Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 September 1894 — Page 7

THREE YEARS OLD. What is it like, X wonder, to roam ' Down through the tall grass hidden quite? To feel very far away from home - . When the dear house is out of sight? To want $0 play with the broken moon In the star garden of the skies? : To sleep through twilight eves of June - Beneath the sound of lullabys? To hold up hurts for all to see? Sob at imaginary harms? To clasp in welcome a father's knee Ana fit so well to a mother's arms? - To have life bounded by one dull road, ) A wood and a pond, and to feel no lack? To gaze with pleasure upon a toad, And caress a mud turtle’s horny back? ~ To follow the robin’'s cheerful hop With all the salt small hands can hold, And coaxingly entreat it to stop—- * What is it like to be three years old? Ah! once I knew, but 'twas long ago, I try to reeall it in vain—in vain! - ) And now I know I'shall never know ’ What it is to be a child again. _-Ethelwyn Wetherald, in Youth’s Companipn. A FRESH AIR CHILD. How She Won the Hearts of Three Old Msaids. The ‘‘fresh air” girl stood in the middle of the room and twisted the strings of her hat as she glanced in a shy, embarrassed way at the. little group about her. She felt dimly, that it was not pleasant to be talked about and mnot talked to.

All the way from the little country station, as they had driven-along the country roads, she had wanted to ask to get out and walk, only she did not dare. The sense of mnewness and strangeness was too great. She had never seen anything but the busy, thronged streets of a great city, and she longed to climb the fence by the roadside and dig her feet deep down into the clover, and chase the yellow butterflies across the fields. But she sat up stiffly, by the thin figure at her side, and said nothing, and perhaps was scarcely conscious herself of the longing. : The three women who sat surveying her were distinctly disappointed. “It wasn’t a boy,” said Miss Mariah. “No, it's'a girl. I guess they forgot I said in my letter that we wanted a boy,” answered Miss Sally. “\Well, I said all along, that the whole thing was a wild goose chase, and it ain't my doin's first nor last,” chimed in Miss Dorinda, the tallest and thinnest of the three sisters. The little girl fastened her eyes on a great pin at Miss Dorinda’s neck, and then dared not look away. It was a big round brcach contain-

ing a tiny wreath of hair fowers, of

various shades of brown and yellow, “=get in an oblong rim of gold. The fresh air girl thought It @ beautiful pin. , - “\What is your name, ohild?” said Miss Mariah. ‘ “Cynthia Dane,” answ-=red the little girl. - *“Well, you can go out:and sit on the stoop if you want to.” “Did ycu hear anything about the child, Sally?”

“Not much; only that she is a match

girl, and there ain’t nobody kin to her. She was run over by a wagon and hurt somehow, and when she was well the hospital folks gave heér name to the fresh air committee, and they fixed her

up and sent her. We've got to keep her for three weeks, poor little thing! She lived in a tenement ‘house with some other families; there were six of them in one room, and they let her stay in one corner. I guess we can stand it to give her a nome for three weeks, and not grudge it either. She don’t look like ‘a sireet child, and ‘Dane’ ain't a commonsoundin’name. She must have had a nice kind of mother.”

“I'm glad®she's come,” said Miss Mariah, ‘and I'm goin’ right to work to make her a sunbonnet; there wasa bundle of them gingham seraps left like mine,” and Miss Mariah went off to hunt for the scraps of gingham. She was different looking from her sisters, being short and plump, with smiling blue eyes. 'The other two were angular and .tall and almost as severe as they looked, but they were good women and did whatever they considered their duty. . Cynthia seated herself on the stoop obediently and gazed abouther. There were patches of marigold and mignonette by the brick walk, and a great bed of fragrant clove pinks. Down by the gate were tall swaying hollyhocks, and the bees and butterflies were flitting in and out-among them.

It was a different world; she had never dreamed of anything dike it. She sat with clasped hands, hardly moving for an hour, and here Miss Mariah found her, with her eyes full of tears. E _

“What's the matter, child?” she said, gently, and Cynthia answered: “I don’t—know—only it's all—so nice,” and Miss Mariah understood, as Miss Dorinda could not have done, and in a little while Cynthia was daneing at her side, down to see the chickens and the turkeys, and in and out of the paths of the old-fashioned garden." When tliey came back Miss Mariah “had made a friend forlife, and Cynthia looked like a different child. Miss Sally saw them coming, from the window, and she smiled grimly in spite of herself as she said: “It does beat all how Mariah makes everything foller her about, from turkeys to children. See that child chatterin’ like a magpie, and I tried all the way from ‘the station and never got a word from her but yes and no; but Mariah will spile her for any use.” § » This prophecy did not prove true, however, for as the days wen& by, the little girl’s hands and feet saved them all many steps; and even MisB Dorinda acknowledged half reluctaptly that she was a willin’, bidable little thing. .. SBhe grew round, and pretty and childlike, and lost the pincfied, old, look she had had when she first came. Mariah was her staunch friend, from the first, and told the others all Cynthia knew about herself.

. She .remembered her mother, who had sewed for a living, and who had died four years before, when Cynthin was eight. Since then, she had taken care of herself; she was now almost twelve. v It was a pitiful story, much like many others, no doubt, but no other had come so near to them, and Miss Mariah’s voice trembled as she told it. Even Miss Dorinda got up bastiyy. and begun to dust the high mantlepiece vigorously, when they all knew there was not the faintest suspieion of dust there. T e After the: shyness wore off, and she grew sccustomed to her surroundings,

tbey found that she could Interest them, in her description of?the city and the stores. ‘ Miss Dorinda said that she was a “right smart talker for a child;” but deep down in her heart, she never trusted her, or approved of having her. The turkeys and chickens were her especial care, and she soon grew very fond of them. ‘

Most of all, she was interested in'a turkey hen, which was the property of Miss Mariah, and was one of a brood raised by hand, as she expressed it. She had petted it until the turkey had grown to be'a real nuisance, and took liberties that no other turkey hen had ever been known to take. It would follow Miss Mariah into the house and pick up spools of thread with its bill, or other small objects within reach. When Cynthia had been with them two days the turkey wandered off, much to Miss Dorinda’s pleasure, but Cynthia was never tired of hearing of the funny things it had done and was sorry that it had gone. Almost three weeks had passed, and it was Cynthia’s birthday. - Miss Mariah came into the wide, cool kitchen and began preparations for stirring up a cup cake for tea, in honor of the day; and she tied on an apron and prozeeded to doit, in spite of Miss Dorinda. . : ' “Well, Mariah, ef you ain’t foolish, and at your age, too. Where's that child? I want a bucket of water.” ‘“‘She’s gone to the medder to hunt for that turkey hen; its been gone nearly three weeks, and I believe what I said at first, that it’s got a nest somewhere and some young ones.” “Ef the young ones air all like their mother, I hope Cynthia won’'t find her,” said Miss Dorinda, as she went into the spare room to change her dress. A Presently she came out looking strange and excited. “Mariah Smith,” she said, “I put my pin right on that spare room pin cushion after [ came home from the Parsons, two days after that child came, and it’s gone! Now, where is it?” ‘““‘Are you sure?” said Mariah. . “Yes, I know it. I ain't wornm it since that, fer I ain’t had on my lace .collar. I've worn that pin for forty years—it was mother’s, and you and Sally know what a store I set by it. That child’s done took it, fer there ‘ain’t been nobody else in the house. 1 seen her twice when I sent her to the spare room closet stop and look at it, and now she’s todk it.” “YWhy, Dorinda,” said Miss Mariah, “she liked the pin, and she said so, and she wouldn’t have talked about it if she had. been going to take it. I doen’t believe she would, anyhow.”

“Children don’t have no judgment, and her time's most up,’ answered Dorinda, grimly. “And maybe she thought that I would not miss it ’til after she was gone. Any way I'm goin’ to make her tell me where she put it the minute she comes in that door.”

Miss Mariah protested in vain, and finally had to be contented with begging her not to scare the child into keeping still, the first thing, even if she had taken it. )

They were interrupted. by Cynthia herself, who came rushing past the window, breathless and rosy with exercise, her bonnet hanging by the strings around her neck, and her fair hair blown into tiny curis about her face. -

She gave Miss Dorinda no chance to speak, but began talking almost before she was in the room. - : . “Oh Miss Mariah, I've been all over the meadow and down to the orchard hunting that turkey hen, and I found it down by the spring, in the high grass you know, and she’s got a nest and sixlittle turkeys, six, Miss Mariah! and she's so cross, and I made her get up, to count them, and there right in the edge of the nest, was Miss Dorinda's pin, and it is not hnrt one mite,” and she paused breathless, as she unclasped a small brown hand and triumphantly held out the pin. : Miss Dorinda gave a quick glance at her sister, even before she took the broaech. In the look was more appeal than Miss Dorinda often put into a glance. '

She was distinetly conscious of feeling ashamed of herself and of not wanting the child to know what she had thought. But she need not have feared, for Cynthia was as unconscious as possible, and when she had gained her breath went on again. “The turkey must have taken it, for you said she took one of your handkerchiefs once, Miss Mariah, and I remember that she followed me into the spare room the day after I came, when Miss Dorinda sent me to get some sassafras out of the closet. I—l did stop at the bureau and look at the pin and after I put, it down, she must have picked it up and gome .right down to‘the nest; don't you think so? But it’s funny she did not lose it in the high grass. I never did hear of such a turkey.” . © “Weil, it may be funny, but that’s the last brood she’ll ever raise,” said Miss Dorinda, decisively. When the three weeks were up, it was Dorinda who proposed keeping the child, if ehe wanted to stay. She had at last found her way to Miss Dorinda’s - heart. She is with, them still, and has brought fresh life into the house, until it hardly seems the same place. When I went out to visit them for a week last summer, as I do every year, I wondered how they had ever managed to do without her.— Anna D. Gray, in Orange Judd Farmer.

Russian Marriage Laws.

A newly issued blue-book on: marriage and divorce abroad, contains one fact amongst many others not generally known in this country. By the laws of Russia a man or woman must marry before eighty years of age or not marry at all, amd they are also prohibited from marrying more than four times. The blue-book is naturally full of information as regards the ‘‘prohibited” degrees. The Brazilian law permits the marriage of uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, first cousins and of brothers-in-law with sisters-in-law.. In Italy the uncle and niece alliance is valid, and in France it is open to the presi dent to remove the prohibition against marriages between the deceased wife’s sister and her brother-in-law, and between uncle and niece .and aunt and nephew. , :

—First Boy—*You're ‘fraid to fight, that’'s what.” Second Boy—'‘No, 1 ain’t; but if 1 fight you my mother’ll lick me.” ‘‘How will she find it out, eh?” ¢She’ll see the doctor goin’ to your house.”—Good News. - ~—The majority of men are but natural born phonographs ,

A MOTHER’S STORY.

Happiness Comes After Years of ] Suffering.

The Terrible Experience of a Well-Known Official’s Wife—A Story That Appeals to Every Mother in the Land.

[From the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Press.]

No county official in East Tennessee is better known and more highly esteemed than Mr. J. C. Wilson, Circuit Court Clerk of Rhea County, at Dayton, the home of Mr. Wilson. He enjoys the confidence and respect of all classes, and in the business community his word is as good as his bond. Just now Mr. Wilson is receiving heartiest congratulations from his numerous friends because of the restoration to robust health of his estimable wife, who has for years been a helpless invalid. Mrs. Wilson’s high standing in society, and her many lovable traits of character have wonher a host of friends, and her wonderful recovery has attracted wide-spread attention. : As the Press was the medium of bringing to the invalid lady's attention the remedy that has effected her remarkable cure, a reporter was sent to Dayton to interview Mrs. Wilson, in order that the general public might have the benefit'of the sufferer’s experience and be made aware of the treatment that wrought such a marvelous change in her condition. The rveporter was welcomed at the Wilson home, and the enthusiastic lady with becoming reluctance gave the history of her, affliction and the manner in which she was relieved:

|+ “Yes,” said Mrs. Wilson, “I was for eight f years an invalid with one of the most disi tressing afflictions woman can suffer. For ' eight years I moped around, dragging my- -~ gelf with difficulty and pain out of bed. ‘My little ones went untrained and were greatly neglected, while I looked listlessly and helplessly at the cheerless prospect before me and them. I suffered the most intense pains in the small of my back, and these seemed l even greater in the region of the stomach, | extending down to the groins. I suffered ' agony sleeping or awake. Despair is no - word for the feeling caused by that dread- | ful sensation' of weakness and helplessness - Iconstantly experienced. : 1 * “] was treated for my trouble by several llocal physicians, but they were able to give l me only temporary relief by the use of seda- | tives and narcotics. Ihad almost given up | alllhope of ever securing permanent relief i when I saw an account in the Press of a cure i which Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills had effected. j Idecided to try them, as I knew the lady { who had been cured and had great confii dence in her statement. I began to take the" pills in October, 1833, and in two months I | was doing light housework and atiending [ to the children without any bad effects or weakness, such as I had formerly experienced. Hitherto I had been unable to retain any food, but now my appetite grew | stronger, and with it came back that old, i healthy and hearty tone of the stomach. Dr. { Williams’ Pink Pills cured me, and I assure i you the cure has brought a great change in { our home. I can now rejoice in my husl band's success, for I feel thatl have some- | thing to live for. Who has a better right i to feel this than a mother? One thingmore. i I have recommended these ?ills to others, { and many of _the women o Da(i'tpn_ have [ taken them with good results, and it is my greatest pleasure to recommiend to_ every I suffering woman a remedy thiat has doneso | much for me.” I An @nalysis {lroves that Dr. Williams’ Pink i Pills for Pale Peoplecontain, in acondensed i form, all the elements necessary to give new { life and richness to the blood YangY ang restore ! shatttered nerves. They are’an unfailing ! specific for such diseases as locomotor | ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, | sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism; mnervous | headache, the after effects of la grippe, pal- { pitation of the heart, pale and sallow com- ! plexions, thattired feeling resulting from | nervous prostration; all diseases resultin i from vitiated humors in the blood, sucléqr | as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They | are also a specific for troubles: peculiar to i females, such as suppressions, irregularii ties, an(i all forms of weakness. In men | they effect a radical curein all-cases arising i from mental worry, overwork, or excesses | of whatever nature. .

Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are now manutactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box or six boxes f0r52.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ %\ledicine Company.

Philosophical Housekeeper.

Among Gen. Maury’s reminiscences of Fredericksburg, Va., are some of Col. Byrd Willis. Somewhat late in life, after breaking wup his home in Florida, he returned to end his days in Fredericksburg. He boarded with a kinswomau of his dwn, Mrs. Carter, a decaved gentlewoman of great piety, but apparently not a first rate housekeeper. Col. Willis took his meals for the most part'dta restaurant, although he paid Mrs. Carter liberally for the board she was supposed to furnish. One day, as Col. Willis used to tell the story, the old lady’s resources were exhausted—her material resourees, that is to say—but she was equal to the emergency. She took to her bed, leaving this order with the servant: “Nancy, there is nothing in the house but mush for dinner. Give that to the boarders. If they are Christians they will eat it and be thankful; if they are not Christians it is much better than they deserve.”—Youth’s Companion. Requiescant. Three human lives were spent, and on one quiet day, A farewell briefly said, they passed from earth away. The first.y to pleasure wed, his motto: “Self ‘alone,” ) Men scarcely realized he from their midst had Fone. The szcond. glory seeking, full many deeds had wrought, - By eager, surging crowds, his vacant place was sought. ; The third, in lowly service for the needy and the dense, Had gladly spent his all, nor thought of recompense. He in the hearts of many is with tend'rest love enshrined, e > While waiting, lics unfilled the gap he left . * behind. . —Alice W. Kellogg, in N. Y Observer.

Her Powdered Cinnamon.

A trulyappalling contretemps which occurred at Aldershot when the queen dined and slept there. At the very end of dinner her majesty was served with a slice of melon; seeing her looking about. for something, the page-in-waiting realized with sudden consterpation that a certain small cruet filled with powdered cinnamon had been forgotten. The queen is very fond of this piquant spice and, besides often having sweets flavored with it, she insists upon having a supply constantly at hand to use with any plate she fancies. It was a sad. moment for the culprits.—London Woman.

A MAN lately confined in a Scotch jail for cattle-stealing, managed, with five others to break out on Sunday, and, being capmred on one of the neighhoring hills, he very fravely remarked to the officer: ‘I might lave escaped, but I had conscientious scruples about traveling on Sunday.’’—Tit-Bits.

Erner—*“What made xgeople think they were husband anl wife?’ Frank—“ Why, whenever he related a good storg she always interrupted him by sa¥ying he'd left out something.”—Tit-Bits. -

“Er I give you your dinner,” asked Mr. Haiseed, “will you turn the grindstone awhile?” ‘“Naw,” said Dismal Dawson. ‘I ain’t no crank agitator.”—Cincinnati Tribune. .. S noheeea s

WHEN a man plays cards for a stake he sogxefiimes gets a roast.—Philadelphia Record. :

~ T AGRICULTURAL HINTS. 4 GRANARY WEEVILS. . An Interesting Paper From Mr. Fletcher, Pominion Entomologist. James Fletcher, Dominion entomologist, writes in regard to this pest: “A good deal of consternation was felt lately at the World’s Columbian exposition, at Chicago, when it became known that mnearly all the exposed grain, including the ornaments and decorations in the different courts of the Agricultural building, wasinfested by injurious insects. An order was issued by the superintendent of -the agricultural department forbidding the distribution of any grain from those courts, even when brought in from outside for that express purpose. Being in Chicago at the time, I madea careful examination of the agricultural exhibits and found that the injury in the Canadian section was due

( 7 {9 A o : ‘ . - : i IYy : A, : \\“% L A\.v e & G 8 e almost entirely to two insects, the common rice weevil, Calandra oryzs (Fig. 8, where the insect is shown natural size, and nine, where it is shown enlarged) and the ‘fly weevil,’ better known as the Angoumois grain moth, Gelechia cerealella, a small moth at first sight, closely resembling the too well-known carpet moth. With the rice weevil were also found a few specimens of the granary weevil, Calandra granarid (Fig. 6,7). “The important question for Canadian farmers, and concerning which I was consulted by the editor of the Farmer’s Advocate, was, of course, whether there was any danger of introducing into Canada any new pests which would afterwards give trouble either in the field or in the granary. In my opinion, Canadian farmers need have no anxiety on this score;. for both of the pests have already from time to time been imported from the south with various kinds of grain, but have failed to propagate and become ‘established. This is due to the fact that they are tropical insects, which, although they are very injurious in the southern states, cannot exist for any length of time in our climate. - “The granary weevils are small brown beetles, a little more than oneeighth of an inch in length, which lay their eggs in holes which they bore by means of a slender beak in the dry grain. When young grubs hatch, they‘ complete their growth and turn to beetles again inside the grain where the egg was laid. By this time they have eaten out all the interior of the kernel. The beetles then emerge and continue the work of destruction. When grain is kept in store for a long time, this injury may be considerable in hot climates; but in Canada the cold of our winters stops their development and destroys the beetles. “The *fly weevil’ has never developed in Canada even to the same extent as the true weevils, although occasional instances of its occurrences have been brought to my notice. In the southern states, where it is very abundant, the moths fly from the granaries and lay their eggs upon the ripe grain in the fields; the eggs of young caterpillars are thus carried back again into the -granary, acd frequently are the cause of much loss. This never takes place in Canada. “Remedy: Should grain at any time be found to be infested by these inseets, often repeated experiment has shown that the insects can be easily and cheaply deswroyed by treating it with bisulphide or earbon, in the same way that peas are now regularly treated to free them from the pea weevil.”

FACTS FOR FARMERS.

A GREAT deal of country butter is overworked. ~- SALT is a great preventive of disease among sheep. . .

BuTTER should be worked as little as possible to have the milk worked out of it.

Give the sow succulent food and keep her in thrifty condition if you would have her produce thrifty pigs. StupY the prejudices of your market and supply brown and white eggs and white or yellow skinned fowls, as required. ' AT the Geneva station experiments are being carried on with over one thousand different varieties of berries and small fruits.

TuaE French are conducting a series of experiments in ‘‘grafting” potatoes. It is expected to increase theyield and to hasten maturity. THE breeding stock must be healthy and vigorous or the egg will be lacking in vitality, and the chicks will be wealk and debilitated. e

~ THE cow in France for the dairy industry is not the Jersey but the Durham, whose beef tendencies are being reduced in favorof the milk tendency. _AFTER the berries have been picked it is well to burn over the strawberry pateh. This will not merely kill ‘the weeds, but the insects that injure the plants. ; ‘ : To EFFECTIVELY preseirve potatoes when they begin to sprout, gouge out the eye ‘‘skin deep” by means of a penholder, with the inverted end of the steel pen. : Hexs are in the best condition to lay when their crops are empty. Hence they should be fed sparingly during the day, but have a hearty meal given them at night. Pror. RoBERTSON has ascertained that by churning sweet eream at 46 degrees temperature all the butter fat can be recovered, but it takes about thirty minutes longer to do the churning. Ripened cream he churnsat from b 1 to 55 degrees in summer and 58 to 60 degrees in winter. L How to Use Wheat for Feed. The present high prices for feed stuffs and low price of wheat make it desirable to know how to use wheat properly for feed. The very best results have been obtained by mixing 25 per cent. wheat, 25 per cent. corn, 10 per cent. barley and 40 per cent. oats. This should be ground together. Of course, this can be varied somewhat, according to the supply, though care should be used that there is not too much wheat used. - v

FEATHER EATING.

Causes of the Pernicious Habit and How It May Be Avoided. 2

Want of occupation is one of the chief causes of hens learning to eat feathers. For want of something to do they peck at the feathers on one another, and soon develop a taste for them. If the practice is not soon stopped it will become contag{lious, and will coutinue until the weather is fine enough for the birds to go outside. The best method of prevention is to give the fowls plenty of occupation. .If the floor of the fowlhouse is of earth it .should be dug over and made fine, and the food fed scattered over it. This will give the birds some work to do to obtain all the grain and food, and in ‘scratching over the ground searching for it they will get plenty of exercise. ; 5 Where the floor is of cement or other solid material, straw scattered over it will give the poultry plenty of work to scratch in it to find their food. Plenty of vegetable food should also be given. If cabbages can be spared, one should be hung up in the house for the birds to pick at. Where these are not forthacoming, turnips, mangels or clover hay, cut fine, will do very well. Meat scraps are also good, and a little salt mixed in the food will be found advantageous. i ~ Close confinement and overcrowding ‘are other causes that conduce to feather eating.. The former cannot al’wa.ys be avoided in a protracted and ' severe winter. SBtill, there are generally some days when the poultry can 'be turned out for a run, even during ‘a severe winter, for an hour or two. Overcrowding, however, can be avoided. It is better when dividing the flock to keep the pullets separate from the older hens. When thus divided, if these latter have acquired any bad habits, the younger birds will not have the opportunity to learn them from them, which they probably would if they were running together. . ~ When oxnge an old bird has learned to eat feathers it is almost hopeless to ‘attempt a cure, and the best method 1 of proceeding is to terminate her existence. . Every possible. precaution, therefore, should “be taken to prevent birds acquiring the habit.. The habit may be acquired among fowls confined in summer time as well as in winter if they are not kept busy and provided with plenty of exercise and green food.—N. Y. World. P

DEVICE FOR TRAPPERS.

It Is Better Than All Others Because It

Is Simpler.

As a trap for all purposes none surpasses the pitfall. The principle on which it works has the advantage of nearly all others,” as it does not need setting or baiting, thus any number of game can be caught in a night. The cut shows how it is made, but care should be taken to have the box deep enough or it may hinder the game from passing through easily, and a small weight must be fastened to the

| “;1 o ) TR NN -. | \ ’ 4::‘_ g i &x\ \ e :

A DEVICE FOR TRAPPERS

trap door to close it quickly, preventing the game which have already been caught from escaping. For rabbits this trap is most effective when pluced at the end of a tile or small culvert, but it can be used with good effect in any path or place where they run. For quails or other feathered game some corn or other grain ‘may be scattéred around and on it to serve as a bait. Unlike others this trap must be buried in the ground or snow, which fact renders it less of an obstruction to the wary game.—Carl F. Swanson, in Orange Judd Farmer.

NOVEL CONTRIVANCE.

A Nest That Prevents Hens from Eating Their Eggs.

A novel contrivance, sent to Farm and Fireside, by Mr. G. L. Bateman, of California, for preventing hens from eating their eggs. is given in our illustration. Take a soap box, remove the top and place the box on a board,' or leave it with the bottom on. Cut away one-half of the front, or an opening large enough to permit of placing a small basket or a pan of sawdust in the box. Now tack a flour sack over the box, and let it'sag. Cut a hole in the top of the sack. Close the front of the box with a board. The hen will go on the sack to lay, and the egg will roll down and into the hole, and continue until it fallls into the pan of saw-

NN e e - -:/ NEST TO PREVENT EGG EATING. dust underneath. Instead of a flour gack an old piece of carpet, or anything that will serve the purpose may be used. It will cost buta few cents to give this method a trial. Combs Made in Factories. : One of the most remarkable inventions of modern times in connection with beekeeping has just been accomplished in the manufacture of artificial combs by a German, Herr Otto Schultz, of Buckow. The only observable difference between it and -the natural comb is that the cell walls are thicker and the cells have not the' upward curve so often noticeable in natural comb. That thisis not an objection must be evident from the fact that the bees take to it as a matter of course and no doubt it will soon be given a trial in this country. ‘ Where Sheep Break Their Limbs. Sheep suffering from broken limbs—generally resulving from their getting entangled in wire fences, and similar causes—should be confined in a shed or yard till recovery. Place the broken bones in proper position as quickly as possible after the accident, and tight1y splinter the limb—a piece of soft leather being wound firmly round under the splints, which are best secured by a strong linen bandage soaked in starch. The bandages may in most cases be removed in the course of three weeks and a plsin dry bandage put on.

~ Take no SubSt;,itute' for § i Royal Baking Powder. | | It is Absolutely Pure. : All others contain alum or ammonia.

“DoxN’T you,” said the summék boarder, “‘sometimes enyy the city {;eople who come here with nothmg to do but recuperate?” #No,"! r?lied armer Corntossel, *© “I dunno’sldo. I swing the scythe tell I git right tired an’ 'magine itlorn tennis, an’ set out on the front porch ter get bit by the mersquiters of evenin’s, an’ manage ter have 'bout ez good a time ez the restof ’em.”—Washington Star. : e

Half Rates

(with two dollars added) will be made by Tae WaßAasH LINE, to &)ints in twenty-one States of the great West, Northwest and Southwest, for the Homeseekers' Excursion, September 11th and ‘ 20th, and October 9th, 1894. Don’t forget the dates, and that these rates will apply to Kansas City; Omaha, Denver and other prominent cities. Tickets will be good returning twenty days from date” of sale. Stop-over privilegeés allowed. For full particulars a;fipl{ to the nearest railroad ticket office of the Wabash or connecting lines, or to C. S. CRANE, Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. ¢

Miss FoorLite (petulantly)—‘‘l don’t see. why Dr. Thirdly wants to be always throwing stumbling blocks in the way of those who are striving for eminence in thgtheatrical profession.” Yeger—‘‘What has he been doing now?” Miss Footlite—‘‘Advocatiné the abolition of divorce laws.”—Buffalo Courier. L Three Home Seekers’ Excursions To all parts of the West and Nerthwest via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway at practically half rates. Round trip tickits, good for return i)assage within twenty days from date of sale, will be sold on September 11 and 25 and October 9, 1894. ° : For further information apply to the nearest coupon ticket agent or address G. H. HEeArrorp, General Passepger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111. v ,

* I prESUME you funny men aim to deal with questions of the hour, do you not?” #oh, yes. Icalculate that there have been written no less than five thousand jokes about the young man who does not know when it- is time for him to go home.”’—lndianapolis Journal. ¢

Wire—¢‘That new girl sleeps like a log, and I never can get her up in the morning.” Husband (struc%: 'b{ a bright idea)—“]get the baby sleep with ler.”——(§ood_ News.

Mgs. UPPERTEN (to conductor of the band) —+¢Oh, Mr. Ka%)ellmeister, please play that adagio a little faster—the soup is ready to be served.”—Fliegende Blatter. :

“I LOVE to listen to the patter of the rain on the roof,” said the miserly poet. “I suppose you do;” said his wife. ¢lt's cheap amusement.’’—Harper’'s Bazar. - °

Wire—*“What can I do to please my own little hubby on his_ birthday to-morrow?”’ Hubby—:*‘Sell the piano.”—Truth. °

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Y GEORGE, father has failed.® “That’s just like him! I told yow all along, darling, that he was going to do all he could to keep us from marrying.”’—Life’s Calendar. ' : ‘Home Seekers’ Excursions. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway will sell tickets on Sept. 11, Sept. 25and Oct. 9, at greatly reduced rates to all points in ’fexgs, to -Eddy, New Mexico, and Lake Charles, La., good returning twenty days from date of sale. For further information address H A. Chenice, 12 Rookery Building, Chxcggo, LT B Cookerg, 508 Locust st. Des Moines, la., or James Barker, G. P. ami T. Ag't, St. Louis, Mo. : . McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. ; . Monday, September 10, comic .opera, “Athenia, or The False®Prophet.” An entirely new and original mgstw satire in twe - acts. Libretto by John O’Keefe, music by Leonard Wales. Seats secured by mail. , o e *‘HER religion is very much like her dress; she can put it on or off, gusl: as she pleases." ) ‘“Yes, and like her ball dress, at that; there isn’t very much of it.”—Life’s Calendar. i GLENN'S Sulphur Soap is a genuine remedy for Skin Diseases. Hill’s Hairand Whisker Dye, 50 cents. < ——e e (. DEeacoN PArßger—*‘Did you smell onions#” Col. Korn—**Not till you spoke.”’—Life. 5 Hall’s. Catarrh Cure ‘ls a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

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LRGN L SEPT.IIth, SEPT. 25th, OCT.9th On these dates Round-Trip Tickets will be sold from Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis, and other stations on the C. B. & Q. R. R., to the principal cities and farming regions of the Northwest, West and Southwest -~ LOW RATES Many connecting railways will also sell Harveést Excursion Tickets, on same terms, over this route. The undersigned or any agent of the Burlington Route, and most ticket agents of connecting railways east of the Misslssh;:pi River, will supply applicants with Harvest Excursion folders giving full particulars. P.S. EUSTIS, Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent, FORM AD. iB9. CHICAGO, ILL.

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