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A GOOD FLOOD GATE.
Om That Will Mar la Plaa tfca Y.
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Those who have large ditchea 01
rrrcks running' through their farmt
are desirous of getting good, tt
leeable flood-gate, one that will stay
in place all times of year, and turn
stock from adjoining field. Tha old
fashioned flood-gate, hung by th top
to a foot log, waa always being pushed
open by hoga and calves, unless itakeil
down, anu then the first hearj freshet
was sure to buret it from it fateu
'.ngs and carry it down stream.
The pat shown in cut can be made
lon any farm, and when iu place
will take care nf itself. Two poets art
id near the outer banks of the ohan-
KFFRCTIVE FIX)OD U ATM.
Tiel; nn oak log ten to fourteen inches
In diameter is fasVioued like a wind
hits and attached to the posts, as
shown in illustration, with clamp
bands made from heavy iron and fas
tened with lag screws to post. Tim
rollur is then bored "nil of two-inch
BUger holes, the desired distance
apart, to receive the pickets, which
are split from tough oak. A weight
shown at A completes the job. This
weight Is Intended to iceep tho gate
always in nn upright position, and
should 1m placed upstream, i. e., shov
the flood-gate. When heavy freshets
are in evidence, the force of the water
raises the weight and allows easy pas
sage of water, driftwood, etc. ami a.i
the water subsides tne weight settler
buck, leaving the gate in proper posi
tion, where hoes cannot root it out
nor Other stock trespass Into adjoin
inif fields. The weight must be mads
t correspond with height and weight
of gate. If the weight be too heavy
so that the force of current does not
open it, saw a piece off of weight.
Only actual test will determine this.
I) In the illustration is the surface
line of the water. George W. llrown,
in Ohio x' armer.
PHILIPPINE ROADS.
f vflliiin Dollars to Be Spent la tha
improvement of Roads at and
Near Manila,
The Philippine commission has ap
propriated $1,000,000 for the improve
ment of the roads in the island of Lu
zon. If this sum be wisely and eco
nomically expended in constructing
highway! connecting important towns,
so as to enable the inhabitants to have
easy communication with each other,
evsn during the rainy season, it will
liaie a beneficial effect upon the people
of the territory through which the
roads pass probably greater than could
have beer, secured by any other expend
iture. The Spaniards did not seem to regard
a road as necessary or even desirable
unless it would serve a military pur
pose, The railway from Manila to Dag-
Opan gave them ample means of trans
porting troops, ammunition and stores
between those places, and beyond Dag-
Upan they built a fine, broad macadam
iied boulevard as far as Vlgan. There
is a similar highway across the island
near its southern extremity. Oeneral
I ly speaking, however, Luzon has no
roads, except these two, that can be
traveled by a vehicle in the rainy sea
son, and few of them are navigable on
I horseback. Naturally the Filipinos do
not si ray far from their home villages,
and news as well as merchandise does
not circulate freely. It is no uncom
mon thing to find a variety of dialects
Ipoken by the natives in traversing 30
01 4" miles, and this diversity of lan
Mge has been perpetuated by thedifli-
iMiea in the way of travel.
Already a tart has been made bv
Km) I nlted States officers In Manila.
Ihre the Wtreets hnve been (.rentlv
improved, and this feature of American
IPfoq-ress has been one of the mosit pop-
BSIST Of nnv mtrodoeeri liv rtnp m
J - I "-
J Here seems to be a noticeable eonnec-
Hon between the means of oommuni-
plion of a country and Ita progress to
'ft civilization. Bodily motion np-
M" to stimulate movement mentally
M spiritually. If. therefore, the J,
',000 ills RTinronHntpd for frfrU rnn.ta
Luzon is devoted to the making of
tisfactory highways and is not partly
pitted into the pockets of shiftless
F dishonest contractors who give no
walent therefor. It is nrobable that.
Pkstever may be the ultimate fate of
P '"land, future fenerations of Fili-
F will applaud the first legislative
'o the American commission aa one
' be wisest steps it could have taken.
oieago Record.
Phlll.l.. V...... D
I .
lpon the recommendation of the war
artment the agricultural depart-
is preparing an order setting
t as forest reserves tho IkUikI rt
blon, which is north of the island
r; also the island of Pauitanl.
is one of the extreme group of
to islands of the Philippine
Officers of the armv who Un
' investigating the islands hare
at these are tne richest lands
I World for mhlwr tlui and It la
Intention of tho Washington au
to hav the trees preserved
iiiiiissisi
BUILDIHO GOOD ROADS. I
Excellent Object I .-..on. Gtvri An
nually by the I'nllcd Stataa De
partment of rlmltur.
The good roads question Is to-day
the subject of a vast agitation, begun
first by wheelmen, taken up kr tha
government, nnd now a matter of leg
islative consideration the country
over. As a result, ten state kayo ex.
hlbits at the present aalTereel expo
sition In I'aris illustrating how perfect
roads ought to be burlt. This from a
eountry that still has, la part, the
worst roads in the world, ta rather
daring, but it is also an indication of
what is being done. The ten atates
in question know what taey are talk
ing about. They had the worst roads,
and now they have (or, at leaet, they
are constructing) the beet.
It will be a matter of news to many '
to learn that the United States gov
eminent has pone Into the road quea
Hob in the most energetic and thor
OUgh manner imaginable, and havinff
through the department of agricul
ture, studied what constitute a good
road and why good roads are needed,
has ?nne o work to spread the infor
mation and teach the people. It has
experiment stations in every state in
the union, where lessons in roadmak
Ing are taught. Hundreds of pamph
lets showing just how a good road la
constructed anu how It may be pre
served have been published by tho
government, nnd may Ve had for the
asking. Object lessons in road build
ing are given annually in every state
In the union, when in some worst sec
tions a quarter or half, or even a mile,
of excellent roadway is constructed,
and the people shown how and why
it ought to be done. These object
lessons, begun In 1S94, have done more
than anything else to start the great
movement which Is now furthering
the construction of perfect roads the
land over.
Tho government, in these exhibi
tions, ordinarily constructs three spec
imen roads a modern macadam, n
sand ami i ordinary dirt road. When
these roads Mrs completed, a heavy
farm wngon, loaded with produce, is
drawn over each of them, and tho
amount of force required to haul It la
determined by th( use of a track"
ometer. This instrument is so con
structed as to acurately register every
pound the horses pull at every Stage
of the haul In plain view of those iu
Its vicinity. It is made char by these
experiments that a team harnessed In
the ordinary way is subject, Under
the best conditions! to a continuous
jerking motion, which must, on even
the smoothest country road, greatly
Increase its fatigue. On a dirt road
in bad condition this lerlrlng becomes
a succession oi heavy n 'ransmit
ted to the team by men" ' a collar.
They are cruelly painful, bruls-.ng tho
shoulders, reraMin i,;' ioituT'iiitr
the animals, constantly lessrnlng their
value as well as directly decreasing
the amount of the load that it i.i
possible to haul.
A TAIL-BOARD SEAT.
! It Can lie Made and Adjtuitrd In n Few
Muments and Costs Dut ft
Few 'villi.
Take one of the rear endbonrds, or
"tailboards," as they are often called, j
and fit a cleat to one end of it, as
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TAIL BOARD SEAT.
j shown in the cut. A small hole and
wire nail will keep the board from
phiping at the other end. Five chnir
or sofa springs nniled to the middle,
with a short board nailed above them,
will make a very comfortuble seat,
and one that will not bo In tho way
1 when it is desired to use the board a.s
"tailboard." N. Y. Tribune.
Cement Floors for llalrlea.
In the creamery and in the dairy
the old wooden floor should givu way
to the cement floor of the best qual
ity. The movement in this direction
is already on and tha cement floor
has become very general. Especially
in the creameries is this the case.
The wooden floor absorbed moisture
' and odors and gave out the latter
ngain reenforced. The wooden floor
has been found Impossible to keep
j clean. It is so constantly wet that
it has no chance to be purified by tho
air. The same is largely true of tho
floor in the private dairy. In thu
largest milk selling establishments in
Chicago the cement floor is consid
ered an essential, as a large quantity
of water Is daily used in flooding tho
floors to insure clennliness. In tho
long run the cement floor is cheapest,
for it will outlive several wood floors
thnt are daily soaked with water.
Farmers' Review.
Science of Seed Sonlnsr.
It should not be forgotten in sowing
vegetable seeds, and, for the matter of
that, all seeds, that they must have air.
moisture and darkness in order to
sprout properly. If sown deeper than
they desire they rot; if too shallow,
the light is too Intense or they do not
get moisture enough. As a rule they
should be as near the surface as pos
sible, with the rather dry earth packed
around them as firmly as possible. The
surface earth should be rather dry or
it will not powder well and this is
important in connection with air.
There is no air in a soil pressed when
wet but the more dry earth is pressed
and pounded the finer and more porous
it becomes. There is a great art in get
ting seed to grow properly and yet
the art is very simple when the prin
ciples are understood. Median's
HOPI LONG DEFERRED.
Wbrn Rtrars Can al Last Gcarga
Wedrklad Had 1 o.l Hla Capac
ity far Bajaysaaat.
Luck, aa It is Interpreted in the
mining camp, haa been emphasized in
the case of lieorge Wedekind, of He no,
Nev.
Years and years ago, when George
Wedekind was young, he went west
in a fever for gold. All up and down
the famed count country of the Cali
forniaa he wnndced, bootless. The
gold was not for him. As the country
settled he drifted from town to town,
tuning pianos. It was his trade. He
brought his wife to Reno, finally, and
the two settled (.own to the scant ex
istence that piano tuning in a western
town afforded.
UNCOVERED A liid.n MINK.
(After Many Years Fortune Smiled on
Qebrge Wedekind.)
Wedekind was 72 years old when
one day be went hunting, bven the
game had suffered f-om the civiliza
tion that ''ml come to the state and
then gone to such measures as to
leave it a population less than it had
when admitted to the union, He was
discouraged with hunting and was re
turning moodily homeward. Climbing
down the Side of a bluff his foot
blipped
And uncovered a gold mine!
He saw the unmistakable "color" In
the yellow earth and he staked right
and left. Reno awoke to a new gold
fever and the stakes were planted
everywhere that they hud not been
driven before. One hundred thousand
dollars was bid for his first claim nnd
the old man and his wife are saiil to
I be worth $1,000000,
Hut long years of hardship have die.
I Counted this great sum. Privation
I and makeshift meatiK to live hnve so
affected the old peopie that they have
j little capacity for enjoyment, of their
I gTeat wealth. They live In the same
I little house in the same frugal way
that they had lived for 30 years or
i r , .
more. They have better food and
better clothes, but the old man's chief
pleasure is to "potter" around the
mine, while the wife sits with folded
hands looking across the alkali
plains, day-dreaming.
HIS RISE WAS RAPID.
fnrrrr of t'onnt lluelovv, lirrninnr'a
Raff Chnnrrllor, Considered
I'Ih no mi' ii ii 1 liy Kiiropeana.
Count Ilcrnhnrd von Buelow, who
hns crowned his rapid and brilliant
rise to political power and fame by
becoming the chancellor of (lerniany
In the place of Hohenlohe-SchllUng
furst, lias the shortest career of any
of the great statesmen and diplomats
of the world. At 5o lie finds hitnseN
nt a pinnacle of eminence reached by
others only after laborious and haz
ardous toil and waiting. Von Ituclow
until 1SS0 had done no better than
serve as the secretary of embassy at
Koine, St. Petersburg and Vienna.
Until he had not reached the dig
nity of plenipotentiary, and he was
then made minister to the insignlfl.
COUNT VON 13ITELOW.
(Just Appointed Chancellor of the Herman
Empire.)
cant post of lloumania. In 1S93 he
was appointed to the mission to Italy,
where he remained several years. In
1897 Count von Huelow was selected
by the kaiser for the post of foreign
minister, and since that time he has
been the emperor's right-hand man.
During his ministry in the oreign of
fice he has developed splendid capa
bilities in statecraft, which will have
the freest play should he succeed to
the station once occupied by Bis
marck. American Salman In Demand.
Another American product that is
already affected by the Chinese war
is canned salmon. Besides a shortage
of from 600,000 to 730,000 cases, as
compared with last year, the Jap
anese government is placing heavy or
ders in the local market for salmon
QUEEN WILL MARRY.
Girl Ruler of Holland Has at Last
Found a Bridegroom.
Tha Happy Man Is Dnke Rears' (
Mecklenburg - Srhwrrla An
nouncement Was a Sarprlaa
Iu Court SacU-t) .
Queen Wilhelmina haa proclaimed
her betrothal to Duke Henry of Meck-lenburg-Schweriu,
a dashing young
officer uiid a special fuvorite of Kaiser
Wilhelm.
Duke Henry ia tall, bright-looking
and Herman in nppearaucc. He is a
lieutenant in the Prussian Life guards
and is also attached to the Mecklen
burg fuailcers.
The marriage will take place next
spring.
The duke is scarcely known in Am
sterdam and not particularly well ut
The Hague. It was rumored that the
queen had selected his elder brother,
Duke Adolf.
By betrothing herself to the duke
of nfecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Wil
helmina disappoints all the schemes
of royal matchmakers. The name of
the bridegroom selected has at no
time been coupled with hers. The
news of the engagement, will bring
disgust to a dozen or more highly
eligible princes of royal families.
Here are a few of them to whom she
has actually been reported betrothed
at one t line or another:
Prince Frederick William, oldest
son of the kaiser.
Prince William of Wicd.
Prince Bernard Henry of Saxe-Wel-mar.
Prince Harold of Denmark.
Prince Nicolas of Greece,
Prince Eugene of Sweden.
Prince Alexander of Teck.
Prince Frederick Henry of Prussia.
Prince Adolph Bernard of Schaum
berg' Lippe.
Prince Louis Napoleon.
Prince Max of Rnden,
ThS queen, in choosing the duke for
a husband, has fulfilled the require
ments of the law which demand that
she shall marry a Protestant and that
he shall be a prince of a reigning
house. The Mecklenburg-Schwerina
have been devout Protestants from
the time of the reformat ion and they
DTJXB HENRY OF MECKLENBURG.
(KuguKro to Marry wut-rn s 'Uh ilmlna of
The Netherlands.)
institute a reigning family, though
their principality is small.
Queen Wilhelmina celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of her birth
day on August HI, and it was then
expected that she would announce
her choice at the banquet given in her
honor at Amsterdam. She only prom
ised that she would do bo before
Christmas.
Not since Queen Victoria ascended
England's throne, C years ago, have
so many princes sued for one lady's
hand.
it is absolutely Imperative that the
queen should marry without delay.
The security of Midland, the perma
nence of the dynasty nnd the contin
uance of the country in quiet, mon
archical ways depend upon this event,
she Is the last representative In Hoi
land of the ancient nnd illustrious
house of Orange, which Is forever en
deared to the Dutch people by the
services of William the Silent. All
her near relatives are descended on
the paternal side from some German
house and there is nothing the Dutch
fear more than absorption Into the
German empire.
The young queen early showed
symptoms of Independence In the
matter of choosing a husband. She
rejected her cousin, Prince Bernard
of Saxc-Weimar, because he was so
ugly. Nevertheless, It was confidently
expected thnt she would finally marry
a man indicated to her for reasons of
state.
It wna reported some time ago that
she would certainly accept the suit
of the German crown prince. It is
an open secret In court, circles that
she was deeply in love with Frederick
William, a fact which was substan
tiated during her recent visit to Ber
lin, where they were always together.
When Kaiser Wilhelm stopped nt
Schweringen after his visit to Queen
Victoria it wns rumored that a match
had been arranged. If is believed
that the queen declined on account of
the deep-rooted antipathy of her sub
jects to the Germane nnd their fear
of being absorbed iu the German em
pire. A Trifle Too Aesthetic.
An aesthetic English vicar at Wem
bley will not allow the word "died"
to be put on the tombstones of the
people buried in the cemetery. He
insists on phrases like "departed this
life," or "passed away," or "entered
Into rest," and says that "died" la a
denial of the Christian teaching of im
mortality. '
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