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TRI WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO, S.C., OCTOBER 2S, 18994 SALSE 8t TVI MAN WHO PRAYED AND QUIT. He knelt in prayer at night To ask his Maker's love. And likewise that he might Have joy, at last, above. Be never sought his bed Tatil be'd bent the knee Until. with bumhie head, He offered up his plea. He Prayed the Lord to give Him love for those dig ressed, To teach him bow to live And labor for the best. It happened on a day. Ere Age had come by stealth, That Luck stood inis way And gave him lordly wealth. He knelt no more at night. He made no humble plea For love of those who might Be favored less than he. -S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Heraild. THE AWAKENING OF CALEB. He was lame, and his pigeon-toad #halt called forth the ridicule of his ,,oy~mates. The bosdd not mean to b6 ankind when they laughed at Caleb. 'They were thoughtless. Thoughtless oys are rearly always kind boy ben they are aroused, but it usually -takes something akin to an earthquake to wake them up. Caleb was poor. He had grown too ast and was distressingly awkward. He never k::ew his lessons. He did not pay attention and was continually in disgrace. All these things could ' rgiveu him h 4.a ' E not n uuti'y. IHshands were always y e.ud his face ras always idged; his clothes were unwashed his hair uncombed. n the two-roomed house which he led home and shared with seven er children, Caleb slept in the dry di box that served as a table. The was turned with the open side to d the donr. When the boy rose the morning he was ready for akTast, if there was any, and if " ent out of the turned until time chers tried to im habits, but at last im in an isolated a .. e autumn a e rei&, 1 govennent in-her hauds, She dii mot Idok equal to the stirring westert schooI .o eighty pupils, and thi a ons said so, one to aiother. f all these things Miss Wolcotl erenely ignorant, and as the erchool days went- by- the rough boys grew.Iess rough and-the rude girls ess rude. Sbe exained Caleb's grimy finge-inrked copybook and d her-'nid" ou his unkempt curls. x can do better than that, - tCaleb," she said., "Run and wash your bands." The boy lor-kerl up doggedly. "There isn't any towel," he said. " will give you one." He was gone a long time. Miss Wolcott went in search of him and found him gazing ruefally a'..his black paw-marks on the snowy linen. "Try a little more soap and water. Ca'eb" said Miss Wolcott. He did, tile ffect was pleasing to him, for he sai le broad ly and gazel long at his writn hands. "Take I~stcapage of your copy book and see how nice you can keep * it," said Miss Wolcott. The next day he splashed about in the wash-basin without bei.ig told to d1o so. He applied water and soap to hP face and surprised every one, him re'f 'included. Day by day the pages of the copybook grew whiter and the ~tecater.- One morning he tonk off his coat and proudly displayed his shirt. "I washed it myselr," he said. "It looks very nice," said Miss W~olcott, smiiing brightly at him. "Here is a little comib which I want * ,oa to have." He did not thank her, but stood ti--st on one foot and then on the other and smiled, showing his even white teeth. He learned his les :Eons and was no longer, looked upon -as simple minded. wl hen the examina d ion ieports we:-e sent home he stood near the head of the list. "How do you like your new teacher, CnM-"" asked the-ianitor one day. "1hings aren't like they used to be," he said. "Miss Wolcott is kind ~toai fellow and never knocks him about or says mean things .to him once." "She will if you go to acting up." Caleb smiled and half closed his dark eyes. "We'll see," he said aioard, and to himself. "I shan't act nu." The date for the annual exhibition of school work drew near. Hundreds of sheets of paper were to be neatly ?ined wi~th red ink. -Miss Wolcrtt grew wear v. "Who can help me?" she asked her self. "So one," and she went on rul Cn Saturday morning (aleb ap peared at Miss Wolcott's door. His face an:i hands were clean and every curl was c isp and f'ght. "Let me help you rule the papers. Miss Wolcott," he said. S5he was very tired and felt at first annoyed that she should have to '>e botherei with the boy. Then her true self rose above the weariness a'nd she realized that it might bW her oppor tnity to help the fziend'ess child. So hegave him w.-rk o 1 condition that he did not spoil many sheets. He worked rapidly and neatly. The next Sa':urday he helped Miss Wolcott carry all of the dainty ribbon-tied -essays, stories and written recitations to the schoohroom. S"2he paper s are all so nice. They are worthga gret deat to m e, Caleh, ~t as she clocedi the i h> ee whistle rang its tccalej Miss Woly cott looked out of her window-the school building was in flames. She hastened to the burning house. The roof fell in as she neared it, and two firemen carried some one out on a shutter. It was Ca'eb. He hai heard the fire alarm and hastened to save the exhibition work. He was taken to a hospital, and Miss Woleoit staid by his side. At last he opened his eyes and smiled "I saved some of them," he said. Then he lapsed again into uncon sciousness. Caleb's bravery awakened the in terest of the schoolboys, and they spent their spare time by his cot. As he grew better their bright minds be gan to evolve plans for him. "Father said he would take him into our house as though he were h;s son, if we co'ildn't do any better," said Harold. "But I think by the way he said it that he expects us to do better-I mean to think of something better." "Well,there's his mother and b--o'h ers and sisters," said another. "Peehars they couldi do better if they had a chance." "Let's go and see 'ern,"said Lester, ant they started off at once. The boys staid b't a moment in the poor little home. "Gee!" said Harold, as they starte I toward home, "Barefoote.1 in March." "And there wasn't a thing in the cupboard," said anotbe". "Let's ask Miss Woleott to come and help us fix them up," said Lester, "I'm not very good at waishing dirty little kids'fee::. What do the rest of you say?" "I wish that we could do it all our selves." sa-d Harold thoug':tfully. "Harold has a scheme, ' sail Los ter. "Yes, I have and I want to talk to father about it." Harold spoke to his father iat evening. "You see.father,"he sai I; "I think that the iight way to help people is to help ti e'u to b-e!p themselves.' The man smiled down very indul gently at the earnest lad. "What had .in thought of, my son?2" "Well, I hardly know. but I have wondered il they could not do some thing to pay the rent on our cottage. There are three acres of land there and those boys could raise chickens a -1 vege'ables." te a rown-upan for such a little latt. a with the rest of the boys and see . can suggest." A meeting was held i:i the school. room the next evening. The boys suggestet and discussed until the room wis'almost dark. "What does Caleb's mother do?" asked one boy. i "She makes vests,"said a pale little fellow in the corner. "Gore from home all day, I sur pose," said Haroll. "Yes." "Our housekeeper says it's worth a dollar a week to keep my clothes mended," said Lester. "What do you. feows eay to hiring Caleb's mother to keep us mende 1 up until we think of something bstter?" It was ag'eed to by all the b-y. and the big famnily was transferi ed to the pretty suburban cottage. "Say, Caleb's mother can't saw wood,"raid one of the boys some days later. "Well, we can," sai.l Harold. "And that garden must be plowed," said anothe". "I'll work at home for James an-1 he will bring the plow and d> a first class job at that. He said he would," *said Leste-. Caleb slowly recovered from the fever which was the result of the fire. The boys did not have much time to give to him, but their mothers and sisters and Miss Wolcott did. There were walks to repair, a pump to mend a shed to be converted into a hen hou'se. and the garden to make. The schoolboys and Ca'eb's brot! ers dii the work. Ja nesi ent his plow and his experi ence to the lads, and there never was a thriftier garden than the one whic. greetei Ca'cb's delighted eyes whens he "c'ame home'' f-omi the hospital one May mocrning. And his mother stood in the door-his mother-her hair neatly combed, a dainty white apron over her pretty drese, and a hint of the roses of long ago in her toil worn cheeks. The next summer .Caleb told the boys that he and his brothers wcee making eno gh to live upon. "And pay the yen', too?" said Les ter. "Yes, anti i ay the rent, too. You can give your mending to help soune one else, now."-Advoca'e. Music Wards Off Fatigue. A Philadelphia contractor, who has1 recently returned form the Soudan, tells of an interesting fact connected with the building by the English of the new military railroad .in that region. Withi every gang of 40 or 50 men are assigned two harpers and flnte player. Music is furnished al most continuously, and so long as the musicians play the workmen -nearly all negroes-do not seem to feel the. fatigue, and their movements are con formied as nearly as pcssible to the time e f the musie. As a general thing the players get tired before the work men do. To a white man the melody produced by thes e cheerers of labor would not be inspiring, for it is peculiarly plaintive. ' he Africans, however, find the music a great in spi ation, and work with cheefulness and dispa'ch. The Philadelphian declares that the idea is one well worth considering, for it is well known that colored laborers and stevedores along the river front will work harde:f and-faster if permitted to sing. As a. mnatter of fat," singing among them FOR FARM AND GARDEN The Top of tihe Taii. There is an old saying among dairy men that the cow's pro'ts are at the top of the pail. When feeding this should never be forgoten; and the dairyman should make it his business to see that t'e feed is of such a char acter that will allow the cow to put plenty of- "top" to her milk. For an ordinary dairy cow a ration of twelve pounds of clover bay, twenty pounds of corn silage. four pounds of corn meal, four pounds of wheat bran, and four pounds of gluten meal will assist the animal greatly in accom plishing the fiat. It might also be well (t bear in mind that a thorough bred will greatly assist the milk in getting the "top." Citting the Chicken' Wint-. If a persou cares to, it is possible to cut the wings when the chickens are young so that their flying ability will be effectually impaired for a!l time. This will often prove to be a great ad vantage, especially with fowls of the Leghorn, Hamburg and Minorca breeds. This is not diaicult or paiu ful to the chick, if done at the right time, and consis' s simply iu cutting the wing at the last jont; the portion cut off is but a trifle when the chick is young, but when it is dfveloped it make; quite a materiail di 'rence in its wing power, so much so that it is a comparatively small matter to cou fine them, and so far as practicability is concerned, it does not impair their useful qualities in the least. If the work is done when the chickei is about ten or twelve days old, it is scarcely painful, and the chick soon recovers its usual activity. Cottrolling the Potato Stalk We'vul. The adult weevil passes the winter in the potato stalk, wliere it develors. The easiest method of getting rid of it is to destroy all the potato vines after the crop has been reinove3l. The sooner the potatoes are dug the bet ter. If the vines are left too long many of them will rot, leaving the roots together with one or more wee vils in the ground. The Kansas ex periment station calls attention to the fact that there are certain very co:n mon weels which a e in themselves great nuisances and aid in Lharboring .e hoQq- A U"C" CL.c cke ur a nettle. Thes3 farieFs should learn to recognize and keep out of potato fields. They should Le pulled up . roots and all and destroyed. If pull ing is too expeusivo an operation the weeds should be cut down whileyoung aird allowed to dry up. Many of the larvae in the sta'ks will perish for want of proper food. Great care should always be take-i toepromote vigorous growth by clean culture and fertilizati -n. The heavy vine doss not sue'..r nearly so severely as one the' L. in any way weakened. The greatest iuiry o:curs to vines of low vitality which have suffered al ready from the att asks of other insects drouth or he'at. Spraying with lon don pur-ple and paris green has been recommaeul and may be of sonic use. Sweeping the vines with an in sect nst when the beetles are on the outside may result in getting rid of a great manny of them. -New England Homestead. Entrances to Field. In all country roa1 making there is usually much plowing up of roadsides and scraping of the soil into the mid dle of the highway to make a good road bed. Most of this work is worse than usetess, though there are places where the open ditch beside the road operates as a drain and thus dces some good. But in any case the farmer who owns land adjoining the road should insist that if the ditch is needed the hWghway overseer must bridge the open ditch so that it will not obxtruct the entrances to his felds. Cut of those fields he will each year draw many loads of produce, and into them as many of manure. To have a good entrance to h's fields is therefore the most imp~o:tant par t of road mak ing for him. Yet after the road tax is worke 1 out it is often found that a If'gh but very narrow roadbed has been made ii the centre of the highway, and a ditch between it and the gate that he uses to enter his nelds. T he only way for the farmer then to do is to make at his owi. expense a calve t for water to ra s through, and cover it nearly as high as the roadbed. It will make a badl place to turn if the roadbled is narrow as well as h'gh. When a farmer has a few such ex perien~es he wiill probably come to the conclusion that wo. king cut his tax under the average path master is about the dearest possible way to keep roads in good coudition, even though he does not have to fjay out any money. The time is comling when deep underdrain~s beside the roadbed will make ouly a very slight rise- in the centre recessary to insure a good track. The deep drain should be cou nected at frequent intervals with the loose stone o: underdrain under the roadbed itself. This wili keep the road always dry, and it will make it easy to turn out without breaking down or overturning an overloaded wagon. Then with a wide gate, no as to avoid danger of hitting either side wihen a loaded wagon goes through, there will be fewer losses by breakage of whee's, axles or gate posts, and the farmer will have the 1:euefits of the goo:1 road as much as those who merely drive on its roadbed-Amnericau Cul tivator. Winzter Feedingr and JKoap. During winter in the morning I feed a warm mash comn osedl of oae scoop fal of oats andi corn, ground together, one-half a scoopful of cut closer, a small handful of oil meal and what table scraps or boiled potato parings I happen to have. I mix the above with warm or scalding water and let it cool until just warm, when I feed it. If a little green bone be added, say an onuce to each hen three times a week. it would help it out greatly. Do not feed any mo-e of this mash than they will eat up clean.' About 10 O'clock I scatter oats, also wheat --whe, I have it--in the litter on the floor of the scratching ehed. - This keeps them busy until noon when I feed any kind of green stuff that I have, such as cabbage leaves or pota to parings. It is well to give a little chopred onion once in a while. About 2 o'coek I feed them their corn in the scratching shed, -tnd they will fin't all of this by 4 o'clock when I give them all the toiled cats they will eat. I find that by feedizrg the corn in the scratching shed the Iowls a-e much more active in the mo- ning thau when they are fed on the ba:e floor and not conipelled to exercise. If your chicken houses are not made with the open scratching sheds attached,-try an] arrarge some place Jhat will answer the purpose, and you wil be repaid in the number of eggs you will get, also in the good health of your fowls. If your fowls are affected with roup I can recommend the following trent ment as an infallible remedy: Go to your druggist and purchare five or ten cents worth of peroxide of hydrogen. If the afected bird's nostrils are stopped up, clean them out, aul with a small syringe inject some of thUe hy drogen into them; also swab the throat with a feather saturated with the by drogen. Then take a small cloth wet in the hydrogen and bathe the head. Pepeat this treatment two or three times daily until the ithe fowl ii cured, which it will be in two or three days. except in case-s of long staudinz. I have cured chickens that had the roup s. )a:lly that their tongues were swollen eo that they were forced to hid their beaks open.-A. B. in ths Agricultural Epitomist. Effect of Good Stabling. In a perfect stab'e with all the co ditions just i ight, about 18 pounds of good mixed hay a day uill be used by a 1000-ponnd cow to simply exist, w, ites J. S. Woodward i-i Hoards' Dairyman. If no foo.1 is given be yond this, no production of milk can take place except at the expense of the cow's c-nd i :this questio of feedin shows that the same kept in the pink of ;codit~on on Is pounds of dry sae- in hay, ate all the way up to 25 pounds as she' was p'a:ed ii less favored conditious. Chat when turned out for a couple of hours each day, as cows a e usually treated, she ate 21 pounds with no gain of milk production. He then centin:;ed to show the cost of milk production io food beyond this point. His experiments were very instruc tive, showing that when eating 25 ;ounds dry matter id'a cold stable no milk resulted, anid the same when eat in'g 18 to "1 pounds under more favor' able conditions, so that in each case. the food eaten was entirely wasted so fir as productioa of milk was con cerned. That when eating 25 pounds of dry matter, under ordinary coudi tions. 11 pounds of milk was made at an expense of 2.27 pounds of dry mat ter for each I ound. But as the ration was increase.1 for each two pounds of dry matter, the in crease of milk was ahoat 5.6, and at a gradual redaction in the amount of dry matter to produce a pound of mil:y. The conclusions of the above turns a bright light on one grave mistake often made, that of delieient feeding. A bright, clear headed man will look into this question, and will see that the milk costing the least is pro duced when the cow is fed an abun dant ration. properly balanced. We bare often heard~ farmers re-nark con cernning a neignbor who -was a liberal feeder: "Ye.=, I know he gets lots of milk, but it costs h'm all it is worth in feedinc." By the abve it will be-seen that it took >ust about half the food to pro duce a p~oa!nd of milk when thne cow was fed 32 pounds of dry matte:- that it dld when she was fed 25 pounds, condi:ionzs ieing the same. Many feed their coa-s only about enough to maintain life. They get but litt~e mnilk, and what they get costs high. BRan keeps the chicks in good con dition. Fumigate and whi:.ewash the hen house at least twice a year-. A good p'an is to divide the run w ay into halves and cultivate one sec tiin every year. - If any o' the fowls acquire a habit of featber eating, separate them before the vice snureaL'h. A good hen shou'd lay fr-om 150 to 17 eggs a yea-. Cull out those which will not do that wel'. Uuiess the ground is light and mel low in the chi-ken r-un, a dust bath should be providle.l in summer. Watch that ge-it box and se3 that it is always well tilled. Ma-ny of the so t alled cases of cholera came from this one neglect. There is no better location for a poultr-y yard than the orch~ard. Many a stray worm' or bug which might damnage the trees furnishes food for the fowls. If you hav-e a crop of millet uise some for your scratching shed this winter. The hens a-e fond of the reed. and gi't the exercise they require whie searching for it. The number of penmniles CHILCH'S COLUMN. _ Thiee Brave Fxpoorers. rbree iolly !choolgirls Each made up their mind ro turn threu explorers And see what they could find. .o when school was over. And half past four came round. reoy wandered down a country lane, Shall I tell you what they found? In a ditch there lay a frog. With skin a yellow white: Bu* not one of them would touch it For fear that it might bite. In a thiek and thorny hedge A bird's nest they could see; At least. 'twas Eva said so - Tbu bravest of the threl!. ThAy scratehel their hands and tors their #I ress. They struggled might and maiu. But .-t they could not reach Or -est. Their tnil waq ail in vain. "Hurrb: I've gt it: cnlled out Kat". With a gay laugh and hoot. "Fre got it. but '1-3 not a nest. Only a nian's old boot!' -Trenton Amerieau. The Princesii Cleantie:1 W indow1e. Here is a funny little story about the Princess Victoria. One day' h2r moiber to-ok ber to visit, Queen Ade l:ide. The duchess was oblige 1 to leave the little oc aone with the 'lueen for so ne tinie, and the latter. to make the princ3ss fee! a' home, said: "Now, my dea:', you have an hour to spend with ime, and you sha'l do ex actlv as vonl like." "Exactly as I like?" queried the little princess doubtfu!ly. "Ve,," replied the gneeutittle im agining who was to follow. "Then, (ear Aunt Adelaide," said the child, "may I be allowed to cleau the wiUdows*' ?" Queen Adelaide was so:avhat tartled, -but the hitle oue ha I her way, setting to work with sleeves carefuily rolled up and au ap'ron tie I aoundher wai. One o reiasNt: res No name in Ane-icn husto:ry is re ga-(ted with more admiiration than that of the gallant Marquis de Llfayette. He was not by birth; an Animerican. but a Frenchman, and niore than a huu dred years ago, out of love for tha cause of liberty aid sympathy for thett in the revoutioil. He was>gtna at the ciste of Chavag' vac, France,:Sep+. f4, 1757, au'd whe-t he offered hig services to the American congress was .o:ly twenty years ol.l. Although so yo-ing and inexperien'e I be belonged to one of the most pod.e ful faniies of France, aud his iAila euce at court, through his %i6e's rela tives as well as his ow,,, was o. the g -eatest assistance to us. In offering his help t., congrcs he purposed to bear all hi owu expeuses in the campaigns. Congress was pe-r. and his services were gladly accepte1. He .was at once given an appo~(intment on the staff of Gene:-al W ashington, and these two great mien, both of the noblest chiaracter a'dlth - mst gener ou:s minds, becamie life 1onJ fr ien1s. In 1824 he was given a public in '.itation to vi-it the Gnited State,andl his travels through this couna ry we e like a triumphal progres. Con.;resi voted him a gift of S200,000O and 2'. 000 acres of land as a mark of appre cmation for his services in the revolu tion. He died in Paris Ma~y 21, 1834, and lies buried in a handsome tornib in the cemetery of Piep) a in the Fant bour'g Saint Antoine. -Trenton (N.J) American. Thme War in the Playroomn. "1 am a soldier," said Walter, and he marched up) and down in the platy room with his gun over his shoulder. "And I," said Alice, "'am a sailor and live in a ship?" Then Alice climbed up ia the big tall basket and made it ro.k so that it went toward the stool, where her big doll, Julia, was sitting. '"Watch out!' she said to Julia. "You are t be S; aniards anti I am going tc shoot big cannons at youi" Then Alice began to growl deep down in her throat, to sound like the noise of a cannon, but Julia never blinked her eyes nor looked scared a bit. "Watch out:" said Walter. "I'm goJing to cut you:- head of' with my sword." Trheni the lighting became loude:' and louder, and Walter and Alice came closer' and closer to poor' Julia, till at last Walter got too close and did an awful thing. He never meant to do it, but he gave one great ent with his little woo:le t sword, and off ca ne poor Julia's he ld, flying right into Alis's lap. "Oh, my poor doily!" cried Alice. "W~e oddnt go to hurt you," and sh3 kissed the broken head. while Walter stcod. i ed and sorry. beside her. Thenx mam1'a came up to see what was the ira'ter, and she took the noor dolly's hea1d and looked at it. "There. thnere,'' said mnamma, "I wouldn't cry any more. I ('an mend Julia so she will never know~ she w~as hurt." And, of course, if mamma said she cou'dt do it, they knew it was all right, and weat down to supper. And, sure enough, the next day they had Julia b::ck again with her head ou her shoulders a-nd smiling away as if noth ing had ever bae the matter. -Bos ton Traveler. Enjoy ing a Polar Ca.ndy Pull. .Albert White Vorse was one of' the cludedt in the worl. There was a candy pull on the Kite, the like of which never happened before. "We had been for three months in the ice north of Godthaab, Gieerdland," savs Mr. Vorse, "and the suu hal never set once. Three months of end less day, the sun circling around tts, all t o time in sight, and when we got to Godthaab we we e g'ad to see something familiar once more. God thaab has the most nethern sidewalks in the world, and we spent hours looking at them. Then there was a schooner, and men and women, and to cap it all, we had got into the re gion of night once more. Of course we were elate 1, and that accounted for my proposition to make some chocolate caranels and have a candy pull on the focastle stove. "It was accepted, and cur party gathered around the fire while I stirred the tuolasics. The fo'castle was a small room at the best,and we crowded it to the limit, so whe:i the nate ca:no in he grumbled. Tien he told us a story. It was a brlood-curdlin: . tee of fLie days when the Kite was in the whaling t.:ade, aid had rescued a lo. ef fishermnen who would not wo: k, wt sat aRomid the fo'castle fire and made merry even ai we we:e doimg. 'But we got rid of them. One of. the men d oppe-1 ca! ti id:es down the funnel and they went or in every dire toI.' "Bcfore he coutld enter into dttails we hea-d a era:kling noie. as if soniethi-i had fa!ieu down ihe .tove ipiie. aid a instant !a'er there was a iang and the men Scat ered in every direction. I alone was le!t. an.l that was chiefly becaus-e I dilu't have time to get aILY. ,o:me 1Lot U1 a sailer rian ha I dro:.ed a *:.w cartriiges down the f;Imnel. Afte:- a r ile they came bach a-id we hal our can ly. It was goo I, too, only ad i that it tasted a bit of powde.-- hila le~phia -aturday Evoning Po-t. A veryv fau-y tiin iIappened at Ruti's o i *e :: 'aur diy, and br..u tht her into ill.rep'e with a'. least one membe of tue pol ce to ,c. She ii a ve V seiun .1:0l gimi of five, with great, so!e nu, tru hi eyes. No oue would ever drean of her tell iag what wa not exactly t.ie, and she never ma le a joke in h'r i ie. She wai sitting om the botton s'eo of her stoop on ibis spe-i.l mo: tiing, tLe litte book, m mouMeue. . At the min'ster's d;o he wroti someth'nz, and at D--. Blake'.. Ruil part'cularlV noticed tia. 3r. Si th was a tre.ne i1o:i; p.we in the neighborhood. Not. a : oy dare to shout a sho it or fling a bal. wlie: he was in sight: an 1, as for the lItth gils - wveli.they a'wavs bre lthed freor when Mir. S Uith tur'ned the cO -ze . Rult watche 1 the hi; min an'il be irea had her hens. Theu. with quai~tng' heart. she saw '- ot her steps. 3Ia-nma, pene the doo'r. "Do ye kal~e a dog, inum?"' ske~ Mr. Smith. N," replied nima-na, nu i to R iti the dear voice seemeli to shah;e wit. fea. Vir Smith howed sie--nly, an1I tned to come down. It was perfe-tly c!enr to Enth now. 31.- Sinith was puttimg- the entire neighborhood uud.'r arres, excepi tb wce who kept dogs! Tha minister had one. and so did Dr. Blke. She meant to save mnamma if she could. So she tre.uiblin zly faced Mir. Smith on the bottomu step, and said geu:ly, "M1am na forgot Tfowze , s'r" MIr. 8mn tii was all attention. "Is this your house?" he ge'es tionedi. "les, sir." Ruth's g eat, honest eyes gazie I frankly into~ the gri n face, looking down. "'And you have a dog. eh?" "ie, sir. Towzer is our iog." Li) the steps again went 3M-. Smith, and sharply ran-; the bell. MIanmma re::liedI. "W here's your dor, mumi?' "I told you that we have n dog. WXe have ntever had a do;" mamma answered. ''Oh! This is an old trick, mum; thongh we dion't maet it often in these neighbo.hoodis. Hoeree:-. you'me got a truthfui litte gh!1: a d she ien't sure that ye hare no dog." insistup on seeing him, mu: Afnylittle glea ni camto in min .iuth, "she cal., ''yam may as well bring Towze-. The oieer its uplon seeing hi r." 1r. Smithrl's face ginew 'ery red, as Ru'th rani upstairs. Presently she c.ame1 bask. "Here's Towzer, sir," she sai.l iith a q:Pve:-. "'Here's o:1r do z." Au-l she he1l up to the astoiish d eyes of the big poic-eman a <iirty ('anton-'lautnel dog one shoe biou eye quite gone, uis tail ia shredb. an] i det wh 1 ear., pinned1 to h:s head with safty i.ins! If i Smithm had hee wi-,e, lhe w~ould hav'e la -g'i, hr Mr. Smim b was not on the pluice force 'be anse of 31amnma, thouigh, lauzh e I mecreily, whi'e Ruth h iggemd Tow.e, andtie that in some roundabout way he and~ she had save 1 the fa ::iiy f omn an awful fate. -Christian Register. The cther evang at dinner the face of four-year-ol1Edith was 1ighter up with nun ual beauty, a-il her dia-k eyes h-ad a dre. my, faraway look tha! prompted har/mother to ask: "'Wha SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Cancer ranks filth among diseases as a cause of death. Slate is produced in France to a vOY large extent and is taken from both open and closed quarries. A Berlin watchmaker has an appara tius which accurately measures -the t'aousandtih rart of a second. The san's lifetime is calculated by Dr. T J. J. See at 36,000,000 years, 32,030.000 having been already spent. Twenty-five years ago the United State3 supplied 15 per cent. of the world's coal consumption; now they supply 30 per cent. Scientists attribute the recent seis mij disturbauces in all parts 'of the glote to the 'act that the earth has bee 2 on an uneven keel. Piacers are mide by n machine wbizb, in one op iration, cats out the hand-e and jaw. The two parts are afterward joined by band. There is a probability that a large warehouse for the display of Ameri can manufactured products will, in the naar future, be established in Tckio, Japau. From onc-half to one and one-quar ter horse power per square yard rep resents the sanny day solar energy of Amerian prgiries as shown in ten years of observation. Coal tar threatens to supplant the indigo trecs of India and Java by sup plyiug a- indizo chemically identified with and infinitely purer than that hitherto on the ma ket. it is now generally recognized that the size of the brain is not an index of mental capacity. More important thai mere bulk are the convolutions and the depth of the salci or fissures of the brain. An electrician claims to have in vented an e!eetri -al device to prevent railroad collisions. He places electric dvianIos under every -engine which. opera-e I by indnction, give signals of approach by an arc light in the cab. The number of Iccomotives now runuing on the world's railways is estimated to Le about 160,000. Of this Eu:ope possesses 85,000, America 5.7,00,\ and Asia 10,000, and the rest are to be found in Africa and Aus tra'ii. In 1860 the e were 139 silk mills in the United States wo 8 GAT FROG HUNTINC. Record Made by an American and NS' Partners in Canada Marshes. The frogs' le. industry will become a wholesale business in Cleveland, 0., and Canada is being made the pur. veyor for that city. One of the next monopolies in the United States, probably, will be the frogs' legs'~om bine. Last April there arrived in La belle township, at about the same spot where the New; York hermit lawyer was living last year, a tall, fair yo-.ug 'American named .Riggins, siephe w of a millionaire living in Cleveland. He was accompanied by a French Canadian of Cleveland named Constant. At Labelle they took an.other partner, Mr. Lanthier of L'Annanciation. All three started~ to wage a ceaseless war- on the frogs. For five months they have done noth ing else, and many a settler misses the cheerful evening frog concerts. These frog hunters have searched pools, marshes, lakes and rivers in the counties of Labelle and Wright, and are now doing the Pontias county. They are wvell paid for their work. Higgins gets $3 a day, Constant 82 and Lanthier $1. They sell the frogs alive at $203 per 1000. These frogs are all sent alive to Cleveland, and there set free in a tank to grow, fatten and 'multiply. When the tank bursts in that city it will be like a repetition of one of the Ancient plagues of Egypt. Mr. Higgins and his mates have established a recor d. They have canght as many as 2.500 in three days, or $160- clear profit a day. They drive from one place to another. Thoy are provided with small hand nets, which they now use very dexterously. l ast week they shipped 2800 live frogs to Cleveland. They carry box shooks along with them and makie their own crates. They pile up marsh grasses in the bottom and place alter nate layers of frogs and grass until the case is comfortably filled. Then the whole is thoroughly soaked with water by being immersed in a stream for a few miuutes, and thr~s packed the frogs can live eight days. They are shipped by rail. The object of all this is to create a frogs' leg market in Cleveland. Bows of a Young Prince. Prince Edward of York is just five vears old. ant straddles his Shetland pony like a little man. An American lady who has been staying with her. own little -son in the neighborhoodof Sandringbr-n says Vhe princeletris a perfect specimen of healthy childh and one day when drivingt~-i him with his nurse in an open I Every one bowed smilingly t bright little boy, who imme jumped up in the seat' andre the salute again and again v~as out of range of their risz nurse maintained a dignifie sion of countenance, but this future kings sailor bl vent him from tumblin carriage. No doubt this Edwar 'aave very much liked Edwyard of New Ye