STRIKE INVESTIGATORS THE PRESIDENT APPOINTS THEPROMISED COMMISSION. Carroll D. Wright, the Comm1issioner of Labor; John D. Kernan, of New York, and Nicholas E, Worthing- ton, of Illinois, Will Study Labor Troubles in the West, President Cleveland announced the mem. bers of the commission to investigate the railroad strike in tho West growing out of the troubles between the Pullman Company and its employes, The commission is as follows : Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor of tha United States : John D, Kernan, law- yer, New York City ; Nicholas E, Worthing- ton, of Peoria, Ill. It was necessary under the statute that Mr. Wright should be a member of the body, as the law provides that the Commissioner of Labor shall be a member of the board of inquiry, The law further provides that one member of the commission shall be a dent of the State in which the trouble is lo- anted whieh } is od 0 ence |, cated, which in this case is Illinois, hemes | , oo iunnaling the Simplon Mountain, the appointment of Mr, Worthington. President Cleveland had offered tha Ill. | nois appointment to Lyman Trumbull, of | fe | Chicago, Ill., who declined to serve, said his reason was that the commission would have to confine its investigation to the American Railway Union strike, which was ended, Carroll D, Wrizht, who {8s ex-officio a mem- ber of the commission is a native ol Massa- chusetts, of which State he was for a long | time the Labor Commissioner. He is an ex- pert on the subject of labor and is now in charge of the Government Bureau, which gathers and compiles labor statistics, John D, Kernan is the oldest son of the Iate Francis Kernan, who represented New | York State in the United States Senate as a Demoarat from 1875 to 1881, succeeding ex~- | Governor Reuben E, Fenton, preceding Thomas C. Platt, and being the colleagus of Roscoe Conkling, who came the same part ofthe State, John D. Ker- nan was born at Utiea, February 25, 1844. He was a protege of Horatio Seymour, He was educated in the public schools and free academy of which he graduated in 1863. He studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and began the practice of law in Utica. Mr. Kernan's law practice was large and lucrative, Later he opened an office at No. 10 Wall street, New York city his partners being his brother, Nicholas E., and William G. Quinn, under the firm name of Kernan Brothers, He served for several years as Chairman ofthe Democratic Com- mittee of Oneida County, and ones refused the nomination for Congress, Mr. Kernan is especially qualified by experience to deal with railroad matters, in which he has always taken a deep Interest In 1883 Governor Cleveland appointed him Railroad Commissioner with Will jam F. Rogers and ex-Senator John O'Donnell. During the previous spring he had written much on rallroad matters and had actively co-operated in the move- ment of merchants and manufacturers against the Railroad Commission act. He was elected Chairman of the Rallroad Com- mission, Nicholas E. Worthington, of Peoria, Iii, ia a personal friend of Viea-President Adial E. Stevenson, whose name he presented for nomination at the Chieago Convention of 15802. He was born In West in 1838, and was graduated from Allegheny College at Meadville, Pean., in | 1855. He them returned to West Virginia and beg the study of the law. He moved to eahool for a year, iL ( dads where he publican candidates until ‘resident Grant ran a second time, He ran for Congress in 1572, but was defeated by Granville Bar- rere. In 1582 he wad again nominated for Congress, this time to oppose John H Lewis. who stumped the district oe the candidate of ‘wealth, intelligence and aristocracy.” Mr. Warthington claimed to be merely a representative of the people and was elected. At the expiration of his term he wasrenominated by acclamation and re- elected. He was renominated again in 1836 but was defeated by (wenty-nine votes. He then devoted himself to the practios of law with Samuel 8. Page, of Chicago, who was later elected a Judge of the Circuit Court, Mr. Worthington was elected a Judge of the Circuit Court two years ago. — TWO FATAL WRECKS, The Engineer Forgot Orders—Acel dent In Texas, Engineer Frank Hart, in charge of a light engine onthe Cleveland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Rallroad, and ran his the express Chicago his orders on, from Chieag at Grif fith’'s Station, fifteen miles from Cincianat! The engineer and fireman of the express saved themselves by jumping, but Hart was fatally erushed, Frank Taylor, his fireman was killed outright, as were two tramps who were stealing a ride on tho express, ani ten persons were slightly injured, forgot engine, head into The north-bound Texas and Pacific pas. | gsenger train from Dallas was wreeked near Queens City, Tex» On the day after the accident it was Known that three passengers were killed, along with the engineer, porter, ne ion and Express Messonge od | Fireman A and Express Messenger Fred | The Maryland Senator in his speech spared PF. Marshall, un Further particulars were then yailanatie, TO DIVERT EMIGRATION. Italy Wants to Send Her Subjects to African Instead of America In the Italian Benate Prime Minister Crispi roforrad to the recent capture of Kassala by the Italian forces, He announced that re- fnforcements wero not required to enable the Italians at Kassala to maintain their po- them to farther exposs themselves in battle with the Dervishes, It was to be hoped that Italy would find means to eolonize Africa. The great object to bo obtained was to sab stitute emigration to Afrioa for emigration to Amerioa. The Senate has adjourned for the summer rocess, I — DEAD IN A CISTERN. The Walls Caved In and Burled Four 2} resi | [ndlanapolis, Ind., own thelr own homes, from | Utlea | and at seton Hall College, New Jersey, from | Virginia | i Senator Gorman Makes "After 1881 he acted with | the war Democrats and supported the Re- | | his celebrated letter to Chairman Wilson, | Vest, Jones and Harris, { tory of the conventions which nominated | the Senate, to stand together with the | fect knowledge that if we do not the bill | defeated, sition { neither would It be necessary for | Wisconsin, | any NEWSY GLEANINGS, Faaxce has 23,362 miles of rallroad, Tux bieyelo craze is greatest in Franoe, Tur net debt of Canada is $240,000,927, Prrrsnunc has our biggest cork factory, New Haxpsuine has 69) colored popula tion. Brroiax Soclalists run co-operative fac- tories, Tur cholera situation in Russia has grown more serious. Tur new London bridge over the Thames cost $5,000,000, Summer roof gardens are becoming popu- iar in the large cities, Tux crop of pineapples in Florida 1s be- tween 3,000,000 and 8,200,000, AssassiNaTions and crimes ol all sorts are of alarming frequency in Chile, Five London co-operative stores did a business of $28,000,000 last year, Ov 367 persons in the Oregon State Prison recently only one Was a woman. Sroan bounties aggregating $12,750,000 save been paid in the last fiscal year. Tuer promises to be a lively war between he bullet-proof coat stars this season, Eroury-rive per cent, of the residents of | | | | i | Tne Swiss engineers have reported in It Is sald that there are 1500 Coxeyite | liers in the neighborhood of Washington, A rew weeks ago the first shipment of meat from Australia was received in Vienna, | Austria, Tux Pennsylvania Railroad will only build | half the usual number of new locomotives { ‘his year, Dy the latest arrangemonts, it is now yossible to leave London at noon and be in Jorlin at 8.45 next morning, A Nicaraauva commissioner has been sent io England to arrange a settlement of the Mosquito reservation question, IxABILITY tO pay a mortgage caused Louis Santer, a farmer of New Jersey, to blow off his heal with a dynamite cartridge, Tmmep of exorbitant of Callfornia are moving in the control Coruie 1 1CHARDSO aged twenty-six years, a “4 jumper, was killed while div. ing froma tower 120 fuet high at Pine Grove, Conn. oal rates, residents to secare a change if the Central Pacific ¥ IT has been conel * establishel that more than one th £ wople were killed in the recent Constantinople (I 5) earth- quakes, GAnviELl Kansas, while experi wed bullet-prool SEYITES Wh at Washington n Senator Voor wivised to of ae and begging and seek honest em- distributed in a more than 2000 k and poor y pure the was re eoived In Denver } which just #400. 000 J . sliver ore re was worth from Smuggler ently CoMuissioN ens ror of Hawall arriv | i820 t the ald of President : and in her to the throne Ix Colombia, ( from Palmito forn gigantic tree, The tre whole party, killlag a erin ———————— A BLOW AT OLEVELAND. an Attack on | . The accusation of ‘‘party perfidy” and | “party dishonor,” made by Mr. Cleveland in leposed ex: Queen t invoke restoring ut down a struck the ng 1 3 drew from Senator Gorman, of Maryland, the most savage rejoinder ever launched, perhaps, by & party leader in Congress against either a friendly or an opposition President. What makes it all the more re- markable is that the Maryland Senator called at the White House in the morning and had a long interview with the President, and that he went direct from the White Houso to the Sanate Chamber and delivered his arraignment of the man with whom he had just been talking. The attack was personal, bitter, virulent, He called the President a coward, accused him of bad faith and duplicity and told him | and the House of Representatives that they would have to take the Senate Tarif bill or nothiag. senator Gorman was roused at iimes al- most to fury. Vest, Harris and Jones, of Arkansas, had planned the attack In dra- matie fashion. Gormag brought charge after charge against Cleveland, and Vest, Harris and Jones sprang up one after the other as Gorman called upon them and declared that every charge he made was true and that the Prosi. dent had put events in wrong lights. In the course of his speech Mr: Gorman sald that Mr. Cleveland's action in criticising the Sen- ators for their tariff courss was “infamous. , He declared he was cognizant of all the Senate amendments and agreed to them, He also declared that the President and Sec | petary Carlisle wera kept informed of the propoued amen iments and were willing to necept them in order to pass the bill, This statement was corroborated by Senators The unwritten his Cleveland and of the campaigns which followed was then given with dramatic effect no one who does not agree with his tariff views. He censured Senator Hill, of New | York, for his course, as wall as several other | Senators, | sald | this | best {to get It In conclusion Mr. Gorman President, with our rules, stands, as I think, in the in which it is possible to represent our views I | appeal to my colleagues on this side tostand | as we stood daring all this long struggle In i or. | in | If my good friend from New | Hill, or the Senator from Mr. Vilas, sucoeeds—and Democrat may sucesed by unit. ing now with any other—in amending the bill, you have heard the declaration of | enough Senators to know that you defeat it. It the Senate amendments are not You have “Mr. bill shape York, Mr. | i 4 Cabbage, BIRMINGHAM'S BIG FIRE. More Than Half a Million Dollars’ Worth of Property Destroyed. The most disastrous conflagration Bir mingham, Ala , has witnessed started at 1 o'clock a. m. in a four story bullding occupied by tho Btowers Furniture Come pany, in Twenty-second street and First avenue, The entire interlor of the buliding was ablaze before the fire was discovered, The flames were soon communiostad to the Cald- well Hotel neross the street, an bullding six stories high and the largest hotel in Ala- bama. All the guests were rescund, but only just in time, and saved comparatively noth- ing of thelr personal effects, The hotel is a total loss, The fire was communicated to the four. story bullding in Becond avenus at half past two un. m. and threatened the destruction of the entire city, The Fire Department happily managed to check the flames, The losses are as follows + Caldwell Ho- tel, $350,000, Insurance, $175,000 ; Btowers Furniture Company, $15,000, insurnnes, $8, 000 ; Perry Mmson Shoe Company, $35,000, insurance. $25,000, J W. Johnson Shoe Bullding, $60,000, insurance, $40,000 ; other losses, $80,000, insurance, $20,000 The origin of the fire is n mystery. When the flames were at thelr worst ald was tele- graphed for to Montgomery and Meridian, but the order was counterman led before the fire companies from these cities could arrive. KOREANS LOSE A FIGHT. Japanese Soldiers Defeat Them in the Capital Clty. Advices from Beonl say that which the Koreans were re pulsed with considerable loss, The Korean troops, togetner with some Chinese soldiers, ese troops in made an attack upon the Japanese garrison | at the Korean capital and attempted to take | the Japaneses position by storm, A sharp fight ensued, but the Japanese fire was more than the attacking party could stand, and they were retire, The assault upon the Japanese garrison was made at the instigation of the Chinese Resi. dent at Seoul, 11 CO DE ‘ mn pei ie to THE MARKETS, Late Wholesale Prices Produce Quoted in New York. H NILE AND CREAM The market generally has been slow, ow- Ing to the increased receipts and unfavor- able weather, The ruling price at the vari. ous milk-receiving stations for platform surplus has been £1.17 per can of 40 quarts, Exchange price, Ze, per quart, Becoipts of the week, fluid n 1.544.057 Condensed Croam, milk gals nls PUTTER. Creamery ~—Penn Western, extras Western, firsts . Western, thirds to secon State ~Extra Firsts , exiras tras . Seconds to firsts Thirds RT Bummer make .... Eolls, fresh CHERSE, StatewF ull arenm white laney Pall eream, good to prime, State Factory—Part skims, choles. . .. RO, “a Part skims, com. to prime. Full skims State & Penn Jersey —Faney Western —Freah, b Duck egos—South Goose eggs West. BEANE AND PEAS, Deans Marrow, 1808. choles 1808, rholoes, oa, choles casun Red kidney, 1803, choles... 260 @ White Kidney, 1808, choice 285 @ Black turtle soup, 1803 196 @ Lima, Cal, 1583, ¥ 60 Ils - Jreon pens, bbls, ¥ bush... ... - FRAUITR AXD BERRIES FRESH, Blaskbarries, Jamey, ¥ qt 6 Plums, ¥ qt Watermelons, each Peaches, ¥ basket Huckleberries, Jersey, Muskmelons, ¥ bbl Raspberries, ¥ pint Apples, ¥ bbl Pears, ¥ bbl Grapes, 5, ( Currants, ¥ qt - [| i ROPER, State—1893, choles, ¥ 1 1808, common to good Pacifie Const, Common to prim Old odds.........vn "hae HAY AND STRAW, Hay Good to choles F100 Clover mixed, . A Straw--Long rye Short rye sholoe LIYE POULTRY, Fowls, ¥B........ Spring chickens, ¥ Ib . Roosters, old, IB. ..ovue. . Ducks, ¥ pair... Coes, Poalr......oonnne Pigeons, ¥ palr DRESSED Turkeys, #1, iis Chickens, Phila, brollers WOMB, oeysavsersssens A Jorsey, ¥ Ib Fowls, ¥ Ib, N Ducks, Wh... Geese, ¥ Ib Squabs, ¥ doz POULTRY. 100 Onlcas~Virginia, ¥ erate Kentucky, ¥ bol, quash, marrow, ¥ crate, Tarnips, Russia, ¥ bbl, | Boss, ¥ 100 bunches Asparagus, 1 doz | Btring beans, ¥ basket... .... enate | Green pons, ¥ basket... GRAIN, RTO, Flour—Winter Patents. ...... Spring Patentf coe suse 8 Wheat, No. 2 Bed. cvavnniin May shes Corn-No, 2 es Onte—No, 2White,,..o.oi nm Teack mixed. . ..oovevvvnne Rye<State, ..ooooiniivnrnnnns Barley Ungraded Western. . Sends Clover, $100. ....... Timothy, ¥ 100, cues. + Tard Clty Son. ..ooviviin LIVE STOCK. Piitae, elty dressod ,, .....0 Mileh Cows, com, 10 good Calves, city dressed Country RRO , #100 TRARY 2 CIOS. ese ve, ¥100 Whines 1 rE REE LE A gESZI111118) Ed BEAR EAERS a battle has | been fought there between Korean and Japan. i { Jerusalem (Loke xxiv. 17 i land of Judes, and they { i come to Christ, for He came not | righteous, but sinners, t« i Inthe work of the Hq | margin), and He uses the {| of believers, | 18 sald to give or grant repentance | contrast was lsanc | of his venison and would bless hi { connection therewith { 8,4) | much about either food or raiment | and unlooss,,’ | people to himsel’, but to the Lamb of God, ] tion to make himsel! & name, but honor Him | He sought not great things for himsel! | xiv, 5) but his watchword was { (Gad. 10, 20; 1 Cor, xv | Ghost,” | with fire” | speak of fire | be filed with the Spirit | mand Jald upon us, and as much a command | %8 not to be drunken (Eph, what a comfort to know that He, who is our { Baviour, | Jesus came from | was baptized of John in Jordan.’ ! yours of age. | but Jesus sald, “Saffer it to be so now, thus it becomath us to fuinil ! nothing to SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST Ob. Lesson Text: sus,” Mark 1., 1-11--Golden Text. Mark {, 11- Commentary. 1. “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus | This is the gospel | Christ, the Son of God." specially of service, In it wo are reminded of the words, ‘Behold, I will bring forth my | Servant, the Branch!" while “Behold, the Man whose name is the Branch!” is seen more clearly in Luke's gospel (Zech, Hil, 8; vi, 12). Here Jesus is the patient servant and sacrifice for others, spending and being spent to serve the sons of men. This gospel is written that the samo life of unwearied service may be in some measure reproduced in us (II Cor, tv. 11), but as we are in this first verse introduced to the Bon of God so we must be sons of God before we ean serve God, “Let My Bon go that He may serve Me,” said the Lord of Ismael (Ex. iv. 23). 2 “Asitis written in the prophets, Be- hold, I send my messenger before Thy face, which shall prepare Thy way befors Thee !” The whole story of His sufferings and glory Is written In the prophets (I Pet. 1., 11; Luke xxiv, 2527). They also spake of the her- alds who should precede Him, John the Bap- tist, in the spirit and power of Elijah before his first coming, and Elijah himself befors his second coming. Compare Mal, iv. 5, Luke 1, 17 ; Math. xvil., 10-13. As to pre- paring His way, every believer can, ina measure, bo His messenger to do that, What an honor to be sent of Him in His name ! 8. “The volee of one crying in the wilder. ness, Prepare yo the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.” When John was asked if he was the Christ or Elijah or the prophet he sald that he was neither, but only a v oles proclaiming the Christ (John i, 28). He sought no honors for himself, but rejoiced | to decrease that Christ might increase (John | 141,, 29, 30), on : 4. “John did baptize In the wilderness and | preach the baptism of repentance for the re. | mission of sins." { may be found in Math. fit, 7-12, and Luke A sample of his preaching fil, 7-18. He made it plain that unless their | Hves afterward manifested that they had be. tome new creatures their baptism would amount to nothing. One of the last com- mandments of Christ was that repentance {| nnd remission of si hou lt : of Country | wn of sins sh 1 be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at 8. “And there went out unto Him all the Jerusalem, and were all baptized of Him in the river of Jor- dan, confessing their sins There must be asanse of sin, a true econvietion of sin, and the deeper the better, before any one will to ) repentance, Bpirit (J eall the This hn xvi, KB, word and the lives In Acts v., 81; xi. 18, Christ 6, “And John was clothed with eamel's | hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his | Joins, and he did eat locusts and wild honey.” | Thus was Elijah clothed (11 Kings 1., 8), ar , and, a8 10 locusts, they were among the creatures { which God bad permitted Israel to eat (Lev Xi, 22). John was certainly not extravagant in the matter of food and raiment, What a , wi loved Esau beoguse win Only in XXV., 2%; xxvil,, Jesus has taught us not to think 100 {Math iv. 4: vi, 25), but has assurred us that if we Gen, ; make His kingdom and His righteousness our first cogoern He will see to all our need in that direction (Math, vi., 33), Ra sachet, saying, There cometh ons In than | after me, the Intehet of whose & I am not worthy to stoop down John sought not to attract whom be came to herald. He had no ambi- only to He must in (John 11, 30). Jor, “Not I" of whom he said, crease, but | must decrease 10), 8 “lindecd have baptized you with water, but He shall baptize you with the Holy Both Matthew and Luke add “and (Math, il, 11; Luke ili, 186), which fire seems, from sontext, to refer the { to the judgments of His second coming as King and Son of Man As the Servant, which be Is peculiarly ir Mark, He does not But how much we do nead to in fact, It isa com- v., 18), Then Brother, Friend, is the one who baptizeth with the Holy Goost (John 1, 33), | We need not think we must beg and entrost | Him, but simply ask Him (Luke xi, 13 pass in those days that Nazareth of Galilee and In Luke was about thirty In Math, Hi, 14, 15, it Is said that at first Joha forbade Him because of John's greater nead to be baptized of Him, for use 2. “And fit came to HL, 23, it is writen that He all righte He bumbled Himself from heaven down tothe manger of Dethiehem, and the home in Nazareth, and the life of rejection, even to Gethsemane and Golgotha, all for | us, and surely it Is becoming in us to hum | bie ourselves for Him, yet Rt scoms strange | tosayso, for whereas He actually came down from great glory. we, being nothing, have come down from but sinful pride, 10. “And straightway coming up ont of the water He saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him." Here in this gospel we meet Yhe first “imme diately,” used about eighty times in the New | Testament, and forty times in this gospel, and eleven times in this chapter, sometimes translated “anon” or “forthwith.” It is the word for a zood servant. The opened heav- ens make us think of Ezek, i, Math, John 1, Acts vil, and x. Rev, iv, and xix, in each of which chapters heaven is opened and always concerning Christ or His church, The Spirit coming as a dove makes us think of the dovs that found no rest except in the afk while the waters of judgment were on the onrth., Jesus, the true ark, i= the only place where the Spirit can rest Tally, If we are filled with Spirit, we will rest only in Jesus, 11. “And there came & voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” where the same testimony was given st the transfiguration. In John vill, 29, Jesus says, “I do always those things that please the Father,” and in Rom. xo. 3, it Is sald, “Even Christ pleased not Himeel?,” Sines the Father is well pleased with Jesus, when we are woll plassed with Jesus and sceept and abide In Him, God Is well pleased with us for Jesun's sake, Lot us abide in Him (I John IL. BO Tomson Helper, —— —— The Strike as a LATe-Saver, Representative Julius Goldgler, of Ohh eae, received a curious document from one of his constituents of a statistioal turn of mind, who figures outthat in ons way the great strike has been 4 blessing In disguion, and netually resulted in a saving of human life, He writes: “During the twelve days of the strike the militia, police, regulars and deputy sheriffs hava k sovon people. According to the the riroads centering In = Ing thoss kills! thers has boon a net gain of sevens waved by the continuance of the FOR “The Baptism of Je« n,, | Noe also chapter Ix. 7, | " | which she has woven a garment of HOW TO DEY COWS, A Prench sgrioultural writer recom- mends the use of powdered camphor | to dry up cows which continue to sup- ly milk too close to time of vise. Oows giving about six quafis a day Pre weeks before due were given three doses of thirty grammes each dose, and the cows became dry in two weeks. The cows were not injured in any way, end were milked thoroughly until becoming dry.—New York World, A SUCCESSFUL HAYMAKER, Tobe a successful haymaker, one should be an expert in weather signs. | When the upper current of clouds be- gins to float trom the west, it is safe to | A clearing shower new mown grass. I begin mowing. does not harm have often mowed all I could handle | the last half day and morning of a wet spell. While others were mow- ing, we were cocking and soon hasul- ing. It is a safe rule to keep hauling whenever the bay is fit. One friend always gets ten to twenty acres in cock before he will draw any. Last year every pound was out in a rain. 1f too much is mowed at once, it will get sunburned before it can be bunched. An extra hand during hay- ing often proves a good investment. — Rural New Yorker. SHADE FOR REHODODENDONS, Rhododendons, and other broad leaved evergreen shrubs and trees suc- ceed best when planted in sa half- shady position. Bome of the species may withstand the hot sun very fairly, provided they have plenty of moisture at the roots, hut the foliage will not have that rich, glossy snd healthy color seen on plants growing in half shade. Give the plants morning sun ; after midday shade will be bene- ficial in both summer and winter. If you will go into our forests and notice where the kalmias, rhododendons and bollies thrive best, you will find that they are shaded more or less. Plants that are half burned up in summer cannot withstand the cold of winter; consequently there are many plants which would be perfectly bardy in our climste if they were given a fair chance for growth and healthy velopment in summer. -- American Agriculturist, he de- HOW TO BURY CANBAGE Take an empty barrel—a salt or sugar barrel will do very well-dig » tole sumefently large and deep so! that a few inches of the barrel will project shove the ground when it is! put in position. Now bank the soil around the barrel so that it will be on | a level with the top of the barrel and sloping in all directions from it. Then cut the stalks of the cabbage off close to the heads, and put cabbage into the barrel so that the stalk part of the esbbage will be uppermost. Thus continue until the barrel is full Then cover with a lid which will turn water, made of inch lumber, Cabbage buried in this manner in the fall will keep till quite late in the spring, and besides this it gotten at any time in the winter with- out any trouble. The foregoing is a description of the best method of burying cabbage we ever tried, and we have buried eabbage in quite s number of different ways ject in having the embankment slope away from the barrel ix to prevent surfsce water from getting into it, — Agricultural Epitomist, GOOD TASTE IN FENCES, To keep fences neat and in good or- der should not always mean to keep them primly clean and free from all fringing and climbing plants, propriateness 1s good sense and good taste in this as in every point, The degree of neat. ness required on a suburban avenue is greater than that required ona modest | village street, much greater than that | required along a rural highway. Bat, however freely and wariously nature may be allowed to drape and buttress » fence, the fence itself should be kept in good repair. Gaping brick-work, tottering stones, broken palings, fallen rails or swaying posts can never be pleasing to the eye, except, ol course, where man's work has patiently gone to ruin and been abandoned to nature, who can turn confessed decay into | pleturesqueness, A broken fence, with the aid | which nature has created a luxuriant hedgerow, or a fallen stone wall over wild roses, grapevines and smilax, is a charming thing to see; but only where the soil itself has been aban doned to her free devices—never amid the surroundings of an inhabited house or encircling flelds still enlti- vated to supply the wants of man. Here, also, nature may sometimes be allowed a pretty free hand; but man's supremacy should still be manifest; and this sapremacy does not manifest fteelt favorably if signs of neglect and decay are apparent in any piece of his handiwork. Carden —d orest. LATE-HATORED CHICKS, Many poultry raisers have little sue: oon pr Iate-hatohed chick. A fruit. ful Saute 31 os with Siiigkate hatched in June, Ju during the first A ust is the rapid mu Rion and their ean be! The ob- | Ap- | synonymous with | of that by many is sitributed to hot weather. The heat, even of midsmme mer, is rarely ever greater than is en~ joyed by young chickens, and if the are kept free from vermin at this | time, and are surrounded by the proper conditions of food, drink and | cleanliness, they ought to make rapid growth. If chickens are to be hatched late, it is important that they be of a quickly maturing breed, so that they may be laying before winter sets in, otherwise there will be no eggs and no income from them until spring. Plymouth Rocks and Brahmas hatched in June or July ean hardly be laying before cold weather, but Leghorns hatched in July may be expected, if | proper care is given to secure rapid development, to begin laying before exceedingly cold weather makes its | appearance. This is a point that should not be overlooked, for on it | very largely depends the question of whether they are to be profitable or not. Late-hatched chicks certainly are { not profitable unless they are laying in the time of the high prices of win- ter, and, still further, unless they can | be given such comfortable quarters as to secure continuous laying during | the winter, There need be no preju- dice against hatching chickens in June and July, but let them be of a breed | that matures rapidly and lays prolifi- cally, and keep them free from ver- min, which is the prevailing pest of hot weather. — American Agriculturist, FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, Do not dog the cows. Feed a little salt to the hogs as well as to the cattle Do not wait till the grass is woody before cutting for hay. ver and milk best and most wholesome pc Corn, el the Have the calves and colts in the back pasture plenty of water these hot Gays? Bred for the best or not at all, should be the horseman's motto in times like these, Feeding soaked corn to steers in summer is practiced by some with profit, they claim. | Give the growing swine a variety of { foods, and when possible let clover be | a prominent element. | Any extra milk you may have will | give good returns fed to the colts { these hot trying days. i N { Fly nets for the horses are a profit able investment for the farmer or for any one else who owns horses. Horses are cheap, but that is no good reason for keeping yourself poor in sgpporting wore of them than you need. Every stock keeper who has two or more pastures should allow one or more to rest or grow up while the other is being fed off. To get early lamb requires a good deal of work. One great essential is to change the bucks every day st the time you wish to breed Your Yorkshire hog makes splendid bacon with desirable alternate streaks of fat and lean. It isa good hog to keep for the family supply of pork products. The merciful dairyman, when he draws calves to market, puts them in 8 comfortable orate, instead of tying theis legs and doubling them under the wagon seat, Have a supply of bolts, washers and sil on hand before commencing the haying. A few cents for bolts may save dollars in time and hay the first week in baying. One of the best feeds for sows that | are suckling little pigs and for the | pigs themselves, especially during | growth, is milk made into » slop, or rather thickened with middlings. Water the horses frequently, give | small amount at a time; and the prin- | cipal feed should be given at night, that it may be eaten at leisure and digested and assimilsted before morn- | ing. | With swine and poultry both onthe | farm, not much need go to waste that | has any food value. Hogs will con- | sume more different kinds of pro- | vender in unattractive condition than | any other stock. The cow that must graze indos- | triously half of the summer to re- | cover physically what she has lost by | indiflerent keeping through the win. ter is not apt to earn a dollar in real profit for her owner, Let the hen sit if she wants to. It is a prompting of nsture. If chicks | are not wan let her amuse herself with artificial o for awhile, It will do her good. She will be good for noshing for « time if you break her up. The vegotarians are no doubt right in denouncing flesh-eating as the cause of many diseases in haman family. Tapeworm, ocousamption and other diseases may come from | meat that is not well cooked Bas | perfect cooking destroys all this origin ul disease, In ing h the bees in at Trghis tbo Mion fg. so
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