ITEMS OF INTEREST ON TURAL TOPICS. ACRICUL. A Farmer's Signboards- Making a Com fhe Maple Tree Worm—Ete., Ete. A Farmer's Signboards. The Fruit Grower says that there is no occupation in which evidences of real success or the reverse are as po- tent to all observers as that of farm- ing. The farmer who Is prosperous the fact. The signboards which testi- fy of his success will be well-kept roadsides, fences in good repair, thrifty orchards, washes in fields ar- rested by proper means, pastures free from weeds, ete. Making a Compost Heap. One large load of manure or two smal] ones from the horse stable, and containing much straw are used In banking the cellar in the autumn, This manure is removed in the spring to the rear of the garden, and In a sense composted, though earth is not mixed into it. tacle for grass cut from the lawn and eannot be buried while green. garden in the green form, this is done to hasten decay in - the raw brought up from below. The waste post heap. In the autumn the ac- surface before the garden is dug. portion of the wood ashes cooking stove is also spread over the residue going to the Judd Farmer, How Much Food for Laying Hens. It Is not always an easy matter to determine the exact amount of food that a flock of laying hens require. If kept in separate pens of from ten to fifteen each the difficulty Is not so great, but where the entire flock of perhaps one or two hundred are fed at the same time, then it requires close attention arrive at anything like the necessary amount and still give enough, to one and one-half ounces of food daily: but does she always get it? ‘A portion of the flock will get too much, while the others get too little. The question of feeding, so that each hen will get her allotted portion, is one that always puzzled poultry men, and no one seems ever to have solved the problem. Feed troughs of various patterns kave been tried, but still with the same vesults, The bosses of the flock get consequente the egg production suf fers—in the one case from an supply. in the other from too over ways of equalizing the supply and at she same time furnishing Home and Farm, Destruction of Rubbish. One of the most necessary ghat a gardener should do about this time is to gather up and destroy-—best by fire—everything in the shape the premises. #house-cleaning” in the garden is just before winter. These rubbish piles are congenial harboring places for all sorts of insects, and if we carry all far less trouble from that source next year, If you have your eyes open when old decayed crate stuff, barrel hoops many of the large black squash bugs, and you can do good work now In les- gening the number of those who win- ter over successfully and breed troun- ble again next summer. Many other insects, even If not so conspicuous, can now be destroyed. Leave no old vines of any kind, old cabbage stalks, ete, to remain as a shelter for insect foes, Yet all such stuff go upon the rubbish heap to be burned wup.—Practical Farmer, End of the Maple Tree Worm, There is good reason for thinking that the ravages of the maple tree worm are at an end. This destructive pest, after having wrought untold damage to the forests of the country for the past two years, went into the cocoon state in July of the present yenaz in great numbers, causing those whose trees had partially escaped de- struction to despair, Some trees chosen by the worm for making the change from the caterpillar to the moth state were so covered with the cocoons that it seemed as if half the leaves were rolled up to form their shelter. Having a little curiosity to know the present condition of the worm, I made a careful investigation about July 25 with the resolt that I found every wagle worm I looked at dead, beyond the possibility of resur- rection. Nothing whatever remains of them except a dry and empty skin, The insides have been entirely con- sumed, The enemy which has performed this act of kindness for the maple trees of the country, or at least where { live, is a tiny worm, much resembling the weevil, that sometimes is found upon the over-ripe raspberry, save that it is slimmer and much more rapid in its action. This fly no doubt caine from the fly which has been looked for for several months, Bur- rowing into the maple worm it laid its eggs, which have quickly hatched into the smaller worm which has caused the death of the very worst foe of one of our finest and most valuable forest trees. Not enly on my own farm lis it true that the worm is dead. Exami- natlon of the worms in other parts of | this county proves the same thing. Re- | ports from the western part of the | State confirm my own investigation. | The work of the worm this year has | not been confiaed to the maple. Chest- { nuts have suffered severely In some localities, So have oaks and even | prefer other trees to this. showers with the down in i littering every round. So it will We may now look renew their former wherever ruined the end has come. for our trees strength and beauty have not really been +O B. L Se Make the Stabies Warm. it hasn't been done already. farmers are a little careless along this line, DIPerhaps they think they but don't. Make yourself and animals comfortable this winter, i won't take long. Batten the Line with straw on the inside, holding it in place with any old strips and cannot do better, make his stables reasonably Don’t neglect this matter, friends. | will save feed and make more milk. But then it is a pleasure to warm. COWS {er has been as hard up, probably, as any of you, and still ho fixed the stae ble in old barn it was qnite comfortable to chores in there, when the cows were In, without any coat on in any weather. You can do it. Get at it this month and be ready for the cold storms, the BO do can sleep better when they come be- cause your cows and young cattle and horses are warm, Of course, when yon build a new barn you will make i stable warm. Line it all around side with 1 1-2 inch flooring. This will be solid enough nothing will kick it down, or a hole through it and the matching will make it the North you might put paper under the boards We used lumber, and it stands, as it as hard as oak, you know, Lh] slabs LID. Norway is almost But fix up to save money to build the new. Be comfortable as you can as you along. —T. B. Terry, in Practical Farm- er. Short and Useful Pointers. Most any farmer can raise hogs with profit. Good pasturage is one of the secrets success with swine. a few i of vice is that of feeding too much corn. iso far as the farm animals are con- cerned, Farmers should gecure regular nearby their produce. It is always profitable to have the milking done with as little disturbance i to the cows as possible. | If the farmer paid as high as £100 ia ton he could not purchase better | fertilizers than sheep to clover, As the flesh is the customers for largest breeds should be kept. If your poultry have sore eyes you { will no doubt find that either your poultry houses or yards are damp. Bear in mind that if cutting tools are kept sharpened up considerably less power is required to work them, Keeping winter calves tied up or shut up in a dark stall is a great mis- take that a good many farmers make every year, If cleanliness, good care and proper feeding are properiy observed there will not be much of a chance to doctor the stock, One advantage In keeping sheep is that they will eat a great many varie- ties of weeds that cattle and horses will not touch, The reason that silage ls so good as a «ow feed Is that it comes nearer the succulent grasses of a good pasture than any other food. The farmer who wants his peach trees to live a long and successful jife supplies them with plenty of potash and keeps out the borers. The best time to dispose of any live stock on the farm is when you can realize a reasonable profit. Don't try to get rich too soon, The dairyman has found out that winter dairying pays the best, and the same thing applies to the poultrymen. Winter eggs are the profitable ones, Japanese workmen bathe the whole body once a day, and some of them twice. Public baths are provided Ia every street. HiS GRIM REVENGE, Thousands of Bears Slain by Enraged Husband, “Old Grizzly,” of Tuolumne county, Cal, Is so called because in forty-five yours he has killed 4,983 grizzly bears, and for the further reason that he has sworn to make the number 10,000 be- fore he dies, Thomas F. Page was one of a back- woods family of seventeen children. Hesays that he was born “no account.” Drinking, lying, fighting, cursing and carousing, he used to go to San Frar of exchange. love with a daughter of a prominent on him. She wished to reform They were married, and ashe went with him to his mountain home, They were happy, save as drink occasionally made sorrow for the lonely wife, What a Woman Will Co. —8uffer the discomforts of a short {shoe to make her foot look small — Wonder for a half hour what the {it is, forgetting the watch tucked into | her Delt, ' Walk a mile to save a nickel, then tspend It for candy. i (io without lunch, get a headache | and spend the price of the lunch for { headache cures. | Pull her waist in, while pitylog the { foot-bound Chinese women, ! Buy cheap dress goods and expen sive trimmings. Wear an imported wrap, and bar gain underwear. Wear her husband's her brother's scarfpin, Buy a silver tea service and bor- row ‘a sugar-dredger. Record, TURPENTINE FOR CONSUNPTION. there was no change in the Periodically he rode to the village of Columbia and drank stupor, in which condition come home maudlin, One morning his wife was not at the door to meet him on his return from town. He did not hear the baby. The door of the cabin was open, too. He crept to the back opening, and, peeping he figure of a man sitting beside her. In at the figure. With a hoarse growl of rage a big grizzly bear dashed at him. Twice more the repeating rifle awoke the echoes and the great carcass rolled over prostrate, “Is that you, Tommie? O, Tommie” And the voice of his wife was still, Only fragments of bone and flesh It was then that fate exacted the great reckoning of Thomas Page. He buried his dead and left the haunts of men. He made a vow never to speak again to a fellowman, He swore to avenge himself by devoting his life to ward exterminating the grizzly bear. the has been escaped. and he have great creatures, Chicago Tribune. Strange Courtships. on the BEND It was natural that those Windward should good stresses, since they were the wives of picked hunters. When a Smith Sound Esquimau a wife ently has regard only to jes. Khe must be able 1g. and to and hides. This last gine Furs are the only of these they must ance, else they will perish When the spread the and reindeer, out be chooses he appar housewifels to do the to qua cookl chew sew, is a non an abund with have cold horizon, of seal, and bear, pegging them and allow them to Once dry, they are, as stiff as boards, and Yefore be made into garments must be broken. Accordingly women bend the double, a crease through its length once end, they other. Then, creasing the hide a little farther on, they chew again, and repeat the simple process until every inch of the has and, with is flexible the sun is above the women skins hide up, dry of the fibers the hide chew steadily to the chewed, skin been the good taken to of a be certain for she will who is, therefore, a good There Is no ceremony marriage, the hunter taking his bride from her father's tuplk or igdin {also spelt egloo; winter house) to his own: nor, so far ag we learned, is hunters, worship, rites, unless the incantation angekoks (medicine men) rank as a rite.—Scribner’s. nor of be nny the given It has often been remarked that while nothing is so uncertain as the duration of any given human life, be as signed toa group of one hundred persons or more at any particalar age. The expectation of life at a differs considerably, as might be ex- pected, in different countries, and Eog- lishmen may be surprised to learn that they are not the longest living among the white races, At the age of twenty an Englishman in average him a policy based on that probabil ity. The American's expectation is other hand, a German lad of twenty can count upon little more than thirty-nine years and a half. It would seem, therefore, that the restlessness ment does not necessarily conduce to the shortening of life, nor the com- posure of the German to its prolon- gation. Possibly the beiter feeding and clothing of Americans in the low- er classes of the population Is the principal cause of their greater lon- gevity. Their position is, at any rate, maintained In later as well as in earlier years. The American who has reached sixty years may look to com- plete fourteen years more, while the Britisher's expectation is only about thirteen years and ten months, and the German's as nearly as possible twelve months less. Both at twenty and at sixty the Frenchman's pros pect Is a little better than the Ger man's and a little worse than the En- glishman's. London Globe, Varying Effect of the Pino Wouls. om Weak Lungs. an old resi belt, above instances they said turpentine “In some hard to determine,” dent of the Covington. in others no perceptible benefit is de irived. It is very mysterious. Five or six years a young man whom 1 slightly at New Orleans my place He had consumption, had known came pines, all the symptoms of and agreed to do what i odd jobs he could about the turpentine { still In return for his board. He came during the into the habit of going into the woods jearly in morning, when It misty or and drinking out of the A ‘box’ Is a cavity which trunk of a pine tree to the accumulation of sap, and in wet wenther it will gener ally fill up with water that is strong- ly impregnated with crude turpentine lefore the season was over the young man had wonderfully in health, and by the end of the year he appeared to be entirely cured-all of which he attributed to the turpentine i he had of | his also a con mptive, place to try The two and their ‘cutting’ season the wag rainy, ‘boxes.’ cut receive is in the improved Next season one Wak absorbed. cousins, who came to the of the the sa effect system were about ie age, condition on arrival was almost iden tical. The last man, however, didn’t si improve, but on the cont rapidly worse, and was finally ob to return did In an inf 1 ¥ i k from ti to New Orleans, whe Ti FInAary be water dran iw boxes set up a serious l and irritation « stomach at deal of ae un doubtedly harm i tradietions time and again id him a gre have observed similar con and while, as a genera! thing, all weak and ‘run down’ people seem to be be » pines, the effect nefited by arbitrars better It the wot - immediately and others do not the way, that the 1m usly ES a noticeable fact peope who in prove wt are in who nik odor woods, others is positively offens Orleans Times- Democrat those resing which to have a fondoess variably f of the or the jive. New Startled by Prairie Chickens. The people about the Ravalli were treated to a rather strange perience the could scarcely happen in a country less noted for its winged game than the Bitter Root Valley. The people in the kitchen were startled just be fore noon by the crash of falling glass from one of the dining room windows, and at first thought that some ma- ex ia stone through it. In fact, the girls in the lagndry said she had through the window. Mrs. called ber husband and they {to the dining room, where, great surprise, Green to their its throat cut with the glass through which it had come. is that the chicken had become frightened at something that it lost its head and dashed into the win- dow without really knowing where it was going. The foree with which it struck may be in a measure realized when it is told that the glass which it crashed through was a heavy plate glass, five feet square. An almost similar experience was had a couple of weeks before when a duck, seem- ingly as badly rattled as the chicken, drove against the flag-pole of the ho- ‘tel and dropped quivering and dying {upon the roof.—Ravalli (Mont) Re- { publican, The Change in Eyesight. The time when the eye changes and jold age glasses must be used varies | with the individual to see easily, it is time to put on glasses. If it is possible an oculist should be consulted, who will examine the eyes and fit a pair of glasses to | them. If often happens that the sight of the eyes is quite different, and the oculist always looks out for such de- fects of vision, and orders eyeglasses from the optician to fit the different defects of the different eyes. This is the reason why an oculist should al- ways be consulted in selecting the first pair of glasses. The stock of glasges In an optician’s shop Is fitted with right and left glasses of the same power, When a change is made the glasses must be made to order. Spectacles are little used, though recommended by oculists, but the majority of people prefer to use the simplest rimless eyeglasses, because they are less conspicuous.—New York Tribune, : To the chronic borrower any sort of He Was Excused. “You bust excuse “ this evedig, Blse Billigad,” sald Mr. Addlethwalte, ‘it by peech Is a liddle thick, for 1 have a terrible cold id by head.” “1 see you have,” Miss Milligan re-! plied, “and that reminds me that you ought by all means to call on Sue Dal- lington while you are In your present condition.” “Why so, Biss Billigad 7” “She told me, the other day, that she was sure you had nothing in your head. Now you can prove that she made a mistake.” M. Dubois, who operates the mail wagons of Paris by contract, is about to establish 150 self-propelled vehicles in that service. To perform the work required of them these wagons will be | compelled to average about 30 miles each per day. Best For the Bowsls, No matter what alls you, beadache to a canoer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right, Cascanzrs help mature, cure you without a gripe or pain, woduce sasy natural movements, cost you fue 10 cents to start getting your health ack, Cascanzrs Osndy Cathartie, the genuine, put up In metal boxes, every tab- iet has C.0.0. stamped on it, Beware of imitations, Policemen in Chicago are always in dread of cold days and nights. They say cold nights always bring out foot- Have you ever experienced the Joytul sen- sation of a good appetite? You will if you chew Adam's Pepeln Turi Frattd, When shrapnel Lursts the bullets go forward; in common shell the frag- ments fly in all directions. H.H Greex's Bows, of Atlanta, Ga , Are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in world, See thelr liberal offer in advertise. ment in another column of this paper. ie Men whose only books are women's | looks are students of folly. FITS permanently cured, Xo nts Or NArvon. ness after frst dey's use of Dir. Kiine's Grease Nervellestorer $£irial bottle and treatise fras De iH Krowe, Lad. 9 Arch 86, Puila., Pa Preacher and Tackle. There is no incongruity in the fact that Capt. Harmon, the plucky right tackle of the McKendree College foot- ball eleven, is also a Methodist preach- er, whose vigor and earncetness in the pulpit even surpass his display of | those same qualities on the gridiron, | Buch a figure in the life of to-day ad- | mirably typifies the spirit that has done so much to dispel foolish preju- dice on certain points that may best be settled by a healthy and wholesome) common eense. There has been a time this country, and that not so long ago, when a minister of the Gospel would have been disciplined graced for taking part in public ball matches as does the Rev. 3t Harmon. Colneide y with this, foot- ball players would nave contended strenuously that no clergyman had the makings of a right tackle in his saintly body. in deer killed in Ver- open season, which ended November 1. Last year 50 were reported killed in the brief season allowed, and in 18988, open season extended tober, 130 were killed. There were 111 mont during the 10 days when the throughout Oc- Ah! “My dear,” Mr. Pinniecky said to his wite, “1 don’t think those pills I have been taking have done me much good.” “Why, you haven't been taking any for three weeks!” “Yes, I have, I've swallowed one three times a day as directsd.” “You have? Then why is it that there are as many left in the box as there were three weeks ago? What box have you been taking them from?” “This one—marked for me." “Dear me, John! That is my shoe button box!” > Hadn't Studied the Lesson. “What do you know of the Mosque of Omar?” asked the teacher. “The musk of Omar is a fine per- fume,” sald Tommy Tucker, “which costs 35 cents a bottle at the drug stores.” Ten years ago the cost of a trip from Central Russia to Tomsk, Biberia, was $345 per capita; today it is only $9. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for ehiidren teething. softens the gums, reducinginfismma. von, aliays pain, cures wind colic Zhe. a bottle. In some Swiss vineyards nearly the whole harvest was left last month to the poor in the neighborhood. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxarive Browoe Quixixe Tasrers. AR druggists refund the money if it falls to curs, The aggregate wholesale traffic in geese at Berlin amounts annually to nearly $2,000,000. Pleo's cannot be too highly spoken of as a eough cure, —J. W, O'Brinw, 822 Third Ave, N., Minneapoils, Mingn., Jaa. 6, 1900, How to Live on Five Cents a Day. Five centg a day is the cost of living the socialist colony, which after be- was transported to a site near Waycroes, Ga., where it now flourishes. Co-operation is the secret of these remarkable ecomonic conditions. By combining, exercising thrift, discre- tion and a good deal of self-denial the centg daily expended purchases enough to keep each Ruskinite robust The bill of fare that re- sults is by no means palate-tickling, but it is adequate and hygienic, and the Ruskinites say they like it. Any ae five vigorously. In any ease, They are living on the lowest dally expenditure that is pos- gible, and that is 2 triumph of a sort. Here i8 an outline of the fashion in hich this economic miracle is accome- plished All provisions bought at whole- sale and in large quantities. They are then cooked in the community kitchen d cooked, © 's¢, by the colonists. not servants. » food is served in the -room, where tables & Tp are an empl SOCIAL npioy When cook are set ie of the ag they are raised by t} sunity itself they are abun- dant n heap. In seasons when fewer veget are produced the daily cost of living is increased from five 10 peven cents. Rus our working world very large. are hard workers. Our leisure class is small, for? ground when ill-health attacks him. Nervura blood and aerve remedy, as minds of some, on the bodies of others, but the nourishing of either, or both, is in the nerves and blood. Nervura acts directly on the fountains of health and its strengthening power is wonderful. Dr. Greene’s NERVURA CN What does the worker do when some chronie How to every muscle of the body. Electric Co., of Lynn, Mass., says:
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