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Agriculiuiid I mpleinents, Kramer Wagons, Uuggies, Ciirts, Wlitt-l liurrotvf, Hruinuier \\ r asliiny Mttcliines, New Sunshine and Howartl IJanoes, Stove.s, Table and pocket Cutlery, llut rosei—rosea in lias t-11 it:.l linn-*, an.l i..ses tie.i with white >:iliu iiltlK.tis. 1 astrned to ea.:h l)Uio b bi.x aud biv-kn waji the name of Mi-- i; alie Miller .\ wandering band of tier mail n.uai. iaUB v .is playing in the stee.r agi-, and Iroin both upper and lower deck hats an.l handkerchiefs waved in answering good by to Ihe hats and handkerchiefs waving from one comer «.l the dock As the beautiful ocean steamer glided past the light houses and islands, the first cabin passengers disappeared, and on the steel age deck the old women look out their knitting; the old uicii their pipes aud packs of cards; the young gentleman in the white straw hat, who for various reasons was travelling iu thi- humble way, unfolded the morning paper; the half-dozen babies dropped asleep in their mothers' arm.-, and 1 ri. de, Ihe live year-old Flemish girl, with a faded pink and blue handkerchief knotted under her chin, smiled a good morning to Anloine, the deck steward, who leaned idly against the railing above. The tirst cabin passengers had disappeared in walk ing costumes and straw hats and bonnets: they reappeared in ulsters and long cloaks, iu bo ft fell hats aud kniltc-d hoods: and each passenger held a novel, with a pas senger list tucked in as a book-mark. The different people arranged their steamer chairs iuto pleasant neighborhoods, aud Antoine walked in and out with biscuits and lemonade, a napkin carelessly thrown over his arm. and an obliging smile on his round Flemish face. Antoine needed no passenger list. lieing a deck steward of long experience, a glance at the passengers was sufficient to tell him each one's story, lie knew to-day which was the commercial traveller,and which was the German count; which was the clergyman going abroad tor his health, and which was the Harvard student, ne knew that the six pretty young women, witb their chairs in a row. were arti.-t.s going to Munich: that the tall it;dy in a fur lined cloak was a woman doc tor; and that the lady with a French grammar open in her lap would soon be feeling very sea-sick. He knew also that the young girl who sat near her, aud whose eyes still held the shadow of good by tears, was Miss Rosalie Miller; but any one might have known this by reading the name printed ou the back of her steamer chair. The Harvard student had known it at least half an hour, as well as the name of the six young women whose chairs stood in a row. Concerning young Mr. Julian Newton, however, nothing was yet known. He had no steamer chair, and his name ouly ap peared on the passenger list as "and child'' iu the right-hand column, two lines re move.l from lhat ol the German count. Mr. Julian Newtou was the youngest of the first cabin passenger, lie was travel ling with his paint box. his kite, a portion of his library, ainf his doll Martha. It was his first first voyage, aud he was on his to Paris. Rosalie was four times as old as Julian, who was five, and they met at noon on the fourth day out in the chocolate aud rose colored cabiu, with its six p..rt hole windows and its rows of white lilies painted oi. a background of pale green and gold. The first three days were dajs o£ warm breezes and glorious sunsets. The steerage ball had been opened every afternoon by a heavy-bearded niai: who looked like an agreeable pirate, aud who always danced with a young woman in a sprigged inusliu dress. On the upper deck the passengers had become sufficiently acquainted to smile slightly at each other, and the Count, who was musical, played daily on his zither, aud spoke German with the Harvard student. On the fourth day there came a change; the waves tossed themselves tip into heaps of foam, the heavy-bearded man declared that was dancing enough for one day and postponed the afternoon ball, the steerage belle be came as limp iu her feelings as the frills on her sprigged muslin dress, and those of the first cabin passengers who were able to be out of their berths covered themselves warmly, talked little, and nibbled hard bread steadilv. Rosalie Miller was iu oue corner of the deck cabin, aud iu the opposite corner lay the lady with the French grammar. Now aud llieu she opened her eyes aud the book at the nauio time, and took a hasty look %t the page beaded ' Material for Conversa tion.'' She had promised herself to learn six sentences a day, aud she iutended to team them whether the sea ran high or low. Rosalie also held a book; it was one of her parting presents, and she hud two more exactly like it in her state-room. There was u printed page and a blank page for every day of the voyage, aud there was also a chart show iug the ship's pathway across the Atlantic. •'Bow are you feeling now, Aunt Sarah?" said Rosalie to the lad}' iu the corner. "Worse, if anything," said the lady. " I think," coutiuued Rosalie, "we shall probably meet with a great storm on the seventh day. AVe may bo shipwrecked. In this book the verse for the seventh day speaks of storms aud danger." The ludy said .he 'didn't care, and that the sooner they were shipwrecked the bet ter." Through the doorway of the cabin one could see the waves and the sky, and now and then a laugh or a snatch of talk floated iu through the port hole windows. "When we get to Flushing." said the Harvard student lo the six pretty young women, whose chairs stood in a row, "we shall take a pilot on hoard, and his eyes will he black. Ifthey arc not black, 1 will give you each a box of chocolate." m "But we I'tioir that his eyes will be blue," i aid the six pretty young women all at once. "We are '•nr. of it. If his eyes ate not blue, we will each give you a sketch." In the main caluu below, ihe Count was playing ou zither, a faint sound of sing ing came from the distant steerage, and the ship plunged onward through the end less stretch of white capped waves. "If the seventh day is to be a storm," said Rosalie, "then ou the sixth day we may expect a great caltn. Here is the verse for the sixth day: •There is a point iu the great centre of the cyclone's force, A silence al its secret source. A little. I.lid n. i 1.1 dumber undisturbed Without the ruffle of one fairy curl In that atrange central calm mighty whirl '' It was at tins moment mat a bundle of haw Is slipped On to the floor from the third corner of the cabin, and young Mr. Julian N'ewtou arosp from his noonday uaii. gra\oly around, he .-aid Tell me about the water spont.'' "That was the other lady," said Rosa lie's aunt, feebly. "I am the lad) who tells you about the di-di that ran away .vith the spoon "I want the water spoilt,'' said Julian. Now both Rosalie and Rosalie's aunt had not thought of a water spout for yc.irs not since Rosali.; w.s ~idy,ii h ' physical .eogrHphy; and nen al that time they had not learned it as well a.s "the dish run away with the spoon" a great many yoars before. BUTLKR PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, I81»0 girl, taking Julian's slate Itooi the cabin lluur. 'Sec litre la New York. « here we liv. St-, all the high huUie.-. atlJ the cars going lij the third-etury wiudows And li«re i.-, a very big ehnrch, and soi.ie queer rt>ol>. and a erooked street: that s Ant»'ei|i where \re »ru going Now Ihe j.lai e between i> the tm aii.' See the wave.-. And here's the shiji, and here is a round fa. Ed little boj- in a graj" coat uith a J.oint e.l hood, that is Julian, l-u'tthat a nice jiieturet" And 110-alie. l«atting down pencil, look the two plutnp little hands in her own. "Yes, 1 think so,'' said Julian; ' it's a nice picture, ou'y it's all wrong I don't lire in New York. I live in Salem, and I'm going to Paris Tell me about a wat er spout." "Yoa tell me," said Rosalie Julian went to the bundle of shawls, out of which he first pulled Martha, and then a book. The doll had broken her neck, and one eye was g.we, but the expression of the other one plainly showed that Mar tha intended to make the best ol her mis fortunes. "The water spont is in here somewhere, said Julian, tnrning the leaves of the book, which had lout its cover, and was some what broken in its binding. "You can read about it if you don't know it." He had climbed into Rosalie's corner, and one pink cheek rested against the girl's shoulder. "A water spout is something like the mast of a ship," explained the child, "only it's longer. It comes ont ot the sea and goes into the sky, and it's all water. and vou shoot at it." "That's when a ship comes too near." said Rosalie, who, having found the pic ture. was taking a hasty look at the ac companying text "A water spout is very dangerous; it could sw illow a ship as eas ily as a pussy cat could swallow a mouse. That is the reason Ihe sailors shoot at it: a cannon ball breaks it in the middle." "I've got a caunon al home," said Juli an; "only it is a little one. Are there any pictures in your book.'' "There's, a place to make them. said Rosalie: "a place for every day of the voy age; but the book is really meant to keep a journal in. Do yon know what it is?" "My papa takes real flowers and puts them in a book sometimes, and when he takes them out they are flat." "Yes," said Rosalie, "that is like a jour nal, only you are not old enough to under stand why." The girl placed a pen in the child's hand, and guided the little fingers over the lints and the curves of the letters she had just formed on the title-page. "Make the letters nice and black." she said. "Now the book is yours, and even day we will write in it. It is interesting to keep a journal, because you like to read it afterward. Perhaps some day yours will become very valuable. Valuable means that it would sell for lots of money If you should grow up to be a great mau, every one would want to see the sea jour nal kept by Julian Newton when he was fiye years old." ••Precious means lots of money too," said Julian. "I call Martha 'my precious.' '* And he gave the one-eyed treasure a dan gerous hug, considering the state of her neck. '•lf you know as much as that." said Rosalie, "I think you can understand why a journal is like a pressed flower. Suppose you and Martha and I were to spend a long, beautiful week in the woods, and ev»r\ day we should place a flower be tween the pages of a book, aud beuenlb each flower we should write where it grew, and then, years Martha had lost her head altogether, and you and 1 had packed a good many new ideas into ours, we should open the book again wouldn't the dried flowers make us hear the birds siag iu the woods we knew so long ago.'" ' Yes. 1 think so," suidJuliau gravely. "There are some woods back of my grand mother's house." "Now, we are ou the ocean together," coutiuued Rosalie —"you aud Martha aud I; wjhaveu't any flowers to press, but every day we will write our thoughts in tbis«book, and then, a good many years from now, we can read what we have written, aud each page will make us think of the ocean and sailors, and the big red star on the smoke stack, aud the little red star on the cups aud saucers." "And on the soap," said Julian. "I saw it myself." "Aud at the end of the voyage," said Rosalie, "when we reach Antwerp, yon can send your journal home to your dear est friend. That is what every one does who crosses the Atlantic." "1 shall send mine to Ellen," said Juli an. "She's my grandmamma's cook. She came to see me because I was going awa\*, and she felt dreadfutly;she cried aud cried; and I shall say, 'Dear Ellen. I didn't fall iuto the water."' "Now 1 am going to begin," said Rosa lie. "Dear Ellen,l didn't fall into the water," said Julian. "Write that." "I will write the first four days my way" said Rosalie; "after that you can tell me what to say." Rosalie wrote: "Left New York at seven this morning. Sixty cabiu passengers, one child, lam the child. A great many people iu the steerage. "The steerage, Julian dear." explained Rosalie's aunt from the corner, ' 'is where you look down aud see theui dunce. They are all poor people, aud don't pay as much as wc do, and so they are in a different place." "I know all about the steerage," said Julian. "That's where the man with the straw hat lives. 1 love that mau. He laughs with his eyes 1 'most fell into that place once; I was leaning too hard against the rail." "I'll writu that down,' said Rosalie. "In the steerage is a mau with a straw hat. lie laughs with his eyes, f love him. "t love the little girl too," said Julian. "I threw her an orange and she threw uie a kiss. First she showed her orange to the steerage man. and he smiled at me a very pleasant smile." Antoiue came in with a tray which he placed on the table by Rosalie's aunt, and lie asked it'he should briug madamc stew ed prunes or baked apples. "Now, it's time to write something about your health," said Rosalie. "People a! ways write whether they feel well, and if they think they .ire going to be sea-sick, and il they have a cood appetite." •'Children always have," said Rosalie s aunt. T wish I could be a child for the the next ten days." ;>hc dipped a little ot the ouji which Anloine bad placed before her, said thai everything tasted exactly alike, took a hasty look into the Fren.h grammar aud closed her eyes, not to opeu them again until the Stewart reappeared with the baked apples. "I had pink ice cream Sunday night," said Julian, here on this little ta bio." Rosalie wrote " s d wiy —Feel .veil dy nut think I shall be sea sick. Ap petite good. Had some strawberry ice cream. Passed a ship a long way off." "I'll make a the other two days very short," said the girl. "It's so stupid to write about things that are over. For Monday 1 will write same as yesterday only n.r ice creaui; and for to day. Met Hosalie. who gave me this bonk, which is going to be very valuable. Now I have showed you how to keep a journal and the rest of the voyage you must keep it yourself, and that will he a gnat deal bet ter " "•Yes 1 thiuk so. said Julian Aud tl.is i-i the way he kei.t it: "Fifth dug nut — I feel Very well, and I sleep very well, an.l I eat very well. A man called ine a swoet potato plant The waves are covered w-ith white. It looks like .1 great many white birds on the wat er. 1 f»*el sleepy; Rosalie says it's the sea air Everybody feels sleepy." "Sixth fay out —The men in the steer age stood up and sang very lou.l. and the name of the song was. When the Swal lows ITomeward Fly- The steerage man didu't sing: ha reads and writes all the ti'ue, an.l lie isn't sea-sick. 1 feel very well. Rosalie's aunt feels \ery bad I say good night to her in French; she told me how. "Seventh day out. —lt is cold. 1 saw a ship. The man who called me a sweet potato plant showed it to me. He's a funny man. When it isn't his vacation he goes to a school called Harvard College. Once we w ere alone at the end of this ship, and the sun made lots < f colors iu the water, where the waves were light on top. The Harvard man failed them rainbows, and he said. 'I am going to drop a trold ring into the sea.' It looked pretty going down. He said the ring was a secret which the sea would never tell, and he was very sad. I like him. but not so much as the steerage man. 1 asked him if the ring was valuable. He said, 'lt was once.' Rosalie says that sometimes happens to rings, she is sorry for him. and so am I. "Fi'jlth day oitf —There's grtng to be n concert. It is for the passengers: only the steerage people can't go. because they are poor. It costs fifty cents to get iu. A lady made a picture of me. on a big piece of paper. My papa bought it. The money is for a sick sailor. I wanted to give it to the steerage man. but my papa thought it would hurt his feelings, and that is a worse hurt than to shut your fingers iu the crack of a door. "JS'inth day out. —This is Sunday. It is getting monotonous. That is Rosalie's aunt's word. She says it all the time. It means the -ame as prunes and bread and milk for supper, and never anything else. The ship is in the middle of a great blue sea, and we are going very fast. In the cabin where we eat there is a flag hauging over the piano. They put it there last night for the conceit •!! is the American flag Rosalie told me that once there was an American in a foreign country, where they spoke another v ay from his way, und they were going to shoot him,because they thought he was bad, ir.d he didn't know how to tell them he wasn't, aud just as they were about to shoot, another Ameri can came flying on horseback, and threw the American flag around the first man, and said to the people, Shoot if you dare!" and nobody dared. This is a true story. Rosalie has a friend who is some relation to the first man She says it is a beautiful story, and I think so too. She said it was because the Americans were so brave that the other men didn't dare to hurt their flag. I shall be brave because 1 am an American. To-day we saw a good many sails. "Truth day out. —La-t night I hud some pink ice-cream, but no one will have nny more because it is all gone. The steward says so. The oranges are 'most gone. Per haps we shall reach land to-morrow, and then this journal will be all written That is, the words will be written. Rosalie says that people sometimes write their thoughts between the lilies, and you can't see the writing. I asked her if she had written anything with her thoughts between these lines, and she said she wasti t quile sure " It was the eleventh day out, and a gray chilly morning. The passengers, first cabin, second cabin, aud steerage, were peering eagerly through the mist that they might not lose the first glimpse of land. Soon they saw a dim .-pot iu the distance, then a few lonely islands, then a good piece of land with houses upon it. The black ness of the wiiter changed into a strange green, queer ships were tossiug ou the waves and this was the beginning of the English Channel. The passengers hastily finished their steamer letter* and repacked their steamer trunks aud at this busy mo ment Julian Newton quietly dropped his unfinished sea journal on to the steerage deckage. No one noticed him, aud the book fell exactly where the child intended it should, at the feet of the steerage man. Ou either side of the water were long stretches of land, over which hung low lying clouds, gray clouds showing now and then a touch of rose color through the rifts. Presently the steamer reached Flushing, the first Dutch town, and the pilot-boat came across the water. "The'pilot's eyes are black,'' said the Harvard student, w ho was looking through a glass. "I kuew they would be."' The six pretty young women laughed and shook their heads, aud said blue eyes often looked black at a distauce. When the pilot cauie on board he was found to have eyes of two colors —one black and one blue Oil this account the Harvard student gave only three boxes of chocolate, aud received iu turu only three sketches. Rows of prim trees grew on the water's edge: rows of red roofed picture-book houses appeared among the trees; rows of windmills stood up against the sky. The steamer had eutered the river Scbelde, aud at the end of the river a high church tower looked down npon the quaint roofs of Ant werp The Harvard student grew \ery merry. He had torn his sea hat into six pieces, one for each of the six pretty young wouieu, who returned this delicate atten tion by giving him six hairs from their six pretty heads. They little kuew how sad the Harvard student could be, and that lour days before he had buried a gold ring in Ihe middle of the Atlantic. The pilot with the two colored eyes brought the steamer safely iuto port,and the sixtj first cabin passengers sat that night around a flower decked table, and ate their farewell dinners. Going through the hotel court yard on lien- wuy to this dinner, Kosalie Miller saw Julian seated before a bowl of bread and milk m one of the side rooms. "1 am eating my supper, ' said the child. "The steerage man was here, and he brought back the hook I gave it to billi. I thought he might sell it when it got vain able. He said it was very kiud. and he had enjoyed reading it. those were his words. I asked him if be c.iuld read be tween lines, where there wasn't any writing He said. 'Sometimes,' and his eyes laughed." The girl's color deepened She hud opened the book, and Saw that a page had been added to those from her owu hand. "Eleventh dn-j ou!. —ln sight ol Ant rus right away?" "Yes, sir." "How much do you charge?'' "One dollar is the legal fee. sir. " "Will you take your fee in beeswax?" "Yes. if you can't pay cash." ' Well, go ahead and tie the knot, and I'll fetch in the wax." "No." said the squire, thinking there was a good chance for a little fun; "bring in the beeswax first, and th>und it u soft st,op Ho looked di it' Le bad beeu in <> llle-iocg struggle with an adverse destiny and w»s *>ul weary. His were composite and lie bad evi dently long been it stranger to water in all its uses. He shuffled into the saloon at tached to a well known variety theatre the other day, and. leaning against the bar. gazed with a deep yearmug in bis eyes upon the fining rows of bottles and cut glass on the other side. The bartender was about to signal the bouncer to do his duty, when the stranger asked for the pro prietor. lie was standing near by. and in quired, witb a severe scrutiny of the bohl intruder, w bat be wanted. Have you any rats in the bouset" ark e l the stronger. •Kats! well 1 should say so! big as cats" said the proprietor. "Do you want to get rid of them( "You bet!" was the reply. "Well, you give me a drink and a din ner." said the stranger, ' and I will agree to kill every rat in your house in half an hour." Tbe proprietor's curiosity was aroused. He couldn't see bow it conld be done, bat here was a fair proposition, and the ex pense was not great, any way. So he said: "I guess I'll go you once, any way. but 1 doii t believe you can do it." The stranger took a large, soaking drink —a drink that, as it percolated through tbe system and found its way to remote ex tremities that had grown dry and parched from forced abstemiousness, gave him a new hold on life, and he looked confident and happy as they repaired to a neighbor ing restaurant for the dinner. He ate a hearty meal. It wasn't a square meal—it was an all-round meal. It ■was a meal that any man or several men might has been proud of and looked back to as one great achievements of their lives. "When he got through they walked back to the saloon, tbe stranger meditatively pick ing his teeth and the proprietor thinking all the time how in the world was he go ing to kill all those rats in halt an hour. When they got buck to the saloon the stranger said: ' Have you a spade handy#" A boy was sent for one and soon return ed with it. By this time a crowd had col lected to see the sport. Everybody was waiting in great suspense to see the slaughter begin. The rat catobcr took the spade, examined it carefully, tested its weight, while the crowd held its breath. Next be selected a big comfortable chair, seated himself, crossed bis legs, leaned back with a benignant expression on his seared countenance and said. "Now bring ou your blank rats.'' There was a momentary pause, and then a sound of intemperate revelry, following bv tbe quick opening of tbe door and the sudden emission of a heterogenous mass, which landed tar out ou the mud-eushiou td pavement Slowly aud painfully it un tangled itself and limped into tbe passing throng. A Peculiar People. This is the period of the Dunkard or Ger man Baptist anniversary, or something which the}- celebrate with a Love Feast.. Feet Washing aud other quaint services. At the Tulquehocken Meeting House, three milles from Richland. Fa., ou the 4th, 3,000 people assembled. The Holy Com munion was celebrated, when thirty gal lons of soup sail large quantities of beer and bread were consumed. The feast Was according to the quaint custom of giving the holy kiss washing of feet. There were ten bishops present. There were ob servances in different parts of tbe dis trict of country where the Dunkards do most abound. The Dunkards are moral and thrifty, aud it cannot be said that they arc not a prosperous people or are distin guished for their intelligence. They do more good than harm, wheih is saying a great deal. —Tlie belle al a recent dog feast on an Indian reservation ill Dakota wore a jacket trimmed with teeth from 150 elks, which she had herself slaiu. —Thousands of acres of valuable timber lands in "Wisconsin have swept bare by the forest fires that have been raging for the past weeks. —A Statcn Island deacon drove the preacher out of the pulpit with a revolver and is under arrest. This is a new way of gettinjr rid of the minister, but it is not orthodox. Oxalic acid dissolved iu water and mixed, if desired, with a little tartaric acid will remove ink stains form white paper. —lt takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantio cable to the other. —Large quantities of railroad ties are being shipped to the American market from Grand Falls, X. B. The price paid for them delivered at the seaboard is sl3 per 100, a much higher figure than they formerly commanded. The supply to be obtained in that section is large and not likely to be soon exhausted. A young man talks with pleasure. An old man talks with ease. The "orator ' talks like some men walk— Six days, go-as-you-please. The preacher talks of sins and things. Of hell's eternal fury; The lawyer burls his jawbone at A mad but helpless jury. —A Pußois man who is bitterly opposed to the custom of putting "ie" at the end of feminine names, was recently presented with a little girl daughter. "I'll fixtbem," he said, "so they will not put that offensive suffix to my girl's name." And he had her christened "Nnst," remarking that if her mother wanted to call her "Nastie" she might go ahead. —An Indiana cow which gave two quarts of milk per day was struck by light ning while in the pasture the other day and had a horn knocked otl Sinco that date her yield has been eight quarts, with not the slightest trace of brimstone. If you have an old cow «tand her unt. "When 1 wus a b b-boy," old stutter ing, lying John Stulty used to say, "I read the st-st story of li-U-Oeurge Washington and l-l-little h-btttchct and I 1-1 liked it so well that 1 th thought I d p play it on my I f father So I w went out aud ch-chop ped d down an apple t t tire th that he'd taken lots of p pains with. And when he c c came home and asked about it I said: •I c c cannot t tell a 1 1 lie, father: I d d did it w with my ax,' and he gave me such u b h b —l ot a 1 lammin' that I h h-haven't t told the t truth since." "Be shrewd and seltish us you can: You'll not be poor lie nothing unto any man. And close your door To tho.-o wLo call on your for aid. Turn them awaj They arc no good —their play is played— They've had their day. Get all you can. and all ton get Securely keep: And when at last you die, you bet. So one will weep." —All things have their uses. If a man had no enemies he would not know how to appreciate his friends. FARM AND GARDEN. It is a mistake to suppose that peat. leans and corn should be covered heavily Keep the land intended for lunula well suned with tin) cultivator to as tofc'll t'ue weeds before the seed goes in. Do not neglcci to u*v« youx tool* in pro per repair aud condition until you want to go to work in field or garden. It ia a great luxury to live ou a good road. It pays every one living along a road to do bis share toward making it a good one. Professor Ladd concludes that it u {in ferable to cut timothy for feeding at the penod of fall bloom rather than after the seeds have formed. A pound of bran makes within 17 per cent, of as much milk as a pound at Cats meal, which usually costs much more* but corumeal makes richer milk Tbe soil alfecU the quality of the plan t gruwn thereon to a certain extent. A crop of wheat from rich soil contains more glu ten than one from poor soil A Hhode Island farmer raise* veal calves to weigh 190 pounds when 4 weeks old by allowing them warmed skim-milk and oat n.eal gruel. Such calve* should pay well One way to save transportation is to raise everything needed that can be jrrrwt on tbe farm. There are many kinds o fruits and vegetables that arc seldon grown by farmers. Manure often contains seeds that s; When spreading manure work it ir ■ soil well, and allow time for the te*. germinate. Then go over the field wiu. barrow from time to time until ready to seed in the crop desired. ''Two quarts of o&U at 32 cents pi r bushel. 2 cents." 6ays the "two quarts a day for 150 days, $3. Tb with skimmed milk, makes a calf wnr. sls to s*2o in 150 days: omit it and y< have au $3 calf. The moral is easi!j drawn." The moth of the codling worm deposi its eggs at the blossom end of the app soon after the apple is formed. SprinV witb paris green, not strong. Perhaps i« may be necessary to sprinkle in two wee', from the first sprinkling again. Melons should be well hoed and cultiv; ed until they begin to run. Tbe vo . young plants may be hoed with but after that time all cultivation shot.... be done without disturbing the bills. M .- on growers hoe in front of tbe vines, not among them, as they soon cover tbe ground. The milk from cows fed on wholescme grain and good pasturage is of better qu>'l ity for food than that ftom stall fed rui mals that are permitted to eat rtftise fiom granaries and factories without regard o breed. Choice breeds to produce a ch< ice article must be provided witb food of tbe best quality for that purpose. Tbe bush lima bean that has been intro duced qaite extensively is of tbe Scwee family and is rather small in size. It re quires a longer season than we have in this latitude to permit it to fully ma'i-.c its crop, thouge it will afford a supply for use. A large bush lima is now being in troduced, but the seed is scarce as yet. >*ext season it will be given atrial in many sections. "With strawberries, raspberries, black berries and grapes a supply of fruit for I o family could be had until late in tbe sea son. if currants and melons be included the supply may be more varied. App'es, pears, peaches and cherry treee should :«'so be planted, but tbe small fruitt will c>me into bearing the next year thus renderii g it easy for all to secure a supply witho it loss of time. A* IscroRTAKT Qcssnoi*.— The organ ization of the Farmers' Leagqe introduces a new factor into tbe politics of tbis State. It is also an important factor and as such must be taken into consideration in all fu ture plans and calculations. It is not the purpose of tbis organization to found a new political party, or to antag onize any other interest, but just tbe op posite. What the League wants is tbe harmony of all interests and justioe to all. The farmers will insist, however, that their interests shall be given that consid eration which their importance demands and that the same justice which is meted toother* shall be meted to them In short they have awakened to tbe value and they now propose to secure some of its benfits. The object which the league will seek to accomplish in this State trill be the equal ization of taxation, extending not only to an equalization in the purposes for which the farmers' land is taxed, as compared with other classes of property, bnt also to the proper assessment and valuation of other classes of property now partially or wholly exempt from taxation. Just how to accomplish this object is not so easily stat ed. The idea of rating all property at its true value and then taxing it equally ior all purposes would be sufficiently an im provement on the present laws, but it i* doubtful if this wonld be mfficiently far reaching in its effect. It is probable tbat a law exempting every species of farm property from taxation for State pur poses and at the same time making every species of property available for local tar tion would come nearer to the mark Tt has also been suggested that relief be af forded farm property by making all court expenses payable by the State, just «s th« judges' salaries are now paid, or tbat the State appropriation for school purposes be increased from year to year until the whole expense of the public school system is paid iu this manner In the western states where tlrev have loug school terms and pay big wages, nearly the whole of tbe mouey is raised from taxes on ru'.lr -a I# und other corporations. These suggestion* are only tentdtu-e aui are pot forth principally with a vk* to calling the attention of the Re publicans of the county to an important question on which some action should be taken by the convention on Monday—Washington. Pa., Obterrcr. —A method of producing tire 1/ com pressed air, as practiced by the satires of Thibit, is described by • gentleman who | visited that country. The apparatus con | sists of a wooden cylinder, 2} incces iong by f inch diameter Thi» is closed at one end. the base being abont the si--* of a quill pen; an air tight piston tits into this with a large flat knob at the top The other end of the piston is alightly hollowed out. and a very small piece of tinder Is placed in tho cup tbu» formed. The cylinder is held in one hand, the piston inserted, and poshed abont halfway down. A sharp blow is then given the knob; the hand must, at the same time, close cm tho knob and instantly withdraw the piston, when the tindeT will be fonnd alight.—fire and Water. —The New Tork Herald is authority for tho statement that both the French ttßd German armies have enlisted dogs to MITo as sentinels and scouts. This may Call ed letting slip the dogs of war. N032