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Every able-bodied male in Norway
has te serve in tho array.
Austria now proposes to tax cats in
order to avoid a deficit in her treas
ury.
The United States Navy Department
has been obliged to put old ships out
of commission to find crews for now
ones.
"Scrub stock and scrub farming
are always found in connection with a
scrub education," avers tho Now York
World.
A certain plant destroying grub has
migrated across the Mexican border
into Texas and seriously threatens all
of our future cotton crops.
New South Wales is making strenu
ous efforts to expand her export trade.
The latest experiment is a consignment
of frozen rabbits for tho English mar
ket.
The New York Advertiser observes
that England's prejudices do not inter
fere with enormous purchases of our
apples and the well beloved Yankee
oyster.
It is predicted by scientists that in
300 years the earth will flop and cause
the north and south poles to change
places, and that in 30,000,000 years
from now the sun will become ex
tinct.
Tho tumulus on tho top of Parlia
ment Hill fields, London, is to be
opened. It is popularly supposed to
be tho burial place of Boadicea, tho
British warrior queen. A group of
statuary to her memory is to bo erect
ed on the spot.
Horses are now being shipped from
this country to Europe, and our ex
ports of horses exceed in value those
imported. Formerly wo bought a
great many horses from Europe for
purpose of improvement, but Europe
is now drawing on us for horßes for
the same nnmose.
In a law court at Halle, Germany,
the other day a man named Wetzatein
was arraigned on separate indictments
for tho murder of two women, and in
each case a sentence of death was
passed upon him. But this was not
all. Tho man was further charged
with the attempted murder of two
more women. For these two offenses
ho was, notwithstanding the doath
lentences, gravely condemned to fifteen
jrears' imprisonment.
Probably one of the most interest
ing sects in Russia is tho Dukhobor
tsi, inhabiting large districts in West
ern Transcaucasia, remarks the New
Vork Independent. Their name,
"Wrestlers with the Spirit," indicates
that the society at its beginning had
views analogous to those of the Ger
man Pietists. They were men of
itrong character and faith. Rut as
time wont on and active persecution
of them ceased, they began to show
signs of worldliness, to amass money
and land, and forget their pristine
simplicity of life. News from the
Caucasus now states that a strangely
interesting revival movement is stir
ring these people. Their leader,
Vorigin, has called upon them to di
vide their property equally among all
tho brethren, and in response to his
jail some of tho richest Dukhobortsi
have relinquished everything they
possess, one man, probably the rich
est among them, having cheerfully
withdrawn his whole property of
|SOOO from the bank and distributed
it among his less opulent brethren.
Verigin has ordered in nil the women
of tho sect who are in service in
neighboring towns; thoy arc not to
leave their homes in tho fnture. And
in view of the possibility of a future
relapse from the faith their ener
getic leader is stirring them up to
leave the fftt lands of the Caucasus for
the remote and desolate steppes of the
province of Archangel on tho shores
of the White Sea. The Dukhobortsi
number about one hundred thousand.
THIS OLD COUNTRY.
500(1 times or bad times, we're with this
country still—
tVilh her on the mountain top, or slidin'
down the hill!
Don't enro how corn's a sellin'—if cotton's
high or low.
This okl country, brethren, is the best one
that wo know!
Good times or bad times, we're with this
country still—
Every time wo feel hor shako, wo have a
friendly chill 1
Don't onro how things is goin'—nor how tho
tempests blow.
This here old country, brethren, is tho best
one that wo know !
Good times or bad tiinos, we're with this
country still—
With her when we sow tho grain, an' when
we go to mill!
Don't caro what's in tho future—we'll whis
tle as wo go,
For this old couutry, brethren, is tho host
one that wo know !
—Atlanta Constitution.
MARY VERNER'S ROMANCE.
s—n I -AVY curtains
I-j i'y ■ tod °f darkness
Hi jW" 3 ; H were swiftly
jg enveloping the
£|k Hi canyon. Mary
down tho little
BH 3 window of the
ji u '"I,' I ,l^° wn^
|M a narrow counter
locked, then, pinning a broad-leaved
hat above tho brown curls that
clustered about her brow, she passed
out of her log cabin into tho fresh,
sweet, evening air.
As she reached the low fence which
ran before her house a hurried foot
step sounded through the gathering
gloom, and a man's voice 6aid :
"Is that you, Mary, my girl? You
look little more than a ghost under
the shadow of those bushes."
Tho girl—young and slender and
graceful as a fawn—ran out into the
lonely road.
"You've kept your promise, dear
est, and come to see rae," she cried, as
she threw herself into tho arms of her
lover.
Keuben liaise kissed the red lips so
frankly offered him before he spoke.
4 ' ifes, Mary, I've kept my promise,
but I've come to say 4 good-by !' "
4 4 'Gooil-by—good-by ?'You'ro going
away? You're going to leave mo—
your sweetheart—your wife that is to
be?" She clasped her arms closely
about him aud trembled like a leaf.
4 'My dear little girl, don't cry—
don't grieve. You've been ray sweet
heart, faithful aud true, but we can
cover marry."
The strong man's voico broke and
died into silence.
"Goon; tell me the worst," sobbed
the girl in his arms.
"Listen,dear. You know that lately
things have gone wrong with me. The
bit of money I'd saved for our wedding
in the fall was stolen, and then tho
cabin I'd built for you dowu by tho
Blue Pools was burnt. Still there was
the furm stock and your little purse
of savings left, but tho drought has
killed the stock and—oh, Mary, how
can I tell you?"
Mary drew apart from her lover and
steadied her trembling form against
the garden fence.
"Some one has robbed you of tho
money I gavo you. Oh! my poor
boy—" She stretched forth her pity
ing hands toward tho man before her,
who only bowed his head aud shuffled
his feet in tho thick white dust.
"Tell me, Reuben, tell mo how it
happened. Ah, surely you are not
thinking I shall blamo you for such a
misfortune," and once more she crept
to his side.
But Reuben thrust her from him.
" 'Twas no misfortune; 'twas a
crime. Your little savings, thoso few
coins you've starved uud scraped to
keep, lie there."
He pointed with his loan, browu
hand down tho canyon to where,
amidst a dense mass of foliage, u few
lights twinkled.
Mary staggered.
"Down there? At Ffolliott's!"
"Aye, lass—at Ffolliott's! I lost it
all at faro lust night."
For n moment no souud but the
evening breeze whispering among tho
creepers and bushes and the harsh
note of a night bird broke the silence.
Then a woman's voice, tender and low
and full of tears, murmured ; "Rube,
dear Rube, I forgive you."
Reuben Halso flung his arms above
his head and gave a little ciy.
"Don't, Mary, don't. 1 rather you
would strike me!"
Tho stars twinkled thoir diamond
eyes ou the man and girl as thoy said
farewell. For Reuben had settled to
leave the canyon that night.
"Rill Red fern, One-Eyed Sammy
and Joo the Portugco are going, too.
We'ro all broke, and may as well
starvo out there," and he waved his
hand toward the wide forest laud of
Arizona, "as in this canyon lioro.
Don't sob so, my girl, you'll broak my
heart. I'm not worth a tear from
your pretty eyes or a choke in your
white throat. Rut, Mary, you might
pray for mo sometimes, and when
you're married to a good chap r.s
don't go to Ffolliott's and neglect his
farm for the tables and tho bar, think
of rae, who loved you, but was not
worthy to have you."
One kiss on her brow, then ft clatter
of galloping hoofs, and Mary Verner
was free to go back into her log cabin
ami sob out her heart till the dawn.
Keuben liaise and his companion
hud left the Great White canyon for a
week. Mary's cheeks, never very fnll
of color, had grown pale and heavy,
and blue lineß beneath her large eyes
told of sleepless nights and many
tears.
Yet, Paul Harding—"Beauty" Paul,
as he was called in the canyon—thought
ho had never seen Mary so lovoly, aa
ho clattered up to the door of the
postolhco one morning, and asked tho
young postmistress if there was any
thing for him.
Ho watched, with his liandsomo
dark eyes, her small white iingors go
through the letters lying on tho counter
before her.
But she finally shook her head,
"Nothing for you to-day."
Yet Paul seemed loath to go. Ho
pulled his long, tawny mustache,
jingled his spurred boots upon tho
iloor, anil continuod to stare through
tho pigeon-hole window at tho girl, as
she flitted about hor usual business.
"Anything I can do for you?" she
asked him prosontly.
44 No," Paul said slowly, taking in
every detail of tho girl's pretty figure,
clad in a cotton frock of gentian blue.
"But might I speak to you one minute
—privately ?"/
4 'You can say what you've got to say
where you are."
He stared silently, first at his boots,
and as his eyes wandered up they lit
ou the snowy shelves of bright and
simple utensils and shining saucopnns
which lined the walls.
''How different you keep your place
from what a man's shanty is—"
lint she stayed his compliments.
"You livo down by tho Blue Pools,
don't you?"
"Yes, next to Reuben Halso till his
placo was burnt out anil ho came into
my shanty. I saw Rube throo days
back."
4 'You saw Rubo?" Mary clasped her
hands abovo her heart.
"Yes. Ho and his chums passed
through Long Tom's ranch. I've been
out there this two months past helping
him brand and count tho cattle. Rube
told mo that you aud he had parted
aud the reason why. Ho asked mo to
look after you a bit. You see, we'd
been good pals, and I'd like to do him
a turn whon ho's gone under. You
will let mo look after you now and
again, won't you, for Rube's sake?"
The handsome cowboy, straight as a
dart, tall and strong as a giant, clad
in tho picturesquely rough clothes of
his calling, bent like a reed before tho
tiny blue-clad figure of tho post-mis
tress, who laid a slender white band in
his great palm and lifted her violet
eyes to his dark ones.
"Surely, Paul Harding, for Rube's
sake, you may look after mo when I
can't look after myself."
With that soft glance burning in
his brain aud those gentle words puls
ing in his ears, "Beauty" Paul swung
himself into his peaked saddle and
sent his horse full speed down the hill
to Ffolliott's saloon.
It was for Rube's sake that tho fol
lowing Sunday Paul dressed himself
in his best, brought a littlo two
wheeled cart, gay with bells and
bright colors, to Mary's door and
asked her to drive out with him.
The day was fair, anil "Beauty"
Paul amused her with stories of Rube,
anil when they came to an end ho told
her of his own home, in tho heart of a
green county in England. Ho made
her laugh with his tales of collogo
life, anil shudder with his description
of the campaign in Egypt, which he
had gone through. Only ho did not
tell hor how he, an English gentle
man aud a gallaut officer, came to be
loafing aud drinking anil gambling
away his days aud his health in tho
Great White canyon. Paul Harding
—degraded as ho was, and lacking in
reverence for women—at least had too
much respect for the littlo post-mis
tress to tell her that black page in his
life.
Tho day was an entire success, hut
it left m bitter after-tasto in Mary's
mouth when she hoard the next morn
ing that Paul hail spent tho night at
Ffolliott's, drinking aud brawling till
dawn.
The next Sunday Mary shut herself
within her log cabin, and neither the
blue sky nor the gay cart and smartly
caparisoned horse nor "Beauty" Paul
himself could wheedle her out. She
would not bo seen, she said sternly,
with one of Ffolliott's lot. She, how
ever, relented and forgave him on his
promise to amend for her sake.
As weeks and mouths went by, and
tlio green of the canyon changed to
red and gold, Paul found that, if ho
was to "look after" Mary, he had to
givo up the saloon.
And, indeed, for a space, Ffolliott's
knew him not; till one October morn
ing his allowanco—the money which
bought his family freedom from his
disgraceful presence—arrived from
England. For the next week Ffol
liott's was a pandemonium, with tho
"Beauty" as presiding demon.
Mary heard of it and refused to
speak to or look at liim. Then it was
that he flung himself before her one
day, and prayed hor to save him from
that from which ho was powerless to
save himself—from drink and dice and
bad companions. And she did what
other good women have done before
her and will do again. She vdacod her
hand in his and, with her heart full of
Rube Halse, sho promisod to marry
Paul—for his soul's sake.
All through that long, bitter winter
she held to her promiso. At Christ
mas he broke from her control, and
hbo did not speak to him for days, but
she ended by forgiving. When ho was
with Mary he vowed not to set foot in
Ffolliott's again, never to taste another
drop of whisky, nor look at a card.
But once beyond the sound of her low
voice, tho touch of her small hand,
and his resolutions melted like tho
winter snows.
Tho eve of their marriage day ar
rived and with it Paul's allowance
from England. The occasion and the
opportunity suggested a carouse and
Paul informed the "boys" he would
be standing treat at Ffolliotot's that
night for the last time. Theibar was
soon crowded, for the "Beauty" wns
just tho song-singing, yarn-telling,
whisky-drinking scamp who would be
popular among tho wild creiw, especial
ly as ho stood treat so longjas tho bar
tender would stand him.
Paul was full of liquor—ho had
drunk Mary's health with every man
in tho place—and ho was also full.of
luck for onco in away. A pilo of
gold lay before him on the table and
he was just proposing another round
in Mary's honor, when big Bill Red
fern strode in and was greeted; with a
shout of "Halloo, 4 Bill, you back 1
What luck, pard?"
"Luck, my lads! I leave luck {to
fools and deadbeats. I've been work
ing and, thank God, I've worked/for
something. I've put.my sweat and
muscle into the ground and I've struck
oro ! None [of your dust or poclcets,
but a vein as broad as<an ox's back
and as long as a river, and so\ I'vo
come back with Rube—"
Paul looked up with a . start. . Hie
eyes flashed and ho seemed to' grow
sober in a moment as the situation
presented itself. Hero was he drunk
in a gambling hell on the evo oLTiis
marriage with Mary andißubo ftiad
come back.
"What did you say?" he muttered.
"1 said Rube and I had come Tjaok.
But don't let me disturb the game."
"The game is up!" cried Fteul with
an oath as ho struck tho tublo.and
made tho money jingle.
"Had bad luck, cli?" saCd Bill.
"Sorry for you."
"Keep your sorrow to yourself and
your partner, Reuben HalseJP'
"Come, come," said hu
moredly, havo a drink ; I'm standing
treat, and as to Rube, here's.his health
and Mary's!"
"I'm standing treat!" shoutecLPaul,
springing up. "Havo a drink with
mo I" And with this he flung his
liquor in Bill's face and made a rush
at him.
A pistol flashed, a palo blue puff of
smoke died in the hot air, ami "Beauty"
Paul lay stone dead on FfolliotDs
floor.
Some of them went up to tho post
office to break the news to Mary.
There was a light in the window, and
by it tkoy saw Rube and sbo sitting
talking. Quietly, and with bowed
heads, they loft the cottage and re
turned to Ffolliott's withoutifulfilling
their mission.
Next day a rough-and-ready jury,
having reconsidered all tho circum
stances of the case and with'due ap
preciation of Bill Redfern's well
known prowess as a dead shot, decided
thut Paul had courted on purpose a
certain death, and they returned a
verdict of "suicide while of unsound
miud." —Chicago Times.
WISE WORDS.
A rogno is a roundabout fool.—
Coleridge.
Rank and riches are chains of gold,
but still chains.—Ruffiui.
Of all virtues, justice is tho best;
valor without it is a pest.—Waller.
In the meanest hut is a romance, if
you but knew the hearts there.—Van
Ensc.
Clear writers, like clear fountains,
do not seem so deep as they are.—
Landor.
What is birth to a man if it bo a
stain to his dead ancestors to havo
left such an offspring.—Sir P. Sidney.
Thero is as much responsibility in
imparting your own secrets as in keep
ing those of yonr neighbor.—Darley.
Enough ; here is a world of love ;
no more wo ask to know; tho hand
will guide thy ways above that shaped
thy task below.—O. W. Holmes.
Gloom and sadness aro poison to us,
tho origin of hysterics, which is a
disease of the imagination causod by
vexation und supported by fear. —
Sevigne.
Men perished in winter winds till
one smoto lire from flintstones coldly
hiding what they held, tho rod spark
treasured from tho kindling sun.—
Edwin Arnold.
Perhaps some habitant of far-off
star, born to tho heritage of loftier
powers, although wo cannot scan his
glowing world, yet surveys ours.—M.
E. W. Sherwood.
Not by appointment do wo meet do
light or joy; they hood not our ex
pectancy ; but 'round somo corner of
the street of life, they on a sudden
greet us with a smile. —Gerald Massey.
Should one tell you that a moun
tain had changed its place, you aro at
liberty to doubt it; but if any ono
tells you that a man has changed his
character, do not believo it.—Mo
hamet.
I join behavior with learning, be
cause it is almost as nocessary; and
they should always go together for
their mutual advantage. Mere learn
ing without good breeding is pedan
try, and good breeding without learn
ing is but frivolous; whereas, learn
ing adds solidity to good breeding,
and good breeding gives charms and
graces to loaruing. —Chesterfield.
Difficult Railway building.
Tho Siberian railway has now been
opened to Omsk, 2200 miles from St.
Petersburg, and it is possible to go
from ono place to the other in four
and a half days. In building part of
tho lino tho men had often to carry
their food with them, and sometimes
had to bo lowered in baskets in order
to prepare tho track. In draining
a hog sixty miles wide, both engineers
and men had for somo time to livo in
huts built on piles, which could be
approached only in boats. Mosquitoes
were so plentiful that the men had to
wear masks, of which 4000 were
bought for tho purpose.—Litorary
i Digest.
TO FATTEN FOWLS.
To fatten fowls quickly confine in a
small, warm coop, which must be kept
clean, and particular care taken that
the birds to be fattened are absolutely
free from lice. Feed on cornmeal
mixed with boiling water in the morn
ing, at noon and night with whole
corn. Give all they can eat up clean,
but allow none to be wasted. It is
useless to try and fatten a weak, sickly
fowl. It is a waste of time, labor and
food. The hatchet is the best remedy
in such cases.—New York World.
FEEDING RATIONS.
A rather conservative dairyman in
discussing tho ration problem says,
"the most skillful chemist in the world
cannot, in his laboratory, lay down
rules or compound rations that shall
give the very best returns possible
from each one of twenty-five good
dairy cows." This is very true, but
it is equally true that the agricultural
chemist can lay down certain general
rules which will enable any intelligent
dairyman to vastly improve on tho un
scientific methods which so generally
prevail. —American Agriculturist.
BEETS OROWN FROM BUDS.
Every grower of beets has noticed
the small buds that appear near tho
top of the root. These aro indeed 1
miniature plants, and if cut out and
planted, just as potato eyes aro each
will next season produce a perfect
beet plant with as largo a root down
ward as one grown from seed. It may
seem that thero can be no practical '
object in growing beets thus, for it is
always easy to grow beet seed. But
it is found that whon a high grade of I
sugar beet has been secured by sowing I
strains of the sweetest beets there is a
tendency to retrograde in quality.
Hence somo beet sugar growers in
Europe are experimenting in growing
from tho bud. Having on JO obtained
n root with high per cent, of sugar
the quality can bo maintained by
growing stock from buds. It is pos
sible thut this process if continued
long will tend to establish a growth
of beet roots with many prongs and
shoots. This form of growth would
be objectionable as making the beet
less compact.—Boston Cultivator. I
CONSTRUCTION OF A STABLE.
The first requisite of a stable for
horses or cows is convenience for the '
handling and the safety of the ani
mals. Tho loose stall, not so small
that motion is difficult, and large 1
enough that the animal can turn 1
around without discomfit, is tho best,
but it requires more room than tho or
dinary stall. Nine by seven feet is
large enough for a horse or a cow.
Tho common stall should not bo larger
than live feet for a horse or four feet
for a cow, which gives ample space for
comfortable movement, and is safer :
than if wider. Tho tie should not be 1
so long that the animal may get a foot ;
over it and be thrown— a serious po
sition for a horse or cow to bo in. The
stanchion is not a comfortable fasten- \
ing for a cow; tho sliding ring, with
a short chain fitted to a stout strap
around the neck, and sliding on an up
right bar on one side of the stall, or a
horizontal ono in front of tho feeding
trough is the safest and most comfort
able. The cows aro fastened by a
snap hook to a ring in the neck strap
and to a ring on the bar. During
many years' use of this method of fas
tening in large dairies no accident has
happened by cows getting loose. Of
course, it is necessary to exercise cau
tion to see that the fastenings are sufe
before leaving tho stuble at night.—
New York Times.
WHERE TO LOCATE THE POULTRY HOUSE.
The one consideration of greater im
portance than all others in deciding
tho location of the poultry house is
the character of tho soil. Of two lo
cations—one the best grass run Jin
the world, but a still' clay soil, the
other a sandbank whero a grasshopper
would starve —1 would select the lat
ter. The want of a grass run can be
overcome, the cold, sticky clay, mud
pudding in a wet time, and hard-baked
as a brick in dry times, cannot. The
main item in tho expense account of
the poultryman is labor ; every step
saved in doing tho work is ~o much
gained. Yet between two locations,
ono wet and the other dry, the dry 1
ono should bo selected, oven if it en- i
tails many more steps; the losses 1
which would occur from having the
house in the wet location would a great f
deal more than pay for tho extra 1
labor. These losses would come from J
several sources, chiefly in impaired
health and consequent unproductive- J
ness of tho flock. Many would bo '
sick, necessitating constant care, eggs 1
would bo fow, chicks liatchod would i
lack vigor, die or make slow growth
and under-sized fowls, in fact there
would have to bo a constaut struggle
to offset the effect of tho wet soil.
The sandy soil dries quickly after a
rain, snow melts more quickly, it
warms quickly in tho sun, every
shower purities it by washing all im
purities through it. Better havo no
fowls than to try to keep thorn on wet
or heavy clay land. —New England
Homestead.
nORBES' VALUES.
Few horses havo great natural
value; many of them aro worth less
as individual animals than their equiv
j alent weight in beef. The natural
disposition and the docility of some
horses are elements of gooil worth,
however. As the sculptor must huve
quality in the rough marblo to de
velop his design of beauty, so musl
the horseman havo in the colt, consti
tution, kindliness and good sense if it
is to bo trained successfully.
Had habits need to be corrected.
The earlier they are checked the bet
ter the chance for full succoss. Thou
sands of mature horses in age, but un
trained during their growth, are too
much addicted to bad habits to ever
be safe. Such animals are now con
spicuous in the markets at low prices.
Buyers desire a driver that ie reason
ably safe to hitch to a wagon fot
work, and for a family horse they de
mand this disposition.
It is only by constant little atten
tions, care and thought that tho ideal
driving horse is evolved. First, the
younster is shy and afraid of every
thing it sees. It is at times clumsy
and one or more of
its feet carelessly and contracting im
proper carriage, mien and gait. With
regular daily training before it is three
years old, but for live minutes oftcD,
in the hands of a skilled man, the
faults are eliminated and a vast lot of
good practices are inculcated, so that,
as a horse, the growing creature is
rounded into a willing, obedient and
ever ready servant, a beast almost
human in knowledge and fully so in
kindly actious and intentions.
In many a humble stable may bo
found such prizes, and they are oftou
treasured as being above a price. The I
owner at times would not part with
tho family horse as ho would not let
go one of his children. Tho vicious
und dull horse is forced on the market
so much that the really desirable horse
must sutler from suspicion that he is
not all that is to bo desired.
It is an outrage that a woll-brod,
highly-trained, sensitive, loving ani
mal should bo sacrificed by his owner
at tho price offered for indifferent
horse flesh. It is criminal when one
sells an ill-dispositioned or weak ani
mal for a great price. When there is
an awakening of conscious among both
sellers and buyers better things will
result.
Farmers will not for many years
grow good horses at a financial loss.
Those who work and drive them will
not long continue to be deceived.
There is a range of values from $5 to
SSOO for a work horse. The higher
prices will be realized in a few years
by the few who breed, feed and traiu
aright. These three factors are es
sential always.—Farm, Field and Firo
side.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Spring lambs aud mutton sheep will
make sheep breeding a permanent in
dustry.
Have a purpose in feeding, aud feed
for that purpose. Do not feed merely
to keep the hens alivo and satisfy thcii
hunger.
Do not expect many eggs unless tho
hens are in a bright, healthy condi
tion. Neglect neither food, exercise,
cleanliness nor 'protection.
All the small grains are good fox
fowls, especially wheat. Wheat is bet
ter than corn even, except when forcing
the fattening process for market.
A month previous to weaning, the
more grain tho calves, pigs, luinbs and
colts have the better. They will not
lose so much flesh and worry less.
If you want to know what your abili
ties as a poultry keeper are, just look
at tho egg basket and then count your
hens. That tells ilio story every time.
Better buy thoroughbred eggs ox
fowls than try to grade up tho com
mon stock, because it saves time, and
going up hill is not always successful
work. Get tho best.
It is a great loss to feed dry cows
through the winter on hay and grain
merely to carry them through the sou
son for the sake of making $23 or S3O
a head during the summer.
When the porker is fat enough, soli
him. After ho has passed 250 pounds,
it is doubtful if tho average farmer
can put anothor ounce on him with
profit. It is tho profit wo are after.
It is u noticeable fact that tho man
who spends the greater part of his
time at the store discussing politics,
is not the man who takes the greatest
amount of premiums at the county fair.
1 |lf you have any spare time during
tho winter evenings take up some good
agricultural paper and clip out the
suggestions that will tend to help you
with your work next spring and sum
mer.
We can more intelligently see tho
reason for the course we take to de
stroy insects if we encourage a study
of them and learn why apples aro
scabby and wormy and potatoes are
rough.
As old gocse are bettor layers and
mothers than young ones, and young
geese are always in domaud in tho
market, a poultry man finds it pays to
keep the old ones, as they are prolific
for twenty years.
Fifty pounds from tho refuso of tho
cabbage field twico a day will show
great results in the increase of milk
when fed to tho cows. Fed after milk
ing, there will be no uuplcasant odor
or taste in the milk.
Iff As soon as the rDads are frozen over
bo careful as to how you drive the
horse. Nothing will do more to in
jure a horse than driving him reck
lessly on a road that is frozen hard
after it has been muddy.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
No bird of prev has tho gift of song.
It is estimated that the crow will de
stroy 700,000 insects every year.
Astronomers claim that there are
over 7,500,000 comets in tho solar sys
tem alone.
South American agriculturists aro
experimenting with an electric drying
machine for wheat.
Mosquitoes inject a poison into tho
wounds they inflict in order to make
tho blood thin enough to flow through
their throats.
It is said that tho flesh on tho fore
quarters of the beaver resembles that
of land animals, whilo that on the
hindquarterß has a fishy taste.
A new garbage crematory has just
been successfully tested in Chicago in
tho prosence of somo New York ex
perts and tho Mayor of Chicago.
Cast iron blocks aro being tried in
Romo of tho most frequented streets of
Paris, instead of tho granite blocks
usually placed alongside tramway
rails.
Voluntary muscles aro almost al
ways rod; involuntary muscles are
generally white, tho most notable ex
ception in tho latter caso being tho
heart.
Professor Weinek, of tho Imperial
Observatory at Prague, devoted 225
hours to his drawing of tho lunar
crater Copernicus. It is from a nega
tive made at tho Lick Observatory,
California.
Ilirain Maxim, tho flying machine
man, Hays bo will not consider his in
vention comploto until bo can bavo it
under perfect control at a point so
high that it can neither bo seen nor
beard by gunners underneath.
Cellar moulds on applos—often un
noticeable—consists of more or less
poisonous fungi. Physicians say they
have traced cases of diphthoria to tho
eating of it. All fruits and vegetables
should bo carefully cleaned, or peeled,
at least, if to be eaten raw.
Flammarion, tho French astrono
mer, remarks that our planet, if it
were as near to tho sun as it is to the
moon, would melt like wax under the
heat from tho solar surface, which is
composed of "a stratum of luminous
dust that floats upon an ocean of very
dense gas."
A butterfly, which was found in a
dormant state under a rock in tho
mountains of California, and which is
believed to have lived thousands of
years, or siuco the closo of one of the
lator geographical periods, is now in
the Smithsoniau Institution. When
found it was believed to be tho only
living representative of its species in
existence.
It has been decided to use petro
leum us locomotive fuel on tho Baltic
Uuilroad, which is significant, be
cause this line is almost the most dis
tant of any in Russia from tho oil
wells. Great reservoirs are to bo built
in St. Petersburg and Keval and throe
other stations, which will hold in tho
aggregate about 5,000,000 gallons.
Dr. Foehner, of Berlin, has exam
ined some 70,000 sick domestic ani
mals in tho past seven years, and of
this number only 281 suffered from
tuberculosis. Tho parrots wero re
latively tho most frequently aflected,
twenty-five per cent, of thoso coming
under his care being tuberculous. Of
tho cats, only ono per cent, showed
symptoms of the disease.
A Horse's Sense ol Locality.
About tho year 1850, Hays tho Lewis
tou Journal, a little colt was born on
u farm in Aroostook County, iu the
Stato of Maine, a colt that was soon
sold away from tho place, to come
shortly after into the possession of a
physician in the town of Houlton, who
at tho opening of tho Civil ( War went
••to tho front," taking with him for
cavalry service tho colt, that had now
reached maturity. Through all the
vicissitudes of a live years' campaign
this horso followed the fortunos of hiH
master, being wrecked on tho Red
River expedition and suffering various
other disasters, to return at the close
of tho war to tho Stato of Maine,
across which ho carried his master
horsoback until tho town of Houlton
wus again reached.
On tho journey through Aroostook
County the road traversed lay past
the farm where somo ten years before
this horso was born. Neither his
life between tho shufts of a doctor's
gig nor livo years of war campaigning
had caused him to lose his bearings,
and when ho reached tho lano that led
up to tho old farm house ho turned
up to tho house as confidently as
though he had been driven away from
it but a half hour before.
Disinfecting a Room.
A writer in tho Medical Magazine
who has witnessed tho Berlin method
of disinfecting a room describes tho
cleansing of an apartment in which a
child had died of diphtheria: "Four
men were engaged. After everything
that could be subjected to steam with
out detriment had been removed to
the disinfecting station, all the things
were removed from tho walls, and tho
men began rubbing these with bread.
Ordinary German loaves are used,
forty-eight hours old. Tho loaves are
out into substantial chunks about six
inches square, tho back of each pieco
consisting of the crust, thus allowing
of a good purchase. The walls are
systematically attacked with strokes
from above downward, and there can
bo do question as to its efficacy in
cleaning them, nor does the operation
take as long as one would imagine.
Tho crumps are swept up and burned.
After this the walls arc thoroughly
sprinkled with a live per cent, carbolic
acid solution. The ilcor is washed
with a two per cent, carbolic acid
solution, and all tho polished wood
work and ornaments us well."