Instruction, This premonition of evil 1 strove to throw off with an affectation of gayety. I feigned astonishment that anybody should charge the cooking schools with never having really taught us anything. “Why,” protested I, “there is now none, 1 daresay, who does not know he has a stomach!” “Truly,” cried the woman, my wife. her eyes aglow with earnestness. “And of course it was not until they had the people thus well grounded in the rudi nents that the cooking schools could proceed to teach what was at all trans- cendental !” For Decency's Sake. “Murdstone, lend me $150, will you?” “What for, old fellow?" “I want to pay my wife's penses “Certainly.” funeral ex- hands it over.) “Sorry to hear of your wife's death, Gagson. When did she die?” “About a year and a half ago. young woman [I'm going to morrow says that bill has got first. Ever much obliged Murdstone.” The to be paid 50 to you, One Short. . did you “Well,” attend our « graduates?” “No,” answered the editor attend, but I've met them all, Hove manv young men did vou this year?” “Two hun prof “Then o the editor ar i und asked the protessor mmencement and meet +! i: 1 the in ' trilea to strike Diplomacy Defined. Johnny—Paw? Mr. Wise—What, my “What is diplomacy?” son? “Diplomacy, my is termed the exercise of states- i individuals it powers vetween as lying, with manship, but generally described adjectives to add to the f the same.” is or two warm rouraging Sethack. College Colors, 1 rs are pink Cures Cancer and Blood Poison. Contagious blood poison, old eating ulcers scrofula, bono pains, falling bair patches, and deadly cancer, running, fester ing sores, persistent pimples, cured by DB. B. Ii ( Botanic Blood Balm), which kills the poisor Heals every sore; especially recomme ndled or old, obstinate cases. Druggists, $1. Describe troubles and trial treatment sent free by writ ing Dr, Gillam, 12 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga The girl who fishes for compliments should bait her hook with flattery packege cf UorNan colors either Silk, Wo at on2 boiling Pach Faornsss Ly nN or Cotton perfectly Sold by all drugmiets Virtue is i people are good » } 4 $4 > be : its own reward. but some fou because they really lil Dealers say ues to hold its « Are You Using Allen's Foor. Fas? It is the only ear 3 Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweatis and Danions. Ask for Allen powder to be shaken into the sb while you walk, A! all Droggis Stores, 20¢c. Sample sent FREE, Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. The Bank of France checking out money fifth in gold for Bwo Smar ried 3 Ari Bi Address omm Fest For the Howells. Xo matter what ails yon, beadachs in i rancer, you will never yet well until von: bowels are put right. Cascanzrs help nature, cure yon without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you jast 10 cents to start getting your health back, Cas. caneTs Candy Osthartic, the genuine, pul up in metal boxes, cvery {ablet has C.C.C stamped on it. Deware of imitations, The coal miner generally finds himself ia a hole. FITS permanently cured. No fits nr nervons- ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, #4 trial bottle and treatise freo Dr. BH. Evisz, Ltd, 981 Arch St, Phila. I’ a There may be plenty of room at the top, but some people prefer to get at the bot tom of things. Conductor E. D. Jcomis, Detroit, Mi h., says: “The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cura is wonderful.” Write him sbout 8. Sold by Druggista, 5c. Bome people seen: to think they fall into lack when they fall into debt. Mes, Winslow's Soolhing Symp for childrsn teething, soften the gums, redacos inflamma: tion, aliays pain, cures wind colic. 25¢ a bots The chronic kicker deserves to stub his I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consmmp- tion has an equal for coughs and colds. —Joux F. Borvse, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 190. It's a good thing to swallow your pride, providad you can digest it. A Centenarian, Dr. Graham, of Kentucky, who lived to be one hundred years o o, attributed bis le ny life snd freedom irom iliness £9 the use of Crab Omsbacd Water, It was Lis only medicine, SA SS on ome men would like to deliver thir own funeral orations. Bee advt, of Smtiunear’'s Bustxess Contgon A musical composition is often sold for | mere snn~ DROPS NEW DISCOVERY gives quick relis’ and cures wort sox of testimonisie and 10 days’ treatment Pree. Dr. BH GREEN SS0NS, Box 5, Atlanta, Gs. The Maxims of Success. Show me a man who has never made a mistake, and 1 will show you one who has never tried anything It is a mistake to eat all you can, spend all you have, tell all you know, or show all you feel Ever since I knew of them. I have been wanting to employ Schwab, J. P. Mor- gan, and John Wanamaker, for there is no trouble in getting business—the trou ble lies in getting them. A bad pup often makes a good dog; and I would rather undertake to reverse the force of a bad man than loan my own to a weak one, Many people labor like an ox or a mule, and have to be pressed or they will not earn their feed. Dont tell me what you have of beauty, strength, education, money or genius. The only thing I care to consider is what you are doing with it. If we could get a shield from the fear { of things that never happen, our troubles would be reduced go per cent. | Many practice humanity to get the un. i der hold i You can't escape criticism, for if you | save money, you are a miser and a hog; and, if you spend you a spend i a dog £ arc thrift and If you don't know erhaps you know ere 18 hat will sl . Set v r set it ere success lies, not, i to avoid before you ne on't ur I wot | than succeed He that { and becomes our I can tolerate a quire an iBels a dol Of Se and no Opposes helper. ‘1 tai who who one man on, Ww ired tirea Sense enough If you ex nec Ro { PECL LO mak What the World Demands. world does not great lawve FF. = great mercha : i In against , bes rec in hve “All right,” replied the ge, 32% ve that lon 3 i have » have a go he gnawed the horse's fet- free from the long hair and the ran a race, with the result that the will and we dray the racer so scorniully that the kicked him to death You can't always tell how an in tive little incident is going to tt dray horse ruc. irn out Con'dAn®s Loss Mp, It was late, and getting later. However, that did not stop the sound of muffled voices in the parior. Meantime the gas meter steadily. The pater endured it as long as he could, and then rescived on heroic mea- sures “Phyllis.” he called from the head of the stairs, “has the morning paper cae yet?" “No, sir,” the Daily Bugle, form 1 world “we hoiding the or an important decision.” are with him. Saved hy His Wits, “Hold still,” said the executioner, axe in the air, + “Have you a little bird for me to look at?” replied the victim. who had once worked in a photograph gallery. with laughter the victim escaped. Breaking from 3 xp risne jcinap, 1 cannot live wi.llout her, © Ruper: (complacently)—Oh, yes, y:u can, old man. Why, I used to think 1 couldn't live without cigarettes! —Puck. HANDY REMEDY FOR CUTS AND SORES. One of the most convenient remedies for cuts, strains, sores, etc. crude petroleum. A hottle of this should be kept in every barn or stable and in a convenient place, so as to use it freely when occasion requires, is HEDGE GROWING. The first two or three years Osage orange, arbor vitae or Japan pri vet. Set the plants two feet apart and cut them back as close to the ground as pos sible the first year, cutting close the ond and third years also, in order to se 2 be the majority of hedge growers do not bestow ] years sufficient attention the first th start. Of c such work should done by an experienced person, but MUrse ree ves are not thrifty » management riocking and « t of linseed meal wil WIA Never averfeed, and t 4 day in the allowing meals d and night only, MIXED GRAIN FOR FODDERS. The result of the series of coopera son was to place a mixture of oats. peas and vetches first in point of yield, with an average of almost nine Oats eight and one-half tons, and oats and peas eight tons. While the lowest in point of yield, the latter was placed first in the with 1C0 points, vetches. The hairy vetch gave TIME IN DAIRY WORK Time is an element of great import- Milk, cream and of exceeding perishable na- tures, and, like all quick decaying ar- ticles of food. they are hotbeds for The ouly way to fight this enemy is by Hurty the milk from little time as possible in getting the cream into the churn and the butter to the customer. To carry out this idea, clean the stable, clean the cow, milk into covered pails, use a separator, use a cream starter, use a swing churn and start the butter to the customer the night of the day it is made. This is a strict business principle, and should be pushed for all it is worth, and that means large profits for the trouble taken, for it may be safely stat- ed that you will lose two or three cents a pound on your butter for every day you linger past the thirty-six hours necessary to carry out the plan outlined above, Energy it the clement of sue cess in all lines of business, but particu larly so in butter making. It may be proper to qualify the above Don't hur fin coming dogs aw tO0 4t a table that you hurry milking with don'ts. YOUur cows pasture, { them, advice some mio a and keep Don't be in cleaning up the the job. Don't ry from ay hurry in y o $1 do udder. Don't stop the ripening of the cream until there is a subacid taste de and the cream runs from the paddle. Don't hurry the mo- veloped, smooth | the butter in less than thirty minutes, and don't butter in the churn milk is all out of it. make speed, but not Home and Farm, butter 1 wWOoras until the In other unseemly haste. | GROWING ONION SETS FOR | PROFIT. Sets are produced on the tops of onion stalks. They consist of a num- ber of small bulbs or onions about the size of acorns and when planted grow and produce onions which ma- ture earlier than those from seed. As soon as the frost {s out of the ground in spring, prepare and plant in rows two to two and one-half feet apart, and from eightto ten inches apart in the row. For this purpose use only sound onions of some standard variety. must have been rajsed vious from seed or them very shallow, show he ground. Keep patch free from weeds. The goon as the onion stalks pre- Plant will the the year good sets 4 t ha if BO tops above t sels be matured as are dry. After this they must be gath- stored in allow and not ered Do winter, On one occasion I secured over thir- ty-five pounds of sets from about one fourth bushel of onions planted. These I sold the next spring at fifteen cents a pound, netting over $5. These onic sets are in great demand in the spring in our neighborhood and at the village. Prices vary soinewhat, but range from 3 Bg a dry, cool place. to freeze du: them mn ten to seventeen cents a pound i Some- times it has i been ¢ th necessary to leave grocer and r us. By taking made no ch Of been able to 1¢ sets with some ell them fo hange he a sale late, however ee ani ail usually sell all to neighbors and acquaintances gutters or land p gypsum Two p i nas can hardly know and welcome the voice of her mas- She " 1 should ter and attendant her by If he practices calling name and speaking to her when he comes near her she will soon learn to expect.and welcome it, and will render a ich return in the pail for the trouble Of the care of the milk after the cow has delivered it into the pail there is not | time nor space to speak fully. A reitera. { tion of the thought of cleanliness, thor. , ough cleanliness, is never ill timed at any point in the progress of the milk from the pail to the butter in the tub | Peck, m National Stockman 3 AGRICULTURAL NOTES. | How many old aad worthiess roos- | ters are you feeding® Dy looking at some flocks we are led to believe that their owners think the roosters do the ! laying. The flock of hens that are fed at | various times and places hardly ever {pay a profit. Method and system in | the poultry business count for a great deal. One of the best ways of keeping cows from becoming per..stent strippers is to have ali the hell. s miiked ue first | year by the best and fastest milker on the farm. Never allow = rough plece of ground i to lie ydle. Stock it with sheep and | they will at least pay the taxes, and | You are pretty sure to get interest as well, no matter how poor the land is. Remember when applying the ma- nure that unless vou cultivate thor oughly the manure will only be the means of making the weeds grow bet. ter. The surest way to get a good crop of weeds is to manure thorough. ly and not cultivate. ’ The Longest Eruption, The longest continuous eruption of Vesuvius lasted from July, 180s, to Sep- tember, 1800. A block of rock weigh ing thirty tons was hurled to a height of 1200 feet during this eruption. i FOR THE LADIES: { THE WOMAN RAILWAY CLERK The woman as porter and guard al | ready is known on French railways, but { now a German railroad has opened a larger field to women. and is employing booking clerks, telegraph and signal operators and in other posts. { them as VICTORIA'S ODD NO- TION. One the peculiarities of the late | Queen Victoria was to have everything YUEEN ” of | two cloaks, bonnets and the like, | Another peculiar ard any dress, which worn, and her wardrobe might well have dered two s ordered. dis tle, hat or bonnet. i § | were alw iy was never to man she h: the most complete 1a ominent —p¥ QEIINZION FOR WOMEN sncy of the Unit. otfreat am tally if she be ther's ¥y, espe borne the burden of the child's support.—Harper's Bazor. PUTTING BABY TO Children should sleep without low, if possit T= rest properly | the muscles should be relaxed, and the head is perceptibly higher than the | remainder of the body this is impossible j and the rest consequently cannot be as | refreshing as it should be. Agam, sleep. | ing with a pillow under the head is ac- | countable for much of the round shoul | ders and narrow chests of school child ren. and also for a great deal of the | head and throat troubles. When the | head is high breathing is interfered with { and the mouth is open to make respira- { tion easier, with the resultant troubles { If children are used to sleep with pil- i lows under their heads do not take them {away all.at once. Let the change come | gradually, so that they may become ac- customed to it. The benefit to their health and carriage will make itself man. | ifest before many weeks are past i werican Queen. SLEEP a pi y ne, THE FARM BOY'S MOTHER. The farm boy's mother! What a worla of love and patience, or toil and accomplishment in the little sentence! What a niche in the world’s history, in the widd's veneration, it here! Sweet. faved, perhaps ignorant, little woman in the log cabin; cultivated, ambitious pat- rician on the hroad plantation; the mother in the wilderness, on the prairie, in the little New England homestead, among the bogs or craggy highlands of the old country, it is everywhere the same, she is looking after her boy, guid. ing his heart and brain, his ambition as well as his toddling steps. That which is promising in him, that which is noble and worthy, she draws out and stimulates, little by little, with infinite ove and patience and faith, infusing in- to him whatever of hope and ‘ambition that has been hers, and by and by, after a long time it may be, sending him forth into the world to do the work of a Washington or Lincoln, or perhaps the work of only a common man, whose heart is sound and strong and broad. We sec the mother in her kitchen be- L fore fight 5 | 1 : wong day may be, preparing for the She sweeps the floor and a sets the table and washes : she looks after the poultry and | perhaps does the barn chores, and it may | be spends an hour or two in the field; t she digs and washes vegetables for din- picks fruit, and churns, and family washing: and many the things she not once, but twice and thrice during the day. But though her shoulders may droop with { weariness and her steps sometimes drag, | her eyes do not lose their courage or joy living Her husband is working, too; and the children are there, in need of food, or clothing or guidance. It is the greatest joy of living there is, the joy of working for those she loves Frank H. Sweet, in Donahoe's, CO i dishes | ner, and does of 5 the does, their of | NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN. said “Photo- he sign in the window you just what stopped " she It With this skirt lines side. i jacket with two ¢ : showing on either long basqued coat is steadily gain. in favor for gowns of thicker ma- Is 2 140m Losey ¢) svt helt i ters “ | change autumn will probably find it well ! established There is no return to the stiff collar of some seasons ago. Everything remains entirely soft. If your neck is too long for the collar to stay up on it without stiffening, run the fine featherbone across back and front. With white mull, Swiss and noinsook dresses the fabric itself makes the prettiest collar, of the mull and India lawn gowns display pointed and round yokes that are marvels of fine needlework, Airy entredesx in medallions and block ed squares of applied lace appear upon the soldier materials, while a mull guimpe may be all of drawn work, cob- webby fine, In the way of trimming nowadays one may go back to the old-time Grecian pat. terns, or, if it sounds better to say By- zantine, the effect will be about the same, Bands of trimming are put on in this style frequently, and it is used in many ways. It is to be found in jewelry, in effective long pins, and for stotks and belts, Some A Brave Men, An Oregon woman is the owner of a hen that the would not trade for an en- tire flock of poultry. A Philadelphia daily declares this hen to be the only one in the United States that ever fought and killed a hawk. The hen was tending her brood in the usual way, when a chicken-hawk made its descent. The hen did not squawk and run. but with a fierce and well-di- rected blaw buried her bill under the hawk's left wing. It may have been a chance blow, but it did its work. The hawk seemed sure prised and dazed. It rose fechly, flew aimlessly against a clothesline and drop ped dead, ’ / + Russia has more “freak” ships in her navy than any other nation,
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