RAISING FALL PIGS. i In my opinion, the best method of | raiging fall pigs for profit and best results is to have them farrowed in | the latter part of August or first part | of September. By so doing the pigs | will get the age and growth on them before cold weather sets in, and will | then be large and strong enough to | keep on growing and make good pigs | with proper care and feeding. It is} essential that they should have a warm, dry place to sleep in, {ree from | draughts, The sow should be fed on shorts and goaked oats, with a quart of oilmeal in a barrel of slop. Do not feed a fall pig very mutch corn until after he is gix months old. As a general thing, there is too much corn {ed to young pigs, and I believe this is the cause of so many of them getting down on their feet. Corn always causes indi gestion amon pigs. If they are early farrowed and kept growing they will prove a profitable investment. WwW. R. Loveless, in American Swineherd. | | PREPARING FOWLS FOR EXHIBI TION. Good. vigorous blood is important Only robust birds can stand the strain of the exhibition season, and appear at their best. Some even die from the excitement and unnatural condi tions. 1 do not feed them much dif- ferent from ordinary while preparing for exhibition. If while at the show they are to be fed some patent prepar- ation, 1 accustom them to that special food sending them away. A good feed is half bran and half corn meal baked in a cake. Chopped cab bags has a loosening While preparing for exhibition the bird should be placed himself, but in close by to keep him lively and him Wash ring water helfore effect. “ 8 . ' tive in a Coon Oy with company COOpS to get conditions. show room rhiy a used to thorou wipe blade t the the bird fully water, SCRIeS, stove A. stead a —. Nourse, time take ¢ much expe winter market March, ith 1m corn feed it Ww ont give tk ail . Wo Ks Give an had to prevent kidney using and year for my sheep grand In buying winter mar ket | find thé best that | can and pay a little more for them than the market price. When fattened they bring a good when to market. I expect to shred fodder hereafter, so I can feed my stock in the barn. Sheep must have a well ventilated stable. Keep salt where they can get ft whenever they want it I think sheep and lambs will bring a good price next spring. The late rains gtart>d the grass and helped to bring stock in better shape for winter. We can't take too much care of our stock during the winter.—QGeorge H. Cress well, in New England Homestead. cowpeas {eed up stock for price shipped all CLOVER AS AN ORCHARD MULCH Considerable publicity has been giv- | on to the rema bs of W. T. Macoun of the experiment station at Ottawa, | Ont., made at the American promo logical meeting in discussing the reno | vation of apple orchards. Mr. Macoun stated that the practice at the experi | mental farm had besn to grow clover | in the orchard throughout the year. As | the clover reached the blossoming! stage, it was cut and allowed to re. | main on the ground. The last growth of the clover in the autumn was not | mowed, but permitted to stand as a cover during winter. This system is, in effect, a combination of green man. aring and mulching. [It differs from the ordinaray cultivation and cover crop system in that cultivation is left ont of the programme, A rather too wide application of Mr. | Macoun's remarks has been made. He | was careful to state that this practice | pertained to their own orchard and | was the outgrowth of peculiar soll and | climatic conditions. The subsoil of this orchard is cold and impervious. The region in which it is situated is rarely visited with protracted drouths. The object in growing the clover is to nerate the soil, draw out its surplus moisture and protest the trees from the effect of severe freezing in winter. Undoubtedly the clover mulching plan may be applied quite widely. I believe that {t can be practiced with advantage in many of the colder apple growing regions, but I do not think it would be the best plan to follow in sections where rainfall during the growing sea. gon was et all uncertain. In such sec. tions cultivation is essential. The particular region described by. Mr. Macoun is not a commercial frit, section. Apples are grown in an ama. teur way and fruit of fine quality is produced, but no large areas are de voted to the Industry. Fosaibly the business may develop later if this plan of orchardiug is followed mure care- versity. SELL. NEAR HOME. he given to any one who raises poul try and eggs for money than the above, realized It is astonishing how inuch the Lome markets are neglected in this respect. The summer hotels in the country, and the winter hotels in the South, frequently get all their sup- plies from some large ciiv, even their poultry and eggs. 1 have asked a num: ber of proprietors the reason for auch an anomaly. I was astonishal at the In a few words he said tint they could not rely on the home supply of eggs or poultry. They would willing to pay a little more than the market rates for either, but the farm- ers had go accustomed to sending thelr produce to the cities that they were slow in adopting 2av other course. They would some days bring in plenty of eggs, and then for a we nothing would be heard of them. This irregularity could not endured, Yet as another instance of jus! the there is an enter{rising young woman who has a poultry farm not far from a has contracted to deliver tea eggs a day through the summer to the hotels at a uniform of twenty-five cents per dozen eggs are all fresh and relied upon. The hotels take more from her, and she is making efforts to enlarge her plant. She she making more money with summer than with her products. Her ambition to her poultry farm she can supply the hotels with spring and tender chickens all through the sum mer Her income then will bo entirely satisfactory become ts WN be opposite, summer resort SON The she is to be would even says her winter anlarge is SEES is SO broilers SCason. But even in ordinary towns and vil lages there are always plenty of fami lling to buy their eggs from some Near 7 TN fow days | nrices farm. The lies who are fresh every " a) uy poultry in this FARM HINTS s for mutt H-run dairy ration is rye or barley, juarter «i well and gi good hen allow your sheep to drink ¢ water to cool off ve Oat fed lambs will stretch out, have healthy looking skin and red Oats are muscle makers. should not any ay blood careful wasteg a farmer's finan be Farmers are re Such cial condition. Whether young stock are a paying investment depends largely on their care the first winter of their very lives, It tive is a severe strasn organs of a sheep alone in winter; put it is a laxative on the diges to feed corn in a little rye. In raising calves have a hand sep- can give them fresh then you have the to success in call yon milk; requisites skimmed prime raising. The cream will not rise as well or ter after the milk has been exposed a very low temperature for any length of time By weaning the lambs early it gives the ewes a better chance to put oy flesh. and if given good feed the jambr to if the supply of water is not abund dnt the cows become restless, foverish and fretful. One day passed in this It i= an important tem to have o place for the milk where the prope: conditions can be observed, as goo butter cannot be made out of crear that has once got out of condition. Winter lambs require a great deal of attention, and unless this can be given, do not attempt to raise them. They usually sell for high prices and fully pay for all the extra effort ex- pended. The hog compelled to go to bed hun. gry or thirsty will mulet his owner by running off one or more pounds of weight while fretting, grunting, squealing and clamoring for the miss ing ration. For the last month or six weeks be fore selling, the swine should be fed three times a day, and the feeding should be so timed that the animals will walk up to the trough and demand their feed. . Books of Medieval Days. In the cathedral of Hereford, Eng land, there are still about 1,600 books with the chains that used to be attach. od to books In the sixteenth century in { ececleclastic and university libraries. ance, violating all her civic ideals The triangle was under the care of the North Side Park System, but it re. ceived no care. This woman appealed repeatedly to the municipality for its improvement, and after a long time she persuaded the ¢ity to remove the refuse, sod the plot and make a few flower beds. Then she interested her neighbors, secured contributions from her husband and began a work of posi. tive adornment that now gives very little oasis one of the best known in Chicago.~—~Municipal Journal and En- BANDS OF FUR. | Many of the season's winter gowns | for visiting and afternoon wear have | very tiny edgings of fur in skunk, | mink and raccoon.and a good deal of | caracal is also employed as a trim- ming. The awkward fur border at the edge of the skirt is no longer fashionable, but flat bands of caracal are introduced as a heading to the geparate flounce, or more bushy furs are arranged as a border to the upper portion of the skirt, which falls over | the flounce in such a manner as to suggest a tunic MILLION WOMEN WHO There are to-day over three million wage-earning women in the United States, and the only place where wo men have not as yet entered to usurp man's position is as an officer in the United States army and navy, or as a sailor or marine. The position of the wage-earning woman to-day demands atention It is true that “fathers throw thelr daughters into the indus trial world on much the same princi ple that they throw their boys into the water swim And through heroic struggles girl is coming to the surface and learning the strokes, The wage-earning problem has she has formed a mutual bond between women of leisure and women of labor THREE to teach them to the woman and her accomplished two things and she has also opened the philanthropists to the fact dustrial of woms ¥ bottom of the “Ves hat t1 Hat tae in t problem gi at is moral problem, Wi the reso ne homes women supplan TROUSSEAU I GIRL the mulberry certain colors were reserved educated glance det the matrimonial candidat besides be nany folds simply a walking bale also so arranged that ou rolled about the body in wO that the victim was of stuff, a huge pannicr was folds at the back To added a train, frequently vards long, carried by these {wo extremes : ‘sulu” of Home Companion all this eight or was ten To ceded the Woman's attendants has suc costume to-day .- SOME WOMEN INJURIOUS TO FLOWERS. i It appears to be an indubitable fact that there are persons who have about | them some quality that is deadly to! flowers. A florist satd the other day: “Frequently a man will come to me and complain: ‘Look here, [| paid you $3 yesterday for a bunch of violets, | and you said they had just been pluck: ed, and would live nearly a week Well, my wife wore them in her cor sage last night, and they were dead this morning.’ There is nothing for | me to reply to the maa except that | contact is injurious to fowers. he pooh-poohs this | am able, perhaps, | If | to recall the name of some lady who! from the same lot as he, and [ call her | how they are still fresh, though she, | “My clerks corroborate me also, and Indeed, have about her a violet or a rose, be- cause she knows her contact means death to it.”--Philadelphia Record. A WOMAN'S FLOWER PARK. A Chicago woman who did what she could to make her city more beautiful by taking the opportunity nearest to her own hand and working persever. ingly and faithfully at that has gain ed a result that has put her name In all the papers, her picture in some of them, and has given to her “easily the first” honorable mention in one jour: aal's awards for gardens. At a cer tain point where three streets meet in Chicago there is a triangle design: ed as “Green Bay Park.” In course of time the abutting streets were bullt up, one of them with . stores anad the other two with resi dences; and the triangle filled up up with rubbish and cans. In one of the residences lived the wife of a wool merchant, The misnamed park was to her a constant cource of annoy LOOKS. It is difficult to realize that Sunday was really Queen Alexandra's fifty- seventh birthday. There are moments when only the hardand-fast facts of history and the presence of her chil- dren and grandchildren by her side cause us to realize that she is not younger by a good quarter of a cen- tury. A great many women in our day have solved the secret of perpet- ual youth; the Queen is sovereign lady in that respect, as in every other. It is almost absurd to look at her and try to remember that she wants but three years of sixty. The slim, graceful figure, the beau- tiful carriage of neck and form, the perfect features, pretty and complexion that charmed England when the Prince of Wales's eighteen- year-old bride came home, charmed us not less the other day when Queen Alexandra drove through the streets with her daughters and daughter-in- law. It is nothing less than a com- pliment to the latter to say Her Ma} esty looked as young and fair as them and her great beauty has al ways been supplemented by a thou sand good qualities of heart and brains wherewith to win and keep the love of her people.—lLondon Ladies’ Field eyes, selves, LAURELS WON BY ALBANL The love of music and the gift to ex. press it developed early in Mme. Al- At the age of three TRC for an hour every day upor any forth ha 1 sue ji y the This conscien coercion. and the of each step of the way, ; of yer high character, made it possible for the without ing sol : treading r with her rich endowment cal talent and } what Lamperti t age of twenty 3! ay Of fulfill engagement Irene sending lished fan and U ¥ nger in style tha an musi ¢ haa first debu when, a « her A musical programme 1 army relief bazaar was the after when rehearsal on ite performance need that the princip too 111 to take The WAS he was ! » evening leader phe choir. who pping forward, said minutes bring to the hall a young ginger of his choir who would be quite ca carrying through the parts successfully, and as there could pable of 80 prano was no other alternative departed to return a little later with Emma La Jennesse. a slight, plain glil, who mod- estly took up the music, an obligato colo of no slight difficulty, and read it without a blunder, singing with suc h beauty of tone, taste and discretion af to win the praise of all who heard her Albany Argus : -BITS OF FEMININITY- FASHION NOTES. Attractive handles for umbrellas are made entirely of gun metal, slen- der. but light and strong. They are twisted into knotted loops at the top, graceful in shape and easy to carry. Velvet gowns, black and colored, are having a tremendous popularity, velvets to the Liberty and domestic velveteens, which look quite as pretty and wear better. Narrow bands of black or white vel vet set with steel nail heads or brads, decorations for stocks, The collarless Eton is responsible for the especial vogue of the ruche. Though its becominguess is sufficient excuse, collar or none. Accordion pleated taffeta silk done into a dou ble full puff makes a smart, durable neck plece. Deep cape collars of lace are a spe cial feature of many of the winter wraps of velvet, fur, or expensive cloth, and rich, heavy designs, like irish crochet, Flemish, Venetian, and Russian guipure, are =a favorable choice. Among the millinery to be seen are many really beautiful hats in the long: haired white felts and beavers, soften od beneath the brim with tulle and lightly draped with panne lace, or plumes, and sometimes with touches of ermine. Gloves are short, heavy and loose. It is no longer the style to squeezd the hand into a small glove. In the two-button variety, and they are the most stylish for general wear, the but. tons have grown in size until they “THE IRON DID SWIM.” Rev. Dr. Talmage Tells of Some of the Wonders of Divine Power, | Superior to Every Law of Nature Which He Has Made for Mankind Wasmxoron, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage makes practical use of an oc currence in the Orient which has seldom attracted particular attention; text, ll Kings vi, 6, “The iron did swim.” A theological seminary in the valley of palms pear the River Jordan, had become so popular in the time of Elisha, the pro- phet, that more accommodations were needed for the students. The classrooms and the dormitories must be enlarged or an entirely new building constructed. What will they do? Will they send up to Jerusalem and solicit contnbutions for this undertaking? Will they send out agents to raise the money for a new theo- logical seminary? Having raised the money, will they send for cedars of Leb- anon and marble from the quarries where Ahab got the stone for the pillars and walls of his palace? No; the students propose to build it themselves. They were rugged boys, who had been brought up in the country and who had never been weakened by the luxuries of city life. All they ask is that Elisha, sheir professor and prophet, go slong with them tothe woods and hoss the job. They start for the work, Elisha and his students. Plenty of lumber in those regions along the Jor- dan. The sycamore stout, strong tree and good for timber. Mr. Gladstone asked me if 1 had seen in Palestine any sycamore tree more beautiful than the one we stood under at Hawarden, 1 told him I had not . The sycamores rear the Jordan are now attacked by Elisha’s students, for they must have lumber for the new theo logical seminary. 1 suppose some of the students made an awlward stroke, and they were extemporized axemen. Staud from under! Crash goes one of the trees and another and another. But something now happens so wonderful that the occur rence will tax the credulity of the ages, so wonderiul that many still think it never happened at all. One of the students, not able to own an axe, had borrowed one You must remember that while the axe of olden time was much like our modern axe, it differed in the fact that stead of the he.ve or handle being thru’ into a socket in the y head the head of the axe was fastened the handle by a leathern th it slip the helve. A wes swinging his e trees, and whether the moment he made his first wd the chips flew or was after he the tree from all sides so deep is A on nd so it ig, & tudent of the sem! AT: ALO SOME One we would ¢ nds of ton si iron nn the Atlantic from New York than rom London to Cal om Francisco to Centon 5 man making { such : ophecy have been sent to | an asylum or carefully watched incom ! petent to go alone We have i in our dav seen ir Now, man can metal float, I Almighty yne When thousa would mn Ewim if tons of think tha he i a a; ged to , “would be the Of vast, of infi tance. Those stu “What,” says some one | use of such a miracle? | nite, eternal dents were preparing for the ministry They bad joined the theological sfmunary to get all its advantages : of impor They needed to have their faith sirengthened; they needed to be persuaded that God can do covery thing: they needed to learn that God takes notice of little things; that there is no emergency of life where He is not will ing to help. Standing on the banks of that Jordan, those indents of that day of the recalled axe head bad their faith re-enforced, and nothing that they found out in the cines ! rooms of that learned institution had eve: done more in the way of fitting them for their coming profession. I hear from different sources that there ia a great deal of infidelity in some of the theological seminaries of our day. They think that the Garden of Eden is an alle gory, and that Moses did not write the Pent#teuch, and that the book of Job is only a grams, and that the book of Jonah is an unreliable fish story, and that water was not turped into wine, aithough the bartender now by large dilution turns wine into water, and that most of the so called miracles of the Old and the New Testasents were wrought by natural causes. When those wmfidels graduate {rom the theological seminary and take the pulpit of America as expounders of the Holy Scriptures, what advocates they will be of that gospel for the truth of which the martyrs died. Hail the Polycarps and Hugh Latimers and John Knozes of the twentieth cen: tary, believing the Bible is true in spots! Would to God that some great revival of religion might sweep through all the theo logical seminaries of this land, confirming the faith of the coming expounders of an entire Bible! Furthermore, in that scene of the text God sanctions borrowing and sets forth the importance of returning. I do not think A woulkl have been any miracle performed if the young man had owned the axe that slipped the helve. The young man cried out in the hearing of the pro- Be “ Alas, master, for it was borrowed!” e had a right to borrow. There are times when we have not only a right to but it is a duty to borrow. ere ught to lend, for Christ His sermon on the mount declared, “From him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” It 1s right that one of getting an education, dent of my text borro t to borrow means for cent plece, The newest sleeve is the Turkish, tight-fitting at the shoulder, and usual ly confined to the upper part of the arm by embroidery or braiding, then widening out into a very wide shape toward the wrist, overhanging the pariow tight wristband fato which It as ad handle. The body is the handle of the soul, Do not feel lonely because your nearest neighbor may be miles away, because Lae width of the continent may separate you {from the place wheres your cradle was rocked and your father's grave was dug. Weakened th you may be by lion's roar or Panthers scream, God will help you, whether at the time the forest around you raves in the midnight hurricane or you suffer from something quite insignificant, like the loss of an axe head. Take your Bible out under the trees, if the weather will permit, and after you have listened to the solo of a bird i the tree tops or the long meter psalm of the thunder, read those words of the Bible, which must have been written out of doors: “The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He hath planted, where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house, The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies. Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their.prey and seek their meat from The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together and in them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. 0 Lord, how menifold are Thy works' In wisdom hast Thou mede «11 The earth is full of Thy riches.” How do vou like that sublime pastoral? My subject also reminds us of the im- portance of keeping our chief implement for work in good order. I think that young theological student on the banks of Jor- dan was to blame for not examining the axe before he lifted it that day against & tree. He could in 2a moment Ly found out whether the helve and the head werd firmly fastened. The simple fact was that the sxe was not in good order or the strongest stroke that sent the edge into the hard sycamore would not have left the implement headiess. So God bas given very one of us an axe with which to hew. Let us keep it in good order, havin been sharpened by Bible study an strengthened by prayer. The reason we sometimes fail in our work is because we have a dull axe or we do mot know how, aright to swing it. The head is not aright on the handle. At the time we want the most skill for work and perfect equilis brivm we lose our head. We expend in useless excitement the nervous energy that we ought to have employed in direct) straightforward work. ; Your axe may be a pen or a {ype or a yardstick or a scales or a tongue which in legislative hall or business circles or Sabe bath class or pulpit is to speak for God and righteousness, but the axe will no® be worth much until it bas been sharp- ened on the grindstone of affliction. “ Go right through the world and go ight through all the past and show we one man or woman who has done any? g for the world worth speaking «of axe was not ground on the revolv- heel of mighty « Jt was not for he was dethroned and hounded I Absalom. Surely it was not . was shipwrecked and whipped h thirty-nine stripes from rods of elm- y his. way bebeadment. “ ft was not Abraham Lincoln, sy every vile name that human uld invent and de- with more meanness pver suffered, on the let crashing through his God, to ont of the Alps, we CAD See See in all impossibilities may i That axe y the muddiest river The alarmed student where it went down and perhaps fetch it n axe head be lifted ust deep into the mud » river? No; that is #0 far as human pow. s impossible, but with : things are possible. After the ee branch was thrown upon the surface { Jordan “the iron did swim.” ’ Some one ausks me, “Did you ever see iron swim?’ Yes, yes; many a time. I saw a soul hardened until nothing could make it harder All styles of sin had plied tha: soul. It was petrified as to all fine feeling. It had been hardening for thirty years. It had gone into the deep- est depths. It had been given up as lost. The father had given it up. The mother, the jast to do so, had given it up. Bau one day in answer to some prayer a branch of the disfoliaged tree of Calvary was thrown into the dark and sullen stream, and the sunken soul responded to its pow- er and rose into the light, and, to the as- tonishment of the church and the world, the son did swim.” 1 have scen hun- dreds of cases like that. When the dying bandit on the cross beside Christ was con- verted. When Jerry McAuley, a ruffian graduate of Sing Sing prison, Was changed into a great evangelist, so useful in recls- mation of wandering men and women that the merchant princes of New York estab. lished for him the Water street and Cre- morne missions and mourned at his burial, amid the lamentations of a city. When Newton, the blaspheming sailor, under the power of the truth was brought to Christ and became one of the mightiest preachers of the gospel that England ever saw. When John Bunyan,®' whose curses shocked even the profane of the fish mar ket. was so changed in heart and life that he could write that wonderful dream, “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” in such a way that un- counted thousands have found through it the road from the “city oi destruction” to the “celestial city.” In all these cases I think iron was made to swim. ‘1 worship the God who ean do the impossible, You have a wayward boy. Only God knows how you have cried over him. You have tried everything for his reformation. Where is he now--in thie city, in this country, or has he crossed the sea? “Oh.” you say, “I do not know where he is. He went away in the sulks and did not say where he was going.” You have about made up your mind that you will never hear from him in. Pretty hard pay he gives you for sll your Kindness and the nights vou sat up with him when he was ick. Perhaps he struck you one you were tb persuade hi ter. How different was hard fist. against your fa hand in infancy tums Father! Mother! tin We r subject 5 § yy ¥ an
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