“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,