Spain has for years wrung tribute
to the amount of $-0,000,000 annually
from the people of the Philippines.
Is it a stop toward an English al
liance that the Geographical Board has
dropped the "h" in Bering's Strait?
History will record it r.s a melnn
rholy fact that poor old Spain went
into the preseut war "with an over
stock of naval tactics and an uadcr-
Bupply of naval ships.
A State law of New Hampshire, en
acted a few years ago, requires the
trustees of ravings batiks and savings
institutions to call in the books of de
positors every third year for examina
tion and verification by some person
or persons other than the bank's treas
urer or his clerk.
Spain furnishes a peculiarly tragic
illustration of the awful possibilities
of national illiteracy. Sixty-eight
per cent, of her population come
within this category. This sixty
eight per cent, have been willfully
misled, through their blind enthus
iasm, as to the country's resources,
preparations aud European support.
America Ims had bicycle weddings,
but that does not beat the Dutch.
According to foreign advices, a
wealthy young widow of Holland
asked as a dying request that her
favorite bicycle should be draped in
mourning and be trundled by a ser
vant behind the hearse in which her
body was conveyed to the grave. She
was explicit in stipulating that the bi
cycle should precede the coach con
taining the chief mourners.
There is a new field for the amateur
photographer. A Rio de Janeiro in
ventor has devised a submarine photo
graphic apparatus for use by divers.
The operator has an incandescent
electric lamp with a reflector fixed 011
his head-piece, and is provided with
an ordinary camera, inclosed in n
rubber envelope having n glass front.
Current for the lamp is supplied from
'he boat above, and pictures are taken
by pressing buttons through the rub
ber covering. It is stated that objects
in Rio tie Janeiro Bay have been
photographed under water by this
means at a distance of ten or twelve
feet as easily as in full daylight.
Feace does not produce Deweys or
Grants, and war did not produce
Dewey, comments the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. His country,
his blood, his training, his discipline,
and the traditions and atmosphere of
the service produced him. Neither in
army nor navy will the country
cv?r again bo without ample supply
of officers who are masters of their
profession. A thousand forces are at
work in the service hardening the
fibres, ripening the intellect, steeling
the courage of the men who are yet to
fight our battles. But war is not
needed to develop them. Conflict
can only discover them. Dewey is
not the only one who can gather up
all the scattered ends of precaution
and preparation, weld them into a
thunderbolt and with one daring and
terrible blow smite the enemy and
destroy him. There are many officers
whose photographs are not known to
newspaper readers now, but whose
names will be familiar if the war lasts
long enough.
Soldiers in camp must be as grate
ful to the being who first invented
canned goods as Sancho Fanza was to
the man who first invented sleep.
There seems to he no limit to the
possibilities of tho canning factory.
Everything that grows, everything
that can be produced in laboratory—
essences, extracts, condensations—all
are ranged on the shelves of the com
missary, and in cans. There are
canned fruits of course. The rural
housewives of an earlier generation
gave capitalists the hint for that. But
there are also canned vegetables,
canned fish, canted fried bacon and
canned roast beef. One may have
choice of vegetables and choice of
meat while eating at an army table.
On a march, when the column stops
at night in the hill country of Cubn or
on the fair plains of Porto Rico, the
first sergeant will send a detail to the
commissary wagon, and all the Ameri
can boys may have American fruits
and meats and "garden truck."
Instead of being reduced to a diet of
salt pork and indestructible crackers,
Ihe soldier may have a substantial
dinner of acceptable and varied food.
And whether frowning at Spain from
a camp of mobilization or rushing at
her batteries in the hour of strife he
will certainly be a better soldier for
(he better food. No other nation in
(he world can feed its armies in so
admirable a manner, because no other
cation has so nearly perfected the
business ul preserving substvntial
foods.
OPTIMISM-.
There's a word of gentle meaning
"Afterwhfle."
It's the sesame of dreaming,
"Afterwhfle."
TThen our fc.tunes halt and vary,
It's the watchword of the fairy,
From hope's sweet vocabulary,
"Afterwhile."
We will hear no sounds of battle,
"Afterwhile."
We will miss the cannon's rattle,
"Afterwhile."
Men will put away the saber
And together they will labor
Each to help a helping neighbor,
"Afterwhile."
This old cartli will eease its sorrow.
"Afterwhile."
There will dawn a peaceful morrow,
"Afterwhile."
When all grief is but tradition,
Giving ('tis its rightful mission!
Contrast to life's blest condition,
"Afterwhile."
* x'&!c:o®&vs i £;c : e:sMeieiete®teie:s , eiei&::
|TIE 111 OF A MID.
CHARACTERS.
Margot Carpenter A young lady
Regiimlu Olderclieek jjeiit.eniun
Grimes. . trump
Scene — Margot's boudoir, afterwards
Woodehester High Road, aud afterwards
ttlargot's bedroom.
1.
<3\ ARaoT baa no
mTTi very particular
it rea?on * or re "
J •./'Si I fusing the
fS ; ,q/V s) young gentlc
► VTO/ man who was
-0,18 of being
Q-BN ber Reggie.
Yet had she
\ spoken that
or\ fhfil inonosyl
/ [ \\ lable which has
' ' struck cold to
the hearts of suitors since the days of
the stone age.
Margot looked at her rings, and her
face assumed an expression that was
meant to represent n compassionate
negative. The shake of her head was
intended to imply sympathy with Mr.
Oldercheek's feelings; the tap of her
little foot gave him to understand that
no amount of imploring on his part
would affect her decision. It was not
her first refusal. Already she had
Baid a fat one cf forty "nay;" already
she had turned her heel on the obese
man's thousands, his dog-cart, his
high-stepping horse, and his unlim
ited expectations. So, in a manner,
she was an experienced maiden, and
so when Reginald proposed to her she
did not Butter and blush to any great
extent, although she did flutter and
blush a little.
Reginald Olderclieek was not wise
to propose at 10.30 in the morning. I
do not intend to discuss the hour at
which a man may most prudently
suggest matrimony to the lady of his
choice; I will limit myself to the
statement that 10.30 a. m. is certainly
not that hour.
With considerable trepidation,
cleanly shaved, irreproachably clad,
but, as regards his inner man, very
vacant (for ho had eaten no break
fast), Mr. Olderclieek was shown into
the drawing-room, where, being too
nervous to sit down, he toured the
apartment, gazing at the pictures (but
not taking in their merits to any ap
preciable extent) and looking out of
the windows (without observing any
thing therefrom), until indications of
Miss Carpenter's approach fell on his
ear. For Margot collected new three
penny bits bearing interesting initials,
and wore them on a silver bangle, and
these in their jingling generally
heralded her advent.
When she entered, looking, as
Reginald could not fail to observe,
very fresh and nice, Mr. Olderclieek,
scorning prefatory remarks relating
to nothing, intimated that he would
like to marry her. He said it stain
meringly, working a button off his
waistcoat in his agitation, and then
stared intently at a enmeo near by.
"I am very sorry," began Margot.
"Yes," said Reginald, "I know you
don't—perhaps in time "
This was an indiscreet interruption
on Reginald's part, for it made Mar
got's task the easier.
"Yes, perhaps in time," she re
turned, playing with the bangle, "but
not now."
"X>o yon like me?" demanded Reg
inald, letting his eyes steal up her
form until they reached her neck, hut
not daring to look her in the face.
"Oh, yes—l like yon," she replied
in a tone that Reginald didn't at all
relish, "hut nothing more—at pres
ent."
"Thank you," said Reginald. "Er
—good-by!
"Good-by, Mr. Olderclieek."
And so Reginald went out into the
morning breeze, feeling that at any
rate he had broken the ice.
Six months passed away. Paring
that period Mr. Olderclieek proposed
five more times to Miss Carpenter,
hut, to quote a common phrase, to no
avail, for on ench occasion he suffered
what amounted to rejection. Miss
Carpenter did not summarily say
"No." As Reginatdput it to a friend:
"She seems to play about with a
chap—doesn't send me clean away,
and yet won't have mo. I can't make
her out, old man."
"Ah!" responded the old man, a
sage youth of something under twenty,
"women are queer cattle."
The fact was that while she was de
cidedly partial to Reginald's society,
Margot (although she tried hard, ever
so hard) couldn't bring herself to feel
any particular longing for that society
as a fixture rather than as a movable.
For that, after all, is what marriage
means. Men who make extremely
nice movables often fail altogether as
fixtures.
So Margot dilly-dallied with Reg
inold, and Reginald had not sense
enongh to demand ft plain reply. Had
ho done so. there is little reason to
suppose that it would have been other
thau another hesitating negative.
it. _
Miss Carpenter generally went rid
ing on that dreadful invention of mod
ern times, n "bike," on most tine
afternoons between two and four of
the clock. I should like to say, as
the late G. P. R. James so often said,
that my heroine might have been ob
served galloping over the moor on n
beautiful cont-blnck steed of rare
blood and mettle—but I can not. The
age of romance lias been shabbily
buried. I should like to say that her
tight-tittiug habit showed off the
curves of her superb figure to perfec
tion—but again I can not. X am
obliged to limit myself to the prosaic
statement that Miss Carpenter gen
erally look a spin along the Woo-.1-chester
chester high rond 011 a ladies' -wheel
(geaied up to 57), dressed in n sailor
lint, neat blouse, biuo skirt and brown
shoes.
Well, Master Olderclieek was well
aware that Margot went cycling in the
afternoon, and often did he lounge
about the turnpike in hopes of meeting
her. And meet her he often did, for
Margot had no particular objection to
being accompanied by a squire well
calved and clad, as cycling squires
should ever be. Had Margot been of
a romantic disposition she might, now
and again, have uttered a sigh for the
gone cavalier of old times—that one
with the handsome, melancholy face,
the long love locks, the aristocratic
stock, the frilled shirt front, tlio top
boots, aud the pantaloons fitting close
to show off the symmetry of his noble
leg. Hut Margot was practical and up
to date, and never lingered to gaze on
old-time love scenes in print shops.
One afternoon Master Olderclieek
was lingering near a spot where four
crossroads met, when along came the
worst-looking ruffian of a tramp he had
ever set eyes on. This gentleman was
tall and broadly built, with a four
days' beard aud a scowl thnt was
brigandish. His toes were peeping
out of his elastic-sided boots, and his
back was covered by a 111111 of a frock
coat. His bead was protected by a
decayed bowler, and his neck by a
greasy red handkerchief, while his
shirt was so loosely fastened that here
and there you might catch glimpses of
of his bare chest. Had you sought for
a week you could not have found a
greater contrast thnn was presented
by the spick and span young cyclist
and this ferocious waif of the highwny.
A thought flashed through Reginald's
brain: "Suppose this brute were to
attack a defenseless girl—driven to it
by lack of pence and a gnawing pain
in his stomach!" Then another
thought—"Suppose I wore to bribe
him to!"
"Hi!" he shouted after the slouch
ing figure.
The tramp looked round. Reginald
wheeled up to him.
"Do you want to enrn n sovereign?"
"Jnss try me!"
"\ ery well, then; hero is how you
may earn it. Go a little way farther
on toward Woodchester and wait until
u young lady in a sailor hat comes by
011 a bicycle. As she is passing by you
must spring out aud clutch her handle
bar."
"And wot then?"
"Leave the rest to me."
"Oh, yes, and git chokey fur six
months? Not dis chile!"
"Here's something on account,"
said Reginald, giving him half a
sovereign. Upon this the trnrap took
up his position as directed, while Re
ginald retired out of sight round the
comer.
"'Ere's a Kerismns tree!" chuckled
the hired ruffian, who was known to
various policemen as William Grimes,
41, of 110 occupation. "A bloomin'
'nvf-quid an' auuuvver to foller. Oh,
crimey, this is an adweuturl This is
awl Sirgarnet!"
Reginald meanwhile was cogitating
in his way.
"That's it," lie exclaimed. "I
must piny the role of hero before her.
I must ho her knight—her king.
Rescue lier from the grasp of that
ogre, and her gratitude will soon
ripen into love."
"It s 110 'fair er in ne wot 'is game
is," muttered Mr. Grimes. "No, not
a tall. 'Spec it's luv or Eumniat."
"This is a flash of inspiration,"
breathed lleginald, waiting round the
corner. "Upon my word, I'm grate
ful to that tramp. Oh, Margot, my
sweet, my darling, is the time at
hand?"
It was, for that moment Grimes
descried in the distance an approach
ing object, which gradually shaped
itself into a lady cyclist, pedalling
briskly. Nearer and nearer she eatne,
and soon Mr. Grimes could see that
she answered to the description of
young lady.
" V'uss, she's a well-turned-aht 'an,"
ho muttered. "Spec it's luv. Nah
for it!"
The tramp arose from his crouching
position under the hedge, and ad
vanced into the middle of the road.
Miss Carpenter—for it was she, sure
enough—divining the vagabond's in
tention, for his attitude was the re
verse to friendly, she steered to the
extreme left, increasing her speed as
she did so. But Mr. Grimes, thinking
of the half sovereign to come, like a
gaunt grayhound was across the way
in two bounds, and in another mo
ment he was hoarsely calling upon
Miss Carpenter to yield up her purse.
Margot screamed. She was only a
girl, so she screamed. Mr. Grimes
was villainy personified—a dreadful
presentment of all unholinesn—so
Margot screamed her best.
Ah! help was at hand I Round out
of a bye-road came a splendid and
gallant young Englishman, spurring
—alas, no!—pedalling, for all he was
worth. Determined not to do the
thing by halves—as Mr. Olderchoek
| afterward explained to his blase friend
, of under twenty—Reginald charged
full tilt into the tramp and sent liitn
flying.
Thee, springing off his machine,
Reginald let the thing fall, and flew
at Margot's assailant with the courage
and energy of a mastiff. After roll
ing CI rimes over and over, Reginald
finally gave him a final shove into the
ditch (despite a low " 'Old 'ard 'guv
nor!") and then went back to Margot.
"Oh, thank you, so much, Mr.
Oldercheek; how lucky you were so
near! That horrid man!"
"I'll lay into him again if you like!"
was Reginald's chivalrous offer.
"Oh, no, you have punished him
enough, I think. Let us go back.
Stay with me, won't you."
"Of course 1 will!" exclaimed
R.eginald, and so, wheeling his own
machine, he began to accompany Mar
got back toward Woodchester at a
slow pace.
For some little time the tramp lay
quite still where Reginald had de
posited him. Presently, however, he
looked up, and, seeing that his em
ployer was fast disappearing, he got
up and gave chase. So softly did he
run that Reginald and Margot were
uot aware of his proximity until he
was close upon them. Then Margot
gave a half scream and clutched her
knight's arm. Reginald, with certain
vague misgivings, faced round on the
man.
"Storp—'ere—wliere's that other
'arfquid?" gasped Grimes, hoarsely.
"What do you mean?" demanded
Reginald, bound to keep his end up
before Miss Carpenter.
"The other 'arf-qnid you said you'd
give me for attackin' this yer young
gel!!" was Grimes's explanatory re
joinder.
Margot gazed wonderingly at Reg
inald, whose faea told her that the
tramp was attempting no illegal ex
tortion. Reginald saw a smile creep
ing round her lips. Silently he hand
ed Grimes the coin. The tramp
pocketed it, and then departed, giv
ing vent to what sounded in Reginald's
cars like a satirical chuckle.
When he had gone Margot and Reg
inald wheeled silently back to Wood
chester, parting, with some little em
barrassment, at Margot's gate.
nr.
Margot was undressing. Every
body knows that a girl's undressing
takes much longer than her dressing.
To-night Margot was longer than
usual; that is to say, about two hours.
She combed her tresses in an absent
minded way for a full forty minutes.
At the end of that period (by which
time the air round her comb must
havo been charged with a great quan
tity of electricity) she sat down on the
side of her bed and decided to accept
Reginald.
She arrived at this decision by the
appended route of reasons:
"It was all a plot—fancy! He
bribed the tramp to attack me so that
ho might rescue me, and—and make
me like him." She then turned to the
left, thus: "But I have liked him all
along, ever so."
And to the right as follows: "It
was a deceitful thing to do; most girls
would have nothing more to say to
him."
She then recollected that Reginald
had often informed her that she was
quite different to other girls. Margot
did not bear in mind that every cub
in love tells his sweet one this. Hav
ing been informed of the fact by such
nu excellent judge of character as
Reginald, she now believed herself to
be an exceptional girl, quite out of
the common ruck. Therefore she
went straight ahead in this Pharisaic
fashion.
"So, as I am not like most girls, I
shall accept Reginald. I believe him
to be an honorable boy, the soul of
truth and the embodiment of integrity,
so that he must be very, very fond of
mc to have stooped so low as to league
with a horrid tramp against me. lam
fortunate to be so beloved."
And with this Margot said her
prayers and got into bed.—Loudon
Weekly Sun.
Her Anrenror.
An Australian womau of great charm
and tact tells many amusing stories of
the strange questions put to her by
people with a thirst tor information
about her native land.
"It is a very common thing for me
to be asked if the bushes are still
thick where I live, or whether our
house is in the 'clearing,'" she says,
plaintively; "and I know they often
regard my veracity as a doubtful
quantity when I tell them Australia
is not all 'hush' by any means. But
an old lady asked me a new question
ono day. She evidently supposed
that all the dwellers in Australia were
descendants of the criminals trans
ported to Botany Bay.
" 'ls it possible for convicts to edu
cate their children so well, ordinar
ily?' this terrible old Englishwoman
asked me, surveying me through her
lorgnette as I finished telling one of
her friends about my school dpys.
" 'But my father was not a convict,
madam,' I said, with natural sur
prise.
" 'Ah,* she said, meditatively,
'then I suppose it was your grand
father who was sent there. Of course
much can be done in the third genera
tion.'
"I should have been angry [if it
had been wcrth while," the Australian
adds, with admirable wisdom. "But
she surveyed me so impersonally that
I didn't even tell her there was actu
ally a part of the population of my
country which did not como from
convict stock."—Youth's Companion.
An Old Family.
The eighteen-year-old lad who is
heir to the throne of Japan seems to
hold the world's record in the matter
of pedigree. He is the last male de
scendant in the order of primogeniture
of a dynasty which has reiguod 2600
years.
To Grow Wild Flowers.
Most wild flowers may be made to
grow in gardens if provided with an '
environment sufficiently like their
natural one. Select a shady place, !
fertilize it with leaf mold, water freely
and protect the plants from the sun
for about a week. In removing them
from the woods be careful to get all
the roots and to leave as much soil
arouud them as possible.
To Prevent Kgjj Filling.
•Egg eating is generally induced by
the lien st rutchiiig in the nests until
the eggs strike against the sides of the I
box and break the hen afterwards j
eating them. This has been my ex- j
perience. I have watched them do j
it. The best remedy seems to be to i
so construct the nest boxes that the 1
nests will be in the dark as much as
possible. I have not bad any trouble j
when so doing.—John Hagglund, in
Wallace's Farm.
Early Thinning of Grape*.
So soon as the grape buds burst
into shoots the buds for blossoms and
fruit will plainly show themselves.
There will usually be three buds on
each shoot, and 011 the Delaware,
which is especially liable to overbear,
there are often four clusters, which if
left would all bo late-ripening and
poorly-perfected fruit. It is easy to
see, even before the buds have blos
somed, which will make the largest
and best clusters, and, of course, only
such should be left to fruit. Two
well-ripened, large clusters of grapes
are euough for any shoot to bear.
With the late-ripening varieties this
early thinning is often the only way j
to secure a crop of well-ripened
grapes. By practising this method
grapes may be grown where without
it no crop worth anything can be pro
duced.
I-nte Voge table Seed-Sowing.
There is much to be done in the way
of sowing vegetable seeds in many
temperate localities. Such as beans, j
corn, cucumbers, okra, salsify, melons, 1
squash, pumpkins and canteloupes are
best deferred until the soil is thor- j
©uglily warmed.
Many of the earlier sowings should
be repented to furnish crops in sue- j
cession. Most all gardeuers keep this •
in mind respecting pens and overlook
others equally desirable. Cucumbers j
for pickling may be brought in as a
late crop.
It may seem n consideration of little
moment to those who have but small
gardens, but to keep the soil up to the
highest condition pay attention to the
location of certain things. Put deep
rooted plants where shallow-rooted
ones lmve been previously.—Median's
Monthly.
Kules For 11 utter-Unking.
The practical part of cream-ripen
ing is this: Keep your vessel so that
it may all ripen evenly, and thus
avoid loss in churning. liaise the
temperature to sixty-two or sixty- I
eight degrees and keep it as near that
temperature as possible until ripe, !
and then cool before churning, t
Well-ripened cream should be coagu
lated or thickened It should run !
from a height in a smooth stream, like !
oil. When a paddle is dipped into it
and held in the hand, it should stick j
all over in a thick, even coat, not run- |
ning off in streaks and showing the
surface of the paddle. When the last
drops run off the paddle back into the
vat they should leave little dents or
depressions on the surface which do
not close up for an instant. The
cream should have a satin gloss or
fresli surface.
Churn until the granules are the
size of wheat kernels, then draw off!
the buttermilk and wash through two
or three waters, whirling the churn a
few times around. Use from a pint
to a quart of water per pound of but
ter. Have the water at a temperature
of forty to forty-five degrees in hot
weather and from fifty to sixty-two de
grees in winter, always depending
upon season, solidity of tho butter,
warmth of the room and size of the
granules. If you do not care about
feeding the washings I would put
some salt in my first wash water. It
will help to lloat the granules better j
and perhaps dissolve out the casein to !
some extent. I would generally salt
tho butter in the churn.—Cornell
Agricultural College Bulletin.
Picking Ducks.
Rack feathers alway bring a fair
priee, especially white ones, aiul
should be saved wheu dressing the
ducks, if they are sold dressed; if not
sold dressed do not pick just before
selling. The amount received fcr
the feathers ought to pay for the
dressing.
The breeding ducks may be picked
several times a year, generally four to
six. Do not pick until the feathers
are "ripe," which can be told by pull
ing a few from different parts of the
bodies of several birds. If they come
out easily, without any bloody fluid iu
the quill, they are all right and should
be "picked" or many will be lost. In
picking pull only a few feathers at a
time by taking between the thumb
and forefinger and giving a quick,
downward jerk. Do not pull the
bunch of long, coarse feathers under
each wing.
Before you begin picking, tie the
duck's legs together with a bit of list
ing or other soft cloth and if the duck
is inclined to object to the picking by
thrusts with the bill, slip an old
stocking or something of the sort over
its head, Lse no unnecessary harsh
ness with any of the birds and be es
pecially careful with laying clucks.
Sitting ducks and those that are soon
to be set should not be picked. Iu
hot weather much of the down may be
taken from the drakes. Do not take
any in cold weather.
In!handling ducks do not lift or
carry thein by the legs. Young duck
lings should be kept out of the direct
rays of the sun. Whether turned ofl
young or when mature, ducks will
yield a good profit if rightly managed,
and the numberraised need be limited
only by the capacity of the premises
and of the man; the latter has much
more than the former to do with the
success of the undertaking. Ducks
usually lay early in the morning, bul
are inclined to drop their eggs any
where, so it is best to keep them shui
up until ten o'clock.—barm, Fielc
nnd Fireside.
The Advantage*! of Dairying.
The business of dairying has manj
advantages not always appreciated by
those engaged in it. They are in
clined to take notice of the pleasing
matters in the experience of those en
gaged in other lines of agriculture oi
other occupations and to dwell tipor
the disadvantages of their own voca
tion.* J. W. Newton, of Vermont, sunn
up the advantages of dairying as fol
lows:
3. The first advantage of dairying ir
that it takes less fertility from thesoi
than other branches of farming. A tor
of wheat takes §7 out of the farm anc
sells for less than 816. A ton of but
ter takes fifty cents' worth of plant
food from the farm and sells from
§IOO to 8600. Comment is needless.
2. Butter is a condensed product.
Nothing can be made or grown on the
farm which brings as much per pound.
Farmers remote from the market nnd
communities far I from railroad] car
send butter from the farm or creamery
with the least possible expense. The
dairyman-can condense tons of foddei
and crops grown on the farm into dairy
products and send them to market in
compact nnd portnble form.
3. Butter is n finished product. It
is ready for the consumer either in the
private dairy or local factory oi
creamery. The only exception is
where cream is sent long distances tc
a central station from skimming sta
tions scattered over a largo section ol
country. But this exception only
proves the rule.
4. Dairying brings in a comtant in
come. The man who sells crops ol
any kind has to wait until he can mar
ket his product one year. There is
little satisfaction in this. It is un
businesslike to go without cash for
weeks and then to have a lot of money
come in at one time. The dairyman
has an income nearly or quite fifty,
two weeks iu the year.
5. Dairying gives constant, remu
nerative employment. The grain or
potato grower must spend a large part
of the year in enforced and demoraliz
ing idleness, but the dairyman finds
profitable work through the year, and
his work is most profitable during the
winter time.
6. On the dairy farm the work is
better divided. The grain harvest
comes so close to haying that it often
gets mixed up with it, to the detri
ment of both; but when corn is grown
aud put into silo for dairy feed, and
not so much or no grain raised, the
harvests are several weeks apart.—
New i'ork Witness.
l'-ivm Notes.
Turnips and beets are good for hogs,
and are especia'ly good for breeding
sows, before on 1 after farrowing. For
horses, carrots are prime. Always
have something to make a variety in
the feed.
Most of the large western orchardists
are practicing close setting nnd cutting
out afterwards, planting the apple
trees fifteen feet apart aud removing
the alternate trees when they begin to
get crowded.
Farming is ascience, and the farmer
who expects to meet with success must
necessarily apply scientific principles
and not think because he is the pos
sessor of some mother earth that he
kuows it all.
Give changes of feed to the cows as
often ns you can without lessening the
nutritive qualify of the ration, as you
thus maintain a good appetite nnd the
better production which is sure to come
from full feeding.
With a well-stocked farm there is a
home market for a good supply ol
roots, and if any are grown for market
ing by the bushel, the home market
may well take the place of any other
when the price is low.
Whatever your breeding stock, se
lect good heifers for the dairy, and
then br ing them up to the higheststate
of development possible in milking
qualities as they come to take their
places in the working dairy.
If the farm is large enough to di
vide, l>etter share it with the children
as they mature than to drive them ofl
to other fields. A man can often do
better on what he has left than he
could upon the whole farm after the
boys are gone.
Artificial stable manure used to be a
favorite compound for agricultural
chemists. Here is one of the receipts:
2000 pounds muck, 200 pounds wood
ashes, fifteen pounds dissolved bone.
When this mixture is composted, it
I reduces to about a ton.
WORDS OF WiSDOM.
A wise man is never less alone than
when he is alone.—Swift.
Civility costs nothing and buy 3
everything.—Lady Mary Montague.
What do we live for, if not to mako
life less difficult for each other?—
George Eliot.
An extraordinary haste to discharge
an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.
—Rochefoucauld.
Every man is valued in this world
as he shows by his conduct he wishes
to be valued.—Bruyere.
It is wonderful to think what the
presence of one human being can do
for another—change everything in the
world.—George 8. Mcrriam.
Contentment is a pearl of great
price, and whoever procures it at tha
expense of ten thousand desires,
make a wise and happy purchase.—
T. Balgny.
We are wont to look forward to
troubles with fears of what they will
inflict, but back on them with wonder
at what they have saved us from.—
Samuel Johnson.
111-nature is nothing more than an
inward feeling of our own want of
merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves
which is always united with an envy
that foolish vanity excites.—Goethe.
We do not shake off*our yesterdny-3
nnd sustniu no further relation to
them; they follow us, they constitute
our life, nnd they give accent and
force and menning to our present
deeds.—Joseph Parker.
Take time, and go apart for a sea
son; withdraw into thyself, nnd dis
cover the evolutions of thine own
thought. Thou must take thy stand
on principles, ns perceived within
thee.—Trinities nnd Hauctitiee.
It is to self-government, the great
principle of popular representation—
the system that lets iu all to partici
pate in the counsels that are to assign
the good or evil to all—that we owe
what we are and what we hope to be.
—Daniel Webster.
The Inaccuracy of Alnp*.
So many maps of the world, on
Mercator's projection, are being sold
in these clays when interesl in the war
implies more attention than the aver
age American ever before gave to tho
geography of Cuba and the West In
dies generally, the Philippine Islands,
Spain, and other places near or re
mote, that a word of caution mny not
be amiss regarding the apparent com
parative size of countries shown on
such maps. It is easy to forget that
when the world is represented as a
rectangular map, as wide at the top
and bottom as it is in the middle, the
poles are really made to appear equal
in width to the equator's length of
25,000 miles.
Obviously, all countries far from tho
equator are unduly maguilied and
those about the center of the mop,
north and south, are represented un
duly small by comparison, because
they are drawn nearest the true scale.
Thus Australia, lying nearer the equa
tor than Canada or the United States,
is made far from equal to either of
those countries in area, though there
is really little difference. Greenland
is swollen out of all proportion, and
India relatively dwarfed in comparison
with the countries of Europe. Spain
is made smaller in proportion to tbe
British Isles than it ought to be, and
both Cuba and the Philippine Islands
are cut down far below the size they
should have iu comparison with New
Foundland or Japan, for instance, the
latter countries being grossly enlarged.
—Cleveland Leader.
Schley's Tribute to Lieutenant Ilobson.
Commodore Schley has paid the
following tribute to tbe valor of Lieu
tenant Hobson and the crew of tbe
collier Merrimac: "History does not
record an act of finer heroism. I
watched the Merrimac as she made her
way to the entrance of the harbor,
and my heart sauk as I saw the perfect
hell of fire that fell upon those de
voted men. I did not think it possi
ble one of them could have gone
through it alive. They went into tho
jaws of death. It was Balaklava over
again, without the means of defense
which the Light Brigade had. Hob
son led a forlorn hope without the
power to cut his way out. But for
tune once more favored the brave, and
I hope he will have the recognition and
promotion he deserves. His name will
live as long as the heroes of the world
are remembered." —New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
William Tell of Toklo.
There is a story of a heroic Japan
ese woman of the olden time, whose
husband, an archer, had the grievous
fault of not being able to hold his
arrow until he was entirely ready,
letting it go prematurely. One day,
a3 the archer was practising, trying
hard to remedy his shortcoming, his
determined wife, with their precious
child in her arms, stood up directly
in front of his arrow, aud forced hiin
to hold it in. This man lived to be a
famous archer. If the country shall
ever be in danger, the women will bo
found as determined as the men-
New York Journal.
Royal Family of Boxers.
Boxing is a favorite sport of the
Danish royal family, Prince Yaldemar
being the best boxer among them.
When he challenged the late Emperor
Alexander 111. of Russia, however, he
met more than his match. King George
of Greece is also skilled with the
gloves. The present Emperor of Rus
sia, on his travels around the world,
used to have a bout with Prince George
of Greece every morning on the bridge
of the steamer.
Batter as a Stlmalant.
It is said that one pound of butter
gives a working force equal to that of
live pounds of beef, nine pounds of
potatoes or twelve pounds of milk.