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HELEN LAKEMAN; on, Tho Story of a Young Girl's Strug gles With Adversity. BY JOHN H. MTTSICK, Author or "Tub lUNKKn or Br.DronD," "Wai.tkh UtiowsriF.t.D," Etc. tCopyright, Js, by A. A'. Kellogg A'etctpcper Co. A looking beds. Gathered around tlic fire-place, in which were a few coals, wore half n ilozon wretched creatures, live women iiml one man. They wore clothed in tilth and rags, and their long, uncombed hair hung about their shoulders, or was tied in knots with strings. The day whs slightly cool, and the poor mortals were doing all in their power to instill some warmth into their bodies. They were growling, pushing and snarling, more like ani mals than human beings. Long .suffer ing had filled them with selfishness. Little Amos was placed on a hard chair near tho door. He did not dure go too near those creatures, they seemed so much like wild animals. Occasionally they turned their sallow faces upon him. One was blind, two were orippled, the man was partially insane, one woman had the rickets, and the other was too old ami feeble to help herself. These objects were disgusting anil frightful to look upon, and Amos expected from the glances they cast upon him that ho would be soon torn to pieces. "Oh, Helen ! Helen ! where is sister Helen?" he cried, weeping bitterly. CIIAITKlt XIII. IN JAIL. Mr. Belcher, tb .sheriff, had a kind heart and did all he could to cheer Helen. "I hope, Miss Lakeman, it'll not be as bad as you think. I hope you will some out all right." "No, no !" said Helen, her face grow ing more calm and pale, "I know that -dm me, ruin and death will come out of this ; I am in the power of persons bent upon my ruin, and nothing on earth can save me." "Who do you think is bent on your ruin?" "Mr. Arnold and family." "Why, great goodness! why would thev want to ruin a poor girl like ou?" Helen was silent. She could not nnswer this question, though she knew hc answer to it. She could not tell dim that the Arnolds had determined to have the educated and accomplished Warren Stuart a member of thru fam ily, and that tho pretty face ut lite lured s;irl was in the way. That MeJn Lake man. arrested and disgrac4. would lose her beauty even in thu nyen ( her .ufatuated lover. She dare not toll the dioriff what Iter honest cousictions said were the living truths, for they would not be believed. The she rill' waited for her to speak. Belcher had veil an officer long enough to regard ivery person arrested as a criminal. Jf course, this girl was guilty. He felt very sorn for her. She was young, Beautiful and intelligent, and she was jftcn tempted. He resolved, in his own amid,. to intercede with the court and uruseeuting attorney and have her pun idiinent as liglit as possible. It would ii niueh lighter with her, ho knew, if die would own the thing right lip and jiake a clean breast of it all. He re garded it as his duty to advise tho girl ki do so. "nelen," he said, in as kind and fatherly a tone us he could command, "you are a young girl, and perhaps know nothing about law." She bowed hor head to receivo the advice, which she knew would come "I feel sorry for you on account oi this trouble vou havo got into," the sheriff said, "and I want to talk to yot us if you were my own daughter." The carriage was rolling along ovoi a smooth piece of wood, and the shcrill knew every word tho girl said by way of confession could bo heard by the driver, provided she denied it after ward. Tho sheriff determined to work up the caso if possible. Helen was still silent, and ho continued : "You are young, thrown upon the world without an adviser or friend, and now if I can help you any I would be glad to do so. Your crime is a soriotiE one, to begin with, and, what is more, you will bo convicted of it. Tho prooi against you is overwhelming, and there is no power no lawyer on earth that can mako a jury believe you aro inno cent." He paused to seo the effects of his remarks upon tho kind-hearted girl. Helen was silent. Her face was no paler than before, and there were no visible evidences of an increase in her emotions. "Feeling for you, as I do, Helen, I think it my duty to adviso you to make a clean breast of tho whole thing. Own up to it liko a woman, and throw your self on tho mercy of tho court." He paused, because tho white faco of the fair prisoner was turned upon him and her eyes were blazing with a strange light. Her look was one of inquiry, at least so he determined to mako himself understood. "I mean, Helen, that It is better for you, when arraigned, to plead guilty, udmit taking the bracelet, und I think we can get you oft' easily." For a moment tho white faco was up turned to his, and then tho sweet, sad voice said: "Would you havo mo admit a Ho?" "Oh, no, no, no!" said tho shoritT, "but you know" and he scratched his head, "but you seo every hotly knows it, you know, ami every body will know iU It makes ho difference) what you say, they will believe it," "Bcliove what?" said Helen, her eyes ...ivtng a ngnt ver unnatural. i can not help what people say of me. 1 am not the fust girl who has been ruined by the thoughtless or intentional slan ders of people who have sonieolaifcis to goodness; but 1 am innocent in the sight of Heaven. 1 know tho crime is a felony. It is what the lawyers call 'grand larceny,' and 1 will bo sent to the penitentiary, but I would not admit a lie to save myself from all this degra dation." Mr. Belcher now discovered that he had no ordinary person to deal with. She was either innocent or the most brazen criminal he had ever met. Never had he known one actually guilty to assume her manner and tone. The sheriff thought: "Of course, she is guilty. Judge Arnold's family stand too high in social circles to have made a false report on the girl, and the Judge is too shrewd to be mistaken. Of course she is guilty. Judge Arnold can hae no deep game to play in this matter." The girl was poor and friend- less, and lie nail expressed himself us regretting that it had occurred. He looked at Helen. She met his eyes with an unwavering gaze. Her manner said: "I havo done nothing to merit this, and can not be made to bow my head in shame. You may punish me if you will, but you can not break my spirit." "She "i3 certainly a case." thought the sheriff, turning his face toward the coach window. "Oh, 1 do wish she would plead guilty, she's foolish if she don't." The last was for Helen to sponded: muttered loud enough hear. She quickly re- "It may be foolish to plead not guilty, Mr. Belcher, but it will be right. It is better to be right than to bo wise." The sheriff was silenced. Tho village was soon reached, and the roekaway drove up to the ollice of tho magis trate. Squire Bluffers had his ollice in an old frame building on the ground floor, not many rods removed from the post- tiliee. which was on the corner of the square. 1 he justice ot the peace was a portly man. with gray hair, and a pair of spectacles upon his nose. He was j writing on his docket on the entrance of the sheriff with his prisoner. The old justice looked up and then pushed his spectacles upon his forehead. No sooner dill his eyes rest upon the fair premier, then he started. Squire Bluff ers was a man with a big, kind heart, and to see one so young and handsome as Helen Lakeman fallen, touched him. "THIS IS THE I'KKSON, "This is the person," said the sheriff, gruflly. Since he had found Helen so much more hardened than ho had expected, he had lost much of his sym pathy for hor. The justice, in the absence of the pnecuting attorney, read the complaint to her, and asked her whether sho was guilty or not guilty. "Not guilty," was the response The magistrate folded up the com plaint, and, putting it in a large envel- 1 ope, thrust it back m a pigeon-hole. Thero was a fow moments silence, when the justice, taking up his pen, said : "Have you a lawyerP" "No sir," Helen answered. "Have you money to employ a law yer?" "No sir ; I had but two dollars and fifty cents, and I gave that to my littlo brother, when 1 left him." "Do you want an examination now, to-day, or would you rather wait?" Helen felt prompted to ask for delay, and sho did so. "Can you give bonds for your appear ance hero in ten days?" "I think not," Helen answered. "I know but very fow persons, and thoso I do not know 1 would not liko to ask to go on my bond." "I will make it small if you will mako an effort." "It would bo no use," said Helen, sadly. "I don't liko to send a nice littlo girl liko you to jail," said tho justice, with a flattering smile. "I do not liko to go there," said Helen, brushing a tear from her check, "but I suppose it can't be helped. It mny be that sometime tho world will know that I am innocent, though it is impossible to convince pcoplo now." "I will continuo your caso for ten days, my good girl j in the meanwhile I will have to commit you. Mr. Bridges, the jailor, is a very nico man, mil ho may not lock you up in a cell, but let you stay with his family." I he suggestion of tho justico seemed to strike tho sheriff favorably. Ho said ho would seo Bridges about it. Mr. Bridges had tho front part of tho jail converted into a dwelling whero him self and family lived. He was found und tho thing talked over. If it could bo dono ho had no objection. Mr. Belcher assured him that ho had tho opinion of tho justico of the peace on that subject, and that it could bo dono with propriety. Tho result of their conference on the matter was that they went to tho justice's office, where Helen, with her bonnet drawn down over her faco out of modesty, not from soii6e of shame, sat, Hero, Juok," saldHho justico, tak ing up a paper, "hero is a commitment for ILilon I-aliuuan. Hor case U con- tinned for ton tin vs. You might let her stay in your house if you have no cell for her, as vour house Is a part of the jail." "Will you try to get away, Helen," said the j tiler to the girl, "providin' I don't lock vou up?" "Would you believe any promise I would make vou?" the girl asked. "Well, yes" I might." "No one believes what I say; I am Innocent of any crime, yet no one be lieves me. Kven tho sheriff insist on my pleading guilty, and admitting u crime 1 never committed." "No, I don't," said the. sheriff, a lit tle nettled, "I wanted you to plead guilty if you committed tho offense; it would bo better for you in the end." "Promise mo that you will make no effort to escape," said the jailer, "and you need not enter tho walls of tho jail." Helen gave her promise, and was told to "come on." She arose and followed the jailer to his house, inure were many curious eyes turned upon her, as she went to the jail, for the news of her arrest had spread all over the village. She reached the house of the jailer and was ushered in. CHAlTKK XIV. CI.AUKNClt AND KOSK COItM A 1IIIAVK ItRSOI.V TIOX, ASD CAKIIT IT OUT. The news of Helen Lakeman's arrest spread like wild tire all over the Sandy ! l.rk neighborhood. Mrs. Arnold, with her head high in the air, in her en- I delivers to see under her glasses, was i ready to answer any anil all questions in reinm! to thu matter. Mothers Tar truui and (Jrundy called on her for their supply of news, and started about from house to house to peddle it out. The next Sunday, there being preach ing at the Sandy Fork school-house, the news was scattered generally. Mother Tarlrum, who sat next to Mrs. Evans, said : "Didn't you hear about that Lako man gal? Sho stole some money at Judge Arnold's." "Money ! I heard it was a bracelet." "No it was money." "Who told you?" "Mother Grundy." "Who told her?" "Mrs. Arnold." "1 think there must havo boon somo mistake about it, ".said Mrs. Evans. "I'd like to know how?" said Mother Tart rum, "thero can't be no mistake about it." "Oh, the bracelet must havo been lost and put among Helen's things by mistake." "No it wasn't," said the tattler, shaking her head; "no, it wasn't; she stole it, 1 know she stole it." "But Helen was such a good girl. There can't be any doubt as to her in nocence." "You think that thing was a good gal?" asked Mother Tartruin, who seemed a special agent to slander Helen. "Yes." "Well, she came to Mrs. Arnold's way in the night with a strange man. Do you call that a nico gal? She's tho she's the worst gal we had in tho neighborhood." The eyes of Mother Tartruin sparkled with indignation, and the hairy mole on her cheek trembled with anger. "Is that so?" asked Mrs. Evans. "1 guess it is; Mrs. Arnold U-1U it." Not three seats away Mother Grundy was hurranjruing Mrs. Taylor. "Wonder what Warren Stuart thinks his gal now, eh? She's bad onough, j jrUess. I guess young men who throw away such girls as Hallio Arnold for a kitchen gal is sure to get beat. Sho is jist as bad as can be, and is now locked up in jail for a thief." There was one family to whom the news of Helen's fall canio liko a thun derbolt. It was the Stuarts. When Mrs. Stuart first heard of it sho burst into tears, and said : "It's all our fault, Jacob! it's nil out fault; wo drove her to do it." "I don't see how wo aro to blamo," said tho farmer, trying to find somo way of relieving himself from any obli gation to the friendless girl. "Wo drove her away with hor poor, little, crippled brother, out into tho world. The temptation was too great. Oh, who could blame her? It was her mother's bracelet sold at the sale." "I can," said tho farmer; "nico mess we liko to got into, 'an it's a blossin' wo got rid of her just when we did, or we'd had a thief in our family. She had tho wool completely pulled over Warren's eyes." Mrs. Stuart wept a few moments in silence, and then said : "But think, Jacob, of tho poor, friend less child, for sho Is scarcoly more than a child, und of tho charge sho has upon her. ' "Oh, yes, I know" "What do you suppose has bcoomo of What Sho Would Do. She was cosily intrenched upon his ihoulder, and they wero very, very happy. "George," sho whispered, nnd ho bent his head to listen, "do you know what I would do if your lovo for mo diould cool?" "Would you die, dear?" ho asked, passionately. "No, George; I would brlnjj suit for breach of promise." N. Y. bun. ri encii piovmciai lawyer recent ly died. In his will ho directed that nn annuity of $100 a year bo paid to tho servant who should "close his eyes." When this clause was read tho servant who had performed tho oflleo jumped with joy, but his delight was speedily diimpenod by the nephew and heir of tho dead man who reminded the servant that Ids master only had ono eyo, nnd the servant actually failed to get Ids legacy on this absurd techulcalitr. CHILDREN'S PARTIES. Commnn-Soiiw Aunuptiifnt nml Entr Inliimrntn for ltoy nnd (llrl. Much has been said against tho fol lies in amusements of the present day for children. We admit thore Is con siderable nonsense, and that which is worso, connected with modern child life amusements in largo cities, but let the mothers and grandmammas look back, ami If they can find an average of intelligence and good sense mingled in the amusements of their day, let them tell us about it. I will tell you about some of the modern entertain ments of the season, whero children I know have been the entertainers and the entertained. A children's party nowadays disdains tho old-fashioned kissing plavs and forfeits. Tho chil dren of to-day would rathor wait until the warm days of summer, when they can pay and collect their forfeits from their rollcklng playmates in hide-and-seek, tag. ring-a-round-a-rosy or blind man's buff, for children like these plays nowadays just as well us evor, only they prefer them in open air and on the croquet ground rather than in the druwing-room, a sulv stitute for which is a real amateur lit erary entertainment. At one of these gatherings recently, a little girl of only fourteen recited that beautiful poem, "Bobert of Lincoln." with expression and ventriloquism that might have con vinced our forefathers of supernatural powers of the vocal organs of this lit tle maiden. One of the original dia logues, written by the same girl, in which the characters wero represented by her Utile brothers and sisters, whom she had trained at home for the occas ion, demonstrating the confidence and faith that littlo children place in such a teacher. Children, in many cases, have capacity and inlluence as teacher with younger children, and can accom plish more with their 'pupils than teachers of years and experience. One littlo girl, of five years, recited "The Beautiful World," "The Ueininiscences of my Grandma" and "Mamma's Sun shine;" she sang with effect, which im pressed most of the aiidieuco with a de sire to grasp her in their arms and run away with her. The natural unstudied fascinations of little children in rhet orical rehearsals, attained under good training of well-quatiliod touchers, is dillicult to bo surpassed in later years. Children are constantly learning some thing. It is no more injurious to a little child's brain to learn that which will profit and entertain themselves and others than to acquire an endless jingli) of Mother Goose. I do not mean to speak irreverently of the good .id lady, for hor gifts served mo well when I was little, but she has served her time and mission, and I am sure she is or ought to be willing to grace fully resign to the progross of the day, anil most politely bow herself out of modern literature. The bane and dread of this kind of entertainment for children is the over-dono elocution. Children'' s Friend. The Good Old Days. In tho good old times of forty and fifty years ago in Illinois all one had to do with a drove of steers was to turn thorn out in the spring as poor as could lie, and by the first of the following Octo ber every ono of them would be rolling fat, and a $10 steer would buy eight acres of good land. Now a .?!!() steer, after eating fifty bushels of AO-cent corn and SlO-a-'.on hay, will only buy one-half acre of poor land. Then to raise hogs all one had to do was to turn a few sows and a boar into the woods in the spring, and every fall throw out aboit one bushel of 15-ccnt corn to the head to finish them up and one had a fat drove of hogs, and evory $2.0 hog would pay for two acres of land; and there wero but few men in Central Il linois In tho old times referred to who would trade a $2 pig for a section of land, for thoy could all havo ton sec tions apiece without oven laying 1 cent tax on it, and often thore would be a largo tract of land left. lilooimngton (111. ) I'antagruph. Words in Common Use. Thore aro 7.1.000 words in Webster's Dictionary, and no living man knows one-half or one-third of them. It is astonishing what a number of stipor lluous words thero aro in our lan guage. Shakespeare, who had the richest vocabulary used by any English man, employed only 10,000 words. Milton could pick out from 8,000, but the average man, a graduato from one nf the great universities, rarely has a vocabulary of moro than 8,000 to 4,000 words. The ordinary person can get along very comfortably with 600 words, and In tho rural districts u knowledge of 200 words is sufllclont to carry a man through life. This of course, re fers to the noods of conversation. If a man wants to read newspapers and well-written books, ho must know at least 3,000 words. Golden Days. i "Browning" oranges grown In the West Indies and Mexico, so that they'll pass muster as Florida fruit. Is the de vice of nn enterprising Yankeo, The Boston Jludget gives the process, which consists in putting the fruit Into a large sieve and passing it over a hot llro un til the oranges nro suflicleutly scorch ed, technically "browned," to give the Florida tinge. It is said tiio "brown ed" fruit Is mostly shipped North und West 0 m i San Antonio boasts of a cltlzon n century old who recently rodo to a dog fight eighteen miles away and was blight enough to pick out tho winning ' i . i Cameron Palish, La., has a court without a criminal case on tho docket, and n jail u&ed only for thu storage of flee.' PROFIT FROM POULTRY. A ltomuiirrattvp tlutlnr When Con lined Within CiTtnln Limit. Comparatively fow farmers, whoraiso more or less poultry, ever keep an ac count of expenditures and receipts, nd so tho real condition of the balance dieet is practically uuknow. Some will imagine that tho kooping of poul try results in profit, while others claim that "it costs more than it conies to." A neighboring farmer commenced, on tho first of January, 1887, with sixty hens and roosters, and during the en tiro years kept a careful account of all expenses and receipts, and was well satisfied with the result. Not having nil tho figures at hand wo enn only give the general result On the first of January, 1888, ho had seventy fowls, ten moro than ho startod with; had sold nearly ?o0 worth of chickens, enough to pay for all tho food pro vided, and hnd sold between $70 and $80 worth of eggs. In this trial tho feed was of tho greatost variety and given warm, in tho mornlng.jboth summer and winter. It consisted of wheat, buckwheat, corn, oats, meat scraps, ground bono, lino feed, and meal scalded, with condiments of gin ger, pepper, sulphur, etc. Tho feed at night was corn and buckwheat. In this caso tho cost of keeping tho fowls fell somewhat below what is generally considered an average. We havo no ticed a good many records of tho cost of keeping fowls, and tho average did not fall a groat way below one dollar per hoad, but in this case the cost varied but littlo from eighty cents per head. Nor has any mention been mado of tho manure that can bo accumulated from a flock of sixty fowls when upon their roosts, if properly taken caro of. But of course tliis would servo as an offsottotho timo spent in caring for tho same. Tho poultry business, when confined within certain limits, may without doubt bo mado a profitable branch of farm industry, and nnyono knows that there is always a healthy demand for fresh oggs in preference to thoso that havo already boon shipped a long dis tance and aro of a doubtful character. Hri. . Ycomans, in N. Y. Observer. STABLES FOR COWS. How to Arrnnco Tlinm Whoro Only One A ill mill I Kt. Tho stable for a cow may bo a vory simple affair. If a horse Is kept, there should be a soparato entranco for tho cow, or the horse or the cow should bo kopt in a closed stall, so that thoro can ho no danger of one injuring the other. If a pig is kopt it should novcr bo per mitted to become a source of ill odors in the cow stable, and by nil means, the pig should not bo kopt in tho ma nure yard. If a cow neods to bo kopt clean for tho sake of tho swoetnossand purity of the milk and butter, a pig should bo kept equally clean for tho sake of the meat; for a pig Is subject to all the conditions in this respect that a cow is, and pure, wholcsomo pork is as desirable as pure, wholosomo milk and butter can be. For prepar ing tho foed for the cow, a small-sizod fodder cuttor should bo procured, ono of tho coppor-strip rollor kind is perhaps tho most desira ble and easily kopt in order, and the fodder should be cut and fed with tho meal. Thoro is economy in it, nnd n wasto of at loast one-fourth of tho feed nnd fodder in using long ha nnd dry meal. In the summer tho feeding should bo pasture, or grass cut and car ried to a small yard, and tho daily al lowance of meal may bo given mixed with tho fresh grass, or somo of tho wasto of the gardon and tho house. Parings of potatoes, turnips, poa pods, pea vinos nml tho clippings of tho lawn will all afford usoful food for a cow. In country places, whoro half tho road way bolongs to tho owner of tho lot, and tho public hnvoonly a right of way and passago over tho road, and havo no right to loavo tho boaton traok and damago tho othor parts of tho road un less obliged to do so, tho roadsides may bo kopt in clover and grass, and afford a largo amount of fooding. American Agriculturist. Silhouette Placques. First, you must havo n fow silhou ettes taken. Sometimes these can bo mado at homo by cctliuir some ono to copy ono's shadow off tho wall and fill ing in tho outlines with India ink, but it is hotter to get thorn dono by a person who makes a business of it as tho sil houette will bo moro corroot nnd can bo dono at a low prlco. If ono has a protty profile a protty effect will bo obtained on tho plncqtio. A china saucer is to bo secured, which must bo porfoctly smooth on tho inside, with out tho littlo dent in the bottom to hold tho cup. If tho china closot doos not contain what you require, or you do not caro to spoil your set by using ono of those you have, you must put on your bat and take a run around tho corner to tho nearest crockery shop and purchase ono for a fow cent's. Tho saucer is then given a coating of liquid gold paint both inside and out After this has beon allowed to dry thorough ly tho silhouette Is carofully removed from tho curd and pasted oxaotly In tho center of tho saucer. Tho profilo Is thon outlined with crimson paint, ap plied with a flno camel's hair pencil, and a broad band of tho same color put around the odge of tho placquo with a coarse brush. Tho placquo is noxt fastenod to a small polished brass easel and finished with a handsomo bow of crimson satin ribbon. When properly dono this placquo makes an ornament artistic onough for tiny bric-a-bruo table. Detroit Free Press. Hundreds of Canadians nro said to bo awaiting naturalization in Chicago. CAUSES OF FAILURE. Condition I.ciicllnj; to Poor Method, mo A rrlnrlples oT Tunning. That the farming in this country in far from being good is tho common statement of our pcoplo who go abroad and of intelligent foreigners who visit us. It contrasts very unfavorably with the farming in England, Scotland, Holland and Belgium. Tho land pro duces smaller crops and the soil is gen erally losing its fertility. Tho causa of our poor farming is not to bo found in an unfavorable climate, a soil lack ing in the elements of fertility or tho Lack of intelligence among tho farming class. Ono cause of our poor manage ment of land is to be found in tho cir cumstance that we have too many per sons engaged in farming. In some of tho States and Territories producing crops and raising stock are almost tho only Industries pcoplo can ongago itu There is no fishing, mining, lumbering or manufacturing interests. Men who rely on their lalnir for support must work at farming, for the obvious rea son that thero is very littlo else to do. There are no fish to catch, no lumber ta be cut, and no mines to work. In the countries previously named., where tho farming operations aro most excellent, there aro many industries in which men can engage. Onry about, one-tenth of the Inhabitants aro en gaged in any branch of husbandry. The consequence is that only such per sons become farmers or remain farm ers as are adapted to the business. Men of small mental ability and poor judgment are much moro likoly to en gage in mining thai, in farming. In a coal or iron mine their labor, which is purely mechanical, is directed by ior sons of somewhat superior intelligence. They can use a pick or drill and earn fair wages. Men who havo a liking for the water engage in fishing. Men who have the taste and ability to han dle tools find occupations in tho vari ous mechanical arts. Not many more are engaged in farming than in prac ticing the various professions. Thoy select farming or stock-raising becnusa they have a taste for it a decided in clination as others Imvo for surgery, preaching, watch-making or writing novolt. One man in ton in any country is "cut out" for a farmer. In the State of Nebraska and tho Territory of Dakota thero is hardly any industry in which men can engage excopt farming and stock-raising. There are no mines, no forests and no waters abounding in fish. Tho coun try has boon too recently settlod. ami is too poor to cngago in many kinds ot manufacturing. Thoro is employment for railway operatives, salesmen in stores and builders. Tho groat major ity of tho inhabitants, howocr, must engage in farming for want of an oc cupation that is more suitable and mora ongonial to them; that many of then prove to be very poor farmers is by no moans strange. It is generally ac knowledged that there is better farming in the Eastern and Northern States limn in tho Southern and Wes'ernones, and the reason is doubtlessly to bo found in the circumstance that there are more industries hi tho former in which the persons can engage. In the latter Slates many dovoto themselves to farminir as a Inst resort or, rather as, the only resort They do not like the business, and arc not adapted to it. but they engago in it because thoy must do something, and thore is littlo work to do except on farms. if tho landing causo of poor farming In this country is too many farmors, mother causo is too much laud. Wheu n farm can bo had for tho taking tha taker is not very likoly to cultivate it as it should bo. Many have taken up land under the pre-emption, homestead or timber-claim acts, simply to obtoia a title to it without tho payment ot money. Thoy complied with tho law us fur as It was necessary to do so and. no furthor. Thoy broko somo sot!, planted somo crops, set out somo trees, nnd cultivated them after a fashion. None of tho work was well dono, for the reason that tho settlor did not ex pect to remain long on tho laiuL It was the intention to soil the gift farm as mo as a title could bo procured. Somo Improvements would help sell die pincc, and tho raising of some crops would assist in supporting n family. Few things are appreciated or properl used that are obtained for uotldng. Only in places where land is scarce and high Is it generally cultivated as it should bo to .secure tho best results. In most of tho States that have been, longest settled land is so easily ac quired that many farmers do not think It is economy to use it in such a man ner that It will Improvo under cultiva tion. If they want to ralso moro corn or small grain, produce moro hay or keep morostock.they buy moro land in stead of trying to iucreaso the product iveness of what they havo. Thoy will not tile low land so long as they can. buy laud in the vicinity that doos not require undordraining. Thoy will not dig up stumps or remove stones wldl thoy can purchase field that aro cleared. Many tobacb nnd cotton raisers have declarod that tho easiest, way for thorn to make money was to rniso thoir crops, as long as they could on ono place, and when thoy had milled the Boll to sock now land to sub ject to the exhaustive process. Obvi ously our farming operations wHl never compare with thoso in soma countries while so largo a proportion of our population is cngngod in farm ing and laud can be obtained so eatily. Chicago IHmes. Aw Orlando (Flu.) newspaper ram has bubstltucd a pair of sund-biM. cranes for watch dogs, und ho find that thoir loud, clear note of warning when a trump or burglar comes near id Uu effective means of protection.