Ott FARM AND GARDES, rnoptT from nocis. The greatest profit from hogs comes from crowding them from birth until they aim seven months old nftcr this ago profits decrease Aim to hnvo them ready for market nt any time after thoy nro six months old, so that you will bo ready to take ndvantago of a good market. Do not make the miMrtke of keeping the pigs nntil they ueigh just so many pounds, but soil when ready for the market. Ameri can Agriculturist. TO MAKE ORAFT1NO WAX. Melt common rosin and beeswax in ciim1 parts together. Then add half as much tallow and half as much lin seed oil ns of tallow. Mix well and stir until cold. It should then bo of pinh n consistenco that tho warmth of tlio hand will soften it so Unit it may be spread on tho stock and cion, or if melted, tho strips of cloth steeped in it will bo plinblo and adhesive. Tho old method of covering tho grafts with clay mdo plastic by working in tho hands when wetted nnd binding it over with cloth strips is as good now ns ever it was, but tho wax is more cleanly and noutor. Xcw York Times. FEED FOn A FHESH COW. A newly-calved cow need not be fed full rations until n week after the calf is born. Especially w ith a young cow hi ving hor first calf, the feed is to bo carefully increased from the previous allowance, beginning at the end of tho fourth day after the cow comes in. After this, tho food may bo increased gradually from an allowance of two pounds of meal, in addition to a full quantity of good hay, until tho limit of profit and safety in tho feeding is reached. No ono knows, until it is tried how much grain food a cow will consume safely and profitably for it is not always profitable to feed a cow as much as sho will eat, unless At the aaiuo time tho milk product increases in a proportionnto degree. Tho full feeding of Any cow after calving should not be rcachetl until tho second week, for if the feed bo given to excess the cow may bo pormanently injured by it WHY EGOS DON'T HATCH. Year after year the same experience in failing to hatch most of the early eggs set 1 Eggs not fertilized cannot hatch. Uunntnral conditions prevail in winter and early spring. The birds get litto or no moat, shells, gravel, and some even lack exercise enough. Most of them shivor about daily for houi s w ith feet wet and feathers more or less o. Provide everything for tho flock kept for prodnoing sittings. Do every thing for thoir comfort; don't forget thorn onoe and then look for better ro ults at hatching time. Tho owner of thrifty lot of early pullets that will lay eggs of gold next fall and winter is tho careful thrifty fellow who today provides for fertile egg production. New England Homestead. BTOMACR OF THE HORSE. It is important to remember that the digestive apparatus of a horse is the exact opposite of that of a cow. The stomach of a horse is a single bag, and a very small on.o. It is too little t to contain even an ordinary feed of oats. By the time that two-thirds of it has been (wallowed as much ia passing out of the stomoch as is being eaten. In consequence of this a very large proportion of a horse's food is not digested in the stomaoh, but is ehoved along into the bowels. The horse in state of nature is an animal that is almost ulways feeding. He cannot like the cow or ox, pack away a large quantity of food and then lie down and ohew it thoroughly, nor indeed nt all. For this reason a horse ought to bo fed little and often, and tdiould not be watorod soon nftor feeding grain. The frequent trouble which arisos from overeating in horses is best avoided by acting in accordance with those fucts of a horse's construc tion ; giving small but frequent feeds, aud when nt work, at least, giving grain, rather than any considerable quantity of hay. MARE THE HENS LAY. Tu evory Hook there are a cumber of hens that, despite all care and coax ing, porsisteuly refue to lay. They remain indifferent to the blandish inopts of lean meat or ground green bone ; vurioty of food possesses no charms for them, nor can the warmth of their quarters evoke any manifes tation of good will to their owner, who naturally is apt to regard thorn as most ungrateful and often hastily dooms them to the axe or the hatchet when he would do better to inquire as to the cause or causes of this contra rioty. Under normal conditions it is as nntural for a hen to lay as it is for pig to squeal or for a man to follow Adam's txainplo and blnmo the woman when anything goes wrong. Kometliing has gono wronj with tlio non-layers, and it is tho business of the poultry man to invostigato and remove the cause. Thoro nro several reasons why certain members of tho flock may not produco eggs during tho wiutor, wlnlo other members under the same care and feed may bo making glad tho heart of tho owner. It will generally bo found that tho non-layers are tho lato monitors, which winter found in an enfuoblod condi tion. All their energies are concen trated on picking up nnd regaining their normal strength. This is, of courso, much slower work than in summer, Hut if tho poultrymen will bear with them they will reward his patienco by being tho cnrliost of the spring layer, an 1 will keep on laying fur inti) the Miinni'ir. Whilj prices nro nut then ns high as in tho winter, yit tho greater number of eggs laid and the lessetied cost of production will go fur to mako up tho difference. Tho other great couso of non-pro duction is over-fatness. All tho birds of tho flock nro fed together and re ceive the amount of food sufficient for their wants in the opinion of the owner. Whilo this may bo proper proportion as far as tho bulk of tho flock is con sidered, yet it may bo too much in in dividual cases. Tho constitutions of hens vary like those of human beings. Homo will fatten on what will only suflico to keep othors in fair condition. Xow, fat and egg production nro dinm ctrically opposed to each other. Thoy cannot bo combined. Thoreforo, it behooves the good poultry keeper to keep careful watch of his flock, find out non-layers and separate them from tho working fowls nnd cut down their rations. It is 0U0 well to vary the feed, as tho appetites of some are more capricious than that of others. Xew York World. FARM AND GARDEN XOTES. Feed as great a variety as possible. Examine tho colts carefully for ver- miuc. Sunshine is the best and cheapest medicine. Bo suro your hens have tight roofs over them. During 1894 we only imported sixty stallions from Great Britain. The grooming of a horso is second only to his diet in importance. For meot and eggs the Plymouth Rocks and Wyaudottes have no rivals. Whilo variety of food is excellent, all sudden and cutiro changes should be avoided. Quality, stylo, sizo and action are indispensable qualifications of good coach horses. ' If you are keeping many cows don't let one old scrub keep down the record of the whole herd. Durkoning the rooms whoyj nests are placed, tends to prevent tho fowls from eating their eggs. It is claimed that tho hog's natural remedy for mange is a piaster of mud. Kerosene is also a good remedy. Unfertile eggs can never batch, and never become rotten. A rotton egg ia a sign that there has been a germ of life. Good maros are too often sold to get a good price without a thought of the great loss to the breeding in the future. An excellent maxim for those who do not believe in manures or fertiliz ers : Feed the plant and the plant will feed you. In making butter from strippors churn all the milk. It should be sturted with buttermilk and ripened all up every other day. Those who want a raspberry, first- class iu quality and productiveness, should plant tho Cuthbert. It is a good old sort, batter now than very many of tho newer ones which have been brought out and claimed as su perior to it. It surely must be a fact that a good part of the grain that we export to Europe comes buck to us in the shupe of eggs. The number of eggs import ed to this country every year is some thing astonishing and ought to make our American "biddios" feel embar rassed. The object of every farmer should be to have his asparagus last until peas come iuto bearing, and the peat to last until greeu oorn is ready, the green oorn to last until frost, Tho asparagus, peas and oorn are the chiei vegetables of the entire season. Bid ishes, early onions, beets, early string beans, etc., may be raised iu quantity to suit eaoh iudividvul IOB THE HOUSEWIFE. hot sr,Aw. Chop cabbage fino nnd sprinkle over with (lour. Put A small pieco of but ter in tho oven to melt. Halt and pep per the cabbage, nnd put in the pan with tho butter. Mix half n toncupful cream, ono egg, tnblcspoonful mus tard, tenspoonful sugar, nnd bent thoiitghly, Hervo warm. New York World. CREOLE CELERY SOIT. Take one shank of beef, ono largo bunch of celery, and one cup of rich cream. Slake a good broth of tho shank of beef, and thicken tho broth with A little flour rubbed smooth in a half cup of water. Cut tho bunch of celery iuto small pieces aud boil in tho soup until tender. Htrnin, then add tho cup of rich cream, pepper and salt. Now Orleans Picayune. RICE IS VARIETY. Rico lendH itself to a greater variety of dishes than nny other article of food. It makes any number of sweet dishes and desserts, is excellent ns flour, serves as a vegetable to use with meats or fish, makes delicious enko for breakfast when cooked like batter cakes, and for made moat dishes has no eqnnl, withal, being extremely cheap when tho nutritive qualities of tho cereal nro considered, yet it is inoro often served up in unpalatable shapo than almost any other dish. It noods delicate cooking and dainty treatment to bring out its palatable qualities. New York Recorder. ROAST BEEF WITH YORKSHIRE. A rib of sirloin roast should bo prepared as for roasting. When with in three-quarters of nu hour of being douo, have tho pudding made. Butter ft pan liko that in w hich tha meat is cooked and pour in tho batter. Tut the rack across tha pan, not iu it. Plnoo tho meat on tho rack, return to tho ovon and cool forty-fivo minutes. If you have only ono pan, tako up tho meat, pour off the gravy aud put iu the pudding. Cut in squaros and gar nish tho bocf with those. Another method is to have a pan that has squares stamped iu it This gives oven squares and crust on all tho edges, which baking in the fat pan does not. When tho meat is roasted in tho tiu kitchen, let tha pudding bake in tho oven for half an hour, aud then place it under tho meat to catch tho drip ping. For tho Yorkshiro pudding, one pint of milk, two-thirds of a cupful of flour, three eggs and ono scant tea spoonful of salt will bo needed. Beat tho eggs very light Add salt nnd milk nnd then pour about half it cupful of tho mixture upou tho flour, and when perfectly smooth add tho remainder. This makes a rather small pudding about enough for six persons. Serve it hot HOUSEHOLD niNTS, For grease spots tako equal parts ol ether and chloroform. Powdered pipe clay mixed with wa ter will remove oil stain from wall paper. Try a strip of wood baok of tho door whore tho knob hits the paper in opening. Add a teaspaonful of ammonia to ono tencupful of water for cleaning jewelory. Before laying a carpot wash tho floor with turpentine, to prevent buf falo moths. Any woman doing her work may so systematize it that it will be the easiest possible for hor. She need not follow any other person's methods, unless they are the very best for her own conditions. It pays well to do the mending be fore the article goes into the wash, since the processes to which it is tbcro subjected materially enlarge the boles, and it is better aud mora agreeable to wear if tho washing follows tho mend ing. Ordinary soup stock should be made from the collection of bones left over from tho table J for iuetauco, tho bones of roasted boef, mutton, veal and chicken should be saved in a cool plaeo aud boiled twice a week. This stock will not make cleur soup, but can be used for tomato or cream soups. Slowly frlod food is objectionable when, by reason of insufficient heat, the article fried becomes toughened and soaked with tho fat Quickly fried food, done by plunging the pro pared meats, cakes, pios, ic, -into heated oil or lord or butter, having the surfuce entirely and quickly browned and thus closed to the fur ther entranoe of the fat, is not so ob jectionable, while the browning brings out a delicious flavor in the meats. A MODEL COTi fat; FOR $550. rinns for tha Fraction of Cheap and fretty Stiburbati Dwelling. It Is one of the primary principles of political economy that the happi ness and prosperity of a country is ganged by the general thrift of tho inhabitants, nnd not by the abundance of the few. That would be the model commuitv in which each head of the family owned, in the derisive words of the British statesman, "An acre and a cow," even if not a single indi vidual bad much greater possessions than that. "Lnndlordism" is responsible for much of the misery which exists in cities. Ilnppily there is a growing disposition in this couutry lor wage earners to become householders. It is not difficult for the laboring man and the small artisan to render them selves independent of landlords. The suburbs of our cities have abundant room for growth, and the land is not nil in the possession of a few families. tvery day it is proven possible lor a man with shrewd management, pru dence and a little self denial to build and own a house for himself, with scarcely more of a weekly outlay than he was called upon to expend in rent. A dollar or two more a month for a few years is not difficult to manage, when &';i-5fv Co.0pBun.mi9 PlmA AfCHITCCTS A. it means in the end such a neat and attractive home as is pictured here with, instead of a mere memory of shelter and fat profits in the pocket of a landlord. This little cottage, which is capable of various modifications to suit indi vidual tastes, can be built, according to the most careful aud reliable esti mates, for 9550. Its width, including bay, is 27 foct ; depth, including ver anda, 27 feet ; height of first story, 8 feet 6 inches ; second story, 8 feet. Exterior materials : Foundation, poHts or piers ; first story, clapboards ; bay-window, gables, dormers and roofs, shingles. Interior finish : Two coat plaster, soft wood flooring, trim and staircase. Interior woodwook finished in hard oil. first floor. Colors: Body, all clapboards and shingles of bay-window, terra-cotta : trim, Pompoin red ; shingles in gables and sides of dormers treated with burnt sienua and oil ; roof shingles, dark red : sashes, bronze green : blinds, terra-cotta ; veranda floor and ceilings, oiled. The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the floor plans. Open fireplace in the liV' 1UXDS0MEST SHIP Po.cM Jo'f rr b-j'Lrvirij FL 3 vl 8'mo'b I Vr.nd I fc' wide. 1 THE CBUISER CHICAGO. Tbe United States cruiser Chicago, detauhed from duty as flagship of the European station, reoently arrived at Now York after a long voyage. By many the Cbioago is considered the handsomest vessel in the new navy of tbe United States. Hor twenty-one months' cruise in European waters has been a most eventful one. Every where she was received as a welcome Ins room and oheerfnl bay-window. Front door glazed handsomely. A circular cellar may be added in whioh vegetables will not freeze. Tha living room may be divided In half with a smaller bav-window in tho front room, and the back used ns the dining- room, with open flreplaco, which heats Roof. Be4 R. oCxW Rstfi 3ecord Hook. upstairs, economizing the expendi ture of the coal. A few extra dollars would build a one-story extension at the rear, used as a store room or wood shed, and iu the summer as a laundry wben the bent or the kitchen range would be oppressive. The finished neatness of this design, its economical arrangement of rooms and the low cost for which it can be built, appeals directly to the mechanic and laboring man. Nor is it a hard matter to figure how so small a sum be made to represent a weekly or monthly payment scarcely in excess of the rent of a room or two in the crowded oitv tenement. (Copyright IBM.) Lost Blood Replaced With Halt Water. Dr. Wyeth, speaking at the meeting of the New York State Association of Railway Burgeons, strongly recom mended the injection into tho circula tion through a vein of hot salt solu tion to take the place, in part of the volume of blood which has been lost as a result of acoident. As reported by the Railway Age, be spoke as fol lows : "The solution which I have em ployed, running in as much as five pints in a single operation, is com posed of clear water, which has been boilcn and allowed to cool to 110 or 120 Fahrenheit, or just as hot as the hand can bear to every pint of which a teaspoonful of common salt is added. I have seen the pulse go from 140, in cases of tremendous heinorrage steadily down to soventy to the minute within two minntes of the injection of e pint of this solution. While it may be usod cooler than 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and in some emergencies this may be necessary, it is safer to give it as hot as 110 to 120 degrees, beoauso the cold solution robs the body of its heat, while the hot solution carries boat with it, and thus adds to the mainten ance of the normal temperature. Tho apparatus is simple a metal or glass pipette to go into the vein, a rubber tube three or four feet long, and an irrigator bag or vessel." Samples an Expensive Itsm, "We out up $95 worth of goods for samplos yesterday in one department alone," said a salesman in a retail store, and the man at the Bilk counter added : "Our expenditure for samples was greater than that. If I bad all the money that has been put into samples of silk by this store for the last ten years I should be a rich man." The carpet aud curtain dealers have a liko story to tell. The wasto is enormons in retail samples, and there is in all considerable stores an annual salo ol the larger samples, of course at a sac rifice. Wide-awake women buy them for pillow and piucushion covers and the like. New York Sun. Kansas has twenty-five newspapers edited by women. IN OCR SEW NATT. guest. Hers were triumphsof peaoo.aud these were due to tbe distinguished offi cer who commands the vessel, Captain A. T, Maban. tie is tbe author of the now famous book, entitled "Influence of Kea Fower on History," and when be was in English ports there were none too proud to do him honor. The Chi cago monnts fourteen guns, and has a complement of 430 colours and men. Ro.f. I Bed R I ll'xn' in nr PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE Important Measures Considered by Our Lawmakers. Monday. A Mil amending thn plgliteenth section ol tlin iirnoks high Jk-wis net whs Introduced ty Mr. Muwiirt, ol l'ulhelelpbiu Tbe bill pt ovule, Ib.it any hotel, bonne or room where liquors sre sold, offered tor sale, drank or glveu away In violation ot law shall ti8 declared ns disorderly bouses. Vio lation ol tlio net Is triads a misdemeanor, subject to a Una ol t and Imprisonment. There Is a proviso 1 lint the person or persons o offending shall have a knowledge ol Ibe llllflt sslo ot vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed Honors, or nny admixture thereof, on on tha promises wuure he or she has been found. Hpeclnt orders were granted this evening tor those bills: Tha Itouthatt measure, repeal ing the stray law for Ilsrrlsvllle borough la Ilutler ooutity. It permits cattle, hogs, eta, to ronm nt large through the town, and (he Seifcrt bill for the better protection ol trav elers on railroad trains. It makes death tha penalty for train robbery. Trrsint Tho hours after a long debate nassed tha Nlckoll bill prohibiting the em ployment ol any but citizens of tha United Htatea on pubilo buildings or any pubilo work in tne state, xuore were put lu votes against tha measure. The Orlgsby purs food and liquor bills pas ted the house finally. The Woodrlng bill, prohibiting peddling anil Hawking o( mer chandise In the statu without a license, was postponed on motion ol Mr. Dotithltt, ol Ilutler. Mr. Holies ot Philadelphia wants billiard and pools rooms licensed by cities and boroughs. He had a bill passed finally today, wlileh provides lor tills. The lee Is C3. me licenses are issued eitnor oy tun mayor or department ot pubilo safety. II thev do not think the applicant Is a lit per son to operate such a place they can retitao the application. The bill also gives tha police power to raid a pool or billiard room as a disorderly bou'.e If the laws are not com piled with. VEinr.sPAt. The Grlesby bill fixing tha rates and prohibiting discrimination by tele phone compnnles In rentnls passed second reading to-day In tho house. The bill was tailed up by Mr. rennewoll nnd passed with out debate. The bill providing for the In corporation of Institutions of learning with power to confer degrees In nrt, science, phil osophy, literature, medicine, law, theology, nnd for the supervision and regulation of the same, was taken up. Mr. llurrell made a rigorous speech In favor ot the bill, nnd forcibly ret-lsted the nmendment of Mr. Haw kins ol York, reducing from 3' 0.000 totlOO, uOO the amount endowment Institutions shall bnve before they can confer degrees. Mr. llurrell was supported by Mr. Martin ol Law rence and Mr. l ocut of L'nlon. T iii nniiAT. Mr. Fow, ol Philadelphia, by unanimous consent, presented a bill to pro- uiuit tu aaio oi airguns and otner danger ous nreurms to minor children. This action was prompted by the wounding ol ex-Meno- tor Founce, ol l'blladelphln, by a flobert rule in tne nanus oi a small uoy, while on his way to Atlnntlo City oa Tuesday. Mr. O'Malley, of Lackawanna, also pre sented a new bill to prevent physicians from disclosing In evidence upon the trial ol a caso any Information required In attending a pntlont In a professional capacity. An act for the protection of railroad trav elers, dolluing the crime of train robbery nnd punishing the same, which was on tbespecinl third reading calendar, passed dually. Upon conviction under this bill a person shall be punished by conlluemeut In tbe penitentiary for a term ol not less than 15 years. Tbe bill to regulate the employment and provido lor the safoty ol persons In tenement bouses, etc, was called up for Ilnal passage. This bill Is known here as the "baker sweat shop" bill. It passed flnalty by a voto ol loj to 1. A MILLION SIGNERS Franoia Murphy Celebrates His Twenty Fifth Year. Francis Murphy colobrated his twenty-flttb. anniversary ol a temperance lecturer Wed nesday nlt,-bt by presiding over a big moot ing In tho First Congreatlonnl church ol Allegheny, I'o. Over 200 persons signed tha pledge. In speaking ol his 2i year's work Mr. Murphy said: "Twenty-live years ago to-day I mnda my (lrst publio speech on temperance in tbe city hall at l'ortlaud, Me., at tho request ol Hon. Uenjamln Kingsbury mayor ol the city. I had previously been soliciting my compan ions and drinking men to sign a little pledge I cnrrled In my pocket. ben I made my llrst address I believed I oried or did some thing else, The hall contained about 2,509 people. I thought I had disgraced myself aud friends, und I remained nt home for three days. Friends bunted me up and showed iua 50 applications from various places where my services were wanted as a lecturer. I have had over 1,000.000 people sign tbe pledge since thnt time, and I believe that HO per cent bave remained faithful. It was In rittsburg that I gained prominence, and for tbe pant IB years I bava registered (rom this olty as my bouie," Four Instantly Killed. At Whlgville, live miles west ol Summer field, Onto, on the Iiellatre, Zanesville & Cin cinnati railway, an alul wreva took plaoa Friday morning. A coach oa tbe westbound passenger train Jumped the track, jut bulun reaching a ireaue which spans a small stream. iha structure Is tula oa a curve, aud the coach, after running along tne tins until almost aoross It, dragged Ibe engine from the rails, and tbe trestle went down. The engineer and llreoiau remained at their posts, 'iua former was lustuuliy Killed and the latter fatally hurt. The engineer was til Lucas, ol Zanesvllle. A wife and feverul children survive Dim. Tho tlreman, Jesse Jonirs, was unmarried. Mrs. Young and her little daughter ot Sum merlleld, and u resident ol Bju.ohIIIo, whoes came Is unknown, were iiiso Instantly kill ed. Several others were slightly Injured. Author ot America. Tha people ol Boston presented a fitting tostlmoulal to Rev. bamuel F. Hmitb, the ven erable author of tbe nutlonal hymn, "Ameri ca." It took the form of pubilo exercises la Music ball during Wednesday afternoon and evening. The reception lu tbo afternoon was presided over over by Ciov. Oreonhuigu aud among the speakers were ex-Uovernor John V. Long, Commander Thayer ol ths Grand Aitny, Iter. Vr. Lorimer aud others. lit. Kroiih made uu address telling bow he happened to write the national hymn and then shook baud with scores ot bis well wishers. Forest Fires Out. Tbe rain Monday quenched the forest fires Which have been raging lu boutbern Indiaua. In the vicinity ol O'lirieu, over s territory ot 100 miles or more, the tire bat destroyed many thousand dollars worth ol property. A large atnauut ol stock was burned to duuth and fencing and buildup have been reduced to ashes. The Individual losses are too great to estimate. The oouutry surrounding Fugllsh loses to the extent ol laO.OUO. Kvery man. woman aud child has boeu assisting iu lighting tbe Humes. A Horns For Old Maids. Mr. Byphard, member of tha Delaware House ol Kepresentutlves from Dover Intro duced lato that body a bill providing lor a KliU 'J0? ,or Maiden Ladies. Tho bill provides that the money necessary lor the sbnport ol the institution shall be secured by .means ol a tax oa bachelors over a cer tain age. i A new hotel to ba oalled the Common wealth, and to oost $3,000,000, Is to ba built In boston. It will have 3,350 guests rooms. Tb City National Bank.ol Ft Worth, Tsi., Uoted lu doors. '