THE QUESTION.
When on hi bo 1 ho qnlst Ue,
w"tih pulsdcM hvirt nn 1 "tk'litloM
Ills ktn-1rnl nsk, with anxious mlrnl,
'What tronsures hn hn loft behind?"
Hut nmjli-d opon ffl lo the book,
Anil for the don 1 man's rewsrd look
An I ixnt, n now thy sonn It o'er,
"What treasures tins ho sent heforo?"
Ooorgo lilrdseye.
PRAYING FOR WEALTH.
m edmcnd s. itocne.
T was nfter sunset
buforo Calkins
succeeded in re
capturing tho two
experienced old
burros, who, do
siring a break in
their laborious
journey toward
ihn desert, had
withdrawn dur
ing tho night,
and found rent
ful seclusion in
tlio dense pin-oak
brush on a neigh
boring bill-side.
Thus it cntiio
about Hint the
ruddy light of
Cnlkius's camp-
fire again nttrnct
cil us. The ciiii-
afi-
vernation toox a
wide range nt first, but approached afo
run when nuo of our party, tlio old
lady with black mitts, referred to tlu
generally r!Tiiiiinrf drought. She
mentioned, iu this connection, a recent
newspaper report of a church meeting
in aoniu nrid section of tho Northwest,
where general prayers for ruin wero
offered with (inch itumodiuto effect
that tho congregation, who were un
provided with umbrellas, wero
drenched on their way home.
"Purely a coincidence," II ippnnt ly
suggested Mautou, a recent importa
tion from tho effete Kust.
"I regard it an a most striking illus
tration of tho eflieacy of nil sincere
and earnest prayer," reprovingly ro
marked thn old lady with thn mitts.
"What do you sny, Mr. Calkins?"
inquired Mituton, unabashed. "I'm
buro you'll agree with me!"
Our host stirred np the fire before
expressing himself. "You're dead
riant, ma'am !" ho at length replied,
ignoring Manton. "There's nothiu'
prayer won't do, if you're iu earnest
nud pray hard enough, and don't pray
for too much nor too little, mi l stop
right thero. lint you cau handicap a
good, strong, williu' prayer, Fame as
you can anything else, and then it's
bound to balk ami make trouble."
"I fear I do not quito grasp your
meaning, Mr. Calkins," said the old
lady with tho mitts, laying down hor
knitting and regarding Calkins with a
look of puzzled inquiry.
but I haA in mind a queer experience
of my own in tho earnest prayer liue,
some years ago, 'way up north iu
Trinity, which'll illustrate my mean in'
better'n any explanation I cau give.'
Calkins settled himself aruiu out of
the lino of the sparks and smoke,
which his late attention to tho lire hud
provoked, aud began :
"It was in the winter of '7", nn 1 1
was earryiu' mail from Gorman'.-:
over to tho llrowa Dear and llonudout
camps and made tho round trip once
a week on snow-shoes. When I was
at (ionium's, which was four days in
the week, I stopped with a Frenchman
named Pirot, who worked a drift claim
ou tho river. We bunked in a hake
ealiiu, back of tho hotel corral, and
got along mi ldiin' well for the lir-t
month wo was together. Kviuin's
We'd generally turn up at the hotel,
nud aiter sittin' by tlio lire with the
reft iu the saloon for a while, we'd
tiually drop luto old man (ionium's
private parlor uud lii-tcn to Kitty Gor
man pinvin' (in the parlor organ. I
always Hu d music, but 1 hadn't no
faculty at produein' it, so I'd just sit
and listen whilu Kitty'dplny ana l'irot,
who had a big, throaty voice, would
Uow and then biug to Kitty's uccom
puillliieut. "This was all well enough at first,
but, after two or three weeks, I found
it dull and uui'iterestiu', just siltiu'
there by myself ou tho eo!::, slippery,
black hair-cloth sola, with never a
word nor a chance for oui with Kilty,
who seemed ail look up with l'irot and
tho music, nud oiily's speak to me
when she wautj.l another idlel; on tho
I'.re. Then, alter a whih', 1 Mopped
foiu' into the parlor, and would sit in
the saloon till hcd-timc, leelin' mad
nil through to hear l'irot siiigiu' uud
Kitty plavm' uway for dear life to
l.epupiUh him on the gaspin' old
or.-an in the next room. Then I grew
bitter, because I knew that while,
naturally, Kitty li'.c I mo lust of the
two, at tho sumo time she was win Idly
minded like her father, old man Gor
man, nud felt 1'irut was a better match
uii account of his river claim, while I
wasn't lunch account, from a ready
money point of view. Then, of
course, I had a faliin' out with l'irot
uhniit nothiu' iu partie'lar ou tho sur
face, as 1 can recollect of. I did
pretty much all tho quarreliu', I'm
tree to uliow, for l'irot s ;id nothin',
but just laughed in a way that made
me madder, uud 1 moved out of the
hi. Hue cVoiti to an old -i'lobo hi - her up
the, hill.
"Next day I started oft beToro sun
up in my regular trip w ith tho mail
lor Di ou ii Jieur and I'.oiindout. 1 ul
way got the best start 1 could, Bo's to
j.,ei well no tho raiirf hilo the crust
wa hsrd hlhI lieioro tho sun had beeu
i:p l"iig enough to mellow things up
nud luuko it uwi.ward for me, for 1
wuiii't very lmudy even yet with tbum
loir,- Norwegiau suovvshoes. 1 never
hto,iped on the trip for uothin', bo'iu
' u.u.iys nioro auxiouv to get througti
1L.ju tur-jat; but this paitio'Ur uturu.
. 11 :.i.Y(lU
In I'm tollin' of, Fit started ont, twl
in' languid aud dispirited, and by the
summit I felt sort of dead bent out.
My feet was cold and cramped from
too tight bucklin' of the shoes, and,
altogether, 1 mado np my mind to sit
down for a minute or two and get
pulled together again before I started
"There wasn't much wind and tho
snn was out worm and comfortable,
ami the idea of strotchin' out there on
tho snow for ten minutes' rest just
suited me. I sat down with my back
rcstin' against an old dead stump that
camo tip through tho snow, nnbncklcd
tho shoes, uuslung the mail pouch
from my shoulder, and took out Yhe
littlo snack of bread and meat I'd
brought along and which I generally
eat on tho way without making any
special stop for it.
"Whilo 1 was catin, lookin o.l
down the slope, I'd just climbed up
and thinkin' what bad luck I'd struck
all along tho last few months, my eyo
caught on to somo lines in the news
paper I'd wrapped round tho lunch,
and which was lyiu' spread out on tny
leg under tho second pieco of bread
just within good readin' distance. I
don't recollect just now how tho words
read, but tho drift of it was that lots
of men failed iu gittin' what they
wanted in this world just because they
didn't want it hard enough and didn't
keep up askiu' aud prayiu' for it un
til they got it. ,ThoHO lines somehow
hit my cae, it seemed td me. I
ha in't had much early roligious traiu
in', and tho idea of just prayin' hard
for whst you wanted and gcttin' it,
truck mo us somethin' new and sim
ple and very satisfactory. Thero was
no eud of things 1 wanted, aud want
ed bad, nud if they was to be had by
jiiHt wantin' them bad enough and
nskin' for 'em violent enough I was
goin' to get 'em sure I
"Then I says to myself, why not
start iu right now with a silent
prayer? So I set nt it. I closed my
eyes and squeezed my lids together
hard I was so dead in earnest? It
wp.s a terriblo sweepin', vigorous
prayer I handed in. First, I wanted
good luck in a general way, and asked
for it hard. Then I got more down
to purtic'lars, aud asked to be rich
and prosperous, and wound up with a
sort of side-handed suggestiou that it
would suit mo down to tho ground to
have l'irot full olT his luci and get
poor, whilo I grew rich. All thin
wasn't right, of course, as I see now,
ma'am, lint 1 wasn't so much prayiu'
for bad luck to Pirot for its own sake,
as for tho effect of it all on my gettiu'
on with Kitty Gorman.
"When I prayed for the blight on
Tirot, I was so sorter wrought up by
tho whole business that just, I sup
pose, to give things a pnriic'lar point
I fired out my right leg so vigorous
like, aud struck the snow-shoo to
which I'd buckled tho mail-pouch so
hard that zip! whizz I like a shot
it was on its way down the hill. It
made a clear shoot lor about five hun
dred feoV. every nov.pd tn spinin'
botit,- d m -a' er-l woV"ttr"iiArv
suag, until it brought up short against
a ledge that cropped out across its
track, sending splinters of stones nil
about wheu it struck, for with tho
mail-pouch buckled ou to it, it picked
up considerable speed and hit hard.
It bounded up and turned claim over,
nud then stopped altogether, held
from slidiu' any further by tho crop
pin's. "Well, ma'am, whilo that snow-shoo
was pirouettiu' down tho slope, I was
that surprised nud mad 'ill through
that, although I'd just beou writhiu'
iu prayer, us you might say, I let looso
a lino of liiugiiago which was that
strong aud pointed that if thcre'd been
any itoji or l'eelin' to that snow-slu e,
it would have brought up within lifty
feet! I mention this with regret,
ma'am, because, I see now that if 1
hadn't been moved to make them re
marks,, just fresh ou top of the prayer,
tilings would have turned out dill'er
ent. Hut beiu' young, and hot
headed, and thoughtless then, of course
I didn't look nhcud for consequences.
"There wa. nothiu' to do but go
down to tho ledge where the snow
shoo lay, pick up it uud tho mail
pouch, and get ou my way again. The
ledge was rotten with tho weather and
pretty well broke up already, and
asido from tho small pieces just
knocked out of it, thero'd been one
big chuuk loosened up, which h id
rolled just uway from tho ledge, nud
lay with tho fresh break turned up to
the sun, uud duzzliti' mo with its
brightness.
"No, younor man" this to aknowing
suggestion from Manton "it wasn't
'mien, of course,' iior 'mica' at nil.
That piece of rock wus just criss
crossed ull over uud through with
eoar-o vire-;;ol 1. I stood btariu' nt it
a full miuuto beforo I could get it
through my head that I was lookin' nt
rock that would go over live thousand
dollars to tho ton J that I was tho dis
coverer uud owner of that ledge; and
that tludin' it just meant to mo every
thing worth haviu'. iucludin', of
course, tirst nud loremost, riches uud
Kitty Gorman.
"SV'hilo I stood there, I recollected,
with a start, that riches, and pros
perity, aud Kitty Gorman was what
I'd been prayiu' for hard five minutes
iiefore, and hero it ull was within
reach in uuswer to that prayer, just as
if it had beeu ou tup, so to speak, all
the time, and I'd just turned the spig
got. Naturally 1 was some excited,
but I kept cool enough to put up
monuments aud a locution notice nil
right, and christened the claim the
Heavenly Snow-Shoe,' as bem' some
how appropriate to tho situation.
"Voit can inuiiue, ma'am, I wusn't
iu no state of mind alter this to keep
ou with the mail to Drown Dear uud
Kotliidout. I ju t wanted to (ret back
to Gorman's, uud let 'em know about
tho strike. So I climbed up the hill
again for tho other shoe, pounded olT
some good speoiiueus to show what
I'd found, aud wus ba.sk ngaiu at Gir
uuu's a little after suntet.
"When I went down to the hotel
after I'd cooked supper and cleaned
up at the abode, I eonld hear l'irot
singin and Kitty playin' accompani
ments as usual ; but instead of rilin
me, as it had all along, I just laughed
to myself when I thought of the
Hoavenly Snow-Shoe,' aud of how
quick this would all be knocked in the
head when Kitty and old man Oorman
losmed of my good luck. I wont into
the raloon first, where I could gen
erally count on findin' the old man of
nn eveniu' ; but they said he was in the
parlor with l'irot and Kitty takin' in
the music.
"When I went in sftcr knockin,
they all looked surprised, and didn't
seciu very hearty ; but I knew what
hsd come to me, and whnt was comin
to Pirot, and didn't mind, but started
iu right awny and told 'em what I'd
fo in 1, and opened up the flour-sack
I'd brought ray specimens down in,
find laid 'em all out on tho table under
the light of the hnngin' lamp, where
they showed up richer'n any speci
mens ever I Bee. They all got 'round
tho tiblo and admirod 'em, aud Kitty
was very friendly aud old man Gor
man got very much interested and ex
cited over it all, although he was gen
erally pretty cold-blooded about most
things.
"There wasn't any more singin' or
playin' that eveniu'. and pretty quick
l'irot said good-night and left us, not
lookin' cheerful. Old man Gorman
nskod me all kinds of questions about
the sizo and dip of the ledge and tho
nntnro of the croppin's, and Kitty sat
by tho tnble, and was brighter nnd
chattier than I'd seen her iu a mouth.
When I told tho old man I'd located
him iu with me on tho claim, he was
pleased all through, and we arranged
to meet next mornin' and talk up the
best way of handlin' tho property.
Then at last we said good-night all
'round, and I went up to tho adobe
fecliu' all toned up with satisfaction
at tho style in which my prayer was
workin'.
"Next day old man Gorman and ran
had our talk out, and it was settled
between us that we was to locato ex
tensions of tho '.Snow-Shoe,' start in
developing and incorporate tho whole
business right away, settin' aside part
of tho stock for whut old mau Gorman
called a 'working' capital,' and mean
time tho old man was to put up for
expenses. Things went on almost too
smooth for the next month. Tho
ledge opened up very promisin', Kitty
was more friendly every day, and us
for Pirot, he never turned up nowa
days anyhow when I was 'round.
"Now my folks back in Missouri'.l
been writ in' on an average once every
six months for the last rive years,'
urin' me to como home aud see 'em
before they all died off; but I'd never
hud no means to go or uny way to get
auy up to now. But when another
letter came about this time, still
nnggin' mo to oonie on, I showed it to
old man Gorman, for ho and I'd got
to bo very thick, and he ,snid J'd
ougLtor'go.'auJ? He'd "lend inelne"
money to go with and look after
things while I was gone. The old
mau kept his word; he did look afUr
things, as you'll see, ma'am.
"Well, this wus in April. I pot
buck and saw tho folks, took a little
geueral pnssear all round, and it wus
way into August beforo I fetched up
one evening on tho stage nt Gorman's
again. At the tirst glance, before I
got down, I see thcre'd been somo
considerable changes in tho hotel
since I'd been gone. Tho main build
in'd been repainted, and thero was a
completo new outlit of red settees ou
tho trout porch. A struugo man, with
tho air of owniu' the whole plant,
camo out from the ollioe, and there
was no sign of old mau Gorman or
Kitty standiu' in the front door, us
was usuul with 'em wheu tho blao
camo iu.
"I felt a sort of sinkin' at tho beirt
at all this, as though somethiu' bad
was goiu' to happen to me. I wasn't
kept long iu doulit, though, about tho
stute of things. I hadu't been off tho
stago five minutes wheu I learned it
all. (juick us I'd left, old man Gor
man sold l'irot all tho 'workin' capi
tal' as a starter. Then between 'em
they worked up a scheme to sell mo
out on a delinquent assessment. Then
they struck an Fuglish syndicate and
sold out tho property at a big figure.
Next thiug Kitty became Mrs. l'irot,
old man Gorman closed out tho hotel,
uud tho three of 'em lit out for no one
knew where.
"Well, ma'am, I won't dwell on my
fecJin's, or how I expressed 'em wheu,
1 heard nil this aud iouu I it true, for
that's neither hero nor there. I could
ee, after I'd cooled dowu aud re
tleeted, just how it all came about. I'd
'hoodoud' everything up thereon the
summit by nskiug for bad luck to
strike Pirot by usin' tho pointed isn
gii'tgo l'vo referred to so close ou top
of my prayer when tho snow shoo went
v.nltziu' down the bill.
"This, I think, ma'um," concluded
Culkius, us he rose uud stirred up the
camp tire, "will illustrate my remark
that while there's uothin' prayer won't
do, if you're dead iu earnest and pray
hard enough, nt the sumo time it's
jnst as true that if you overload your
prayer, or pack a lot of truck on it
that don't belong to the load, or show
temper while it's truvodn', it's jnt
bound to go balky, aud make trouble
for you." Argonaut.
A Dig Dure.
Tho Ivanhoo tunnel, now nearly
completed, from Dusk, near Lesdville,
to ivanhoo, Col., will be tha third iu
length in tho United States, beiug sur
passed only by the Uoosae tunnel uud
hy tho Doulder tunnel, iu Montana.
It is 'J 10') feet long, uud owing to tho
great altitude 10,8110 feet doors
will bo pluoed at euch end to exclmlo
snow, aud tho tunnel for several
hundred feet from cither end is to bo
heated by steam. Work was begun iu
lb'JO.-Kew York Dispatch,
AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AM) GARDEN.
rr.EMso rrMPKiNs to rows,
rum I kins are more nutritious than
is commonly thought, and the high
color of tho flesh adds to the color of
the butter of cows fod reasonably on
them. A singlo pumpkin of twenty
pounds, chopped into slices with a
sharp-edged spado in a shallow box,
will not bo too much for a cow in
milk. It is not worth while borrowing
trouble about tho seeds; they are
doubtless a goo I remedy for tape
worm, and if the cow is so troubled, a
pumpkin with the seeds once a day
may bo useful, but tho seeds will not
hnrt a cow if she has no tapeworms to
trouble her. The seeds and stringy
stuff about them are very rich in fat.
New York Times.
NOTlttNO nn.vrs plain oraptino wax.
A tree healer (so called) is a good
thing for the man who sells it at a
large profit, writes J. W. Kerr. I
have used various preparations for
covering wounds uud bruises on trees,
and have settled down to plain graft
ing wax, believin?, from comparative
test, that it is tho equal ot tho best.
Why cover a wound or bruise?
Simply to excludo air and water. This
done, a little extra feed and careful
culture for a year or two, seldom fail
to ovcrcomo such injuries. The prepa
rations that are "always ready for
use," such ns shellac, paint, etc., have
to be repeatedly applied to effect the
same purposo that a good coating of
grafting wax does. In order thor
oughly to rid peach, plum, quince abd
other trees of borers, tho earth must
bo removed from the collar of tho
t ree to a depth of thrco to four inches ;
beforo this is returned (and it should
not bo left too late in spring), I some
times apply a wash of lime, with eight
to ten pounds of muriate of potash to
ench hulf barrel of wash, and enough
carbolic acid to give it the odor. This
applied with cheap fiber brushes, lib
erally from the bottom of the basin
made by the removal of tho earth
from about tho tree, to a height of a
foot above tho surface love!, helps to
heal the borer- wounds, only by ex
cluding air therefrom. That the car
bolic acid odor has any merit as a re
pellent to the insect when seeking
places to deposit its eggs, is a badly
strained belief. Hereafter, I shall
use lime nlono for this purposo. With
borers, as with other vermin, preven
tion is better and easier than cure, all
things considered. It is scarcely
practical to prevent tho deposit of
eggs at the collars of trees in large
orchards, but it is practical to remove
tho "grubs" hatched thorefrom, be
fore they do much injury ; this is all
that is implied by prevention as used
above. liural New Yorker.
WILD LETTUCE.
This weed has a wido distribution,
nnd in many sections of tho country
threatens to become a serious pest.
It has already spread so greatly iu
Ohio, Iowa aud Illinois, that tho agri
cultural sections of thoso States huvo
WILD LETTUCE.
issued bulletins, warning farmers of
its presence and advising thorn to de
stroy, mow or otherwise cut out the
plants before they ripen the seods,
which aro produced in largo numbers
and uro readily carried by the wind.
As many us 2o,0(H seed may bo pro
duced on a square foot of ground.
Tho w ild or prickly lettuce (luctnea
Scariolu) is one of the most oouspiou
ous weeds, baviug a single stem of
from ono to four feet or more high.
Tho leaves of the plant are six to eight
inches long aud an iuch nnd a half
wido, with irregular prickly edges,
resembling some varieties of culti
vated lettuce. Cutting before tho
seeds form, or bettor, cutting its blos
soms, will prevent spread. Twice
cutting will be sufficient.- As the
plant is either annual or bienuual, its
destruction would be easy wero not
its seeds carriod long distaucee by tho
wind. In localities were tho plunt is
still rare its spread can be prevented
with littlo effort. New York World.
A QUICKLY MADE HTABLK PEN.
It frequently huppcus that ono do
sires to make use, for au emergency,
of a stall or pen in the stable which is
not at hund, and for which thoro may
not bo convenient room as a per
manent structure Our illustration
shows ho such a pen may bo made iu
a momout's time, in a corner that or
dinarily may be used for other pur
poses. Two gates are made and hinged
against the walls in the manner shown.
Ordinarily they are folded back snugly
aguiust either wall, but when a pen or
"box stall" is suddenly needed the
two ends are swunir toe other and
MM
locked with hooks, and the noodod ac
commodation is secured. Such gates
should havo slats quite near together,
CTIEAP BTABLB PEN,
and should be of good height to ac
commodate both largo and small ani
mals. American Agriculturist.
rRTELTT OP BAM) WIRE.
We aro aware that there aro a few
stockmen who by some fortuitous
concourso of circumstance have cs
capod having their animals mutilated
by the barbs. One correspondent
even wrote ns taking tho position
that a colt that hadn't sense enough
to keep out of tho wiro hadn't sense
enough to live and ought to be killed
in the fence. Dut we could never ap
preciate tho force of suoh logic. Tho
best of colts and young folks aro
sometimes a bit foolish under stress
of excitement. It conies not far from
being a characteristic of tho adolescent
age. Dut they outgrow it. The point
is merely to keep ns far from thorn as
oan be tho temptations and possi
bilities for bad when they aro at that
age. When an animal once learns
what barb wire is thero is compara
tively little danger of injury from it
except in the dark, but tho trouble is
that it comes away from its first
lotson on tho subjoot a wiser but not
handsomer auimal. It may bo "still
in tho ring," but it is ordinarily more
than "somewhat disfigured."
Of course a barb wire fence that ii
kept perfectly tight at all times is far
less harmful than one iu which the
wires are looso or brokon away from
tho posts. A looso barb wire fence on
a farm with live stock is simply an
offense against humaneness. It is a
wicked trap. Wo havo never wasted a
bit of sympathy ou tho men we have
seen caught in the wires of a fence
which their indoleuco or ignorance or
neglect had permitted to get looso.
Carelessness in fence buildiug aud re
pairing is doubtless the cause of much
of the dam a go done to livo stock by
the cruel barbs, but a barb per se is
dangerous. Somo farmers carefully
round off with jaok-plano the edges
uud corners of stalls and boxes in tho
barn lest an animal should accidentally
como to brief by . a bump against
thorn, and then fonco their paddocks
ith barb wire I This is very lik-j
raining at a gnat and swallowing
mel. Tho record tho I' bs havi
vrifteK' YorWuJmmu vaWoirf
over the country is' too patent to be
laughod or argued out of court. Au
ounce of such experience is worth
several tons of theory. Drcedcrs'
Gazette.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Clover is a food for hens which one
must not overlook.
High bred auimnls give better ro
turns for feedcousumod than ordinary
or scrub stock.
Even an extra amount fed to poor
cattle will fail to bring that superior
quality which is desirable.
Only cultivated crops should be al
lowed in orchards early iu the soason.
Grein and hay should never bo grown.
The tillage should bo repeated as
often as once in ten days throughout
the growing season, which extends
from spring until July or August.
Clover is abundant, bulk y, and rich
in lime aud nitrogen. Cut, scald and
mix with a little ground grass for the
poultry in tho morning, and save
more expensive material, as clover is
very wholesome. .
Fall plowing may be advisable for
farm crops, but it should generally be
discouraged in orchard. The land in
orchards should bo left compact iu
the fall, aud it is advisable to cover it
with somo closo herbage.
The very day you hear of a garbage
cromutory near you, go and see what
you can get tho ashes for. Send a
sample te the Stato exoeriment station
foranalybis. lou never will have a
better chance to obtain a cheap fertili
zer.
Unless you livo too far North plant
onion sets in tho garden now for early
use next spring, sow lettuce uud
radish sood for early vegetables
and punsy for early bloomiug.
Protect theso bods by heavy mulching
with manure as soon as tho ground be
gins to froozo.
Late cultivation may bo injurious
by- inducing a Into growth. At all
events, it cau bo of small utility wheu
the begins to mature and rains beoomo
frequent. This season of respite gives
the grower the opportunity of raising
a green manure, and of adding fertil
ity to his land at trifling expuuse and
with no harm to his trees.
Garden soils that aro inclined to be
heavy will bo greatly improved by
ridging so as to expose them t front
in winter. Throw two furrows to
gether as in making sweet potato
ridges, leaving narrow uud deep dead
furrows. This system gives thorough
surface draiuage aud admit of early
cultivation iu the spring.
If the currant bushes aro not pro
ductive try a littlo heroio treatment.
Cut out ull the old wood and prima tho
roots down thoroughly, then spade up
the sou all about and woUk in a liberal
allowauoo of rich manure. Put sand
about the stools to keep the weeds
down and encourage tha growth of
from lour to six of the now canes.
Some Id-Fashlonr-d Medicine,
Venomous serpents played a
part in the medicines of olden timn
Their poison was not used for iiL
pnrpose, but a strong broth was ttm.
vi men uenus uumcu Willi anil no
spices, mixed with a hundred othq
leiuuuim, kiiu lorming an eiectiinr.
which, under the name of Tliori!.'
was nsed as a cure for every cntictir
able disease. As such tidbits
jwKHu iiou wuu suspicion hy t
tinhlic. thn nlil nlirnininna mln.'i. i
' I J - '"! itn
sly method : hungry geese and hen,
wure leu wivu snases cuopped fijj.
ana mese were maae into broth
1 1. .. . : a rri.. i.i ,
iua imuuijii xiia oioou OI a
was also used, if this animal hi
neen ica lor fourteen days on fr
greens.
It went hard with black cats whn
mey were wanted to ncip an
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it-itiu. iue mucK xuoiuas ti
then tormented to the point of dvr.
cut inup, nun mien uin ma I Ii.
was stabbed tinder tho third i
counting from the head. Three dr,
. .v . t i 1 r .i .
ui i no oioou uownig iron, mn Won
was then given to the sufferer
linden-blossom tea. The cnt ut
then escape, and nightly on the r
. .1 m
compiatn io ino ueavens ot man'
cruelty. This revenge still remain t
him.
In the oldest medical book no,'
known, composed in Ileliopolis, win
once Joseph served in tho botuo
Potipbar, wo find "A mean for iucr.
ing tho growth of hair, prepared
Scbesch, the mother of Teta, the kit
of Lpper ami Lower Lgypt:" !.
teeth, over-ripo dates, and asses Ii
were carofully cooked in oil nnd th
grated. Now, as Teta lived Kfo
Cheops, builder of tho great pyrin.:
at Gizeh, tuis recipe for hnir-uil
older than this wonder of tho wr!
and if, as is supposed, Teta lived 4
D. C, this prescription is over CO
years old.
- Nearly everything in tho anitJ
kingdom was used in tho healing a;;
bven now animal preparations a:
officially used, as sperm, wax, tull- i
swine-fat, pepsin, musk, cochnui,
leeches, etc. irom nasty luixtm
1 T- 1 .
nowevcr, we are ireen. r.ven lei'c.
are used much more sparingly th
formerly. When bleeding and c-.
ping were still considered imperii
(to-day thero uro young doctors
have never seen a vein opened), le:
held the third placo for this purK,J
In tuo Parts hospitals, at tuat time :
greatest iu the world, between 1
and 183G, from tlvo to six lui!!;
leeches were used annually, wL
drew out 1700 hundred-weight
blood.
linprossL'l by the Czar' Lotki,
To demonstrate the Russian Czi:
appreciation of kindness, the foil,
ing incident was related by a maai:
heard it from llallam Tennyson,
London some time ago.
While on one of his visit; to Co;1
hagen, the Czar and the King of hi
mark went hunting and became nj
orated froiii tao robi of f qs'iiukY
vtawfrtr TIiav tnrnAil thai h.fl
homeward and on the way stoppt.i
a peasant's hut, whoro the King o
the peasant woman for a drink j
himself and nts companion, lutjn
man looked at the big man and, f
ing pleasantly, said to the Ki
whom, of course, sno did not kn
"He looks so good and kind, he k.
have a glass of the best wo have.
Tho Czar did not understand a w
and wheu ou their roturu the K
laughingly told him of the goo l
pression he hud made on the wei;
tho Czar said eerious! y, almost iu
fully: "What would I not giv.
see such kiuduess among my pee;
New York Tribune.
Indian Land Pretty Well Paid Fo-
Some idea of how much it co-t-
keep a family of able-bodied lui.
may bo gained from a perusal et
depredation claims paid and to 1 -- ; J
by the United Mates (iovernmeiii. I
mlilitioti to the vast sums suiiniu H
this purpose since tho uct ot l'XU
ratilied by various ucts of Cou. j
since that tune it is somewnat sur;:
ing to hear thnt 11,000 cluims
beeu filed since 18D1, aggregutin:!
value about 810,000,000. AU tL
considered the lands taken from
Indians in one wny and another
Columbus lauded and about wax
mniiv tears have been shod have
pretty well paid for. Chicago T-A
Electricity lor Hay Fever.
It is now claimed that no viet i
the perennial "hay fever" or "
cold ' need suller uo louder.
trieitv does the business every i
by killing certuin nerves iocs.
tho nose. To think that a cold '
head is a matter ot nerves, wrM
little nerves that bubuiergo the
boincr in tho most ignominious n.
known iu ih vsiolo ' v I Special
crobsure ever on the watch fr
susceptible organs, and their rer
is certainly a triumph of m
science, though perhaps the im'- j
win not view it in mut iigui. i
Herald.
Gingerbread lor the Kaiser's
During the German Emperor
to Thorn he received a Ueputut.
the confectioners ot the towu
in picturesquo costumes, who pi
d him with a house made of H
bread, which was so heavy tliut
to be carried by four men. Tli
is four feet high and seven leet
and weighed three hundred
The walls, roof nud windows :
tirely of cringerbrend .nud srs
tho Emperor wan no delight's,
his present that be at oueo orJ
to be sent to bis sons at l'oti-
Loudou Sunday Times.
Tho Tiov. J. T. Brook, of C!-
Ky., claims to havo inveuted
ing press ttiut costs '
tad will priut 20.01)0 uheots m
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