A A A A a A A A. A. A. A TFOR FARM AND 6ABDEN.I Weeds Along: Walks. The best way to kill out weeds on the edge of a gravel walk Is to sow on a lot of cheap salt as soon as the weeds appear In the spring. The same treat ment can be used where weeds grow up between the boards of a wooden walk. Proper Shoe* for Horses. The weight of shoes Is too great upon alt classes of horses except the trotter. There is a theory that heavy shoes last longer than light ones, and the theory appears to be plausible, but it is not also true, as has been shown In a number of cases. All that a shoe is for, except there is ice. Is to prevent the wear of the walls, and a light shoe will do that as well as a heavy one. Of course a heavy horse needs a heavier shoe than a light horse does, but because of the in creased concussion which the heavy shoe necessitates a lighter shoe than that with which the heaviest horses are shod, would be betted. Care of Ilena In the Summer. Try to keep the hens cool for very hot weather is not good laying weath er. The hot hours should be passed by the hens under a shade. If hens are confined give them plenty of green grass or tops of vegetables. Do not stint the poultry on pure cold water. Fowls need water even when they have plenty of milk. Do not feed much corn meal in very hot weather. When hens are laying they need plenty of food. Laying does not Indicate health for even a sick hen will lay in the spring. When hens have been lay ing all winter, they should have a rest in the spring, if they can l>e made to take it. Kale Is excellent for poultry- Breeders should test the fertility of every egg before sending It out. When chicks become chilled they will have bowel trouble. Danger tn Green Sorghum. Science is up the stump. She ea'i't find out why green sorghum should to so quickly fatal to cattle, says an ex change. Sorghum rapidly is coining into favor as a forage crop. Owing to tilt; large yields obtainable and to Its high feeding value, stockmen arc beginning to depend upon this crop for fodder and roughage. But l'atali ties in herds pastured on the the growing cane are frequently reported. With the increased use oT this crop for forage there has followed an in crease in the number of fatal cases. Cases are recorded of cattle dying within five minutes after entering a sorghum rvigturp. The true reason for * tbfs fatal effect is not known, but many stockmen believe it may l>o found in the presence on the leaves of the cane of poisonous fungi. One Nebraska farmer was driving his cow across a small strip of cane, and no fore the animal had gone more than a few rods she dropped, and in a few minutes she was dead. Another cow that was killed by green soi ilium had eaten only one stalk, apparently, and that was still in her throat. The -Ne oraska agricultural experiment station nas analyzed stalks of green sorghum that, being partly eaten by cattle, h id killed them. It found none of the com mon known vegetable poisons except ing a small quantity of oxalic ac*.d that could not be fatal. Skill in the Garden. The gardeners work depends more upon skill than upon strength. Tin grub hoe, the pick and the breaking up plow for new land need to be strong', but in the garden a light tool in good condition will make the work easi»r and accomplish more than the heavy tool. Keep the hoes sharp and the teeth of the cultivator and horse hoe down to a cutting edge, and good points on the plows, and keep every thing clean and blight, so that dirt will not adhere to them to double their weight and lessen their efficiency. The light tool may not last as long as the heavy one and if it seems to be using up the hoe very fast to grind it every day, at least it is better to wear out several hoes than one man or hoy. Many a boy has become disgusted with farm work and witli tlie farm itself, simply because lie was given wornout tools to work with, which had been comdcmincd as unfit for a good work man to use. Put such tools into the junk heap, or lay them away to be used only in cases of extreme emergency, and give the boys good tools and teach them how to use them and take care of them, and even if they do spoil them by not knowing how to use them, It will be better tlian spoiling the boys. We remember when our fathers' bought us a new hoe. small and light, suitable for a boy, and in showing us how to use it he found It work so we'l and easily that it was not long before lie had a new one himself.—American Cultivator. New Way of branding. Almost any humane person would be glad to know of some way of branding which would not be so cruel as many of the old methods. It seems that Walter A. Cameron of Stacy, Mont., has invented an instrument to be used with an indelible fluid instead of burning. It would seem that it would be an effective and permanent marking and probably as convenient, or more so than most ot the old meth ods. )Tlie branding instrument, as do ( scrlbed by the Scientific American, i consists of two levers pivoted together 1 and provided with jaws. On the low- er Jaw a soft metal Impression blocK is secured, and on the upper jaw a block is carried, having a chamber communicating by means of a tunc with a reservoir containing the indeli ble fluid. The tube incloses a plunger operated from the upper lever and is provided with lateral ports at its upper and lower ends. The lower ports per mit the fluid to flow into the cham bered block when the plunger" is raised and the upper ports permit the liquid above the plunger to be forced back into the reservoir. Symbol carrying plates are removably secured to the ! chambered block. The symbols consist of letters, fig ures or other characters, and arc formed of tubular pins. In using the instruments the levers are used to sep arate the jaws. By reason of this mo tion the plunger will be drawn upward to permit the liquid from the reservoir to flow into the chamber. After plac ing the Impression block carried by the lower jaw against the outer side of the animal's ear the levers are operated to force the tubular pins into the ear, thereby causing the plunger to inject the liquid into the wound. "A spring within the tul>e holds the plun ger normally below the lower ports, so that the liquid will not escape when tl.u device is. not in use Cora of Transplanted Tree*. • I Enough cannot be said in favor 01 i mulching trees as soon as they are ! plain? d. It is all important to protect the roots from the effect of evapora tion for at least six months after plant ing. The small libers must be allowed to form and get a good hold of the soil, and large feeding roots must be able to reach out, so as to make sure of a supply of food and drink for the growth that takes place in limbo. It is not enough to pour on water irom above. 'I his, of course, must be uoTit in very dry weather, but an irregular supply of this sort does not meet the demands of the roots. Cover the sou so far as it has been disturbed by tne spade with a layer of three or four inches of coal ashes, «r sawdust, or loose strawy manure. Avoid using rich and raw manure. Tanbark is in some cases available, and where noth ing else can be obtained use weeds ot fresh cut hay. This application will retain the moisture in the soil, and, what is equally important, will keep the roots at an equalized temp.-iature. Without a mulch, the more you pour on water the more liable the ground is to baking and becoming impervious to a natural circulation of moistuie. Above all. avoid sprinkling the t-oil with a slight supply of water. The care ot trei s. for the first year after setting, consists in pinching out every bud that starts out of place. Be sides keeping out the superfluous shoots, in October cut back the year's growth one-third to one-half. Some people advocate pinching in the growth during summer, in order to retard the flow of sap and hasten the formation of fruit buds. This can be done, but in the production of healthy, long uvea trees, it is unwise. By following these simple rules, any one can make a suc cess of tree planting. It is very sel dom that trees come from any nursery in such a condition that tliey will not thrive under this management.—E. P. I'., in the New York Tribune. Compact Betlilem. Not only the bedding plants that an* well started into growth when trans planted to their summer borders, but especially the annuals, will be vastly improved if they have a systematic "pinching back" at this season. I'low er beds are often noticed which are too large for the number of plants placed in them; this gives a bare un pleasant appearance to the beds until late in the summer when the plants have thrown out enough branches to cover up the spaces. A smaller bed moderately close and compact is much more satisfactory and effective. A great deal can be done however, to improve a l»ed that appears slightly bare at first, by slightly pinching back. By pinching out the tiny leaves and centre of each shoot (not taking off slips'), tlie plants will soon throw out new branches; and when these new branches attain two inches or less in length they may also in turn be pinched out, and in this way each plant will become quite bushy and cover more space. To keep up vigorous growth give the j beds a top-dressing of fine manure, which will also act as a mulch to the plants and be of great benefit to them. Do not let the soil become hard; it should bo stirred frequently to keep the plants in good growing condition, and with this slight care the bedding plants will soon become compact and filled with blooming branches that will keep up a continual display of summer and fall Tjloom. To be successful with the summer bloomers practical common sense will be more satisfactory than all the luck theories. Many professed lovers of flowers cling to the fallacy that suc cess in the culture of plants is purely a matter of "luck." They think that "flowers always grow for some folks," while others "never have a bit of luck" with them. Tills theory should be ex ploded as speedily as possible. It has no foundation, in fact, it is purely fal lacious. Luck rarely has any part in the successes of life, and it has little to do with success in the culture of flowers. Success in this direction Is n question of unceasing watchfulness. Industry and information, with a mix ture of common sense. As men do not grow figs of tliistl's, nor gather grapes of thorns, neither do they grow flowers of weeds, nor gathei bouquets among the sticks and stones of an uncared flower garden.—Phil adelphia lteeord. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. Cleaning Brasswork. Chased brass goods are easily eleanefl In this way: Wash in hot soap and water and dry thoroughly. Cut a lemon in half and with it rub the brass. When it looks clean, rinse in warm water, dry and then polish well witb a chamois leather. Chased work should never be cleaned with any kind of powder. One Way to Clean a Dress. By the exercise of consiaeraoifc judgment and patience a nice uress may be cleaned without taking it apart. To cleanse a challls trimmed witn mce aud silk, soak it overnight in soap bark and cold water, and wasu it next morning in the same, being sure to rinse it thoroughly. It can t>e like any other goods, but it requires in genuity to get at all the out of the way places. The Style in Tapeatrlea. The taste for tapestry Is til* craze of the hour. They are used for every purpose under the sun that house furnishings can afford. Seats and chair backs, composed of small squares, reproducing in text stitch the paintings of Lanier and Wouveruian. are the latest for drawing rooms, witl curtains and carpets to match. A new plan in library, dining room or liviug rooms decorations shows a straight band of tapestry on either side, framing the window, while across the top, framing these, there is a straight cross baud of Henry II style They are lined in some heavy textile to match the color scheme of the room A Novelty In Furniture. Another piece of furniture has m last been added to mademoiselle's pretty bedroom. It finds its way tc the chamber of the matron also. It is known as the shirt waist box, and is a handsome addition to the room, be sides being extremely useful. It is a capacious box fitted with brass niuges and lids, but lias no lock or Key. it is about three quarters ot a yard in length, stands half a yard nigh, anu is j of about that breadth. It is covered with pretty cretonne, pink or uu.e flowered with dog wood blossoms, or some other pretty design, it is ueativ lined to match. You can have your shirt waist box covered to match the upholstery oi your room. The Children** Luncheons The preparation of the school lun elieon basket should occupy more time or at least more thought, than it usually does. It is impossible for little ones to attend properly to their studies if they I lack substantial and appetizing food. There ure any number of dainty, ap i petizing sandwiches to lie made from 1 leftovers. Preserved fruit, chopped and mixed with a teaspoonful of sweet cream, is an excellent filling for a sandwich. A scant teaspoonful of mayonnaise spread upon bread aud butter, with flaked fish left from the breakfast table is delicious. Mayon naise can also be mixed with chopped chicken or cold lamb, with a b:t of ! chopped celery added. Cream cheese ! mixed with chopped nuts makes one of ' the best kinds of sandwich tilling. When there are desserts to lie made — puddings, custards 01 pies—one baked I in n small disli will serve as a dessert | for the little student's luncheon. Fruit is always desirable. lCeclpes. Chop six onions, boil 20 minutes in a pint of salted water, drain, anu put in a bowl with a teaspoon! ul ot pepper. Stir together, putin spooimus on not buttered toast and garnish with b..ces of hard boiled egg. Roast Ducklings—Draw clean and singe a pair of young ducks, rut a teaspoonful of butter Inside ot cam one; putin a baking pan, add uait a cupful of water and a teaspoonful of salt: set in a hot oven for a hail-hour and baste every ten minutes. Dixie Foam—Two cupfuls of thick cream whipped stiff and seasoned Wuu one cupful of powdered sugar and one halt' teaspoonful of extract of almonds. Beat into it six slices of pineapple cut Into small pieces and half a pound of stoned California cherries. Serve with lady lingers or wafers. Tomato Jelly Salad—To one [tint of the juice drained from canned t irna toes add half a teaspoon of salt and a fourth one of pepper, a t aspoonful of chopped onion and two cloves, and cook slowly for a quarter of an nour. Add half a box of gelatin soaked in a little cold water, stir, take rrom tne fire and strain Into a border moid rinsed out in cold water. \\ hen tne jelly is solid turn it out on a platter. With the scallops mix half a cup of mayonnaise and pour in the center. Old Fashioned Gingerbread— I To make good gingerbread first in sist upon having dark molasses. Being provided with the proper kind of mo lasses, the recipe given below should be carefully followed, and tile material mixed in the order stated: One cup of molasses, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful ginger, one lialf cup of butter, softened (less if cream is used); one cup sour milk or cream, three cups pastry flour (less of any new process flour), one full, not heaping, teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water; bake in one large or two medium-sized loaf tins about -10 minutes. Tlic Will and the Way. Nell—lt's simply impossible for a gin to love more than one man at a time. Bess—Of course it is; but there is nothing to prevent several men from loving one girl St tku BJHBe time.— Chicago News. A Tonch of Trouble. Captain Rankin, of the Gaieten, storm-tossed on Long Island Sound, hated Captain Frazier, of the Nor walk, a rival boat, and Captain Frazier hated him. A writer in Foward tells how the enemies suddenly became friends. The storm, it appears, had broken the Galatea's shaft. The phips came within hailing dis tance. "Shall we sprtik the Norwalk, sir?" asked the second officer. "Not if we can help It, sir," respond ed the skipper. But the Indecision on the Galatea was dismissed with a zizzag sigoal coming from the Norwalk's mainmast. "What's the trouble?" It read. Then the Galatea signalled the reply, "Shaft broken—unmanageable." "Shall I take off your passengers and crew?" asked the Norwalk. "Can't tell yet," w.as the reply. The next sentence that glimmered from the Norwalk's signal-lights fur nished the Inspiration for a hymn that has been sung all over Christendom. It was, "I'll stand by until the morn ing—subject to your command." The next night the two rivals rode into port together, the disabled Gala tea being towed by the belated Nor walk. After their passengers and cargoes (had been discharged, Captain Rankin walked over to the Norwalk's pier, where Captain Frazier was giving or ders. "Goin' up-town, Frnz?" he asked. "B'lieve I am, Rankin," answered Frazier. So the two grizzled sea-dogs, who had not spoken to each other for years, strolled up-town arm in arm, firmly re-establishing a friendship so long endangered by business rivalry.— Youth's Companion. Mark Twain Aivheeling. Mark Twain seems to have recounted to some one a story about a wheel ride from Hertford to Boston. The trip is one that is made by many cyclers dur ing the summer, but Clemens evidently was unaccustomed to long rides at the time he undertook the journey. The Christian Endeavor World says that the humorist started with his friend, Joseph 11. Twichell. Twain had noti fied a mutual friend at Boston oft lie proposed ride, and the latter was pre pared to receive and entertain them at a certain time. After pedaling twelve or fifteen miles, Twain and Twichell became uncommunicative. They had started early in the morning aud the day was an ideal one for riding. The road was good and the scenery fine, but each seemed to be waiting for the other to propose something. The silent ped illng went on until a railway sta tion came into view and Twain sug gested that it would be quite a joke to take a train the rest of the way and surprise their waiting host by getting in ahead of time. This seemed to be the suggestion of a joke for which the other was waiting, so the pair took a train to Boston. Their host was sur prised. He said: "You have made fast time, haven't you?" "O, pretty good for novices," replied Twain. "What time did you leave nartford?'' asked the host. "At 7 a. m.," replied Mark, with care ful intouation. "And do you mean to say that you have wheeled all the way here since tlieu?" • Twain answered deliberately and with great calmness: "No, but we wheeled far enough to demonstrate that it could be done." Why Women Get Along Together. Women always can get along to gether, because, if they haven't any thing else in common, they can always compare their neighbors.—New York l'ress. & Every spring you clean the house you l ■- live in, to get rid of the dust and dirt which collected in the winter. Your body, the house your soul lives in, also becomes filled l e Jp5F gjSpi up during the winter with all manner of Ws' filth, which should have been removed from day today, but was not. Your body needs cleaning inside. If your bowels, your liver, your kidneys are full of putrid filth, and you don't clean them out in the spring, / 112 you'll be in bad odor with yourself and / everybody else all summer. V»WE DON'T USE A HOSE to clean your I L. I body inside, but sweet, fragrant, mild but vvv 1 |r J positive and forceful , CASCARETS, that vS\ work while you sleep, prepare all the filth iP\ \ collected in your body for removal, and drive it off softly, gently, but none the less surely, leaving your blood pure and nourishing, your stomach and bowels clean and lively, and your liver and kidneys healthy and active. % Try a JO-cent box today, and if not satisfied get your money back —but you'll see how the cleaning of your body is wade easy by - CATHARTIC 25c! H DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. . Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper., , «B A Maryland Snake Story. The latest authentic snake story is from North Glenwood farm, near Eas ton.one of the country places in Talbot County, Md. The other (lay a big blacksnalte was seen emerging from an ice pond. It was killed. A pro tuberance was noticed about the mid dle. The snake was chopped in two, and a porcelain turkey nest egg rolled out. Captain Noble Robinson was tenant on the farm last year. Mrs. Robinson raised turkeys, using china nest eggs in their nests. She says that fourteen months ago she missed the nest egg from a nest near the ice pond. She supposed a boy who had the range of the meadow had taken it. When the egg from the snake was shown to Mrs. Robinson she identified it as one she had lost by a certain incised mark upon it. The snake had carried the china egg fourteen months in his vermiform appendix, apparently without having appendicitis. But he must have thought very hard of it, and that it was very singular that It could not be digested. Marketing In Paris. One of the chief things you will have to battle with in your French house hold is the principle of caste, and the next is the sou in the franc. Your cook does your marketing, and for every franc she spends she gets one sou. Human nature being what it is, it is quite unnecessary to add that the good cook loves togo only where she will spend many francs, and her sous will he proportionate. I have never heard of but one woman in Paris who did her own marketing, and she was a penurious but wealthy person, who put on a long ulster and carried things home under it herself. One day, just as she passed a courtly Frenchman of the old school, a leg of mutton dropped and rolled over on the sidewalk. He picked it up and handed it to her. "Madam, here is your fan," was all he said.—Harper's Bazar. Remarkable Long Fishes. The most famous of the lung fishes is the climbing perch of India, that lias often been found several feet up the mangroves. These animals migrate overland when their own streams fail and are captured in great numbers by the natives, to whom they are great delicacies. Ceylon has several species of them. The island is dotted over with bogs; of thick, chocolate colored mud. covered by a sod of reeds and grasses, and this mud teems with fish. The Cingalese clear off a space and wait till the fish come up to fill up their air bladder, when they catch thein in strong dipnets. Sir .Tolin Bowring says that some lung fishes in Slam go as much as three miles from water, and that they have been seen flapping over a dusty road. JelUO, tlic New Dessert Pleases nil the family. Four flavors: — Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 cts. Russian soldiers are supplied with handkerchiefs at the expense of the Gov ernment. To Cure a Cold In On* Day. Take I.AXATIV< BROMO QUININB TABLIT*. All druggists refund the money If it falls to curs. B. W. Gaovi'i signature Uon each box. 35a A tree is always rooted to the spot, and yet it leaves every spring. Don't drink too much water when ey eliner. Adams' Pepsin Tutti Frutti is an excellent substitute. A telegram may be paid for in advance, but nevertheless it goes 011 tick. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchlldrtn teething, softens the kuins, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottlf. Even the man with a thin voice may in dulge in heavy conversation. rIENSIOfr^XSKSfR'S 112 Successfully Prosecutes Claims. LatePrlnclpal ExaminerU.S. Pension Bureau. 3yrsin civil war. 15 adjudicat iu« claims, atty aiuco nPfIP.CY NEW DISCOVERT; (ire. I WP ■ quick relief and care* worst •um- Book of testimonials and lO days' treatment hn. a*, a. a. luu'noii. >u a. iiiuu. as. UA ID by run- S I inin ning your J JI fingers through it? |j [§ Does it seem dry and A y lifeless?. . | > Give your hair atl r i chance.** Feed it. #1 h The roots are not V dead; they are weak 1Z I because they are el Tf starved —that's all. ff Mr,mm P- wair vigor 112 llf you, don't want I s . Syour hair to die use I i Ayer's, Hair Vigor I once a day. It males V the hair grow, stops [; falling, and cures dan- I druff. I $ It always restores W color to gray or faded fj i hair; it never fails. L SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. V l ! " One bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor ft ■ stopped my liair from falling out, K ► ana started it to grow again nicely." m r JULIUS WITT, WW j March 23,1899. Canova, S. Dak. [A •J "Ayer's Hair Vigor completely |J i cured me from dandruff, with which IV \ I was greatly afti icted. The growth of mm t A my hair since its use has been some- Jft 1 } J LENA G.CRKENE, fcl M April 13,1899. New York, N.T. wM 5 If you do not obtain all the benefits < 3 vou expected from the use of the Hair I w Vigor, write the Doctor about it. I J If DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. LIB MALARIA Chills and Fever, Fever and Ague Conquered. Railway's Ready Relief Not only cures the patient seized with this terrible foe to settlers in newly-settled dis tricts, where the Malaria or Aguo exists, but if people exposed to it will, every morn ing on getting out of bed, take twenty or thirty drops of the Bendy Belief in a glass of water, and eat, say, a cracker, they will escape attacks. This must be done before going out. There is not a remedial agent in the world that will cure Fever and Ague and nil other malarial, bilious and other fevers, aided by Badway'a Pills, so quickly as Sold by all Druggists. RADWAY & CO., 55 Elm St., N. Y. Inmpi Jfc STOPPED FREI I ■ Permanently Cured b» ■ ■ m DR. KLINE'S GREAT I I w nerve restorer ■ No Kit* after Aral day'a use. ■ Compilation, personal or b* mail; trfatiae an 4 S*4 TRIAL, BOTTLE FllBB to Fit patienla who pay expreaaage only on delivery. Permanent Curt, not only temporary relief, for all JVer- VOUM Ditordert. Kpilepav, Spaama, St. Vitna' Dance, Debility, Exhaustion. Dfe. R. 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