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Caution Against tftfe Habit of Quarrelling By Beatrice Falrfa: WONDER whjr so many (iris think tt necessary to * i series of petty quarrels with the men they care nut fort Men are not anxious to qnarrel, hut the girls force the situa tion on them, and they are obliged to answer back or appear ilke poor, spiritless things without the spunk to stand up snd assert themselves. I was much amused the other dsy at a conversetion I over I beard on a ferryboat. A strl and a man were talking together. The night before she had evidently left him in the lurch while she went off with some one else. The man was remonstrating with her in the mildest possible manner, but It pleased her to think he was quarrelling. "Viell," she said, "you needn't get so mad about It." "Oh. I'm not mad," he answered. "I'm only telling you what I thought about It." "You are mad," the girl insisted. "Your eyes are just snapping." The conversstion ran along in this strain, and by the time we landed the man really was angry, though I am sure it would have puzzled his masculine brain to have discovered just exactly what he was angry about. The secret of the matter was that the girl wanted him to be angry because It implied a certain amount of interest on "his side. I think you make a mistake in que.rrei? of this kind, sir's, and at.first the men are rather amused; they like to see you Hare up and answer smartly, but they soon tire of it. and a man says to himself: "Dear me, I seem to be always quarrelling with this girl, and I'm tired of it." Men are peace-loving creatures, and the girls they like best in the long ru^ are the gentle, peaceful ones. It may be that many of these quarrels are provoked principally for the pleasure of making up again, but there will come a day when It will not be so easy to make up. The worm will turn, and then gocd-bye to your friend. Men are fickle, you kaow. and It is hard cuo-.igh to hold them, even when things run smoothly, so if 3*ou take my advice you will stop the quarrelling. It is not alone with the men they know best t'.;at pirls adopt this quarrelsome tone. Sometimes you will hear a girl at it when sin* lias barely met a man. It never takes well; and. though the man may sevm Interested at first, he gen erally leave* her with the unpleasant fce'ftig that ht; bar, been to blame, for he doesn't quite know what. Don't Imagine that a man will ttilnlc you are*running after him just be cause you are nice to him. Men are not so conceited a.; all that. Thry like the girl who frankly shows that she enjoys bring Willi them and appreciates the little attentions paid "her.?New York Journal. ' IS By P. T. McGrnth. HNCIDENT with the expansion of Canada's r itotf-es and tlio marvelous growth of lior property has been born a national sen timent. This, no less than economic reasons. l;as dictated her policy of developing the Northwest. She aims to heroine a sister state Tather than a mere province; and she is anxious as to her national safety, with such a powerful neighbor to the aonth of her. She would become self-centered and indenendcut c of ostside aid. She chafes under the spectacle of United States railways haul ing her products, and United States seaports forming outlets or inlets for her commerce. She also fears that United States antagonism may cause the re peal of the bonding privilege by which Canadian goods are carried across Am erican territory In bond, or an embargo on the shipment of wheat from Am erican ports, as the Southern States prohibited the export of cotton during the Oivll War. Sl-ould this be done at a critical period, Canada's commerce would bo crippled and* the British IsleB reduced to the verge of starvation. Supple mental to these facts Is the contention of some authorities that the grain ex portation of the United States has now reached its high-water mark, because with all Its prairie lands virtually under cultivation, and its population grow ing at the rate of two or three millions a year, the country's domestic needs will absorb larger quantities of the total grain product earti year, so that within twenty years it should have little, if any. to export. Canada's grand ambition Is to beconfcj Britain's granary, and to send for ward these breadstuff^ by Canadian railway and steamship lines alone. The weakness of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, from the commercial standpoint of Canada. Is that Its western connections facilitate the "routing" of grain exports via American channels, while its military drawback is that certain of Its western stretches near the boundary, and its short line through Maine, are exposed to American attacks. Its rivals, the New National Transcontinental (Grand Trunk Pacific) and tjje Canadian Northern, are so located as to be free from this peril, and they will bo, essentially, "all Canadian" lines, though in winter, when the St. Lawrence is frozen. Grand Trunk freight may be shipped ?1* Portland as well as St. John's or Halifax.?From "Canada's Commercial and Industrial Expansion." American Monthly Review of Reviews. A Skit on Cheerfulness By Addison Fox, J r. El CHEERFUL. It's not only a great mistake, but very wrong, in deed, to be anything else. And remember that nothing Is worth striving for unless It requires an effort to get it That is why we should be thankful that tho conditions surrounding us to-day are such a3 to make cheerfulness such a laudable and desirable thing. When tho doctor has cifeleifily removed a portion of your in B terior and round out there was nothing in it, do not give way to your feelings, or show that you ara at all pat out On the contrary, smile gladly and say: "Doctor, my only regret is that I have but one appendix to give to my couwtry." When the head of the syndloate that for the past few years has been un dermining your credit and driving you out of business, comes in one morning and says: "I guees it's about time for you to lay down," be cheerful. Don't give way to your feelings. Don't squirm. Hand over what cash there is left, and smilo gaily. Rise above these petty things. Be cheerful. It is your duty bo to be. When your best girl?the one whom so long you have adored, whom you liave held in your arms night after night, and Just knew, as you looked into her gazelle eyes, was the most precious ereaturc in tho world?comes to you and says: "Darling, we may as well understand each other. The conditions of our modern life, to say nothing of my standing in church, demand that I have at least five thousand a year to drcsa on, and I have decided to mako a sure thing of it, and take another man instead of you," be cheerful. Don't get mad. Don't let your angry passions rise. Smile sweetly and reply, "My dear, thank you so much for your kind words." That is to say, bo cheerful, for you must remember that this is the time when yon need to be cheerful, if you aro ever going to be.?Life. Whdwt is Love? By Maude Roosevelt. HERE are nervous disorders that are often termed love. A man* or a woman sets run down, sees everything dark, hopes for no . thing, alma for nothing; then a person of the opposite sex ap proaches, sympathises, plays on all the overtaxed nerves with a soothing Influence, which is Btudled and deliberate, but the, man quaffs it blindly, as a sufferer drinks brandy to ease pain without questioning whether It be Injurious or not. We do not T examrae me <cnaracier 01 me oae obtaining this power over us, because we aire 111. and our Illness control* us; we seek merely to eaoo the inward gnawing with as little pain or effort as possible. Normal love?the love of a mentally and physically sound person?is not half so blind as poets would liave us beHeve. Indeed, at such a time I think 1he mind is actually critical. Characteristics that the world considers faults in tho one we love may be particularly dear to us; they are nicks thst corres pond to the ftioks In our owa nature. But the individual 4s dissected again ?nd again by the unerring and ever busy blade of onr passion. Every quick ened element l? us pries and probes to measure Itself with the aame element In the other; It is the natural mating of things?of the many units In the one unit. This Is real love; but the other?the other Is the caase of nine-tenths of the world's mlaery; It Is the creator of morbid generations, the destroyer of correct deducAJMM, the worst menace of humanity.?Uppineott's Magazine. Indian Mtaeral Oil. The production of mineral oil in In dia has mado remarkahlo strides dur ing tho last decade.- In 1197 the out put amounted to only 19,100,000 gal lons, whereas In 1902 it had increased to ft6,607,600 gallons. Burmah in this ported trwbled its output from 18,000,* 000 to 64,000,000. These large quan tities notwithstanding, nearly two thirds of the consumption is still sup plied from abroad.-rLondoti Engineer. The total coat of tt>e arcaored cvuls* er South Dakotn, recently lannchod *? San Francisco, wa* $5,000,094. Minor Event*. "The alleged exportation of Italian -works of art to the United States," ?aya the Pall Mall Gazette, "seems to proceed gayly, in s?lto of all protcstB and schemes for prevention. Thus two Florentine churches have lately been 'relievod' of works by Delia Kobbia amounting In valuo to G00.000 francs? the goods being shipped as 'pork.' Tho chief delinquent In this fraud, a dealer from Prato, has escaped to the States." Odds and End*. Mazzantlnl, the most famous of the Spanish bull-fish ters. in nbouut to leave the ring after thirty-four years of ac tivity. Ho says he has killed 3.500 hulls Mid earned $800,000, half of which lie tatns lost through unlucky Investment*. II? intends now to devofo ' imself to Mb family nnd to music. plnys the organ, nnd Is very fond of classical music, |/artlculai<y Ilach and Bee thoven. K ROMANCE REALITY. By Miss Annie Edwards. CHAPTER III. Continued. There was no further time for consid eration or delay. Yet one other pro 4 jectioa of rock could be reached by wading through a channel more than knee-deep. After this must come the death swim, the last desperate strug gle against odds known to be over whelming, and right manfully was Severne about to gird himself thereto when a distant sound if voices fell upon his oar. He paused, looked rharply to the westward in the direc tion of Fief-de-la-Reine, and saw a knot of figures gathering round a boat on the shingle. A minute or two lat er and a boat manned by a couple of the stoutest rowers in Quernac was rapidly making its way outward through the surf. "One-da! J'pequious," cried Paul, waving his tattered hat above his head in triumph "V'la Maitre Andre, et le gros Pourtourd qui vrinnent pequer aussi!" So the threatened tragedy ended, amid sunshine, blue sea and a child's merry shouts. By the time the "Wes ley** got back (o land, the story of Paul's adventure was spreading fast, and a crowd of bare-legged fisher lads stood ready to run the boat up through the surf. This was the very moment of Daphne's return. Too stunned to com prehend more than that 1'aul was in danger. Daphne had rushed with fly ing leet across the garden, expecting ?what tragic sight does a heart in an guish not expect? Then she stopped short, stopped, and beheld the little figure that compasses her world run ning, with joyous cries, along the path to meet her; Sir John Severne. the salt water streaming literally from him as he walked, close behind. Aunt Ilosie by now, her sunburnt face bleached to a sickly palor, had come up with Margot in the rear; and through her breathless, tear-choked ut terances Daphne learned the truth, learned from what death the child had been rescued, and by whom. "Mamsey, Mamsey," cries Paul, run ning forward and clasping his moth ers knees, "me taxit one big liss, see!" And flourishing his cabot, or such crushed remains as might still be held to represent a cabot, aloft for admira tion. But Daphne utters never a word. She stoops not to the child?no, nor takes him in her arms, only staggers on another uncertain step or two; tiien sinking down at Sir John Severn's feet, seizes the young man's hands between both her own and covers them with kisses. CHAPTER IV. Duty. "My Dearest Clementina?Will you forgive me for onee, if I confess that I lmve disobeyed your wishes? An ac cident has so engrossed me this after noon that I have really not had a mo ment's time to look after porphyrltlc rocks or calc-spar, much less have I been able to give the devotion the sub ject requires to syenitic gneiss. Tell Fraulein Schnapper I shall hope (with the aid of Geology for Beginners) to have my answers ready by the time I see her. When I have the delight of meeting?after three years' absence, Clementina?you must give me a short and easy introduction to the All-Suf llclency of Matter. I am ashamed to confess I have not yet mustered cour age to attack the Exhaustive Analy sis. Need I say I look forward with rapture to the Paleontologlcal lectures? My Intellect has so rusted in India that I am not perfectly certain I know what Paleontology means, but I shall have you at my side to act me right in everything. "Your mention of 'Cousin Felix" se riously disturbs my pence. Do I re member the photograph of him? An atrociously good looking fellow, with a cigarette between his lingers, and Caliph?your Caflph?on his shoulder! I wrote' 'Beautiful but brainless' be | neath that photograph, if you recollect. And then how you cried with anger, and I fumed with jealousy, and Anally how delicious was our making up! So delicious that we immediately set to work to pick another quarrel, solely for the sake of experiencing another reconciliation. If the book is open at the snnie page, if our contentions are to taste as sweet as they did three years ago, I can scarcely regret that Mr. Broughton is to be one of the par ty on board the Liberta. "Fraulein Hchnapper inquires about epidotc and rock crystal, Jersey, in th* depths of Teutonic consciousness, evi dently existing but for pnrposes of geological Illustration. I can assure you these small Islands contain human curiosities Just as well worth search ing after. The accident I spoke of? bringing back to shore an urchin who had strayed too far among the rocks threw me across a group of figures as quaint as were ever seen out of por celain and Wardour street. Imagine three old North Country ladles?ladles In the strictest sense of the word?liv ing in a solitary Jersey farm, which they cultivate with their own hands, as a matter of business?a means of existence. The looking after the small child I mentioned (whose connection with these old ladles, by <t lie-bye. seems apocryphal and mysterious) en tailed m.v getting a wet jacket, and I was carried off into the Fici' de la Reine, their home, and the nearest house at hand, to be forcibly dried and doctored. "If you would grasp the situation you must picture to yourself a vast, low-raftered kitchen, all crooks and angles and three-fc>rnered oak-doored cupboards, with the floor tiled in pat terns, brass pans as bright as If one of Gerard Dow n housefrnus had newly polished them, and the three old ladies minlstcriug to my sup posed needs. The two younger of the MJss Vnnsittarts may be?any age you please on the farther side of fifty, one 01 them. 'Aunt Hosle.' dressed like the women of the country, but with an ex? presslon of innate goodness and breed ing on her sunburnt face that is irre sistible; the other elegantly upright as a portrait by Lely. and wearing a lilac silk gown nnd mittens. You doubt my accuracy about details of femi nine dross generally?in this case I am certain as to the mittens. These two, however, are but as school gtrls, babes, beside the elder Miss Vansit tart. She dates from the Georges, is tall, marble-featured, deaf, oracular. I never yet saw a living female who could more fitly be taken as a personi fication of one of the Fates. "My name having been conveyed to her with a pood deal of difficulty by the sister in mittens, she tho-.ig'nt over it?looking at ma with an inward kind of gaze, as though centuries of chron ology wore passing before her vision then remarked that she kuew two of my great aunts in Edinburgh, at the time when Charles Dlx lived Ir. ex'le at Holyrood. "I should not have been surprised at her remembering the battle of Cul loden! "Aunt TTosio, meanwhile, plied me with what she was pleased to call re storatives, aided in their preparation oy n serving woman. Margot. who chanted weird songs in some unknown tongue and never one showed her face throughout. I drank hot cider, herb tea, elderberry wine. It would be hard to say what horrible concoction I did i not drink. Finally I was only allowed to leave the house under promise of being present at a grand nayn:aki::g festival that is to take plaoe 011 Aunt Ilosie's estate to-morrow. A pity you could not. for one afternoon, like Will Honeycomb, 'forget the sin and soa coal of London for innocence and hay cocks.' and lie with us. "But then I should have ??? n;a!:e stringent stipulations?no Fraulein Schnapper. or learned professors, and. above all. no Cousin Felix. "Write to mo the moment the destin ation of tlie Libcrta is finally settled upon, and tlo not let your conscience be troubled at keeping me prisoner in Jersey. With'tlie prospect of seeing my dearest Clementina so soon I shall do my best, depend upon it, to feel contented with iny prison-house. Ever your most devoted John Severne." Such is the response to Miss Hard castle's impassioned love-letter. The reader may remark, as a fact not barren of significance, that the part, of Ilauilet would seem to be omitted from the play! In describing his first introduction to the inhabitants of Flef-de-la-Relno, Kir John Severne lias unaccountably forgotten tb mention the name of Daphne Chester to his betrothed. CHATTER V. Chains .Matrimonial. A philosopher has computed that one tongue of average, not French, velocity will publish at the rate of a thick oc tavo volume per day. Assuming the liguros to be correct, one may calculate with some nicety the speed whereat new* must travel in a thickly populated territory, twenty miles long by six broad, and of which the French speaking inhabitants num ber more than two-thirds. By the time Sir John Severne has finished his breakfast next morning every man and woman in the little country inn where lie lodged has given him a different version of Paul Ches ter's rescue, with marginal notes iu profusion as to the old Miss Vansit tarts and their family nffairs? those portions of the affairs especially (when does misfortune fall of ready chroni clers?) which touch on Mrs. Chester. Briefly told, sifting the facts clear from suppositions, hearsays and moral fraught inference, the history conies to this: Tliat, some eighteen years before the present time Daphne Vanslttart's chil dish soul first awoke to the "heaven that lies about us" amidst the laneR" and valleys of Quernee. Her mother had died in India at her birth; her fath er fell in the Crimea, not In glorious, pension winning fashion, but from pro sale exposure to cold and wet in the ditches before Sebastopol. No heritage had the four-year-old child but that of sorrow, no prospect of a home save such as the Miss Vansittarts, her great aunts, burled away at Flef-de-la-Roine, might be able to offer. "Any other mnn than Paul Vansittart would have provided against these? these very distressing contingencies," said Miss Theodora, fretfully, when tlie news first reached them of their nephew's death. "But everything In Paul's life from first to last was a mud dle. Choosing tlie wife ho did. In In dia?a baby faced creature who had not energy enough to live for her own ?i ne iter. i?r. layman AlflkJtt fs a Arm believer In the value of regular hour* of rest In the daytime. Recently In ad dressing n group of theological students ho an id It has been his practice for years to set asldo the hour after the midday meal as exclusively his own. when ho is not to bo disturbed "unless the houso Is on fire and the Are has reached the second story. Then he It free to dip Into poetry or rost and med itate with folded hands, as ho may chooso. Yoii cannot floe from the wrath to come until you forsake the tin you love. Recent Investigation* by 1 Ifo insur ance exports in Great Britain and tho United States show that totnl abstain ers have a much higher chance of life than moderate drinkers have. Between 20 and 30 the number of deaths is 11 per ccnt in exccus, between 30 and 40 it is (58 per cent, between 40 and 50 It In 74 per cent, between r>0 and GO it is 42 per cent and from 00 on the percent ace gradually decreases. Tho fair in ference Is that under 50 the weakling drinkers are mostly killed off. leaving only thoso with exceptionally strong physique. child's sake?and bow dying la tkla 4* ; plorable way, hia name not eveu men- j tloned In the dispatches." The eldest Mltw Vauslttart. in he* i stoniest. most oracular tones, pro nounced the two words. "Orphan Asy lum." Auut Hosie walked straight away to her bedehatuber, counted over the con tents of her poorly stored purse, and packed up her traveling box. Captain Yansittiirt. when the war broke out. had left his daughter In charge of a professional <>ood Samari tan at Brighton?oue of the advertising IMpclilns who offer parental affection to motherless babes, by the month or quarter; sen Inithlng, If required; ref erences to beneficed clergy men; and terms payable In advuuee. And to Brighton Aunt Hosie went. A week later, battered by secoud-class travel ing. her purse emptied to its last sov ereign (perhaps her belief in Samaritan human nature somewhat sapped*, she got baek to the Channel Islands with her cliarge-a small, fair child, looking still smaller, still fairer, by reason of her crape and bombazine, and soft eyes saying "Love iue" to the world In which her tiny drop of existence seemed so hbsolutely impertinent a su perfluity! "Talk of expense; talk, as that wom an in Brighton did. of children's appe tites and the cost of mutton chops!" Thus spoke Aunt Hosie to her sisters, as the three held counsel together over their wood tire 011 the first night of her return?little Duplinc warmly sleeping in the cot prepared for her upstairs. "I maintain that a child must be a posi tive economy in any household, hook nt the sous I give Jean Marie for weeding, although he oftener plucks up niy seedlings than the groundsel! Look nt the clothes we throw away," said Aunt Hosie. drawing, it must he confessed, wild drafts on her imagina tion?"the clothes we throw away be cause we have no small creature to cut > them down for. As a matter of econ omy, a house wants something young; wants it, if 'twere only to make the [ dust lly, only as oil to hinder the old { wiieel from rusting." A sufficiently commonplace gloss to put upon a tine action, this of pence and shillings. Hut it accorded with Aunt Ilosie's habit of liiiml to keep to commonplace in the solemn as in the trifling things of life; and pence and shillings were subjects to which the Miss Vansittarts must perforce give heed at every step they took. Their father's death aliout Ave years before this date had brought the sis ters in a day from affluence to need? Colonel Vanslttart. Generous George, as he was called iu his generation, be longing to that open handed class of men who hold what they pleasantly call "short views" o<" life, not minding the lengths behind. Genial. hospitable, a header of subscription lists, a giver of delicate meats and rare wines. Gen> erous George's moral near siglitcdncss would never permit him to see that it might be a duty to make provision of some kind for his own daughters. Sufficient unto the day is the charity thereof; such was his innxim. wrought out conscientiously into practice. The sum of seven or eight hundred pounds was secured to each of the Miss Van sittarts under the marriage setflenient of their long-dead mother; this was all. By the time the colonel's funeral ex penses were paid?and so immensely popular a member of society must, of necessity, have nu expensive funeral? the last shilling lying in his banker's hands was pretty well expended. Then came the settlement of his bills tailors', haberdashers', wine merchants' (for it is noteworthy that men of the shortest views invariably require the very longest credit), and then?the Miss Vansittarts realized their position to the full. The lavish, genial old colonel had been airily trenching 011 capital for years, and died exactly in time to escape the taste of poverty himself; made his exit from the world surrounded by friends, with the assistance of the first physicians, with benefit of clergy, expensive funeral, notices in the local papers, and a semi-public pageant. Now. how should the Miss Vansit tarts continue to find bread? They had reached ages when not the wildest female brain can any more cal culate on marriage as a probable financial resource; they were accom plished up to the standard usefulness of their station and period; and their joint Income might be estimated at : 'Hint one hundred and ten pounds a year. IIow should they continue to find bread-? Colonel Vansit tart, at the time of his death, was Inhabiting a furnished house in Cheltenham, and 011 dinner exchanging terms with all the "best" people of the neighborhood: so Ills daughters were not left friendless. It had ever been u favorite boast with Generous George that he had the knack of making friends for his chil dren. Others might surpnss him In the acquisition of money. It was his poor pride?so he would declare, with generous tears suffusing his eyes?his pride, his ambition, to leave liis fam ily rich in kindly social ties. No\r come the frultltlon of his desires. Hot house grapes and camellias, cards of Inquiry hoarded to this nour by Miss Theodora, especially such of the poor bits of pasteboard as are made sacred by a title; later on, advice in meas ureless quantities?all these overflow ings of the milk of human kindness did the Miss Vansittarts receive. To be Continued. Tit? Bird und tfir HVortw# The Karly Bird hopped leisurely by. "Perhaps you do," replied the latter, hastily drawing Its tall in, "but you won't get hold of It." Disappearing Into the earth ere the Bird could secure him, the Earlier Worm thanked his stars that he had read the fable and had tnken warning '?y It.?Chln'clnnntl Tlnics-f'.tar. "The day will, I Delleve, come, when tho sweet potato will furnish the starch of tho world." So said Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of tho bureau of tfiemlatry In tho Agricultural De partment, In reply to the appeal of Congressman Hrantlcy, of Ooorgia. that the Government, having develop ed the possibilities of tho sugar cane ayrup ftiifustry, should make a some what similar study of the sweet po tato. When holiness la all nonsense to a aatn honesty U apt to bt *11 moonshlu?. SMALL i RU1TS. ' I The raising of small fruits oi bob; j torn laiuls has the advantage of m good moisture supply in seasons when otl?4 er laud* have a deficiency; hut it has the drawback of such laud being ex* , eeedlngty subject to late fr??t*. aiul being too wet in times of freshets tnd aiw in wei wiiMVin. FOOD VALUE OK Fill*ITS. That fruits have many uses besides pleasing the tasle is well kuown, but the exact properties of eaeh kind ar? not so well undcrsto4Ml by the cousum erst, a ml a few sujrucstlous on the sub ject may not he amiss. Fruit alone will not susti.in life for nny great length of time. hut helps to furnish a variety in the diet. It stimulates and improves appetite and digestion, relieves thirst and* in troduces water into the system. If the medical uses of fruits were understood and care taken to use the appropriate kinds, much l?ss medicinal treatment would lie needed. TUB Al'PLK St'AB. Experiments at lite Ohio Station have demonstrated clearly that the npplc scab is tin* chief factor in the destruction of the apple crop, and that the fungus can be kept under control by spraying. Four splendid succes sive crops were produced on the sprayed trees at the station, while the fruit on nnsprayed trees in the same neighboring orchards was worthless. Director Thorite, however, calls at tention to the fact tiiat exhaustion of soil fertility, want of water and Insect ravages may all cooperate with scab or other fundus growth in shortening the crop, and says: "If our orchards are again to produce the great crops of earlier days, restore the soil condi tions of those days. We must avoid the waste of water in thos? sections where rainfall is scanty by preventing the growth under the trees of weeds nud grass, and by keeping the surface in snclt condition as to prevent rapid evaporation."?Farmers' Home Jour nal. RKKRY CULTIVATION. The bright rod raspberries, which are the sucker varieties, need *>nt little pruning for 11??? tlrst summer or any succeeding kiiminer. The dark red raspberry, such as Columbian, and nil blacks should he nipped the first season when the new cane gets to a height of twelve to fifteen inehes. This makes the cane stocky and gives a larger amount of hearing wood, and in t hose varieties we oan ex pee t a good erop the next year after planting. The soc oml and succeeding seasons the new growth will he stronger, and when the eanes are from thirty to thirty six Inehes high, nip the ends, with the idea of keeping canes low. branched and so stocky that they will stand without the necessity 0r staking or otherwise supporting. Cultivation should be continued till tvell towards fall, and if new plants of the tip varieties are desired the tips should be put in in August or the tlrst of September. After picking, old canes should he cut out and burned, and the branches of the new growth left aTbne until sitting, even if they grow out four or five feet. When spring fairly opens, go over the bushes ami cut laterals bpek to ten or twelve Inches, leaving each cane standing like ' a well balanced tree. The blackberry should he treated In much the same way as the black rasp berry, as to nipping, trimming. etc.. and a heavy mulch of coarse barnyard manure applied to the row will aid greatly in maturing crop of fruit and en using strong growth of new canes. In fact, this mulch will greatly benefit all the bush fruits.?1?. c. Converse is the Amerioan Cultivator. PLANT MOItE Fit I "IT THICKS. I believe that the .uily Tactical way to have plenty of fruit at all seasons is to set out a tew trees each jeer, "his Is the way it has been practiced on this farm for the lust twenty years, and now we have plenty of all kinds of fruit, and sotuWimcH we sell at good prices. Only a few dollars each year has done this, and I consider it a good investment. So the only rule I give to the practical farmer, who wants fruit for his family, is to spend a few dollars each year ami plant a variety. Sometimes the question eoines before us. which shall we plant large or small trees? This is a ques tion which many good orchard men dif fer upon. As a side line business I ha\e had a little experience in selling fruit trees, ami find that some people want large trees; I occasionally find some who want larger trees than I oan fell, and I find some who want the entail twelve-Inch ones. Now. don't think I am a fruit tree agent, and am writing for my own pockcthook. I am n practical farmer, hut soli trees to my neighbors in the spring, Just a few, probably about enough to earn mine! I write from the standpoint of a prac tlcal farmer, as I am nothing else. For my own use I do not want too large trees, as so many routs have to be cut In digging at the nursery, the smaller the trees, the more apt to grow, but we have to wait longer for fruit, and I prefer not going to either ex treme. but take a good medium sized tree, and if planted well will give good return*. I only wrote these linos to remind (ho farmer to plant trees and nftor planting, give good care ami you will be profited by it. I know you will for I have been.?K. .1. Waterstrlpo, In The Kpitomist. Mrwlco*? Waiter Tower. Of the great abundance of water power with which Mexico is supplied estimated that not more than l!.V)(KK) horse power is being utilized or Is In course of development at the present Mine. 1 he potential horse power has never been estimated with any degree of accuracy. h Lt Nee,1e,l N,.WW|Mlprr-> The advertising manager of Hie Southern lM<iile Hailrorul *?v* bo 1 spent on a booklet last year, but the results of the enterprise wore net satisfactory until he advertised the booklet itself in the daily uewsnunor*. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS PAINTED Fl'RNlTUUK. l'aliitPil furniture has Imn ri'vlv^l timing tIn* {Mist few years in bedroom lets for country bouspn. Natural de ficits of flowers arc often added as a decoration, helping to name the differ rut sleeping roouis; as, for instanee. th? pansy chamber, nasturtium room, etc. ? RAW K?GS. When raw ej;;;s are ordered for ni> |uvmU?1 to whom they are objectionable^ make as palatable as j?ossible by hav ing the cks as ?*ohl as one enji make it and then serve it from a cold s'.ass as loon as it is opened. Of course it is useless to serve any save p.'ti'evtly fresh ej;j;s. If the white alone is to be taken it should be beaten with a whisk until very stiff and frothy, then reasoned with salt or sugar?whichever is pi-*, ferred, and eaten with a spoon. Some who object to an cirjr beaten in ) fjlass ??f milk.sweetened and flavored, can take the cj;j; If the atigar is omitted.?What to Eat. TO C I.KAN A CLOCK. To clean a eloek, iay a raj; well sat urated with kerosene oil in tiie botioni i)f it. The fumes will loosen the dirt, stud it will drop out. After a few day? this should be removed and amuliet saturated raj; placed in the cl???-k. the fumes of wliicli will lubricate the works. In the ease of those popular ehcap niekel clocks that have Ions yinec es tablishcd theiuselves as favorites, when the tiiuekeepiiiy: begins to be erratic it is very often caused by want of eleaninj;. This may h? <|ui?-U1 y remcilicd by the use of naphtha. The hacks should be unscrewed and the works taken out and immersed in the fluid-a treatment that w ii! speedily rcstor<! their service, unless some rad ical defect other than dust i-; '!*?? Iron i ble. TUB SCRAPS. On a farm there arc always hen*, pigs, or other animals, who will eat iho scraps of every kind made in preparing food for tlio taldo, and llio left overs ?<u the plates after the meal is served, and every careful housekeeper sees t?? it that the scraps are made to save a* many pun-liases as possible of tire.in, etc. In many village homes, where nc animals are kept, such refuse i# burned, or disposed of in some Midi manner, and in city homes it is nol only wasted, but becomes :?n expense to the city, for the city mils: pay foi the removal of garbage. In every coin, miinity there are persons who keep a few liens or a large dog. who would bo glad of such scraps and oflen a child could keep a pet dog. which She family could not afford to feed, if kind lu.-artcd neighbors donated bones and scrap* Where some people are trying to care a 111 tie money by keeping a few liens on a small lot. lie would very naturally be glad to feed the scraps f'om liif neighbor's tabic, for he would re;.p A, two-fold gain. His income would :*? increased in proportion to the decrease iu expense of feed, and I he emr yield ?would he much I tetter, on account ot the"variety of food thus provided. Tin moral of this is. before you throw out your scraps, see if they may not lie oi material value to some one. ? In- /. U?d ding, in The Kpitomist. RECIPES : Scrambled Errs?Spread four slice* of hot toast with a thin layer of |m>i i ham or very finely minced cold lulled ham; heat four eggs with a fork: sea son with salt and pepper and :i<!<I sij tablespoon fuls of milk; turn into a hot buttered omelet pan and stir with ?. fork until the egg i? slightly thickened turn at once on the toast and scrv? quickly. Fifth Tidbit- Take what is loft nj baked or boiled lisli; remove the hnuct and skin and warm the fish i.i hot milk enough to moisten; turn it out 01 a platter: poach three or four eggs, laj them on the tlsh; mix one tahlcspoonfu of chopped parsley, a few grain* cayenne, a little salt, with two table spoonfuls of butter melted; pour tliii evenly over the eggs and serve at one# and very hot. Chicken Mayonnaise in Shells Picl the meat from the bones of cold bollc< or baked chicken. Mince It very tiiu with a little thick mayonnaise; spreac a little nmyonnnise over the bottom o china shells; till with tlx* mincer chicken and smooth the surface with i knife. Arrange the shell* in a largi dish. Cut a clear tomato Jelly int< fancy shapes and put around eael shell. Cover the centre with yolks o* eggs rubbed through a sieve, eggs har< boiled and minced parsley. Serve ver; cold. Tomato Chowder?Put five slices <v salt pork into the frying pan; whet very brown, remove them; put into tin hot pork fat ten suinll onions sliced cook a delicate brown; add ?wo leve tablespoon fills of flour: slir tli's ti.it i well mixed; put half a quart -.in o tomatoes in an agate pan with one third cupful well washed r:? e and flu pork cut in small pieces; :idd to tin onion and flour one part of water when boiling add it to th<* rice inn tomato; add salt and pepper to season cover the pan and let the content* simmer one hour, or until the rice i! very tender. Ark A ??T .l:ij? Nht.v. The average age of the Japanese mi vul crews Is lower than those of aiij | other navy in the world. No one ovci twenty years is accepted foi enlist, menf. The average ln i^l,t is live feci four inches l??ss than the nverug< height of any otliei nav.v in the world Tim ( r?? IV i* Ccrumti, Most of the crew of the llrillsl steamship Clieltenh.ini, which luu been adjudged a lawful prl>;e at tin Vladivostok Prize Court, were <?or mans. When the llnssian* seized tlx vessel the flcnuans manifested liici) delight by cheers.