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AGRIGDLTDRAL 1 Acquiring a Select Trade. It will surprise any farmer who has fiepended upon the dealer to take his milk how much can be gained by mak ing good butter and feeding the ekimmed milk to pigs. Consumers have faith in the farmers, and any farmer who will aim to secure custom ers by supplying the best will have no difficulty. Those who buy the choice articles are always willing to pay good prices whenever they are assured that the quality will be maintained. Result of Planting One Potato. ' An interesting agricultural item print ed in the London Times is as follows: "A Mr. Vacher, of Heckford farm, near Poole, last year planted one po tato, which. produced him 335 in num ber, and there would have, been still more had not a boy lost one of the eyes .after the potato was cut-in pieces. ' The farmer, having saved the whole of them, had them planted, and he has now dug the crop, and finds they have multiplied to the number of 923G, and weigh 13 cwt. 3 qrs. which certainly Is a very great increase from one sin gle tuber in two years' A Flood Gate. ' I wish to explain the following to the people that live along small streams who have trouble iu keeping their water gaps up. Take four ties, mor tise them half through near the mid dle in a slanting direction. Tut two of the ties together so that they will fit ti&:."' then nail a strip of plank on each side of your frame so they v cannot come past. Be careful in cut ting your ties so that when put to gether they will be in the shape of a letter X. Fix both pair alike, plac ing a frame on each side of the creek, then sink them down in the bank or rock bar about a foot which makes them solid, then lay your pole between the forks of the ties and you are ready to hang your gate. This is a much cheaper gap than the old way of put ting a pen on each side of the creek and filling it with rock. Charles S. Keen, in The Epitomist. Blaterlal For SZanure. There is always a large amount of coarse material in the barnyard that has little or no plant food in it, espe cially if it has been exposed. Such manure is not worth , taking to the fields, and if turned under it will make the soil dryer in summer. Such mate rial should be made the foundation for a new heap, so as to rot it down to less bulk, but also to use it as absorbent matter for fresh manure. Personal interest, of course, has been a factor in all this, but genius and com mendable desire for betterment and the accomplishment of good in the world Lave been great factors in this won derfully advanced movement. Amer ican manufacturers lead the world in these great economic strides, and the demand abroad for their products, con stantly increasing, verifies this claim for their skill and ingenuity. No other country in the world has been able to advance the price of labor fifty per x , and yet reduce the cost of pro li Hon more than -200 per cent. A pet )le who can do that expand the area of their industry necessarily. The parts of the world that won't improve or advance in human betterment sim ply have to get out of the way of those ;who do. It is the order of inevitable law, not fate. Indiana Farmer. "Where Good Horses Are Scarce. Those States which have rolling lands, with, large amounts of limestone In their soils, with short, sweet grasses and pure water, are -he ones which have led in the production of high class horses. The Morgan family was a natural product of Vermont, and the sound feet, clean bone and excellent lungs were-the sure result of the nat ural conditions under which tkis fam ily of the horse were raised. It re quired good feet to travel over the hard, stony soil, and good lungs to travel all day up and down those steep hills. These conditions eliminated all animals of too great weight, with soft bone or poor feet, and by the law of natural selection they became extinct la that State through discrimination against them in breeding and exporta tion. It is the same with the American trotter and thoroughbred. New -York and Kentucky have been recognized as the natural home of the trotter, and Kentucky and Tennessee as that of the thoroughbred. Natural conditions had more to do with this than the enter prise of breeders, for as .much enter prise can be found among breeders in other States. We should never select horses raised on the flat lowlands oT Il linois, even if they had a greater growth and weight than those raised J -LH J X. ; o vn i .iiiiijiiiiii iitiitiiiii .jr i under the conditions referred to above, Ilorses raised on corn land la , the prairie States, and fed largely on corn, may show well in the ring, but they will never have the stamina and use fulness, either for work or in the stud, as those raised on limestone soils, with blue grass pastures and oats as their usual f ood.-rMichlgan Farmer. Drinking Water on Farms. Drinking water on farms is given but little consideration . as to its purity when It is derived from springs, but many farms are supplied with water from open wells, and its purity in such cases depends largely upon the mode of protecting the well .md the sur roundings. Wells being deeper than ditches or drains, and the tendency of water being downward, much soluble matter goes into the well that is un known to the farmer. The water may appear clear and pure, be free of odor, and yet contain impurities. Farmers who do not consider the matter have no conception of the many , sources from which their drinking water is obtained. It comes from the clouds, of course, but it does not fall into the well, only reaching it after, passing through the surface soil, and dissolv ing the impurities. Because the water passes' through sand it is not filtered of the soluble matter. If salt is dis solved in water, the salt is not re moved by' filtering, as the dissolved salt will go with the water to the lowest place. If the well is open there may be toads and insects in the water, which drown and decompose. The wells should be covered and the surroundings kept clean, with good drainage in all directions. Driven wells are better than those that are open, and should be used in preference. Bulls of John Bull. In the making of bulls Ireland has without doubt attained pre-eminence, but she has by no means established a monopoly. Indeed, John Bull is not often able to poke fun at her upon that score without being promptly re minded of his own achievements in the same line. A recent newspaper contro versy has called forth some fine exam ples of the purely British bull, of which two were contributed by mem bers of Parliament, although not With in the walls of the House. They oc curred, however, in the course of the campaign eloquence which admitted the speakers to its precincts. "Expenditure on so vast a scale," proclaimed one of them who was urg ing , national economy, "will in time empty- even the inexhaustible coffers of Britain, and convince her reckless legislators too late, when the-mare is stolen, that they must close that barn door through which for years the flood of extravagance has poured ' un-. checked." The second speaker did even better, although it is fair to allow something for a man who, hooted down by a deri sive opposition, is naturally too excited and indignant to carefully consider his words. "Gentlemen, gentlemen," he protest ed. "The cry of the cat, the crow of the cock and the hiss of the gander are not argument. True, they may for the time overwhelm the feeble voice of one man in the roaring tide, but not all their leaguered forces, howsoever armed and arrayed for combat, shall avail finally to extinguish that beacon torch of experience, still gripped fast and held high in his unfaltering hand to guide safely through the breakers the straining eyes of posterity!" Modern Newspapers. There never was a more superficial view taken of any important field of labor, or falser deductions drawn, than to say that because new methods con trol in journalism the influence of the press has been weakened, declares Mar cellus Foster, in the Houston Post. We might as well say that the influence of trade and commerce upon the masses has waned because the universal indi vidualism of some years ago has given way to the great co-operative move ments and processes of the present. Journalism has, indeed, Changed In the past two decades,-especially in the past decade changed as rapidly as any other great force or agent of prog ress has changed. The facilities for making papers have been so multiplied and improved that we see now more elaborate establishments, larger use of capital back of the paper, a greater subdivision of labor, more system con sequent upon this very expansion, and last but not least, the substitution of corporate for individu: 1 proprietorship, of collective force for individual opin ion. The great paper of to-day no longer depends on the Individuality or repu tation or personal influenca of any one man. The development of modern Ufa and progress has introduced new forcea in the newspaper offices just as in th Industrial and commercial world. Attar of Roses From Bulgaria. One of the most profitable products of Bulgaria is the oil or attar of roses, which amounts to more than $1,000,000 annually. The town of Snipke, where was fought the decisive battle of the Turko-Itussian war, on July 7, 1S77, ia the centre of the rose gardens. Many a man is a chronic kicker be cause he has corns on his conscience. BUILDING UP VIGOROUS WOMEN. Value of Basketball in the Culture of Body and Brain. "What sport this is! My, but basket ball must be fun!" That is the Invaria ble comment of the stranger who watches a game of basketball between girls, for the first time. She can see one at almost any college she happens to visit, from - Massachusetts to Cali fornia, where there are enough girls to make up a team, for bastetball is en joying an unprecedent popularity. The general effect is always the same; an audience with enthusiasm for the teams divided on class lines, carrying flowers, and flags, and banners, singing energetic songs, and " cheering lusty cheers; in the midst of it the hurrying, shifting kaleidoscope of players, fight ing for victory and the honor of the clas3, . It is fun. That is one reason why the game leaped into favor so quickly all over the country. But aiy one of the whirling, twisting, running, panting players who loses her sense of self, time and space in the concentrated de termination to p.. Ksess that great, swift, elusive ball and send it home, can tell the visitor that fun is not all. It means steady, hard work for long pre liminary mouths, Lours of practice in the gymnasium or on the field, before one's strength and breath will last through the rapid halves of a match game. It means that the players give up candy and sweets while they are training, and go to !;ed early, when they long to sit -vp late for a jolly par ty, and do a grrat many other things that they dcn't wish to do, because they are on the. team, and win they must, and win they can't unless every unit is in condition to do her level best. But even the losers in a well fought game do not grudge the pre paratory work, and to a member of the winning team, listening to the toasts at the supper afterward, thrilling with the thought that she has helped to win the victory for her class, past sac rifices dwindle to a mere nothing. When the athletic director of a col lege thinks of the benefits of basket ball, however, the dramatic recognition of merit which the match game gives, so . overwhelmingly important in the college girl's mind, seems to her the least of its blessings. She thinks of the physical Improvement in the. play ers, the brighter eyes and quicker circu lation, the endurance they show, the co-ordination of muscles that playing has taught them, the agility arid deft ness with which they manage their physical machinery. If she is a good director she sees' the mental gain as well, behind all these things. Control of the physical means a well-behaved, obedient nervous system, as respon sive to the will of itsowner as she her self to the signal of her captain. Quick playing, too, means quick thinking, an instinctive dash to meet the ball, a lightning calculation and balancing of results as one leaps to catch it and sends it flying to a waiting ally. It must not go wrong. A slip might cost the game. Brain and hand must act as one. Not a second may the mind halt between two opinions. Self con trol and a judgment so automatically correct are worth the price of many strenuous half hours, and once attained they are not confined to the crises of a basketball game. But there is still another benefit of the game, a kind of sugar-coated psy chological discipline, which critics of woman, rightly or wrongly, say that she needs most of all for her own hap piness and best development. The effect of the discipline is apparent, when each player finds a comrade al ways at the exact spot where she can help her, and the ball goes from one ally to another with clocklike regular ity. "Magnificent team work" is the name the spectators give it. But more than this, it indicates that the players have learned how to be a part of the whole. They are working for the team, not for themselves. They are willing to take the position of cog, to sacrifice the brilliant play and individual dis tinction to win the game. Alice K. Fal lows, in Good Housekeeping. THINGS K WEAR Hand-sewed kid gloves are among the latest importations from England, and are worn with walking suits. The latest styles in cloth garments show postilion backs and balloon sleeves or long flowing sleeve effects. Boleros of jetted lace, cut In broad tabs at the end, make handsome ad ditions to lace or light tinted costumes. Waists, buttoning in the back, will be worn, but a majority of the 1002 models Ihow the usuaPbutton fasten ing in the front. ..w . . .. .. rr The soft straw hats with an inch wide band of black straw finishing the edge of the rim are becoming to many persons for whom light shades are un suitable. Coarse linens in naural color, promise to be much worn for. summer street gowns. Made in tailor fashion, with stitching or bands of silk for trimming, they are natty and serviceable. Trimming with bands of dotted ma terial promises to be a strong feature from this time forward in all branches of tailoring and dressmaking, and . in the world of linen things it is to be the ruling passion. On some of the handsome afternoon gowns a new Idea is to have the bow finishing the crush belt way off at one side Instead of in the back. Many of the belts are of silk in soft folds, and the bow is tied straight up and down and comes almost under the left arm. The bolero shows no sign of leaving us, but if it does it will yield to full bodices in soft fabrics, the fulness wrinkled into gathers in a slanting di rection and held in place by handsome buttons. If belts are made of the same material as the bodice, they are very narrow. A smart street gown of black canvas has these spots as its principal garni ture, and effective they are indeed. The bodice is trimmed In rront with straps of graduating width, and the end of each is caught down with a large dot machine stitched round and round in white silk. The same decoration is repeated on the skirt and sleeve ends. Brother's Dress Suit Was Lent. "Talk about bard luck running in families," said the Brooklyn reporter at the City Hall. "Why, we get it in chunks. "For instance, the other day I was told that I would have to handle some of the functions connected with the reception to Prince Henry. So I dug out my evening clothes, for which T had .found no use for several weeks. A family of healthy mice had made suchfcavoe with the coat that it was no longer fit to wear. "Says I to myself: 'I'll step around and borrow my brother's suit' My brother looked pained when I an nounced the object of my visit. " 'I'm real sorry, old man,' he said, 'but I'm afraid I can't accommodate you. You see, I let a friend have it a few weeks ago, aud he hasn't returned it. " 'What's the matter with asking him to return it?' says I. " 'Well, fact is,' said my brother, 'the poor chap died before he had. a chance to send it back, and his folks, noc know, ing that the suit was a borrowed one, buried him in it.' "New York Mail and Express... Mountain Bats. On the summit of Mount Kosciusko, the hfghest peak of the Australian Alps, an astronomical and meteorologi cal observatory is maintained. The official in charge states in his latest report that the place is overrun with rats, and that he is slaughtering them j at the rate of hundreds a month. He adds that he would soon accumulate a fortune if the Government would pay him at the rate that rules in Sydney, where rats' tails are worth t'ui'eepence each since the visitation of the bubonic j plague. Such swarms of rats on the roof of Australia, at a height of 7328 feet, constitute a curious fact in anti podean natural history. It is supposed that they have been attracted from all quarters by the large depot of food supplies in connection with the obser vatory. However, the keeper does not mean to surrender to the invaders. "I am thoroughly contented," says this Alpine Mark Tapley, "and I mean to stick to the mountain as long as it will stick to me." London Chronicle. English From the Dictionary. A teacher of French tells a story of j the difficulty she experienced when he j first came here, and of some of the lu- i dicrous blunders she made, now' -that she appreciates the full force of certain of the terms and words -that made up her earlier vocabularly. The teacher had grown tired of chops and steaks and one or two more stand ard articles of food, and she yearned for a meal made up of such things as she had eaten at home, notably caif's brains a la vinaigrette, spinach chopped fine with an egg dressing, and one or two other dishes. She made out her bill of fare all right until she came to the brains, and to find an equivalent she had recourse to her dictionary. This is what she asked for at a butcher's shop: "And plees some of some of ze intelligence of ze calf." New York Times. Royalty's Gastronomic Standby. In most royal households tLere is some particular dish which is never ab sent from the table. For instance, roast mutton and boiled chickens the latter, I am told, seldom -costing less than .fifteen shillings a pair always figured, both at luncheon and at dinner at Queen Victoria's table. Mutton cut lets generally make their appearance at the Emperor. William's supper, at wh'ch. meal large cups of tea also figure conspicuously. London Mad ame. '. About 143,000,000 pounds of candy are produced every year in France. LAST NEW THING IN MICROBES. If your hair is growing gray, Do you know what turns It thu3? 'Tis a microbe, savants say. ' Called the Pi K-me-toph-a-gus! Which, entrenched in every hair, Feeds upon the pigment there. So. henceforward, you should Bay, When each lek to silver turns. Not that you are jrrowinK prav Science such brief phrases spurns You should it you'd not be musty Say you're pigmetophagusty ! v London Truth. HUMOROUS. Mabel "Is he an entertaining con versalationist?" Beth "Very. He lets you do all the talking." Wigwag "I asked him why he got married, and he said: 'Just for fun.' " Henpeckke "He must have a pecu liar sense of humor." ' "Can you make four revolutions in the air before alighting?" asked the curious stranger of the circus acrobat. "Say," replied the acrobat, "I'm ' no South American republic!" "Will there be any honor for the man who discovers the North Pole?" "Certainly! He will be a great life saver." "A life saver?" "Yes, ex plorers will cease going then." Kingley "You've been to these lit erary clubs and metaphysical things lor two or three years now, and what does your culture amount to?" Mrs. Kingsley "Don't I know everybody?" "And she isn't married yet? Grac ious! She's well preserved! She' is the same Birdie Hoppindykc she. was fifteen years ago." "No, she's not the same. She spells, it 'Byrdye' now." Fogg "I heard a pretty compliment for you the other day." Mrs. Passey "Indeed, may I ask what it was?" Fogg "I heard some one say how pretty you used to , be." Mrs. Passey "Used to be! Do you call that a compliment? I call it an obituary no tice." Mrs. Gush "How do you do 'Man da? How did you like the reading of Browning' at the club last night? Mrs. Bluff "Oh, pretty well. But I didn't like the way her"1 dress hung." Mrs. Gush "Nor I either. And it seemed to me that she might have held the bock more gracefully." "Sadie, how are you getting along at school in your physiology?,, "All right, I guess." "Hot many bones are there in the human body?" "Two hundred." "When I went to school dear, there were two hundred and eight." "Well, people" arn't as bony as they used to be when you went t.o school," mamma." "What, is hereriitv mamma?" Ask- bu uio mut! gin, spuiims me wuiu uui through her falling tears, and waiting to write down the meaning. "It is 'm, how shall I explain it? Oh," said the mother, "something you get from your father or me." And the small child wrote down on her paper of rinmo l5oonno ' T T t or 1 i f v - - cninV. J .U I lil . - .1 . -IT.' ,1 A..a ing." ' Opinions of Iienjnmln Hlbbi. "When I have to fight a case in court I want to find a lawyer who has a reputation one who is able to have a suite of offices splendidly fur nished, who employs five or six type writers and stenographers, and who has to turn clients away because he is so busy. If I can get such a lawyer to take my case I have it more than half won at the start. He will be allowed to do things in court that a young, un known attorney "would not daro to try, end if he can't browbeat the udge him self he can at least awe the jur ors and the witnesses, all of whom have heard of him. They know that he is a great lawyer, and, therefore, his words have weight with them. Always get a lawyer with a reputation when you go to court. "But when my child is sick I will not go aftr a doctor who makes his rounds in a coupe, with a liveried driv er on the box, and has ro many pa- : . - Un 1m inn onnn nnTi' limn enough to run in and glance at each Ul C 111- 4. W i iiW l iiiv 1 1. and hasn't an anteroom full of patients who are waiting to ten him what's the matter with them. Death is the judge, jury and witnesses, that the doc tor has to face, and neither a r&puta- ;vt -mi. n hicr II m IT nnilnrcj Til ran 1 a' -orth. Chicago Record-Herald. A Cow Klope With 11 Mooe. The strange story of the elopement nf an ordinary milch cow. with a bull moose comes from Lake Onawa, a pretty sheet of water in the hills of Piscataquis county, much frequented by sportsmen from the big cities. The cow was' the property of Dr. A. T. San d?n, wliose cottage is located cn tha shore fcf Onawa, and she va3 kept in a pasture enclosed by a rail fence. A big moose had been several times seen hanging around the cottage grounds late at night, displaying great bold ness. Thursday night he came close up to where theow was, and the two seemed to be good friends. Late at night a tremendous crash was hearJ. and the next morning the fence was a wreck, and the cow gone. Neither she nor the moose has been seen since. Bangor, (Me..) correspondence of tin Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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