertilize with. They are apt to be filled with weed seeds. They are in the way of cultivation if used as top dressing, and they make the land too loose and porous if plowed under. 1 Unions need a ratner nrm sou unaer them, with just enough loose, fine loam | near the surface for a s-eed bed. Manuring with mineral fertilizers obviates all these objections. There is a further advantage in top-dressing with potash or phosphate that it tends to make the soil more compact. Onions, unlike most I other crops, can be grown year after year I . on the same ground and with increasing success. If the plant yets what potash | and phosphate it requires, it apparently j does not need that the soil be kept mel-! low to any great depth, as most other crops do.?Bodon Cultivator. Care of Chickens in AVinter. Chickens are the most accommodating things in tae world; they will eat almost everything that any other animal will, and accept most thankfully the refuse that nothing else would look at. In winter, when their food is necessarily restricted to whatever is given them, care should be laken to afford them as great a variety as possible, and at least once a day something green should be put before them, as cabbage, turnips, I beets, potatoes, etc. It would also be ! richer, to give them vitality to endure ' the cold. For their benefit, then, the i bits of fat meat, outside slices of boiled , meat, old gravies, etc., should be collected each day from the kitchen and I dining-room and be mixed "with their eoft food. This is best food to them in the morning or at noon, and the grain at night, because the latter requires a longer time for digestion.?lieto York Obitroer. Sweeny and Its Care. Sweeny, or the wasting away of the flesh and muscles of the shoulder, is the : common result of all injuries which entail a disease of the limb. A sore foot | or any injury which will prevent the use j of the liinb is very likely to cause {i ; shrinking of the muscles in the shoulder i or elsewhere. In old and long-standing j cases only a partial restoration of the i muscles can be effected, but if proper j treatment is given in its eirly stages \ sweeny can be cured. If there is any ] swelling or tenderness in the parts, wet I cloths should be applied to reduce the J Inflammation, following with gentle exirnioo onrl ont?ro friotinn ntrnr I (muscles of the shoulder to increase cir- ! culation. If early treatment ha9 been j neglected then light blisters and bathing | in alcohol and dilute spirits of ammonia i will be very beneficial. The parts should I be rubbed briskly two or three times a I day with a wisp of hay, and the animal allowed gentle exercise on soft and j smooth ground. The restoration of the parts to their normal condition will necessarily be slow, but by perseverance a cure will usually be effected.?Heio York Sun. Sob Surface Irrigation. Sub-surface irrigation, or the method j of supplying water to the soil under the j surface by means of perforated pipes, is > becoming popular. It is no doubt a ! very convenient manner of using water, j As irrigation is the precise reverse of j draining, it may reasonably follow that ' a method of furnishing the water for j irrigation similar to that by which the ! I water is drawn from the soil by drain- ! age might be applicable, the only differ- ' ence being that the pipes for the conveyance of the water are laid near the j surface where the water can be reached ! by the most shallow-rooted crops. It is an ob ection to the system in use that; the method is patented, and parties j using perforated pipes, or perhaps aDy ! pipes at all for the purpose of irrigation, ! may be annoyed by claims similar to j those made by the well-known and despicable driven well robbery. It is right that those who arc thinking of using the sub-surface method should know this, and at the same time that perforated pipes (which are the basis of the patent) are not at all necessary, the common drain tiles, laid with "knife- i blade" joints, through which the water! will escape, are equally serviceable, and *1 1 J 1 1 I Iaa mey uiay ue useu uy simpiy reversing the slope and connecting them with a ! sufficient head of -water, they may not j conflict with the patent upon the perforated pipes. But to be entirely safe on this point it might be wise to keep to the original surface irrigation.?New York Times. The Honey Instinct. How do bees know when there is honey in the flowers? Is it by instinct, I or are they first-rate smellersi Do gay | colors attract them? During any warm day, if I melt wax, and have the door or window open, the \ room will soon be alive with bees, and they will even try to get down the chimney. Dear me! let the wax run over and burn, and there will be a bee convention in short call; or melt honey, and drop some on the stove. Is this instinct, or do they smell? I've a plum tree out there in the garden that never fails to produce a magnificent crop of blossoms, and is fragrant. Sometimes I'm tempted to put j honey on the blossoms to induce the nees to roam over them, but they know the flowers are no good and will not I produce plums, and there is no work for them to do. They cannot afford to spend their time enjoying the sweet fragrance and hovering over the delicate white bloom, for pleasure only; they want profit. If gay colors attract bees, then they ought to hold high carnival over a red clover field, for they could find both bright colors and fragrance. They are not like Oscar Wilde, for they pass great Russian sun-tiowers that are over a foot in diameter, and hover over a flower so tiny as to be almost imperceptible. The gTeat brjght peonies of our grandmothers' day, and bleeding-hearts of our own time, are passed by for the modest clover. ?Ftairis Farmer. c L?.''K Best Feed for Dairy Coirs. Farmers have a much greater sphere of influence on the flavor o1 milk produced than many suppose, or they are willing to admit. The reason why u certain number of consumers ia all large citics are fA a fQvrrtnr r\r an rr iv t"*J T* v? ?? average consumer, may seem extraordinary prices, is because they get butters of high flavor which are always uniform. The makers of these butters nearly all use clover and meadow hay and corn meal, in varying proportions with other coarse fodder and meals. The makers j who produce the finest flavors prefer i clover and meadow hay,cut on the green j side just before maturity, and carefully | cured, fed with com meal, ensilage and j roots. Forage plants harvested just be- j fore maturity contain their maximum of | nutritive matter, and therefore their highest favors. When the coloring mat- j ter of plants is allowed to bleach out, as j in hay or corn stalks, the flavor, or the i best part of it, goes with it. This fact is one of the best reasons for the practice of feeding ensilage, for by no other method of treating fodder corn can the color be so well preserved. The Swedes and Danes use small quantities of rape cake combined with their grains and fodders to produce the uniform flavors which their butters possess. The Englishman uses a wider range of mixtures, including line clover and meado s hay, small quantities of carrots, or mangels, middlings, shorts, bran, pea and oat meal, corn and cotton and linseed meals in various proportions. In the United States, the farmer has everything at his command for feed which he can desire, with corn ensilage of the best quality. Successful feeders compound their 'rations from many sources rather than few, as much for the ! nose of maintaining health and vigor j igestion as for the food of varied : flavors. At present prices, there are no j cheaper bas:s for dairy rations than | gluten and cotton seed meals, mixed | with enough bran and shorts or what- j ever else is cheapest on the market, i "With hay at present prices and plenty of ! corn stalks, most men will be able to | construct cheap rations from the most abundant materials. Due care mu>t be exercised at all times to avoid exclusiveness in compounding rations. It is assumed that every farmer who feeds for butter will use a cow having a tendency in that direction, and that he will nnnlv the tnst of market oualitv as well as the daily aggregate of butter fat in ascertaining what animals in his herd come nearest to this description. Quality and success do not depend on luck or chance. There is a "reason why" in all things. The reason is intelligible to all who desire to learn.?American Agriculturist. Farm and Garden Notes. Early feeding is the most desirable fcr fowls. The morning meal is important and is always best relished. Lambs like cottonseed meal, but it should be fed sparingly. The sheep never dies in debt; the feece will always pay for the keeping. A small hen will lay as large eggs as will a heavy hen, and requires less room. Never worry a generous, honest horse by putting a rogue or a sluggard in the harness with him. UKi stone wans may oe maac enecuve as sheep fences with a single barbed wire stretched along the top. Never use stale eggs for nest eggs. Nest egg gourds are best. A single stale egg may ruin your requtation. The farmer of to-day must study the principles of breeding and feeding stock, as much as the best methods of grainraising. The greenhouse takes a prominent place in gardening, and no large or even small place is complete without its complement of grass. White fowls when dressed for market do not show pinfeuther marks as do the black breeds. This is a point in their favor which is worth considering. When egg production alone is your object you need no males. The hens will lay as well without them (sometimes better i, and the eggs will keep three times as long. The agricultural press of the present must discuss stock and stock raising, as well as grain raising, for the successful farmer must raise more grass and stock, on/1 lnca <rrntn .v-v c A double row of Scotch or -white pine is a gcod variety for a narrow wind break. They make a close, compact growth, and in a few years will make a very elfectual screeu. Fresh bullock's blood put iR a woolen bag and boiled, then mixed with the soft food and fed to fowls is the best egg producing iood known, as it is exceedingly rich in albumen. If a hen lays one egg a week she will pay all expenses of Keep. Every egg over is protit. The greater the number of eggs secured the lower the cost of eaclfegg proportionately. Always assort your eggs. Do not have several colors and si/.e:> together. Put the dark eggs in one basket and the light ones in another, and pick out the small ones to be sold separately. A system of farming Avhich does not provide in ail economical way for a return, in an available form, of the soil constituents carried oil' by the crop raised, can not otherwise but prove ultimately a financial failure. The healthiest pork cannot be obtained from a clear feed of dry com. The digestive organs of the animals so fed are sure to get out of order upon so heating a food, and then the whole system becomes tainted and impure. As carriage enhances cost greatly of all heavy and bulky material, it is wise policy to encourage the growth of useful trees on every vacant corner of ground, apart from regard for their adornment of the view and their protection to the earth which perishes of nudity. "Washing butter in the churn while it is in the granular state separates from it, in a manner that can be accomplished by no other process, the curdi and other foreign substances that chemistry and science teach arc injurious, and that ferment and spoil the butter if allowed to remain. It does not pay the dairyman to raise a calf from a poor cow, unless convincing reasons exist for the belief that through the influence of superior qualities inherited from the sire the calf will grow into a Uettf.T cow mail fae nam. | , This very often happens, and the breeder wants to go slow when he begins to i weed out the "poor" ones. It is surprising what growth grape I vines will make over an evergreen if i given a chance to run. "With only , moderately rich soil the vine will entirely , cover the tree, killing it after a few ; years. Its tendrils cling to the slender stems of the evergreen foliage, and will not relax their hold. The higher tho vine runs the finer the grapes and thi ( harder they are to get. It is not a gnod 4 way to give grape vines their will over any kind of trees. A low, neat trellis will cost but little, and be very way more satisfactory. i A SAYORY REPTILE. THE DIAMOND BACK TERRAPIN AND ITS HABITS. "Where It Is Pound?Pounded or Raised Terrapin?Their Strange Peculiarities?Terrapin Catch iuc yuite an muusiry. Of tne tortoise, the diamond-back terrapins are par excellence. They are caught on all the shores bordering the Chesapeake Bay from the St. James Uiver to the Patapsie River, but more abundantly on the eastern shore, where the marshes are very extensive. In the spring time the terrapin "will crawl up to the higher and solid ground, where the tide does not reach, to deposit their eggs, which are hatched by the warm sun. The terrapin digs a hole in the sand and deposits its eggs and covers them over again by scratching the sand over the eggs. As soon as the eggs are hatched the young terrapins crawl out of the sand and go right into the water and take care of themselves. It requires the terrapin from eleven to thir teen years to mature. A young terrapin can always be told by the shedding of its scales. After he ceases to shed his age cannot be told. It is supposed that he will shed until he is twenty years old. It is thought by many that a terrapin lives to a great age. The water in the Chesapeake Bay, being not too salt, but brackish, the celery at the bottom of the rivers and bays just suits the terrapin and makes him delicious for food. He eats his celery for live or six months, and collects a great amount of nutriment in him. Lying dormant all the rest of the time he requires neither drink nor food, and when disturbed he refuses to eat or drink, but bccomes fatter all the time. The pounded or raised terrapins are fed on fish and crabs during their feeding season. They cannot collect nutriment enough to last them during the dormant season. They become poor and l?<vV,f in Tr-oirrVif onrT tinollu flip fnr thfi want of nutriment. If the terrapinraisers could gather the celery roots and plant them in the beds where they intend to raise terrapin, so that the terrapin could feed on the growth, they would soon do away with all failures, and no more worthless terrapin would be seen on the market. The Chesapeake diamond-back terrapin in a healthy state and full weight is worth all you pay for it. Those raised on fish and crabs are dear at any price. A. full-sized terrapin is from 7 to inches, but some few grow to extremes. The terrapin, when in his native element, collect a great amount of phosphorus and nutriment (ninety per cent). You can cut off its foot and the wound will heal up beautifully without anything being applied to it or without festering. You can take a sharp instrument and si-ilif- nnpn his shplljind lfit. it fro into thfi t? ? ? o water. The wounded part will heal up and become as strong as ever and 6how do traces except a scar. The terrapin can also live probably a month or more with his head cut off, and if you "pull his leg" he will pull it back with great strength. Ti e terrapins have some very strange peculiarities. In the pond where they are raised the water will be perfectly still and not a terrapin to be seen. The keeper at feeding time will whistle nnd hundreds of terrapins will pop up their heads and swim to the shore ana take food out of the feeder's hand. The terrapin season opens on November 1st, and closes April 1st. During the spring, summer and a part of tnu fall the terrapin is watched over by 6trict State laws. In Maryland the law imposes a fine of $20 for every terrapin caught or sold from April to November. As soon as the frost puts in its appearance the terrapin will leave the bay and hunt for a bed in the little streams or muddy marsh. He buries himself in mud from eighteen to twenty-four inches ueep, ana remains tnere witnout anything to eat until April. During the summer when he if eating and breeding he is very fierce for a little fellow, and will bite savagely; but from November to April he does not open his mouth and cannot be coaxed to bite. Terrapin catching is quite a business among men who live near the marshes and little streams bordering the Chesapeake Bay. It is estimated that ")00 men are annually employed in the industry and that H09,()U0 terrapins are caught, which yield at the average of ?Ju per dozen the net sura of $l,.'i00,000. During the regular season the terrapins are taken by men who travel through the raaishes with their legs incased in high boots and armed with a stick similar to a walking cane. When they come to a soft place in the marsh they run the stick down through the mud and feel for the terrapin. If a terrapin is struck there is a dull sound The hunter when he hears this sound knows that lie has struck a nest ot terrapins. He rolls up his sleeve and luns his hand down in the hole and pulls out one or more terrapins of greater or less size. In the early spring, when the waters of the many creeks aud small rivers are shallow and clear, the sun causes the terrapin to come out and crawl up to lay, and on cool, frosty nights they will go back into the water and bury under the mud a few inches deep. They leave their shape exposed on the surface of the mud and under the water. Early in the morning men go in small boats and with a small pair of oyster-nippers, such as are used for taking large single oysters, make an attempt to catch the terrapin. The trial always results in a good-sized terrapin being hauled out, as the terrapin won't move and is an easy prey. A great many terrapins are caught in haul seines and fish pound?, but only in summer. In spring they are lively and quick of action, and are of little value. When caught this way they are generally put in a pound, although it is unlawful. The pounded terrapins in the winter will bring a fair price, but not as much as those caught during the cold months with the sounding sticks. In the pound they crawl over and scratch each other, and any dealer of experience can tell the pounded terrapin on sight; The terrapins, when caught for market, are packed in sea grass, and when a sufficient number have been collected they are shipped, generally to commission merchants. No especial care is taken of the terrapin, as he can stand any amount of rough treatment. /Although Maryland has a reputation for serving terrapin, it is not always that one, even in Baltimore, can purchase a plate of real diamond-back at hotels and restaurants. In other States it is next tc an impossibility to purchase it prepared. The skilpots or sliders, a terrapin found in ponds or in fresh water, are a fair substitute for the diamond-back terrapin. They sell for from seven to ten cents pei pound. All great persons who have enjoyed the diamond-back terrapin pronounce il the most delicious meat on earth. And those that have examined it closely saj that it is ahead of anything in all crea tion. The true way to prepare terrapins i* simplicity itself. The receipt said to be the best is: Place a terrapin in boiling water; take it out as soon as dead; bake in an oven until well done; take o5 the bottom shell; take the gall out of the liver: season with cayenne pepper, salt and butter; serve in the shell while hot. In the early days of Maryland and Virginia a full-grown seven-inch diamondback terrapin could be bought for twelve and one-half cents; forty years ago ?/xTTnn ;?oVi fni-rnninc CftlH fnr fiftV CentS b VUU'liiUU VViiUpuu wv.v. .v. ^ each; thirty-five years ago the brought $1 each; thirty years ago $1.50 each; i twenty-five years ago $2 each. Now they i bring from ?2.50 to $5 each. There is ' very little loss in the terrapin, as everything is eatable in it except the gall, i claws and head. The shell weighs but little when the meat is well cleaned out. ?San Francisco Chronicle. An Intoxicant Defined. The Iowa Supreme Court, in the case of the State against certain intoxicating liquors, Cummings, claimant, has de! cided that any liquor containing alcohol, no matter how much it may be diluted, ! is intoxicating. The courts below deI clared the liquors not intoxicating, and the State appealed. The case was submitted upon the evidence of a single witness. This witness was a chemist, j He testified that one portion thereof contained by weight 2.42 per cent, of ! alcohol and 3.02 per cent, by volume, and the other contained 2.58 per cent, by weight and 3.22 per cent, by volume. The witness further testified that this liquor would not intoxicate the average drinker, but it would intoxicate a large portion of the people who were not in the habit of drinking. The Supremo ! L'ourt now tnrows out me cviucuw, nuu | makes a broad-guage decision as to what composes intoxicating liquor in the eye J of the law, in tne following language: | "The court must have found, under the foregoing evidence that the liquors ! were not intoxicating. This finding has the force and effect of a verdict of a i jury, and cannot be disturbed if more j than one conclusion can fairly be drawn from the evidence. Conceding the comi petency from the evidence as to the in, toxicating character of the liquor, if the ! question to be determined rested alone on such evidence, we are disposed to think, under the settled rule prevailing in this court, it would be doubtful whether we could disturb such findings. We do not feel called on to determine : such question. The statute provides j that the words 'intoxicating liquors' as used therein shall bo construed to mean alcohol, wines, beer, spiritous vinous and , malt liquors, and all intoxicating liquors I whatever. Alcohol is, therefore, an in toxicating liquor, regardless of the fact . that the quantity drank at any one time I would not have that effect. It is immaterial in a statutary sense what effect' j alcohol may have on the human system; I it is intoxicating liquor. However much | it may be diluted it must remain an ini toxicant when used as a beverage, and j no matter how it may be diluted or disj guised it so remains, simply because the ; statute so declares. The liquor in ques1 tion contained alcohol and, therefore, it as a matter of law was intoxicating." A Snrgical Marvel, A startling advance in surgical science : has been made by Dr. Maximilian Klein, ! a German military surgeon. The par i ticulars are given by the professional I journal Memorabilien. A man accident; ally cut off his left great toe in the mid: die of the first joint. The severed piece j remained hanging to the foot, but the j connecting skin was scarcely thicker I than a thread. Dr. Klein sewed on the ! fragment, dressed it with iodoform, and ! had the satisfaction, in twenty-two days, of finding the wound fieaiea ana tne toe , perfectly sound and flexible. Encouraged by the unexpected result in this ! case, Dr. Klein was induced to apply j the same treatment again. A recruit, in : order to disable himself and so escape j from military service, deliberately cut ; off his fore-linger with an axe at the second joint. The finger end was lost, ; and could not be found until half an ; hour had elapsed. It was then cold and ! blue. Nevertheless, J)r. Klein sewed it to the stump and applied a bandage of iodoform gauze. As early as the second j day it was evident that circulation had , been partially re-established throughout j the finger, and in six weeks the man had : not only left hospital, but was doing the I very rifle drill which he fiati nopea to : shirk. The fiDger was, in fact, a3 serI viceable as it had ever been. These stories read almost like extracts from the exploits of Baron MunchbauseD. I That they are chronicled in Memorabilien is, however, evidence of their truth, j English surgeons will not be so unwill! ing to credit them as they would have been in the days before the discovery ot ! the properties of iodoform.?The Lancet. ?CBr? Chinamen tile Pioneer Sugar-Makers. ! The Chinese, who invented almost j everything before anybody else heard of | it, claim to be the original discoverers ! of the process of sugar-making, and if. , is said that sugar was used in China as long ago as 3000 years. This is misty, but the fact is well established that it - - - - 1 iV . was manufactured in liiiua unuer me i ; Tain dynasty 200 years at least before [ the Christian era began. India has put i forward a claim for priority of invention, but the probability is that the I Hindoos learned the art of sugar-making | from the Chinese and that through them ! the knowledges finally spread to the ! Western nations. Nearchus, when sent ; by Alexander on an exploring voyage on ; the Indus, brought back reports of ! "honey" which was made by the Asiatics ', from cane, without the help of bees. At 1; this time neither the (Greeks nor the 11 Jews nor the Babylonians had any ; , knowledge of the sugar, but later the ' I art of making the artificial l,honev" I became known and practiced, though | its progress and development was ex1 ceedingly slow. It was prescribed as a 1 medicine by Galen in A. D. 150, and up .! to the seventeenth century it had be ! come nothing more tnan n costly luxury, to bo used only on apccial occasions. Even as late as the beginning of the I eighteenth century the annual consump; tion of sugar in Great Britain had reached only 20,000,000 pounds, whereas it is now more than 2,000,000,000 1 pounds. Hefined sugar was not made in England till l(i5!i. The art of refining was learned by a Venetian mer' | chant from the Saracens, who sold the secret to him for 100,000 crowns.?Mail and Express. A Fisher Cat. , ! John Hartford, of Fall Kiver, Mags., ; owns a cat that (litters from most mera( , bcrs of the feline family. When the j sand smelts first appeared along the shore? , 1 the cat apparently lost its appetite, since i it would eat nothing at home. It was [ supposed to be sick. One day Hartford . saw a number of sand smelt in his back | yard. Thinking they must be plenty at *1 1 1? M rtrtf ? oiinnlv . I tnc snore xic wtui uuwu uu I When he got there Lhe cat appeared and I ' jumped inio the v,rater and brought out h a live smelt. Putting the finding of the '' fish heads in the back yard and "the act r of catching the fish together, Hartford . came to the couclusion that the cat was living on fresh fist and liked thembettei I than ordinary food.?Chicago Herald. ..-.V The Ho? In Transit to Market. Hog raising as an industry has de- ' veloped wonderfully in the past dozen I years. Formerly hogs were raised after a i hundred plans by as many different 1 farmers,each of them going along in a hap- , hazard way with a nondescript breed, , makingwhat he could,losing whathehad i to, without either purpose in the former or lesson from the latter. But the Patrons of Husbandry movement, figuratively, i lifted the Western hog out of the mire. Books on breeding were studied, papers were read, experiments tried and results compared, until hog raising has become a systematic and profitable business. The best crosses were secured, and efforts on all hands tended to that point -where a nine-month-old pig should weigh : 00 pounds. That is the consummation aimed at, and the oue which, habitually achieved, m^rks the farmer a success. But the haudling of hogs is full of risks. Pigs are proverbially uncertain. A herd of a hundred fine head may be reduced to half a dozen in a week by any of the epizootics their f esh is heir to. Against these diseases there seems to be no preventive. They are liable to come under any conditions and to defy any treatment known to man. Even when ready for the market the prudent farmer will sell bis herd at home below the market price than take tho risk of moving them; for even up to the point of loading them some head arc lost, and after that the loss is often frightful. Hogs are very easily smothered, and in hot weather a dozen dead ones are often taken from a car at the stock yards. But a load in transit may be relieved by the shipper or his help. If the attendant be an expert he will go forward near the engine when a supply of water is being taken on. As the tank pipe is lifted and the train starts he will grasp the rope of the tank and hang on like grim death, running with increasing speed while the train gains headway, and leaniner the caps between cars watch ing for his~own?as curious a figure as ever was seen. As the portion of the train bearing his employer's hogs posses beneath the tank pipe he pulls the rope he has been holding and sends a flood of water from the short arm of the tank pipe over the swine, washing the car, cooling its load and freshening up even the weary ones,who had lain down with an angry squeal, too tired to want to rise again. His cargo past, the the attendant lets go the rope and stops his race on top of the train, diminishes his tobacco plug by an ounce or so and watches the tank swim out of sight around a curve with the air of a man who has solved the problem of standing while he runs.?Chicago Herald. The Drnuimer and the Diplomat. A member of the United States Diplomatic Corps returned to this country recently, and in a conversation in the Alberaurle Hotel described an experience of his with American gratitude. A ronnip nf Tflnxs nfro.he was an attache "? ~o-?? of the American Legation in Paris. One day a "drummer" for an American meatpacking concern called on him, and after introducing himself,: explained to the diplomat that he was expected by his firm to make a market for their goods in France, and that he was having a hard time of it. "Well, I thought the matter over," said the story-teller, continuing, "and finally I thought up a scheme. 1 invited a number of prominent men, including influential persons from official circles and the like, to a dinner. Every meal was of the American firm's packiDg, but of that fact I did not inform my guestj until we were smoking our cigars. Well, they were delighted, talked the mattei up, orders came in to the salesman, and to cap the climax he got a big contract to supply the army. He was full ol gratitude when he left, and insisted that when I returned to New York I must be his guest. "I ralWI on him last week. He's ? partner now and has gained fifty pounds. I had to wait twenty minutes after I sen) in my card before I was admitted. Ther he stared at mc a moment, and exclaimed : ' 'Oh, yes: I remember you now. How do you dor" " 'First rate,' I replied. 'Just arrived, and I am going to lay of! here a while.' "'H-m! That so! Well, when you have time again, come in, and we'll go out and have a drink.' "That's what he said to the man thai made him, and with all iny diplomatic experience, I was knocked out foi words."?New York Tribune. Anecdote of Crocker, the Millionaire. ChattiDg with a Western man about Charles P. Crocker, the Pacific coast millionaire who died last fall, some of the side incidents of his life, by which his character may be gauged, came out. It was one of his common expressions early in his successful career to say thai he was a self-mnde man, and he has frequently of later years told how he constantly made use of this phrase as an excuse for any breach of the conventional rules of etiquette. After he had become wealthy he started on a trip around ihe world, which took him down through the lied Sea on boaid an Knglish vessel. The heat was intolerable, and id accordance with his independent notion of things, took his seat at the table without his coat, remarking to a companion a9 he did so that ,(a self-made man didn't need a coat with the thermometer at 120 degrees." There was quite a stir among the passengers and a protest Irom the captain, which led Mr. i 'mpirfir t.n rpsnme his coat, but not be fore lie had put forth another declaration that he was a sell-made man. .Mr. Crocker has been heard to relate the sequel of this story and to laugh over it most heartily. An old gentleman who had been regarding him with somewhat severe countenance eaculated: "It must, then, have been a great relief of responsibility to the Almighty when you made yourself." Mr. Crocker was a patron of art to a much wider extent than is generally known, and his collection of paintings both by foreign and American artists, consisting mainly of the works of the modern school, was one of the best in the country. ?New York Graphic, A Rndlcnl Cure for EpIlcptlc Pirn. To the Editor? Please inform your renders lint I bnvea positive remedy for the above nnmed disense which 1 warrant to cure the worst cases. 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