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I V GREAT-GREA' ^^Hfer portrait shows in how >iic looked lace and satin. line to see. ^VBut skirt so m-ant. and ivaist so khm t, And sui'li a lninnet ?Oh. ?lear inc! I wonder how she could dress s??. My greatVgrent-graachna, lone ago. A famous housekeeper was she: B C'oulil spin, and weave, and bake, and Wf brew She doctored all the family. B And made the.r soap and candles, too. W There wasn't much she didn't know Mv eroatmeat ciandma. long ago. THE CASHIER S THE BUR.GL How Nichols, of the Natioi Evolved a Great P of Jenkins "W "T 1CHOI.S was not a Sunj\ J day-school MiiHUiuiendent. Neither was be a prominent < (J" ehttroli member, IYrhaps it was for this reason that the direetors ttf the First National Bank oi' Manr.injjton, N. J.. Itad more implicit eotilidence in him than it is customary to place in cashiers of such institutions. Nichols's a la nee was keen. 11 is speech was blunt, llis voice dwelt in the cellar. Directors like sucb uien aud . Nichols knew it. All work anil no play is. a reprehensible combination. After banking hoars Nichols was a sociologist. He a modest man and did uot brag ut his accomplishments. His spe1 line of thought was the Teuderloiti night?a fascinating study. Nichols - irned to ?-all the wardmeu. the jnncers and the violent-scented ones f that interesting section by their i>ot tames?an expensive education. In . Return they called hitu by name, but \ hot by the name of Nichols. lie was a very moilest man in all matters connected with his intellectual pursuits. Xow. if a bank cashier gets J^iOOO a ^?~f ar and frequently loses as much iu a week working out the philosophy of faro (simply in the interests of sociology! the situation becomes complex. Not that Nichols really lost these amount.*. He merely dropjK'd them. Later lie confidently expected to pick them up again. This acquired stddi tional capital and many years of study. As a matter of statistical fact, the faculty of picking up amounts so lost is only given to graduates emu laude. * * * I* After a year or two of study, and when still Ln the sophomore class, so h .to sjleak, Nichols began to have , qualuis. His glance lost some of its keenness. His" speech missed part of *5? *ts hluntuess. x His voice at times went up to the second story. What tbe'dence," be reflected night ' and day. A man may throw a bhityj ? as big asa mountain, but he cnuq^| i - i Minimi an I a lie began to see tbe k tilling. ir g hours be bcgau to g nating derisive noises, e; like it. It will be un- n was a sociologist pure logy being forced upon o uarlly irritated bini. ?> ioIs bad bis bauds full. t< vas that tbe directors ei pecialty of ltip Van g en this could not last rectors began to conic it Sniff, sniff, suiff. "Is ti jell?" they asked each g They decided upon a 1 lation of the books to b Iferous rodent lurked g town as a maxim that $ directors suddenly acslfactory nerves, they a ind a highly scented h airs in the state of t< H^Ppnuiark. Wf 4 * * jV Simmons completes the oast. Sim- h nious was a broad minded man. and B closing hours, failed to limit hiui. His r W business was the amelioration of a thirst, and thirst Is not a railroad train * to be run on a time table. Especially I is this true of a Third avenue thirst. l? f Moreover his knowledge of the phe- >i V, nomena of thirst was not based en- p tirely upon hearsay evidence. .Situ-, a mons frequently had a thirst himself, t Third avenue envied Simmons. The P joint owner of a corner saloon and a e Thirst. Could earth offer more they , wondered. Simmon>'s thirst arose from retiee- l1 [ tion. Contimied lvflcetion necessitate* s k occasional beer, and l?eer begets philos- !? & opby. He liked to contemplate hitman c H experieuce. as reflected in the amber ?' brew, and when the spirit of philoo- ?' B phy descended upon him. even as mi- *' mm flhhm-ii a v.-n-innii on allil Simmons S 1 abhor an empty beer mug j H Sometimes after prolonged philosopii-!;| ical reflection Simmons won hi speak ! v entertainingly regarding electricians. 1 In moments of supreme elevation lie i asked nothing better than to meet all I } living electrician*, one by one. man to j c man. brass knuckle* allowed and a : 1 bung starter for a gaff. In perjQds of profound depression he i v bitterly-in veigbe da gain st the manner j * in which tbey bad taken the bread out of the mouths of honest uien. "Every certain -ate worth cracking j has an alarm wire." he would remark, j1 "Every certain wire riugs a bell sum*-. where. An nouest man can'i tell when .? he has started the thing ringing. He'll have his safe open and be taking out j; the stuff. First thine he kuows he is j < [looking up at a gun in the hands of a 'certain person, who laughs like an j? |ass and say-: "You gave the alarm ( yourself.'" ;) From the above quoted remarks ir ' liust not be hastily gathered that Sim?ods's discourse was monotonous iu H adjectiveg. On .thecontrary he was.' 'If " __ ' ' 1 r-GRANDMA. / We have the ^ampler that she vrojketl In -dlk *o beautifully tine: 4v Though >ite u.i* jim a little girl The ?iit<hes aren't a bit like mine. [ lXi you *nt>po-?e *he loved to >ew? My great-great-grandma. long ago? 1 iovt- to look it lier to-day. In |ii im stiff i-urb, and die*- *o ?|Ueet; >ne btnile* in *ueli n lovelv v av j?... . ,i? I 111 MII'C" Ml** IIIMM ?.?%! I?\.I v?vc. Oil. how I should have likeci to know Mv great-great-grandma; long ago. ? Ellen Manly. SCHEME, ,AR'S COUNTER nal Bank of Mannington, 'lan, and the Aid the Gent. a luan of striking* and even burning: , speech. and was ;;s innocent of re- ( iluiulaney as the most learned professor who ever babbled about rhetoric 10 ela>seas of bored young gentlemen whose tastes ran more to football and . the proper coloration of mcoivhauin pipes. . | * * o !,;< 12n*it:i i Stilind ed his lowest register. "Mr. Simmons':"' he inquired. "SupiHise it is." answered Simmons, with a rant ion horn of lout; years of warfare with gentlemen interested in improving the eordUioti of the poor. Niehols leaned over Simmons's shoulder in his most impressive manner. "Jenkins the tient." he whispered. and sprang bark to observe the effect. "That's what they used to rail me." acknowledged Simmons evenly. "The celebrated safe breaker':" asked Niehols. "Oh. I've bad tuy picture in the palters more than otire." replied Simmons witli a delightful absence or pnue. "Can I have a talk with you alone?" asked XiclioK Simmons led the way into his private | room. "Why did you quit the business':" queried Nichols. when they had moisteued the organs after the most approved manner prescribed by Mr. Silas Wegg. "Too uiauy certain wires." replied Siunuons bitterly. "(Jot jugged three tiiues in succession. Thought it time to quit. Bought tiiis place here and settled down." "Say, now." began Nichols. He looked around the room hesitatingly and twiddled his watch chain with a ^tervous hand. "Say. now." he reiterated. earefully avoiding Simmons'* eye. "If you saw a good chouce?do wires or auythiug like that?would you take itr^ ^V'ou," said Simmons; "I'm interw" _ - yaw, 1 pple feeling as big as an or*nge. "I c now a place/* He took another loistener and leaning bark iu bis chair azed at Simmons with overbright yes. lie stimulated again t.ud played y ervously with the empty glass. "Bank's at Mauniugtou. just the p tiler side ??f Jersey City." he went jt 11. He addressed Ids remarks softly a > the empty glass in his hand. "I'm ashler and I'm in a hole." He smiled ently aud licked his burning lips. To-morrow night there'll be *100,000 ^ i the vaults. I'll hav?? the watchuiau xed and tilings arranged so that a ood man can easily get at the money. ( here should l?o $200.ixjo by rights, nt I'm short for the different'?. You ct in. take the S100.000 and the hank v ill think tlu? whole SiidO.OOO was roleu." lie plunged into oilier details, gave j] map of the bank, the address where e lived, and wound up with almost ^ par fill entreaty. ^ "Will you do it':" he whispered. "Eh? r, is a favor to ine": Will you do it? j ,h: J( "I'll lie there." answered Simmons, ^ isiug. "There'll he eertaiti prelimiury expenses. You'd better leave loOO." j It will he seen that no matter what art of hi* studies Nieliols pursued j i eost the hank good money. Rut exerience was in store for the bank. s nd experience is always eostly. And he experience of a bauk indirectly aviug money 10 he robbed is a nov- T lty. and novelties conic high. . v * ? After Nichols liad left Simmons hilosophieally crossed his legs and at down to figure the thing out. He paued hack thoughtfully, ??" hand . aressing his favorite beer mug. the ^ it her ibrowt. over the back of his hair. His eyes had an introsiiective ' ast. He smiled reflectively. Oeta .in Iiaiiv reveller would iVIHIil.i ??? -in ^ linvr :i remark at him. Simmtins in nswer merely lifted his free liatid 1 nth a gesture for silence and slowly ' et it drop again. Drop i?y drop the in Mil of argument ' ieldetl the pure water of true phjlos- ' ipliy. which crystallized a? it fell iuto wo lumiou* idea?: "l.-'A mau who will heat the hank vhere he works will surely heat a 1 a ranger. ' ' h'.? Such a man i- tair'ganie. ? 1 * * * 'tie- next day a new imattier took ip hi* piuirtcis at Nichols's hoarding louse, lie arrived sliitrnr after Nieh- 1 N had left for ids tity's work. The new hoarder was very particular ' ihotlt his room, siuil the otic over Nich- ' ils's was ilie only one tlfcu suited him. !'lie new hoarder was ghteji to ihtllinai>iu. and a soutlieru exp<*>ure was es.iiitisd. He paid double jfico for the 1 ooni. and ilie landlad* charmed iviiu udo so xiliisive. soti'i'lined and ' oicli beautiful refcrein cs. The new hoarder had a lio^diy. What ; iruly great character has not'; The'] new boarder's liobbv was to piny with a brace and bit. Ho also had a pAucliam. lie was ;;ivcn to boring holes in tho tloor of his room abovo the gas ohaudelior of the room below, where they wore quite iiuuotieeable. IK also had a little failing?inquisitivenei* He litv oil tile tloor of his loom 11y the hour, with his tycs glued to the holes he hud bored, watchiug for anytiling that might interest hint in Nichols's room below. If Nichols had veil hint lyiug there lie Would, with the readers' kind permission. have given a correct imitation of a poiritied man. for the new boarder was none other than Simmons the philosopher. ? At 4 o'cloek that afternoon Nichols entered his rooms. Simmons saw hint. Xieliols carefully locked his door and littng a towel over the keyhole. 17e then tmserewed tin- cap of one of the posts of his brass bed. Simmons bad his eye on him. Xieliols also tit)screwed a little brass plaie that gave the post the apiK-araiiee of solidity. He then drew a nice large wad of legal tender I nun his inside pocket. Simmons made u desperate effort to get both eyes to hear oil the saute hole. Nichols separated the wad into rolls of eonvenieut size and stuffed them down the hollow post. Then he sere wed on the brass plate and the ornamental eap. After Nichols had left his mom Summons swore a mighty oath that i-* was as good as a play, lie was an ncuibilious man and wondered whether iu similar cireuntstanee.s he could a"<t. the part of Nichols. lie determined! upon a trial rehearsal, rnfommatelj i his bedstead was a wooden affair, lie therefore had to go to Nichols's room to get the proper staging for the piece. , Simmons was a eousttmmate actor, for I at Nichols's door he temporarily teok the part of Hie little dimpled god that l->u?riw rtt locksmiths 'J'iien he UU screwed the rap and the pinto. Then lio removed the rolls ??f bills with a hour win . Thou ho felt a Midden ungovernable yearning for T!:ird avenue. Amid tho strouuons strife of iliis greedy, grasping world, it is always both edifying and rol'roshiug to contetnplate a pure a ltd li'iipid love of home. # ? * o At U oVloek that niglit Nichols reeoivod a telegram from Simmons: Cannot come to-night. Will to-ntorryw night do?" This was facetiously sigued by C. Jenkins. , Nichols nearly luul a tit. "I suppose I'll have to got this money back Into tho bank somehow.*' he grumbled. He unscrewed the brass cap and the plate. Then he had the fit nearer than before, lie felt gone. The fits that Nichols nearly had were forerunners of an epidemic. The Board of Directors of tho First National Bank of Mauniugton were taken with the infection next day. An aching void in a bank vauit is hu upsetting spectacle. They looked for Nichols, but all In vain.A Nichola s gone Tiling Mu "u^euure [ironic.?New York Evening Sun. Too Boi; to Whip tbo Man. During the Carnival week, says the Wichita Eagle, while a hundred people :ere waiting for tickets, a man with a ad aud pencil approached E. E. Bleek- i y. at the Missouri Pacific ticket office, 1 nd wrote tins: "When does the train to Hutchinson o?" Mr. Bleckley took the pencil aud rrore the answer: "Five twenty." "Does it go in two sections?" wrote he man. Y "Yes," Bleckley wrote back. j "Does it carry a chair car?" the matt "rote agaiu. "Yes," Bleckley wrote again. "Can I get out later this ereniuc?"' he man wrote once more. Mr. Bleckley was getting irritated, he crowd bad boon blocked by this eaf and duntb man. and the waiting oom was becoming crowded. But Mr. tleckley hated to show his impatience u the unfortunate man and wrote aek: "Yes." "How long does it take to run to lutchinson?" the man wrote again. "An hour ancl a half," scribbled lleckley. The man backed off a few feet and j niiled and then said, pleasantly: "I am much obliged to you." If Bleckley hadn't been so busy he j could have gone out and licked the < vag within an inch of his life. The Necktie ia the Men. Henceforward you must not judge a nan by his hat or his coat or the way n which he carries his handkerchief, nil by his necktie. This is the dictum if a ladies' paper. It works rather! uriously. A well-tied tie. it seems. | trgues an abseuee of iutellect. Mr. j N'ladstoue's lies might liavc boon cited I in support of this proposition or of its ouverst*. They were always aboniin?bly tied and never stayed in their iroper place. Bul this new authority foes outside the sphere of geniuses. "The average man with an ordinary ?hare of intellect." she says, "seldom knows how to tie a tie as it can be tied, aud is lied, by men with no in-| teilect at all. 1 defy a man of real 'rains to keep 1ij<- tie at the exact angle , for any considerable time. Directly j roit see ? really beautifully tied tie J which never moves out of place you I may be fairly certain you are not face J o face with an undiscovered Shake- j speare or an embryonic tloetlie.? Chi* t i-ago News. A Kecortl Trip. F. E. Fcrnald. of Chicago, has just made a record from Japan to Chicago, revering 1 lie distance in thirteen days j ,*nd t\v< uty oiie hours. No Profit in Hatlr. Make n*i haste to be rich if you would ' prosper.?New York News. >4. ? &he Fanny ifute of .Life. .Siwtnc thf Wind. A trash and rambunctious raccoon juried to wbistlpa popular tunc. But-he blowout his teeth, both above anil beneath, , Anii,.> taking his. toed with a epoon. b.J Circnie*taace? Alter l'aces. "But she it-axl to be considered quite a beauty." I "Thai w:i#;'lu'fotv her fa her failed." ?Detroit Fjve Press. Boa rdinsr-Hoane Hopartrf. Kiiieker?"Are dogs ioug-livtd. I wonder?" Boekrr?understuutl I hey live to a good old: sausage."?New York Sun. Short on Comfort. ' ''It nttfs? be a great comfort tu you ; to own sr?h splendid furuiiure." "Comfort! Say. there isn't but cue | com fort u3 do chair ill the whole loi. and my wife invariably wants to sit I In that.""?Cleveland Plain Dealer. , l The Brute. | "Why are you eryiujr. dear:" I "(>ii. mother, last night J allowed Henry the hammock that wc first l wourted in." j "What did lie tloV" "He went over and kicked it."?Cliiteago News. . ^ "That new man won't do." said tlio ! London editor. "He's ono of those sou- [ jvatioual American journalisis." "How do you know';" !j "Ho wrote a joke and failed to use J <iny italics or parentheses to explain l it."?Washington Star. . - * > Kntirely l:n?yn?j*ithetlr. "So you don't think well of Arctic exploration 7" "No." answered Mr. Blizzius; "we know the North Pole is there and that nobody'a going to move it. If we j louud it wo wouldn't have any use for It, anyhow."?Washington Star. / J Well Tmlnecf. .1 "Is ho a good dog for .'largUr.^* "I guess so: <Ie feller I taught him off wuz a burglar."?New .York Jom> ?. l..'f _ A f f The Lucky Man In tbe C*t?%. ''Do you reuieniber Miss May. ibe girl who bud such :i l?nd ?l fcia.sition? Well, she la married." "Indeed! Who is the lucky man?" "Fred." "Why. lie is the oue sue flistejileiL" "Just so! That is why 1 say he is lucky."?Chicago News. t . i 1 i i: Careful. "There's one thing I a'dm're about you." said the frank friend. "You enrved out your own fa/tunes and yet you never brag about tH'iug a selfmade ir.au." "No." answered Mr. MnektoU. "I nhoulriu'i think of sngg<*1fug rbat Honrietta wasn't entitled to all the credit.*' ?Washington Star. Our U?*r Kntiitif*. '"But I'il have to hire a .large hall for luy musical tea." "What for? You say you've only tor a score or so of wtem-n friends vhont you care to invite." "Yes. but 1 want the several score of .*m uiie> who are not invitrd Lo know rhat I had plenty of room for them." J -New York Commercial Advertiser. ; He Took tlir Cake. Hostess ?at iiartyi?1"Ami does your raother allow you to take two pieces of cake when yon are at hon?r. Wiliie?" Willie 'who has asked for tile .second piece>?"No. ma'nui." Holes:? "Well, do you tbuik she would like you lo have two pieces here?" Willi'.' icontidcnilyi ? '"Oh. she wouldn't care. This isu'i her cake, you know."?New York Mows. w? .rlv Onalitltxl. "Haw yuu a job hero for a ebauf- : four?" "That depend*. Have yxm ever done j any ebauftiug*" "Xo. sir." ' "Do you know anything about uia- ' chinery:" "Well. no. rir: 1 can't say ;last I?*' j "Aucl ! suppose you never even dro\e over anybody in the street'" "No sir: but I once dropped with j an elevator fiouj the tweiuth story i and liked the smsatiou." "Come around in the tiioruiug ami be i n ody to go to work. "?Chicago Kec-: : .-(l-Hcraltl. ! ' Xo Lapp ever leaves Lapland. Xo [ | Lapp ever aspires to make any depart- i me front the Lapp method of Jiving, "whirli is to-day just what it was J.'Oo j ; years a to. Baked mouse, it is alleged, is still ' rottsidereil a good remedy for whooping cough In .some pails of Yorkshire. y?? SOUTHERN f Q ? ? TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PL ANTL ^ mmm r< ? We Mutt RaUe Ketter Cotton. This paper lias always advocated less land planted to cotton and less cotton raised: and it may seem to some inconsistent with that idea when we say Ave urge all to raise better cotton. But it is not. The cotton crops are big enough; even ihis year when it is supposed it will not pass ton and a half million hales. With that amount i of American cotton and the price say. eight cents average per pouud. the supply will be large enough to make cotton goods cheap. At'least too cheap to work any hardship niton even the poorest classes. So. even if eoilon planters are controlled by so philanthropic a motive, they need not plant more than a ten ahud a half million bale crop. But no one is actuated by any such motive. The whole idea of the cotton planter, like the wheat grower, the corn grower and the stock grower, is very properly to do the best he can for himself. If he can be convinced that it will pay him best to raise half a crop, that is what he will try for. If he thinks it will be best to plant no cotton at all. of course he is going o lt of the business of raising cotton. B it neither of these things is best. The best thiug for every cotton planter and every farmer who raises cotton to do is I to raise the largest crop that he can I I/.- <1? !?? lo.iot UACuShln r?AC f Tllflf I 1 4I ten* it l I 111* Krt.-'l JIVCCK'lt ?- V.7.. i is the essential consideration. It j wouldn't pay to raise a thousand hales | on any oue plantation and sell it at I even ten cents a pound, if it cost teu [ cents a pound to raise it. This is a thing that every cotton raiser knows and will admit if he j thinks of it: even tlie negro renters admit it. But not one mau in a thou-1 saud seems to think ahottt it when he is planting for his crop. The solution to this problem is the same tiiat applies to every other crop: it is simply to plant less land, prepare it hotter, fertilize or manure it more with ham yard manure or cow pea rotation, and cultivate it better. This is exactly what is needed and there is nothing else that can solve the problem. When a big crop is planted, whether it is cotton or corn, it is bound to be slighted. If a small enough crop is planted to justify usiug a good application of the right kind of fertilizer in large euough quantities to do some good, or manure, or pea vines plowed under, and to prepare the land prope.'.y and cultivate at least three times as much as the average cotton gets now. half the land will make more cotton than planters arc now getting and at far lens cost; and there will be a fbancc not hflilHIBBBB>n the crop as was the case last year and again this year from drouth. Thousands of farmers demonstrated all through the corn belt last year that ( continuous shallow cultivation of corn, through the dry season, made good croprf of com in spite of the worst ' drouth ever known, while those alongside of those who did this made uoth- 1 iug but nubbins by the regular method of cultivation. In cotton it will pay "fnn Kr?f f tlion PAVn llAtVllKo rntfnil is a crop that will go on making as long as the season lasts. Both corn and cotton should foe cultivated flat, and in a dry season the soil should foe kept constantly stirred with a shallow working cultivator. If there is a very largo crop planted this cannot be done. If a moderate one. then all the cultivation needed in a severe drouth can be given, and the crop is a far more certain one and very much better, whether the season foe good or had. There is need of more intensive methods in all the farming done in this country: it is needed more on cotton plantations thuu anywhere else, liecause at present the common practice is the worst in the country. It should foe the ambition of every farmer everywhere to get the largest possible crop of every acre he cultivates: whoever does this will certainly prosper. To cultivate intensively requires close study, and the man who gives that succeeds. But any one who can command the labor can scratch n vast acreage, plant and cultivate badly and make a poor crop. What we need is more people who are trying to get three bales to the acre.?Tri-State Farmer. The Beit Fertilizer. At ilie experimental from of the State Horticultural Society of North Carolina. located at Southern Pines. X. C\, a series of careful and painstaking experi men ts have now been carried on for several years, the object in carrying on said experiments being to determine more particularly the relative quantity of plant food required for the proper development of fruit tree* and plants and garden vegetable? of most all kinds. It would pay every horticul-1 urist. marker gardener ?.r truck farmer i throughout the length and breadth of | thi< broad laud to keen i-osted as to the j results obtained from said experiments. A Rapid Increase. Toledo. 0.. Special.?Mrs. Trances ; spyhalski. aged -9. Monday gave birth o quadruplets, two girls and two boys. I anging in weight from three to six i pounds. Six years ago the woman gave i birth to twins and about a year later | to triplets. All of these died. There is .another child nine and a half months i oid. The boys have been named Sam- | tie! .lones. and Theodore Roosevelt. Many were killed in a mine horror in Russia. ? H !RM /tOTES.i >-d ?D'R, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. f v* J .iw.r ->iv. nrp.nminontlr reliable, strictly accurate and up-to-date. We are most intensely interested in the relative agricultural values of each and every substance that we use as manure. The best is none too good. Speaking for ourselves, we have no way of judgiug the value of any siugle manorial substance used as plant food except from the actual visible increase obtained by and from its use. We want to know just how much benellt we may reasonably expect in a normal season from a ton of stable manure, a ton of nitrate of soda, or of cotton seed meal, a ton of phosphate, a ton of sulphate or muriate of potash, or of kaiuit. or from a crop of clover, or cow peas, or other leguminous crops turned under. Any benefit to be evidence must be determined in caeh individual ease by the increased yields obtained from their use either singly or in any desired and required combination. We want to know which is best. i. e.. tlte most profitable, whether nitrate of soda, cotton seed meal. dried" blood or tankage as a source of nitrogen. Acid phosphate, thomas slag, floats or bone as a source of phosphoric acid. Or sulphate, muriate or kainit as a source of potash. At the experimental farm above referred to and tinonn/iiiimis cnecifipd in their i urr (lit* v.vuumivmw j report for ISO*!. equal quantities of potash in the different forms Indicate an agricultural value of the iirst rank for sulphate, second muriate, third double manure salt, fourth carbonate of potash-magnesia and fifth kainit. Placing the fertilizing power of muriate at 100, the comparative fertilizer power of sulphate would lie 104. Tills is their experience, but witli us we. believe the difference in favor of the agricultural value of the sulphate as compared with the muriate would Le greater even than this. j ' A Temporary Fattening. Take a piece of rope, which is more comfortable than a chain and does not wear the hair off as- much. ^Attach a common snap hook to one end and tie a ring to the rope, at such a distance from the end, except when fastened to the snap hook, that It will not slip over the animal's head but fasteus about the neck loosely. This 1% con t viva nee is quickly fastened or ur? fastened, and when not In use can U? 1 ?V. - ?>?nlA srlth trhloll tllf* LIOOKt'U JLftiU I KJtr Siaj/ic *vt?M ?t M?VM rope is attached to the birlehlng post. Nothing is more serviceable or economical for a temporary fastening where the farmer has no stanchion.? Harry Knowics. Better Then the Art of Han. A brood sow knows some things aa well as anybody. She knows what she ought to eat, and ff she can get to it she will eat it, aud it will do her good. Hence a sow running in a pasture will / uot only have needed exercise, but she will get a bite here and there needed -- * Hit-.. ni./l .10 o by nor system anu cuuuiuvu, nuu ..o .. result will do better than if kept penned and fed everything that can be thought of. Animal instinct is often better than the art of man.? Texas Farm and Ranch. iU 5 ?, Protecting Trapdoor. Where trapdoors are used in connection with a stairway, they may be made safer by the addition of a gate which holds the door in a vertical position and with it serves as a protecting banister. The.v are usually u->ar a wan. and by hinging on the farther side frouu the wall this may he accomplished. The gate is hinged to the wall, as showu. and when not in nSe folds back against it. At its outer end are two vertical strips just far enough apart to admit the edge of the trapdoor when raised, and a hook and staple hold the two together.?J. M. S., in the American Agriculturist. Switzerland is issuinc 200.<XK> raw twenty-franc piece?. This makes tb$ amount of Swiss gold in circnUtlou nearly $23,000. QUU. Sagasta Dead. Madrid. By Cable.?Former Premier Sagasta. died at half past t? o'clock Monday evening. His death was due to bronchitis and gastric trouble. His family v/as at the deathbed and former Liberal raembprs of the cabinet were near their old leader. A bishop administered the lest sacrament this afternoon. The news of the former Ptpmier'6 death created a painful impression throughout Madrid. King Alfonso eipwwri ptofound regret.