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/ ~1 TRv / EDITIO TIL WEEKLY EDIIIO: WINNSBORO. S.., JANUARY 31, 1899.,SALSE 84 THE LITTLE RED SLED. It snows! and a bevy of rollicking boys Are shouting their g!ee in the streets; MY heart. as it shares in their jubilant joys, Starts op with a livelier beat. $ut ail in a breath it is heavy as lead And speaks in a sorrowful tone, &as I think, with a sigh, of a little, red sled That is up in the attic, alone. Oh, that little, red sled and the tales It could tell, With the races It won, for a theme, Ere the. little boy captain, who guided It well, Nad wandered.away In a dream. is swift as the wings of the wind was the flight Down the long curving courses they sped, Whie as proud as a prince and as brave as a knight Was the boy on that little, red sled. As it harks to his playfellows merrily shout, Thelittle, red sled must know Et is time the good captain came, sturdy and stout, ''o welcome the coming of snow. tt is wondering why he is waiting so long To portion his play with the rest. That boy who was ftrst in the frolicsome throng, And whose little, red sled was best. &ad I know that good captain, wherever he Is, Could I bark to his whisper, would say 'Ts his pleasure that marvelous racer of his Shail join In the joys of today. I shall lead it where greetings are lusty and loud Where brawn and where beauty is bred, A.nd the bravest and comelist boy in the crowd Shall ride on that little, red sled. Nixon Watermaa, in L. A.W. Bulletin. NA NE11I EN(3l L AND o' C@N OIENJ Miss Hannah Davis sat in her ac customed rocker and began to sway gently to and fro. Rocking was help ful to thinking, and just now she was perplexed. It was a question of conscience-a New England conscience at that; moreover, it began with a capital C. "I've got it in the honse,and I might as well make it up," she mused. ' It" was a dress-a silk dress-a felic of days gone by. "It's been - lying there all these years," she went on, "and it seems real kind of sinful packe:1 away there and not doing a soul a mite of good. It isn't right to have things put away 'where moth and rust.doth corrupt." -She quoted this Bible authority with satisfaction. "And 'twill look awful handsome made up. I guess 'twould be becom i3g, too." eh -blusha gtiltily, as if tae thought. were too vain for contempla tion. "And it would save me buying,too," she added, hastily. "My old alpaca isn't very good. I've turned and washed ittillit really ain't decent,and 'twould cost considerable to buy a new one. And this dress all right in i the house and costing nothing. I s'pose folks would think I was terribly eitravagant, but then, I don't care. I guess if I give the money I'd take for a new black dress and give it to the missionary society, and wear the silk instead, nobody can find fault; but then, I ain't obliged to tell 'em any way. They don't know how much I give to church purposes, and they couldn't say nothing even if I bought the silk outright. But then I ain't doing that. It.'s really saving. And it's awful handsome, too," she added iu an undeatone. Miss Hannah surveyed herself in the small mirror. She readjusted the light, and then moved it from one* e2ii to the other, that she might see ty2nage reflected more clearly. It was~ very neat little figure that she saw. 4 somewhat wrinkled face, yet with a touch of youth and a pleased tight.in the steel-blue eyes. ."I-shall look better than any one there,".she said half alond. "As well as any one," she cor tested. "And I shan't tell any one that it's an old silk made over. That ain't necssary. You needn't tell all you know, Aunt Jane used to say,. and I'm sure she was a very good woman." She.smiled happily as she gave one parting glance and turned away. There was a perceptIble stir when Miss Hannah Davis, closely followed by her sister-in-law, entered the par sonage. "Haunah Davis's got a new dress," some one whispered loudly as she passed through a little knot of women on the way to the bedroom to lay aside her wraps. "And it'a a silk one, too." . The eyes of the entire assembly were on her as she emerged from the little room and sank down int the nearest empty chair without making the usual round of handshaking. "she feels stack up," one woman whispered to her neighbor. "W~e:l, I guess a silk dress don't make her any better'n the rest of us." TIh.e speaker reared her head and spoke across the intervening workers to Miss Hannah. "We were just talking about a suo scription. Miss Hannah," she said in a very audible tones. "It's for the Leavit t's. You know them. They've had awful luck lately, and there's a lot due on the mortgage, and wo thought if we could just give thema a little lift it would be real Christian like. " "I think 'twould be real nice,"Miss aannah assented warmly. "I'll be glad to give something, though I can't give much, you kno'w." She blushed as she spoke. A1l eyes were on her in the most uncomfor table way. Why did they kind of~ smile? They must know she didn't have much mjoner. Conla.she atIord to give fifty cents, she wondered. TWd1 how much will you grive?" The voica n with startlin;r dis "Five dollars, s.g Miss Hannah started V4e. W h at weve they thiuking of? Her hands fell into her lap. They touched tho smooth silk. It must be the dress. "It's an old"-sbe started to say, but the words died on her lips. "What did you say?" her tormentor leaned forwaMd. The minister's wife was standing in the door, smiling. . Miss Hannah shut her lips tight. "Yes, you can put me down for five," she said in a metallic voice. A thril seemed to pass through the room. Then some new comers en t-red, and eager attention was turned to them. "I hope you realize that you are properly -punishei for your sinful pride, Hannah Davis," she said, as she locked the door of her little room that night, and hastily took off the offending dress. ".t was vanity all the time that made you do it, and you knew it, but tried to salve your conscience with saying it was 'economy.' " Zhe spoke rapidly. "If you was so terribly anxious about be n- economical," scornfully, "why didn't yon make over that magenta delaine? 'Twouldn't have b-en half as becoming, but 'twould have been just as economical. But you (tidn't think of that, did you?" A pause. "and then you tried to hush your conscience by saying yon'd give the n.oev a new dress would cost to the mIssionarv society. "And now-now you've gone and giveu $5 to that woman for her sub kcription, and it's a sin to spend money vou can't afford." She sta:ed hard at the dress. ".And then you are scared into it because you was so proud, and pride is anolher sin. You didn't want them to z.in, but what you could buy the dress and give away money, too. That ma'es tiiree sins." SAe closed her lips tight, then re so.utely crossed the room andwrapped a c an piece of cotton about the neatly folded dress. Then she went to the little daven port. and wrota two notes. Iuto one she slippkd a five dollar bill, and din ected it tothe ireasurer of the riionary socie:y, then she dire ted the other to the ninister's en went steadily across the r>om and rinned it on the brndle. "i. rr' S_-njd it over the first thiKg in the morning." she sai. A. haprier light crept into her eyes as she blew out the candle, "I guess my conscience will rest easier now," she said.-Commercial Tribune._____ __ ADM!RAL DEWEY'S TAD. He Is Begarled as a Fashion Plate for the American Navy. If there is any one thing which pleases Admiral Dewey it is neatness in dre:s. He has ne, er been known to set a bad example in this respect, and is regarded by his subordinates as a fashin plate for the American navy. One of the standing orders foilowing the establishment of routine duty in the feet when there were no more Spani sh ships to fight was one requiriug all of!icers to wyear their white uniforms. One day a certai2 paymaster named Martin, who is aslicted with an ab ncraially bushy growth of red whiskers3 and a figure of pronouncedl rotundity, visited the Olympia on business con nectedl with his department. As the paymaaster mnounte-d the gangway he was seea by Admiral Dewey, and a < frown gathered on the b)row. of the< autocrat of the flet:* Paynmaster I Martin was a sight to provoke a laugh from a ship's h gurehea d. H~e was ar raved in a dun-co:ored suit of duck, a 4 loosely woven undervest resembling a sw'eat..r showed Leneath his jacket, and on his head was cne of thoise enormous cork helmets with a circum ference e.yal to that of an umbrella. "cUrderly, tell Paymaster 3Martin I wish to see him at once,"said Admiral Dewey, and the crderly sought the paymaster with a grin on his face. A few moments later and the paymaster, very much pleased with being ao carded the honor of visiting the quar:- Ii ter-deck, stood before the admiral I and executed one of his very besti salutes. "Paymaster Martin," said the 4 admiral in his chilliest tones, "I think 4 you are drunk" ' "I beg your pardon, admiral-I ; assure you I am not drunk-I - I am perfectly sober," stammered the pay,. master, stagge-ing under the blow hisi complaisance had received. "J. still think you~ have been drink ing," continued the little man i sl..ot less white, "for I. can't be:ieve you would co:zle aboard this ship sober '1 wearing sneh an outlandish uniform.4 Go back to your shuip, sir, and don't let me ever see another violation of orders like this." Adva,nced Educatin:i in India. A nati.e of Ro:nhay, beariing the name of Tata has just a deoud sa gorge part of his estate to tie promtion o scientific research. To a provisional commnittee he has offe ed' land~ed prop erty sut:lleien~tu ~ yiel 1n ,. a y ear, or the p:r euivae.t in rupees whi'ch have the sam'h e ca prchas-ingpower. He meaRns-tis~ to ior th'e nud eus of~ an end.owmn of.I0 1 po0-'aiuato ni versuy ike 1he no0w 'famoust Johns Tata seeks~ to rea iz', or at least to make a ro'a& tUon'ain in reai.in this ieal. Even myen like th Een g'ah 1-hysici. ' ir Bo' have show ni w.~ha techn'ti'a se*&nee can make ot ta' o:r*r i : the ouite:nne of careful ob serat au-l ihe consuliing of ex- s ja*r L:itainl and on the continen!t et Erore. n I a1o:e. also, th-' 1I.: Si da Dr) Si:ah' has leftt.4O0,-' 11 rapes 3 ra.iar for a celiege. -Brokgn Citizen DEWEYS 31ANY GIFTS. RESENTS OF ALL KINDS AND VALU: SENT TO THE ADMRAL. 11s Cabin on the razAip at 3anif Looks Like a Museum or Curio-iti Shop - Some Beautiful Thimn;$ From Agninaldo-Hat.C.'p4, 3Idal ions. Etc. Admiral Dewey's cabin is begi. iing to look like a museum or cl i )Sity shop,writes John T. McCutebcj: coin anila. Every mail bring! >ulky packages and little souvenir! ron his enthusiastic admirers ai 2ome. and two tyl e-riter operato: tre kept busy acknowledging the re :eipt of presents. There are hats, caps, canes, medal tions, handkerchief , paper weights, igar holders, flags, newspaper clip pings and album and nearly every thing elsa that will go by mai'. A beantifully bound and iluminated al bam came some time ago from a prom nent club in 3Nilwankee, and is treas red as one of the star features of th( idmiral's collection. Each page i, lecorated with an apiropriate paint ing, the subjects bearing on some :hing ass ciazed with the admiral ot he battle of Manila bay Oatue last ?age is a picture of the Olympit ackies hoistig, or "breaaing out,' it the main track of the fiagsbip, the wo-starred flaq of the rea.-adnir.l, he final bit of tex:t in the book e-t resses the hope that some time th( idmiral may be in Milwaukee and thal 2e may take "breaklast" there. A picture of a very pretty girl is onstant ornament of his desk. 5h( s a Decatur, Ill., girl, and sent the etter, with the ingenuous superserip :on, "Our -ear Admiral," and ii ,on the admiral's heart. In acknowl -ging the receipt of the picture h xrote a long and very cordial letter -hich is a tip to other pretty girl; xho have charmin photographs. Another conspicuous ornament oj is cabin is a painting of the battle o: Uanila bay. It was made by a Chinese trtist in Hong Kong arter a d:ar.iig ;vhich appeared in Harper's Weekly, ind was presented to the ainiral by :he junior oicers of the O.yinpia. Ehe artist is now working night ane lay making more re;rodtions, a, :wo or three dozen order- have beer ent him by o.fteers of th:: feet. Admiral Dewey's saoema:;er ai WVashington sent hin a i.e pair oj .vhite shoes, with the modest req-uesi :hat the admiral give him the pair hie rore dnrin the battle of Mfay 1. The --act identity of the shoes in question >eing uncertain, the admiral co.upro nised by,writing a:*letAer oi. thank'. i steel watch, made of steel talks vom the Maine, is one interesting iouvenir. Some of the most beautiful things he )as are presents from Agninaldo. The lietator has the greatest adiniratioa tnd respect for Dewey, and has the ingul,r habit of making an elaborate rift to the admiral whenever the lattel 'calls him down." That accounte argely for the number of Aguiialdo 9 ;esents that adorn the cabin. In all he dealing Admiral Dewey has had ith Aguiualdio he has treated him ith the greatest courtesy when cour ;esy was called for, and the gr eatest e~erity when nirmness was the thing; >t in spite of the rebuffs Againaldo's otes accoampanying the presents in ariably refer to the admiral as "my ionorable and illustrious friend." On the occasion of Aguinaldo's irst visit to the Olympia he was ac ~ordedl the greatest ceremony thai ould be bestowed on a man of his gh rank. The admiral in person net him at the gangway, the marines rare all draw up at attention and verything except the firing of a sa te was tendered. It is to be assumed that he was tuficiently dazed and flattered, for he mever ceased to be very friendly and xous to act in compliance with the Lmiral's wishes. Not long ago General An'derson ranted to take a pleasure trip up the iver Pasig, but was stopped at the nsurgent lines and compelled tc urn back. A day or two afterward he admiral sat on the quarter-deck~ Ld he saw aninsurgentlaunch steam ng gaily along near his ship with the srgent flag flying. Then an idea f reciprocity occurred to him and be lecided to seize all the insargent aunches. This was at once dlone and ight beautiful craft were tied up in avite. When Aguinaldo heard of he calamity he sent his private sec-re ary, Escamillo, to see tIle admiral tc id out what hal been d nue to ofend iim. The admiral was very nice, and u gave Escamillo a heart-to-heart alk. He spo!ge ot the insu:gents re using to allow A:erCicanl annyf oli ers to go through their lines, and he bought that he woiul not ailow the nsurgent launches to gi through his ines: So for that rea-an he had take: hem-not coniiscated the in. just "de ained" themn. 'The rext da Agnin. dino gave orders permitting Am erican ,eers to go through the- i sar:re ines and up the rinr, and( doubtle n a day or two he will sen 1 a beauti ul present to his "illustrious" friend. we Tmnpnr: Ser<(9. Canada, Egnd, France, ad Ger. nav are the~ chief cannt.ie.s fron which the United States m; imrt seeds. When Amrerican s-eeds. eu want some. hig extra fine in thc way~ of seeds oj ~alriower, celery lettuce, egg p cant, >r radish. they g >either to F-Jrance. os 'o Germany. na order~- thei sr line. lirect troin Lie lar.e.s.... ardeers lhis is not due to sxerio e- .!'ure ir :hese coi'ntrie. Ia ito L fact 1h:: he seeds. ow'i-' to - i':-- t'r s ei We imrort reas chie 'fa aa md Euglanal rasm -:-e se or our maangel-warzeci e: . We als et from the- som v. u some ch i-i eeds of cucunmbca, celery, pars ley, .adih ad -&...ovm- Times TDUC FOR COLD FOR FORTY YEAM Dolliver Uid S-m,Oo and Robbers St.ole It the Same _Nirht More than forty years. ago old Jim Dolliver, a rich owner of timber land and mills, buried S42,000 in gold somewhere between the Forks and Murphy's, in Mai-e. He had come from 3ontreal. along the old French voy-ageurs' trail, and, reaching the Forks, had told the landlord of the hotel that he had been followed by a party of French and Indian outlaws all the way from the St. Lawrence river. "I have nearly five sooro hundred yel!ow sovereigns in my batteau," he said, "and if I don't burymy money now the crazy fellows will rob me be foro I get to Watervile." He left the hotel at .10 o'clock thai night and was away three days. On his return he remarked,o the land lord "Well, I have put thagmoney where the archangel Gabriel 4;a't find it." Then he took ahearty supper, went to bed, slept two days and two nights, and awoke a raying maniac. For a week he fought Indians and buried treasures in his deliriun, and died in the act of shooting a 3ohawk chief, who had invaded his sick fancy for the purpose of robbing him. For a dozen years after Dolliver's death his heirs advcrtised for the missing wealth, and increased the re ward until the finder was entitled to 75 per cent. of all he should discover. Having spent nearly 83000 in adver tising, the heirs gave it up as a bad job, after which the paple who knew the sto:y continued th work at their own expense. For twenty years the digging went onat all seasons. In October, 1881, Saanders Atwood came from Winterport-and brought an electric battery with him, which he said c3uld detect an English. farthing under "four fathoms" of solid earth. When he went away, two weeks later, he showed a handful of Enalish sov ereigns all stamped with dates thirty or more years ago, and said that he had unearthed the whole of the miss ing wealth. But while the .Teople ac cepted his theory that the proper time to dig was on the d-lark of a- October moon they repudiate the.story that he found any of the nhizing coi-. T1is fall, when the muscles of the farmers had grown hard frova diggin potatoes, about forty men packed up a few too!s and made ready to start on another search for iolliver's money as soon as the old moon should change. Th ey were loafing about the hotel and stores one night when word canie from eMontreai that Eu. Banpre;a had lately died, c fessing on his deathbedthat he h4d seen Dolliver conceal the gold in a llow pine stub, and had gone and tahn it away after the rightful owner had returned to the Forks. This information was verified later by an announcement that one Eugen Beaupre, late of Montrea!, had 'ied and left an estate amounting tn $60,000 to diferent charities in Canada and Maine, saying in his will that the gift was made as a "partial atonement for a grievous sin commit ted in the state of Maine in October, 1856." Was This a "Roman Soldier" Aet? What must be regarded by the aver age citizen, with humane and practical ideas, as a peculiar case of a machine devotion to "rules," and an inability to rise superior to circumstances in a grave emergency, occurred in the East. ern District the other day. A manu was injured, severely, it ap peared, while unloading a truck. A citizen call to a policeman on the other side of the st.reet and besought him to send for an ambulance surgeon, but the officer refused, on the ground that it was "off his beat" and "not in his precinct." Thre citizen urged that the man was badly injured and might be dying, but the imperturbable po liceman refaused to consider that side of the cnestion. The danger was "off his beat," and that was enough for him. Fortunately, -a policeman ap peared, eventually, on whose beat the trouble was, and the injured man receivedproper car-e, his wounds being dressed, though somewhat la'te. It might easily have happened that aid should have come too late through the strange scruples of the first policeman. It would be interesting to know whether this superconscientious offi cer whose name unfortunately is not known, would have regarded a murder or attempt at the same just "off his beat." in the same light. ~iust it he come necessary to establhsh a sort of interprecinct force, whose members are emipowered to cross the lines when ever trouble or danger calls ? Or is it that this man simply did not have a prop)er idea of his functions and re sosibilities ? We hate all heard of the Roman soldier at Pompeii, who wouldin't get ois his beat for an ea tly qualke and a flood of lava combined. Did the po:ieeman believe himself a Roman soldier? ?Brookiyn Standard Union. Francce Disii1usionment. E ngland has in the 31editerranean thirty-nine warships, of which ten are ironclads of the first class; on the coast of the Atlartie 'he has thirte:-n, of which nine are first-class ir-onclads. In her own waters she can muster twenty-twvo war vessels, ten being ironclads; and in he:- do'ekyards she has another 150 fighting vessels of various types. Besides all these she has in American wate; s thirteen war ships; ini the Last In -lies, nine; in E stf Afic-an ports, si,ueen; in China, wenty-eeight; in the l'ac-ific, other ev en, anrd in Australia, two. It will besntat this constitutes a naval foc o formjidablle as to justify Great Brtils pretensions of being in a poimon to successfully cope with a calition of the three gre.ct:st and best equipped naval powers of Europe. -Te Petite Marseillais FOR FARM AND GARDEN Peach Yellows. The symptoms of the destructive cont,e.is disease known as"yellows" in peazhes are stated thus by the Ohio station. Pre:nature ripening by from one to six weeks, of fruit which is high col ored and spotted and has the flesh marked with red. Premature development of winter buds in the formation of short shoots or c,usters of narrow,elongated leaves. This growth is very conspicuous where ithe old leaves have fallen from the present year's growth. Growth of shoots from adventurous buds on the trunk and larger branches of the affected trees. For the present season general yel low color of th-s trees, with peculiar backward folding of the leaves and general premature dropping of the foliage. The remedy is the prompt removal of afected trees, root end branch, and burning th -m as near as possible to the point of removal. Dragging the affected trees through the orciard is not adviable.-Conneoticut Farmer. Preventing Cows From Ricking. When a cow has thoroughly formed the habit of kicking when some one approaches to milk her she had best be fattened and tnrned over to the butcher. It seems a pity too, for it is al-ways the best inilking cow that ac quires this habit. It comes from the fact that the best milker has always, before her bag is milked dry, a very full tension in it, whi-h is painful if not extremely carefully handled. Sometimes the cow is injured by the calf butting the udder, as instinct teaches it to (o to make milk come fi-ter. A good careful milker for the th: young heifer is 'therefore better thai the calf for starting the milk, tiongh the calf should be beside the cow at the time, so as to prevent her from kicking. It is astonishing how much butting the cow will stand so long as it is done by her own calf. The profit from any kicking cow is never great enough to compensate for the injury such an one may do to those who have to be about them. Usually, too, if left to hired help the kicking cow arouses anger, which is apt to be visited on other animals so that soon others will be spoiled as the original kicking cow had been. Pre venting the kickinig habit by uniforin kindness is better than trying to 'cure Running antIncubator. The hardest thing to learn in run ning an incubator I found was how and when to apply moiture. It re quires carefal judgment on the part of the operator. The amount and time of application depead upon the kind of machine used and the place it is used in. Nature provided the egg with an over amount of water so that toomuch would not be evaporated from it dar ing the time of incubation and destroy the developing embryo. If too much or too little of the moisture is evap orated it will be detrimental to the chick. In some machines the use of moist ure is needed more than in others because the ventilation is more rapid in some than in others. If the ex Ichange of air in the egg chamber is carried oa rapidly it takes moisture fro:n the eggs rapidly aad vice versa. If not enough moistare is taken from the egg the chick will be too large to turn in the shell and therefore dies when ready to pick its way out. I found that I had been using too much moisture so I tried a hatch without any until the last two days. Mfy success was better than b3fore. There are several .ways of applying moisture. One is by sprinkling the eggs at certain times, another is to place pans in the incubator with warm water in them, and another is to put a dampened sponge in a dish in the egg chamber. Some machines are so built that all air that passes into the egg chamber must pass ovec the water placed for that purpose. I never used that kind, but I believe it is a good way. My rule is to not use any moisture until the air space of the egg occupies about one-third of it. Then I supply enough to prevent the chicks from losing any more. Then when the chicks begin to hatch I supply all that I can so tha?t the membrane of the egg shells will not become dry and tongh. I am al ways care ful not to open the ince bator until the ha teh is over, for a sudden draught will easily chill the young chick and it dies in the shell. P. W. Hearn in the Epitomist. Makin~ n Log House. - It is not very dinicult to build a comfor-able log house, and if the fa mier has plenty of time he can (to most of the work himself. The only tools necessary are a small bit, an inch anger, a common ax, a broada andl a sawing knife. Flat-en the logs somewhat upon each side. In building up, place the small end of the second log above the large end of the firs t. This will keep the top of thle weall level as it goe up. When the height of the first sryis reached, punt on a couple of specially large lo:;s upon which to place the crosspieee;, noteh these in and flatten themi on top so that the next log in the wall will tlh over~ them nicely. Keep on building up until the height of the se::oud story is reached, then put up the gables and prepare for the roof. The last side lo should be ab)out two feet longer than the other, so as to extenri beyondi the buildin s one foot r4 each end. Punt uip the poles to be n-Ml for the gables, notching each nm~ the njwar munio,la ndi three feet up from the top log of the wall place a heavy pole, the same length as the top logs. Three feet above this place another, and so on until you reach the top. Then put on the ridge pole. Rough shingles or clapboards four feet long can be made from tim ber in the woods and used for cover ing. This finishes the roof. Complete the ends of the building by nailing heavy pieces reaching from the inside of the wall to the first rafter. To.this secure the timbers for filling in the gables of the house. After this is done,mark ofi the doors and windows, saw them out and pin or spike casings on each side to hold the log in place. Chink up the cracks with small pieces of wood, driving them in so as to fill all large spaces and leave no ends projecting. With good mortar fill in the small spaces. If lime can not be obtained a mis ture of sand and clay gives good results, but is not so cleanly as the mortar. In an old house which I frst b'uig when L4imie to 'this country I fount'it almost un possible to get this out after 'it had been in over a year. I believe it would have remained until the preseut time if I had not disturbed it. The honse can be made of boards or slab puncheons made level and smooth on the upper side and fitted down nicely. If long logs are scarce, short ones can be used where windows and doors are to be made. It takes a little more time to fit these in than to use long logs and then saw out the openings, but it is much cheaper.-Edson Gay lord in Orange Judd Farmer. Fattenin. Home Grown Lambs. In city markets there is frequently some dilculty in disposing of very fat sheep, buyers contending that they are too fat and even going so far as to say that a high degree of finish cannot be produced in sheep without over loading them wita tallow. The Min nesota experiment station holds that this is not true, and inaugurated an experiment to demonstrate that the most perfect finish can be made with out undue fattening, provided the foods are suitably chosen, suitably blended and suitably fed. With this in view a lot of lambs were selected, all of which had been bred upon the farm. They were kept upon pastures other than grass, such as winter rye, peas and oats, corn, sorghum, rape and cabbage. While they were pastured in this way, they were not fed grain. They were- late March lambs. The sires were pure bred Dorsets and the dams common grades with a sprinkling of Merino blood. As a rule they were of good iorm, bufo,t:of the highest' blocky type. Thefwerd fed --in" shed and hlaeecassto . yard it il. T)eir fooi con~siitd of ~ats, bran, barley and oil cake in the proportion of three parts oats, three of bran, three of bar ley, and one of oil cake, by weight. Hay and roots were fed freely, the routs consisting of carrots and man gels. The lambs. were given what they would eat up clean of grain and feed and a fairly liberal supply of roots. During the 112 days of the experi ment the average amount of food con sumed per cday was as follows: Grain 2 1-4 pounds, hay 0.9 pound, roo:s 1 3-4, or a total of about 5 pounds. The feed was charged as follows: Bran $6.50, oil cake 14 cents, corn 18 cents, barley 16 cents, oats 14 cents, native hay 3 cents, roots 4 1-2 cents per bushel. The average increase per animal per mouth was 11 pounds. These were excell'ent gains for so long a period; and notwithstanding the length of the feeding period the gains were as good at the closing portion as at any other time. The cost per 100 pounds of increase was $3.41. The lambs were sold in the St. Paul and Minnesota markets for $5.50 per 100 pounds, shrunk weight. The meat was tested, and the unanimous ver dict of competent judges was that it was of the highest quality. The pro portion of lean to fat was unusually large and the blending of fat and lean was perfect. The meat was as tender and juicy as that of spring lambs. The value of each Iamb when the ex periment began was $3.15, and when it was closed $7.08, or in other words, the value had been more than doubled during the feeding pericd. The net profit of $2.43 per lamb was of course unusual. Feed . during 1897 when this test was made was very cheap and it is doubtful whether this resuIt can be equalled again, but the fact remains that ho:ne grown she3p can be well fattened and produce the high est class of meat. -New England Homestead. Poultry Pointers. Find out the best layers, the best all round a2d de.sirable hens and hold on to them for breeders year aiter year. Ead lack has not as much to do with ill success in raising chickens as poor fences, prowling cats, dogs and rats and poor management. A chick which has been thoroughly wet and chille.1 might as well be killed. It has been robbed of its vi tality and will never amount to much. Hiens shut in comparatively close anarters and fed on corn or corn meal for two weeks will become very fat, and their desh will be .sw~eet and juicy. This makes a very desirable selling fowl. Don't think that pure bred chickens need to be crossed to make them bet ter. -If you are not satislied with the kind you have or the number of eggs they lay,dispose of them and get some other standard variety. Exneriments have shown that a variety of food for layinghens is bet ter than the best balaneced ration with out rariety. The right proportion of food for laying hens has been: asc'er tained to be a bout m0 p:er cent grain, 15 per cent. meat and 2.5 per cont. verablehs. AN EXCEPTION. - J dont lr, a-ry; iura on slang. Mause tad2 that's readv iaie Don't seem.n to n4 tuc proper kind fur simpl fols azi staid. But there's t;;e remark which stri's m- se expres,ive-iLM anrd s.on. That I ma.e it an c3cep,nu. it's 'bout 11oli:.in' folk:$ alon, - When discourngements are gatherin' Se Vour I,arv fOutterS flag: When"your hart is gettin' bc-vy a' your languid Fprits sag. It's a help that's most awazin'; yo9 feel young a,in zu' strong. When some uappier f,-Ilow bein' stops to "Joly you a;: It's like a dasa o' rain acr, as the leld that's hot an. dry: It's like a flasb of sunshine through a da* an' threatenin' s%y, Or a friendly voice from home that greet yon mid a stranger throng, When yoI.': e played out an' some feller stopa to "jolly you along." Survival of the fittest-that's the rule f every race, But good stock 11 sometimes falter in th. Bysoma gentle soul that stopped abk4w "joliy folks along." HUMOROUS.* Maud-What made her change her wedding day? May-- It was bargain day at Boller's. "What is your notion of an ideal wom-an?" "One who can look like a prinLess in a 1h-ee--c1.ar suit." Mother (drilliag yeddy for his rst party)-And uo;, (arling, what is a greeiy boy? Teddy-A boy who wants everything I want. Softieigh-So yoa-aw-don't think the clothes make the man, Miss Cut. ting? Miss Cutting - Well, they didn't in your case, at least. "Did the marriage end the fead be tween the two families?" "Not en tirely. 4 It is confined to only one member of each family now." The Medium-The spirit of your husband is he:-e, if you wish to ask him any question. The Widow--I want to ask him where he has been. "Do you think bring:ng women into politics would be an ag-eeable innova tion?" "Well, it might change the custom of handshaking to kissing." i'The new minister's sermons are entirely too short." "Think sovl! "Yes. I never get any more than fi% teen or twenty minutes' sleep. at ser- - vice now." Young Doctor-I find it hard -to draw the line between hay fever and influenza. Old .Doetor-It is :hrd, my boy, but social distinctionsave to be made; theie's no hep for-it vpresen The.darling lIfttle baytoy presentdm late- - - .-1 (we with -ater And 'ye the littlerebel, q6tte- unn. state, Is cp in arms against me every:night. "Do you know," said the fat man, that you retaind me of the Maria Teresa every time I see you?" No," the elevator boy replied; "whybhould I do that?" "Becaase you put in so -7~ much of your time going to 'the bot tom. "Ruymss, you seem to be in a browA study. Ar,q you invoking the muse?" "The muse? Mews? Ah, that is what I was trying to think of ! Ipromn. ised to take my daughter to the cat show. Thank you." "Does yoar son belong to any of the college fre.terniti:s?" "No; they wouldn't let him in." "Why?" "Well, you see, he devoted all*his time to study and neglected the ath lectic features of the business. There was serious talk of expelling him be fore he could gradua:e." They hadI gone through the fire drill for weeks, and the other day, when visitors were present, the teach er thought it well to show the result of their training. "What is your first duty in case of fire?" she inquired of the school. "Sue the insurance com pany," shouted a youngster. "My dear," said Mrs. Richleigh to her daughter the other evening after young Woodby had departed "how in the world did your hair become so disarranged?" "Why, mamma," re plied the quick-witted miss, "I guess it must be sliaking my head so much when Mr. Woodby was trying to coax . me to say yes." And the mother sud denly remembere'd that she had one been a girl herself. She-And so your former sweet heart married your rival, did she? H* -Yes. She didn't know which of. us she liked best, so we agreed to have a tight for her. Sh'e-And:you -were the loser. He-I won the fight all Iright enough. The other fellow ws in the hospItal for two weeks, but she marred1 him just the same. I guess she thought it wo::ld i,e a good idea to marry a man she could handle. I Mascagrni's greatest passion and de ligt is to condulct an orchestra, for w ich he himself says he has a natural talent. But what is mio:e intere4sing is to watch Tseagni composing his works. His wife. Signora Lina, Mimi I(his eldest boy, i,.o -(another son), Ian Emilia (his little daughter) all have their parts in it. When the maestro is feveishly writing notes and rush ing to the piano to catch an inspira-,~ tion, his wife fol:ows hiui to and fro, while the childre:1 cliimb on his knees, he unconsciouuly run ?ing his fingers through thetir en;r!s. As soon as.he.t has tixed on a melody he gathers -th children in his arms and they.alIl inisruinaeiv o:i the. Aoor, the shouts,' bump;s, laghtee. tedrs'inak ing such. an n1;roac that - at> last Sgora Mascagni inte''ere,sbdih~g-j her hratnd and re'i lin that a e<amle to oi i .!y Sa a' b'.rdles~. awayv the e( 1ueni and ne retunns to . his dece, bat a in m-iutes later ths