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, 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.
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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.
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(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.
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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, -
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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. -
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