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Come and see us when i.i need of anything in the Drug Line and we are sure you will call again. We carry a full line of Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles, etc. Purvis' Pharmacy s. a. Prims, Pll, G Both Phones. 213 8. Main St. Butler PH. ARE YOU GOING TO I BUf .D OR REMODEL . y _ . ;, /> : i > ■') W, '• .... Let us give you a figure on the Plumbing and Gas Fitting of your home. WHITEHILL, Plumber, 881 S. Main St., Both Phone* |C. F. T. Pape j ' or- r I JEWELER| \ 121 E. Jefferson Street. / BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1903. f GOING 10 ! TEE CIRCUS I o 2 0 T.y CAS TA. H TtEAJV % 1 $ Cupjright, I'jO.?, by T. C. McClurc ♦ 0 :»O^C»O>C4O«»C»O»O»O«P»C» Aunt Sarah Bcbee, after whose fa tli r Bebee's Corners had been named, was a widow past fifty the day a sporty looking man drove up to her farmhouse in a fancy rig and wanted to arrange with her to cover the front of her barn with circus pictures. "Why, bless your heart, I never went to a circus in all my life!" she ex claimed in reply. "But you are not too old to begin," he suggested. "Let me put tlie pic tures up, and I'll leave you ten tickets of admission. You can go and take all your friends." "Land o' massy, but you don't know Bebee's Corners! Everybody around here is a Methodist or Baptist or l'res byterian—everybody but me—and they won't even attend camp meeting if kniorade is to be sold 011 the grounds. 1 don't exactly know what my religion i 3, but if I went to a circus nobody would ever speak to me again." The circus man wanted his bills on that barn, and he argued and reasoned for half an hour. He saw that Aunt Sarah was an independent character and that if lie could get her started she'd be ready to defy public opinion. The result was that she finally said: "Well, go ahead with your pictures. I never saw an elephant or lion or tiger in my life, and I'll go and see the menagerie part anyhow. There 'll be an awful row around here, and folks will think that Satan has got hold of me, but I'll have to stand it." The pictures were hardly up when Deacon Danforth happened along the highway and saw them. He turned pale and trembled. Not in twenty years before had a barn on the Bed Mill road been thus defiled. When be had recov ered a little from the shock, he walked to the house and confronted the wid ow. For the first fifteen minutes the conversation was devoted to Satan, hades. Lot's wife, Judas Iscariot and other interesting subjects. But it grad ually tapered off to hyenas, boa con strictors and alligators, and the deacon was almost smiling when he left the house. Next day Deacon Bidwell saw those pictures as he sat in his buggy behind his old white horse. The horse saw them before he did and stopped so sud denly that the deacon was pitched against the dashboard. For a long minute the good old man thought his eyes deceived hint, but the true state of affairs finally dawned upon him, and In? groaned and sighed and drove uj) to the widow's gate. "Widder Bebee, have you sold your llvin* soul to Satan?" was his greeting, and then the fur flew. It was nearly an hour before he left the house, but 110 wasn't sighing and groaning 11s he went. On the contrary, he looked rath er cheerful, and he called back from the gate: "Yes; I s'pose there 'll be camels there witli two humps, mebbe with three, and they'll be wuth lookin' at." There was one more deacon In the neighborhood. Deacon Burton. He was driving to town to get a pitchfork mended and was humming the air of "I Want to Be nn Angel" when the colored jiostsrs suddenly confronted him. There were short skirted, long legged damsels poised on barebacked horses or jumping through paper cov ered hoops. He stood and gazed and felt cold chills go up his back. He drove on to the farmhouse, half ex pecting to find the Widow Bebee try ing to turn handsprings over a kitchen chair. "I wouldn't 'a' believed it, widder—l wouldn't 'a' believed it!" he began as he entered the house. "It's the awfulest thing I ever heard of, and you know I've bin in Chicago twice and seen some awful tilings." The widow had a reply ready. It be gan with hyenas and worked up to ele phants, taking in lions, tigers, grizzly bears and sea lions as It rose upward. She talked so earnestly and well that when Deacon Burton was ready to go lie reluctantly admitted: "No, I don't 'spose it's any more harm-to look at a Hon than to look at a woodchuck if you don't git mad and rip and swear over It." There were others besides tho dea cons. There was old Mrs. Gaynor, for instance. Sho wasn't exactly a zealot, but she never took a dozen eggs to market without asking Heaven to bless them and make the price 1-1 cents a dozen. She wasn't a bigot, but she contended that her own brand of re ligion was tho only one to be saved by. She wasn't narrow minded, but when she heard of those circus posters she went down to see Aunt Sarah and to say; "I've just stepped in a mlnlt to say that If you go to that circus I can't never let you enter my doors ag'ln." Aunt Sarah started In to argue, but old Mrs. Gaynor was 011 her guard against the wiles of Satan and wouldn't wait for further talk. Tho (lay of the circus arrived, and tho widow drove Into Medina to at tend it. For some reason not to be ex plained a dozen farmers around her had business in town that day ami made an early start some of them be fore daylight. Some of them also lin gered and drove homo after dark. It was all over the neighborhood that Aunt Surah defied public opinion, and It was old Mrs. Gaynor who deter mined to bring her to book. Sho went about It In malevolence. Sho got up what sho called a quilting bee and asked th« three deacons and their wives and three or four others, and at a proper hour Aunt Sarah was sent for to be crushed, Sho arrived, and when ual: I If she had anything 10 say sho very calmly lepliej "I didn'i intend to POO nuthln' but tho animal; . 1 ut v. hen 1 rot In there Satan beckomd tne Into the circus tent, anil I wonf. 'I lie Jok'ea of tlie clown tickled me almost to death. That's all I've got to say." "Deacon Danfortli, what do you think of such conductV" asked Mrs. Gaynor lis sho folded her arms and rolled up her eyes. "Nuthln*, 'eept that I sat Jest behind Aunt Sarah and was tickled, too!" lie replied. . "And you, Deacon Bidwell?" "Waal, the bosses was wonderfully trained wonderfully. I can't skarse ly make out how they do It." "And you, Deacon Burton? You ain't goln' to tell me you was there too!" "I Kot kind of tlrcil lookin' at the two hump camels, and as one ticket ad mitted to all I went Into the circus part," admitted the deacon. "And where did you all git tickets?" demanded the accuser as 11 sudden thought Hashed across her mind. "Aunt Sarah gave us deadheads!" answered the three deacons In chorus. "And left me out, when she knew I was Jest dyln' to see the whole thing! Well, now, you can all go home with- out any supper, and if I ever speak to one of you a ;'in I hope to fall dead on my own d> ■ u step!" lfißrher Education. Those who plead tlie < .!•,!<<• of Latin and <ireo*» in Mtr higher education should romeiub-r that 'S were fii*t founded In the early middle «.ires to toacli tlie classics to proa»>ectiv»' priests, for use in reading rituals, (.reek in the east and Latin in the west, at a time when these lawruaKes were obsolescent in speech and yet contain ed all the literature, philosophy, poetry and such science as the world of Eu rope knew, and the modern tonjrues. just coming into use in Europe, north and south, had in them neither litera ture nor ether elements of learning. Colleges so begun became the fashion. Every college man was a classical man, and naturally then, as now, a man would feel that his own college culture was the right one. It soon became a common saying that the only educa tion worthy of the name was CJreek and Latin. But now modern languages are very rich in every form of litera ture and learning, everything from the classics has been often emptied into them by better masters than the aver age student can fairly hope to be, los ing some and also gaining some in the translation from languages which few scholars even ever learn to read and to enjoy, while a wealth of scientific knowledge of tlie boundless world, which to know is the real learning, has sprung up in many modern tongues.— Worcester Gazette. Surprising tlie Doctor. Scottisli shrewdness is occasionally overmatched by Irish wit. The hand ful of people who inhabit a certain little island in the Atlantic, off the coast of Donegal, enjoy so much health and so little wealth that there is no doctor on the spot. In rare cases of emergency a physician is brought in a boat from tlie nearest village on the mainland. On one oceasiou some islanders who were obliged to summon the doctor found that he had gone to I'ublin on business. As the case was urgent, they invoked the services of another prac titioner. This gentleman was a Scots man, with th-' proverbial canniness of his race, and he declined to undertake the voyage unless he received his fee, a golden sovereign, in advance. There was no help for it. and the money was paid. The physician went to the island and attended to the case. But when lie inquired for a boat to take him away he found that not a boatman on the island would ferry him back again for any less considera tion than £2, paid in advance. Tlie doctor had to part with the mon ey and to admit that he had been beat en at his own game. "DloffcneN the Wlie." With all liis faults, the old philoso pher of Athens was often called Diojf enes the Wise. Whether his wisdom was really so great ns to deserve that title may be doubted, but his worst faults seem to have been good quali ties carried to excess. In opposing too much luxury he cut himself off from the comforts of life; In his eagerness to make life simple he lost sight of its gentilities; he was saving at the ex pense of neatness, truthful at the cost of courtesy and plain spoken even to rudeness, fine would say that he was coarse grained by nature, but he show ed signs of tenderness and even refine ment, which proved that tlie urain was not entirely coarse and which makes us wonder at an age that could produce two men so wise and yet so different as Diogenes, tlie rude, "walking philoso pher" of his time, and Plato, the pol ished and aristocratic gentleman.—St. Nicholas. (>ot In III* Wliole Name. A Genoa paper tells this delightful story at America's expense: When the Duke of Veragna, the descendant of Christopher Columbus, visited Chicago, he Inquired at a telegraph olllcc the charge for a telegram to the city of Columbus of ten words. "Fifteen cents," answered the official, "not in cluding the signature, which Is wired free." Whereupon the duke wired: "Mayor, Columbus: Shall visit your city next Monday or Tuesday." And he signed It: 'Cristobal Colon de Tole do y J.nv ••• • t -gui de lit Cerda Ramirez de Bai.i. itancy Gante Almlrante y Adelantado Mayor de las Judlas, Mar ques de Jamaica, Duque de Yeragua y Je la Vega, G:-ande de Espana, Senator lei Itelue, Caballero de la lnslgne or- Jen del Tolson d'Oro, Gran Cruz de la Concepclon de Villavlclosa, Gentll tiombre de Camarra del ltey do Es pana." The Floor* Arc the Coialrn nnd SqunttlnK I'lHcca of Buyer*. To start a Japanese shop Is the sim plest thing In the world. You take tho front off your house and arrange your worldly possessions 011 the floor. Japanese floors are raised off the street, though nothliig Is raised off them. The transient customer sits on the edge of the floor sidesaddle. A real shopper who means to do tho thing properly climbs up on the floor, which Is also tho counter, and squats on his heels. Real Japaneso shops have no doors or windows or counters. Shop windows In England do not leave much wall lu the frontage, but even an English shop window does not take tho whole front of the house. The Japanese have not many regular shops. There uro very few streets of shops even In Tokyo, which Is as large as Berlin. Foreigners never buy any thing but curios. If they are fools, they deal with shops kept by Euro peans; If they want bargains, they deal with Chinamen. There are many Chinese shops iu treaty ports. The Chinaman Is cheaper and more reliable than the Japanese. European shopkeepers do not set up In Japan for philanthropic reasons. Jap anese shopkeepers are the lowest class of population except tho outcasts. Servants agd laborers take precedence of them lu society, and precedence Is the hobby of tho Japanese. You have a different bow and a dif ferent salutation for a man who Is be low you or your equal, and several for tho people above you. You have even a different language for each, and Jap anese writing wriggles like carving on their temples.—London Standard. Didn't llfither llltu. A German clergyman who was trav eling stopped at a hotel much frequent ed by wags and jokers. Tho host, not being used to having a clergyman at his table, looked at him with surprise. The quests used all their raillery of wit upon lilrn without eliciting a re mark. The clergyman ate his dinner quietly, apparently without observing tin' gibes and sneers of his neighbors. One of tliem. al last, lu despair at hi* forbearalice, said to him: "Well, 1 won der at your patience. Have you not heard nil that has been said to you?" "(111, jes; but I am used to It. Do yotl know who I 11111?" "No. sir." "Well, I will Inform you. I am chaplain of a lima' e 11 yit: 111 Such remarks have 110 ciT 'cl upon inc." I LUWE'A { \ LAST I J. 23 y C. nc* 11. 'He a idle A T T V ' 07<M [:! 1, I by T. C. .'/I '.'iui c T i:v< r s.iuce they 1 ad comi- to iVrki'.is ville I>e Pev ier and his mother h;id failed to adjust their respective stand points to a liidtual harmony. To begin with, it was spring. With liie delicious odor of resinous smoke from the boughs that had banked the house assailing one's nostrils, who could resist joining the dancing sil houettes th;:t circled the bonfire and daring one's fate by leaping across it in swaggering competition as the flames died down? But she drew lurid pictures of his certain fate if he should repeat the of fense. Blind defiance rose insurgent within him—he would go! And then all </f a sudden he remembered what hi.', father said and hung his head to think how those grave, kind eyes of bis would look at him now. "Take good care of mamma," he had said at the last. "You must be her big brother and never let her worry about you, she's so little and delicate." And then he had whispered over two or three tlme3, "My pretty little wife—my dear little girl!" And I)e IVyster had tried with all his might to remember. But often it did seem as if it would have been a little easier if she could have under stood that one was disgraced if one did not keep neck and neck with "the other fellow*" in every prank they played. There was a long and weary period of dooryard discipline after this epi sode. There were a good many times when De IVyster had to clinch his fists as tight as he could and remem ber his father very hard. By and by June came, quivering with gold green sunlight, perfumed with a universal blossoming and pungent with the Joy of living. At this time every true boy thrills with the half realized rapture of it all and finds the fullest expression of his ecstasy iu going swimming. Every bright morning In some part of the towr. there was sure to be a group of boys toeing a line, their necks bobbing eagerly forward and their bod ies giving anticipatory jerks and twitches as they waited for the word. When the leader said "Go!" they dart ed forth, and there was a kaleidoscop ic and dissolving view of legs racing madly down a side street that led to the river. Then collars came off, coats followed, as they ran with undimin ished speed, the fellow who was far thest ahead sometimes slowing up with magnificent daring to get off his shoes and stockings while the others were still hampered by shirts and trousers, and by the time they tumbled in head long competition over the bank the nimblest carried their entire wardrobe 011 their arms and flashed whitely into the water while (lie luggers fumbled at their shoe lacings. The unfortunate who popped into the river, flushed and panting, after all the rest were in was greeted with taunting cries of: "Lub ber last! Lubber last!" De Peyster had never been told not to go In swimming. It had not occur red to his mother as among the list of his possible perils, as she was in bliss ful ignorance of the fact that "the oth er fellows" did it. So it was with the thrilling exult ance of tlie Greek runner that lie set his toe on the line with the rest and hurled himself forward, head up and elbows In. The first few rods It felt like flying. His feet scarcely seemed to touch tlie ground. Then a pair of legs flashed by him, and another and another. lie gathered his strength and shot for ward again, but another pair of legs went by, and another and another. They were tearing off their coats; they were stripping off their shirts. He felt at his collar, wrenched it off and flung it away, to have both hands free for his coat and shirt. They were almost at the bank now. He could see Micky Daly's white skin dazzle In the sun as he took 11 splendid dive ahead of the rest. His own feet were grow ing heavy, and there was a mist be fore bis eyes. The knot In his shoe lacing would not come untied. A sav age rage filled him. If he could have cut off ids foot to rid himself of tlie hampering shoe, he would scarcely have hesitated. You were ruled out if you went Into the water with anything left 011. As he struggled and per spired and agonized the two or three whom he had distanced leaped past htm, and as he shook the shoe off at last and made his dive he heard the air ringing with, "Lubber last! Lub ber last!" anil slowly realized that tt was meant for him. He tried manfully two or three other days, but It was always the same way. ills muscles were flabby from the door jard discipline, and he could not pick up In a few weeks what the others had acquired through Joyous years of sum mer vagabondage. He took It quietly and good natureil ly, lint It went deep. His mother found out the custom shortly and forbade him to go near the water. As for De Peyster himself, the numb ness of despair settled upon him. Now he could never learn to redeem him self. to have some day perhaps the In effable Joy of being the first In, ahead nf Jimmy Spratt, ahead of Micky Daly, ahead of everybody. His career was ended before It had begun. "But I got to not let her worry," was the rueful conclusion he aiwnys reached. And then he breathed hard and winked fast. Jimmy was his constant friend and brought him alleviating messages from tiuie to time, such as that the other fellers all said he had 1 >t« < f tnd and could do as well as the next f' rif he had luilf a chance. When even these encouraging re marks ecus' (I 111 comfort, he L ive him his own horned toad us a la t desper ate resort. The effect was wonderfully elllcaelous. but train-11« ry. "I'd ntighicr been 11 girl," said De Peyster iiiniiy times t:i him: If, "but I wish she ill n'l wniil to make bcliexe I 11111 one when I ain't." Tills was the I.earesl to » reproach that lie nllowi d his loyal little b ait to entertain, but 1 batli-'l. uiiililldllke look grew to liU eyes as lie watched his mates go off with nit blni day after day. Iu July a light cpld nile of scarlet fever prevailed Th oldest Inhabit ants called It 'walking scarlatina," the Illness \\ as . ■ > I Mrs. Van Vo rt kept De Peyster 111 the house. One day De Peyiter caught It. He IT)-. r> ed it rath :- In the nature of a I' si a I (.eeurreiic • 1 ban 1.; lerwlse, for all the i ys wli > had h > I i: <: me i'p to s -e l.i'u. and, although they were not allo'.Vvii ,0 sland lung. II eh ereil him an. I.v <o hear what th j were doing, f 1 he had constantly tin' hope that tin • is w ill .i;,hls they told of one after another would not tie oil the forbidden list when he was out again. But after awhile he did not seem to care whether they came or not and one day when told that Micky Daly waited bulow said languidly. "I gut ss I d-.m't care about seeing him Just now —l'm sorter tired—but icli him it 'll be bully to have him come tomorrow." But when tomorrow came no one was admitted, for he was tossing aliout tn a weakening struggle with some thing he did not understand that tho.se who watched by him realized only too well. He heard a voice as if from vex-y far away: "You'd better tell him, doctor," it said. "I can't stand it to see him fight for his life like a little Trojan when it isn't any use." Tho voice broke and then went on: "He's a brave little chap, brave enough to face anything, and it isn't treating Uim squ-ire not to let him 6ay gooiiby." De Peystt r opened liis eyes. The doc tor was : tain.ing over him. "You don't have to tell me," said Do IVyster, for lie dimly saw that the o!J doctor's lips wore quivering. "I I guess—l know." He felt for bis mother's hand. "I'd like to hear you sing just once first, mamsie," he said. "There's a bully song one of the fel lers taught me, 'One Wide River:' I've liked it specially much since—since it worried you to have me go in swim ming." His mother sobbed out a few lines, faltered and stopped. A look of patient disappointment came over his face. "Never mind, mamsie, you needn't," be gasped. "I'm going to see it. you know, so it doesn't matter. Won't the cool water feel good, though! And don't you worry, mamsie. Who's afraid? Father 'll find uie!" He lay quite still a moment; then tie whispered: "I would 'a' liked to try one more run with the fellers—Micky Daly was most always ahead—he's a peach sprinter. You tell him and Jimmy and the other fellers about—about me and the wide river. Tell 'em this time I—l ain't lubber last!" And lie slipped away to find that un known river, tlie bravest of little pio neers. What Wearied Him. A friend once asked an aged man what caused him to complain so often at eventide of pain and weariness. "Alas," replied he, "I have every day so much to do. I have two falcons to tame, two hares to keep from running away, two hawks to manage, a ser pent to confine, a linn to chain and a sick man to tend and wait upon." "Well, well," commented his friend, "you are busy Indeed! But I didn't know that you had anything to do with a menagerie. How, then, do you make that out?" "Why," continued the old man, "lis ten. Two falcons are my eyes, which I must guard diligently; the two hares are my feet, which I must keep from walking in the ways of sin; the two liawks are my hands, which I must train to work, that I may provide for myself and those dependent 011 me as well as for a needy friend occasionally; the serpent is my tongue, which I must keep ever bridled lost it speak unseem ly; the Hon is my heart, with which I have a continual fight lost evil things come out of it, and the sick man is my whole body, which Is always needing my watchfulness and care. All this daily wears out my strength." Iti Perfect Accord. Somo years ago there came to an American city a delightful German, Herr von Blitz, who Intended to sup port himself by giving lessons In his Satlve tongue. When he had been here several months and had secured a mod erate number of pupils, lie went one day to the mother of one of them and to her great surprise asked for her daughter's hand in marriage. "But, my dear sir," said she, "my daughter has 110 fortune." The suitor smiled upon her in an ex pansive generosity. "Me, too!" said he reassuringly. "And, although we are not rich, we have thus far been able to give her every comfort. She Is indeed used to luxury." "Mo, too!" was the smiling rejoinder. "But, Herr von Blitz, she will never be able to manage affairs." "Me, too!" rejoiced the lover. "And I feel obliged to tell you that m.v daughter has a very high temper." "Me too! Me too!" That was enough. The mother re tired from the contest, and the profess or won his suit. Youth's Companion. INACTIVE OLD AGE. Hot# Conducive to Drearlneoa Thnn to Miortciiiuu Life. There is far more evidence for the be lief in the dreariness of old age after active work has been laid aside than for the shortening of life which results from tlie enforced Inactivity. Two not able Instances and perhaps freer from doubt than most as to whether It Is en nui alone that kills and not the disease of old age or a more specific malady ure those of Napoleon the Great and Bismarck. The one lived six years In St. Helena, the other eight years at Frlodrlchsruh, each "eating out his heart." If ever there were men who ought on the supposition to have been killed by the total suspension of their activities, these two ought to have been, but It would be extremely diffi cult to show that they were. Though Napoleon was no more than fifty-three, yet It was the specific disease of cancer of tlie stomach of which bo died, and tho connection between his exiled lone liness and the direct cause of his death does not seem very apparent. On the other hand, Bismarck at the ago of seventy-five, when lie was dismissed from the chancellorship, could not have had a likelihood of more prolonged years than ho actually achieved out of office even If he had continued 111 olllee until tho end. A wise man If not too dyspeptic will never lose touch with actual life. There are old men with young hearts, and the elder when ho has a young heart Is perhaps the most delightful typo humanity can show us. —Saturday Review. nelnted Klndneaa. Mr. Smith (In street car)— Madam, take my seat. Mrs. Jones (who hus been standing fifteen minutes)—No, thanks. I got off at tho next corner. Mr. Smith -That's all rl.'it. So do I. —Chicago Journal. No Vac nt All. 110 (who has offended her)— Won't yoti look up at mo? She— if I did, you'd kiss mo again. IIo—No; honest, 1 won't. Sho—Then what's tho use?— Life. A Itcmlnder. Dearborn—What liavo you got that string tied about your finger for? Wabash—Oh, I'vo been getting mar ried. and my wife doesn't want mo to forgot It.—Boston Herald. Hypocrisy becomes a necessity for thonu who llvu scuudaiously.—DoFluod. EXTRA EARLY PLANTS. A ltoti«l> Mone> Crop For it llri^ht, I n*! umt rlo an lloy. While many gardeners gro tomato plants to soil, but few pay special at tention to growing them extra early. There is usually a chance for some bright, industrious fanner l>oy near towns or cities to earn money for him self along this line, advises an Indiana writer in Itural New Yorker. I have found that there is always a class of persons willing to pay an extra price lIOX OF F.AIiLT TOMATO PLANTS. for plants that have l>eon carefully grown and will produce extra early as well as an abundance of tine fruit. In growing the plants it will be nec essary to cover the hotbeds with glass. Cloth coverings will not answer this purpose. The seed is sown about eight weeks before the plants are to be set In the open ground. After the plants have made several leaves they are transplanted two inches apart into hot bed®. 11l two or three weeks part of these plants are transplanted again. Tl:-\v are carefully taken up one at a time and reset somewhat deeper than they were before and about four Inches apart. Each time they are transplant ed they are well watered and shaded. When the weather becomes warm, it is best to put canvas over the plants Instead of sash. The warm days the last of April may make the plants grow too rapidly. The aim Is to pro duce stocky plants with a large root growth. About the first week in May there is usually a call in this locality for early tomato plants. Arrangements are made with one or two grocers in the nearest t iwns to handle the plants on commis sion. The plants are taken up with all the roots possible. The plant bed is thinned out by removing the largest from the different rows. The plants are placed in shallow lioxes holding from two to three dozen, according to size of plants. After the box is full it Is filled with soil pressed in around the tomato plants. These boxes are made during the winter months from tomato cases by renailing the top and bottom and sawing the box into two halves, thus forming two shallow boxes. I usually have three grades or sizes of plants. The first size, as shown in the figure, consists of good sized stocky plants, grown from selected seed, and, having been transplanted twice, have a good root growth. These plants are sold at 25 and 30 cents per dozen. The second grade plants are much smaller, transplanted but once, and are sold at 15 cents j>er dozen. The third size are taken up from the seed bed. They have not been transplanted and have but few roots. I have often put fif teen dozen of these plants in the same sized box that was used for three dozen of the first size. These plants bring 8 l-:i cents per dozen. It is best always to have the different sized plants so as to suif any one who may wish to buy. By having the smaller size the larger ones are shown to ad vantage, and more sales are made. The Mh ii Wlio Knom lion*. Is it not strange that in every county and in almost every precinct that you may visit there Is at least one farmer known as a corn grower? lie rarely or never falls. The dry and the wet sea sons couie and go, but lie "makes corn" and "sells torn." So In every county there is found the man "who grows his own meat" and regardless of cholera and bad crops keeps his smokehouse on his own farm. This peculiar man is sometimes a successful truck grower or fruit raiser. He may assume one of several forms, but we may safely call lilni "Mr. Know How." The average farmer often looks upon him as some what of a conjurer, but at bottom we find his success due to intelligent effort. Intelligence can Insure crops in the face of disease, chinch bug, boll weci*], boll worm, drought yes, and tloods too.—Farm and Itancli. Hot n( inn of I'olutori For Ktnreli. The following are plans of rotation followed on two Maine farms growing potatoes for the manufacture of alco liol and starch: 1. Wheat. 1. Potatoes. 2. Wheat and rye. 2. Polutooa. 3. Potatoes. 3. Potatoes, •t. Peas. 4. Potatoes. C. ltyc. 5. Fallow. C. Potatoes. C. Clover. 7. Parley und oats. 7. Clover. 8. Hod mid whlto and 8. Meadow. yellow clover; tlm- !t. IJrmis. othy. 10. Itye. 9. UniHM. In the first Instance It will be seen that potatoes are grown twice In nluo years namely. In the third and sixth years of the rotation. In the second scheme the potatoes are grown for four years In succession, and then for six years other crops are grown in the or der shown. A tiny tinmr. An Illinois pot hunter arrested under the game laws of that state confessed that quails In large quantities were shipped out of the stale in "ofllns, ac cording to Farm and Kanch. SHIPPING DRESSED L4MBS. Host Wlnler l.neihs For Market. A stiliH'lu,. Rtreteiior. Winter lambs fir market should weigh not h -• than forty-five pound* alive it fid be f't. I bis condition Is de termined somewhat accurately by feel ing the brNk'-t and the tall near the body. A high derive of faille nIS more Important tl an weight, as the.v sell by the carcass rather t! an by weight. The weight of two liailn l>;»ii ijc the same, the j < linger one will sell higher. The evidences of a;;e are the tleeiv and the decree of ossification in the "bones. Most lambi are marketed between the att<"< of tell : lid siMeitll weeks, a few as young n • ' t wee) The market for them extends from I'hrlstinin to Faster, accenting to an Ohio Farmer correspondent, who further says: To prepare a dro ned lamb for ship ping, sew nl«uit each lamb a square yard of clean, new muslin, in shown in the cut. We have shipped la viwli.us ways anil by both express and refrU, t ator freight. We now phn e.ieh lamb on a stretcher, as shown In t!.e second figure, and tl en wrap lu burlap, which we get of the furniture dealers. We No. 17. tried s 1 inpiiig in crates, but the crate# would get crashed. The diajrrani Is a slight modification in firm from the stretcher shown with : 1 nn it. The side pieces should be at two Indies wide and a half inchl thiel. :;d made of light, strong timber, such as poplar, basswood or elm. The ten inch crossplece should be one and a l.alf inches square; A is a tenpenny nail driven through this piece diagonal ly. poiuting toward the short project- In: ends of the side pieces. This is to hold the lamb's neck in as ]( 101* ' 1 I ' F ' '( || ' .. 12TH I; . ■■ vTi'i DRESSED I.AMn AND STRETCHES. it is forced down upon it Press the front legs down upon the neck and hold there with a twine around the stretcher. Loop short pieces of twine about the hind legs above the bocks and draw tightly, fastening at B. The legs should be cut off below the knee and hock. The Dual Purpose Cott. Professor Curtiss of lowa created quite a sensation at the meeting of the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' associa tion by advocating the dual purpose cow, saying that on the high priced land of that state it would not pay to keep cows for the sake of a calf a year. There were many dissenters, among them some of the greatest beefmakers of the state. But we take it that Pro fessor Curtiss had in mind the average farmer, who must have a cow that will do more than raise a calf, else he has no dairy products either to use or to sell. So far as this class Is concerned the professor is right and Ills utter ance is a timely warning against the extremes in breodiug practiced today, or rather against the desirability of such breeding for the ordinary farmer and stock raiser. Some cows are bred to give milk so rich In solids that cannot raise their calves on It. Some are bred to give so little milk that they can hardly raise their own calves. Both extremes are useful In some places, but not In the hands of the farmer. A good but not extremely large flow of milk, n good calf to feed for beef and a good carcass when done producing are not impossible in the same cow, and they are the best combination yet found for the general farmer, the man who cannot keep different animals for different purposes, but wants dairy products and beef too.—National Stoclc man. Hlk Bee Stories. A Canadian beekeeper warns his brethren against permitting inaccurate reports 'of their product to be put in circulation. A racy Item in a paper ex aggerating the honey yield of some bee keeper may be amusing reading, but will create the impression that honey Is very plentiful and ought to Ikj very cheap. Nowm nail Notci. It may interest goat raisers to know that the carpet laid down In Westmin ster abbey on the occasion of King Ed ward's coronation was woven of mo hair. The Indian runner duck is making quite a stir Just now. Hon. F. D. Coburn of Kansas has been appointed chief of the department of live stock of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. It is reported that iluriug an average year forest fires cause a loss of sixty human lives, >O,OOO of real prop erty and $75,000,000 of young and ma ture timber. The farmer of today must handle more money than his predecessor, ac cording to Professor Brooks of Massa chusetts. A most Important fact hus come to be understood within the past two years, und that is that other great tobacco growing countries can nlso produco wrappers equal to those of Sumatra by, (rowing the leaf under cover. A Russian Banknote. The 100 ruble note of Russia is barred from top to bottom with all the colors of the rainbow, blended as when shown through a prism. In the center in bold relief stands a large, finely ex ecuted vignette of the Empress Cath erine I. This is in black. Tho other engraving Is not at all intricate or elab orate, but Is well done in dark and light brown aud black inks. inttuiiuiu'rolul Mazt. Artistic folk frequently have some what vague notions about business. Some of them are quite ignorant of it, others utterly Indifferent to It and oth ers yet hate the very name of it. One In the last named category was Liszt, lie had returned from a successful tour, and Princess Meticrtilch, the wife of the celebrated statesman aud diplo matist, was questioning him regarding the concerts he had been giving abroad. "I hear." she said, "that you did good business in Paris." To which Liszt gave the tart reply: "1 only played some music there. Busi ness -that 1 leave to bankers aud di plomatists." To another lady the musical cleric gave a still more sarcastic answer. "Ah, Abbe," she sighed, "what a great fortune you would make If only you could be induced to go to America to play!" "Madame," returned Liszt, "if you stood In need of that fortune, believe me, 1 would go at once." Collier's Weekly. The Eye of (lie Fast. Damascus, perhaps the most ancient City In the world, claims the proud title of "t lie Kye of the East," which the strlkin;; beauty of its aspect from a dls tance fully jnstilles. Bright buildings which sparkle un der the Syrian sun rise out of n mass of many tinted foliage. To the north west stretch the long, bare, snow white ridges of Antl Lebanon, while In charming contrast gardens, rich corn fields and teeming orchards form a brilliant setting on all sides. Winding through this profuse display of oriental beauty, the rivers Barrada and I'liege the Almnii and Pharpar of Scripture lose themselves far to the east lu l.al;c P.ahr-el-MerJ. On a near er view much of this glamour van ishes, anil there Is abundant evidence , of general decay. A similar title Is given to Athens ill J Milton's "Paradise Regained." It Is: Allien*, tin! eyt of Greece, mother of arts.
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