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r$r h-: * THE OLD AND THE NEW. ffle galloped away on his fiery steed, And bis armor shone as he tripled his speed; On through the villa at breakneck tear, Away to the heath of his ladye fayro; Arriving within he rattled his steel Acdswuug his blade when he went to kneel; He pleaded his love in that spacious hall? The old-fashioned love that was best of all. ? He spins away on his chainless wheel, An armorless knight on a steed of steel; Onward he flies! 'Tls a moonless night, A brakeless wheel and an oiliess light, A thoughtless youth?he reaches the door And kneels to her on a rugless floor. He gives his mustache a faultless curl, And pleads his love to a heartless girL . i I HER HAIR, i I ? 1 | ' A SOCIAL COMEDY. | MYes," said Claudia Wallace, with soft, liquid eyes uplifted aud coral lips apart, "I know it is a worthy object?I always did sympathize with widows and orphans. I'm an orphan myself, you know, Miss Rivers, and 1 would cheerfully subscribe somethiug, if I only could. But Uncle Percy keeps me so close for pocket money and I sent my last $5 bill down this morning to buy tickets for the opera matinee on Saturday. If I can possibly get any funds I will send them to you tomorrow morning. I'm so sorry, dear Miss Rivers! Please let me know if there's anything else I can do at any future time." Miss Rivers swept her silken > flounces out of the room, carrying her brother in her train?metaphorically, not literally. And the instant fhav worfl in the little coffee I I colored brougham she burst out: "I've uo patience with that Claudia 'Wallace! Close for pocket money, indeed! Did you see the rings on her hand, the bracelets around her wrists? I had a mind to say I would take any one of those gaudy ornaments in lieu of a subscription." "I am glad you did not, Hester," Said her brother, severely. "Why?" "You judge Miss Wallace too harshly. She is all sweetness, gentleness and compassion. I saw the tears in her eyes when you spoke of the destitution of Mrs. O'Hare?and you 7 . may depend upon it, those jewels are all gifts from her uncle, with which she is not at liberty to part." "Fiddlesticks!" said Miss Rivers. "Of all fools, men are the worst. .If it were not for Claudia's straight nose j ^ and blue doll-like eyes, and the two little dimples on her cheeks, you wouldn't be so eager to trump up ex? y cnses for her." "How you are talking nonsense, Hester!" "Am I? I think not. But you'll just please remember, Everard, that I told you before we stopped here I wouldn't give much for all the cash we should get from Claudia Wallace." v "Believe me, "persisted Mr. Rivers, '^you misinterpret her sadly." "Here we are at Kitty Griggs'? >n A*/\oa.Avoil nnrl rArl-hairfifl. "Alias wanace s nair: ue repeated, with rising color. "Is it possible that " "She sent it here to be sold monsieur," observed the hairdresser. "To be sold?" Yes. He was right; Hester wrong. His instinct had been truer than her reason! "I will take it," said he, abruptly. "But, monsieur " "I will take it?at any price." And so he paid down a $20 bill for the privilege of bearing away Claudia's wealth of golden hair. Home he went, utterly forgetful of the fla::en wig which was to help Hester in assuming the identity of the . beautiful and fiend-like Lady Audley. . "Hare you got it?" was Hester's first qvestion when he entered the iv room. "I have got it. I paid $20 for it!" he breathlessly answered. "Twenty dollars!" echoed his sister. "Everard, you are mistaken; it was only to be ten!" . * "Oh, you mean the wig!" said our hero, somewhat crestfallen, as he remembered the unfulfilled errand which had so completely slid out of his memory. "Of course I do. What do you mean?" [) JWMJ ? V1WDB ? ? ? , bat she will give me a $5 bill?see if ahe doesn't." And Hester jumped out of the carriage and ran up the Griggs' doorsteps, leaving her brother to his own meditations. Presently his sister returned with a face of triumphant glee. "Didn't I tell you so?" she cried, holding np a United States bank note. "And now we'll go home to lunch." Mr. Rivers was indulging himself in a quite afternoon cigar, just about dusk, when Hester popped her head : . into the library. "Oh,Everard, are you there? Don't you want to do me a favor?a very great favor?" "If it isn't to much trouble." ' "?1 "Do please go around to Sanvg tarelli's, and see if my yellow wig is ready for the masquerade tonight! I can't see why they haven't sent it home! The idea of my playing Trfuly Audley' without a yellow wig!" "Bother your wig!" said Mr. Rivers. "Now do be a darling, and go," coaxed Hester. L Everard smiled. "Well, I suppose I shall have to go," said he. M. Sereno Santarelli was a fashionable hairdresser on a fashionable street, who charges fashionable prices ? ?and he came bowing and scraping forward as Mr. Rivers entered his shop. He professed himself "desolated beyond belief when he heard the young man's errand. "Mademoiselle's coiffure was bat half comwTion lha ?t/v>1r of hlondfionrls gave out," he said. "The loi they ||~ V had last imported did not match it, sad to relate, but " "The long and the short of it is that J* I can't have the wig, I suppose?" impatiently interrnpted Everard Rivers. "Monsieur is too rash ! Monsieur waited not to hear me out," said the ph-C Frenchman. "I have yet hopes if' monsieur will but wait a fraction of gp time. Francois!" to a white-aproned assistant, "bring hither Miss Claudia Wallace's hair; it is of the pale blonde-like flax?it may of a possibility work in. It is not even wavy, f \ but we may curl it with tongs. Art, manipulated by an artist, can conquer pr-' , everything!" g * The last words were meaningless and unheard by Everard Rivers. "Miss Claudia Wallace's hair!" That was all his sense took in. He could penetrate now the mystery of her words of the morning, and his heart g gave a great thrill as he recognized . the royal generosity of the girl who could thus sacrifice her greatest v. * natural ornament to a cause of V* charity. "I am talking of Clandia Wallace's hair." "Mercy upon ns!" cried Hester. "Is the man raving mad? What on earth has Claudia Wallace's hair to do with " "Much. I told you she was a? augel, Hester, and perhaps you will believe it when I tell you that to gain money to help the poor she has sold her magnificent hair." "I don't believe it," said blunt Hester. "But I know it." "Then the world is coming to an end, that's all," said Hester, with an incredulous shrug of her shoulders. "But my wig?" "I forgot it,"confessed the sheepish tmii l i. r .... t 1U>CI. Jl *1 UUCA. JUl It at umo, x was thinking of Claudia's hair." Hester looked after him iu comical despair. "Thank Providence I'm not a man," said she to herself. "And if I were I dou't believe I could possibly be as spooney as some of 'em are," Back again through the rainy twilight dashed Mr. Everard Kivers, aever staying until he once more entered the salon of M. Santarelli and breathlessly asked for the flaxen wig. "Exactly. It awaits monsieur," said Sautjrelli. "Yon sent up the money?" "What money, monsieur?" "The $20 to Miss Wallace. Tell her the hair has found a purchaser? that her dream of mercy and charity may now be fill tilled?that " "But monsieur, pardon. Monsieur does n t fully comprehend," bowed the hairdresser, courteously. "Miss Wallace left the hair here to be sold; it was a switch we made up for her a year ago; ana sue never quite HKea the color?it was not a good match, she thought?and whatever it sold for was to be applied toward a new one we are weaving?a $60 switch, monsieur." Everard Eivers stared blankly at the knight of wigs and curls. He began to perceive that he had been making a fool of himself and in rather an expensive manner, too. "Oh," said he, rather awkwardly. "I?I'll take the wig if it's quite ready." He went back, considering how he conld best make the embarrassing explanation of the truth to his sister. "Hester," said he, "don't laugh at me. I've been a donkey." "Men often are," said Hester, sagely. "That's nothing new." "Oh, but this is a little worse than the common." And In valiantly told her the true story of Claudia Wallace's hair. To his surprise, iustead of laughing she went to him and threw both arms around his neck. "Everard, I am so glad," said she. "Twenty dollars is a cheap price to pay for being uudeceived. I told you before that she was shallow, sellish and coldbearted. Now you will believe it, when you see that she cau pay $60 for a mass of trumpery false hair, even while she complains of having no money to spare for the poor." And Claudia Wallace never could comprehend how she lost the 'devoted loyalty of Everard Rivers. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. A touch of surprise is essential to perfect sweetness. Even in novels love shows at its i . i ? i _ i v v ii 1. .1 _ best wnen it aoes not aosoro me wuoie plot. Life is mncb too large to be expressed in the terms of a single passion. Eeserve and precision are a great protection to overrated reputation, but they are death to talk. When yon have good luck in anything you ought to be glad. Indeed, if you are not glad you are not really lucky. Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and to live with it The reason? Because he alone has learned how to put it out. Talk is that form of human speech which is exempt from all duties, foreign and domestic. It is the nearest thing in the world to thinking and feeling aloud. Travel with a cheerless and easily discouraged companion is an unadulterated misery, but a cheerful comrade is better than a waterproof coat and foot warmer. In talk it is not correctness of grammar nor elegance of enunciation that charms us; it is spirit, verve, the sudden turn of humor, the keen, pungent taste of life. * Opportunities are swarming around us all the time thicker than gnats at sundown. We walk through a cloud of chances, aud if we were alwsys conscious of them they would worry us to death. The essential qualities of good talk are not merely intellectual. They are moral. Goodness of heart, freedom of spirit, gayety of temper and friendliness of disposition?these are four fine things, and doubtless as acceptable to God as they are agreeable to men. We toil assiduously to cram some thing more into those scrapbags of knowledge which we fondly call our minds. Seldom do we rest tranquil long enough to find out whether there is anything in them already that is of real value?any native feeling, any original thought, which would like to come out and sun itself for a while in quiet.?From "Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things." Stopped the Train for a Match. "I noticed in the Journal the othei day," observed an old railway postal clerk, "the story of how the captain of the little gasoline boat that left here for up the Missouri had to come back overland 40 miles for a repair that cost him only 10 cents, but which was just as necessary as if it cost the price of the engine. "It recalled to my mind an experience I once had on the run between here and Missouri valley, on the Sioux City & Pacific, illustrating how much may hang upon something 1 rtniln iitcirrni Pa, UIUI UUiUJ LjUUC lUOi^UiMVNU ( X7V tween "Whiting and Onawa" one night a gust of wind blew out every lamp in the mail ' ar, which of course made it impossible for me to .work, and I had considerable to go yet to tie up Onawa's mail. I put my hand into my pocket to get a match, but couldn't find any. Something had to be done quickly, and all there was: left for me was to pull the bell cord and signal the engineer to stop. The conductor, brakeman and some of the passengers came running to the head of the train to l?arn what was the matter. The darkness in my car suggested that perhaps there had been a hold-up and robbery of the mail; but when I called to the conductor to give m a match it relieved his anxiety, but did not entirely restore his good humor. I lit my lamp again, and htd my mail ready when we reached Onawa. Since that time I am especially careful to see that I have an ample match supply."?Sioux City JournaL '4Nature Abhors a Vacuum>99 &C,othing m the *world stands stiS. If you art <weQ and strong day by day the blood supplies its tide of vigor. If you are SI, the blood is <wrong and carries increasing quantities of diseased germs. You cannot change Nature, but you can aid her by keeping the blood pure. Hood's SarsapariUa does this as nothing else can. Be sure to get Hoofs, because A Hobeazoilern Superstition. Apropos of the superstitions of the Hohensoilerns?suDersitlons. by the way, found in all ancient royal families, including our own?the rulers of that house possess a talisman brought Into it by a good spirit said to guard its destinies. 'This is the curious "black stone," to which is attached the following quaint tradition: Since the time of the Elector John Cicero, who flourished toward the end af the fifteenth century, each ruler has been wont, before his death, to hand to tyis successor a sealed packet. -This contains a ring, in which is set a black stone said to have been dropped by a huge toad on the coverlet of a princess of the family just as she had given birth to a son. Frederick the Great found the ring in a cover, which also inclosed a memorandum, written by Frederick I. stating its value and its mode of transmission. Schneider, the librarian of William I, declares that he saw the packet handed by Gelling, the treasurer, to his royal master on his accession, and further asserts that he read his account of the talisman to the emperor, who fully confirmed it. The present emperor never falls to wear on all great occasions this queer old ring, and has, like every Hohenaollern, the deepest respect for the quaint little jewel. Frederick the Great's father had the black stone mounted on a ring and bequeathed it to his son, who believed firmly in its value as a talisman, and many or the J ? ~thnt ttmn i^nnncitnH In UUiruIlJt'XllK %JL 111*11 nam \?vi/ve?vvM ... tho archives at Berlin made allusion to it?Chambers' Journal. Fczema in 1he Feet. In fact, tetter, ringworm and all skin diseases are cured by Tetterine. Mr. Leo D. Martin, of San Antonia, Texas, says; 4,I am suffering with a violent case of eczema in my feet. Please send me a box of Tetterine. Mr. Moore, of Moore & McFarland, Memphis. Tenn., says it cured him of a similar case." Sold at druggists 50c. a box or sent postpaid by J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. f Sharp Practices in Oolf. In regard to the sharp practices that are sometimes resorted to in golf, this story is of interest. It is told by a reliable golfer as a fact and illustrates the keen interest in the success of his employer which many a caddie evinces often at the cost of his employer's reputation and always at the cost of his own place if he is discovered. On this ocasion the player's ball was found lying behind a big stone in a bunker. The crafty caddie gave the stone a kick, accompanying the act with remark,"D'ye think that's wood?" The act resulted in the stone being moved sufficiently to permit the golfer to find his ball in a playable position. Horace Hutchinson is authority for a story of even deeper craft on the part of a caddy. This one, Hutchinson says, caried with him a supply of green-painted wooden pins. With these he generally waited until the light began to get a little uncertain and then, when chance afforded him an opportunity, he inserted the pins heads up in the green in the line of his opponent's put. As might be expected, Aftan r>nncoH thf> cuttv to take a lUlO Ul IVM vuuuvvt CT ? bad turn, there by missing the hole. While the exasperated player would be swearing at the wiriness of the grass at a favorable moment the caddy would put his foot on the pins and drive them into the sod, thus destroying dll evidences of his guilt. A certain Scottish player is said to have trained his collie to push his opponent's ball into the burn with his nose. -New York Sun. "Man wants but little here below," 'Twas e'er so from his birth? It's different with the other sex; Fair woman wants the earth. ?N. Y. Town Topics. Nervous Women are ailing woman When a woman has some female trouble she Is oertaln te be nervous and wretched* With many women the monthly suffering Is sc great that they are fot days positively Insane, and the most diligent ef? - " A forts of ordinary treat* moot are unavalllngm oontos promptly to the re* llof of these women. The tetters from women ourec by it proves this. Thh paper Is constantly print* Ing them. / The advloe of Mrs. Pinkham should also be secured by every nervout woman. This costs nothing, Her address Is Lynit, Mass. i *s m ft.AMr5 u handsomer ^amp mad( Sold at manufacturer" ttlopue of hand-paintet PAJtLOK or BASQUE' Pittsburg Glass Co., WK Kilt THS LAM*, *>tou but maecT. Pittsburg, rn, _ \ _ ?- - N fmnm and garden^ <WWVWW'VWW Acorns as ttftjj Feed; Where rcoius are used largely in fattening hogs a rather soft, spongy flesh is produced, while the lard is very oily and does not harden readily; This difficulty can be largely overcome by feeding corn two or three weeks before butcheringi ^ t->cd a Mixed Flock. It is an old sayitlg atnong daiiymeil that "the making of a good coW is half in the breed cUd half in the feed-. This is equally true Of poultry. Otte cannot get fat chickens or good laying hens from any breed if they are not fed properly, but with food enough one breed may be fattened easily. The same breed and same food would give good results in eggs. This is why we dislike a mixed fiook of fowl, frith blood from a half dozen brbedft Of fowl. When yon are giving one ben just enough to stimulate her to egg production, yon are giving others jttst enough to fatten them so they will not, or can not lay. If the feed is re1 duced to take ofl'their superfluous fat then the others do not have enottgh to make eggs from. Get the right breed and then learn how to feed them. Good Plowing. What used to be called good plowing, the turning a furrow over smoothly and leaving the upturned surface perfectly level, is not thought as important now as it was wlieu we were young. The plowing match at agri* cultural exhibitions does not draw the crowd it once did, even when there is no counter attraction of trotting horse, ' bicycle match or baseball game to draw the people away. The improvements in harrows, horseshoes aud cultivators enable the farmer to pulverize his soil, as it could not have been doue by the plow, and to leave ' it level it he wishes, though it may have been but poorly plowed. And many of the farmers a-e beginning to think that the best plowing is what our fathers would have called a poor job. the furrow set on edge instead of turned over, and then worked mellow afterward. The land so handled gives a better crop thau that which has been turned upside down. Shallow Cultivation of Orchard*. It frequently happens when orchards are cultivated that the cultivation is 1 done in a way to do as much harm as good. Some farmers follow the practice of running, the plow deeply ' within five or six feet of the trees, thereby leaving a strip of laud that is never cultivated, but that is allowed to grow up to weeds. The deep plowing between the trees is also very detrimental, as the young feeding roots are being constantly cut away. A tree generally draws no nutriment from immediately around its trunk, but draws its food from its cuter roots by means of a great number of root hairs. The running of the plow deeply between the trees continually destroys the feeding power of these roots. This becomes more serious when the plowing is done both ways. Shallow cultivation is the only suitable cultivation for the orchard. In a young orchard it would be better to plant only shallow rooting plants,that the cultivation need not be deep. For this reason corn has frequently been grown in our orchards, it having been seen that the cultivation of the corn need not be so deep as to interfere with the root system of the trees. The light cultivator is the safest of anything in the plow form, but the harrow is still Sftfer, when the ground has been once broken up. For the purpose of cultivation in young orchards there is nothing better than the weede: s that havo come into use in late years. These run over the ground without disturbing the roots that lie within a few inches of the surface. T1 > *r /van Kn rnn frt tKa varv trnnVll nl V/?4* uw *UU WW % WW ?W* J *? w. the trees without injuring them.? Farm, Field and Fireside. Making liutter Without Ice. If these directi ns are followed, out can find a ready sale for every pounc of butter made, as the butter will b sweet and will stand the warmest weather wit out tasting old. Th? milk is cooled as soon as possible affcei being drawn from the cows, ther strained into two gallon tin buckets. [ prefer deep-settiug. The covers arf Qot put on the buckets until the milt is perfectly cool; then it is set in th< cellar on bricks which have air slaked , time*sifted among them once a week. The cellar is kept Tery clean, and is well ventilated at night. I skim the milk after it has set for 24 hours, and stir the contents of the cream jai thoroughly every time that npw crean is added. The cream should only b< slightly acid when churned. Overript sream will not make good butter. ] use a barrel churn, aud when the but ter comes in grains I draw the milt ' off aud wasl^till the water runs clear. ) Then I take up the butter in battel bowl and salt, using one and a hal: ' ounces to the pound. t Work salt in as lightly as possible, and set in a cool place for 24 hours, I Instead of working and beating witl the paddle to get the brine out, tak< * a large soft cloth and press the brin* * out, and when the cloth becomes wet wring it out and press again. Work ' ing spoils the grain and keeping qual * ities. After the brine is absorbed, shape and mold in one pound prints, wrap each in waxed butter paper anc pack in waxed paper lined box unti marketed. I use no soap for washing I milk vessels. Jtiinse tnem wen 111 coic water, nud scald, putting soda in tin scalding water. The sooner the mill is cooled after being drawn the bettei ' the butter will be,and the more crean f you will get. The dryer the cellar 01 milk house, the better. Good buttei ' can not be made when milk is kept in t a damp, mouldy place.?Mrs. Rober Ashworth in the Epitomist Feeding: for E^gr*. The question of feeding hens at tin least cost to obtain the best results i: m one that has long puzzled poultn raisers, many of whom differ on ma t terial points regarding the method o: 9 feeding. Some advocate giving a warm masl 9 early in the mofniug, while others prefer the first food to be grain o - some kiud thrown in the scratching \ shed among the litter. The latter saj ' the exercise thus obtained gives -tin " fowls an appetite and aids the di gestion, while the former say th< o fowls need the mash first, since thf ? long hours of fast make it uecessan b to turni h a foo l which cau be easilj and quickly digested. One thing is certain, tltat if bent ^ are given a full feed of mash early ii r the morning they will not take the ex ercise which they should have during ^ the remainder of the day. Their hunger has been satisfied, auc they will content themselves witl standing around, huddled together ir : a corner of the house. While, on the other hand* i! given grain first) or aven only a jiartiftl feed of mash* they Will then begin to hustle for more. A hen should be kept busy all day longj and then given, before roosting timej all that she will edt; Half-fed heu3 Will not lay; neither will lazy ; hens; It therefore follows that the | method of feeding is jnst as imporlaut as the kind of food that is given; So matter how perfect the ratibii i may be, if not judiciously given) the , i results will uot he satisfactory; A gob 1 plan to adopt is to give just j a little) siiy ode quart to fifteen hens; ! bf mash) made of equal } ftrts of cOrii i lueal) ground oats and sliorts) with a ; feW vegetable scraps; mixed the evefi: iDg previous) add allowed to stand i mi.;. i_:ii U\ UT LllgUl. xuis Mriii {;ui naiij a^ipcase their linnger hntil laying time-, after -which they will begin to hUstle for the grain. Millet makeS one Of the best grains to be given; as the small seed furnishes a greater amount of exercise. During very cold wfcathOr j torii should be fed; but at other timed j oats and wheat will give the best restilts-.?Home and Farm; Fattening Fbwlii; For fattening fowls for market Ootil| ifcg Is belter than corn and cow peas, i writes Fi*ed Grundy iti Poultry Topics | They will round out a fowl in about ten days or two weeks, giving them that plump meaty appearance that buyers nhd consumers are delighted with. Finishing fowls fdr market ia att Wi that few people ftilly understand One | must be guided la gely by previous conditions, If the birds have leett coufined in a yard all the season they may be penned in a small enclosure and fiuisbed up for market in about ten days by being fed all they can eat. If, however, they have an unlimited range all Rummer it will not do to shut them np and begin stuffing them all they will swallow, Such a cottrBe would kill them off in short orde-. Begin fattening rnnge fowls gradu* i ally. Feed them corn or corn and cow peas in the evening and again in the morning when they are let out. i About the third day call them up at , noon and give them a little corn. Gradually increase the quantity given them at a feed until about the sixth day, when they may till themselves i up to the beak three times a day. In Jo to 20 days they should be ready for market. In fattening fowls, young or old, there are two things beside feed that i are absolutely necessary, and these are water and grit. I'e sure to proi vide an abundance of both if you de sire the quickest results. Keep Ihem - close by your feeding spot so that the birds can obtain all they desire, i Where highly fed they need lots of water to soften the food, and lots of grit to grind it with. Separate the fowls you desire to 1 fatten for market from those you intend to keep. If all of them have had free 1 range through the season don't pen up those you are fattening. It Is not 1 safe to do so. Pen up those you in' tend to keep uutil you are rii of the others. Feed the penned fowls light' ly on soaked oats and bran and a very ' little corn on the oar. Give them a i cabbage, squash, pumpkin or any sort of green or succnlent stuff once a day ' to keep them quiet and in good > health. i i Boots of Trees and Berry Bnshes. The fruit grower might assume with 1 considerable confidence that if the ] oots of his tree3 and bushes and 1 vines were in excellent condition toat 1 there would be no failure of tne crop. 1 This would only be comparatively true, for there are insects and blights that attack the fruit and foliage of 1 trees and vines growing on good roots; but as a rule the damage done by these 1 pests is much less on stock that is in 1 a thriving condition. So we can say that primarily the condition of the crop is largely determined by the ' r ots and their relative vigoronsness. In the winter time the roots are the ^ only part of the stock that must be protected from the excessive cold, and if they are not damaged the trees will weather the hardest winters. Artificial protection of the roots in the > north is thus a generally recognized 1 necessity, but we do not always give ) the same care and attention to the t roots in the summer. > Boot-injured trees in the first place ' should never be planted. If the nuri sery mau sends them to you to fill' an . order, return them, and have them > deducted from the bill. They will al; ways prove disappointing and unsatis> factory. It is better to take the bull I by the horns, and remedy the evil at . . the outset. In transplanting our stock ? most of the small fibrous roots are in> jured, and according to our present 1 system of digging up trees and vines * there seems to be no remedy for this, i But there ought to be some method of 3 transplanting stock without disturbing J the rootlets, or at least without serit ously injuring them. When these - roots are transplanted, the roots z should be soaked in water and moist . earth at once. That tends to comr pensate a little for the tree's loss of f vitality. But the main thing in summer is to have the roots growing in , congenial soil. This can only be ac. complished by having the soil well i drained and the tiees sunk well down. 3 They should not have a mound of 3 earth around them in summer, for that , makes the water run off. They should - rather have a hollow circle around the - t.mnk where the water can collect. , Tnis, of course, only when the soil is , thoroughly drained below. Then no 1 stagnant water will collect In this 1 slight hollow the fertilizers and mois? tnre can be poured, and they will go 1 direct to the root feeders where they 3 are needed, aod there will be little or c no waste such as is often the case by r the present system.?Professor James i S. Doty, in American Cultivator. f Donkeys Feel the Cold. In the care of donkeys in out climate it is a common mistake to suppose that they are not sensitive to cold. A donkey, on the contrary, cannot begin to stand the degree of cold 3 which is comfortably supported by the j horse. In other respects, he is a far 7 easier animal to care for than the - horse. As a beast of burden his enf durance is greater; he may be fed coarse herbage and will thrive upon j it. His coat needs regular brushing, } but not that particular grooming withf out which the horse cannot be kept in . health. In England, the costermon . gor's donkey is so invaluable to his j master that he is known as "the poor. man's horse," while in France the j "bandet" and in Spain the "borrico" , ?a larger, heavier type of ass which T is nsed for mule-breeding?is of equal r importance. The term "donkey" refers to the j ordinary dun color of the ass's coat, t aud has come to be the popular name by which he is known to Englishr speaking people. In the treatment of the donkey the essential thing to re[ member is to house him warmly ia i winter, being careful never to expose t him to snow or to extreme cold.?Our t Animal Friends. , - AN INTERRUPTED SWIMMING BEE. A Storjr Illustrative df the trials dt Oar Soldiers id the Philippines. Some Idea of the character of recent fighting in the Philippines may oe gained from a letter written by James J. Corkhill, a Topeka boy \Vith Bell's Thirty-sixth Begiment. The regiment had just taken- Porac, and the men were very dirty after a long march, so they all went down to the river to take a bath, Colonel Bell himself being among the bathers. 4'We were having a fine time splashing about the ,, nmi cooi mountain stream, su.ys vui&ujh, "when suddenly, ping! crack! boom! and the bullets went zip! spllsh! Into the water all around us. "When we drove the Filipinos out bf towil, so secure did we feel that we neglected to put out the customary guard. Not one ever thought of them returning, nor did any one think that off in the woods to the right was concealed it large bunch of then! But such 1 was the case; and, finding that we! were all iii swimming, they made a i Sneak oh lis. "Maybe you think we didn't make our fins fiy in getting out of that river! I grabbed my trousers and pulled them on, and that's all t had time to get. Then t made a break for the guns. As I said, the guns were stacked in front of the church, and the enemy were at the rear end of the church and still coming. But the boys got out in splendid shape, the hew men doing fine, considering it to be their first real Initiation. It did Hot take lis long to get in line and give them a few stiff Voilej's: then we charged with a 3-ell. They couldn't stand it, and away they went over the swamp and rice dykes with us in hot pursuit. "Forac is situated almost at the fool of a ridge of mouhtains, and we sure made those black men hit the high places going over those hills. The monntains are covered with sharp rocks and brush, and as I had on no shoes. I cut my feet almost off, but we hnd the consolation of capturing a good many prisoners and seeing the rest of the 'brave gentlemen' trot across those bills as thev never did before." TTe refund 10c for every package of Pxrr? vim Fadeless Dye that fails to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co,, Union ville, Mo. Sold by all druggists. Fresh Terror. "What a peculiar exercise the new recruits are going throngh. I mean that np and down motion with the arms. What is it?" "That's the pump exercise. It's for use on leaky transports." State or Ohio. Citt or Toledo. ? Lucas Countv. 1 Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the ilrtn of F. J. cheney & Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and thatsAid firm will Day i he snm of One ttUNbKED DOLLARSfor each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Cata krn Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and ?ubscrihed in my (?1?) pie?e?ire, this Cth day of December. <8ea L> A. D. 1SS6. A. \V. glea80n. (wvw) Sotary Public. Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood andmucoussurfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggist?. 75c. Hall's Family.Pill? are the best. Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cured by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Frk* Si trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phllctdelpha. Founded 187L Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. DUa'o Pnwfl fAi? pAiioiimnfiAn ic on A Vn 1 A oth m a medic: ne\V. R.*YVi lli a ms, Anti och Ills , April 11, 1894. An Old Relic. Dr. W. W. DeDnrtof Jacksonville, Fla., has one of the most valued Confederate relics that can he found anywhere. It Is a nicely c?rved cigsrholder that was once the property of Admiral Srmmes, and he smoked It while In command of the famous Confederate battleship Alabama. DrJlulIs COUCH SYRUP Cures Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, sure results. Refuse substitutes. Dr. Jiuirs Pills cu re Biliousruiz. Trial, 20for 5C. MsaKfs&ezasezv&eea I v That's the way i ? WBKr fir&y because the pro! 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