“HANDED RESCUES was one morning in Bep- tember last that a fire brok it with terrible uddenness iu the engine house of the Bodringallt colliery, near Rhodda., At | cage with eleven men In 48 slowly descending the shaft. a spread rapidly and the heat it unbearable. But even | . Catching up a gly held on to his ‘until the indicator o shaft. “Then, and not ehed and blackened, he into the open alr. : Hin later the wire rods | to the cage snapped with the | by hat time ten of the toed Only one was injured meta), and he not mor. th aftwayman the other An express trains full of ‘bound from Liverpool to Glasgow goods train was ! 3 I. and N. W. Rallway, Hnworth, to make way for the # to pass. The xigoal fell Ixnress to pass, but the driver goods, ander sow misapprehen- magined that it was for him to e siding. The points being ist Bim he was derailed. Bight tracks left the ralls and lay A tterly Blocking the malin lune, h driver and fireman were badly itt: but the latter, a Bwansea man, the name of Frederick Davis, real: £ tie dauwer to the oncoming ex: picked himeell up, and, though ' e pain, crawled clowly toward nearest signal box. Asx he went be danger signals on the line. When achied the box be had just strength ert to tell what had happened. fel unconscious and was car the two desperate battles of Rorke's Drift and Isandiwhana the gal. enty-fourth Jost twenty-one of Moers and 087 men, and the survivors eived no fewer than eizht Victoria . Of these the most maguif- won ix that which Sergeant Bow emplpyed at the Britlsh , #ill wears. For four long is Hook and two other men held the Hespital at Page's wilt against it of huge Zuolus, At last his two panions fell, nod the sarviver ran ammunition, Undismayed, he ed his bayonet and stil} beld off rushes of his foes. As one after =r fell he piled their bodies up ys barricade wos formed five feet 3 the Zulns save up the attompd g set tiie place on fire. The or seized a pick and broke three successive walls of sno. to pet at the bospital be. lay eight men too badly save. And already the fames iting In upon them. Hook he nearest and staggered him to the other building the Ee and with his ; ulferers were carried into rescue came Hook bad ] Humane Boclety. ~Pearson's Weelly, A fearless Colorado Diana, famed for 1 her many thrilling adventures with wild animals, her splends] horseman ship, awd her knowledge of wooderaft, {a peeking appointment as Game Warden of Routt and Rio Blanco coune ties, Miss Emma Kellogg is this remarks able young woman der home is in Routt County, one of the best game aections in the State, If she secures the appointment she will be the only woman gaine warden In the United Sintes, Miss Kellogg's most thrilling advens ture was a wild ride on the back of an she came suddenly on an angry bull elk. Bhe had leaned her gun against a tree and before she could get it the elk wis upon her. Bhe took iefuge In a sapling and tried to hold the animal's antlers around if, but her strength was pot | sufMicient and the elk broke away. Miss Kellogg took advantage of a moment's {first Bmb. This angered the eik more than ever, and he gave the tree such a bump that Miss Kellogg fell off, She would have been stamped to death by the animal's sharp hoofs had it not been that luckily she fell on the elk’s back. Then, with great presence of mind she grasped the antiers and ‘held en for dear life, The elk was not expecting a develops ment of this kind, and it tore off through the woods, terrov-stricken, ens deavoring te shake off its hurden, Miss Kellogg, however, did pot propose to he shaken and she only clung the tighter, Away they went, the crazed anhuosl dashing through the trees with the vee focity of an express train. Up hills and neross valleys the animal sped, jumping over the rocks with tremens dona leaps that almost unseated the frightens vider. Miss Kellogg was beroming weak from the terrible strain, apd felt that she must soon release ber hold, when an unexpected inckdent proved her de- liveranee. The elk had ‘made violent efforts to dislodge the girl, and it was one of the animal's tricks to accomplish this which saved Miss Kellogg's lite. The #ik darted through some thick brash where overhanging branches came low down, in order to brush the rider of. Rot the terrified animal mise ealenlated about its antlers and got caught in the branches, It struggled and straggiod, but could not get Joos, amd 1 wae but the work of 8 moment for the intrepid mountain gil te kill the enptive animal, by cutting its throat with her busting knife. After hr ride of several mies was over ard the danger was all past, the tueky tir! eae near collapsing from nervous reaction. She could bardly make ler way home, but she got help and returned to clalm the animal ts branchhig sutlers now ornament her home. She sys she would have entered the broncoe-dustioy contest ast fall had her parents not dissusded her on the entereil, Rhe lassoond a young bear ance ail took It heme alive by giving ber poy rein whenever it tried to ats tack dur. HUNTIES SULPRISED BY PEARS, Bears are very numersus in Omange and Bulivan counties, New York. A party d three well-known sportamen A and hat 4 narrow escape after a des. the | hangin; ridge of rock. perate ight. Joshua Sands and F. W, 1low, € New York, with Gustavis | Schneldr, of Nyack, had been stopping with David I, Hall at Claraville, They had spot the morning io hunting for partride and at about noon sat down to luna under the lee of an over Suddenly a | good sip hear cub fell into their din- ner pary from the rocks above thelr thead. he honters sprang to their foet, ¢ | bot no ooner had they done so than the moher bear and a cmb pearly grown bre down the ledge of rocks and atizked them. Jow'sun was ready to his hand He y | dropped upon one knee and sent a u of rain. in wind and dark iat the awful strain He never once Wim strength Tor his all task. He saved the junk ‘her. tened to be one of the sas! in the history of ship. the burning of the Ocean h ire was discovered In her an bour or two only after the Mersey, There was a breeze and she was headed some unlucky accident an anchor and the big ship was up afl standing, head to the . The fames came roaring aft, 600 passengers and crew were ian frigate, a yacht and a ‘Were near, but they only d to pick up those who jumped ~ Buddenly up came the clipper New World, and : into the wind barely 200 yards yon arat ‘boat wan Frederick | charge ¢ birdshot into the old beit’s {Jefe eye. It went down and over, Tint was up nd at him in a moment, He had replced the empty shell and once again Ix fired. this time blinding the other ep. Still the bear came on, growling flercely and staggering from side to ide, With the muzzle of his gon twd feat from the bear's throat he fired, ind the animal fell at his feet and ble®o death, The oter bear, by far the flercest of the two, sursued Sands and Schneider as they ped off to n sapling, against whieh thir shotguns leaned. seized hi weapon and fired at the bear when it ‘as ten feet digtant, the scat: tering chrge striking it on the nose, He firedagain almost instantly, thie time tiding off part of the young bear's frat lez. It never faltered and when aliost upon bim rose upcen ie hind fee Rands gamely eluabbed his weapon nd struck with all his m¥ght Ax he diiso Behnelder rushed up, and poking tz barrel of his gun over his comrade’ shoulder, sent a load of heavy shit full into the forehead of the enraged rote. Fortunately for both hunters ftoppled backward. It strug gled ferdy to regain its feet, but the crippled foreleg prevented. Sands hastily spped two more shells in hie gun andiaking careful alm at close range fird both charges into the bear's body, anit died. Ne one thought of 1 the cub tat had spoiled the lunch un. til an hot later, "The felww who makes a fool of him self is selom satisfied unless he works ; overtime t the job. A GIRLIE WILD RIDE ON AN BLK, elk. While out in the hills one day respite to climb a tree and sat on the | ground hat she would be the only lady | were attacked by two ferocious beasts | 8, ands At get good size before cutting. When STRING BEANS Riring beans can be grown as Jong as the weather is warm, The practice of rowing the earlier kinds alone is too general, for a ready sale awalis them whenever they reach the markets. Try some of the late varieties and keep up 3 succession as long ag the opportuuily seriita, A— BIG YIELDS OF MILLET. Pearl millet is attracting renewed attention an a forage crop on account of the enormous crops. The Massa- shusetts station reported over thirty-| five tons green, the Kentucky station forty tons, the California station over thirty tons If cut when three ot four feet high the plant sprouts and gives another cutting. Largest crops are grown on rich, woist Joam. The seed is sown the first of June in drills two feet apart, covering half an inch deep. it can be sown broadcast. The crop | is 4 good one for late summer feeding in the barn. PLOWING KILLS GRASRHOPPERR, The best of all artificial grasshopper remedies where jt can be used Is plow. ing deeply Inte in the fall or early In the spring all the ground where eggs are abundant. Even the young hop- pers, when very small, may be turned under quite successfully in this man. ner and destroyed, Where plowing cannot be resorted to, a thorough harrowing, especialy with a disc harrow, will do moch to destroy the egga. Bome will he erushed, others will be eaten by birds, and still others will sucenmb to the freezing and thaw. ing and drying when separated from the egg mass. These remedies must be applied before the young hoppers hateh.—C. P. Gillette, In The Cuoltiva- tor, VARIETY IN HORSE FEED. Oats and bay are the recognized feed for horses, and, undoubtedly, if one is confined to but two Kinds of feed these are better than any others, It should be remembered, however, that horses are quite as partial to variety as cows, and if givem more or less change In thelr foods will do better work and An ons : sional feed of roots 1s beneficial, ns bs without any more exponss, alse a weekly feed of bran 8» a mesh, In feeding a grain mtlon good results’ cote from scattering it over ont hay This ts bets after wetting the fodder, ter than to feed the lay uncut and the grain separately, and especially if clover hay which Is dusty, 1s ved. It in a good plan to ent up about one-half of the hay ration to fesd with the grain In the manner suggested, leave ing the balance uncut, to he fed after ward and give the anlmal somelhing to keep it busy, An occasional feed of corn, either on the cob or shelled also adds to the variety, but should not take the piace of vain especially dur ing the spring and summer, in the regular ration —Indisnapolis News wp A PORTABLE FENCE Does not overturn easily: Is quickly put up and is strong snd durable, Come bine a bed plece of hard wood four feet long, three by five, with an upright of soft wood, two by four, like an invert ed T, by cutting a pilin in the side of the bed plece for the upright and spike om post, one ond of bed plece to cetitre of up right and nail to the side of each. The bottom of the pavels are held firmly Ww this framework by a notch made by palling a block two laches thick on the top of bed plece two and ‘ove-sixteenth inches Trom upright, The top of panels | are beld by a three-eighth inch round which is passed through the up fxht. obe end of iron bhoeking over pan. ela, the other end of Iron with a nut on # to tighten the book up against the panels,’ One Inch blocks may be nailed under each end of the hed piece to raise it from ‘the ground.--Mark Randall in The Epitoniist, GREEN FEED YOR POULTRY. Where fowls are shut up in summer In a yard or Indosure I grow a gree crop especially for them in outof-the- way corners of the garden. The crops) I have found Lest are lettuce, rape and} cabbage for summer, sugar beets and] I sow the Jettuce mangels for winter. or cabbage seed quite thickly and let cut off they will grow out again, and thus a small patch will give an abund. ance of green food from July till frost. The jettuce is uch better for cabbage, for the hens will eat every particle of it.. The sugar Leet apd mange] seed is sown in May and can be thinned out and trangplanted when enough, Every doy through the winter I take one of the roots, split it nearly to the tip and hang 1t up {no the hen house, The reason why in so many casce heus fail to lay in winter and warm weather 1s that they need plenty of green feed. It cannot take the place of grain, as it 18 of low food value, but as an adlunct to the grain ration, and to keep the fowls healthy a plentful sup ply, both in summer and winter, {8 nee. essary. Beet leaves, turnip and carrot tops are also good in summer, but noth. ing appears to be relished so thuch as lettuce, The mangels and sugar beets can be boiled In the winter and mixed with. bran and little is then wasted. Edgar MacKioley, ln Orange Jude Run a brace, one by sls, from large A CONDESOENSION. @wendolen Jones was chubby and sweet, And her age was hall-pant three And she lived in a house on Wellington strest, In the yard with the walnnot tree Harold Percival Marmadoke Bmith Was almost balf-past four; And he saul, when they gave him a hase ball and bat That he'd rE ‘with the girls po more” Gwendolen Jones she gazed through the nce. Atl an end were all ife's Joys, Ax whe saw the friend of her Ion outh dopars “To play with the great big d Pervival Marmaduke Smith Up to the field marched b But his eye was blacked —d "his head was whacked, And his ball no more uid he sea, And the boys called him “Baby” bevanse he cried, Did Teddy and Willie and Tim, And they chasd him away when he thread ened tn tel And said they Gwendolen Jour came down ta the tunes, And } wr fare wore g jovial wmile When Harold Percival Marmadake said He'd play with ber “once ins whi RE Nich as. THE MAGIC BOTTLE. Get a pleee of pith, paper pulp, or some other Hght substance, three ar faur inches in length, apd about half an {neh in diameter. and trim it lute the shape of n butte, Cut a bollet in two and fasten bottom of the bottle to the fiat glide of one of the halves, Make a hole down through the centre of the bottle. and 1 d “no use for him.” provide a plece of heavy wire to slip | into the hole easily, with its end out of sight readily before attachiog the half bul let, The bullet oust be covered neatly with paper, so that it will not be po tieedd, and the whole device should be painted. as this will serve to colceal the trick, Now, place It on the table without Inserting the wire, when pothliog will kevp it You can make the bole tnors | you tell the onlookers that the | * bottle will obey your commands, and | having ordered §t to stand pp, you | the | | | her boys that {the apparatos will now fall upon the pin (A, while the whole turns upon that pin. The knife placed upon the side B will tend to restore the Appare atas to its first position, but, the move. | ment of oscillation continuing, the pin B will in its turn support the entire weight and the pin A will take its po- sition at the other point A, indicated in the flustration. The walking cork will continue its march along the ks signed route, affording an illustration that all bovlies are atiracied by {he earth and that, dissrmnged from thelr usual position of equilibrium, they be cote obedient to iis solicitations. THE BRURH BRIGADE. Not long ago | lieard a mother tell intimate and constant & Pacquaintance with brushes goes a great way toward making a gentleman, The remark strock me, and 1 asked how maby, brushes one needs to be i familiar with, “Tell her, bore” said their mother, and the merry fellowr shoaled; “Oe tn brosh oor bar owe need, And one to polish our boots, (hue to clean sur nails, indeed, And ane $n dust our sue, And noe to ove our hats s swilehing, To make us all look very bewitching.” And that's the song of the Brinh Brigade "Willis always twists everything they Lave to remember into a jingle, Baseball The catcher started this Trouble and the umpire must settle it. Find from an upright position, but holding it down. It is the weight of the bul fet, you see, that keeps it standing. Then you order it vo lie flat on the table, and as you take it in your hands to give the order you deftly insert the | wire in the hole, and lay the bottle down, when the weight of the wire will it ln that position. d theos, and then they don’t forget sald the mother siling, as the brigade went off {in a vivacious procession to practice on their brushes, “Tramps went out, but gentlemen came back” sald the clever Mttle mather, when they came {nb again, pre senting each of the brush-lmproved | four with an apple turu-over for his lunch-box. “Cleanliness is next to godliness, and fldirt is an abomination.” sald grand wire goes far enough into the hele to be out of sight no one will suspect its presence, This is a neat and mystifying trick, if skillfully performed. One nalnute the bottle will insist in standing up right, and the next minute HM will tumble down as often as it is set upo- Brooklyn Eagle, THE WALKING CORK. Thrust two knives into a cork at opposite sides, Theu, into the base of the corn insert two pins deeply enough #0 that they will not bend under the weight which they will have port. Place the whole upon a flat ruler slightly Inclined and give it a ! slight rocking motion. The weight of to sup mother from her corner. "It runs in the family” I heard one of the boys say as they put on their voit. “1 guess gran brought up hex i¥s to brush ust as moilier serves Never mind, all ber boys are pen. tiemen clear through, and I 'pose wel) be the same if we stick to the brushes” ~ Wide Awake, A BALANCING TRICK. Stick the blade of an open knife Inte an ordinary lead pencil, which latter you will be able to balanes on your fingers after one or (wo attempts. A balance will be obtained by Spening or tlosing the knife a» Tequired, THE TOMATO VINE. Bupport and train the tomato vines to a stake or trellis, as they will bear more and ripen better. A sharp wateh must be kept for the green Worm, which Is generally very destructive, A fittle salt is beneficial to the tomato plants on stiff solin, GRASS ON PATHS. Those who are troubled by seeing grams grow up on the garden paths are advised to sprinkle the gravel with mineral ofl and water; ses ssit will kil} | thisties, while a spray of sulphate of iron will destroy injurious plants of sil kinds. Grass will not grow on the path for two years after the applica- tion of mineral ofl and water, USING TH 3 RAKE. | tween the rows, while by stiowing weeds to remain until well rooted # hoe may be necessary. Economy Jabor is in keeping weeds and gram dawn 8s thelr seeds germinate, which renders the task easier. THE LAWN MOWER. A mistake is often made by setting the lawn mower to cut too short, and there is sometimes not enough of leaf growth left to give strength to the roots of the grass. A move naturxl condition is given by cutting a little higher; the fawn is made tore like velvet, and thers would be less danger of the earth below being dried of burnt by expos ure to the sun. Owners and gardeners are sometimes puzzled to know what to (do ander the shade of trees where grams will not grow freely. The best remedy is A free seeding with Kea tucky blue grasa, which will endure shale better than most other lawn grasses. Another mode of treatment is to cover the ground around the tree and beneath thelr shade with some hardy evergreen running plant, ax the periwinkle or ivy. or It Is well to keep the lawn and shade trees in separste allotments, EARLY CUCUMBERS. 1istead of waiting until it js warm enough to sow cucumber seed in the open ground. says a writer in Country Life io America, 1 procure, early In March, & sufficient number of pieces of sod. af size amd shape convenient to hatidle. apd place them, grass side down, in shallow lighy weight Bozes {thiy may be put into a enld frame or A lot bed if desirable, and I sow the seeils fn the soil clinging to the sod. The seeds are then covered with a thin fayer of rich earth. The steds garmin. ate quickly, snd if properly fended soon attain a rapid and thrifty growth, When all danger of frost Is past the sod] is Hfted entire and transplanted In the open ground without disturbing the roots or checking the growth of the plants. By this method one can have cucumbers in vige before the ustial time for planting has arrived. FERTILIZING MEADOWS. There bas been much controversy ovir the methods to be employed In fertilizing meadows to obtain the best rednits, but experience has shown that most meadows must be treated sa indl- vidual plots of land; that is, fertilised pocording to tx especial needs. A meadow that has been cropped for & tong time naturally will require some reaveding, and that the fertilizer be supplied at different tithes and be com. posed of different ingredients. On the othier hand a meadow in good condition aml not too old will require only top drisaing with stable manure, and even this must be done in sccordance with the: needs of the particular meadow to which it is applied. As & rule, ten tWO horse loads of manure to the acre, put on with a manure spreader so as to properly and evenly cover the ground, is the quantity that will give good Pew silts at the minimum of expense. The use of the spreader is urged in applying for the coat is not only even but is ne and in the best condition for good Pe sults and quick action, INTELLIGENT SPRAYING. While there are certain formulas for fosecticides, all orchantists know that they often require to be varied to sult local conditions, and what this varia tion shall be can only be discovered by experiments. It is in the application of these variations from recognized fore mila that the fruit grower has @ chance tn use his Intelligence without the use of which he can not hope to be a successful grower, Then, too, it 18 well understood, or should be, that only under certain conditions oan spraying produce the hoped for results. For example, it would be folly to hope for the best resuits in spraying an ore chard that had been left anpruned for several years: it would be impossible tor reach all the foliage with the spray. Then, again, the aspplicatious must be mute at the proper time to obtain res sults, and the Ingredients must be properly mixed. [It is the neglect of these essentials that capse so many fruit growers to claim that spraying 19 of doubtful value. They have tried it, to be sure, but net under conditions to bring spccess. Fruit growers must bear in mind that their work requires the exercise of intelligent thought, and is not at all mechanical, like plowing © Msewing. Indisnaperia News,
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