W i t e r a t th e B arn .
I f one lias n pump located in or near
the barn there 1«, o f course, no diffi
culty In obtaining all the water needed
for all purposes In the barns. If, how
ever, It Is necessary to carry water for
the stock, then some plan should be
put in operation whereby water may
be obtained for other purposes, such
as wagon washing and the cleaning of
harnesses, without carrying It any
great distance. The rainfall may be
utilized by placing a barrel which Is
water-tight on a box or other platform
and, by the use of a simple and cheap
V-trough, carrying the water to the
barrel from the eaves of the barn roof.
A faucet should be placed In the bar-
held quite early and after the wheat
Is up watch It closely for attacks of
the hessian fly. Iu case the pest does
not appear It will be safe to fluiah the
sowing at once. In the event o f trou
ble with the small strip of wheat, wait
until Just before a »harp front may be
expected before sowing the balance of
the field. The Idea Is that If the wheat
does not make Its appearance until Af
ter a sharp frost It will be safe, as It
Is thought the frost will kill the hes
sian fly. This method Is well worth
trying and repeating each year until
some better plan la discovered.— Ex
change.
T h e W o n d e r « o f M o d ern F a r m in g .
Little Stories and
Incidents that Will
Interest and Enter-
tain Young Readers
not suffice that they be graceful. They
must also be useful. Their aim in
life Is not merely to be good; they
must be good for something.
The great aim la not to train girls
so they will live according to rules,
but so they may nobly live without
them. For It la Impossible to make
rule# to fit every emergency. The only
safe method In a daughter'* training
Mamma has made him little suits.
is to equip her with the stuff from
With pockets In the pants,
And cut off all hie yellow curls
which to make her own rules, as the
And sent them to my aunts.
occasion presents itself.
And Will, he was so pleased, I believe,
Our chief duty Is not so much to cor
He almost jumped with joy,
rect the faults as It Is to Instill th#
But I must own I didn't like
virtues. The secret of high living is
Will turned into a boy.
not, How much evil do we avoid? but.
How much good do we find? The se
And now he plays with horrid tops—
cret of successful parenthood is not,
I don't know how to spin.
And marbles that I try to shoot.
How many restrictions can we compel
But never hit nor win.
our daughters to live down to? but.
And leapfrog— I can’t give a "back”
How many rights and privileges can
Like Charlie, Frank or Roy.
we safely truat them to live up to?—
Oh, no one knows how bad I feel
Lavlula Hart, In Collier’s.
Since Will has turned a boy.
L a m e n t o f ■ L i t t l e G ir t.
My brother Will, he used to be
The nicest kind of girl,
He wore s little dress like me
And had his hair in cnrl.
We played with dolls snd tea seta then,
And every kind of toy;
But all these good old times ers gone—
Will turned Into a boy.
A ll the great crops are now planted,
and all except cotton are gathered by
machinery. Let us follow a crop
throughout a season’s work and see
the changes that have come In Its
treatment.
The plowman no longer trudges slow
ly and wearily back and forth across
his field. He rides a sulky plow with
a spring seat. There are special plows
for every need—turf plows, stubble
plows, subsoil plows, plows for heavy
I have to wear frocks just the same.
work, plows for light work, and gang
And now they’re mostly white
plows turning three furrows at once. I have to ait and just be good,
So simple are many of them that a boy
While Will can climb and fight.
may drive one. Plowing by steam Is But I must keep my dresses nice
not commonly practiced In the Middle
And wear my hair in curl;
West, but out on the great wheat And, worse— oh, worsteat thing of all—
I have to stay a girl!
ranches of the Pacific coast It Is com
mon. On the tule lands o f California
S o m e th in g f o r B oys.
a slxty-horse-power traction engine
Any boy who is clever with his
TO S A V E R A IN W A TE R .
drawing twenty-one feet o f disk plows knife can make many pretty and use
rel, as shown, so that the water may will break the ground to a depth o f j ful articles from dry branches o f trees.
be drawn off readily when wanted. ten Inches at the rate o f forty-five to One shown here Is a key holder, the
Over the top of the barrel Is placed a sixty acres a day. With mold-board j other a photograph stand. They are
frame, covered with the finest mesh plows designed especially for this j cut with a sharp pocket-knife and the
w ire obtainable. This will keep out work a strip twenty-eight feet wide different parts glued together; or
vermin and small animals, and yet can be broken. This means that a man nailed with thin wire nails. The most
permit sufficient air to circulate over and a pair o f horses with a single j
the water to prevent It from becoming mold-board plow would have to cross'
stagnant. The Illustration shows the a field twenty-eight times to do the I
plan, which Is an excellent one and same work that the traction engine
does by one trip of Its plows. A farm-1
very inexpensive.
er In the Central West who uses a \
small traction engine and a gang of!
Pinchine B e r r y B u s h e s .
The Ideal treatment for raspberries four fourteen-inch plows says that It
and blackberries Is to pinch them back coata him from 50 to 62 cents per acre
at intervals during the summer and to break his ground. H e considers \
thus secure strong, sturdy bushes three steam economical.
and one-half to four feet high, with
The land made ready for the recep
laterals from one to one nnd one-half tion o f the seed, machinery still does
feet long, rather than to practice "the the work that muscle used to do. The
severe heading back after the plants sower goes forth to sow, but not as he
have become long and "leggy.” If, once did, dropping his seed into the
however, as is frequently the case In soli, trudging backward and forward Important point about It la the Joining
the best managed gardens, the plants from dawn until twilight. His grass of the pieces. Notice how the joints
are at this seas n making vigorous or his grain Is broadcasted or drilled are cut to fit well together (see Illus
growth which may not mature, they In with mechanical evenness, and the tration). When the key-holder frame
should at once be cut back to the de machine automatically registers the Is ready, books and rings should be
sired height and the canes w ill harden acreage sown. In like manner hla corn screwed Into It to hang the frame up
before cold weather. Many prefer to Is drilled In, listed or planted In hills, and to hold the keys. The back support
cut back the bushes In the spring. his potatoes are planted, and even bis o f the photograph stand Is fastened
Thinning the canes, which should al cabbage, his cauliflower and his tobac with thin strips of leather nailed down
ways be practiced, may be done at any co plants from the seed beds are set oyer the horlaontal ends of the support
time during the sraron. In general, out by machinery, aud the work is
one-half or more o f the young canes done better than It could possibly be
S t a m p s a n d C o lle c t s «-# .
which appear should be cut out. Black by hand—this, besides the saving of
Germany has comparatively the
berry and raspberry bushes may be time and toil. Even In the vegetable most stamp collectors and consequent
transplanted In the fall, but better re garden seeders for all kinds o f seeds ly also the most counterfeit manufac
sults are usually obtained from spring are now extensively used. The ma turers.
plantings.— Maine Expei lmcnt Station. chines are pushed In front o f the op- ] Germany Is said to have a great
erntor, and they automatically drop many more philatelists than the Uni
b o i l i n g S m a ll A n im a ls .
and cover the seeds at the desired dis ted States. Nearly every family seems
When one raises stock of any kind tances and depth, and at the same time to have a stamp collection, conse
and Is obliged to cart them to market mark off the next row.—W. B. Thorn quently no stamps have gone to waste
there should be some device for load ton, In World's Work.
In years. Dealers are so thick that In
ing the animals Into the wagon with
Stuttgart there are a dozen windows
out the exercise of too great labor. The
given up to the display of stamps.
F a r m N o te s .
loading crate shown In the Illustration
A great collection of stamps, valued
The man or woman who does not
Is one of the best appliances of the
know how to keep up a rotation In the approximately at *50,000, which was
kind one! can have. It should be made
garden crops Is not up to present day stolen from Consul Weber, of Ham
burg, Germany, has been recovered
privileges.
through the work of the police depart
The longer the calf Is left with Its
ment of Berlin. The collection, It
dam the harder It will be to teach It
seems, was Innocently bought by a
to drink. The longer It is left with
London dealer for *1,910, and when he
the cow the harder It will be to wean,
was confronted with evidence proving
and the more foolish the cow will act
It to be stolen property, the purchaser
when weaning la attempted.
offered to return the lot upon being
Don't kick the hogs for rushing reimbursed with the amount that he
around you for their meals. It Is your paid for the loot. A fter some litiga
own fault. I f you would feed them tion the stamps were returned to the
as you should, you would not be in owner upon hla payment of *1,750 to
such a hurry. I f you must kick, give the dealer.
yourself a good big Jolt for not feeding
C h a r le s C a r r o ll’ s B r a v e r y .
better.
There Is one episode In history
It Is a very good plan to keep all
which made a great Impression on me
grain sacks and similar property
the first time I remember hearing
marked or branded. It la not a matter
about It, and that Impression has not
A t-O A D IN O D E V IC E .
o f proving dishonesty, but a matter
been lost or even become fainter In
o
f
convenience
to
have
them
so
strong, yet light so that It can be eas
the years that have passed since.
marked.
There
are
times
when
they
ily handled. A frame Is made of two
It happened In July. 1776, when a
by four material and the floor made w ill accidentally get lost.
group of men, the representative# of
The commercial feitlllxer used annu the American people, were gathered
o f Inch lumber with cleats nailed on
eight Inches apart. The upper end ally In the United States amounts to together about a table, signing their
should be well braced and the Incline between *16,000.000 and *50.000,000. names to that great work known aa
should not be too sharp. With a load Most of the States have provided for the Declaration of Independence.
ing rack of this kind little trouble will official Inspection of fertilizer to pro
Among the last to come forward v n
be had In handling sheep, swine or tect the farmer from fraud. The heav a man from Maryland, and after w rit
iest
applications
are
made
in
the
calve«.
ing his name, Charles Carroll, one of
Southern States. In some o f the prai the others said to him. " I f England
A I. a m l o f S m e l l F a r m e r s .
rie States hardly Siny commercial fep- ever gets us In her power we are sure
From a recent report on agriculture tllizers are sold.
to be hung as traitors. But there are
In Germany, It appears that of the
I f a strip of light burlap Is fastened other men in the colonies by the name
total agricultural area o f 12S.W10.000
around a milk cow's body loosely to of Charlee Carroll, so you have more
acres In Germany three fourths are ac
keep the flies off In By time she will of a chance to escape.”
tually under the plow or In cultiva
give more inllk, says an Indiana farm
For a moment there was silence;
tion aa meadows, pastures and hop
er, who adds; “ 1 have noticed how then Carroll picked up the pen aud
gardens, and less than 1.0W1.W10 acres
cows stand and fight flips and eat lit after hla signature wrote the words:
are cultivated for market garden and
tle. but when thus protected they put •'Of Carrollton” —the only man In all
vineyard produce. The area Is divided
In their time at eating. I milk with those flfty-slx to tell the name o f the
Into B.BOO.OOO holdings, and la princi
much more comfort since adopting this town In which he lived.
pally In the hands of small peasants
plan, which costs little.”
Other things, perhaps, of far more
and farmers. These peasant holdings
The finest and softest wool la al Importance to the world have taken
o f from two and a half to live acres
place than when Charles Carroll wrote
form the backbone of German agricul ways on the shoulders o f sheep. An the name of his town after his own;
expert
In
judging
sheep
always
looks
ture.
at the wool on the shoulders first. As but the remembrance of hla unselfish
suming that the wool to be Inspected ness and bravery will ever be treas
V l a h l l n c H e a e la n F l y .
Whether one grows 10 or 100 acre« Is really flue, the shoulders are first ured In my mind ae an evidence of
o f w h eat the hessian fly Is an enemy examined as a part where the finest those qualities which I most admire —
that will need watching.
Scientists wool Is to be found, which Is taken as 8t. Nicholas.
bare worked for years trying to find a standard, and it compared to the
A G ir l an d lia r T r a in in g .
The girl* o f to-day have a higher
some method o f exterminating this wool from the ribs, the thigh, the
peat, and agree that the best way of rump and the shoulder parts, aud the mission In life than to look ornamen
nearer the wool from the various por tal. It la not sufficient that they make
combating It Is the following:
A t the usual time of sowing wheat tions of the animal approaches the the best of their charms; they must
likewise develop their talents. It will
In tha fall, sow a small portiou o f the j standard the better.
J
T o u r F a th e r#
Boys, when you speak of your fath
er, don’t call him “ the old man.” Of
course, you are older now than when
you learned to call him “ father.” You
are much smarter than you were then;
you are much more manly looking.
Your clothes fit better; your hat has a
modern shape, and your hair Is combed
differently. In short, you are "flyer”
than you were then. Your father has
a last year's coat, and a two years’
old hat, and a vest of still another pat
tern. He can’t write such an elegant
note as you can, and all that—but don’t
call him “ the old man.’’ Call him fath
er. For years he has been hustllug
around to get things together, he has
been held to the thorny path of uphill
Industry for years, and the brightest
half o f life has gone from him for
ever. But he loves you, though he
goes about without saying much about
It, and If he knew you were bad, It
would be the heaviest burden be has
to bear.
FIFTY YEARS IN PARLIAMENT.
b a k e o f D e v o n s h ir e , L ib e r a l L e a d e r
o f th a H o u se o f L o rd s ,
The Duke of Devonshire has lately
figured In gossip from across the sea
In which It has been stated that he
would retire from Parliament. Thla
suggestion Is scouted by th# well-in
formed, who know that the fact of his
leadership In the House of Lords will
keep him from retiring.
Few men In politics hare had such
a curious career as the Duke. Like
Caesar, he has twice refused the crown
of a statesman’s ambition. The pre-
A RUSSIAN EXECUTION.
R e m a r k a b le B a n g F r o ld o f a D e s p e ra te
C r i m i n a l o n t h e S c a ffo ld .
Some time ago a Russian criminal
was executed In St. Petersburg. He
had during the last two years mur
dered twelve persons, the last one be
ing a priest. The law did not show
this monster any mercy, but speedily
condemned him to death.
Stebljanskl was the name o f this
wholesale murderer, and he hoped to
the last for clemency. When the death
warrant was read and the keeper In
formed him that he had but six hours
to live, he raged aud swore to revenge
himself In the most terrible manner.
After being left alone In the cell the
first thing he did was to break his
lamp, and, procuring some matches, he
set fire to the oil. In a moment the
flames broke through the window, and
the entire building was for a time
threatened with destruction.
Fortu
nately the fire was discovered In time
and gotten under control before much
damage bad been done, but In the
meantime a terrible struggle ensued
between the keepers and the criminal,
who had fortified himself with an Iron
bar, taken from his bedstead. The
first man to enter the cell was knocked
senseless, and It was only after being
almost suffocated with smoke that
the prisoner was finally overpowered.
Next morning the execution took place.
The condemned man ascended the
scaffold with much bravado, made a
thorough examination of the same, and
finally declared that the rope was too
short
" I cannot get my head In the loop,”
he said, “ and though It will cause me
some Inconvenience to w a it I will
smoke a cigarette while you are hav
ing It attended to.”
He lighted a cigarette, and, turning
to the executioner, made a speech,
pointing ont the detestable In his pro
fession, and as a condemned criminal
In Russia has certain rights, no one
dared to interrupt him.
The executioner, who really was n
tender-hearted man, became visibly af
fected by the moralizing words of the
murderer, and, turning to the crowd
assembled before the scaffold, declared
that his conscience did not allow him
to proceed or to take a fellow-man’s
life, and he then and there resigned
his position and departed midst the
shonts of the assemblage.
This caused great confusion among
the representatives o f the law, for
where could they In a hurry get an
other executioner? The question was.
however, solved by the condemned
man, who declared that he would ex
ecute himself as soon as he got
through smoking. He started an In
teresting conversation with the priest
during the five minutes or so which
he had left, and recommended that he
read Count Tolstoy's latest book,
which contains striking remarks about
the relation of capital punishment to
the teachings o f Christianity.
He
then threw a klsa to a pretty girl
among the «peciatora, stack his head
In the loop, and kicked away the trap
beneath his feet.
DUKE Or
D E V O N S H IR E .
mlershtp was within his grasp In 1880,
when Queen Victoria called him, to
form a ministry on Lord Beacons-
fleld’s defeat. As Lord Hartington he
was elected leader of the Liberal par
ty, and led for five years while Glad
stone nominally rested In his tent,
laird Hartington was born to great
ness, and did not covet honors; am
bitions are without his sphere. And
so with rare self-denial he called from
the tent and handed to him the wreath
and the party power he had built up.
Six years later, when the hjme rule
split came, he became by consent the
leader of the Liberal Unionists who
seceded. laird Salisbury offered to
serve under him If he would take the
premiership.
Again
he
refused.
Whether he was considered last year
when Mr. Balfour was chosen to suc
ceed Lord Salisbury la not known.
Probably he was not for three years
before he spoke of retiring from po
litical life, and It was not generally
believed that his Inclinations lay In
the direction of party headship.
An idea prevail» that “ the noble
Dnke,” as the lords call him. Is indo
lent and Indifferent He may be In
different as to his own advancement,
for he has always been assured of
more than apparently he craves for—
great wealth, high social position,
seven mansions, an honored name In
the peerage. He is careless of his per
sonal appearance, careless of the form
and manner of his speech, but he mat
ter Is always good and the judgment
sound.
He Is what people call a safe man.
Aa to actual work In the field of poli
tic», he has done as much aa most
men. while at the same time guiding
important business Interests at Bar-
row. F.aatbonme and elsewhere. He
Is now 70 years of age, and has been
In Parliament since he was 24.
eggs In a hen’s nest Jack c
Rushvllle to live.
He wandered about town ft
days and then took up his qua
a barn where an omnibus la a]
and where be found friendly
ready to aid him and when It
vtlle he seldom falls to go with
to the railroad station.
H e was at the station one da
a tramp kicked him and Jack
the steps o f a passenger coa
the train carried him away,
gone for two weeks, when h
back on a train, took his old p
the bus and went back to tha
live.
Jack made a trip by train t
bridge City a few days ago an
he returned on a freight tral
was no bus at the station. He
on a dray and refused to get c
he had been hauled to town.
The dog goes to Neweasth
once a week and he haa hla
friends there, who feed him 1
fat of the land,” most of tl
coming from hotels and reati
In Newcastle be makes bis he
ters at the postoffice, riding
from the station in a mall
guarding the pouches as he rl<
sleeps before the safe In th
castle poetofflee and regards
flee men aa his friends.
In the Same Band.
Homer Davenport tells of a U
lice Court Judge who formerly
In Sllverton, Ore., where Da
was born. Once an unfortuna
who waa arrested for Intoxlcat
the Judge that he had playt
Davenport in the Sllverton
Band. The Judge dlacharg
prisoner.
The Incident was published
newspapers, and In the followi
at least five other prisoners wl
brought before the Judge ei
that they had played with Dg
In the Sllverton Cornet Bam
other day the Utica Judge telei
Mr. Davenport asking him o
many pieces the Sllverton orgai
consisted. H e concluded hla t
by saying:
“ Hereafter no prisoners will
charged on account of former n
ship in this hand. The limit h
reached."
F acts About Portland, Oi
This fair city of the Padfl
Is exceeded by but four other c
the United States as a whe
ping port. In round number#
tal for 1001 was nearly 19,
bushels.
It la to-day the greatest i
center on the Pacific coast Ii
first among the coast cities
west In the vast quantity of
annually exported, and the 8
Oregon, with lta area of 96.000
miles—equal to New York am
England combined-still haa a
amount o f standing timber th
other.
A Personal K n o w l e d g e .
Howard Bell, the publisher, t
Ing shaved the other day.
“ Do you like James I.sne Allei
book?” asked his barber, striv
an appropriate subject of conve
“ Why, yes,” said the publish*
Just now I am Interested In • 1
William Dean Howells. Do jc
him?”
“ No,” replied the barber;
heard o f him.”
"W hat, never heard of Mr. R
8TORY OF DOQ TRAVELER.
Why, be surely Is better know
Waa Ralatd oa Farm and Ha. since Mr. Allen.”
Become Widely Known.
“That may be, sir; but you
Jack Is the name o f a dog that Is shave Mr. Allen.”
known to everybody In Rushvllle, Ind.,
Weaeouable ftw Ice Plant
and which makes that place headquar
"A ll kind* o f vegetables ar
ters while he travels to all the towns
within thirty miles of I t says the In backward thla aeason. ’ groan
Introspection.
dianapolis News. Hs comes from an pinnacle o f pessimism.
“I
Afraid that young man who Is aristocratic fam ily of spaniels and col
“ W ell.” «eld the optimistic
constantly trying to say bright things lies and spent his earlier years on a "a t any rate, th# Ice plant Is ■
is a cynic.”
farm. He made occasional trips to lng.” —Baltimore American.
"Y'es. answered Miss Cayenne "and
town with the farmer In bis youth
Yon go days and days wlthoa
he’a afraid be lan’t ” -Waahlngtoo and one day after the farmer’s son
vltation, and then **t three *
Star.
gar* him a whipping for disturbing one day.