<AM*S HORN BLAaì^ (Yarning Notea Calling: the Wicked to Repentance. ferment unless the hay is properly dried before it is put into the laile. If there were more care used in baling hay the price for it would be much better than it Js, as the hay Itself would be better worth It. Time to Cut Timothy. Fvap-vrnte the ^urnlui Apple«. Waste of the fruit crop is one of the causes of greatest loss. Many who cannot dispose of the crop in a fresh state alliov it to f-ot or feed it to stock. I have found it profitable to evaporate what apples could not be sold fresh and so constructed an evaporator. The plan was original with me and has worked to perfection. The building is 8 feet long. 4 feet wide and 9 feet high to the eaves. The walls are of good bard brick and 8 inches wide. The tire box (a) is in the end opening on the outside. In the center of one side is a door 2 feet wide lb) extending down t’> feet from the eaves or to within 3 feet of the ground. This leaves space 3 A HOME-MADE EVAPORATOR. feet wide 01» each side for trays (c) which are 2 feet square and made of I by 1% inch material, the bottom be. ing covered with fine wire mesh. A framework extends entirely around the room of 2 by 3 inch material, nail ed tl inches apart, to support the drier frames. When a frame is filled, it is easily slid into a place either on the right or left of the door. Close the ventilator in the roof when the sulphur 1? put in to bleach the apples. The firebox (a) is 10 by 10 Inches square. 3 feet long, arched with one 4 inch .thickness of brick. The firebox walls ' are 4 inches thick. Cold aid is admit- ted on both sides <>f the tire box through flues 4 inches wide, passing from the rear of the box to the front of ft and passing into the frame room Just in front of tire or smoke flue. As shown in the ground plan, the smoke passes from the firebox to the left, back to the front, over the fire box, along the end wall, then the side wall, round the end wall to the chimney. In a larger building a larger fire box and larger frames are needed. Any good bricklayer ought to be able to put tip this building.—Farm and Home. Faalnrinq • crose n Hl-hwar. Many fnrms are so situated that the i cattle must be driven across a high way to pasture. This almost always affords trouble. *The cattle will break away up and down the-highway to feed by the roadside, instead of cross ing the road directly from the pasture gate to the lane leading to the barn. A device is shown herewith that may prove of assistance in such cases. A narrow lane Is built on each side of Timothy grass is usually left too late before it is cut. It does not have the nu trition of clover at any stage, ami if left until its seed ripens, mych that was nu trition earlier is changed to woody tilier. The common mistake is made of allowing the head to blossom. Then it needs to ripen Its seed so as to get be yond the blossom stage. Old horsemen say that timothy seed is very nutritious. It would need to be to produce any ef fect, as it Is a very small part of the head. What really keeps up the strength of timothy-fed horses Is the cut feeding that goes with It. The best time to cut timothy Is Just as it comes into head and before It blossoms. The hay will not weigh so much then, but it has more available nutrition than It will have later. Pruning Tomato««. According to a writer in Farm and Fireside, where tlie tomato vine is trained to a single four-foot stake the ripening of the to mato may be slight ly delayed, yet the increased size and excellence of the fruit more than compensate for the brief delay in ripen ing. Presuming, then, that a five- foot split stake has been firmly set at each plant and the tomato vine has al- . ready lieen tied to — the stake with com mon twine, a daily lookout must be kept for the suckers which put out from the main stalk and retard the proper development of the tomato plant. The sprouts, or auxiliary suck ers. which push out from the base of the upper side of each of the side branches must be resolutely pinched off. or broken off if the pinching lias been delayed too long. If this is done and the vines have been tied to the stakes with not less than three strings, as the growth lias been continuous, the vine when in bearing will appear as shown in Fig. 1. If. as it sometimes occurs, a second branch or stem is allowed to grow from near the groundflbe result will lie ns shown in Fig. 2. By keeping ail super fluous growth pinched back, this will grow nearly or quite as large as tlie main »talk, simply forming a fork. Both stalks are to be tied to a single stake, unless it is deemed desira- n ble to let tlie side I tranches spread fig . 2. out upon the ground, where they will continue to grow and ripen fruit after the staked vines have ceased bearing. These will continue to bear fruit until after 1)1.? first killing frost. On the approach of frost it has become customary by man truckers to pull up the vines ami spread them in a well sheltered place and cover them with litter, so as to al low the ripening process to go on. This late crop is often more profitable than that of the staken vines near the close of the tomato season. Dragging After Plowing. Almost always it Is good practice to harrow plowed land as soon as possi ble after it has been plowed. In turn ing the furrow there are inevitably large air spaces left under it, which except in very early springtime, dry it out much too quickly to make a good, CONVENIENT CATTI.E GUARD. mellow and moist seed bed. It is all the road, extending well up to the the worse if the soil is clayey in tex carriage track but not close enough, ture and has been plowed when too of course, to prove any inconvenience wet. Then the furrow between the to travelers. Two long bars of thin dry air under it and the dry air above boards are then fitted to slide across it Iwikes into a clay brick that no plant the highway when the cattle are to be roots can penetrate. But if the furrow driven across, and then back again, is broken down soon after Iteing turn out of the way of travel. A bent rod ed the soil dries through evenly, leav. of iron connects the two ends of the ing It in tine condition for a seed bed. bars, so that both can be slipped across the road at once, the bend in the rod Improved Grain Shoév. permitting it to rest upon the ground .. ______ ___ to __ a writer _______ in __ the „____ According Farm so that the cattle can pass over it. To | Journal nine bundles of grain ntnke a operate takes * this L " i_1 ’ 1 but * " a moment *" ’s : better “shock” than the old-fashiotsed time.—Orange Judd Farmer. ! dozen. Get up four in a cross, then four more, one in each of the spaces Thinning Frn-t. ■ between two of the first four, and cap Midsummer is the best season for thinning all the larger fruits. Just be with the ninth, well broken, and the tops toward the prevailing wind. If fore the seed begins to form nature well set, that is. each sheaf standing does a great deal of this thinning, and on Its own bottom and thoroughly clos It is perhaps as well to wait until all ed in at the top. such a shock will the fruit that will naturally fall has stand a stiff windstorm and a three fallen. Then pick off the surplus fruit days’ rain without harm. wherever it seems to he superabund ant. In most cases this thinning does Or««. Under Tree«. not decrease the amount of fruit be Sometime* we see trees which dry cause it so largely increases the size of Individual specimens. It Is the lest up the grass under them, while in the piilt that always pays best. That al same neighborhood will be trees under ways means fruit that has been Judi which the grass will grow greener than-where it Is not thus shaded. An ciously thinned. orchard that has long been plowed Ma.tr He,-. deep has most of its feeding roots be Much of the baled bay that comes to low those of the grass On the other market it musty. M om farmers when hand, tinder the tree where rrss« has they bale ha,, tntnk it need not be long grown, the true feeding roots very dry. as the tie les are small. Hot come near the surface, and when a the amount of hay packed in them Is dry time cornea the grass under It lacks always sufficient to get np a violent moisture and is very soon killed out. SAD countenance is the hypocrite’» favorite mask. No college ever made a saint. The devil fears a praying mother. It is right to fast, but it Is wrong to look lean. The Redeemer warned his dis ciples against hypocrisy alsrnt as frequently as be did against sin. Sin feels safe as iong as it can hide its head. A fool has to find out for himself that fire is hot. No fish gets away that bites at the devil’s hook. The devil’s favorite pew in church is near the front. We may kill God’s man, but we can not kill bis truth. It is a waste of breath to talk any louder titan we live. The man who deserves riches can be rich without them. If you want to do something, find one who believes something. No man is fit for heaven who wants somebody else kept out. Tlie oltler the Christlnn, the newer he will find God’s Book. It is better to lie n mustard seed titan a mountain of dead rock. There are too many church members and not enough Christians. Our lives please God when they make sinners want to know Christ. It never hurts God’s work any for people to get mad at his truth. God can tjee Jewels where we would set only common sand and gravel. An extravagant man loves to lecture his wife on tlie beauty of economy. Next to hearing a hypocrite pray, the devil loves to hear a stingy man talk in church. Open tlie door of your heart to Christ, mnl He will open tlie windows of heav en for you. An opportunity to help the poor is a chance Christ lias given 11s to do some thing for him. How small God’s army always seems to be when we take it upon ourselves to number it. , ; God will give us strength to resist temptation if we will use it to walk away from bad company. DEATH FROM FIRE. Lethal Sleep Enfolds the Victim Be fore the Flame Reaches Him. ‘‘Those who lose tlielr lives in con flagrations do not by any means al ways suffer physical pain. In many cases, no doubt, sharp terror is the one thing of which the victim is con scious, and in many more, strange as it may seem, consciousness plays no part, life ceasing painlessly and with out a^struggle. I11 great conflagrations gases are produced which have much the same effect as chloroform or sim ilar anesthetics, and it is a fact thnt of of those who lose their lives in such catastrophes a considerable proportion pass into death without any evidence of liavit g suffered. This result is pro duced especially when 11 fire lias smol dered. when the access of air has first been insufficient to cause complete combustion, and when that dead! - gas, carbonic oxide, lias sent Its victims into lethal sleep liefore the actual flames lave reached them. "Of those, however, who have evi dently s niggled and fought and whose «•liai i ed < orpses are afterward found in attitudes suggestive of violent efforts made in attempting to escape it must not be imagined that they have of ne cessity been burned alive and have died in the agony v. hich such contor tions are popularly imagined to ex press. Heath liom agony Is really death from shock, a condition in which the body is limp aud helpless; whereas in death from suffocation struggling may go oil even after consciousness lias passed, and tlie strained attitude of the corpse may Is- expressive only of the Until paroxysmal effort made in a state of entire unconsciousness. "Suffocation in fire depends on some thing more than mere carbonic acid poisoning. It is the stoppage of the breathing by the stifling vapors which does the mischief. Carbonic acid would doubtless kill if it could lie breathed. but anyone who lias attempt ed to enter a burning building will knot* that suffocation depends not on .be stuff one breathes, but on the fact than one cannot breathe at all. The lungs are as much deprived of their supply of oxygen as if the sufferer were plunged over head In water, and the struggle produced is much the same. While, then, we must admit the horror of the moment, the terror, the tight for breath, and finally the death from suffocation, we must remember that all this is often a matter of short duration, and that it is something very uifferent from the slow torture of be- ing burned alive.”—The Hospital. HI« Wife Hypnotized A flnmburg woman w£o ImUnted on committing suicide on a fixed date, with no apparent reason, has been dis covered by Professor Krafft-Eblng of Vienna to have l»een hypnotized by her husband. He had Insured her life for 50,000 marks, the policy holding good even if the [arson !nmined*co<n- mitted suicide within two month« after it was issued, bbe is now suiog for » divorce. Everybody baa acquaintance«, but nobody has friends. High lithe Score«. Two records of 104 out of a possible 105 with the Lee-Met fort! rifle have al- I ready been made this year by Sapper Gale of the Royal Engineers and Ser geant DaIgetty of the Berwick-on-Tweed ■ rifles. The firing was at the regula tion ranges, seven shots each at 200, ¡500 anti 600 yards, in military posi- I tions. In both cases the men missed the bullseye at tjie shortest distance. The highest score made with the dis carded Martini-Henry rifle under tlie same conditions was 103. AKOV8E TO oldest living odd The Winner fellow . J. N. Clark, of Iowa City, Haa Been More than Fifty Yearn in the Order. oi one of those $100 prizes got her yellow tickets in this way: 1. By using the tea herself. 2. By asking some friends who use the tea to give her their tickets. 3. By inducing some friends to try the tea and give her their tickets. One of her friends kept a boarding house, and sent her lots of tickets. Haven't you some friend who keeps a boarding house or a restaurant, or who has in fluence in some hospital or other public institution? They need good tea there. J. Norwood Clark, of Iowa City, is tlie oldest living member of the order .of Odd Fellows. It is wore than fifty years since be was initiated into the order at Baltimore in the first odd Fel lows building ever erected in this coun try. He was then a member of Grati. ACTION A dormant liver, or you will ■lifter all the tor ture« incident to a prolonged biiioiiM attack. Constipation, headaches, dvqwp-oa, furred tongue, sour breath, pain in the right side, will admonish you of neglect. Piscipline the recal- citrsut organ at once with Hoatettt r’s 81 >ni»ch Bitters, and expect prompt relief. Malaria, iheumatism. kidney complaint, nervousness and debility are thoroughly removed by I be Bitters. The River J ub. England has sent an expedition to explore the River Jub, the boundary between the Italian and English spheres of influence in Somaliland. It is under command of Major Macdonald, who made the survey for the railroad from Mombasa to Luke Victoria. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS Rules of contest in large advertisement about first and middle of tlie month, a a J. NORWOOD CLARK. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word ” CASTOK1A.” and 0 PITCHER SCASTOR1 A,” as our Trade .Mark. tude Lodge. No. 5. in 1841 Mr. Clark took Itis card from Baltimore lodge and placed it with Western Lodge, No. 24. He removed in 1843 from Western Lodge to Ohio Lodge, No. 1, ami his last change was made in 1855, when he deposited Ills card witli Eureka Lodge, No. 44, of Iowa City, where It remains to this day. Since that time he lias never missed a meeting of the lodge save the session which was held at Cedar Rapids in 1872. In 1868-9 Mr. Clark was grand representative to the sovereign grand lodge of tlie United States, lit* lias seldom missed a meet Switzerland’s new twentv-franc gold ing of the grand lodge and lie is widely piece has on its face the head of a peas known among Odd Fellows in all parts ant girl, representing Helvetia, with of the country. Mr. Clark is a native of 22 stars around it for the cantons. Philadelphia anti Is SI years old. He was initiated while still a young man HOITT’S SCHOOL FOK BOYS. into tlie first encampment of Patriarchs Accredited st the State stifi Stanford univer in the world. He has been a member sities, a first-class Home School. Careful su of the grand encampment of Iowa since pervision and thorough training in every re 1850. spect. Seventh year begins August loth Ira I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “ PITCHER’S CAS TORI A,” the same that has borne and does now bear the facsimile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original’* PITCHER’S CASTOR IA ” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, and has the signature of ClfAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. SAMUEL PlfcHEK, M.D. G. Hoitt, Ph. D., Burlingame, Sail Mateo oouniv California. A Strange Defeime. A strange defense lias been offered in England by a captain who ran an excursion steamer, as it seemed, de liberately on the rocks near Scarbor ough. Tlie passengers thought he was drunk, but lie wants to lie let off be cause lie was under tlie influence of opium, taken to relieve pain. There was recently killed in Wyo ming one of tlie largest mountain lions ever seen in that state. It was almost nine feet long. , L-i-'-L-1.1 - “(jet a Sanden Belt/9 Simple Advice That Saved a Sufferer From Despair. BISHOP BOWMAN. A ray of light from Sirius can reach I he Patriarch o< the Metho Hat Epie copal Church. us only after traveling for twenty-two Bishop Thomas Bowman, tlie patri years with a speed of 77,777 leagues a second. arch of tlie Methodist Episcopal I never used so quick 11 cure as Piso’s Church. is spending tlie evening of ills Cure for Consumption. -J. B. Palmer, Box life witli Ills daughter in Evanston, 111. 1171, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25, 1895. He will continue to wear tlie mantle of In the great church at Mengo, Ugan ecclesiastical authority, to lie tlie senior da, Africa, there are over 200 trees to member of tlie administrative counsel, support the roof. Each of these trees to act as adviser and >1 chancellor. He and tlie denomination will celebrate took 100 men to drag it up the hill. Ills eightieth birthday in July. His place in tile episcopacy will lie honor HOW’S THIS? ary rather than active tlie activity liv We offer One Hundred Dollar, Reward for ing advisory and relieved of tlie trying any case of I'wtarrh that cannot be cured by labor of tlie direction of tlie confer Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Props., Toledo, O. ences. He will remain on tlie bench of We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe hint tlie heads of Methodism tlie distin perfectly honorable in all business trasaetions, guished reward for as wonderful a half and financially able to carry out any oblign century of religious work ns any man Cion made bv their firm. W est A T ruax , ever gave to any church. This work Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. compassed the globe, penetrated China W ai . dino , K innan A M arvin , Wholesale Druggists, Tsledo. O. and Japan in advance of civilization, Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mutton's sur- touched Norway and Sweden, left mon faceaof the svstetn. Price toe. per bottle. Sold uments in Germany. Italy anti Mexieo, by all druggists. Testimonials free. built churches in Imlin anti dedicated Hall’« family pills ate the best. sanctuaries in every State aud Terri Dot Taxes In France. tory In tills country. Tlie story of ills In France it is not necessary to have life embraces more tlinn comes to hue license to keep a dog, but what amounts average man in ten thousand. to practically the same thing, it is nec Tile Bishop preached Ills first sermon essary to pay a dog tax, which varies when lie was 21 years old. Ills first according to the species—a watch dog charge was a horseback mission seven paying less than a fancy poodle, and so ty miles long and his annual salary forth. From the returns of this tax it was $11*0 cash, from which was not de is learned that there are 2,900,009 dogs ducted tin* hospitality of tlie Metho in France, which bring in an annual dists along tlie ride anti tlie fitful dona revenue of 8,800,000 francs. tion parties which were forced upon lilni. Tlie Bishop Ims dedicated .more There are only about 1,000 Germans tlinn 1«200 churches during ills work. in the whole of Mexico. 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