PEARL8 OF THOUGHT. Th Klrht W In rinw. Measure off a head land on each end ot the field as wide as the length of team and plow. Commence plowing at one side of the field one-half land from the fence, plowing back and forth, turning to the right and sliding plow on head laud. When first laud Is done, measure off another land, skip It, go on and plow third land same as first, then plow second land, turnlne to left. iThe object In plowing third land be fore second Is to avoid having so many centre' ridges and dead furrows, as you -would if you took every land as It came. Keep on in this way until you get to the other side of the field, then plow head lands and you have Ihe field nicely plowed without turning square corners, tramping horses heels, lifting plow or tramping plowed ground. The Two Beit Stock Toads. ; All considered, arid for general pur poses. It Is doubtful if there ore any two plants or grasses superior to the old standards, timothy and red clover, for stock feed. I know of many dairy men in the West and Middle States that are giving up everything for red clover. On sandy loams it does well It sown only every two, three or even four years, and will stand being fed down close at all times, if allowed a chance to grow In the spring. It is a good plant to sow in rotation with po tatoes or corn. To secure best results for clover the land should be cleaned of weeds in the fall. Ground plowed deep in the fall, and recultivated In the early spring, well harrowed and smoothed, Is the kind for red clover. About ten pounds to the cere Is the quantity sown, mixing with it a little rye, especially where it is sown for pasture. Clover is an excellent plant to restore vitality to worn-out lands, or lands that have become exhausted by grain crops. Its leaves gather food carbonic acid and ammonia from the atmosphere, which is In turn carried to the roots and stems, and these, de composing, afford food for cereals and other crops which must depend on the soil for their life-giving substances. Both for hay and for pasturage, tim othy, or "herd grass." stands up well toward the top of the list among the grasses of the West and North. It roots deeply and maintains itself for many years, but as a hay or winter feed, Is better for horses than for cows, though I know fanners who make ex cellent cattle and sheep feed of It by cutting early. From twenty to thirty quarts of seed per acre are sown. Ground treated as indicated for red clover will produce an abundant tim othy crop. Dennis II. Stovall, in The Epitomist. Compelling Hens to Seek Food. There can be' opportunity to save (expenses by allowing the hens to seek most of their food on the range. It Is not advisable to compel them to secure the whole ot their food, as they may not always be able to find a sufficiency, but It Is best to Induce them to seek as much rood as possible. Just what should be allowed a flock In the summer season depends as much on the location as anything else. Give the flock free access to a grass plot on which a large proportion of clover grows, and the hens will find a great variety and in large quantity. There are many different kinds of insects, and they attack nearly all plants. No matter how sftnll they may be, the liens will consume a large number. .They will also keep themselves busy scutching wherever they can find a worm of any kind. This means that the hens not only save the farmer from loss of crops, but also save the food that would be required if the hens did not satisfy themselves when on the range. There is also a great variety of food on the range, and the exercise and freedom In the open air keep the liens In good health. It Is more often the case that the hens are overfed, and if the farmer will give one meal only in Bummer, on the evening of each day, the hens will thrive well. They will need but little help If they are given an opportunity to assist themselves. Eggs are always more plentiful in cummer than lu winter, and this is duo to the advantages possessed by the hen on the range, as well as the Warmth ot the season. The cost ot eggs Is much less in sum mer and yet the cost can be made to exceed the receipts if the hens arc overfed, as they will lay fewer eggs and consume more food than they re quire. There may be some who keep their fowls confined, but even then they will thrive much better if made to work and search for all they re ceive. lice Cn He Killed. They can be exterminated. There are severul varieties. But in New England the gray and spider lice, or mites, are the most troublesome. The gray lice stay on the birds all the while, but do not breed very rapidly during cold weather, unless the hens are setting, ns their eggs do not hatch below a tem perature of sixty digrees. As a rule they deposit their eggs on the back and top of the birds' heads, a place where it is difficult for the birds to destroy them. They breed most rapidly on the young chicks. As soon as the chicks are hatched and are dry the lice leave the mother liens and begin to deposit their eggs on the chicks in great numbers, and un less the eggs are destroyed they -Bill hatch In a few days and begin to sap the chicks' blood so fast that the chicks are not able to eat enough to support themselves and the lice, too, and they soon have bowel trouble and die. As the lice breathe through the pores of their skin, they can be easily killed with any ot the lice powders without injury to the birds. By dusting the hens well twice, while they are setting, with some good lice powder, and by greasing the back and top of the chicks' heads when they are taken from the nest with equal parts of lard and kerosene the lice are soon subdued. The spider lice or mites are not so easy to exterminate. As a mle they only stay on the hens at night unless the hens are setting or on the nest lay lng. In the daytime they stay on the perches, drop-boards aud in the cracks of the building and lay their eggs in those places. Their eggs do not hatch below a temperature of sixty degrees, but as soon as the weather conditions are favorable for fliem they multiply the most rapidly of all the lice family, and are probably the worst pest that the poultryman has to contend with. It is very much easier to prevent them from taking possession of the poultry house than it is to clean them out after they once get possession. By spraying the roosts and drop boards every seven days with coal oil during mild weather they will seldom ever bother you. But if you neglect to do this and they get possession, almost any of the liquid lice paints sold on the market if used according to direc tions will drive them away after a while. But If not convenient to get the prepared paint, the following mix ture will be found very effective: To one gallon of coal oil add three pounds of grease, any kind that is most con venient, and two ounces of either oil of tar, creolin or crude carbolic acid. These will all mix together by placing the dish In which are the materials into a dish of hot water. Taint the roosts and places where the lice live with thfs mixture every three days. The lice will not stand this treatment long, as it destroys tbeiueggs and they will not stay where they can't breed. .1. Alonzo Jocoy, in the Amer ican Cultivator. A ITarllciiJ Drainage Level. Though one begins at the lowest de pression first, as is the proper wav to do, and continues to work as circum stances permit, it Is Impossible to lay tile drains accurately without the use of a leveling rod. The device shown in the accompanying cut will suffice, in that it Is operated on the principle of a plumb-line. Made eight and one-fourth feet long and having u tine needle at the bottom of the swinging weight, with a scale of tenths of inches on the base. It Is' a comparatively easy mat ter, by raising either end half an Inch, to ascertain when the grade is one inch to the rod. Best of all, the level can be slid along in the bottom of the ditch, thus keeping a uniform grade of any desired fall. Care must always be ex clsed that the slope is uot the wrong way; the whole length, without the exception of even a single foot, should be downwards toward the outlet. As a matter of fact, hollows should b( avoided, less sediment lodges in them so ns to choke the tiles, especially un der the light flow of a gradually de creasing current as the laud dries. Side bends for the purpose of getting around obstacles should not be per mitted, cither, unless absolutely una voidable. Crooked tile should also be rejected, or if used at all, only at the head of the drains, and then laid in a lateral position where the bend3 oc cur, so that the requisite level may be preserved. A Subscriber, in The Epi tomist. Feeillne the Steer. 1 It requires about one-lia!f as much grain to produce a hundred pounds of pain on calves as on two-year-olds. The work of the Missouri Agricultural College has definitely demonstrated that the most profitable age to fatteir cattle Is while they are still young. The older the animal the more food i required to produce a given gain. Other stations have also investigated this question and have arrived at the same result. The Central Experiment Station Farm at Ottawa. Canada, found by comparing 1000 pounds live weight fu the case of calves, yearlings, two and three-year-olds, that the profit for each 1000 pounds was: Calves, $31; year lings, $27; two-year-olds, $10.10; three-year-olds, $12.80. When all of the cattle of all ages were purchased at four cents a pound and sold fat at five cents a pound, the profit on $1000 invested in feeding cat tle was: Calves, $."57.50; yearlings, $2S4; two-year-olds. $108.75; three-year, olds, $177.50. Nino-tenths of" all the cattle fed in the Middle West are two-year-olds at the beginning of the feeding period. When these cattle are in thin condition at the beginning of the experiment, they are often fed with profit; but starting with calves In the same condi tion It is unquestionably true that the calves return more profit for each $1000 Invested than the older cattle. F. B. Mumford, Trofessor of Animal Hus bandry. University of Missouri, lu In diana Farmer. An Honest Doctor. They are telling a story of an old man who fell 111 and called la a doc tor. After a while, as he grew no bet ter, they fetched him another medicine man. This physician, after some pre liminaries, inquired: "Did your other doctor take your temperature?" "I dunno, boss," said the invalid; "I aiu't missed aothiu' but my watch." Golden-Rod. When the year Is prowlnjr sober. When September nears Ictnber. TIM the summer sunshine lingers. Treasured up by unseen lingers In cheerful sprays ot golden-rod. When October leaves September, rrcsslng onward toward November, When I lio chilling blasts (trow stronger, Bummer dings a little longer To yellow sprays of golden-rod. As November days grow duller tinlden-i'od then changes color; Suits Itself to time and season With a tact akin to reason, And flings a laded banner out. Then flaunt It as the winds grow colder, And gracefully grows old and older. Though the storms are overbearing, And Ihe trlntry chill unsparing. Wlitiout a sign of fear or doubt. So may age touch us with lightness, Thotgh youth's gold must turn to white ness, If we early, with persistence, l'riie the good things of existence, And turn our faces toward the sun. And of what there Is that's left us, When sands sinking have bereft us, Gather what we mav of sweetness Till our days hove reached completeness. a uu our nanus snail ioia o er work well done. Charlotte I.e Karon, In Our Dumb Ani mals, Polo. We have recently read an account of a polo match at Peterhoff, Russia, resulting In the death of one of the players. From the account we taku the following touching description: Horse and rider still lay motionless. Was It possible that the shock could have killed them both? The man lay Just as he had been sitting, turned to one side In readiness to . strike the ball; so that, while his feet were still in the stirrups, his head and shoulders had fallen back on the ground. At this death-like stillness a shudder passed through all that vast assembly; and In the carriage next to us a lady fell suddenly back against the cush ions, fainting. Then two or three officers sprang forward, while the players leaped from their horses to assist their fallen conwtyle. Never have I seen a sign of higher intelli gence In a brute than was then ex hibited by that little Cossack pony. As two or three of the officers, stoop ing, took him by the head to raise him, he looked up at them with plead ing, pathetic eyes, b? though entreat ing them to be careful. Then slowly, cautiously, he allowed himself to be drawn away from that prostrate fig ure, raising himself as much as pos sible, that he might not crush or in jure his beloved master. No sooner was this weight removed than the officer turned with a quick convulsive movement, and the next moment stiffened as though suddenly changed to stone. It made everyone shiver to see that ominous ghastly motion. The horse was no sooner on his feet than, shaking his head free from the hand that held his bridle, and stepping, oh, so carefully, he passed around to where his master's head lay. The great fur cap had fallen backwards, leaving the bronzed fore head bared. Then the bystanders all the while looking on in pitying si lence the poor beast came close up, and putting out his tongue, touched the officers face lovingly, licking the temples and brow ejnd running his nose carefully under his chin, as though he would force his master to raise his head and speak to him. Finding this to be of no avail, he lifted his own head sorrowfully, and, look ing around at the mute observers of this touching scene, gave a low, piti ful whinny, which said as plainly as words could have done: Can no one here help him?" A' choking sensation came Into my throat, and in the carriages close around there were scarcely any eyes without tears. But there was no help. He had injured his spinal column, and snapped some ligament connecting with the brain so that although he was taken to the hospital and did not cease to breathe for several days he was virtually a dead man. Wide Awake. The Sword of Damocles. There was once a king whose name was Dlonysius. He was so unjust and cruel that he won for himself the name of Tyrant. He knew that almost everybody hated him, and so he was always in dread lest somebody should take his life. But he was very rich, and he lived In a fine palace, where there were many costly and beautiful things; and he was waited on by a host of ser vants who were always ready to do his bidding. One day a friend of his, whose name was Damocles, said to him: "How happy you must be! You have everything that a man can wish." "Perhaps you would like to change places with me," said the tyrant. "No, not that, O King! said Damo cles; "but I think tha,t If I could only have your riches and your pleasures for one day I should not want any greater happiness." "Very well," said the tyrant; "you shall have them." And so on the next day Da-modes was led Into the palace, and all the servants were bidden to treat him as their master. He sat down at table in the banquet hall, and rich foods were placed before him. Nothing was Wanting that could give him pleasure. There were costly foods and beautiful flowers, and rare perfumes, and de lightful music. He rested himself among soft cushions and felt that he was the happiest man In the world. Then he chanced to raise his eyes toward the celling. What was It that was dangling above him, with Its point almost touching his head? It was a sharp sword, and it hung only by a single horse-hair. What if the hair should break? There was danger every moment that it would do so. Then the smile faded from the lips of Damocles. His face became ashen pale. His hands trambled. He wanted no more food; he took no more delight In the music. He longed to be out ot the palace and awaj', be cared not where. "What Is the matter?" sold the ty rant "That sword! that sword!" cried Damocles. He was so badly frightened that he dared not move. "Yes," said Dlonysius, "I know there is a sword above your head, and that it may fall any moment. But why should that trouble you? I have a sword over my hearl all. the time. I am every moment in dread lest some thing may cause me to lose my life. "Let me go," said Damocles. "I see now that I was mistaken and that the rich rid the powerful ore not so hap py as they seem. Let me go back to my old home In the poor little cottage among the mountains." And so long as he lived he never agsin wanted to be rich, or to change places for a moment, with a king. The Tale of an Unloved Lad. Had the boy been of more impor tance more would have been known about htm. As it was, he Just hap pened into the neighborhood of the water-front, - and, not molesting any body, was left unmolested. Where bread is none too plentiful, and where meat only graces the table on payday, time is spent in working and worrying, and fads do not thrive very well. And In that district little was known about geneology and her editary influence So "Bub," as they called him, getting his legacy from Heaven knows where, was different from the rest of the tribe, and there fore lived much alone. But he did not mind. His days were not worth while recording. Food had to be procured by earning or steal ing, and, that done, the bustling life of the shore afforded the best hiding for such a little, unimportant lad. With night came the difference. Then the timber cave under the pier, where "Bub" had spent the winters and sum mers of what should have been his childhood, became the abode of a mighty sovereign, whose realm waa in the sky above. He was a tyrant, and some nights he frowned slnisterly when some bright star had altered its position and smiled at him from farther down the filmy, vapory dome. His astrono my was not glutted with Saturns, mil ky paths and planets. All there above him was his land of longing, and every glistening orb was his dear comrade, subjected to the whims of exacting friendship. Ho spoke to them with severe chiding lor having hidden themselves on the night before behind a wall of Impenetrable mists, and Just as freely praised their supernal lustre when they above glowed In empyrean, sheen. Such was his strain, this long ing, and, left undisturbed, it flourished mightily. Another waif, much older nnd much closer to earth's sorrows, of which he had had his fill, trespassed upon "Bub's" domain one night while the lad was was talking to his stars. The other's faith in stars had vanished be cause his star had fallen long ago. He wanted hiding, sleep, forgetful ness, and, throwing himself upon the dirty floor, he grunted his command to "Bub": "Ah, shut up. There's nothing up above there. Walt till you get as old as me, and then you'll know It's all a sham." Of Course, "Bub" kept quiet then, and huddled himself Into a corner. The pier was old and had to be re paired!. So the men came In the morn ing and found "Bub" and the tramp. The tramp was lazy and indifferent, but the lad was sick. "Swamp fever," Bald some. "Exhaustion," said the others; but neither side insisted much on the right of Its opinion. , They sent for the ambulance the coach which gives to lazy tramps and little unimportant lads their only free ride and stood about as people then do. "Bub" never spoke. He looked straight ahead and his eyes Just swept the visible fringe of the sky. So he laid till a tremor shook his slight frame and a thin arm reached ifor something afar. "What's the matter with him now?" asked one of the men. The tramp looked down on the poor little lad and sneered as he gave his answer: "Ah, that kid is Just grabbing for one o' them stars." Tramps hate the truth, but this tramp did not He. "Bub" had reached for his star and had found it.. His smile stayed on. The ambulance came, and the sur geon said "Dead." Then the tramp and his sneer sneaked away. In a small shop In New York city, managed by a woman, flowers ot won derful coloring are made from the cales ot various fish. "Our joy is s, good exchange for many toys. Living things do not keep to a dead level. It Is never too soon to begin a good thing. Every laggard believes he Is a born leader. There Is no consecration without preparation. You do not get berries by beating about the bush. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. George Eliot. Courage of soul Is necessary for the triumphs of genius. Madame de Stael. TO COOK VENI30N 8TEAK. Must Be Put In a Red Hot Griddle, 8ay Maine Game Warden. "For the next two weeks," sefd Game Warden Ross, "the deer that are captured in the Maine woods will be worth the Sliootlng. More than half of the 2,000 animals which have been slain so far have been either lean and flabby does or fawns which no merci ful hunter will think of shooting, but now that the love making season Is coming on the big fat bucks will lose their shyness and come forth into the clearings, where an average mao-ksman can slay them with ease. If a hunter wishes to know how real venison tastes he must wait until the great bucks roam abroad and pick the finest and sleekest of the herds. "The cook books and guides tell of more than fifty ways of cooking veni son steaks, when as a matter of fact there has always been but one method, which was discovered by some old hunter centuries ago and which re mains the only way today. The first requisite is to get the venison steak, then cut It Into thick slices about twice as thick as one would cut beef steak. Next put an old-fashioned cast iron spider on the coals and heat It until it is red hot the thicker the Iron in the spider Is and the hotter it is the better. "Now chuck in the slices of raw venison and let them smoke and sput ter and smell until the under side is black and reduced to coal. Then flop the meat over and use the other side the same way. After this turn the meat into a hot plate, gash it deeply with a sharp knife and pile on the but ter until the steak swims. No printed directions are needed to tell one what to do next. The odor of the cooked meat will suggest every detail." Machlas correspondent of the New York Sun. Newspapers of the World. Among European countries, accord ing to the Revue Hebdomadalre, Ger many stands at the head with 6500 newspapers, of which 800 are dailies. England occupies second place with 3000809 dallies. France has 2819. of which, however, only one-quarter appear dally or two or three times a week. Italy publishes 1400 newspa pers, followed In their order by Austria-Hungary, Spain, Russia, Greek and Switzerland. The total number of newspapers published In Europe 1. about 20,000. In Asia not less than 3000 newspa pers appear periodically; the largest, number In Japan and the British In dies. Africa has the smallest number oit newspapers, only 200 dallies belnK published In the whole continent, of which 30 are published In Egypt, the balance in the European colonies. Newspapers published in the United States at the close of 1903 are given by Rowell's directory as: Weeklies, 14,455; seml-wecklles, 499; trl-week-lle, 54; dallies, 2215; total newspa pers, 17,223; total periodicals, 32C2; total newspapers and periodicals, 20,485. The daily and weekly newspapers published In the United States are in number nearly equal to the dallies and weeklies published In all Europe. A Chinese Beggar's Explanation. . Mark Ten Sule, a Chinese merchant of this city, relates the following story of a beggar in Shanghai: A wealthy European resident was riding along in his rickshaw one hot day whon a native woman carrying a baby held out her hand and appealed for a cop per. The man produced a handful of small change and dumped the coppers into the woman's hand. Then he no ticed that it was not a baby the wom an was carrying, but merely a large doll. "I thought that was a baby!" ex claimed the man angrily. "Too muchee hot sun, so me leave baby home!" explained the wily na tive woman, without even the sem blance of a smile. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Angels' Pictures. When Dorothy came from kinter garden the other day she asked if mnthr u-ero home. The maid wishing to tease her, said, "No." On finding that her mother was nome, jjoromy went to he maid and said, "Mary, I can never trust you again. You told me a wrong truth." One day an elderly teacher was inn- rtnrothv as to her knowl edge. As Dorothy was only four, the questions asked were rather deep. The teacher was satisfied, however, when, on asking Dorothy what a dream was, the child replied: "Dreams are the pic tures the angels show us when we are asleep." Richard II created esquires by put. tins about their necks the collars o 8. S. and bestowing upon them a pail ot silver spurs. New York City. The loose coat Is tlways a favorite one with many women and suits some figures better than any other sort, lu addition to which it Is easier to slip on and off and Involves less difficulty In the mak ing than do the fitted ones. Here Is an exceedingly desirable model that Eton Jacket, Si to 40 Bust will be much In vogue during the en tire winter, both for the coat suit and for the separate wrap, and which is quite appropriate for all suitings, broadcloth, cheviot, homespun and the like, and also for the cloaklngs that are preferred for the all-round wrap. In this Instance the color is black and the material English kersey, simply stitched with belding silk, but color as well as material Is a matter of personal preference and need. The coat Is made on quite simple lines, consisting of fronts nnd backs and is finished at the neck with the regulation collar and lapels. The clos ing Is made Invisibly by means of button-holes in n fly, and the sleeves are the favorite ones of the season that are full nt the shoulders and plain at the wrists, where they are finished with the roll-over cuffs that are very generally becoming. When liked the collar can be of vrlver, but there Is a peculiar smartness found In the use of one material throughout. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four aud one- Pretty 811k Coat. A pretty coat in dark blue rajah silk was made with the waist line high un der the arms and dipping slightly in front The waist had a little vest of velvet, and was outlined on either side of the vest and around the waist with a flat bias of the silk sewed on by hand. In frout the band was orna mented with four handsome silk pas sementeries, with long silk fringes. A similar ornament trimmed the short puffed sleeve, which was further em eighth yards twenty -seven, two an4 three-quarter yards forty-four or two and one-eighth yards fifty-two Inches wide. Crap do Chine. In black (as well as many colors) there's a crepe de chine raincoat. The rubber back Is so thin that the gar ment has next to none of the, objec tionable weight which of yore preju diced so many women. Five Gored Skirt. Every vnrlation of the pleated 6klrt Is greatly In vogue and each new one seems more attractive than the last. Here Is oue of the latest of alt models that Is made with a kilted flounce and plain upper portion and which will be found especially satis factory for wear under the long coats, although It Is desirable for every use of the season. As illustrated, the ma terial Is light weight cheviot stitched with holding silk, but all the skirtings and all the suitings that are not too heavy to be pleated successfully are appropriate. In addition to serving for the coat suit aud for the separate skirt, it will be found a most desirable model for the simpler entire gowns for indoor wear, so that it covers near ly every possible use. The skirt Is cut lu five gores that are fitted smoothly aud are laid In inverted pleats nt the back with the flounco that is kilted aud Joined to the lower edge. The quantity of material required for the medium size is eight yards twenty-seven, four and a half yards forty-four, or four yards fifty-two Inches wide. bellished with two ruffles of narrow Valenciennes. The silk of the coat was' shirred and hung below the knees. Velvets. Velvets have hardly begun to ap pear on the streets, but It is probable that later lu the season they will be used almost as much for walking suits as for reception or evening wear. Both in coloring and la softness, sup pleness and lustre the new Trivet are sensationally Improved.
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