A TERRIBLE RIDE.
From the Evening Times Buffalo, N. Y.
Along one of the dismal roads in
Western New York, a man and wife
-"were driving as rapidly as the dark
ness and inclement weather would per
mit The rain beat down upon the robber
covering and found its way into every
crack and opening.
The ooonpatns of the buggy were
Dean Jones and his wife, of Spring
ville, '- N. Y. Everybody is familiar
with the name. He is the well-known
starting judge, who has beoome famous
for his impartial and fair treatment of
jockeys at the post
It was about ten years ago when
Mr. and Mrs. Jones took that fateful
ride that oame near costing her her
life.
Mrs. Jones' clothes were thoroughly
soaked before town was reached.
Their was no fire in their hotel room
and she became chilled to the bone be-
fore the little blaze, the attendant
- started, wanned the atmosphere. .
From that . time on Mrs. Jones was
ran in woman.
-y: Her trouble well, it was about ev-
cijr uuiug wiui which unman Dean can
be afflicted. She had a strange, queer
feeling in her head, that felt as if sev
eral shot were rolling around loose on
her brain. Pen cannot describe the
torture she suffered. Local doctors
told her she had water on the brain.
- A . Times reporter called upon Mrs.
Jones, who said:
"Ever since that terrible wetting I
reoeived, up to a year ago, I was an
invalid. I nad terrible neuralgio pains
in the head whiob often went to my
feet and limbs. I was often in such
a terrible state that I had to use a
orutoh to get around or else slide a
chair before me to move about the
house. I was very ill for five years,
in spells, and never expected to get
welL It was a blood disease, I guess.
One of the doctors I consulted said I
had clotted blood in my head, and per-
1 t n ji n. 1 j .
. ua)M- 4 U1U. A-LO UUU1U uui uure wo,
V neither could several other doctors I
tried. - I also used many patent medi-
loines, but the did me no good.
;r"My complexion was a perfect
white, and my ears were so transparent
you could look through them. My
i blood was turning to water.
"Look at me now; do I look sick?"
"r5he reporter was forced to admit
: that he had seldom seen a more perfect
embodiment of health.
With pardonable pride, Mrs. Jones
said, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People did it
"I can gc anywhere now, while be
fore I commenced using Dr. Williams'
reined v I oonld not move out of the
bouse.
For three years, would you believe
lit I did not even so to church. I was
mot always confined to my bed, but
ould not leave the bouse.
"Wherever I go people say, 'Why,
Mrs. Jones, how well you are looking.
How did it happen?' and I always tell
em 'Pink Pills did it'
"I have not had toe slightest touch
my old illness for the last six months
and feel as if I never had been ill in
my life "
.': Mr. Jones said, "you can readily im
agine how highly we regard the rem
edy in this bouse where we have had a.
wife and mother restored to perfect
health." .
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by
11 dealers, or will be sent post paid on
eoiept of price, (50 cents a box, or six
xea for f 2. 50 they are never sold
a bulk, or by the 100) by addressing
Willimas' Medioine Company,
ibenectady, NY.
I For a pretty decoration at a summer
redding when the ceremony is perform-'
ea at home Bell Bay less offers the fol
lowing suggestion in The Ladies' Home
Journal:
"Take a tennis net, fish net or ham
mock that may be cut the desired size
I ana tasten it to tne rings ol a curtain
I : pole, looping it twice and then allowing
I ii to fall to the ground. Then weave
hite flowers in and out the meshes,
king ferns or delicately cut foliage for
fringed border, being careful not to
Ve too solid an appearance, and cover
fcping cords with a rope of flowers,
flute narcissus, lilacs and honeysuckle
Ith white clover ropes may be used,
V any flowers in season may be util-y-nd
daisies, spire as, apple or plum
I blossoms, rosea, chrysanthemums, any-
thing white, but if preferred, pink, blue
J or yellow for a border or entire drapery
works in beautifully for a green back-
ground. "
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding of the
transient nature of the many phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper ef
forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated condi
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If in the enjoyment of good health,
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ether remedies are then not needed. If
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' may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
Jed and gives most general satisfaction.
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WILL THE ROBIN SING THERE?
Will the robin sing in that land, "
That land so fair and so far.
That lies as our souls fondly dream,
In the depths of the uttermost star?
Will the violet bloom in that land,
And the mosses so sweet and so shy, v
All the dear common things that we lov"e,
In the dim, distant deeps of the sky?
Will the children sing in that land,
All the sweet, simple songs of the earth,
And shall we rejoice and be glad
In their music and frolicsome mirth?
Oh! will there be friends in that land,
Friends who love and rejoice in our love,
Will they look, will they speak, will they
smile,
Like our own 'mid the strangeness
above? .
Oh! shall we have homes in that land
To return to where'er we may roam?
Oh! the heart would be lonely and sad
E'en in heaven if we had not a home. -
I love not the new and the strange,
But a friend and the clasp of his hand,
Oh! I would that my spirit could know
That the robin will sing in that land.
Woman's Magazine.
- MUGGINS.
Van Gaiters bought his famous bull
pup when bull pups were In fashion,
and paid a good round sum for hint.
The pup came of a long line of fighting
ancestors, and his noble name was
Muggins.
Inside of a week Muggins had Van
Gaiters completely in subjection. Mug
gins slept on Van Gaiters' bed and
chawed Van Gaiters' feet when he
moved them in the night; Muggins
breakfasted on Van Gaiters' cuffa,
lunched on Van Gaiters' boots, dined
and supped on choice bits of Van Gait
ers' friends.
Muggins, plus Van Gaiters, walked
down Fifth avenue of an afternoon,
and was sure to become Involved In
some street brawl before Van. Gaiters
got him home again. Generally Van
Gaiters got mixed up In the row as well,
and once the. two landed in a police
station and had to be bailed out.
Not that Muggins picked quarrels.
Far from that But Muggins was so
bow-legged that he walked In a chain
stitch pattern from one side of the walk
to the other, and Muggins was of an
ugliness that appalled one; like the re
flection of a respectable dog in a con
vex mirror with a kMnk in it
There was something about the crook
ed, yet jaunty advance of him, some
thing in the slanting leer of hls bulg
ing brown eye, that set other dogs'
teeth on edge. Hence battle for Mug
gins brooked no criticism. Pugs" and
such things he rolled about on the cob
bles until their tails were out of curl.
But when big dogs went home minus
an ear or a section of tail or with badly
lacerated leg the owner merely groan
ed, "It's that beastly bull pup of Van
Gaiters'."
So much for the valor ot Muggins.
For intelligence Muggins was a wonder.
Humor Muggins' sense of humor was
colossal.
He used regularly to charge upon the
blind man who sold pencils at the foot
of the "L" station and grab thi handful
of his wares the old fellow so patheti
cally extended. Then Muggts would
retreat to the cable track to devour
them, leaving Van Gaiters to pick up
the poor old chap, set him on his camp
stool and make good his loss. The
blind man never came to endure Mug
gins' onslaughts with . equanimity,
though he profited largely by this novel
method of sale.
Muggins went about Brooklyn In a
cab with Van Gaiters at the time of the
trolley strikes, when Van Gaiters was
hunting up sensations and various regi
mental friends of his. Muggins escap
ed from the cab' in Hicks street and
upset a whole company of the Tnir
teenth Regiment boys, who were drill
ing in front of a Chinese laundry, their
temporary quarters. Muggins started
to run around the block and dashed be
tween the legs of company K, then
changed his mind and dashed back
again, bowling over the whole line. The
boys were angry enough to have bayo
neted him if Van Gaiters had not
caught him in the rebound and hauled
him into the cab.
Then Muggins was the sworn enemy
of the young De' Peysters, next door,
who were always playing tricks on the
passers-by. They were trying the cob
blestone trick une day, and had set on
the walk a granite block done up in
wrapping paper with a pink string.
While they lurked In the areaway.
waiting to hoot at the first unfortunate
who should attempt to kick it out of
his path, Muggins came trotting down
the steps and made for it The boys
charged him, but Muggins kept them
off. He tried his jaw on eaeh of the
four corners of the block, and a howl
of derision went up from his foes. Then
Muggins tried to carry it off by the
string and failed. Finally, with Infi
nite difficulty and low growls he rolled
it to. the foot of the Van Gaiter steps
and stood guard over It, nibbling It pen
sively the while till his master appear
ed.. It was "tamale" year that year and
tamale men were on every corner. Mug
gins has ideas on the subject. . He
liked the smell of the hot tamales and
the grateful warmth emanating from
the big tin cans in which the tamales
were stored. If he found a tamale man
absent from his post for a moment Mug
gins would squat down like a Chinese
Idol in front of the can, and take charge
of it-for the rest of the evening, while
customers waited and the tamale man
shrieked and swore, afraid to approach
and Van Gaiters enjoyed the fun.
Then Muggins prevented his master
from proposing to Miss Emilia Remsen.
The night of Mrs. Van Gaiters' empire
ball Muggins had concealed himself in
the conservatory some time during the
day and appeared when Van Gaiters
was starting in. ; Emilia looked "very
well under the light of the fairy lamps,
and It was all very tender and touch
ing. Muggins changed all that by pre
tending to start a rat .or a cat or any
old thing and chivvying it round and
round the conservatory till he got Vnu
Gaiters laughing so that he couldn't
epeak and another man came up and
claimed Emilia for the next dance, anil
there was an end of that Very glad
Van Gaiters was of it, too, for just then
he fell in love with ljttle Marie.
Marie was the only person whom
Muggins feared. She was a second
cousin and poor, and visited the .Van
Gaiters most of the time.- You can
judge of her status In the family by
the fact that-the children alternately
hugged and bullied her, and the elders
made her handsome presents , when
they remembered her existence. ,
Marie was little and fragile and sen
sitive, but by no means a coward.- She
remained dependent because she bad
beea brought up to believe that she
would be doing a deadly injury to the
family if she attempted to earn a liv
ing for herself. She had the courage
of a dozen men in her slender body and
was only withheld from rash plebeian
enterprise by her loyalty to the great
Van Gaiters line.
Muggins was rather nice "to . Marie.
True, he affected her society when she
didn't want him and deserted her when
she most needed consolation, yet he
paid considerable attention to her com
mands and came to her after his battles
to be bathed, healed and lectured. -
Van Gaiters, perhaps, might have ex
plained this partiality. Marie had not
been anxious to make Muggins' ac
quaintance. Indeed, Muggins had
been obliged to Introduce himself. .' He
entered into Marie's room one day and
seized a pair of slippers. Marie shriek
ed and Muggins fled down the hall, his
mouth full of red morocco. ... Marie pur
sued and caught him just outside Van
Gaiters' door.
Van Gaiters, hearing the scuffle,
rushed out and was astonished to find
Marie kneeling on the prostrate Mug
gins and pommeling him violently with
both little fists. ' Muggins was snarling
like a fiend, and his face was screwed
up like a withered apple, but protect
himself he could not unless he gave up
his prey, and relinquish it he would not
while life lasted and anyone opposeu.
So Marie continued to beat him.
Van Gaiters grasped Marie by one
thin little wrist and drew her to her
feet. She was crimson and out of
breath, and more than a little ashamed
of herself.
"1 hope I haven't hurt you, Gerard,"
.she said, apologetically;
Van Gaiters could have roared, but
he asked very seriously what Muggins
had doner .-
"Stole," said Marie briefly. ;
Van Gaiters looked, but was unable
to ascertain the nature of Muggins'
mouthful.
"Something valuable?" i
"To me, yes," said little Marie, .with
a sob in her throat, and then she turned
and hurried away.
Muggins started after her, his big
under jaw hanging. Then he let the
slipper fall and followed her silently,
apologetically, his bullet head dropped
npon bis massive chest. Marie slam
med the door in his face, and Muggins
sat down outside. Presently he began
to claw energetically at the woodwork,
and Marie opened the door on a crack.
Muggins frisked grotesquely and paw
ed the door. It was opened a little
wider and Muggins shot in. j
"By Jove, that's a bright dog," de
clared Van Gaiters, picking up the dis
colored object from the floor. "If it
Isn't one of the Tnrkish slippers I
bought Marie at the fool bazaar last
summer. Well, well," and Van Gaiters
walked into his room, reflective,' and
set the poor, little, mangled slipper in
the place of honor on the mantelpiece.
He had never noticed Marie very
much, but he always had been kind to
her in a careless way. Now he noticed
her a great deal, for there seemed to be
something uncanny in her ascendency
over Muggins. His own attempt to
discipline the beastly bull pup - had
been a dismal failure, and here was
little Marie ordering the brute about
as she pleased. He tried to find out
her methods, but Marie was'reticent on
the subject and so was Muggins.
Still Muggins relapsed from grace
occasionally. Once when he ate Marie's
best hat Van Gaiters heard of It and
wanted to buy her another, and little
Marie refused, almost rudely, to allow
it. There was never a more astonished
man than Gerard Van Gaiters when he
found he had fallen in love with little
Marie, except when he Informed little
Marie that he wanted to marry her and
Marie refused him out and out. The
little thing even seemed to take a cold
delight in his discomfiture. Only when
Van Gaiters sulkily announced his in
tention of going abroad and forgetting
her she offered to take charge of Mug
gins. So Muggins went down to Long Isl
and by boat along with little Marie
and the particular Van Gaiters' aunt
with whom she was to spend the sum
mer. . . -
No word came from Marie, but bis
aunt wrote Gerard a letter of .grievance
against Muggins. Muggins had dis
graced Jiimself. Marie had bribed the
mate of the steamboat to take charge
of Muggins for the night, and the man
had chained Muggins to the leg of the
lower berth In his stateroom.
Muggins had promptly chawed no
other word expresses Muggins' method
chawed it through and when the mate
turned in at. 3:30 In the morning he
found Muggins peacefully snoring in
the lower berth with his head on the
pillow. The man was afraid to wake
Muggins, and. afraid, to climb over him
to the upper berth, so he turned the
quilt over Muggins and, in his own
words: ,--..
"Chucked him out. An' he runs all
over de boat and In ter de ladies' cabin
and scares de wimmen half ter det,
till d' engineer catches him and makes
him fast ter der capstan." : '
The capstan had been freshly" paint
ed vermilion, and In the morning Mug
gins was a gory horror. The morrster
refused to get Into the carriage which
awaited them at the landing, and none
of the deck hands would go near him,
so little Marie had to boost aim in her
self. . :
Van Gaiters didn't go to Europe at
all. He went down to Long Island in
stead. His aunt was surprised to see
him walk In one, hot day.
"Well!" said the aunt
"I came down," said Van Gaiters, "to
look after Muggins."
"Muggins is out walking now," said
his aunt, "and Marie is with him, I be
lieve. They are Inseparable." ' ;
:" Which way?" asked Van Gaiters,
after, he had something cool to drink. -..
"You are throwing yourself away.
Gerard," said his aunt. "But" If yon
follow the path through the field there,
Into the woods, you will find Mug
gins." :
"Thank you, aunty," said Van Gait
ers. . ' '
Van Gaiters followed the path till It
led him into the thick of the woods; still
no Muggins, no Marie. He hoped Mug
gins would have sense enough to make
himself scarce. He" wanted to say
something to little Marie, things no fel
low could say with a frog-faced bull
pup staring at him. That goggle-eyed
Muggins would take the sentiment out
of any man.
Still no Marie. Perhaps Muggins had
cavorted off through the underbrush
and led her away from the beaten
path. Perhaps they were coming home
another -way. Perhaps what was
that?
. A shrill scream, and another, and an
other. Van Gaiters set off at a run.
That was Marie, as sure as fate. What
could have happened? Was she hurt?
Why was she so quiet now? And where
was Muggins? Muggins should, be
taking care of her. . -
"Marie! Marie!" No answer. She
must be hurt. What right had they to
let her run about like this, little Marie
with no one to look after her? He
would soon stop all that. - - "
A turn In the woodland way, and Van
Gaiters almost fell over her. She was
silting in the middle of the path, with
Muggins' head in her lap. She looked
at Gerard with her mouth open and the
big tears running down her cheeks.
"Ah, Gerard," said she, "poor Mug
gins!'' ; . - - .
"What has happened?" gasped Van
Gaiters, kneeling down beside her.
There was a distinct crackling In the
underbrush. Van Gaiters sprang to
his feet'
"No, no," said Marie, catching at his
arm; "it's too late now the man oh,
oh, such a brute! If it hadn't been for
Muggins "
Muggins tried to lift his battered
head, but dropped it with a queer, gruff
moan; He was covered with blood, and
so was Marie.
- "The man sprang out and caught my
arm, and I called Muggins, who was
some way behind, and Muggins flew at
his throat and the man let go. And
then Muggins got him by the arm and
hung on and wouldn't be shaken off.
And the fellow beat him with a great
stick, and finally Muggins dropped."
Muggins quivered and wagged his
stump of a tail feebly, and Marie took
one of his clumsy paws tenderly and
held It in her small hand. . -
"Poor Muggy, poor, bad, brave old
Muggy, who loved me!"
"Rook!" said Muggins, faintly. A
rook, a-rook! Woof," and so, with that
hoarse bark, he died, game to the last,
and most sincerely mourned.
Van Gaiters buried him there un
der a big oak tree, and cut "Muggins"
in the bark, and proposed again to lit
tle Marie on the way home.
"Please, Gerard," said little Marie,
"another day."
-To-day'," said Gerard, stoutly. ' But
it was not that day, nor for many a
long day, that little Marie made an
swer.
By that time Muggins' epitaph had
extended until it climbed up Into th
branches. Van Gaiters added some
thing to it every time he and Marie
visited Muggins' grave.
"That beastly bull pup," said Gerard,
jealously, .one day, when Marie was
reading the finished epitaph aloud:
"We've made him out a regular angel."
"Poor Muggy," said Marie, softly,
putting her frail little hand on his
sleeve. "Poor, bad, brave old Muggy,
who loved me!"
And that, I think, should have been
Muggy's epitaph. Vogue.
BEANS IN CAMP.
Mark Twain Tells of an Example of
Strict Ktiquette and Fair Play.
There was a strict camp etiquette,
which was recognized and considered
law by all, and It was of this etiquette
that Mark Twain told me an example.
A Boston man was eating breakfast
early one morning, at a table near the
open door and the half bar,half res
taurant of the place. He was just fin
ishing his plate of pork and beans when
two Missouri men passed along and
saw the Boston man and his breakfast
They stopped within a foot or two.
"Look at that," said the bigger of the
Missouri men, contemptuously. "Do
you see what that blankety blankety
blank Boston thing is eating? Why,
down In Missouri where I come from
we feed them things to our horses. Only
the brutes eat that grub down there."
Presently the bully stepped inside
and sat down opposite the Boston man
at the same table. When the plate of
beans bad been eaten the Boston man
called out to the bartender: "Pete, give
me another plateful." Pile It up. I like
'em." When the heaped-up plate came,
the Boston man, quick as a flash, had
pulled out his revolver, had the Mis
souri man covered with it, and then,
pushing the full plateful of beans across
the table, told the Missouri man to
"eat it and like It," or he'd shoot him.
like the dog that he was. .
The bully had his choice between
beans or death,- and he knew it. When
he had eaten every bean, he was made
to say that he liked beans, and then,
and not till' then, did the Boston man
put his pistol up, pay for both orders
of beans and leave the saloon.
"Now," said Mark, "the reason the
Missouri man didn't whip out his gun
and shoot as soon as the beaneater's
back was turned was because of camp
etiquette. Each "man had his fun with
the other, and they were even. If the
Boston man had been shot the Mis
souri man, as quick as news could fly,
would have had his body filled with
lead from the revolver of every man
in camp, regardless of party. You see.
we were quite sticklers for fair play
in those days." New York Journal.
Effect of an Andience.
One of the peculiarities of the ora
torical temperament Is that It is sub
ject to what our grandmothers called
'vapors," or depression of spirit. In
such a mood a molehill seems a' moun
tain, and a grasshopper is a burden.
Mental effort is impossible, and an en
gagement to speak in public as repug
nant as is the sound of the dinner-gong
to a seasick passenger. The only cure
for such an attack of spleen is to get,
by hook or crook, the orator before the
audience, where the excitement will
put him mentally and physically on
his feet.
In 1859 Thomas Corwln, Ohio's most
eloquent orator, had consented to de
liver the oration at the celebration of
the Fourth of July on the Tippecanoe
battle-grounds. The night before the
celebration, Corwin called his son-in-law,
Mr. Sage, to his room and told
him that he had been unable to sleep
and was much discouraged about his
address the next day. He had tried to
think over his speech, but his memory
had failed him, and he was afraid he
would make a failure. His son-tn-law
advised him to dismiss the speech
from his mind and go to sleep.
The next morning Mr. Corwln felt so
Indisposed that he announced his ina
bility to speak. The marshal of the
day finally persuaded him to ride out
to the grounds and tafce a seat on the
platform, Whence he might explain to
the people why he was unable to de
liver the oration, and thus lessen their
disappointment.
At the proper time, Mr. Corwin rose
to make his apology; but as he looked
over the audience of forty thousand
people, that "sea of upturned faces"
stirred both body and brain. He made
a few commonplace remarks, and then
struck upon the' first sentence of the
manuscript . he had prepared.
"It is all right he will speak," whis
pered Mr. Sage to the president of the
day. , -
It was all right; the orator went on
and spoke for two hours. The manu
script he had prepared was the intro
duction of the speech a page and a
half of legal cap which Mr. Sage had
read the day before. The audience
made the sick man well, and an orator
again. '
- A Sl-n Painter. ' :- -- "
-.; Dick But how do you know he Is a
sign painter? . ; - " :
; Harry Because he wrote- asentence
in which there were six apostrophes
and he got every single one of them in
the wrong position. Boston Trans
cript .;; - - ': "
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
, - FARM AND HOME.
Tha Environment of Cattle Baa Much
to llo with -Their Development-
Many American H or sea in England
; Valne o"f Sweet Apple. '
Early Maturity. V
The environment of cattle has much
to do with their development and thrift,
and in this position we have still a good
deal to learn. 'Doctor Miles in his work
on stock breeding instances the Kerry
cattle of Ireland, which, In that coun
try, having been kept on scanty ra
tions, do not breed till they are five or
six years old, and In every way are ex
ceedingly slow In maturing. Some of
these Kerry cattle that were Imported
to New England, and put on better feed.
In a few generations bred readily at
three years old. The period for ma
turing was shortened nearly, or quite,
one-half. The early maturity of the
Shorthorn and Hereford is the result of
continued environment suited to that
end for many generations:
American Hones in Encrland.'
During the past year no less than 10,
000 American horses have been sold in
London alone. A large number are
used for the omnibuses and street cars.
The cabmaster and smaller dealer pro
fess not to touch them, the former be
lieving, and possibly rightly, that the
majority of foreign horses are some
what soft, while, as a rule, he declares
that at his price he can get plenty of
well-bred English horses, and that they
do his work very well. The fact Is,
however, that there are almost as many
American horses drawing cabs as
American subjects riding in them.
After American and Canadian horses
have changed hands under the ham
mer they are resold without anything
being said about their nationality.
They get into the country and add to
the difficulties and perplexities of the
breeder. -
Value of Pweet App'es.
The apple crop In most localities Is
this year a large one, and, as usual, in
years when apples are. abundant, -the
sweet varieties are likely in many
places to go to waste. That they are
not in as good demand as the sour ap
ple is due to their inferiority or sup
posed inferiority for cooking. A sour
apple in pie duly sweetened to take off
the surplus acidity, is, Indeed, better
than a sweet apple put to the same use.
But farther than this we think the
superiority will be with the sweet ap
ple. Many varieties are richer and
better for eating raw, while for bak
ing whole the sweet apple Is certainly
superior. One of the best ways of
eating baked sweet apples Is with
Tnilk. : Sour apples when baked are
too acid for this, and Desides, they
break down In cooking, and thus their
juices dissolve In the milk, while the
slices of baked apple retain their shape
and distinctive flavor.
Abscond in tr Bwarma. '
Bees will at times bid adieu to home
and apiary and leave for parts un
known. This occurs more frequently
in early spring, and arises principally
from starvation; They seem to prefer
swarming rather than to stay In the
blve and starve to death. A cure for
this may be affected at once, by giving
them a frame of brood and honey from
some other colony, or they may be
brought about by feeding. Swarms
all abscond occasionally, and after be
ing hived will reissue during swarming
time. This frequently occurs from the
cause of mismanagement in hiving
them.
When having swarms, the hive should
be so arranged as to admit an abun
dance of ventilation, and in excessively
hot weather the hive should be shaded.
When bees swarm they fill themselves
with honey to the utmost limit, and in
this condition they cannot stand close
confinement in hives, with" the sun
shining directly upon them. Every
swarm thus hived should have a frame
of newly-hatched brood given them
from some other colony. This is prac
ticed now and by almost all apiarists
and is a sure preventive of absconding
swarms. Colman's Rural World.
Weed and Good Farming.
Occasionally a farmer is heard to
ask how the weeds can be killed, but
he does not realize that If by some
rapid process they could all be dis
patched new legions would fill their
places at once If the conditions -which
they enjoy remain. What farmers
need to comprehend Is that without
some radical mistake in the manage
ment of their land the daisies never
would have gained such a foothold.
All plants, including weeds, settle and
thrive where the competition for life
is such that they can enter into it pros
per. A good stand of grass leaves no
room nor any hope for weeds. It Is
not In well-tilled fields that Canada
thistles flourish, but in neglected pas
tures and by the roadsides. In the
contest with the best agricultural
practice they cannot prevail. The rem
edy for weeds Is to keep the land busy
with a good crop on it and this means
that the farmer must give persistent
and connected thought to his business.
If the daisies crowd out the grass It
Is because the meadow has been neg
lected and the grass has begun to fall,
and wherever there is a vacancy, by
the failure of the grass every enter
prising weed finds a rightful oppor
tunity to establish itself. If the farm
er asks, therefore, what will kill the
daisies, there Is one answer:' better
farming. Garden and Forest
A Fchool of Horticulture.
A very commendable step In the right
direction has been taken by the Uni
versity of Missouri, In the establish
ment of "A School of Horticulture."
An appropriate and deserved "tribute"
to the great and growing horticultural
interests of the State of Missouri!
Something of this kind has long been
needed.
A Good Whitewash.
Skim milk and water lime mixed to
the consistency of cream. The milk
must be sweet in order-that the cal
cium of the lime may have the right
chemical effect upon the casein of the
milk. For coloring we generally use
Venetian red, or, If stone color is de
sired, black . is mixed with the red.
It may be applied at any time of the
year, as it sets immediately. We have
seen a great many buildings painted
with this mixture," and where two coats
are given It makes a permanent job of
It To some this may appear too cheap
to be good. It is cheap, especially for
farmers, and after comparing It with
oil-painted . buildings, as to cost and
durability, it Is much the better. Bear
in mind, we are talking about out
buildings, which usually have rough
surfaces. Practical Farming.
- Overeat ting; of Butter.
The habit of oversaving butter comes
from neglect to properly work It If all
the milk were got out of the butter, a
very little salt would suffice to keep It
sweet It is the fermentation of casein
ln the butter rather than of the fat It
self that' makes' butter rancid. The
popular taste requires much less salt
on butter than it used to do. . One rea
son tor this probably is that butter
eaters have found out , that the very
salty taste means an attempt to cover
up defects in the butter, just as highly
salted and spiced meats are open to
the suspicion that they have been made
so after beginning to spoil. In England
and Scotland there Is a large demand
for perfectly fresh butter. It com
mands a better price than the salted
butter, for the addition of salt Increases
weight without much Increasing the
cost But this nnsalted butter must be
eaten within a day or two of making
or It will spoil. -
Dairy Dots. -
: How do you develop the heifer you
dee to keep for the pall?
Out ounce of salt to the pound Is a
good rule, but salt to please your cus
torrers. Fi.-ed your cows twice per day at reg
ular intervals, and hav pure water and
salt always accessible.
!- Thirty-two States la the Union now
have laws prohibiting the sale of oleo
miugarlne, when colored In Imitation
of butter.
A cow's stomach is not a complete
stra'ner that will separate all good
frou bod, and all kinds of food and
drink cannot be given wlth lmpunlty.
If winter dairying pays best with
you, breed most of your cows In De
cen.ber and January, and they will be
fresh in September and October follow
ing. D not leave the butter exposed to
the air after it is made. Print or pack
It ar once, and put it In a cool place un
til .t goes to the market or to the cus
tomer. Deliver every week. v
When salt is kept where the cows can
heip themselves, there Is no danger of
thti'.r eating too much. It Is only when
It is kept from them for some time that
the-e Is any risk of tha'r doing so. .
' ver let the suh shine on milk. Nev
er put It away without aerating it.
Neither let It stand open In the air af
ter U has been aerated. Nothing is so
susceptible to evil germs In the air as
nr'k. " .
Farm Notes.
A dally oil massage, lasting fifteen
minutes, will eventually hide the bonea
of the throat Alcohol massage will re
duce superabundant flesh.
Tne Southern cow pei is winning fa-vo-
In the Northern States, and Prof.
Cornell, of Texas station thinks the
Canada field pea will as surely win fa
vor in the South. Plant In fall or
spring, with oats. Hairy vetch and
oal: also make a good mixture.
It has been demonstrated by the most
careful experiments that bees do not
pu icture grapes to get at their Juices,
but attack them only after the birds
have done the puncturing. Plant the
vineyard and the apiary together; have
the rtands sheltered by the vines, with
out any injury to either.
Wo ' often deny animals . the very
things which our natures crave, for
getr.ng that they are similarly consti
tuted. Ashes, charcoal and salt sup
ply mineral elements essential to
health, and far better than a resort to
condition powders and other medicines.
They will cleanse and purify the sys
tem in the safest way.
A few dollars expended In trees and
shrubbery for ornamenting the farm
will not return an Immediate profit, but
at some future time, when It may be
desirable to sell the farm, the addi
tional value will then be quite large.
Paint and whitewash are also excellent
agents for increasing the value of the
farm at a small cost
The most valuable man who labors
an.J who can always get work Is the
experienced farm hand, not the one
who must be told what to do, but who
knows what is required and puts his
laboi to the best advantage. Capable
and experienced men on the farm are
not numerous, and it is not advisable
to allow a good one to go if he can be
kept without loss during the winter.
it is never a good practice to grow
two root crops in succession on the
same land. It can only be done by very
hea-y manuring to supply the fertility
tha the preceding crop has taken
away." Gardeners who grow roots gen
erally manage to grow them In alter
nation with crops that do not draw so
heavily on the land. The onion crop
can be grown on the same land in suc-
ces 'on, but the onion is not properly a
root
Odds and Ends. -
. If India rubber bands are put around
bottles carried in a sacbel or packed in
a box they will prevent, the bottles from
grinding together, and perhaps break
ing. :.
. Soap for household use will last as
long again if, after it has been cut into
blocks, It Is put by for a few weeks be
fore being used. New soap melts so
quickly and Is extravagant where much
is required. - - .
The rubber rings of fruit cans will re
cover their -elasticity if soaked for a
while In weak ammonia water. This is
quite an item when canning is being
done and the rubber rings are found to
be stretched out of shape.
A coloring for white flannel or other
goods to be used for rugs or hangings
may be easily obtained by gathering
from stone walls or rock work the thin
moss that grows there and boiling it
with the goods In an iron kettle. It will
make them a tan color.
In washing grained woodwork use clear
water or weak cold tea. Where there
are finger marks to be removed, such
as around the door knob or on the win
dow sill, a little fine soap may be used,
but only Just enough to do the work,
for soap should not be used on this
woodwork If it can be avoided, j
In mixing cakes always .use a large
fork, or two forks together, Instead of
an Iron or wooden spoon. Mashed po
tatoes should never be beaten with a
spoon. They will be twice as light if a
fork Is used. They should first be mash
ed with a potato crusher, then, when
the milk and butter are added, beat
well with a fork.
Study of the Criminal.
Dr. P. Penta, an Italian criminologist
has discovered a new feature of crim
inal anthropology, which goes to con
firm still farther the views pf Prof.
Lombrosso. According to modern med
icine Dr. Penta has studied the fingers
and toes of 4,600 criminals, and finds
a deficiency In the number, as well as
prehensile toes, marked by a wide space
between the great toe and the second
toe; also a webbed condition of the
toes, an approximation to the toeless
feet of some savages. He found the
little toe rudimentary in many cases,
showing a tendency toward the four
toed animal foot The most common
of all the abnormalities was the web
bed condition of the toes.' The criminal
is truly a degenerate type.
There Is always fault to be found if
one wants to look for It; there is a good
deal of virtue in not looking for it
. TO LATE TO MEND.
There in a point beyond which medication
cuniior. go. Before it U too late to mend, per
sous of a rheumatic tendeucy, inh riled or ac
quired, should ute that benignant -defense
against the further progress of the kuperlena
oions nialndy rheumatism. The name of this
proven rescuer is Hostetter's ntomach Bitters,
which, it anonld also be recollected, cures dvs
P"psia, liver complaint, fever and ague, de
bility and nervousiieas.
No fewer than 16,000 persons die in
Italy every year from malarial fever,
and there are 4,000 communes where
quinine is not to be had.
Piso's Cure for Consumption has been a
God send to me. Wm. B McClellan,
Chester, Florida, Sept. 17. 1885.
, Sixty dollars was the sum charged
by Police Commisioner Welles, of
Broooklyn, to a policeman for taking a
drink of beer while on duty.
- Professor Goldwin Smith, in a letter
to the London Times, says that the de
mand for the franchise for women is
dying ont in the United States.
Dr. Bonffe, of Paris, has discovered
the bacillus of leprosy in the blood, as
well as in the tissues.
' Mrs. Sophie Keller is the first woman
conductor in Denmark. In 1895 she re
tired from the operatio stage, after a
brilliant lyric career of 25 years, and
began to teach. Last autumn she found
ed an institution called the Women's
Private Society For Concerts, which
opened with about ' 1, 000 active and as
sociate members. Now she is gathering
a complete orchestra of girla Both un
dertakings are proving very successful.
The music at the women's concerts is of
a high character, and Mrs. Keller's en
terprises have excited great interest in
Denmark. Boston Woman's Journal
SlOO REWARD, 810O.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
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that science has been able to cure lu alllia stages
and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the
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eabe. requires a constitutional treatment. Hull's
Caiarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tne sys
tem, thereby destroying the foundation of the
disea e, and giving tne patient strength by
bnildiug up the cot'Stitution and a-siniing na
ture in doing lis work. The proprietors have
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oner One Hund.ed Dollars for any case that it
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Hall's Family Pills are the best
A shoe that can be heated bv means
of an apparatus attached to the sole is
among the latest curiosities at the
Washington patent office.
TEST with a big B. Blackwell's Genuine Ball
Durham ia in a class by itself. You will find
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