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PONES OF ICELAND, PERFECT MARVELS OF ENDURANCE. They Have a Peculiar Pacing Cait Which Under Great Weight Conquers Space Can Swim Like a Fish and Climb Like a Coat. If the camel is the ship of the desert, the Iceland pony is the cab, train, omnibus and tramcar of the wonderful country to which he belongs. To be gin with, he is a misnomer. He is not a pony, in the ordinary sense of the .word; he is a horse; in bone and sinew, in strength and endurance, in manners and deportment-a horse in everything, in fact, except in inches; and a sober, steady, hard-working horse, too. He is very "multum in parvo," a "concentrated essence" of horseflesh. He can swim like a fish, climb like a goat and jump like a deer. He sticks at nothing, and taies every variety of travel-bog, lava bed, sand, bowlders and grass mounds-with un disturbed equanimity. If he has to ford one or two rivers with strong cur rents flowing girth-deep, it is all i J the day's work. Only give him tine and periodical halts for refreshment and h.e will do his fifty miles per day, and thrive upon it Iceland ponies are bred in hundreds in the large grass plains in the south ern districts of the islands. Little or no care is tallen in selection, so that half hands, though here and there one improved, the average pony standing from eleven and a half to twelve and a half hands, though here and there one will reach to nearly thirteen hands. Every variety of color is seen, but skewbalds of many shades are the commonest. The chestnuts, as a mic, are the finest, and the browns the hardiest. Beautiful cream colors, with light points, are not infrequent; black is very rare, and roan also. Their paces are fast, considering the size of the animal, a journey of thirty-two miles being often done in six hours or less, with heavy baggage. They trot, canter and gallop, but the pace most esteemed by the natives is the amble or "skeid," In which the fore and hind legs on a side are advanced simul . taneously, giving a running action, very smooth to the rider. A good "pacer" is considered very valuable, and often cold for a high figure. Some of these ponies amble so fast that they keep ahead of another going at a hand-gallop, and they maintain the pace for a day's journey under a weight of eleven to fourteen stone. Ice land ponies are steady and fast in har ness, though wheels are a compara tively new departure* in their country. They travel mostly in strings, often tied head and tail. Hay, baggage and .household goods are thus transported, and building material also. You meet a "timburlestur," or timber team, of from eight to ten ponies, one carrying planks trailing on each side, another strips of iron, another bundles of tools; a number of spare animals run ning loose, and not infrequently a foal or two. It is as rare to see a dead Iceland pony as a dead donkey though their skulls are often visible, half trodden into the miry ways surrounding the farms. The pony begins work at six or seven years-hard work, that is to say. He is early apprenticed to his] trade by following his mother at her avocations, and when he is foot sore j is strapped upon her back. He works [ well up to twenty years and over, and often remains fairly sound to a rip? old age. He feeds on the fat of the land in the summer, and in.the winter, "h* his owner is poor, must live on his wits and his stored condition. Farm ers who are fairly well off keep their animals in during the winter and feed them on hay; but, notwithstanding, many of the ponies have a hard time of it. The Icelanders.h owever, keep their steeds as well as their means al low, and treat them altogether in a brotherly fashion. Misery by tho Wholesale, Is what chronic inactivity of tho liver gives rise to. Bile gets into the blood and imparts a yellow tint, the tongue fouls and so does the breath, sick headaches, pain beneath tho right ribs and shoulder blade aro felt, the bowels | become constipated and the stomach disor dered. The proven remedy for this catalogue of evils is Hostettcr's Stomp ch Bitters, a medicine long and professionally recom mended, and sovereign also for chills and fe ver, nervousness and rheumatism. Ignorance of tho law should excuse a law yer from practicing it. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it failstocure. 25c. Wine is a mocker and the label on the bottle is usually a mockery. How'u Thin? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for tho last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions-, and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST & TKCAX, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, Ohio. WALDING, Knar AM & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. * Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the s ystem. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold, by all Drugg.s>ts. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the besL Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness alter first day's use of Dr. Kline's (ireat Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottleand treatisefrec. DR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd.. 031 Arch St, Phila., Pa. Piso's Cure for Consumption ia an A No. 1 Asthma medicine.-w. R. WILLIAMS, Antioch, Ills.. April ll, 1894. Don't Starve Because Your Stomaoh Will Not Digest Food. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla and be cured. It will tone and strengthen your stomach and create an appetite. Then you may eat without fear of digress, your food will be digested and assimilated, and you will grow strong and healthy. Hood's8 parilla Is the best-In fact^heOneTrne'Blood Purifier. Hood's Pills oore aU liver ills. 25 couts. of scrofula, eczema, bc prove the claims mad as the best of blood p it's cures that count, told by the cured is c book free. Address D V.T W W WW WS i_JAPANESE LAWMAKERS. How the Two Houses of Parliament Are Chosen. The prominent part taken by Japan in the Hawaiian question and the fre quent mention of the Japanese Parlia ment have given rise to much inquiry as to tb e composition of that body and the Japanese election methods. The latter are fashioned after those of the United States i? many respects -the preliminary caucuses and con ventions being like those held in this country, in most particulars. The Japanese Parliament consists of a House of Representatives known as the Shingi-In and a House of Peers known as the Kizoku-In. There are three hundred members in the lower house, who are elected for four years, and about two hundred members in the House of Peers whose term of office is seven years. There is no positive number set for the membership of the upper house be cause there are many hereditary mem bers, and their number may be aug mented at any time by appointment at the hands of the Emperor. All mar quises and dukes are members of the House of Peers by virtue of their titles; the members of the imperial >ousehold and imperial princes are al so members of the House of Peers. Bari, ns, counts and viscounts are eli gible ;o election to the upper house, but none of these ranks may be repre sented by more than one-fifth of its total membership. In addition to these there are the various persons whom the Emperor rewards for distinguished services with p. seat in the upper house. The members who are elected are chosen from the largest taxpay ers in the various districts. Fifteen men whose taxes amount to a certain sum a year are elected in each district, and they elect one of their members. He must be at least thirty years "old and may be a merchant, manufacturer or a member or one of the learned professions. The president and the vice-president of the upper house are appointed by the Emperor. Members of the lower house are all elected by popular vote. Every male of the age of twenty-five years who has lived one year or more in the district in which the election takes place may vote, provided he has paid at least 10 yen in direct taxes, exclusive of what he paid in local taxes. When the voter is thirty years old he is also eligible to membership in the lower house without any further qualifica tion. But a man who already holds au office in the judiciary, police or cor rection department, who has an office in the imperial household or is in any way connected with the custom-house, may not become a candidate for the House of Representatives. When members are elected they come together and elect three of their number as worthy of the place of pre siding officer; from these three the Emperor selects the president and vice-president of the body. The lists cf voters are made up by officers of the various districts, and are completed on or before April 20. From that time until July 1, when the elec tions take place, much active campaign work is done. The nominations are made in the various counties or dis tricts, and on election day the chief officer of the county takes charge of the voting in his district. The voting places are all in the Municipal Build ing, and are open on election day from 7 a. m. until (J p. m. The voter pre sents himself at the inspector's desk, on- which the ballot-boxes are placed, and, after writing his name, and op posite that the name of the person for whom he desires to vote, on a book kept for that purpose, he deposits his ballot. In cases where a voter cannot write, an officer may write for him. but the election books must show that such help had been extended to the voter. Outside the building lhere are many men who yell and cheer for their can didate and button-hole the voters as they come to the voting-places, and act in many respects like the crowd around a rural American election place. Those who compose the outside cheering and electioneering crowds aro for the most part young men from the schools and colleges, and their influence with the voters is anxiously sought by the can didates. After the polls are closed the county officers take charge of the boxes and place them under lock and key in the Municipal Building, where they remain until the next morning, when they are opened and examined by a Board of Inspectors, on whose report the can didates are declared elected. The next general election will take place in July, 1S98.-New York Tri bune._ A Millionaire's Generosity. Wilber Scott Stratton, the newly made millionaire kine, came to the re lief of H. A. W. Tabt a former United States senator, and Colorado's first millionaire miner, last week with a purse of $15,000, which he begged Ta bor to accept as a testimonial for what he had done to develop the resources of the state. For many months Tabor has been on the ragged edge of fortune, and has tried to recoup himself by entering tho prospecting field. He Btakvd a promis ing mining claim, but could not ge. funds for developing it. Then he thought of Stratton and applied to him for a loan. Stratton had never before seen Ta bor, but was familiar with his history. He promised to take the matter under advisement, and five minutes later sent a package containing the currency, with a letter requesting Tabor to ac cept the money as a gift.-New York Herald. Building Wire Fences. To assist in building wire fences a new device has a frame on a wheel, with spindles to carry three or more reels of wire, so that all the wires.can be strung at the same time. Y TV T T V T T Ti b A A A AA A ? ik lils, sores, eruptions, etc., e for Ayer's Sarsaparilla ?urifying medicines. And The story of these cures onvincing. We send the r. Ayer, Lowell, Mass. ^TTTTTTT T^ IF WE Could we but draw the curtains That surround each other's lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, O/ten we should lind it better. Purer than wo judge we should; "We should love each other better; If we only understood. Could we judgo all deeds by motives, 8ee tho good and bad within, Often we should love the r?i.iner, All the whilo we loathe tne sin; Could we know the powers working To ovorthrow Integrity, We should judgo each other's errors With moro patient charity. ? THE PINK CI HE lilac has budded! 'most time for tho cottagers," said Leah Trull joyously. She shaded her eyes with her hand and looked across the strip of grny-blue sea that divided the island from ''the main" as if she could already see along the beach the life and gayety that she loved. Spring came a tardy nnd timid guest to Trull's Cove and Humor's Landing,, on the northerly side of the island, and all through April cold gray skies had hung heav ily and bittet winds churned the sea. Graudpa Trull repaired the fiah ilakes, and calculated hopefully how long it would bc before the mackerel came in. Leah Trull glanced suddenly at her mother, who was leaning out al tho doorway, a worn and sparo little vom an with crisply curling black hair and failed blue eyes, with still a spaik in thom. "Time to draw lots for the rug rags! I really believe that's what mother has been longing for spring for!" cried Leah gayly. Mrs. Trull smiled a little shame facedly, and the color deepened in her thin cheek. "Mother's real ambitious," re marked Leander Trull, her husband, appearing from the woodshed where he was hammering at a lobster pot and gazing at "mother" with tender pride. "There isn't anybody chat can beat her making rugs, that's one sure thing," said Leah. "JBut she's all worn out waiting for the rags, ain't you, mother?" "Caddy Ila rn or don't want them, nor 'Liza Trask," said Mrs. Trull re flectively. "There'll bs only seven teen to draw lots this time." "Only ono chance in seventeen! Don't you go to thinkiu' anything about them rags, Clavissy! It's only vain imaginations any way," said Graudpa Trull. "I'm afraid you will get all worked up about them, mother, and then be disappointed." said Leah. "La, I ain't a child!" said little Mrs. Trull. "You do them so beautifully, it's no wonder you feel so; you make the col ors blend so they're altogether differ ent from the patterns. You're artistic, that's what the summer visitors say. Ii you'd only ha,l more of a chance." The girl rooked with wistfulness at the pathetically toil-worn little figure. "I do love to make them real well," said the little woman with a sigh. "Au;l though it^a six years now since we made up our minds here on tho island that, as long as nobody ever had enough rags for herself, we might as well put them.all together and take turns having them, they haven't evor once fell to me! If your Aunt Cynthy and old Mrs. Atkina over to the main hadn't sent me theirs, I don't kuow when I should ever have hooked a rug." "I was thinking," said Leah reflec tively, "that if I hadn't had to help father repair the boat, I might have taken some of my school money and bought you some new cloth-" "Oh, my laud, no! That .wouldn't be rug rags!" exclaimed her mother. "'Twouldu't seem appropriate. I couldu't cut into whole cloth any how-and when there's so many things we need! But Leah-" Mrs. Trull drew closer to -her daughter and spoke in a low rone,-"Rachel Sauls bury has got a beautiful pink piece! It's cashmere, just as soft! Her niece Emerettc had a waist made of it when she was at home from the factory. She sho -ved me what a nice lot of rags ' she had, and that was anong thom." j "Why didn't you ask her to give it to you?" asked Leah. "Why, Leah! Folks wouldn't think it v'as fair! There's more than me that wants pink fo.- Howers; pink woolen is so uncourion. I heard that Marcia Green un I a pink flannel nightgown for her baby, and I got father to row me over to the main, one real bleak day, to see if she hadn't got a piece of it she'd give me, for they ain't any hands nt all for rugs over there, you know. Come to find out, "'twas only cotton flannel and would fade right out in the sun. But can't help feeling just as if I should get the rags, and then I shall have a pink China aster! There hasn'i ever been a pattern like it on the islaud. That lady that sent it to rae from Boston-the one that boxight my tiger lily rug-she said 'twas an uncommon pattern auyway. Ii I could only just get the China asters of every shade, seems as if I should feel satisfied for once! I got two shades of red out of your Aunt Cynthy's rags; and purple and white and yellow,-now it seems 'most as if 'twas a providence that Saulsbury girl having a pink waist." Leah turned her face away" to hide the shadow upon it. "Mother's always so sanguine!" she was saying to herself. "I don't know how she can be, after such a hard life." "And I think Hemau Bracey'a old coat has got into the rags at last!" continued Mra. Trull eagerly. "It's just the real, rich olive that I want for a background to my bunch of China asters. I don't know how long I've had my eye on that coat!" Leah went with her mother to the drawing of the rug rags at Viola Bracey's, on the other side of the cove. It was made a festive occasion, and each viaitor contributed some dainty to the feast. There were many "cookieB" with caraway seeds in them and the tea Aras strong. Leah had made two cream, pies after a recipe that she had learned when ?she taught school "on the main." She said to herself that, if her mother were disap: pointed about the rug rags, it might comfort her a little, to have carried something to the supper nicer than anyone else would carry. In the best room of Mrs. Viola Bracey's cottage, which was fastened by ?rou staples to fi great rook, and KNEW. S? lt we knew the cares and trials, . Knew the efforts all In yuin, 1 And the bitter disappointment, Understood tho loss and gain Would the grim, external roughness Seem, I wonder, just the same? ' Should we help where now we hinder? Should we pity where wo blame? Ah, we judge each other harshly, Knowing not Ute's hidden force; Kuowing not the fount of action Is loss turbid at its source. Seeing not amid the evil All the golden grains of good- oh, we'd Jove each other better It we only understood. -Bessie W. Smith, in Chicago Tribuno. mmmmmmm ' fl OINA ASTER. 3 SWETT. . |?| . 8? overshadowed by the tall lighthouse shaft-for thc Braceys kept the light -there were assembl?e! seventeen women-leaving out of tho reckoning the more youthful members of the families who had come to row the boats or to join in the good time. And there were seventeen folded slips of paper in a little willow basket on a "light stand;" folded because on one of them was written "Bags''-the potent sign that made it the winning slip. Old Mrs. Jake Hamor spoke sud den'.;., in a thin, high-keyed voice, drawing her little rusty-black shawl nervously around her stooping shoul ders. "It isn't right to draw lots! I've been tal1, lng to the minister, aud he says it's jetting a bad example to the young folks, and so 'tis, for moth ers in Israel to be gambling for rug rags!" .''I've been thinking, myself, tllat I didn't feel to have auytbiug that's so like gambling take place in my house," said Mrs. Viola Bracey firmly. "I move that wo return to the old plan o? going by a b c's. And if there's any among the first letters that havo had the rags lately, why, maybe they'll give way to the next letter." There was a chorus of assent; only old Miss Saulsbury's and Eunice Young's assents were feeble; they were; both over . seventy, and with initials so far clown in tho alphabet it seoined unlikely that they would ever get the rigs. "Mother spoke up real chirp," said Leah to herself. "She's so proud she won't let anybody know how sho wants them rags."- She looked at her mother, who sat very near the "light staud," but in the shadow of the green paper window shade, and saw that she was trembling. "Well, I guess they belong to me fast enough, then, for I'm the only A!" exclaimed Mrs. Lot Appleby, "and I sha'n't have to give them up on account of ever having had them. I never hooked a rug iu my life, and I don't know as I ever shall, but I'm going to make some (rood, solid, braided ones that I've baen neediug a good while." Mrs. Lot Appleby was a large and buxom woman, with a face that was placid in spite of many lines of caro. Her husband was the most prosperous mau on Barberry Island, a "jd her son Nahum owned part of a coaster, and expected to go in her as captain on his next voyage. Mrs. Trull sat next to Mrs. Apple by, but her small, worn back was os tentatiously turned upon her. "When Mrs. Appleby avowed her intention-of making braided rugs, Mrs. * Ti-aU looked afc her with a horrified excla mation. "? don't expect I am as am bitions usa house afire," said Mrs. Appleby with a little embarrassed laugh. J'Them that can buy store carpets needn't be," said Mrs. Bracey. And the sympathetic murmur which followed this remark showed tho es teem in which Mrs. Lot Appleby was held. As for little Mrs. Trull, no one but her daughter observed her. It was generally understood that she was "high-minded" to an absurd degree, and wanted things that people on Bar berry Island never thought of having. She was amount, the poorest of the islanders, to.", for Leander Trull was of the kind that, mysteriously "never seem to get along." As for the way in. which si e had openly scorned braided ruj.s, that sav ored of the old enmity between her and Mrs. Lot Appleby. Grandma Fisher, Mrs. Trull's mother, had tried to have Grandma Hamor, Mrs. Appleby's mother, "turned ont" of the church for knit ting in prayer meeting. Grandma Hamor was of the old Puritan iype whose Sabbath b9gan at sundown Sat urday night. And she "couldn't en joj her meeting privileges unless her hands were employed." Grandma Hamor's godliness re mained unquestioned, and the congre gation bore patiently the clicking of her knitting needles until one evening Grandma Fischer arose-she always spoke in meeting-and openly as serted that "Satan had come also among them" in the person of one who worked Sunday. The warfare that resulted was long, and threatened to divide the church. Grandma Hamor was finally ac quitted of intentional wrongdoing, but Mrs. Lot Appleby, in those days of a lively temper-her placidity had come only with her fifties-gave Grandma Fisher what was locally known as a piece of bei >nind. Grandma Fisher died that year a re sult of the church quarrel, people said; aud her daughter had never forgiven Mrs. Appleby. It was au open secret that young Nahum Appleby, when he was at home, had never had eyes for auy girl but Leah Trull, and it had been remarked that it would be "a real good chauce for Leah," but Leah was her mother's loyal daughter, and had never oven allowed Nahum Appleby to walk home with her. Oue reckless soul had whispered to Mrs. Trull that opinion that "Wabum Appleby would be "a real good chance for Leah;" and the little woman had fiercely gazed upon Leah, and adjured her to promise that she would "never have anything to say to them that had brought her grandmother Q to her grave." Leah had promised, although her face had whitened while she did so. People wondered why her family "gave in so to that little mite of a woman;" it was either because of her strong will, or because she was so devoted to them. "I must say I could have stood ii better if it had been anybody .hui Esther Appleby that got the rags,' said Mrs. Trull feebly, as they entered their own house. It was the first thing she had said in response k 1 Leah's tender condolences. Even l\e\ pride seemed to have failed her. Leah had laughed and jested at th( supper table, making light of Barber ry Island's devotion to rag rugs, ti hide her mother's silence, She per suaded ber mother to uao her (Leah's; old waterproof cape, a green and blue plaid, to fill in tue back ground of her rug. It was not worn out, ac cording tb Barberry Island standards, but it was threadbare, and there was a place where, as Leah demonstrated, one could stick one's finger through the cloth. It made a good background for tho bouquet of China asters, but alas! it only made Mrs. Trull long the more intensely for the pink one. "You don't suppose she is braiding up all those beautiful rags, do you?" said Mrs. Trull wistfully to Leah. It was three weeks after the rags had been assigned to Mrs. Lot Apple by, and it was the first time that Mrs. Trull had spoken of thom, except to say that she "expected nothing but what folks would say they kept back that waterproof cape on purpose." "I don't believo she has so much as looked them over, " said Leah. "She's been having company, and she doesn't care much about rugs anyway. I no ticed when I came by the house yes terday, that the great ragbag that's always hinging by the woodshed door was just as full as it couldihold. She's gone visiting over to tho main now, anyway; Calo Eamsdell was getting the captain's catboat reaily to take her over, when I went down to tho wharf to help father with his nets this morn iug. Her Auut .Terusha Baker is sick, and she's going to stay with her two or three days; so Cale said." .Leah went fishing with her father that afternoon, when there was no school to teach. And that afternoon Mrs. Trull did her housework in an absent and listless way. She went often to the window, aud looked across the rocky pasture to the greener, smoother, upland whero Captain Lot Appleby's house stood, large and pros perous and fresh with white and green ?paint. "Seems as if 'twas ordained for some to have everything," she murmured. There was a large piece of tho wa terproof cape left, and she tucked it nuder her arm aud stole out of the house, and by a devious, unfrequented path, around the rocky pasture. The Appleby house stood silent and deserted in the May sunshine. Mrs. Trull paused,with her hand on the latch of the woodshed door. Her heart beat like a trip hammer,and she felt giddy from the excitement,or from the walk in the hot sun. "For them that can put up with braided rug3, one color is as good as another," she said to herself. "It isn't a mite of harm." She lifted the latch and went in. Woodshed doors were never fastened on Barberry Island; rarely were any others. There, near thc door, hung the great ragbag; she thrust her hand into it breathlessly. A little overturn ing, and she had the pieca of pink cashmere in her hand. The woodshed door, which she had carefully closed behind her, opened suddenly, and Mrs. Lot Appleby ap peared, in her calico wrapper and her rold shade hat. Little Mrs. Trail had never fainted in her life, but she grew very dizzy again; there was a whirling before her eyes and then darkness. When she came to herself, she waa lying on the woodshed floor with her head on Mrs. Appleby's knees. She clutched wildly about her. There was no piece of pink cashmere, no pieua of tho waterproof cape! " "Now, you just keep still for a few minutes!" said Mrs. Appleby with ten der authority. "It does seem a real shams that when you'd come to see me -the first time for so- long!-you should be taken faint. But' tho sun is dreadful hot for M*,y! I went 'most down to the cove after a stray chicken, and I declare I thought I should have been sunstruck! I was glad that I hadn't gone over to Auut .Terusha Baker's as I intended; I heard that she had her husband's nicc3 Sophrony with her, and I thought she'd rather have me after Sophrony had gone. I should have missed seeing you, too, if I'd gone." Little Mrs. Trull, still upon the floor, turned herself arouud and looked challengingly, nlmost defiantly, into her neighbor's serene aud kindly face. "It isn't a mite of use for you to talk that way!" she said hoarsely. "You know just as well aa I do that I came thinking you had gone away. And you've hid away thc pieces to make me think you don't know! I know I didn't put them back in the bag." She glanced towards t^e bit of pink that showod at the top of the ragbag. It il, was.real good of you." Her voice broke suddenly. "I never did sneak ing things till lately! I'd set my heart on getting a pink China aster for my rug, and it's been a terrible snare to me!" "Why, la! it wa'n't anything so dreadful just to chango pieces! I only wish I'd known you wanted the pink piece. I'm going to give tho rags all to you, if you'll take them, for, what with Aunt JTerusha bsing sick and Na hum coming home next week, I sha'n'fc have time to make rugs." The two women stood facing each other now, and Mrs. Trull's small, sharp features worked convulsively. "I'vo done moro than you know," she said impulsively-"a sight more than that my mother fetched yours before th? church for doing! I sat right next to the slips of paper that day, when they'd beeu fixed for draw ing, and I saw, right between the folds, where 'Bags' was written on one; and when nobody was looking I made a little mite of a crease on that paper with my thumb nail, so't I could tell which one to drawl" "Well-well, we're all subject to temptation!" said Mrs. Appleby hasti ly, a kindly sympathy chasing the shocked expression from her face. "I ahvays said drawing lots was demoral izing, anyway. No, if I was you, I wouldn't confess it before the church. I should think laying it before the Lord was enougu. And it's just be tween you aud me, and we'll let all the bygones be bygones, Clarisyi" "No, that rug with the China asters is not for sale,"said Mrs. Trull, firmly, to the summer visitors from the main, who were going into ecstasies of ad miration over her handiwork. "Yes, as you say, the pink one is real soft and pretty. I'm keeping that rug for a wedding present to my daughter. I expect she'll be Mrs. Nahum Apple by, come Christmas. Yes, China asters are real odd and pretty, but that rug means a sight more than China asters to me. "-The Housewife. Growth of Children. . The average child, in its fourth year, should be three feet high and weigh more than twenty-eight pounds; in the sixth year, three and a half feet high, and weigh forty-two; in the eighth year, four feet in height and fifty-six pounds in weight; at twelve years, five feet in height and seventy pounds in weight is a fair average. Growth is very irregular in children and young people generally; perhaps two inches may be gained in two montos, and for the next ton months not over an iuoh, even up to the ago 92 ton ox twelve year*-Tue Ledger, AGRICULTURAL1 Protect Trees^Wltb. Pine Tar. To keep rabbits from injuring fruit trees mix pine tar and grease equal parts, warm and apply with a cheap paint brush, to the lower two feet of the tree trunks. The Comb an Index; The comb of a fowl is an hottest in dex of the true inwardness, and should daily be oonsnlted by - the fancier who values the health and well being of his flock. Look at the comb of a lay ing hen or pullet. She is in the height of health and strength, and car ries her unfailing sign of healthfulness on her head, in the shape of a blood red, bright and full comb.-The Fan cier. "*T Location of Yards. The location of yards for the suc cessful cultivation of fowls should be elevated, and of such a nature that the natural drainage will at all times pre vent the standing of stagnant water, such as would ordinarily be denomin ated a "dry location." The soil should be largely composed of sand and gravel, when possible, which of itself acts as a filter, and the health and com fort of the fowls will bejmuch more easily maintained. Xew Destroyer of Fruit Crop?. Reinforcements to the ' seventeen year locusts, the gypsy moth, the browntail moth and all the rest of the busy army of fruit destroyers are to be found in vast quantities in the "San Jose scale." The San Jose scale takes its name, not from the lo cality to which it confines its depre dations, but to the one in which it first i ppeared. Since it made its de but in California it has shown au im 8AN JOSI: SCALE. partial fonduess for every part of the Union. Florida has not been too warm for it, and Massachusetts has pleased. New Jersey has not es caped, and tho Pacific coast as far as British Columbia has appealed to it. The scale, though spp< .ring only recently, has evidently spt. t several eons in preparing to descend upon the world. It is a microscopic insect which pierces the green bark of the tree with its proboscis and sucks the sap. It has, doubtless with an oye to this age of germicide solutions, rendered spraying an infested tree useless, because it has a scaly cover ing which remains on the bark of the tree or the skin of the fruit, and which acts as au armor against such weap ons ss washes. . Fruit infested by the scale is unmarketable. A Remarkable Potato Crop. The potato crop on the Cornell Uni versity farm at Ithaca, N. Y, for 1897 is attracting very wide attention, be cause of its high excellence at a time when rot and blight are general throughout the Atlantic Coast States. The yield at the University, on indif ferent, gravelly and loamy soil, which has had no fertilizer for four years, is 300 bushels per acre, absolutely free from rot. Tho cost of the crop per acre, liberally estimated, is about $20, iu the following items: Seven cultivations.@? .50 ?3.50 Four sprayings. @ 1.00 4.00 Sixteen bushels seed.? .. . 8.00 Plowing aud planting..., 3.00 Total. . .... .. $18.50 The only item which is liable to much increase is the cost of seed, the seed in this case baviug been bought when potatoes were cheap. Now the net price for the crop is sixty cents per bushel, or ?180 an acre, leaving 8160 profit on each acre of the crop. The land is of a kind ordinarily pur chasable at about 835 an acre for farm purposes. It is well within the truth to say that this crop (aud others be fore it) shows that Avith scientific knowledge a potato crop eau be pro duced worth more than three times the purchase value of the land it is raised on. , The important points in this suc cessful potato culture are stated hythe College of Agriculture to be: (1) prop er fitting of the laud; (2) properplant ing; (3) proper aud sufficient cultiva tion; (4) proper sjjraying. The last is a sjiecific against potato bliTht and po tato rot. In raising this enormous crop, the college neglected fertilizers, and did not select land best suited to potato culture. Elsewhere on the farm, these factors being added, the record breaking yield of 380 bushels to the acre has been reached. It should be added that the potatoes are of uni formly marketable quality, with no waste. Tli9 average yield in this State this year is estimated at not more thau sixty-five bushels to the acre, aud the largest average yield the State has ever known was 120 bushels. The prevention of blight and subse quent rot by spraying with Bordeaux mixture is an idea which is already beiug taken up by farmers. The usual method of nsiug it, however, is to wait until tho blight appears, and then spray. It is then too late. At the university the potatoes are repeatedly sprayed while green and healthy, and the blight never appears. Tho report of this amazing crop at Cornell, to gether with the generally poor crop in the State, has led to a great demand for a recent bulletin of the experiment station treating of potato culture and the ijrevention of blight and rot, and thousands of copies are being mailed weekly to farmers.-New York Post Farm anil Garden Notes. Don't let the beets and squashes stay out too long. Drainage will greatly increase the value of wet ground. The silo will enable the farmer to keep more cows profitably. Hailstorms are likely anywhere, and insurance against them is as necessary ns insurance against fire. Eighty acres intensively cultivated are better than 160 acres under thc too often loose system of farming. For a root that is such unquestion able value to the hog, the articoke gets more hard knocks than it deserves. Do you allow smoking in the barn' It* you do, increase your insurance. That may not be exactly honest, bul when a man tries to burn his barn the matter of honesty will not probably worry him. Large pieces of old sod form the verj best winter protective material wher obtainable. These heaped about th? roses will protect the most tender from severe freezing, and they come out iu the spring in splendid order. It if just ns good i\sed Kboqt ?ny otljer hal: hardy niant, BEWABE OF MOEP?? Mrs. Plnkham Asks Women to See! Cures and Not Mere Temporal From Pain. Special forms of suffering1 lead man woman to acquire the morphine ha' One of these forms of suffering is a d persistent pain in the side, accompanied heat and throbbing. There is disinclii tion to work, because work only increa thc pain. This is only one symptom of a chain o troubles ; she has others she cannot bea to confide to her phj*sician, for fear o an examination, the terror of all sensitiv modest women. The physician, meantime, knows her c( cannot combat her shrinking terror, her supplication for something to relit Ile gi* ! s her a few morphine tablets, grave caution as to their use. Foolish v thinks morphine will help her right al comes its slave ! A wise and a generous physician had s he told his patient he could do nothii she was too nervous to undergo an exa a friend. She said to her, " Don't giv druggist's and buy a bottle of Mrs. Lyd It will build you up. You will begin to did so, and after the fifth bottle her heal letter about it: "I was very mise get around the bou; ing tired out. My J so tired and nervoi much with falling A friend advised n table Compound ; I the best medicine I like myself, my head, br. tation of th pains, since medicine, pound to cv bottle will provo what it can do."-Mn? TWICE WARNED IN DREAMS. Widow of One of the Carrison Wreck Vic tims Saw Him in Sleep. It was ? woman's poignant intuition, 'the tender bond of sympathy between a loving wife and husband, that revealed to Mrs. Thomas Reilly, in two terrible and dramatic dreams, the fact that the husband whom she was awaiting and the son TV hom his old mother had crossed the ocean io embrace had been killed in the frightful disaster on the New York Central Railroad near Gar rison. The Herald has told how the body of Thomas Reilly was rescued from tho half-submerged wreck in the Hudson. Mr. Reilly was in a good position in St. Louis, Mo. He had come to this coun try one year ago. He was fifty-five years oid and had a family. Mr. Reilly sent his wife.Ellen, to England several weeks ago to bring his mother, Rachel, seventy-four years old, whom he wished henceforth to live with him. "Tell mother," he said, "to make preparations for all the other children to follow her. I can take care of them all now." ; The wife and mother arrived on the St. Paul Saturday morning. When Mr. Reilly did not appear at their hotel Sunday right the women began to grow hysterical. They had not been allowed to see the newspapers. Mrs. Ellon Reilly told Mr. Waddell, the Hotel proprietor, that she feafed some* thing had happened to her husbands She then related to him in detail an extraordinary dream she had had a lit tle after five o'clock on Sunday morn ing. Although at the time unknown to the unsuspecting wife, this Waa just previous to the moment when the train was hurled from the track at Garrison. "I dreamed that something terrible happened to Tom," said Mrs. Reilly "I do not know whether it was a rail road accident or what, but I saw To/n distinctly in the midst of it all. "His face was white, and he put his, hand over his mouth and struggled to free himself from something. Then ho reached his arms out and called me by name. 'Help me, Nellie!' he cried. "Tn the dream I tried to do some thing for his relief. I fried and tried, my heart beating with terror and my forehead wet with perspiration. "During all this time I saw Tom distinctly. He was continually trying to get away from something that held him, but it seemed that he could not free himself. He kept up his struggles for a long while, his face showing awful agony. "Then Tom's hands dropped and he lost his vigor. He faded away and everything became black. I awoke with a start." Mrs. Reilly was in a terrible state of agitation as she related her dream. Mr. Waddell calmed her as best he could and reassured her. He still sedulously kept the news of the disas ter from the two women. He decided to walt and see what could be done. The two women were in a more ner vous state yesterday morning, although utterly unaware of the railroad wrecK. Mr. "vVaddell then told Mrs. Ellen Reilly that she had better accompany him to the Grand Central station, and he would try and find out what had de layed her husband. Leaving the old mother in her room Mrs. Reilly went out with the manager. On the way she told him she had had a second dream that morning. "I know there ls something wrong with Tom," said she. "I feel it. I dreamed that a man on a jet black horse rode up in front of the hotel. He halted there for a moment, raised both hands and disappeared. It was so hor rible that my heart seemed to fly to my throat." Mr. Waddell then told the poor wife that he feared Mr. Reilly had been killed in a railroad wreck up the Hud son. The woman nearly fainted. 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