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The following will be found a good fixing, washing, etc. Make a wooden Inch planed deal; then lay down with marine oilcloth, rut the cloth on in one piece, turning the edges over the end sides of the tray, and tack them down. One thinir which is itreatly In favor of this tray Is little weight neip, as it enables you to hold the The writer has had In constant use sheet for over two years, and It Is aa good to-day as when made. Do not cut the cloth at the corners, but turn the stuff In, and fasten with the marine glue. Should- there be any cracks In the oil coating, rub in some of the glue, and you will have no further trouble. I have also used one of these trays for fixing, and have not noticed any Injury to cloth. In this way I have made good trays out of old herring boxes and used them cori- , Branny ror years. A JOHN BROWN RELIC Partial Destruction of the Great Ab olitionlat'e Home. The recent partial destruction by fire of John Brown's home at Tabor, Iowa, serves to recall the exciting period when the noted abolition leader made the little one-story cottage In Iowa the headquarters of the "underground rail way" for the transfer of slaves from the South to Canada. In 1857 this little house was the cen ter of perhaps more attention than the national capital Itself. Brown was be ing heard from. Already were gather ing around him men from Massachu setts and Maine and other New En gland States. Already, had shipments "of arms, and even a 'cannon, been re ceived at Tabor. And hundreds of runaway slaves had passed through the town, coming at night and leaving the following night. And the eyes of those men, who four years later be came the leaders of the secession movement, were also fastened on this little house. Northern politicians were regarding anxiously the preparations "Old" Brown was making. The Kan sas "Jayhawkers" hated him bitterly, and several contemplated raids on the place were narrowly averted. But through It all Brown and his friends continued their work, and it JOHN BBOWN's IOWA HOME. was while residing in Tabor that Brown decided upon the move which he hoped would set the country ablaze, but which ended In his own death. It rs told by one of the old settlers that one night there marched Into the little town of Tabor, 200 recruits for Brown. They came from Maine, were all well armed, and were en route to help the free cause In Kansas. Accom panying the body was a single wagon loaded with corn. The party stopped in Tabor several weeks, and were drilled and Instructed by old Brown himself. Two, weeks arter the party arrived, a company of runaway slaves arrived from Missouri. The following day the owner of several of them ar rived. With him was the sheriff of his county, and several deputies. They demanded the slaves. Brown refused to deliver them. The sheriff attempted to take them by force. Brown gave a shrill whistle and the Maine men swarmed from all directions. The offi cers were overpowered and robbed of their arms. They left, vowing to re turn with re-enforcements nud capture the whole body. Then the corn was thrown out of the wagon and from beneath the grain was brought a small cannon, which was quickly mounted and placed In a position commanding the road by which the Missourinns would return. . But he slave-owners never came back and the cannon was covered with the corn and was taken down into Kansas with the men from Maine. GUARD FOR TROLLEY WIRE. Overhead Lines Are Protected Ac cording to Law in England. Guard wires are required wherever telegraph or telephone wires unprotect ed with a permanent insulating cover cross above or are liable to fall upon or be blown on to the electric conduc tors of a tramway. Each guard wire should be well grounded? at one point at least and at Intervals of not more than five spans. The earth connection should be made by connecting the wire through the support to the rails by means of a copper bond. Guard wires should In general be of galvanized steel,' but may be of bronze or hard drawn copper In districts where steel Is liable to excessive corrosion. In gen eral these wires must be Installed at a minimum height of twenty-four inches above the trolley wire. Where there is but one trolley two wires par allel to this one on each side at a hor izontal distance of eight Inches from the trolley wire are necessary. If them are two trolley wires not more than twelve feet apart, but the tele graph wires do not weigh more than tnatmr jjliotngrnpht) 1 way of' maUIne trays for developing. tray by screwing together one-half marine glue, Inside the tray, white for a large-sized dish; this Is a great tray and keep the developer In motion. a tray made as above Tor the full-sized 100 pounds per mile, two guard wires are sufficient, stretched a minimum distance of twenty-four Inches above the former and the outside at a hori zontal distance of eight Inches from the trolley wires. If the telegraph wires weigh 100 pounds or more per mile this latter ar rangement is sufficient If the trolley wires are not more than fifteen Inches apart. Where the trolley wires are separated by a distance of from fifteen to forty-elgbt inches three wires are required parallel to the trollev two on the outside, a horizontal distance of eight Inches, and the other midway between the two trollevs. all at a mini mum distance of twenty-four Inches aDove the trolley wire. If the distance between the wires is over forty-eight inches and the telegraph wires weigh more than 100 pounds per mile two guard wires are required for each trol ley wire, as for a single wire. Guard wires are also required where tele graph wires do not cross the trolley wire, but are apt to be blown against It. Where a telegraph wire may fall upon an arm or span wire and so slide down on a trolley wire truard hooks must be provided. New York Evening Post. Pictures as an Aid in Teanhlnv. Three hundred years atro a German savant had a wonderful vision. At that time children were taught to read by force Of arms, so to sneak, thronch hardships and with bitter toll on the part or teacher and of child. It seems curious, says a writer in Household that the first real step toward lighten ing tne labor of children as they elimb the ladder of learning was the nrftdiiot of the lmaglatlon, ' not of some fond motner or gentle woman teacher, but or a bewiesed and betltled nnlvpi-altv aoctor. it was Johann Comtnius, however, who first conceived the dar. ing idea that children could be tausrht rjy tne aid of memory and the Imagina tion working together. "By means," as lie quaintly expressed, t. "of sensn. ous impressions conveyed to the eve. so mat visual objects may be made the medium of expressing moral leasnns to the young mind and of Impressing inose lessons upon the memory." In other words, the good Herr Doctor had the bright idea that picture books could be useful to children. Comenlus made his first picture book and called it 'Orbis Plctus." It contains rude wood cuts representing objects In the natural world, trees and animals, with imi lessons about the pictures. It Is a quaint volume, and on that would cause the average modern ohiid not a little astonishment were It placed before him. As truly, however, as th.it term may ba applied to any other book that has since been written, the "Orbis Plctus" was an epoch-making book. It was the precursor of all children's pic ture books, and modern childhood hm great cause to bless the name of Co- menius. The Comma. The Countess Henrietta de Witt, the daughter of Guizot, the historian, was a churmlng lady; but she had a culpa ble indifference to the art of punctua tion. Her father wrote her two pretty little essays on the subject. Whether she was able to take the "middle course," after "her second lecture, we are not told; but at least she had not found It before. "My dear Henrlette," wrote Guizot, "I am afraid I shall still have to take you to task with regard to your punc tuation. There Is little or none of it In your letters. All punctuation marks a period of repose for the mind, a stage more or less long, an Idea which Is done with, or momentarily suspended, and which is divided by such a sign from the next "You, Henrlette, suppress those per iods, those Intervals. You write as the stream flows, as the arrow flies. That will not do at all; because the Ideas one expresses are not all Intimately connected, like drops of water." Either Mademoiselle Guizot was tak ing a clever revenge, or she was past all redemption, for this is her father's next letter: . J "I dare say you will find me very provoking; but let me beg of you not to fling so many commas at my head. You are absolutely pelting me with them, as the Sabines pelted poor Tar pela with their bucklers." It Is the unmarried young thing who talks about the gray monotony of life, but it is the married one who know what It Is. OLD I FAVORITES I t . K IHI I t r rHI till! t ...r H-rt John Burnt of Gettysburg. Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burus of Gettysburg? . No? Ah, well; Brief Is the glory that hero earns, Briefer is the story of poor John Burns; lie was the fellow who won reuown The only man wlro didn't back down When the rebels rode through his native town; But held his own in the fight next day, Wheu all his townsfolk ran away. That was in July, sixty-three, The very day that Geueral Lee, flower of Southern chivalry. Buttled and beaten, backward reeled From a stubborn Meade and a barren held. 1 might tell you how, but the day before, John Burns stood at his cottage door, Looking down the village street, ' Where, iu the shade of his peaceful viue, He huurd the low of his gathered kine, Aud felt their breath with lnceuse sweet; Or 1 might say, when the sunset burned The old farm gable, he thought it turned Thi milk, that fell iu a babbling flood Into the milk pail, red as blood, Or how he fancied the hum of bees Were bullets buzzing among the trees, But all such fanciful thoughts as these Were strunge to a practical man like Burus, Who minded only his own concerns, Troubled uo more by fancies fine Than one of his calm-eyed, long-tailed kine Quite old-fashioned and matter-of-fact. Slow to argue, but quick to act. -That was the reusou, as some folks say. He fought so well on that terrible- day. And it was terrible. Ou the right Raged for hours the heady fight, Thundered the battery's double bass Difficult music for men to face; While ou the left where now the graves Undulate like tbe living waves That all that day unceasing swept Up to the pits the rebels kept ' Hound-shot plowed the upland glades. Sown with bullets, reaped with blades; Shattered fences here aud there Tossed their splinters In the air: The very trees were stripped aud bare; J. he barus that once held yellow grain Were heaped with harvest of the slain; lue cattle bellowed ou the plain, The turkeys screamed with might and main, And brooding barn-fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest.' Just where the tide of battle turns, Erect and lonely stood old John Burns. How do you think the man was dressed? He wore an ancient long buff vest. Yellow as saffron but his best; And, buttoned over his manly breast, Was a bright-blue coat, with a rolling collar, And large gilt buttons size of a dollar With tails that tbe country-folk called "swaller." He wore a broad-brimmed, bell-crowned hat, White as the locks on which it sat. Never bad such a sight been seen For forty years on the village green, Since old John Burns was a country beau, And went to the "quiltings" long ago. Close at bis elbows all that day Veterans of the Peninsula, . , Sunburnt and bearded, charged away; And striplingB, downy of lip aud chin Clerks that the Home Guard mustered in Glanced, as they passed, at the hat he wore, Then at the rifle his right hand bore; And hailed him, from out their youthful lore, With scraps of a slangy repertoire: "How are you, White Hat?" "Put her through." . "Your head's level," and "Bully for you!" Called him "Daddy"; begged he'd dis close Tbe name of tbe tailor who made his clothes, And what was, the. value he-set on those: While Bums, unmindful of jeer and scoff, stood there picking the rebels off With his long brown rifle, and bell-crown hat, And the swallow tails they were laugh- lug at. 'Twaa but for a moment, for that re spect Which clothes all courage their voices checked, And something the wildest could under- ' stand Spake In the old man's strong right hand; Ana nis coraea toroat, and the lurking irown Of his eyebrows under his old bell-crown; until, as tney gazea, there crept an awe .Through tbe ranks in whispers, and some men saw In the antique vestments and long white nalr The Past of the Nation in battle there; Ana some or tne soldiers since declare That the gleam of his old white hat afar, hike the crestea plume of tbe brave Na varre, That day was the oriflamme of war. So raged the battle. You know the rest: How the rebels, beaten and backward pressed. Broke at the final charge and ran. . At which John Burns a practical man Shouldered his rifle, unbent his brows, And then went back to bis bees and cows. This is taa story of old John Burns. This is the moral the reader learns: In fighting the battle, the question's whether -six- Yon'll show a hat that's"' White, -a a leatneri : . . -., Bret Harte. TOBOGGANING INTO A BEAR. Dangers of Bear Hunting on an Icy northern Island. A member of the Wellman Dolar ex pedition of 1808-0, Paul Bjoervig, la described by Mr. Walter Wellman, In "A Tragedy of the Far North," as a man of superior courage, of unexam pled fortituda and of insnlrlne char. acter. If there was a bit of danger ous work to do, he wag sure ta be the first to plunge In. He sane and laughed at his work. If he went down into a "porridge," half ice and half salt water, and was pulled out by his hair, he came up with a joke about the Ice-cream freezer. One 5y three men were out bear bunting on an island. Two or them bad rifles, the other had none. The last was Bjoervig. They found a bear, wounded him. and chased him to the top of a glacier. There bruin stood at bay. One or the hunters weut to the lert, another to the right. Bjoervig laboriously mounted the Ice-pile to ecare the beast down where the other might get a shot. But one or the hunters became Impatient, aud started to clliub up also. Ou the way be lost his rooting, fell, and slid forty or fifty feet Into a pocket of soft snow. At that moment, unfortunately, Bjoervig rrightened the btar. Leuviug the summit or the ice-heup, the beast slipped aud slid straight toward the helpless mun, who was floundering up to his armpits below. Apparently the man's lire was not worth u bulf-kroucr. In a rew seconds the bear would he upon him, and would tear him to pieces. The brute wag wounded, luri ous, desperate. - Bjoervig saw what he bad to do. He did not hesitate. He followed the bear. From his perch at the summit he threw himself dswn the precipitous slope. He rolled, fell, slipped straight down toward the big white bear. He had no weapon but an oaken skee stuff. a mere cane; nevertheless he made straight for the bear. Down the hillock slope he' came, bumping and leaping, and yelling at the top of his voice. His cries, the commotion which he rulsed, the vision the bear saw of a mnu flying down at bim, rrightened the beast hair out or his wits; diverted uls attention rrom the Imperiled hunter to the bold pur suer. This was what Bjoervig was working ror. The bear dug his mighty claws into the Ice and stopped and looked at Bjoervig, but Bjoervig could not stop, The slope was too steep, bis momentum too great. He dug his hands into the crust of the snow; he tried to thrust his sk-te-staff deep into the surface. It was In vain. Now he was almost upon the bear; the beast crouched to spring at him. Another second and It would all be over. Crack! the rifle spoke. The man down below had hud time to recover his equilibrium. An other shot aud the battle was over. Bjoervig and the bear rolled down to gether. "You saved my life," said the man with the gun, when Bjoervig had picked hlmseir up. "No, no," responded Bjoervig, whip plug the snow out or his hair, "you saved mine." Money in Kiilroadlno-. A New York boulevard car was going north one day recently when. with a sudden Jar, tbe current was thrown off and the passengers were bumped rudely together. The car came to a standstill. Tbe motor man, says the New York Times, threw open the front door and ran back to the con ductor on the rear platform. They exenanged a rew words, then both ran through the car to the rront platform. Every passenger sat mute with surprise. Suddenly the car start ed and then backed. Then it started again, and once more backed. Then it stopped. Off jumped motormnn and conductor, and as tbe astonished nas- sengers looked out of the windows they saw the two men down on their bands and knees trying to srawl uu der the car. Presently, with an excla mation or delight, tbe motormnn, cov ered with mud and grime, slowly emerged. Entering the car and hold. lng up for Inspection a ten-dollar bill he said: "Excuse me, passengers, for Jarring you and keeping you waiting, but I came near running over this ten-dollar bill, and I hated to do It and leave It for tbe motorman on the car behind me.' Changed His Mind. It Is a wise father who knows lust which, story to. tell la regard tn his- own child. Jackson, like other men, has a horror of infant prodigies as ex ploited by their proud papas. The New York Times tells of bis meeting his friend Wllklns, who greeted bim with: "Hello, Jackson! What do vou think my little girl said this morning? She's the brightest four-year-old In town. She said" "Excuse me, old man!" exclaimed Jackson. "I'm on my way to keep au engagement. Some other time " "She said, 'Papa, that Mr. Jackson Is tbe handsomest man I know!' Haw! haw! How's that for precocity, eh?" And Jackson replied, "Wilkins, I'm a little early for my engagement That youngster certainly Is a bright one. Come Into this toy store and help me select a few things that will please a girl or her taste, and I'll send them to her, ir you don't mind." The Antoiat on Horseback. - Automoblllst I wish this confounded thing would run out of gasoline. A Mean Man. "He's the meanest man In town." "What has he done?" '"Why. he permits bis wife to alimony tr0m two of her former hus bands." Ht Louis Post-Dispatch. No woman should laugh at a "Joke" on .her husband 1 SSvL JLW-.r 1 i i3?-i; To Train Grape Vines. It may be said that there are a dozen systems of grape vine training in use, all or which have their good qualities and each, perhaps, superior to all oth ers under certain conditions. The sys tem or training rrom a single upright growth Is, however, admitted to be arter the most approved lines, and It certainly gives results. Tbe Illustration shows how the vine Is trained in Its first year. It Is cut back to two strong buds at the time of planting and is set so that tbe buds will be just above the surface of the ground. A slight stake Is pressed Into tbe ground near the vine and the Tine Is fastened to it with cord of a waterproof kind. If the trellis Is built during this first year this cord Is run to the first wire (the top one) and fastened. The vine will make the growth about as shown In the cut during this first year. The trellis Is an Important feature of the plan. The posts should be set eight feet apart, TBA1NINO THE OBAFK VINE. and so that they will stand about six feet out of the ground.' Two .wires are used in the position, as shown in the cut, the wires being fourteen inches apart. In training the vine ror the second year cut off all that portion above the top wire, and as the lateral canes grow select the strongest opposite each wire, one on either side or tbe main stalk, and train them along the wires; this gives us two arms, so to speak, running along each wire at the nd or the second year rrom planting. The third season tbe fruiting buds must be handled, and It Iff a' good plan to select every other bud to supply the canes necessary ror the upright growth rrom the arms. This upright growth Is shortened in from time to time dur ing the growing season, so as to throw the strength Into the fruiting canes, This system or training requires labor, but It gives most excellent results. Coat of an Acre of Strawberries. For plowing, . $3; harrowing, ! marking, 50 cents; plants (8,000) $25, average price; plants are scarce this year. Trimming and preparing plants, $5; setting plants. $4; cultivating with horse, $7.50; hoeing six times, $18 fertilizer, half a ton, $15; four tons of straw, $20; applying straw, $5. This makes the cost about $100 for the first year. Of course the Increase of plants can be used to set a new bed the fol lowing year, which will make the cost one-fourth less. The straw Is worth as much as It costs almost to the soil, In these figures we are actually giv ing what it would cost the farmer to hire the work done by men who know how to do It. ir the farmer does the work himself, he does not feel the cost any more than were he putting In a crop of potatoes. We advise setting the strawberry bed near the buildings so It can be attended to without going far. The usual gross sales from an acre of strawberries- are about four times the cost of the acre ror the first year. Rural New Yorker. Temporarily Blinde the Horse. It has long been known, and put to practical test time arter time,- that to get a horse out or a fire the best plan Is to blindfold bim, and many an ani mal has been saved In this way which It was Impossible to remove from the burning stable In any other manner. It Is now proposed by a Nebraska In- TO PBBVENT FBIOHT ventor (n apply practically the same principle to con trol fractious or vicious horses and to top runaways which are caused by the animal taking fright at some ob ject on the street or road. While tbe blinder in common use on krldles pre vents the horse rrom seeing objects on either side, there Is nothing to shut out the view of anything approaching which might tend to frighten the ani mal, and It can also turn Its bead If It hears a noise; but with this new de vice the driver or rider has only to pull a cord lying parallel to the reins and a bellows-like curtain Is drawn over both eyes to shut out the sight com pletely. In this condition the animal can only stand and tremble until tbe object causing the fright has passed, when tbe curtain is lifted by releasing the cord, and tbe horse travels on as before. The curtain Is housed In a small semi-circular leather casing pass ing over tbe animals forehead Jest above the eyes, and the operating cords are Inserted in the bit rings before passing back with the reins. Small Farms to Be the Rnle. In tbe future small farms will be the rule. More and better products will be raised on 00 acres than are now on 120 acres. There are farmers to-day who plant a 40-acre field In corn who cnuJd take the same amount of manure thev used and put It on a 20-acre field, and H ft H-"- get greater yield and er better qual ity. Beside this. It will take .only half the time to plow and cultivate tbe 20- acre field, which would further add to the profits. What a lesson tbe market gardeners are constantly giving to us farmers. Why, some of them use more barnyard manure on 20 acres thaw some farmers do on 120 acres. . Tbe crops the gardeners get are enormous, and their land is constantly Increasing. In fertility. ; Kxtent of lrrigatfom- Excluslve of the rice-producing States the Territory of Hawaii and Indian? reservations, the number f irrigators In the United States In 1809 was- J0o 218, an Increase of 54,082, or one nan dred per cent over the number report ed in 1889. The number of acres Irri gated was 7,539,645, an increase 'during the ten years, of 3,908,165, or 107.6 per cent Of the total Irrigated area, 6,914,--412 acres were In crops, and tbe total value or the products therefrom wa $80,800,491. The total cost of construc tion of the Irrigation systems operated In 1899 was $07,770,942. In the num ber of Irrigators California stands far ahead of any other State, having about-one-fourth of the total number in the Unlted States. Colorado, however, ex ceeds In the number of acres lrrlgatedV although not In the value of irrigated crops. Of the total Irrigated area, 7, 093,029 acres were watered from streams, and 109,044 acres from wells. The number or acres In crops Irrigated' In 1809 was 5,711,9G5 and the number' of Irrigated acres In pasture and unma tured crops was 1,551,308. The value of the irrigated crorj was 84.443.438. Of the irrigated area, 7,203,273 acre-were in the arid States, 273,117 acres In tb semi-arid region and 3155 In the humid region. Connecting Paetnres by Causeways ' It frequently becomes desirable- tb have the pasture so arranged, as tov let stock pasture on both side- ( 1. mi. . ... ... uigurYuy. lue pasture is sometimes located on one side of the highway Olid Tflfd art( TtntatlTir nlnna er other. . Much time Is required to driv cattle back and forth. The difficulty can be overcome In B" very convenient way. Select a placw where there Is a little rise In tho ground, say from 2 to 4 feet, the mor the better. Construct n wide ditch,, from 10 to 12 feet, so It will easily ad mit a team to work with scraper down;: at bottom of It Make it from 2 to 4 feet deep, as tbe natural condition of ground will admit. It must be con structed In such a way that It will bav natural drainage at lower side, other wise It would fill with water after very heavy rains and be of no practical use- A plank bridge Is built across the 6 dr... -' CAUSEWAY FOB CATTLE T7KDEB ROAIX opening and the sides plunked. It should be mude 6 to 6 feet hlgfr t admit the passage of all kinds of stock; or even horses below. The earth: taken out In digging is used in constructing: the gradt- on ench side of btldge. The bridge, aw well ns grade or dump, mast: be made as wide ns required by law.. The deeper It is practical to make tne ditch, the lens It will be necessary to dump upon the grade. A tight fence must he constructed from, the pasture on each, side of the passageway close up to the bridge, I have seen such a passageway constructed on the level-' prairie, but In such a esse Is only practical In every dry seasons, because Iu a rainy one the ditch will fill u'p with water. Lewis Olsen, Kandiyohi, In Farm and Home. Airrlcnltnral Nntea. Eggplant Is a gross reeder, but easily cultivated. Interest In the apple box grows apace In the east. Bone black Is said to be good rertil lzer Tor parsnips. Give a good, thorough cultivation be tween the rows or strawberries. Beets will stand considerable cold weather and may be planted early. In a cold frame or sprout hotbed Is a good place to start lima beans ou sods. In butter and cheese making e very- effort should be made to suppress dust: which, according to a dairy authority,, carries more infection than any otlier source. Bees carry pollen from one flower to- another while seeking honey. The real benefactors are the bee keepers, inauy or whom keep bees tot pleasure rather than ror profit. But ror the bees many fruit trees that blossom out full would. produce no fruit. It has been demonstrated conclusive ly that when an animal Is fed to m variety, Instead of on corn exclusively. a greater gain In weight Is secured Corn will excel in the production of rat, but bone and lean meat seH lnr the live animal as well as fat, rapid growth being a gain In weight. Preventing the spread or rungua dis eases could be accomplished better by destroying the branches and vines that are cut away rrom trees and busue than by the use or other methods. It is not sufficient to remove the portion or trees affected with black knot. They should bo consigned to the flumes, iv no remedy is as sure In the destruction or tbe spores as fire.