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It is about thirty miles across town
La London, and for that entire dis
tance there is said to be an unbroken
line of residences and stores.
The Baltimore American muses: If
it were not for tho savages in Africa
the glorious art of war would havo
few human beings for target-practice
in these modern days. The poor Afri- ;
cans aro not able to do much except
to get shot and die.
It is said that so much farm laud in
England has lately boon allowed to
lapse from cultivation that wild ani
mals, which ten years ago were in
danger of extinction, aro now flourish
ing and increasing. Tho badger and
the otter, for instance, are reported
to be thriving greatly ou agricultural
Tejiression.
Henry L. Higginson, who gener
ously gave Soldier's Field to Harvard
College for athletic sports, has written
a letter to tho captain of the college
baseball toam that other ball players
might read with profit • Ho says: "Good
manners and a sense of justice call for
a change or two in the ways of Har
vard students at tho games. Cheer
ing a bad play of an opponent is un
kind. Cheering to worry an opponent
is shabby. Cheering in our home for
our men only is at least ungraceful
aud very selfish."
In the Forum is an interesting arti
cle telling how Baltimore satisfactorily
disposed of tho tramp nuisance. It
established a comfortable lodging
house, to which male lodgers were ad
mitted on the condition that they paid
for the accommodation in work. The
police stations were then closed against
the tramps, and they were all referred
to tho lodging house. The result was
that many poor and worthy men were
satisfactorily assisted, while tho use
less, idle beggars, horrified at the
thought of having to work for any
thing, have drifted away to find com
munities that will give them something
for nothing.
Undismayed by their experience in
the Suez and Panama enterprises, the
French are undertaking to build an
other groat canal. They have now de
termined to connect the Bay of Biscay
with the Mediterranean by a canal
over 400 miles long, from 144 to 215
feet wide and from twenty-eight to
thirty-four feet deep, and with widened
passing places every eight miles. There
will be twenty-two locks, each GSO feet
in length and eighty feet in width.
The cost is calculated at $100,000,000.
It is, however, sufe to say that it will
be much more. It is claimed by its
promoters that besidos greatly expe
diting commerce, this waterway will
be of vast political significance. If it
could only bo kept open in war, Gib
raltar, the strongest fort in the world,
would bo rendered useless, anil France,
instead of England, would hold the
"Key to the Mediterranean."
Paul Bourget, the wonderful Paris
ian author of "Cosmopolis" and other
romances, speaks of America as the
greatest example of audacious modern
ism, the creation of democracy and
science, which are the grand, raystari
ous, gloomy disturbers of the old
world. Over against its vast, black,
umosthetic, almost rude concentration
of superlative power called Chicago,
this terrible democracy erected in a
moment of play, a white city as beau
tiful as a poet's dream, whose vanish
ing palaces were not merely colossal,
but also in a grand way simple, in
genious, graceful and symmetrical.
The prosaic spirit of tUo age has built
its rude westorn cities, an l now turns
to manifest to the world that it is
competent, nay, eager, tooouceive aud
lovo the most superb and admirable
ideals. Tbo golden sunlight of Illi
nois, the gray-green waters of Lake
Michigan, the illimitable verdure of
the prairies, saw in the fair the crea
tion of au imperishable new object los
son for the ages, by American artists,
designers and executive leaders, from
our own ranks.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES TIIAT ARE TOLD BY THE
1 FUNNY LIEN OF THE PRESS.
Happy Thought—Relieved—A Canine
Conversation His Business A
Common Error of Speech, Etc.
While deepening shade an l cooler air,
Tho advent of the night aro marking,
! Blithe Corydon and Phyllis fair,
| Beside tho garden gate aro sparking.
. Thrdr love has reached its rosy May,
] The youth believes tho earth au Aldcn,
I As with his hand ho swoops away
| The insects that annoy the maiden.
1 And as. with many a vow nod oath,
j The blushing nymph ho bends tho knoo to,
| lie joys to think the blood of both
1 Aro mingling in tho same mosquito.
—New York Press.
A CANINE CONVERSATION.
I "What ails you, Tige?"
I "If there's anything I despise it's a
tramp mean enough to wear trousers
over a wooden leg."—Life.
AN UNKIND HUSBAND.
Mrs. Jeuks— "Do you know, I al- .
ways look best in calicos."
Mrs. Thorpe—"Who told you so?"
Mrs. Jeuks —"My husband."—Life.
RELIEVED.
Frightened Maiden (despairingly)
"All is over!"
Fathful Skipper of tho Yacht—
"Well, you'll feel hotter now, my dour."
—Truth.
HIS BUSINESS.
"There goos a man who runs things
into the ground."
j "Who is he?"
"A lightning rod agent."—Detroit
Freo Press.
A COMMON ERROR OF SPEECn.
She—"l've been enjoying very poor
health lately."
Ho "Ah! Your faculty for enjoy
ment must be very well developed."—
Washington Star.
AN OPINION.
Parker— "What is your opinion of
Jim's veracity?"
Barker —"Well, Jim could tell a soa
serpent story without seriously affect
ing his reputation."—Puck.
PLEASE SEND SAMPLES.
Brown—"That bullet-proof cloth
they have invented in Germany must
be a great thing."
Mrs. Brown—"l wonder if it could
nt be used for little boys' trousers?"
—Puck.
QUITE UNNECESSARY.
Pruyn—"ln these family spats it
takes two to mako a quarrel, I sup
pose."
Breezly—"Yes; but it isn't at all
necessary for one of 'em to say any
thing."—Truth.
VERY DESIRABLE.
Ada—-"How does this sound to put
in tho paper? 'A lady wants to sell
her favorite liorso to kindly gentle
man, young, sound, and not afraid!"
Kitty—" Why, that's exactly tho kind
of a muu I'd like to marry."—Puck.
WOULD REFLECT ON lIER JUDGMENT.
"Pshaw! Nod seems to think it is
his duty to propose to every girl ho
meets."
"Well, that's 110 sin."
"No; but think liowl should fool
if any of them rejected him."—Judge.
IF HE CAN.
Teacher —"What is tho meaning of
th'i word excavate?"
Scholar—"To hollow out."
Teacher—"Give 1110 a sontenco in
which the word is properly used."
Scholar—"The small boy excavatos
when his papa licks him."—Truth.
TIIG IMPRESSION IIE MADE.
The Idiot—"l don't seem to have
made a deep impression on you, Miss
Smilers."
Alias Smilers—"lndeod, you have."
Tho Idiot—"Therefore,l may hope."
Miss Smilers —"Therefore, you need
not hope ut all."—Chicago liucord.
SHE DIDN'T SCARE.
Marshall—"What tho mischief is
the matter with you, Raymond ; been
held up by some highwayman or have
you been in u railway disaster?"
Raymond—"Well, I can't say I've
done either. Last night I just hid un
der tho bed to scare my wife."—Life.
USUALLY THE WAY.
"Don't you find tho future rathor
discouraging?" asked tho visitor of a
pert looking youngster.
"No," came the quick reply. "I
never had a more promising outlook."
"What lino are you in?"
"I'm a bill collector."—Atlanta
Constitution.
MAKING PEOPLE nAPPY.
Sunday-school Teacher—"Havo vou
made anyone happy this week?"
Little Girl—"Yos'm. Mrs. High
npp has a baby, and it's a awful squal
ly little brat; but we'n I met Mrs.
Highupp yesterday I told her she had
the sweetest, prettiest baby I over
saw."--Good News.
A YOUNG IDEA SHOOTS.
"Gold is a precious metal," cx
plainod tho Professor, "because of its
scarcity. All the gold now in use in
the world," ho added, referring to u
memorandum 011 tho fiy-leaf of tho
text book he was using, "according
to careful and trustworthy estimates,
could be put within the walls of a room
twenty-four feet square."
".So could all tho silver in the
world," suggested a little red-haired 1
bov in the class, "if vou make th 1
ceiling of the room high enough."—
Chicago Tribune.
BEING AGREEABLE.
"Harry," said tho hostess to her
son, "why don't you mako yourself
agreeablo to that gentleman in tho
corner?"
"Who—the inventor?"
"Yes."
"I tried," was tho despondent
answer, "but ho won't talk of any
thing oxcopt his air-ship."
"Can't you say something about
that—something nico and encourag
ing?"
"I did."
"What was it?"
"I told him that judging from his
description thero wore no ilios on it."
Judge.
HE KNEW.
The teacher iu geography was put
ting tho class through a few simple
tests.
"On which side of the earth is the
north polo?" she inquired.
"On tho north side," came tho
unanimous answer.
"On which side is tho south polo?"
"On tho south side."
"Now, on which side aro tho most
people?"
This was a poser aud nobody an
swered Finally a very young scholar
held up his hand.
"I know," ho said, hositatingly, as if
tho excess of his kuowledgo was too
much for him.
"Good for you," said tho teachor,
encouragingly, "toll tho class ou
which side tho mostpeoplo are."
"On the outside," piped tho young
ster, and whatever answer tho teacher
had in her mind was lost in tho shulllo.
—Detroit Froo Press.
IIE WAS ON THE WAY.
Tho young fellow was extremely
diffident, and very much in lovo with
tho girl.
110 had made half a dozen attempts
to offer her his heart and hand, but
on each occasion he had fallen short.
To add to tho seriousness of tho sit
uation, tho girl was rea ly to accept
him as soon as tho proposal was in
definite shape.
Even tho mother was willing, but
latterly she had grown tired of tho
dilatory tactics and Fabiau policy of
the suitor, and had kicked on his
coming so often and staying so late.
Ono night, after three hours of
struggle on his part, and much delicate
encouragement on tho part of the girl,
ho had seized her hand convulsively,
dropped 011 his knees impetuously,
and was about one-fifth through an
impassioned appeal to her to be his'n,
when tho mother's voice sounded clear
on the night from tho hoad of tho
stairs.
The youth stopped short, but held
on.
"Mary," camo tho maternal voico ;
querulously, "is that young man thoro \
yet?"
"Not yet, mother," ropliod Mary
smiling sweetly down on tho face of
her Romeo, "but he's getting there."
And two weeks later tho cards woro
out. —Detroit Freo Press.
TALE OF THE POLITE MERCHANT.
Tho hardware merchant (to custo
mer just entering) "Good morning,
sir."
Customer—"l want one of tlioso
things that you fasten on u door so as
to make it shut itself."
H. M. "Oh, yes; an automatic
door closer."
C.— "That's it; and it must not bo
high priced."
H. M. "Yes, sir ; a cheap automatic
door closer."
C.—"And not too complicated,
either."
11. M. —"I understand. You waut
an automatic door closer of simple
design and small cost."
C. "Exactly. But not ono of
those infernal things that slam tho
door to with a bang."
11. M. "That would be a nuisance,
of course. What you waut is an auto
matic door closer of simple desigu,
small cost and with an easy spring."
C. "That's right. But Idontwaut
it to close the door too slowly, either."
H. M.—"ln other words, you re
quire something faster than cold
molasses. Briefly, what you aro look
lug for is an automatic door closer of
| simple desigu and small cost that is
neither too slow nor too fast."
C. "That's all right. And, be
sides, it mustn't bo like some I liavo
scon, where a man needs tho strength
of an ox to open the door."
H. M. "Very well. Now, let's un
derstand each other. You want to
buy an automatic door closer, simple,
cheap, neither too slow nor too fast
and easily operated. "
C. —"Correct. Show mo ono."
11. M. "l'm very sorry, sir, but I
do not deal in automatic door closers."
- Truth.
l)o Not Approve of Bicycles.
Bulgarians do not approve of bi
cycles. Mr. Jordan, a woalthy Hun
garian, started out tho other day to
make a wheeling tour through tho
Balkan peninsula. At a village near
Phillipopoli he was stopped by tho
natives, who called the priest to exor
cise his straugo steed, and then
smashed it to fragments, while Mr.
Jordan had to mako a run for tho
nearest railroad station. —New Orleans
Picayune.
Timing Senators With a Sand Class.
A very miniature edition of tho fa
miliar hour glass was upon tho desk
of tho Clerk of tho Senate yesterday
for the first time iu several years. Tho
Senate was proceeding under tho five
minute rule, and when the sand had
emptied itself from ono bulb to tho
other the gavel of tho Vice-President
tapped tho talkative Seuators to a
standstill. —Washington Post.
ELEPHANTS ON A "TEAR."
GREAT BEASTS OFTEN SEIZED BY
A PECULIAR MADNESS.
The Condition Is Known ns *'311191"
—Enraged Klep hunts Running
Amuck—JCmperor Causes a Panic.
IN the East Indies, where tame ele
phants are classed as intelligent
machines and are invaluablo ad
juncts to civil engineering and
transportation, a "roguo" elephant is
as much dreaded ns an outbreak of
cholera, a tornado, or a man-eating
tiger. Its very sagacity makes it all
the more dangerous, and once started
on a career of destructien and life
taking its methods appear cynical in
their pertinacity and ingenuity. Of
such "rogues" thoro are the wild beast
excluded from communion with its
follows and tho domesticated animal;
in the condition of "must." The lat- !
ter is more dangerous than tho other i
because its spell of blind fury gener
ally begins in densely populated neigh
borhoods.
East Indian official statistics, how
ever, prove that, as a rule, whero ono
person is killed by an eleghant nearly
forty are destroyed by tigers, leopards,
bears, wolves and hyenas. Excep
tions alter these data. In ono instanco
a tame elephant which had boon docile
for years became demoniacal and tore
away trumpeting to the woods. Be
fore it was killed it bad ravaged a com
munity and killed thirty-tive persons.
In India the condition known as
"must," which is synonymous with
madness, is heralded by an exudation
on tho forehead of tho bull elephant
and swelling of the temples. Such an
animal in captivity is shackled, and
caution is observed in approaching it.
Occasionally elephants with chronic
bad tempers are found, but they should
not bo classed with those who are
periodically dangerous, like Tip, or
the wild outcasts which are also known
as "solitaries." A typical "rogue"
rau amuck noar Jubbalpore in 1875,
and is spoken of as a man eater, be
cause in killing some of its victims it
took them in its mouth and toro them
to pieces.
Many of tho "rogue" elephant
stories from Asia are based on the
doings of either ostracised beasts or
those who escaped from captivity,
who in haunting agricultural neigh
borhoods to feed on crops devastated
plantations and killed people who
came in their way. One which wan
dered in the Doon district for fifteen
years, and destroyed rice fields and
killed many persons, was the prop
erty of the Government, and nevor
rid itself of a chain which it oarried
away when it escaped. Its presence
near the village was known by the
clank of tho broken fetters. All such
marauding brutes aro simply preda
tory and vioious, sleeping in the juu
gle during the day and traveling at
night. They aro not "rogues" proper,
or elephants suffering from periodical
fury.
j Cruelty sometimes makes "rogues"
of elephants. In 1835, while au ele
phaut was being ridden by its keeper
! in the district of Sultanpore, in Oude,
the auiinal resented prodding with a
spear by pulling the man from his
back and throwing him some distance
away. Fortunately tho man fell in a
j hollow and remained there undiscov-
I ered by tho elephant, who went to a
! neighboring village. There he chased
lan old man into a house, then broke
I down tho walls, pulled the man out,
I and dashed him to pieces.
1 The same night tli9 elephant
knocked down several houses in quest
of human beings in the villages of
| Sardapur, Baragon and Jaisingpur.
| He killed six men in Bersotna, three
i in Sora, four iu Ganges, and four in
Mardan. He likewise killed a bullock
and a pony, and also completely de
stroyed a new carriage. The animal
used to stand at tho door of a house,
forco liia entry by demolishing tho
walls ou either side, and would thou
kill as many of the inmates as ho
could, pursuing thoso who tried to
run away. He mangled his corpses
terribly.
After securing a victim ho some
times returned to tho spot to soo if
life were extinct, and would commence
mutilating tho body afresh. He car
ried several bodies long distances and
throw them into ravines, etc. The el
ephant found his way into the dehra
rajah's palace, whero he tried to enter
the house of a gardoner, but some
men, mounted on three elephants, as
sisted by a spearsman, drove him off.
Ho then returned to Bebipur, where
he tried to break down his master's
house, in which several persons had
taken refuge. The police got into
tho house from a back window and
woro obliged to send for help to tho
dehra rajah, who Hunt three elephants
and some spojrsmen. Tho animal re
ceived two gunshots on tho head at
Bebipur, which, however, only tem
porarily drove him off. Ho was ul
timately captured at imminent risk by
tho rajah's three elephants and men.
Many panics have been caused in
America by enraged elephants. Bar
num's circus had been exhibiting at
Troy, N. Y., and preparations were
making to leave. The elephants' at
tendants had started to conduct Em
peror and Jumbo to the railroad yard.
Emperor became rebellious and re
fused to advance. He was probably
goaded to anger, as he suddenly be
came a "rogue" and dashed away. On
reaching tho foundry of Erastus Corn
ing Emperor rushed in and trampled
in the foundry pits full of red-hot
coal and molton iron. The beast was
frightfully burned, and vented its
rage in liereo cries, b,ut it left the
loundry, and, rushing through the
streets, knockod down many persons
and seized others with its trunk aucl
threw them to tho ground. One man's
thigh was broken, another was thrown
twenty feet in the air and dangerously
injured, and a woman was flunj? to the
street from a stoop. Emperor's tan
trams resulted in tho destruction of
property worth SIOOO.
There have been many kiepeer billed
among circus elephants. Chief, owned
by Robinson,, kilted its keeper at
Charlotte, N- C. # by hurling him
against the wall of a special car, iu
the sight of many persons. Romeo,
one of Forepaugh's herd, when it died
in Chicago, in 1872, had killed throe
keepers and destroyed $50,000 worth
of property. Barnum's Albert killed
its keeper at Koene, N. H. Sontence
of death was passed by a drum-head
court-martial, and tho beast was
inarched, shackled, to the woods. Its
trainer marked on its hide tho position
of the heart, and at a signal the com
pany of riflemen fired, and tho animal
paid the penalty of its viciousness.
Tigers ami Their Prey.
A correspondent who has seen a
great deal of forest life in India writes
on the subject of how tigers secure
tboir prey, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. As a general rule he is in
clined to doubt the truth of the com
monly accepted theory that tho tiger,
after lurking in ambush, springs on to
tho unsuspecting victim, and, tearing
savagely at his throat, eagerly drinks
his blood. This method of uttack may
sometimes be adopted, but it is far
more often tho exception than the
rnle.
In approaching his prey the tiger
makes the best possible uso of cover,
but when further concealment is im
possible ho will course a deer or othez
swift-footed animal with extraordin
ary siiocd. A sudden dash ot 200
yards in tho open is nothing uncom
mon, and tho writor mentions the cast
of one tigress, with whom he says li
was at one time intimately acquaint
ed, who used to catch hog or deer al
most daily on a perfectly open and
burned up plain.
Small animals arc, for the mos'
part, dispatched with a blow of the
paw; but in the caso of the mori
bulky, tho experienced tiger, leaping
on the back of his victim, grips the
neck in front of tho withers with his
jaws, one forepaw clasping the
shoulder of tho animal and tho other
fully extended under t lie throat.
Should ho be unable to crush the spine
with his jaws, lio will then jerk tho
head back violently and thereby break
tho neck.
"I have examined,'' says this corre
spondent, "hundreds of animals killed
by tigers, and have never yet detected
injury to tho blood vessels of the
throat, but invariably marks attribu
table to the above mentioned method."
In removing his prey the tiger fre
quently displays almost phenomenal
strength and activity. In one case
cited, a young tigress leaped up a per
pendicular rock, some six feet high,
with a man weighing nearly eleven
stone in her jaws, and on another oc
casion a male tiger dragged au excep
tionally large buffalo up a bank at
least ten feet high.
Advance in Science.
The phenomena of light and color
have proved a very attractive study to
phyaigists, whose investigations have
in recent years revealed much that was
formerly obscure, says the Newcastle
(England) Chronicle. After many
years of persistent application and in
vestigation, Mr. Lovibond has suc
ceeded in establishing several new
points with regard to light and color,
among other results being the produc
tion of certain standards of color,
which may not only bo employed in
soieutiffc research, but iu arts and
manufactures whero there exists a ne
cessity for a nice discrimination of
tones. With the aid of the tinto
meter, an instrument Mr. Lovibond
has invented, tho smallest increment
of light or color is distinguished,
while it is also possible to measure
the color of solid aud liquid substances.
This is achieved by the adoption of
graded colorod glass for standards,
and with an apparatus cuttiug off side
lights aud giving a direct view without
the aid of louses, prisms or reflectors.
Mr. Lovibond lias limited his inves
tigation to that part of the spectrum
which is appreciable by the eye as
light aud color; but his research
seems to load him to differ from the
Young-Helmholtz theory of primary
oolors, as he would substitute orauge
for red. For tliis view many reasons
are advanced ; but they do not appear
to be very conclusive, aud most peo
ple will prefer to speak of tho throe
primary colors as rod, green and vio
let, notwithstanding Mr. Lovibond's
measurements.
Great Grief an.l Head Shaving.
Among the ancients shaving tho
head was a very common mode of ex
pressing great grief or sorrow. Some
times it was done by the priest or some
other religious functionary formally
cutting off tho hair, sometimes by
violeutly plucking it out by tho roots.
Iu extreme cases among men the beard
as well as tho hair was either eat off
or plucked out. The idea seems to
have been that mourners should divest
themselves of that which under ordin
ary circumstances was considered most
beautiful, ornamental and becoming.
Luciau (aud he is not tho only ono of
the ancient writers by auy means who
gives points on this queer mourning
custom) saya that the Egyptians ex
pressed their intense sorrow by cut
ting off the hair upon the death of
their go.I Alps, and that the Syrians
acted in the wawo manner at the death
of Adonis.
Olympiadorus remarks concerning
Job, i. f 20, that the ancients, among
whom long hair was regarded as an
ornament, cut it oft in times of mourn
ing, but that those who commonly
wore it short suffered it upon such oc
casions to grow long.—lit. Louis Re
public.
A RUST-RESISTING VARIETY.
A new rnst-resisting variety of
wheat is reported by the South
Australian Register. It was observed
by a farmer, several years ago, while
reaping a badly rusted field of wheat,
that among it were somo heads wholly
unnffected. Ho picked and carefully
envod them, sowing the grain the next
year. It yielded well and showed no
sign of rust. From that beginning
the stock has increased until twonty
acres were raised last year, the crop
of which was taken at a good price.
—American Agriculturist.
FATTENING EWES.
Ewes may bo fattened for early mar
ket at the saino time they are rearing
the lambs, and the lambs will be im
proved at the same time. Ground
oats, buckwheat and corn, mixed in
equal parts, will rnako au excellent
feed for tho sheep, and two quarts a
] day may be given. To prevent the
sheep from gorging themsolves and
running their heads along the feed
troughs to gather big mouthfuls, and
so choko themselves and spoil the
good of tho food (and they are very
apt to do this), give tho feed in flat
troughs, with divisions made at every
foot, placing the meal equally in eaoh
division. Tho troughs should bo kept
in a soparato part of the yard or lot,
so that tho feed may be distributed
without crowding.—Now York Times.
ABOUT DRIVING HORSES.
Tho driver who thinks that because
his horse is fresh he can stand it to bo
driven fast at the start for sevoral
miles, and then given a chance to rest
by going slow, or who drives fast for
a while and then slows down to a walk
in order to rest up for another spurt,
will not get tho best speod out of a
horse with tho least waste of vitality,
especially in going long distances.
It is a steady gait thnt counts most
and wears tho horse least. Give him
a chance to get warmed up first and
then let the gait bo a steady one.
Another itom is not to feed too
heavily beforo driving. A light feed
of oats will be far better than a heavier
feed of a more bulky grain. Exorcise
or action too soon after eating retards
digestion, and the animal that must
travel ut a good gait with a loaded
stomach cannot but show the eflocts,
and if driven rapidly for even a short
distance after eating n hearty rneal
thero is considerable risk of the colio.
Watering properly iB fully as im
portant as feeding. When a horse is
being driven on the road ho should
not at any time bo allowed to overload
his stomach with a large quantity of
water. So far as is possible the rule
should bo to give wator frequently,
and whilo ho should have all that he
will drink, it should bo given in small
doses.
Tho good driver can toll by the way
his horse goes the amount of work he
should huvo.—lndiana Farmer.
GROWING WHEAT MOST CHEAPLY.
A correspondent of the Michigan
Farmer, H. Voorheos, of Grand
Traverse County, writes that he makes
more monoy by extending his acreage
as much as possible, and working the
land with least labor, instead of by
concentrating his effort on a few
acres. He claims that ho can put in
wheat for fifty cents an acre, sowing
it among growing corn, harvest it for
81.23 an aero, threshing sl, market
| ing fifty cents, making, with s'2 for
interest and taxos, a total cost of $5.25
' per aero of wheat. His crop of twelve
| bushels per aero was sold for sixty
i cents a bushol, from which deducting
expenses leaves him a profit of about
! $2 por acre, or, to be exact, $1.95.
Wo think there are some mistakes
[ about tho low cost of growing wheat.
i Ho has allowed nothing for cost of
seed, and fifty cents an acre will not
pay the cost of cultivating it in among
the grown corn. The most serious
mistake is in allowiug nothing for
depreciation of the soil. Thero comes
an end to growing wheat or other
grain unless the ground is fertilized,
though tho method of skinning the
farm yields apparent profits for a
timo. The more practical way to
grow wheat at a profit is that given by
Frederick P. Boot, of Western New
York, who grew a crop of nearly forty
bushels per acre, and made something
from it despite low prices. Mr. Boot
keeps up his furrp and can grow such
crops so long as he lives. Mr. Voor
hees must come to a timo when he
caunot grow even twelve bushels of
wheat per acre.—Boston Cultivator.
LET THE )HENB SCRATCH.
The natural food of fowls consists
mostly of seeds, insects and grass. It
is not a natural condition when the
birds have but one kind of food. The
birds that build in trees and feed their
young would be unable to supply them
if only seeds could be provided. As
the concentrated foods must be given,
the variety is also to bo considered.
Such substances as grass and the
shoots of tender herbage are intended
as much for dilution of the concentra
ted foods as for the nutrition to be
obtained therefrom. Tho work of feed
ing her young is not inoumbent on the
hen by bringing the food to them, but
she is intended to lead them, guide
them and scratoh for them. The feet
of the hen perform the same duties as
the wings of a flying bird, and her
feet are well adapted for providing
food for her young. Henoe we mav
rightly conclude that scratching is a
natural function of the domestic hen.
The hen, however, performs greatei
work than the birds on the wing.
Birds seldom lay more than two or
three eggs beforo beginning incuba
tion, but the hen may lay from fifteen
to fifty, or even more. She must pro
duce these eggs, as well as maintain
herself. In the natural state she lays
fewer eggs, but has groater difficulty
in procuring food and rosisting ene
mies. An egg is a composite substance
and cannot be produced from a sin
gle article of food. Tho hen requires
a variety of food in order to fulfil her
duties as a regular and persistent
layer.
It is not, therefore, conducive to egg
production when the hen is deprived
of her natural advantage of scratch
ing. Sho does best when she is com
pelled to scatch and wcrk for her food,
and she will always select the kind
most suitable for hor purpose. When
hens are confined in enclosures they
may be fed too much whilo in a con
dition of idleness. A hopper that is
kept full of food where the hen can
always reaoh it induoes her to desist
from the work of scratching, because
the necessity for so doing then ceases
and she becomes too fat. Nature
teaches, thorofore, that hens should
be so fed as to compel them to scratch
and work for their food, which keeps
them in health and leads to greater
egg production. —Mirror and Farmer.
SUMMER CARE OF THE CALLA.
How to care for the calla during the
summer, in the most satisfactory way,
seoms to be a question on which many
growers of it differ, writes Eben E.
Bexford, in tho American Agricultur
ist. Some keep it growing aLI through
the year, and because it does compara
tively woll with this treatment, tlicy
argue that the proper way is to keep
it growing. I do not agree with them,
however, because I do not believo any
plant ought to be kept growing actively
all the time. There should be a period
of rest. My plan is to put tho pots
containing the plants out of doors in
June, turn them on their sides under
a tree, or in some partially sheltered
place, and thero I leave them until
September, without any attention
whatever. After a short timo, tho
foliage turns yellow, and vory soon it
drops off, because tho soil in tho pot
is becoming dry. In two weeks aft 1 , r
putting tho pot out, you would not
suspect thoro was a live root in the
soil it contains. But tho live root is
there, all prepared. Of course tho
soil absorbs more or loss moisture
from the air, but not enough, in an
ordinary season, to keep it from get
ting as dry as dust. One would na
turally think tho root would wither
away, but it does not. Although the
soil about it scorns robbed of all
moisture, tho root holds enough to re
tain plumpness.
In September I preparo a fresh com
post of inuoky earth, some sharp sand,
and a little loam. If the roots are
strong, good-sized ones, I use an oight
inch pot to plant them in. Good draiu
age must be provided, for, whilo the
plant likes a groat deal of moisture at
its roots whilo growing, it doos not
take kindly to stagnant water about
them. Keep the soil moist, or wet,
by frequent applications of water,
rather than by confining it to the pot
by imperfect drainage. An imper
foctly draiued soil soon becomes sour
and heavy, and this induces diseaso;
nnd an unhealthy calla seldom gives
flowers. Plant the roots so that the
crown will be two or three inohos
under the soil, water woll, and in a
short timo young loavos will appear.
Then give moro water, but do not
keep tho soil very moist until strong
growth has begun. If there are two
or throo good, Btrong roots, do net
separate them, but give a larger pot, if
necessary. I profer to grjw two or
threo roots of blooming sizo in the
same pot, because the quantity of
foliage will be much greater than
when but one root is used to a pot,
and there will bo as many again flowers.
If given proper oare, a pot containing
two strong roots ought to have at loast
one flower open and a bud showing
nearly nil of tho time from Januury
to April.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Blood will tell in dairy cattle.
The dairyman with a good woll nnd
a windmill oau fool about as inde
pendent as the one who has running
water on his farm.
In oiling the harnoss if cod-livor oil
be used in the place of neats-foot oil,
it is said that tho leather will remain
unmolested by rats or mice.
When you strip a cow's teats to the
last drop in milking, do it not so
much for the immediate gain as to
keep the udder of proliflo habit in the
future.
The merciful dairyman when he
draws calves to market puts them in n
comfortable crate, instead of tying
their legs and doubling them uudor
the wagon seat.
In hiving, one essential is to have
the hives in a 000 l place. The bees
will enter a 000 l hive much more
readily than one whiohhas been baked
in the hot Bun all day.
It is pretty well established as tha
results of experiments that the same
amount of feed required to prodnos
one pound of butter fat will produoa
three pounds of beef.