BM AND CHERRY GROWING. W. C. Reed of Vincennes, spoke at whe Southern Illinois Horticultural So- riety meeting on “Cherries,” saying fhat this fruit would ba an absolute failure on low grouad where water re- mains near the roots, as cherry trees “cannot stand stand wet feat.” Sandy or well drained soil is best for cher ies. transplanting; Mahaleb stock advantage over Mazzard in that it will some into beariag much younger and gield larger profits in the market. About 95 per cent. of the trees planted in this country are on Mahaleb roots ‘The cherry should be from the time it to keep the tree perfectly healihy growih he for the app’ ‘erry Tough yey results sprayed out and get a ig set vigorous od edd culti and blu cherry orchards is Cultivati and continue unt picked. The mond were named as most favored in | The growing of sweet! wud profitabl fact that much be ‘alifornia ommecial Po | ym should a Montmorend been {i ling 12 "he =row 1 em so tter she fint so Poses it Keeping qualities quality of the ( fruit good. vet for pur has the advantage of better WHEN TI Ducks dng and until if permitt will drop sireams fhey feed fo feed th ghey will The Be hatches munch bette pr LWo In fo have around the boards on edge by them while Away a their meal, Foe «day wher wand in from puddling and water. Remember one and roam early he Wp s00Nn as they are water CARE OF HARNESS fhiz should yr ring I A srder before th work iigitly § ai Teast do bettie Uni kle every st wash thor aly, using warm, water and good A stiff brush deter an off the gum and dirt apply some good black oil ith 2 rough loth, using as much will absorb Let the oil dry in a warm room, not too near a fire or in strong sunshine After the feather has absorbed all it will the straps, mountings and bus with a piece of flannel to remove the superflsous oll Then wiih a small spoage apply lightly to all parts a leather dressing to give a nice glossy Appearance, Any stitching or repairs #mhmtld be done before plied. After the harness has been is condition if it is sponged over two or three times a week with a harness soap, it will always look nice, te easier for horses and gaany years loager v fare - concera the farm 3 : thas and should be hooin RAN 4 Twice w rap an soap a sponge to take in well but wipe kles the il is tile ON is ap put good the wear WOOD ASHES, Unbleached wood ashes are rich in potash, varying in value according to the hardness of wood burned Hickory ashes are more valuable than basswood. Besides, potash ashes con tain lime and a litte phosphoric acid Most clay solls pave sufficient potash Sandy soils need potash more than other soils. Do not mix wood ashes with aay kind of manure b:fore ap- ®lying to the soil, the WOODMAN'S MAUL The easiest way 10 make an style woodman's maul from a straight stick to drive wedges with is to cut the tree high enough to make anaul out the stump. Shape and hew dhe handle of maul, leaving a wiece long enough for the head of the mani full size. Whaen the handle is hewn to the size waated, cut the stump cloge to the ground. It j= less than half the work than it is to ent a plece from the tree before shapiag dhs manl.—The Epitomist, CARE OF THE ORCHARD. Sprayiag the trees and vines should Be made a portion of the routiae work, whether disease appears or not, Ms a protection to the neighborhood. An orchard may become affected and mot show such diseased conditions un- #il the next year, when more work will then be necessary to keep the frees from attack or injury. the HINTS ABOUT FLOWERS. Sow mignoanette for late flowering. "Water the tuberous begonias well ‘during drought. Keep the dead flow are sut out of the herbaceous borders. @take, tle up and pinch back the for fall CORN FOR THE COWS, F @ every six cows plant four to five acres in ensilage corn speaking, three in feeding value to one Generally tons . of silage are toa ol can be produced on one acre TRIMMING THE TREES First class fruit in first class ate an gape inquiry for kind, says Delaware Young trees trimmed tco foliage probably cre more of the same Farm and Home, should liheral'y, -as much weakeas taken from the tres its feeding power GETTING FERTILE EGG3 It is imposgible to get th doring nring as we 2 Bae ity of esgs the winter ing, good | A REMARKABI brown Swiss cow a remarkab’e re WINI OWS lemande the number of the peating tion “Yes,” replied the girl “Well,” continued are testing the wire. Will you pl draw a long breath and say, plainly, ‘I will be good? ” She obeved I will be said A little disiinctly ey qn the voice ‘we AA very good, she slower now, and a little more please.” good,” said trying her beat that's right at all” the voice. “We must fix wire, I guess, Now, make one effort and again.” The girl caught her breath. be good!” she shouted. You will, will you?" laughed voice, "Well I'm glad to hear you You were decidely unpleasant time I called.” And just then the man at the other end of the wire "rang off Now the young woman is trying to discover just which of hb admirers played such a detestable joke on her ~Pailade!phia Press the young woman “No rected not cor that extra say it th Lie Say 80. last the Music for Russian Workmen. “The laboring man in Russia though in rougher surroundings than found in other countries for the same could be imagined under such says a writer in Social Service. “One is love of music. eul dering of the anthems and chants of the services of the churches. The choral singing of men and boys in some of the smaller hamlets is in deed so rich and finished in style as to be a constant source of wonder to al! travelers. Boothing and delightfui also Is the delicious melody of the church bells which render hourly their music; and musical as well as cheering even the tinkling of the bells on the harness of the horses, No whip is needed by the drivers who urge their beautiful ponies omly by the exhilarating sound of natiopal or popular airs sung in their rich ¢hant ing tones.” Dainty cut fringe that costa But five cents a yard is much used as edge fuikhes oa curtailing and hadipraada, The Interfering Husband Nuisance. By a Long-Suffering Wife. A WOULD like to beyond his the hushand who women about BOCs but the oni ay a word or two sphere; many married will know him " ba called “1 Interfering Husband,” bousehold and domestic too well; he who will may poke his nose (nto matters which in no way concern him Ha is a kiad of general connected with housework: wile as 10 how she should perform length of lecturing the “general” on the most true wife cares for a _ husband going about the for a man; yet, the kitchen is a kind of happy fering husband He drops In of an afternoon—why « ¢arth is He demands an explanation, and is told that {ie “AMissus scrubbed that day This won't do for the interfering and faforms her that the kitchen jooks au 0d clothes shop; can she not keep his house in a cleanly state? 1s he to pay for a servant standing about doing nothing when she might be well amployved scrubbing flcors, and so he EOvs on Such opedia on all matters ie thinks nothing of instructing his alas, he frequently yes the fal points of housewifery. N«¢ Kitchen; Ia fact, it is no place hunting ground far the lute: eneye duties the floor not serubbed yet " sald It wasn't to be out his wife man, however: he hunts HIKE y aa infliction, and the household annot t waen is more than a nu he pre {3 1 a man bver which on like this But he will also di tolerate Suppose tie sance; he is sides {3 rarely a the man goes Nappy ong vidual won't only meddle with ho'd erning the i a4 rue affairs; mother Hous game indi tate con month of have the chil wearing their or flannels Nao? ‘ell i ! io so at te mother judg § 1 1 the dre sh id pu r or dren st ppd rders the interfer the best oth } nl Natural Fuch a man giv vale at it isn't pr wor.an of spirit wil! aot ma aimost fol'ows as a matter of of the 3 iat he is known pens t ton on free the str be of t neighborhood bandied about WW 3 The Match-Making Instiact in y question Becaus wom hich, after all But on We VOOR up our mind Re, A Mother’s Responsibility. By Beatrice Fairfax. “YE mother of a son owes a july to some uaknowa woman. That ing of the son woman is the son's future wife, and ies in the upbring If he sisters and woman unfortu But if he is mother and others he is sure No wife can train husband other woman's wisdom or foolishness Tae real responsibility of a boy's upbringiag rests with the mother father can teach him to be maniy and honorab.e the mother, if she the right way aboul it, can reach bis vary soul She can teach him to it treat ail women, whether good or bad by hia love for her When a mother is foolishiy iuniged and allowed to {yrannize over his amal.er life miserable for the ate 10Ugh 10 marry im ht manly. gentile and : and ia reap the benefit of some ne w i ina wo considerate of hi her The ROes other women, and to yusideration, inspired Fe false f and sisters conapire to sp a boy they do not atop to consider what troubles tre) it up for his wife, who, mmnless she wishes to live in an everlasting whi f bickering and quarreling, will have to wait on him aad kow-tow to his whims and fancies just as his foolishly fond mother and sisters done. They have pampered and spolied bim to guch an extent that he has grown (0 feel that his slightest wish is law Now, it is ona thing for a mother or sister to occupy this poshiion toward a man and quite another thing for a wife. The former are the sponsors for the existing state of affairs. The latter is the victim If she does aot follow In their foo'stens and how down to the Wictates of her tyrannical lord and master, the mother and sisters will think her seifisb and unappreciative of the greal blessing that has fallen to her lot. If she does zive In to him, she sinks into a poor nonentity, without will or volitioa of ber own. the mere echo of his domiaeering will Tris is the lot of the wife of the man who has ht: own way in everything His loving, If weak-minded, mother, may take pleasure in granting het darling’'s every wish, bul surely she owes something to the wife who will one day suffer for the mother's foolishness — New York Journal Couldn't Lend Horse, tell you what I'll do. I'll walk home Representative Adamson, of Geor | with you."-~Washington Post, gla, recently told a story which illus | ———— trates true good fellowship. He had Mourning in Korea. bean campaigning in Georgia on foot Koreans wear full mourning for and was twenty-five miles from home. | their fathers. The dress is of hemp It became necessary for him to go ! cloth, with a hempen girdie. A face home, and he tried to secure a con: | shield is used to show that the wear veyance, but all the teams wore busy | er is a sinner and must not “peak to on the farms. Finally he went to a any one unless addressed. The eos. man whom he knew very well and tume (8s rotained for three vears, the said: shie'd for three months, This is worn “Bill, for a father only. Secondary mourn. want a rig to take me, Ing’s warn for a mother, and no to get me one.” , mourning at all for a wife, The hat “Adamson,” he replied, “we are five is of wicker. During the China-Japan. months behind with our work here, ' ese war the United States minister and it Is next to impossible to got a ordered every American eitizen to korsa that can be spared; but thera have this outfit for disguise ia case lsat anything | won't do or you. [I'll of dight endless have been brought up to have I have to get home, and | You've got Prescott Was a "Mother's Boy. Camille Pelletan, the French born ‘er of marine, Is noted as a tyoice] bo hemian. He has spent a good part of | nicely fitted to bia lite in the Latin quarter, and ever From his now, compelled to live in the | thought magnificent marine » fre | epirits quently minis Prescott was not but happily only well born. His heredity was his problem of life. Governor Woleott he derived his “anfailing * In Plerce's Life of Sumner entertain tl onemian | there ig a record of a conversation friends. Another no emian io | at inner, where Webster, Ticknor, French government {8 Tissler Prescott were pros president of the ihr The talk turned on the and Tiss chnms at most shaped and are close friends now and Boome mother though piace of he Sumner and ent i aadisy » elisiar | among others ar Worms oallege | question. what vitally men's eharacter one thing went deg activities some another "Xr that a most potent He witness All Ticknor plously from Salem Just re } (vat th | sald X-Rcoys Remove Smallpox Scars I Py It is alleged that appli he X-rays will remove the mn the skin hy X { ire we told that successful fl dared mothers ations of ¥ Anessa as the mars the ar oun experiments have set gather contemporaries had his mother. — Rollo Atlantic AEree bright Og Vrgngw patient : TY HET patien boy William vivielty from bis den, in the March over ng, but thes 8 2.80 that pitting of reason to Many years removed The old tubarculosls ar wlieve itanding may he sears of burn 1ieo removed Ly the Not Circulated Fast Enough, “She's not to be trasted ald the ' EOREID Gotham’'s # “Why not? New York has won surviving a t (iroy trl all = old her al about the scandal ’ * promised n 101 to mention ik AiAn's : Mayors Vyeck, and she and she Young women may avoid much sick- ness and pain, says Miss Alma Pratt, if they will only have faith in the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Dir Mza Prxxnan: — [I feel it my duty to tell all + how much Lydia E. Pinkham’s wonderful Vegetable ( ompoand has done for me. I was completely ran d le to nd school, and did not Are iy ked of societs WwW person nd have gained seven nds of fle : : “1 recom 1d to all you ness.” — Miss Ax HIDE women JWT, Unliaie 10 alte now I fee FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO YOUNG GIRLS, All young girls at this period of life are earnestly invited to write Mrs. Pickham for advice; she has guided in a moiherly way hundreds of young women; her advice is freely and chee rfully given, and her address is Lynn, Mass, iving from soc many youne girls Mrs. Pinkham believes that r girls are often pushed altogether too near the limit of their endurance powadars in our public sche i seminaries Nothing is allowed to interfere with studies, the girl must be pushed to the front and graduated with honor; often physical collapse follows, and i% takes years to recover the lost vitality ,— often it is nover recovered. 2 3 f 1 ¥ 4 ¢ Judging n tho letters she is re POLS BINA we A Young Chicago Girl Saved from Despair, “Dzar Mgrs, Pixxnax: — I wish to thank you for the help and ben. efit I have received through the use of Lydia II. Pinkham's Vege= table Compound and Liver Pills. When [I was about seventeen gma. Vears old [ suddenly seemed to lose my usual good health and vitality, Father said 1 studied too bard, but the doctor thought different and preseribed tonics, which 1 took by the uart without relief. Rocading one day in the paper of Mrs. Pinkham's great cures, and finding the symptoms described an- swered mine, I decided I would give Lydia | E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. 1 did not say a word to the doctor; I bought it myself, and took it accordin to directions regularly for two mont and I found that I gradually improved, and that all pains left me, and I was my old self once more. — Livtriz E. SixcrLamg, 17 E. 22d St., Chicago IIL” Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the one sure rem- ody to be relied upon at this important period in a young girl's life; with it she can go through with Sourfie and safety the work she must accomplish, and fortify her physical weil being so that her future life may be insured against sickness and suffering. T if wo eannct forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of $5000 ORE minds, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Makham Medicine Co. Lynas, Mass, Pree the Many Tempting Luncheon Meats Ask Your Grocer for Them. Send for our beokiet How to Make Good Things to Bat” Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago
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