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Send back suck articles, and insist on bavins Just Wkat you orUercd.-(MH INSIDE OF FIVE MINUTES. "Bother that speech! I wish to good ness the Fourth of July MS over!' Mr. Jeffrey groaned as if all the sins of Chicago • were loaded on his conscience. I're-.ntly he remarked, in a calm voice, to his pretty, young wife, behind the teakettle: ■Mr. Jeffreys, those biscuits are a sue cess." And when Mr. Jeffrey had --aid so the last hall of the seventh hot biscuit, wiih its thick coat of butter, reached the place where the groan had come from. But ■ while stirring his tilth cr.p of tea he said, i with another groan: "That speech makes | uie lose my appetite. You don't know how a fellow can be worried about his maiden speech, Molly! You need not fret about sneh things. That's a comfort, anyway. • "Yon need not worry either, Jeff. Ask to be excused, if it bothers yon. They will invite somebody else to take your place." "■Won't do, Molly! I was rather pleased when the committee asked me, and so I promised right away. It wonld look bad ! to back out now." "Look here, Will; suppose I write that j speech for yon. and yon deliver it?" | "Oh. Moll. I would not think of such a I thing!" "Why not? Why can't we p each other in this, a;, in everything else? The one ot ns that finds a thing easier ought to do it." "It's a great deal harder than you think." "I remember the time when I was Molly Boss. I thought it a great deal easier to dash off an oration than to bake a decent loaf of bread. Well, shall I write it for ! you?" "No, thauk you, Molly! It would never I do, lam afraid. A fellow ought to stand on his own ground. lam bound to do it I all by myself." lie looked the picture of proud independence. "All right, Will. l)o just as you think best.'' She seemed a little humiliated. "Xever mind, Molly! I believe in your biscuits and cetfee and butter, and lots of other things. You are about as nice and good a little wife as any fellow could wish for; but I would not have you dabble in political speeches. St. Paul don't approve of it either," he added, jocularly. "1 don't think St. Paul would object if he could come back So broad minded a man as he would be sure to alter some ot his opinions for the use of our times. Be sides, I offered to write in order to relieve you. sir. A woman can write, and still hold her tongue, and keep below the ros trum." "All right; but you see, Molly, there is another hitch. You can't argue that way, if you tried ever so hard. I don't believe a woman can say all she has to say in five minutes. Xo speaker will bo allowed more than five minute* at the celebration. Xow, a woman neyer knows when to stop- She can't do it to save her life. Her tongue will wag abont things in general for hall an hour, and by that time she generally is so excited you could not stop her any more than you could stop a watch that's wound up for the day. You would have to bust it or throw it in the water: nothing less vio lent could stop it." "Do stop, Jeff, yon horrid man! There! that's nice! And I. who thought I had trained you well to think highly of me and the rest of us women! You will have to be put through a new and special course of training, sir. Aj:d as for that speech, yon may sigh about it us much as you please, lor all I care. I would not write that speech for you now if you went down on your knees to ask me for it—no, sir; you will have to « rite it by your own proud self, hubby." The big, bearded you eg "hubby" evidently thought her mock anger a good joke. "Xo, I won't waste a drop of ink on it," he said. "We are just going to think it over on the stoop, my pipe and I. I guess I can see through it before to morrow morning. When the roosters awoke Mr. Jeffrey next morning he said: "Molly, you ought to have heard my speech! It went off like a rocket; the people clapped like fury, and the fellows yelled themselves hoarse. I dreaui&d it the Fourth of July, and my speech came off first rate in four minutes and fifty-live seconds. I do wish it had not been a dream!" Molly Boss had been a village school teacher. She was a small, airy creature, and still she understood how to wind the biggest boys aionnd her little finger. They were tame enough in her presence, but be hind her back they were ready to fight for the honor of carrying coal to her stove,and the bliss of drawing water for her at the well. There had never been so popular a school-marm in that village. But at the very height of her popularity Miss Ross banded in her resignation to the trustees, and disappeared from this world at the end of the month. At that period she was lust seen entering a village ehurth, where a simple marriage ceremony changed her into Mrs. Jeffrey, the wife of a young struggling farmer from the neighborhood. Miss Molly Boss had worked five hours a day, and rested on Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays and all summer; Mrs. Jeffrey worked sixteen hours a day aud knew ol' no Saturday holidays, no Sunday rest, no summer vacation. Miss Molly Ross had cashed forty dollars. Mrs. Jeffrey cashed just forty dollars less. Still Mrs. Jeffrey was supremely happy even after a year of married life, and could not understand how in the world she could have gotten along as Molly Boss. What a difference love makes anyway! The young couple were doing well, but they had to work very hard, lie toiled in the fields and stable from sunrise till sunset, certain parts.of the year; she worked iu the kitchen and dairy all day long, all the year round, and had breath enough to sing merrily at her work. And she had the loveliest color in her cheeks, not due to cosmetics, but manu factured by the old reliable firm, Youth, Health and Kitchen-fire. It was hay making time on the farm—a busy, warm time. The Fourth of July, the village celebration, aud Mr Jeffrey's maiden speech were drawing close. Dinner was over, and dish washing, too —aud Mrs. Molly now proceeded to churn butter. A buggy stopped at tiie gate; an elderly gentleman, with gray whiskers aud gold spectacles, came walking up to the house, and shook Mrs. Jeffrey's outstretched hand on the door step, where the little lady, in her neat print dress and white apron, had come to meet her unexpected visitor, one of her form r school trustees. "I am so glad to see you. Judge Burns!" ' said her lips with a smile, and she meant j it. "Howare yon and your people? Take I this rocking chair." "I am sorry I cannot stay, Mrs. Jeffrey; I am on my way to Pinelake on business. Very warm day—tho dust nearly choked me—so I thought 1 would come and ask you for a drink out of your well, if you will allow me, Mrs. Jeffrey." They were both standing by "the old oaken bucket" at the well, where the Judge had enjoyed .1 cool drink. "I am sorry Mr. Jeffrey missed your visit," said Mrs. Jeffrey. "I know he would be delighted to have u talk with BUTLER PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 18!»0 you. Could you not come in to tea ou your way back from Pinelake? Mr Jeffrey will be in then We shall be so happy to have you—and there will be fresh butter milk by that time. I remember you are fond of it." 1 saw Mr Jeffrey in the fields a litile way" off.' iLe remarked, with a smile. "I do I elieve be was talking to the iiat'stncks. lam nearly sure I caught some scraps of an oration. He stood ihcre. pitctlifork in hand, l.More a row of stacks and harangued them: 'Ladies and gentle men! On this memorable day.' I knew lie was practicing his Fonrth of Jnly speech and sympathized with him, for I am in the same box. For Mr. Jeffrey it has at least the charm of novelty; but wait until he has served the same dish some fifteen to twenty years; he wi;l be pretty tired of patriotic speeches by that time." He smiled ar.J she smiled. "He complains now already. I offered 1o write that little speech for him. but he declined.'' "Declined! Did he really? Weil. well! Look here. Mrs. Jeffrey, let somebody else have it. Ask me. for instance." "Oh. Mr. Bums! Tou are joking." "Not at all. not at all. my dear madam; I never was more in earnest. Do let me have that speech, please! lam willing to stoop down to pick up the crumbs that fall from the rich man's board—in tiiis case. But remember it must be short—five minutes aud no more." "Would it not be a capital joke on Mr. Jeffrey?" the lady said, half musingly. "Well, Judge, I don't care if I write it, for the fun of the thing. You must not tell him, though, before the Fourth of July is over. After the celebration you may tell him whenever you like." "I can keep my peace if you can, Mrs. Jeffrey. Will you write it while I go to Pinelake? I might stop here on my return in a 2ouple of hours and get the manu script." "I could not possibly do that. Business goes before pleasure, you know. I have my butter to churn." "Look hero; suppose you let me churn your butter while you write the speech?" The old gentleman was by this time fairly interested in this novel transaction. He went to tie the ho.se and buggy under a shade tree, while thinking by himself: . "There is plenty of time, and it will be cooler to drive in an hour or so. Churning is easy enough, I am sure; it's women s work. It won't take me long. It will be quite a change, too— rariatio deltrtat. It will be interesting to see what kind of opus that smart little iady turns out." Mr. Jeffrey practiced oratory before an audience of haystacks in the sweat of his honest brow. Puck, the judge's horse, made frantic efforts to keep off the flies. Mrs. Molly sat in the parlor, where her marriage certificate aud teacher's diploma looked down upou her out of their frames. Her pen was busily rasping over the note paper, and the writer looked pretty, cool and happy. Judge Burns looked neither cool nor happy in the cellar, sitting on a stool before an old-fashioned churn. The old gentleman was fast losing his temper, and making but slow progress with the butter. He did not find it as easy as he had thought—no woman's work by any means. Why, he felt like swearing, so thoroughly out of patience was lie with the old churn, a regular media-val instrument of torture. He felt like shaking Jeffrey, too, it' he had been on hand to be shaken. "He was a brute, that's what ho was. Jud{;e Burns muttt i'ed. "That big, burly young fellow, to let that delicate-looking wife ot his make a slave of herself, and break her back over that abominable churn! He would give Jeffrey a talking to. Thank heaven, Mrs. Bums had never been asked to do such work. Why. it was outrageous to let a woman handle that churn." Bang, splash, bang, splash, np and down went the stick of the churn. The work grew heavier aud heavier, the Judge hotter and hotter. Down flew the gold specta cles; the hat followed suit; soon the coat lay on the floor alongside of the hat. Bang, splash, said the churn. With a final bang the Judge jumped up from bis stool in sheer despair, growling between his teeth, "Goodness sakes! Millennium will be at hand before that butter is done!" "Well, Judge, how are you getting on?" said a cheery voice, and Mrs. J effrev's light print dress lit np the cellar door. He picked up his hat and coat with a dazed, haggard look, and said: "This is not lady's work. Mrs. Jeffrey. I found out as much as that. You ought not to work that churn; you will hurt yourself." "I churn three times a week. 1 don't mind it much now; I ain used to it. - ' See ing how tired ho looked, she suddenly changed the subject and said, "Do come with me out of this gloomy place to the veranda. There is quite a breeze now." She picked np bis glasses and wiped them on her apron, while be preceded her up stairs. "This is the nicest corner in the afternoon, and this is the easiest rocking, chair. Sit down, sir. There is n palm leaf. Now get cool and comfortable,while I come back with fresh buttermilk for you. Won't you enjoy buttermilk of your own making? Here are your glasses, and here is—the speech." She pulled it out of her apron pocket, and banded it reluctant ly and timidly. "Now, please don't make fun of my work and I will pcaise yours so much more." She courtesied and disap peared. Mr. Burns putou hi- glases without de lay, unfolded the few leaflets and read. And when he was through reading he look cd as if he had beet, listening to the first bluebird's song in early spring. He was in the best humor by the time Mrs Jeffrey appeared with a pitcher full of buttermilk. "What Jo you think of the butter?'' he called out "It's a great success, and I congratulate you; and 1 am ever so much obliged to you Mr. Burns." Then she nodded, in an un dertone, "And the speeehT" "It could not be improved upon, my dear Mrs. Jeffrey. You are an orator to the manner born, upou my word. Allow me to congratulate and express my thauks to you." They shook bauds over the pitcher of buttermilk, aud laughed like a couple of happy children. A moment afier, Judge Burns, with the Fourth of July oration in his breast pocket, drove Puck on toward Pinelake. The Fourth of July hud come aud proved to be a regular scorcher. There was a noisy crowd nt the village celebration, and the market place was thickly strewn with burnt out firo crackers, peanut shells, ba nana and orange peels. The speaker's platform was ablaze with bunting, and every window around the "square seemed a frame for pretty faces and gorgeous mil linery. Mr. Jeffrey's speech was one of the first on the list, l>ut it was by no means one of the best, lie began solemnly, in a voice as loud as a fog horn: "Ladies and gen'.le men, this memorable day," etc. for one minute there was a flow of pompous pnrases carefully committed to memory— then came a sudden stop—another stop — another stop. The tall speaker puiied up his shirt collar as if he was choking, start ud anew, got more and more cntauglcd, Wished himself a mile under ground, flu-di ed. stammered, and wa* at last gently re minded by the prc-ident that his time va np. The last speaker was Judge Burns. Ar,d wLut a wonderful speech he made! There was IM end ofeheer'ng and clapping. Tie girl< waved their handkerchiefs, after hav ing wiped off their tears. "Wasn't it per fectly lovely? Just too lovely for any thing!" The women smiled and the men nodded approval. "It was a daisy and no mistake." ' Unrrali for Judge Burn-'' •'Three cheers for Heiel 'ah Bums!" At an open window opposite the platferm -at the po>tma-ter's wife, and beside her a lit tle lady in a white press, with a pretty, flushed face, and a pair of very bright eye* fixed on the speaker, and turning to the town clock the moment Judge Burns closed his oration. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey drove home 0..r1y after the celebration. He had nothing to say. and was as cross as a bear after his failure His wife did not show him any sympathy either —so unlike her, too! She seemed to have enjoj ed herself thorough . ly. Everything seemed funny to her on the way home, where he could see no fun all. Her very laugh grated on his ear for the first time. "Catch me making a fool of myself again in public.'' be thought, but he did not say so. Wbile he put the horso in the siable Mrs. Moiiy got the tea ready, a.i unusually good tea. aud just the kind of jelly he liked best. In the evening she actually struck a match to light his pipe on the stoop, and laughingly pulled his curly hair. "What's the matter with you to-night Molly.' I don't see what tickles you." "I suppose it's the celebration that has gone to my head. It is Fourth of July but once a year." '■ Tes, thank goodness!" lie muttered, puffing away at his pipe. Next morning's mail brought a couple of letters aud a local paper. This once the Guide seemed the center of attraction to both Mr. and Mrs. J. "Let's see about the celebration," she said eagerly; "do read aloud, Will!" "Haven't time. It would take me all the afternoon. Here are columns and col umns. but not about me. Oh yes, sure enough. They are 'in hopes Mr. Jeffrey's corn crop will turn out a greater success than his oration." Well, I don't care what they say." lie laughed good naturedly, for be had gotten over his mortification, "llere is Judge Burns'* speech; nearly all of it, it seems, and half a column of enlogj on it. Just listen to what they say: 'A perfect jewel of poetic expression —a chaste pearl oratory —dewy freshness—a light ning flash of patriotic eloquence.' Arc you choking Mollyt She was as red as a berry; coughed and laughed alternately. "Well, 1 must say it was a first-rate speech, but no more than might be expect ed of a lawyer who has the gift of gab. lit is an old hand at that sort of thing. Why. he has spoken in public these last thirty years. It's his business to talk, just as it's mine to raise wheat and corn. How did you like his speech. Molly?"' "I can't say I thought it so very wonder ful," she said. "It was nice enough, and short. He was through before bis time was up. I noticed that more than any thing else." "You don't mean to sav .so! Why. I thought of you while lio spoke—how you would appreciate liini. They were all wild about that speech, both men and women. It was full of fun ami lire and ei.ihuiaam. Choking again, Molly.' Shall 1 slap your back? - ' She shook her head. '-Yes, he understands his business; that's certain. What's that? Looks very DIE h like Burn's handwriting'. What an he have to write about?" Mrs. Molly ilushed to the very roots of her wavy hair, while Mr. Jeffrey cut the envelope with a table knife, and fell in a brown study over his letter. His wife watched him with a roguish twinkle in her eyes. lie looked as if he was reading the will of a maiden aunt whose inheritance he had been sure of, and who liad suddenly died after changing her will in favor of the Hottentot mission. The letter really was from Judge Burns, and rau as follows: "MY I>EAH MH JEKKKE} —Excuse an old friend who gladly took what you had declined. The oration I delivered yester day, literally after the manuscript, was the work of Mrs. Jeffrey. While she wrote that very excellent speech, which I accepted as a god-send. I took her place at the churn, and spent one of the most labo rious hours of my life making butter. The transaction being altogether in my favor, I feel very much indebted to Mis Jeffrey, and hope she will accept a token of my sincere regard in the shape of anew pat ented churn, which, as the manufacturers claim, v ill make churning a mere child's play. My dear Mr. Jeffrey your partner 'n marriage has more brains, heart and energy than you and I taken together. Sincerely your friend, HE/EKIAIT E. BFRSS.'' "Molly, did—did you really write that speech?" "Yes, sir," said Mrs. Molly. "And it came off inside of five minutes, sir. Your coffee is cold. Let nnt give you another cup, Willie dear."— Harper's l!n:<ir. The Mourning of Nations. Black, which expresses "privation of light," represents American and English mourning, while iu direct contrast is the white mourning colot ofChima, exprc--ivu of hope. Other hues symbolizing grief for the departed are: Scarlet —occasionally worn by French kings. Yellow —the sear and yellow leaf. Egypt and Burmah. In Brittany widows' caps among the peasants are yellow. l'urple and Violet —to express royalty. Mourning for cardinal.-, and kings of France. Violet color mourning for Turkey. Deep Blue—Bokhara mourning. The significance of this selection Is not known. Pale Brown—Tli withered leaves. Persia. Grayish Brown—Earth Ethiopia and A byssinia. Was There and Saw It. Census Taker Bethunc, of Milledgevile. Ga., in discharging his duties ran across the "oldest inhabitant." and was puzzled for a while as to what entry to make cf her age. Jane Moore, colored, living in the northern part of the eity, gave her age as 121. Mr. Bethune questioned her some time and discovered that the old woman was a regular encyclopedia of the early days of American independence. She knew all about it; was there and saw it. She re membered Washington and all the fathers; she remembered their habits and eccen tricities, and said she was married and had children when Washington died. Her old est living child is 88 years old. and since its birth she has been blessed with 27 oth ers. She is evidently not less than 110 years and may he 1-1, as she sajs. "This is the suuuy mouth of June, When youths and maidens like to spoon; They walk along the moonlit sands Softly holding each other's hand-, They look up at tb" noon's bright beam. And he thinks of love —and She ice cream." Ecclesiastical Oil Wells. I'ittsburg llorkiHat. A recent number of the Lutheran oh . scrcer coiHajned a clipping from » New Vork paper referring lo a prospective oil 1 •well located on the grounds connected with tnc ilan ■ c.f the Presbyterian cLunh at Fou.-t Grove. Allegheny county, l'a. Since then several good weiis have been struck on these grounds, from which the church i> receiving a royalty aggregating SIOO a day. About five miles from the Forest Grove church ar.rl the same distance from this city (Pitt.-burg}, stands lit. Calvary Lutheran church, of which Rev. J. Q. Waters K pastor. This church is sur rounded by beautiful cemetery grounds, ■with a giebe adjoining, on which the par sonage stands. About two months ago thi-- glebe (about 2 acre- -, war leased for oil pnrpose-. Three weeks ego the first well was completed and started oil'with a production of 20 bar rels an hour, and has teen flowing steady ever fcince. The church, in addition to the cash bonus of S6OO, receives a royalty of one-fourth, which, from this well alone has averaged, to date, over ifloO per day. Another well Is being drilled on the same grounds, and a third one will soon follow. These are certainly the palmy days of old Mt. Calvary's financial prosperity, and pa.-tor and people feel devoutedly thankful to God for these means so providentially placed in their hr.nds by which important and necessary changes and improvements are made possible and the efficiency and usefulness of the church are increased. May the Lord who has graciously enabled the people to lind this •■treasure hid in the field." giye them grace also to utilize it in sneh a way as will redound to llis glory and the advancement of llis kingdom on earth. The increase c.f (iod's gifts are al ways accompanied by increased responsi bilities and obligations. The Mt. Calvary people doubtless real ize this, and whilst they are glad and thankful, as they have good reason to be. they recognize the fact that they are stew ards of the Lord's bounty, and are not iu the least danger of abusing the trust com" mitted to them. The talent God has given them will be sacredly employed, and the whole community, as well as the congrega tion, will partake of the benefits. Although the oil itself is not holy oil—like that spoken of in the Scripures: set apart to holy uses—the income from it will never theless be consecrated to evangelical enter prises. Hence the first well on the church grounds has been named after the church, "the Mt. Calvary well." It is churehly in name and iu design. In the same spirit one of the wells of the Forest (irove Church has been called "Old hundred." This nauie. however, was suggested by a revision of the doxology. made by one of the drillers, who evidently has a poetic turn of mind: Praise God from whom all blessings flow, I'raise Hiin for putting oil below; Praise Him, ye drillers, give hearty thanks. Praise Him for the overflowing tanks. Notwithstanding the convictions of some to the contrary, oil. even when found on church property, must be regarded as one of God's good gifts, which is to be received with thanksgiving and employed iu His service. His Son Bill. \ .\> .v York artist who was di.»n on the Jersty shore sketching and ] Minting In-t summer, old a larr er a crayon draw ing in which rhe centr .l figure was Father Time with hi deadly s-ythe. The buyer took it away veil pi ised v ith his pur chase,'out returned next day with a grin on his face and the picture under his arm.and said: "I've got a son Bill to home." "Yes." "He hain't but 15 years old." "Yes." "He's got tow hair and a cataract on his eye, but he's smarter'n chain light ning." "Indeed, I'm glad to hear it." "1 hadn't this picture home five uiinits \\ ben Bill set up a-roarin and laughing and pintcd out—what d'ye think.' You've gone and drawed old Father Time a-mow ing left-handed. 1 might never have noticed it, but you can't fool Bill far ci der." "My dear mau." answered the artist, "did you ever see Father Time."' "Of course not." "Bid your son Bill ever sec bimf "Sartinly not. He ain't to be sawed," j "Well, then, how do either of you know whether he was right or left handed'" "By gum!" gasped the farmer as he stood with open mouth, "you've got the yoke on lis. That's it: how do we know? I've bad three different hired men who were left handed, and I've kuowed other folks to be. 1 jist jumped at it without stopping to think. When Bill began to haw-paw and pint to the scythe, I jist sot in aud agreed with him, say, mister." "Yes." • I've got a son Bill." "Well?" "lie's smarter'n chain lightning at sizing up a tin peddler, but the biggest fool in the State ou pic tars." * Electricity Taking The Place of Steam. Prof. Elihu Thomson, in speaking on "The Problems of the Future." says: "Iu the near future railways will be run by electricity; not the small roads, I mean but really the large ones connecting cities, and there is no reason why we should not expect higher speeds than we can attain at present with our steam locomotives. There we have reciprocating parts that must be put in motion, stopped, and reversed con tinually, while in the electric locomotive we have the simple rotary motion, which makes it possible accordingly to run at a much higher rate of speed. Although the steam locomotive has been very much im proved, yet it can hardly compare with the economy of stationary engines, placed where they can have an abundant water supply for condensing purpose . We can, therefore, by employing stationary engines and electric roads, do away with a great deal of unnecessary weight, and the mov iug parts being symmetrical, we can attain a much higher rate of speed, say a hundred miles an hour. This would be a grand step forward, which would save us a great deal of time. It might even be possible to reach a speed of !"><» miles an hour. It simply depends upon finding the. method of applying sufficient power, and building j the locomotives to suit, arrangements be- j ing adopted to keep the cars ou the track." | —A novel way of raising money to build a church has been adopted by a congrega tion in an lowa town. They borrowed $120,000 and gave life insurance ou a number <>f the members, which is to l.e applied on the debt as death ensues. The natural objection to this scheme is the fact I hat in case of the illness of one of the in sured, the insurance might weaken the < sine-rity of the prayers of the congrcp ion < for Uis recovery. It would be a case in i which the church would win if the prayers | fulled. i A European Census. Americans who arc loudest iu their ! groaning about several census | should look at iLe inquisition to wuicb the , Ge.miM are subjected. The l.i.u.jn jre*r book gives the fipire of evtu the income tax. An income of' s2f>o or less"is i.ot taxed, and up to the Us. is nominal For iucoines over $750 , Uie owner must swear as to the truth of the figures he give-. The exact ret.tat of j e»<h dwelling is obtuiuid. aud the average rentals for diiiereut conditions are pn.iisii >-> i. Ti.c showing lor the yeur ISSS makes the average rt-rit.il for a single room with | out a stove —or ua unbeatable" rot m, a the expression used i» —a sttoi that cor- . responds iu our moucy to S3O per year. It makes the rental for a single room with a stove ir. it—or c. single '"beatable" room— s.">o. for li\ iug apartments consisting of! two "beatable" room. fSi per annum; lor apartments consisting of three such rooms, floO; f«r four "beatable" rooms, s2oo. etc. ' No personal liberty in Berlin. The police : methods in Berlin greatly aid in the prep ! aration of an accurate census. No room I can be rented at a hotel or boarding house, j and no apartment or house can be legally ; leased, until the landlord has :.ent to the I police the name aud purpose of the new- 1 comer aud the length of time for which he i will probably make the city his name. I Tl.e -ainc method is iu vogue iu other Ger- ! mas cities. The experience of one of the j professors of the University of Pennsyl- | vania last summer is significant as to the effectiveness of these methods. Wishing to communicate with an American lady who was abroad, and, as he thought, in Leipsic, he wrote to the police of that city. The answer declared that no person of the name was in the city. A similar letter was sent to the police headquarters of Dresden, and a similar answer was receiv ed. When, later, however, the professor wrote to the police of Berlin, the reply an nounced that Mrs. was living at No. —. street, on the floor. Make an Agreement. It is a difficult matter to deal with that class of men who will neither give nor re ceive a definite proposition looking toward compensation. If, on the one band, you meet a man who says, '"That will be all right; I guess we won't have any trouble about that part of it," set it down that here will be trouble on just "that part of t." If, on the other hand, you find a man who is always declaring, "You'll not lose anything by this; I'll see that it's all right," you may he sure it will be all wrong in the end. When two men of this sort get together, and the serv-ces are of such nature that to determine their exact value al the time of their inception is impossible, the end will be a misunderstanding, mut ual dissatisfaction, possibly an estrange ment. Yet there is no case in which a probable value cannot be got at. If you consider matters as a complete affair, aud estimate the value of results as you plan them to happen, you can never be far wrong. If one cannot do that, he has no business to undertake to make contracts at all. It may he there are times when a man may go into a business engagement without a definite idea of what his pay is to be. and there may be men who always settle satisfactorily. But one is never safe to make engagements in such a lax way. False modesty alway stands in the way of j sensible business arrangements. But it has no place ia business. As an old mer chant -nee said to a writer, "We are friend.-. and I trust will always remain so, but when you are making an agreement for the pi.r i.ase and delivery of goods, don't think of your feelings toward each ther al all. Buy of me as you would of stranger; consider your owu needs and profits, and don't hesitate to buy when you can do best." It should be exactly this way iu making arrangements for employ ment. Treat the matter simply as busi uess, pure aud simple. You can't afford to do business without making proper ar rangements for all points. These sensible suggestions from the Xational Grocer have more than a money value. "Busi ness is business" seems something like a heartless proverb, but it is a fact that no business is likely to prove so satisfactary as that which is done strictly on business principles. Here is where the great value of a business education come in. It im presses upon the mind at every stage of its course that "busiiiCoS is business." A Marketable Product. lSural World. Kggs ure the most marketable product that the farm yields. They are ready for market the minute they are laid, and the sooner they are gotten to market the bet tor. Nothing else that the farm produces comes in as handy as a good supply of egg . They require no cultivation, no hoeing, pruning or ch uri.ins, but are in a saleable condition aj soon as laid. With plenty of eggs on the farm there is a host of good thing in the kitchen, and money in the family purse. Gathering eggs is like picking up cents. They are as good as cash and can quickly be turned into dollars and cents. The groceryman wants eggs, the hotel man wants eggs, the private ianiily wants eggs, everybody in town is hungry for eggs. Twenty-five good hens are more valua ble than a cow, and much less trcruble. A cow costs as much as a hnudred he.is and eats more. We would not deride the fam ily cow, but wu make a plea for the do mestic hen. Give her a place worthy 01 her valuable product. Let's look after the small things and pay more attention to poultry. Fix np the hen house and make good water proof coops, and separate runs for tho little chickens. Let's read up more on poultry and try aud improve the laying qualities of our fowls. The women love to have a fine looking 'ot of chickens übout the place, and so do the children. It's mighty nice, 100, to take u good larjie basket of eggs to town and bring home the family groceries in ex change for them. We should think about these things, and give the fowls on the farm more attention. An Old Hand. "Strawberries, mum?" he asked as she came out with a bowl. '•I guess so. Got 'eui by measure?" "Yes'in —how many?" "One quart." "All right, ma'am—here you are—gTeat bis stawberri.'s —a full quart." "Stop, tsir!" "What is it?'' "Take your thumb out of that meas ure!" "Thumb? Oh, certainly." "Now add about a dozen berries to fill ( up that space!" "Space? I see." "Now shake the measure aud put inn , few more!" , "Shake? Exactly, ma'am. Here you are, and if it will console you any 1 will , state that I lose just two cents on that ( quart. M.ike it up at the next house,how ever, by measuring my thumb aud two ( fingers. Thanks, ma'am —strawberries, great, big strawberries! Who takes the - next quart?" i NO 34 AGRICULTRAL. So>uie statieian has figured out that for the annual nourishment of 15.000.000 cows and 12,000.000 horses there are neede d 30,- OOO.WtO tons «>f hay. 90.000,000 bushels oi cokiMiseal, 275.iW0,000 barbels of oats, 2,- 000.000 bushels of bran and 30,000.000 of corn, at a cost of *4">0.000. The value of any kind of fodder is not in the quantity, but iu the amount th»t is di >•>—tible The quality largely depends on the stage of growth when it is cut and cur ed. A drain that is stopped up is one that is not only mi -serviceable lint a menace to _ health. 'When foul there is always a dis agreeable stench therefrom, and being al ways damp, substances decompose quickly. Nothing is more important than to fre quently examine the outlets of drain pipes and ditches in order to have a free flow of water in them. Experiments with burnt clay demon strate it to be a fertilizer. Its value con sists of its affinity tor the plant-forming elements iu the soil. It extracts ammonia from the atmosphere and yAlds it to plants, as well as affording potash that is set free from the clay itself. It is the opinion of the leading agriculturists that the burning of marl will render it more available to plants, and that burnt clay will be a fertiz er of the future. Flow WOMES CAN I»BESS WEll.— There is no reason in the world why anybody should have an unbecoming costume this season. In fabrics and in colors all sorts and conditions of-women are catered to, and all tones, from the faintest to the deep est. and deftly wrought out so that the particular shade, that the wise woman finds becoming to her. can be gotten with out any trouble. There are spots big and little, plaids bias and straight, and stripes lof all widths and kinds. Be a little care ful in choosing your colors, and remember, that because somebody tells you how well you look in a costume of navy bine yon must not conclude that every blue shade is suited to you, for that extremely trying, Ijut very beautiful one, known as army, makes Abe average woman's complexion look as yellow as a lemon. Because scar let makes your hair look warmer and gives a deeper color to your eyes, it does not follow that magenta is suited to you. Gen eral rules do not apply to women, who are nothing if not individual. Somebody says that small bonnets are universally becom ing. and you. whose face is rather broad, whose nose is a bit retrousse, put one on and believe yon look well. A bonnet, more than anything else, needs to be fried on, and althongh one may generalize and say bonnets are ladylike it can no more be asserted that bonnets are always becoming than it could be that all women are good figures. So just think out things before you choose them.— Ladies' Home Journal. TIIE DISIKFECTTSG SBASOK.— Chloride of lime is the safest as well as one of the best of disinfectants. It owes its merit to the free chlorine gas which it contains when fresh and gives off slowly when in the air. When used in a sufficient quantity in a room or chosen space it combats much of its impurities. As for the germs ot dis ease, this agent is something of an enemy to them, altho not a powerful one. It is custom ary in contagious to lay the chlor ide of lime about in saucers. Some good is certainly done in that way. but it is meas ured by *he quantity of lime use J, which, in order to have a very deeisire effect, must be considerable. It acts ly will in solution with water as a disin fectant of "washing clothing" which has been within the atmosphere of a sick room containing a patient ill with an infectious disease. Some use it in solution in disin fecting water closets and bath pipes, but it is scarcely fit for that purpose, as the ohlo ride corrodes lead and iron. The fact should be remembered that in using chlo ride ot lime it must be confined in order to render it efficacious as a disinfectant. "We occasionally see it sprinkled about in foul places, such as open drains, on heaps of filth etc., places freely exposed to the air. In such bituations it is absolutely power less to do good. It must be in a practical ly closed space, where the gases arising from it can be confined until they can do their work.— Hoston Hirald. To PRETEST FOKGRXG—There is no dri ver of a horse but that haa felt the annoy ance that results from forging, or the strik ing of the forward shoes by the hind ones in traveling, and yet this can be prevented The cause is, the hind feet are thrown for ward and strike the front feet before they get out of the way, a result of the action of the horse, which must he corrected, which is explained in ' Artistic Horse Shoeing," and ■which is accomplish by us ing a heavy toe-weight shoe on the front feet to make the liorse reach further. Af ter (he front shoe has been nailed on, take a rule and m ensure the distance lrom the coronet to the bottom part of the toe, ob serving the slant of the foot. Measuring . the hind foot in the same way in most cases it will be from one-quarter to one inch the shortest, and the shorter the foot the quicker it can be raised. Now by plac ing the shoe upon the hind loot so that the toe will project enough to make the distance from the coronet to the bottom of the toe the same as in the forward foot, and then let the shoe project well behind, making it a little heavy, the foot will not be raised as high, it will not be thrown as far forward, and so forging will be pre vented. * This is a very simple procedure, and one that can be ordered by any farmer V*lio is troubed with forging in his horses, ana if found successful, will save an un necessary annoyance. THE HOBSESHOKR "Never let your blacksmith .Morch, scar and burn the hoof to fit the shoe, or in repeated observations to see if the shoo VrflJ. It's not necessary to touch the foot with & hot shoe." Own ers of horses should to the shoeing them selves, and see that the feet are not injured. Continuing, the writer well says: "I have seen a smith shoe a horse by fitting one shoe at a time, and when he was done the horse bad four different shaped feet. Have the shoes just alike in shape, weight and width betweeu heel calks, then put them on. Then shoe the hind feet in the sam» manner, alway remembering that steel shoes are the best and in the end the cheapest. A Heavy Penalty. The Norristown Herald calls attention to the act of Assembly approved May 22, 18x9, forbidding any person to catch fish, except sha3, herring and sturgeon, ia any streams of the Commonwealth with seine or net, or to use any appliance for catch ing fish, except the rod, hook and line. The penalty for violating this law is a fine of one hundred dollars or si* months' im prisonment or both, one half of the line to go to the prosecutor. The Commonwealth thus offers a reward of fifty dollars for tho arrest of any person violating the law and any constable, policeman, sheriff, fish warden or fish commissioner is authorized to destroy the apparatus, make the arrest and take the oflender before a justice of the peace or magistrate. —Speak-easy ico cream is the latest Ituu
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