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ADORAT:ON.
Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, bound
less heaven.
Thy voice, the voice of one who rides the
storm,
Thy coautenance illumined like bright
Astra.
Thy breath the fragrant breath of dewy
morn.
Amazing breezes daily sing tLy praises,
Awakening streams thy goo dness s peaketh
e.eb.
Thine urms, unarmored, prove . thy great
ness.
Thy lp. thy lips my own would teach.
Thy brow is calm, serene and hbly,
Thy heart, unehastened,warm and. strong.
Thy speech the tongue of men and angels,
Thy pulse, th pulse brings life along,
-Helen McQuade Day, B)ston.
Sheer Luck.
When the great pink diamond of
Guznee reached Europe it created
widespread interest and took immedi
ate rank w%ith the historical stones of
the world. It was compared with the
finest gems in the royal and i:nperial
regelia, savants wrote learned dis
quisitions upon its beauties, and the
magazines ind -ewspapers spoke of
its-value in' a -way that made one's
month water.
Among others whose envy was
aroused by the descriptions of the
rtone was a Mr. Lamorock, a gentle
uan who had passed under many
zliases in his career, and who had only
i ecently been released from Portland,
-where he had been sequestered for mis
t aking the proprietorship of a check.
As he read of the great diamond his
e fyes sparkled at the thought of its
worth. There it was--100,000-and
you could put it in your waistcoat
pocket.
F.ut how to get it?
The er-convict, as he pondered oyer
the sub;ec:, knew the task was no' an
easy one. The papers imparted the
confidezce that it was in Messrs. Bons
field Brothers' safe at Bristol; but
burglary was not in his line. There
are grades of rednemeat in all profes
sions, and he looked upon burglary as
vulgar,besides which night watchmen,
strong rooms, and electric alarms
nade such work ha?ardoas and only
ifor people better supplied with
physieal strength than brains.
The first.step was to obtain the con
x ence of the Bonsfields. To get this?
.trodietion. How?-to forge
more ado he wrote a short
" oeQEorieton &Co., the clbr~a
~ w=T Y temift ~tou ldcare to buy
}eels and receive l.
eip r rey singtheir sillingn ss to
.inspect them. After studiously ex
aming the caligraphy of their letter
{ /with a magnifying lens he set himself
to practising a nu:nber of curves and
flourishes on a sheet of paper. An
hour's work seemed to satisfy him,
and he then indited the following
epistle:
"Hatton Garden, Jan 4, 1896.
Messrs. Bonsfield Brothers: Dear Sirs
-As a client of ours desires to inspect
your pink diamond 'known as 'The
Light of Guznee,' with a view to pur
chase, we should feel obliged if you
would send it to us. Our MIr. Lamo
rock will call upon you a few hors
L after you receive this letter and will
bear a note vouching for his identity.
We shall be happy to undertake all
risk and responisibility for the stone
from the time it is intrasted to the
custody of our representative, and we
beg to remain yours faithfully.
- "CorGLErosr & Co."
When this production of his pen
and brain had been caref ally serutin
ized, our caligraphist composed
another short letter, which stated that
the bearer was Mr. La noroek,the rep
resentative - of Congleton & Co. H e
went out and bought half a do en
Havana cigars, four of 'which he
stea.ned open and unrolled. Smearing~
'he interior portion over wi h a dark,
treacly liquid, he rolled them up again
with expert fingers and put them into
his case.
The first letter he had written he
sent by registered post, going down to
Bristol by the same train that took the
mail. But on his arrival there he
---atdfor three hours so as to allow
of it being delivered before calling.I
He then went to their office and pre
sented his credentials,the genuineness
of which were not for a moment sus
pected.
The Bristol firm, who acted with
great caution in all their business
transactions, thought it safer
that the stone should be under
the custody of their own rep
r. esentative; and determined that one
r.hould accompany Lamorock up to
.London, taking it-with him. This,
however, was a contingency provided
for both by Lamorock's* cigars and by
a neat little revolver that nestled in
the pocket of his great cost.
It~was a bitterly cold day',and a bit
ing east wind' made thorn 'hiver in
spite of their coats and wraps; so
much so that they mutually regretted
that the operation of securing a
reserved carriage left them no time to
nav a visit to the refreshment room.
They had just seated themselves
comfortably and the train was already
in motion, when an elderly gentleman
* with a jovial red face'and black bushy
~J. whiske.-s opened the door an d bundled
himself in. -
Bonsfield was annoyed and Lamo
rock disgusted; but as the intruder
was profuse in his apologies, and it
was too late to mend matters, they
had to accept the situation with the
best grace they could. After the lapse
of a quarter of an hour he had talked
their r'eser;e away, and proved him
scio -ning a co:npaunion that they
!l iace'.ne cguite friendly; and then
Lamorock, who had grown suddenly
.mible. ossed the others into~
accepting a cigar ap:ee. The jolly
faced intruder was not to be outdone
in hospitality. He opened his hand
bag, and with a merry wink produced
a flask of curacoa, which the intense
cold made particularly acventable to
them all, Lamorock, indeed, found
the liquor so delicious that he took
two glasses. Before they got half
through their cigars he noticed with
suspicion that the conversation began
to slacken; and that his companions
showed a disposition to go to sleep.
Bonsfield was the first to succumb
to somnolence, and La'norock even
began to feel sleepy himself. He
fought against the sensation by get
ting up to admire the colored photo
graphs beneath the hat-rails and by
trying to fix his attention upon the
passing scenery. He opened his cigar
case, counted and examined the con
tents, and looked puzzled. He was
apparently satisfied that he not given
himself one of the drugged eigars,for
he puffed vigorously away at his
stump, hoping that it would help to
keen him awake. He once thought
that the fumes of his companions
cigars might be affecting him, and
opened both windows. But he found
the cold air had no effect. The in
truder also began to look as if he
would soon follow Bonsfield's example.
He vainly tried to look wide awake,
but his lids would droop hearily, his
head would sink down upon his chin,
and he would then pull himseli
together by a supreme effort and try
to sit up straight.
Their respective struggles to keec
awake, however, grew more and more
feeble until the pair finally coilasped
in their corners, and slept as if they
would never wake agaia.
I When the train arrived at Swinton
Junction the guard discovered them
all asleep, and after trying in vain tc
rouse them up, the conviction dawnei
upon him that it was foul play. The
three patients were taken out and re.
moved to the hospital, arrangement
being made by the police that on theii
recovery all three should be detainec
in custody pending investigations. So,
when tney had been brought round tc
consciousness, they were taken to the
police station.
Harry Bonsfield easily established
his identity, and was set at liberty
but the information that the police ob.
tained about his ompaaions, the
revolvers they found in both thei
overcoats, two tell-tale cigars,and twc
equally damning cigar stumps, the
remnants of curaooa in the flask andf
sery suspicious false beard, all thes(
inci:lents led to thei arrest. "'
Lcton.
.cotland Yard keeps the flask as a
aiuriosity, for it has two compartments
from -whieh'the contents can be drawn
at the will of the owner by a slight
pressure on a secret spring. Both
compartments contained curacoa; but
what was left of one sample was found
to be drugged while the other was
pure.
The jovial gentleman,like Lamorock,
had had his imagination fired by the
accounts that the newspapers gave .of
the great pink diamond. He had
wormed it out of a clerk in Messrs.
Bonsfield's office that the junior part
ner was taking it up to town, and he
thought the opportunity for which he
had waited so long had at length ar
ived. Tea':ing away to his lodging,
he had provided himself with a flask
and a revolver, and was jnst. in time
to catch the train. When the whole
facts were revealed in the police conrt,
the natural astonishment of Lamorock
and the jolly gentlema.n was past de
scription. It beat even th'at of Harry
Bonsfield. All the three actors in this
scene are now firmly convinced that
one of the incalcu'able elements con
trolling man's destiny is sheer luck.
London Sun.
KING OF SNEEZERS.
he Littic Farmer Broke Up a Camp
Neering With a Sneezin- Spell,
"Did von ever know a man who coula
seeze loud enough to break up a camp
neeting,to stop the taking of te.timony
n court and causo a bellowing cow to
stop in disgust r.n'd wonder what the
oise was that was drowning its thun
erous voice?" said an o!d fisherm.an
acording to a western authority.
On being informed that his sneezer
as entitled to cake, and a1l the ac
essories necessary to condnct an up
o-date bakery, the gentleman con
ented to tell more of his sneezing
friend. He said:
"While fishing in a mountain in
astern Kentucky last fall, I went to
he village near by one rainy moi ning
o attend circuit court. The judge
as delivering an impressive charge
o the grand Jnry, and every ear was
istening to catch- each word. when
he stillness of the court was broken
y an unearthly ker-chew, ker-chew,
:er-chew, her-chew, etc., etc. The
udge was thunderstruck, and instant
y every eye turned toward the rear
f the room, where a little,aunobtrusive
ooking old farmer sat sneezing
s if his head was coming off. The
udge ordered the sheriff to bring the
ntruder before the bench. 'Ihe of
ender came forward, and the judge
ad a fine entered against the innocent
ause of the disturbance.
"Two of the sneezer's friends were
alled, who testi:iedto the muan's good
haracter and high standing, but said
hey could hear him sneeze three miles,
nyday in the year. One said the
neezer broke up a camp meeting with
sneezing spell, and that he saw an
eraged bovine stop a thunderous bel
owing fit to lock in wonder at the
uman who could make more noise
han a ma I bull. But the old fellow
ouldn't help it, and the fine was re
itted."
A Warnins.
Senior Partner-We must discharge
hat traveler of ours. He told one of
y eustomers I was a fool.
Junior Ditto- l'l see him at once
and insist upon his keeping the firm's
ertu-T?it-Bits
LIFE AT DAWSON C Y.
Interesting Facts About the 3a opolis of
the Klondike. e.
A journey of forty-five miles from
Sixty-mile Post brought us t Dawson
City, the wondr"ul city of he new
mining district, populated al ost in a
night. Although really "ixty-five
id es distant from the Klon '-e, it is
a typical mining camp, mi: us the
guns. The laws of the Britis govern
ment are enforced at Daws>n, and
those laws prohibit the use .of fire
arms; consequently few me i carry
gans. In and around Dawso at the
present time there are ab at foar
thousand men and one hunc d and
fifty women. Dawson, of co arse, is
very primit-ive and very dirty,a though
from a recent conversation w. ch Mr.
Ladue I understand that ever, effort
is being made to cleau: it. Th re are
large stocks of provisions in 11 the
storehouses, and it looks as hough
there could be no hunger in th Klon
dike. There will le little or n law
lessness, an .1 the -e is a prababi ity of
very little sickness. The taskan
winters are healthful. In Sep ember
ca- be seen quantities of black ducks
wending their way southwar , aul
even on the streets of Dawso you
cani see the sparrow and he r its
chirping. Here, as everywh re in
Alaska, nature has stored her . trea
sures in a safe of ice; in fact one
writer has called Alaska the na ion's
icebox, but to me it represent the
future paradise of poet and p ter.
Nature has done much for Dawso ,but
the euerg.tingAmerican has done ore.
He has built wareh>uses in whie he
has stored acres of food, bui t om
fortable log-cabins, erected a the re,
established many saloons, bill rd
rooms and dance halls. The su s of
money spent in these billiard sal ons
and dance halls are simply fab us;
fortunes changed nands every ght
at the different gamb ing devices. At
poker in a single night $100,000 e
quently changed hands, it being n th
ing unusual to see $10,000 bet a
single hand. Yet do not infer f m
this that all the miners are gamb 's.
Many of them never enter a saloo or
dance hall.
I have a little friend out ther n
old schoolmate, who is teaching 1.
She hugely en;oys her winters th e.
She is at Circle City. She tak a
daily ride behind t splendid dog;
and, I tell you, it's great fun.
ride a while, end then you get ou
run; then you get in and ride a,
No one really knows what aslei
is n '. ' d
team. e inhabitants manage to get
considerable amusement. They have
private dances, parties, and in the
',summer time tley -even, have .icuilcs
The Arctic wiizters are 'mostr keenly
felt by those miners who are obliged
all through the'long, dark winter to
live in tents and dagouts.
Dawson City is rectangular in shape.
It is laid out in town lots. Its streets:
are sixty-six feet wide. It is situatedy
on a stretch of low ground on th
northwest bank of the Yukon, just.be
low the mouth of the Klondike. Tow
lots in Dawson City are selling now a
$5000 each. Up To to the present time
*55 cents at Dawson is the. smallest
piece of money used; it is called four
bits. Both Protestants and Roman
Catholics have already established
mission churches in Dawson. Thos e
who visit Dawson next spring will see
a live metropolis.
A Heart's Oddities.
Charles Kenyon, who lives with his
father on a farm near Bkinghamton, N.
Y., is one of the strangest men in the
world. Every school chi!d is taugnt
that the heart is the blood pump, situ
ated on the left side of the breast,
shaped like a pear and pointing down
ward to the left. Charles Kenyon's
heart is inverted ; it is on the right
side and points upward to the right.
In fact, his whole circulatory system
is reversed. The arteries running
from his heart are twisted and curled
in his breast until they resemble a
*Chinese puzzle, and one that cannot
be solved by the physicians who have
examined him. Notwithstanding this
fact, he enjoys good health. An old
theory was that the heart was the seat
of reason and ruled the action of man,
and although this theory has been dis
proved by science, in Mr. :Kenyon's~
case it seems to apply. His every ac
tion is governed by the heart. His
heart is wrong side up and his actions
are correspondingly queer. What he
docs is done exactly opposite from the
ordinary way. When at school his
first inclination was to write backward,
beginning at the bottom and right side
of the slate. Of course, thes~e oddi
ties have been to a certain extent over
come.-Detroit Free Press.
Tno Vitality of seeds.
A very interesting meeting took
place recently at the Chemical society,
when Mr. Horace Brown delivered an
address on the vitality of seeds that
had been expose'd to very low temper
atures for a considerable time. The
late Professor G. T. Rlomanes had al
ready shown that seeds could be kept
in an almost complete vacuum for a
year or more without undergoing any
deterioration in their germinating
properties. A later worker also
adopted the inganious device of seal
ing up seeds in Geissler tubes for a
long p)eriod, when, on subsequently
passing a spark, no glow due to in
candescent carbonic acid gas or nitro
gen was observed, thus proving thas
the seeds do not exhale either of these
gases when kept. Mr. Brown in con
junction with Professor Dewar, has
maintained seeds at the temperature
of liquid air (180 deg. C.) for a con
tinuous period of 110 hours. On sub
sequently carefully thawing the seeds
and testing them, they were found to
be completely unaffected. They ger
minated quite as freely as other test
seeds which had not been so treated,
and, in fact, no difference iu their be
havior could be datant&a
OUR NAVY'S DTs LINE
ITS STANDARD EQUALS THA OF-THE
WORLD'S BEST NAVI ,
Yo Laxity Allowed on America Men-of
War - inele Sam's Ships Cl ,er Than
Auy Other Naval Vessels Our-Tars Are
Far superior to the Indolet%pari=ards.
The discipline prese.rved Tn Anaeri
can men-of-war not only t
of every other navy in the:
lading the na vy-of.Gre
h.tt it is more rigid, more
nore military and .sailorly, and m
ada)irable in every way, tBi the dis
cipline that prevails on the ships of
several navies of the world tOat vastly
surpass it in size and strength.
The writer, as a man-of-war's man,
ha i ample opportunities to tudy the
discipline ruling warships of all the
great navies of the world. He has
.aale repeated and protracted visits to
as many as a dozen men-offar, first
a ,d fourth class, batt'eship i sd gIn
ooat, of the -iritish navy, antl *& has
ea'refully observed the whole routine
of the day on at least ,too ships of
every important navy, including the
na :y of Japan. He is perhaps measur
a:ly well fitted, therefore! to draw
comparisons.
Probably the safest standard friom
which to draw conclusions s to the
nature of discipline on a mian-of-war
.s the standard of cleanliness,and from
this point of view the most uscientific
housewife might be quite as ompetent
a critic as the naval expert, Nothin is
more absolutely cock-suresd certain
than that a dirty man-of-saii infallibly
poiats to a siouohy, undisciplined
crew, aft as we:1 as forwarg. A war
ship's crew of oloexs an& men that
does not possess su:ficient_energy and
decency to keep its ship sweet a2d
clean and scick- ands p.fronrcar
head to mizzen flagstaff was never y4
known to be a well distiplined crew)
There is a very high standard of clean
liness and sanitation, onue a-o..wai
of today-a standard nece?.varily higb
when it is considerad how '. sely men
are huddled together on "a oaval yes
" sel. The ships of tr n'd State
navy more nea even the
medical depa cal stand
ard of cleair- shins ol
any other , inelud
ing those o v7
is. not to say t
ean, even if , an un
juicers," as stance
men call the B aefhip'
-- "lip '.Blt tlif
aterage 3tish' -War siot a
clean, fore 'au af,as the averag
American man-of-war--not by ' a lonf
shot. A good many Biftish na:a
jacks have got the -slatternls house
mai4's habit of hiding dirt and of stow
ing it away in corners, so that, while
to the uncritical eye their ships migh
present a general swabbing and shin3
l-ok, they could certainly not endure
the sharp inspection of an American
c,>mmandin:; o:ficer without some of
the me a forward finding themselvet
in a heap .f trouble for slouchy shi:
policing.
A couple of days after the Maine dis
aster a Madrid disk. atch quotedWeyle2
as sayi.n .a that the "affair was no doubt
due to the indolence of the ship's crew.'
\M eyler has often been aboard the
men-of-war of his own country.
Therefore this remark s.auAdsdelight
fully funny. Lhere 6onld be no*more
realistic 1:ortrayal of the entire mean
ing of the word "ind,>lence" than that
exaibite<L by the crew of a Spanish
warshiivFore and art, from all hands
ae daw'n until pine downat night, tue
dolce far niente on board a Spanish
a ilof-war is almost of the dreamuy,
blissful. all-perv*ading sort as that
h ch obtains at high, scorching noon
sne 'dabe shacks of Mexican peons.
it, in the officers' quarters, a fair
egree of cleanliness is occasional ly
o be found on a Spanish war ves-el,
at forward, where the men dodder
brough their days, the average
panish man-of-war is not alone dirty,
is simply filthy. The fo'c'sle of the
rage Spanish man-of-war is no bet
i r in respect to cleanliness than the
ain deck of a rank, evil-smelling East
t ' le New York tenement house. There
no bias or spread-eagle prejaidioe
atsoever in this statement. It is
is ply a matter of common knowledge
w d notoriety among men who know
si vies. Moreover, Spanish naval
an lors are not alone (as a class) stupid,
a pt, pluggish and pig-headed; they
sa sullen and ugly and mighty didi
in t to handle, especially by offcers
ar o look upon all men forward as
cn ng not much above the level of -
wl*sts. The Spanish man-of-war's
be~ n is fed barbarously, punished bar
bei Ously and treated barbarously in
m eral.
ainone of the world's navies can
get see men perform their routine and
jaordinary work and their drills
youh more snap, vim, ambition, de
xtwi ation and genuine liking for the
itjness than on an American ship of
:erz It is a matter of pr:ide with a
iu< ed States navy sailor to be up to
wark of his rate, whether the rate
i tof alandsman or a chief bo'
th mate. The American bluejacket
is t man of such independent spirit
san'ihe would just about as lief get
s a ;he brig in double ir'ons as to get
hat a down in the presence of his
nto 's for dereliction of duty, and in
all ~al he sees to it that he does not
nat ve such a calling down. If he
ene~ t deserve it, he dcoesn't get it
enei' American Davy.-Washington
oesi
.n ths
Star. Flo iRussia.
ging has become so indispens a-!
uitssia that.some inventor has
Flo edi a machine which :saves the
le in arm. Under the flagellation
>erfec chine taxes and arrears are
ima speedily coleted,
>f the . .~
tobbe
BIRD-SONUS.
To Hear Them Truly Requires en Ear
particular.y Attuned
John Burroug'Is writes for The
Centas y an artie'e on the "Songs of
American Birds." Mr. Burroughs
says:
I suspect it requires a special gift
of grace to enable one to hear the
bird-songs; some new power must be
added to the ear, or so:e oostruc iiu
reinovcd. There are not only scales
- -n our eyes so we do not see; tne.e
upon our ears so that we
.r. A city womat who had
c of her time in tie coan
< ti once asked a well known ornithol
ogist to take her where she could hear
the bluebi:d. "What, never heard
the bluebird?" said he. "I have not,".
said the woman. "Then you will
never hear it," said the bird-lover.
That is, never hear it with that in
ward ear that gives beauty and mean
i irg to the note. He could probably
have taken her in a few minutes wnere
she could.have heard thecall or warble
of the blneb.rd, bat it would ha.e
fallen upon unresponsive ea s--upon
ears that were not sensitized by love
for the birds or associations with
them.
Bird-songs are not music, properly
I speaking, but only suggestions of
music. A great many people whose
attention would be quickly arreste.l
by the same volume of sound made by
a musical instrument or by any arti fi
cial means never hear them at ai:.
The sound of a boy's penny whistle
there in the grove or the meadow
would separate itself more from the
background of nature,and be a greater
1 chal.enge to the ear than is the strain
of the thrush or the sung of the spar
row. There is something elusive, in
definite, neutral, about bird-songs
that makes them strike obliquely, as
it were, upon the ear, and we are very
apt to miss them. They are a part o:
nature, and nature lies about us, en
tirely occupied with her own affairs,
and quite regardless of our presence.
Hence it is with bird-songs as it is
with so many other things in nature
--they are what we make them; the
ear that hears them must be.half
creative.
I am always disturbed sien per
sons not especially observarit f.birds
ask)me to take
e4e someo
- As- Ifeel
sfcold, o nas just heard some de.
. pressing news; it will not let itself
out. The song seems 'so casual and
minor when you. make a dead set.at it:
. h-Aave staken /persons to* hear thf
hermit-thrush, and I have fancied thai
they were all the time saying to them.
selves, '"Is that all?" But when one
hears td bird in his walk, when the
mind is attuned to sinple things and
is open and receptive, when expecta
tion is not aroused and the song comes
as a surprise out of the dusky silence
of the woods, one feels that it merits
all the fine things that can 'e said of it.
Longevi*y Infinenced by Water.
Solid and dry as the human body
appears, says The Household, water
constitates more than one-fourth of its
bulk, and all the fanctions of life a -e
-really carried on in a water bath, and,
although the sense of thirst may ie
trusted to call for a draugh't of water
when required, the fluid can be im
bibed most advantageously for niany
reasons besides sati.sfying the thirst.
In the latter stage of diges ion,
when comnminution of the mass is in
complete, it is much facilita-ed by a
moderate dranght of water, whici? dis
integrates and dissolves the contents
of the sto.nach, fitting it for emul
gence and preparing it for assimjila
tion.
Hence the habit of drinking water
in1o:lerate quantities between meals
coatrioutes to health, and indicates
the fact that those who visit health
resorts ior the purpose of imbibing
the waters of mineral springs might
profit by staying athoine and drinking
more water and less whiskey.
Water is the universal solvent of
nature, and the chief agent in all
transformation of matter. When
taken into an empty stomach it soon
begins to pass out through the tissues
into the circulation to liquefy effete
solids, whose excretion from the sys
temn is thius facilitated.
Very few people think of the nec
essitv of washing the inside as well
as the outside of the bodly,and he who
would he perfectly healthy should be
as careful about the cleaaliness of his
stomach as that of his skin.
Wonders of a Limes'one Pit.
M. Martel, the well-known French
cave hunter, has explored a natural
p:it in the limestone of the Lo.e. e,
France, with remarkab)le results. After
descending a vertical shaft for about
200 feet he found an immense hall,
sloping downward, and at the lower
end a "virgin fo. est " of stalagmites,
resembling pine and palm trees. Ma.iy
of them are vei y beautiful, and one,
over ninety feet in height, reaches
nearly to the vailt of the cavern.
Nothing like this forest of stone has
been observed in any other known
cave or pit.
Ready to Exchan::e.
An ambitious young man wrote to
an author for advice. "I'm only
making $10 a maonth at my business,"
he wrote, "and I think I could make
a success in literature."
The author replied, "I am only
averaging 89 a month at my business.
Tell me what yours is, and if you aro
anxious to jumnp into literature, I'll
swap with you."-Atlanta Constitu
ioD.
England has requested a bid from a
Missouri packing establishment for
furnishing 750,000 pounds of canned
Brewers' Grain for Pig.
Wherever brewers' g'aiis .can be
hanlily procure.I they will be found an I
extelient food for pigs, and especially t
for breeding sows. Tney a -e suceu- c
ent a id at the same time highly nu- 1
tritious a id ve: y greatly ine, ease the c
:nilk dow, especially if pro(u ed di- 1
rect from the brewery and fed whi'e
warm. Tuey produce an excellent
quality of milk, too, for much the
greater part of the nutriment in bar- c
ey remains in ihe malt a ter the beer t
and ale have beea extracted from it.- t
Boston Cultivator.
Soot as a Stimulant.
There are those who would think it
both o:>lishness and sin to whip a
,aded animal, yet who fail to reason
c.hat the principle is the- same it try
ing to sti nulate a plant lacking abun
dant roots. In both cases, strength
for the required work is lackiig.
With thriving, well-rooted plants,
there are few helps so good as soot.
The finest collection of plants we have
ever seen in the hands of an a nateur
was pashed a*m6st entirely with soot.
Cycla.mens, pri nulas, be;ouiai,c.Lllas,
roses, all see:nel to revel in its uarky
strength.-Floral World.
Getting Rid ""f Wild Oats.
This plant after it once becomes
well established is somewhat difc,At
toget rid of. It is, however, an
nu and if prevented from adopted
for sw yea s an4 me of see.s
N G# gound,it w;1
tha . ,i-te " e g od._se~
iu a pear. : Possibly the best
method is of see ing ihe land to field=
.oats in spiti g, theR as soon ds the
crop of gr4in has been removed, plow
to a depth,of three or four inches.
Jusl as soon as the wild oats have
well starred go over the ground with
some shallow going instrument, such
as a'siiI-toothed - cuitivator.> This
will kill the plants .already. growing
and bring to the surface seeds that
have not already sprouted. - These
will germinate and before' the plants
a"e old enough to mature seed tuey
will be killed by frost. In autumn
see:1 the land to winter grain if this
can be grown, and after harvest the
following ?eason plow the ground and
give the sane treat nent as racon
mended for the oat fields. Two yer-s'
treatment of this kind if caref:ily per
formed will kiLl almost any annual.
New England Homestea.
Mea:1ows an .-astures. -
The 'United States departmnent of
agric .titare ias i'sued as No. 66of the
ararmters' Balletin series a pamphlet
en Med "eadows an.l Pastuces;Eor-.
ma zna and Cultivation in the Middle
Eastern States," prepared by Jared
G. 3mith, as sistant astrologist.
In this bulle:iu it is stated hat two
thirds of the annual fo?JA~r and forage3
crops of the states of k'eaasyl .ania,
Se w JTersey, Delaware, .Ma -yland,
Virginia, West Virginia ad North
Ca olina, a naonnting to 2;., 000,000~
r.ons and valued at $150,00 ',000 is
-mpl. lied by the grasses, clovers,t
:owpeas, corn stover and ensilage
oroduced upon the farm; therefore the
mabject of inrove I methods of culti-e
raLi.mn and the se ection of the va
-ie.ies best adap.ed to the .soils of
this region is a matter of prime-inter- ~
est to farmers. Tue pri-icipal topirs y
discussed a -e the following: Gene -ai ~
prevalence and commercial value of I
grasses, grasses as soil builders, fe:- ?
tilizers for grass lands, methods of c
preparing the soii, sowing the seed,
vi-ie ies of grasses and clovers to
plant, hay grasses, pasture grasses,
clovers for meadows and pastures and ~
some grass mis.tures. ' -
This bulletin, can be secured, free ~
of charge, from the e ecretary of a7ri- I
culture. Washington, D. C.,or a mem
ber of Congress.
A Cow for Every Acre.
Where little or no:hing is bought s
there can be little hope of making
e very acre keep a cow, as has so long a
been the dream of miany dairymen. g
t might be done if c.,rn alone we. e
sed as feed. But cor'n is not a co.n- a
plete ration, and thoagh more than g
eough corn with fodder mi.fht be
grown to keep a cow throngh the f;
rear, it would be always more profit- ta
ble to give other feed, such as clove- d
ay, wheat bran or mniddlings, a d g
iher linseed or cotton-seed n:Eal. s:
We have known some milkmen r.e.. fi
he city who kept faily as many cows it
s they cultivated ac:es of land. But a:
hey relied very largely upon pur- i:
hased food, generally growing only al
orn fodder, which they fe I green so et
ong as they could, and taenleit :er cured pa
he remainder or put it into the silo ix
for winter and sp;ing use. It is a
reat help if some crimnson c!over has. o:
een sown on the corn ground. It ~i
ill make enough growth before the s<
ani needs to be plowed for corn in
pring to well reray the expense of fa
eeding and cutting the crop. But fr
for the fact that it B akes two years to h;
row a good crop of clover, ~it would b:
ay to seel a piece of land ev ery year tI
ith clover to be cut for hay. Three jtc
qropna yeaor, nareating e to si.n o,
mus of dried hay,- may becat ou
.d. If a farmer ca; snceee
eeping a cow per acre, even wi
a chase of some grain feed, 'e m
his co vs are good ones,rea-i
ront from his land tSan he can.
lost cul4ivated croys
:Ul.ivator. --
Plant-Bed Cloth Ver.eu Glsa $
A. A. Halladay of Vermont rit.k
Vith a greenhouse in which to ,
Dma.o plants, I.have found the.
f plant-bed cloth for covering =
ds be.ter than glass on manyc c:
ounts. I use it almost wholly on
ieds and like it- %e. y much. 1
raw haraier-and oetter plants aWed*
loth than under glass, the beds :eD
iot dry out and need: watering '
ten, there is no danger of
ne plants and the screens do not _
o be taken off du.ing ' the
here is likely to be-s cold 'nig -
m a double thickness of sncr s'~ :.
have saved all,my plants fro.a 2iidai
ree.e (when my neighbors whv -
rlass, lost nearly all .t)eir).
ing thick heavy paper beweenj4
;hicknesses of se dens -
Make the screen- frame' the . sm
ize as hotbed sash; usi+g -p "ra
spruce one inch thick-andtib
wide.- Planethemsmooth. ...,
mnds square and;nailprith.elinc
tt the corners. .Then: cut. the.
the proper length andtaek to
ro maae a -good sob of , his
frame on a taIe 'orbench
eloth on the frame An
tt the centre of'each
Neasnre and be stots t
middle o .- '. ame, t
me on right at 'the corn
e tacks every three iici ess
toward the orae
de,up ab.)ut even.=
m,nne youfinish at-thecorna
ao wri les in theeth.
'to iak'ea doubledthickae s
!These screens if properlp i --
cared for,r ilflast azy a
are very uspif,l for coserg,ia .
the fall to "keep from
also for shadi"
mediuIn -d
piece:fromseveit eh
yard. These'screens
especially vilTable in the att ='"
shading plants. - -..-:
Food and-Butter.
From what part of her food. does
the cow make milk fat?g This ues
lion is one of great ssienti&e interest
to physiologists and of-pratical inter
est to sto kfeeders au-I dairynen. It '
is a prob:e:n which has' ben fond
gui-e difficult of solution; buitthe eW;
York agricaltu -aL e :peri aeat s atilr +
(_eneva) has su.t published a' bule
tin (So. 132). upo. tnis saItect, giding
bhe det ails of a m st interesting.-an&
meccesfa, esperi.nent wvaica.eemsa to
rove conAln i.ely taat.a? le'ast part
>f the milk fat is produeed from athe '
yarbohydrates of the fo,ad, the' sugar,
narch, etc. - -
Finely chopped timothy hay, corn
neal and ground oats we -e trea~ted in
arge quantities with a chemical- sol'
rent and were near.y'freed frohr-A
.m thes~e ma:erials aid wheat gh.en
vig3:ous, yoang. grale Je sey cede
ras feel for ni ,ety-five days a ri. . "
rhose fat coateat wa s less than to
'ances daily. Jpoa th a fat poorzfood
he cow fed free'y and with,'ant injuryv -
o ner health; andL not only produ ed,
ood rich milk, not diyerent from h.r -
ormnal product, but also seemed to
row fat.
The food an-i water she coanumed
w-ere carefully weighed and a -alyzed,
s were the mila produced andt the
vrine as:l f etes excreted; a:nd -tpotr -
uiase data the conelasions 'of the 'bul
s.in are based. During the ninatiy-2
ye days she received1 only 5.7 ponnd's
f digestible fat and produced 62.9
ounds of milk fat;so that 57.2 poun~ds
f fat could not have come from, the
it in the animal's food. Neither
ould it have come from her body fac,
y the percentages of fat ini the boidy
f cattle, as previously determined,
er whule amont of fat at the- begiu-.
in; of the experi.nent was.dess- than.
ix y-one pounds, and no animal
ourd use up a 1 dhe body-fat without
ppearing g: eatly emaeiated, and she -- 7
e2lmed fatter than at.tirst..
She gaine 47 pounds in body
eight, and this could not have been
ain in mau-cular tassue; for but little
f the coasumed nitrogen failed to i-e
upear in milk or excreta, and nitro
en is necessary in flesh informna:ion.
The fat could not have been formed
-o.n the proteine,or xetrogen..u. mat
irs, in the food. .L uring fif ty-nin.
ays for which the record for nitro
en and fat income and ontgo was
ept the cow produced 38.8 ponds of
it.- To form this a.nount of fat, a!
iving the highest .tigures -given by
iy invem.igator for fat .formation
om proteine, would involve the met
oiismn (change by physiological pro
~sses) of more than 75 poii~nds of
~oteine. But the nitrogen- excreted
urine only acc untefor thdecom
sition of less than, half this. amount
proteine. So at least 21 pogidiif -
t must have come from somie oili4r
airea- than the protei.ne consumed.
If all the fat was not produced.fromn
t~in food,fat in the animal's body:or
om porteine in' food, part of it must
Lve been produc.-d from the carbo
rdrates of the food. The details a ofI
.e experiment may be obtained. fromi
e bulletin, which will be se-at free
a application to the statios,