THE BEST GRAIN FEED, best grain feed for mature horses is about two-thirds corn and one-third oats in winter, and two- thirds oats with one-third corn summer. For rapid fattening warm mashes of corn-meal and wheat bran may be given while idle, but it should The be changed to hard grain some days | before beginning work. Clover hay is more fattening than timothy. Oats are the grain for horses that must be driven fast or far, and for colts, —New York World. PRUNING HARDY SHRUBS, It seems hardly necessary to repeat what we have so often stated about pruning shrubs with a view to the production of flowers—namely, that those which produce flowers on the wood made the previous year—among which the honeysuckles, early spireas, lilacs, viburnums, deut- zias and Philadelphus sre prominent examples— should receive their severest cutting soon after the floweringwseason ie over. This stimulates the growth of the new wood, which will bear flower buds for the next spring. Of course, if these shrubs are cut back in the autumn or winter or in early spring, before they bloom, the flower buds are removed. On the other hand, late-blooming shrubs, like the panicled hydrangea, hibicus and lespedeza, should be cut in hard in early spring so that they may make & strong growth of wood and buds for flowers which in late snmmer and rly autumn. —Garden Forest. open and HOW TO USE WATER. xcept for grass and grain crops water should not be used by flooding, and it certainly should not be used in the preparation of the ground for the planting of either of them. There are certain crops upon which the water may be used with impunity, so far as touching the plant isconcerned. Some | of the stronger of the garden vege- tables will not be injured by any use of water, while others will certainly be, if the water is allowed to touch the stem of the plant. Under the best circumstances it does no good, and is certainly liable to do injury. It should be remembered, too, that running water upon the surface of hard-baked land or rain-washed land, under a hot sun, will be attended with | almost as rapid evaporation as it wonld be if poured upon the top of a hot! stove, nor is its effect advantageous to the surface of the soil when so spplied. If, on the other hand, the surface be broken, $0 as to apply the water to the cool under soil, the absorbtion is much more rapid and more thorough, and then, with the pulverized surface soil, no matter how dry, thrown back upon it, will serve to retain it there many times longer than it will if applied broadcast. —New York World. POINTS ON SELLING DUCKS. The prices of ducklings go up as the watering places begin to open. They are known as ‘‘green ducks,” and they begin to come into the market about the middle of May, the prices holding until the Ist of July, and from then the prices gradually decline The adult ducks must not be confounded with the green ducks. The latter are of this season's hateh, and should weigh from seven to eight pounds per pair, being about ten weeks old. Prices range, namely, from twenty to! thirty cents per pound daring the time the demand is greatest, and after that period the market yields tosome thing else, The green ducks are not to be had from common puddle ducks, but the breed generally used is the Pekin, which is a good layer and grows speedily under heavy feeding; they often reach five pounds each when ten weeks old. Some breeders, to give vigor, begin with Pekin cross them with Rouen drakes, using an Aylesbury drake the next season and then going back to the Aylesbury and Pekin ducks are white, and are therefore more easily dressed for market, and they are more salable, Unless you are willing to keep the large breeds don’t try to raise ducks, as it will not pay. —Mirror and Farmer, +f HOW TO JUDGE WOOL. The finest and sofest wool is always | on the shonlders of the sheep. An ex- pert on judging sheep always looks at the wool on the shoulders first, A writer of experience in rearing fine- wooled sheep and in hsndling wool gives the following suggestions to Wool and Mutton for selecting a good wooled sheep : Always nesuming that the wool to be | inspected is reaily fine, we first ex- emine the shoulders as a part where the finest wool 1s to be found. we take as a standard, sod compare it with the wool from the ribs, the thigh, the rump and shoulder parts, and the nearer the wool from the various por- | tioos of the animal approaches the standard the better. First we scrutinize the fineness, and if the result is satis. factory we pronounce the fleece in re- spect of fineness ‘‘even.” Next we scrutinize the length of the staple, and if we find that the wool on the ribs, thigh and back approximates reasonably in length to that of our standard, we again declare the fleeco as regards length of siap , ‘trae and even.” We next satisfy ourselves as $0 the density of the fleece, and we do in | growing forsythias, | females and | Pekin, This | | this by closing the hands upon a por- tion of the ramp and loin wool, these | points being ususlly the thinnest and most faulty. If this again gives satis- faction we designate all the wool ‘even as to density,” Now, to summarize these separate examinations: If the fleece is nearly of equal length on shoulder, rib and back, and density on shoulder and across the loins, we conclude that we have a perfect sheep for producing valuable wool. FACTS FOR DRIVERS, The Humane Circular gives the fol- lowing facts that are the result of ac- | tual experience : That one-third to two-thirds | smooth hard road. | That a slight rise in the grade re- in ten doubles the a rise of one foot draft. That a little rain softening the sar- | | holiday. face adds nearly twenty per cent. to the power required. In all these cases policy and human- | ity demand smaller loads and frequent short rests. Dry axles add double, sometimes treble to the labor of a team. Noth ing pays better thau frequently oiling wagon axles, The power and longevity of the horse are in exact ratio to the intelli- gent care and feeding he receives. He can draw on his fixed stock of vitality to supply deficiency of food todo over work, but it sho his life and re duces his value, That have been worked to death in one day shows riens horses how rapidly overwork draws on their | As heat depends on food, | vital power. all elipped horses and those not warm- iy stabled and well much extra food, without which they wear out fast. Therefore, underfeeding and neglect are all costly and wasteful, has ruined thousands of horses ily over the hardest place on the trip. Steady hard pulling causes grest pain, 80 give your team pecially during the trip. Ownership has limitations and be- stows no right to mutilate, abuse or Our laws recog | neglect an animal nize the rights of domestic animals and protect them. out a horse. The best horsemen of our time condemu its use, and believe | that much more is lost than gained by | it. If all drivers were struck seach time they strike a horse, whips would soon disappear. The ‘‘necessity” for them would cease To know how a horse how you would feel in the same con- dition. Man and horse are wonder. { fully alike. Whatever distresses one would distress the other. God de- signed them to be the best of friends, and to abuse a horse is mean snd cow- ardly to the last degree. FARM AND GARDEN SOTES, Don’t torture a horse with a misfit collar. It is cheaper to keep two geldings than one stallion. Never change the horse's feed dur- ing the growing period, The quince makes the best stock by which to dwarf the pear, We want persistent all-year milkers, The first year tells the story. A colt grow at the rate of from one and a half to two pounds a day. should Do not ring a hog if you can possi- bly help it. It interferes with the thrift of the animal. In breading the general characteris tics of the mares are quite as important | as their blood lines. The cherry crop is a profitable one {and is always so much ready money | | when you want money. Horses of a somewhat phlegmatic temperament are generally most suc- cessful as sires of speed. { The breeder who trusts to luck in selecting and mating his horses is cer- tain to become a bankrupt, | Quinine, judicionsly administered, lis a good remedy for a horse seized | with » sudden cold or fever. Watch the heifers. Don’t let them | form the habit of drying up early. | (hive them extra feed and care, Pruning the grape shonld consist in shortening the strong canes one-half !and the weaker ones three fourths, The principal objectior fo using | coarse fresh manure as a maloh is that ! generally it contains too many weed { needs, The man who serimps on elbow | grease at tree-planting time will be {short on frait-bearing trees for many years to come. It is claimed that by planting the peach in a very rich soil the tree will come into bearing earlier than if grown in 4 thin soil, Planting a fow trees overy fall or spring, as may be most convenient, provides sgninst failare and keeps up the supply of good fruit, While the pruning of the grape vines should be done before spring it in rarely advisable to prune the ground is frozén hard, high. more | : : power is required to draw a given load through mnd or sand than on & | ) | eline about their fires on deerskin of | their own curing, and add the smoke | quires a larger increase of power and | blanketed require | Overw ork, i Overloading ie costly and eruel, and | No | load should be too heavy to haul eas- | frequent rests, es- early part of the | The whip inflicts great pain and | worry, snd helps immensely to wear | feels, learn | THE WANDERING KIRGHESE PICTURESQUE NOMADS OF THE STEPPES OF ASIA. The Milking Hour is Their Chief Amusement Marriage an Import ant Aflair—A Bride's Dress. : Sea, and among the environs (» of Issi-Kul, They are one of the most interesting and picturesque tribes of that wild and barbaric country, for the reason that they make no pretense to civilization, yet live in comparative comfort, with the same primitive cus toms which their ancestors maintained before them. Their houses are bam- boo or wicker huts, which are open to the woather in summer, but in winter are thatched with heavy blankets of their own manufacture and walled with solid masses of snow fifteen feet These are pressed against the dwellings, making them air-tight and shutting ont the severe cold of that rigorous climate. A hole in the side admits light, or at least as much of itas those children of the wilds make use of. Like the Indians, they sit or re- HE Kirghese are a nomadic tribe, living in the steppes of Asin, north of the Caspian of their pipes to the clouds that em- anate from the fire, not minding in | the least the stifling atmosphere i nomads life 1 mostly a | To these traditional, a chief settling all their disputes with a royal sutoerscy. They are not warlike as are their neighbors | through a portion of the trunk five | the Cossacks, and give much attention | 0 : nd a rude sort of agricual- | . : to the hunt and a rade » RET | stopping st Stroud the ture. The women, who dress slmost exactly like the days or sf weddings, do the greater rt of the domestic It is they manufacture in quantities except on holi- men part WOTK. who IRrge that Known delightfni beverage which is variously to E LE] Iropesns knmvs, konmiss, kumise, and 18 made of mares’ milk The evening and ment of the Kirg hour. Then the herds of goats, mares and eo driven pasture, and their mannish costumes and hats—1f it winter- to milk chatter. It is, then, a labor of love, since they all their substitute for whisky. [It really a strong intoxieant when fer- mented with a mixture of asses’ milk, goats’ milk and camels’ milk, making morning smuse hose the musing camels, in from Ita are n tarn out in high far and the wom: in low is will upset a temperate European, while a native will imbibe eight or ten glasses before he loses his head. Kirghese sip their kumys with true i average height kumvys, which is | ) | — a liquor so strong that one glass of it | When Hands Are Embarrassing, Tt is an well-known fact that men not habitually accustomed to wearing even ing dress sometimes find diffienlty in disposing of their hands to their en fire satisfaction; indeed, it “blooded” man to know what tnkes a to do with his hands and to be able to forget | them. The man with his hands be hind his back is a familiar figure ; and it 18 a curious fact that npon the signs | which one may see in various parts of the town announcing sale or to hire and displaying the fig dress ure of a man in evening dress, the man | is almost always represented with one | Even | or both hands behind his back, upon those painted eanvasses, tive man's face is bold his hands shy. This seems almost u pity. It may be that the painters are moved subtle sympathy with the generality of mankind or by the fact that the hu while man hand is a pretty diffienlt thing to | paint, but it seems as though, both for art's sake and for the publie instruc tion, they should give to the man on canvas the appearance and the bearing | of a trained society man. —Chicago | Herald, - rR —— Traveling Too Fast to Be Wrecked, The passengers in the Great West. ern express due at Stroud at 5.40 last night, had a marvelous escape. Tim mre | by LS UR ING hard times con- Li dees & suits for | Each spoonful work. of baking powder. sumers cannot afford to experiment with inferior brands It is NOW that the great strength and purity of the ROYAL make it indis- pensable to those who desire to practise economy in the kitchen. does its perfect Its increasing sale bears witness that 1t 1s a necessity ber felling was in progress near Brims- | | combe, and the trunk of a tree fifty feet long slid down from the embank ment and as the express came up pro- | Their laws are simple and jected over the line, The train, whick was going sixty miles an hour, ent feet six inches in cirenmference and shattered the remainder The shock was felt by the passengers, and on HUAMAT 1s and steam pipe were found to be lam aged. f CURL The officials are of opinion that had the brake been applied or the train been going at less speed, it » Id been wrecked. - would have London Tel graph, —— A Company of Six-Footers, The distinction of est number of tall having the gros men iu one « pany belongs to the First Battalion of | the Scots Guards. The ffank company of that Over ninety men on ils “A” or right battalion roll, and their six feet two and a half inches. There are twelve in the company over six feet four inches, and one stands slightly over six feet seven inches, No individual member of the eompany is less than six feet in | height. —8t. Lonis Republie. has in men A Wonderful Locomotive, Locomotive building has mad within the fe aud experts predict even bette future in speed secs advances past Ww rt iv the not distant The solvable problem the difficulty in stopping within s short distance, ut in locomotiy BOnabnlY 4 rau Ihe Director-General er Kn ) Lh er than the pon the than one road to make Det r tung hirty { evel COoOnas In itil The Diroct hundred tons tender is ' miie 1n secon r-senera Ihe le fifty-nine working trim, welg hs ond Si f engine and one-half feet of rails to top | teen feet ten inches and a New York Ledger Ala 3 of sn four fe ‘ v reaction 1oKe-stack, Nero had bulging eves | near-sighted ER AAT OR TS, We rapid VERS, and from top nd was very J The appreciation of its exhilarating prop- | erties, and all the time spared from esting drinki when men, women and chil- dren alike participate. When the Kirghese move that can be | in set aside for | quarters from one valley or mountain | to another they make it the of great hilarity and feasting. the women wear the gay costumes of makers, riding i dr the Among the tributed in paniers by camels seeming to merry men, ving which wr colts, the sagacious know that they are part OCCRIOn i Then | s 1 the family, and conducting themselves | with great diseretion Marriage among the Kirghese very important affair. The bride in the matter, she accepted by a lover in consideration of a dowry of camels and horses, when a little to “ay La has | being i the contract is made before the chief, | according to the laws of their religion, which is Mohammedan, The decked in the stufls, Kirghese are wealthy in the intion of costly silk+ and jewels, which ‘ from one genera. be per- If a t hee of colors De { gold and silver tucked into for the richest are handed down tion to ancther, to haps but bride is married as her me worn * f 41 » once 1 “ etme ther wa fore her. she will wear a kalat all the gorgeons Her DARDAS SLAROT VAI gated striped silk in of the orient trimmed with sequing, and her 4 elegant boots while her fur cap will be studded with jewels ns big ax the Kohl The face will then be covered with which has two slits for the these nntanght danghters of manage a veil in the and fascinating manner s tractive feature is really concealed The Kirghese is a sovereign in own right and never superior. When {wo of the men meet, the question first propounded is this: “Who are thy seven ancestors?” The answer ix usually satisfactory, as every tribesman oan recite his lineage as smoothly as if it were a memorized lesson, Like his prayers, it is a part of his mental being, for these nomads are taught certain things traditionally, and never disturb these native posses. sions by mny acquired knowledge. They retain the fundamental truths, and their khan, or tribal chief, does the rest. — Detroit Free Press, - rc —— “ The Talmud The Talmud is of very complioated composition, inasmuch as it has eight meanings, In brief, bowever, it is a collection of notes, decisions of rab. biz and doctors on. the books of the Jowish law. There are two Taimuds, the Babylonian and the Palestinian; between thom they contain vast stores of religions learning, of historical references, or geographical hints, or arcrpology, numismatics and other sciences, The Babylonisn Talmnod dates from the Sixth Centary of ear era, the Palestinian from the Fifth Century. — Trenton (N, J.) American. A —— a, A A project to furnish Omaha, Neb.l with water power by moans of a cana, fifty miles long is being considered hy prominent capitalists, fn poket will Ol noor a eves, Eve can that no al veil | and | most ecoquettish i his | acknowledges a | i bride is | AacCcumn- | leather, | their | liver or kidney disease, another Bervous exhaustion, or prostration, with here and there, and in way they CARY pills and potions, ch, when, in reality, 3 caused by some physician, ignorant of ng | me, and : ho fi i i 1 2 di ; | | 5 i g : f Hh 5 ( i it 3fK H] it ; [7 : i: 3 “% : i ! : i 1 § ! E i : ii : : : 4 £ i : : HL i ] on, | thirteen children and 1 am | Plaros’s Favorite Prescription, for lenoor rhea and uterine debility than I bave for sixteen years. I am eured of my trouble. | and now weigh one hundred and sixty.siz | pounds, whereas ny weight for many years | food at one hundred and twenty-five pounds, With pleasure, I remain,” Yours truly, The following is from Mre M A McA lister, of Lim Rock, Jackson Co., Ala: “1 wa in ™ bealth ; age could mot get about. I took Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and it cured me: | felt ten years you I have not had any return of my trouble. I am the mother of fifty three woman's fend . 1 have THOMAS PF, dim PAT ht ACRES OF LAND Lun akisty whe fats Pach Coupany was worki u i bad ulceration of he Nomb, | | Selivar £0) | leewinn bs tha Asrsneter On Pramewse, to the prudent— it goes further. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL BT. NEW YORK, HEN TREN ERENCE THEN RRENTT ER | Power of the Camera, The won ful pow Bra} Dic cameras «4 that are Ae] ) mvisible referred to by lecture at vesterday Fe cc —— | De Foe had more Newgute and the piliory. than | make bol rock, hard The explanation ie Th {| thing Wetter Then printing wa reguoed wd § Lines were doming THE AERROTOR 00. FORESITS IT LOOKS AND, IY ANTICIPATES, IT E0O9S WHT I (NITE, IY shows WHAT SRHOTLD BE (ORING, IT RFOWE IS ARV a00% HAT IT soe ba owt Tre other Le Bad outlay for gaive g Wis tows thie WE BUD THE DEY LENS OF CosT i we ie . ¢ dk We know that Wie seinl, sapomd te wade polvamieed, but of prore N wire guive - ww pew. 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Cal, 18 PRIZES (on the baat eweayy writen by tie wife won a Geughie of 8 Berman or weir of 8 winded] aneeering We geeshion “WHT SHOULD | URE AN AEKROTOR 1 For conditions of and ements and pain of praes eel fo Ohinngen, 0 ow branes, ot Onty, Binsin, Bed, Kwon Indo, or Bb Park Plaee. Bow York in pag and 12-11. 8 10-1, 8198. Oufit, J Aiphatwia, 3 Fai andl copy of Sework, re, 1 x ER ht :
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