much too valuable to let ft lie Idle dur­ lug any time of the growing season. Some of them regularly take three crops off their best land. The first Is spinach, which Is partially covered dur­ ing the winter to protect it. and is hoed so soon as the grouud is fit to work. Af­ ter the spinach comes a crop of wax beans to be sold as string beans, and either cabbage or turnips occupy the land after the beau vines are plowed under early in July. Faccess with Tomato-«. Feeder for the Calf The following is a cheap and con­ venient arrangement for hoping a calf that Is being raised by hand from swal­ lowing milk too fast: Use a piece of light wood board, cut round, so as to tit loosely inside of a common pall. Insert in the center of tills float a spile (A) of size and shape of the cow’s teat. Cover Last year I had two patches half a mile apart, one hard, tough black land which we call “gumbo,” very difficult to tend. I did not expect much of a crop, but we framed them up and had a tine crop of very large tomatoes of the Imperial variety. We gathered bushels and bushels of them every sec­ ond or third day till frost, at which time they were as large as ever, and many green ones coming on. I think one reason of their doing so well was that we pruned them. We framed one Turner Hybrid vine which stood off to itself, and I never saw so many and such fine tomatoes as we secured from that vine. We weighed several that went 2 pounds each, and we wished af­ terward that we had weighed the en­ tire product of the vine, as I never saw so many large ones on one vine. The other patch was on light sandy soil, much easier to tend: we framed most of them; they did well till frost came, but were very small and knotty at the last. Our tomatoes did not keep well, and I would like to ask whether they should be very soft and ripe to keep well. Mine were so large they rotted before becoming very rii>e. Some say the weather was too dry and hot. 1 canned lots of them in August, and as the weather was very ware. and 1 had no cellar, I put them upstairs for a long time until I got a cellar.—Mrs. E. J. Woodward in Practical Farmer. Important in Seed Growing. A CAI.P feedek . this spile (or teat) with some suitable material—a piece of old gum boot top will answer. This may be tacked se­ curely to the float. The hole in the spike should be small, so that the flow of milk through it when in use shall correspond with the natural flow from the cow's udder. As the milk in the pail is used, the float follows down­ ward, enabling the calf to get all the milk In the pail. To prevent the calf from throwing the float out of the pail two cleats are tacked on inside of same, at B B. These cleats are so arranged that the float may lie readily removed by the operator.—Ohio Farmer. Profitable Age. Many dairymen and others who milk cows for profit believe that when a cow reaches the age of 7 or 8 her useful days are over, and that she should be replaced by one younger, says a writer in the New York Tribune. But, other things being equal, this is a mistake. A cow that has been well cared for, with generous rations and proper at­ tention given to her comfort, through all seasons of the year, is better and will make a more profitable return at 8 years than at an earlier age; In other words, she is In her prime, and she will continue in this condition several years, and will not be considered an old cow until fourteen or fifteen years have passed. Cows with first calve®—at 2 or 3 years—are generally unprofitable in their milk yield, and one really good cow between 7 and 8 years old will pay a better revenue than two that are per­ forming their first year's duties in the dairy herd, and she will probably con­ sume but little more food than one of the younger ones. This fact is worthy the consideration of those who are dairying for profit A Various Purpose Buitdinv* The cut, from the American Agricul­ turist, shows a building constructed upon a bank, that will prove convenient for several uses. In winter the room In the bank Is used for the storage of roots and other stock foods, while outside is a set boiler for cooking the same for GENERAL PURPOSE HOUSE. hogs, poultry, etc. In this open shed water can also be heated and hogs dressed, a hoisting arrangement being provided overhead. During the hot months of summer the bank room is thoroughly cleaned and used as a milk room, the open shed outside being used as a shady place for churning and working the butter. The building will thus be found excedingly convenient all the year around. Vnlne of Wide Wnsron Tires. It is a good plan, when sowing small flower seed, to cover the bed with coarse brown pa[>er, well soaked In water. The little seeds, when sown in moist soil, swell, and germination starts at once. Unless the soil is kept damp, it often forms a crust, and the seeds dry out, thus destroying their vitality. The application of paper as above di­ rected keeps the soil moist, prevents the crust from forming, and causes the germination of the seed to proceed without interruption. Dampen the pa­ per from time to time as it becomes dry, and remove when the plants be­ gin to show through the soil. Try it.— How to Grow Flowers. Potato Coverer. Our illustration shows a home-made potato coverer that is very simple in construction. The two sides approach each other toward the rear ends, thus bringing the two sides directly across each of the two rows lying side by side. When furrowing these rows, let the earth be turned outward In each of the two rows to be covered by the machine. This will result in drawing the earth back over the seed, and will not ridge it up between the rows. The furrows can be made In sets of two each, for this purpose. The horse goes between the rows, and the handles permit one to draw back over the seeds Just enough of the soil to cover them prop­ erly.—Orange Judd Farmer. Putting Up Grapevines. IN TRUMPET CALLS. SHORTHAND. — German Rewriting the Playa in Eliza­ bethan Tuehygrapliy. Rani's Hern Sounds a Warning Note to the Unredeemed« Dr. Eduard Engel has written the fol­ lowing letter to one of the Berlin news papers: “In a lecture I delivered some years ago to the Berlin Society of Stenogra­ phers, who use Stolze’s system, I sug­ gested that those accurately acquainted with the oldest English shorthand sys­ tems of the sixteenth century should try to ascertain whether many of the deficiencies of the text of Sliakspeare might not lie explained by stenograph­ ic mistakes. The idea was suggested to me by the old and well-founded conjec­ ture of Shakspearean scholars that the oldest copies of Shakspeare's plays—the so-called quartos—were printed from stenographic notes, taken in the thea­ ter, and that many of rhe unlntelllglblll- tles of the text are due to this. My suggestion fell on fruitful soil, aud I have now the pleasure of making the excellent work of a young savant, who has thus sitrung at one leap into the ranks of our best Shakspearean schol­ ars, known to wider circles. In a series of articles on Shakspeare and the be­ ginnings of English stenography, Herr Kurt Dewischeit has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the quarto edi­ tions of Shakspeare's plays were pira­ ted editions printed from stenographic notes, that the stenographic system used was that of Timothy Bright, who was lM>ru in 1550, and that innumerable mistakes in the quartos. Innumerable contradictions between them and the first authorized folio editions, can be at once and most simply explained by the defects of that stenographic system and the indexterity of the stenographers of tliat time. Herr Dewischeit has con­ firmed my conjecture almost beyond my own expectation. He is at present the only person who jiossesses all the requisite qualifications for this quite new kind of text investigation, and it is to be wished that he. with his accurate knowledge of the oldest English sten­ ography, combined with solid Shak­ spearean scholarship, would subject the texts of the dramas to a thorough relnvestigatfon. The purification of the text of Shakspeare is raised by him for the first time from arbitrary fantastic­ ality to the rank of a strict science, with which, however, only Shakspear­ ean scholars theoretically and practic­ ally trained in stenographic questions are at liberty to busy themselves. Sel­ dom has a higher, never has a more de­ lightful, task fallen to stenography.” RAINING Is the art of gaining. Quietness is the magnet of pence. ' Patience Is the barometer ot faith. Good works are the voice of faith. Influence is the magnet of char­ acter. Capability 1 s the polestar ot revolution. Discipline is the crucible of responsi­ bility. In forgiving a fault, we may Inspire a virtue. The man who stands for God is safe to stand alone. The gospel means not law over men, but love In them. Temptation is the balance where character is weighed. Conscience makes cowards of only | those who fail to obey It. Emotional Christians, like Jelly flsh, float with the tide. To put works against faith Is to con­ trast the tree with its roots. To define is to limit; a finished theol­ ogy would make God finite. Love has emulation without strife, unity without uniformity. One’s faith shows less what he is than what he is trying to be. Beware of prosperity; luxury was the death-knell of Rome’s vigor. Knowledge and wisdom make a strong team when hitched together. Those who worship wealth, will bow ' In adoration before good clothes. A BAD COMPANION. ï y There is no kind of stock that always I has such ready sale as young, thrifty pigs. They are sure to rapidly incrense in weight and value, and if young this can be always done at a profit. Conse­ quently the farmer who grows young pigs to sell can be certain of getting more than they are worth for [>ork as ■ they stand. If he does not find a cus­ ; tomer who will divide the profit of keeping a pig. he can keep it himself, and make all the profit there Is by kill­ ing and selling the grown hog as pork. Three Crop« in a Year. The Farm Hand. Growing Pig* to Sell, Luxury of the Current. Electricity can be applied to in­ numerable use* about the house, sup-' planting the les* convenient devices j an-«l Nerve Kvatorrr. Send for EKf.K •e.OO trial bottle «nd treat I w. DR. R. H. KLINK, Ltd., du Arch street, PblUdeiptilz, Fa. Patois, race pronunciations And the Chinese alphabet He knew well—to fifty nations He could speak their tongue; and yet Finally his learning failed him And his thought and speech were "off,” For no language gifts availed him With the dialect of golf! in booklet, which will be fur­ As iron expands with heat, the Eiffel tower is said to be five inches taller when the temperature is high than it is in the cool of the day. And had mastered modern Greek, For a paltry wagered dollar He learned Hebrew in a week. Sanscrit and antique Phoenician, Or the scripts of Yucatan Were as simple as addition To this language-learned man. Willingness to work is not the only I qualification of a good farm hand. The j man who is to become a memlier of the I family and a companion for the boys should be required first of all to be a Burning kisses always result ' manly man—clean In speech and up­ ( spark*. j right in conduct. FIBROID TUMOR Mas. B. A. L ombai -. d , B ox 71, West­ dale, Mass., writes: “ I have reason to think that I would not be here now if it had not been for Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It cured me of a fibroid tumor in my womb. “ Doctors could donothingforme. and they could not cure me at the hospital. I will tell you about it: “ I had been in my usual health, but hud worked quite hard. When my monthly period came on, I flowed very badly. The doctor gave me medicine, but it did me no good. lie said the flow must be stopped if possible, and he must find the cause of my trouble. ** Upon examination, he found there was a fibroid tumor in my womb, and gave me treatment without any benefit whatever. About that time a lady called on me, and recommended Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound! said she owed her life to iL I said I would try it, and did. Soon after the flow became more natural and regular. I still continued taking the Compound Cement Admixture*. for some time. Then the doctor made an For the past three years the cement | examination again, and found every­ trade section of the British board of thing all right. The tumor had passed fade has been making investigations away, and that dull ache was gone.” into the question of cement admixtures, * 1 It can bo truthfully stated that and the result is that the board an- ’ such a result can be accomplished by no nounces that “Portland cement be de- * other remedy upon the market, and fined as a mixture of two or more suit- ’ forcibly proves the peculiar virtue ot able materials intimately and artifically tho Vegetable Compound mixed in the requisite proportions, and afterward properly treated, to which nothing has been added during or after calcination except that an addition not exceeding 2 per cent of gypsum is per- missable.’’ If anything more be added In the working capital the article so produced shall not be of humanity, lie who loses that is wrecked called Portland cement. The worst indeed. Is your health adulterants for Portland cement are failing you, your am­ bition, vigor, vitality decided to be ragstone and blast-fur­ wasting away ? nace slag, the latter by far the more When others fall con­ Record of a Russian Hospital. sult Moscow has a hospital large enough objectionable. DOCTOR to hold 7,000 persons. It was founded There are four millionaires in Eng­ RATCLIFFE, In 1704, and at present takes in children ! land to one in France. For the speedy, safe and permanent cure of all at the rate of forty a day, or about 15,- Nervous, Chronic and Spécial diseases, even J00 a year. There are twenty six physi­ in their most aggravated forms. There is no man BAD PAY AND HAltD WORK. in the world who has effected so many permanent cians and about 900 nurses. During the in both Men and Women of troubles which The had pay and hard work of trained nurse, cures first century of Its existence the hos­ ha* other phy sienna of acknowledged ability had given often been made the subject of benevolent , up us hopeless as this eminent specialist. pital received and brought up no fewer remonstrance by eminent medical men ami : NBRVOIIB DEBILITY and all its attending philanthropists. It is well lor ! ailments, of YOUNG, Ni IDDLE-AGED and OLD than 4G8,o(>0 children. On his retreat nonprot'ersional an invalid, before he gets so bad as to need a I MEN. The awful effects of neglected or improp­ from Moscow in 1812 Napoleon gave nurse ordoemr, to use Hosteller's Stomaeh Bit- j erly treated cuses, causing drains, weakness of if he lias dill is and fever, constipation, body and brain, diszlness, failing memory, lack of special orders that this building should ter, rheumatism, dyspepsia and nervousness. Use energy and confidence, pains in back, loins and kidneys, and ninny other distressing symptoms, be spared. it regularly. One of the first Jobs to be done in spring is to lift up the grapevines from the ground, where they were thrown after last fall or winter’s pruning. This is necessary to prevent tlie buds of the vine from starting prematurely, as they are very likely to do if the vines are left in a sheltered place and expos­ ed to the direct rays of the sun while protected from the cold winds that usu­ ally prevail during much of April. So soon as the grape bud bursts into leaf the slightest frost will kill it. To keep it back as much as possible, and avoid the danger from late spring frosts, should be the vintner's care, and this Managiag the Woman with a Whip. It has always been a question with in spring is best accomplished by keep­ the country newspaper man what he ing the vine on Its trellis. would do If an Indignant woman set out to horsewhip him. Some years The Dairy Hnt'on. From German experiments It requires ago W. W. Wick of Topeka was run­ about nine pounds of digestible food to ning a country paper and a woman as­ keep a steer or dry cow of 1,000 pounds sailed him on the main street of the for a day, without losing or gaining town. He gathered her up under his flesh, and that a cow in full flow of arm and paraded around the square. milk will need at least fifteen pounds. She kicked and squirmed, but he march­ Hence. 00 percent, of all the food a cow ed laughingly along, displaying her to consumes Is needed to maintain her the crowd tliat had gathered. It morti­ lxxly, and it Is only by feeding abund­ fied the woman so much that she left antly above this mark that anything town on the first train and never both­ contributes to produce a profit. A dairy ered the editor afterward. cannot be run successfully ui>on a mere Ills Linguistic Limit. pittance above a maintenance ration.— He had been a Latin scholar, Rural World. The extent to which the value of wide tires has come to be recognized is shown by the fact that during the last twelve months the Legislature of nearly every State has been asked to pass a bill pro­ viding for their compulsory adoption. The State of New Jersey has already adopted a law of this kind, and it Is reaping the benefit In the country. With the tires in use, even the present coun- try roads will improve, for such tires serve as rollers to make the roadbed compact, instead of cutting deep ruts, as do heavily loaded wagons on narrow tires. Most farmers get only one crop a year from land, and If they secure two crops a year it is only by extra rnanur- ing. which costs perhaps as much as the second crop is worth. But market gardeners, who have brought their land to the highest degree of fertility, find It SHAKSPEARE SPRINO ITS CRAIN BACNKIOLKS___ _ Plain or with Cutter. The beat needle In the mar» ket. 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