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) The Path Through the Wood. Wi n I wa:t kit! I driv tin- inw? to partuiti eei dat. An' I'd in ami tVtrh Vm home at night, and think it int'y p!n : but s-oiitcliuies. iirtcr ilutk come on. where the black of" hemlocks t.ud. I'd trot tocatlh:.t I wouM tly through the iotiL'. lonr path through tl.e wood Twuj a li.!if, loiijr utli through the w o-l. An" I loll Vft.it. i iiai i km in-ii. Through the louj:. lou? path through .... t i .1..... the wiou. I would skip ulotiK' hy the ojeii tleld. uu' dunce au scamper an' t-tnu. An" whistle u I1.011 that j.-r-t kep' lime with the toon the omiH'! runr: An' Hilnnle 'ml W Itolmv mi frolic, an' bftipt seen. s "a It t hex iitnliTMod Uulll we-coine to tin- nldiM-ut thoSMvniiip. the lone. lonr path IhP'iiv'h tl.e wood; M : i!..-I.mji. Iuiik path through the w od; It wn .routtcd with hojltj Ur litters and UioM-. The long, 'on;.' path tl.miih tl.e uod. Unl 'taint ou'.v o - tin t dine their cows, but men in count r an i town. The I travel a path thct i- thick ith tears. lonr urtr the -tin irtH'b don n: Fcrumifv a man lm tietnlilid and shook. wheie the dai k Iil.uk hem ik- stood. HttS t-hook at llic idito-t:-ot Iiimiu n dead days. ill his lotnr. luif.' p th throinch the wood, "Vt a lour . u.i $ path throti:h the Win i, W Ith a ih w ot teats, l'lom the ii.nc cone jt-ars. Uli. the li.::-. !n path ll.roii:'h the Md. An' theiv ain't tu Let. n 1 nn cistati", hut liius-l tin vol tl.e nth -yine ila . Wen the I teMin sink- Im-i.jo the lolls, an' the wt.rl" kh- aii-i pui : Fci mo a!' if ii M o. tin iii-ni i- k hills. where the lnj.' I sit s ha-lli-i- i i- !. Alt' ale eha.- d t the tl.u-t-ot Hiiiilnii tears. through she loiijr. loiif.- paid (..mupli the WlHhi. Ah. I lie lotnr. Unit: path thioilKh the ItlKll, 'I'hiiaiL'ii the Kith of diead Tltef all mil-' tread. The lonr. loan path tlnonh the wood, Ve. we all he to walk tiiioinrli th.- hemloek path, through the path that Mtvteho Jar. V en the r-liei co er dill k e-- n.tnes down on tin- 'i.u'. .in i!.e midnight I..;- no .-Jut: An" we Hsli mi tin- au til! dark alone as :trnj; an' hra- nifti should Uut theio's -cai on the onl won it comes ihrotiv-li l lie 'oiijc. lonif path ihroiiidi the , M.H1. Aii. tin lotip. lonjr path through the Ood. An m :us thet uhl Ma Till itsd In day. Oil. the Iwny. lmic path through the w o 1. S. VV. loss In Yankee Hhnle. ON THE CC:!00 WITH STANLEY. Hi Method- and Achievements lo Wild of the African Jungle. the In the ewnings when we put in ihore for the night to cut wood, my ehief. Stanley, would often narr.it e some of the stirring event- whieh oc curred during his memorable expedi tion to relieve Dr. Living-tone, or his still more thrilling vox age through the Dark Continent. I remember one par ticular occasion u lien tin rising moon threw long, silver ripples across the. purple waters of the Congo, and the s-ail evening airs fanned the sun tiller ing patches of gra on the surround ing hill- into flame, which cast in fan taiie relief tin weird shapes of the rocky uiilatuls and the wondrous va riety o the tropical egetatiou. Stanley. dre--ed in his campaigning , co-lume of brown jacket and knickcr- i bockers. with his broad-crowned peak cap pushed oil his forehead, seated on ; a log. smoking his briar pip' bv the e;mipMo iose ruddy glow fell oil his sttuburi't features and lighted tip ; the char.ieteri-tie lines of that manly , lace, hi - -tlreil with remitM-eotices I of the gitiiious past, held tne -pell-bound as I ii-letied to lib thrilling nar rative of the attack in '77 on his enfoi ' bled but ever ivad little baud, by those barbarous cannibals, the Hangala. ' How this eritable armada of war- canoes bore don n upon his small craft; how he ran the gauntlet of the-e in trepid warrior- to the safe ranches lie- : 30ml through an atmosphere darkened j 1 . .1 oy tile llight .! 1 - .111: uiivering spears, ttiiiiniiig 1 . 1 mKi as tie liiiiitiiiii? 1 passed with a deaoiv hail Horn his ritles. -Mr. Stanley was always busy whether ashore or afloat. The top of his little e.ibin in the after-pat t of the En Aaul formed his table, ami I hac no doubt a great deal of the interest ing material which he embodied in his book. "The Congo and the Found ing of its Free State," wrs penned on the cabin of the En Avant. Occa sionally, he wonld leave oil" writing, put down his pencil, and take a care ful survey of the surroundings; some times mi old crocodile, disturbed by the paddle-wheels in his clumbers on a sand-bank, would waddle down to the water's edge and perhaps swimming toward us. as if to get a close view of the intruders, would oiler au inviting -hot of which Mr. Stanley generally took advantage. We passed on, creeping rdowly up stream, landing here and there to cut dry -wood for fuel or obtain provisions from the native villages which we sighted on the river-bank--. Our re ception by the natives was generally friendly; but the large, thickry popu lated villages of Holobo evinced a keeu desire for war, and demonstrated their aggressiveness by firing their old I Hint-lock guns at our little fleet as it ; passed. Stanley had previously made 1 a station here, and a white officer was I at present in charge of it. The history of this post had been an unhappy one. . Only recently all the station-houses ! had been burned to the ground, and a great rpiantity of stores" intended for the new up-river stations, and other valuable property destroyed. The relation between tlm villjurno nni! sta tion became very strainctf, and it was j only after two weeks that Stanley's ! characteristic tact triumphed over the suspicions of these natives and cou tiuccd them of our friendly intentions and also succeeded in making them pay au iudemnity for their unprovoked attack. Stanley having called Ibeka and the other Bolobo chiefs to a friend ly council, presents were exchanged, and the natives promised in future to maintain peace with the while men. Our little llotilla again started up stream. We were, however, delayed a little on the way. in order that our engineer might repair the damage caused to the A. I. A. by an old hip popotamus who had imagined this lit tle ?teamer to be an enemy of his, and had made four large holes through the iron plates of her hull with his tusks before his pugnacity was appeased. Fortunately, the boat was close in shore at the time, so they were able to j get her to the banks before she lilled ; with water. Early in September, '$?,, the blue siuokc eurling up over the tall trcc- tops, amioiiui't'il lo us tliat we wnv Hppro:ifIi'm; a native setlli'ttH'til. This was Lukolela, atul itt the neighbor hood of our Iamlitig-plact: I he new station was to be built. A etowil of natives was jrathereil ou the beach awaiting our arrival, and as au.n as Stanley lauded, a slave was sent through the village to beat the old chief's iron gong ami summon all the head men to a palaver. E. J. ULwc. in ist. Xicholas. How a Chromo is Made. We see tens of thousands of chromos. i which are given away by every enlor j prising business man. says the Nash ville Junes, yet I venture the assertion that very few know how they are pro duced. To properly produce a chromo the lithographer must be en rapport with the artist. He must analyze the picture, fully realize tl.e combinations of colors, and the spirit of the work. Having determined just how many basic colors enter into the picture the artist commences his work by prepar ing a lithographic stone for each separate color. The artist commences his work by making a delicate and elaborate ink-tracing of the picture; not only its general outlines, but the minuto" and intricate touches and shades of color of which it is composed. The tracing-paper is chemically pre pared, so that the lines upon it can be readily transferred to stone. A press is emplo3'ed to transfer the impressions on ihe paper to the stone, considerable pressure being used. Thousands of impressions can then bo taken from the stone by simply running an ink-roller over it. The tracing thus transformed forms what is known as the keystone. Sup pose there are twenty colors in the chromo. This number of impressions is taken from the keystone and each carefully dusted with red chalk. A dim olTs'et of the entire tracing is then pressed on each one of these stones. The drawing then begins, and often occupies many months. Each stono is to be printed m a separate color, and therefore must contain not only all that is necessary of that color of the picture, to the minutest detail, but all of the compound colors, made by printing one or more over others. A variety 01 graduations of color from its full strength to the faintest tinting can be produced on one stone, just as in using 1 an ordinar pencil or crayon on draw ing paper." These various colors are. of course, worked up in black by the artist, ami it is the printer who applies j the colors. The lines 011 each separate ; stone are etched with the wash of nitric i acid anil gum arabic, and are ready for the presses. The printer must be as skillful as the artist in applying his colors, and must fully realize the blending and e fleet of ! each color. As fast as each color is j printed it is submitted to the artist, ! who has thus a progressive proof of the work. It has been probably noticed that lines cross each other on the margin of ; a chromo. These are the registering i marks and enable the printer to place ' flii. eluinl 111 tlxi cuiin ridlfivo lwiillnii I every time a new s'.'oie is used and a ! ' new color applied. Th-?se lines ?irc ; urawu in tne original tracing and ap pear ou eaclt stone. w nen tne nrst color is printed very , small holes are punctured in each sheet at the intersection of the-e lines. Very , line holes are also drilled in corn: sponduig positions on each of the sub sequent stones, and the holes in the I paper are to correspond preei-ely with .1. ....1...:.. .1. 1 .i. (.lie iioics 111 me sioiic. ano 11111-. as cacti auoiuonai color is pin .n a per- 1 ii-. . 1 lect register is secured ami earn color . falls just where it belong-. 1 MM . ..... . . 1 . t 1 lie ne.i iiioces- 1- 10 niaue me , chromo have a rough surface like an oi I painting. A stone i- now prepare! I which lias a rough siiitace. -miliar to j cam as. The chromo is then laid upon it ami pa-seil through a ore-- with 1 heavy pressure. When it com.-, forth ' it is au exact imitation ot the painting. 1 It is then variii-lied. ami tints oiihae 1 the chromo ready for the market. ine worm is iracsica ly dependent ou one uarr iulta aria for is- litho- grannie stone, stone- n:ie Hi .-n loiitid tr ill I raiice. England. Canada ami t lit United State-, but none p.i-.,-- th qualities til" the best German -tones. Some lmgli-li Names. Manv who have .-: niggled hopelessly with the nrouunc iatiou of Eugli-h names will be glad of this li-t, which deals phonetically with a few of the im..t difficult cases: Talbot is pronounced Tollnit. Thames is pronounced Tcius. Huliver is pronounced Puller. Cow per is pronounced Cooper. Holburu is pronounced Hohuti. Wentyss is pronounced Weeins. Knolloys is pronounced Knowles. Cockbiirn is pronounced Cobtirn. Protigham is pronounced Broom. Norwich is pronounced Norridge St. Lcger is pronounced Sillinger. Hawarden is pronounced Harden. Cohpihoun i- pronounced Cohoon. Cirence-ter is pronounced Si--jter. Grosvenor is pronounced Groveuor. Salisbury is pronounced Sawl-burv. Pcauchanip is pronounced lieecliaiii. Maryiebone i- pronounced Marr.ibun. Abergavenny i- pronounced Aher genny. Majoribanks is pronounced M-ireh- bauks. Molitighroke is pt uiioimceil Kulliug brook. Cholmomllev i- pt'oiioin.ced Citniti iy- Japan n Civilized Country. An English court ha ju.-i tieej.l, , that a wife married in Japan after l he fashion of that country is a legal uife in England. on the gro'und tiiat'" -.lai m has long lieen recognized :ls a eiiih eouutiy. " A previous decision j,, ., ca.-c wlicrc the wife was a Hoiieuloi and was n:arriel after the HoUculni fashion nad ttp-el the union 01. the ground that the Hottentots were lie i thens en. I polygauiisi-. and did not Know hat marriage, m the sense. Mieiut. CSV illt-u A woman in San Franuiam: threw her 1 1-year-old atep-?on at an ollicer who had come to arrest her. MISSIXC LINKS. f Iiti rv (icorgc i no let-luring in .New ooiilli all--'. King .Mem-lok of Ah; -iiiia has jn-t married hi- ftri !ir-; . ife. No cards. John D. !ici;cfc!lcr. w ho now has an iucmiiv of .".'(.1 an imur. began life as retail grocer. (Jen. Neal Dow has jus; entered his :-7t.i c.ir in excellent mental ami ph sical condition. Wiliie Waldorf Astor proposes to give -me bion.e doors to Trinity Church al .t co.-t ot SlDUJlo:). P. P. Shillnhei- (.Mrs. Partington; is 7o. .-il el'-haireil. golden-spectacled, humane, ami altogether delightful. Mi-- Kate Field -a s that her Wtttli 111 it :t is succeeding licxoml her ex pectations. S!ae will itolghctip lectur ing, how e or. The Prince id" Wales was the lir.it li rticcly personage consulted by Em peror illiam when In determined to oounce Pdsiiiarck. Francisco Saiiche--. a Spanish bull .ighter. is .-aid lo receive JslU.UUU for a -ingle appearance in t lit bull-ring. Ami In iloc-n't sing a note, either. William Dai is is probably the heaii est -e.io-llioi in tip' coiiniri. He is 13 cars old and wcig.is i'S7 pounds And -ic altfiid- school i:i lt.'iode Maud! (iacrre tin great tenor, who died recently, left an estate id .'JijUO.OOU. Hi- night h .-alari for some time had been $1.4iaml he lived very modestly? Si. Lotii- h.i two wealthy colored people. Mr-. Amanda l.ahadic nays taxes 011 SKMi.OOO anil Alfred Wime. caterer and confectioner, is worth7i. 111 ul. Mr-. Henry Ward Pcccher is in Florida. She is beginning to .-'low her age. Though her hair is as white as snow. Mrs. Meeciier"- activity is ipiile remarkable Phicbf Ear! ("ihlious denies that the Friend-arc tiling 0111. She says tlitt there arc today "Jl.tioo Hiek-ile and inii orth Friends, making HU.lM) follower- of tieorge Fox. The new (ifrmaii CiiaiicclIo.'.Geueril Capriii. is an iuicterale Miio;erand a modf rate drinker. He manifests a marked preference for wine over beer, which he louche- 1 cry rarely ami spar ingly . Jacob P.upp of Piti-burg is certainly one of the 1110-t eiiterpri-ing uoosc meii of the dai. He made the rope- with w hieii eigtiii-e.ght murderer- were hanged within the last thirty ear-'. Prof. Ti udall has eivci. tl unsightly screen-of pole- covered with dead heath on his griumds to pre, cut -onit! people who have built h..ii-e:. within tiefdr gla-- ram:e of hi re-idelice from sec-j ing Slim. 9 fliiuua- Si'tiiHMM D'-ntoii ha- tnf ut- ed the w.'td manuprint." icrb. tiif. an. 1 noun, for work d.ote with a 1 1 pew rite 1 aild -ligge It i at 0111 mole accurate liie tiiui 'iiiaiiii-cript" for sttCll WO! i. Prince Ferdinand, who now reign- in Piiigaria. is known to haie iett the Austrian army hecatt-c he was not bril li.iiTt enough for the imict. He 'had set 1 eil -e cral year- in ini'ciior grades without aui chance of rising. Dlldlel Fost.-r. who has been elected f re.t-urcr ol Pillerica. M.i .. for the forty-:ir.-t consecutive lime has not mis-.-d a single town meeting since awav back in the ' Kis. He is now in his ol.-l 3 ear. hale and active. Charles MeUohcrts and wife, who lived near Northv ille. Pa., were born Saturdav . married Saturday. celebrated their golden wedding "a nni versa iy Saturdav. look their la-t sicklies Satur day, thev ami dietl la.-t Sal unlay. Suml-iy were liuried in one grave. Gen. Schcuek was popularly believed to have published a book on poker plaving. but his explanation was that the book was publi-lied by a lad v whose otiest he was w Idle Minister to London, and for w hoin he had written out the rules of the game al her request. Lord Acton is considered the most learned 111:111 in England. He is a Koman Catholic, and in addition to his barony has a baronetcy. His library contains no less than 100.000 volumes, all of which arc carefully selected and number among them sonic rare book. A dull English clergyman who re cent 13- preached a very brilliant ser mon on the text "Thou'shalt notsleal." was charged with having stolen it. He indignantly denied I his, asserting that he had paid for it in cash at an agency where lithographed sermons are soiu. Helen Allitighain. widow of William Allinghaui, the poet and song writer, has been the recipient of a great com pliment. She is the first of her sex to be elected a member of the English I loyal Society of PaintWrs in Water Colors. The society consists of forly members. Frederick William Evans, who for many years has been the Presiding Elder ot the Shakers 111 America, lives in rigid simplicity at New Lebanon, N Y., on the estate of 4.000 acres which the Shakers have owned since 1770. He is S'2 years old. but is still vigorous in body and mind. rrime Minister C'rispi is a million aire, though the poorest ainon revolu tionary exiles thirty years ao. His enemies aeeuse him of havimr yroun wealthy at the exnense of the State Treasury, and his friends sav lncL-v J mJ speculations and shrewd investments yielded him his fortune. Miss Winnie Davis, "dauirhter of the Uonfederaev,'' is reported to have met her fate while visit inir i couple of years ago in Syracuse. X. Y. Her en gagement is said to be with Alfred Wilkinson, who has spent the last siv weeks in Europe, visitinga part of the time with Miss Davis and her mother. f, T, . , in- .11.-1 man j-.iii ii i'ss is lOI IUltllT '! "League for the 1'reservation of (Jood Habits" among rrussian ladies. The members bind themselves to discour age luxury in every form, both for themselves and their" friends; to wear fewer, more sitnple,and cheaper dresses, and to practice rigid economy in their households. M. do Freycinet, who has become for the fourth time Premier of the French in f T." . r Republic, is a peculiar creature Ho is small ami insignificant ph -ie.iliv. and his countenance habitual. b. ar- a furtive, sea red expression, which ha- led to his being dubbed "the While .Moii-eM His wife is a oieier. ambitious wi-mati, whose aim in life is to become .Madame la Pre-idente" Sir Peter Coat oi" Auchctidr.nie.S.ot laud. figures prominently in one -jf Charles Dickens' most popular novels. For the two brother- Coats of "Pais ley'' are known to have b.en the originals of "Cheery bio P.rotli !--"" in "Nicholas Nickh'iiy."1 Thei united hu-inoss ami charit v in a rem trk-iVc vav. ami they amassed l'orlti.i.- t- rpiickly as they gave them aivai. The Uev. Wax laud HoU hit.-oil' the 'pessimists b (idling of an imliiidual named Stewart, who kepi the people of his town in an extremely nerioiis con dition by prophesying the end of tjte world. One day au unbclieier a-kcil of Mrs. Stewart, the prophet's w 'l'v if she really believed the world wa coin ing to an end on the date he named. "Well. I don't know.1' sin replied. but I do hope it will, for it will do Mr. Stewart so much good." fhe Hev. Dr. Parkhurst of New York siys he knows a man, ami oilers to give lis name whose lift: ambition it has 'been to amass a fortune of inaiiv mill- ions. I'ntil hr had reached fhe go ti he promisctl himself neither re.-t nor en joyment nor benevolenci'. Eier pen ny counted towards the grand total. -Ik-few das ago he was appealed lo on behalf of a most worthy object. He gave just '2 cents. And 111 reply to a the expression of astonishment IIC'l L'outributiou from a millionaire could not fail to bring forth he said: "You don't know how it hurts me to ghu i way that "Jo cents. I've nearly reached my l went v-tnil lion-dollar mark.'' A Colorado Wonder. The petrified forest at Florissant h located in a green valley a mile ami a half from the station, says the Color do Springs Gazctlr. Everywhere along the road may be found little chips of wood, either dropped there by curiosity-hunters or scattered from the re mains of some stump in the immediate Tieinity. After going up ami down through several little valleys the mail descends a rather steep grade to the valley vhere the "forest'' is located. The villcy is broader here than elsewhere, ami here and there, scattered over the bottom anil on the lower slopes of the surrounding hills, ate Utile mounds of white petrified chips marking the spots where the tops of the stumps reach the surface Only one of the stumps has as yet been en tirely uncovered and to this most of tlii' visitors go first. It is on the edge of a small grove of pine on the west siile of the valley. Over it is a rough scaffolding from which are suspended I several saws, still deeply imbedded in the stump. Several years ago w nen the Midland was first opened some one conceived the idea of transplant ing the stump to Manitou. but it was found that it could not pass through the tunnels on the road. He then commenced lo saw it into vertical slabs, which he thought could be put together afterward. The saws sunk easily in the top of the stump for about two feet, when they encountered haul silica, to which the outside air had not yet penetratatcd, and there they stuck. The stump is about forty-live feet in circumference and twelve feet high. Its shape is perfect; the buttressed roots, the knots, and the irregularities of the bark are all there as distinct as those on any of the pine trees close at hand. The wood varies greatly. While all of it shows distinctly the grain and pe culiarities of pine wooil there are some pieces which are as hard as flint and white as marble, while others are soft and almost like natural wood. Py pulling oil' pieces of the petrilied wood here and there are found little fibers which the silica did not for sonic rea son reach, but these crumble to dust when touched. The tree has been identified as belonging to the same family as the giant trees of California. Across the valley from the largo stump is another one almo-t as pecu liar. It is a large bluish black stone which is made of thousands of pieces petrified charcoal, conglomerated in a solid mass. None of the pieces are over an inch in length, and how they became thus knit together is likely to remain a geological mystery. A Novel Idfe-Preservorv, Human foresight is so often at fault that it may bo considered true, as a general rule, that men are not very good judges of what is good for them. What they take for a blessing frequent ly proves to be a curse, and what is pleasantcr to think of the very thing which they dread as an evil turns out to be a piece of genuine gootl for tune. "My life was saved by having my salary reduced." said a robust, middle aged man, according to the Philadel phia Call. The remark naturally excited sur prise. "Yes," continued the man, "that was what saved me. 1 was assistant bookkeeper for a wholesale house, and was earning twelve huudrod dollars a year. Something happened, no matter what, and I was thrown out. I was idlo for two months, and then went to work for seven hundred and fifty dol- 1 irs. "At that tune I was thin and weak, and couldn't walk a mile to save a dollar. At any rate, I thought 1 couldn't. But wheu my income was so fearfully reduced. I found it ab solutely necessary to economize, and I did so by walking home from my work, a distance of about live miles. I' "'Siancc oi aiiout ' Tl 11 J111" "yjcilled I Z",1 hlu to c,,Joy.d. months 1 was walking me at first. Within three both ways. summer and winter, unless during a hard stolen, and look at me! 0?io hun dred and eighty pounds, the appetite ot an ostrich, and not a dnys sickness in ten years. "You see, gentlemen, how it was that the cutting down of my salaev saved my lived:'' i . . The oet is born, not made. Th& .... r. t .i :.t pOI'lCSS IS OOI ll ami mam ttiu. 3fariu BiUes. l'eit inunl Marvsiille Paragraphs. The Vppeal, ipiiting from t e American llural Home a wish that fanners would grow less wheat for ex port because it is a plant that rapidly exhausts the soil, indorses that state ment anil says: "Wheat growing with out manuring or a rotation of crops is si vo-y bad system of farming, murder ous to .fertility." This is a subject of more importance to the boys who will be farmers twenty vears hence than to the present croppers of our fertile soil, but ! . m- 1 it on the great California plains tl.e averag.' product to the acre is already materially lower than it was in the past. Small farms, diversified products, rotation and manuring are essential t. future pros perity. Two con nments of date palms are 011 the way from northern Africa to Cali fornia. If they succeed here, and we as yet know of no reason why they should not, smother delicacy will thus be added to the products of the golden state, and it ii one of the most useful plants in the known world. If the report is true that tin; Atlantic ami Pacific railroad company will have a San 1-raneisctf terminus when the big stockyards near San Francisco are com pleted the San Joaquin valley farmers have cause for rejoicing. With two companies bidding for the transportation of their wheat they will not see their grain stand piled up by tho railroad tracks waiting for cars till the fall nuns come and ruin it as happened to many in that valley and up the Sacramento last year. But a surer safeguard against such a misfortune will bo the fact that much of the wheat land will be in fruit and its product, dried or canned, will seek tho market tit different periods of the year, when cars will be available. The great wheat llelds must in timo be cut up and put into a variety of crops, and then each acre will produce dollars where it produces dimes now. Tho importance wt thorough and deep cultivation was never more fully demon strated than in the experiments recently made at the agricultural experiment station at Tulare. Reference was recently made to the fact reported in tho Tulare Register that California spring wheat had been grown there tit the rate of 7f3s bushels to the acre on good land and 'i'.3 bushels on strongly alkaline land, j The land on which these remarkable j yields were secured was the pool est in ! the neighborhood. It was till level and j had never been manured. Mr. Farrer j states that it was grown on small 1 natehes. anil a whole tlehl fonM nut. 1 ' " - " expectetl to come fully up to the llgures. f but as it was grown on carefully measured ground, accurately weighed and carefully calculated, it demonstrates that sufficiently thorough cultivation would double the average yield to the aero in the San Joaquin valley if not more. ieep atul thorough pulverizing of the soil gave the roots a chance to reach and appropriate the nourishment that lay there Ijkedjip f mm them when, in years past, the same soli was slovenly cultivated. At the ends of the rows of a piece of corn or potatoes, euItivrWed by horse, we often set quantities of earth carried out by tho cultivator upon the sward. Where a grass Held adjoins the cultivated crop, in those localities where grass grows perennially anil forms a sod, tho grass upon which an inch of loose earth litis been thus carried will always shoot up above that which sur rounds it and bo larger and of a darker green. That is for two reasons: The loose soil attracts water to the surface, and it affords a mellow place where tho little rootlets can reach their food. Thorough pulverization of the soil is a more profitable investment than boom lots, lottery tickets or stocks ami bonds. Stock Hygiene. Whoever heard of tuberculosis, abortion and glanders fifty or sixty years no timonfr New England stock' "All these tliseases and many others are with us to-day ami they will not be rooted out until "wo pay more attention to drainage and ventilation of farm buddings and the purity of the water and the food which we supply. New England Farmer. While there Is much to sustain the position the Farmer takes, yet the facts do nou bear out the construction which many will place upon Its language, that the pure water, air and soil uf New England in earlier days rendered stock proof against the diseases named. Tho American Indian when he roamed through the New Kngland forests had never learned of the existence of smallpox, but that disease thinned his race as the plague in olden days thinned tho popu lation of old-world localities, and that without a change in the earth, air or water which contributed to tho red man's existence. Tuberculosis especially, of tho troubles mentioned, is largely preventable by the breathing of pure air, and pure water is absolutely essential to the health of stock, anil the Farmer's note of warning Is a needed one, but fanners should also guard against contagion. Fifty or sixty years ago a contagious disease might prevail for a decade in Florida or Louisiana among stock and fanners in Massachusetts or Maine never hear of it. Novv-a-days it would be likely to be dumped from the cars at Brighton in a month from its first appearance in any part of the union. While a robust animal, with good food, water and air, iii.i u-oiai LiiiuiKiu" oo ouiii thr.nio-l, omit not with .li.-od aliiniaU I .-- jts'txn f , i s 1 .k t it Till 1 theio is no guarantee that it will, and the grower cannot be too careful. The fertilizer that every one engaged in small fruit culture should use, and : that extensively, is a judicious mixture of brains and olbow grease. And it must . be used in the field, and inanufaclurod ! on tho spot. L. II. Wilcox. Tho editor of the Maine Farmer, who is as good a practical farmer as there is in Now England, says that in sixteen years' experience of farming he has earned that when his land is poor or in poor condition ho is dependent largely on the season for a crop; but if the land is rich and well handled he is reasonably sure of ti crop anyhow. j Three hundred men deserted from the . ineti-or-wjtr Chicago and Atlanta at New 1 vork on account of ill-treatment. About J tiff.y men were recaititreil. 1 While J. O. Uosworth was makintr a flash light in the Denver Fiie Brick and Cheiliical Supply House an explosion oc curred which killed him and wrecked the building. 1 Uev. W. II. i2nohc of Gordon county, : Ga., anil Ids wife are in jail for poisoning a whole family named Lally, thrco of whom died. Each of the prisoners says the other 13 guilty. 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