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VE GREAT
I nows for you
jjk Fred," said Her
y— >? bcrt Leslie,
\ v'-'/r costing a youth
•tA.v. V 'ir& '' \ a^° bib
l 1 own age,as they
11X-1-. v/ JU4 I accidental 1 y
S i , i on t
old man: It
I m"* must be soaie
.ll 1 if Sjif B// thing very good
JjAl y *if »81 /1 indeed, to judge
fe>. * '"•§' ■'■ by your looks.
lias that mut.lv
old law firm
' raised your sal
ary or taken you in as partner?"
"Something better than that, Fred."
"IJetter than that! Well then, little
Jessie Glynn must have gone back on
all the other fellows and promised to be
your best girl."
"Wrong again, my boy! I've no pre
tensions in that quarter, and don't ex
pect to have for the next ten years.
Itather earlj- times for such talk. My
luck's away ahead of all your gn.v -es."
"Great .Scott, maul Can't you tell a
fellow what it is? Some nice old aunt
died and left you a pile of money?"
"Way off again, Fred. It's some
thing seventeen times better than pro
motion or money or best girls. My
mother has at last consented that I may
volunteer!"
Fred Ainslic gave a long, low whistle
and stared in blank amazement at his
friend.
"Why, Herbert Leslie," said he, "do
you mean to say that you're going to be
fool enough to throw up a place and
prospects like yours for the fun of set
ting yourself up to be shot at? You al
ways were kind of rash, but 1 didn't
think you were quite so far gone as
that."
YOung Leslie turned very serious, as
he replied: "And is that all you see in
it, Fred? Do you think I'm doing it for
'fun,' or because I like to be 'shot at?'
No, sir! I simply cannot lie back and
know that thousands of better men are
fighting and dying for the old flag
while I plod along in ignoble case en
joying the fruits of their heroic sacri
fices. It is my privilege and duty to
fight for my country, too. and I'm going
to do it. I was eighteen years of age
last week, and now my mother—God
bless her!—seeing how I felt about it, is
willing to let me go."
"And break her own heart, I sup
pose," rejoined Fred. "Why, man
alive! Your mother's a widow, and
you're her only son. They can't draft
jr*~
"HELLO, I " p .D! NONE OF THAT."
you. Seems to me you've got curious
notions, Herbert. I should have tliouirht
it your duty to stay at home and look
after her."
"So it would be, Fred, were it not
that duty to my God and country comes
first. Mother is a true American wom
an, and would despise herself should
she hold back from the good cause all
she had to give; and, by and by, she
would come, in her secret heart, to
despise me also were I craven enough
to be so restrained. No, I must go, and
you had better come too, Fred."
"Whew! Wouldn't I like to sec my
self doing it? I guess Undo Sam's got
plenty of men without either of us.'"
"Yes, Fred, but suppose everyone ar
gued in that way, how many would he
have? Because others see their duty
and do it is no reason why you should
shirk yours. How would you feel after
the war is over and our victorious boys
return, to be pointed at as a fellow who
preferred his own ease to his country's
good?"
"Are you so sure our side will be vic
torious, Herbert?"
"Hello, Fred! none of that, unless
you want to quarrel with me," sharply
replied Leslie, and the boys parted for
the time.
Herbert Leslie and Fred Ainslie had
been schoolmates and since then fast
friends, and although of widely differ
ent dispositions this fact drew them,
perhaps, only closer together.
The former, a bold, fearless fellow,
generous to a fault and an ideal type of
American youth, was now studying law'
fa the office of Kharp & Pierson, while the
latter, of a timid, hesitating nature and
little inclined to face responsibility or i
danger, found congenial employment
behind the countor of a l:>.rge dry-goods
stors.
The conversation above recorded was
but the first of many of a like nature
held between the young men during the
next ten days, and the matter ended by
Fred catching thu contagion of his
friend's ardent patriotism and agreeing
to stand by him through thick and thin.
So it happened that, one morning in
April, lsci, the boys walked into a re
cruiting office on Water street, New
York, and enlisted as volunteers at
large for the whole period of the war. 1
Having stipulated not to be enrolled
until evening, they then strolled off up
town to make preparations for their
new life and bid farewell to friends.
As they went along Broadway, Leslie
musingly said: "Do you know, Fred,
what has become of our old classmate, i
Sydney Temple, of Charleston? A splen
did fellow he was. Do you remember
how he licked that big bully, Tom
White, the day of our great match
with the Neptune?"
"Well, I should think so! Tom was too
old and heavy for any of us and was'
running the whole game to suit himself,
and when Syd said he was wrong in
ruling a point against him he called the,
fiery southerner a liar. Syd knocked
him heels over head quicker than light
ning and then belted him till he roared
for mercy.
"I won't forget Sydney Temple in a
hurry, but I don't know where he is no .v.
He was taking a course at Bellevue,'
and I met him near Trinity a few weeks
ago. Ho said then that he couldn't
stand the pressure up here and was go
ing to get home somehow. I'll bet that
he's joined the confederate army, for
you know he was always red-hot
secesh."
JUTTI/FTR. PA.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 11. 1893.
hope we'll never chance to come across
liitu on the battlefield. I'd awfully hate
to shoot at him or have him shoot at
These were the days when millions
foucrht and countless thousands fell, and
from north, east and west the loyal citi
zens of our deathless republic were ral
lying to the support of the old flag in
ever-increasing numbers, while the
chivalrous sons of the south poured out
their blood like water for what they
doubtless deemed the more righteous
cause.
Forty-eight hours after enlisting, our
young friends were sent to the front
and finally found themselves members
of the same company in an infantry
rcr-immt forming par# Sey
mour's division of the army of the Poto
mac.
Here they put in two weeks of that
most irksome duty, preliminary drill,
borne by Herbert with cheerful forti
tude, but by Fred in a far different
spirit. Indeed he had already repented
of his short-lived ardor, and continually
deplored the "infatuation" which had
led him to exchange his remunerative
clerkship for the hardships of a soldier's
life at thirteen dollars a month.
One evening, when harassed by fa
tigue, his complaints became so vexa
tious that Herbert lost all patience with
him and at last exclaimed: "Why,
Fred, how long do you suppose our
glorious union would exist if all the
brave men now in arms for tho cause
were fighting only for pay?"
"Cause bo hanged," petulantly re
plied Ainslio, "what difference will it
make to me how it goes, if I'm shot full
of holes and buried in this Virginia
mud? It just disgusts me to think of
the crazy move I've made; and here's a
letter from home to say that my f<*>l
sister, Miriam, is coming right out to
the front as a nurse. It's enough to
drive a fellow wild! I was never made
for fighting, anyway, and I'll get out of
it somehow."
Young Leslie had never seen any of
his friend's relatives, who resided in
Philadelphia, but now he rather hotly
answered: "Well, Fred, if the noble
example of your sister —blessings on
her! -does not shamo you into better
thoughts, nothing that I can say will.
Hut you're tired and cross now and will
be all right in the morning. Gen. Grant
will probably give us a little fighting
soon and then you'll forget these petty
annoyances."
Fred turned pale at this cheerful pre
diction, and nervously asked: "Do you
really think there's going to be a bat
tle, Herbert?"
Ilis friend laughed aloud as he replied:
"A battle? Why, of course, dozens of
then; perhaps hundreds. Grant will
ne. r let up till ho takes Richmond.
Never fear. Fred, you'll have lots of
el -'nee* for promotion before it's all
o.or; and who knows but that we may
yet go far enough south for you to cap
ture that pretty sister of Syd Temple,
with whom you were so much smitten
when she came with her mother to the
old school that time to see her brother?"
"By George! wasn't she a little beau
ty, though? She must be quite a grown
lady, now, and hates us Yankees like
poison, you may be sure," Fred smiling
ly answered. And so the little cloud
blew over, and the boys retired to their
shelter tent.
As they lay, side by side, under their
united blankets, Leslie's thoughts went
back to their school days, and as he re
called to mind FrecTs idiosyncracies and
pondered over his late remarks, he be
came more and more uneasy lest the
foolish fellow might really allow his
natural infirmity to conquer a sense of
duty and tempt him to some rash act,
involving disgrace and ruin. These re
flections obtruded themselves so per
sistently that the youth could not sleep,
but lay wide-awake and motionless
until long past midnight
Then ho fell into a light doze, from
which he was aroused by fancying that
the flap of the tent had been opened,
and on throwing out his aiwn to feel for
Fred found that ht was gone! Shudder-
higly, yet silently as a shadow, Herbert
glided out. The whole camp was buried
'ji profound repose and only the senti
nels kept watch. The nearest of them
was posted some thirty yards from tlio
tent, and Herbert could see an occasion
al gleam of the star-touched bayonet
point as the soldier paced back and
forth on his short beat. No need to
look in that direction! so the anxious
searcher faced about and, stooping low,
glanced down the long canvas streets,
With difliculty repressing a cry as he
saw, by the dim light, and not fifty
feet away, Fred stealthily creeping on
hands and knees to the rear. In a
flash tlio truth struck him. His friend
was attempting to desert! and in a half
dozen noiseless bounds he had reached
the unhappy youth, thrown himself
down by his side -and pulled him fiat to
the ground.
"Fred Ainslie," he sternly whis
pered, "are you raving mad? Do you
want to be shot as a deserter? Don't
you know that even a cat could not es
cape from these lines? And the infamy
of it! Oh, shame! shame! Would you
disgrace your father and break the
hearts of your mother and sister? Bet
ter brave a thousand deaths in the way
of duty than one like this."
The conscience-stricken young man
answered not a word, but rose to his
feet and, taking his comrade's arm,
walked slowly toward the tent. As
concealment was no longer necessary,
the sentinel now saw them, and chal
lenged:
"Who goes there?"
"Privates Leslie and Ainslie, of Com
pany C," quietly answered Herbert.
"Advance and give the countersign,"
said the sentry.
The brfys stepped close up to the lev
eled ritle. Leslie whispered: "Abe Lin-
HF.KDEHT LESLIE lIELD HIS GROUND.
coin." The soldier replied: "Pass on to
your tents," and the danger was over.
What conversation occurred between
the youths when they had lain down
again eau only be conjectured, but that
the lesson was not lost upon Fred, nor
his friend's inestimable services unap
preciated, after evyits proved.
On May 3. I*'U, the army of the Po
tomac commenced a forward movement,
and fr> :u the sth to the Tth, inclusive,
occurred the bloody battles of tho
Wilderness, entailing to the union
arms a loss of nearly twenty thousand
men in killed, wounded and missing.
Hardly a shot had been tired during
the first two days of the advance, but
on Thursday. May 5, some very heavy
fighting took place, resulting in no de
cisive advantage to either side, though
the confederates claimed the greater
number of prisoners.
Very early on tho morning of the Otli
the enemy attempted to turn the right
flank of the federal army, held by the
divisions of Gens. Wright and Seymour,
and here our young friends first came
under a hot fire. As they stood together
in the front rank of the line of battle,
while the gray battalions rushed fierce
ly on. Herbert glanced anxiously at
Fred and saw, to his dismay, that his
teeth were chaiterinff and knees shak
ing in deadly terror.
"Steady, steady, old fellow," he cried.
"Brace up; you're not going to get
hurt," and the next moment a storm of
ballets hurled about their ears. Thi3
: v.ever, was successfully re
•: ; wi re also two others, mad? in
tiie bourse of the forenoon, and Sey
mour's brigade then gained a good posi
tion.
I?v this time, Fred, findine that he
aud Italic Trcrf sttil untouched, tiao got
pretty well over his nervousness and, to
the latter's delight, fought steadily as
himself.
When evening came, it was supposed
that the daj-'s fighting was over, and
the boys in blue were about preparing
supper, but just at nightfall the confed
erate Gen. Gordon made another dash
at the right flank, surprising and rout
ing Seymour's and Shaler's brigades
and taking three thousand prisoners,
including Gen. Seymour himself.
In this sudden assault, before which
even old veterans quailed, Herbert Les
lie fought like a lion and held his
ground, through the gathering gloom,
with dauntless courage, until left stand
ing nearly alone in a little patch of
scrub, with tho yelling, exultant hordes
almost upon him. Even then he must
not fly, but threw in another cartridge
and fired once more right in the face of
his foes. Then, alas! as a final scatter
ing volley flashed along their breath
less ranks, the gallant boy fell. Fred
had been early swept away in the tor
rent of fugitives and some time elapsed
before the remnants of Seymour's brig
ade were again brought into something
like order by Gen. Sedgwick. More
than one-half of Company C had either
fallen or been made prisoners, yet so
soon as the shattered fragments were
got together, and it could be ascer
tained who were missing, Fred began
to inquire for his friend. Hut, in the
confused and darkling fight, none of the
men, now present, had seen Private
Leslie make his last stand, and hence it
was hoped that he might be among the
unhurt prisoners. Fred, however, was
not satisfied, and at his own request
was detailed on one of the fatigue par
ties. sent out to look up and bring in
the wounded.
It may be that many who read these
pages have taken part in this most sad
of all a soldier's duties, and to such 1
need not attempt the hopeless task of
describing tho young recruit's feelings,
as he turned over one lifeless body after
another, fearing that the next might be
that of his beloved comrade.
At this time, the wild, uncultivated
tract of country known as the "Wilder
ness" was, for the most part, covered
by a dense growth of dwarfed trees,
shrubs and bushes, and was, moreover,
cut up by numerous ravines and gullies,
among which dead, dying and wounded
men now lay in every conceivable posi
tion, many of the latter having, in their
agony, crawled into cover so thick that
it was exceedingly difficult to find, in
the prevailing darkness, those of them
who had become unconscious, or were,
from any reason, unable to call out.
For more than an hour Fred pursued
his melancholy que=;t in vain and had
just said to one of the party: "I think
Leslie has surely been taken prisoner,
but that will lie about as bad as death'
to him," when he noticed a dark clump
of ragged scrubwood a few yards to
one side, and stepped over to search it as
a mere matter of duty. Entering the
tangled mass of frayed and broken
bushes, he was for several seconds
lost to view, and then from out the
gloomy depths broke forth his wailing
cry: "Oh, Herbert! Herbert! iny dear
old Herbert!"
Sergeant- Traynor hurried up, and.
kneeling by the side of the young sol
dier, ran his hand under the blood
stained tunic and felt of his heart.
"Tut, tut," lie said cheerfully, "the
boy's all right. A pretty bad hole
through his shoulder, to be sure; but
he'll live to fight in many another bat
tle —if Grant don't finish the war too
quick."
Being removed speedily as possible to
the field hospital, Herbert recovered
consciousness while' the surgeon was
dressing his wound, and on recognizing
Fred, who sat holding his hand, he
asked: "How is jt with y«u, Fred?"
"Not u strateh, Herbert," replied his
chum, and the fellow sank back
with a sigh «f deep content.
All that one loving friend could do for
another Fred Ainslie did for his old
schoolmate while they were together,
but this was for a few hours only.
Momentous events were daily occur
ring; the fearful conflicts in thevioinity
of Spottsylvania courthouse followed
close upon thoso of the Wilderness and
It was many months before the boys
again met. Through all the frightful
carnage of the next fortnight Private
Ainslie passed unscathed, and, having
now fully awakened to the importance
of the cause for which he fought, boro
the fatigues and oangers of his position
without a murmur.
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)
I>Lfferent.
A Hie —They say Pomeroy is nsing
glasses.
Ollie —Yes.
Allie—How peculiar he will look
with them perched upon his nose!
Ollie—Not at all.
Allie—Why not?
Ollie —The glasses he uses never get
any farther than his lips.—Truth.
Caune for Joy.
"Why is my little wife so cheery this
evening?" inquired Mr. Pottles of Mrs.
Pottles.
"Because," replied Mrs. Pottles,
author of "How to Live Well on 870 a
Year," "because, dear, I've just got the
butcher's bill for the last month and
it's only SIBO." —Chicago Record.
Fickle Fortnnp.
.lack—Minnie Mllyuns refused me
last night.
Lucy —Don't be despondent, Jack.
There are just as good fish in the sea
as ever were caught.
Jack—Yes, but gold-fish don't bite
every day.—Judge.
Hiding Jl»r Time.
Jess—l don't sec how you can be
such a goose as to engage yourself to
Mickey Bird.
Bess— He lias a rich bachelor uncle.
Jess—Then why don't you marry the
nncle?
Bess—l have to have an introduction
first, don't I? Jury.
Abolition of Capital Pnnlahment.
Mrs. Pcterby—l don't believe in
hanging. It does not prevent crime.
Judge Pcterby—lt does as far as the
hanged is concerned. There are very
few instances on record of a man com
mitting murder after he has been prop
erly executed.—Texas Sittings.
IN HOME-MADE LINEN.
Ju*t Sach Clofbe* n» They W«Tf lltirrl«4
In Sixty Yemr*
A year ago Ul-.1 sprit:,r. . jys u Seran
ton (I'a.) correspondent >f the Xcw
York Sun, Mrs Henry 1> >Uelland, of
Gibson township, Susquehanna county,
said to her husband: Henry, wc
ouglit to raise some flax this vear."
The aged farmer hadn't raised a crop
of flax in thirty-nine years, "=n he
asked: "What for, Elizabeth?" "Well,
you know, Henry," replied the good
old wife, "if we live till a year from
June we'll have t»eeu married sixty
years, and 1 thought it would be nice
to give a party then and receive our
guests in the same kind of linen cloth
ing we wore when we st- ■ ! up to be
married down in Connecticut in I*3B.
We've got all of the old flax tools
stored away, and if you'll raise soma
flax. Henry, I'll spin and weave it and
make a nice home-made suit for each
of us."
Farmer Shelland was eijrhty-six and
his wife eighty-five at the time. Both
\\*re rugged an.l healthy, and when
the old fanner had thought the matter
over for a moment he exclaimed; "Hy
George, Elizabeth, I'll do it."
A few days afterward the old farmer
prepared a piece of rich ground back
of the barn and sowed a patch of flax.
The aged couple watched its urowth
every <i;ty wtt.lt anxiety. 1 tie crop was
excellent and when it had tjot r ip u j a
the fall Farmer Shelland gathered it,
beat the seeds from the tops, and
spread the straw on the grass to rot.
In November he tied it up tn bundles
and packed it away in the barn.
On a beautiful sap morning in March
Farmer Shelland brought out the flax
and stood it up along the south side of
the barn. The wind was in the north
and in a day or so the flax was as dry
as a bone. Then the old farmer broks
it. swingled it, and turned it over to
his aged wife, who immediately tied
up her head, shut herself in the kitch
en and hatcheled the (lax till all tho
tow was separated from it. The next
day she got the old spinning-wheel
from the garret, oiled it up, and began
to make it buzz musically. Farmer
Shelland came in smiling and happy
while his wife was spinning.
"I'd rather hear that wheel than a
piano, Elizabeth," he said. "It is like
old times."
"So it does, Henry. Hut I can't make
the wheel go as fast as I used to."
In '4 few days tho old lady had spun
all the flax and reeled it into skeius.
The next thing: she did was to boil the
skeins in a weak lye of wood ashes to
bleach the yarn, and when that was
done Farmer Shelland rinsed the
skeins in the brook till all the lye was
out. Mrs. Shelland began at once to
weave the yarn in the old loom, and by
June 1 she had woven it all into cloth.
Within three weeks the old lady
cut and made a frock and apron for
herself and a whole suit for her hus
band, and Juno 20 last the aged couple,
dressed in their homespun linen gar
ments, celebrated the sixtieth anni
versary of their marriage in a com
pany of threescore relatives and
friends.
FIVE MILLION BUSHELS.
That I* About the Anunal Crop of Pea.
nut* In This Country.
The "goober" industry of Norfolk is
unique. Here is a little city in Vir
ginia that has become the greatest
distributing center of peanuts in the
world. A peanut is a pretty small
item, but an annual crop of something
like 5,000,000 bushels, worth millions
of dollars, makes a pretty bip item.
The demand for goobers has doubled
within the last five years, and the sup
ply does not yet fill the growing de
mand. Few people know the curious
uses to which the goober has been put
in trade quite of late years. No other
single plant raised in this country is
used in so many different ways. The
Chinese say that the cocoanut palm
has as many useful properties as there
are days in the year. The goober is
not so universal as that, but it has
as many valuable qualities as there
are days in the week, says the
New York Independent The solid
part of the nut is peculiarly nu
tritive and supplies fruit and food for
many a family. The vines make fine
fodder, some say as good as clover hay,
while hogs fatten on what is left in
the fields after the crop has been gath
ered.
If you grind the nut you get a sweet
quality of flour, with which the house
wife makes delicious biscuit. If you
squeeze it you obtain a valuable oil re
sembling olive oil and used for similar
purposes. This oil also enters largely
into the manufacture of the better
grade of soaps. The kernels are roast
ed for coffee. The roasted kernels are
also used in the manufacture of some
kinds of chocolate. The confectioner
helps to ruin our digestion in boyhood
days with peanut candy; the Georpia
cook alone knows how to make rich
pastry of pounded peanuts. The art
ist, with paint brush, silks and satins,
creates novel and beautiful peanut or
naments; so that peanut dolls and other
curios may now be seeu in the shop win
dows, especially around the holidays.
These are some of the ways in which
the leguminous nut is useful to us.
The goober is grown more or less in all
the southern states. The bulk of our
supply comes from Virginia, North Car
olina and Georgia. Down south these
edible nuts are called "goobers" or
"pinders." They are not known as
peanuts. Now that the demand is in
creasing and good prices are obtained,
more growers are going into the busi
ness every year. Few crops are easier
to raise than the goober. It is a
hardy, prolific plant, and requires no
more care and attention than a crop
of potatoes.
Land Laws of Knulii.
A law is to be promulgated In Russia
this summer prohibiting the transfer
of land in the possession of rural com
munities or individual peasants to per
sons not belonging to the rural popu
lation. The law will be made appli
cable to the whole of European Russia
with the exception of the Baltic and
Vistula provinces.
Cab Fit it ml Philosophy.
First Cabman (to the gentleman with
the lady on his arm) —Keb, sir? It's be
ginning to rain.
Second Cabman (as the couple pass
by in silence)— What d' you want to
waste your breath fer? I knowed she
was only his sister.—Chicago Record.
Time to Clojif Debate.
"You were always a fault finder,"
growled the wife.
"Yes, dear," responded the husband,
meekly, "I found you." —Boston Globe.
The Chemlit.
"llow much is the sirup?"
"Fifty cents, madam."
"What extortion!"
"Look at my ledger. The ingredi
ents cost five cents, and general ex
penses are forty-fire cents more!"—
Demorest's Magazine.
Two SontbodlM.
Mrs. Flyabout—They say poor Mrs.
Glaspy was never heard to speak an
unkind word abont anybody in her
life.
Mrs. Gofrequent—Dear me! What a
spiritless nobody she must hare been!
—Chicago Tribune.
Thre® Minute* FMI.
Robert—Mamma, my stomach says it
is dinner time.
Mamma— You'd better go and see
what time it is.
Robert (after an inspection of the
clock)- Well, mamma, my stomach's
throe minutes fast.—Life.
,*■ ,STO"C :
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FEEDING LIVE STOCK.
Eip<rl«-n.<- There Is \o Doubt. Uuu
Theory Iverj Tunc.
A corrv-.pmdent tva its n, to tell hin
how t« feed :■(■*}»:-. v ; and
also w:i*i ; > t k:i',\\ liv !is belter
than v■;i or oat v I'hi - i., all reasona
ble eno.i-h, but we arc re:.in led that
it is easier to ask questions than an
swer them satisfactorily. There are
hardly two feeders \\ ho fallow the : :ne
plan. Those who use most of it lea: ..c i
to use it through practice. We know
one feeder who fattened a large bunch
of steers i n L'rminl linseed cake and
hay alone aa.l made a jrrcat success, to
the gnat surprise .-t his neighbors.
He is a Scot hraun ami claimed to b«
following the method in vogue where
he came from, Another feeder. who
lives in lowa, buys steers in the firing
and fattens them on ground linseed
cake, corn aad grass, an 1 s -ils theru in
the falL lie winters 110 cuttle, an.! he
claims to ..
i ii'. -.o are extreme cu.-».-s, and we
woulil not recommend either to t» be
ginner.
A good auth< rity claims li.ai in a
hundred pounds of corn eight pounds
go to ma';e muscle ami a.-.d >. ven
ty-five pounds to make fut. hi a hun
dred p iua<!s of oats eight pounds
go to luuiele and bone aud lifty-fivo
pounds to fat. Itut in a hundred pounds
of ground linseed cake suventy-five
pounds g.> to muscle and bone a.id forty
pounds to fat. Tt.ese ure probably, nt
least approximately, correct. It seems
plain, ti en-fore, if alone is
wanted, ora is the best food. Hut If
muscle and bone are wanted, then the
linseed uke is mr ahead. It stands to
reason, then, that for young, growing
animals the linseed cake is most desira
ble. We believe, however, that a
mixed ration will nivc the best results.
It is claimed for the calce, however, that
even where animals arc fed for fatten
ing, a goodly quantity of it can be fed
to advantage, owing to its having the
effect of keeping the stomach in (food
condition and causing ail food to be
more readily assimilated. The fact is,
the use of linseed cake in this eountty
is yet in its iufaney No one has re
duced it to a set of rules. Those who
have used it most seem to be the best
pleased with the results. Some mix it
up in a slop or mash for pigs and others
feed It dry. It does seem, too, that
those who feed most of it prefer it
ground pretty coarse and feed it dry
either by itself or mixed with oats or
corn, or both - Prairie Farmer.
USEFUL HAY RACK.
Labor-saving Implement 1 >rVl-<-d by an
The cut shows a sketch of a hay rig
ging impleu ent I invented last heason.
My neighbors ail think it good. I say
I invented it, as it is the first one of
the kind I have ever seen. The sketch,
I think, will give a very good idea of
it. The one just finished is built of 2! t x
5-inch hemlock bed sills 10 feet long
for the two center < lies !<> inches apart;
two of the same i. : .:-e ! ' feet (5 inches
from the same fill the bolster behind;
two in front of '.he ;. .. size !> feet
long fill the front bolster; one aria be
hind is 3!vx."' inehes '< feet long, running
clear through on top aero.. the bed
sills; one in front. l?*x<> inches, S feet
,e^°
A WKLI.-ARItA.NOKII UAV RACK,
long, of hard wood, Is mortised to re
ceive the standards, which are 2xß
inches, 10 inches long to '.he shoulder,
bolted between the two bed sills, the
same bolts receiving the ladder.
The front has a lxS-inch piece of hard
wood at each end of the short bed sills
bolted on the bottom of the same and
long ones also, and a 1%x5-inch piece
at the fore end of the longer short bed
sills and under the center arm also; one
of the same size is under the short arm
forward of the hind wheel }{-inch bolts
which tie it strongly. The brackets
which hold the boards over the hind
wheels are 11 and li 3 inches high and
18 inches long, and made of good old
wagon tire 1 inch wide. The for
ward end standards I let stand back so
the boards lie Hat on the arm. This
rigging Is designed for a western built
wagon. The bolsters are 3 feet 'J inches,
and there is a high wheel for a low
wheel; the standards and the brackets
could be shortened or varied; if deeper
bed sills were used, the brackets would
be shorter. —J. IC. Montgomery, in
Rural New Yorker.
Dipping Ntrciuirjf to Health.
The practice of dipping sheep in the
spring and fall is useful and healthful
in two ways. It gets rid of the innu
merable cutaneous parasites that Infest
the flock and weary them by their con
tinual biting and the consequent ex
haustion by the loss of so much blood,
and it is equal to a warm bath, which
so refreshes the owner tired and an
noyed by the constant gathering of un
wholesome excretions from the skin.
This excretion is enormous in the sheep,
and as the yolk and grease which col
lect in so large a quantity oil tho sheep
prevent the healthful perspiration
which would otherwise carry off im
pure matter that must necessarily bo
got rid of to preserve the animal in
good health, and as this interferes as
every other unhealthful condition with
the growth of the fleece, as well as with
the vigor of tho sheep and the pros
perity of the lamb, it will pay to dip
the flock, although there may be no
ticks or scab to make it imperative.
Lamb* Th»t Pay Heat.
Lambs that grow fast are the ones
that pay", because they reach the mar
ket while prices are high. A difference
of only a week in getting a lamb to a
marketable weight may entail a loss of
one dollar on its value. That is the
best reason for using rams of the mut
ton breedß for producing early lambs—
the lambs grow rapidly. An early lamb
is worth more than a full grwwn sheep
at this season.
In Hard Lurk,
Street Urchin—Say, mister, gimme
fifteen cents, won't yer?
Gentleman What for?
"Please, sir, inc mudder Is sick, an'
me fadder is out o' work, an' I got
stuck on me papers."
"Poor little chap!"
"Yes, sir, an' I ain't got no money to
go to de t'eater." —Good News.
Pro*nl an Kmetlc.
Asker —You knew young Mushman
that was drowned the other day when
he fell off the ferryboat?
Tasker—Yes. Very well.
"lie was thrown up on shore by the
waves this morning."
"I'm sure I don't blame the waves in
tho least for that."— Yonkers <ki/.etto
Oat of ft, JClthrr War.
Officer O'Hara — Bein' a policeman In
New York is har-r-d wor-r-rk.
Mrs. O'Hara - Yis, darlint.
Officer O'Hara—lf a policeman goes
nsleep on his bate the commissioners
will disehar-r-rgo him; an' if he keep*
awake the politicians will have him
diachar-r-rircd, — Puck
MO 3d
VENTILATING HIVES.
Ihtn I» rtculiy l.illle l)aii K rr or (hilling
the Ilr»od lit Summer.
I Wve always had more or less
trouble every sea-son with combs melt
ing down autl causing the bees to leave
the hire. Swarms that are hived on
empty combs and extracting supers
often break down, especially if they
are set in the suu. In the majority of
my frames the combs are not wired in,
but built from "starters " I am not
sure but that it is more economical in
the end to have combs built from full
sheets of foundation that hare been
firmly braced by line wire, t have nev
er had any trouble with such combs,
but the cost is considerably more than
when built from "starters."
Some of my hives are exposed to the
sun, and when large swarms are placed
on unwired combs they are very apt to
break down unless well ventilated or
shaded. Extracting supers are still
mwd" with honey ami break it makes
a very nasty, dauby mess. Ity giving
thorough ventilation we can overcome
this trouble to a great extent. I often
raise the hive about one-half inch from
the bottom board, and also raise the
cover. This gives a direct draft clear
through the hive. Generally, it will
be sufficient to raise the cover daily.
Sometimes, during heavy wind storms,
they will blow off unless a weight is put
on them. I have had colonics get quite
a drenching by the cover getting blown
off; but uever could see that it did them
any injury, as they can quickly dry
themselves.
On a warm day we can always see
quite a number of bees at the entrance,
rapidly moving their wings; evidently
they are trying to create a current of
air through the hive, perhaps, for two
purples —to ripen newly gathered hon
ev, and to Iteep the hive at the proper
tShperatare.
I have seen statements where the
writer thought they were young bees
testing their wings. It may be, but I
think the main object is to ripen honey
and ventilate the hive. They are much
more noticeable in strong colonies
than In weak oneS, and the strong o;>cs
generate much more heat. 1 have my
bees in theshr.de when convenient, aud
also ventilate theni.
There is no danger In chilling the
brood, or making tho wax too cool for
then* to work unless the weather is very,
cool. This applies to the honey s. ason
only, or when the weather is pretty
warm, and not for springer fall treat
ment. —E. S. Mead, in Ohio Farmer.
DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
How One .Ponltryman I'tlU/ed an Old
Quart Bottle.
An inexpensive drinking fountain
may be made by fastening an ordinary
quart bottle to a board, as shown in
tho Illustration, A being the board and
B B the clamps which hold the bottle
In place. A hook or loop nt the top of
the board will serve to hang the b;>ttle
to the wall of the poultry house. A
piece of wire should be attached to tho
month of the bottle to prevent the
bottle from resting on the bottom of
the drinking pan underneath. Fill the'
bottle with water, turn it upside down
in the pan. and the pressure of the at
mosphere will prevent the water from
HoTTI.E DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
flowing out of the bottle only as it is
lowered by the drinking of the water
by the fowls. If preferred, the elarnps
(BB) may be attached to a post or to
the wall, and the bottle removed from
the clamps when filleiL Farm and
Fireside.
How to Introduce Quecug.
The following directions are given
for Introducing queens: After removing
the cover, note the condition of the
queen, and if she is all right proceed
to introduce her First remove the
slip of card from the end of the cage
containing the cand v Lay the cage on
the frames directly over the cluster,
wire-cloth down, so the bees can bo
come acquainted with the queen; cover
the cage with the enameled cloth, or
quilt, put on the cover, and do not mo
lest the hive under any circumstances
for five days, at which time you will
likely find her out and laying. If you
have a li.it cover on your hive, just tack
a thin strip of wood across the back of
the cage, spread the frames, and hang
the cage, face down, between tho
frames Before introducing, be sure
your colony is qucenless.
Unci Are l'ond or Mankind.
Bees and hir.N court the society of
man—that is, tl:. soeli the localities
where fields and gardens abound, tor
they fare better when human industry
extorts from the soil the pi- -duets upon
which they subsist AV. bee cul
turist says it is the rarest i . .- in tho
world to find bees away from the set
tlements or from openings where
flowers grow. It is in the small patches
of forests they are ofteuest 1 >und and
generally not far from the of the
woods. It is the same with birds.
There are no song birds in the northern
Mains wilderness and scarcely any
bird life.
THBOW open doors and windows. If
necessar to guard the flocks against
varmint lake temporary screens and
doors of wire netting. _
Kconomj.
Brown—Going to housekeeping, eh?
Jones —Yep.
Hrown— Awfully expensive.
Jones—Won't be for us. Going to
use my wife's temper for a furnace
and her feet for a refrigerator.—Truth.
A Wonderful l>t»«ov«-ry.
"Oh, look! Juat look;" she cried, wild
ly, as she came to a sudden halt on
Fourteenth street.
Ilcr exclamation it-rested the atten
tion of two men and a .uessenger boy,
who stopped to see what was tho mat
ter.
-Oh. look! Just tee,-" she went on.
wivh increased excitement.
And a dudo and an express driven,
and a few prominent citizens added
themselves to the throng.
"Ixx'k there, Minnie!" she cried again,
grasping her companion's arm and
pointing to a window.
" There"* the very >nnu- lAatle of green
turah for f<yrty two rents.'"
And then the crowd gave a sigh of
relief and moved disgustedly on.
Harry Koiaalne, in Brooklyn Life.