AFTER THE . TAfteT on of the tate Damns In Natnl, an vp among gome rouirn Donmera upon a Kopiesiae i nis nils was laid miv iiy mm. an Old maa appeared to be waiting lor death, and I was out In the rain and the wind and tbs groans I tonded the wounded, foe and friend: I thought with myself tbnt the Tory Stones : Of the grim voldt-sldn, If they could, would hnve erled, ''Doctor ! don't touch themi lot death mnka an end!" And presently, propped by ft boulder gray, A gray anil grizzled old Poor I saw; His wholu right hnnd liitd beon blown awnyi Vat, quiet and calm. He wns rending a psnlm From a hlood-stnlned book of the ancient law. "Unko haste and help me," tha old psalm ran, "Deliver me! hnste to holp me, Lord! Let those who seek my hurt to a man lie put to shame, Thnt so Thy nmnn He great upon all who trust Thy word. Besieged by Panthers On a Canyon's Ledge. Kri:iiii:ci: or a WW WE WERE hnuting for big game among the Black Hills, find ono day, when there wore signs in the ftir of coming snowstorm, I loft enmp on my own hook and wondered away for three or fonr miles. After on hour or two, ns Istood resting beside a tree, deer broke cover in front of me and only a pistol shotnwny. It wns a fine buck, and he walked into tho open oh cool and unconcerned ns if hunter hnd never thirsted for his life. I ought to have dropped him dead ot thnt dis tanco, lint he fell nt my fire, to get tip aud limp away, nud, believing liiin to he wounded mortally, I followed at my best pace. The ground wns rough and covered with young cedars, and, being a bit excitod, I paid little heed to what was under foot. Of a sudden I found myself fnlling, and, as I went down, I dropped my gun to clutch nt the nearest branches. I wont down 12 or 15 feet over the edgo of a ravine, struck on my feet, nnd thon plunged forward aud brought np on a ledge or shelf about four feet wide by ten feet long. This shelf overhung a depth so black and dismal that I dared not wonder how far down it was to the tiny stream flowing over the rocks at the bottom. The ravine was about 15 feet wide, and directly opposite mo, in a mass of rocks, was n opening which I know at first glance to be the den of some wild animal. I I did not take note of these things at once, for in tho fall I had broken two fibs and been badly bruised, and was almost anconsoions for a quarter of an hour. When I rallied n bit I found a wall 15 or 20 feet high behiud me, aud as for the ravine in front, I could not have crossed or descended into it even had I not been injured. I bad just taken in the situation when the sky grew dark, the wiud swept tip the ravine with u long-drawn moan, and snowilokes whirled thickly around my head. I could not tell at first how badly I was hurt, as most of my body aeemed to be asleep, nnd I nnturnlly hesitated to find out, remembering that I was miles from eamp nnd could expect no help. . I was lying qniot and hoping the pnin soon would be come easier, when I got such a shock as nearly put my wits to sleep again. Directly in front of me, noross the ravine, coming nut of his den with great diguity, appeared the largest lanther I ever had seen. He stood nulling the air and looking full at me, and when I realized how helpless I was things turned dark, nud I groaned in despnir. It was only a fair loop for the boast across the ravine, nud I ex pected him to make it at once and at taok me; but as the minutos paused way nnd ho still hesitutud I begun to wonder over his actions. He turned to the left nnd trotted along over tho ground a distance of about 20 foot. Then he wheeled and passed the den by about the same distance the other way. When he had gone over this bent two or threo times I discovered what was tho matter. As he came toward me I got a clear view, aud saw that he was stone blind. There was a white film over each eye, aud he could uot have so, n a tree in his path. A blind panther out for exeroiso blind doath trotting nlong iu front of me, so helpless that he could not have made bis eyes keep him from starva tion. You huve seen the panther con fined in a cage, his limbs stiffened, his teeth broken and his savage nature toned down by long imprisonment and the aight of humanity until he scarce ly snarls at the cane thrust to stir him np. This one, despite his misfortune, was lithe, supple, vigilant a combi nation of strength and fierceness pos sessed, only by the lion or tho tiger. Disease or acoident had blinded him, bat he possessed every other power nature gives to the dreaded beast. In stinct had taught to him the lay of the ground. He may have pussed over it a thousaud times. His move ments were as regular as the pendnlnm of a olock. Just so far down the (vine and return; just so fur up the ravine aud return. In goiug down he voided a stunted cedar growing iu a crevice iu the rooks; in going up bo voided a bush which was in the' di rect path. Oraoe,lithenesss,strength, ferooity. The lower jaw wos down, nd I had a flue view of the fangs whioh could rend the hide of a horse, fat every move the terrible cluws lieked and grated claws which would ink to the bone hi man's leg and 4usn atrip the quivu'ug flesh off iu BATTLE. old Boer was fotino' badly wounded, pro was quietly reading bin Illblo.J Toor am t. T.ord: Thon k newest how poorj This hand shall never hold sickle agnln. Lord, succor me!" groaned tho gray-beard Boeri "Tarry not! coma To take me home! Lord, haste Thee, and help mo out of this pain!" And there, as he prayed In the ruin and the wind. To tho the gray old Door from the Orange Free Htnto The man who had fought for cattle and kind With his sons, ana sons' Hons less thnn their guns To free bis land from tho men of their hate There enmo to his call the Ood of the psalm The Helper of helpless after the fray. And bis luce grew pale with a wonderful calm, And the psalm-bonk dropped, And the blood-Jet stopped. And the ptiin and the sorrow bad passed away, II. D. Pawnsley. ursATtLKJt iiuxtek bloody fragments, 'there wns a cu rious fascination in watching the beast as he took his promenade. I forgot my pains as I rejoiced over his blind ness. Hnd he been possessed of his natural vision could behave but seen ever so little he wonld have sprung npon me, fnstened those yellow fangs in my throat, and in 30 seconds nil would hnve been over. But he was blind, and I hoped he could not discover- my pretence if I remained quiet. Of ft suddon there wns an nlnrm. Tho snow wos falling more thickly, but the beast was so near thnt I could cntch his every movement. As the wind whirled np the ravine it created nn eddy, nnd from one of the eiivlos of this eddy he got my scent. Stop ping midway in his promenade, he reared up and snifTbd the air with sav age growls, and my heart beat so hard that it seemed as if he must surely hear it and follow the sound nntil his hot breuth was on my fuce. Suifl" snuff growl! To tho right, to the left, straight abend. After a minnte he lost the scont, and then be stood stock still nnd nt'tered continuous growls as he waited to catch it again. No, not like a statue. His long tail swept the ground in a half circle, and his ears worked swiftly back and forth. Blind death waiting to rend and bite and tear and kill! After a minute he got the scent again. He reared up, whirled about three or four times as if on n pivot, and then he pointed full nt me. A tape line 15 feat long would have covered the ground between us between where I lay helpless and he half crouched for a spring. If the film could be torn from those sightless eyes, how they wonld glint and glitter nnd blaze! There was something in the sound of his low growling which chilled my blood a menace, a warn ing of what was to come, which forced me to shut my eyos and utter a last prayer. Why does he hesitate? What dolays his spring? He waited so long that I argued it out that Jiis blinduess reasoned against his ferocity. He had been blind for a year or two per haps. He had never left the cave alone except to move np aud down over that one route, and he probably feared a full into the rnvine it he ven tured a spring. But he finally made up his mind to try it if the scent held. I could toll that by his continuous growls, by the ears luid flat back on his bend, as yon have seen in an angry cat; by the click of his claws on the flinty rock as he sought a foothold for a spring. As he was on the point of taking the leap the enpricious breeze played bim a trick. He suddenly lost the scent aud walked slowly down the shelf to pick it up again, perhaps rea soning that I had moved my position. Ton feet to the right he got it, aud with a iiorce snail ho crouched and mnde the leap. Did the beast know the lay of the ground before losing his eyesight, or wns it the subtle instiuct giveu to the feline tribe? It was a clear leap of 15 feet maybe a foot or two more. Only at that spot conld he strike the shelf on which I stood. He rose iu the air like a bird tuking flight, de scribed a graceful half-curve in the air, and luniled so lightly that I felt rather than heard him. Ue wns ten feot away from me, aud he reared up and snuffed at tho air in every direc tion. Up to that instant my brokeu ribs had given no pain. All of a sud den it seemed as if kuives were cutting into the flesh, and I had to clench hit bauds and shut my teeth hard to pre vent a scream from passing my lips. But for the wind aud the snow the beast must have got my acent so close at hand. There was suoh a swirl that he was at fault, and he did not walk nlong the ledge. Ou the oontrary, after ubout two minute, he leaped back noross the ravine and disappeared into his den. Then, with many groan nnd half-suppressed ejaculation, I drew myself bauk uutil I rested ngaiust the cliff. I knew that my ribs were brokeu, aud that unless dis covered by nocident I aould never leave that ledge ulive. It certainly had set in for a snowstorm, and it took only a few moments almost to hide me from sight under the white mantle. This was my salvation sgaiu. As the pain made me half uuoousoious, a full grown female panther, followed by a cub which may hu.ve beeu a year old, scrambled down tho rocks ou the op posite side of the ravine to the deu of tha blind beast. Borne talut of my presence must Lave been In the k'.t, even though so faint they conld not locate me. They snarled in anger and sniffed at the air, and it seemed to me as if both looked directly at me for several seconds. If they did so I was so buried nnder the snow that they failed to make out what sort of an ob ject 1 wns. They finally turned and disappeared in the cave, but were ont of sight only a moment. When they reappeared the blind anther whs v. 1th them, and the three scrambled up Ih i rocks and disappeared in the foreni. Thoro had beeu a killing somewhere, and they had come to conduct him to the feast. Perhaps they brought to him food now and then, but he must have had to go with them for water. It mattered little to me whether the panthers went or remained. Had I been free from injury I believe I could have mnde my way up the cliff, though it was dangerous climb, but with broken ribs I conld do nothing but wait. Would thov set ont in search when I did not return to camp at dark? or what use, as the falling snow hnd blotted out my trail until the keenest bloodhound wonld havo been bodied? It wns 1 o'clock of a November day when I fell over the cliff. Had it been a cold day I should have froen to death on that exposed spot within an hour. Fortunately for me it was scarcely freezing weather, and the pain was so great that I never minded the cold. I was waiting for I know not what when the end of a strong bark rope with a noose in it suddenly was let down iu front of my eyes. No one had come in search of me. Pelor.our Indian guido, had discovered the pnu ther den the day beforo.nnd had come bnck on this dny in hope of getting a shot. Indian liko, he had tnkeu a close survey of things while waiting, aud after a time had discovered me on the Bhelf below. Fow men would have tried what ho did. As soon as I hnd slipped the noose over my shoulders and drawn it tight he began pulling, and though I weighed 15 pounds more than he did he finally succeeded in Innding me on the edge of tho cliff. The rongh nsaje I re ceived made me faint away, and it was while I wns unconscious thnt the three panthers returned. As they scrambled down the rocks aud stood for a moment tho Indian tired nnd killod tho female. She dropped dead in her tracks, nnd ho fired again and killed the cub. Thon something like a tragedy oc curred. The blind panther conld have saved himself. In fact, ho did dash into the cave, but, as if realizing that those he dependod on for food and driuk were dead, and that without them he roust perish, he reappeared, sniffed at thoir bodies, aud then, with a scream iu which there was more la meut than anger, ho leaped into the ravino and vanished into the darkness to be mashed to a pulp on the rocks below. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Poisoning from ovorcoats is an tin unexpected dauger, but no less than CO cases have been reportod among the street clcanors of Birmingham, England. On being wet the cloth, in the dyeing of which chloride of zino had been used, gave off poison ous vnpor, producing painful swelling of hands aud arms. A novel way of illuminating rail way tnnuel has been devised in Paris, lieflec tors throw the light from many electric lamps 16 feet above the rails to the sides of the tunnel, where it is ngain reflectod by burnished tin, a soft and agreeable light,. Tuo trains automatically turn the current ou and off in entering and leaving tha tunnel. One of the most remarkable lakes on the earth's surface is situated at Tar Point, ou the Island of Trinidad, and bears the suggestive name of Pitch lake. At first view the surface of the "lake, which is not a lake," gives one the impression that it is a large body of placid water, but a closer examina tion proves it to be a vast plain cov ered with hard and hardening pitch. Some years ago the dwellers of Cape Cod saw a remarkable sight a party of men going fishing on horseback. A large school of black fish had run in shore, and to catch them the men mounted their horses, rode out into the shallow water and drove the de moralized tlsh up higher and higher until the beach was strewn with thein. The fishermen made big profits on this catch. Professor Hutchinson, F. 15. 8., reports the oase of a lady who conld not take tea because it made her feet icy cold and wet with perspiration. She thought that the soles were chiefly affeoted, and that the hands were also made cold, but not so markedly as the feet. Mr. Hutchinson had long been familiar with the fact that tea made the feet of some persons cold, but did not kuow that cold perspiration at tended it He believed the ooldneas to be caused by contraction of the arteries, inasmuch aa the feet shrauk. In China the natives train certain birds to catch fish for them. The birds are taught to sit on the edge of a boat, each bird having a ring about its neck, and when a school of fish are seen they are released and immediately begin to flBh. The speed with which these birds move under water is re markable, aud they destroy large numbers of fish. One of the most remarkable methods of fishing is seeu iu tho Howniian Islands, where meu go nuder water, net in hand, and, clinging to the rocks, scoop up the fish. This requires much entluruuco. Some of those fishermon, it is mid, remain uuder water a uiiuu'.o aud half at a t'lue.. Kill STftTE NEWS GONDENSED RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. Washington County Will be the First in (hi United States to b Completely Covered by Ih Fret System. Post Office Inspector F. F. Hutches, who is employed in two rural free mail delivery divisions, lias arrived in Wash ington and says that he has instruc tions to remain until nil the petitions filed from Washington county arc act ed upon. The following places have applied: West Middlctown, Independ ence, . Mt. Hope, Jeffeson township, Florence, 1 loustonville, Fighty-Four, Vcnrtia. Finlcyvillc, Scenery Mill, Mo nongalicla, Union township, Charlcroi, Fallow-field township, Koscoc, Coal Center nnd for an additional route to Burgcltstown, which already has three routes. It is estimated that it will take "o or Ho carriers to serve all the farmers of the county with their mail once per day. The comity will be the first in the United Slates to be completely cov ered by the rural free delivery system. The new Somerset county hospital for insane was dedicated Friday afternoon. It is n brick building, costing $12.16.2 and will accommodate loo patients. The county U now maintaining Co indi gent insane persons at State in stitution at Dixmont, Harris burg, Wcmcrsvillc nnd Polk, nt a cost of more than $2,000 a year. Un der an act of Assembly passed in tS)7, the county will now receive $.1.50 per week fur each indigent insane person maitaincd. nnd it is estimated the gain to the county under the present system will be $7,000 a year. The following pensions were granted last week: David F.bcrls, New Mahon ing, $'; James Sliircy, Green Castle, $6; John Gibson, Frecpnrt, $12; l'clcr SU'in, Diiquesne. $12; William J. Mann, Jcannclle, ?X: William Khrhardt. War ren, $17; William Colpetzer, Bcllctome, $N; John I.. Mover. Johnstown. $12; Andrew I. Knippie, Johnstown, $14: Ir win II. Pile, Somerset. $S; Minnie Sax ton. Walkers Mills. $8; Teresa Mc Mackcn. Hutlcr. $K; Sarah J. Little. Al toona. $tf; Joseph A. Mason. Connells ville, $S; James M. Dewalt, Mononga Itela. $S; Michael Miller. Mount Jew el t, $12: Evan Kvans. Malianoy City, $H; George Landis. l.atrobc. $S; Sam uel A. McN'utt. New Florence, $; Ftizabcth Kleinnieycr, Johnstown, $.S; Mary J. George. Ynndcrgrift, $K; Au gustus If. y '''. Mt. Carmcl. $A; Uri ah W. Tilcy. Malianoy City. $'1: Andrew P. Crain. Altoona. $50: Isaac 1C. Myers, Meadville. $50: Scott Spraguc. Geneva, $17; Richard Sustcr, Stewarts' Station, $14: Aaron J. Davis, Clarion, $0; Charles S. Carter, Wayneslnirg, $24; Abraham CofTman, Rlairsvillc. $6; John West, Washington. $8: Timotll- Gowin, Frecport.SS; John F. Sprnngle. Punxsu lawnev, $10; James K. Hooker, Moncs sen. $S; Maggie K. Rike. West F.lia bcth, $8; Arthur K. Johnston. Ship pensvillc, $12; F. F. Clark. Soldiers and Sailors' home, Hric, $6; W. P. Delaney, Turtle Creek, $6; John Saunders, dead, Trwin, $8; Frances Saunders, Irwin. $8; Mary Anderson, Darlington, $8; Melis sia A. Wells, California, $8. Martin Pnrobek was run over by a wagon in the Washington run mine, near Uniontown, Friday nnd killed. A strati ore fate pursued the l'arobck fami ly. They arc Slavs nnd worked nt the Braznell mine nt the time of the big ex plosion on December 33. Andy and Mike Pnrobek, brothers of Martin, were killed in that explosion nnd Mar tin identified their mangled remains. He would not work in the mine where they met their death, but secured work at Washington mines nnd had been nt work but five days when the fate he tried to escape came swiitly. The marriages of George W. Bcveridge and Charles Cozad. two prominent young men of New Castle, will be the sequel to a pretty romance o the Spanish-American war. The two boys were members of the Fifteenth regiment, P. V. I., nnd with their regiments were stationed in Georgia for some time af ter the close of hostilities. While there the two soldiers made the acquaintance of two charming Georgia girls, and aitcr the soldiers were sent north and mus tered out they corresponded with the young women. In this correspondence the girls aerccd to accept the two New Castle soldiers as their protectors through life, and a double wedding will be the result early in March. Owine to the fact that certain mining regulations have been violated at two mines in Washington county, where dangerous gases threatened the lives of the miners, and where the superin tendent of the mines resumed work in spite of the notice of the mine inspec tors, the state bureau of mines and mining have authorized the inspectors to ask the court for an in junction to restrain the owners from further operations. The mines affected are the Black Diamond aud Kill, in Washington county. A fight has broken out in the lower part of Lawrence county between the children of two district schools, and al ready arrests have been made. There are two district schools in a radius of two miles, one located in the village ot Wurtenburg. the other at Bijrnstown. Whenever children of the two districts meet there is a pitched battle, and re cently some of them have been injur ed. At one of the fights the children of John R utter were badly hurt. It is (riven out by officials of the Cambria Steel company that improve ments costing $2,000,000 will be made to the works at Johnstown. These im provermtits have been contemplated for some time and will consist mainly of new open hearth furnaces, about 25 of which will be erected. This will in crease the force of employes here sev eral thousand. At the meeting of the trustees of the new college in process of erection at Sandy Lake, ex-County Superintendent L. R. Ecklcs was unanimously chosen principal at a salary of $1,000 a year. A cow infected with tuberculosis was discovered in the herd of Samuel Show alter, residing near Terre Hill, and it has been killed. Sometime ago a doz en cows belonging to Wenger brothers, of Weaver land, were killed after having been pronounced infected by a Stale expert. Charles Conway, of South Union township, near Uniontown, has been awarded $2,800 for, the loss of his right arm. Conway got his arm crushed oft while feeding a corn busker for Brown field Bros. The matter was heard be fore arbitrators, who decided in Con way's favor. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Senile. THIRTY-FIFTH DAY. The financial debate in the Senate has reached its climax. Two speeches, one in favor of the pending Senate substi tute measure and the other in opposi tion to it, were delivered. The first was delivered by Mr. Allison, of Iowa, tne ranking member of the finance com mittee. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, made CONGRF.SS THIRTY-FIFTH DAY. Throughout its session the Senate had the financial bill under discussion. After 1 o'clock the debate proceeded under the 10-minntc rule, and at times became spirited. Late in the afternoon a test vote, in dicating approximately the majority on the passage of the bill, was taken. Mr. Chandler offered an amendment, to au thorize the president to npnoint com missioners to any international bimetal lic conference that might be railed, and it defeated by a vote of 45 to 25. The Senate Committee on Pensions reported the pension appropriation bill. 1 he rommittc increased the total ap propriation as made by the House bill to the extent of only $15,000. nnd struck out the Ilcnse proviso making it dis cretionary with the Commissioner of I ensions to refuse to pay the ices of attorneys in pension eases. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations authorized 1 favorable report on the bill providing for the punishment of violations of the treaty rights of aliens. . THIRTY-SIXTH DAY. The Senate substitute for the House currency bill passed the House by the decisive majority of 46 to 20. Prior to the final passage of the bill amendments were considered under the ten-minute rule. Only two of these amendments were adopted, viz.: One offered by the finance committee, keeping the 'door open to international bimetallism, nnd one by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, pro viding for national banks with $25,000 capital in towns of not more than 4,000 inhabitants. The Senate Committee on Military Aflairs decided to report adversely the bill introduced by Senator Turner, giv ing travel pay and commutation of sub sistence to officers and soldiers of the volunteer army who served in the Phil ippines beyond the termination of the Spanish war and afterward were trans ported to the United States nnd mus tered out in this country. The com mittee was informed that about $7,000. 1100 would be required to make the pay ments provided for bv the b:ll .Till RT Y-SFVENTH DAY. When the House session opened an nouncement of the receipt of the cur rency bill from the Senate was made, and by unanimous consent the Senate amendments were disagreed to. The speaker appointed Messrs. Overstrcct (Pop.. Ind.), Brosius (Rep.. Pa.) and Cox (Dem., Tcnn.) conferees. The House Commitee on election of president and vice president submitted a report in favor of a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment dis qualifying polygamists for election as Senators or Representatives in Con gress, nnd prohibiting polygamy and polygamous association between the sexes. The report says this amend ment to the Constitution is designed to remove nil doubtful constructions of the law nnd to effectually provide a means of extirpating the evils of polygamy by making it unlawful in any place. The House indulged in its annual joke of striking from the legislative appropriation bill the provision for the civil service commission. Republican Senators claim that the colony measures are too urgent to be displaced by the Quay case. Senator Stewart, in a lengthy speech, advocates the administration policy as it follows lines laid down by the earlier expan sionists, who vastly increased the na tional wealth. House. . The House Committee on Commerce decided, by a vote of eight to one. to report n Pacific cable bill along the lines of the Sherman bill, dcicating the Cor liss proposition for government owner ship. The Sherman bill authorizes the Postmaster General to contract with a:i American cable company for the pay ment by the United States of not to ex ceed $400,000 per year for 20 years for the transmission of government mes sages from the Pacific coast to Hono lulu, Guam, Manila, Hong Kong, and such points in Japan as the contractor, with the approval of the government of Japan, may select. The House Committee on Military Affairs completed the army appropria tion bill. It carries $111,700,364, against $80,080,104 in the bill for the current year. In the Clark case McDcrmott testi fied that he spent $22,000 on the legis lature n.u senatorial elections, for le gitimate expenses, most of the money being received from Clark's son. and after the election Clark gave him $5,000 for his services. Progrvai of the Cans. In no department of human thought an4 endeavor bus the tnmpsruuee os'ise made more notable progress In rdoent years tuna la tbnt of medloiil nclonoa. Aloobollii li quors, Instead of baiuit rsgur led as a panacea for all liu-nun Ills, ns tliey wort years ago, are fust butng ezeluded Iron medioal prsatlne guanrally. Almost with out exception, sill greut London pbysl elans, and all grant mirnaoni, are Id fitvor ot total iibstlnuuae. Bo no surKitous will not underlulte to purfur.u oputiitions npon persons wlio have boon a I luted to drink; tuny value their reputation ton Madly II Uk.il".T. Lire's Uncertainty an Incentive. - Noue of us really flolh auytlilug In our short Ufa. We oniv bKia tluu, and thus leave tbein for others to take up nud oarry on. It Is better, therefore, that we should work us for the Icnitest life, HioukIi our days be but few. Heuuelt is belter we should not kuow the time we aru to live. It keeps In our burt all the while Hie element of ex fioouRluu and bupe, fur we muy lite to rua-ill ourseore. At the suine lime It holds upon us perpetually the prelum of urxuuoy ami hsHte, for uuy duy uiuy be our tost. J, IL MUlur, D.h. , rin let li,i l.,r (lur bins. "Christ died for our slu according to the Herliitures." 'J'hut seiueuee suu.s up the whole llllile. Tim four Korpela butch us tbut Christ died, and the renter the New Tit.tulueut that be died for our sfus. And thuHurlptui-vs- I. e., the Old i'mluiuoiit were in souiu mys terious fuchlon. by type, by tilleifury. by etblvul and Sdrltjul teueblnir, ilesium d to prepare Ibe buuiun raoe for the truth wblub In the New 'levianiwut was mealed, that CbrUt died for oor slus. O 3000O000OOOOOOO0OOC00O0C I FARM TOPICS 63000000OOOOOOOO00OOOOO0O M niton and Wonl. 1 The shepherd who feeds to produce good mntton and good lambs will not only get good wool in addition there to, but will increase his production.! It is the well-fed sheep that grows good fleece. Careless feeding or irreg ular (cediug produce wool uneven in fibre, or with weak places in it, so that we hnve heard an old wool buyer say that by looking at the wool he could tell about at what stage of its growth the sheep pad been poorly fed or had been sick. This then is a bet ter way to increase the wool crop than to change the breed to something that will not have as good lambs or make as good mutton. Boston Cultivator. Preventing Fretting- In Ollnrs. There are times when it seems al most impossible to prevent vegetables from freezing in the cellar, Of conrso, having doors and wiudows tight and a banking around the walls on the eold sides does much to prevent this, but when that "coldest day since we can remember" comes nnexpectedly, as it does so many times, the chances are that many are not well prepared for it. A smnll oil stove, or even one 01; two lanterns, lighted and burning, will do much to give a warmer tem perature, and one or two tubs of water put down there wilt do nearly as much. The first throw oft" an active heat and the water a latent heat. Not nntil the wator is frozen will anything else freeze there. Hot the stovo or lanterns on the bottom ot the cellar, as heat risen, and see that they eaunot set fire to anything, F001I For Tonns; Tjgt. While them can be no better food than skim milk with shorts or mid dlings mixed in it for young pigs which do uot got enough milk from the sow, if tho milk is scarce water may be used instead, and if it is given about blood warm, they will grow all the faster in cold weather. At first tho slop should bo quite thin, that they may suck it down as if it were clear milk, but as they grow older it may be made thicker. Wo would not add oornnieal to it unless we wanted thorn to stop growing and be gin to fatten. This extra feed not only helps the growth of the pigs, bnt makes it much better for the sow, and she will be in fair breeding condition1 when she weaus them. Never allow the slop to get sour or even stale, and feed no more than they will eat up clean. The trough should be placed for the pigs where the sow cannot get to it. Even though there is room enough at her trough for thorn to eat at, it is better that they have a separate trough. It should be low enough so that they can easily reach the food, and there should be a plat form of two or three planks for them to Btand on. Clean the trough each time before putting the feed iu. Getting the Lend Over the Wheel. To make a wheelbarrow's load bi.V ance itsolf have a somewhat smaller, wido-tired iron wheel aud put np iu position beneath the barrow, as shown in the out. Tho body can be raised a trifio higher than usual, thus giving more room below, and therefore lurgor wheel. Here the load can all be plaood on the wheel, making the VERY CONVENIENT WHEELBARROW. work muoh easier for tho usor, for iu tho ordinary ban ow the load is all be tween the two points of support the wheel aud the man's bands. If a large load is taken in the ordinary barrow the man will have to lift about half of the load. In the oase of the implement shown herewith almost the whole of even a larger load, when the the handles are raised, will be bal anood nbove the wheel. Now York '' Tribune, Simple Ways to S access. Successful management does not consist in the kind of feed nor in the particular method of feeding, but the main poiut is to keep the hen busy and comfortable The ezeroise of scratch ing will keep them iu the best condi tion to produoe eggs. In vinter the floor of the poultry bouse should bo kept covered deep with litter, and oats or wheat scattered. This litter, of oourse, must not be allowed to re main too long iu the house, but should be rouewed, as cleanliness is the best medioine. The roosts should be made as near the floor as possible, say one and s half feet, and be removable, so as to be easily cleaned and washed with some good insect preventive,1 saoh as oil of tar, or even lime whitewash. Keeping hens in small Hooks pays host, say sixteen to twenty-four in each house; goad, warm houses are, of course, mce isary. Most farmers lose more thau they gain by being too economical with thoir fowls, especially in winter. Oats fed to laying hens, managed right, will bring tho farmer in eggs sixty ceuts to seveuty cents, aud wheat uinety ceuts to 81 per bushel, but clover, aoaldod, fod t hens will savo bushels of gruin and make more eggs. In cold weather parch or boil corn or wheut when feed ing to the poultry. Milk, loan meat aud out green boue areegg producers, Have reguhtr hours to feed, and in wicter givo them water. Peach trees should bs plauted within the poultry iuolosuro, aud ruuuing water fur- ' Dished whenever possible, J, (), Allshouse, in Amtricau Agriculturist. i
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