Keeping an Eye on the "Kids."
The school board officer in a town |
which shall be nameless, recently receiv.
ed an anonymous letter informing him
that at a certain house were two kids that
were not attending any school. He at
once started for the bouse indicated, and
in reply to his official knock came the
good woman of the house.
“You have two children who do not go
to school,” said the officer.
¢ “Children?” said the woman.
no children.”
“Oh, yes, you have,” said the officer.
The woman stepped back and called
her husband,
“Here, John; here's a man who says
we have some children, aud they don’t go
to school.
“You are mistaken, gir,” said he.
“But read this,” persisted the officer.
The man read at first with a puzzled
“Wa've
his face.
“Yes,”
must admit it.
schools, certainly,
like to send them.”
“It doesn’t matter what vou like
will have to go,’ suid theoflicer.
me see them.’
The man meekly led the way to an out-
house, where, calmly reposing by
he said at last, ‘1 suppose 1
My kids don't attend
because I ret lly don’t
they
“Lot
itable kids.”
““ He Laughs Best
Who Laughs Last.”’
A hearty laugh indicates a
degree of good health obtain-
able through pure blood. As
but one person in ten has
pure blood, the =ther nine
should purify the blood with
Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Then
they can laugh first, last and
all the time, for perfect hap-
piness comes with good health
Hood's . Pi & cure Hver | it Hs; the non lrritating and
only cathartic to take “with “Hood's Sarsapariiia
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Why He Knew.
Samuel Partridge apce published an
almanac in London which bad a great cir
culation in England. It
popular among the farmers,
predicted the weather a year in advance.
One day, while Partridge was making
a trip in the country, he took dinner at
an inn, and, when gsbout to resume his
journey, the hostler warned him that it
was about to rain. Partridge paid no
attention and set out,
having been drenched by a heavy shower
He by the
weather wisdom that he offered
a crown to tell him how he could
with so much certainty
“Easy enough was the reply
have Partridge’s Almanac here.
‘Ah, to be sure,” said Partridge
smiling, “I had not thought of that.
*And that man.” went on the hostler,
“is such a liar that when 1 saw the Al
manac set down to-day as fair, 1 knew it
would rain.”
Partridge paid the crown in silence
was especially
because it
but soon
hosters
the man
predic t
Wis so impresse d
“We
Ves,
EE ———— a
The common opportunity comes, as
the divinest opportunity in the whole his-
tory of the world came, cradled in ob.
scurity.
money to
Snely.
catalo
tells a
niture,
Our seral
ue No,
about a
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» ors, Plotures, Mat-
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Mirrors, Baby Carriages, Stoves, Bedding,
Upholstery Goods, Clocks, Crockery, Tin.
ware, eto,
Catalogue No. 50 shows wonderful bar
ins in Pianos, Organs, Bicycles sil
Sewing Machines,
Qur 10-color Lithographed I
No. 47 shows Carpets, Rugs, Portieres and »
face Curtains in hand-painted colors. &
Carpet sewed and lined free, and freight &
prepaid,
We manufacture
Clothing ($5.50 to
£14.90) cut to your
MOASUTS, FUATAD-
anteed to fit, and
prepay exXpressage.
Catalogue No, &7
shows samples of
Cloth and many
bargains in Shoes,
Hats, Mackintosh-
os, and Gents” Fur.
nishings.
Why pay retail prices when you can
buy cheaper than your loca! dealer? All
catalogues are free, Address this way :
Price £3.50.
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aspen pe Se Se De a Sp pp wileeiieaio lol
Complicated.
European tongues give no notion of
the tricks and complieations which sav.
| age men devise to express their simple
Observe the detail of gender.
It seems to us that nature itself has regu-
i lnted that matter for all. In most
languages insuimate things are treated
or feminine; but. in any
female and neuter genders ex
Y ou ennnot have
or less than
distinguished
rs to the civilized mortal, But
n of Daly River
while an
Dray
they
Daly
once
sculine
male,
jaust the possibilities
more than three
two, for the sexes must be
So it appes
Austr
recognize four,
North America
! have two, indeed, but
and female. For the
insists that plants sha g
their own; the Algonquin and the Dra.
vidian agree that it is
wind dead, not that
The
minle
as ma
Cuse,
genders,
contrives
anu
Algonquin of
idian of India
@ not male
3
ana bo
nt
Ver person
" :
Il have a gender
the distinction of
living ¢
great Falah
and female,
gender for
human beings ‘and evervthing that re-
Intes thegeto, and anothe er for all
tures anll things outside
The Australians of the e Dal y
ut gender their
do not call upon them to agree
miele T
Anothe r con
inn the Daly river is the
adjective des sis
and plural they have,
the dual, ‘and they ny
of it One
resources of
plural
cus by £ hange
of the
midway
Antipodean
These
slural by a ch
i the verb, i
suc a a lin ve iy
+ that language is more compli ated,
TT to
speaker's meaning. in proportion
should be maintained.
nation also ignores ale
making one comprehensive
ered.
river act.
into verbs: but
with
anal 1
ly
‘ : i
noun in og 08 Well Os inn
trivance gh
infleo-
STRON.
te lose ad
gular
x.
fon of the Besi
as wp shonld
#
pect, ery strict
about the
thie
say that
human speech not
namber to be formed,
the first or the
the i
se « wot ld
0G
in
nterposition
Turkish
is equal
while HOU on
ingen:
task. i
in the
whole,
the
« ot
OE the
nonn.
there
i
1 fpr
i nny
i i
¢
i a 0
inte rprot
to the
and sO ipulous
who use it
barbarism of those it
- a —
Good for Admittance
theatre ticket
admi Umiong, ¢
inused is
An
good for an
though the
upon
eu
“Lrooel for this date
the
vould be
only
fo
othe Tr fitae.,
" stamped
that it
P Toba
accept that
lity of making use
therefore few make
any fesunt part of the
worth of their money they were
prevented by any cause from using the
ticket on the date marked on it. Bat it
could be presented atany time and would
be good for admission. Any theatre
manager would have to recognize the
holder's right to enter the theatre, al-
though that would, of course, carry with
it no right to the seat. It is that right
which is limited to the principal date.
For all other purposes the ticket is quite
pastebosrd
used at no
bly most of the Pp
proving the impossi
of the ticket
attempt to
AOCins mean
hlie ns
and
get at
when
health.
paid.
says:
WOMAN'S
DEVOTION
TO HOME
I had female troubles of
Some said
have an
operation performed. But oh!
The oy rowley Even
ills is un
Mrs. Lydia E.
charge of the
led; for years
Pinkham
I tried your Vegetable Come
pound instead. I cannot say
too much in its praise, nor
thank you enough for what it
has done for me. [ want you
to publish this in all the papers
for the good of other
The wives and
mothers of America
are given to over.
work. Let them be
wise in time and at
the first indication
of female trouble
write to Mrs. Pink.
ham at Lynn, Mass.,
forheradvice. This
in treating female
she worked side by side with
d it of her great busi.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
TOPICS.
and Stored Grain, Eic., Ete,
Grow New Fruits Sparingly.
It Is not advisable to try many new
fruits until they have been thoroughly
tested, Most states have horticuitural
experiment stations, operated by
fate horticultural society, and all
states have a government experiment
station where novelties should be test
ed before they are tried en the farm
on a large scale, It will do no harm
to grow a few pew plants to see what
+ they will do in your locality, but do
not #pend much money on them.
A Remedy for Borers.
Where the trees rough bark
remove all the fons by serap-
ing with some blunt instrument.
Then sernb the trunk and the lower
part of the HHmbs with a mixture made
by mixing one quart soft
one pound of hard soap with
long of water, and after mixture
been heated to bolling add
| pint of ernde acid, A small
| amount of par and Hme may
be added to this, if desired, With the
| scrubbing brush mixture to
| the frees early In June and then tw
jo
weeks
hnve o
project
of soap of
two gal
the
has one
carbalic
iS Bledel
apply this
¢
t at Intervals or three
{ thers
{ cations is
nud
of these appli
the laying
grabs
miter we object
vert of
ta pre
ateling
the lu
Grapes for Family Use,
are fami
of
«till many farmers’
hall
fam
have not the supply
that should rr
It iv a fruit irs only
three momh } hie markets
1
every iS
tire, appes
i two or
WOR Tse Io varieties,
f andd tle
keeper N
wie
» POO]
wever, enonech
quality,
y y §
i Kilis 03
always
| ware
i certain
i does the
¢, unless
able to
insects and Stored Grain.
The Lepr dat [
tack store
ly
We
fd gre
prevent
nol
have
s
should
thes
5 fares
in thes
fGeql
But
of
This
1
fuflamable
Kept av fire, At
Cratures it vaporizes
|
than
and niust from
Li
alr. descends
ill anSthing in
avier
ind will
being
into the grai
is alive
The manner of applying it is to pour
it lute shallow dishes, and set them on
the surface grain, From a
pound to a pound and a half may we
seed for tight bing, but open bins and
eribs will require a larger quantity,
The grain may exposed to the treat.
ment for twenty-four hours, or eved
longer, without injuring it for milling
purposes, and without destroying its
power of germination. If buildings
are badly infested, it i= well to repent
the treatment, in warm weager, in
about six weeks, Bisulphide of car
bon is not expensive, If bought at
wholesale, the cost of treating a ton
of grain would not be over twenty
cents at most. The Epitomist,
Take Care of the Chicks.
Keep them and their coop free from
vermin, Keep them in dry coops on
rainy days, Damp quarters or run
ning ont of wet days will thin ont the
flock from chill and diarrhea.
I like to have a variety of food, espe
Lclally wheat, for those three or four
weeke old, It satisfies them Jonger,
and If sand and small grit are used
they grow like woods, We lost but
three, two of them Killed,
this epring. We kept them in a clean,
dry house, The south side is gereened
with chicken wire and can be opened
to the sun, On cool days 1 do not let
the hens out, but the chi
out and in,
like two large doors, and can be raised
to any height or sloped down to make
a roof to Keep off rain. 1 feed coarse
corn menl, bran and shorts, They have
clover amd grass pasture on fine days,
I put about twenty with each hen
Take off two hens at once if I can
and put the chickens in one pen. 1
have it so the chicks ean pass from
one pen to the other freely, for it is
hard to Keep them in thelr own place.
If the hens are cross and there is not
an easy way io escape, many are
killed.
+3
Of Laer
be
in a roomy lath coop or tie ber up by
the leg with a soft string till she is
better or the chicks large enough to
keep out of her way,
It doesn’t pay to set hens where
biiry Tay wih them and break theif
CEES, ther does it pay to hal
or 400 chicks and let half of them die.
1 Jock guy tu ike suse of tiem,
months last ;
| have sold nearly $50 worth of chick-
ens, also equal value in eggs and have
{ 110 hens left to earry on my business
this year, besides the eggs and chick
[ens used, of which I took no account.
{I don’t know anything else that can
pay so large a profit on the capital
fand time javested. 8, N, Wolcott in
| the Orange Judd Farmer,
How to Make Hot-Beds.
t There Is really no great art In mak-
{Ing a hotbed, yet there are require-
{ments about it that must be complied
{ with to attain desired results, The
object almed at 8 to produce a steady,
permanent temperature, much above
that of the season, A well drained,
well protected spot should be selected
for such a bed, Lay off the s for
the bed as large ax desired: make the
frame that Is to go over it the size of
the sashes with which it 5 to be cov
Then remove the earth to about
in depth. On the bottom
straw or forest leaves which
serve, in oa measure, to prevent the
heat from belng absorbed from the
manure by the earth.
The best material for the bed, and
that commonly used, Is moderately
coarse stable manure, If the manure
very dry, when piling it start
fermentation, moisten it pretty freely
with w The more thoroughly the
manure is pulverized and mixell with
short straw litter, and the more firmly
it is pressed down, the more heat will
evolved, and the more even and
durable will be His warmth, Put in
manure to about inches above the
surface of the ground,
firmly. Over
1 to the
would be better,
ite
spread
byes to
nter
be
six
pressing it
spread fine,
depth of six
before
down this
inches
spread
to kill all
When the
snbulides a
ing it, to heat it, in order
insects it
iempera
cottain,
bsdd
about eighty
put in
than
Then when
4
start, thin
ny
ture
eg
thie
2%
af the
ree re
Drill
they
the
fon
ged ¥ foie
le
io grow
Fo0q
seeds a lite closer
{ allowed
gel 8 ot
apart
nl y avold Injury
n heat and cold,
middle of a
Hikels wilt
On the other
to a lower de
rainous, To
vold injury
and
io
and
§
the plants,
md, a sudden change
would 4
iY
iy
fain equ 3
Riso to
¢ the sashes
wd 3
il Hat
10 enter
When
in
ith
mperaiure
approaches, of
or th spss
old
plants
spread
thie
carpets
become
Ove a
nitural
How Shall Oats be Seeded
The best
omnis
kot
plowed to a depth
localities where
feed and for mar
ground should be
four inches,
farmers in
are grown for
believe that the
of wr]
one-half
and the field
grain
i pulverized
Held should
» rate of two and
48 pet
til sure
the ground
The
sts fic
ry
faery,
that the in
and
and well compact
not worked
The tem
until
piation Ix ve
we
strong
Hg “to £0
er wtelil
0 wil
damage
dition of
nd as a result much
» to the nl con
ils
etable
yet wet, a
fa doy pec haa i
the
Hat
i “bake”
A Rls
ally on
contain much veg
SHR
as carly in =pring as practica-
work
but it must
the
on the ground are sprouting
Aust tn the i=
very easily Killed by cold weather and
is better to walt until
all danger of freezing is over, If the
#oil is very lHegbt and open, it may be
well to roll the ground amd follow
roller with a slant toothed harrow,
which will form a dust mulch and
prevent excessive evaporation. This,
however, is not often necessary.
If it is thought best to sow grass or
clover seed with oats, use a very light
seedling of oats, say 8 bushel or a
bushel and a half per acre, and a
heavy seeding of grass and clover
seed, Many people object to using
oats as a nurse crop for grasses and
clover, claiming that the heavy leaf.
age of oats will smother out the grass
plants. This, however, is not true if
the seeding of cate is light and it is
the experience of many of our best
farmers that during the dry season
no method is so effective in securing
a cateh of grass as seeding with oats,
1t i= much better than seeding with
rye or with any other winter grain, as
thie seed can be harrowed in and the
thus placing the roots
That is,
of thie
tibered
the sooner this in
the better
wf
that after
Way
Fea onts
and
about sprout,
germ
i alisedjuently it
the
be killed by spring or early summer
In a field of winter grain the
on top and a slight
in many localities, particularly in the
newer sectiong of the country and to
a considerable extent over the middle
west, it is the practice to have the
ont crop follow corn. The corn stalks
are removed and the oats seeded on
top of the ground and then plowed un.
der with a enltivator or disk harrow or
some such shallow-going implement.
The harrow follows and levels the
ground. During wet seasons this does
vory well, but when the weather is
dry, as has been the ease frequently
during the last ten years the shallow
layer of loose ground treated by the
cultivator ie pot sufficient to prevent
evaporation and consequently there is
a great injury from drouth, Many a
farmer has lost his entire crop of oats
becanse of hix failure to spend a day
or two more on his seadhed This
covering with a cultivator is not to be
recommended
%
Italy now Turniahon a 1
of immigrants to the
A THRILLING SCENE AT HAVANA,
A Missionary Urges Forgiveness for Spals
in Dramatic Fashion.
Sometimes mere personal force and
¥ regarded as sacred by its champion
#Hl In a moment overcome long stand
ng hatred, The Cuban people have
nany reasons to regard the Spanish
{1 their sland with deep resentinent
among them who are trying to put an
end to the feeling for the sake
future good of the sland,
One of reconcilintion Is the
wey, pelonary of tu
He has
ongregation
advoente
Dr. Diaz. a
Baptist Church In
Havana
mi
uba.
a considerable
Gli 4 recent i,
dred Cubans
Gethsemane
with emotion hy
gaze a Mauser rifle,
“This,” he sald, “is th
which Spain k
Seale, duit
show our honesty
not ure it on
have a «
eviend when five hon
were assembled at his
Church, hie filled them all
holding up to thel
weapon with
many f
ied si i
her,
forgive
of pur
Lier 1
Wie
PoORe, We will
that
will for
opie now
Instea , Wwe
god th
we
hance,
all about it,
get row this plece
anide,
There
“We enn
cited andience;
aside and
were
never forgive” }
Dr. Diaz thre
went to enforce
but
gun on
lesson,
smnll cannon
the Mauser rifle
an old Spanish
instantly
from
sword and
hie
using in
urn no
Here
the audien
Hold ing 1}
thie uproar
And
thin?”
about
Iv
pressiy
words
Companion
The Abstinence of a Camel.
There fal
Supp |
id to
matter
His
vel
Work as
we
CEL ts fot
carps watered
second day in the summer,
winter, gi
we trained then
im only
nid that this mp
The
without
ing the
neYer iy ovesd thelr
condition,
els longer
then they
tals are grazed on sof
ing ain amount of
lowers their condition and makes }
inferior to a corn-fod enmel when hard
work and long, fast journess have to
be done
We always found that If we
grassfod Arab camel alongside
pure it failed in work and endurance;
if corn-fod it cried ont for water
soon and sooner than ours did. 1 say
“ericd out” because a camel when it
wants water moans continually,
there Is no more painfol 'd nt
in the desert than the ceaseless moan
ing of thirsty camels —The Cornhill
Arabs Kes 4 Cain
», but
their
water, it is troe
travel slower and their ant
found, contain
moisture; this
then
a cert
put n
ax
The Bluest Blood in ladia
His Highness Maharana
Fateh Ringh Babadur, G. C. 8, L. of
OQodeypore, is the sixtieth or =o chief of
his dynasty. founded by Bappa about
A. D. 728 His position is unique, for
his house wag the only one from which
the Delhi Emperors cond not force a
bride. The Mewar chiefs’ refusal to
let the blood of the Mabometan con
querors mingle with that of their
daughters would probably have been
got over had they been nearer to hand,
as Jeypore and Jodhpore were. It
never was got over, however: hence
the bluest blood in India-—the cream of
Rajput aristocracy. His Highness,
who was born in 1850, succeeded his
kinsman in 1884; is reserved, dignified,
of active and temperate habits, a good
horseman, and has Killed more tigers
than any other Prince. He is the hus.
band of one wife--another unusual dis.
tinetion—and bas one son, born in 1884,
Ag a ruler his Instincts are conserva.
tive; rarely leaving his own State, he
has seen little of the outer world.
The Sketch.
Swords Giving Exceptional Privileges.
It t« announced hy the Imperial Gas
gotte of Pekin, the court circular of the
Chinese Empire, that the Dowager
Empress has presented two “Schang-
Fang” swords, one to Prince Tea
ot
Prince Teal Liew, 111, grade. nde.
right of beheading any man. woman
ur chills! wh suey hive fieited Js o
The idea of the sword, however, is
that it is a safeguard against treason,
The bearer must Instantly do away
with any one who may have designs
ignivet the ruling family, and thas dis.
ourage “lese-majoste.” At the same
it Is a mark of esteem for those
The Bchang- Fang sword dates back
centuries, still there 18 only one other
besides the just men-
in Chinese history,
sword was given to any
was presented on that ocea-
the Mon-Gol General Kal.
by Ewmperor Hsien Feeng.
ng the Tal Ping rebellion,
ROT distinguished himself by
seeptional and earned the
Generalisghinus,
Glee
recorded
this
it
10
Sehang-ah
vhen, iri
hat (ie
where
rank of
Japanese Pawabrokers.
Pawnbrokers Japan
Hove
$y it
would 5 to Euro
vet not enough to satisfy
Vv in quest
wholly
Diet
in not
100
enough,
fl
per
are
iarge than
3
thelr ANOeK,
dence, i Ree]
1
2
i
an
gent on, who assert that
ie is inadequate. The
hag been Considering
question of abolishing this restric.
f)
towns who sub
nbor find themselves constant!
money to buy their dinner. They
left
and bath
HaYe enough for their
tireakiast they seldom
eyond
stom,
A Unique Experiment.
proud
roval
IR
the time I fruit
deli
was
the
of the
inl
Ha mars
them
bow it
have late in
‘rancis
on of
Tres
the
4
, told how
ap
i thie
now and then,
required,
fing
was
weather
thheld the sunbeams from len
and that when he
Majesty's coming.
and in a few
them to maturity.
he berries,
«1 of Her
oved tent,
dnx # brought
Elizabeth, flattered 3
ended the
he
the sunny
nleased, come
r stibiect,
Age Attained by Birds
It is often asked how long
species of birds live, but there
information to be had on the
Recently Mr. J. H. Gurnéy,
in the “Ibis” has brought
number of statements
subject, and discusses it at some
length, Mr, in his “Birds of
Eoarope,” gives an instance of a raven
having lived sixty-nine years Mr.
Meade-Waldo has in captivity a pair
one of
ig sixtyeight and the other
fifty-three vears old, Sioce 1864 these
birds have bred regularly. and have
reared ninety-three young ones
different
ix little
definite
in A paper
together a on
Diresser,
Gardens at Amsterdam,
of fifty-five and fifty-two. An imperial
other birds of
downward are also
forty-two, and many
the age of forty
recorded,
“Victorian Manners.”
A young lady coming the other day
out of Rensington Parish Charch,
ing, among other articles of more or
less value, a dividend warrant. The
owner's card was also inside, the ad:
dress on it being that of a house In
a neighboring square. The finder
packed the purse up, directed. and
posted if, and took the trouble to reg.
ister it, nt a total vost of seven cents,
She had given her own name and ad.
dress, and, receiving no ackanowledg.
ment, she wrote, after a few days,
to inquire if the purse had been re
celvedd. In reply she got a posteard
pearing the words, “Yes, thanks" As
a sample of the manners of a certain
type of Englishwoman in the late
Victorian age. this will not be easily
Yeaten.— London Truth,
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The Word + Salary.” 2
The way languages are built ap le
very interesting, and the derivation of
the word “salary” ja curios 3s well