KEEPING GOLDFISH. Some I'laln llirectliiUß Almnt ChanK- Inn the W liter nml f'eeillnit That Are ICu«> to C'ltrry Out. Jt is remarkable how seldom people »re able to keep goldfish more than a month or two at most, and all because they neglect a few first principles. Gold fish can be kept almost any length of time. «vcidents apart, if kept scrupu lously clean. The air in the water is soon exhausted, and they should have fresh water every day. if possible, of tener in summer, though once will do if the globe is fairly large. One can usually tell when the fish are needing fresh water. They stand up on their tails with their mouths to the surface of the water and move slowly in that position, generally making a bubbling sound. When you put the fresh water Into the globe let it dash in from a ieight, so that plenty of air gets in, too, and let your fish have a handful of shells or small stones. They look pret ty, and the fish appreciate being able to poke about among them for bits of food, and it gives them something to do and a little interest in life, l'eople frequently make the mistake of think ing that the fish get- enough food out of the water. This is not so; they need feeding when in captivity. Packets of fishes' foods, chiefly consisting of dried ants' eggs, can be procured from any •eed or naturalist's shop. As they re quire only a very small quantity once e day, their board is not expensive. They will live on vermicelli, but this clouds the water, and consequently in jures the appearance of the globe. It is said that goldfish should never be handled. This is no doubt true, if CHICKEN A LA BARBACUE. An Appetizing' and Wholesome Spring and Summer Dinner for Northern Housewives to Try. Southern people know every dish into which chicken can be made. The northern housewives, unfortunately, are limited to plain boiled, broiled, roasted and fried chicken, but here is something for the northern housewife to try which may be new to her. Take a fat, tender spring chicken of rousting sue. Clean and wash well ancs«_t inside " \ V ia\ JJ J' \ and out. Sprinkle over with flour quite heavily. Place in a kettle with heart and liver njid two cups of boiling water. Let it boil well, as you would for a pot roast and baste very often. When about half done, or so that it scarcely resists the fork, add one-half a cup of vinegar, boil until done and take out. Chop the liver and heart and serve in the gravy. Chicken is delicious cooked this way and served cold. The rich gravy can be used as you would for a pot roast, and baste very easily removed when the gravy is cold. Veal can be barbecued and the vinegar will be found to take away the dry insipid taste which veal has when roasted plain. they are kept for breeding purposes. Otherwise, it does them no harm—if due care is exercised—and you may pick them up one by one in your hand and pop them into their globe of fresh water. Never buy a fish unless the fins are erect and fully spread. Directly the fish is out of health the fins close more and more until it dies, when they are quite shut up against the body.—Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune. COLOR COMBINATIONS. Xo Vague, t'llilecliletl Sliade* Sliould Ever He Worn by I terial and should be both bolted and nailed. Use eight one-half-inch bolts 12 inches long to secure the cross pieces to the main timber. The lad der itself is of oak to make it perfectly secure when a man climbs onto the load. The stakes at the back end are fastened with one bolt so that they may be turned down after the wagon is unloaded. They also should be made of oak or other hard wood. The materials for a rack of tills kind, not including the iron bows, cost at re tail in the ordinary country shopabout $2.50. Old wagon tires are found on nearly every farm or can be purchased for 25 to 50 cents. A good handsaw, a brace with several sizes of bits, a hatchet, a chisel and a square are all the tools necessary, and these should be on every farm. A blacksmith will make the tires into bows for a trifle, or a farmer may do this himself if he has an iron drill for his brace. A first-class hay frame can thus be made at home at the very small cost of three to four dollars, and if kept painted and under shelter when unused it will last many years. —Farm and Home. HIDES IN SUMMER. If You Tal»e Care of Them n* ller« Advlaed You M ill Save a (ireat Deal of Trouble. To cure a hide properly, it is first necessary to trim oil' all that does not belong to it, sucb as horns, tail-bones, sinews arid meat; ther. spread the hide out leaving no wrinkles ir. it and being careful to get legs and heads spread sc that salt can be sprir.kled on them, says the Nebraska Farmer. Then sprinkle salt evenly and freely on every part of the hide, putting on about three gallons of salt on a large hide, and •smaller ones in proportion: and nevei spread hides in the sun. Hides taken care of in this manner, after lying three or four days in salt, can be shipped almost any distance and In anj kind of weather, and go through in good condition aud with very little, if any, shrinkage. For shipping always tie your hides one in a bundle, as they often becsnie loose in transportation, and when more than one hide is tied in a bundle, the railroads deliver the proper number ol bundles, but not always the proper number of hides. Always write the person to whom you ship, notifying him the date you shipped, giving weights and number and stating whether horse or beef hides. All of this will be very little trouble and will sav® a great deal of trouble and possi ble mistakes. Sheep for Clearing; I,and. Wherever woodland is cleared a flock of sheep is extremely valuable to keep the cleared soil from being over grown with the bushes, weeds and shrubs which usually come up in fol lowing years. It is desirable to get thf cleared land in grass as soon as possi ble. When it is once seeded down it may be pastured with sheep all through the summer, not only without injuring the grass, but positively benefiting it, as tlie sheep will devote most of tl»eir time to trimming down the bushes and eating the leaves which shade the land. To make more thorough destruction of the shrubbery, an excess of sheep should be putin the cleared lot, and these must be fed some grain, so as to make their browse diet digest better. — American Cultivator. The Keet of the Colt. Neither the bones of the coft's leg nor the muscles and hoof of his foot have acquired sufficient firmness to en able it to be put on stable floors of either wood, stone or cement. If for any reason the colt cannot run with its dam while she is at work, let it have a yard by itßelf with a turf flooring rath er than put him in a floored stable. It is while the colt is young that the fu ture character of its feet is being de cided. Even in winter colts should be kept rather in box stalls, where a c d ding of their own excrement trodi a hard will be a better cushion for their feet than the most carefully cleaned floor stable could be. —American Cul tivator. CoMt of Ilaullnic Freight. The length of the public highways of this country is said to be 1,500,000 miles. The amount of freight hauled over them in one year is estimated at 600,000,000 tons, and the cost of cart ing it $1,000,000,000, but with really good roads this itr. J. C, Aver s Pills moderately, my bowels are kept in healthy action. They also prevent headache."— J. J. Convekse, St. Louis, Mo. r>r. Ayer's Pills are good for constipation under all circumstances and conditions. 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I>r. Ayer's Pills will cure constipation. If you doubt it send for Dr. Ayer's Curebook, free, containing the testimony of those cured by this remedy. Address j. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Preedom AsHured The 111. Clancy—Casey ? ('asey—Yis. "Don't vez wish thot Oireland belonged to Shpain?"—Puck. The lake and rail arrangements of the Bal timore & Ohio Railroad for this year are prac tically the same as were in effect in 1897. Freight for Lake Superior ports is sent by way (jf the Northern Steamship Company and the Owen line is used for the Lak« Michigan ports. The trans-lake Erie ar rangements are with the Detroit Steam Nav igation Company between Cleveland and Detroit and the Ashley & Dustin TJne and the Michigan & Ohio Car Ferry Company between Sandusky and Detroit. People are beginning to admit that many men are looking for work who do not want it. —Atchison Globe. Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up children's Coughs and Colds. —Mrs. M. G. Blunt, Sprague, Wash.. March 8, '94. A man isn't mighty because he never falls, but because of his ability to rise when he tumbles.—Chicago Daily News. 7