W0LVES OF 'THE SEA. From duk until dawn they are hurrying on, Unfettered and fearlene thry flee; From morn until ere they plunder and thieve The hungry white wolvea of the seat With never a rent, thev rare to the wet, To the Orient's rim lo liter run; Jly the her and the floe of the northland they ' ... And away to the i!e of the aim. Thry wail at the moon to the dentate dune Till the air has grown dank with their lirenth; Tlipy narl at the stars from the treacher ous bars Of the coaiti that are haunted ly death. They aranp'o and bile in a keen, mad de light A lliey feed on the liosnm of grief; And one atcals away to a envc with bil prey And one to the rocka of the reef. With the froth on their lip thry follow the fthiptt. Each striving to lev! in the chaac: .Since looted by the hand of the king their hand They have known but the rank of the race. They are h:ic:((V and old, yet as mighty and bold M y.-hon God's fiedicat gale act them free; Not a enil is unfurled in a port of the world But is prey for the wolves of the sen! TUcrbert Jt.-.slifor.l. i:i Flank Leslie's Popular Monthly. TAKING HIS ADVICE. I Mil. SHELDON wn tho principal merchant In the important manufacturing (t town of Torniont. Ih wan proud of hl.s wealth, lint he was still more proud of tlii fMct that he had made it nil himself, unci hi pride was greatest because he had made it by never allowing miybody to get ahead of 111 tn . "That's the secret of success In life, Harry," he said, one day, to his fa vorite clerk. "Sharp1 the motto, If you wish to rise. I , don't mean yon should cheat; that, of course, Is both wrong uud ungentlonianty." (Mr. Sheldon prided himself, also, on belug what he called, "n gentleman," nud above nil little meannesses.) "But always be wide-awake, and never lot anybody cheat you. I've noticed, by the bye, that you've seemed rather downhearted lately. If It's because you've your fortune yet to make, don't despair; but follow my advice. An opening will come at some time for soim-thlng better than a clerkship, nud though I shall be sorry to lo.-e you. yet I'll Rive you up, if it's for your Interest." "Thank you." said Harry, apparent ly not n bit cheered up by this cool way of belli;,' told be had nothing to expect from Mr. Sheldon: "but It's not exactly that. I suppose I shall get along somehow." "What is It. my dear boy, then? I really take an Interest in you, as yon know" and lie did. so far as words were concerned, "rcrluips I can give you some advice." "Well," said Harry, with somu hesi tation, "I'm In love, and " "In love!" exclaimed the richvmerch nnt. "In love, ami with only n clerk's salary to marry ou. It will never do never do, Harry. Mir.'ringo for one like you Is fastening a millstone round your ueck, unless, indeed" and he stopped, ns If u bright thought had struck hltu "unless. Indeed, the girl Is rich." "She Is rich, or will be, I suppose," nuswered Harry, "for her father Is a wealthy mau. Uut that's Just the dif ficulty. Her father would never let her marry u poor man, nud she won't marry without his consent." "What n miserable tyrant!" unlit Mr. Sheldon. "If I was the lover. Harry. I'd run off with her. I'd checkiuato the old curmudgeon in that way," nud he chuckled at the Im aginary triumph be would achieve. " Ton my soul, I would! I never, as I told you. let anybody take a rise out of me." "But would that be honorable';" "Honorable? Isn't everything fair In love and war'.' I thought you had some pluck, Harry. How I should like to see the stingy old hulk rave nnd stamp about on his gouty toes for lie must bo gouty when ho heard of your elopement'." And he lunched till his portly sides shook at the picture ho had conjured up. "He'd probably never forgive me," said Harry, dejectedly. "And then what could I do, with n wife brought up to every luxury, nud only u poor clerk's salnry to support her ou?" "Never forgive you? Trash and non sense! They always do forgive. They nn't help It. Besides." with a con fidential wink. "I think I know your tuiiu. It's that sklulllnt , Meadows, l'vo hoard of your being sweet ou his daughter. She's a pretty tnlux, though she Is his child. .Oh. you needn't deny II. I saw how you hung nbout her nt our party the other night; and when I Joked about It with my daughter the next morning she ns good as admitted that it was true, saying It would be n very good match, for you. Now, I owo old Meadows a grudge. Ho tried to do mo In those railway shares last winter, and I mean to pay him for it, somehow. I tell you what 1 11 do. I inusu't ask, mind you, who the girl Is. Mum must be tho word. I mustn't, of course, be known lu the affair; but I'll give leave, of ubsencfi for a month, and a check for 50 to pay (or your weddlnic trip if you'll make a runaway match.' Is it agreed? Well, there'H my band ou It. Here's the chock. Egad! Won't the old rascal howl when he hours now we've dime him!" Harry seemed to hesitate, however nud it was not till Air. Sheldon, eager i ce uis old commercial rival put At a disadvantage, hud urged him K"ln nud again, and' promised to Btimd by him. that ho fiuully consent 's, aud took the eheck which hi em ployer persisted iu forcing upon him. 1 '10 next mnrnlnn si-. . . In ,Ibu glee, for . i ''iieV him Just as he .was shaving, ..,, vu, ng fouws. ''uk'ur H'"' 1 'vo. with much dllll- ' ' i'unur,i her t. elope. It wag ever, tin i ..ed her your u cu llllt Hilv vou(J VUUHsUt t(J di) 0 She said that she was sure you wov.M not recommend anything Mint wnt i wrouj; Hint you. ftrotild advise her at If 7011 were her own father, and she hope you will stand by us. We shall j be married to-morrow, before Mr. I Meadows Is up. Very thnnkfully, "Harry Conrad." The old geiitleinnti brought the no: with hiiu to the table, opeued II out before him, adjusted his spectacles and read It over and over ngnln. I "I'd give a 10 note." he said chuckling, "to see the old fellow' face when he hears how Harry has done him." I It wns Hip custom of Mr. Sheldon' to read his newspaper nt breakfast,! while waiting for bis only child and I daughter, who. n little spoiled by j overindulgence, was generally late. But this morning Matty was Inter ' than ever. The banker bad rend all the foreign, ns well as the home news, and even reperused Harry's note and still she had not made her appearance. "J he lazy puss!" he said, nt last. I Then he looked up at the clock. "Half , an hour late! Now, this Is really too bad. John!" be cried, addressing the j man servant at the sideboard, "send i.nil see why Miss Sheldon doesn't , conip down. Tell her." with a severe air. "I'm tired of waiting." John came back In nbout five min utes looking very much flustered. "If you please, sir." he stammered, Miss Sheldon's mil In her room, and the maid says that the bed looks as It It hadn't been slept In all night." The rich merchant's Jaw fell. He started up, w'.Hi 11 cry of agony. to go and see. Bill he wns prevente 1 by the footman appearing at the door with a telegrnm. 'A telegram!'' cried the merchant. unfolding It with trembling hands. "What can It mean? Has she been found dead anywhere?" This wan the telegram; "Dear Father Harry and I were married nt eight o'clock this morning. I would not consent to an elopement till Harry assured ir.e you had advised It, and had shown me your check ns proof. He says you promised to stand by usnnd I know you pride yourself ou never breaking n promise. We wait for your blessing. Matty." 'Well. I never!" ejaculated Mr. Shel don, wheu he had recovered breath. "The Impudent, disobe " Hut here he stopped stopped, nnd mopped his bald head, which, in bis excitement, had broken out into great drops of perspiration. He remembered that he had himself advised Harry to elope, and that. If the story got wind, he would be the laughing-stock of the town, including hardest cut of nil Mr. Meadows. He reiucriibered, too, that he had but one child, and that she was nil In all to him. So he accepted the Inevitable and telegraphed back: "You may come home, nnd the sooner the better, so ns to keep the fifty pounds for pin-money. Tell Harry he's too sharp to remain a clerk, and that I take him to-day Into partnership. Only he must remember that partners never tell tales out of school, (lod bless you! H. Sheldon." The runaways returned by the next train. The marriage proved, too, an eminently happy oue. The story never got out. We only tell It now lu con fidence. Woman s Lite. Severe Treatment. The noise made by the burglar In the Ferguson pantry, slight as It wns, dis turbed the light sleeper lu the beu- rooin not far away, nnd the midnight marauder was surprised a moment later to tiud himself covered with 0 , big revolver In the hands of a deter mined looking man iu a long, whlto robe. "I hain't done nothlu' but eat n few cold victuals, mister," stammered tho burglar. "I see," sternly replied George rer guson, "you have been eating the re mains of a strawberry shortcake my., wife made for dinner last night. Do you know what I'm going to do with you?" "Turn me over to the police, I s'pose," gasped the helpless thief. "Worse than that," said Ferguson, with a ferocious grin. "I'm going to make, you eat 11 uuart of health food. It's a new kind my wife heard of nud fixed up for us yesterday, nnd It's pretty dry eating, but you'll eat every particle' of It or I'll bore six holes through you. There It Is, lu that big bowl. Turn yourself toose on It!" With grim determination the Indig nant householder stood oVer blur till It wns finished, after which he picked up the luckless scoundrel, who had fallen exhausted to the floor, nnd threw him out of the open pantry win dow. "It may kill him," soliloquized Mr. Ferguson somewhat remorsefully, as ho crawled back Into bed, without dis turbing the rest of the family, "but a mnu who breaks Into another man': house takes his life In his bauds any way." Chicago Tribune. A Short Lived Yacht. An Inslauce of the rapid passing of n racing yacht's tiff nines Is that of the grand old Defender, the 18115 cup racer,. It coit fully $loo,0(iO to build her not to run her; Just to put her atloat ready for racing. Thoso who designed the yacht thought that a bronze hull with aluminum topside' would slide through the water with greater celerity than any other com bination of metals that could be c'.e vised for a hull. They so Inform d the syndicate tha,t ordered her. But, they added, aluminum and bronze make a poor combination, and la course of time the aluminum will rot where it Joins the bronze, uud the De fender will be useless. But what mattered that? She was to-be built t defend the cup; nfter she had de fended It she might rot or not ns she pleased.-Frunk Leslie's l'opulur Monthly. Humor of Knailsli lted-Tape. Captain Oliver Young, of the Eng lish Navy, when a lieutenant ou board Her Majesty's ship Beacon, lu the Kgyptlnn campaign, was laid up In hospital, and, being reported dead aud burled, a sloue was erected to his memory at Siiukitn, where It still re mains. It Is one of the humors of English red-tape that the- War Olllco requested his executors' to forward a guineu, the cost of engraving his uuuia upou ths sloue. .,- . SWIFT INDIAN RUNNEKS A CURIOUS RACE BY THE STRANCE TAURI MAURI TRIBE. It Wm 130 Miles lnn, anil, Inrtilmtnllr, the lueers Threw Wooden Hulls Be fore Them by Mean of Their Toea Thelr Swlftneia Surprising. Most tourists in Mexico see little of the strnnge Tliuri Mauri Indians, writes the Chihuahua correspondent of the New York Hun. The first T.mrl Mauri we saw 'was a mall carrier among the Snu Lorenzo Mountains about 120 miles south of Chihuahua. This Indian makes two round trips over a distance of clglily-flve miles twice a week, making a total of some 8 miles a week on foot. Several times, when the (loveinment had rea sons for rushing malls to their destina tion, he made even three round trips In seven nnd a half days. The route leads from (iiinrlohlc to San Jose do Ins Crues over as rugged a mountain fall as ever tried a uiouutiilueer's muscle. The Indian mnll carrier was bare headed and bnrelegged. his entire suit consisting of nbout three yards of narrow cloth woven out of goat's hair. On lite back wns a mail sack, that, with its' contents, weighed forty pounds. This wns supported by a strap across his forehead and another neross his chest. He came trottlnlg down the hill smoking n cigarette and moving as easily and gracefully ns If just Fturtlngi out. instead of having some twenty miles already to his credit that morning. As he reached the level ground In the valley he dropped a ball about the size of n baseball on the ground, and, catching It deftly 011 his toes, gave It n throw forward and raced nfter It with the speed of a deer, picking It up on hi toes nnd throw ing it forwnrd again without' iu the leatt. so far ns we could see, checking his speed. As he overtook us the ball was placed In his armpit, nnd he trotted along by the side of the mules, chatting quite sociably. The Taurl Mauri Indian carries one of these wooden balls with him every where, tucked under the armpits until he Is lu n hurry; then It Is thrown forward, and nway the owner rushes nfter it. It is their way of keeping'ln training for all the time, nnd of hur rying themselves over the ground. It Is always thrown from the toes, and never from the hand. There nrc some 4(i,(K)0 Taurl Mauri Indians iu Mexico. Twice every sum mer they meet for a sort of tourna ment. It Is a custom centuries old. It was the writer's good fortune to be present at one of these periodical as semblies among the San I.oreiizos, nbout twenty miles southwest from Chihuahua. The Taurl Mauris are long-limbed and slender, giving the Impression of being over the average height There Is scarcely any muscle on their puny arms, but their chests are deep, and their backs broad, nud their limbs ns trim nnd muscular ns a greyhound's They look as If created for speed. The great contest of the tournament was a race. The wagers of the rival towns were piled up In the centre of the plaza, nud consisted of strips of gont's-hair cloth, bows, arrows, suudals, goats, chickens, aud sheep, with two wooden plows for high prizes; but these were thrown far In the shade when some American visit ors added a cupful of copper coins, a gaudy lithograph, aud a water color palntmg of a cross surrounded with flowers. Such prizes had never been offered In the memory of the oldest Inhabitant, and the runners swore that It should be the race of their lives. In the afternoon they asked us to look over the course. To our ns touisliinent we found that It was twelve miles long and that the circuit was to be made ten times. A royal race; Indeed, of l'JO tulles. The race was to be ruu lu the night nnd con eluded In the cool of tuo next after noon. About five o'clock In the afternoon everything was ready. Ten athletes stood on tho right side of the plaza and ten .ou the left. To each sldo ouo wooden ball was allotted. The racers were dressed In native trunks of goat's hnir cloth, and many of these were discarded before the race was over. At the word both of the balU were throwu forwnrd and the twenty bounded forward nt a fcpeed that It would tax a bicyclist to keep with We thought. that such a burst of speed would soou tiro them out, but It was meant ouly for the Blurt of three miles straight away acres tho valley, Before reaching the other tide of the course tho ruumrs began cutting off the corners and racing uheud ou the oval course so us to receive and carry ou the bull of theirparty. The ball was pitched forward by the foot of the first one aud that s'.de lo reach It, and If a rlvnl could reach It first It was throwu back on the course. The-pur pose was to get the ball around the prescribed course, uo matter how, so long us It was touched only by tho feet of the phlyeru. To touch It with the hum! was to lose all bets. Tripping, crowding, and all tho rough work of football player were peiiultted to prevent au opponent from reaching or throwing tho ball. Uuu tiers were permitted to cut across the valley at a Jog trot, aud so he ready to receive the bull us it came along and then spurt wltli It. Lmpires nud Indues were rationed all over the route ito see that tiio ball was kept along the designated trai t. By seven o'clock the union came up nud the valley wus nearly uq I gilt as day Yells as fierce as uny that greet un audience nt Yale or Harvard greeted the bronze Stagg of liluucliloculc f.s he hurled the wooden sphere through the plaza, 100 feet ahead of the bull from Zapurl, ou the first trip around tho valley. The race went on all night. Far Into the afternoon they 'ran, but In a little loss than fourteen hours the bulls had made tho pn-scrlbod number of trips around the valley aud four runners on one side mid threa on the other were coming nt the top of their speed over the last thrct miles of grassy lawns toward the noni, A Hue was drawn In tho ditsi across the street at the edge of the plaza and the crowd gathered back, awaiting the victors, As they rushed toward us It wan Impossible to say which would win. But ns one runner from each side rrnched the balls one failed to catch the ball of his sldo fairly on his foot while going nt full speed nnd his throw was wenk; the other, catching the ball fairly, gave a grent bound nnd, twisting his leg ns If It were nn nnn, hurled the ball fair nnd square over the Hue and over our hen ils. How the crowd yelled, nnd how wo yelled with them, nnd how the reek ing visitors were praised and petted ns they sal down to divide their winnings! Soon after a course of nbowt ten miles wns laid out nround the town and n nice was run by the girls of the two pueblos. I.Ike their brothers, they had only the Miio sky over them nnd nbout three yards of cloth nnd the ttepubllc of Mexico nround them; but how they did run, and how they set the ball spinning! The bronze Dlnnas of Guachlorhlc won. thereby softening the defeat of their dusky brothers. DAMAGE BY TERMITES. Injury Ilnne to tlnuaea lit Hawaii hy ttio Insect. Look out for termites! The men who have been working on the altera tions lu the judiciary building have found some of the woodwork almost eaten nway by them, nnd there are whole residences In the city that will have to be actually torn down, on account of the injuries done by the insects. Termites, according to the Standard Dictionary, lire "a family of pseudo iieuropteroiis Insects with u depressed ovate body, free head, equal 1111 liibranaccous deciduous wlugs and I'oitr-joiutcd tarsi, Including white ants." An Insect with a definition like thnt ought to be able to do a good deal of damage, and the termites nre dolug It. Houses iu Honolulu that are twenty-five or thirty years old aro found to be lu need of new woodwork iu many places, nnd nt least one large residence Is nbout to bo torn down because the pestiferous Insects have ruined it by boring and hollowing out the wood. I'rofissor Koeblo and Mr. Tcrkins, of I lie local bugology bureau, have studied the termites, nud say that there Is no kuown preventive of their work. The bugs here nre of two kinds, both Imported and both thriv ing better iu the climate of Hawaii than they did in California, which was the original home of the varie ties here. When nny woodwork Is once well Infested with the termites there Is nothing to do but destroy It, say the experts. The Insects do their destructive work unseen. They never work to the surface of tho wood, but hollow It out until It Is ouly a shell thin as paper. They tackle furniture and all wooden parts of buildings. Cases have been known In which the termites, lu countries .where they prosper even more than In Huwali, have literally eaten nway buildings. In u single night they have been kuown to reduce pieces of furniture to collapse. "They nre not so bad here," said Mr. Perkins. "Why, In some places thorn hnvo been cases where a chair left over night collapsed in a heap when used In the morning, all the Inside of the wood having been bored out." The work of tho little Insects mny be seen In some of tho banisters of the Judicliiry Building nud other old structures. Dry, hard wood; such ns that used for furniture, seems to bo specially attractive to the termites. The Insects nre quite numerous in California, but nre not so destructive, the climate being less agreeable to them there. Honolulu Star. . To Mnfco V'ronch Women Taller. Word comes from Paris that tho fair I'arislennes nre consumed by a desire to rival their Anglo-Saxon sis ters lu stature, and n Furls doctor has come to the rescue with science. . He has elaborated an Ingenious pro cess by which the joints of tho nukles and knees are to be dally operated ou with au electric bulb.' Ho says that the osseous matter at the sections of the Joints will thereby bo expanded uud the growth of tho bones stimu lated. The bulb Is also to be applied to the spine. The doctor says he cau prove by successes obtained on patients who have already been lengthened that be can add two-fifths of an Inch a month during six months' operating. After six mouths tho continual treat ment Is stopped temporarily and Is resumed later If necessary. Tho patteuts should be young and supple, otherwise tho effects of stretching their joiuts might bo grave. Whatever truth there is lu the doc tor's assertions It Is certain that ho will be besieged. London Correspond ence New York 'Sun. Mont Valuable Diamond. There Is no little fiction about the famous diamonds of the wotld, and their value Is largely fictitious. They are few In number, cannot bo repro duced, are everywhere highly pilzed and can bo bought ouly by the very wealthy. Tho I'rlnee Edward of York diamond, said to have been bought by r. New York firm for SIOD.WO, la thirteenth In the list of largo diamonds ;;lven me by nu importer. Thore ate a iiozea dlffereut lists. If we may be l'.ee what Is told with straight faces, the largest of all the diamonds lu ex istence Is tho Bragauza, Its weight being uo loss thnu 1080 carats. It lit uncut, nnd It vnlue is actually set down ut $J01.050,000! It Is uow among tho crown Jewels of Portugal. It Is thought that this diamond, which Is the size of a hen's egg. Is In reality a white topu. New York Press. An Old Laud Grant. J. II. Blakeuiau brought 10 the Jour nal olllco a lund t-'ruut to property lu what was foimcrl Virginia. Tho deed Is signed by Governor Patrick Henry at Ulchmoud ou the 24th day of April, nso, aud printed on sheep nl.ln. The laud eons'uts of 230 acres, and Is uow located ou Back Creek, Garrard Couuty, tlx miles from Lan caster. Mr. Blukciiiaii got ilia deed from Jonn Saunders, who lives lu ' Garrard. Mr, Saunders married n greiit-gnindaughtcr of Llljuh Walker, lo whom tho deed 'was assigned, and who was the grandfather of Mrs. J, II, lUaUomau. The deed Is yellow with age uud the wrlilnjj barely eligible. Jessamine (Ky.) Journal; AGBICDLTDRAL Flutter a. Hood Fertiliser. Plaster Is white and clean. It does not Injure animals, not being caustic, like lime. When used In the stalls If Is an absorbent, and gives the stable a better appearance. It Is also licne ficlal In the ninuure, nnd Is of Itself a plaut food, being considered a special fertilizer for clover. Itlrh Land For Weeds. Any soil that will produce weeds Is In good condition, ns only rich land will produi some kinds of weed. One of the surest Indlcnlions of good soil Is when pig weed flourishes. As the land should not be required to pro duce two crops nt the snme time no farmer should nllow weeds to make headway at the expense of the regular crop. 8lieep Like Oxeyed Dalalea. Sheep are very fond of the oxeye daisy either as pasturage or hay, and will eat them so closely as to kill them out. In some parts of England they sow the seed of them to make n sheep pasture. Those who have fields whert- they prevail might do well to pasture them with sheep one or two soasous, then plow up and sow the seed of better grass. Wo have eradi cated them by two seasons of liberal manuring, keeping the land in hoed crops and then reseedlug, but they would come lu again ns soon as the land became poor again. Good Advice. Tempt your birds to drink only water that Is pure nnd fresh by hav ing them always well supplied In many places With Just what you want them to have. Be sure also that they have fcralu every duy to bnlancc the ration of green nnd Insect food. Itnke nnd fcurn wherever thero Is a chance. It keeps things neat and trim nnd gives four fowls a good supply of charcoal, tnaklng them have red combs and filling your egg basket. Give them all the wheat bran they want, In a dry place In such a way they can not waste It, and let them pick nt It r.s ttoey choose. It Is tho best bowel reg ulator we have ever found. Have plenty of grit. Be sure and provide feed houses for the smaller birds, so grated thnt the larger ones will not disturb them. Don't allow the drop pings to accumulate under the perches nn4 remember yon won't be npt to pamt the perches with disinfectants and lice killers too often. The little turk out on the range waut to be ex amined once In a while to be sure they n."e free from these pests also. Mrs. J. F. Knuderson, lu the Form, Field and Fireside. A nandy Fodder Sled. Hauling shocked com fodder or cane from the fields Is a hard and tedious Job where the hauling Is done with a wsgon and rack the usual method. Then, too, the tearing down of thq shock, the throwing of It upou the rack and the unloading of It again break off tho leaves and dry stems. 4 CIMAP FODDER BLED. This job Is greatly simplified and much is saved In fodder and labor If 'a sled Is built for the hauling. The runners of the sled are made of 2 by 8's sixteen feet long. The standards a at each end nre placed far enough from the ends of tho runners to bult on braces b. The cross braces, c, are made of 2 by 8's. No tonguo is re quired unless the hauling Is to be done on snow. The sled Is driven along the shock row ns near as possible to the shock, which Is tipped over onto It without breaking the tie baud. The Hied will bold from four to six large shocks. The fodder hauled In this way Is In good shape for ricking if desired, and loses little If any lu transportation. This sled conies handy In many places about the farm, saving much lifting 'on and oft wagons. New England Homestead. , . When the Cows ray. The difference between a paying aud uon-puylug dairy cow Is some times so apparently slight that it Is not noticed by tho average person. Here are two animals which look almost Identical. Both are healthy, good eaters and good milkers. But oue has a persistent tendcucy to yield just a little mere milk per day than tho other, and If anything It Is a trillo richer In butter fats. Moreover, careful observation shows that this cow keeps In milk p. little longer than the other. Now, these points could not be noted without some attempt at keeping accounts. The record of every animal on the farm should be kept Cally, and In this way compari sons can be made. Now, suppose oue cow thus gives about n quart of milk a day more than another, nnd extends the milking period over a much longer time every season. This difference added up anil converted Into dollars and cjnts would show nt tho end of tho year that one animal paid a good profit, whllo the other barely paid ex penses. This condition of affairs Is Just what can be observed on muny farms to-day. The dairymen may be ex pits in their lino, and theyi bare bought the question of cost of feed ing down to tho point where little further Improvement can be nuide. Yet there Is such a difference In the relative yield of tho animals that the profits of oue must be cut down in order to make up for the deficiencies of others. 80 extreme are these cases at times that there Is a difference of one-half some years between the ac tual profits of two dlffereut dairy cows. The difference Is due entirely to causes that can be remedied. Grant ing that both are fed tho same, and very satisfactorily aud economically. the cause of tho difference iu the yield must be found In tho cows themselves. Neatlug Arrangement. 'At stores, where candy Is sold, 0110 can buy nr a few ceutu the light, but large, wooden palls In which broken candy and certain grades of chocolates are shipped from the fac tory. These pails make excellent hens' nests when hung from two books In the manner shown In the cut' Such nests can be taken out of doors, emptied and cleaned In a mo- ill KEST FROM AK OLD VkTh. ment, and having no corners or open joints, as do boxes, there Is no place for vermin to bide nbout them. This is a special point in favor f the use of such palls as nests, for the or dinary nest Is usually a breeding place for these troublesome pests. American Agriculturist. Mottled Rutter. The mottles In butter have always beeu a source of trouble nnd vexation to butter makers and It mattered not how much care was used In treating tho milk nud churning the butter, those tantalizing and cussword starter mottles would persist lu developing In the finished butter. There are many causes for mottling and we will begin with the bag of the cow, for In warm climates or lu warm weather when the cow In the evening, with the bag very full of milk. Is driven a long distance from the pas ture to the milking pen, the jostling of the bag will often cnuse particles of butter to be churned In the bng and milked out Into the milk pall and mixing with cnselne and causing what nre often called cream spots In the butter when the milk or cream Is churned. The same cause of mottling Is pro duced by hauling the milk or cream for some distance In the stands, caus ing a partial churning of the milk and the formation of batter particles on the milk, which, becoming coated or mixed with caseine, causes white cream spots or specks to for.m, and which follows Into the butter, causing mottles, especially in the gathered cream creameries. These results will often follow even in the use of the centrifugal separ ator, but are of not so frequent occurrence- The "chief cause" of mottled, streaked nnd wavy butter Is supposed to be due to the salt used In packing and salting the butter. There never wns a more Ignorant and fal lacious notion than this, which can be easily demonstrated by using nny established brand of fine snlt and us ing distilled water for washing the butter, and It will then be found that It Is. the mineral substances la the natural waters that cause the streak ing and the waving In the butter. The pure salt Is "chloride of sodi um" and is the greatest preserver and seasoning of butter and has no ob jectionable flavor or action when com bined with it, but the many mineral waters especially prevalent in this country are the great enemies of both flavor and uniform color In the but ter. The special enemies, both of color and flavor, are the sulphates, especial ly of iron; and lime, tho "oxide of calcium," producing what are called the hard waters nnd which are very common In the Western States; cop peras and alum waters pre alsa very commoa. . Thore Is a remedy or rather pre vention of mottling In butter which Is soon to come, nnd that is a distilling machine In each creamery, which cau bp operated ut small expense to fur nish distilled water to wash the butter with, nud then there will be no further cause to condemn the salt when the evil has been distilled from the wato"1 Produce Commission Merchant. Short and Useful Pointers. Ducks do better on soft succulent food. It's the hens that are kept scratch ing that lay the eggs. The cow stable and the milk-room should not be together. There Is no loss whatever In send ing clean eggs to market. A change of feed Is oftentimes a good thing for a milch cow. Improper feeding Is the cause of ninety per cent, of the horse diseases. Too many farmers fall to see the Im portance of watering their stock properly. The pig. In order to turn In the most profit, should have us few setbacks as possible. Hens can't shell out the eggs unless they have something to make the shells out of. It's the pigs that have the run of tt:s pasture that are the healthy and profitable ones. The dally ration of tho farmer's family should contain tuoru fresn eggs and poultry. ' While planning your land for the different crops to be ' grown next spring be sure to rotate. No matter bow much farm work these is to be done, It will pay big to give at least some attention to the hens. Don't give the milch cow water to drluk that Is ice cold., It is said that cows prefer warm water even in sum mer. Keep the houses dry In Which the stock are confined. Dampness will do more harm than a low tempera ture. This ought to be a good time to buy thoroughbred stock, as breeders do not tare to winter too uiuuy ani mals. The bens will appreciate a few t'honnod onions, and lu most cases will pay well for them iu the shui j of eggs. 7 " 1 Hot Petroleum For Bond Maklojr California has discovered a newr method of making good roads. It Is hi the use of hot, crude petroleum as cementing material. The art of rood making Is proba My more Important than an other one of man's accomplish meats. It Is only In recent years that Americans, outside of a few of th older settlements, have begun to ap preciate the full commercial and so-, clal ndvantages of good roads, and to encourage their building through lib eral appropriations of public monejr from State, county and township treasuries. No sooner wns such work begun than there arose serious questions in many localities as to what material wns best for the local production of good roads. Where stone was cheap nnd plenti ful It naturally became the accepted rond-maklug material, but even iu such sections a stone rond Is not al ways the most satisfactory. Earth roads, made of sand or gravel, which contain good cementing material, such ns proper ndmixtures of loam, clay or Iron ores, make roads much smoother and more pleasant to drive over whllo not so likely to be unpleasant front dust. Such roads are much cheaper to build, for hardly a locality can bo found which does not contnln somo bandy bed of fair road-making ma terial. In many sections the natural soil is all that Is needed to make good roads for fair weather use. Such roads, however, are sure to suffer under tha stress of winter rains nnd frosts and summer droughts, and break up badly. Such was the situation In Fresno when the working of California's new oil find made petroleum cheap and suggested Its use on tho roads. The idea probably came from the use of petroleum refuse on railroad tracks to keep down dust. Using the petroleum) bot is a new idea. 1 The hot oil cements the sand, loam, clay and gravel nnd makes the road bed both dustless and waterproof. It makes the roadbed material pack un der a heavy use and its qualities Im prove as the doses of oil are repeated. Reports from San Bernardino Coun ty say that 180 barrels of oil a year arc used per mile of road, and that even at $1.10 a barrel the oil Is found cheaper than sprinkling with water for keeping down the dust, while all its other advantages are, as It were, throwu in. New York Journal. ISnlldlng Good Jtoada. State Engineer Bond Is the execu tive head of the good roads movement In New York. It Involves a vast amount of hard work, but he is Inter ested In It personally to such a degree that the labor of traveling nbout the State and Inspecting the roads under Improvement or of drawing up the plans for improving the roads here in Albany Is done with pleasure and zest. "The good road, the trolley, the au tomobile, the bicycle and the locomo bile," he said a few days ago, "will de stroy the anarchist party, for they will take the worklngman out of the city, Into the country and give him a pleas ant home. Those blocks of tenement houses In New York, we shall all hope, will In time be superseded by the man ufactory and other business concerns, and the underground road, the trol leys, automobiles, the good roads and the bicycles will enable the working man to live five miles in the country." "Will you expend the $420,000 ap propriated 'by the Legislature Chls year for good oads?" Mr. Boud was asked. . , 1 iGfii') "Yes. every penny of it. I have Just been down to Newburg to have a chat with Governor Odell concerning the Improvement of the roads and other subjects relative to the work of this department. The Itoad Improvement Company, organized by Edward II. Harrlmau, which bus the contract for Improving the roads of Orange Coun ty, has already expended $14,000 on -rond improvement machinery. We nre building and improving dirt road for fourteen miles west of Newburg. I told the Governor It was an experi ment. I don't know whether such a road will last. Where we can we put gravel on such a road. The cost of the Orange County roads will not be over $1500 a mile." . ... . A Toorly Matched Team. In their xeal for automobile pro gress or for good roads ardeut auto mobllists and good roads advocates, as wo all should be, are constantly coupling two movements of very une quul natural speed. Tho tortoise and the hare are'uarnessed under the same yoke, iu the hope that the good roads tortoise, built for slow progress, may be accelerated somewhat by Its more rapid compnulon. The Improvement of roads Is pronounced absolutely es sential for automobile advancement, a dictum to which the American auto mobile builder and user will not sub scribe. Though obvious. It seems to be overlooked that spry automobillsni endowed with a natural energy to overcome all obstacle by Its own In herent vitality, must needs suffer un der the drag of a running uiato which is destined to crawl s,lowly over preju dice, financial obstructions aud official dllatorines. Automobile Topic. " , A Broadenlnc Iafluaoeo. Man is a social being. Soclubillty is broadening and should be culti vated. The city and the country have, unfortunately for both, only a bowing acquaintance. Lack of social Inter course, which leaves room for the growth of prejudice and jealousy, is largely responsible for this unwkole- somo cramped couditlon. Bad rouds are lurgely responsible for tho alight acqunlntauce that is maintained be tween the city and the country nnd for the absence of the sociability that would naturally follow a closer ac quaintance. The amy allows about 33,000 pounds of food a year for fifteen aicn, but la the Arctic regions people eut at least a quarter as much more. It cots $i a mouth more to feed u mnu in Green land thau in New York. Wm 'y aaaa Mrwua y
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