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Show TfARll'AND nOLSEnOLD Small Farm! Bm. It ;s most natural that ia this coun-t.where largo tracts of fertile lainl secured, the tendency fja be cheaply W.d be to buv in" more land than SUNDAY BEADING. L- tie P ran U'o successfully cultivated. impl improved agricultural mere than any cuuutry in were possible anv-ver- e forid. If itsingle-handed to till for men namherp of acres, it would be here. After a fashion men do in the painstaking and care-f 7e wav to cultivation that is found in the oH- and in Kir-- , pe. paris of this country land the make richer, must fle do in the Old World, grow larger crops make more profits from per acre, and isnsUer investment of land, capital pi piid .: b. nine-tee..t- iia over , M every year :t ,s becoming more ccr-Mof fanning must method this th it labor. Poes this imply a return to the condi-t.oof the thickly settled portions of Europe, where peasant farmers work-,j- T land they do not own wring only a e subsistence from the soil? liy no In a few respects conditions means. ,ill be the sumo; but there will be lathe farming enormous differences. account will be 0f the future more msJe of the richness of land than of It tic acreage under nominal tillage. evident to any one who studies currthe wholesale method ent events that Men have of farming no longer pays. rot into it through the fact that land tends to incbv cultivation for a time rease in value. This ris r in land has tide many rich, and as it is the easiest of all ways to make money, thou-yahave bought lunds they did not need, hoping to prolit by their increase as H Id n Hid you ir.et in fneuiMtm' name? friend MioiiJd a l.ioiber re:lvm the brut few ,,.0rtiS0'!1And h. t Lrart I1..11UI fr, ripen of ftomo varieties are ' ,,t tl,, V0llr in III.- - inav differ. apt to rot as they turn re rlnv tur hour vvlit-- ti vou them off and throw them a;u-- . oVbet-te- ,.nil liair fanli in ,,ne another inrt; r You may me that fnend-histill burn them, to yet. prevent the tWefhm i1" Have ye faith in one another -beases the plant has love .hr: ."' fond vow: born fruit before it had drawn on the At "111 hot le :tivsas 'ununer, r . always blight as now. tonL?f'Ate,I,;PCrP0ni0n 0f ,itl suitor int com o'er tlice or while that its Ji MHae routs furnishes was needed all you 'hare, to perfect in one another. it, own grow th. This is the only th e- - r!1 ben you never need we - u. -- 1- 1- 1 r- -t 1 p 1m 1 can sgge,t for ory facts well known to all exphinution of gardeners. In preparing wheat ground at this season there is usually some moisture ill the soil When turned up. But it the furrow is left roimh, tne ia-- m surface exposed to the air causes it to dry out very quickly. It is very important to save in tho soil all the moisture To this end wneat farmers keep a drag in thegood lot, and a little before turning-ou- t time at night they hitch on t that and brush uovn what has bo.:i unturnod during the day. The good effect of this prac- tice in fitting a mellow, moist seedbed for the gram is almost iucalcuable. I he increase of insect enemies and utseases among cultivated fruits make them much more difficult to grow than u value. formerly. Nobody, however, need be Of late years, especially in the older discouraged by this. There is nothing parb of the country, farm lands have uncertain about fruit rowimj', except bnjnon the dc'dine. The reason is not far to seek. Decreasing fertility has the price, and when the large propor-lio- n of unskilful fruit planters are brought many sections below prolitablo Under a system driven from the business the price will productive capacity. be always a paying one. By underof fanning that meant a continual decfarm lands soon standing how to destroy insects tho rease in fertility, crop can bo male at least as certain as change from the very best to the very nrst forms of security. Laud cannot hay or grain of any kind, and by makHut for farming purposes ing fruit crops certain every year, runaway. they can bo sold at comparatively low fertility is all that makes land valuable. prices with good prolit. Where insect Fertility is as volatile as ammonia. A change to smaller farms, with depredations are prevented, the quality of fruit will be improved, and this is thorough tilluyo and increasing fertilitwhat is needed to enlarge the demand. y, is the effectual remedy for this After the crops are harvested, how But if the farm be reduced in ;vil. will shall they be marketed? Here is the size to the Old World standard, not the American farmer become like economy of good teams, good wagons tie European, merely a peasant, a serf capable of h ailing large loads, and We do not believe this good roads. With all these, the exar a boor? Conditions here are pense of hauling grain to market need danger exists. not, and cannot for hundreds of years not be half what it usually is. Westvet be what they tire in The ern farmers have learned a lesson of Europe. i.tnd in France is doubtless too much farm economy in this matter. Many i.vided for the public good. There is large grain growers own elevators on vet land the railroads, where they store their enough hero for comfortable dzed farms for all willing to work grain, and it is easily and cheaply thorn. It is not and never can be bore transferred to cars for shipment when "cult to buy land. The trouble is sold. When the western farmer draws his grain with teams he usually puts the question whether it is worth on much heavier loads than are comworth c iltivuting. Western farm horses lot with Yankee energy, skill and mon in the east. tact it is easier here to restore poor are heavier than those of average easthud to fertility than it is anywhere ern farmers. It; costs no more for a eise in the world. Of the scarcest driver to haul a large load to market funeral plant food, phosphate, this than a small one. American Cultiwitty has enormous supplies in South vator. .Volina rock. Fertility is going to Tho Household. Hste on every side, and only needs Cake. One and a Mountain White that men put forth their hand to stay half cups of sugar, of a cup t With smaller areas under individ-- , of butler, the of four eggs, half a yolks al ownership we shall use as much cup of milk, three cups of dour, one machinery as ever, but it teaspoon ful of baking powder. Bake nil be by tins. among farmers in jelly-cak- e aeiica neighborhood, who will cotn-5.3- 3 CoeoANUT Filling for Cake. One to purchase and work it. This pound of pulverized sugar, the whites will surely be better than individual of the four eggs, one grated cocoanut. jwnership of large areas that do not Mix all and spread between ay for cultivation, and where each the layers,together on the top and around the farmer is more to obliged purchase side3. Keep some of the cocoanut to ools than he can afford, with a result sprinkle on top of the cake. '! and therefore decreasing the fertility tie Dried Aiti.e Pudding. Boil dried productive capacity of his land nth each nearly done; save a teacup season. American apples until of returning of the juice the apples for a sauce; ultivator. them and mix with soaked bread chop Grain Feed In Summer and boil in a bag; make a sauce of The general impression is that dairy melted butter, sugar and flour, with ock needs only the gr .ss of the enough apple juice to give it flavor; adure in summer. Of course a good bpice with nutmeg. a! depends on the quality of the Lemon Jelly. Make a rich lemonasture. Some afford much richer feed about four lemons to a pint ade, an others. But it stands to reason of using also water, enough sugar to make it fat some dry food in summer, for sweet. Strain carefully though a cloth as well as men, is not only box gelatine: and then add one-ha- lf pfahable but conducive to health, dissolved it in a little after having any by experiment have found that water, strain again several times: then pays to feed meal in summer. Col. D. put in molds and place on ice to beCurtis, of Charlton, N. Y., says come solid. has founu that giving his cows an Chicken Sour. Take all the bones ffrafeedof wheat bran in summer of a chicken, crack them, and add the ceases the quantity of milk and dark meat; cover well with water, and ikes a better He of butter. quality for three or four hours. Flavor ds at night four quarts of bran with stewbroth with some e thinly cut lemon the cotton-seeof d quart meal. lie puts and add a li tie sage to salt taste, butter up in three to ten pound peel: tied in a piece of muslin. All fat must btages, and delivers it to special cus-aein Schenectady, for 30 cents a be removed. met the Minced Veal. Take an earthen dish year round. That ho has V cows, appears from the yield 7 and put in it a layer of breadcruinbs;over Jads of butter from 100 pounds this place pieeesof butter, then alayerof nilk. lie used to bo satisfied minced cold veal, with salt and pepper: to 6J pounds, but now then more crumbs, butter, veal, salt and When the dish is full, with a feeds in getting 7 by not mix-- ? pepper. of crumbs for the top. pour over sweet and sour cream and layer taking wa caro in ripening his cream for it an egg, beaten well, and mixed in of milk. Bake until brown. churn. But this question of fecd-- i half a cup grain in summer is one that each The Secret City. f.vman must decide for himself, ae There's a city, quaint and humble, appear to find it profitable; but if not all cases, we note tnat Peopled, yet obscure to eyes; have an unobserved city Yea, J to superior cows. It might not i feed grain or much of In itself a paradiso. anything e to poor cows". A little experi- There's a million kinds of people to settle the question Who nre dwelling there ougnt 11 is not a Bowed with wretchel loads of sorrow, very wide - awake a. in these days who dies not Trudging long in duty's way. v foment. Mr. H. Gilbert, In this city is a structure done. Jlland.Then Y., feeds shorts in-, Being reared, yet never of leisure, Where thev toil devoid in Septombeginning none. are And vacation days ee(I 1 to 5 pounds of cotton-see- d doth raiso the census. wheat bran mixed, he says, Every day Swell tiie citys thoroughfare; ''faff my a me to nor heat them, give dairy , Though we cannot see fatter for every 12 pounds of there. They are born and buried His cows, it wili be seen, must and anvmsh, AH the sorrows, pains ra',an(A readily to good d Blasted hopes and broken vows, and treatment. respond In winter, he a re rrnrdtjd there forever " Ma50ut 5 pounds of hay, and 35 Written on the people s brows. crn ensilage, with 5 to 7 All these people, oh, my reader, ,,.,s cotton-see- d ? a part. meal and shorts. Of that city quaint,a woman, 8 strong feed, but he finds it Are the troubles of . is her heart. r tactic il Farmer. And LA? Miller, St. Louis Magazine. Irving Farm Note. p enc corners are carefully Value Received. atcr haying and harvest, (Russian baths)-T- hat v Proprietor jaz2n become unmanageable by man who just went out didnt appear to Did he get c?? fa'enns. This work is much good humor. fa? be neglected since the horse be in very ntt reaper have dissuaded far-yj- jB. tbe habit of the lork cC'-- W t but is still a swingingimple Hm toll loto handy s;t v, fiave around for cutting weed Weekly. fil-s- t pos-ibl- e. -- dr-pa- I Have ye faith in one anoher. Nor to a iloubttnsr heart 1 " make tho. world a desert VI1, "here Hie Mill will never hine. 1 .'on have ome I sorrow ut 0 on If you have f.uifi m one another Sorrow witu you will not stay. Have ye faith in one another, And let honor be vour yitiide: b'Dw auury vvimU he pok-n, " hal eNeever inav lietule. Grief and troubles inav Y.s, I hnV no ambit 'tWwUfr lhithav f a i h in one anotlier r" or faith w Ui eon pier everv ill. Atlanta tonatitiitlo. - -- -- 11.1.' ' id two-thir- e r8 , , .iJ ; rmi-n- m v -- i ds buy-igiu- the come in j t,e "f usually, "av indicated. The U.ES. C. does not often reach directly the boy just out from the public school. Most of its A Strange Religions Ceremony in niemliers are i-older. It is through the Jerusalem. parent, "ho-- e "outlook has been enlarged by the courses of reading, that the i Inld is and sent. erhaps, Chautauqua, and hat it Iw, for Our to a college iniliiencej or university. h The Youth Grain f Thought l.olj.i, century lias aimed at reform From Moral Thinker. through thy tlullren, ti.e twentieth century begins with the children's I aith. paivuts. U'hautampia Assembly IUnei-- frith in one another. 7l s "avs. or if. little more than one year ago a man "as pardoned out of tins prison. He was most fully capable of making Ins wav through the world honestly. All along lie had been wont at everv opA portunity to declare his intention of living honorably should he le permitted to t r.atlie the air of freedom again. On the morning of his departure ha came to hid farewell to some of Ins pusou friends. They were earnest in admonishing him to keep clear of the laws angrv grasp. He was equally as earnest in his protestations; hut when about to depart, and one of the liovs cautioned him again to keep straight, he answered, 1 will, if I can. That little word IF rather staggered their confidence in The IHoo Douching Tree. Mr. John B. Iettermnn, an American and whilom resident of t'liihuan-tia- , Mexico, writes as follows to the St. Louis t about a singular Giscutery which he recently made: 1 have taken much interest in the study ot botany during my sojourn in this country, the libra of which presents one of the richest fields for the scientist in the world, and have wandered some distune" from town on several occasions in my search of specimens. On one of these expeditions I noticed a dark object on one of the outlying spurs of the Sierre Mad re mountains, which object excited niy curiosity so much that I examined it carefully through my field glass. This revealed that the object was a tree or shrub of such unusual appearance that I resolved to visit the Globe-Democra- the spot. declarations. sincerity of Ins That IF meant if previous he could not find work to suit his tastes he would steal. The alternative won. consequently he is with us again. Now, he is not the only man who has gone out with his good resolutions vitiated with ifs. The man who says: I will live honestly if I can, has no fixed determination to live honestly, and would come nearer expressing his real intentions were he too say, "1 will steal if 1 cannot find work that suits me. It is the same with tbe man strong drink has brought low, and the man depraved natural passions lias demoralized that little IF is their confession of weakness and inesolulion. If we must have IP's in our resolutions let us use them as stepping stones to things higher and still higher, and not as steps to things lower and still lower. The little word if might well he inscribed as an epitaph over the door of many a prison cell in which rot away the victims of irresolution. A Convict. 1 rode up to the mountain, the sides ot which sloped sufficiently for me to make my way on horseback to within a few rods of the summit. But here I was stopped liv an abrupt rise so steep that I despaired of reaching it even on foot. 1 went around it several times seeking for some wav to climb up, but the jagged, beetling rocks afforded not the slightest foothold. the top of this knob stands the tree I had seen. From the spot on which I now stood I could see that it somewhat resembled in form the weeping willow, but the long, drooping, whip-lik- e limbs were of a dark and slimsy apparently appearance, and seemed possessed of a horrible power of coiling and On life-lik- o uncoiling. Occasionally the whole tree would seem a writhing, squirm- ing mass. My desire to investigate this vegetable produce increased The world is full of hero worship, strange and many are the fortunate ones we or each of the many expeditions made to tho spot, and at last I saw honor and" revere. Some won by knightsome by splendid a sight one day which made me bely deeds on prowess in saving life when iieriled by lieve I had discovered an unheard-of-thinn lire or Hood by every of daring A bird, which I lipd watched circbravery or noble effort the list is swelled. And a quick and generous appreciation ling about for some time, finally set is awarded all such deeds of exceptional tied of the tree, when the the oil top heroism. All heroic acts, however, do not come branches began to awaken as it were, to the light of public approval. There unil to curl upward. are unknown and unnoticed heroes and They twined and twisted like snakes heroines in private life whose names are about the bird which began to not destined to be sung in numbers; scream, and drew it down in their whose quiet lives flow on in uneventful fearful embrace until I lost sight of stillness. it. But the young man who voluntarily I Reized the nearresigns the ambitious plans of youth, est rock in an attempt to climb the with all their vaguely splendid possibili- knob. I hnd so often tried in vain ties, to care for lus aged parents, is an to do this I was not surprised obligation, perhaps, distasteful to him, when I fell that but tho lock was back, more and his brothers fortunate seeing comrades winning fortune and renown loosened and fell also. that might be bis, is a hero of no humble It narrowly missed me, but type. up unhurt, and saw that the sprang The girl who, putting aside her own fallen rock had left a considerable happy dreauis of the future, dedicates pavity. I put m.v face to it and her life to the care of an invalid mother looked in. Something like n cavern, or crippled sister, making their lives which had an upward ot floor the denies the she her with light bright is a heroine, though not always recogtendency, met my sight, and I felt a current of fresh nir blowing on me, nized as such. In many an obscure home the frail with a dry unearthly smell. mother is the heroic spirit who meets Evidently there was another openthe blows of adversity with the shield ing somewhere, undoubtedly at the of cheerful industry, Brave and never summit. despairing, thankful and hopeful to Using my trowel, which I always others, she might have poems written carried on my botanizing expediof her heroism if her station had been higher in the eyes of the world. tions, I enlarged the hole, and then A Woman. pushed my way through the nnssnge. When I hnd nearly reached the top, I looked out cuutiously to see if I Golden Thought. should emerge within reach of that No wrong will ever right itself. diabolical tree. But I found it nowhere near the aperture, soJI sprang A wise man will make more oppor- out. finds. he than tunities I was just in time to see the flattened carcass of the bird drop to the The ornaments of the house are the ground, which was covered with friends who visit it. bones and feathers. I approached ns as I dared and examined the closely Neither wealth nor power can confer tree. happiness, It was low in size, not more than t When you are the anvil, bear; when twenty feet high, hut covering a thick area. Its trunk was of proyou are the hammer, strike. digious thickuess, knot ted and scaly. From the top of this trunk a few Men are not depraved by true pleasfeet from theground, its slimy bra richures, but by false ones. es curved upward and downward, The only wav to please God is to fol- nearly touching theground with their low the good inclinations of our nature. tapering tips. Its appearance was that of a giLove without esteem cannot reach gantic tarantula awaiting its prey. On my venturing to!ightly touch ar, nor rise very high; it is an angel with but one wing. one of the limbs, it closed upon my hand with such force that when I No man can avoid lrs own company tore it loose the skin came with it. so he had better make it as good as I decendeil then and closing the paspossible. sage returned home. I went back next day, carrying half a dozen chickNever borrow. The interest you have ens with which to feed the tree. to pay for the accommodation is exThe moment I tossed in the fowls cessive. a violent agitation bhook its branchM es, which swayed to and fro with a Chautauqua and the Touth. Happiness is something to hope for, motion. An English newspaper, commenting something to love, and something Vo 3inuous, shaky the fowls, these After devouring commences "It work for. on Chautauqua, says: d topped to lully branches, gorged, l and the tne day where the tree former at their and, fault one ho v position, does lie school leave off, and so it does, in a Ami firt, no sign of animation, I dared And lie to lude it, make it two. measure. It comes to the boy who has giving learned to read, write and cipher, who approach it and take the limbs ia has made for his use, as it were, a set my hand. of tools, and it teaches him to what Our Friend Ilie Enemy. They were covered with suckers, an him be it use thev may put: gives One's friends are not so valuable as resemblingthe tentacles of an octowhose boundaries world outlook into a ones enemies. That is, they are not so The blood of the fowls had leen are not conterminous with the fences true a gauge of worth and ability as the pus. absorbed of the or by these suckers leaving walls about his father's farm, A critical friend is enemy. crimson stains on the dark surface. liis employers shop, or the limits of the judicious rare. is Perhaps that very something of course, of village in'which lie may chance to live. tins is because tbe critical friend knows There was no foliage, Reading, writing and arithemetic are that be would not be considered a friend any kind. Without speaking of my not education any more than a kmle at all if be were to be honestly critic al. discovery to any one about, I wrote and a fork and a plate contitute a good Hence, being anxious to please he be- an account of it to the world famThese are but a means to an comes subservient and deals in flattery ous botanist, Irofessor Worden-haut- , dinner. they are where be should find fault. Moreover, end, not the end itself, and of the University of Heideleven useless as a means unle-- s intelli- he deals in flatterv where he knows that berg. The aim and or handled do guided. fasehood. benefit, What is pray, a gently it His reply states that my tree is the the function of the college is to teach we receive from such friends? If men its students to think, to learn how to use and women are merely children of a Arbor Dia boll, only two specimens the tools they have had put in their larger growth does it not follow that of which have ever been known one hands. But some boys cannot go to adulation ill bestowed spoils them just on a peak of the Himalayas unil the and some have no inclination to as it college, spoils children? Of course it does. other on the Island of Sumatra. do so? To the former Chautauqua gives This is not my dictum, but it is tho reMine is the third. assistance and helps them on in their sult of the experience of many. Detroit Brof. Wordenhaupt soys that the in the latter, if it can reach Free Press. Diaholi and the plant known Arbor knowlmore for desire a it him, inspires Venus are the as the to college. and leads, perhaps, edge Perforated silver photo frames with only known specimens, becomes, growing that Chautauqua thus It: enameled flowers and insects at the on the land, of those forma of ot a 'rival, but a feeder of the favor find much to alcomers appear not tolleje. But this stimulus will Inknown Heroes battle-fiel- fo-r- partake of the nature of both the animal and vegetable kingdoms, although there are instances too numerous to mention found of this class in the spiv. The Portuguese may b mentioned, however, ns one, anil the sponge ns the best known specimen of their class. life which man-of-w- -- . ar - the Sun. Marshall Wheeler is the author of the new and startling theory or science that the earth has a third motion, says the Eugenie City (Oregon) Journal. His theory, which is borne out of all traces on the surface of the earth and the wonder is that it has never been advanced and adopted before is that at certain regular periods the earth reverses its position, so that the equator becomes the poles nnd the poles become the equator. At each of these turns the water is tlironn over the earth, nnd the nations and continents disappear in the great oceans, with only a few exceptions in certain parts of the earth, while new continents and new nations rise, in the march of ages, where the oceans of former periods rolled. The last turn brought the now exist up out of ontinents the great waters, and, at tho next turn where ho now live anil where the great American republic flourishes the oceans will again roll, the great ice fields of the poles will bo thawed out and run down over the land under the torrid zone, nnd the present tropics will become solid ice in their new position at the poles, thus accounting lor tho Ynst quantities of the remains of tropical animals nnd plants found frozen up in Alaska nnd Siberia and the traces of ice glaciers in the torrid zone. He maintains that the earth is not n temporary body, but a permanent part of the universe that has always existed and never will end, and has been wnshed over nnd created anew nt regular periods throughout countless millions of years, man nnd all its other productions having lieen swept off, leaving only here nnd there enough for seed, nnd there locations changed at each turn, nnd that this process will go on forever n new earth washed clean, a nd a new deal at regular periods through-ou- t eternity. He is collecting a vast array of facts, gathered from allclimes, to prove this theory, which lie thinks is already established by facts that cannot bo explained in any other way. New I'mler at well-know- n Horror-stricke- ow-n- , Sunday-schoo- self-cutur- fly-tra- p The Mystery of the Ifnln. know very little about the methods of the transportation nnd concentration of moisture in the at"We mosphere. We can determine tho propoition of moisture in the air within our reach. Wo run discern by the formation of water drops on the outside of an ice pitcher tlmt that there is a greater or lesser quantity of moisturo in the nir around the pitcher, and instruments nre in useto declare tho relative amount. What can we know of the vast bodies of water stored lip in tho clouds above us, and ready at a moments warning to pour out their floods upon us? We may theorize about tho vapor of water being carried between the ntoms ofthe air ns water is contained in the pores of n sponge, but we have no proper idea how the tons upon tons of rain, snow, or hail are held aloft in the clouds or transported from place to place over a continent. We have recently had all the rain clouds carried over us from the gulf to the north and northwest, to be poured down in Hoods upon the mountains of Bcnnsylvnnia and Virginia, while tho rice nnd cane fieldc of Louisiana were pnrchpd nnd arid. skies nre giving Now the all theirstores to usund thedrought is being paid for with interest. It is eiutv enough to predict rain to day, but whnt after nil, do we know of the grent climatic laws which burn our fields with drought in June nnd cover them with a downpour in July? New Orleans Bieuyune. rain-lade- n Skins For Gloves. Dry Goods Chronicle. Skins for gloves, snys a largo manufacturer, come from almost every corner of tho globe. We get our deer skins from Central and South America and a few from the Northwest. Our hog skins come from Mexico nnd Brazil. You would be astonished nt the softness and pliability to which tho skin is reduced. The American hog wont do for gloves or mittens. Ilis hide is too hard nnd tough and unyielding. The American calf nnd sheep and lamb furnishes excellent pelts. South America gives us many sheep skins. Cowhides come from Calcutta, goat skins come from Bussia, split sheep skins from England, nnd horse hides from tho street car r.vmpanios. An enterprising German has discovered away to tun American kid skins so that they heroine in every way superior to the French article in durability and finish. The process of tanning is performed entirely by American workmen, and the skins sell for from sixty to seventy per cent, less than the French. Not only nre shoo manufacturers all over the country using the new product. but already thousands of dollars worth have been exported to Tie Germany, France and Austria. modressing ot kid skins was almost nopolized by France until this mau utaeture. |