Snwdutft for the rig Pens. Sawdust Is one of the best substances that can be used in the pig pens, and it is also excellent In the stalls. While sawdust docs not quickly de compose, yet it is an excellent absorb ent and in time is reduced to its original elements. It is clean, easily handled, and is not bulky, while its odor is not disagreeable. It also serves to keep the manure in a finely divided condition. Destroying I'nraslles on Trc»». Sometimes maggots or lice injure young trees at the roots, peach and plum trees being more frequently at tacked than other kinds. Remove the earth, so as to expose as much of the roots as possible, and saturate the earth at the roots with soap-suds and then scatter a pound of kalnit on the roots before returning the earth to its place. The trees will not be injured aid tlio parasites will be destroyed. Wood* That Aro Useful. Weeds are sometimes useful because they occupy the land and shade it in the summer and cover it iu winter. The term "weeds" may apply to any kind of plants. Even when two plants of the same kind are growing side by side one is a weed if it interferes with the growth of the other. Some of the most showy ilower plants become weeds if they escape from their proper place. A rose is a weed if found in a cornfield, and one of the prettiest of flowers—the daisy—has become a gen eral weed and nuisance. Success ou the Furin. Farming is a business, and every farmer is in condition not only with his neighbor, but with farmers in all countries. When there is a surplus of any crop the price falls, and each buyer then selects the best and re jects the inferior. The farmer must grow larger and better crops in order to meet competition in his line. To do so he must use the latest improved implements, and be willing to invest in chemical fertilizers, so as to reduce the cost of production. The man with the best tools and implements will al ways go ahead of him who depends solely on hand labor. A Hint to Peach Cultivator*. Those who grow peaches should keep a continued lookout for indica tions of the yellows. A premature ripening of the fruit is one of the first symptoms, though the lack of flavor in the peach should enable one to detect the disease it' lie is familiar with the variety, lint when the little yellow looking sprouts and bunches of leaves seem to break out through the bark at places where 110 branches should be expected, then it is a sure thing that the tree has the yellows, and the sooner it is disposed of the better for the rest of the orchard. Cut it down or dig it out root and branch, taking care not to touch another tree with it while doing so, or while carry ing it out. Then as soon as dry enough burn it. Do not let even the smoke of the burning blow toward the other peal'h trees, and do not set an other tree near the spot whers this condemned tree stood. Fall Planted Trees. There is a security of investment In trees for fall planting, that does not at tach to spring planted trees. In the fall planted tree the risk is minimum; whereas. In the tree set out In the spring it is maximum. This has been our observation and experience. The tree that is planted iu the fall has throe or four months to fortify itself at the roots liefore nature calls on it to pump sap to the top for new top growth. It soon establishes Itself tiruily. takes a vigorous root, and i< in condition to develop itself above the surface, at the very first call for re newed growth. It is firmly set by the late fall and the winter rains, and if the summer should be dry, it will not suffer like the spring set tree that is still unsettled and weak at the root. In planting, we prefer one year old trees. They do not make as much show at first, but we venture the assertion that one year old trees, set out In the fall, will surpass In growth any tw» year old trees that are set the follow ing spring. Itoot growth Is the prime object at first, and in no way can it lie more surely obtained than by plantlug one year old trees In the fall of the year. A vigorous top growth is sure to follow as the season advances. The •■-pltomlst. A l*roflt»l»l«j 112 nation. To combine poultry raising and fardening, noun to make tin- land pro duce large crops and Increase In fer tility. give* returns every month in the year A poultryiuun In New Eng land linn a four-acre farm, fenced and divided Into two lots of two acres each. Ills |K)iiltry home Is *0 arranged that the fowls can !*• turned into either lot. s* desired. Al«out -<«> hens are kept In one lot while the other Is tlx. d lis a garden. The fowl* are 'tot fed 011 the saiue ground continually, but at dlff'-r --ent place*, no a* to cover the entire lot several tluies during tlu< year, the object lielug to have the hens Work over the whole surface and distribute the manure evenly. The next year the fowl* tire changed Into the gurdeii plot and the gurdcutng done on the plot formerly occupied l.jr the fowb The result that the luiul Is t'tir!< lied lij the droppings and the waste food, and as the fowl yard is plowed once or twice a year the Insects are reduced, the garden crops being large, while re turns come fh during the winter mouths from eggs. Some poultrymen prefer to place fruit trees In yards occupied by fowls, but by alternating a garden plot with crops and fowls there are fewer diseases of plants and birds and a few acres pay well. —Phil- adelphia Record. 1 Less Salt In the Batter. Too much salt Is used by mauy but- j ter-makers. The whole tendency ! among consumers is toward fresher butter. In England and on the con tinent butter is made in those coun tries is served particularly fresh and j white. In the best restaurants and hotels In the larger cities In this coun try the butter contains very little salt. A great number of Americans who go abroad, or who patronize city hotels and restaurants in their own country, ! are acquiring the taste for fresh but- | ter. The fancy dairies that command j extravagant prices put out a product i that is almost fresh. Creameries that : are catering to the highest class groc- j era and best family trade, now use 1 only half as much salt as they did live or 10 years ago. Tills point is worthy of more general 1 consideration by dairymen and cream- 1 cry men everywhere. The quality of I salt is also important, but the leading 1 brands are now quite above reproach in this respect. Of course the salt manufacturer favors the largest pos sible use of salt, but the dairyman's chief object should be quality ratliei j than quantity in salt The large, ex port trade in butter, particularly in England and the continent will never be built up until the peculiarities of : that market regarding a reduced quan tity of salt in butter are catered to. Modern Methods of Dairy Practice. The dairy business is in a sense a manufacturing business. The cow is i the machine which converts the raw ; material represented by grain and for- j age into milk. All lines of business, 1 including agriculture, have been com- j pelled to adopt modem methods. The I dairy business, however, requires n large degree of intelligence in that it is governed by natural laws which are not as constant as those governing j the manufacture of iron and steel prod- \ ucts. Success in dairying today de- ! pends upon two conditions: First up- I on the reduction of the cost of pro- j ductiou and second the improvement ! of the quality of the products. 111 the first instance the dairyman must tlior- i oughly understand the feeding of cows, the milk and its care, the marketing of butter and cheese, the cow herself, and j must have a thorough knowledge of the various feeds needed. The differeuce In cows is nicely il lustrated by two cows at the New Jersey experiment station. During the past year these cows ate practl- ! cally the same amount of feed—s4o worth. They received precisely the same care, and were looked after by the same attendant. One cow pro duced 12,0<x) pounds of milk, which sold for $l2O, thus giving a profit of SBO above the cost of the feed. The other cow produced 4500 pounds of milk, which sold for $45 and returned a profit above the cost of the feed of only $5, a difference of $75 in favor of j the first cow. The amount of milk, j however, is not the only consideration. | The 12,000 pounds of milk produced by the first cow contained only 4 per cent, of butter fat, which if made Into ' butter would have been worth $l4O, the ! profit being SIOO. The other cow's milk contained 0 1-2 per cent, of but- , ter fat, which, if made Into butter j would have been worth SXS and left a ! profit of $45. This illustrates the neces- ■ slty of choosing a cow of maximum capacity for milk or butter. The matter of feeding cows Is a 1 very complicated one. As a general 1 thing a balanced ration is best, but It is best only when it is cheapest. A > wider ration will answer when It will produce butter cheaper than a narrow ration. It has been found tlurt a ra- 1 tion consisting of silage, corn stalks and brewers' grains with a nutritive ratio of 1-5.4. The basis If tills ration was the food value only, in tests at the New Jersey experiment station, it was found that good corn silage, being more palatable, was from 10 to IS per cent more valuable than the same amount of corn fodder. The second consideration. Hint of making a high-grade product, is of very great Importance. Uniformity of milk and butter is absolutely neces sary to a business success. A few years ago the New Jersey experiment station began dairying iu a small way with grade cow* under conditions as found on tin- ordinary farm. The milk sold reasonably well, but at the end of the first year there was an Increase of not more than 5 per cent. In the amount consumed. The second year, a modern dairy house Was erected where It was pos sible to hnndle the milk properly. The cows were also well cared for and well fed and bedded. At the end »r the first six months of ihc second year, ! the *ulc of milk had Increased .'to per cent, and -'o per cent more uiiriug the second six month*. At the end of the fourth year a further increase of 15 |*-r cent, was uoted. Not only thl*, but a ciuli business was done mid the milk ts now selling for 1 Ighi cent 4 per quart, while ordinary m IU brlnyf only four cents. Not only did tin- »ulal lu<Tia«e. buf the families who llr if •"•iklil 111 creased their consumption ■> per cent. I'ruft*»uf K. H Vt-orle-A Iu III* New Kngfund lloiin nt»>td SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. The highest Inhabited hut In th« S-viss Alps lies at an altitude of 2065 i meters, 011 the Alpe de Lona In Wallis. Grain grows up to an altitude of 2075 meters. In the Himalayas and in Thi bet there are habitations at altitudes up to almost 5000 meters. It is a much-mooted question among entomogolists whether or not mosqui toes can breed In mud. Dr. Howard's experiments and Investigations tend to show that the larvae will live in wet mud for some little time and tL.'it they will evsn transform after water has been added. In no case were larvae revived after the water had been drawn off for more than 48 hours. A petroleum spray Is used on the Missouri Pacific line for lighting the fires of locomotives. The reservoir for the oil Is mounted on wheels. Com pressed air is used to spray the oil. In using the apparatus, the bed of coal is first placed on the grate, and then the jet spray Is ignited and directed onto the coal, being moved over the surface until the whole i:; ignited, which usually requires about 15 minutes. As is well known, some metals are unsuitable for casting, while others, like iron, can readily be cast in any desired shape. The property of east ing well is said to depend upon wheth er the metal contracts or expands on solidifying from the liquid form. Iron, like water, expands In solidifying, and hence the solid metal may be seen floating in the liquid iron about it. The expansion causes it to fill the die into which it is poured, and so it can be cast easily. Gold and silver eon tract in cooling, and therefore are not suitable for casting. A new telephone fire-alarm system has just been patented, the whole system being operated by magneto currents and dry batteries. After the system is once installed the only thing to get out of order is the burning out jccasionally of a flis.', which may be quickly repaired. A separate wire is used for each fire district, and any ■lumber of telephones may be con nected with any district wire. By means of this system every house and factory along the line of the wires can be connected with the alarm wire, ind thus protection may be had at a tow cost. The wires can also be used to connect with the long-distance tele phone for other uses. The large amount of heat generated by aluminum in taking up oxygen from an oxide has attracted attention to the fact that this property might be used advantageously, with the re sult that its metallurgical services have been used In the welding of rails w'lere it is desired to obtain an electri cal connection. For this purpose a crucible is used, containing aluminum and iron ore. The ends of the rails are placed in this and when properly adjusted the charge is ignited. Ac cording to the American Machinist, the heat produced is sufficient to make an excellent weld, especially as tin* expansion of the rails, due to the heat, causes the ends to press together forcibly. ART OF BREATHINC PROPERLY, Few People t'mlerfifHml the Philosophy or Ke»piration. "It may seem strange enough," said a doctor the other day, "but really over !H) per cent, of the i»opulutiou do not know how to breathe. Nature kindly enough adapts herself to im perfect methods or respiration, as she adapts herself to the unnatural quali ties of tea. coffee or alcohol a man floods his system with during his life time. but all the same she does not approve. Why, one of the first things tin actor or a singer has to do is to begin to learn to breathe before they can learn how to produce the voice properly. The first point is to fill the lungs. Very few people take the trouble to do that. As a rule they distend them until the lungs are about three-quarters full and then they stop, leaving the base of the lungs unemployed, and naturally ready for anv mischief like most idle things or persons. "If people would only take the trouble to breathe properly consump tion would 110 longer be heard of. Why is exercise so beneficial? Simply because 111 running, rowing or cycling people are obliged to fill their luiign to their utmost capacity to breathe- In short, as nature meant them to breathe. I have frequently recom mended those whose business will not permit of any outdoor exercise to prac tice breathing for an hour In the morn ing and at night; exercise is not a necessity breathing properly Is. How togo altout it: W* 11 teh an infant lying on its b.tek If you want to see breath ing done us It ought to be; or If you have got out of the hubit of proper respiration, one of the first points to reuiemlier lu leurnlug to breathe Is to keep your shoulders down; they are In*-lined togo up before the lungs are tilled. Another part Is to get control over your lungs; till them slowly, l> iiig on your back of possible and feeling tlteui till; then cuipty tlleUl ut Will—> sometimes quickly, Sometime* slowly, I'uless the mind has control uf tlu« muscles which distend anil empty the lungs, then it U 110 use trying to breuthe An hour's practice dally will do you more good than ull the gym nasiums In tlie world. Yes, breathing Is undoubtedly a lost art. If we are t« remain a le-uithy nation. It must ret MI tied, liostoii Transcript PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Fair words never hurt the tongue.— George Chapman. Nature fits LIT children with some thing to do. —Lowell. What can't be cured must be en dured.— Robert Burton. Sorrows remembered sweeten pres ent joy.—Itobert Pollock. The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.—Milton. We may give advice, but we cannot Inspire the conduct—Rochefoucauld. Clearly the mold of a man's fortune Is in his own hands.—Francis Bacon. Not being untutored in suffering. I learn to pity those in affliction.—Virgil. We want not time, but diligence, for great performances.—Samuel John son. You should forgive many things in others, but nothing in yourself.— Ausonius. Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, doth burn the heart to cin ders.—Shakespeare. Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.—Wendell I'hiilips. The hypocrite would not put on the appearance of virtue if it was not the most proper means to gain love. —Addi- son. BRIDE AND CRITICS. Stie Was Ilnppv snil Wished to B«si M hut Folks Said of Her. "My wife has had lier curiosity ap peased In a way that will satisfy her for some time," said the newly married man as he smiled, according to the Detroit Free Press. "It was my idea to make our wedding trip as quiet as possible and do away as much as we could with the annoyance that usually attends wedding couples. Hut the lady said that she was proud of being a bride and that she wanted to hear the comments that people would make. With this end in view she hit upon the crazy notion of playing deaf and dumb and going through a lot of monkey shines with our lingers to carry out the scheme. She reasoned that this would cause people to talk in our presence and thus we would be able to heai what they said. "I opposed the idiotic idea from th( start, but what 1 said cut 110 figure and I had to consent to the plan. Our first chance to try the scheme occurred in a railway station, where we were wait ing for a train. My wife commenced her pantomime and I had to carry it out, feeling like a fool while 1 was do ing it. She wobbled her fingers and 1 wobbled mine and we soou had every one staring at us. There were two women seated back of us and the cont inents she desired so much to heai soon came. " "It's a newly married couple," said one. 'The poor things are deaf and dumb. Isn't it awful?' " 'What do you suppose he saw in her?' asked the other. 'She is posi tively homely.' " 'And 1 believe her hair Is bleached, 1 said the first woman. " 'And her hat is out of date,' was the next startler. " 'Looks like an old one made over,' was the reply. "'Her dress wrinkles in the back,' said the first. " "She's :ir> if she's a day, and she looks a.s if she had a frightful tem per," putin one of them. "Right there my wife found hei tongue and her remarks to those two women left no doubt about her having that important article that women art supposed to exercise so freely." There Ar« Two Heut Centres. The eastern and western shores ol the Atlantic ocean afford a very strik ing illustration of the varieties of tern perature from the line which theoretl rally should prevail. On the Amerl can continent the effects of isolation and radiation have free play, and as t result great diversities of climate art experienced within a couiparatlvelj short length of country: places onlj a few hundred mile; apart exhibiting great differences between their meat annual temperatures. No such diversity exlf-ts 011 the east eru side of the Atlantic, there ltyiu| only about one-half of the variety oi mean annual temperatures in an equal line of coast line that exists on tin opposite side ol' the ocean. The gull stream Is responsible for the stability of the climate of the Ilritish isles bin there are other Instances where ar ocean reduces the temperature In ae cordatice with Its latitude, the de crease of temperature from the cqitu tor to the poll s being more rapid Ami under existing conditions. Not only docs the heat equator no' Include the geographical equator, but the heat equator changes Its posit lot ami migrates from one place to in* other. Ncweaotle (Kng i t'hrouit le. Ah KnlsrprUiiii l.uilv livpurter. No modern reporter ever Miipa-sed (11 Impudent cut rpil».- Miss Ami Itoy all. wlui conducted a go-slpy Jourun> culled I'aul Pry at Washington, buck In the 'ins. shi' wanted very much to get 11 "chut with the president" foi her paper, but tailed to do so until ut laat she saw aud Improved her op|ior tunlty. President Tyler was fond ol swimming, and one day when he win Inking a butli lu tie- Potomac, Ami ({<•>' all came along and sat down on hit clothes, demanding an Interview HI the prh eof her departure The prcsl. lent, li'iig U louden! 1111111, w:|i> olillg, t|, though with much relucmiifi- to griui| Ihe lUIWVIvW ileinuuileil llill* rccov* I erilig his appal L KMIIKU* I'UI JMUS Vul. ST. VITUS' DANCE Three great and complete cures effected by Dr. Greene's Nervura Blood and Nerve Remedy. Mrs. J. A. Ferre, who resides near 90S Main Street, Hartford, Conn., says: ** My daughter I*ulu beettne very ill with St. Vitus dance over a year ngo. She became «o bad that she lost the use of her right arm and side, and we thought at one time she would lose her speech. Her tongue was almost paralyzed, bhe was so bad ahe could not feed herself, aud at night she would get so nervous I nad to sit and hold her. I tried several doctors, but they did not do her any good. I did not find anything that would help her until I tried Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. She is now, by the use of this mediciue, entiiely cured." C. H. Bailey, Esq., ol Waterbury, Vt., writes; "I am more than glad to write about mv little daughter. Until a ahort time ago she had al ways beeu a very delicate child aud aubject to nick apella lasting weeks at a time. She was very nervous, and our family doctor satd we would never raise her, she was so delicate and feeble. We tried many remedies without the least good. We felt much anxiety about her, especially as no doctors could benefit her, and had great (ear for her future I,earuing of the wonc.ers being done by Dr. Greene's Nerrura blood aud nerve remedy, I determined to give it to her. She soon commenced to Improve under lta use, aud rapidly gaiaed in every respect. She eats and sleep* well, and her nerves are strong. The medicine hss done wonders for her aud A is the best >»• •ver knew. 1 recommend Dr. Greene's Nervura, bload and nerve remedy, to everybody." Mrs. J. Learmonth, of 776 Broadway, South Boston, Mass., says: "At ten years of age my daughter became affected with a nervous condition which soon do. veloped into St. Vitus' dance. It was pronounced by the attendinj physician to be a very severe attack. The mouth would be drawn spasmodically far to one side, the hands and arms were re*t- Icso and constantly t\*ltchlnz. Her .hubs also were weak; her ankles bent under her so that 1» was almost irapr.ssihle to walk. She was so nervous that she would scream almost like a maniar and thea have fits of crying. After two months' treatment without a cure, I concluded to try Dr. Greeae'a Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Three bottles entirely cured hef. £»hc u no* thirteen years old, and lias been well ever aiuce, aud to-day is a picture of health." 11l Detroit two of the newspapers lave started a free school of deport nent and dancing for newsboys and •.heir sisters. Each boy is allowed a ;erin of twelve lessons. A Cruise In Southern Sens. The Pout,hern Railway, in connection with •lie Uni'ed Fruit Co.'a Steamship Lines via sow Orleans, have placed on sale one-way md excursion tickets to the principa? ports >f Central and South America. Elegant iteamshlp sails from New Orleans upon ar •lval of the Washington and Southwestern Limited, via the Southern Hy., which oper ites solid train Dining and Drawing Koom Sleeping tars New 1 ork to New Orleans. The United Fruit Company Steamship Line's 'Hulicil Vail Lin*" leaves New (trleaus every Thursday '.I a. m.for Belize, British Honduras, Puerto Barrios, (Guatemala, and l*uerto Cor x-z, Spanish Honduras. Connection for Uuat- Mimla. Tegucigalpa and the interior. "I'list Mail Line" for Port Limon leaves New Oi eans every Friday H a. m., connecting for Burns del Toro. Colon, Hluetlelds, Ureytown, ran Jose and interior towns. A delightful winter cruise. Less than SIOO for round trip Sew York to Central America, Including meals and stateroom on steamships. Full par ticulars, sleeping car and steamship reserva tion, atTlckel Agent Southern Hy., 271 and 11H1 Broadway New York, or to Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Pass. Agt., 1185 Broadway, New York. More than 100,000 acres of pent are said to be available in the Canadian province of Ontario. Th« Bart Prescript!** '•» Chill* and Fever Is a bottle of OKOVI'I TASTILIW CBII.L TONIC. 1» Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. rrlce sou. The commonest cf all trees is the fir tree, which flourishes in every part of the world. FITS permanently cured. 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