Beaatr la Blc >d Deep.
Cl«nn blood means a clean skin. No
♦eauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your d and keep it clean, by
ttirring up the lazy live, and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that p ; -kly bilious complexion h'' taking
Cascarets 'bea" v y for ten cents. An drug
giita, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
In a New England factory women are
•mployod as piano makers.
A Neir Southern Resort*
.A new Southern resort of surpassing beauty
the >'.« of Pa)-us, about six miles from
Charleston, S C., reached by the Southern
JUMwav to Charleston, Bnd the Consolidated
tractiot Company from Charleston, through
Sullivan Island.
The Isle of Halms is an Island upon which
future has lavished her most precious gilts.
he foliage is of tropical richness, while the
warn} waters of the Gulf Stream beat upon
inu of the finest Atlantic Coast surf bathing
leaches..
A splendid pavilion of great size has been
greeted, which will be enclosed by glass in
iiinter, making the most unique sun parlors
p the South. The military band from the
fcrt gives attractive concerts daily. A new
Sotel has also been built, called 'The Isle of
palms," which compares most favorably with
,he best hotels In the world. It has over four
hundred rooms, the service is perfect, the
juisine unsurpassed. It Is open all the year.
Full particulars of Alex. S. Thweatt, East
»ru Passenger Agent, 271 Broal way, New York.
The strength of two hor; es equals that of
Bfteeu men.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your tlfe Anny.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Jac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
Jtrong. All druggists, 60c or tl. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterlfhg Remedy Co, Chicago or New York.
The Church of Scotland has forty-nine
mission schools in India, with 3000 pupils.
Absolutely Free.
Ta Introduce Findley's Eye Salve I will
lend by mail absolutely FREE a 25 cent box
to any one writing me a postal card giving
name and address. It cures sore eves at
once. Address J.P.HAYTER, Decatur, Texas.
There aro 035 professional guldos in the
Tyrolese Mountains.
Wo have not been without Plso's Cure for
Consumption for 30 years.—LIZZIE FEHKEL,,
Camp St.. Ilarrlsburg. Pa.. May 4. 1891.
About ono German woman In every
twenty-seven works in a factory.
"He Laughs Best
Who Laughs Last."
A heiriy laugh indicates a degree of
good health obtainable through pure blood.
c4~ but one person in ten has pure blood,
the other nine should purify the blood
'with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then they can
laugh first, last and all the time, for
ZffbccCS SaUapali//q
The Real Culprit.
A youthful graduate of the Harvard
Law School wont out West and opened
*n office in a small frontier town. His
first client was a man accused of steal
ing a hor?e. The case came to trial
before »n old judge and a iury com
posed of bewhiskered ranchers, and,
though tuere was no doubt of the
guilt of the defendant, he had a regi
ment of friends who swore he was
for*j miles away when the horse was
stolen. This evidence the prosecu
tion was unable to break down, and
the young lawer plumed himself on a
certain acquittal. The jury retired,
and five n>inutes later came back into
court.
"Have you agreed on a verdict?"
Asked tb'- judge.
"'We have," answered the foreman,
as he shiftac t gun he carried on his
hip. "We find the defendant not
guilty, an' recommend the defendant's
lawyer, owin' to his youth an' inno
cence, to the mercy of the court." —
Sew York Tribune.
MOTHERHOOD is woman's natural destiny.
Many women are denied the happiness of children
throrgh some derangement of the generative organs.
Actual barrenness is rare.
Among the many triumphs of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is the overcoming of cases
ot s upP°" d barrenness. This great
fftfffirg" WP J medicine is so well calculated to regu-
every function of the generative or
%Jr gens that its efficiency is vouched for
.. .iM.Ij nii if by multitudes of women.
SIENTLIMMYW MRS. ED. WOLFORD, of Lone Tree,
Vegetable Compound t had one child which lived only six
hours. The doctor said it did not have the proper nourishment
while I was carrying it. I did not feel at all well during preg
nancy. In time I conceived again, and
thought I would write to you for advice.
Words cannot express the gratitude I feel
towards you for the help that your medi- JF
cine was to me during this time. I
felt like a new person; did my work .V
up to the last, and was sick only a
short time. My baby weighed ten
joy of our home. He is now six
weeks old and weighs sixteen I^^//
pounds. Your medicine is cer- &W 112/ / jH y B
tainly a boon in
suffered with inflammation of JPI|«W M
the womb, pains in back, left /hM&U & P 4
side, abdomen and groins. My Ak lajgw Q 2. H
head aehed all the time. I aKL »#A
oould not walk across the floor .OEMHML
without suffering intense pain.
two years ago I wrote to you
for advice, and began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
I had not finished the first bottle before I felt better. I took
four bottles, and have been strong and perfectly healthy ever
since, and now have two of the nicest little girls."
" Where Dirt Gathers, Waste Rules."
Great Saving Results From the Use of
SAPOLIO
Farm For Sale*
One of the very best hill farms In Wa<tS a
fleld, Vermont, seven (7) miles from rail,
road, one-half (%) mile from steam saw
mills, comprising 200 acres, half of which
Is under the highest state of cultivation.
Plenty of good timber and excellent pas
tures. Sugar orchard of 2000 trees, equipped
with twelve hundred tin tubs two years
old; the balance wooden tubs newly paint
ed :md in first-class condition. Latest
Improved evaporator; Iron arch, large
sugaring-off arch, sugar-house con
taining 60 cords four-foot dry wood;
three years' supply stovewood on band.
Barns in first-class condition, one nearly
new, 175 ton silo; abundance of smal fruit;
splendid orchard of grafted trees. The
place kept through last winter forty (40)
head of cattle, seven horses and other
small stock; never-falling water at barns
and dwelling. Complete set of tools of the
best make. The whole place Is well fenced
and thoroughly well kept up. Dwelling is
first-class; two stories, twelve rooms, re
cently painted Inside and out. The whole
would be sold at a great bargain, on ac
count of death in family. For further In
formation npply to F. A. Joslyn, Waits
field, Vermont.
As switchmen, women are employed by
several Western railroads.
To Care Constipation Forever*
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 550.
Ti C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, is one of the
champion golf players of that State.
How's Tlii* »
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CnRN'BY & Co., Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per
fectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
W EST & TnuAX, Wholesale Druggist3,Toledo,
Ohio.
WALDINo, RINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price. 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Consulting fashion expert Is a St. Louis
woman's occupation.
Educate Tour Bowels With Cascareta.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
The number of Buddhists Is computed to
bo 455,000,000.
Mrs. Wluslow'sSoothinn Syrup forchildren
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle.
Mrs. John J. Ingallsis famed throughout
Kansas for her blackberry jam.
Ko-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 60c, tl. All druggists.
In Italy 600,000 people find employment
In raising silkworms.
Attention is called to the adv. of the Stock
Exchange firm of Messrs. Muir A Powell,
appearing in another column of this paper.
Alitor Earning Unpopularity.
William Waldorf Astor seems to be
grievously oblivious of the character
istic adherence of the English people
to ancient customs and privileges,and
is, in consequence, in bad repute with
the tenantry in the vicinity of his es
tate at Cliveden. For centuries they
have been accustomed to indulge in
merry-makings and picnijs on the
Cliveden ground, but the queen's new
subject has barred them from the
premises. Mr. Astor could scarcely
have adopted more ell'ective means by
which to render himself unpopulai
with his neighbors.—Philadelphia
Record.
Advice That May Prove Useful.
A Quaker's advice to a son on his
wedding day: "When thee went
a-courtiug I told thee to keep thy eyes
wide open. Now that thee is married,
I tell thee to keep them half shut."
HER TRIUMPH.
Bhe was not the* brightest maiden in her
oloss;
Every other always stood above her there.
And they wondered how she ever came to
pass,
Not remembering, perhaps, that the was
(air.
Hers was not the finest essay that was read;
She had borrowed her ideas here and
there,
But tliey cheered unto the echo what sho
said—
She had precious little wit, but she was
(air.
They described the dainty costume thut
she wore,
Nor mentioned what the others had to
wear.
She was dull, as has been mentioned here
tofoie;
But what of that, as long as she was fair?
Chicago Times-Herald.
ji UHijpun.l
4 DY EDO Alt T. FIELD. |
wwwww
"The time has come for the Ameri
can people to act. Shall fifty million
patriots sit supinely by aud let con
scienceless rascals tear the stars of
glory from the tlag they love and
trample its proud folds of crimson and
white into the mire of untional dis
honor? Not while the deeds of '76
still shine through the mists of years
in unexampled splendor. Not while"
—Joel Snively, editor of the Meloogic
Monitor, luid down his pen with a
sigh.
Outside the dusty little wiudow the
green waters of the bay were spark
ling in the suushiue. A keeu north
breeze was driving great huddling
masses of white-shouldered clouds
over a field of daz/.ling azure, and
only a man who loved the sport with
the whole-souled earnestness that
iilled his entire being could know how
the fish must be biting on such a morn
ing! Oh, to be out on that gleaming
expanse, armed with rod and line,
with only the sun and clouds for com
pany and a thousand pounds or so of
gamy iiuned vertebrates playiug about
within reach of his cunning hook.
But also, it was Friday morning.
On Saturday some two hundred im
patient subscribers would expect the
weekly dish of personal, political and
intellectual pabulum which his facile
pen had long served up to them on
that day, with more or less punctual
ity, according to the season. His duty
clearly held him to his post at such a
time, however much his inclinations
might have led him elsewhere.
So, with another lingering glance at
the scene without, Mr. Snively took
up his pen and resumed the stirring
appeal which was to awaken fifty
million patriots to action and inciden
tally convince the freemen of Meloogic
that it was their duty to vote lor Joe
Gridley for pouudmaster.
So engrossed did the editor become
in this pleasing task that he did not
hear a step upon the creaking stair a
little later. If he had ho would have
known at once that it was a woman
and a lady who was approaching, for
long and often painful experience had
enabled Mr. Snively to determine with
unerring accuracy what sort of person
was climbing the somewhat perilous
ascent to the editorial sanctum almost
ns soon as his foot touched the first
step.
Hut for once the editor did not hear
the soft footfall on the stair, so he
w.s very much surprised aud not a
little disconcerted when a fresh,sweet
voice, almost at his elbow said "Good
morning Mr. Snively," aud looking
up he beheld his neighbor, Mrs. Tracy,
her plump figure tightly buttoned into
tho trimmest of blue sergo yachting
suits, hor smiling face shaded by a
wide-brimmed hat aud in her hand a
fish pole, jointed, brass-tipped, ele
gant-the very perfection of dainty
uselessness.
Without wating for a response to
her greeting .she briefly made known
her errand. She was anxious for a
day's iishiug and had been told of an
Elysiau spot, where the fish were so
plentiful they were actually to be had
for the asking. Unluckily, however,
her own boat had not come, so she
ventured to ask if, in ca*e he was not
asing it, Mr. Snively would be so
kind as to lend her his yawl, it beiug
impossible to hire one in the village.
Mr. Snively was delighted. Mrs.
Tracy was a pretty widow of uncer
tain age but no uncertain charm, who
had taken the cottage next to the
editor's own some six mouths before.
In the course of a rather desultory ac
quaint nee tho genial bachelor, whose
ideas of the fair sex were those com
mon toliisjkiud, had discovered that his
fair neighbor WHS a cheery little body
of sound political views aud excelleut
tastes (from the first she had been a
prompt and paying subscriber to The
Monitor),but beyond that his imagina
tion had not soared. Now, however,
behold the pretty widow invested with
a wholly now interest. She was fond
of fishing!
Eagerly Xr. Snively assured his
visitor of his pleasure in putting his
boat at her disposal and gave her ex
haustive directions as to the meaus of
obtaining it. A delightful half-hour
of conversation followed. As though
it were a magician's wand the dainty
fish pole had placed the editor and his
guest at once on terms of the most
charming intimacy and the former
didn't remember ever to have eujoyed
i\ conversation so much in his life,
*lboit the talk was wholly of reels aud
I rods and spoon-hooks aud other iu
atrnments of slaughter.
All things, however, are bound to
come to au end, especially in an edi
torial office, so it wasn't long before
Mrs. Tracy took her leave, escortsd
down the stairway by her delighted
host.
At the door they wore mot by a
spicy breeze straight from the pine
woo ls across the bay. Mr. Sorely
fiiarhtu)
"Whore is this wonderful yoa
are going to?" he asked.
"Ah, that's a secret," she replied,
gayly, "I promised I'd never, nevei
tell."
"Oh, well, then I suppose it's a
crime to even guess." Aud ouce more
the editor sighed as he glanced out af
the sparkling waters.
"But yon have been so kind," ex
claimed tho widow, noting the sigh
and immediately filled with compunc
tiou. "It stems ungracious of ine to
keep it from you who love so to fish.'
And then as she saw liim give anothei
wistful glance bayward she burst oul
impulsively: "Promise me not to be
tray me and I'll tell you—it's Pate
hang lake!" "Patchangl" cried Mr.
Sui\elyiu surprise. "Why, 1 nevei
heard of a fish down thero in mv
life."
"That's the charm of it," she re
joined, gleefully, "aud the man whe
told me about it (such a dear, dirty,
old fisherman he was) was fearfullj
afraid some one else would find it out;
so don't betray me." Aud she hurried
away with a parting smile that made
the dusty office seem duller than evei
wheu he got back to it and roluctantlj
commenced setting up his editorial,foi
Mr. Snively constituted the whole
working force of The Monitor,
Aud his task seemed harder thai
ever after the interruption. Thoughts
of his pretty visitor kept intruding
themselves into the midst of his tnos'
impassioned appeals to the voters o!
Meloogic.
How blue her eyes were and what
bewitching little rings of hair hac
blown up under the big hat.
And tlieu the fishing.
The editor of The Monitor shook
his head. Could it be possible auj
mau living co'ild have a soul so lost tt
honor as to play a joke on a womar
who looked like that? It seemed im
possible, and yet Mr. Snively was ai
sure there wasn't a fish within a mile
of Patchaug as he was that ther«
wasn't a free silver man in Meloogic.
I'erhaps even then Mrs. Tracy was
sitting in that yawl vaiuly waiting fot
the bite he felt certain she wouldn't
get if she sat there till the United I
states got an honest government. And ;
he was actually staying at home and j
deliberately abandoning a friend to !
such a fate!
As this agonizing thought occurred
to Mr. Snively he dropped his type
and started for tho door. But once
there he paused and slowly returned
to his form, only to find it more and
more impossible to keep his mind on
his work.
At last ho gave up in despare.
Taking a hasty survey of what he'd
already accomplished he found liis col
umus tolerably full, with the excep
tion of perhape a single paragraph on
the local page. By har.l work the fol
lowing morning he might hope to set
up his pages and would trust to luck
for the missing paragiaph.
Like all fishermen, Mr. Snively was
a firm believer in luck. He was also
a man of action wheu bo chose, and
within five minutes of this calculation
he had locked up the editorial depart
ment aud was ou his way to Patchaug'
lake.
Wheu he reached that shallow sheet
of water a little lady in blue serge sat
in a boat in the center thereof, with
an expression of virtuous indignation
on her suuburnt feature*.
"What luck?" called the editor from
the shore.
"Luck!" cried the fair sportswoman
dolefully. "There's not enough water
in this lake to catch cold in,much less
a fish. All I've got for my trouble is
a mighty poor opinion of fishermen
in general and one dirty one in par
ticular."
"Come over here," said Snively.
"I know a pond not a thousand mile'
away where the fish bite like mosqui
toes. If you'll try it I think I can
raise your opinion of fishermen be
fore I'm a day older."
"I can't," confessed the widow,
blushing with anger and mollification,
"I'm stuck in the mud."
One moment the mau of letters hesi
tated ou the bank aud then, with an
inward prayer that he might at least
be spared to get out that week's
paper, he waded boldly into the ex
panse of treacherous mud that rolled
between him and the beauty in dis
tress.
The next morning the editor walked
into the Monitor office clad in his
Sunday clothes. With his accustomed
methodical neatness he pulled oil' his
coat, huug it behind the door, aud
carefully drew ou his lineu sleeves a
pair of black alpaca ones. Then he
lighted his pipe aud took his place at
the form.
There, just as he had left it, was
the vacant space at the end of the
local column still yawning for the
missing paragraph.
Mr. Snively regarded it for a few
minutes reflectively—then he took up
his peu, as a smile gradually spread
itself over liis face uutil it reached his
eyes. It still lingered there when a
little later he finished aud paused to
glance over his work.
What lie rea(,l was this:
"The editor of The Monitor, after
many years of bachelorhood, has had
the good fortune to incur the risks
aud responsibilities of matrimony.
He was married this morning to Mrs.
Gertrude Tracy of Elm cottage and
asks the congratulations and good
wishes of his subscribers iu this the
happtest hour of his life."—Edgar
Temple Field.
The Number of Naval Officer*.
The United States navy now has
oue admiral, 18 rear admirals, 70
captaius, 112 commanders, 170 lieu
teuant co.niuan lers, 300 lieutenants,
130 lieutenants, junior grade; 107 en
signs, aud 92 cadets at sea. In the
Marine corps are one brigadier gener
al commandant, five colonels, five
lieutenant colonels, 10 majors, 41 cap
taius, 45 first lieutenants and eight
second lieutenants.
[FOR FARM AND GARDEN!
Don't Uie Turnip* for Knullage.
A small experimental silo was filled
with cut turnips and heavily weighted,
'lhe material contained 9.50 per cent,
dry matter. The experiment was
tried in midwinter, with cold turnips
and in a cold room. There was no
appreciable rise in temperature, and
all went well for about two weeks
wheu the mass gave way aud fell in.
There was too little dry matter, par
ticularly of a fibrous nature, to hold
together the mass. The result was as
expected aud the moral is, Don't.—
Vermont Station Bulletin.
Give Calves Starchy Food Sparingly.
Never put com, kaffir corn meal or
any other grain in the milk for calves.
The starch of corn has to be changed
to grape sugar before it is digestible.
This change only takes place in the
presence of au alkali and is done
chiefly by the saliva of the mouth.
Wheu corn is gulped down with the
milk the starch is not acted upon by
the acids of the stomach, but remains
unchanged uutil it comes in contact
with the alkaline secretions of the in
testines. With hogs the stomach is
small and the intestines long. This
nllows starchy matter to be digested in
the intestines. The opposite is true
with the calf, the stomach being large
aud the intestines short. Unless the
starchy matter is largely digested by
the saliva of the mouth, complete di
gestion will not take place in the in
testines and the calf scours.—L>. H.
Otis in New England Homestead.
When lo Feed Bee*.
Between the blossoming of thofrnit
trees and the coming of a good honoy
supply from any other source there is
usually a ser.son when the bees obtain
but little honey. They do not store n
large amount from fruit blossoms, but
it is enough to feed them well aud in
duce them to breed rapidly. If they
do not have a surplus when the apples
blossom, it will happen at the end of
the bloom, they will have a consider
able amount of brood aud brood comb,
and a queen that is in good condition
togo l ight on depositing eggs if she
is kept supplied by the other bees
with food.
If she is not sho stops laying and
the stores are used for the brood,often
proving insufficient, and resulting in
loss of brood by starvation. Certainly
it results in the colony ceasing to in
crease until there is a new source of
obtaining honey. It would undoubt
edly be profitable to feed at this time,
giving a supply of sugar syrup every
day until it is found that they are ob
taiuing honey from the tields again.
This should result in a large and
stroug colony, and possibly in swarm
ing early. It is the old queen which
goes out with tho swarm, and if she
gets well established with combs or
foundation which she can quickly till
with brood, she may lead out another
swarm from her new hive. Such a
swarm would probably 1 e better than
a second swarm from the old hive.
Yet it may aud often does happen
that the colony fn the old hive will
send out their second swarm in eight
or ten days after the first one left. It
would be better in' most cases to pre
vent this by cutting out any queen
cells left after the swarm has gone,
and that may be built theie, and to
encourage storing of surplus honey
instead. The young queen left in tho
old hive after swarming may be in
such haste togo as to result in two
small and weak colouie.-t, not as valu
able as one strong one, aud in a
necessity of feeding both, while if
kept from swarming, the entire colony
may store a good amount of surplus
honey, besi les their winter supply.
To gaiu one new colony from the
old one s doing well, and often two
good ones may be obtained in a good
season, but to increase fourfold is
likely to result in the loss of one, at
least, before winter ends, unless much
care is taken aud food given.
Stable Accommodation*.
It has been unquestionably proven
that the barn or stable in which the
cows are kept should be built with au
eye single to their use alone. The
building should be large with an open
lot, anil thoroughly ventilated. The
floors made of dirt, firmly packed
down, should be raised about four
inches higher tliau the outside ground.
Each stall should be large enough to
allow the cow plenty of room beside
that of the milker. Shed rooms may
be attached for storing the grain and
forage, which may be thrown into the
feed stalls through openings provided
in the walls of the barn leadiug into
the shed rooms. This would be con
venient and also allow the feeding to
be dono quickly and under cover, if
the weather was bad. For the best
sanitary regulations there should be
from 1000 to 1200 feet of cubic space
prepared for overy cow. Box stalls
are better thau open ones, as in tho
latter the cows have less space and it
is necessary to tie them. In the open
stall a mauure gutter should be pro
vided about '2O inches wide and s hal
low in depth. This should be weil
cleaned every day, the mauure re
moved to a covered pen outside the
building, if it is not convenient to
have it at once broadcast on the laud.
The daily use of a small quantity of
laud plaster in the gutter and scat
tered over the stalls will greatly aid in
retaining the ammonia, the highest
and most valuable percentage of plant
food in barn yard manure. At least
twice a year whitewash the iuside
walls of the buildiug, and keep the
cobwebs carefully swept down. Close
confinement in buildings not well ven
tilated is as injurious to the cow as it
is to a human being. The perfect
health of the herd is most imuortaut
any change in tLc appearance of tlia
cow, her How of milk, appetite, etc.,
should be immediately noted, by
adopting a careful daily observation
of the herd, and such remedies ap
plied promptly as will correct the
trouble. Long years of experience in
the dairy business have proven that
September aud October nre the best
months for calving. From a month te
six weeks is long enough to allow the
cow to remain dry. It is best there
fore that the dairy cow calve annually.
There are a number of matters along
this line of the business which cauuot
be covered in one article. The detail?
of the dairying industry are i,uite
lengthy aud somewhat complicated.
It is a business which requires much
knowledge of details to secure that
success which makes any business at
tractive to the investor.
Tlie Treatment of lOnrtli Koiulo.
Drainage is of the utmost import
ance to an earth road. Water is the
greatest foe to ull roads and especially
so of earth roads, for if these are u.">t dry
they have no bottom at all. Thorough
diainage must be provided for taking
away the water which falls upon the
suriace and also that which would rise
to the top from underlying springs.
If the subsoil is of a springy nature it
will be necessary to run a line of tile
down the centre of the roadbed, or if
the expense is no objection two on
each side of the roadbed. Some will
say a tile drain is of no use because
the surface will become so hard that
the water cannot find its way down tc
the druin. It is not such water we
wish to remove by tiles, but the bot
tom water which if not removed would
work its way up to the surface by
means of the capillary attraction and
keep the surface soft and springy sc
that it will cut up easily into ruts by
passing wagons. When these ruts are
•illed by rains the evil is iuteusitied.
In caring for the surface it is im
portant to see that the ditches are of
sufficient depth to carry off all the
water that will fall during the heaviest
rain storm. The culverts must be in
working order so that there will be 110
ponds beside the load soaking into
and through the roadbe 1, allowing it
to cut and spring with every passing
load. This is a very important point,
as it is impossible to maintain a ttriu
roadbed where water stands in ponds
in the ditches during wet weather.
The surface should be graded smooth
ly from the bottom of the ditches to
the centre of the road,so that in pass
ing a wide load you can drive into the
ditch without danger of upsetting.
By this rneaus all rain water will be
carried off the surface at ouee into the
ditches.
A road of this kind should be care
fully watched through the season. All
ruts and holes should be filled im
mediately, as every passing wagon
only makes them deeper, and the old
adage, "A stitch in time saves nine,"
is as true in road building as i 1 any
thing else. Ruts formed by travel if
taken before the road gets baked too
hard anil dry < an be tilled by running
the disk harrow over them aud then
rolling with a heavy roller, or better
still, by means of a cheap and easily
constructed road leveler. It is made
bv taking a single plank 4 or i3 inches
thick and 15 or 17 inches wide. A
piece of iron or steel 2 or 3 inches
wide is bolto I onto the bottom of the
front side of theplauk, while a couple
of long iron braces will strengthen
the tongue. This machine will cut
the surface better if the tongue is put
in at a 112 light angle so as to draw the
cutting edge somewhat i:i the slant of
the road grader. The use of this last
named machine is to be highly recom
mended, especially for earth roads,
for by its use the surface can be kept
at all times oval aud smooth with lit
tle labor. Unfortunately such ma
chines are expensive, and where only
one or two are owned in a township
they ore likely to be iu use or at the
farther end of the township when
most needed. The use of the roller
should not be neglected; a heavy rol
ler should follow the road grader at
all times.—American Agriculturist.
Stable Hints.
Let the horse have some exercise
every day, otherwise he will be liable
to disease.
Never dust a horse in his stable.
The dust fouls the crib and makes
him loathe his food.
When cool, dry and willing to eat
let him have his oats aud stand by
while he consumes it.
Let the heels be well brushed out
every night. Dirt, if allowed to cake
iu, causes grease and sore heels.
Look often at the animal's feet and
legs. D.sease or wounds iu those
parts, if at all neglected, soon become
dangerous.
Use the currycomb lightly; when
used roughly it is a source of great
pain. To tine skinned horses it should
i.ever be applied.
When a horse is washed never leave
him till he is rubbed quite dry and
bandaged all louud. He will probably
get a chili if neglected.
When a horse comes in from a
journey the first thing is to walk him
about till coo!, if he is brought in hot.
This prevents him taking cold.
The next morning, after your horse
has come home tired aud wearied, let
h s legs be weil rubbed by the baud.
Nothing so soon removes soreness.
It also detects thorns or splinters,
soothes the animal and enables hiiu
to feed comfortably.
The Dext thing is to groom him
quite dry, first with a wisp of straw,
and then with a brush. This removes
dust, dirt and swei) 1 , and allows time
for the stomach to recover itself and
the appetite to return. It also re
freshes the animal. If he has been
fasting long, give him a small quar
tity of hay during grcomiug.