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fet + * * *r<THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE. You must either soar or stoop. Fall or triumph, stand or droop; You must either serve or govern. Must l?e slave, or must be sovereign; Must, iu fire, be block or wedge, Must be anvil or be sledge. i "an ice;' 1 I 3 ^ A Wife's Second Courtship, j Anice Yale and Lawrence Favorite married each other as a part of theii social duty. They had grown up witb the expectation that they would be married and contemplated that fact without much interest for all the years of their youth. "When Anice came heme from school and was introduced into society it was generally understood that she would be allowed onlj one season of freedom. Lawrence Favorite certainly would not have claimed that his young wife was absorbed in him. He had been well enough pleased to marry her. He knew the purity and dignity of her life and conld not help noting her regal beauty, but his life, like hers, had been mapped out for him to a * . great extent. He had not thought much about her life. He had supposed, iu a lordly but chivalrous fashion, that she sat iu the parlor eating bread and honey, figuratively speaking, while he was away at business, and that she watched for his return, as was the , duty of a wife, that she made herself beautiful for his pleasure, and went - ? 1 1 . remain single and hare folks forever worrying, and because whatever you j? did not know about me you knew ?. nothing objectionable. In other words, we were married because we were too supine to protest." He sighed and looked longingly at the exquisite woman opposite him. *1 suppose it is so," he admitted, "but I much wish we had married each other for some better reason." * The next day he was able to go to business, but he could not fix his mind upon the letters to which he endeavored to give his attention and the details of his business continually slipped from him. Harassed and too || irritable to remain at his .desk he went home. There was a certain bride holding her postnuptial reception in the si neighborhood, and the carriages thronged the avenues leading to the house. "Aniw will be there," he said to " himself. "And she will be more beautiful than the fairest." But as he asoended his steps he was surprised to see his wife open the door and stand on the threshold talking with a woman. In his wife*s arms was a little babe, and she bent and kissed it twice before she placed it in the arms of its mother. "Be sure and give the baby an airing every day," she called as the woman started away. "And the food will be sent up tomorrow, and the little buggy will be there when you get home. I'll expect you again a week from today. Don't forget." Lawrenee had never heard her voice sound so hearty and full of cheer. He could hardly believe this was the woman who ordinarily employed a sort of monotonous, musical intoning when she spoke. Nor could he al first believe that those glowing eyes were the calm and unresponsive ones into which he had looked a thousand times, only to be baffled by theii opacity. 'Ton are not at tiie reception, Anice." "As jon see%" She endeavored t: return at once to her ordinary tone, but it was difficult. As the dooi elosed he held out his arms to her. "Anice!" he cried, "Anice,dear love, do not change your voice for me 1 D< not drive the light out of your eyes because I have come! You .give you: life in ministry to others. Ministe: algo to me. Forgive me that I hav< not understood. Neither of no has understood. We hav 3 been like chii dren groping in the dark and comfor close at hand had we only reached foi it I know I am not worthy of you: love, but try to love me and perhaps I may grow in goodness. She interrupted him, weeping. "I have loved you long," sh< sobbed. "But I meant that yoi should never know."?Chicago Trib une. Effects of War on Game. I heard two South African sports men discussing the other day the pos sible effects a campaign spread over i large area might hare on the dwin dliugbig game of that region. The con elusion they arrived at was that th game had already receded beyond th possible sphere of influence of sue] operations. At the same time war ha before now had strange and far reach ing effects on the distribution of Iocs fauna, as for instance, when the can nonading iu 1870-'71 drove great bus tards across the seas and into ou eastern counties in numbers unprecc dented since that magnificent bir forsook this island for good and a many years ago.?London Leader. and came according to nis aesire. An indisposition which kept Lawrence at home for a week revealed to him the fact that his wife lived a stirring life in which he had no part* and the details of which she did not confide to him. She was seldom at home. She gave*over the keeping of their great mansion to her corps of servants, and her directions to them were of the {briefest Visitors came who were closeted with her?visitors of whom he had never heard. She went out, plainly attired, was gone for hours, and returned greatly wearied. Lawrence Favorite was mystified and a trifle displeased. But for all that he began to acqnire a sort of respect for this woman whom he had taken as a matter of coarse. He tried to draw ? ,her into conversation, but she gave him only polite nothings, as had been her habit always. "You are a reticent woman, my dear," he said to her one evening as the two sat together at dinner. She looked up and languidly smiled. " "A confidential wonjau is always annoying, don't yon think so?" she responded. She looked at him across their .dainty table?looked at him over the I violets, and was never more beautiful with her gleaming satin gown and her delicately tinted flesh, then at that moment, bnt not a line of her face softened at his remark. "l'ou spare me too much. In these days that I have been at home ailing it has occurred to me that I know nothing about your life- I realize that yon and I are strangers." - "I realized that a long time ago. That is why I have not confided in "But why did yon marry me if yon considered me a stranger?" "For the same reason that you i married me?because it was too much tronble to protest; because it was aimnlAf irt unrnfthodr than to THE TRUE WASHINGTON. The Father of Hi* - Country a Centnrr After His Death. Apropos of the centenary of Washington's death the editor of the Century comments thus upon the life and fame of the tirst president: > It can be said that not only the [ fame of Washington has greatened > during the century that has flown I since his death, but the knowledge > | and understanding of him have like> j wise largely increased. The sculptor, > Daniel French, in the Washington * that he has modeled for the Paris monument, has expressed the grau* ; deur of his fame. Here, with sword I and brow lifted toward heaven, he ap1 pears as a world-hero; there is some) ! thing of the demigod, of the creature i j.? ~f a ? | ; ui irauutuu, ui my tu, iu aunuuc ?u? 1 aspect To be sure, there was an unusual ^ | dignity about the person and reputa, tion of this hero, both during the j time of his greatest activity and later | in his career. There aie none now | living who can make direct report of f i the effect of his presence upon be' ) holders, but there are many who have 1 [ had from those who saw him an ac' j count, at first hand, of this eflfec?. " j The present writer can never forget a j description of his appearance, frem 1 1 the lips of an old gentlewoman who j has been one of the band of children ! who strewed flowers before him at | Trenton, on his way to his inaugureI tion at New York. And, besides, there | are many printed records of the dignity 1 ! of his bearing, and the impression of 1 j majesty produced upon individuals | j and the multitude. As this country has grown, and as 1 the importance of his work is more and more appreciated, and, too, as ho recedes in distance, Washington's true proportions are appreciated, and he looms ever more grandly. Compared, indeed with the unselfishness of his actions and the nobility of bis aims, most of the world's conquering heroes and makers of nations seem, in moral comparison, a herd of self-seeking 1 vulgarians. Yet, while he has joined the ranks of the world's demigods, he has, at the same time, become nearer and more human to us through a closer study of his personality. ".The true Washington" is a no less dignified bnt much more sympathetic figure. If we know the fierceness of his anger, we honor all the more the power of his self-control. If we recognize the intensity of hia love for country life (and something of a revival of the love for such a life makes the present generation more appreciative of this ami| able trait), still the keener our sense j of his sacrifice to duty in relinquishing that life for the camp and the halls of government. Tn order to exalt the wisdom of Washington, and to insist npon the importance of his farewell advice to his people, it is not necessary to impute to him supernatural enlightenment And yet,so clear and right was his thinking on themes of government, 1 and so valuable have proved his prin1 I ciples in operation, that he would be a rash counselor who would call for 1 the utter disregard of any one of these principles. Certainly as to the conditions to which his advice directly applied, events have proved that he saw not only deeply but far. At what point any of his specific views may cease to be of service as a present guide, it will be difficult, indeed, to determine; and there will always be danger that a wave of sentiment may at any time drive a not phlegmatic people from moorings afterward found to be the safest PEARLS OF THOUCHT. Children are born; men are made. Homeless boys make lawless men. To be always bold, is not always to be brave. The higher you sit, the better you can drive. A good boy is worth far more than j a bad man. The home is the headquarters of the j humanities. Faith is the soul's ballast in the storm of fear. A golden chain may chafe as badly as an iron one. Sacrifice in the home, sends the inmd*b of iovthroueh the house. W The shingles jou are going to buy are not keeping yon dry today. Some people continue to be offensive, even when conferring favors. A man's prosperity can only be measured by its effects on his heart. The memory of yesterday will often furnish the best prophecy of tomorrow. The measure of a man's goodness is not the ill he avoids, but the good he does. The prizes men pursue, are often but the bubbles blown by their own > breath. The value of the artificial light is dependent on the vanishing of the sunligh . In the mathematics of souls, you can never be sure how many two and | two may make. , When you hear mo3t noise about k religion, yon may remember that the . propeller is not heard save when it > churns out of the water.?Ram's Horn. ? Elephants' Toboggan Slide. I "la India, where I was a cornet . of her majesty's hussars, I gave a good deal of attention to" elephants," said Murray Garde, a salesman of automobiles the other night to a Philadelphia Record writer. "What particularly > interested me was the bold, original method an elephant has jpf getting " down a hill when the gradient is too steep for walking. He sits calmly ? down on his hinderlands, you know, ' pushes off, and?bzz, bzz?he's at the J bottom. It hurts, though?the fricr tion, the inequalities of t: e descent, r i the tenderness of the hide, don't you 9 ; know. 9 ! "But I only speak of this because " I tbe bears of your country remind me j of it. The bears of Utah and Wyoming r | are the cleverest wild animals I have r j ever seen. They, too, slide down the J precipices and the mountains, but they are more tender of themselves i than the elephants. They cut bark 0 from a tree with their teeth and claws 1 in strips big enough to be sat upon comfortably, and on these toboggans they coast down the steeps of their wild country without any evil effects. A strange sight it is, I tell you." ?a a New York City's Fine Morgue. New York undoubtedly possesses . the finest morgue in the world. It e was built two years ago, and has a e capacity of 125 bodies, which are kept h i in cold storage. The bodies are not 3 made a grewsome exhibition as in Paris, and the room in which they are j kept is not more repulsive in appearance than a safe deposit vault. There | are from twenty to fifty arrivals a day, r i and iu 1898, 8122 bodies passed ). ; through the morgue. The bodies ol d | unclaimed persons are photographed U i and their clothing is preserved for a j period of six months. % Government Printing Office. The new government printing office will cost about $2,000,000, and it is said that even after its completion it wiH not be large enough to meet the demands upon it. The new building will be eight stories in height and its floor space will be about nine acres. The floors will sustain a load of 85,000,000 pounds. New Cable I.lne?. Franco Is absolutely dependent upon England for news of the Transvaal war, because the eaMos are under her control, and she is ready to spend a vast sum of money to free herself. This is like many people, who, a-t-r allowing dyspepsia to sotile upon them, spend a fortune seeking deliverance. Save your money and try Ilostetter's Stomacu Fitters, 'he medicine which never fails to cure dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness, malaria, lever and ague. A Man of Breeding. cne?lounrctne most ex ispersnns ?mu on earth. Here I ?eold y?'u for UhI* hm hour, and you won't answer. Why don't you taU? He?I never use strong language in the presence of a lady.?Indianapolis Journal. 44 A Miss is As Good as a Mile." If you are not entirely voett. you are CI. Illness docs not mean death's door. It is a sense of weariness, a 44 tired feeling" a life filled 'with nameless pains and suffering. In 90% of cases the blood is to blame. Hood's Sarsaparilla is Nature's corrective for disorders of the blood. Remember Slang of the English Smart Set I have spoken before of the craze there is among a certain section of so-called smart society in England for the use of slang that practically becomes a language all to itself. We have the thieves' language, and the Romany vortAno Aflmt* mafltAllo i\f unnrv i, aau t ui i.uuo viavi. lariwvuo v*. deforming the English tongue. But surely the "society slang" is the worst of the lot. I was given the other day a list of words that are quite new to me. All persons like the butcher, ot your cook, or your coachman, or the milkman, are "gemptics" and "ladoes." Tuns the dustman is the "dust-demptic." the butcher the "meat-demptic," a beggar a "beggar-ladoe* or a "beggar-gemptic." while the postman is known as the "postie.' A policeman, for no very obvious reason, is called the "peaceman," a brougham is a cart, and horses are of course "geegees." A piano is a "prannie." Medicine is "mettle." and wheu you go to bed you go to "bee." No one who uses the society slang ever thinks of speaking of Kensington. They say "Kensie," while Belgrave Square and Belgravla generally are called "Belgy."?Chicago Times-Herald. Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with Putnam Fadeless Dtks. Sold by all druggist-, A Youthful Schemer. Tommy?I bought tbis dog to make moneyout of him. His Mster's Beau?How's that? Tommy?I expec t yon to give me ten cents for tying him up ever'time you come to see sister. He's awful savage.?Ohio Slate Journal. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clei.n Mood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cnsearets, Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and ariving all impurities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. "Wasted. "Don't keep tellin' po' folks how sorry you is you can't help 'em." Uncle Eben. "Dey has too much trouble of der own to stop an' sympathize wid you."?Washiagton Star. Catarrh Cannot be Cnred With local applications, rs they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to core it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was rrescrfbed by one of the best physicians in this conntrv for years. and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known.combinedwitn the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Drui gists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Her Definition. He?What is a flirtation? She?Attention without intention.?Chicago News. Kducate Your Bowels With Caecarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation foreTer, l(c. 25c. li C. C. C. fall, draggietsrefund money. Is tfce Klondike Growing Warmer? Prospectic visitors and gold seekers in the Klondike region may extract some comfort from the discovery, made by the Harriman Alaska expedition, that most of the glaciers which abound in that territory are receding. The fact is an indication that the average weather there is growing warner. If it were growing colder the glaciers would be advancing; while if it were about the same one year with another they would maintain the same general position, neither creeping nearer to the sea nor melting away from their terminal moraines. The rate of glacial recession is so slow, however, that fur overcoats and warm sleeping bags are likely to remain as a part of the necessary equipment of Alaskan travel for some years to come. Nothing, it may be added, is slower'than the movement of a glacier except the settlement of the Alaskan boundary dispute? Issue's Weekly. A Busy Woman Ss Mrs. Plnkhantm Her great correspondence Is under her own supervision. Every woman on this continent should understand that she can write freely to Mrs. Plnkham about her physical condition because Mrs. Plnkham Is A woman a nd because Mrs. Plnkham never violates confidence and because she knows more about the Ills of women than any other person In this country. Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound has cured a million sick women. Every neighborhood, almost every family, contains women relieved of pain by this great medicine. IFORFARM AND GARDEN^ ; WW'WWWV'VWWW i Bran for Cnbbnjje Worm*, Sprinkling a little bran over the ; j heads of cabbage is said to prevent j 3 the attacks cf worms. Besides being 1 a worm dt Irojer the bran is a good ' fertilizer. 1 New Machinery and Tool*. ( It is certain that iron and steel cost ] more than they did a year ago, and | j that wages have advanced, while the I ] larger crops of the past season having supplied farmers throughout thecouu- j i try with money, will make the demand i better for agricultural machine: y and j j tools. Prices are likely to advance 1 accordingly, and those who will need i < tham next suriuer will do well to j 1 do their buying early. Those who | i have those which have served their j 1 pnr| ose well should house them, j i clean and repair them to try to make ; 1 them just as good as new instead of J j neglecting them only to lind next sea- ; j son that the weather has rendered 1 1 them unserviceable. There is no < economy in using a poor or a wornout tool or machine, but we think more rust out, or rot out, than are j worn out, and the purchase of new : ' ones to replace them is a considerable tax upou the farmers whose lack of care allows them tc do so. - 1 Soil for the Apple Orchard. The error which has been commonly ' made in locating apple orchards is in choosing a poor piece of ground?one I that is thin, or rocky, 01 on a hillside j too steep to cultivaie. The modern practice in choosiug soils for apples , is based upon the fact that no soil is j too good for aud orchard. Of course, j low, flat, meadow land is not suitable . for tree growth. The serious ob.ee- j tion to such low laud is that it holds ; stagnant water below the surface, j Fields might be quite level, and if I somewhat elevated and well drained, j either naturally or artificially, they j would be first-class for orcharding, j Sandy soils are not adapted to the apples as they do not possess or re- j tain the fertility necessary for the growth of the tree. A soil intended for app'es ought to be first tested with some auiiual crop i such as corn or potates. If a good j yield is obtained it may bo assumed j that tbe ground is fit for the t ees; if ; not* it should bo kept under cultivation with judicious fertilization until it is in good condition. rotato Fait Seed. In the days of oar youth potato i vines bore large quantities of balls, j But improving the varieties has had a j tendency to destroy the seed-bearing habit, until whole fields of potatoes j are produced by plautiug the seeds j rather thau parts of the tubers. The usual plan of preparinr the : balls for seeding is to grind them up j and allow the mass to ferment for j some days till the seeds <au bo washed out. Tbe seeds are in tbe spring planted in beds, but should be plant- | ed sparsely to aliow each seed sufficient room for development. After , the seeds have sent up their stalks to j the height of a few inches they are transplanted into furrows or hills. If the hill method be used, only one plant should be permitted to each hill. If rows are more convenient, then the plants must be set so fa" apart in the rows that the roots will not mingle and that the tubers belonging to each stalk will be kept by themselves. Of course the very large majority of these new tubers will be found no j improvement on the potato from which i the seed was taken, and rnauy will be inferior to it.. Ten thousand seedlings may have to be grown to get one j new variety of potato that is worth propagating. let along tnis line is the only hope for improvement. If a farmer desires to produce a new variety for use on his farm alone he should transplant the seedlings into the natural soil of the farm. Then, if he succeeds in producing a new valuable variety he will have one well adapted to his own use.?From Field and Fireside. Preserving: The principle involved in preserving eggs is the preservation of the mucilaginous coating which naturally covers the shell and which prevents the entrance of the germs of decomposition. When this coating is removed the egg begins to become "stale," and the process of decay actually begins. The use of lime and salt as a means of preservation? never entirely successful?does not preserve the protecting covering on the shell, and no process can be successful unless it does this. Experiments have shown that water-glass comes more nearly being a perfect preservative than anything that has hitherto been employed. Water-glass is potassium silicate or sodium silicate and sodium. One quart of water-glass to ten quarts of pure water, that has been thoroughly boiled and cooled, is the formula. 'J he eggs should be packed in a glazed jar and the solution poured over them. Only fresh eggs should be used and they must not be washed. The jars should be set in a cool, dark place. There is always danger of the [ bursting of the shell of an egg that j is thus preserved, when in hot water, j but this disadvantage may be overcome by piercing it with a needle. The question will naturally arise, if the preservation of the surface of the shell in its natural condition is all that is necessary to preserve the egg, why could it not be coated with some iVinf. ivfmlrl Answer t.hat UV4VU ?? w MAM .. w. purpose? It could be. Vaseline will preserve it, and might be used on a small scale, but it would require too much time, and consequently expense, to use this means extensively, while by the use of water-glass eggs can be preserved at a cost of a cent a dozen. ?The Epitomist. The Care of Hor*e Collars. A correspondent writing to us concerning the matter of work harness for animals, seemed very much concerned about the abuse of work animals in Louisiana owing to the indifferent fit of the harness. His views are so excellent that we repeat them below and trust that our readers will profit by the good advice therein I given. Concerning horse collars, he he says: + f A 1 AAI' TV ?>11 fn fhiq ! AUUU T UOgAOVU IV IVVIA v -V .M.w . part of the harness, and put up with ' any old collar as a makeshift, and i trusting to a great extent on the hire- j ling to the care of their stock. If the collar galls the shoulders many of J them do not care so long as the ani- I mal will pull the plow. This being true it is doubly important to the owner to supply his stock with a collar that will not gall. Having had large experience with all ordinary makes of collars, in the lumber, coal, i phosphate, sugar plantations, rice and j cotton plantations, I feel its results. The bark, shuck, straw duck aud illfitting leather collars, are responsible '* nine-tenths of the galled shoulder stock in this country. Why, I would is soon use grapevines for plow lines xs to work any of the above collars on my stock. Indeed I mean it. The ordinary pads tilled with hair will not alleviate the evil results caused by the above collars for the reason that in undergoing the tanning process the hair has accumulated more of less lime or acid, aud this coming in contact with the gall, will irritate rather than alleviate the wound. Again the careless hireling will not keep his pads properly adjusted to the collars, and it is frequently the case tbat a part of his pad is from under the collar, making it all the worse than if he used no pads. I have found that the collars opened iit the 1 ottom cause less gall during the heavy plow season and in hot climates than those opeued at the top. Hie cause of this is that when the .1- - animal is in monon me cunur iuuu?o the shoulder instead of working I auk and forth, up or down, causing friclion and resulting with a sore or galled shoulder. The collar should be soft and elastic and kept clean, tit Ihe neck and shoulders.?The Southam Farmer. Storing; Fruit* and Vegetable*. Most farm cellars are not properly fitted up for the convenient storing of vegetables and apples, esjiecially the latter. Hats make terrible work with apples'if they can get to them. A very good an angement is a hanging shelf or bin, which is made as follows: Nail strips of board six inches wide and long enough to come within two and a half feet of the cellar bottom to the ;oist o*erheaa. They should be placed in pairs about four feet apart and connected at near the bottom with a six-inch stiip firmly nailed in pla e. ADother cross-piece similarly nailed should be placed two and a half feet above the first. At no point should they be nearer than two feet of the cellar wall. Two or three pairs of these hanging shelves are placed across or lengthwise of the cellar. Upon them boards are laid, with side3 and ends six inches high. Upon these shelves apples are emptied directly from the basket. Fruit thus placed is out of reach of rats and is convenieutly located for sorting over at any time v.heu decay begins to be serious?a very important matter to attend to, as one rotten apple ruins the flavor of its neighbor, if it does not induce further decay. Besides, those partly decayed can be taken out, using the souud portion in so many ways known to the frugal housekeeper. If stored in a bin or barrel in the usual manner this weeding out of the damaged ones is quite impracticable, unless they be dumped out upon the cellar bottom. If you have room for only a small shelf erect it and till it with the early winter and late fall apples. When they are gone fill again with late keepers that may have been stored in barrels until this time. If the cellar is very dry, such vegetables as potatoes, carrots, beets, etc., may be piled upon the bottom, as they will keep fresh and plump longer than when placed in barrels or boxes. This hanging shelf makes an ideal milk shelf during the summer, especially where cream is raised in the common shallow pans. Simply remove the sides and ends and nail laths about eight inches apart to set the pans on. This allows free ventilation and causes more rapid cooling of the milk. Or remove the solid bottom and put in a slatted bottom. This will prove an ideal milk shelf and in no danger of being troubled by rats and mice. Of course the shelves must be braced to make the whole outfit as rigid as possible,?American Agriculturist. Ponltry Notes. Good feed for growing turkeys is thick curdled milk mixed with grain and boiled potatoes. Hot coal tar is a good remedy for red mites. Pour it into the crevices aronnd the roosts and nests. Keep up a study of die business -- 1 '--J ; r> r* /-> -cliof RAAIT1R in J Potash. i P ertilizers containing at leas i > 8 to 10% of Potash will giv< 1 best results on all fruits. Writ I for our pamphlets, which ough 7 to be in every farmer's library [ They are sent free. I [ GERMAN KALI WORKS, 3 93 Nassau St., New York. ARTERSINK ^ Just as cheap as poor ink. tTHEMiLLI0N DOLLAP^^S f] Most talked of potuto on earth ! , Catalog tells?so ulxo at>out Saln ser a Earliest Six Weeks' Potato. 3 U largest farm and vegetable seed WRHB I growers In U.S. Potatoes, $ 1.20 and A^lgUiXg^K ' 1 up ft hbl. Send this notice and 5c. BUHW ! (Imna'salzerseed ihacrossewis Mention this Paper ???"*" Nebraska. Many Do. Enron Alderson once remarked tc an advocate who was notorious for the personal nature of the questions he addressed to witnesses, "Eeally, yoc seem to think that the art of crossexamination is to examine crossly."? Argonaut ana ieeu ?a-uiuniK ? .. to be best for results desired. Green cut bone twice a week or animal meal every day in the mash, about one spoonful to a fowl. It will require seven pounds oi skim milk to equal one pound of lean beef for flesh forming qualities. It is found that when charcoal is added to the food of fattening turkeys they gain rapidly. It absorbs gases and relieves acidity. Nest eggs turned out of cedar and painted white have the advantage ol being light and somewhat soft and are not liable to crack eggs left in the nest. The best food for laying hens is clover, finely chopped and scalded. A bucket of chopped clover, seasoned with bran, middlings, linseed meal 01 oatmeal (changing substances so as tc afford variety), with beans twice s week, and meat or ground fish, will furnish more nitrogen for eggs thar the hens can utilize. The moulting season is a good time to judge the quality of the heu. Almost auy fowl will lay in spring, bul only exceptionally good and vigoroue ones will lay well into the molting season. The best hens begin to moll late and get over it quickly withoui great injury to appearance. Suet fowls are good specimens to add t< the breeding stock. Smartest IFann in the West. There is a story from Buffalo county going the ronnds that illustrates the resources of a Nebraska farm: A farmer up there from Missouri got dis couraged because he didn't get rict the first year, and, as there was i mortgage of $700 on his farm, wa* about ready to jump the whole busi ness, but determined to make one more effort, and sowed eighty acres ir wheat. It happened to be a pooryeai for wheat, and the stand was not verj good. Concluding that it wasn't worth harvesting, he pulled up hii stakes and moseyed back to Missouri, leaving the farm to fight the mortgage all by itself. The farm was eqna, to the occasion, says the Lincoln, (Neb.) Journal. The wheat ripened, fell down anc deposited the seed in the soil again, Next spring the wheat began to grov lustily. Some of the neighbors were honest enough to write about it don to the fugitive in Missouri, and he gol interested enough to come back anc take a look. Then he stopped anc harvested his voluntary crop. He sold it for enough to pay off the mort gage and the rest of his debts, anc had a tidy little surplus over witl which he moved his family back, anc nnw declares there is no state like You're Gambling I It's too risky, this gambling with your I cough. You take the chance of its wear' a Tk ?* I ! Iing on . uu 11 11 The first thing you know it will be down deep in your lungs and the game's lost. Take some of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and stop the gambling and the cough. "I was given up to die with J quick consumption. I ran down from 138 to 9S pounds. I raised 1 blood, and never expected to get 9 off my bed alive. I then read of I Ayer's Cherry Tectoral and began H R its use. I commenced to improve 3 | at once. I am now back to my | ft old weight and in the best of | | health."?Chas. E. 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