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mmtmrnm CHEERING IN DANGERS •- 1 1 'L 1 :: X WW »LYW, «<tor_tM PuMlsfcsr. ILLINOIS CRirrOUNte. '.•*» .V,: ¥1 ftp >'v it- - Itamor whisperi, so wo g!« rram tta« p«i>era tlwro have nwagbti of cringing «<•. tl-s scon) Thirmad, monrtrrme. metal screlH Biding wtmu'i graceful mien, Better Jewish gabardine titan, thus Bwelled out, aatS&'t alMWt Vilest garment ever seen! . Form unknown in things B*en monnterB pliocene 'i ' Were not so ill-shaped, 1 ween. Woi««n "•enriiin 1 his mtoMnt, Were tbey fat, or were tliey lean Small as Wordsworth's celandine, Large as sail that's called lateen, Simply swept the pavement clears]^ Hapless man was crushed betweoii v . Slat. a» «ny tinned Bard in e. # ^ Thing to rouse a Bishop's spleen Make A Canon or a Dean . -- Speak in language not 8erw% We must, nil be very green, > And our arnsfis not *ih» kotso, i If we can't say what we insw^' Write in paper, magazine, Bend petitions to the quean. Get the House to intervene,. Paris fashion's transm«rliM-~ Let us stop by quarantine Catastrophic Crinoline 1 •-Punch. k'4 'S ILL-LUCK. f ••K • '4 • Mr. Richard Grailey was of opinion that he was an ill-used individual , t, To-night for instance, it was dis- JSlt^ustingly raw and cold as he sauntered i"" T along Fleet street toward the gayer '.f5 iStranci, where the theaters, at any Tate, looked warm and bright with \\*l their flaring gas-jets and their por- t,raits of popular actresses. The v<-;; theaters! Why, only a few years ago, %)ick bad been one of those sleek, supercilious young men, in "shining shirt-front and sweet-scented button­ hole, who now elbowed him aside on ' the pavement as they escorted pretty Women from their carriages to the Stalls of some fashionable play-house. ; ff, ^Yes, he had been like them--well- . fed, well-dressed, and well-looking, pr. And now? Well, Mr. Richard Grailey !*, X was not nice to look at. He had a ' fchifty eye, a nose inclined to redness ;|v at the tip, an ill-shaved, blotchy Jctaeek. His hands were covered with ^cfctlMalns, and, bavins? tenaporarlly rted with his only overcoat, he was ostrained to stamp briskly on the Sodden pavement to keep his blood ftaoving at alL He had nothing to eat to speak of, the whole day: but f* ?*. Inow he had got bold of a cheap cigar, ,i, v jand that was someth i n g. Men offe red ; jhim drinks, in and around the uews- paper offices in Fleet street; but they taever thought of offering him a plate "VK * of beef or a basin of soap. Mr. ' • "Richard Grailey had had several #whiskies-and-waters since morning; /•^but a bit of toast at breakfast rep- 'presented his only meal, so that his 1 , tiead felt a little light and his im- (- / /-agination began to run riot. Mr. tr: Jii chard Grailey was in the mood to pflream dreams. | His longings took a practical form. He wanted to feel warm, to have a dinner, a coat to his back, and vf something more toierable to smoke ,?•' ' than that abominable penny cigar. In a word, he wanted money. Only ; a little of that money which had once been his, but which had slipped with ; ^incredible swiftness through his fingers some dozen years ago. It was feWshameful that a gentleman should be reduced to the position that he was ^in; reduced to writing sporting para- ^ graphs for a small sporting paper, with : the pay uncertain. And it bad come to this: He who had been at Eton, who had spent, at any rate, one term at Oxford (his stay, to be sure, hav­ ing been cut short by the absurd pre­ judices of the authorities), did not Know where to put his hand upon a sixpence. It was twelve years since be had livod in London, and most of his ss, friends bad gone abioad or died, ' W while some had settled down to mar­ ried respectability in Bayswater and £Kensington. One or.two of these he Ipfu:; had brushed past in the street, and they had not been able to recognize Hfehim. Perhaps he was changed--they had all been boon companions of his once--or else the world was a more ungrateful place than even be could imagine it Those years in Canada, horrible frozen years of exile, during vbich time he had tried most ways otearning a living, must have altered him. He had been three-and-twenty, and tairly good-looking, when he bad come to the end of his patrimony; but twelve years of more or less in­ termittent "fun" had not added to the lustre of his eye, the freshness of his coin pie* on, or the steadiness of his hand. Cinada, to be sure, had not turned out the El Dorado of his fancy, and much of bis time had been passed in endeavtnng to cheat the cold in the bars ant drinkmg-saloons of Quebec and MontMjal. It was in one such place that he had met Jim Vereker again; Jim, wLo Uged to be bis fag at Eton, and wh» had had a row with his mother and had gone . over to the Dominion a fcmple of *... years ago. Young gentlemen jn the colonies are not fastidious as towhere tbey are seen, and the two had<ten met. But Jim Vereker, in the o^a- IsKion of Dick, bad always been a bit xt ;J a prig, with over-nice ideas about § ' • truth and honor which did not answer in this workaday world, §<*?; , especially when a man had to earn a \ living as best he could. They had j|S V chummed for a bit, but at last they ,i , bad parted in anger, and Dick, for \"V;. one, had an old score to pay off on his t, V'Quondam Eton fag. V " And to-night, thinking over his old . quarrel with-Jim, as he hung about i||; Charing Cross, he suddenly bethought hi HI of Jim's mother. He remem- Jlt hered her well--a fair, timid, delicate woman, generally on the sofa near I® the tire when he had gone, as a boy, to their house in Sangazul Square. She had always been kind to him-- always; why should she not be kind to him again? Mrs. Vereker had been a widow for many years: she lived alone, and she was a rich woman. Dick resolved that he would stroll up Pall Mall and find his way to San- gazul Square. He remembered the bovse perfectlv--a large one, with red blinds. Yes, Mis. Vereker was at home, but she did not see people in the evening, said the butler; would the gentleman send up his flame?" And, presently, he was shown into a cozy room, half-study, half- boudoir, where a bright fire flickered nd a large reading-lamp illuminated, jpie, worn face of an elderly wo- nding over a book. A fluffy eat was curbd up on a & mk 'PAiY- cnshlott at her feet, and the roomjms redqi«bt of the scant from a white litaix . • - The Sady trctntllttg, as ha ea­ ter e J. t "You are Mr. Grailey?" she said, anxiously; "lam, indeed, glad to see you. You have been in Canada, have you not? You may have news of my --my poor Jim?" Richard Grailey watched her nar­ rowly. How sorrow had altered the pretty, fair face he remembered twenty years agot The last two years nad made her pr old woman. How she must care for the son she helped to drive away! Why not turn that affection to some account9 It would be serving the prig right if he made his mother "bleed" a little, for more than once Jim had interfered to prevent him making a big haul--as if anything mattered much in those God-forsaken places. Perhaps, if he bad soii been so faint witu miujiffii and if Mrs. Vereker's surroundings had been le.s ironically luxurious, he might have hesitated; but, as it was, a sort of devilish cunning seemed to take possession of him. It would be good sport, he told himself, If he could make the old woman fork out. Why, it would only be what Jim owed him, the money he had pre­ vented him getting out there in the North-West * * After all, how was he to know where Jim Ver­ eker was or in what manner he was gaining a livelihood? And then Richard Grailey spoke, though in low tones; nor did he look at the mother of his school friend as he talked. All England and America had recently been startled by the murder of a young Englishman in a Canadian swamp. The murderer had been ex­ ecuted, but accomplices were sus­ pected, andythe police had offered large sums to any one who could give evidence as to the other criminals. And gently, sorrowfully, Richard Grailey let Mrs. Vereker know that be knew where one of the suspects was hiding, and that suspect was-- her son. A long silence fell on the little room. The fire crackled brightly on the hearth, and, in the increasing warmth, the scent of white lilac grew almo3t overpowering. The Persian cat recuried itself into a m o r e l u x u r i o u s p o s i t i o n o n t h e f u r hearth-rug. Mrs Vereker did not turn her head, but Dick could see that she had become a curious ashen- gray, "How much do you want?" she managed to say, at last "I want £500!" Mrs. Vereker staggered to her feet, and, crossing the room to a writing- table, opened a drawer and felt me­ chanically for her check-book. .Dick looked over bershoulder as she wrote. When she had done, she leaned back in her chair as if exhausted. "She really is an uncommonly queercolor," thought Dick, as he slipped the check in his pocket; "I do believe she's fainted; 1 shall get out* I don't want to be mixed up in this." And to be sure, the poor lady must have fainted; the silent tigure at the writing-table did not budge as he closed the door softly behind bim and quietly left the house. Ugh! how cold it was as be turned out again into the streets. A bitter north-east wind had blown up, and seemed to strike him in the chest as he turned up toward Regent street on his way back to his room in Holborn. His head felt queer, and he did not want anything to eat now. Besides, he had £500 pounds in his pocket! He would be able to live like a prince to-morrow. To-morrow, Richard Grailey would cash his check. Bnt to-morrow eame. and Dick was tossing in his bed. His head was on tire, his chest was pierced with sharp knives. No one sent for the doctor-- who was going to pay for a doctor in that Holborn lodging-house ? The landlady made him a poultice, now and thcn,aodsenthimup some broth; but it was bitterly cold in the attic: It was three wee^s before he was well enough to get out, and he felt very weaK as he crawled along to the London and Westminster Bank and presented his check. "Nofevalid," said the clerk, in his abrupt, official voice; "writes of this check is deceased. Mrs. Vereker was found dead in her study one night, three weeks ago. The eheck must be drawn again by her legatee." ••And who is that?" faltered Dick. "Mr. James Vereker is the sole legatee of his mother's fortune. He arrived in London two days ago, and was at the bank yesterday. You must take your ftheck to Mr. Vereker, sir." "To Mr. Vere cer?" repeated Dick; "oh, of course. He will write me an­ other--he will write me another." Mr. Richuid Giailey is still of opinion that he is an lll-hsed individ­ ual. In London, he avers, it is al­ most a drawback to have brains--and imagination. To have both, will probably land you in some nasty scrape. When he was last heard of, Dick was thinking of trying Aus­ tralia.--St James' Gazette. In Apt*. When* ia 1?89, a hurricane swept over tlie harbor of Apia, Samoa, creating terrible havue among the men-of-war there, and resulting in the wreckage of vessels and the wholsale slaughter of men, the crew of the American flagship, Trenton, showed a splendid courage, victorious over the possibility of death. The stbrlu had raged for hours, and the destruction was already terrible. The gunboat Eber had beer, dashed upon the reef, the Nipsic lay helpless on the beach, and the Adler bad cap­ sized on the very top ot the reef. The Vandalia and Calliope came into violent collision, and it seemed as if each had received her death-blow. The commander of the Calliope then determined to make one last effort to out of the harbor, as it evident that if he remained in his present position he must either suffer another collision with the Vandalia, or be thrown upon the reef. The engines were worked to their utmost, and any accident at that critical moment would have involved certain death to all on board. Mean­ while the Trenton had lost her rudder and propeller, and was absolutely helpless. To clear the harbor the Calliope must pass between her and the reef, and it required the most skillful seamanship to avoid a col* lision with one or the other The Trenton's tires had gone out, and her doom seemed to be merely a question of a few hours. Her decks were swarming with men; but facing: death as they were, they paid tribute to the heroic struggle of the Calliope, as she passed within a few yards of them into the very teeth of the storm. "Three cheers for the Calliope!" was the cry from 400 throats, and the British tars took heart to return the cheer. Every man on board the Calliope felt as I did," said her commander afterward, in speaking of the inci­ dent "It made us work to win. I can only say, *God bless America and her noble sailors!'" From 10 o'clock in the morning until the middle of the afternoon tne Trenton had held out against the storm, but she was now drifting slowly but surely upon the reef. As she neared it, the men werf ordered in the rigging to form a resisting mass there. This acted as a sail, and the vessel was forced out into the bay again. Then she began to drift down upon the Olga, and when destruction was imminent the stars and stripes were run up It was evident to those on shore that the gallant ship foresaw her doom, and was determined to go down with her country's flag floating above her. The crash came, but no great damage was done. The Olga steamed away and grounded on the mud-flats, and the Trenton drifted toward the Vandalia. Daylight had faded. The storm raged furiously, blinding and cutting the poor creatures who still clung to the Vandalia's rigging. The great black hull of the Trenton loomed1 upon her, ready to grind her to atoms. Suddenly a shout was borne across the water. The Trenton was cheer­ ing the Vandalia. "Three cheers for the Vandalia!" was the cry that warmed the hearts of the desperate men in the rigging. The shout died away, and there arose a response so feeble that it could scarcely be heara on shore. Then came the sound of music, strange and moving at that dreadful moment The Trenton's band was playing the "Star-Spangled Banner." But the final collision, instead of crushing the Vandalia, proved to be her salvation. When the Trenton's stern Anally struck her side there was no apparent shock, and she merely swung broadside to the sunken ship. This enabled the Vandalia's men to escape to the Trenton. At midnight the storm had abated, and when day dawned the men were taken off the flagship in safely. me that he said;1' 150 referttd to dresses or hats that wereeithef "per* foctly lovely" or "jU3t splendid," aad the remainder were pretty evenly divided between comments on other girls, who were "horrid" or »%tuck up and hateful," new novels studies, the summer holidays, and the scientific discoveries. He Got the Cloak. > It happened once that the Kazi (judge) of Sary-IIissar. a village near Constantinople, got drunk, and fell asleep in the vineyard; the Khojab, walking with a friend, passed by the place, and seeing the Kazi's condi­ tion, stole his gown and placed it upon his own shoulders. When the Kazi awoke and missed his gown he summoned his attendants and, send­ ing them in different directions, com­ manded them to arrest the person with whom it should be discovered. One of the officers recognized the gown on the Khojah's back, and seizing bim, dragged him to the Mehkemeh (the public tribunal). When the Kazi saw him be de­ manded: 'Khojah Effendi;1 where didsfr thou find this gown?" The Khojah answered with a loud voice, so that all the spectators might hear: "As 1 was walking this morn­ ing with a friend we saw a Kazi, so reckless of the holy law he was appointed to administer that he lay in an open field, dead drunk and asleepi My companion, in indigna­ tion, spat upon and kicked him. I took his cloak and put it on me. If it be thy property I am willing to re­ sign it to thee. "No, no, Khojah," cried the Kazi, alarmed for his reputation; "it is none of mine!" An Odd Profession. Perhaps the most remarkable trade in the world is that of Frau Gelby, a nurse in Dr. Schnitzier's Throat Hospital at Vienna, * whose chief means ofjlivelihood--- and it is ahand- some one--arises from the extreme insensitiveness of her throat She lets herself out to budding medicos as a subject upon which they may practice manipulations of the throat and vocal organs. She can open her throat in such a manner that the student can actually see the vocal cords, and can practice very delicate experiments thereupon, sucn as painting the sides of the air- passage with a camel hair ibrusb, in­ troducing different instruments, and so on. After the embryo doctor has ac­ quired a certain dexterity, this extra­ ordinary woman half swallows a glass bead and the student practices re­ moving it with forceps such as would be used in an accidental case. Her confidence in his skill is indicated by the fact that she keeps tight bold of a strong thread attached to the bead. People go from all parts of Europe to study this lady's throat SOMETMIWQ WERE THAT WILL To Keep the Roofi of Farm Buildings In Oooct Condition--Beet Sugar Farming In Nebraska -Value of tag After Bain. Shingles and ' It is a matter of no small expense to keep the roofs of farm buildings in a sound and tight condition, says a correspondent of the American Ag­ riculturist Want, of proper selec­ tion of shingles, of proper care in laying them, and in protecting them from the weather, are responsible for much of the cost which often seems a burden. 1 he sayi ng that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, is eminently true of the selection, lay­ ing, and care of shingles. In the first place, it is false economy to bny, or have made from the product of one's own wood lot, shingles of inferior quality, full of sap, or of a coarse, porous, or shaky nature, which per­ mits water to enter the grain, soon ending its usefulness Roofs soon be­ come almost worthless through care­ lessness in laying the shingles, joints not being properly "broken," and water thus let in to cause rapid .de­ cay. Another point is that an un­ protected shingle, even a good one, severely exposed as it is to the ac­ tion of the weather, has vastly less durability than it would have if cov­ ered with some moisture-proof ma­ terial. Even a cheap quality of paint will prove a great protection. If paint is thought so be too costly, there are often materials to be had that will repay applying to the newly-laid shingles, or to use as a dip before they are laid. Tar, crude pe­ troleum, whitewash--all these are efficacious; if properly and thoroughly applied. Such applications mean better looking buildings, and roofs that will long outlast those not sim­ ilarly treated. It is much better, in cold climates, at least, to use shin­ gles, underlaid by thick building paper, upon the walls of farm build­ ings, instead of clapboards, as the former are warmer, and, if well laid, and painted, or stained, will look better than clapboards In any event warmth ought not to be sacrificed to looks, and shingles certainly afford far better protection against the en­ trance of cold air than do clapboards. In any event warmth ought not to be sacrificed to looks, and shingles certainly afford far better protection against the entrance ot cold air than do clapboards. The great point in the use of the former is to secure good quality, to lay them with great care, as regards joints, and to prop­ erly protect the wood from the action of the weather. Such care will be repaid in the durability that will thus be secured. Lost In a Chicago TV ildnernees. The son of a certain well-known business man who resides on Baring street is telling a little story about his father and mother that is furn Wing no little amusement to the friopds of the family. BIt appears that ohe »f0resaid business man, who ordi narilj\9 not unusually absentminded, enfirageu ro0ms before going to Chi­ cago, anttmade a note of the address at home. k With his *ire, he found the placa all right, awi after spending on* evening there w>ot to Jackson Park to view the exposition the next Ali went well until th, tiI110 arrived for going home, when lv was discovered that both husHand am vvife bad for­ gotten the name and nu^g,. 0f the place where they bad "put up. After some little puzzling they de­ cided to ttnd quarters wiUre ^hey could spend a few hours, am then sent the following telegram, "J. H. F., Philadelphia--WiPb^j dress of house in Chicago where »e are stopping: Forgot it C. F. ft. Though greatly surprised, J. H. F. quickly sent a reply, and before mid­ night C. F. F. and his wife found their temporary home.--Philadelphia CalL Bis still prepared for death, and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.--Shakspeare. A PROPENSITY to Hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.--Hume. Story of Powers the Sculptor. When Hiram Powers, the Ameri­ can sculptor, had his studio in Wash­ ington, he employed his spare time in carving likenes-es of the wild ani­ mals, with which he had grown fa­ miliar during his boyhood days among the Green Mountains. It was at this time that he made the tigure of the conchant panther, which now adorns one of the rocks on the main drive­ way in Central Park. He was very much interested in this piece of work, and did not like to be interrupted. One day a raw mountaineer from Vermont, who had come to Wash­ ington to see the sights, thinking that he must not return without pay­ ing a visit to his talented country­ man, sauntered into the studio. Mr. Powers paid no heed to him, and did not ask him to sit down, but the Vermonter was not abashed. He not only remained, but he came so close to the sculptor as to interfere with his work. Mr. Powers tried in vari­ ous ways to intimate that his visi­ tor's room would be vastly better than his company. Still he staid. At last the sculptor called the office boy and bade him sweep. As the studio had not been visited by a broom for a month the cloud of dust was almost suffocating. The Vermonter choked and coughed, but did not eo. He still stood with his gaze riveted upon the piece of stone that was receiving such wonderful grace under the skilled hands of the artist. At last Mr. Powers could stand it no longer. Turning to the countryman he said, with a savage frown: "My friend, 1 shall be very much obliged to you if you will put yourself on the other side of that door." The countryman began backing toward the doorwav, not once removing his eyes from the panther. "All right sir." he said, "I'll but--but--geewhittiker, what spring she's goin' ter make"* "That," said Powers, "was most genuine compliment I ever ceived in my life. What about the •nan^--well, what do you think? I kgged bis pardon. He furnished me afVrward with some of the best T'nrak 1 eVef bad'"--York Chinamen's Favorite Soda Flavors. A man was enjoying a cooling phosphate in a downtown drug store the other day--not far from China­ town--when a child from the Flow­ ery Kingdom entered. The soda rusher prepared for business. "Coffee?" inquired the Chinaman. "No. the coffee is lust out," said the soda fountain tender. "We've got vanilla, chocolate, sarsaparilla and---" But before he had* finished the Chinaman shook his head, turned on his heel and walked out, vigorously working a fan. Then the soda man turned to the writer and said: "It's the funniest thing in the world. I have a lot of Chinamen come in here, and they in­ variably ask for coffee soda. If I happen to be out ot that flavor they won't take anything else. It seems to be a regular fad with them. It would do your eyes good to see China­ men in here by the half dozen at a time, all drinking coffee soda I have never sold a soda with any other flavor to a Chinaman since I have been here, and you know that's been a good number of years."--Bos­ ton Journal. . my rotation not extending be- jrottl four oryears of which two years are clover. AVliat CaB 3Jo Done with Goo4 Cows. *! i . Should I buy the adjoining farm of 100 acres? was the old-time question a Central New York farmer at Pompey Hill, near Syracuse, asked eighty odd years ago. "If you will buy five of the best cows to be had, I will pay Tor it with butter," was the reply of his wife. There is a world of suggest!veness in this old-time question and answer.. . Even then it was recognized thatha farmer could not safely indulge irt Itftge land hold­ ing, unless he had the best of stock to go with it, and make it pay. We have improved stock since those early days, but nobody has improved the philosophy of that good, business-like wife.--Exchange. Feeding1 Grain With J*a»t-are. The feed that stock get from the pasture always costs more than any other on farms where land is valuable. Why not then supplement the pas­ ture with a grain ration, keeping enough stock to eat the grass pretty close and vet not allow it to suffer. Many farmers reverse this policy and have large patches of grass that be­ comes overgrown, and then stock will be almost starved before they will touch it The better way is to have it so closely fed from the first that these spots will be. eaten while still fresh and tender. s Kegraftlng Wild Plum Trees. There are thousands of wild plum trees as well as the wildings of culti­ vated sorts that are no use whatever as tbey (are. These should be re- grafted with the best and most pro­ ductive cultivated varieties. These is a common idea that plum trees must be grafted very early in order to succeed. The buds start very early, and it is little use to try to make a swollen bud grow. But if the bud has been held back that is to be set the swelling of buds*^ .^he tree will not affect It •, , * ' " Flaxseed Meal for Calve*»':' ̂ Fall calves are hard to make tbrifty. Tbey usually get less milk than old calves farrowed in spring. If fed by hand, more or less of the milk is apt to be fed too cold. The best feed to supplement skim-milk is flaxseed meal. A teaspoon ful boiled In a quart of water at each feeding and added to the skim-milk will make it much richer. If the calves scour add a tablespoonful of wheat fine flour to the mixture while it is being cooiced. If Two Worlds Should Meet. Our world is spinning through space at a speed of over 1,000 miles per minute. Should it come in col­ lision with a globe of equal size go ing at the same rate of speed, what would be the result? The very best thinkers of the age tell us that heat enough would be generated by the shock to transform both of the col liding bodies into gigantic balls of vapor many times their present cir­ cumferences. Some have thought that in case the center of the earth is composed of solid and colder mat­ ter than is the generally accepted be­ lief this might not be the case, but after searching all the leading au thorities I must admit that I cannot find a more appropriate "finis" than the following, which is from an emi­ nent scientist: "Should such an un­ heard of event occur the heat gener­ ated would be sufficient to melt, boil, aud completely vaporize a mass of ice fully 700 times the bulk of both the colliding worlds--in other words, au ice planet 150,000 miles in diameter!' --St. Louis Republic: Beet Sugar Farming. The sugar beets I raised last year writes, Charles Riedel of Nebraska, were shipped in freight cars to the Grand Island factory. One acre of land was prepared by plowing eight inches deep and subsoiling so to have eleven to thirteen inches of loose soil. It was then harrowed and smoothed with a plank clod crusher. The seed was sown with a Planet Junior seed drill, twenty pounds to the acre, though twenty-four pounds are bet­ ter, in rows eighteen inches apart The field ought to be nearly square, so the double wheel hoe can be used both ways, when the thining out is done, which is the biggest and most important' part of the work. The rest of the cultivation can be done by a one-horse cultivator. By running the double wheel hoe on both sides of the row, with the curved parts in­ side, only a strip one inch wide is left for hand thinning and weeding. With four-inch hoes, repe-it the oper­ ation a few days later at right angles to the rows, and only little squares of one square inch are left to be thinned out and weeded, which reduces the much feared hand labor to a minim­ um. The rest of the cultivation was all done by the wheel hoe, with the cultivator teeth inserted in place of the hoes. For cultivating the su­ gar beets I raise for stock, I use a two- horse corn cultivator as the rows are planted three feet apart* and thinned out from ten to twelve inches in the row. Sugar beets are the most profit­ able crop for me to raise, for they sell well, are well liiced by all domestic animals, and are superior for table use, to all other beets. From the Pen. - Agricultural, as well as other edi­ tors, frequently call for something from the pens of their subscribers or farmers that they need. It is re­ lated that a western editor met a well-educated farmer and said to him that he would like to have something from his pen. He was accommodated, for upon his return home the farmer sent him a pig, for which he charged him nine dollars and seventy-five cents. We presume this is only a story, but it tells well just the same. --Germantown Telegraph. THE FINGER NAILS. ^ - U» Kept Ci**a. ' There is a common belief that th» finger nails are poisonous, which idea is . natural enough considering the fact that scratches made by them afl| generally quite irritable and mud| inclined to unusual inflammation. The reasoning is erroneous* boife. ever; for, as is known, tbedailsthen^ selves do not have any poisonous prop~ e-Mes. The trouble excited by then) Ia due to the foreign deposits under them. In other words, if one neegi his finger nails clean, scratches caused. }y them will be no more 1 ratable; than those produced by any like iifi •trument that is considered innocents The re-ult of the examination made in Vienna show that it is mof|r important that the finger nails h* kept clean than any would suppose. Seventy-eight were made, and there were found thirty kinds of micro­ cocci,, eighteen diiTerent bacilli, ant three kinds of sarcenae, besides com* mon mold spores were present in many instances. It would seem from this that thft spaces under the nails were favorable hiding places for the minute orgagil isms which are more or less prejudi­ cial to healtn, and that therein Use the poisonous element attributed fie the nails. Furthermore that cleatt* liness of the nails is a very impor­ tant essential. It is not sufficient to use merely a knife blade, but at the toilet a nail brush and plenty of soaa end water should be called into set* vice. Surgeons long ago learned that de? ' posits under the nails were a menace and that through them wounds were easily poisoned. This led to extreme care in the matter of personal clean­ liness on their own part and on the part of all their assistants. Before an operation is performed all who touch the patient or the instruments which are to be used must first clean their hands thoroughly with soap and water, being especially careful to have the spaces under the nails abso* lutely clean. After this the bands are put into disentectant solutions.-** Boston Post ^ JrlS Talk Abo«. Ah obst{$er has taken 1,000 notes of the conVjj gat|or)8 of passing young women. Oiiy that number 780 be­ gan wtth eithe. "And I said to him," or, "He said to>e;» OI>t .£he told Is- They Lag More THnn They Spread. When standing within a few yards of the gun's muzzle at the time of discharge a person would be amaz ingly astonished were he only able to see the shot go whizzing by. Experi­ ment? in instantaneous photography prove to us that the shot not only spreads out comet-liice, as they fly, but they string out, one behind the other, to a much greater distance than they spread. Thus, with a cylinder gun, when the shot of a charge reaches a target that is forty yards away, the last shot is laggiug a full ten yards behind. Even a choke- bore gun shot will lag behind eight the; yards in forty. re- , THE McNab treated the family toa fantasia on the bag-pipe, and when be had concluded he looked around with honest pride and remarked: "Eh, mon, but that's vera deefecult!" "Is it?" said the Otf'Maherty. "Be jabbers, Oi wish it had been impos­ sible " a And They Were Happy-. She was a girl about 18 years old out of a possible 20. She had on a neat calico dress, a white apron, and a cute but cheap straw hat Just as the young man was passing she dragged a bundle containing twenty- six yards of brussels. carpet out of the side door and flune it over the ver­ anda rail and jumped after it He stopped dead still and a smile of hope lighted up his aristocratic leatures. While he smiled she opened up the bundle and seized one-half of the carpet and hoisted it over a clothes­ line. While he smiled more and more and seemed to whisper to himself, she spat on her hands, grabbed the other half, and, with a long-drawn "ha!" she boosted it over a second line. "Eureka!" gasped the young man as he drew nearer; but the girl was looking for one of those swamp-elm sticks which thev sell with baled hay at 1,000 per cent profit and heard him not She presently found one. It weighed about fifteen pounds. She tucked ufr her sleeves, moistened her palms, seized it with both hands, and with a "h-u-u-u!" which could be heard down on the next block she fetched that carpet a swat which made buttons and hair-pins fly ten feet high. "Eureka some more!" chuckled the young man with the Queen Anne countenance--'"but this is what I've been looking for!" Swat! Swat! Swat! Fineeombs, toothbrushes, dress-stays, powder- rags, shoe-buttons, pins, darning needles and receipts for chapped lips fell in a golden shower on the rich green gra«>. "Excuse me, miss, but are you en gaged, matrimonially?" "No, sir," she sweetly replied, as she turned to find the young man at her elbow. "Have you whitewashed the cellar, papered two or three rooms, rimmed the bedsteads and beat all the rest ot the carpets?" "I have, and cleaned the pantry, and taken down two stoves in addi­ tion." "'Tis well. I am Claude Melnotte, son of the old twenty millionaire Melnotte, and his only heir. Will you marry me?" "I will." ••Good! I'll be here at 1 oclock sharp, with the license and the preacher. Till then ta! ta!M--Free Press. The Art of Breathing. Mayor-Gen. Drayson of the Eng­ lish army has made a special study of the art of breathing, and is now free from coughs, colds, sore throats and other ailments from which he suffered as a young man. He de­ clares food and liquid insigniflcan'6 in comparison with air in the support of life. A man may live for days without food, but he dies in a few minutes without air. Rapid breath ing in pure air, making forty or fifty deep inhalations per minute (the usual number is about twenty), is his panica for the immediate recov­ ery from headache,|toothache, pains in the heart, restlessness and sleep­ lessness. He recommends for the two later walking about the room to make sure of not breathing the same air a second time. He considers it an advantage in some cases to place a haodkerchief over the nostrills and filter the air as it passes into the lungs, then forcing it out through the mouth. By continued lack of Orchard Grans. The value of orchard grass is be­ coming better understood, aud there are many places where it is common to sow it in place of timothy either alone or with clover. It is a richer feed than is timothy, is ready to pas­ ture earlier, and is best cut as clover is coming into head, which is also the best time for cutting clover. Where clover and timothy are sown together, the cutting is apt to be de­ ferred too late for the clovcr or too early to have the timothy amount to muob. .'tM for FertUlzers. Of the various ways of handling manure, good and bad, the best tor me seems to be to spread it as made. The more soluble parts are carried down a few inches by the winter rain, and the coarser remainder, turned under just proper oxidization the blood becomes as the soil beglus to ws^ftHkUjj- in tfce j permanently bad and tissue of the ANGELS are always painted with white gowns covering their feet It ] seems to be generally understood that even an angel's bare feet look horrid. ']f ,i:l v spring, starts a chenUe^K/reaction that is probably as Wene(flcial to the soil as is the actual plant food contained in it By rottfihg it down in a compost heap and top dressing in the fall, this tunction of the ma­ nure is mainly lost; a loss which is partly offset by the surface protection given to the young wheat by the ma­ nure and by a better sod to be turned down the next time the field is plowed, but I have no use for sod ou farm V< V'.' 51 ** • *• - same character is formed from it with the result of impairing the health. The Days. With the natives of Burmah it Is a belief that people born on a Monday are zealous; on Tuesday, honest; Wednesday, quick-tempered, but soon calm again; Thursday, mild; Friday, talkative; Saturday, hot-tempered and quarrelsome, while Sunday's children will be parsimonious. . A IDesnand fi>r Postry. The editor of the Western Wi was feeling breezy, when a visit thin in the jaw and long in the entered. •Good morning," said the editor, r ., •Good morning, sir," murmurii the visitor. * "Anything I candoforyouto-da?P| inquired the editor. - 1 hope so, sir. 1 have some poetf|r here that I " •Oho," interrupted the editor; *&o you are a poet? Not indigenous to the Western soil, I'll bet a broncho. remember the last one we had out here," and a shade of sadness not akin to pain flitted across the editor's faciei •Yes, sir," murmured the visitqf* •What kind of p«etry do jiH write?" queried the editor. . Almost any kind, sir, if there is a demand for it." Well, there is a demand right now." •What kind?" > ; •Obituary poeti^ I want four lines." "Man or woman, sir; boy, or gl^U abult or infant?" "Man." "What's his name and age, sir?" and the poet got out a pencil about as thin as he was and reached for a sheet of paper not much thicker. * "That's immaterial. You write the poetry and I'll do the rest" said the editor and there was something in the tone of the voice which caught the poet low down in the liver, where it was white, and he wejut out of that office with a swish that sounded like dropping a cat the wrong way of the fur from the top of a 10-story bui|(f|r ing:--Free Press. Properties of the Pineapple. A housewife who Is fond of ex­ perimenting made one day a delicious snow pudding, flavored with preserved pineapple. It was served with a cus­ tard sauce, also flavored with the pineapple, the solid part of the pre­ serves being used for the pudding and the syrup for the sauce. The pudding was a great success; and, thinking to make it more delicious, the next time the pudding wa= made fresh uncooked pineapple was used, and the pudding, which is a prepara­ tion of gelatine, whites of eggs, and sugar, was beaten until stiff and set away in a mould to harden. The housewife, feeling sure of a dainty dessert, waited with pride for the sweet course of her dinner. But alas, when it came to her table it was a thin watery liquid, with bits of pine­ apple floating in iti pleasant enough to the taste, but hardly a delight to the eye. No one could explain the mystery of the disappearance of the gelatine until a scientific cook ex­ plained that chemists had recently discovered that pineapple had a won­ derful digestive power, and that it had probably consumed the gelatihe. The principle discovered has lately been applied to a new preparation of beef extract to be used for beef tea, sauces, and soups. Its superiority to other extracts is based on the fact that not only the extract of the beef, but the solid meat fiber are a part of it, being made soluble by a pineapple ferment. • Fishing Through the Earth. Colorado has a subterranean lake ttf considerable extent covered with soil about eighteen inches deep On the soil is cultivated a field tof corn, which produces thirty bushels to the ),cre. The ground is a black marl in nature, and in all probability was at jne time an open body of water, on which accumulated vegetable matter, which has been increased from time to time, until now it has a crust lufflciently strong and rich to pro- luce fine corn. While harvestf&g the hands catch great strings of fish by making a bole through the earth. & person rising on his heel and coin­ ing down suddenly can see |hb grow­ ing corn shake around him. Anyone having sufficient strength to drive a rail through the crust will find.on re­ leasing it that it will disappear alw* aether.--Chicago Herald. THB jewel of a servant girl is the one who hangs all her mistresses' em. broidered underwear on the portion of the line most conspicuous to the neighbor's eyes. In politics the party organ does very much the same sort «f service for the party. V r- s