mmm. FOR HANDLING STONE. flow an l-.rr llrnt narrow ( lie lul- at Home at a Merely Nominal tlipriiir. The illustration (Fitf. 1) shows a rout ri ii lire which will lie found use ful for liitmlliii i-toiu- or for moving other heavy or bulky uiateritil to which the ordinary wheelbarrow i not adapted. A ready-made Mone bnrrow co.-ts three dollars, lut the no illust ratcil can be made by the farmer liimself, and besides the ma terial will eobt nothing but the work and a few cents for the blacksinit h'b services, if they are required. IV two jiieecs of Cxii-inch hurdwooil tuff 3i to 4 feet lontf for tin? main parts of the framework. At onj TT 1 IIU.MK.MAL'l-: STONE HAUROW. end hanjr a solid old'biirrow wheel, with bearings of strap iron so as t'.i kae two or three inch tit of the wheel below the frame pieces. At the other 'iid, bolt handles such in may be ob tained from nu idd cultivator or hovel plow. The handles are ben out to the required position and held in plare by a simple iron braee to strengthen both the frame and the handles. The handles should not be elevated foo much at the ends, but. be low and long enough to cive suffi cient leverage when lifting the bar row, l'ut on n floor of bard wood boards about 1', inches thick, making it, say, two feet wide and -j to inches long, ami nt the front arrange a sloping board behind the wheel. This board is held by screws or naiW to a block attached outside of each STIlONGKIt, 1.1 CT HARDER TO MAKE. Ix3-inch frame piece; in the cut it is partially represented by a dotted line, anil but one of the blocks that hold it is shown. The 2x3's may be placed as far apart as the length of the hub and axle of the wheel will allow. Screw or nnils may be used to hold the flooring, and the dura bility of the bed will be increased i! two or three flat iron strips, drilled t with holes for the screws or nails, are used as washers, running; the full length of bed and up on the front board. In Fig. 2 another kind of frame is shown, which is stronger bnt more difficult to make. Four inch pieces are used, and they are braced together with a -x3 and .Txl'i crosspiece. The two middle fram" pieces are mortised with Cxl-inch tenons into the rear crosspiece, and the crosspiece is mortised into the side frame pieces in like manner. The front crosspiece has a two-inch slot cut where it crosses each center piece and the center pieces each have a one inch slot to receive the crosspiece. As is illustrated in this cut, wooden handles may be used if iron ones are not at hand. ,T. G. Allshouse, in Ohio Farmer. t.rttlnu a Snpply nt Ilnmu. On most farms the rush of getting out the manure for the spring planting is over, and it's time to begin to save manure to draw out after harvest . H there is no manure shed on the place scrape all the scatterings of the barn yard and feed lots into a pile, pet the old stack bottoms that are too wet or rotted for bedding over them and then pile the manure as made from day to day on the whole mass. If a few hops 1 ould be let Iodise on the pile each da a small amount of shelled corn scat tered over the muss would lend the swine to work over the whole, and be fore the summer was past there would lie a nice lot of humus in good shape for plowing under when drawn out. lie fides the stack vurd, feed lot, and all the farmyard surroundinps would be tenter fur the general cleaning up. Earmarks of a Good Farm. Put wherever he lives, north or south or in the center of the state, there are characterist it s, earmarks, so to speak, by which the farm of the up to dale farmer is quickly recognized. Jt has a tidy appearance, the fences are in or der. The pates are on their hinges ami swing free. There are no weeds by the roadside. His house and barns ore painted. The doors of bis barns are hooked shut oropen.they are never left swinging. His animals are never call ing for water, nor his windmill for oil. Such a farrr, ;s a benefaction to the neighborhood and benediction to its occupant . Joseph Carter, in Farmert' Keview. t tilt i nt Ion uf ucoa. A 1 1 imc I ei- in Sou t I. Africa, w here the 00011 1 ret is largely cultivated, speaks f the great care with which the young plants have to be protected from the sun, which if very strong is fatal tc them. To secure this protection the pin tilers .l.idd them by bamma trees and jilai ticin 1rees, the broad leaves of which ive them the needed shade. And even when they are fully grown they need protection, which is given by trees know n us "immortels," or, as the pluuters call them, "the mother of the coooa." Thus the whole cocoa planta tion lias 41 sort of canopy. Mm CAUSE OF GOOD ROADS. I All Part, of ew York II la lro. prrlnar aa It II aa Pros pered Hrfore. The action of the board of mpervl ors of t h iav county in recommending the building of 35 miles of frond road nndvr the state aid plan, and the ap propriation of the county's share if money for the improvement of four miles of road on which estimates had already been made, bring the matter of pood nxids to a practical test where it ha heretofore been a theoretical proposition. It shown th growth of pood rr.ad sentiment which is shared all ovff the ftatc. Tlie I'tica l'ress printed in a ear.al town, concedes that the good roads sentiment has a majority over the canal sentiment, and it suggests that: "In ease the legislature fails to sanction the submission to the people of a con-tit nit until a mind men t author izing the appropriation of 300,1 inn for the further improve ment of the canals, there may be n, chance for the proposition in reference to good roads. There is undoubtedly more sentiment favor able to road improvement than to canal improvement. As road improvement would be shared by all the counties in the state, it Is practically certain that there would be popular approval of an amendment to the constitution permit ting the. state to issue lxinils to the amount, of $'.'0,noo.(irm to carry on this movement." Certainly here is more argument for a tax on llie .New turk inrmer to get. his products to market than there is to tax him for getting the products of his western competitor to market. The legislature has probably refused to sanction the submission of the cannl proposition, and if it remains In its present determination the way is clear for the submission of the $2(1.1)011. (Nin proposition for good roads, as both subjects could not 1m- submitted in one J ear. It is believed that the people would accept the good roads proposi tion, in which all would receive equal In' tie fit. The legislature is pretty sure nt least to grant Silfin.oiio this year to the state's fund for aid in building good roads. It is nn epoch of pood road building. The legislature has passed several nets favorable to securing better roads. There is the O'ltrien bill, which pro vides a county option plan, whereby any county may adopt the most mod-j cm system of caring Iorlt roads and bridges. It codifies the present laws. provides for the cash system, a county j engineer anil t ne proper en re oi nriupes and the contracting therefor. The Green compulsory adoption of cash road tax Fystem has reached third reading in the senate, and the hill ti compel the use of wide tires after 190S is on general orders in the senate. Assemblyman O'Brien, of Clinton, has also passed his bill to allow village to bond themselves and thus raise money for the purchase of a steam rol ler, stone crusher and engine, and other rondmakinp machinery. This bill has met with no opposition. One of the best of pood roads meas ures is that introduced by Assembly man I'lank, of St. Lawrence county, which has been signed by the governor, and is a law. It providesa measure for localities that object to the more ex pensive requirements of the Iliphie law. It is an amendment of the Fuller law r.f Is'js, and gives towns adopt ing the money system of highway improve ment JO per cent, bonus from the state treasury, instead of 2S per cent. This law takes effect immediately. Towns which have or do adopt the money sys-! tern will L'et an immediate benefit on future work. W. Tierrepont White, of Oneida, who is n leader of the pood ! roads movement, says that this law wi il go jar tow am intelligent improve inf nt and work on nil count ry roads. This seems to be an era of pood roads. Those that have been made cre. te demand for more. The money (st is great, but the cities and v il- laL'. s pay it and it is converted intojwho recently left the University of r in tne rural districts, and the food road remains n- ;1 Wtitertiwn ( Y.) Times result. A POTATO COVER ER. Am n Tool for the 1'iirpone Maile Kvl-J dent Ii)- Its ame It termini) llaa o huperlor. 1 have lor years used n potato eov erer that is made entirely of worn! ami at little expense. The board that do the covering are 1x10x22, nine inches apart at the rear end, and 24 in front. I use two horses, going FOR COVERING POTATOES. stride the row. The tongue is in one piece, and is bolted in so as to make the implement run smooth without too much work for the driver. The weight on llie handles regulutes tin depth of the covering. Jt scrapes iu the surfe dirt, leaves a ridge to burrow down, and kills the weefls just before the potatoes come through. 1 have tried different cultivators with covering attachments, but they do not give such perfect work. As a tool just to cover potatoes, the above has no equal. Kpitomist. Sprouts of red raspberries outside the hills r rows, which ever way you t rain yours, should be treated weeds and hoed or plowed up when Tery JOUSf. GIVER OF MILLIONS. So Modest That His Fame Has Never Gone AbroaS. William rrrlaa;'a llrarllceaca Has llren Uitronlvr mud Sim lie May tiUr Anulhrr Millioa t NurU nolrrs I alvrrlr. Keports that William Deering, the cll-kiiown harvester manufacturer of Chicago, has in contemplation u gift of $1,000,000 to Northwestern uui versitv, bring to light the fact that while this philanthropist has continu ously for 'M years given thousands of dollars to educational institutions, rhurehes and charities his beneficence radically has been kept a secret. While lie can hardly be placed be tide l:ckefcllcr in the total sums he has given, it is know n that he has given away fortunes. Small, struggling col leges or churches, particularly of the Methodist denomination, for Mr. Deer ing always has been a warm supporter of the Methodist church and its institu tions, huve been helped by him when confronted with debts or mortgages w ithout the fact being Hashed over the wire and becoming public through the newspapers. Some time ago Mr. Peering heard that his native town in Maine would like to have a library. He immediately wrote, out a check sufficient to pur chase one and maintain it without put ting any obligations on the city. Garrett ltiblical institute, affiliated with Northwestern university, has been the recipient at various times of Mr. Dcering's generosity. He has been president of the board of trustees of the institute and also held the same position on the university board. At one time he pave $j.0o0 to a seminary at Omarga, 111. He endowed and built Fisk hall, which is occupied by the pre paratory school at the university and built Willard hall, the girls' dormitory I at Kvanston, where the. university Is located. I He has regularly given from $2,000 I to $S,000 to the city missionary and WILLIAM DEERING. (Chicago rhiliinthroplst Who Doep Much (Joi by sjiKilih.) church extension societies in Chicago to support evangelistic work. He has given $150,000 Vo Wesley hospital, in Chicago, to erect a new building and make it a tirst-cTass medical institu tion. The hospital also is a Methodist institution. Northwestern university has received ninny times valuable land from Mr. Deering, which netted hand some return. The sums of money to Northwestern university range from $QO,000 to $100,000, all given since the institution was founded. There are many other gift that would make a long list. Mr. Deering is the oldest and wealth- ntinounceme nt that there will be a do nation of $1,000,000 for endowment doe not canse much surprise. Ac- ' cording to information the gift is to be presented as soon ns President JameF. , ( hienpo to assume management at Kvanston, is found to meet Mr. Peer ing's approval, after reasonable time, from the viewpoint of the institution's welfare. The period of probation will Inot lie lonsr. as the manner in which TnKidrnt .lames erasned the sit nation as he found it has pone far tn convince friends of the university that its future is safe with him. Negotiations under way for the af filiation of Heddinp college at Abing ton. 111., with the Northwestern, are taken as an indication of the policy of expansion the institution is to pursue under the presidency of Dr. James. For some time Mr. Deerinp has been in poor health. Recently he trans ferred to hi sons- his interest in the immense harversting machine plant, snd the real estate on w hich it stands, with the expressed intention of with drawing from active business cares. Marrlaare la llladoataa. In Hindostan the arrangements for a wedding are made by the parents of the bride and bridegroom, who, when the alliance is agreed upon very like ly behold one another for the first time. Then there is no appearance of reluctance about the bride, who play fully skips toward her future husband and seats herself beside him. The priest's part is to tie a corner of the bride's veil to the bridegroom's shawl, and this simple proceeding makes them legally husband and wife. F.aittne Kluprd with lllm. During the inspection of a new ex . press emgine at Louburg, on the Kiev-l'oltava line, in Ilussia, an elder ly priest mounted the foot-plate and J inadvertently net the engine in mo tion. Message were telegraphed along the line to keep it clear and eventually the engine came to a stop for want of water. The priest went mad with fright. Iff; i MARKED PLAYING CARDS. rack Which la Coaalderetl a Marvel ( Ita Kind Captared la .evw York t it). The paraphernalia captured in the room iu the New York-Hat where ltat Mastersoti and othergamblers were ar rested included a deck of marked cards, which are a marvel of their kiud. The faro box. us lur as the detectives at heaihpiarters could discover, was "straight," though the springs seemed to be a trifle weak. The marked cards pave the dealer, providing he was a clever manipulator, an absolute advan tage over the player.. On the margin of each card was a tiny speck, or two specks, or three specks. No ordinary inspect ion would reveal the presetice of these specks on M MARKING PLAY I NO CARDS. (Out Illustrates Mellmi I'sid by New York Uamblefji.) the cards. The dealer must have eyes like a hawk to read llicin. All the ten spots have two specks on the vertical 111a rgin close U t he .corner. The nines have two specks an eighth of au inch from the corner, the eight spots two specks a quarter of an inch from the corner; the seven spots have three specks; the six spots have one speck a quarter of an inch from the corner; the fives one speck an eighth of an inch from the corner; the fours one speck in the corner. The kings have two specks in t he cen ter of the vertical margin, (he queens two specks an eighth of an inch from the center. The aces have one speck in the center, the deuces one speck an eighth of an inch from the center, and the truys one speck 11 quarter of nn inch from the center. in dealing the cards the crooked operator could work out the tiniest edge of the cards under the top one and read them by the specks on the margin- ORIGIN OF HIS TITLE. llorr First AUtan l'otmnter Gen eral Wynne Iteeome a Fnll Flciliieil C'ttlnurt. The first assistant postmaster gen eral is commonly addressed as "Col." Robert Wynne. He is not a military man, but, as he claims n judicially indorsed right to the title, the use made of the same by himself and br others is possibly legitimate. On one occasion he was culled us a wit ness in n damage suit. The siibpena referred to him us "Col. Hubert J. Wynne." The lawyer to whoso cause Mr. Wynne's testimony was adverse was disposed to be sarcastic at the expense of the witness. "You have been summoned us 'Col.' Hubert J. Wynne," said the law- COL. ROBERT J. WYNNE. (First Alstant I'oMmnster General of the l."r.itid Statef.) yer. "Whut military service huve you ever ilnne?" "None vhntever, but you rnnntit hold me responsible for the way your subpenuH are uiade out. "Where did you get that title of colonel?' " "I submit, your honor," snid Wynne, turning to the court, "that a residence of as years in Washing ton is enough to entitle me to that rank." "It certainly is," returned the court, and from that moment Mr. Wynne's right to adnrn bin inline with nn inspiring prelix bus never been tpieKtioued. TlieHMiue 4M1 Nlory. J. A. Kelly relates an cxperinece similar to that which has happened in almost every neighborhood in the United States and has been told and re-to!d by thousands of others. Ho says: "Last summer I bad an attack of dysentery and purchased n bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea liemedy. wmcb I used ac cording to directions ana with en tirely eatisfactory results. The trouble was controlled much quicker than former attacks when J. used other remedies." Mr. Kelly isa well known citizen of Henderson, N. C. For sale by the Middleburg Drug Ln ma Store. FAMOUS OLD HIGHWAY. Casnberland Road, Constructed Xrar j One Handred Yrara Ago, Still In Fair loadUioa. The most remarkable highway built in the United States early in the cen tury was the so-called -Cumberland road, which was to extend from Cum berland, Md., through southwestern Pennsylvania, over the Alleghany mountains to the Ohio at Wheeling, W. Va., and then on to St. Louis. It was so well constructed that it is a good road to-day. Henry Clay was its projector and chief supporter, and his services in its behalf are commemorat ed by a monument near Wheeling. We are told by letters written nt that period that "there were sometimes 20 gayly-pninted four-horse coaches each way daily. The cattle and sheep were never out of sight, and canvas-covered wagons were drawn by six or twelve horses." . On this great road, which eventually passed into the hands of the states through which it runs, the government expended no less a sum than $7,000,000. Within a mile oi it on either side the country was a wilderness, but on the highway itself the traffic was as dense as in the main street of a large town. Ten miles an hour was the usual speed forcouches. From Haltimore to Wheel ing ran lines of freight wagons which carried ten tons, drawn by 12 horses, and with wheels ten feet in diameter. When Charles Dickens visited Amer ica in 1S42, he traveled by stagecoach from Cleveland to Sandusky, 0. De scribing his experience, he wrote: ."At one time we were nil thrown to gether in a heap at the bottom of the ;'oach, and at onother we were crush ing our heads against the roof. Now the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers, and now it was rearing up in the air. The driver, who cer tainly got over the ground in a man ner quite miraculous, so twisted and turned the team, in forcing u passage corkscrew fashion through the bogs nnd swamps, that it was a common circumstance, on looking out of the window, ta see the conch mun with the ends of a pair of reins in his hands, apparently driving nothing, and the lenders staring unexpected nt one from the bnck of the coach, as if they had some idea of getting up behind. A great portion of the way was over what is culled 'n corduroy road, which Is made by throwing trunks of trees into a mursh and leaving them to set tle there. The very slightest of the jolts with which the ponderous car riage fell from log to log was enough, it seemed, to have dislocated all the bones in the human body. It would be impossible to experience a similar set of sensat ions in any other circum stances, unless perhaps in attempting to go up to the top of St. Taul's in an omnibus." This description serves to illustrate the ,cindition of our country roads, generally speaking, as they were 25 years ago, except in a few wealthy ?ommunities. There has been a won lerful change since then. Pearson's Matra.ine. "I am uBiDR a box of Chamber lain's Stomach & Liver Tablets and find them the beet thiEg for my stomach I ever used," nays T. V. RobitiBOn, Justice of the Peace, Lootnip, Micb. These Tablets not only correct disorder s of the utom ach but regulate the liver and bowels. They are easy to take and ple..Raot in effect. Price 25 cents per box, For sale by the Middle burg DruR Store. FREE The Grreat American INDIANAPOLIS. IND. The Leading Agricultural Edited by the HON. JOS. Secretary of Agriculture of by an Able Corps of Editors. 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