The invasion of Norway by tha
American railroad builder will doubt
less result in knocking the "j" out
of "fjord."
A Harvard astronomer Is going to
Peru to study Eros. Eros, like some
of the poets, has waited a loug time
to get studied.
Andrew Carnegie is quoted as saying
that wealth does not bring happiness.
The towns that have been presented
with libraries may dissent from this
opinion.
.. _ -u
The scarcity of steeple-climbers is
delaying work on the new Chicago
postoffiee, and this fact lias led to the
discovery that there are only fourteen
"human files" in the United States.
i About 0328 out of over 0,300,000
persons in Pennsylvania are lawyers
or judges. They are distributed In
übout 284 places, nearly half of them
being in Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
A Missouri court has decided that a
teacher has the right to whip a pupil.
Education in Missouri will now pro
ceed witli the confidence which comes
from the possession of all sorts of re
sources.
Every time an automobile breaks the
record on the public highway, the
sentiment of the average citizen is
divided between a feeling of admira
tion and an impression that the own
er ought to have been arrested.
J. Pierpont Morgan has Europe pret
ty well frighteued by his schemes of
capitalization and control. There Is
some satisfaction In feeling that the
apprehensions on the subject are not
to be confined to the United States.
IT. M. S. Terrible seems to be the
Oregon of the Britisli Navy. She
holds the record for target practice,
and now, according to a story from
Hong Kong, she lias made a new coal
ing record—23oo tons in nine hours
and ten minutes.
To call another man a liar in parlia
mentary language is no less an art
than a science, and statesmen should
make a study of it. Senator Black
burn, of Kentucky, holds the reputa
tion of having made a signal success
In the Senate when once he said of
a statement just made liy a colleague
that "It goes without saying that the
truth is innnocent of any appearance in
that statement."
The Census Bureau figures that the
area of the United States and its in
sular possessions aggregates 3.GD0.522
square miles, which makes it fifth
among the nations of the earth In terri
torial size. Great Britain leads with
11,208,277 square miles; liussla comes
second with an area of 8,044,100 square
miles; China third, with 4,234,910
square uiiles, and France follows with
3,944,092 square miles!
la ScoTiand they are having a con
troversy over the question of whether
or not the boy is assisted in gettting
an education by a judicious applica
tion of the strap once In a while. The
controversy is getting hot. One party
to it says to another: "Your contention
that it is tlie pui'est kindness to ad
minister a fiagellatory stimulus to the
vicious or disobedient child, irrespec
tive of sex or size, lucidly displays
1 either that you are sadly lacking in
knowledge of educational science, or
that you speak the excuses of the in
competent teacher."
It has come at last—the hitching
post for the automobile. If the ma
cliiue is guaranteed to stand without
hitching, that may he only another
way of saying, that—like the horse
David Harum sold to the deacon—it
balks, states the New York Post. Or
dinary iron hitehing-posts are used, or
rings In the sidewalk, and the hitch
lug-rope, which no automobile should
he without, is a wire cable with a
padlock. So many persons have
learned to operate these muchines that
it is now considered unsafe to leave
them free and unwatehed in the
streets.
The young women at the University
of Indianapolis contended in a debate
with the young men that "pie is not of
greater service to mankind than ice
cream." When these young women be
come experienced wives they will feel
shame that they should have decried
| • the value of pie. When there are big
hills for spring hnts and spring dresses
to be paid they will fill their husbands
with pie, knowing that under its be
nign Influence all the genial and gen
erous impulses will be awakened, ex
claims the Philadelphia Becord. The
fancy for ice cream is a mere passing
characteristic of young womanhood;
hut the passion for pie which fills the
breast of every normal man Is an en
during source of happiness to the tact
ful wife.
THE MAN WHO WINS.
The man who wins is the man who works—
The man who toils while the next man
shirks;
The man who stands in his deep distress
With his head held high in the deadly
press—
Yes, he is the man who wins.
The man who -wins is the man who knows
The value of pain and the worth of woes—
Who a lesson learns from the man who
fails
And a moral finds in his mournful wails;
Yes, he is the man who wins.
The man who wins is the man who stays
In the unsought paths and the rocky ways;
And perhaps, who lingers, now and then,
To help some failure to rise again.
Ah! he is the man who wine.
And the man who wins is the man who
hears
The curse of the envious in his ears,
But who goes his way with his head held
high
And passes the wrecks of the failures by—
For he is the man who wins.
—lTenry Edward Warner, in Baltimore
News.
dPRISCILLAS'HISTAKCI
(BY NELLIE CRAVfY GILLMoRE A
PKISCILBA stirred the cranber
ries with hands that trembled
from some inward emotion.
Somehow her heart did not
seem to he in it to-day, the anniversary
dinner—hers and .Tim's—that had al
ways been her culinary joy and pride.
Her thoughts kept traveling hack to
that day—her wedding day—just five
years ago, when their happiness
seemed, indeed, almost too full to last
in this life.
The woman paused in her prepara
tions to rest for a moment. She sat
down on the crude kitchen chair and
lifted the corner of her checked gin
gham apron to wipe away the moisture
that had eolleeted on licr forehead
from bending over the steaming rungo.
For an instant she seemed to lose sight
of licr surroundings; two big hot tears
welled up to her eyes and lolled slowly
down each tanned cheek.
A squirrel scampered out on the
limb of a sycamore near the kitchen
window and regarded her with ills
head on one side, as though wondering
what it was that made Prlscilla sad.
Just then the little cuckoo clock in
the dining room, Jim's present on her
last birthday, struck the uoou hour,
rousing Prlscilla from her reverie. She
gat up hurriedly, and taking down a
long agate spoon from a hook com
menced to baste the turkey.
From time to time, she glanced half
cxpectantly, hnlf-anxiously, through
the narrow little window for some
sign of her husband. lie generally
came in about that time for dinner,
hut the minutes dragged themselves
slowly by, and one o'clock chimed;
still no welcoming face from the door
way. What could it mean? Prlscilla
wondered, intuitively guessing, what It
could be that had power to detain
him on this day of all others. With a
lialf-smothered sigh, she crushed hack
the maddening thoughts that seemed
heating into her brain, and made a
pitiful effort to hum some bright little
air.
Half an hour later, the potatoes were
ready for peeling and the rolls had
browned to a faultless crust. Jim's
wife could not repress the quick thrill
of pride that went through her, as she
took a snowy cloth from the neat pine
linen shelf and started toward the
cozy dining room to spread the table
for three.
She found 'Lisbeth curled up fast
asleep '.n the middle of the old-fash
ioned lounge that had come to her from
her grandmother, a tiny yellow kitten
with big eyes pressed close to her
cliuhby cheek.
The mother's eyes, alight with the
Joy that is greater than all others,
rested fondly upon the sleeping child
for an instant. Then she went closer
and knelt down by lxer darling—the
miniature of Jim—and kissed the
smooth, flushed face.
After the table had been put in order
and set agleam with white and gold
china and the "best silver," Priseilla
went hack to the kitchen to put the
finishing touches to the array of ap
petizing dishes spread here and there
about the range to keep warm. She
waited another fifteen minutes, but
still .Tim did not come. She *vas not
a jealous or suspicious wife, hut how
could she help remembering at this
time the preoccupied manner he had
worn for tile past few weeks—the bro
ken, disturbed sentences of his dreams
—and more than ail, the hits of torn
paper she had found in the pocket of
one of his old coats while mending it
—his agitation when she showed them
to him?
As yet there was only a heavy sink
ing of her heart, a sort of vague, unde
fined misery which she tried heroically
to put down.
The fire needed replenishing, and she
started toward the woodshed for a
stick of oak, resolutely brushing away
the tears that kept coming to her eyes.
But somehow they wouldn't stop, and
she seemed to walk without seeing, as
one in a dream. She selected a stout
log to fit the range, and turned slowly
to retrace her steps. As she passed the
corn crib, voices from the vicinity of
the summer house beyond came dis
tinctly to her sharpened ears, and she
halted involuntarily. It was his voice,
sure enough, and the other, unmis
takably that cf a woman!
"Don't—don't cry," he was saying,
half-pity Ingly, half-tenderly. "Good
Cod, it's hard enough as it Is—hut to
see you like this—Margaret!"
Priseilla did not wait to hear more.
Her great dark eyes had grown black
with indignation, and pain marked
livid streaks across her face. "(Vitli a
sudden, crazed Impulse, she turned
quickly and ran toward the house.
Only once she thrned her head over het
shoulder to glance back. Her hand
went to her breast in a little gesture of
despair that women employ when all
the light seems to die ont of their life
at once. She did not even stop ta
think, but sped on—on as fast as her
feet could carry her, to the old-fash
ioned lounge in the dining room whero
'Lisbeth still slept her pure sleep. The
woman's breath canje in quick, dry
sobs, and for the first time she broke
down, as she bent over the child. She
paused, wavering. The next minute
Jim's false eyes looked up into her own
through the baby's guileless ones, and
her resolution was taken.
For a moment she closed her eyes
to shut out all the happy past forever,
and a prayer for the future —for
strength, endurance—went up to the
(lod she had worshiped in hours of
ease as well as in those of pain. Then
she locked her white lips determinedly
and crossed the hall to her own little
bed room. It was the work of an in
stant to snatch up a hat and wrap for
herself and something for the child;
to find the little pile she had laid aside
for a rainy day—for her and Jim and
the baby—and pass out alone into the
world.
Some irresistible thing seemed to
Impel her to take the path that led
around hack of the vine-screened sum
mer house and to look for the last
time, unnoticed, upon the face of hira
who had been her world—her very life
—now irrevocably lost to her. As sho
neared the familiar spot, something
seemed to clutch at her throat and a
strong rush of feeling made her shiver
IT WAS HIS VOICE, SURE ENOUGH, AND
THE OTHER, UNMISTAKABLY THAT
OF ▲ WOMAN!
For a moment she stood still, irreso
lute. A soft wind lifted the loose hair
that Iny about her hot forehead, and
cooled the fierce throbbing of her tem
ples.
Site leaned her head in a tired little
way against the great, sympathetic
trunk of an aged oak, and hugged 'Lis
betli close to her breast. Just then the
breeze, blowing in that direction, again
boro her husband's voice to her, and
she strained her ears to catch the
words—the last she should ever bear
from his lips. The sound of the famil
iar tones that had been dearer than all
others to her caused the scalding tears
to ruin down the woman's face and
burn her very soul, but with a sudden
access of pride sho controlled herself
and—waited. •• 0...,,
"Here is all the money I have—take
it and go, and for Heaven's sake—for
your owu sake—try to live right. God
knows I am not the man to kick a
woman because she is down, and my
own sister at that. Good-by, Margaret,
—try to be a woman "
Priscllla heard, aud her breatii came
and went in quick sobs of relief; her
heart bent wildly in her bosom and a
great llood of thanksgiving poured in
upon her soul. She realized it all now,
and understood. Gathering their child
closer in her arms, she turned and fled
noiselessly across the lawns that sepa
rated the summer house from their
home.
Ten minutes later Jim came in, and
his wife's unclouded welcome —the first
for many a day—made his great kind
heart throb with a new joyousness.
He disappeared for a moment to
change bis linen for dinner, and Pris
cllla dropped on her knees by tbe chair
lie was wont to occupy, and kissed the
arm where ills hand would rest.
"The truest, kindest, noblest man In
all the world!" she told herself softly,
as she set the steaming, fragrant
dishes on the table. "Ann to think
that for one moment l dccoteu him—
my husband!"
When Jim eame in and took his place
opposite to her, she threw him a ra
diant smile and leaned over to kiss the
baby,
"It Is nicer even than our wedding
day, dear," she said, as sho fastened
'Lisbeth's bib about ber throat.
Jim's eyes met those of his wife in
an answering smile and tie took up the
carvers.—Home Magazine.
Suicide of Mine Mule.
A mule deliberately committed sui
cide by drowning in the Hoffman mine,
near Frostburg. The animal was
hitched to a post In the mine, but broke
away and ran down the Incline to the
water, the mine being partly flooded,
and plunged in. All efforts of the
driver to get the mule out were una
vailing, and the animal stood !u eight
feet of water, with its nose on the
nottom until life was extinct. —Balti
more Hun.
PS^fTFTca
A powerful fan, forty-eight inches in
diameter, displacing 30,000 cubic feet
of air a minute, and electrically driven,
has been placed iu the "tupenny tube"
tunnels in London to improve the ven
tilation.
An innovation in mining lamps has
been introduced at the Pennsylvania
colliery at Mount Carmel. A number
of portable electric lights have been
placed in the interior of the mines.
The lamps are about ten inches high
and are run by a storage battery.
These lamps are to be used on the
turn-outs at the bottom of the slopes,
in the pump houses and as lights for
the lead mules of the inside teams.
The greatest oil-spouter of the Rus
sian petroleum district was struck a
few months ago, about three miles
southwest of Baku. The well was
bored to a depth of 1800 feet before oil
was reached. Then, for nearly throe
days, it sent out oil at the rate of 180,-
000 barrels a day, and continued there
after to flow at a diminishing rate un
til it had produced over 2,000,000 bar
rels. The owners lost money, for the
well could not be controlled, much
adjacent property being damuged by
the oil that escaped.
The use of alcohol as a fuel is a sub
ject that is attracting much study and
attention in Europe, especially in
France, where tbe auminl production
is enormous. The French Minister of
Agriculture lias offered prizes for me
chanical inventions in which this kind
of fuel may be used. Among the ma
chines that inventors are asked to fur
nish are stationary motors to he used
on farms, motors for pumps, and auto
mobiles, and apparatus for lighting aud
heating purposes. Alcohol is already
the chief illuiuinant for parks and
other public places in Germany.
The Island of Samnr resembles a
miniature Africa, with dense jungles
occupying the central portion. So im
passable is this dense forest jungle
that the natives have hardly, if ever,
attempted to traverse it. The Amer
ican Army engineers, however, have
recently completed a map on which
six x'ossible trails across the Island
have been sketched. These routes
were surveyed by Lieutenant W. S.
Martin. The accomplishment of Ma
jor Waller, of the Murine Corps, in
crossing the southwestern section of
the island is a minor achievement
compared to the exploraticu work pre
viously carried out in the interior of
the island.
A writer in cce of the scientific pa
pers explains the origin of the hail
stone, which he calls the most remark
able formation of the upper air. Itain
drops, snow crystals, for particles and
hailstones are all the result of the
condensation of watery vapor on the
invisible atoms of dust that float in the
upper atmosphere. Such an atom, with
a little moisture eondeused about it, is
the germ of an icy mass that may
grow to be large enough to strike a
man down. At first it is caught by a
current of air and carried to the level
of the high cirrus clouds, some of
which are from five to tea miles above
the earth. Then continually growing
by fresh accessions of moisture, it be
gins Its long plunge to tbe earth, spin
ning through the clouds and flashing
iu the sunlight like a jewel shot from
a raiubow.
Englantl'n Hlrert Levies In 1854.
Tbis is the third year of the war,
and the reinforcements of 21,000 Brit
ish soldiers, uot to mention contingents
of colonial born, are about to be des
patched to the front, contrasts pleas
antly with the sorry remedy to which
the Crimean war drove England. For
after sending out the first army of
30,000 men under Lord Raglan, the
government declared that no more
British warriors were available, and
appealed to Parliament for authority
to enlist 15,000 foreigners to light the
Russians. This was in November,
1831, within three months of the war's
commencement. Despite some opposi
tion the bill became acts 18 and 19
Vie., c. 2, and recruiting agents were
despatched over Eurore to enlist men,
as remount officers are now searching
the world for horseflesh, for the Brit
ish army.—London Chronicle.
Very Cheap Publtßtilng*
Ore of the greatest publishing busi
nesses in the world is run by a mis
sionary society of the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions, and man
aged at a cost that is almost infinitesi
mal compared with the work done.
Last year the Presbyterian Board is
sued from its presses in Clilua, Persia,
Syria, Mexico, Siam and Tnos more
than 90,000,000 pages of printed mat
ter at a cost to the board of only SOSOO,
that is, only seven-one-hundred-thaus
andths of a cent a page. From Its Bei
rut press the board has issued 075,000,-
000 pages of religious matter, princi
pally in Arabic.
Interestlnc Inscription#.
In the historical subterraneous prison
of Titerlus, ID Capri, some inscriptions
have been discovered which prove that
this was the prison of Coniwodus's
wife and sister, a fact which Increases
the interest in this already famous
prison.
Feminine Fair Mlndetlncss.
Some women are si fair minded that
when they know they were in the
wrong they will accept an apology
from you for it.—New York Press.
HIS TABLOID LUNCHEON.
No Lost Ttinc, No Indigestion, No Tips
to Walters.
*T have solved the luncheon prob
lem," said W. S. Webb, of the Mis
souri Savings Bank recently. "I dine
every noon, yet I neither have my
luncheon sent in to me nor do I go out
for it Neither do 1 carry a full din
ner bucket, as we did in the last Presi
dential canvass."
"How do you do it?" was asked.
"This way,' 'and he took from his
pocket a little tin box, iu rhich there
were a score or more of Utile tablets.
"Each of these is composed of concen
trated food. They are mixed with
malted milk. Three or four of them
make a square meal. I find it incon
venient to go out for luncheon iu the
middle of the day, because that is our
busy time. I don't like to have one
sent in, and I cannot go without.
Therefore, these. I take three or four
of them every noon, and perhaps eat
n banana or an orange, and I am amply
satisfied.
"Yes, I kHow that sounds funny,"
he went on, "but that is the twentieth
century way of doing things. Soon
we will do all our eating on the tab
loid plan, and the odors of the kitchen
—in fact, the kitchen itself—will lie
obliterated. We will carry our meals
about with us in our pockets, and when
we are hungry, we will eat. There will
be no long dinners, no waits, no quick
lunches. We will take tablets and save
all worry over burned or underdone
steaks, and will not have indigestion
over heavy pies and batter cakes. Ban
quets will become n thing of the past.
Instead of stuffing a guest with half
a hundred different things at one sit
ting, we will say: '"Have a tablet?'
and then light our cigars and be done
with It It's the coining way."
And Mr. Webb cocked his feet up
on his desk and took another tablet.—
Ifansas City Journal.
Wet Weather und Postmen.
On his way to his midday luncheon
the drug clerk met the postman on his
neon round. There was nothing ex
traordinary in this, for the two met
nearly every noonday in the year, and
had come to exchange a friendly nod
and word or two in greeting, as they
passed. On this occasion, however,
the drug clerk stopped and stared at
the bulging mail pouch on the other's
shoulder, and then exclaimed:
"Whew! I should think it was Christ,
mas or Valentine's Day; what you got
in your bag, invitations to the Subur
ban race?"
The postman smiled a weak smile
and answered: "Oh, no, sonny. It
ruined yesterday, that's all."
"Well, you see. when it rains on
Sunday, people having nothing impera
tive to call them out, stay at home
and write letters by tbe dozen. Along
about Monday noon the mail pouches
begin to glow mighty heavy. I some
times have to make double trips on
my noon and 7 o'clock round in order
to deliver all the rnaiL Can't carry
such a lot at one time."
"Say, that's hard luck, too, for yes
terday was the first Sunday iu the
month."
"And what about that?" asked the
postman, hitching his plethoric mail
pouch, preparatory to moving on.
"Oh, nothin', only It will rain every
other Sunday but one In this month; at
least, that's what grandmother says
lots of times, and everybody up New
England wuy, where she comes from;
believes it. So for you the outlook for
busy Mondays looks promising."
The postman's face seemed to take
on an added inch in length as he re
sumed his weary round.—New York
Times.
Great Elephant's Tusk.
For years it has been kaown that
some African elephants have unusually
long and heavy tusks, but it is uot
easy for foreigners to get any of them,
since they are highly prized by the
natives, who use them as ornaments
for their houses and temples and as
decorations for the graves of their an
cestors.
For this reason exceptional interest
attaches to an elephant's tusk, which
is said to be the longest that has ever
been imported iuto Europe.
It is nearly nine feet in length, and
was purchased by a Hamburg mer
chant in Tabora, who was Informed
that it had come from the Tanganika
region, in Central Africa. In this
region the elephants are noted for their
fine tusks, aud a higher price is asked
than for any others. Moreover, dur
ing the past few years the price has
advanced considerably, for the reason
that iu Tanganika elepLants are by
uo means so plentiful ns they used to
be.
Napoleon's Mistake.
A correspondent of a contemporary
calls ntteution tj a passage in Fritch
ctt's "How England Saved Europe,"
which he rightly describes as curiously
appropriate. "September, 1810—Tlie
attueks of English newspupers aud the
criticisms of English orators did not
shake Wellington's Bteadfnst temper,
but they curiously deceived Napoleon.
Ho was persuaded that ho read tat
mind of England iu the leading articles
of the opposition papers. He reprinted
most of them, indeed. In the 'Mouiteur'
for the consolation of French readei-6,
and his belief that the English Cabinet
must soon withdraw Wellington, or it
self be overthrown, made hio regard
the Spanish War ns a trivial thing
which could bo safely neglected."—
This extract surely points its own
moral.—London Globe.
Weight of American Pine.
American pine when green weighs
forty-four pounds twelve ounces to the
cubic foot. When seasoned its weight
is reduced to thirty pounds eleven
euaces.
] Farm Topics'
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Dairy inn n a Specialty.
The practice of dairy Ids should not
be considered ns nil adjunct to farm
lug. Make dairying a specialty, pro
ducing a superior quality of butter, "
and let the farm support the animals.
Rational Pig Feeding.
Careful experiments have shown that
the liberal feeding of foods rich in pro
tein—which is the so-called flesh form
ing matter of the food—greatly in
creases the growth of pigs. The rea
son for this is quite evident and simple.
It is that this food so encourages the
development of muscular tissue, of
which the vital organs mostly'consist,
that the digestion and assimilation of
the food are made much easier and ef
fective; that the food is eaten with
better appetite, and is far better di
gested. In fact, the machinery of the
pig is so much improved by this feed- r >
lug that Its work is done much more
effectively and consequently so much
moro profitably. W '
rreservlnjr KgKft*
The best simple preservative for
keeping eggs is a solution of water
glass (silicate of soda) and water. It
has been tried repeatedly by experi
ment stations and poultry keepers, and
with generally satisfactory results.
Last year I put down twenty dozen
fresh eggs In April In a sixty-pound
butter tub and poured over them one
quart water glass mixed with ten
quarts soft water. The eggs wore
placed large end up and the tub set in
a dark place in a cool cellar and the
wooden cover put on. The eggs were
used as needed, and the last taken out
March 1 were as good as when put in.
The white was of natural color and
consistency and beat up nicely, o-jiile
tlie yolk hung together when the egg
was broken.—Edwin C. Powell, In hew %
England Homestead. '
Wliero Frost Overthrows Fence*.
There are rods of fence on almost
•very farm that are thrown down every
spring when the frost comes out of the
ground. Stakes cannot be driven into
such soil with any assurance of per-
HOLDINQ FENCE IN PLACE.
manency, and a fence once thrown out >.
of the ground is very hard to get hack I |
into place. The cut shows away to ■
build a fence upon the surface of sueb
ground. Enough stones can be put in
it to anchor the fence very solidly. If
the ground heaves and inclines the
fence somewhat. It will come back' into
place when the ground settles. —Amer
ican Agriculturist.
The Feeding of Hog*.
Suckling pigs take nourishment from
the dnin about every two hours, and
we may accept nature's guidance for
the frequency of feeding very young
animals. At weaning time the pigs
should receive food at least three times
daily, with water always accessible.
Since the digestive tract of this ani
mal is of limited volume, probably the
best results in fattening can be ob
tained with three feeds daily. But
the habit controls here as elsewhere,
and stockmen can easily accustom ..
their animals to expect feed morning w
and evening only, meanwhile being
content.
Since meal when dry is more slowly
masticated than when moistened, it
might be supposed that the greater ad
dition of saliva would increase the di
gestibility of meal so fed, but the trials
so made favor mosteulng the feed with
water.
Observations show that the pig does
not take kindly to dry meal, eating It
very slowly, and often rooting much of
it out of the trough. On the whole,
sloppy feeds are best for the pigs.—W.
A. Henry, in Rural World.
The Fofnto Crop.
There Is more or less discussion as t>
the proper kind of seed, the best way
to plant it, and especially as to the
size of the seed. Shall old tubers be
planted, or shall larger ones be cut
down to two or three eyes, ami then 1
planted? This may be taken ns a mj
truth: If we plant smnll potatoes
with many eyes, we will get many
sprouts and many small potatoes in a
hill, which we do cot wa'ut. Pota
toes of the ordinary market size cut
down to two or threo eyes for each
hill will produce the most vigorous
plants. Some farmers prefer to fer
tilize their potatoes in the hill, while
others sow It broadcast. With a given
amount to apply, the I roper thing
would seem to be to put half of the
fertilizer in the drills, and later apply
the other half broadcast. Some have
excellent results In planting quite
thickly in drills and then mulching
the ground with old straw or hay to
the thickness of nbout a foot. This
prevents the growth of weeds, and the J
vines will soon Show through. Of
course no cultivation can be given the
crop, but then the moisture prod'-ced
by the mulch and the prevention of the
weed growth insures, almost always,
a good crop.—New York Tribune
Farmer.
Automobiles across tLe Cau-asus for
carrying the Russian mail are to sup
plant the present transport post horses,
| with changes every ten miles.