4-(TARDEN In view of the panic which over came some people when automobiles got thick on the roads, here is part of a letter about the growing demand for horses, by a writer in a Chicago pa- per. This doesn’t look as though tha horse was sick. The writer says: until the vines interfere. The size for pickling is from 214 to five inches, A great difficulty is to keep the crop closely picked. Cucumbers allowed to ilpen will greatly lessen the :rop and the work should be done by ex- perienced and careful hands. Tha crop may be taken to pickling fac tories or shipped to the nearest large city, or galted in brine and later made {ap into pickles on the farm. The last-mentioned plan is most profitable where there is a local market for the pickles, The pickling crop is an easy te grow, The great difficulty ia recently (and I verified his statement 80 far as was necessary to convince able market. For this reason it is best to begin with only a small area.— twelve years ago, a colt, paying $60 for it. tice till a few weeks ago, and then he sold it for $175. incredible to you but if you knew of | some of the other horse dickers that | occur at the present time you wouldn't | be surprised. In the same Illinois | i i blind horses sold for close to $150. | Those blind horses tem or twelve years ago wouldn't have brought $10 apiece, | I traveled lately from Chicago, as | far East as I could stand him, with a! horse buyer from a good town in New York state. He showed me a list of the horses he had bought in the Chi: cago market, with the prices annexed, He had purchased one carload for a town in West Virginia and another corload for his own town. The prices raad like fairy tales. Bat I have been close enough to the horse market dur. | ing the last six months to know they were the bitter truth. Ome span of black horses weighing about 1,400 pounds each, ha had bought for $480, and they were not fancy horses either. One of them, on the contrary, was | touched in the wind—"“not heavy, ¥ know, but jist a little thick, y’ under- stand,” as my informant put it Teams of draft horses that rum in’ age from § to 12 years and in weight from 1,100 pounds to 1,800 pounds a horse sell for $300 to $700 a span. These look like fancy prices, and they are. In addition, not half the care is displayed in regarfd to blemishes that was shown formerly when prices rang- ed more than 50 per cent. lower. This and much other evidence that easily might be secured ought to indi cate conclusively that the horse has | triumphed over handlebar and honk; that he is here for keeps, and that the demand for him will not soon, if ever, | grow seriously less, But, of course, the breeders will go ahead and supply the demand and put the prices back where they belong as measured by the intrinsic value of the animal—In- diana Farmer. - en JBRAINING MEADOW LANDS - There is a certain carelessness -about the care of meadow and pasture ands which is hard to account for, It may be that we are not yet far enough ! away from the wild lands of a decade | or £0 ago to forget that they grow | WPaxTrinnt grasses without care or plow Any one who will take the, pains to examine a dozen meadows cannot fail to be impressed with the lack of attention which these lands receive. If a piece of ground is too poor {0 grow a grain crop it Is turned to grass: if it is too wet it is turned to meadow, with the result that lots of this land is not producing enough to pay taxes on it Drainage is the only thing needed to these low, unprofitable lands into meadows that will produce two or mare t re of commercial hay, The e growing now on much of this i y practical value, but when oner: The is subdued and dried out, readily take hold and ‘gmake bountiful crops. We have often worn why many continue to BOW OXpens grass on these lands, withont first getting rid of the surplus avator and other vegetation that is not congenial to grasses. Some of tho fincst adow lanis we have ever seen were a {ow years ago marsh lands, whore marsh hay grew five or six feet hich lands were first drained Ly big open ditches, and then were covered by a system of dies. Within two years after the opening of the ditches this waterlogged soil be came dry cnough to work, and then the sun and rains did the rest. Stag nant water kills vegetation, Drains carry off this water and let in afr and sunlight and enable the soil to digest she rain water as it falls and sinks into the carth. GROWING PICKLE CUCUMBERS. A profitable crop for summer plant. ing is the pickling ewcumber. It may be grown to good advantage on a piece of runout pasture land of medium soll. Suh land should be plowed early nnd thoroughly worked to set loose whatever plant food is available ¥Freuh land of this kind is likely to be free fi..0 the various blights and dis eases . hich a0 commonly attack en cumbers in old land. A gravelly or clay ‘vam will be satisfactory. The crop =houd be planted some time In June. .. is a quick growing specialty and “arvest beging the last of July or the first of August and continues aintil the vines are killed by frost The best fertilizer i8 barnyard or poultry manure, but good crops may be grown with 4 small amount of mars { are and an addition of fertilizer con- #aining considerable nitrogen. The sual plan in this locality Is to plant | in hills about three feet apart in rows six foet apart. On fairly clean land spost of the cultivation may te done with horse Implements. After all danger of injury from insects is past | the plants are thinned to five or six convert ns per ac other grarzses lered 80 ‘Ve tame These ie MAINTAINING FERTILITY. It is an old rule that proper field cul ture should be the same as for a gar den spot, which is te use plenty of manure on small areas, work the soll to a fine condition for seed, keep down the grass and weeds and make every inch of space produce to its fullest capacity instead of wasting time, la bor and manure over large fields that can not be properly cultivated, Every farmer knows that plant food in the form of manure and fertilizer give increased yields, but it may be a waste of labor not to perform the work ol applying such to the field at the prop er times. Work improperly done is sometimes a waste of labor and on many farms there is often too mucl work done for the results gained, fre quently the mistakes made being pre meditated and in deflance of experi ence and reason. All plants require 3 sufficient amount of food, heat and moisture to enable them to reach ma turity and yleld to their fullest capac ity and where the ground is annually devoted to crops the gr at difficulty is to retain its fertility and to secure from it all that should be derived under the best possible conditions. Any diminution or deterforation of the plant food in the soil must be plied in some shape and it is import. ant that the farmer attend to keep ing the land up to a high standard of fertility at all seasons, for land that has been bountifully fed will be in a better condition for a succeeding crop while that which has been overtaxed will gradually lose fertility and entail an additional expense every years.— The Epitomist, resup WHAT THE TRAP NEST It shows which hen lays It shows just what each hen is doing It picks out the 300-egg hen, the 200-egg, the 100-egg, the 50-egg and the drone. Feeding the is one of the greatest leaks of poultry man. It picks out the DOES the egg. drone the winter layer. It acquainted with each individual hen The frequent handling and moving hen from the nest tames her and tha tame hen is a paying hen It prevents egg eating, as the prit is easily detecte and killed It picks out the hen that infertile egg, the brown, the the vellow egg. tI picks out the hen that raises the best chicks Not always the high est scoring hen winning chicks, it is the only practical way breeder can pedigree his try will in time be other purebred stock may placed in a buil away from the laying nsed sitting h be water. When they shu hens ( y cannot and break the eggs The trap nest ance by which the trigger which is when enters and she cannot leave removed by hand. A numbered band on each hen's leg enables the owner to tell exactly what each hen is doing by writing her number on the eggs in the trap nest ~-American Farm World cul the white and lays raises the atock pedigreed be for removed once a they elves in and the out so th is she the until nest TO PLOW AROUND YOUNG TREES First, get or make a short eavener and whiffletree. The latter every far mer will have anyway to cultivate in tall corn. Fix the lines so the horses will walk close together, and you can throw the furrow toward the young trees without difficulty with an ordi possible, and without barking trunks or breaking limbs. To throw the furrow from the row of trees get the beam over as far ge ft will go in the opposite direction, plow shallow and use one horse for the last furrow, letting him walk in the furrow. This will leave only a narrow land along the row which the harrow will smooth down, and no trees need be injured. Do not plow around a young orchard from the outside each year or you will have hollows on ona side and hills on the other. It might be plow. ed from the center every second time, but the best way is to plow in lands corresponding to the tree rows, throw: fng toward a row one year and from it the next Cor. Buccessful Farm: ing. . ——— ani When a wedding ring has worn so wife will soon die, | “BLACK HAND" ——— WILL MEET Washington, D, C York and clsewh to the bar of justi the Knights of L “ In the meantime,” he sald, of the Italians as a race people There {8 no more than there was in the im few vears ago.” These statements the Division of danger were work of Powderly, tormerly Grand Master of of Immigration and now Immigration. are sober, law abiding, industrious country in Italian immigration races a comparatively the Mr. Powderly in a discussion which was established by the South, fe > in Penn- I was were active tion. ization of marauding cutthroats when its leaders wore hanged “The Black Hand Society Maguires It will the Black Hand was organized vomen and young girls fal ine On nt, patriotic organiza- 1 in Pennsylvani fate that beled! the Molly I found that on its native heath -in fact, for the protection of Hows The black hand of case of the Molly Maguires, brought the sea, was ed and planted io d States. Molly Maguires.” If Chief Powd running the bigges he d servants Powderly did not say Information will sol ehol ive t being for noble purposes across to ignoble purposes when trans- All y sunnlied sung 4 forms of labor, from Mr Division of d States, on short not intimated that the was something than taten “1 do not any one country, We do not ¢riminals. Neither do we Ww to let as much blood as they less or gseased and w have these classes do not come from any have labor that we are timber want ant pec ho t i have labor, i year which 127; * rhood of ; Judge ining immi g come wholly from who litical beliefs want who are s citizens But is because we per cent. of bad from other countries are because of pt on to become ilar society, and it rtal uaa reflected in Europe. We've got to We cannot very well exclude all Every d States, but we must have laws that States United - may be place as New York in a day or a year. localities,” he sald. “When a family from a certain State in Europe setties fn North Carolina or Texas and becomes satisfied its members write to the with people of the same race and from the same common home in Europe. {fmmigration into New Orleans and Galveston increased greatly. During the vear the greatest number of aliens came from Italy, Austria, Hungary and Russia. Those who went to Galveston were mostly Russian Jews, and thie is an indication that the agricultural fields are offering more inducements to such people. All through the South the number of foreign seitiers is grow- good fields to bona fide settlers, “1t is only a question of time when foreigners find out they can do bet. ter in smaller places than In the big cities, but it is going to require a great many vears for that fact to become general knowledge throughout Europe. «rill shrink. This has been the history of immigration. The fact that the United States pays higher wages than any country on earth brings immi- grants here.” ACCUSED OF KILLING BRIDE. ———————— Philadelphia.~—~A Coroner's jury here decided that Mary E. Eilchen- laub, a bride of only a few months, was killed by her husband and his mother. Swearing to kill a druggist who gave testimony against him and a Coroner's detective who worked up the case, G. Russell Eichenlaub, the husband, was led out of court. The testimony led the jury to be- lleve that both the mother and son procured cyanide of potassium. DEFIANCE TO U. 8. COURT. Young appeared before Judge Buna, against the Northern Pacific Rallroad Company to compel that road to into effect the commodity rate law recently declared fllegal oy Judge Lochren, of the United States District Court. ; Judge Bunn fesuod the writ, which Dipers were served on the rallrocd fale, A WOMAN RULER OVER 000,000. The abdication of the Dowager Em- press of China, which is announced to take place the Chinese New Year, will bring to an end a hall cen- tury of imperial rule by a woman for which there i8 no parallel in history Catherine of Rus BOImMe- thing like her But Elizatbeth, ruling a nation as large as New York the day, and Maria Theresa withstanding Frederick the Great, sovereigns by comparison with autocrat of the destinies 433,000, 000 Napoleon himself never an aggregate of tribes on sia enjoyed despotic power about of present were as petty of people ruled vast and peoples, What a tale of Oriental intrigue and barbaric glory the secret chronicle of the court of Tzu-hst or Tsian, or by whatever name she should be known, would make! What an opportunity for Chinese GCramngnt or a Saint-Simon! BO of Greville ived through f the In this court there sury nineteenth century many ( ires of the Byzar » court of the Greek emperors and mediavel It gla aspect den faking in 1871 the who the Was off presumably {1 iin "yi 8 sis romantit at palace DOW becams i zu-hsl favorable time Her to the reactionary best ing fron ening irom possi ern y mm iines ih reseed the ng lessons rom the West —E t » ir § i potic mistress York World AN ADVENT An adv of her RESS enturess w life in this «¢ begun 1 erve a and horses and away before the riage arrived man fell in love ried her, and for a to be content 8 quiet Jif her became the centre of the most vi and But and retumed to New York and set in the escapades in- volved her in difficulty with the and she to 1. she consorted with thieves, blackmail ers and crooks of other kinds. With one of them she planned the robbery of an express company and saved her. self by a fight to Paris taking with her the spoils of the rob bery. Her protestations of innocence and her remarkable beauty won interest of an English lady famous for her philanthropic efforts in the re. formation of the fallen. Sha behaved herself well for a time, but soon re verted to her former life, She mar ried a man who took her to South America, where he had an appoint- ment in Brazil. She ruined him and he committed suicide. Returning to London, she became acquainted with a wealthy man whom she almost mur. dered. Another plot to murder in which she was engaged, ended her criminal career for a time, for she was caught, convicted and has been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprison. ment. She might have been a happy wife and have made others happy, but she chose the evil and became a curse to the world and is reaping the fruit of her sins. Christian Herald THE VIRTUR OF A WHITE DRESS. “0, mother, how pretty you loos!” “How sweet!” “Where are you going?” “Guess!” 1 erled. “I'm going--going ~-going to stay right here with you this afternoon.” 1 ended enthusiastically and | smilad, My little ruse had succeeded, Just a simple white dress had creat ed the atmosphere that | wantel. O00 escaped ondon There from arrest —— ——————— The chfidren were cross: 1 was tired and irritable: yet 1 wanted to patient and agreeable, | remem. red, when a teacher, how the school children had taken a dislike to a cer tan dress 1 wore; they fancied 1 was ulways crores in ft. 1 recollected how pleased they were over a new gown and especially over anything white They begged me always to wear white, Now 1 was resolved to test again the Fower of the white dress and see if it might not my tired nerves It was a dull t warm fire. react upon but 1 had 1 selected a white waist, thin, and alas! a little out Then 1 found old bit mussed, but clean rainy day, too of yie. my plgue I wore neck ¢ halr A string st sir compieted my costume a fainty blue ribbon at my and to match in my f beads all a with blue of lacetrimmed handker sh of used 10 chief cologne The clas admire ‘teacher's handkerchief, s0 nice an Now | wa felt quite restiess the “ohs!” and gn my of the than for the afternoon to entertaining children just At and ready equal these ing from recover chorus gentle touches measles the “ahs!” the hair, the string repaid 1 loving of beads, 1 felt was actually more rested while low 0 the children were eager to fol suggestion that 1 of a white gown! Motherhood every the mage vi a ord magic SPINE Here ig a able to tell 1 general importance of looking at iackbone if a have fine ge 3 i fie end reget hard-won ch woman has crisp feet Beauty is one of In more bea df a nation sink are utiful in rising ones women ex means strength married which is an ribo og § 1 paysica: Jeauly parents J of do out shee; ideal to f not alway dying glory their hay # a practical one. The un of the mes from beaut! whatever they if thirty vears Lotties, Bettys day pon boys, authors given to Herald the nam and little as queens Nn are ristian A RAINY-DAY PARTY. the rainy day, which all hos dread a barn-party great clean, carriage-house gwept out and made empty For is fun A casily roomy in decorat Corn stalks selves a whole afternoon ing it for the evening may be stacked in the corners and of corn festooned across the ceiling, with bunches of wheat and on the walls For lighting, of course, jacko'lanterns are the proper and these are the funniest squashes, for long, quaint, dis faces result from their narrow shape. These can be swung from ceiling by strings so they will down over the heads of the lancers below, For music there should be nothing conventional, of course. The very best thing possible is an accordian, if that is obtainable, If not, there may As to refreshments, doughnuts and clder—