INTEREST ON AGRICUL. TURAL TOPICS. NOTES OF Planting In Rows ~ Arsenate of Lead Wood For the Stove In Summer Cranberry - Suggestions About Lawns Ete, Etc Planting in Rows ing tried rious mit of ten cultivate plant an nos, SON « With the vou annot n the early well as the Lyon, Wood For the Stove in Summ a sien noe and can | sired conscie = hardy and in propagated from layer Agricultural Epit where almos wed, Suggestions About the Lawn, There may Iwautiful for 3 y ‘ De other grasses jst as an early spring or Iate fall lawn as blue grass, but I have not them, The trouble with blue crass {8 that it i= no grass for the heat ed part of the year, Taking all things into consideration one would probably more that does not become dry and dead during sumer. Nothing is more orna mental than a shapely arbor covered with some leafy vine. For this pur pose wild grape is both hardy and of a beautiful shade of green, It will fur nish an abundance of shade Woven wire fencing makes an excellent trel lis for vines, The only drawback that the wire becomes heated in sun and burns the Unless shnde soon hier satisfied with a grass the in the the the the vines, vines are heavy enough to wire, it Is not advisable fae fencing Avold stiffness, Make eir- leg and curves te Do not make to rule, make a winding one considered sensible hy this business Hike age, but it adds beauty to a lawn In putting out and planting flowers amd shrubs, remember that effect and beauty do not always follow becnuse of great variety, Too varied a colli tion may be tiresome. When spend. ing an afterfoon in an arbor or shady wont, 1. Trewin, in American wulturist, Bee Moths, ally xo in eariler fd nk pest moths, CRI when they go! down w this was the gre Crem) contend with Usually a good strong colony of bees itd danger of belong! but if and they pied we any kind are not tl we have | the native bee fre thus af omb the Li fected and the infested with Vis should IIs f ure WOTTs, ull HE cut out and the comb contninin build 1 codon! 1 in str ive remove best we can, and thin ength If tney he y queen and a amount of bee \ an, by feed to breed rapialy amd it there is bud $11 tle thought frame Italinn novable 3 ve ome 80 weak Ftalinn bees they do not ind of ative bees, his, it matters not they ally when in old wl Hol what Kk hives are i bit Os uently f COR Are inipulated seldom get 1H anage even 0 kinds | Shesp Husbandry a1 treat each of pv n a rational and fH" eRe “0 sucecessial Jer fi cial feeds and the tiles, ally necessary as to the Weak sheep need best and most diges be Kept distin tly hey fs they newd the effects even spocial “lH which should Linea medicinal separate for use, eapuently need watching closely of separate pens treatment to sometimes ahiould be provided in which the needed bw American observe this, amd attention 8 ween Sheep Breede: ay Short and Useful Paragraphs. 'eas and oats, sown together, make an excellent food for sheep one is wheat Known Clover, and of the proving land, prortatoes rotations for im bow Exercise is a great tonic for pigs amd one of the ways of coaxing them to take on fat and muscle, is went Farmers ought to pay more attention | the Kitchen for niee fresh vegetables during (he summer months ars not to be despised garaen, No doubt LO per cent, of the fallures | to grow fruit by farmers are caus by soll exhaustion, You fertilize your other evops, why not fertilize the trees? The ladybugs are the armory | frands, for they have even been oly | worved to go down among the roots of in thelr search for the grain Men cantot manufactioe any article | withaut the raw material, amd with a ely the same, Keg things plain shields HE OYsie] practically the The sibling shells moral is Vegetable cultivated for their leaves, pitlitlower, letinee, usunl phosphoric “tech ciabbages, « ns than the md ole require Hoye amount of nitrogen ned Don't forget this when buving It is srower sine | Using ped Appl no bad taste from i frit which to pre "Hron iro} Hn Arg in serve fruit s ned pears acquired and Kept for many proved successful rTM 1s, Charles A, Dana as Head Waiter. spur meals, they were anlk il times fon humor, interchange of Ars thantic pleasant Ora Gannett Sedg. When into three one have heen very ord young man, organized a corps of rs from among onr nicest young for were had people, whose meals kept hot them, and they turn they Mr. Dana ing book between What a Scout Endarcd. ontained had ery iis 13 : been young ARNON aid an put been rh had . and had, aracieristic fa doubt fiotes of the the Kind th many p at in habitedd thie vient £1 it Was many i nearest swab or lowland find a redwinged bias i learned perfectly caged com- panions, and had picked up some notes of birds in the neighborhood, but fost the red winged black bird know.’ ther members in where ing ad iis khird The red-w the notes of other one note of did he Fish Commits Seicide, \ giant star fish was recently cap tured and placed on exhibition in an aquarinm in Ran Francisco, The morning after its capture it was found that of the rays of the star was separated from ifs body, It was thought that a inned crab, which occupied the same tank, must be gullty of assault and battery, and it was ac. taken out Next morning, however, two more of the star's rays had been separated from its body, and then an watch was set. 1t was found that the star fish, apparently dissatis- fled with its surroundings, was delib- crately dismembering itself. This pro. was continned until all the six arnig had been east off, and there was aothing left of the original star fish one hig in Marshall County, Va, 5 4 mouna seventy-five feet in height which is be. be the monument to some aborigine of high rank. It is known a% Mammoth Mound, and i an object of great interest to travellers, In 1 1 1 THE BRAVE BOER WOMEN. SHARE THE PERILS OF BROTHERS AND SONS, They Are Doing Everything They Can to Aid the Soldiers in the Field.--The Pre’ vailing Feeling Among the Transvaa' Women. None bint the fou ain! Boers ean remember thu fathers elderly women the Trapsy great trek of 1856 when their ind grandfathers abandoned the home Natal and tolled he lofty platenu Land made in up fey Ww hors Jr spe founded thelr republic. Those the 1 any until They were still re more try than unl women ever Ei hegnt i font wagons en thos \intabele began, and no women Hving in terrible wars w branch af the Zulu tr could th tin Pee shiow more wonderful spirit and constancy than those wives and moth ers of the Boer ploneers in the midst a nara of appalling dhidd dangers and Hips Matabeles which Hol the ind anrd ns behind indo Hh phert’s army around Ladys rin the throng saw f gun over haps 1 to bid told as mother, it was my and {I thonght the sooner the better. For if 1 have done wrong.” the mother to go and “Mother he answered per Fas Wrong st i vould not beat you goodbye 3 were to be left Yon 10 20 sOOner on Semi AN Wye wav duty or later give me “You are repl ed. “It son, duty right, my ix your f i i it might be better to wait a (Jo, you have my bless should have told me” thought months, it fow ing. you a «mile on hor face as she Jeft the car, though tears stood in her eyes in the Boer States, as they have start. ed for the fighting lines, has been a triumphal procession, and hamlets the women cannot do enough for the soldiers, They have marched with all the commandos to the railroad stations, They visit all the camps before the start for the front, bringing baskets of food warm from many of our sol Civil War, con ns the “housewives” diers carried In the taining mending material and imple ments compactly packed, and other things that may somewhat alleviate the discomforts of soldier life. The women of Bloomfontein who, perhaps, are today expecting the speedy invest. ment of their beautiful little town by the British army are sald to have been especially enthusiastic in cheering on the soldiers, doing everything in their power for their comfort and filling the vanks ax full as possible, Ag long as ine commmdos ave within reach dele of women Irom are with them, helping io foo] To=i.. fresh in egy comin miltted fontein fee, nnd applies tl posed iit Are worl the ints honest hatred sirenpt —r | paraiys vould certainly be no ranks T hi letter writls at Pretoria war begn woo up there ritish roin a peated wolnnn after ment the montn in sent which all Bo class exprivss; 1«¢ all o. to y this 1 old enough English; ie, wtnid lend out i Priam help Huts of the Navaho Indians tures were, they lack the T hoes as 0 IR, sary look playhouses, but they occupy an Navaho they an swent and the main reliance those people against sorcery and Each of these structures signed hold but one person at a time. and he must crawl in and squat upon his heels, with his knees drawn up to his chin—New York Post miniature } man's hip like the &ysiom for tant place in the are bath of dis hotses or honses is ease ae to Saffragists Reply to Greeley. An amusing story is told of Horace Greeley's argument with an advocate of women's rights. They had gone over the entire question, amd the fa- editor thought to wind up in triumph by firing an unanswerable question at the abl er presentative of her sex, “in time of war” ntended, “women are useless. What would you do in the event of a civil war?” “jpet what you would do, Mr. Greeley,” replied his opponent, prompt. iy; “1 should stay in my office aud wrile articles urging other people to he © No One Nigh Mother—1'm surprised at you! Con's pot you tell he wae going to kiss you? Paughter-Yes, ma, but there was no one for me 10 tell except him, and he knew it already. Philadelphia ross, HX — — The number of waves required to produce the sensation of red as they break upon the eye must be 30.000 in an inch and 447,000000000000 in a second, CHINESE POSTAL FACILITIES. Lefters Carried by Private Companies =~ Slight Use of Postage Stamps. Mott with establishment i oh particular by sit spd bitants of inquiry who do according [iin thier enough Postal Service in China, | being {is ¢ 3 | Yanotse nieng streams of ttl nropell in a noved power, The man sloers ried in | foanner by pean the with one Land and holds n the His pipe his mouth, and his eyes are gined to his course in the water. The infusion of Western engineering ideas into China will soon be followed by more modern methods in the handling of the mails there, Going to Bed in India Going to bed In India is a very dif ferent process from going to bed at home to begin with, it is a far less formal process, There is no shutting the door, no cutting yourself off from the outer world, no going upstairs and finally no getting into bed. You mere ly lle down on your bed, which, with its bedding, is so simple as to be worth describing. The iad is a wooden frame with webbing laced across if, and each bed has a thin cotton mat tress, Over this one sheet is spread, and two pillows go to cach bed. That's alll-Keottish American, works with } a big parasol ther, is always in A Literary Secret. A man was dizcnseing ligeratore with a second-hand bookseller in Paternos. ter Row yesterday, and a bystander overheard the following conversation: “By the by, who is the author of ece Homo'?? The bookseller paused for a moment and rubbed his chin re flectively. “Well” he sald, “that's hardly a fair question. There's only a few of ue as have the secret, and it's not supposed to be known” The in quirer immediately apologized for his rish question, and the bookseller for gave him.~—Londou Globe,
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