Nothing is more conspicuous thus far in this campaign than the noble qualities of manhood revealed in the conduct of naval officers. The Germans foresee a large volume of Sibcriau trade as a result of the completion of the Trans-Siberian Rail way, with its Chinese connections, and they are early in the field with prepa rations to secure their share of it. One of the most tangible and stub born of facts is that two persous may walk the streets or v/ork together, and yet live in worlds' entirely unlike. Two men read the news of the day, and two sets of impressions are made which create two unlike worlds of motive and action. The battleship Oregon has demon strated that there is something in a name after all. With a record of a 13,000-mile cruise at a phenomenal rate of speed she has proved true to the motto of the State after which she was named: Alis vol at propiis—she flies with her own wings. The Australian ballot system having come into general use in this country, the Australian system of land trans , fers is now proposed, and will prob ably be adopted. It provides for abolition of the present cumbrous and expensive scheme of searching titles, and is therefore opposed by lawyers who do that work, but by few others. It is worthy of uote that the older na tions of the world should have so many things to leant of some of the youngest In every art and science looking to the development and betterment of mankind, the two nations of Great Britain and the United States have gone hand in hand in the forefront of progress, and none the less so in the science of government, notes the New York Mail and Express. Compare Canada with Cuba; compare Poland with Australia; compare the Philip pines with India; compare the Moors with the American Indians, and see how notable the difference in the treatment of dependent nations and peoples between that of the United States and Great Britain, and of Rus sia, France and Spain. A careful compilation by the Scien tific American shows that at the pres ent time the various maritime powers of the world possess about fifty first class armored cruisers, either com pleted or under construction. Eng land lias eleven of these swift and formidable craft built aud building. Franco has fourteen. Spain has nine. The United States has precisely two. We are far behind other nations in war vessels combining the speed of racing cruisers with ample armor protection and heavy batteries. These vessels have a function all their own in sea warfare. Their place can never be taken by slow sixteen-knot battle ships. A welcome announcement to many, at this season, in Chambers's Journal, is the invention of a new life belt of a description which meets the de ficiencies hitherto characterizing de vices of this sort. The difficulty with most contrivances for this purpose is, primarily—especially in the case of cork waistcoats—that tboy are so bulky as to impede action to a very considerable degree, if not altogether, but this is avoided in the new belt, known as the Louiton float, which, as explained and illustrated in the French journals, has the appearance of a eonger eel with conical ends. Made of sheet rubber, it passes round the neck, across the chest and round the waist, and can be inflated in one minute by the mouth; its weight is about one pound, and it is alike flexi ble, light and easily placed iu position. The Powers, with the exception o) Great Britain, have been standing arouud, watching the proceedings and looking to see the Uuited States, in its unreadiness for war, and, as they fancied, our inexperience,—to see ns badly beaten at the outset, but, ob serves the Trenton (N. J.) American, perceiving that in spite of our inex perience and unreadiness we were able to improvise a navy and an army at the shortest possible notice, and that our fleets were the equals in skill and discipline of any that the world can show, they hasten to get over on the side which they realize is the winning side. All right. We shall lie duly grateful that even in their own in terests they shall stand aside, but we shall he able, after the war is over, to measure exactly what the sympathy of these nations amounts to. England did uot wait to see the course of events, but at once declared her sympathy. This is true friendship, and will bo duly appreciated. As for the others, we-ere able to thank them for nothing. AUNT LUCINDA'S COOKIES. 0 baker, yon hnven't, in all your shop, i A cooki* tit to be tried, , For the art of making them enmo to a 9top I When my Aunt Lucin-ia died. 1 can see her yet, with her sleeves un rolled, As I watch her mix and knead The flour and eggs, with their yolks of gold, ! The butter and sugar, just all they'll hold, And spice them with caraway seed. Oh, that caraway seed! I see tlie nook Where it grew by the garden-wall; And just below is the little brook With the laughing waterfall. Beyond ar • the meadows, sweet and fair, Ami flecked with the sun and shade; And all the beauties of earth and air Were In those cookies, so rich and rare, My Aunt Lucinda made. So. add one more to tlie world's best arts, For the cookies you make are sad. And they haven't the power to stir our hearts That Aunt Luclnda's had; For I see her yet, with sleeves uprolled, An l I watch her mix and knead The Hour and eggs, with their yolks of gold, The butter and sugar, just all they'll hold, And spice them with caraway seed. —L. A. W. Bulletin. OOODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo 0 _ © gGrandfathers g g Courtship." Q O g A WAR STORY Q j oaoooooooooooooooooooooooo ILLIE tells me you w youngsters want a fej war story," sighed Rj Grandpa Sawyer, glancing fondly .fA \\ - over the merry ! \\ ' 1 group of children '| (.and grandchildren [•J No-v. ' : J I that had assembled j i •fYfCltjj ' to celebrate his |'j.-v - f'BK i*| sixtieth birthday; i I pl**l -V-r aud wondering laO—V Ml | J—■ „ what he could pus -1 i sibly say on this ' august occasion ; that had not been repeated at least a score of times. "You might tell them about the time you fainted dead away," suggest ed grandma, with her tender, pensive smile, ns she bent caressingly over his latest namesake fast asleep in her arms. Yielding to the clamorous entreaties of more than a dozen young voices, the veteran slowly proceeded: "Yon see, I was just out of Andersonville, aud a little shaky even on au ordinary occasion, aud this was a most extraor dinary occasion, being the day your grandma graduated at Holyoke. "I first enlisted for three months, full of tight aud sure of victory, aud I looked so line and tall in my blue uniform, I thought I'd go aud say good-bye to Dr. Miller's daughter. I was only a common farmer, and she had another beau, a student at Am herst, but I remembered once at a party, when she had to choose a part ner, she selected me instead of Jim; so I thought I'd go aud tell her I was off for Dixie iu the morning. I thought maybe she'd cry a little as my mother did, or say something fine about my laying down my precious life for the denr old flag; but she didn't say much, and I didn't stay long, for Jim was there. "Martha went with me out to the gate. I reached out my big, sun burned hand, and she took it in both her own anil held it quite a bit, aud she said: 'Bennie, I'm sorry you're going to the war; you're too young a man, aud too good a man to stand up and be shot at. ' Then Jim appeared on the scene, and I went away half cursing my honest hand for being so big and so brown, while Jim's was as white as a lily with a great flashing diamondon the smallest of his slender fingers. "Talk about standing up as a target for bullets; that's nothing —nothing at all compared with lying iu a prison. As the days passed into weeks and the weeks so long, into mouths so much longer, that I lost all count, how many and mauy a time Ilooked at my white, bony hnuds and wished they were ns big aud as tanned as they used to be, and when I would have prayed for au ending of my misery, how well I re membered that Martha had said I was too young to die, and the way she had held my hand still thrilled me, aud kept me alive and out of the clutch of old Giaut Despair, and I said over and over to myself a thousand times, with grim determination, what Dr. Miller had so often repeated: 'While there is life there is hope,' and at last I was exchanged and discharged. Oh, how happy I was to he set fiee! I did not | 'regain my freedom with a sigh,' like j the poor prisoner of Chillon, hut with j a great joy that buoyed me up, for the 1 long, weary journey home, and enabled me to assist others who were still weaker. "When at last the stage set me down in the familiar village postoflice I was so weary aud wasted no one seemed to ! recognize me, but looked at me in a pitying way I could not understand, and so I did uot speak to any one, but staggered down tlie hill to the old farmhouse, trying in vain to scent the supper or the clove pinks. I did not know my precious mother had beeu dead almost a year, but when I reached the gate I felt the change. It hung by one hinge, aud swayed and creaked with a dismal sound that seemed to me like the groaning of a ghost. It weakened me so that I had to rest a while before going down the long walk still lined by mother's flower beds! but oh, how neglected they looked! As I ueared the porch I saw a red calf tied to a lilac bush, one that my mother had herself planted on the very day she was a bride, and then I seemed to know that she was gone. War kills women as well as men. She thought her only hoy was dead, and she had nothing to live for—nothing "ut an empty home. "That was too good a house to be long unoccupied, and Dr. Miller had rented it to a r edy family of foreign- era, requesting that my room ' Should be left just us my mother had last ar ranged it. "Oh! how I had cheered myself with a picture of that waiting tea table! But I didn't drop down intomyaccus* tomed place, for even the table had been moved into the little, overcrowded kitchen, and the robust woman who did her best to serve me could uot un derstand my simple language, but she did comprehend my sorrow and weari ness and bitter disappointment, and after I had taken a glass of milk she allowed me to go right up to my own airy chamber, where everything was sacredly familiar. How deliciously soft and clean the bed seemed, and I cried myself to sleep like a tired, home-sick baby. "The first thing I heard in the morn ing was, not the chirpiugof the robins, as in the olden time, but the loud bawling of that steer calf under my window. I covered my head with the bedclothes, and was the poor, weak baby over ugain. When I awoke later in the day good Dr. Miller was sitting by my bedside. He helped me dress, and took me home to breakfast, where the talking, as well as the cooking, was all Uuited .States, but somehow I wasn't hungry, and longed to ask what had become of Martha. "I soon found out. Her father was going to Holyoke the very next day to hear her valedictory, and he took me along with him. It was a long drive, hut we took it slow and easy, and I had my fill of fresh air, and recovered my appetite. We were a little late to the exhibition, aud found the chapel already crowded, but the good doctor fiually succeeded in getting a seat well up in front, and there, right be fore us, was Amherst Jim, just as slim aud white as ever. He fingered his watch chain and petted his mustache and made Lis diamond glisten and de voured the jilatform with his eyes, just as he used to iu the old red school house when Martha was going to speak her piece. Now he was a full-fledged physician, and Dr. Miller's partner. We had a long time to wait. The essays were lengthy and learned, and Martha's was the very last. The other graduates wore white, hut she was all iu black, with a crape collar. I looked questioningly into her father's face. He put his arm arouud me, and whis pered: '.She wears mourning for your mother—and for you.' "For my mother and for me—oh! the pain of it! oh, the joy of it! and whether it was the pain or the joy, or the crowded room, or the way Jim looked at Martha, I cannot tell, but somehow everything slipped away into nothingness. "When I camo back to conscious ness the folks were all gone, all hut Dr. Miller anil his daughter, aud Mar tha was holding mo as handy as she is holding that blessed baby now, and I was just as qniet and submissive. "I don't know much of anything but submission for u long time after that. I didn't know I was helpless in bed in the Miller mansion, with Jim for night watch, mixing the medicine to suit himself, and always telling Martha I was slowly improving, and I could uot see the noiseless baud that was stretching a pontoon bridge over the last river, but when my hand wus wet with the cold surf, I reached it feebly toward Martha's, aud she took it firmly, just as she did when I was going away to the war, and she said: 'Bennie, oh Beanie! you are too young to die: if only you will live, my mother shall be your mother,' and then she laid her warm cheek down ou that cold hand and it thrilled mo back to life again, and the good old doctor whispered,' While's there's life,there's hope,' and after that he was the night watch, and Martha was the day watch, and Jim dropped out, aud Martha's mother was my mother. "Martha's children are my children; her grandchildren are all mine, too, and poor Jim never had any. I have outlived him by a quarter of a cen tury, and I'm good for twenty-five years more, but I want you young sters distinctly to understand this is my last war story—positively the last." Two chubby arms were wo'jud around grandpa's neck, and a reprov ing little kiss was dropped upon the veteran's forehead. Little Mattte well remembered that he had said those very words, "positively tlio last," on his very last birthday, and so her grateful caress must needs he a little reproving, for had he not often coun seled her, "Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," and did not grandma sometimes ray,"Con sistency is a jewel?" Possibly the tender rebnke was quite lost upon grandpa, but the others ell appreciated it, and truly, a little cliihl shall lend them.—Mrs. H. Maekin, in New York Ledger. Patents in China. China has no patent office or laws, and therefore theChineso can use with impunity any invention patented in any other country. According to cus tom, however, Americans holding American patents cannot be infringed upon in China without getting them selves into trouble. The consuls take all such matters under advisement and protect the patentees as though they were in their own country. There fore all questions as to copyrights, patent rights and inventions of all descriptions are subject to the decision and arbitration of the consuls, accord ing to the laws of America on such subjects, but there is no such protec- I tion against the shrewdness and greed I of a Chinaman. SlKiiHllne; Without Wires. Mr. Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, has severed his connec | tion with the British I'ostoffice and is ; making arrangements for signaling without connecting wires from Bourne- I mouth, in England, to Cherbourg, I France, a distance of Borne sixty miles. I The greatest distance across which Mr. Marconi has yet succeeded in transmitting signals is eighteen miles. OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. wAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Mnnd Miller—Complimentary—A Matter of Promise—And There Are Others— Quits—Preliminary Measures—Youth ful-Candor, Etc., Etc. Maud Miller, in the summer's heat, Raked the meadow thick with wheat. The Judge rode slowly down the lane, Smoothing his horse's chestnut mane. "With wheat at a dollar per," said he, "This maid is about tlie size for me." Then he smiled at her and she blushed at him, And over the meadow fence he clim. "Will you marry me. sweet maid?" he said, And she told him "Yes," and they were wed. Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For old designer and wheat-Held drudge. Lord pity them both and pity us all, For Maud didn't own the wheat at all. And the Judge remarked when he learned the cheat: "Don't talk to me about dollar wheat!" —San Francisco Argonaut. And There Are Others. "What makes Squeemua so intense ly disagreeable?" "He couldn't attract attention any other way."—Chicago News. A Matter of Promise. Mrs. Y. —"My daughter is a prom ising young musician." Mrs. C.—"Well, get her to promise that she won't siug any more." Preliminary Measures. "What makes you think the count is going to propose?" "He has been arouud trying to find out what I'm worth."—Detroit Free Press. Complimentary. Amy (modestly)—"My dress is real ly of a poor quality." Mamie (wishing to be nice) —"Yes, but so becoming to you."—San Fran cisco Examiner. Not so Good. "I say, waiter, this salmon cutlet isn't half so good as the one I had here last week." "Can't see why, sir. It's off the same fish."—Punch. Uuits. "I think," said Mosely, "that you are a confounded fool." "I never think of you at all," re plied Sockman, crusbingly.—Phila delphia North American. Youthful Candor. Teacher—"Of course, you under stand the difference between liking and loving?" Pupil—"Yes, marm; Hike my fath er and mother, but I love pie."—Bos ton Traveller. Hallsflml With lle.ults. Mrs. Browne—"Are you satisfied with the results of your daughter's course at college?" Mrs. Whyte—"Quite so; she is go ing to marry one of the professors."— Somerville (Mass.) Journal. Progrem. Systematic "There's a man in my office that I'm training to work like a machine." Inventor—"And there's a machine in my office that I'm training to work like a man."—New York Herald. Aa W'M Proper. "What did you do when that band of ruffians got after you?" a*ked the girl who had heard something of the traveler's adventures. "I," replied the traveler, "ran to beat the baud."—Cincinnati Enquirer. No Chance. "You called on Miss Spritely the other evening. Didn't you find her charming in conversation?" "I found her charming in mono logue. We didn't succeed in holding auy conversation."—Chicago Tribune. The Terrible Infant. Tommy—"Come, Bridget, play with us. We're playing soldier." Bridget—"G'wan, yez little imp. Oi aiu't no soldier." Tommy—"No, Bridget, but you're a red cross nurse."—Harper's Bazar. Title of Three Cities. "I see," said the ungrammatical Chicago man, "that they are going to try the experiment of niumtnifyiug Philadelphia bodies." "Before death?" asked the iimne New Y'oiker.—lndianapolis Journal. Quiet Wasteil. "Somebody has invented a noiseless cannon." "That's the way with science—al ways putting help where it isn't need ed; why don't some of those cranks invent a noiseless alarm clock?"— Washington Star. Detected Them at Once. He (in the grand-stand)—" Those fellows don't seem to get on to that pitcher's curves at all." She (new to the game)—" Why, I did as soon as I saw him. He's—he's dreadfully bow-legged, isn't he?"— Chicago Tribune. Prefers a Buggy. "Why do you and Harold prefer a buggy to a tandem wheel?'' they asked. "Even though a man learns to ride with his arms free," she replied, blushing, "of what practical value is it when one is on a tandem wheel?" Chicago Post. Haw IIIm Fed. She—"Did you stay long in Ven ice?" He—"Only a couple of days, but I saw everything worth seeing." She—"Really! Then you saw the lion of St. Mark's, I suppose?" lie—"Ratherl Saw him fed." (And the conversation flagged 1— Sketch. '' A Delicate Digestion. Mistress—"Didanyone call while I was out?" Servant—"No one, mn'am, except in' a tramp. Ho wanted somethin' to eat, but I told him there was nothin' ready, an' he'd have to wait till the leddy of the house got back from the cookin' school, an' mebbe she'd make him somethin'." Mistress—"Of all things! Did he wait?" Servant—"No, ma'am. Herunned." —New York Weekly. WORDS OF WISDOM. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Lowell. The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his cour age.—Johnson. He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.—Montaign. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. —Chesterfield. When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.—Zimmerman. It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which expresses the worth of man; but what be is.—Amiel. A friend that you buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no mat ter what that may be.—George D. Prentice. Most men remember obligations, but not often to lie grnteful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.—Simons. Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for pra ters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.—Plutarch. Reading and conversation may fur nish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation that must form our judgment.—Watts. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.—Long fellow. Do your duty and do not swerve from it. Do that which your con science tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. —B. R. Haydcn. Funny Toothache Cure . Before the days of dentists, and when people generally believed in the value of cliarins, there were ever so many mysterious ways of p: eventing toothache. One of these was to dress the right side of the body first—right stocking, right shoe, right sleeve, right glove. A favorite plan in Scotland was to draw a tooth, salt it well, and burn it in full view on glowing coals. In Cornwall many save their teeth by biting the first young ferns that ap pear. The custom of catching a common ground mole, cutting off the paws while the little creature still lives, aud wearing them, is traced to Staf fordshire, England. Some people who are fond of exercise believe that walking twelve miles—no more, no less—to get a splinter of the tooth ache tree that grows particularly well in Canada aud Virginia, will drive away the worst ache and pain that ever tortured a tooth. The belief that toothache is caused by a worm at the roots is prevalent in many parts of the world; hence, this cure: Reduce several different kinds of herbs—the greater the variety the better—to a powder. Put a glowing coal iuto this powdqr aud inhale the incense. Afterward breathe into s cup of water, aud the worm will be gone forever. —New York World. The Sentimental Pickpocket. A woman in London recently had her pocket picked, one of the articles being a sealed aud unaddressed en velope containing a five-pound note. The next day she received back the stolen articles, with the following ex planatory note: "Dear Madame—The exigencies of my profession led me just now into possession of your purse, where I find sixty shillings, which I appropriate to my own needs and these papers, which I return to yon. Ido this because I feel specially desirous to restore this little white envelope, which I have not been indiscreet enough to open. I know very well that when a young woman goes out with a little white envelope so carefully carried in her pocketbook that this envelope con tains a love letter which she is seek ing to address secretly to her be loved. I will not wrong your lover by takiug tbe sweet words and kisses which you meant for him, and I am very sorry that I have even for a short time delayed his receiving his letter. May you be happy, dear girl, with him whom you have chosen aud be lieve always in the good wishes of your obedient servant."—New York Telegram. He Enrnetl the Job. Au Irishman who was out ot work went on board a vessel that was in the harbor and asked the captain if he could find him work on the ship. "Well," said the captain, at the same time handing the Irishman a piece of rope, "if you can find three ends to that rope yon shall have some work." The Irishman got hold of one end of the rope, and, showing it to the captain said: "That's one end, your honor." Then he took hold of the other end, and, showing it to the captain as before, said: "Aud that's two ends, your honor." Then, taking hold of both ends of the rope, he threw it overboard, Baying: "And, faith, there's another end to it, your honor." He was engaged. •Tudfflnx Sheep. It requires familiarity with sheep to enable one to judge beneath its coat of w 00l whether it is fat or in poor condition. An experienced shepherd will not only know the various sheep in his flock by differences in their faces, but he cau also tell by the looks of the sheep what ago it is aud whether it is in thrifty or unthrifty condition. Yet to most people a flock of sheep presents no individual pe culiarities. Oat Hay For Stork. Oftts fts a greeu feed are relished by all stock aud particularly by sheep and lambs. If the crop is cut before the graiu hardens, aud is properly cured, oats are a desirable substitute for clover or timothy fed dry during the fall and wiuter. One of "the best of dry fodders for both horses aud cows is a mixture of clover, timothy and oat hay, the latter cut aud cured as directed. If desired these may be fed separately to give variety to the ra tion, the oats being fed in the fall aud near spring. It is not advisable to cut oats for soiliug wlieu crimson clover cau be had, but when the clover crop is poor, oats make a good sub stitute. There is certainly no reason why only the grain shouhl lie fe<l aud the hay and straw used for bedding when it has the food value indicated. Itou.n With Cloth Hun. The distinctive feature of this hen house is the portion built entirely of oilcloth. The frames are made so that they cau be easily taken apart. They are merely tied together and MODEL HENKERT FOn CHICKS. lightly nailed to strong corner posts. This cloth run is excellent for chicks in enrly spring. When they are a few weeks old, a hole is made under the frame to let them out. Do not make the hole large enough for the older fowls or for cats. The main henhouse is 12xGx8 feet high, with slightly slop ing roof. The floor of the main house is raised two feet, allowing an extra run beneath for the chicks. This oiled cloth can also be used for doors and for coverings for hotbeds, and it baa lasted Bevernl years.—American Agriculturist. Work-Horse* In Haying Time. It is a common experience on the farm that the horses lose flesh rapidly when used for any length of time in the hay field. The haying season gives, on many farms, from four to six weeks of this work. Mowing and rak ing hay is, of course, hard work on horses—especially if the fields are somewhat hilly, but it is not so much the hard work that takes the flesh from horses iu haying time qs it is the want of proper care aud the injudicious care that is given them at _this season. Many farmers work their horses dur iug the day, feed on corn and hay, then at night turn them out to past ure, "because the horses enjoy it so much." The grass loosens the bowels, weakening the animals, disarranging their digestion, aud making hard work tell heavily upon them. Again, horses come in from work covered with perspiration, which dries upon them. Very few fnrm horses get the grooming that they need to keep their skin in a healthy condition. Few realize how much proper grooming tends to keep a horse iu good flesh, and grooming is specially important during the hard work of summer, be cause of the great amount of perspira tion. Keep the horses on hay and good sound graiu; keep them well groomed, with a comfortable bed at night, and if they are not fretted need lessly by their driven during work hours, they will do a vast amount of bard work without losing flesh.— Farm, Field and Fireside. The lleM Way to Keep Up Fertility. A timely word is well said iu the following paragraph, which finally sums up a lot of field tests in the maintenance of fertility conducted at the Ohio Station (Bulletin 80): A ton of clover hay carries fertiliz ing constituents to the value ol more thau eight dollars, as compared with the prices at which mixed fertilizers j are sold in Ohio, and assuming that ' these constituents are equally availa- j ble with those in mixed fertilizers. It i is probable that they are not quite so 1 quickly available, but the apparent fact that commercial fertilizers can be used with profit in the production of cereals on Ohio soil only when these cereals are grown iu rotation with olover, and the high value as fertil izers which bran and oil meal are shown to have, all combined, most forcibly indicates that through the feeding of live stock, the careful sav ing of the resultant manure, and its intelligent employment in a scientific rotntion of crops, lies to-day, as of old, the road to the economical main tenance of fertility. We have noticed that the further away tho average faviner gets from clover aud corn and hogs, the worse off he is. American agriculture has neglected clover of late years. We need a "clover revival." * Tho won- : derful success of alfalfa at tlio west, wliicli is one of the clover family, has (loue much to check this neglect, but in the Middle and Eastern States we | need a more general return to the good old red clover of former days. In every part of the country, we ad j vocate crimson clover as a summer ' cover crop for the soil, especially for lightish soils.—New England Home stead. One Way to Feed l>alry Cattle. The feeding of dairy cows is a sub ject well worthy of consideration at all times of the year. As a rule, dairy j men will do best, in my way of think ing, to have cows come fresh in milk only a few days or weeks before go j on grass. The udder is then re lieved of its soreness, if any, before they are forced to their greatest capac ity. A cow fed sufficiently with a balanced ration composed of coarse foods almost entirely, if not wholly, while dry, then put upon grain and soon going to pasture, will reach her limit. Then strive to hold her there by succulent feeds, ottering such be fore the pastures bogin to show the effects of close grazing. Watch the yield and make changes by having a little land devoted to some kinds of crops which they will relish. Strive to satisfy by plentiful feeding, and the . cow suitable for the dairy will very I liberally respond. j Eye, clover and greeu oats will agreeably supply until corn is ready. I run everything through the cut ter before feeding, because they take hold more liberally and eat more than if uncut, which therefore meets the I intention nud onuses most liberal tlow of milk. i Pumpkins arc excellent in the fall, i and will please the cow's taste after a trial of light feeding, and will supply the characteristic of good milk flow for many weeks, if housed before heavy frosts come and the crop is sorted at storing time and perhaps later sorted ngniu, which will pay if quantity holds out. Late planted corn, which will be but well tasseled by the last of August, thereby containing a large quantity of ' succulence until well into the winter, if cut and put into large shocks be fore frost will be a very profitable in vestment in labor, as all lend a little j toward keeping up a flow of milk until ; the cows need be dried again, about two months before coming fresh.—H. M. Culbertson, in Western Rural. The Sliding Plr. It is the opinion of the majority of farmers and hog raisers that the "sliding pig," as it is called, is due to a weak back, and many try to cure it by dosing it with liniments and other strong medicineu. This is a mistake, as the seat of the trouble is not in the back but in the knee joint; of the hind legs. This joint is de formed in such away that it prevents fio. 1. the leg being bent forward to any ex tent, consequently the auimal, not being üblo to walk on stiff hind legs, drags his hind parts, and when he does manage to get upon his feet, it will be noticed that the hind legs will not bend forward and that the hind quarters are shrunken and morb Habbythau the remainder of the body; this, of course, is due to the lack of ability to use them. It is seldom that one is known to get entirely over this disease. Although they can be fattened and seem healthy in all other respects, they are not suitable for sale in the market. Partial paralysis is the true name of this trouble in hogs. The nerves of the muscles of the back and hip are the parts affected. It usually begins with a slight stiffness, and it varies very much in its progress. Some times it is very rapid and at others slow. When it is slow the muscles will waste and become inactive. In the rapid form it usually kills the auimal in a week or two. In the early stages of the disease give two ounces sweet oil with two drops of Crotou oil in it. After this operates, give ten drops of tincture of nux vomica in a tablespoonful of cod liver oil twice a day and continue it for a week or ten days. This is for a fio. fio. 2. full grown hog. Use one-half for a pig three to four months old. If the muscles have beoome wasted it will be best to destroy the animal. Fig. 1 shows the stiffness and shrunken muscles of the hind quar ters caused by the disease. Fig. 2 shows a "sliding pig" as it appears when dragging its limbs or lying down. —American Agriculturist. One of the provisions of the French Code forbids n doctor to inherit prop erty left him by a deceased patient.
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