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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. DIDrTT If all the troubles ia th? world Were traced back to their start, We'd And not one in ten begun From want of willing heart. ! But there's a sly woe-working eli Who lurks about youth's brink, And sure dismay he brings away Th > elf "I didn't think." He soems so sorry when ho's caught, HU mien is all coutrite, He so regrets"tho woe he's wrought, An'l wants jp make things right. But wislies do'hot heal a wound, : { J Or weld a broken link, ThtThearf aches on, the link is gone Ali through "I didn't think." When brain i* cc aira And heart from soi ' "I didn't think" will . For laok of resting If from that great un i The Golden Rule, v We'll keep God's law ^ To sayV "I aida't tl F. s h e w e r e- a daughter of mine, I would disown her! If I thought I a daughter ? I mine would s o mdch' aa touch'a j hated Prussian's | ^ hand/ I wouldl swear she had been changed in her .radie. Wait a little while till we teach their arrogant pretension how France resents it; and then such women will lament the treachery they dare?j$all love." So spoke Pierre Duval inhoi?breath, just before the siege of Paris had be gun-breath kindled by the news brought him by the fair girl shrinking before his anger-the news that one of her schoolmates, the daughter of. au old neighbor, had been- married, ?the day previous, to a young Prussia ! offi cer, bearing active arms ag ?inst the country of his newly-made wife; and he had left her side twenty-four liiours after the completion of the ceremony, to rejoin-his regiment: All through the day, old Pierre kep? muttering to hansel'; at nightfall, he called his little Mari 3 to 'him. "Women are strange beings," he be gan, as if to relieve his mind of a load which was weighing upon it ; "and per haps I've no right to believe you of dif ferent stuff from the rest. These are unc? ' i*....* ' Prut thor Who . But, io girl knelt, frighten me, papa," rhe said., "It's naught to frighten you/'^n?' auowared; "but it's one thing to march out to the field and another to march back. They may leave me cold and stiff behind them on their return-the gallant sons of France; but I'll rest easier in my grave, though that grave be a trench filled with the bones of my comrades, if I know my child never will dishonor her race. Now raise your h an dj Marie, and swear that you will never marry a man who cawtot boast French blood iu his veins!" Solemnly the girl swore. The old n.an smiled triumphantly aa? he bent and kissed the long, flaxtm? brai'1 wound about the little head. 'Tm ready now," he said. "Within a week the siege of Paris had begun. Within a month Pierre Duval's daughter was orphaned. A Prussian bullet had stilled forever the heart so loyal to France. For a time Marie was stunned. No one found opportunity to sympathize with lier grief, for around and about her e rery one was nursing some misery of thor own. Every house bore some badge of mourning. . Every heart carrie d its own. burden. [ : Bus "sorrier days were in store for P.vis-days when the Prussians marched untroubled 'hrongh its streets, and spoke their hated language in lord, triumphal accents. Ona party of these Marie stumbled one jvening as she hastened home. Her pretty face, from which she had throv-n back her heavy veil of crepe, attracted them. Instantly two of them approached her, addressing her in her own tongue. She hastily drew down her veil, but-j one bolder than the rest raised his hand to again uplift it.* Scarcely had he done so than it was struck down by a sharp, quick blow L om bjhind. Mixie turned, to see the French man who had befriended her; but, lot ti yoting officer, in full Prussia a uni form, stood before her, respectfully toucldng hits hat. A few swift words of command to the men sent them, abashed, away. Thei, with an accent almost as pure as her own, he begged that she would allow him ? escort her to her home. "Such outrages in time of war are difficult always to prevent," he said; "but you risk mu*ch by appearing un attended iu the street. Always your father-yon: brother-" "Ah!" ?he interrupted, "do you leave us our fathers and our brothers? No! I have been to the hospital, caring for the poor men who may be spared to t'aeir daughters and" their sisters. As for me, you have already taken from ms my all." And she moved quickly away, as if the conversation were at an end; but the young officer kept pace beside her. "JPardon me," she said, "but you are loo young and tod pretty to pass through Paris unmolested You hate me ns you r foe, but you must let me guard you to your home, even though you hate ne the more." " Thero is no need," she replied. "I go every day to tho hospital, and every day at this hour, or very little earlier, I miis*Teturn." A shadew, and then i light, aw?pt j over the young man'u face. "Cum Stationed so nea? here that, if you will permit me. every night I will be your escort," he said. "I wotdd rather die than accept * kindness ?from your hands, or those of _THINK.W . I half believe that ugly sprite. Bold, wicked "I don't care," In life's long run less harm Has don? Because he is so rare, And, one can be so stern with bim, Gan make the monster shrink; Sut lack-a-dav, wbat can we say To whining "Didn't *hink." This most unpleasant imp of strife Pursues us ?verywhere. r There's scarcely one whole day of lifo He does not cause us care; Small woes and great ho brings the world, Strong ghi pf? Are forced to sink, And trains from iron tracks are hurled By stupid "D idn't think?' ie to the heart, Ll draw3 grace, quick depart place. iselflsU stream, re drink, - md have no cause iink." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. any of your blood!" she answered hot ly- "you,who are my dear old father's murderers!" Anti as she spoke the la.it words she paused before a gate,, which the con cierge hastily opened for her admis sion, and which instantly uwung to be hind her. Bat alone in her room, il arie paused. Singularly enough, she could recall every feature of the young officer's face-a face which seemed to her to re alize some dream of manly beauty; the echo of his voice lingered in her ear a voie* low, and rich, and musical musical, even .vhen he had sternly ad dressed the soldiers in his Own guttur al tongue. ; Her heart was beating high with fear aud excitement, and indignant anger, but mingled with it was a strange thrill of joy. "It is because I proved my hate," 3he murmured to herself. "Yet he was kind to me. But for 1dm-" She would not continue her thought to the end. Resolutely sho put it from her. AU the next day .she was busy again among her wounded. Sin co her fath er's death she had gone into the hos pitals. Sitting, with folded hands, in the midst of all the misery'ubc ut her, with her own wretchedness for mental food, she had felt herself upon the verge of ' ?s^rttiKW i:t? f'.> ..'?.' ?i?cre-. hv" .v.-- ; |:vf?.*?j v .f.-: i . x-l'y ;.*<ri d?'- M .i--; ' f. .. ' 'dr**M Ui. VT j ; net, xitt ict wu> ilia* iivuo tua tance in tervene between them. , Hot blood mounted to her face, and yet an instinctive sense of care and protection mingled with what she named his presumption. Eve;-y night afterward it was the same. ' Earlier or later, as she might cha ace io be, be was near her, nor left her till safe within her own home. One night he approached her. "There will be fighting to-morrow," he said,. I cannot be here tc aid you. | You must not go out alone. Promise me that you will not." For a moment she was almost tempted into forgetfulness that he was a Prus sian. For a moment she was almont tempted to answer, "I promise!" thea she recovered herself, and turned hotly and indignantly upon him. "Pass my word to you!" she said "to you, my enemy-the enemy whom I hate!" '.'And you, my enemy, are the enemy I love!" he replied*- "Why, should I lore a woman to whom I' have 'spoken scarce twenty words in my life, and who has answered me with scorn and contempt always? I know not. Some ?.ttauge.freak of. fate, perhaps; but so it is. I may go out to-morrow to meet my death. If I should, doubtless you will never know that thus France has avenged herself; but I should Jike to feel you sometimes gave me oneV^dndly thought, even as my last thoaghi liv ing or dying, will be of the one woman who gave me a stone for the heart I offered her. But, for God's sake, promise me you will noir.go alone to morrowjon the street! Do not let me have the added torture that von are in peril." . They had reached the gate ere this. Her hand was on the bell. She opened her lips, meaning to scathiagly utter his deserved rebuke, but, lo! instead the two simple words, "I promise!" alone issued from them in a low and thrilling whisper. Before ahe had divined his inten tion, he had caught in his the little, gloved fing?rs and raised them to his lifts. The * next moment the gate swung to between them, and Marie, flying to her own room, had flung her self in a burst of bitter sobbing on the bei He was a Prussian, and she-hated him. Three ?-*ys later she paused beside two surgeons, in earnest conversation. "There's but one way to save him," said one. "It's an ugly wound, but .he's sinking from loss of blood. Ii we could get some one to submit to transfusion, I think he would recover. "Impossible!" answered tho other. And Marie passed on to the room where lay the sufferer. 3he paused beside the cot. He was lying, white and insensible, upon the pillow, his head bound in blood-stained bandages; but, all changed as he was, she reoog nizecLhim, and fell, with a low cry, beside him. To her he was nameless, but he was the Prussian whom she-hated, and the mau whom she-lovedl Ah, in that moment she knew the truth, and then she remembered the surgeons' words. They were about separating when she returned to them. "Yon said .transfusion would save him," she said. "I am.strong and I am ready.." Acd rolling back her sleeve, she dis closed her bare, white arm, with ita dimly-?utiined blue veil*. - A little wbile the physicians de? murr ed, but in the end she had her way. She did not shudder as the sharp lancet penetrated her vein, and the faintness which crept o Vcr her-the deadly faintness-as the blood poured from her veins into his, was ecstasy; for though to her it might mean death, to him it was life-her life for his. She swooned before the operation was completed, and days had passed before ahe could rally even to know that her sacrifice had not been in vain -days when Paris had been racked by a bitterer foe than the hated Prus sian, even her own inhabitants. But the terrible days were over, when Marie was allowed to once more assume her role as nurse. Ernest Haupfman was still in need of all her care; but when she stood once again beside him, he looked at her with wide-open, conscious eye , into which, as he recognized her, there came a look of in enable happiness. "My love!" he murmured, and thea he fell asleep, with her hand clasped tight in his. Through long weeks she nursed him -weeks which taught her that all her future must be wretchedness, since her promine to her dead lather forbade that she should share it How dared she tell Ernest of it until he spoke the words which unsealed her silence? But one evening, as they sat to gether in the twilight, he almost wholly convalescent now, ho spoke them, is,. in low, endearing accents, he ask 3d her to be his wife. Amid bitter sobs, she told him all then, anc hid her face within her hands. But he gently drew them down, and drew her head upon hifl heart. I "My own," he said, "your sacrifice has borne its fruit. Your husband must toast French blood in his veins, forsooth! Have I, then, none in mine? Did you not mingle yours with mine the very blood of Pierre Duval himself? Ah, Marie, keep your vow to your dead father, and, keeping it, give yourself to mei" In silent rapture Marie listened to the words; but, as. her ?irms close clasped themselves about his neck, he knew that he had won his cause, and that she had gone over forever to the -enemy!-Saturday Night. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Ichthyol is recommended by Der Stein der Weisen as a much better remedy for insect bites than ammonia. Astronomers aay that 1,000,000 "shooting stars" fall into the sun for everyone that comes into our atmos phere. Tha Paris Fire Brigade authorities ..??>*?..?. v'rh -. :K>S6 rai T>S? : v..:.*,v;i ; I.- .':;:>.v ?< a p?trelear<i ?:?ta ' 'l liUHi?lU Vclftt?i?? L::V 2'.'?-',n'?.'..) . ;r-?:i'??y v,fr.! UK iii? ..? ! '>?.<..;... tV: <'~rT .? . . >"?o-. :-v the ?.?.?:*. s* > .? ... . igftgxStid&t. ? . ' - . ... uiaue puDlic which promises to revolu tionize the problem of rapid telegraphy. It is called the synchronograph, and tho inventors claim that a speed of 3000 words a minute can be attained The inventors are Professor Crehore, of Dartmouth College, and Lieutenant Squier, ol the United States Army. Java hes thunderstorms, on an aver age, ninety-seven days in the year; Italy thirty-eight, Belgium twenty-one, Holland eighteen, France, Austria and South Eussia sixteen, Spain and Port ugal fifteen, England and the high Swiss mountains seven, Norway four, Cairo three. In East Turkestan, as well aa in the extreme north, there are scarcely any thunderstorms known. In pressing woolen fabrics, in order to give them a smooth, even appear ance, both a uniform pressure and uni form hea'i aro required. To attain this end recer t experiments have been made with elec trie heating, which have been markedly successful. The fabrics are placed between metallic plates, through which sufficient current is passed while under hydraulic pressure to heat them slightly more than the temperature of boiling water. The tuning fork, struck and applied to the crown of the head, has been found by Dr. N. E. Malioutine, of Moscow. Bussia, to transmit its vibra tions to the vocal chords, causing them to vibrato in unison. In this way he has cured, with vocal exercises, a case of hysterical loss of voice that had re sisted all other treatment, including suggestion. He believes that the pro cess would aid in training and improv ing the voices of singers. Bacteria, as one might infer from their simple structure, seem to have appeared with the first life on earth. In a study of the early rocks M. B. Benanlt has found indications of the presence of microbes in bones, teeth, scales and coprolites, as well as au abundance in vegetable tissue, espe cially in the spores and sporanges of ferns. The cooooid or globular form appears to have been earlier than the bacillar or rod-shaped, the species, as a rule, having been different from those now livtig. A Coupon of 1770. Cornelius Holton, of 435 Fifth ave due, thfs city, called upon Mayor Strong in New York yesterday and pre sented for payment a coupon dipped from an old water bond issued by New York City on March 5, 1776. The coupon called for the payment to bearer of four shillings and was signed by Benjamin Blagge as clerk. Mr. Hol ton said that it was through his wife, I who was formerly the widow of Dr. A. I Barnes, of Greenwich, Conn., that he got the coupon. She had received it from her grandfather many years ago. Mayor Strong said there was no fund from which the coupon could be hon ored, so he referred Mr. Holton to the City Chamberlain. General McCook knew of no fund from which payment could be made, so tho holder was in turn referred to Controller Fitoh. There the question of the city's lia bility was raised. Deputy Controller Lyons said that the issue of bonds in question was authorized by the com mon council four months before the Declaration of Independence was signed. He expressed the opinion that the successors of King George were the responsible parties from whom in terest should be collected. So Mr. Holton returned to his home without his four shillings.-Brooklyn Eagle, WONDEES OF TEE WHEEL | nCHTING MOCK DUELS ON BICY CLES A NEW SPORT IN EUROPE. It Demands Expert Riding-Combatants Must Be Absoluto . Masters ?if the Wheel to "Win Battles-A Falhor and Sive Suns Who Bide on One Wheel. Wheelmen of England and France now fight mock duels on bicycles. It is not a mere imitation, but a genuine contest with the foils, which calls for as ?cuch skill as the combats which took piuf?e on foot. The first qualifi cation for a duellist of this sort is to I MR. VOM SCHELDT AND bo an expert cyclist. Whoever ttjaipts one of these combats on whei must be able to perfectly manage machine without the assistance of bauds. One of the first principles exercise with the foils is-to keep stant watch on .one's opponent, slightest negligence of this sort mi rive a fencer tremendous advautag^ If his wheel distracts his mind the object he is trying to attain1 gives his oppouent just so much vantage which he otherwise would : have. So what it really amounts." i 5 that the man who wishes to fight? duel on a bicycle must leave the mat a^enienfc of his wheel to his feefij knees. The combatants in a mock duel this nature are dressed in the ordii outing costume of the cyclist, hands are clothed in gauntlets. ?3E| stockings worn are usually faoeJJ a verv fine -oualiiat. of- /?hnmoi ff, :h: v.;.b. ; i??<?;>,^i:v. ()a i/:;; Uf?* '-??iO rf t? caine, just m tho juOuer binen 01 ?u^ shoes act as a safeguard against his feet slipping on the pedals. Each duelist wears a mask which has over each eye a projection of wire, similar in form to n small inverted tea cup. This gives absolute freedom of vision. A short time ago I was fortunate enough to witness a contest with foils between two of the most expert riders in the United Jh^ngdom. Both were mounted on American wheels, twenty eight pounds each. The wheels were of what is called the new folding pat teni. That is, the frame is so con structed that it is possible to fold the wheels so that they come side by sic e, the centre of the, frame working or. a hinge. It is claimed that a wheel of this sort enables the rider to turn more) quickly, and thus forms the best pos sible wheel for the mock duellist. Euch mau toolpup a position about fifteen feet from his antagonist. At a given signal both mounted their steeds of steel and Blowly circled about one another, just ai. we have seen men fighting with knives seek. au open ing in which to make an attack. The left hand rests lightly on the handle bar. The right hand grasps firmly the foil, held at an angle of forty five degrees. Slowly the two circle about, until suddenly one ridder, dashes forward as if from a catapult; there is a clash, clash of steel, and the first passes are over. The circling: movement is confined, by both men, who grow more and more wary as the circle narrows. "Look outr* calls the director.) "Gentlemen, no foul, if you please." j FIGHTING DUELS ON BICYCL This makes the duellist more wary, for a foul by either means the loss of the honor of the conflict. "'Ware!" cries one of the combat ants, aid a thrust is aimed at his op ponent's helmet with a force that wonld seem sufficient to throw him from the saddle. He sustains the shock gallantly, and the sparks fly as the foils beat upon one another. Neither cyclist has lost his equili brium for a moment. The bicycles seem almost endowed with life. The riders evidently have forgotten that they are not on steeds of flesh aud blood. Parry aud thrust, clever defence, blows t?at seem powerful enough to cleave the mask in twain-all these oc cur with lightning-like rapidity. Then like a flash of light one cyclist whirls and circles about the other, and before the latter can fairly place himself in a position of defence the more active wheelman hos touched his antagonist over the heart with the but ton that protects the gbint of 1 his >n. The cyclist who is thns ted is forced to dismount his iel, and his opponent has scored a (Hilt. This is the method that is jerally followed, and, as?may be from the description given, is ex lng in ?he extreme. ie interesting result in France is i it is likely to become something re serions than mere pastime, jelling is the vogue there. At the ie time n duel about which there is fiovelty, is something to bo culti vated. Therefore, the mock duel on wheels, Tvhich the fencing exercise is called, has suggested to the volatile ""renchman a chance to furnish wheel* ?jben with a method of his. own for re lenting insult. SIX ON ONE BICYCLE. How a Fond Bufthlo Father Takes His !2?ir? Sons Wheeling. Mv. \OT. Scheidt, of Buffalo, has five Doys and ? bicycle. As thc bicycle if. an ordiciry wheel intended for the use of oue person, and as the boys are all of them too small to btride tho paternal machine, it is difficult at first to imajrine the connection between Mr. Von. Scheldt's six possessions. A glance at the illustration, which we reproduce from the columns of tho Buffalo Express, -will, however, show j that there is something in common to all, and that there is something very j vjtal to the enjoyment of tho Vom &&t*tidt youngsters. The spectacle of Mr. Vom Scheidt j and hi? family enjoying a spin npon his ^Hnle must be edifying indeed,espec ...i.". flimi!y tackle a sharp !*$..".*.. . Ai- !.r-*- ~ *.?...*.... ,?iK^li3; 'O. >-:'-> . iii 'S"- Y./ : CHKLF NTJ1TA TIPLE AND HIS WKEEI?. muscles groan and see great drops of perspiration rolling down the Vom Scheidt brow. The boy in front of the family group is twelve years old, and so is the boy in the rear. No. 2 on the wheel is the latest Vom Scheidt to enter this world of sin and wheeling. He is about six months old. The boy seated just behind the baby in five years old. The next is seven. Mr. Vom Scheidt is as muscular as he is kind hearted. Ho has wheeled himself and his five sons hundreds of miles. He has even taken them on several occasions to Niagara Falls and back. It can readily be believed that, as a contemporary remarks, "This bi E3-A NEW SPOBT IN EUEOPE. cycle load is the ocntre of observation wherever it goes." An Indian Chief Who Rides a Wheel. This Indian chieftain is on his first visit to San Francisco, and is the gueBt of T. H. B. Varney. He is a graduate of the Caroon Indian School, being now employed by the Government as an interpreter and naval officer. He was taught to ride last year by C. C. Hopkins, and ?3 an excellent bicyclist. Oldest Church In New England. The history of the first parish of Dorchester, now a part of Bostou, is the history of one of the oldest churches hi New England. The parish was organized June 23, 1636, aud the first church was built in 1641. The second ch'irehwas built in 1646, and the third in 1677. In 1743 they erected their fourth church, and on May 16, 1816, the corner-stone of the church burned a year ago was laid. Now a beautiful reproduction of the old church is ready Uv dedication, VHS J " ' ... . SLAVONIAN LAUNDERING. Mangle Consist* of a Clumsy Log and Hollers, Propelled by Frail Women. Slavonia is in Austria, or rather in the extreme south of Hungary, but its people, are nearly all Servian. Ita plains stretch for miles in an endless expanse of perfectly flat country. Its mud is fathomless, its women's daily task of scouring aud fighting against the dirt that the "men folks" bring ia from out of doors on their shoes i* never done. Between times there is the mangle. This is a stout plank abotit ?even feet long, raised to a height of two feet upon rough hewn logs. The mid dle of the plank is gripped by a frame work rising from the floor to a height of five feet, with three great beams running across it, the whole fastened together with pegs. Upon the plank are laid two rollers, aud on these rests a half log of wood just fitting between the sides of the frame.1 This weight is smooth on its under surface, rough hewn above, and is provided at each end wich three pegs which serve as handles. The ironer, when ready to begin, takes a sheet, for instance, winds it tightly aroun-l one of the rollers and puts a-x old ironing cloth around the outside. Then, lifting one end of the log and placing the J r under it, sha works the weight to and fro, until fae wrinkles are all presumably smoothed away. Then the sheet is re move^, folded and put away, and the next "ironing"-perhaps another sheet or three or fo ? towels, or half a dozen han Ikevchiefs-substituted. The sec ond roller acts merely to balance the log, although two ironers can work the machine, one at each end. The woman who irons is as pic turesque as her tools, when she wears the Slavonian peasant cos? Hnip. Her shoes are flat and heelless; she has no stockings, but winds linen about her lower limbs aud binds it in ?upt on Sundays, and wears at her work bedraggled clothing of western Europe's unattractive work-i-day pat tern. Hirds aa Seed Carriers. Two centuries ago the Dutch de stroyed every nutmeg tree in the Mo luccas, in order to enjoy a monopoly of the business, having planted the trees in their own possessions. In spite of their most earnest efforts, however, the islands were constantly being re stocked. For a long time the thing was a mystery, but at length it was solved. The doves of that quarter of the world are of large size, and readily swallow the seeds of the nutmeg. They traverse wide stretches of sea and land in a few hours, and deposit the seeds not only uninjured, but bet ter fitted for germination by the heat and moisture of the bird's system. By a similar process thousands of acres of land have been covered with trees of different kinds, the birds acting as nature's agents in the dissemination of plants. Darwin found in six grains of earth adhering to the feet of a plover three different kinds of seeds, and in mud sticking to the feet of ducks and geese shot in England he found the seeds of plants peculiar to the Victoria Nyanza, in Central Africa, thus proving not only the extent of migration, but also the possibility of plants appear ing in strange localities through the agency of these birds. In the mud slicking to the feet of a Texas .steer the seeds of five tlifferent kinds of weeds and grasses common in Texas were found by a microscopist after the arrival of the animal in New York. Colman's Bural World. All the human beings that overlived could find standing room in Pennsyl vania. Ile Envied tho Giraffe. "Father, ii I had a.neck as long aa thatcould reach up to tho top shelf ir. the jam closet*"__ AGRtCULTURAL TOPICS. To Cure ? Hard Milker. ? saw the query from "J. D.," of Kansas, about a hard milker. Take a chicken feather-from the "wing is best-insert it in the teat, working it gently round and round until it has past upward an inch or more, then draw it out and proceed with the milk ing; this do for a week or more and the cure will be permanent. Do not trim or cut thc feather in any way, as the sharp edges will hurt the cow. We had a fine cow and had j made up our minds to sell her, as it ! was more than the milk was worth to get it, when one of the boys tried the feather cure off and On for two weeks, and now that cow has just had a hand some calf and the milk flows freely. O. B. Walker,.of Illinois, in Farm, Field and Fireside. The Quality of Ensilage. As much care is required in s Elect ing what shall go into the silo a. food for stock as to what shall be put in the barn to be fed dry. The silo adds nothing to nutritive value. It must in any case slightly decrease it, for some fermentation nyist occur to cause the ensilage to keep. It is important that this fermentation be as rapid as possible, so that it can be checked without going to the acid stage which destroys still more of what nutrition was put into the silo. Hence the better quality of feed put into the silo, retaining as much moisture as is need ed "to exclude air. It is for this reason that corn that has come to earing stage makes sweeter ensilage than the im mature stuff that must ferment until it sours before enough carbonic acid can be liberated to preserve it. Egg Sucking Dogs. T. P. Jones, a Kansas subscriber to Farm, Field and Fireside, asks how he can break a dog from sucking or eating eggs. The following is recommended: 4'Divide a heaping teaspoonful of tar tar emetio into eight* or ten doses. Break off the end of an egg, empty a part of the contents and stir into re mainder left in the shell a dose of tar tar emetic. Confine the dog in a room, or tie him, and give him the doctored egg. In an hour or two he will be try ing to turn himself wrong side out. As soon as he is over the nausea give him a second egg, and a third, if he will eat it. When he refuses to eat the egg, and lets it lie by him for several hours untouched, pry open his mouth and force the egg down his throat. Af terward you may trust him in your hen house. The object in tying the dog is to let him get nothing else to eat while he is under the treatment, or belmay think it was the last thing eaten that made so sick. The idea is to convince him that eggs no longer will lie on his -rmh~"i-!?.mi _ .r '. . tva! at in ?nuv:- , .- ..-..-h ?-.iv -? . '' ." ' y. '- -- I nf. Ll':-, :>l f.-t . ' V?S ???iii' *>l?\^r- K..'f:*H ?? " : ..? graiS ?io *! M : ='s??fl be toOSgii. .,!.-.,. r : . ?a" ?? A<pt i ! off thfl ra.. s?-a ..">, " *..?.: .>. a (lauget _?- .^u. ucauiugout tne seed or other wise injuring the. land. Much of the success of th\uadertaking will depend upon the thoroughit?3s_with which the work is done. If is thOUg?tihat this ? plan will not give the land sumV??"i. handling, the harrowing may be con tinued at intervals during the season, thereby keeping tho weeds from grow ing and gradually fining the soil, and the fertilizer and seed can be applied in the fall. The latter course will more thoroughly rid the land of the seeds and roots of the weeds, and render it ! more easily handled in the future, but will add quite a little to the expense. I would continue in this way with the remainder of the pasture, taking it up in sections as convenient.-B. Walker McKeen, Secretary Maine Board of Agriculture. The Apiary. If the entrances to hives are very small, aud they should not be large during winter, there is danger of the same becoming blocked with dead bees that acoumlate to quite an extent dur ing this time. On the approach to a warm day, when the bees are likely to fly, the-entrance should be opened. It often occurs that the dead bees are wedged in the entrance so com pletely that the bees are unable to re move them, and suffocation of the col ony is the result. It is not necessary to be continuously opening the en trances thus during cold weather, as no harm will arise except on such oc casions as above, and damage may be done otherwise. It is not necessary tojassist the bees in removing the dead bees, or to clean the hive during winter, as they will attend to that properly, and if the en trance is such that one or two bees can pass in or out, they will not fail to arrange everything properly. It is a mistake to shovel away snow from the hives. It is also a mistake to clear away snow from the entrances. - Snow will not prevent the necessary amount of air reaching the bees, and hence there is no danger whatever of suffocation. In very cold weather snow is good pro tection, when banked up around the hives, and many make a mistake by shoveling it away, and n nt only that but greatly damage the bees by the disturbance at a time they should be strictly let alone. During a heavy snow and a severo cold spell hives may be totally covered with snow. Atliuta Constitution. A Curious Occupation. ; An occupation which does not figure in labor statistics, nor in the social economy, at least, of America, is dis covered in the folio wing advertisement, which appeared in the Blackpool Times, au English newspaper, in the last days of 1696: "Young mau, of dark complexion, is prepared to 'Let in the New Year' at any house in Blackpool between 12 and 9 a. m., at two shillings each without refresh ment." The explanation of this cryp tic notice lies, it seems, in a local su perstition that the first visitor to a house in the new year, if he happens to be of a dark complexion, brings it good luck. The first Tuesday in May is hence* forth to be known" as. Arb?r Day in Bhode Island by Legislative enact ment. In many States the selection of the day or days (some States have two) is left to the Governor. . ? Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE'DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Art af Beating Cold. The proc?s 3 of preparing gold until it is reduced to a thickness of 1-280, 000 of an inch is necessary elaborate. The gold is first cast into ingots four inches in length and one inch in width, which weigh from ten to seventeen ounces, according to thickness. It is then passed between polished rollers, worked by steam, until it forms a rib bon twenty-eight yards long and 1-800 of an inch thick. These ribbons are then cut into 180 pieces, one inch square, and placed between vellum, and then the real business of the gold beater is begun. He beats for half an hour with a twenty-pound hammer, making the inch square into three inches square; then these pieces ore quartered, becoming one" and--a half inch square. He beats agai^ for one and a quarter hours, until the one and a half inch square becomes four inches square. The four inch pieces are again quartered and beaten and finally cut to proper size, viz., squares of three and three-eighth inches, of a thickness (or, rather, "thinness") of 1-280,000 of au inch, and in this shape the leaf is lifted into books of tissue paper. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. Indian Agriculturists. The Indians on the Shyshone reser vation have to the present time this season sown 125,000 pounds of grain, and it is expected thty will sow as much more before the olose of the planting season. The department is not giving the seed to the Indiaus this ycar as heretofore, but is loaning it, and expects the Indians to repay it when they harvest their crops. The pupils of the Indian school are farm ing extensively under the direction of the Indian agent, Capt. Wilson, and the teachers of the school. Thcy# have put out 12,000 cabbage plants and have a model garden. A test will be made on the farm with sugar-beet seed, the department having furnished a large quantity for experiment. Un T: in'?'v.v.".,'I ?.i ??W????^ .V" .-.v. \: ? v. ;*:V'rO' Ir.z rcy/S* ' ti c;.iW.VOi, ?H3 tho >..'.>; . ci i*v Why take Johnson's Chili & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the ^Thost^tubborn case of Fever ?tPSNEDA Y. A nays icentiry a ricture. The X ray has been put to new nses, aside from surgical diagnosis. It has ascertained the genuineness of jewels, and has also been made use of by French postal officials to investi gate the contents of .suspicious-look ing parcels in the mails. The latest story of the ray comes from Germany, and concerns the identification of a painting by Albrecht Durer. The canvas in question was a head of Christ, and was accredited to the famous Nuremberger. It was on * wood, and was believed to have been executed in 1821. It was much dis colored and dingy with age, and had been retouched by a " restorer." In order to settle all doubts as to the authenticity of the work,'a photograph was taken by means of the rays, and much was revealed that the eye could not see. The features and the drap ery appeared much more distinctly than in the painting, and there f Iso came to light a Latin inscription in quaint Gothic characters, the mono gram of some grand duke (for whom, perhaps, the picture was painted), the artist's initials, and the date 1524. Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the, most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Observed by a Skeptic. I once saw a cowboy try to ride an ostrich, and ever since I have doubted the stories told by the natives in Af rica and Australia riding ostriches. He had vanquished every pony he had ever undertaken to break in, but it was only after an hour's hard work he succeeded in mounting the bird, which at first tried to shake him off, then to get away Ly running. These tactics, of cou? se, had no effect upon the cowbey. Then, in spite of all the man could do, the ostrich succeed ed in getting its head around and seiz ing him by one leg. He doubled bis feet under him and the ostrich reached over its wings and got a hold upon his back, throwing him heavily to the ground and tramping on him. It took three of us to . chase the infuriated -. oird, and we accomplised it barely in time to save the man's life, I don't believe the native Australians ride ostriches. I 1'KOThsTBXT AS L'SOAL. Agent-Here is a book. Sir, every <_'<.?! u-maa oug?i to have - "Hints on Ar cuuecture." Mr. Smallpurse- I have no uss for it. ..lat. Sir. it teaches voa u >w io b did a beauiiial villa, a recatar little palace, for ouly ?S.OJJ." "i haven't $5,000. i haven't over $5 to mv name." ??Vfeil, the book la only $1." ? -