Pouhlmma male-u that the “with Ina-hm VII _ (handyman the Mammal-Irvin. new 3 WmmMMlnn-aaaot , â€hmmdluqmu of M â€0.00. hates. at In an mama- almmmhexm-d hut-Impaled In Thin-paw (any dune-um co cum. Metamofmm'u lot _ ' 1-11 (in In How fl -mmlm'uom ‘~ w. humane-head “ammonium “angina-cunning: WEI-gain- ,. â€khan".- â€" “I Min. In â€moot V{â€"h_dï¬immmlm 57mm“: the ame- 3 TI. My of He. sold ml... van a. bolt-u.- d Gnu Brit-In In ul- m I. bum" "no In Venn-In. fl. MM («taunt chimed “mwmnwmuonlm 1‘ all. thing. It swan. I- going o- h M Valuable gold ulna Mm It. Mounted In the chicory at m. m mu. A. - nun arm 9m- -Muvncld Dc Don-Om nuke m In I Inn me. at m unitary. u an (Inn Mull col-Mon an op- ' “I. '0 Ihnll .140th be u “ultimo.†to [m up [In Wink. “khan-l Bfflr O". m m o! awn; a alo- pï¬ vh- Ilo (ll-h the an III by Hunt um of Chlcuo la alumna m m nun-d- will not acute M (non u the mayor would nap pow-J and M M.- club he might no- tion I cameo. [- Ian-kin. u the Venous]. gm III. W. 1‘. sum remark: that "the WM sun- In lfllcmd with a number 1 Nina; human-u" Truo; but but 0! than M7. been can! back In ‘8!!! Wyn denies that he was rotten- ‘ In New Jet-d1. Probably the ease nmm compared with some or wu- “W's 1cm flu Crane Inn Company. 0! Allen- town. PL, has volunurfly ruined wagon to not ml for the second "me. mu- m nu. with t urn. Is something um! and u plea-In; u I! In new. A New York uloonkuw was ï¬ned lot will: whisky on Sunday to be and by a marina surgeon In Inning I ‘6! horn. Such draught hom- no (nun-ou- nowaday- In Gotham. 1‘. m Globe nun: “What in the In. of hflu I platform. Anyway, I! I “It“. m't and on M?" The â€cinnamon“ Inboun- flu «- gun a. rm to «mu. m â€ROM“. Flu million dollars vs: the other I†all“ from the Unltod States treas- m In gold bars by jewelers who are â€nu-In; tar the [mildly trade. Some bik- Ioem to have money yet. For the beneï¬t of several esteemed annulment-lea. we would “no that the Chicago m'l novel. "Forty Years mu: the Damned," Is not an autobiog- “phi. The little patch or territory which Until-lid II trying to Iteal from Vene- mele I- n more trifle about twlce as large In the mm of Illinois. 'm manner. All nuthority on cut- uyo that blue ma cats are nlwuya dear, and that pure white one! we often inflicted In the That Pimburg man who was ï¬ned for waking In church was aenod just right. He should to to church to es- dag-making. Con-Mo deorbm is three Inches in" thln her put-chug. Our American men cal-tun]: lump pretty low in Wm daily paper- u-e primed M and only. lonywtwo in Now mm be lbx'oto anon. -: ILLINOIS. Bibi..- , “I labial: could see," gm Uncle Inn. “do mu In noun tolh withou- ll- Nurn: “I II! no mud. doctor. um main; wm [um and an I my be buried Illve.†Dr: Pym: “Non- â€! You need not far anything "to that. You an the medicine 1 3:" 101: “Grundmmboflnid of being buried mu. ha: in tone- thlng mt nevu- happen to my u- Uentu."-Hnmr'l Bun. no: "Well. u l are live on my In- com. and you «:1 live on ym‘ what would be the taming. In 'OIII' marrying?†Ho (thoughtfully): "Well, â€Wumlm mutton.“ u wall be able to live. at any rite."â€" Bn-lm Life. Clerical Torin: "I In you have two church- In your mu. town. m I was here Mr year- .†that. 'u only one.“ Villager: "You; tiny I“ I M; ï¬ght name More tut, und nu the concept!“ cat am Ind “and no other church."â€"Puck. LAUGHS WITH THE FUNNY MEN. u may "ml! on her side o! “I. returned m M“, vie: ll. vault! m. the when Ilean- of mod- era- 1er mom '10 when to Ink. are-u for want clad children of want. â€"â€"Albuy Journal. Allunabolpnummlldlb In. “annulus-Inna“ a: duck ("amino-anon. TIC Pennant took no hit. and gun. tonal-d. Remnant-rennin“. non-c bl: mm m «In. Quick :- thought the It“. In. wheeled. sud baton the Indian mid rat-e his gun or reach bl. cover n†him A flu! shot. It win all the work a! n lav seconds. and Han. though wounded In the ensuing I‘M. lived to ‘ ï¬ght other 511"â€. Ham. the VI". m m not blind to the dug-ref Ila O'I «mun. MM" mm In duo. “d M NH]. Ho new nu I]. u- mrr mated am. And that an In: M- clue. The ludln had no bad of It. All in what, am at u- “mean. Al any mt no of no mclu lodlu- won llnly tn can. up mm Hulk: and rum Mn out at In cont. Under an damn-mun. a! m no Indian in In no h“ In up... Mun". Huh manna the companion. and out mu: Donn minus; a- MM, and am; his many to can. In» no â€a and “it the an. out. In. Bantam Booth I'm- in have Soon um (to Hadley m m um John Hawks. who was behind I not. band name on. all M- by “no. A Mutant lndlu. who m (“an I oo- duoa hound W Inc. In none- nIu-l mu- :- In old menu-m ou-mI-c II Ina-n. Fighter- ol Indiu- uood to be men 02 quick I". and I study had. Such a nun VII John Huh. one of the m- 00†o! Hadley, Hun. Au exploit a! m- plum, in 1016. I. mm!“ by «be human of humid. The Indian Ind undo an attack upon mum. «a troop. from allâ€: Iowan bid [on In In. mo. Anon; tho tun from "Me In was John Hawk; 1 In reply to inquiries, a large number oi correspondents beer startling testi- mony to the melancholy fact that es a rule the lakes of Minnesota are gradu- sily drying up. There seems to be no instance in which even the lsrgest and deepest lakes. though nourished by spring-ted stresms, bsve not considers- bly diminished in volume. The same story comes iron: every section of the ststeâ€"irom Nicoliet's undine region, which embraces the counties of Le aneur, Blue Earth, and the sdjscent dis- tricts, end which wss so celled from the multitude oi lskes which dotted it like ‘ s consultation, to the (or more pro- nounced lske region. which hss its sest chiefly in the counties 0! Becker, Olin Tsil sud Douglas. There is herdiy to \bs iound in the world in the some sres s more numerous or more extensive cluster of lskes than is comprised in these counties. They form the union! ‘ reservoirs thst, wely the hesdwsters ot the fled the! and oi the northwest‘ ern sflluents s: the Mississippi. These isles seem to hsve telt the csuses which bsve opersted to reduce their old vol- ume less severely thsn eisevhere. But our reports from thst district In es yet too psrtisi to he sble to nsme the list oi exceptions. ii there be any, to the cen- ersi rule. ca- oops" use. A remarkable physical chem has been (ole; on in Minnesota within the last ten years, of the extent of signiï¬- cance or which few people are aware. Minnesota has long been known as “the Lake state." it was famous as contain- ing a greater number and variety of beautiful lakes than any other section at the country. In an oilicial report 01 Bur- veyor-Genernl J. H. Baker, published some seven years ago in the \ Pioneer Press, it was stated that there ‘were over 7,000 lakes within the sur-: veyed limits of the state. But the last ten years has wrought wonderful changes in this characteristic feature of of our landscapes. A large proportion at these ‘lskes have dried up entirely, and in many cases cultivated ï¬elds now occupy their rich bottoms, formerly covered by from ten to twenty feet of water. Nearly all the rest have greatly shrunken in volume and are slowly dlsr appearing. These are a few exceptions. but this is the general rule. LAKIB DflYINO UP- “ppm. reality. lady last spring I dipped my fowl! In I mixture at hall I pint at minimum ‘ Imihnnhutmulo-mbonved by setting the milk in dean an: and putting them in cold mar, and nearly '1“ of it by than of a hand separator. Where one In the facilities 1 may i: very good. but ice or mam Inter beta: 45 damn mm in at hand an this It not caveman! on any haul. But A cannery cum ion aid in lo- workuwmudwommnnm mot. although. a n ruin, it does not also quite a much of the ma. I... In Can-Inc. Not long ago. an the Practical Dairyntan. we nude 1 little Inventin- uon into )uat what the loan wnn through netting the Iniih In open pens. A herd of fourteen me vs in milk end 3"- Iu about 150 pounds of milk n any. Thenuwereeetinacnnlrnonandni. lowedtnmndtmutoishomor until the with began tn thicken. The all. Iill wnn tented with the Bub- enel tat. nnd it ahowed that nearly all the crann- rnne In the ï¬rst twelve hours, no dilerenee being ahown between that M twelve hunts and um net thirty-ml: hm But the amount of butter tat which wan last was annowhat appen- Ing, amounting an it did to eight- tenthn of 1 per cent. or about one-sixth or the whole amount or butter In the innilk. Thin lo- in not surprising to one who has â€port-nit, to make Inch (utmnndithgoingon everyday“ hundreda and hundreda oi fame in this country. In thin case. It amounted to two pound- ot butter per day which mmtlseentnlvonltoaprivato trade. ï¬fteen per cent of the entire production or one 817! per year; who nnmmmmmmnntto much 2 ‘Icu. All I! la Milo It“ (I. ma- n“ u no thin man with «In. um. legion. mum nu No. {I'- -u rub. the mm of unalloc- l- at any product (males, In! no pun am also to I mum «me. nd ml 0.0 her-ton. cooler- and Mblo uni-m lid to†elem lu- DIC and cleaner co... to .3510 m- hllo' I. III. the her the... And not. [any him.â€"â€"Pnotlcal hm. F a factory that makes 1,000 neunds or cheese per day could by some con- centrated plan of action among its patrons and maker add a hail cent a pound to its quality it would amount to 85 a day. or more‘ s then 3750 for the summer. No small amount in itself toward paying the expenses of the concern, and leave to the patrons just so much more with which to pay taxes, pew rents and claw-hammer coats. And yet this is the experience of factories reported, who had demanded that all milk to be delivered shall, as soon as milked, be aerated and cooled berm-e being sent. in one factory a loss of two cents a pound on all cheese made by inferior quality and flavor was recovered. and the cheese sold after with the best, followed the rule oi every patron night 1nd morning aerating the milk and cooling to a certain degree before plac~ in; on the factory wagon. in quite a number of factories this season where this rule is being made mandatory, there has been not only a noticeable improvement in the quality or the but- ter mode, but an increase in amount. i. 0., the milk creamed better. and the churn did more perfect work. There is 3 place {or the “coming" tactory man- How “would mun-an Opel-nt- nu INTERESTING CHAPTBBS FOR ' OUR RURAL READERS. DAIRY AND POULTRY. Donn-wen: or on. Innaâ€"A low Ill-u u to It. on" of LIV. Stock and Poultry. on great recommendaubn that the my“: bread: of fowl. hue our the mull can It the the has one- Inn to m M! they m not. while the sum in. In who the! plum , Tarmac not In}: mpg wall, in nuns helm for market the prom no: in - hacking early, putting the chicken: for“ II much as male and mutating than any. The nnly hens that It will pay to hep through the mutant. thou that can be relied upon for winter layers or nut In needed In breeders. reams pulling la largely an. to Mignon It In most liable to occur In lctiVé breeds thlt are kept conï¬ned me have little exercise. on: tunable without cumulus or fanning. They form t 8001! ration to reduce the in of hen: the are too in to In well. ' Limo um kill "at u u a good an: ‘ n n- fectnt: It will wit! the air: It will unto the poultry house clean and tree from min. There are few kinds of poultry that pay boner than (Illness. Whole flaunt I: better for growing fowl: than corn. Ilm who use out daily ï¬re unable to judge of their quality. Ind Indeed It Is dlmcnlt to determine the Regimens of m an by In! one, but the also" may be of an to some 'ho are Inexpen- When the Ibo“ of an as; will peel on In I! the m had ten hard boiled. n Is not fresh. as the contents of a Inch 93; adhm closely to the shell and must be removed. When held to n Itrong light, I fresh â€3 ls clear, and it chain in the hand no ï¬ning notion of the contenti Inn! be felt. run- Auu In... n I: not shun ale to Judge a- on by In â€pour-nee. It an be wr- ‘ sully but. yet It I! “out. emgn :11 to porn“ I: to lat II water even I mm than the bottom at the am. It It! not be perfectly frat. The um of I portectly huh m cannot be beaten to a mm. n can: In the thing 0! an egg that In a any at two old. and It the m is very com the heat- ing of the white will he â€complained! note 90",. my poultry, and I luv Just an they In doing. SHIRE STALLION BAR NONE (2388., I keep a daily egg record. and an ac- count with I" outlay And income from All mmm r, from twenty-eight hens, l have had 11 abundance of eggs, and now that they are moultlng, the egg supply keeps up from fourteen to seven- teen I day. Every evening the hens are let out to eat grass and seeds. Bun- ilowers grow within easy reach, to which they freely help themselves. Later, I shall dip them again to destroy all body lice that may remain, and put them In the heat of trlm for winter. I am convinced that their pmlucllveneu in due largely to freedom from vermin: cleanliness and care in feeding do the rest. The house in twenty feet squnre, with a sand floor. which is cleaned every oth- er day and freshly spaded. or coated with a layer of road dust. The town are conï¬ned in a park of 120 feet circuit. ‘ Every morning they are fed a hot mash .ot bran and potatoes, eightiy salted and stirred up with the liquor from boiled melt scraps. Twice a week a handful of sulphur is thrown into this mesh. Corn is given on the cob to make them work a little for their food. Serum from the meat market make them I meal every second day. For greens they have fresh, crisp. pig weeds, turnip tops and onions. With tomatoes and value fruit they ere abundantly eup- plied. boxe- tor new. and movable rooita made of men cedar pole- fastened m~ gather In pairs and set up on cedar lea elghteon Inches high. The nuts are kept clear or vermlu by occasionally lnvertlng them over a blaze made of thelr straw ï¬lllng. The roost: stand out from the wall to prevent thelr acquir- lng vermin from that. source, though cedar la aald to be proof-nunln-t them. W" wand with the nuns mixture. thoroughly cleaned um emptied 0! av fuming but a block tor pounding bone. vermin was destroyed. The hen-house 'o-Im flue; Dueh never have the cholera. may m m: hawks will not much than: they ll! more can than will hotel bot- m than m am. With good tending Buy on readily be undo to 'dg'h In mm la “a when um mug.â€" “Wham Oleo Law in WIeconeinâ€"A greatmeny people were very eleptlcel n to the good eilect oi the law peeeed by the Wleeonein legislature last winter egninlt ï¬lled cheeee, 1nd forbidding the enle oi oleomergnrine in the yellow color of butter. A very signiï¬cant tact. relative to the taking out of United Staten license in thle state elnce the passage of the law may serve to estab- llnh judgment on that question. We learn that the nwllcatione ior licenee have {Allen oil from 133 to nine. That itelle the any conclusively. Without; the vermin-ion to sell the ntul in the color of butter, and therefore no hotter. the trade in practically worthleee. thne ehowing beyond anvil that the hoeineee in built on deception. as its opponents have always maintained. Alike enact he: been observed in all the states where similar leglnlntion has been had. The greet wonder Is that any man or newspaper oi decent ell-meter comld be found to justify iLâ€"Hoerd'e Deiryman. "can“ on Porkâ€"«m pork packer! urn contrncllul lo dellver January no. prodncu on a very lot hula. mm pork. m Inmate. about 84 lower um- : yen Ago. The! Ind the lawns too mu In. your and lost money. but then In good jmlm who lhlnl they Mve u too low now Ind are as likely to log. money as "m were last year. Thorn In only one lhlng that is favorable to (halt nlde of the armament at present, and (but In une hand-me supply of corn. Present mpplles of logs are m. ulnly not large nnd then In: not hem n lull lot a long the when there mu so much sickness among young pigs, There are large area too when lam- on have catered heavy lone: among old boss. 0! course hoc- are very pro. lllc Illd on the right land of feed. whlch they would surely gag limos! anywhere in um year of plenty, u tun only n few months to ï¬t them (or market, but ll. looks as l! the packers and winter: were discounting the us corn crop loo huvlly.~Drove'r-' Journal. 1 ennui-Inn would he made. We would be wound to have the â€Q'- and n- perkmee of feeder: on "m subjectsâ€" Tuu Live mock Journal. Professor Henry of the Wisconsin experiment station, says he has {rev quentiy recommended through the press that smut he ted in limited quan- titles, urging that the animals eating such injured grain be closely watched, and the teed changed it evil symptoms appear. He says he always asked for reports it anything wrong happened. and has never yet received an unta- vorable report. He says a few years ago he tried feeding corn smut to cows. one of which refused to eat the smut [after it amounted to considerable in quantity. while the other consumed a ; peck daily of carefully cleaned corn smut. This cow was gaining rapidly In flesh, when suddenly she was taken with some apparent hrain trouble and died. Lacking experience he made a post mortem, but unfortunately, did not follow it up as he should have done. No animal. he thinks. could eat any such quantity oi smut. unless it was a steer or cow spending most of its time in the stalk ileld searching for the smut. There is scarcely a year that there is not more or less smutty corn, and it would seem. therefore, that it the limited quantities taken in ordinary teed are very injurious. more frequent totals; III-fly can. . There is a diversity of opinion Imonl stochlnen concerning ' the danger of («dint mutty corn to stock. Thou- and- of stock or amount kinda lave been ted amntty corn without any ID- ‘parent injury: yet occasionally some 'ieeder reports sickness and death among his atook, which he attributes to this cause. It is doubtful if there In eumcient evidence at hand to hm"! anyone In giving an opinion oi any special merit. A. good authority as any on this subject, any: It is barely D03- sibie that the smut fungus at times may become virulent and dungeroue to 1 the health of the animal, but surely Its Senora] prevalence shown that such a change in character is very rare. [ Bully m Ann-names ‘ now ammunmon gen stowed "my and forgotlen on board venels who. bunnen n I: to carry It was shown a the recent overhlulln' in Baltimore of the old revenue cutter Ewing. The cl- nm novel-Intending the work W among the mm on how about a hull and loaded and In meaty-four pound them. which Ind been on board the wane! grin; all her service at the Cape Chu- mum It. m were then In denser ‘01 9.13;: Ia. w of I hut-duh, .3 y “In: mm Hg HARRIET STONE HONROR. his written a number 0! clever on on the English poets. no In a a mi and entertaining writer. in Plainâ€, [Monitor 13. mo. In porn-tn having moral iron: centrni New l’orlt the yarn earlier. "er «in- rntion nu begun in the public nelooh. and («Naomi in Denrborn nenllnnry, and at tin n59 oi sixteen rho ontornl the Autism, of the Visitation. I! Georgetown. D. C., when one n-nind two yarn. While there she can nun- cinl ntirntion to the ntndy of round- tlon. nod to some extent indulged In: inclination to write rem (or her o'n n-nmat. After luring oclinol the canned seriously in liter-r) pnmltn, but for some time In contont to in†no other audience than her lmnndlnto friends. "Vaierin" nan flm printed {or private circulation In i89i. but in the latter part of is» the worn nnn enlarged and brought out by n Chic... :puhlinher. By request of the commit- tee on ceremonln of the World's CO- lnmhinn Exposition, Miss lonroe truth the "Opening Ode" for the dedication d the White City. which occurred Octo- ber 21. an. Part: ot‘ the poem ner- rend and ports ot it song by the put choru- on that memorable occasion. in prose Miss nonroo has done conta- ernhle journalistic work. chiefly In tin line oi art and literary crltlclm Ind KATHLEEN BLAKE WATKINS. corrupondem and editor 0! the pun devoted to Ibo “Woman's Kingdom.†This .‘nucr department I: one 0! lb. moat Ilrlklnu Ind lurnclho on m journal In Ibo world. und bu wind I largo and Imam grown-x conun- WMV. Nu. anm hm: pnbllud I Mr“: 0! popular ulMchc-u on "Diallin- Lmd." being tho "mm or uplorulono In awry porflon of London and. fin num- by IM mu mun: novelist. Hvr loum from the World‘- Cola-- Man Bxpmulon In Iâ€: were remun- hlo (or lholr brilliant) and "man Inn“. And the hu nine. land In hook lo": I mum of the "pa-[000. In Wuhan I. but inn-n by but pt.- nnmc a! "KN." ovor which uh. Ill don» "so am!" portion of Ba ml. Mm Nan-M 8. Monroe. 0! Cum“ armpit-n . new" place among AM!- can pom; A volum- o( I" poet-o. puhlIuhod under the llllo a! "th06. and 0th" Pot-III." bu won from toll known "Illa pmounrod Ind cordl‘l commondnuon. Mm Monroe m Ion EW WOMEN 0N! this commentator- ciee no direct an in- fluence upon I newspaper I: does lira. Kathleen Blake Wetting, of the Toronto Uni]. By her brilliant. work Mrs. Watkins has made n splendid reputation for tint journal and (or herself. She is n nu- tive oi Ireland, born in Castle- Blakeny, in May. 1863. and educated in Dublin and Belgium. She was married: at the age of sixteen and came to um country in 1884. She entered upon I: Journalistic career in Canada. where, with the exception of extended visits to the United States and abroad, tho has since resided. A remarkable teat- uro of her work is that she conducts succesaiuliy two entirely separate end distinct departments of the newspaper she represents. being special traveling Kahlu- mn- w-Ilmu In. lull-m Von-n Journal“: of munâ€"undo: “no Ileana. Anthorou o! In. ad.- m Colombian lzpmltlon can. TWO WOMAN WHO ARE HANDY WITH THE PEN. WRITEFORTHEPRESS