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ITHTniTT mTTD A T . - 8 Hi 8. MniuuLiujuuj. ft. Acquiring a Select Trade. It -will surprise any farmer who has depended upon the dealer to take his milk how much can be under the conditions referred to above. Horses raised on corn land in 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 food. Michigan .Farmer.. FIRE AT ARP'S BOUSE The Alarm Made Bill Get a Moye On Him. V' jained by inak- Drinktnar Water on Farms. ' - . - "uwug witter on iarms is given out gcod butter anu itrcums x little .consideration kimmPd milk to PiffS. consumers CHIMNEY SOOT CAUGHT ON FIRE ing as to its purity when It is derived from springs, but Water Poured on Soon Put Out Blaze 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 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 beimr deener than in Kitchen Arp Gives Some Fire Statistics. Who,,orpr thPv are. assured that VTY , . nre ana water ana air. The three i 1 V s r:,n, mmi ullcnes or arams' ana the-tendency of things that cost thte least and are the the quality will be maintained. water being downward, much soluble, most necessary to our existence are the I Kesult of Planting One Potato. An interesting agricultural item print ed in the London Times is as follows: "A. Mr. Vacher," of Heckf ord farm, near Poole, last year planted one po tato, which produced him 335 in num lier, and there would have been still more had not a boy lost one of the eyes after, the potato was cut" in pieces, 'flic 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 9236, and weigh 13 cwt. 3 qrs., which certainly is a very great increase from one sin gle tuber in two years. A' Flood Gale. I wish to explain the following' to the people that live along small; streams who have trouble in keeping their water saps up. Take four tics, mor tisTHtliem half through near the mid dle in a slanting direction. Tut two of the ties together so that they will lit tight, then nail rt strip of ptanb -on each side of your frame sos they matter goes into the well that is un known to the farnuer. 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 most- dangerous when unrestrained- Last Sabbath evening my wife and I walked down to Jessie's house to com fort her, in her lick bed, and play with the little girls and help nurse the little Daby boy. Suddenly the fire bell gave an ilarm and my wife walked out on the veranda ttrfind out where the fire was. tn a moment she came hurrying back md almost screamed, "It's our house It's our house; run quick. Oh! mercy." I threw the baby down on the floor ao, I didn't either and departed those :oosts with salacrity. Firemen and people were hurrying that way. I 3truck a fox trot for awhile, but soon relaxed into a fast walk,- and then a slow pull up the hill, for I felt my pal pitation coming on. Before I reached the mansion I met some of the advance guard returning, who said the ilre was ut. So I sat down oh the front steps to blow for a minute. "When I went through the hall to the kitchen where the commotion was, I found our daugh ters and some good friends still are better than those that are optm, curing water down the flue up in the y-g ws fZ"-, 7 -?d i illilL L If i f - i 4 l . , , , L III . , I W -cruj uUtJ.tr 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 bans your gate. This is a much cheaper gap than the old way of put ting a pen on each side of the creek Jind fitting it with roek.Charles S. Keen, in. The Epittimis't. i Material For Manure. There is always a large amount of coai'sc material in the barnyard that lias 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 "ifi 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 have been great factors in this won derfully advanced .movement. Amer ican j 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 cent., and yet reduce the cost of pro duction more than 200 per cent. A people who can do that expand the area of their industry necessarily. The parts of the world that won't improve or advance in hunlan betterment sim ply have to get out of the way of those v,iio do. It is the order of inevitable -law, : not fate. Indiana Farmer. 'W here Good Horses Are Scarce. Those States which have rolling lauds, with, large amounts of limestone iu their softs, with short, sweet grasses 'ma pure wntei are .he ones which Have led in the production of high class lioixc-s. The Morgan family was a natural product of Vermont, and the souru feet, clean bone and excellent huigs were the sure result of the. nat j'.ral conditions under which, this 'fam ily ()f tlin Tini'Bn wova vsilaoil Tf rp- Quina good "feet to travel over the hniu. stony soil, "and good lungs to .travel all day up and down those steep hills. These conditions eliminated all anhiiaia of too great weight, with soft bone or poor feet, and by the law of Natural selection they became extinct a that State through discrimination Against them in breeding and exporta tion. . Il is the same with the American trotter and thoroughbred. NcW York flud Kentucky have been recognized as t-e natural home of the trot :er, and cntucky and Tennessee as that of the tiioiou-hbrcd. Natural-conditions had more to do with this than tire enter- and should be used in preference. Balls 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 mera berr. 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, wrhen 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 manln 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!" 1 ; . . Modern Newspaper. 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 mighl 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 o! prog ress has changed. The facilities for making papers have been-so multiplied ant improved Ahat we see now more elaborate establishments, larger use of capital back of the paps1., a greater subdivision of labor, more system con sequent upon this very expansion, and last but not least, the substitution of corporate for mdividu: 1 proprietorship, of collective force for individual opiu- garret. The accumulated soot of twen ty years had caught on fire and -seme-!iow got . to the lathing and then to the veiling and dropped down to the floor,. Nobody was at home. The cook was in ion. - The great paper of to-day no longer depends -on the individuality or repu tation or personal influence of any one man. The development of modern life and progress, has introduced new force in the newspaper offices just as in th industrial "and. commercial world. of breeders,' for as .'much enter- Attar of Koscs 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-Russian war, on .July 7, 1877, is ii- o can bcLfound among breeders in , y v ciiumy u-i'.u- j.jle centre ot-tuc rose gurusus. lorres raised cn the fiat lowlands cT II- - " ' , h-iKhv-CTCn if thc; had a greater Many a man is a chronic kicker be srvth and.,weight than those raised cause he has corns oh his conscience. tier cabin asleep. Her Httle boy was sit ting on the back steps and when our ;irls arrived he very quietly pointed to the kitchen and said: "Dar's" a fire in dar." Then they heard the cracking Qames and saw smoke pouring through a broken pane. On opening the door they were astounded, for the whole room seemed ablaze. One ran to the front door and screamed "Fire,, fire, fire," and the other went to the tele phone and then they flew to the water faucet and good neighbors gathered in md filled the buckets and went to work. They were just in time," for a delay of ten minutes would have caus ed the loss of the house and all of our time-honored furniture and pictures and books and my wife's line clothes and golden wedding presents. When I left' Jessie's house my wife hailed-me on the ma and said save something, but I am not certain whether -it; was tier fine dresses in the wardrobe or her silverware in the dark closet or her Bible7 I reckon it was the Bible that she has read a chapter in jvery night for all these long years. I had a good old Baptist aunt in Rome and when her house caught on fire awray in tr.e edght and the firemen came running she ran out in her night clothes and begged them to save her Christian In dex. She had a stock of thanvand treas ured them more than anything else. Our good old professor. Charles F. F. McCoy, of Franklin jollege, used to lecture to Jus students, and his favor ite subject was ' The Regularity of Ir regular things," and he satisfied me that the longer my house escaped a fire the more I was liable to have one. The chances against me incrise.l as the years rolled on, and so I have been ex pecting a fire. The insurance compa nies understand this and base all their calculations and rates upon it. They will tell you what is the average life of a' dewlling, a store, a gin. a planing mil or a church. The professor illus trated, with a dice box and said if you cast the dice a dozen times the ' six spot might come up three or four times in succession and the ace several times, but if you casef the dice a- thous and times, each number from one to six would show up about an equal num ber of times. That is according to the, calculation of chances and proves the regularity of irregular things. So it is with the rainfall which, however un certain in its coming, amounts to about the same every year. Since 1883 the losses by fire in. the United States have averaged $105,000,000 a year, the lowest being $100,000,000 and th'e high est $110,000,000, an J. yet in 1871 the loss in Chicago alone was $200,000,000. But where did fire come from and who gave It and when. There is no mention or fire in the Mosaic account of the creation nor for two thousand years after it. Until after the flood there was not much need of fire. foiJ the people were -not "permitted to eat meat. Their food was the fruit of the earth. But I reckon they did have fire and blacksmith -shops and made ham mers and hoes and nails, etc. Noah could not have bmlt the ark without tools and' nails. The presumption is that the Creator supplied Adam with tools to dress the garden and Abel with knives to sacrifice the firstlings of his flock, but there are Indian tribes in our day and negroes in Africa and Esquimaux in the Arctic regions ,whc havono knowledge of iron br its uses. 1A thousand years before Christ, Honiei wrote that Jupiter only possessed th element that we call fire and whec man w?s created man he refused tc give him fire.; But Prometheus stolf some from heaven and gave it to man and it made Jupiter so mad that he chained him to a rock and sent eaeles to eat his liver out and as fast as thej e.3t it toy day tho liver grew-asrain by night, but finally he was unchained and te eagles driven away. It seems t"n.it Prom others war. a friend to man kind. nd by. t"re command of Jupltai actually cheated, rnci opt of them' that was left after the flood not No ah's flood, but the flood of Deucalion, away, back in. the ages. He was a god nearly as powerful as Jupiter and was always in a quarrel with him. He taught mankind architecture. astrono my, figures, medicine, navigation arid all the arts that adorn life. At Athens and other ancient cities, tern Dies were built to his honor. They believed thkt the very fire that he brought doyfn from h eaven was still N preserved and was always burning on an altar in the temple of Vesta. It is called the sacked fire the Vestal . fire the ' fire of the hearthstone and must not be allowed' A a A '! I co go out. ir it aoes go out rrom acci dent eveh the family who loses it must go to the temple of Vesta and get new supply. f Of course all these stories about the gods are superstitious, but they are very fascinating .ones and old Hompt still stands as tie greatest poet, and ranks as the equal of Shakespeare r Milton. That reverence for sacred fire Is not yet extinguished, and it is said that the Roman Catholic priesthejod burn candles in their cathedrals day and night because the custom was handed down from the ancient church es and those churches probably got lit from Grecian, and Roman mythology. Anyhow, we know that the Jews hUd great reverence for fire, for. they had to. use iJn" their sacrifices, and God ap peared to Moses in a. burning bush and descended on. Mt. Sinai in fire and the Israelites were guided througtrthe wil derness by a pilar of fire by night,' and fire came down from heaven and de stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and many other important events weria marked by fire. In our young days when there were no matches' it was no sure or certain thing to find fire on the hearthstone every cold morning that came. Some times the live chunk that was buried in the ashes at bed time went out or was burned up, and then one of the boys had to go to a neigh bor's and borrow fire. It was always called borrowing fire, for it was reas onably expected that the neighbor would sometimes find himself in the same condition. The Cherokee Indians made fire by rubbing two hard dry sticks together with great rapidity; 1 have seen little Indian boys do it very quickly, and In tried to imitate them, but I. failed. ; . But if the good pure vestal fire came from heaven I reckon old Satan got some of it when he fell and took ; it down below. That's the kind that con cerns us most. The old preacher who used to go around preaching about the "Mountains of Hepidam where the libn roareth and the whlngdoodle mourneth for its: first born and he played on ;a har of thousand strings sperets )f just men made perfect," also' had a rew broken remarks about fire. "My imper tinent hearers, there are several kinds of fire. There, are fox fire and camp fire and fire and fall back, but the kind that consarns you most are the fire that is not squenched and is called hell fire tor short." Bill Apr in Atlanta Constitu tion. . . . ;. ! vSNew Ue for An Ice-breaker. "The attempt to reach the north pole with a Russian ice-breaking vessel has been abandoned," remarked Tenter hook. - 1 ; "I didn't know that such an attempt had been made,", said Hammersmith. "That's because you don't keep up. This happened some time ago." s i v "Then that's' the reason.' I knew of it at the time, doubtless, but dismissed it from my. mind. You see, Tenter hook," Hammersmith went on, "my mind is not like yours, a receptacle for all sorts of unimportant information. It's you who don't keep "up, not I. For get a few things." "Much obliged. I'm sure, ' for your kind words. But it seems a pity that a vessel of great crunching power should fail to do the work expected of it." :- ' . ; v Oh, that's all right. The ship will still be of use." "How?" 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