The tenth produces an much Iron M France and more than 35 percent of the Iron of either Germany or England. The Czar of Russia has named his Infant daughter Anastasla. That's a mean way of getting even with her for dot being a boy. Coal is found over wide area in India, and la being rapidly exploited. lAit year there was an Increase In production of 40 percent and exporta tlon has now begun. The city of Washington now haa 80,000 trees within Its limits, and the work of planting is going on in a sys tematic manner that should be copied by other American cities. A very rich man in New York City copied his will from an instrument that had stood the test In court, and then secured the assurance of eminent authorities that it would hold. Never theless the lawyers have hopes. A large emigration of peasants from southern Russia to eastern Siberia Is noted as one of the results of the open log of the Transslberian railway Dur ing the first three months of the cur rent year about 3000 emlgranta sailed thence from Odessa. The success of the recent experi ment made by a Philadelphia tug mat ter In towing two loaded coal barges from the Delaware to Havana prom ise! a growth of the export coal trade to the West Indies which is en couraging. Hitherto the chronic swell off Cape Hateras has deterred a ven ture of this Bort, but, the trip once easily made, many other towns may be expected to follow in the wake of this courageous Philadelphia captain. According to the Journal of Com merce the growth of the cottonseed industry has been In such a ratio that now the aggregate investment ia very large, and the progress bids fair to continue. Twenty years ago, In 1880, the cotton seed oil mills of the south numbered 40, with a capitalization of about $3,500,000. The investment had increased In 1890 to about $12,500,000. Today the mills number about 600. with an aggregate capital of about .$60,000,000. The professor of English at Williams college reports that he put test ques tions to 40 sophomores of that Insti tution to ascertain the extent and character of their reading. He found that 10 could not mention six plays of Shakespeare, that 34 could not tell yho FalstalT was, that 35 could not name a single poem of Wordsworth's or Browning's and that 14 could not toll who wrote "In Memorium." Per tiaps a society to encourage the read ing of standard literature by college undergraduates would do good. , In the Chicago Record-Herald, Wil liam E. Curtis observes that England's weakest spot Is her Inability to feed lier own people. She must buy their bread and meat, which not only drains her of vast suma of money which abould be paid to local labor, but makes her dependent upon foreign neighbors In time of war. Thla sug gests that we ought to remember how deeply we are Interested In her pros perity. While we may feel a gratifi cation in our own advancement, every thing that affects her purchasing power Is of vital importance- to us. She is' our best customer. She fur nishes the largest markets for our farmers and, although we must com pete with her mechanics wherever we so to tell our manufactured merchan dise In Asia, Africa or South Amer icawe must still feed the mouths of our rivals. f Invention haa done a vast deal to vetter the condition of the farmer, nut comparatively little for the farm r wife. Indeed, the very multipli cation of the possibilities for employ ing men In great numbers on a single voiding, through the development of improved Implements and machinery, fcas seemed only to render heavier the load which the bead of the domes, tic staullshraent must carry. A Kan sas man has at last devised a scheme for diminishing th labor of the farm er' wife. Hia plan la to Introduce bakeries and steam laundries in well- populated neighborhoods, so that, when the harvest season calls for a great Increase in the number of men mployed In the fields, they may be led and cared for without the strain upon tho women in the household that ia now Involved. The projector be lieve that these institutions can be ' successfully by the farmers on fna co-operative basis, and this should s make tho men all the readier to try an apartment which the women must certainly welcome. MICC, SILENCE AND CLUOM. ("Mice, Silence and Gloom" Is Dr. Edward Judaon's descriptive summary of Ik occupants of moat churches during all but a few hours each week). We clubbed together, we raised the money, We built a temple to God. We hired a preacher with doctrine sunny For we havt outgrown the rod. And three hours weekly (in pleasant weather) We tine the family paw; We chafe a little at even this tether, And that must certainly do. ITOM CORNWILER'S TUMBLE By L. T. "I BELIEVE that boy baa climbed every tree In the township, leastwise, the worst ones," said Mrs. Cornwller. "Peary me! I should be afraid he'd break bis neck," said Mrs. Mlllwaite. "I don't see where be got It," said Mrs. Cornwller, boldly, "He got It from you. that's plain," said Mr. Cornwller, boldly. "From met Why, Just climbing a fence mnkes me almost dizzy!" "Your fnther was a sailor," snld Cornwller, "and bis father was top man In the navy under old Comuiodoe Treble. Tom's Inherited, their climb from you." "I suppose ft slxteen-yenr-old boy Is more trouble than a fourteen-year girl," snld Mrs. Mlllwaite. "My Clara's a comfort." "Whenever Tom's wanted" began Mrs. Cornwller. "A good strong boy Is wanted pretty often In a new country," Interrupted her husband. "Sometimes it gets tire some to 111 111." "Whenever Tom's wanted," persist ed Mrs. Cornwller, "he generally has to be found In a tree-top. It wears out bis clothes dreadfully." "That is a bother," said Mrs. Mlll waite. "Now Clara wears her dresses longer than any other schoolgirl of her nge." While this discussion was going on Indoors, Tom was going off outdoors. Mrs. Mlllwalte'a visit gave blm a chance to go fishing. He put a hook nnd line In his pocket. Intending to cut a fish-pole on the way, and trust ing to find fat, white bait-grubs in old logs. He owned a sharp, one-band hatchet, which he thrust under bis buckskin belt. A quarter of a mile from the river bo came to a familiar tree-stub. It had been a forest giant, but some storm had broken off Its top, leaving its great trunk thirty, feet high. For est fires had consumed the fallen top, and fleeply charred the huge trunk. Tom struck It with his hatchet-head. To his surprise It sounded hollow a mere shell. He was Immediately curi ous to know if it was hollow all the way up, and the only way to ascertain was to climb It. A more uninviting stub .to climb could not be found. It was very grimy, and too smooth and large to be clasped by either arms ir legs; but Tom sought a thicket and cut the longest tough withe be could find. He wrapped this nbou the stub, and fastened its two etuis securely to his belt with strips of strong bark, mak ing a hoop somewhat larger than the tree. Leaning well back, he walked his moccnslned toes right ud, raising the hoop by quick Jerks. The tree was hollow. Tom sat on the edge with bis feet dangling out side, as steady of nerve as If upon the ground. When his curiosity was sat isfied he slipped oft the loop to retlc it more to suit him. An incautious movement broke a bit of the edge, and disturbed bis balance. He made a violent move to recover himself. More edge crumbled Inward, and down he went inside, bead and bccls together, like a shut Jack-knife. One hand held t'o the hoop, pulling It after him. Head, back, hips and legs scraped down the long tube, carrying fragments of rot ten wood and a dusty cloud. Tom struck on a deep, soft pile of de bris, Into which bis doubled-up body plunged breast and knee-deep. The concussion shocked blm breathless and set his noscbleedlng copiously, and the dust and blood hindered the recovery of his breath. Although be was not quite unconscious, it was long before be stirred. The back of his head had been severely raked, and rotten wood was ground Into all his lacerations. When, at last, he began to try to move, he found himself wedged In. Vainly be wriggled; be could hardly stir, and could neither lift himself uor get bis legs down. Bis hips, back, and all the muscle of his legs ached and pricked Intolerably from strsin and checked circulation. He could not resist crying; but boln; a lad of good courage, endurance and resource, be soou began a systematic effort -for release, packing the loose debris down as firmly as he could with bis hands, at the same time pressing It away all around with his body. This exertion caused greater ache, but he persisted resolutely. By and by be got his hatchet out of his belt, and struck it, after a dozen efforts, so firm iy Into the wooden wall that bo could bang bis weight to it with one hand, while he worked the debris under hiui with the other. He gradually enlarged bis space sufficiently to allow tho bending of his knees. After that be was not loug In getting bis body up and feet down, so as to sit cramped on one hip, with both feet nearly level, Exertion, pain, and the pressure of returning circulation made bla pulse throb and bis head swim, and be lapsed into semi-unconsciousness. How long bis lasted be knew not, but when be began to struggle again lie was In black darkness. A few stars shone Three hours of worship; one hundred and fifty The church ia a bolted room, Thnt we, in worldly affairs ao thrifty, Give over to mice and gloom. We're not contented with two per cent. As a worldly meanure of gain, We aometimea wonder: la God Content, Or ia it the gift of Cain? Church Economist. Bates. cnlinly down bis wooden well, but be could work only by feeling nbont with his bands. He felt exhausted, hungry nud weak, but be kept on working till he uinnaged to stand erect. Then, after feebly kicking and pushing de bris to fill up the hole where he bnd been, he curled himself as comfortable as be could, nnd slept a blessed though troubled sleep. He dreamed that he beard a rifle shot, and that Ban was barking excit edly and his father hallooing. But his sleep was so profound that a dream could not rouse hliu. After a long time he stretched out. His sore heels hit one wall, his sore bead the other. This time the pnln routted blm to a renewed sense of bis situation. He snt up, stiff, lame all over, weak, gnawed by hunger nnd thirst, but still undismayed aud re sourceful. A little thought nnd a trial convinced him that, weak and sore as he was. It would be a vain waste of strength to try to climb up the dlillcult Inside of his prison. "There's always more than one way to skin a cat." he reflected. "I've got to get out of this somehow; that's all there Is to It." He ran a thumb over the edge of his hatchet. "Pretty sharp yet. Too light to chop easy, and no room to swing It, but it'll out a hole, give It time." Scraping away the rotten wood, he selected a place where the wall seemed thin, nnd began bncking. Progress was slow. At first his stiff muscles and sore body hurt acutely, but this pain wore away as he went on. Tho wood, charred outside nnd very dry, was bard aud tough. Although It was a sunny day, and bis eyes bnd adjust ed their vision to the dimness of his pit, he could hardly see where to strike. Ha dared not pry out large slivers, for If edge or handle of his hatchet should break, he might never get out. His awkward position and the one-hand work tired him rapidly, and he suffered occasional cramps. During one of his frequent rests he heard Ban barking loudly outside. "Good dog! I'm coming:" be shout ed. The dog bayed frantically, leaped against the tree, scratched, whined, tore the wood with his teeth, and be gan digging furiously between two great roots, evidently Intending to tun nel under to his young master. When Tom did not appear for sup per, Mrs. Cornwller begnn to fret, but not much, for ho was often late. After supper, with no Tom to do the chores. Mr. Cornwller grumbled, but did them himself, saying: 'Come, now, wife, tho boy probably has a good excuse. He's pretty regu lar, considering." By bedtime Mrs. Cornwller was anxious. Tm sure he's lying hurt somewhere In the woods, fallen from a tree; or maybe hp's got lost." Tshaw, now, Edith! Tom couldp't lose himself anywhere In this county the darkest night that ever was; and he doesn't know how to fall from a tree. He'll be home all right pretty soou. Likely he's hindered by some thing he thinks important" At ten o'clock Mrs. Cornwller was Insistent and Cornwller less confident. He proposed to take the dog and senrcb. 'Maybe he's at one of the neighbors. He'd stay, of course. If he could be of any use. Anyhow, Bnn'll track blm. Blow the born if he comes home while I'm gone." Ban. being told to "Go find Tom!" set off Joyfully, wagging bis tall. He led Cornwller straight to the charred stub, and barked, leaping against It. Cornwller looked the stub ell over. There were no signs of Tom. He called, and fired his rifle. There was no reply. He supposed tho stub solid. but thumped it. Unfortunately the blow struck where the shell was thick, and where Tom had packed the debris hardest Inside. It sounded solid. Mr. Cornwiler thought that Eau had fool ishly tracked a squirrel up It, or per haps a coon bad beemtbere and gone. He dragged the dog away, ordering him again to "Find Tom!" Bun in stantly ran back to the stub, and whined and scratched, but Mr. Corn wller pulled him away. Ban then led into a thicket, and here were signs a slender pole cut and trimmed, a bltternut supllug peeled of two strips of bark. Tom bad been there. The supllug was slender for a fish-pole, but Mr, Cornwller thought that must be It. The strips of bark meant striugs, but what Tom wanted of strings he could not conjecture. Having concluded it meant fishing, he mimed to the river, bis anxiety cou Kiuerauiy increased. Tom was a strong, coo swimmer and knew every foot of the river. There were few deep places, aud no really dangerous places, air. Cornwller searched a long time, but found no trace of Tow, and Ban seemed puzzled and not much inter ested. After midnight Cornwller be gan a terribly anxious inquiry, rousing neighbor after neighbor, No one had any tidings, Mr. Mlllwaltn dressed, took his rifle, nnd arconipnnlrd Corn wller. Mrs. Mill wall, notwithstand ing her depredation of Tom, went to cheer au 1 comfort his mother all alio could. Mlllwaite suggested going first to the ehnrred stub. "You know Twin's been there," be snld. "nnd It's 11m right point to start from." As soon ns they arrived, Hun begun whining and scratching about tho stub. Coin wller sternly ordered blm off, nnd the poor dog, prolinbly supposing It was all right, reluctantly obeyed. Both men believed tho stub solid, nud that Tom bnd merely come nnd gone. The news of the lost boy spread, nnd by sunrise a dozen men nnd boys were scouring the woods. After getting breakfast nnd doing the housework, Clnra Mlllwaite, who had been thinking, concluded thnt Tom must, nfter all, bo at or near the ehnrred stub, "A dog never mistakes In such matters; men do," the senslldo girl reasoned. Hhe would go and take a look for herself. "If Tom Is there he'll be hungry and thlraly," she thought, so she put a generous breakfast nnd a bottle of new milk In n bark basket, linn went home with Cornwller and Mlllwaite, who wished to see If Tons bad taken his fish-line. They found It gone, nnd their delusion ns to tht liver was confirmed. Thinking Bun of no service, Corn wiler left him nt the house, nnd the dog Immediately returned to the stub nnd resumed bis bnrklng. Clara beard lit in. nnd hurried to reach the spot nnd Judge for herself of the dog's behavior. She arrived Just ns Tom drove a long sliver through, nud put out bis fingers for Ban to lick. In a few moments more he bnd the aperture sufficiently enlnrtred for Clara to pnss in the bottle nnd slices of food. Tom drank first a long, thirsty pull. Then how he did ent! with the appe tite of n starved wolf nnd the gratitude of a generous-minded boy. Clara bade him give her the hatchet, nnd while be ate she hacked with the skill aud strength of a pioneer girl. As the wall was now pierced they could chop the edges of the shell nnd make faster progress. In half an hour Tom was able to squeeze through. What nn object he was! Bloody. grimy, nnd covered with rotten wood from bend to heels! Even bis linlr was plastered with gore nnd dust. Clnra gathered leaves nnd helped him clean it off as well ns be could, but It would require severe scrub baths, nnd a week's bcnling to make him present able, s r While they walked home she rallied him nhouf his appearance, suggesting that half the township, especially the ladies, would be on band to meet him. But Tom said he guessed that ns long ns she hnd seen him In this condition, he could stand being looked at by the other ladles. As for Ban, he was so absorbed that evening with the unusually large bone given him that he quite failed to hear Mr. Cornwller's compliment. "I allow," snid Mr. Cornwller. "thnt when It comes to woodcraft, I haven't got half the sense of thnt dog." Youth's Companion. Where Economy Falls. Men like economy In their domestic arrangements, but if there is one wom an most of them fear nnd despise It is the wretch who has all sorts of re cipes for making cheap dishes out of scraps. She comes fluttering Into the domestic dovecotes early In the day. "My dear Mrs. B., such a recipe the cheapest, most dee-U-clous dish Im aginable. Any housekeeper can make this salnd. An old gum shoe or rem nant of mnchlutosh dressed with oil, vinegar aud pnpi.ka, or cream nud lemon Juice. I am confident your hus band will go wild over it." She Is right. He does. He goes so wild thnt after the doctor had gone home la the night and be Is resting easy be asks who gave tho recipe for that salad nud vows to shoot her on sight If ever he gets out ngaln. If the men of tbo neighborhood hnd their wny they would put a large' dose of poison In the stocking of this fiend who teaches wives bow to make palatable dishes out of gum, broken umbrellas, furniture polish nud soiled awulugs. Louisville (Ky.) Times. Hat Tips. The hat of the modern American Is a more or less direct descendant ffoui the ancient helmet. The shape of a derby could have been evolved from nothing else, and it has little save tra dition to recommend it. It is not beautiful or comfortable, as compared with the cowboy's soft felt bat or the cap of the European peasant. It does not keep the cars warm, uor stay on with any degree of success; and It goes out of fashion every season, reappear ing later In a slightly different form. Its sole recommendation la the tradi tion that it is the proper headgear for a civilized and enlightened man; nnd when It Is cocked on one side on the head of a rowdy It does not make him look either civilized or cultured. Washington Times. Ilangrjr Hear Destroy KallroacU A logger named Johnson, who has a logging cuuip somewhere near Deep Itlver, away down the Columbia, wus In town looking for engines and wire cables to pull the logs cut out to the tramway. He bus been using horses for this work, but says be will have to use engines hereafter, as the bears tear up his skid roads. Tho grease used in the skids has attracted the bears, which not only lick the skids clean of grease, but dig them out and rulu the road in search of the grease which has been absorbed by the earth. He says the bears pursue their mis chievous labors chiefly in the night, and ho cannot stay up nights to shoot them. Morning Oregouian. rrrah Vtater fur swine. Slop will not take the place of pure water for hogs. During the wnrm senson swine should be liberally sup plied with fresh water and the food should consist of weeds, grass and vegetables rather than grain. A mess of bran nnd skim milk may be given nt night, but corn Is too heating. tVhf l.nrka Art I'rnfltnlile. One reason why the duck brings In money is thnt tne fle?h Is generally liked for table use; In other words, the market Is sure. The duck is a good eatpr nnd gets his living more largely than other fowls from Insects In air and water and from the fields. So his keep is cheaper. This characteristic Implies another that is Importitnt: It Is a hardy fowl. Once rtart them well and your flock of ducks Is much more likely all of them to mature than Is the case with the leas hnrdy turkey. In profit a duck Is put nhead of either the turkey or chlckon. The rnatitre for Ponltrr. The pasture is Important for poul try as well as for animals. During spring nnd early summer, when the fowls can secure an abundance of In sect food, as well as a variety of green substances, the production of eggs Is greater than at any other season of the year, but when drought Injures grass there Is less opportunity for the fowls to secure a large proportion of the re quired materials for egg production. They should during the periods of scarcity of grass be given a mess at night, which should not constat of grain only. Meat, cut bone and cooked potatoes thickened with bran will be relished. To every quart of bran used may be added two ounces of linseed meal, which will also be relished by all kinds of poultry. Feeding l.ftlrjr Cow. The call for good grass butter Is urgent today, and consumers actually long for the spring season when grass made butter makes lis first appearance. So delicate and attractive is the color and flavor of June butter thnt all like the product and hold It above that made at any other season. Packers and merchants store this June butter and hold It all through the winter season, selling it gradually at an ad vance over all others. If it was need ed other evidence could be cited to show that grass is the most natural and best food that can be fed to the dairy cows. Good June grass per forms a work In the economy of nature that no artificial methods have yet du plicated. Nevertheless, Borne dairy men show such uense lack of apprecia tion of this that they fail to have a decent grass pasture on their farms. Dairying without good pasture fields 1b very much like playing Hamlet without Hamlet. It is impossible for the farmer to produce the desirable results which he may have vaguely In view. Grass and hay, then corn and other succulent foods, should be the relative order of foods which the dairyman should keep constantly in mind. His farming should be bnsed upon a prop er conception of the value of these foods, so that when he plants a crop he knows exactly whot he will get In return for it A good pasture farm is a small fortune to a dairyman, but the science of keeping up this pasture to its full . production is worth more to blm. And yet there is no great secret in the question. It is merely the ap plication of common senre, knowledge and Judgment In furnishing the srn.-s crops with the right to keep them going. Robbing the soil and starving the grass roots muEt always be follow ed by poor grass and hay crops sooner or later. Neglect the crop this season and we will have to pay for it next. Sometimes the payment conns sooner than we expect, and again it is post poned for some Indefinite time. When an overdraft la made upon the soil it Is always wise to make restitution as soon as possible. Put on an extra sup ply of fertilizers .his year, and do not neglect It until too late. We cannot take from the soil more than there Is in It, but we can cultivate crops so that the full food supply Is developed and expanded. A good deal of the food supply of any soil Is wasted, as a rule, through lack of cultivation and a proper method of utilizing It. These secrets should be known and then used to their utmost. A. B. Barrett, in American Cultivator. Why Dairymen Proaper. One reason why the people engaged in dairying are prosperous is because dairying Is a cash business. There Is no credit with t- old cow. You feed her today, and tomorrow she pays you back In cash. The dairyman does not have to tell his hired man that he can pay him when he sells his wheat, or when he sells a bunch of lambs, or when the peaches are marketed. He has the cash every week or every month. The dairyman need not run a bill at his grocery or anywhere else. His bufcliiet'8 is a cash business, and be can pay as he goes. This is one of the basic, principles of prosperity. Run up no debts, pay as you go. It gets a man Into the habit of doing business on business principles, and when he does this h- bos started on the road to prosperity. Again, the dairy business is a con tinuous business. It brings in cash every week in the year. The fruit man or the wheat man, or the steer man, or the lamb man, gets his money in large sums and at Irregular Intervals. This tends to extravagance In expendi ture. When people have lots of money they spend lots, and when the source is cut off they feel it severely. The dairyman's Income Is more uniform and steady, and he governs his expen ditures accordingly. He Is not flush at one time nnd totally strapped at an other, but has a modest, uniform, con tinuous Income, and Is thereby made prosperous. Dairying Is n safe business, and therefore brings material prosperity to a person or a community. People have been financially ruined by fat tening Inmbs or cattle, and, In some Instances, by growing fruit or wheat But no one ever heard of a man becom ing bankrupt In the dairy business. These other businesses may at times bring a larger profit, but there Is a large element of speculation about them. Ths dairy business Is almost devoid of speculation. It Is a rather slow, humdrum sort of business, but it Is safe, nnd one can put his money Into It with the assurance of a modest profit from year to year. If crops fall In almost any other kind of farming the farmer Is flat, but even If all the dairyman's crops Bhould fall, If he has a good herd of cows he enn buy nil his feed and still pay ex penses and have a smnll profit besides. Dlarying may be a little slow, but It Is sure. Dalrymau and Creamery. The IrWpoartl of Farm Prod nee. It Is a common faying among some producers of merchantable articles, that to Bell well Is the principal part of the business. The salesman Is the chief olflrer of the manufacturer, and the personal advertisement, as It may be called of a producer, is the agent who sells the products. Why should not a farmer follow the lead of other producers, the thousand and one mak ers of ninny articles of domestic use, who all keep agents on the road to peddle their products? This part of the business haa heretofore given pro fitable employment to many thousands of active men, who of course, have really been paid by the purchasers In the prices they have given for the products purchased by them. Indeed, to change the method of distribution of products Is alleged to be the moving principle of the common modern as sociations called trusts, which are said to be formed In the Interest of the consumers or purchasers to lessen cost of sales. It may be so, but facts tend to show that these great corpo rations formed, and still forming, are expected to pay big dividends on the inflated stock, nnd, as a rule. In this world the parties on one side of a business transaction are not generally fretting themselves very much about the advantages gained by the pur chasers of their goods. Why should not the farmer fall Into line with these mod?rn improvements in trade, nnd reduce costs In the way cf the disposition of his produce? He may follow the lead of his bigger com petitors and eny, "We Intend to dis pose of our produce directly to the purchasers, nnd so give them con siderable advantage in price gained by the discarding of useless distributing agents, and so go directly to them and rell what we have to dispose of." There Is no difficulty about It, for like that noted person Barkis, the other party Is willing. Producer nnd con sumer then come Into actual contact, and so business is done at the least cost and most profit to both parties. Some for;sij;hted communities offer encouragement to the farmers to do business In this way by providing con veniences and faculties for direct trade bicween the farmers aud the towns people. When residing some years ngo a fear miles f:om New York. I found it very convenient to send a wagon load of sweet corn, melons, cu cumbers, and all sorts of vegetables and dispose of the stuff to any one who would purchase. The purchasers were cheltly the small storekeepers who sold out the produce the next day to the neighboring residents. When living too far from that city In Pennsylvania, aud adjoiuing a large town, I was the first to start a direct trade with the townspeople, and I did it in this way: Having a large sur plus of strawberries above my own ne cessities, I got a convenient hand truck in a lie. and loaded It up with boxes of strawberries, just picked In the garden, and sent a boy to tho village to try to sell them, with Instructions If no one would buy them to give them away to any tnmily. who might be likely to use them, staging that if they wanted any more they would be supplied. Very soon the boy came back with the empty truck aud boxes, and snld be could sell twice as many more. These more were gathered and sold, and in this way, the ice being broken, the trade Increased until every thing I had to tpare was disposed of, and out of it grew a house-to-house trade In cream, milk, bu.ter, and Indeed every thing that could be mnda that was good. The next year much larger pre pnrationa were made, and the business gotJ. The next year much larger prep arations were made, and the business Increased until some neighbors were induced to Join in, and so the custom became quite common. With the pres ent conveniences as to the telephone, how much may such enterprises be ex tended. H. 8., in the Country Gentle man. Mar Slip Up on It, j Almost everything seems to have been thought of In the way ot food products, but now, thanks to the In ventiveness of a French planter, we are to have banana flour. It really sounds quite promising, although, ow. lug to the canrlciousness of the human palate, it may turn out a complete failure. Boston Transcript LIKES RURAL MO PROM DRAWINQ ROOM FARM. The Bnecmral Agrtealtaral Cadertaklae) ot a Former tader of tho 1, t, S, "marl Set" la Philadelphia Kalee Well tired Lire Stook, Mrs. Minnie Hshleman Sherman, of California, a former society girl of Philadelphia, owns and manages a fnrm ot 2,800 acres, with Its varied Interests of dairying, stock farming and fruit growing. In her palm-bordered orchards and vineyards she grows raielti grapes, pears, peaches, sprlcots, nectarines, prunes, oranges, almonds and olives. For her Immense herds Mrs. Sherman grows all of her owa feed, the cows in summer being pastured on alfalfa, and, as the sea ion advances, on ensilage made from the Erst crop of alfalfa; then on corn from tho silo, and Inter on green rye. In addition to the dairy, which sup plies Its immense creamery, Mrs. Sher man bas a large number of thorough bred horses and a big herd of fine Berkshire swine. Among the lessons which Mrs. Sherman learned by a sad experience was the fact that the beau tiful Jersey cows which have found r.o nlshment on sweet hill pastures in a ccol, moist sea air will not thrive on fields of alfaira In a warm, dry valley. These have been replaced by th sturdier Holsteln-Frtesian stock, of .,hlh .ho I. i.M , h.u. nm nf large utims contain ail me latest, us MRS. MINNIE ESHLEMAN SHI MAN. vices for the comfort of the cows for keeping down all bacterial growtfi detrimental to the butter. Rmala May Abnllth Her NoMllrr. At pres. at the Czar's subjects are divided Into four general classes ths nobility, the clergy, the Inhabitants of the towns and those of the coun try, says a St. Petersburg correspon dent. The nobility is Itself of two kinds, hereditary and personal. An officer acquires life nobility on acquir ing a certain rank In the army or navy. Those who attain the rank of colonel In the army and of captain In the navy become hereditary nobles. It Is most probable that when the pro posed reform of the Russian system of class oigaulzatlon takes place the no bility will cease to exist as a separate clafs In the nation. L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horee-Shoer and General Blacksmith, Itnrae-itioetnR done In the neatest manner ami by the luteal Improved method. Re piilrlug of till kinda carefully and promptly dene, satisfaction Gdarantiid. HORSE CLIPPING Have Juat received a complete set of Ma chine loiw clipper of latest style '98 put tern I nd urn prepared to do clipping la the beat pOKbll.le manner at reKaonable rates. Jeckaoobt. near Fifth, ttejnoluavllle, Pa. EVERY WOMAN Soaaetlines Bead reliable moutuly regulating mediolne. DR. PEAL'8 PENNYROYAL PILLS, Are prompt, aaf and certain la result The tenia. Vie (Dr. real's) never diaappolal, . $LM per be Vor sals by H. Alex. Itokev WHEN IN IOUIiTTTRY 'kav Vt a.. .k- sad hive cured l CmaM of Narvoui Diaaaaa. luck a UabUitv. 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