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Fceillnjr of ffMk Colonic*.
In spring, bees are in the greatest
danger of dwindling. The hives
should be looked over and the weak
colonies fed. Do not expose the feed,
for in so doing the strong colonies,
which need it least, will get most of
the feed and besides it will incite robbing.
Better feed over the brood
nest
dotation Pays When Paining Wheat.
Rotation experiments carried ou for
six years at the North Dakota station ;
showed that continuous wheat culture !
is unprofitable and that growing wheat !
in rotation increases the yield and j
improves the quality. Land prodnc- j
ing three crops of w heat a:nd one cul- :
tivated crop in four years gave almost j
as much wheat.aud more profitable re- '
turns than laud producing four crops
of wheat in succession. . .
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When to Aerate Milk.
Milk should be aerated as soon as
possible by being poured from one
vessel into another several times. In
hot weather a liberal addition of ice
cold water immediately after the milk
is strained facilitates cream rising; in
cold weather boiling hot water has a
like effect. The skim milk is less '
valuable for feeding purposes, but the j
suggestions may be valuable at times. !
With pan setting there can be little if
any control over the temperature of
the atmosphere, but its purity can to
a great extent be controlled. ,
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S^'v The Question of Deep Plowing.
It is an open question whether or
cot deep plowing is a good thing for
^ the soil pr not. Many farmers are of
the opinion that deep plowing is detrimental
to the land, and on the other
hand there are those who keep plowing
a little deeper every year, and by
so doing believe that they are improving
the producing capacity-of the land,
a I do not believe in extreme plowing,
says a writer in The Epitomist. What
that extreme is depends considerably
on the kind of soil. The larger part
of the humns of the soil lies within
fonr or five inches of the surface.
Deep plowing that is going to turn
yV this under and place the bottom soil
on top is not what the writer would
term a proper depth. To be sure,
this humus must go to the bottom of
the furrow, but any plowing that is
bo deep that an overly fimount of soil
is placed on top, is not good plowiug.
Everything taken into consideration
^ I believe that eight inches on most
soils will be entirely sufficient for
Fruit Cultur?.
It should be borne in mind by every
fruit grower that the skin, stone and
seeds of a fruit are what extract fertility
from the soil. Also heavy growth
of wood, necessitating severe pruning
?|r is a very wasteful production. Or, in
other words, the large, rich, juicy,
luscious fruits that command the highest
market prices do not remove a
v'. quarter part as much plant food from
the soil as the small, inferior, seedy
M:. ones, which are of coarse not wanted
anyway. Furthermore, we want va&
< rieties of fruits, which, while producing
wood enough to afford bearing
| surface, yet do not tend to excess of
B&. wood, which is a dead loss, consuming
|||^ plant food for no nsefnl purpose.
Herein lies the advantage of thorough
culture; thinning frnit promptly
Iwuau aoi> tu OAV-COB, auu piuuiug wiiu
thumb and forefinger whenever a
superfluous shoot or bud makes Us
appearance. Thorough culture, which
of course also includes liberal and
proper fertilization, is what gives us
this .large luscious fruit which sells
best at highest prices. If too much
fruit sets, thin promptly to secure
paying crops. We want fewer numbers
of individual fruits, but larger
sizes. Then again it is folly to allow
a fruit tree to grow a branch that must
be eventually removed. Snip it off
while in the bud and save all the nutriment
and energy to be converted
into the production of fruit, which we
are all after.?Farm, Field and FireMattonand
Wool.
The consumption of mutton on our
American tables is of recent date.
There was a'time, not many years ago,
when wool was the prime object in
raising sheep. At the present time
conditions are changed and the production
of wool by the sheep raisers
of our country is of secondary consideration.
Wool has, however, rapidly
advanced in price within the past few
years and. is now quoted at 37 to 40
cents in the markets. Raising sheep
for mutton is more profitable than
beef production and stands a close
second to the pork industry. If the
ravages of hog cholera are not in some
way checked, sheep raising will soon
*become the most profitable live stock
"7 industry in which our people can enK
gage. The demand for good mutton
is annually increasing, and the sheep
pi growers of the United States are toll
tally unable to supply the demand,
|N since 2,500,000 sheep were imported
from Canada last year for
American consumption. When the
- home demand has been supplied,
we still bave a foreign market which
extends to almost every quarter of the
globe. The wool supply for home de|gp
maud is equally inadequate, since we
had to import about 30,000,000 pounds
within the last year from foreign countries.
The ranges of the great- north.
; west are becoming limited, and the
v small farmer must come to the rescue
in order to meet increasing demand.
It is the annual raising of a limited
supply of poultry by the small farmers
of France which gives to that country
7 the most profitable poultry industry
f' in the world.?Atlanta Journal
Spring Management of Beet,
It is not uncommon to find one or
more colonies that have perished from
a some cause during the winter. It
may be that they have starved, or be
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' f. the extreme cold, and have thus died
and the hive is left tenantless, with
- perhaps more or less honey in the
combs. In all such cases as this,
found in making early examination,
we should remove such hive or close
it up carefully so that other bees may
not find the honey, for they will surely
find it when the weather becomes
pwarm enough for them to get out,
writes A. H. Duff If they once get
? a taste it may produce the worst kind
of robbing, and at no time of year is
, there so much danger of loss as in
early spring, when the colonies are all
weak and not able to offer the uecesary
resistance to prevent persistent
~ robbers.
Any colony of bees will be capable
of turning robbers if the proper in*
ducement is offered. Leaving honey
rV about at anv time where they get ac*
cess to it will immediately put whole
* colonies on the aggressive, and thus
? heavy losses frequently oocur by a
little neglect ou our part. Tbe proper
time to prevent all this kind of trouble
is to begiu early and put e ery colony
in proper condition to defend itself
by haviug en. h one supplied with
queens and plenty of food. When
thus in good condition they will build
up iuto good, healthy colonies and bei
come strong enough to defend their
; hives and their contents from the
worst type of robbers. If any colonies
are found without queens it is useless
! to allow them toieuiniu so. llobbiug
i in this case is sure to follow, as the
bees will not defend their hives without
a queeu, when few in number as
at this time of year. Queenless colouies
should be uuited with others
that have oue-.ns, o* queens should
be supplied to tliem it we can secure
them at the proper time.
The Wnate of Fertilizer*.
There is probably not another itev.
on the farm that is wasted like fertilizer,
both chemical, which is paid for
in good hard cash,and the home made,
which means money if properly cared
for. In the first place, the quintessence
of the stable u* mure is lost by
being trodden under foot till it becomes
heated and hard, or if it is taken
out daily, is piled in a corner of the
lot or uuder the eaves of the shed,
where all the manurial valne is drained
out into* the earth beneath it, every
time it rains. The urine is lost, which
is one of the strongest elements in
the value of stable manure. All of
these errors could be guarded against
by removing the droppings daily, with
the urine diffused through it, and all
kept under a s-lied, to protect it fiom
the rain. A grave mistake is made
by hauling it out before the land is
broken in the fall and plowed under
deep.
The winter's raiu leaches out all the
fertilizer value and leaves n substance
with about as much value to the crop
that is to be planted as so much ashes
that have been dripped. I have in
mind a farmer who hauled one hundred
loads of good, care.ully prepared
and finely mixed stable manure in
October, plowed it in deep, for cottoD,
which he planted the next March.
He was very much disappointed because
the yield was but a small per
cent, above the previous year with no
manure. His subsoil was deep aud
open,and the strength of his one bun
died loads had soaked about four or
five inches below where his cotton
roots grew.
I have seen men who thought they
were manuriug their land when they
were hauling out ton after ton of
lumpy stable and yard "stutt" that
looked like so many loads of plug to- I
bacco, some of it bnrned black by its
own heat.
That is a picture of the ordinary
farmer, and he is to be forgiven if he
does not read agricultural journals, or
books written by the leading agricul- 1
tnrists of our day. But there is another
class who pay out good money
for chemical fertilisers,read much,and .
should know better, but they scatter
it indiscriminately over the held,
without regard to its chemical con- ,
tents; the chemical contents of the
soil they feed it to, or the chemical <
demands of the plant that it is snp- ,
posed to feed. Like the Chinese doc- <
tor, they give the patient a solution <
containing all the drags in their dis- (
pensary, aud trust to one of them j
striking and proving an antidote for
the disease.
First, knowing what vegetable you
want soil to grow, find the component
parts of that vegetable; then by an
analysis hud if the soil is lacking in ;
those parts. If so, then your fertilizer
should contain what the soil is <
lacking in aud the vegetable to be
grown demands. When you have ,
done that yon have reduced fertilizing
to a science, and will reap the full .
benefit of every cent spent, and every
farrow plowed. Until yon have reduced
it to a science and mastered the
science, you sow your time, money,
fertilizer, seed aud labor carelessly,
and will reap only partial resalts,
nnless bv chance von haDoen to "iust
^ w A A m
strike it right."
Some may ask, "How are we to
know the relative values of fertilizer
and what oar soil is deficient in, or 1
what each plant demands?"
There are various ways, one of i
which is experience. We should '<
know in one or two two years' culture '
what vegetable foods soil is deficient 1
in by the crops they raise on them.
Then there are the agricultural papers i
and books. Last, but not least, near- j
ly every state has an agricultural ex- ,
periment station, from which books
and pamphlets, giving exhaustive
treatises on the subject, may be had
for the asking.?W. F. Adams in >
Home and Farm. (
Discounted a Friend'* Criticism. j
Fuseli, an eminent historical painter,
who grew in fame after 1770, when he (
first formed'the resolution to devote
his talents to painting, was rather
fond of sarcastic remarks at the expense
of his friends. 1
Northcote, a contemporary, exhibited
his "Judgment of Solomon." i
Fuseli looked at it with a smirk on
his face.
"How do you like my picture?" inquired
Northcote.
"Much," was the answer. "The
action suits the word. Solomon holds
out his fingers like a pair of open
scissors at a child, and says: 'Cut it.'
I like it much."
Northcote remembered this when
Fuseli exhibited a picture representing
Hercules drawing his arrow at
Pluto.
"How do jou like my picture?" inquired
Fuseli.
"Much," said Northcote; "it is
clever, very clever, but he'll never hit
him." "He shall hit him,"exclaimed
the other, "and that speedily." Away
ran Fuseli with his brush, and, as he
labored to give the arrow the true direction,
was heard to mutter: "Hit
him! By Jupiter, but he shall hit
him!"?New England Home Maga*
zine.
The Calculating Barber Again.
"Business was slack last Wednesday
afternoon, so I thought I would
take in a matinee," said Snyder, the
calculating barber, as he fished for a
wild hair with a pair of tweezers.
"Say, what an awful lot of matinee
girls there are! Say there's a millioD
of them in the United States, although
I dare say that figure is low. Still,
say a million, just to get a base ol
operation. In the course of a theat
rical season the lines tliey form in
front of the box office would reach, in
lock-step, from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
The tears they shed would
float the biggest warship ever launched
at Cramps'. The mash notes they
write, if placed on top of each other
in their envelopes, would be as high
as the city hall tower. The candy
they eat would completely fill the
largest store warehouse in Philadelphia,
and the amount of njoney they
spend in theatre tickets would ?
But even Snyder's imagination failed
him at this juncture, and the man in
the chair made his escape."?Philadelphia
Becord.
Cleanse
Your Blood
The thing most desired of ft Spring
Medicine is thorough purification
of the blood. With this work of
cleansing going on there is complete
renovation of every part of
your system. Not only is the corrupt
blood made fresh, bright and
lively, but the stomach also responds
in hotter digestion, its
readiness for rood at proper times
gives sharp appetite, the kidneys
and liver properly perform their
allotted functions, and there is, in
short, new brain, nerve, mental
and digestive strength.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Possesses the peculiar qualities?
Peculiar to Itself?which accomplish
these good things for all
who take it. An unlimited list of
wonderful cures proves its merit.
NEW USE OF EXHAUST.
Mow Waste Steam May Ran An Auxiliary
Engine.
For many years it has been known
that the steam engine did not utilize
nil its energies. The ordinary high
pressure engine which discharged its
exhaust steam into the air used hardly
piore than 5 per rent, of the value of
the fuel burned under its boiler. The
compound engine, which condenses its
steam and returned the warm water to
the boilers, used only 32 to 13 per cent,
of the fuel energy. Here ingenuity
seemed to stop until a device was invented
for using the heat of the exhaust
steam to evaporate another
pquid. which, having a lower boiling
point than water, required less heat
for the process tlic.n does water.
This process is the joint discovery
of G. Behrend, a Hamburg engineer,
and Dr. Zimmermann of Ludwigshafen.
and it gains as high as 5G per cent,
additional motive power without increasing
the expenditure of fuel. The
liquid they chose for evaporation is
sulphurous acid, which is cheap, easily
obtained, and is so oily that it lubricates
the inner working surfaces of
the machinery without corroding them.
The steam passes into the surface condenser
or vaporizer, in which the cooling
medium, instead cf being water, is
liquid sulphurous acid, the boiling point
of which is so low that the liquid is
decomposed immediately by the heat
of the exhaust steam, liberating sulphur
dioxide gas. This gas passes
over into the cylinder of an auxiliary
engine, where its work is doue as in an
ordinary steam engine. Then the sulphurous
vapor enters the surface condenser.
is condensed to liquid by cold
water tubes and is forced by a pump
back into the vaporizer to do its work
over again.
With a fairly economical compound
engine, using 16U pounds of steam for
each Indicated horse-power hour, half
an indicated horse-power can be produced
in the auxiliary machine for
every indicated horse-power developed
In the main engine.
Charles A. Dana as Head Waiter.
As I remember our meals, they were
most delightful times for talk, humor,
wit, and the interchange of pleasant
nonsense, says Mrs. Ora Gannett seagwick
in the Atlantic. When our one
table had grown into three, Cnarles A.
Dana, who must have been a very orderly
young man, organized a corps of
waiters from among our nicest young
people, whose meals were kept hot for
rhem, and they in their turn were
waited on by those whom they had
served. I recollect seeing Mr. Dana j
reading a small Greek book between !
the courses, though he was a faithful
waiter. I remember the table talk as
most delightful and profitable to me.
Looking back over a long anu varied
life, I think that I have rarely, if ever ;
since, sat down with so many men and
women of culture, so thoroughly unselfish.
polite, and kind to one another,
ns I found at those plain but attractive
tables. All seemed at rest and at their
best. There was no man, tired with
the stock market and his efforts to
make or to increase a big fortune, coming
home harassed or depressed, too
cross or disappointed to talk. There
was no woman vying with others In
French gowns, laces, and diamonds.
The fact that all felt that they were
honored for themselves alone brought
out more individuality in each, so that
[ have often said that I have never
seen any other set of people where each
individual seemed to possess some peculiar
charm.
Getting Ready"My
beau," said ten-year-old Lucy,
"is going to be an Admiral."
"Is he in the Naval Academy?" asked
her sympathetic aunt.
"Oh! no," replied the little woman,
"he's too young for that yet, but he's
having an anchor tatooed on his arm."
?Philadelphia Press.
Nothing
in the
Wide
World
has such a record for absolutely
curing female Ills
and kidney troubles as
has Lydla Em Plnkham's
Vegetable Gompoundm
Medicines that are advertised
to cure everything
cannot be specifics
for anythingm
Lydia Em Plnkham's
Vegetable Compound will
notoure every kind of III- j
if oss that may afflict men, 1
women and children, but
proof is monumental that
It will and does cure all
the ills peculiar to womenM
This is a fact Indisputable
and can be verified
by more than a million,
womena
If you are sick don't ex- ?
periment, take the medlolne
that has the reoord
of the largest number of
ouresM
Lvdia B. Pinbharr. Mod. Co., Lynn, Moia '
?2? I. T*ampton'? Eyg Witw
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
Keinedv for Ivy PoUonlna.
A treatment highly recommended by
a scientific magazine for poisoning
From ivy, is to wet a slice of bread
with water, dust it with common
washing soda, aud apply to the eruptiou,
keeping the bread from the outside.
Half an hour of this treatment
is said to be a sure cure.
How to Clean Dulirate Goo<U.
Delicately tinted mulls and nearly
all delicate goods to be cleaned must
be soaked overnight in salt water and
washed in soap bark and cold water*
To wash white mull yokes place them
in lmt \v-!it?r aniii hark mid Ammonia.
r.nd leave them overnight IH the
morning they shotild have Another
b.ith of the satL-e kind aud then Us
rinsed in hot water.
f'vtncnt for llfokpn Dishes.
Tho old housekeeper basin her scrap*
book well-tried recipes for mending
an t cleaning, and among them is the
following cement for mending broken
dishes. It is one of the strongest aud
most easily applied and it needs noth*
ing but the white of an egg and soiue
lime. Shave off a Binall quautity of
Ihe lime mix it thoroughly with part
of the white of an egg aud apply as
quickly as possible to the broken
edges. Then place them together aud
hold them firmly till they I ecome set.
Never mix any larger quantity than is
to be immediately used, since it hard*
ens with great rapidity.
Ites'orin* Polish of Furniture.
3fauy will be glad to know how the
fine original polish of furniture maj
be restored, especially in the caso ol
1. -..i.- .i ... e U1-. . I
Mlt'U HI ilCICO iia ^iilUUrt, lilUl'jr lauiu "j
etc., >vbich become tarnished by use,
Make a polish by putting half nu
ounce of shellac, thj same quantity
of gumlac and a quarter of an
ounce of gum saudarac inter a pint ol
spirits of wine. Put them nil together
in a stoue bottle near the tiro, shaking
it very of en. As soon as the gums
a? e dissolved it is ready for use. Now
make a roller of woolen lags, put c i
a ?i tie of polish ou it, aud also a few
drops of linseed oil; rub the surface
to be polished with this, going around
and around over a small space at fl ,
time uutil it begins to he quite smooth.
Then finish by a second rubbing with
spirits of wine and more of the*polish,
and your furniture will have a brilliaut
lustre equal to new.?New York Journal.
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Bpfliitiful Photograph Fntnen, '
Photograph frames grow more and
more beautiful each season, and notliiug
seems too fautastie as material for
them. Those of rich old-time bro- <
cade are particularly pretty and make
the artistic modern photographs look <
like lovely old miniatures. Turquoise <
blue and bright-green enamelled wood, 1
rimmed with silver or gold, are very j
elective, as are also some of Algerian .
onyx, with fancy gilt rims, decorated ,
with Loais XV bows. Folding pho- ,
togruph cases in crushed morocco, tooled
gold or ornamented with raised <
gold decoration after the Empire style, (
are charming. In royal blue leather, (
tooled with gold, are frames in all
sorts of odd shapes aud sizes; thej
are adorned by enamelled heads, 1
Sevres blue crushed morocco, scrolled
with silver and rnived with turquoises,
makes beautiful frames, and fretted 1
gold with the new n d finish forms '
charming frames for little three-leaved !
screens, in each leaf of which a small
photograph may be inserted. 1
Unglit red manogany, inserted wim <
dark silk, both silk and wood orna- <
mented with gold tooling, are very <
handsome. Ruby an 1 emerald velvet i
frames studded with steel are revivals j
of an old-time fashion. Odd little (
showcases in mahogany and gilt, a la ^
Empire, are to stand on a table, as ,
they are only large enough to contain
some precious miniature or one or two "
9tnall valuables, and are, therefore,
fitted with a small lock and key.
Kfclpes. j
Oatmeal Piecrust?Make exactly like
dough for crackers, but roll out thinner.
It can only be used for an UDder
crust. It can be eaten with impunity
by those who cannot digest "short- '
ened" piecrusV
Rye Coree?Carefully pick over and
wash one pint of rye. Drain for a
moment, then put into a skillet and
stir over the lire. Stir constantly until
evenly browned. Mix with threefourths
cup of browned coffee kernels.
Grind, make and settle as any coffee is
treated.
Prune Pies?Prune pie is an oldfashioned
favorite. It is very good if
the stones have been removed and very .
poor indeed if that duty has been
neglected. Sometimes lemon juice is
added as a flavoring, but the original
prune pie required nothing but prunes
and sugar, the fruit having been
3tewed in the first place necessarily.
Macedoine Salad?This can be made j
of any vegetables on hand, such as
peas, carrots, cucumbers, asparagus,
beets, cauliflower, celery, string'beans,
etc. Cut them into dice and mix
lightly, so as not to break them, marinate
with a French dressing and lei
3tand on ice for half an hour, then
mask with mayonnaise; garnish witl
parsley and serve.
Sago Cream?Boil one-quarter of t
pound of sago in one pint of watei
for live minutes; pour into a fine sieve
return the sago to the same pan; covei
with one pint of boiling water and
simmer one hour; add one cupful o!
currant jam, or orange juice, and juice
of one lemon, and about three-fourths .
of a cupful of sugar; let simmer 20
miuutes longer; fill small moulds with
the mixture, serving cold in a glass 1
dish; garnish with whipped cream and
candied cherries. 1
Catching Salmon in Scotland.
To form au approximate estimate ol
the sums disbursed by the renters ol
salmon fishings is a difficult matter,
but, leaving out the money paid foi
salmon fishing included in a shooting
rent, the money paid for salmon fishing
together with the incidental expenses
incurred, may be put down at
?80,000, not one penny of which
would Scotland see if there wore no
salmon fishing. I have arrived at this
sum in a roundabout sort of way, but
beli ve it is under the mark. Thus,
when I first began to fish on my own
account in the early sixties, I could
rent a month on a fairly good stretcb
irnlov f/M* frr?ni fifl tn tlio spr
U1 ? ftlVl JWi 1* V** ?vw ?vv, - ? ? ~ Wvices
of a gillie being usunllj included
in the rent. For that outlay I used
to average as nearly as possible a fish
for every sovereign; my worst month,
which cost ?45, was 16 fish; my best
88 for ?35, and both of them were on
the Dee. About 1867 the rents began
to rise and fish were costing me quite
5s. each, which speedily went to ?5 a
head, until, from 1870 up to the present,
angling rents have increased by
leaps and bounds, forcing me to retire
?for as anglers became more plentiful
good angling became scarcer, and
nowadays it may be reckoned that fish
cost the catcher quite ?10 each. ?Chambers'
Journal ... --
THE OX IX WAR.
Hid Streofth flad Patience Make Hla (aval*
uable in Sooth Africa.
At the present moment, when the
efficiency of the British army in South
Africa largely depend* on the stability
of its transport, it may not tie
amiss to consider the capabilities of
the trek, of transport, ox. who. after
all, despite mules and traction engines,
is the mainstay Of the South African
transport. The Imperial Authorities in
the Cape Colony and Natal Ore now
busily engaged in buying all the
availblo ok tfausport they can. as is
testified by their riuiilerous Advertisements
iti colonial papers.'
rtrt hrri Ariiotielvrt TTMllf*5?
\J A l." LI QIC ll'OJ ?|ICUOIl\, IUI.U " -. .
They lire siow but sure* never doing J
more than three mites an hour, or
twenty miles n day, Which is considered
a good trek. The Zulu ox is the
best-bred animal, but small and unserviceable
When compared to the
bastard Zulu ol* Natal ox. which
thrives on both the '"sour" veldt. Oxen.
howevei\ require Very careful handling,
attd must on no account be overdriveh;
they must have at least six
hours a day for grazing purposes, in
the winter, Which Is coining on how.
they can find a picking on the parched
velt where a ihule or horse would fall.
They are, naturally. In poor condition
till the green grass of spring appears
in September. They are very liable to
lung sickness and red water, and
whole spans sometimes perish -from
the cold, and on no account should be
worked in the rain during that season,
for. among other things, the yoke,
when wet, giveB them sore necks, thus
rendering them Useless. ox's best
work is done at night time, and moonlight
treks are the Usual things with
the "transport riders" after their teams
have been grazing all day. Tliej are
never kept under the yoke for more
than eight hours during the da}', two
stretches of four hours each. From
four to eight in the morning and from
(? to 10 at night are the favorite hours
for "trekking.
As to their hauling capacity, a
"span" or team of eighteen oxen will
easily draw a buck wagon (weighing a
little over a tonl, loaded to 0,000
pounds over the South African roads,
many of which are little better tnan
tracks across the veldt. Twenty miles
a day for a heavy baggage column in i
such a country as South Africa Is
really good going.
One of the great merits of the oxwagon
Is the simplicity of its harness.
The two beasts nearest the wagon
3raw from a pole (disselboom) on
which the yoke is fastened, and the
L-ouples in front are attached to a wire
- * ' - x ? i.
or hide rone. Known as me uetv-ivu?.
to which the yokes arc fastened by
riems. or thongs of hide. Any breakage
or deficiency in such a tackle can
?asily be made good, as it is free from
the complexities of a set of harness.
Prudent transport riders invariably
"outspan" their teams at the approach
of a thunder storm, if their "trektouw"
be of wire or chain, as whole
spans have been destroyed by lightning
through neglecting this precaution.
In the convoys to the troops not
more than fifty wagons are despatched
it one time, and, if the roads permit,
six or even more are driven abreast.
The second division usually starts in
iialf an hour after the first. Nearly
til the wagons used in the present
campaign are built locally, made of
strong colonial woods, and constructed
svithout springs. Only two men are
equired to manage each wagon?a
lriver and a "vorlooper" or leader of
:he team?both of whom are nearly al
ivays trained Kaffirs.
At present large numbers of these
cvagons are being hired from the colmists
at the rate of $15 to $20 per day,
he Imperial Government, making good
my losses that may occur in the spanPall
Mall Gazette.
Easy Way of Telliag Time.
It was about ten minutes before closing
time in the City Clerk's office?the
busiest period of the day?the other afternoon,
and Chief Clerk George Gaston
was making the ink fly at a lively
rate.
"Tlng-a-llng-ling!"
It was the telephone at the far side of
the room. Gaston dropped his pen and
rushed to the instrument.
"Is this the City Hall?" queried a
soft, feminine voice at the other end of
the line.
The frown on the clerk's race soitened.
In dulcet tone he informed the
fair inquirer that it was.
"Will you please tell me what time
it is? You see, our clock has stopped, j
rind the walks are so wet that I hated j
to step out; and I thought if I called
up the City Hall I'd get the right time,
because if I'm late with supper my husband?"
"Ten minutes to 4, ma'am! Threefifty.
Yes, ten minutes to 4. Goodby
?not at all?a real pleasure, I assure
you."
But as the clerk went back to his
desk he looked tired.?Detroit Journal.
Going to Bed in India.
Going to bed in India is a very dif- I
ferent process from going to bed at
home. To begin with, it is a far less
formal process. There is no shutting
the door, no cutting yourself off from
the outer world, no going upstairs and
finally no getting into bed. You merely
lie down on your bed, which, with
Its bedding, is so simple as to be worth
describing. The bed is a wooden
frame with webbing laced across it,
and each bed has a thin cotton mattress.
Over this one sheet is spread,
and two pillows go to each bed. That's
ill!?Scottish American.
Why She Kept the Map.
A householder in London recently
noticed that his cook had stuck up in
her kitchen a map of South Africa,
with the British possessions colored
red, the Transvaal brown, the Orange
Free State yellow, and Portuguese ter- j
ritory green. "Do 3*011 take an interest
in the war. Mary?" lie asked. "No.
sir," replied the cook, "but I mean to
'are a skirt like that brown bit. and
blouses like them other colors; and i
I'm just keepin' the map to match the
patterns with when I get a heveuin'
boff, sir!"
He Didn't Appreciate It.
"Brother," said the cannibal chief,
facetiously, "in about fifteen minutes
you will be In the soup."
"Oh, dear!" groaned the missionary.
"I suppose that must be what people J
call native humor."
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SHIP'S CHRONOMETERS.
Soxf of tbe Tests to Which They ire
Subjected.
There is a popular belief that (Tonometers,
those delicate pieces of mechanism
which enable the mariner to
tell to a nicety where lie is upon the
ocean, are made only in England. One
will be told even in Jtaidrti Lane that
England is chronometer-maker <0 the
world. This was true at one time, but
how, according to shipmasters, America
funis out excellent chronometers.
There are* however, only three American
makers as against numerous British
firms, ilany of the Instruments in
use in the United States Navy are of
American make. These chronometers
are purchased on trial. The delicate
instrument is subjected to extremes of
temperature* by means of which its
variations are ascertained. No instru
tnent loaves the maker's hands until it
has been thoroughly tested, of before
it is three years old. In this period
there is ample opportunity for developing
its peculiarities. When It Is Understood
that an error of four seconds on
the part of the chronometer will put a
skipper A hiile out of his course the
hecessity of the most careful and thorough
test is apparent.
Even when an instrument has been
tested to the satisfaction of the experts,
and has been finally adjusted,
only a skilled man can be allowed to
carry it from the workshop to the ship.
One firm alone has a dozen of these
carriers constantly employed. They
are not, of course, dealing all the time
with new chronometers: there are from
400 to oOO always in stock front ships
arriving in the port of New York from
all parts of the world. As soon as a
ship comes into port Its chronometer is
usually sent ashore for rating, that is
to say, it Is carefully observed until
the ship is ready to sail, when the
variation is reported to the captain,
who can then make his calculations accordingly.
The chronometers of the
transatlantic liners are sent ashore for
rating every time they come into port.
The greatest care Is taken of chronometers
on board ship, and on all first
class ships there are usually three, one
being for deck observations. The most
perfect one of the lot Is usually placed
in a dry but well-ventilated apartment
amidships, where it is firmly screwed
down, and should there be fear of
dampness, wrapped in a heavy woolen
blanket. On the government vessels
the chronometer is placed in a case
lined and padded with curled hair, j
which keeps it from being jarred. The !
smallest speck of rust on the balancespring
might cause a chronometer to
lose its accuracy. A first-class chronometer
costs $259 and one of the same
grade capable of telegraphing its own
time, sells at $450.?Xew York Post
BORED HOLES ALL OVER TOWN.
A Farmers Son Says He Did it to Care
Himself of Insomnia.
Frank Hooley, a farmer's son has
confessed to being the one who bored
holes in the buildings all over the hamlet
of Montville, Geauga County and in
so doing surfeited that part of Ohio
with mystery and no end of superstitious
fright, and incidentally of causing
the suicide of one man to whom circumstantial
evidence pointed as the
perpetrator of the deed. Hooley, who
is 19 years old, appeared before Justice
Case and swore to the following story:
"About one year ago I began to be
troubled with insomnia. .Later the
trouble became worse and I passed
night after night without sleep. When
I shut my eyes I could see augers. To
the right augers and to the left nothing
but augers. I felt an uncontrollable
desire to bore holes, and was so nervous
that I thought I should go crazy.
One night, after trying in vain for several
hours to go to sleep, I arose, went
to the barn and bored a hole in one of
the doors. Immediately I experienced
a change of feeling and my nervousness
disappeared. I went to bed and
6lept soundly all night.
"I had found a remedy for my Ills,
but it did not last long, and I soon
found that boring holes in the barn
would not bring sleep. I felt that I
must try the house, and did. The
neighbors' bouses were perforated.
About one hole to each house, and the
virtue was gone. I make this confession
because I am sick of the business,
and wish to be taken where I can be
treated for this nameless disease."
The announcement of this strange
statement has made a sensation second
only to the discovery of the holes.
For weeks after the discovery was
made the little settlement was in a
fever of excitement' Residents were
utterly at a loss to explain the purpose
of the borings. A hole had been bored
through the outside wall of every
dwelling in the village except two, and
in a few houses two holes were bored.
Hooley is C feet tail and .unusually
thin. His shoulders are bent and his
eyes sunken.
Owing to the old system of digging
out diamonds KImberley proper is built
around a hole big enough to contain
the entire white population of South
Africa.
England's Armored Trains.
The magnificent armored trains used by
England In her war with the Boers will transport
her troops, protect bridges and telegraphic
communications In about the same
war that llostetter's Stomach Bitters drives
dyspepsia irotn the human stomach and then
mounts guard that It does not return. The
Bitters has won in every case of indigestion,
biliousness, liver and kidney trouble for the
past fifty years. It Is Invaluable at all times.
Mr. T. Carson, of Brownsville, Tex., has been
mayor of that town for twenty-one years.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke loir lift Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netlc. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-ToBac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50o or 11. CureguaranBooklet
and sample free. Address
Sterling Itemed; Co., Chicago or New York.
London Fashion Pays High Rent.
In the fashionable thoroughfares of London
a good house rents for *j0,000 a year.
To Cure n Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money If it falls to cure.
K. \v. Grove's signature Is on each box. 25c.
Much Area, But Few Inhabitants.
Kussla's Asiatic possessions are three times
the size ot Groat Britain's, but hold only
23,000.000 Inhabitants, as compared with England's
297,000,000 subjects.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Strange as It seems, every right-minded person
who gives his word straightway endeavors
tp keep It.
Mrs. Wiuslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation.
allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
I.do not believe Piso'-s Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds?John f.
Boyzb, Trinity Springs, Ind.. Feb. 15, 1900.
^,ii ^ JyyM rfji d) r,<
Nov you know what tlie tro
H cure,?a perfect Sarsaparilla.
H name of the medicine, for in a
53 great many remedies.
8 What you want is a Sampari
B pure, a Sarsaparilla that vill male
8 rilla that is a powerful nerve to
and best.
I That's i
gM "The only Sarsaparflla made under
jB graduates: a graduate In
$l? chemistry, and a gn
8 $1.00 a bottle.
u Last July my oldlst daughter was 1
. co mend I was down sick myself fron
EB and did not care much whether I liv
|gl bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and its ?
it put me on my feet and made a wel
KM Bentonsport, Iowa, Jan. 19, 1900.
Fish Commits Saiclde.
A giaEt star fisli was recently captured
and placed on exhibition in an
aquarium In San Francisco. The
morning after its capture it was found
that one of the rays of the star was
separated from its body. It was !
thought that a big land crab, which 1
occupied the same tank, must be guilty
of assault and battery, and it was accordingly
taken out. Next morning,
however, two more of the star's rays ,
imd been seDarated from Its body, and
| then n watch was set. It was found
that the star fish, apparently dissatisfied
with its surroundings, was deliberately
dismembering itself. This process
was continued until all the six
arms had been cast off, and there was (
nothing left of the original star fish
but its central body. i
Oat of the Ordinary.
The two old friends, as has been
narrated before, met again, after years
of separation.
"By the way, Gagster," said Throggins,
"do you remember that snubnosed,
cross-eyed little Tilbury girl
with a f?ce on her that would ditch
an express train? She used to live
somewhere in your neighborhood, I
| think."
"Oh, yes, I remember her perfectly,"
replied Gagster.
"tVhat ever became of her?'
"I am sorry to disappoint you, Throggins"?here
is where the variation
comes in?"but I have not the slightest
idea. I didn't marry her."?Chicago
Tribnne. %
- Thirty minntee Is all the time required to
dye with PtrrKAX Fabxless Dim. Sold by
all druggist,
Riches cannot buy the lore of a dog, nor for
that matter of a woman who is wealthy In her
own right. (
Beauty la Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic
clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities
from the body. Begin to-day to
' * * ' L-M_ Ll.4.,1
oanisn pimpies, dous, uioiciies, utakjuicwut
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists,
satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
Quaint Little People.
Thd natives of the Andaman Islands, the
smallest people in the world, average 3 feet
11 inches in height and less than 70 pounds
in weight.
The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever Is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless
Chill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine In <
a tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price 50c.
Soda Water to Appease Hunger.
Soda water Is now prescribed as a palliative
for hunger, especially for the abnormal hunger
produced by disease.
Catarrh Cannot be Cured
With local applications, as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or
constitutional disease, and in order to cure
it you ranst take internal remedies. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and actsdirectly
on the blood and mncoussnrface. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is nota qnack medicine. It was
prescribed by one of the best physicians in
this countrv lor years, and is a regular prescription.
It is composed of the best tonics
known, combined with the best blood pnrlflers.
acting directly on the mncous 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., Prope^ Toledo, O. i
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. I
Hali's Family Pills are the best. ;
In San Rafael, CaL, It Is Illegal to shoot game
with a repeating or magazine shot gun.
Bow Are Tear Kidneys V
Dr. Hobbe' Sparagns Pills care all kidney ills. Sample
free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or N. 7.
Last year tbe mines of Montana yielded
copper to the value of WO,000,000.
j
Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cared
by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free $1
trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline,
Ld., 931 Arch St, Phlladelpha. Founded 187L
H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga.. are the
only successful Dropsy Specialists In the world.
See their Liberal offer in advertisement In another
column of this paper.
If a man's neighbors would only see his virtues
as well In his lifetime as they do when he
Is dead, he wouldn't need a monument to mark
his last resting-place.
To Care Constipation Forever,
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Peace at Any Price.
Burglar?Your money or your life.
Sleepy Father?Take both, but don't wake
the baby.
best remedy for
pr.Buii s^ifd^sTiS."
Cough Syrup ?2?
sufferer will soon be cured. Price only 25 eta.
opium - morphine
habits cared at home. NO CURS, NO PAY.
Correspondence confldenti&L GATE CITl'
SOCIETY, Lock box 715, Atlanta, Ga.
dropsysks^
c?*es- Book of testimonial* ?nd 10 days' treatment
Free. Dr H. H. StEXK >SOX>. Bex 2. Atlanta. Ga
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? story of sufering that one H
)rd tells. It says: "I am all H
tired out. It seems to me H
v I can hardly take ftnother H
step. I haven't a par/
tide of ambition. I can't n
do half my work, I am weak, H
tervous, and depressed." fl >
rhat's I
re Blood I
able is, yon certainty know the mt
"Sarsaparilir is simply the B .
perfect Sarsapirilla there ire a H
11a that will make your blood B
e it rich and strong, a Sirsipt-' B
nic.^You xrant the strongest B /B
OYER'S I
^B
the personal supervision o! three B
pharmacy, a graduate in B
ideate in medicine." B
All druggists. B
:aken sick, and by the time she began
1 caring for her. I was discouraged,
ed or died. My husband got me a !
rffects were magicaL Two bottles of
i woman of me."?Jane M. Brown, H|
H|
"After X was Induced to try CAMA* ' ' iM
BETS. I will never be without them In the fcoaa*
My liver ?u In a very bad shape, and my bead
ached and I bad stomach trouble. Now. since tak- ,<S
In# Cascarets, I feel fine. My wife has also used - 1
them with beneficial results for sour stomach." <; ' >
Jos. kbiht.ino, Ed Congress St., 8t Louis, l& t?n
tacnii Pin
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do "' kJiSi
Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe, 10c, 35c.'Bc. ' -*#-"
... CURS CONSTIPATION. ...
BtoeUay Bwm*? Comp.ij, Chkag* Knr T?i SI /
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>1 Swallow I
is one of the earliest barhingen of aprinc?an
equally sure indication is that feeling of laagold
depression. Many swallows of M
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Fertilizers containing at least
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