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;3l? il'.' v ■/ 4 •* L. Bj ippiiBB niuia. . , mf bmOm Dot ctMto nor alMp « broken bed. I wc«t ta narob of love and loat mjeeit —Hln 4ao Provarb. A dmb ibould. whatavCT happens, keep hie own cute, race end breed. Let Mm white go to the white end the black Ip the black. Then whatever trouble falla la ip the ordinary course of things —neither andden, alien nor unexpected. This is the story of a man who will- fqlly stepped beyond the ssfe limits of decant everyday society and paid for it heavily. t He knew too much in the first in stance, and be saw too much in the sacond. He took too deep an interest in native life B nt he *>11 never do so again. Deep away in the heart of the city, behind Jitha Menji’s bnutee. lies Amir Math's gully, which ends in a dead wall pierced by one grated window. At the bead of thegnily is a big cowbyre. and' the walls on either side of the gnlly •re without wimfews. Neither Sncbet Singh nor Qanr Chand approves of bis women folk looking into the world. If Dnrga Cbaran had been of their opin ion, he would have been a happier man today, and little Bisesa would have been able to knead her own bread. Her fooru looked out throngh the grated window into the narrow da^k golly, where the snn never came and where the buffaloes wallowed in the bine slime She was a widow, about 15 years old, and ahe prayed the gods day and night to send her a Inver, for she did not ap prove of living alone One day the man—Trejago his name was—came into Amir Nath's gully on an aimless wandering, and after be had psased the buffaloes stumbled over a big heap of cattle food. Then he saw that the gully ended in a trap and heard a little langh from behind the grated window. It was a pretty little iangh, and Trejago, know ing that for all practical purposes the old “Arabian Nights” are gad guide*, went forward to the window and whis pered that verse of, “The Love Sonf of Bar DyaL” which begins: CUn • man stand oprisht in the fare of tbs naked sun or a lover in the presence of his be- lavaif , It my fee* fail me, O heart of my heart, am I to Marne, being blinded by the Klimpee of fsas PnaalyP There came the faint tchinka of a woman's bracelets from behind the grating, and a little voice went on with the sung at the fifth verse: Alas, a las I (An the moon tell the Lotas of her love when the gate of heert-n is shut and the aloods gather for the rains? They have taken my beloved and driven her with the pack homes to the north. There am iron chains on the feet that were ant on uy heart. Call to the bowmen to make ready— The voice stopped suddenly, and Tre jago walked out of Amir Nath's gully wondering who in the world coaid hare capped "The Love Song of liar Dyal’ so neatly. Next morning, as he was driving to office, an old woman threw a packet into his dogcart In the packet was the half of a broken glass bangle, one fiower of the blood red dhak, a pinch of bhnsa or cattle food and 11 cardamoms. That packet was a letter—not a clumsy, com promising letter, but an innocent nnin- telligible lover’s epistle. Trejago knew far too lunch abont these things, aa I have said. No Eng lishman should be able to translate ob ject letters. Bnt Trejago spread all the trifles on the lid of his office box and began to pnccle them oat A broken glass bangle stands for a Hindoo widow all India over, because, when her husband dies, a woman's bracelets are broken on her wrists Tre jago saw the meaning of the little bit of the glass. The flower of the dhak means diversely ‘‘desire,” “come.” “write” or “danger," according to the other things with it One cardamom means “jealousy,” but when any arti cle )s duplicated in an object letter it loaes its symbolic meaning and stands merely for oAe of a number indicating time, or, if incense, cards or saffron bq at. “A widow—dhak flower at 11 o’clock.” The pinch of bhnsa en- lightend Trejago. He saw—this kind of letter leaves mnch to instinctive knowl edge—that the bhnsa referred to the Ug heap of cattle fodd over which be had fallen in Amir Nath's gnlly, and that the message must come from the person behind the grating, she being a widow. So the message ran then: “A widow, in the gnlly in which is the head of bhuM, desires yon to come at 11 o’clock." Bo ha went that very night at 11 into Amir Nath's gnlly, clsd in a boorka, which cloaks a man aa well as a wom an. Directly the gongs in tbs city made the boar the little voice behind the grating took up “The Love Bong of Har Dyal” at the verse where the Pay than girl calls upon Har Dyal to retnrn. The song is really pretty in the vernacular. In the English yon miss the wail of it It runs something like this: Alone upon the honae tope, to the north I turn end watch the lightning in the sky— The glamour >t thy footetepe in the north. Come back to me, beloved, or 1 die! / Below my feet the etlll bazaar la laid; far, tar below the weary camels lie— The camels and the captives of, thy raid. Oome bank to me, beloved, or I dial My father's wife is old and harsh with yeara And drndge of all my father's house am L My bread la sorrow, and my drink la team Come back to me. beloved, or I dial At the song stopped Trejago stepped np under the grating and whispered. “I am here. ” 1 Biaeaa was good to look upon. That night was the beginning of many strange things and of a doable life ao wild that Trejago today some times wonders if it were pot all a dream. Bitesa or her old handmaiden who had thrown the object tetter 4nrd detached the heavy grating from tba brickwork of the wall, ao that the window slid inside, leaving only a square of raw masonry into which an ? active man might dimh. In the daytime Trejago drove throngh his routine of office work or ; on bis calling clothes and called on t ladies of the station, wondering bow they would know him if they knew of poor little Biseea. At night, whan all the city was still, came the walk tinder the evil smelling boorka. the patrol through Jitha Megji's bustee, j* the quick turn into Amir Nath’s golly ^ ■^Tho.Heit HliUK Trejago remembers, amPBlniaa— "BtPfrngiiig and ehoatUg -ttfer arnad 1 - between the sleeping cattle and the dead walla, and then, last of i|ll. Bl and the deep, even breathing of the old woman who slept ontside the door of the hare little room that Dnrga Charan allotted to his sister’s daughter. Who Dnrga Charan was Tre jago n^»r|nqaired. And wb)r in the world he ws» not discovered and kpifed never occurred to him till his madness wss over, and Bisesa— Bnt this comes later. Bisesa was an endless delight to Tre-’ jago. She was as ignorant as a bird, and her distorted versions of the minors from the ontside world that bad reached her in her room amnsed Trejago almost as mnch as her lisping attempts to pro nounce hia name—Christopher. The- first syllable was always more than she could manage, and she made funny lit tle gestures with her rose leaf bands, as one-thfotting the name away, and then, kneeling before Trejago.'-'aslred him, ex actly as an English' woman wonld do, if he were sure he loved her. Trejago swore that he loved her more than any one else in the world, which was trna After a month of this folly the exi gencies of his other life compelled Tre jago to be especially attentive to a lady of his acquaintance. The news flew in the nsuai mysterious fashion from month to month till Birtesa’s duenna heard of it and told Bisesa. The child was so troubled that she did the house hold work evilly and was beaten by Dnrga (’baran’s wife in consequence. A week later Bisesa r tgxed Trejago with the flirtation. Shb understood no gradations and spoke openly. Trejago laughed, and Bisesa stamped her little feet—little feet, light as marigold flow ers. that canid lie in the palm of a man’s one hand. Mnch that is written abdnt “oriental passion and impulsiveness” is exagger ated and compiled at secondhand, but a little of it is true, and when an Eng lishman finds that little it is quite as startling as any passion in his own .proper 1 if a Bisesa raged and stormed and finally threatened to kill herself if Trejago did not at once drop the alien memsahibwhe had come between them. Trejago tried to explain and to show her that ahe did not understand these things from a western standpoint. Bi- sesa drew herself up and said simply : “I do not. I know only this—it is not good that I should have made yon dearer than my own heart to me. sahib. Yon are an Kiiglishumn. 1 am t,uly a black girl”—she was fairer than imr gold in tb4 mint—''and the widow of a black man. ’’ Then she-sobbed and aaid: “But, .on my aunl and my mother's sonl, I love yon. There shall no harm come to yon whatever happens to me.” Trejago argued with the child and tried to soothe her, bnt she seemed quite unreasonably disturbed. Nothing wonld satisfy her save that all relations between them sbonld end. He was to go away at once. And he went As ha dropped out at the window she kissed his forehead twice, and he walked bom* wondering. A week, and then three weeks, passed without a sign from Bisesa. Trejago, thinking that the ruptnre had lasted qnite long enough, went down to Amir Nath's gnlly for the fifth time in ths three weeks, hoping that bin rap at tb« sill of the shifting grating wonld be an swered. He was not disappointed. There was a young moop. and on* stream of light fell down into Amir Nath's gnlly and strnck the grating, which was drawn away as he knocked. From the black dark Bisesa held oat her arms into the moonlight. Both hands had been cut off at the wrists, and the stamps wery nearly healed. Then, as Bisesa bowed her head be tween her arms and sobbed, some one in the room granted like a wild beast, and something sharp-^nife, sword or spear — thrust at Trejago in his boorka. Th< stroke missed his body, bnt cut into on* of the mnscies of the groin, and h< limited slightly from the wound for tb« rest of his days. • > The grating went into its place There was no sign whatever from in side the honae, nothing bnt the moon light strip on the high wall and th« blackness of Amir Nath’s gully behind tiiimr Trejago remember*. tig* and man between those pitiless walls, ii that he fonud himself near the river al the dawn was breaking, threw away hia boorka and went home bareheaded J ® ' A ~ • w a What the tragedy was—whetkar^ Bi- sesa had in a fit of canselesa despair told everything or the intrigue bad been discovered and she tortnred to tell, whether Dnrga Charan knew his nama and what became of Bisesa—Trejago does not know to this day. Something horrible had happened, and the thought of what it mnet have been comes upon Trejago in the night now and again and keens him company till the morn ing. One special feature of the case is that he does not know where lies the front of Dnrga Charan’s house It may open on to a courtyard common to two or more honses or it may lie behind any one of the gates of Jitha Megji’s bnstee. Trejago cannot tell. He cannot get Bisesa—poor little Bisesa—back again. He has lost her in the city frhere each man's honse is as guarded and as unknowable as the grave, and the grating that opens into Amir Nath’s gnlly has been walled up. But Trejago pays his calls regularly and is reckoned a very decent sort of man. There is nothisg peculiar about bim, except a slight stifitoeaa, caused by'* riding strain, in the right leg. " ; * 1 ' .V Sheep In the Northwest. Of the,sheep in the northwest the Washington Post-Intelligencer says: “In eastern Washington, where sheep raising is one of the Important indus tries, the sheep owners have found number and in value. It Is reported that many,X)f the sheepmen have seen their property virtually double In value during the past fbtir years. Ip. Oregon, which is even more of a sheep state than Washington, the same gratifying change is to be^uotlced. Something like 3,500.000 sheep are now owned in that state. In 1886, according to the government reports, Oregon’s flocks numbered 2,630,949. Recent Inveetiga- ttons demonstrate that in Oregon at least there Is no other Industry which has been stimulated and made more noticeably prosperous than that of SUCCESS AND TIME LIFE. 1 ENJOY Senator (ireely, of South Dakota, said at an Institute last winter thaMnany farmers might well have this inscrip tion on their tombstones: “Slopped doing chores on sucli a date,” instead of saying they died. This is a rather jo* 1 jble is startling way of putting a great truth But the trouble is that-those to whom our text carries a lesson will not heed any ordinary message. They are doing a certain way, have done it for a long lime, and it is no easy task to make them think there is a better way. Now, my good friend*, throw aside for a few minutes your inherited uotions, your prejudices, and listen to me and see if there is not sound sense In what say. Thousands^ of you have so many things to do well you simply can not do all of them well. You have so many chores and little jobs outside of the regular large ones that the hours of daylight, even in summer, are hardly long enough Jo enable you to get through., jyf l&pry Van Dreser, of N. Y., 8ays:\“You-gi> to bed tired out and then’havetOT(et up before you are’ rested.” You nave little time for re creation and social intercourse. Of course there is an excuse for such persistent work when one is in debt and trying to pay for his home. But even then theie is a question about its paying. I believe one can Usually so • manage us to get along just as fast and not he so much tied up to thjs work. And then he cun get more out of life as.he goes along. When ihe best of one’s life is spent in working early and late and almost constantly to get ahead, the habit is likely to becomfe so fixed that oii'e will not be able to take comfort in later yean* when he be comes abundantly able to. Can not you think of many who areMh just this fix do-day? Do you not know many men Ad Women who will work and drudge and save to the veryreud, never fully enjoying the fruits of their in dustry, only to leave much proiy rty, that will usually be a curse to the children wlio were thus brought up? ‘•As the twig is bent so the tree in clines.” - Work, and work hard and j>er»iatently, dear friends, for a reason able amount of the comforts and luxur ies of this life, hut do it within bounds. Take time for rest and- recreation as regularly as you work. _ There is no longer any money iu. half doing any thing. A few. things thoroughly well done will actually pay you better thjm more thiiics a part of which have to be slighted. By working this line you may really be able to put on iu less hours .than you dq.now and still make more. And many of you cin now purchase some things you produy: and be the gainers. You can thus get rid of little cares and worries and make as much by simply doing a iittle more in some big line, where you will not notice the difference. The writer has worked this all out yeais ago, on his farm. Beginning when be was badly in debt he worked his way out on this plan. The regular work in summer began al 7 a. m. ami ended at 6 p. m., as a role, with an hour out for dinuor. In order to havo as. few chores and odd jolm as possible fur .morning and night, we dispensed with all pigs and chickens and many other things. We did 'not make our own butter at all. Two men were kept, as a rule, and they only had to feed and cleau the horses and imlk one cow iu the morning, and the same chores after.6 al night. Thus we weie able to have breakfast and supper at • with lijtle work before the oue and none after the latter. Our crops were so planned tbal there was m» great rush necessary at any time. We found .that good men, such as we kept, would do as much in 10 houra. as men or dinarily did who worked from suu to gun. The truth is, I believe we made more money , workmg . this way. I rarely'did anything myself below 7 o’clock or after A. Wife and I were often out driving when some fanners were still working, and I think we got ahead about as fast as auy of them. Now don’t n>v we were favorably could reduce the cost of production on ( them aud make a good profit. Now, dear friends, 1 have told you. the truth just as clearly as 1 can,;as it seems to mft. Iu many case* the prin ciples brought out will bring a more genuine success on your farm if prop erly pul into practice, it does the, writer more good thau you can think, perhaps, to find that such matters are' remembered and ma^le helpful to Prac tical Farmer readers, as numerous let ters testify. He has on his desk now a letter from A. W. (Jramlon, Steuben, THE HEN AND HER NEST. O., which says: “I am satisfied that some farmers could accomplish aa much as they do now by following the advice givenin one of your letters years ago, to work sharper, but fewer hours; to work more.intelligently.And by the way, friend Grandou, this is the'way 1 got time to sleek up a tittle aftermy day’s work was done. You think that advice in a recent article was good for well-to-do farmers but might mislead some. Don’t you see that between tl and 0.30 at night 1 had time to wash off (he dirt and dust(knd put on a clean shirt and clean overalls, if 1 eould afford nothing better, hut they were eleau, aud 1 was more comfortable and. wife was belter pleased. A shirt and pantaloons were kept ready to make this ehauge. It was more like living than to sit around dirty aud in dirty clothes. And still, perhaps, 1 would not have done as well iu t,his line if wife had not kept reminding me. She is naPWally more neat than I am. How I used to try her patience going to town with dirty work-clothes on sometimes. You see during the ten hours 1 was, on the rush, and if 1 had an errand to town 1 just couldn’t stop to change clothes. And how ashamed I have been when 1 met some town lady aud saw her lalce iu at a glance my filthy condition. BuiT guess you all have been there, m which will prompt me And I hope your wife's entreaties and your own shame iu time will cure you, as it did me. We ought to respect our business enough to dress as well as other business men when we are awav from our work, otherwise farming and farmers will he looked down on. The above is mostly for the men, hut to many a dear sister, too, death has been a relief from everlasting choring. There was a purpose in our keeping but one cow and not making anybut— ter. Aud haying the meal hours as men tioned the womeu folks did not have to get up veiv eariy nor iTffl 'they'fiave tn work Very Tatff. As soon a* possible - water was brought into the house, ami Hberc was dry fuel under cover. Later, oil was used the year around for cook ing aud baking because it is so much less trouble. x The kitchen is arranged as handily as inissible for doll); work. The heating of the house The expression “Don't know en ough to set a hen” though used ih derjjfuon, points to a task that i* not fully understood. For years we had our journals full of the question of moisture for our incubators—too much moisture or’too little.moisture; then the moisture guugb to grade the supply;un til some wise bead discovered that the turn which hid her nest in the hay^tnow brought forth quite as many chickens as her sister that huf her uest on the ground uuder the barn. ISoKt was cou- claded that the moisture must come from the air, and to-day wg have the most successful non-moisture machine. There is one other fact to he learned from the ilidden uest: - Usually the hen will lay not to exceed four; eggs per week; she hides her nest and’lays out her, litter or supply as may be, from twelveTo sixteen eggs. 1 likve seen the hidden nest produce seventeen chicks, allowing four eggs per week; some of these eggs were four weqks old when incubation began, showing how the vitality will last under natural treatment of the hen. But, under the best, some of them were full three weeks old when incubation began. Here is a lesson as to how .*ttnig the vitality will last prior to incubation. To test this fact, 1 last seasori^^iad a basket of US Leghorn eggs sent' iue; without unpacking I placed them in the cellar, where they stayed not dis turbed or turned for four weeks; they Were placed'under a hen aud produced eight or ten chicks. • / These questions cannot be theorized on; prior to this test 1 held to^ t,he opinion that eggs three weeks old would be absolutely certain not to hatch. Ti e question of the hidden uest led to the other test, the result of to go farther with* tire experiment this season. It maybe that another trial will prove less'successful; then again, [ will be uncertain. A l this time 4 believe there; is difference in the length of the vitali. ty of' Ihe eggs from different Hocks 1 Strong, vigorous fowls will give more lasting vitality thau over-kept and pampered ones. Whetv the hen selects her uest to hide away her eggs,, she invariable chooses one with «olid foundation so that the eggs may be guaranteed from beneath from .climate changes. The turkey or guimw hen, wild» r be nature, THE REARING OF HEIFER (’ALVES. i ' 1 . , (lonespondence of Trogrestive Farmer. Female calves are bur dairy recruits, ' aud ou their proper rearing largely de pends their future usefulhess. | Some dairymen of scant experience, imaging that when a calf develops in to the proportions of a cow, no matter what vicissitudes she encounters during her growth, that she js then ready to become a paying auiafalV ' Dairymen should bauish such false notions from their heads if they desire to possess cows of any merit. Remember,, that calves cannot be raised too well. It pays to force their growth all that you can. Do not slop them much with sour whey of old butter milk. FeedfiMth to therp. in'a fresh state. v ‘ i . They should have the free run of a partially shaded pasture, in which there is a good grpwth of mixed grasses containing some. clover. Offensive surroundings, like proximity to a barnyard or stable is ..inimical to the healthy development of growing calves. Sweet skimmed milk as it comes from fhe separator" or creamery will make bone and sinew for calves, es pecially if a little oil meal is added to it. Never try to raise a calf that Ihcks good natural vitality. There are plenty enough animals bom that can be grown into profitable healthy cows, without trying to raise the puny oftetfT 1 once knew a fanner, so economical that he put his calves and pigs in the same enclosure. What was the re-*' suit? Why, in a short lime the poor calves were in such a sprawny state, that although speedily transferred to a fresh-pasture, they never fully recover ed fr,om the effects of swine companion ship in all summer. The troughs or buckets out of which calves are fed their milk or whey ^hould be washed aud scalded at least ohee daily. Neglect m this direcliou is of frequent occur ence, and is one cause for failure in rearing good calves. Another thing that I consider not a bit sentimental, and when put in practice ef great practical value, i* to make pets of the calves. These young animals are very amenable to kind gentle treatment, and if dailfffoudied at feeding time, will grow up to h? docile cows, which* adds to their com mercial aud milking value at least Dr. Hattiavay ; Treats Ml Diseases. His Method Invariably Cures AH Catarrhal, Bronchial, Laaff,.Stem- , ach, Liver, KMacy aad Other Coai plaints, as Bell u All Diseases and Weaknesses of Women. In Dr.HztUswmy’* most extensive practice, cov ering a period o( more Uian 20 jrears.be has been called upon to treat all manner o( diseases ot men and women and along the whole tine ot human ailments he has been uniformly suc cessful. Dr. Hathaway’s me thod of treatment gets directly at the seat of » ... the trouble, purifies the blood .f u 2!*** tones up the whole system and tho Blood, neutralizes the poisons which produce the disease* conditions. © ... Yearly he restores to perfect an uismms health thousands of sufferers Tr*ated. from Catarrh, Bronchitis, As thma, Hay Fever, Lung Complaints, Stomach, Liver and Kidney Diseases, Plies, Tumors, Can cers, Eczema and all manner of skin affections. -- Dr. Hathaway also treats with the greatest success alt those Woman many distressing weaknesses aud diseases by whlen so many women are afflicted. EImMmI Dr. Hathaway’s offices are fitted m ». wlth st* the latest electrical aud nppuanoes. other appliances. In the use of which, as well as the microscope, ne has world wide fame as an expert. All of the medicines used hy Dr. Hathaway are compounded In his own laboratories, under his personal direction, and specfal remedies are prepared for each in dividual case according to Its requirements. . •- Dr. Hathaway has prepared a " . series of self-examination blanks ■lank*. applying to the different diseases which he sends free on application: No. 1, for Men; No. 2, for Women; No. 3, for Skin Diseases No. 4, for Catarrljal Diseases; No. S, for Kidneys. P Dr. Hathaway makes no charge wonsvnvnwn f or consultation at either his Fme, office or by mall. % J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M, D. Dr. Hathaway A Co., *SM South Broad Street, Atlanta, Qa, KXjrrioN this rAi-Ku whin wu-ruia. ^ ’ . r> PITT’S per ceut. If you do not beliove so is so arraugod as to make ihe women scan > ly any trouble. All these things, and many more, did not come .by chaftce, but were purposely arranged with the iutcnliou of improving and making work lighter indoor* ns well as out. Think about these things, good friends, and ns fast as you can try aud arrange so as to get more time for youi family aud yourself to enjoy life.— 7V* II. Ttrry in l > rw'}i<'ul Furmtr. Tli3 peat bogs of Irclarfd aud other countries are likdly to have much greater value in lbe (mure than they have had the past. The possihihtie* of peat*have been a subject of study, for twelve year* hy Herr Zselioruer, of Y r i«uua, and he has found that, while the grasses and reed* composing it have become chemically changed, the fibres lO^liave not decayed, hut that they are elastic, durable, uon-couductors of ni al and non combustible. These propel- lie* adapt the material for many use*, it has been made into a great variety of fabrics, including blanket* for horses and cattle, carpets, window curtains, and paper of - various kind*. Tht fabrics have the strength of linen with warmth of wool. The unspun titter i* not without uses, for it ha* proyen a highly antiseptic substitute for absor bent cottons. - hitve wor morning until dark at night—began that way, ami (hen we "determined to make ^he situation change. For nearly a quarter of a century we kepk no pigs or chickens, had uo gar den to speak of, made no butter, but just raised clover, potatoes aud wiieat. One cow was kept to give us milk aud cream. We dispensed with calves, colls, oats, corn aud lots of other things. We bought what we needed that we did not raise, and paid on our debts dr laid up a nice sum of money yearly, and had considerable time to enjoy life. Some five years ago 1 wished to get out of potato growing and the. hard work connected with it. We had made enough, so it was not necessafy to look to the financial part as closely. So we began a gradual cliange, and our sou has been working: into dairying instead of potato growing. Some thought we were going to add to our sources of income, but they were mis taken All that is done on tho farm now is to care for the dairy, and grow hay for them and* wheat. There are no chickens, no pigs, practically noth ' mg else only that we must raise three or four calves fn order to get the best cows. Robert, of course, cannot bring his work quite as nearly 'within the U) hours as we did; he .must milk before breakfast', but bu' the other hand he is not crowded as pinch during work hours a part of the season as we used to be. Now/l am not telling of these things expecting that you cau do just as we have, but rather to show you the principle that will bring you success and give yob time to cn joy it. In a re cent article you were told, how Mr. Miss Marguerite Gust finished a thousand mile ride on a bicycle >u 1 Li f~pmmd* ■whetfidte-began U> rule and J'J. - * 1-2 at the end of the thou sand miles. During the 1 L't hours and 23 imnuteff she rested 22 hours aud minutes, of which 10 hours aud I•• minutes" werb spent in sleep. Com or cane’ "tnpy he Sown this mouth to he used later as a soiling crop.. usually seo-t-t* some sec holed spot, (iu the ground that has some natural pre>- lection.. In thus •electing, they have help from the natural- turroupdiugs to hold the regular heat from thrir bodies wuhin the uesW Some tell us tha}tbe lhe*t natural moisture from the ground kelp* in the progress of incubation. This 1 do not deny. But. if true, why should the hen in the top of a hav mow do <quaily well ? 1’igeoh' egg* hatch well iu the very warme.*t w eatlier in the dry, hot up|>er loft of a barn' If - the ground is neoe*kaiy tor success, why ihese two differences, a* we sec them ? The question evidently ha* not vet been sett We know that good result* come from our -iucuhalor*. it a regular and even heat of the proper teiu|>eiaturM is maiulained. We al^> know that if al- Idowed to chill, the result is laid. The | incubator, we know, will hatch every I good fertile «»r h.oehabtv ogg, providing the proper degree of heat is maiutaia- cd. We also know that al times the hen does not hatch all of the ►••-called ball liable eggs, t hick* dead in the shell are quite a common occurrence with ihe hcu. Tlure inu*l be aome good reason for this. Providing we eceepl the theory of the bidder uc*t, we feel assured that eggs three weeks old *hould hatch icasoualdy web. The moisture or Uo moisture question being settled a* to the incubator, we should not hesitate to accept the proposition that the nest hidden away in the mow must gain jt* moisture fruin the air, which doe* away with the necessity of making the uest ou the ground. Aller due coutiderarion of these facts, 1 aiu led to believe that we. must find some other reason why eggs that should hatch under a lieu, do not liatch. We ■jn*t try the-plan and see. >-• -trtNmor-E. Nn 1. WEI. I.. An estimate of the possible value of I the great peal beds of North Germauy j has been made by Dr. Franks. He find* that an acre of turf, 10 feet thick, gives 1,000 tons of dry turf, equiva lent to IS) tons of coke, and that the mosses of the ^ Evus Valley, covering l,o0o square mile*, might yield the f equivalent of .'{1)0,000,003 tons of pit coal, or more thau the total prudOetioo of Germany for three year*. It is proposed that the |»eat ho burned at centra! stations of lO.OtAi horse |Kjwer • a|>acilv, consuming annually the pro- I duct of 200 acrcsy Xhe jaiwcr would I lie useful on the|n‘W canal connecting Durtmundjto the Evu*, but mbftPtfo in the manufacture of calcium carbide tor acetylene. With lu.Ooo horse I power, the acetylene produced would iiavu an auuual value equal to that of I 20,000 tout of imported petroleum. Petroleum residue is uow used as TOcI for the locomotive* ou thirteen per ceut. of tin* Russian railroads. It is required that the. oil be of a green ish color, never black, and free from sulphug and sand. Its specific gravity must not exceed 0.911 at 63 deg. F., us boiling |H>int not to fall below 284 degrees. Tn ensure fuel for winter, when UMjwportaUoa t* dilticiilt. storage j tanks are placed at intervals along the railways, and have capacities up to 2.*>Od tons. The locomotive curries about five lous, which is stored uuder the water lank of the tender. Cure* dyspepsia, indigestion, and all stomach or bowel troubles, colic or cholera mortuis, teething troubles with children kidney tronbles. bad blood and all sorts o sores, risings or felons, cuts and burns. It is as good antiseptic, when locally apolied as any thing on the market. Try Hand vou will praia* it to othars ff your druggist doesnl ktep it, writ* to t Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator Co. THOMSON, QA- . Si CARP ENTER BR0ti„ •I *«nvl(ta. H. Ci. ■woolgrowing to he profltabie again, ml the flock* have laereaxed -hOithilnlGreely accomplished the gome thing way off in Dakota on a sheep farm, tinder very different conditions. Of course there Are some 1 realities in (he newer aettled parts ot, the country where one might have? to do quite dif ferently. The conditions ' there are something as they were here 60 ot more yearn ago. We have been able (o buy anything we wanted handily, and usually could truthfully say, aa Mr, (ireely did, that by so doing we made more money than the friend who sold to us. This came from doing three things on a comparatively large scale and juat aa well as we could. We “I have also recom mended these medi cines to my friends who suffered from female weakness. ,,, “I wns troubled for three years.with ulcera- •tioti anti female weakness .uni my doctor gave me jbiit little relief,” writes Mrs. Lulu Hunter, ot Alienton. 8t. Louis Co . Mo. ” l saw an advertise ment itydhe |>aj>er of Dr. Pierre’s Favofite Pre script km I brjfau the use of it ab&it .1 veaywo X took five botUes of it, and one bottle fTxvphleo Medical Discoverv,’ :Ynd*-niy hcalth i>d>ettefallow than it was fpr vt\itS I ,l);(\<- nNo rev • ,mmended these niedirinesto some of rnyArieit(K, who snf- fered from female tveakne^vShd g;x*T results have fojlhTWetpr / .TVie greatest advertisrment of Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, are the women who have used it and Wen cured by-it. It is not'a common “ cure-all.'' lifias-a-single pUrpoSg, the cure of dis- r.iiiic.s .{►‘ruhai-ljLi. wouu-u, and. tiiia.puxr |*)se it accomplishes thoroughly aial per manently. There is no alcohol, or opium, or uther narcotic contained in fir. Pierce's F'avor- ite Prescription S*u'h a claim cannot be truthfully made fwranv other"prepara- ^tion put up sptSrtallv for women and on sale at flit medicine stores. Accept no siihstitale. . Rve.rv sick or ailing woman is invited to--consult Dr. Pierce, by'letter, free of charge. Kvery letter U held as -.(nelly private and saCredly confidential All answers are sent in sealed envelopes, bearing no advertising or other planted matter upon them. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y. may-dead- u* (»♦ d*»eov*w-V the dead-in-the-shcll chick's hen. . BENEFIT OF THE BIRDS. • The agaiust war which ha* been made the English sparrows in De troit. with the very agrecublg result of nearly exterminating the pests iu that community, so that song birds are said tp be rtluruiug, calls aitentiou to the ill-advise<l tights which are frequently made upon birds which are sometimes supposed to be great enemies .to the farm, whereas they . may in reality be just the -opposite. For instance, the various species of American sparrows, since they are sometimes seen eating grain ami are fouiul at times in con siderable flocks arc thought ’by some farmers to be an injury rather thaifa benetit'to the farm. As a matter; of fact they eat but slight amounts.of grain, yet an investigation of a large number of their stomachs show that they are indefatigable weed-^eed de stroyers during the late fall and winter moulhs. It is estimated ou a very conservative basis that thousands of tons of weed seeds are eaten, every year by these tiny foragers. On i riirhl sunny days during the \y inter they can be seen in swarms m almost every briar patch and hedge low busily engaged iu picking around for weul seeds, and were it not for them it is impossible to estimate what the natural increase of many hurttul weed* would be. A French scientist hits stated that with out birds to eat insects ai .d weed seeds, the garth would In a few years become uninhabitable for man. When it is rmiHlTfcmt tfrnt -thr itimoai-eB tire-food of the majority of birds consists of seeds -of some sort and insects or worms, tL^Statement is pot improba- Idc. ^ A Missouri editor says lie has.a sub- scriber who gets drunk every little while invariably insists on pay- ipg^a years subscription. He has^Wf paper paid iu advance up to When the cultivation through the spring and early summer has been deep the soiF will dry more rapidly and thoroughly in a drought. JTARVft“ HAIR comes from lack of hair food. The hair has no life. It is starved. It keeps coming out, gets thinner and thinner, "bald spots appear, then actual baldness. The only good hair food you can buy is — I t feeds the roxits, stox>s starvation, and the hair grows thick and long. It cures dan- drun also, iteep ' a bottle of it on your dressing tabled It always restores color to faded or gray hair. Mind, we say “always.” *1.00 a bottl*. AH •raetlztz. “ 1 hzvje fouqd your Hair Vigor to lie ths t>?Nt remedy I have ever tried tor the hair. My hair was falling out verjr had, so t thought ,1 would try a Wttle of It. I had u*ejl only one hittW, and ffiy hair •topped falling oup and ft la now real thick-antf toSje^ 1 NxacYJI.'HorsKASTLE, July-J8, 1S9S. Yonkers, N.Y. Wrftm fhm Doctor. He will tend you hia book on TM Hair autl Sealp. Aak him any ques tion you wish about your hah. Yon will rereivs a prompt answer free. Address, I)a. /. C. AYKR, Lowell, - • * v » * zzzzzz Plant!no Stuawhkbkim.—If any crop pays for the selection of good land and the plentiful application ol manures, it i* the strawberry. It i* less trouble and expense to grbw 300 bushels ol berrie* on one acre thau i- i- usually done » on three acres. 1 . would not aud will not plant strawber ries on |>oor, lifeless soil, or ou r auy laud without using the manures suit able to the occasion quit* freely. While stable manure may he juat the thing in one case, especially where the red is uot provided with humus, chemical* alone may do iu,other«, and the substances that moat usually will come id play, are superplumphate and muriate of potash. The market garden er ofteu think* it unprofitable for him jo grow strawberries as he loses a year s use of the laud. We hud straw berries oue of the best paying crop* hereabouts, ami we do not lose the use of the land the first season entirely, either. The old established rules for setiiug strawberry plants 1 believe f^vor the plant seller more than the plant sellet. Our beariug (•alch, this year, consist* of full, matted rows, and there are rather more than enough plants iu the row* for best result*, in (act, we take some of the plants up for making new plantations. Yet the plants last year were set nearly or fully four feet a|»art in the row*: Of course .the varietiea (Splendid, Haverlaud, Wood, Warfield, etc.) ate good plant makenq.; "Between each two strawberry plauts w e had au Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage, an are rage ofgot iessMtan -f’Teffta a head. Tht returns from these straw berry rows, with cabbages set in them uearly four feet apart, ruu up to $l‘Jo per acre. This year we have put a roMr of cabbages between each two rows of strawberries, making the rows from cabbage to strawberry about 2H inches apart. If we can obtain last year’s prices for our early cabbage this ^ear, the returns from the full cabbage rows would come, to irearly $200. per acre. Besides this we have set oniou plauta between the strawberry plant* in the rows, and shall use^these onions for'bunching before the young straw berry runners will need the room. At any rate there will be quite an addition to the $200 rate of income from the cabbages, aud next year we shall have a fine strawberry patch. As we estim ated, in short, the strawberry crop is one of the most important of all our market garden crops, and especially profitable to us when combined in some such way as here suggested, with vegetable crops. The combination continues right along, too clear into the markets and into' the .consumer’s hands.. At the time' of marketing strawberries, f^esh vegetables are only just beginning to come tn, so that a crate or two of berries finds plenty of room oq the load, and the mixed lot will sell better and quicker than if we have only vegetables, or only Jjerries. Combination crops make combination sales.—Practical Farmer, ^ Au air perfume in two papers, on the plan of seidlitz powders, is a French idea. The white paper con tains binoxide- of barium saturated with.a coacenU-atodjperfume, while the colered paper holds powdered perman- ganate of potash in the proper propor- tione to liberate oxygen when the two powders dissolved together. The lib erated ozone or oxygen c arries the per-- fume into the air, which it disinfects At the same time. Insanity is not largely due to mental worry, according to Dr. Clouston, of the Royal Edinhuigh Asylum. He traces oniyJl.o. per : ient.~of the cases to thircaiUse, bodily affections—drink, fiulty development,- etc,,«—being the chief source. - \ / ■ //' 4 9*, ' • - T