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Show much of a character as Geo. Spinner. As long-a- ho kept supplies moving bo cured liUlo about hi accounts. A treasury official called Gen. Backer's attention to tho fact that ho was about f l.&ifj.UOO short. "Take it out of ray pay," said the general with great dignity. The treasury official figured that it would take 3u0 yeurs' pay of the quartermaster-gener- al to make good tha deficit, which after all was found to be merely a matter of book-keeping1. Backer's Shortage. .'Anecdotes of Gen. Spinner have called forth anecdotes of almost all his 'associates In Washington in war times. Gen. Rucker, who was in charge ol forwarding supplies for the .army of the .Potomac, was almost as ' best yields. Tho yield was not j materially affected by the length, ' plumpness, or by the weight of the berry or the weight per bushel. Those varieties with long, slender berries and light weight per bushel contained appreciably the largest per cent kernel. In other words, those i varieties which would have sold best j on tho market, or, what is less im- - portant would have taken the premium at fairs, did not yield better than the other varieties and did not have so high a food value. Field K.XMriiiiont With Oat, 1800. The Iliinois Experiment Station bulletin says: Tho largest yield of grain was produced from sowing two and one-ha- lf bushels of seed. A fairly compact seed-be- d gafo the best results. The timo of sowing has had in theso tests a moro market! influence on the yiold than any other condition. The oarlier sowings, with ono exception, the earliest have uniformly given the 1 i I HUSH ETHER DIUXKIXG. ALARMING PREVALENCE OF THE VICE IN LONDONDERRY. The iTjrtl-- e and IU tfferti How an Irlihuan li t' l.lur'.oulj Drank fir , acd I'ailnj Nwa Urroirrrd, I'm Cat Drank Again. The low-lyin- g, uittrshy, boggy dis-trict in and around Portadown, with its long rows of drying turf through which we must pass before wo can reach tbo ether-drinkin- g district, says tho London Graphic, is not a sight calculated to cause much hilarity; but, once through this swampy morass, wo reach the puror atmosphere and more elevated parts of the counties of berry and Tyrone, and uro now fairly in the midst of the ether drinkers. This custom is not by any means a now one. It has e::ited for almost half a cen-tury, and to Dr. Benjamin Ward Kich-ords-and Mr. J. II. Draper belong the joint honor of having brought the matter first prominently before the public. Ethor drinking is not confined to any particular class of persons, to any partieular.ngo or to any one sex. The farmer, tho laborer, tho artisan, tho mechanic, the merchant; their wives, their sons, their daughters are ull imbued with tho same inherent morbid desire to participate 'n this cheap and short-live- d form of intoxi-cation. Tho old man of sixty-fiv- e years and the strapping young follow of eighteen or twenty summers aro to bo found alike victims of this vice; aye, and I have seen mothers and daughtors sitting side by side whilo they drank this volatile fluid. It is Interesting to obsorve the elab-orate manner in which this practice is carried out In tho case of whisky drinking, as we know, the habit is carried out with tho utmost simplicity. As a rule, it is diluted with a littlo water and tossed off. Not so with ethor, however. Thero is a some-what tedious and elaborato process gono through, almost invariably in tho following rcannor: In the lirst place tho drinker prepares his palate for the fluid; or, to use tho common phraseology of the district, he "renchos his mouth," which is done by washing it out with about two tablospnonfuls of water. This dono, about a dessert-spoonful of ethor is poured Into a small glass or cup, after which the 'drinker sokes his nose, which he holds tightly with his loft hand, while ho raises the cup with his right and swallows oft the balm for all sorrow. AJL Having taken the other ho next drinks V, ktout two tablospoonfuls of water and vwr-- r y A T"-vio- " i comply to, Some riters have doubted whether such a practice Is carried out, but from ob-servation of many cases I found it was the uluiost invariable rule, and "habit and exceptions were few and far between. Each ono of theso three distinct parts of tho process aro dono for a certain specific purpose. The mouth is cleared in tho first instance, it is said, in order to obtain tho full flavor of tho liquid. Tho nostrils nre held closed in order to provent the odor from reaching tho olfnetory organ, as unless this were dono nausea would in all probability supervono. The doses aro ropeated from time to lime, until tho jolly or hilarious mood comes on, when, in the case of modor-at- o drinkers, they are stopped; but tho more hardenod cases go on till they become "doad drunk," or unconscious. Tho ether consumed is tha vilest .form which it is possible to procure. It is prepared from tho common methylated spirit used for our lamps and other similar purposes. Its cheap. noss partially accounts for its being so largely used. When we consider that for the sum of flvepenco a man can get "gloriously", drunk, as it is callod, it la cheap in comparison with whisky. FARJI AND HOUSEHOLD. SOME ERRORS OF THOSE WHO KEEP POULTRY. la irfOBifnl In latvr or KaUlar BetalarOopi of rolaton Something Sew AbontOaU Interesting lie ait for Beekeeper Hocaehold lllita, Ktr. Krrorn In Keeping I'oullry. Although there are many widely different breeds of fowls, adapted more or less to the varied wants of the farmer, there are so.ne general rules for their management which are applicable everywhere. One serious error is the common custom of keep-ing hens until they become too old for profit, because they were choice birds and good layers when young. A hen of any breed will luy only about half as many eggs the second year after sho commences laying. All fowls' kept by a farmer after they are 2 years old are kept at a loss, so far as tho money is concerned. When a whole flock is allowed to run without killing off tho old ones and replacing them by pullets, disease is sure to at-tack them. If tho plan of keeping only pullets is once followed I am sure that no farmer will ever abandon it Another bad practice is that of allow-ing fowls to become wild, so that they aro afraid of any ono and hide away their nests and tho few chickens they hatch loso ihoir lives for want of food. To bo sure, chickens hatched late in tho summer and brought up in tho fields by a wild mother are hardy, but this practice is not profitable as tho cost of wintering exceeds the summer returns. As a general rulo, however, summer chickens are more profitable than tho very early ones, as they get a more varied diet better exerciso and are healthier in every way. Hut fowls to bo profitable must be kept tamo. If, however, tho chickens aro to be grown for sale, for breeding or for show purposes, it is necessary that tho chickens should be batched as early in the season as possible, so that they may attain full growth and feath-ering by fall Agriculturist TRAVELING ALONE. Hint to tha Ctrl Tike Marti Out for a Trip laatteaded. The girl who is going away from home quite by herself, and who will have to travel for several days and nights on tho cars, who will be at a strange hotel by herself, wants a little advice about what to do. Her number may be many, so I prefer to tell her in this little paragraph: In buying her ticket for the trip she also buys a ticket for her sleeper, nnd tho railway official will arrange that if sho does not get the entire section the other berth is also occupied by a l.idv. When she wishes to go to bed, the porter, at her request will arrange the berth for her, and then out of tho small satchel that sho has provided she will tako tho dark flannel or de-lai-dressing- gow- n in which sho in-tends to sleep, nnd go to tko toilet-roo- m and put this on. Her clothes nro hung by tho berth, and whilo sho is advised to remove her dress, skirt, and corsets and her shoes, it will bo wiser to retain somo of her underwear and her stockings not only because of tho draft but because of the facility of getting into things the next morning. Get up early and go to the toilet-roo-but do not monopolize it for hours. When you reach a strange city get into tho stage that belongs to tho hotel to which you wish to go, get out at tho ladies' entrance, go into tho re-ception room and say that you want some ono sent from tho offico to you. Tell whoever comes exactly what kind of a room you want, and ask tho price of it. Give him your name to register, and remember while you ara alono in a public house it is not wise to dress in any except a quiet way. No trouble about ordoring your meals should bo experienced as tho bill-of-fa- re shows exactly how things are served and you can take your choice of the varioty given. Apprise the office through a bell boy of the time you wish to leavo, and the porter will bo sent for your trunk, and you will bo told when tho hotel couch is at tho door. As to "tipping," you will certainly give a small tip to tho porter who , trapttudlnuks.ypur Jrunks for you, and to any bell-bo- y In the hotel who shows you somo special service. If you are only there for a few hours it is not necessary for you to tip tho waiter, nor the chnmbormaid, unless she also should do some act of kindness for you such as brushing your gown, getting the p'eco of soap that you-- have for-gotten, or putt ing a stitch in a ripped frock. Although it is not ploasant to bo alono, still I do firmly beliovo that a well-bre- d girl with a clear head and an understanding mind can go, without any trouble, from California to Now York and receive nothing but court-eous attention. Tho don'ts uro these: Don't dress loudly. Don't make r.ny acquaintances on tho car or In hotels. Don't sit alono in pnblio parlors. Better by far stay in your own room and read, than mako yourself an object of comment Don't go to the public newstnnd for tho book you may desire; you only mako yourself conspicuous. . Make up your mind to be courteous and polite, but reserved, nnd all men will bo liko Chevalier Bayards to you, and all women will give you what you demand respect Ladies' Home Jour-nal. Agricultural Atuun, Take care of the weeds. Those gathered in the screenings may be boiled for tho pigs, which should bo the only use made of them. Every weed seed should be taken care of if possible, and those that are brought from the neighbor's farm by tho winds should be made the subject of a kindly expostulation. I A little oil is a constant requisite in ' the farm practice. On tho machine it makes easy work and saves wear; on the wagons it avoids the horrible souoakinsr which chills tho blood: it smooths everything, and a little oil on one's manners and longuo will make things all over the furm and the dwell-- I ing go so smoothly as to make lifo worth living. Always have a littlo oil on hand ready for all uses. It is never worth whilo to quarrel with a neighbor over tho fenco. If anything goes wrong, stray fowls in the garden, small pigs in the field, pigeons on tide newly sown seed, or any other small matter, it is far hotter to suffer it than bo at enmity with a next neighbor. One neighborly ser-vice will over-weig- h a score of theso littlo triiles, and no one knows when such a servico may bo invaluable to themselves. TALE OF A JAGUAR'S TAIL A WILD STORY OF AN OZARK WILDERNESS. Hon the Widow leather taptnrrd a Six Dan ired Pub ad Jag-aa-r Tha Animal Be- - elrged ller Contrite fur Bnja The Storj'a Source. The Tribune is almost ashamed to bring forward another jaguar, says that excellent and highly trnstwortby journal, the New York Tribune, founded by Horace Groeley. We have so many times announced the killing of positively tho last of the race, con-tinues the Tribune, that we hate to acknowledge tho appeal a nee of an-other. But individual humiliation must not bo allowed to stand in tho way of truth, so wo freely tidmit that another jaguar, perhaps the largest ever seen, was killed a few days ago in Arkansas. In tho northwestern part of Arkan-sas, about half way between Sweet Home, Washington county, and Rob-inson's Cross-lload- s, Benton county, lives a woman named Mrs. Martha Leathers, more generally known a) tho Widow Leathers. She is a lady of somo three-scor- e yeurs and ten, and 6ho has lived alone for tho last twenty years in a wild neighborhood, several miles from tho nearest house. About ten days ago sho was awakened one night by a strange uois-- on tho roof. Hastily dressing, she stepped out of tho one door of tho cabin and looked up. What was her horror to see in tho bright moonlight nn immense jaguar alternately scratching at the shingles and gnawing at the corner o( the chimney, and occasionally striking the roof violently with his tail and making a loud report Tho widow looked only a moment, when sho quick-ly went back in and bolted tho door. Sho had no weapons of any kind. Tho night was bitter cold, and it oc-curred to her that tho beast had prob-ably sought the chimney for warmth, and that if she built a good fire and got it thoroughly warmod through, it would perhaps go away. Sho soon had a roaring fire leaping up the chimney from the big stone fire-place. As she expected, this pleased tho jaguar, and ho ceased scratching and gnawing and began to purr, uisik-in- g a sound like a buzz-sa- w when it strikes a knot, and to wag Lis tail on the shingles with a noise which re-sembled distant thunder. If the fire got a littlo low ho would slap his tail on tho roof angrily three or four timca with such force that it shoak tho house. As it grow light tho widow copt out of the door and again surveyed tho sit-uation. Tho jaguar was sitting up on Jiis haunches contentedly purriug and warming lis foropaws oven ihe top of tha chimnoy. Sho did not look long, fearing that ho would see her. but went back, and, tho jaguar pounding the roof with his tail for more fire, she piled on a dozen more sticks of wood. She thought that the beast would cer-tainly leave at sunrise, but it did not. It merely leaped down and got one of her pigs and returned to the roof, where it devoured the pig and beat for more lire. This kept up for four days, two pigs being sacrificed each day, and an immence amountof firewood. Some-times tho jaguar would sleep for un hour or so, but would always wake up cold and begin pounding on tho roof. On the morning of the fifth day tho widow Leathers decided that something must bo done. It was growing monot-onous. Such a thing would grow mo-notonous even here in New York. We should hato to havo a jaguar on tho of roof the Tribune building, gnawing at the tower and puivorizing tho slate shingles with his tail to inform the janitor that his feet were cold. At 9 o'clock on the fifth day Mrs. Leathers went into the loft with a three-inc- h augur. Selecting a time when tho jaguar was purring bis loudest she bored a holo in the roof about a foot and a half behind whero sho calculated ho sat Her judgment was good, and when sho looked up through the hole she could see his tail wagging "backward and forward across it Reaching out with 0110 band sho seized his tail and drew about two foet of it down through the hole. Be-fore the beast knew what was going on sho tied a knot in the tail, so that it could not be withdrawn. Then, whilo tho jaguar writhed his boly about and uttered the most terrible cries ever heard in Northwestern Ar- - kansas, sho walked three miles through tho woods to, Bon Hawkin's place nnd got him to come over and shoot tho animal, after which sho untied the kuot in his tail and allowed it to roll to the ground. It weighed six hun-dred and fifty pounds. The reader will observe that tho circumstances surrounding tho killing of the Widow Leathers' jaguar aro all novel. The case is also important from the fact that it proves that a woman does not necessarily neod to be young to help on tho extermination of this beast True, a young woman like Fauline Collier, or Maude Eames, or Susan Handfield, or Margaret Bss-pas- s, would, no doubt have twisted off tho animal's tail, and thon gone out and fractured his skull with it but while this would have given the affair I more eclat it would not have Increas- - ed the jaguar mortality any, which ' after all, seems to be the great thing j desired. AN AZTEC SACRIFICE. 1 Krene of Saaaerf of aa Kxtlnrt Sun War. ahlplng Bare. Fifty-tw- o years constituted the Aztec cycle. To this cycle was added a com-plement of thirteen days, intended to mako tho solar and civil years agree. It was believed that the world would ccmotoan end on tho last night of a cycle, and that the gods, if merciful, would light their fires on tho distant mountains. If the world did not come to an end, the Aztecs congratulated themselves that it would survive an-other cycle, and the thirteen comple-mentary days were passed with feasts, sacrifices and bacchanals. In the temple of Iluitzillpochtll there was to bo a gladiatorial combat, which was nothing less than a sacri-fice. The six ministers of the cero-mon- y wero at hand. Topiltzin, the chief among them, clad In a crimson vestment with a crown of vari-color-feather3, was performing the duties that preceded a sacrilica to tho god a.id tho others, with white robes bor-dered with black, their faces hideous with somber pigment and mouths painted white, assisted him. A crowd filled tho etouo walls of tho temple to witness tho spectacle, surging with impatience about tho tcmnlcafl (or round, stone platform, eight feet high) where tho combai was to t ike place. The victim, a prisoner of war, is brought in. Armed with only a short spear nnd shield, ho is placed upon the tnnalca'l, tied by ono foot and confronted by nn Aztco warrior fully armed. The flat nostrils of the victim are distended, his black eyes burn with desperation; his coarse, black hair straggles about his faco, and his thick, purple lips quiver as bo views tho well armed soldier before him. At a word they fall to tho fray. Tho spears clash and they fight like d-emonsthe victim with tho despera-tion of certain death, the soldier to up-hold his valor among his comrades. Suddenly realizing how unequal the contest and that his fate is sealed what-ever the outcome of that battle, tho prisoner throws away his shield and spear and presents his breast to the soldier's weapon. A pause, a blow and the victim fulls heavily on tho stone. In a trice tho priests, with frenzied shouts nnd hair streaming about their demoniacal faces, aro upon the tcmal-ca- 'l and havo borne tho dying man to a block of green jasper, on whoso convex surface they throw him. This is the sacrificial stone and Topiltzin, who now takes t.ho name of tho god to whom he sacrifices, opens the breast of his victim, tears out his heart and offers it, still palpitating, to tho sun. Then tho bleeding trophy is placed in the hollow mouth of the idol of li, and tho lips of tho statue daubed with bloocL. .The dead man is decapitated and his head deposited In the Tzompatli, an ossuary where the skulls of sacrificed prisoners of war are set into tho walls; the soldier claims the body for his own and bears it away for the delectation of himself and his anthropophngical comrades. The Aztec annals that come down to us aro glutted with scenes like this. llee Notej. All Bhould know that the boo does not mako honey, but simply gathers it from the flowers; when it obtains its sweets from sugar, it deposits sugar syrup in tho celte, not honey, and-- no amount of manipulation by tho bees can make it into anything else but sugar syrup. Aroma is a term employod to desig-nate those substances, tho extreme minute particles of which are supposed to affect tho organs of smell so as to produce peculiar odors. The particles diffused through the atmosphere and affecting tho olfactory nerves if the theory of particles of matter be co-rrectmust indeed ba extremely minute, yet not so much so but what e easily detect the smell from a field of any honey-bearin- g plant or flower. These odors have generally been sup- - posed to depend ipon essontial oils. Scientists tell us that odors of flow-ers do hot as a general rulo, exist in them as a store, or as a gland butnro developed as an exhalation. While tho flower breathes it yields fragrance, but kill the flower and the fragrance ceases. It seems, then, that the odors are simply exhalations dependent upon essential oils, not upon vapor impreg-nated with matter and cannot, there-fore, be condensed as such, nnd we have yet to learn that those exhala-tions aro visible, or leave tbo least o"ff"li"ne' nn.l wliila- If- U- vvpl known that they combine with various fatty mat-tor- s; they do not sensibly increase their weitrht or bulk. Thus, no matter how much our nice clover or linden honey may perfumo our room in which it is placed, tho quantity of honey is never materially loss. L a, 1 . I'otato lirowlng Profitable. There is probably no farm crop in which inexporienced farmers suffer greater disappointments than in pota-toes. They read in tho papers of large yields, and observing that the market price is high, a groat many rush into the business, and of course overdo it This is cause number one. Potato cul-ture in these times requires a great fund of practical experience. It also requires tho man who begins it to be prompt with every demand, whether it be in cultivation, in bug poisoning, and in lato years in spraying the vines to prevent mildew and blight, which uro the usual causes of rotting of the crop. It is no wonder with so many things to attend to that somo are neg-lected. Hence potatoes aro commonly deemed a precarious crop. Acvidents of season exceptcyl, they need not be. We believe it possible every" year' to grow potato crops that will pay larger profit than any grain crop, provided the proper conditions are fulfilled. In the first place, the farmer who would grow potatoes extensively must be near a market, by which we mean a good shipping station, where thero is enough competition to insure fair prices. Farmers who are within three or four miles of freight cars can draw two und sometimes three loads per day. When tho distance is so far that only one loud per day can be drawn. It adds heavily to the expense of mar-keting, and requires a high price to make the crop pay. This high prico cannot always bo depended on. Every few years the f.otalo market Is liable to be glutted, and only those who keep cxponsos down so as to be able to market cheaply can como out without loss. Am. Cultivator. STRANGE CLUE TO A CRIME. A Very Trillins; ('irruni)lance 51 117 Lea:! to a Hurderer'a Detection. Here is a plot from Gaboiian from real life, says tho Pall Mall Gazette: About two years ago an outrage was ; committed in Canada, similar to tho ono which has just raised a slorm of fury in the North. Tho grown up daughter of a Congregational minister in the eastern townships was waylaid when going along a dark country road at night and was foully assaulted and murdered. When her body was found next morning in a mill pond close by the post mortem revealed the plain imprint of two fingers on her throat. JtZZ-Bu-t the fingers were not neighbors ' f the point of tho middle linger seemed to have left no mark. Large rewards were offered, but without effect " Within the last fow months a fugitive criminal from the States, who under an alias had been playing tho part of a ministor of the gospel for seven years in a village in tho same town-ship, was found out and expelled. j After ho had departed for Australia it was remembered that 0110 of his fingers was always rigid in cor.se-quen-of a wound received during the civil war, and this coincidence is ' ' likoly to bring him into court on the capital charge if ho can bo found. A BominlJcenca of tas War. "An olficor of the American navyt well known in Detroit, stood on a street corner tho other day nnd went through a serios of gymnastics that gave a looker-o- n tho idea that ho was cither praotieing some of tho Dolsurte movements or had suddenly gono crazy. His arms hung limp at his sides, hia mouth was wide open and Jio stood on tiptoo. 'What is it?" nsked a friend, ap-proaching him cautiously. An old memory; part of my mat ual of arms when I was on a man-of-w- ar facing Vicksburg," answered tho veteran, as he resumed his normal condition. . I don't understand," said his friend. "No? Well, that Is tho way we used to stand when we fired a mortar. It looked curious, too, to seo forty or fifty moo all standing on their toes, with their mouths wide open. But .we were instructed to do it and, ns it "lessened tho concussion caused by fir-- ing twenty-fiv- e pounds of guupower, wo fell Into it as into any other regu-lation and thought no more of it. It did not seem ridiculous then, .for it was a part of the art of war. It is . long time since I have thought of it" and tbo navy officer looked thoughtful as he walked away with his friend. JFreo Press. Uucku lii'Ht for Stock, An inquirer asks if buckwheat is good for stock. That depends. Tor the feathered stock most emphatically yes. For cattlo and hogs not always, rarely for tho latter. Tho hull of tho buckwheat is not digestible, and hence is not fit for food. Tho bran or the buckwheat when run through the mill should havo the hulls t.ikon out Tho hulls will catiso piles in pigs. Hulls are valuable to use us nbsorbants in tho man uro pile, but not otherwise. The colored part of tho grain, tho yel-low part next to the hull, is rich in nitrogen, and is excellent for making growth in animals. This canaille will mako plenty of milk, but it will bo short 111 butter fat, and the fats will be soft and white. Buckwheat will make poor butter. It should be mixed with yellow corn meal with some bran to make tho food healthier, or to make tho required ; waste material. The canailto is a concentrated food too much so, too, to be fed alone. Tho white part of tho kernel Is the starch, and this makes the white floor. Buck-wheat canaillo is good food for nil young animals if mixed half and half with bran a littlo linseed meal added will improve the ration. For fatten-ing n grown animal add corn meal. A Great Egg I arm. The Farrollono Islands are about thirty miles from the mouth of San Francisco bay, off the coast of Cali-fornia, and are the homes of innumer-able sea fowls. When San Francisco began to blossom as a city her constant cry was for eggs. There being no poultry raisers 011 the coast made tho egg want hard to gratify. To supply this want tho project of stealing tha eggs of tho gulls and muhrs that nest by tho thousand on tho Farrollono Is-lands was tried, and proving success-ful, has ever since been ono of the unique west coast industries. Tho birds of the island nro too plentiful to count or even cstimato, as may bo in- - ferred from the fact thnt tho egg gatherers often bring in 500 dozen eggs per day. This however, gives but a partial idea of their immense number, a great many of tho nests being inac-cessible and many others devastated by the rivalry of tho birds themselves. The egg business of the islands is conducted by a company who pay the collectors live cents a dozen for co-llecting them. The season is from May to August which, even at 40-- ) dozen a day, makes tho annual harvest about .jOO.000 eggs. llinta to Dairymen. Build a silo, so that your milk feed shall cost you less. Build it sufficient-ly large so you can have ensilage enough to feed in summer and fall when the pasturage dries up. That will keep your cows up to their best flow, so you can havo milk to da busi-ness with in late fall and winter, when prices of butter are higher. That's good economy. Stop tho expense of bad handling. You must handle a dairy cow not as if sho were a steer, but as a bovine mother. You want to mako money out of her motherhood; then handle her, shelter her, feed her and treat her generally as a mother should bo handlod, sheltered and treated. If you don't know how a mother should bo treated, ask your wife or your mother. Stop this expensive summor dairy- - ing keeping cows on expansive pas-ture and getting nothing for the milk just because there are thousands of other men just like you who had rather mills a cow in summnr and tnuko nothing, than to go into wintor dairying and mako a fair profit Give up all these cranky old notions about dairying, and proceed to measure tho business from the dollar standpoint just as any other manufacturer does. Ii costs just as much to support the carcass of a cow that is running you in debt as it does one that is giving you $50 a year profit Not one farm-er in a hundred ever tested his cows to know which wero tho ones that wore beating him ou of house and home." How is he to act if he don't know, and how is ho to know if ho does not put forth Intelligent effort to know. There is scarcely a dairyman in tho land who is not keeping two cows to do the work of ono. Ask any of tho progressive dairymen you know, and they will tell you that about their first step in cutting down useless expense was to get a better cow. Buy her, breed her, get her nyway you choose, but be sure and get her. Hindoo Chili-Wive- s. J Captain Arthur Wood tolls, in his j account of a journey in Bengal, how j he encountered in a Hindoo peasant ( family, a child with close cropped hair and dressed in a neglected style that contrasted with the neatness of her brothers and sisters. The child was not over seven years of ago, but sho seemed to have lost all the gaiety of - girlhood, and shrank liko a leper from the view of her visitor. The rest of the family did not seem to know she existed. Captain Wood inquired about her, and learned that she was a widow. Her husband, three years her senior, of whom sho had no per-sonal knowledge, had died a few months before, and the young girl full of life and spirits, found her condition ' suddenly changed, without knowing why. She was treated as one who had no right to live, and who was reluctantly permitted to live. And this must be her existence as long as lifo is vouchsafed her. Braul vj. Suicide. Thero are fifty-si- x Americans in Brazil who would probably have com-mitted suicide had they not been to escape to that country with their stolen boodle. In addition there are twelve Englishmen, seven French-men and five or six other nationalities, all of whom are fat and full of he 1th. ITo be tender to another man's wife' isn't tender. Tjxas Sittings. |