IF YOU WOULD SUCCEED, Tis an adage as anclent as Adam-—— But not as old as the sun fhat the earliest birds Don't gather in herds, They get there one by ome. Now the motive of that is certain And the moral of this is true— {f you want to succeed You must take the lead, And the crowd will follow you. —The Schoolmaster, The accommodation 201 of the schedule road was stuck in the seemed to be no relief vision had been made for such a dngency, because the branch, shelter od by trees and bluffs, nad been consid sred proof against such The engineer, who had run for twenty years, was ished for words when the small loco- motive failed to cut the dri into which it had plunged so confidently, and he sat on his seat staring at the conductor, who swore shocking ly and gesticulated with his arms In the coach were two passengers, both young men. One was of commercial salesman sent small jobbing houses, well seif-assertive, crudely philosophic, the other, by appearance, plainly a far- mer. He wore a baggy, shiny black suit, and his white collar was attach ed to a gingham shirt by a white button, sewed with black thread appearance was enhanced by a fully trimmed shock of hair and kers. The commercial salesman had arisen when the train stopped and had walked to the door. “l guess,” he remarked minute, “that we're stailed ] He whistled a popular melody as he walked down the aisle, and no some amusement that was clutching the back ves fliled with consternation “Provoking, isn't it?” the drummer sald as he lighted a cigar and d paper-covered from his “Y-vas, by ed. “Say, stuck? “That's it e ductor now.” The conductor slan viciously and shook cap. “We're up he announced founded teakettie {a « pig out in a a washtub. We're Dilkport, and the can't see your hand before Lucky we've be “Then we w asked the at his watch. “That's the size of {t here on this peavine the ! won't earn what's the matter w till tomorrow Wa've coal. It might be “Yes,” said the might but I don’t be much worse for “You the buckle, “I've gagrment tonight if the train ain't hoof it.” He put on the other sh reaching for the wolfskin dangled from one holder. The conductor and the man contemplated him in ment. “But, man, you can't said the conductor “You'll fail through a bridge or something and then you'll freeze to death” “1 reckon ‘tis a bit risky. adm¥ted the farmer; “but I ain't at all sure it wouldn't be riskier not to. You see, my wife's at Dilkport, and she's sick She may be dying. [I've got to go to her.” An expression of sympathy same up on the conductor's face and that of the salesman took on a sudden gravity. “There are certain circumstances,” train—Number -on the branch snow, and there for it. No pro- on- misfortune the i. been on too ast 1 lumbly tha tyne th Lv De out b v dressed, bone His Care- whis after a ted with the other ma of a ze hook -cat!™ do you the oth m an against in dis taere SNOW & 50 MLO SuPer ont farmer gat = w AnXxi worse farmer ses kh me.’ explained, fasteni got a particular en- up at Dilkport, and going I've got to see,” he nd rose, h parcel analog astonish coat whi f the and o ena of do it possibly.” “which make it more important that I should see her than you might natur. ally think from the plain fact of her being sick. I haven't treated her just right, to tell the truth. [I've been stupid and unreasonable. We were married only a year ago. | won her away from three or four other fellows. & better husband than me Funny how such things go, ain't it?” “It's a blooming queer old world.” said the conductor, nodding his head sagely. girls,” added the salesman in the tone of an authority. “We were married at Dilkport, my farm to live. wrong with her. A sort of a cloud come over her. It was nothing but homesickness, [ #'pose, but I couldn't see it any other way than that she was sorry she'd married me. And one day 1 happened to find a sheet of pa. per—a part of a letter she'd been writing--that had dropped from her portfolio, and I read it. There weren't many words on the sheet. The first one was “disappointed,” ending a sen- tence she'd begun on the sheet that went before. And then it said: ‘It is not as 1 had pictured it. I wish to go home" And right there it ended. 1 said nothing to her. I didn't think it was necessary to have a scene, as they call it. But I was hurt-—<hurt clean to the core, and in trying to cover up my feelings I 'pose [ was unkind ~maybe cruel. After two or three days of brooding I got into a regular was a damned, unnatural, unreason- able brute.” “Correct,” sald the conductor, frank- ly. bad state. I told her she'd vetter go weren't made for each other. she tried to put her arms about my | neck I wouldn't let her. Then she ask- ed for my reasons [ told her she knew | well enough, and turned my back. 1 “Well, she went. For four months | I've been baching it on the farm, | When | growing crabbier every day. And this | morning I happened to meet a young | chap in the store at Pepperdock that! knows my wife's folks, He lives at Dilkport when he {isn't traveling! around the country selling things. “‘l suppose you've heard from your wife this morning? he asked me. ‘No.’ said I, with a snap, 'l hain't,! ‘Well, | I've just come from home,” said he, ‘and there was a report on the street when I left that she was liable to die. The kid's all right, though. “‘Huh!' sald I, startled death, ‘the kid!" ‘Yes,’ said looking at n a sort of a peculiar way; ‘didn’t you know there was a kid born yester- day? ‘Why, yes, course,” 1 said, shamed into the He. 1 was that dazed [ didn't know my name for a minute ‘Your wife's a fine woman, the voung chap went on, me listening like in a dream. ‘lI sent her a patent h washer about six months ago on al. It didn't suit her, but she didn't do as most people would have done; she wrote me a real nice letter, telling me that it had disappointed that it wasn't what she had pic- ft. She said she wished to go to Dilkport for a visit in a time, and thet when she come bring it up with her, saving me express charges. 1 tell you, a in this agency business learns appreciate littie things like that'| “And then, in a flash, I saw it all I'd seen was the one she writing about that dishwasher. [ bolted without getting the things I'd to town after. 1 hustled around and spruced up a lit tle, and got somebody to care for the and—and I'm going to get to tonight in spite of blazes, Il there ia to it.” the coach followed and sympathy to he, me of one dis tr her; tured bome short she'd the fellow to The letter was home come stock, Diikpor that's ¢ He the who felt m off climbed the locomotive car,” called with by the salesman, to see h They through the 3 44 loaded + go ahead with ofl right,” bar- tae of it Why thinking that once I and on the way in a drift, of the barrel it was have ape. But of straw box, and lit thing | drift was meit- rel of oll sled tipped over yt nto the snow night and 1 I was in bad together a in the sled and oll-soaked didn’t SN dark pilie ¥ , been had with a match, the first green light!” conductor, as the came clear to him ose we could do it? the holy iF ed the fea b Do you ipp ‘I'd be willing to stand the expense of three barrels of oil towards tryidg | it The conductor jumped into the cab and laid the plan before the engineer, had the engine until compelled by the CO who It might work,” said the engineer after a few minutes’ deliberation. Taint like as if we were buried. We're just tangled up a little, that's all. If I could get a start 1'd go through. Jim"—addressing the fire man, with sudden energy-—‘“coal her up! Make her hum!” The conductor called the two brake rolled from the car and the front end of the train. oll was scattered on the snow by the pailful and shovelful a great handful of greasy waste and threw It upon the drift. It spluttered a moment-—flickered-—all but went out. The farmer rolled one of the empty, oil-soaked barrels within reach of the burning waste. “It's no g—" There was a blinding glare, followed by a sizzling, hissing roar. The drift melted as if by magic. The flames licked the drivewheels of the locomo- | tive, and reached almost to the cab. “Coal her! Coal her!” shouted the i engineer to the fireman. { The conductor jumped up and down | excitedly, waving his lantern. “All aboarr«d!” he yelled, Half an hour later the train pulled into Dilkport. The conductor received a note the i next day. It read: “Everything's all right. She's been getting better from the minute I got here. 1 wanted to go down to the station to see you, but I can’t seem to tear myseif away from her and the baby. Send me bill for the oil” To which the conductor replied: “Gilad to hear you're 0. K. We all of us want to shake hands with you. The company pays for the oll.”"—New York Evening Sun. The Cynical Bachelor. According to the Cynical Bachelor, a man must first lose his head be fore he can lose his heart.— Philadel. phia Record, Dieasings often come disguised. TPalse teeth never ache, LAZY LUNGS. How to Overcome the Tenacious Habit of Poor Breathing, How much stress is laid in these days upon the value of fresh air that in all our schools, {f it is not always alr method is becoming more and advocated for certaln diseases, especially tuberculosis. In all this spread of knowledge and good sense it is unfortunately very pos sible to lose sight of the real issue. It i8 no exaggeration to say that many a one who can glibly patter of the num- ber of cubic feet of alr necessary for each one to draw a full breath. Fresh air is a free gift, but it is like most of the gifts of Heaven, in that do our No expect fire just because a pair of bellows hung on a nail by the chimney, but this exactly what many people expect of their lungs, which are really only the we one would ssa } . us by of life burning bellows given fire within us It is not too lungs properly which to keep the bright and to assert that a comparatively much used ir close room will do more good than lazy lungs in an open field This trick of lazy lungs is a habit, like any and may be overcome by effort. Many persons, for example, are afflicted with a nervous habit hold ing the breath unconsciously. These are the people who, in spite of plenty time spent yet cold easily, poorly, and are al ways more or less “under the weather” physically They are often much benefited by a course of active train ing because it impossible to cxer cise vigorously without drawing some good deep breaths Many other persons—and they con stitute the great majority of mankind —breathe only with the upper part of the lungs, and although they may breathe regularly, do not draw in suffi cient air at a breath to fill all the lung cells. of of out-of-doors, digest is When once the pernicious habit of poor, shallow breathing has been brok en up, the health undergoes such mark ed improvement, there is such brig ening of the spirits and improvement of the looks, that the luxu of dee; breathing is to be readily foregone A good way ia to take deliberately a stated intervals and proper breathing the ry not likely to start the new hahil utes at to done reformer will find breathing more soon he iz oly few mit devote wim it this is systematically himself unconsciously and more, until ing nature and really breathing to In this way must all work for a living if we want a good one, Besidea the gain to the gone health which from the habit of deep breathing is created 3 strength and preparedness often of great e In warding off acute pulmonary diseases, Youth's Companion very live we rel Comes there reserve which is servi ENGLAND'S LABOR MARKET. Fifteen.-Mour Job, Work Seven Days a Week, Pays $5 for the Week, The state of the markeil for unskiil ed labor in England has been revealed by an investigator who answered ap advertisement for a “young sober and intelligent man to fill of trust.” and has come in for a great of sharp criticism from some of London newspapers The investigator's application for the job was answered by a pier wom pany in Blackpool, Lancashire, a popu lar seaside resort in the north coun try. The reply furnished these par ticulars as to the job “1f appointed, would you be willing to wear uniform, and assist generally with any kind of work? The hours would be from 7 a Sundays included. a position the aa The wages one SHADE FOR HOGS. Summer shade must be provided for hogs, especially brood sows. At this day and age when hog wallow is in dis favor, the animals must be provided with some place where they can cool | off. Clumps of trees or shrubs are very | desirable, but if these are not prac- | ticable on western prairies, a simple | shod with board roof and one or two sides open answers very nicely. This | slides should be so arranged that all of the sides can be raised during the hottest weather, making a free circu | SELECTING FOR THE HERD. For to estab a dozen cows, | made a spec- | desire of a farmers who small herd a after. to the end of the season.” The with a family to support on a salary ously newspapers: duties if you could make the hours s being fully occupied, so as to enable me to save a good portion of the wage: you offer. 1 think the public houses open at 5 in your season and close af 11, so that if you could arrange for my being at the pier at, say, 4:30 a m. and finishing, say, 11:30 p. m., the situation would suit me well and take me out of temptation. In my last situation, which [ held for ten years, [ only worked eighi hours a day, and Saturdays and Sun days I was unemployed, which caused me to get a little demented through having so much idle time on my hands I see your wages work out at some thing like 2 2.7d (about 43§ cents) pe hour, but I should not mind the re duced amount if the situation were made to my satisfaction. . New York Sun. Was Badly Shot. An Irishman fighting under the British flag was caught on the plair by a party of Boers, He refused tc surrender and resisted until he was shot in a dozen places and left for dead. He was found the next day anconscious and carried to a fleld hospital. As soon as he recovered conaclousness a nurse asked him i he were badly shot. “Badly shot? he replied. “I am so full of bullel holes that the man in the next coi has caught cold from the draft: through me."=" Nass Olyonicle. cows of ex- ane quality is shown by fre grade cattle, | whether for either beef or milk pro-| duction, are quite the equal of the! pure bred, and as they are hardier and botter rustlers, they not require | quite so much care and attention. WATERING HORSES. Horses often suffer for want of | For some unexplained reason other animals are allowed to judge for themselves, but horses are kept | on short allowance. This is all wrong. | Except when too worm or immediately | after feeding horses should have all the good pure pater they will drink. | They need water to dilute their dry | feed, to convert it into a liquid in the | process of digestion. Food will re- main in the stomach until sufficient | juices are added to dissolve it. Fever | sh symptoms are soon apparent to a | close observer when a horse has in- | sufficient water. A horse should be given water both before and after feed ing. Proper management will provide th necessary conveniences. Horsds should not be compelled to suffer for thelr owner's neglect or other mis management, sire and ade ceptional advisable, crossing on gr individuality It has experiment been that do EXPERIENCE WITH BROODER CHICKS 1 have been using brooders son for first of apacity perience that 1 have brooder chicks, teaches often crowd too many chicks in brooder. If you place about or 50 ch a 100 capacity b you find they will upy it among them. 1 placed 40 chic the brooder and lost but two other time | placed 1 in a and lost over half of them The of feeding chicks is of the utmost importance. 1 had several articles on fink and care, but 1 thought there was too much theory about the ques tion. My little experience teaches me that the feading must not be neglected. The 40 chicks were fed on food that 1 believed would do § as but | plainly see my Crowding in many together improper feeding was the cause of a large per of in the second case mentioned Alvin Whitlock, in New England Homestead, this sea and have What little had with me that Lhe time two éex- the we a 40 § rooder, 100-chick only ks In will OC ks in At an 00 brooder method brooder read {oe feeding question folly well, 3 and LOO cen joss WHY CHICKENS DIE. line per horee power per day when running to its full capacity. A well was sunk about 18 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter, from which an iron pipe 4 inches in diameter run out 160 feet into a lake, the water in the well standing within 4 or § feet of the pump. A survey of the grounds to be irri gated, with a leveling instrument, showed the average height to which it would be necessary to force the water, To distribute the water 1,000 feet, a 2% inch wrought iroa pipe was bought as it was denired to irrigate. This is screwed together and can be changed for different crops as need ed. Large valves opening to full size of the pipe, with hose connections, were atached at h places. as to make it most convenlent to use a two inch linen The watering suc hose of the strawberries 1,000 feet from the pump would throw the water in a solid stream from 80 to 100 feet, breaking into a spray like rain 1 reaching the ground. With 100 of hose we can, with one attachment of the “ le of 400 feet something over two acres. This be thoroughiy wet in two hours, ig really more than is time for strawberries, allowed to get in the beginning black raspberries we tried irri The results, fine wiore feet hose. cover ere or could which at Necessary one unless For latter method gave the best for more water was got on the ground, and the berries were larger, of better and A heavy irr gation of about 1% inches of water to the acre was given as the berries were color more juicy carry the The berries sold from two to three cents per quart more than berries not irrigated —Walter IL. Taber, in American Agriculturist, crop. SPRAYING HINTS It ig within the last twenty-five years that the great importance of spraying orchards has become so manifest Jefore that time there was not the cl competition in fruit growing that there is today, and blemished fruit which would former iy pass in the market unnoticed is now thrown with the There spraying Insects are constantly from orchards serve our ¥ 1 i yohed aside culls are several reasons now of prime and fungous coming to Old bree why is importance liseases pur orchards foreign shores neglected ling place for pests and help r them about There are who grow fruit along with their general farming BAY ng ! it if these same people their hards in good a method of and would as a to scatte MAnYy who EPray pesn’t pay; would tiith, sprayi HeeD or follow systemat! n grade their i at the hards 8 $ properly ruit, they be surprise received from small ore exercised e mistake An 1} r Michigan a formula for a ng so many pounds of $0 many gallons of carelessness he ms of Was dam- Had he the you are right then id have saved his and his money becomes necessary to spray is ripening, the following is recommended Copper car ounce, ammonia enough Care, however. m be in handling sprays, {o itt nay nse irred in read spray copper sulphate to and ainda poundas water, throu read it water, The aged orchard old adage, "Be sure go ahead.” he trees, his temper When it that solution result a followed wu ane It has come to be a saying with poultry breeders that the chicks must | be four weeks old before they can be safely counted on to mature. The rea of this is that most of the loss among young chicks is previous to this it is not necessary to go far to find it. It may be due to anyone of three causes, and is often due to two or even all three of them. In the first place the vigor of the chicks depends on the vigor of the If the stock is weak from any cause, the eggs can. not be made to produce vigorous | chicks. This lack in the breeding | stock may be brought about by in breeding, the presence of vermine, or | tuents. After the eggs are hatched the chicks may be killed off by lice or | careless feeding For the first cause of this trouble there is no remedy. Chicks hatched from weak breeding stock Are foredoomed to an early death or a profitiess life, and oftenest it is death. The presence of lice is often due to carelessness, and lack of proper food may be due to ignorance of careless ness, or a combination of both. Soft feed mixed in excess of im- mediate wants and allowed to sour is a prolific cause of death. Bad drink- ing water leads in the same direction. The cause of this great mortality among young chicks being pointed out, the remedy is obvious, and anyone can apply it. Sound, sweet feed, plenty of grit, freedom from lice, pure water. These are the requirements to main. tain good health In chicks from healthy stock. Not to furnish these brings its own punishment in the loss of chicks.—Farmers’ Volce. WATER SUPPLY FOR FRUITS, As the growing of strawberries has been one of our special crops, and aim- ing to produce as fine berries as pos. sible, the application of water by ir rigation has been forced upon us. We put in a gasoline engine of 14 horse power and a rotary pump with a ca pacity of 300 gallons per minute. This was selected because of its economical method of producing power, it costing only from $1 to $1.50 per day to run it. The engine uses one gallon gaso- gallons The time to spray and the number Every grower must know just whet he aims to kill when he sprays. Trees should never be sprayed with any of the poisonous solutions while in blos- some other insects which are indispensable in fertilizing some fruits. Apples, pears, plums and grapes should re ceive regular applications every year. Cclorado Bees at St. Louis Mayor Swink, of Rocky Ford, Col, is an aplarist, and he has, perhaps, the He is Fair, and they will work at St. Louis from the time the Exposition opens Mr. Swink's plan, which will cost fully $10,000 of nis own money is to bring to St. Louia enough beehives to construct in min- fature a counterpart of the Colorado State House, at Denver, The bees terial for honeymaking in the country surrounding the World's Fair grounds. it will require about 640 hives to con- struct the little State House, and in it about 5.500.000 bees will work. A Colorado representative at the St. Louis Exposition said on this subject; “We have one bee man who works his bees all the year through. In summer they work in his alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the fall he ships them to his plantation in Florida, where they work among the flowers and orange groves until time to return them to the West in the spring. in Colorado we have each yea: a Watermelon day, at Rocky Ford; a Potato day, at Greely; a Strawberry day, at Canon City, and & Fruit day, at Grand Junction. These are holi- days, and in 1904 these celebrations will be held in St. Louis, and on these days Colorado fruit will be as free as water for those who celebrate with us.” - By the use of a process invented at Bridgeport, Conn, wooden doors are When & man gives himself away naturally feels cheap. THE KEYSTONE STATE. From All Sources. tive Department by secretary to Gov- ewspaper talk about the Governor's wer the chris- syivania is be r the LOVErnor s ernor Sit “ihe n ~ontroversy between not 18 entirely proper for the builder to select any one he pleases to perform this ceremony, and as Sen- ator Quay has been largely instrumental in securing appropriations for the bat - tleship it is very proper that his daugh- ter be selected. So far as Miss Stone is concerned, she never thought of the se- lection. and. together with the Gover- nor and his family, will be very glad if the honor should come to Miss Quay, who is in every way worthy of it.” The Dark Water Coal Company's washer at New Castle was closed by 300 marching strikers, who compelled the entire working force to lay down their tools and go home. The foreman of the force of non-union men was carried through the village headed by a band. The strikers finally placed the man upon fis feet in the suburbs of the town and took up a collection for his benefit. Injunction proceedings were institut. ed at Scranton by the borough of Arch- bald and Mrs. Katherine Kinback to restrain the Elk Hill Coal and Iron sompany from piping the waste water from its Archbald washery into a ditch which the city constructed. The Bar. gess and Councilmen are nearly all striking miners. i As the result of an order raising the wages of all employees of the Lorain Steel Company, at Johnstown, 10 cents a day, 1000 men are affected. Burglars entered the shoe shop of Viner Arnold, at Beaver Falls, and ~atried away about $10 worth of leather ho | almost his entire kit of tools, Mr. Arnold is also a musician and leer of the silver cornet band, and they stole his favorite clarionette. Le Governor Stone received the resigna- tion of Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker from the bench of Common Pleas Court No. 2, Philadelphia, to take effect Au- gust 1. Norris S. Barratt, assistant dis-
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