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The Tet of IlrarstUm. New York will be the scene of a campaign this fall which for interest from a purely human point of view will surpass that of any campaign in the political history of the State. The human interest in the contest will lie largely In the desire of tht people of the whole country to leaan in cold figures how many followers William Randolph Hearst has won for tho cause of which he has been for years the self-advertised exponent. The Republicans of New York have nominated Charles Evans Hughes hs their candidate for governor to oppose Mr. Hearst The campaign in small degree, however, will be a contest between recognized political parties. It will be a fight between demagogy and decency, between impractical radicalism and unreasoning if genuine discontent and just as honest but more conservative reform. It 'seems inconceivable that Mr. Hearst can carry the State of New York. If he does carry it it is time that men of sane minds in all its States should take thought for the future. It Is undeniably true that the methods of Mr. Hearst, his appeals to ignorance, his sophistries and his subtle efforts to turn content to discontent, have created for him a following. The test ef the strength -of that following Is to come. The nomination of Mr. Hearst by their party comes to the conservative Democrats of New York State as a sort of a numbing shock. The numbness won't last long. Mr. Hearst will find himself facing a more bitter opposition within the ranks of the party which yesterday named him as its standard bearer than Charles J. Folger confronted In the Uepublican party when Grover Cleveland defeated him fur the governorship of New York twenty-four years ago. Mr. Hearst has the support of his own papers. What other press support cail he count upon? Nearly every Democratic paper of prominence in the State of New York is of conservative tendencies. Is it possible that these journals will give over their columns to the sudden advocating of that which for years they have been consistently condemning. In Mr. Hughes the Republicans have a candidate for whom the Democrats who revolt at the thought of Hearstism can vote without a wrench of con- ' science. lie will have the vote of all men in his party who have not strayed Into the camp of the yellow flag. The coming contest will disclose the truth or falsity of the claim that the Hearst idea is dominant with the people of New York. Chicago To it

As a Contributory Came. It Is well to mention occasionally, as Speaker Cannon did at Danville, that under the Republican Protective policy the United States now produces a third of the world's manufactures and agricultural products. . Some Democrats declare that the tariff never hell the farmer. They are rash in making any such assertion. This gives the Republicans a chance to show that the diversification of industries which the tariff has created has raised up a home market for the farmer which has advanced the value of everything which he has to -sell, while the competition among the factories has cheapened everything trat the farmer has to buy. This is the principal reason why farming Is far more profitable now than it was in the Democratic days before the Rebellion. Farming is far more profitable, likewise, than it was in the Democratic days of 1SD3-97, when the country had Its latest and severest financial panic. In shaking of the country's prosperity from any viewpoint the tariff is sure to present itself as a contributary cause of the good times. Ut- ' der Democratic sway, in Buchanan's d'iys, the aggregate of the country's manufactures was slight. This was an agricultural country almost solely at that time. As a'consequence the fanner gut less for his products than he does now. Our manufactured articles lo tlioso days were furnished by EugImid chiefly, and the American farmer and the res of the American consumers paid mere for thm than they do

now for the borne product. The tiirifT has benefited producer and consumers. There are more wage-workers In proportion to the aggregate jwpulatlon In l'J04i than there were in lMKJ. the last year of Democratic power prior to the Rebellion. There are more wi-ge-workers than there were in 1S0J, the last year of the last term of the last Democratic President. The wages in .each case have made great advances. Her are soine of the reasons why the Republicans in the campaigns of 190J and IOCS will champion the maintenance of a tariff which will give adequate projection to every American product which needs protection. Speaker Cannon at Danville gave excellent reasons why the American people will. In 1900, elect a Republican Congress to continue the magnificent work which Is being dona by the Republican party. St. Louis "Globe-Democrat" The Same Old Dryaa. We are obliged to Mr. Bryan, lit ha. confirmed our prediction that he would clarify the issue which he presented to the country In his previous Presidential campaigns. He has aban- ' doned none of the beliefs which he professed in 181XJ. lie is more radical than he ws then and still believes that free coinage tA silveu would contribute to the general prosperity. While he does not make it clear how s lie will dial specifically with the several phases of the problem of wealth in Its relation to the commonwealth, he announces that hfc cure will be drastic and that he will shortly tackle the tariff, railroad and trust questions and imperialism. He will not stretch his hnnd across the bloody gulch to grasp that of the "safe ami sane." He will be glad to see them, in any number, and will permit them to stand close up to him, but they have got to come across by themselves. For Mr. Bryan there must be a radical Democracy or none at all. Cleveland "Leader." An Expensive Savins It has been estimated that the increase iu the cost of a pair of shoes by reason of the tariff on leather !s from two to seven cents. The effort to save seven cents a pair on shoes through a revision of the present tariff -at es would probably be the most expensive move the history or euch other

eli'orts has ever known. Under present rrrangements, the shoos are mad hero. r'lic'i of the leather is produced Sere, much of the entire traus'ictlon 's one of home gain and profit Ad-ia-i OJ ::.. "Times."

Würm and Cost of Living:. The. question is: Has the average man been better off In the last six or seven years than he was In the six or ?even years preceding 131)9-1300? Is he better able now to have the things he wants than he was ten or twelve years ago? He Is. Beyond the shadow of a shade of doubt he Is. We have but look about us to 'see the proofs on every hand. We have but to think back to find these proofs In our own knowledge. The average man Is able to live 'n a better house, better furnished, and wear better clothes now than then. He ha? more money in the bank, he falls less frequently in business, he has fewer debts which he cannot pay when due. These are undeniable facts. Then why this wild outcry from Iowa? It is true that prices are higher, but so are Incomes. The average man has to pay out more, but he also gets in more and Is able to save more if he chooses. What these Iowa Democrats really call for Is hard-times prices with goodtimes incomes. No way has ever been found, of having these two things at once. We can have one or the other hard times with low prices or prosperity with high prices but not both. We tried in 1892 the remedy for high prices which the Iowa Democrats now again propose. We let the Democratic party break down the tariff to get lower prices. Well, we got low prices and we also got low incomes. We got rid of high prices and we also got rid of prosper ity. We swore we would no longer h? "robbed under the shelter of the tariff' and we were soon luxuriating in the pleasing sensation that we were entirely safe from robbery, having nothing left to be robbed of. Let any man who resents high prices now think back and remember how he fared when prices were low, eight, ten, and twelve years ago. Was he better off then than he Is now? Would he like to go back to those times of low prices? Chlcsgo "Inter-Ocean." Lower Prices, Lower Incomes. Let It be known to-morrow that there Is to be a rip up on the tariff and the cheapening pr ?;ess will begin Immediately. Neither the manufacturer uor the wholesaler or the retailer will know what to expect Many will lose their jobs. Their ability to buy will be decreased and prices will fall. The man who holds his job and keeps his salary may possibly I? benefited teinIorarily, but scarcely one man In ten thousand will be able to do that. A general reduction Iii wages will be the order of the day.. Hard times mean Lard times Incomes. The prices that prevail la good times are the natural sequence of the incomes that characterize such periods. The man who argues that you can have hard, times prices and good times Incomes Is either an ignoramus or a demagogue, and winever believes him Is not wise. He might just as well expect a good grass crop during a drouth. Cedar lupins "Republican." A Had Year. This is a bad year for American labor to commit any political follies. It is a bad year to hold the door open for tariff changes. It Is certainly a bad year to withhold hearty support from the Republican party, that has created all the wonderful priority that workingmeu enjoy and that is the opinion, too, of the great, majority of workingmen, who will vote for Republican Tariff Protection, as they always do. Newark "Advertiser." Several Subjects. Adversity Is the parent of virtue. riutarch. Do not eat between meals (habitually) or at irregular Intervals. He Is tLf best gentleman who is the son of his own deserts. From the French. Boyce There is no use lacking the stable door after the horse Is stolen. Joyce You can save the ' hay, can't you? Steps were taken recently toward forming In Paris a Canadian chamber (f commerce to extend commercial reiaHons between France -and Canada. Artificial stimulation of the gland In ihn throat below Adam's apple will. It Is claimed by French scientists, cause any child to grow to a maximum height More men have died and are burled in the Isthmus of Panama, along the line of the proposed canal, than on any equal amount of territory In the world. Where London consumes 90,000,000 gallons of water a day, New York consumes 500,000,000. Where London has an area of 118 square miles, New York has 320. In Java the planting of Indigo is steadily decreasing by reason of the great Increase In production of the synthetic artlcie. Much of the land on which Indigo has heretofore been cultivated has now been turned Into sugar plantations. Statisticians estimate that twentytwo acres of land are necessary to sustain one man on resh meat The same space of land, if devoted to wheat culture, would feed forty-two people; If to oats, eighty-eight; potatoes. Indlau corn and rice, 170; and If to the plantain or banan, over C.000 people. A meek old citizen of Richfield, Kan., who had been henpecked all his life, was about to die. Mi wife felt it her duty to offer him such consolation as she might, and said: "John, you are about to go, but I will fcüow you." "I suppose so, Manila," answered the old man weakly, "but, so fur as I am concerned, you don't need to be In any blamed hurry about it!" The most extensively spoken lan guage is Chinese, but as there are so many dialects In the language and as these differ so greatly in the confines of Mongolia and Tibet from those around Pekln It is scarcely correct to say that the CS2,000,000 Celestials all speak one language. Putting, therefore, China aside, the most-spoken lan guages In the world are as follows, In millions: English, 120; German, 70 Russiaa, 08; Spanish, 44; Portuguese, 32. j

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the authorities, only some 300 or 400 words. Italian operas require not over SOO words, and the system of Egyptian hieroglyphics has but S0O symbols. Well educated persons of fair intelligence use. !t Is said, not over 3,000 or 4,000 words. The IUble of 1011 eolnmonly known as the King James or the Authorized Version without the Apocryphal portion, has under 0.000 words. Poets, dealing much under abstractions, employ a larger vocabulary. Milton found 8,000 words necessary for the composition of his poems; Pope. 11,000, and Shakspeare, 15,000. These are large figures, compared with the prosy talk of the "average man," who gets along comfortably with 500 words. Everybody knows or understands a great many words which he never uses. "Dictionary words". Include a long list never heard In speech and rarely seen In print The number of vords, Including scientific and art terms, which are not obsolete, that are used by good authors, may reach 100,000. Dictionary' makers score a point on their rivals by introducing in large numbers rarely used technical terms derived from Latin or Greek. Slang, colloquialisms, hybrids, special coinages and semi-naturalized words may be used to pad the list Indefinitely.' Early editions of Webster had but 70,000 words, but Worcester's has 110,000, Webster's Unabridged." 118,000, and Webster's International Dictionary 140,000, while the Encyclopedic Dictionary contains 1S0.000 words, or, If compounds be Included, 250,000. The Century Dictionary, including therewith the Cyclopedia of Names and Atlas, defines 450,000 words and names. It should be added, however, that of this large total 170,000 are to be credited fb the Atlas, and a unmber, similarly large, to the Cyclopedia of Names. Baltimore Sun.

THE FAMILY PEW. OME of the most vivid of the emotions which thronged upon the summer pilgrim to the old home were those which awaited 1 im In the family pew of the old meeting house. As he took his seat there, and heard the familiar cote of the organ and the clear, thin voices of the choir, the years melted

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away, the faces changed, the new carpet faded Into the well-remembered colors of fifty years ago and he was in truth a child again. His thought went back to the time when he was allowed to sit on the footstool as a concession to his short, restless legs. He tasted again the luscious raisin which found Its way from grandmother's pocket to his mouth, and sniffed the pungent southernwood of the Sunday nosegay' in a neighbor's sllk-mltted hand. It was in that pew that he first realized to the full the dignity of trousers. It was there that he was proudly conscious of the approving glances of his friends on his first college vacation. He recalled In a flash the Intolerable length of the sermon on that Thanksgiving day! The pew has sad memories as we'' sweet ones. Most poignant of them is that of , his .her's funeral and the awful Sunday after It wheu no one could bear to take her empty place- and the emptiness of it seemed unendurable. Close Mpon that time followed the Sunday when he made solemn profession there of the faith she had loved so well. Then came the days of the great war, when the meet

I A KLONDIKE WDTDOW. During the first rush for the Klondike gold fields a party of five men was wrecked on the right bank of the Yukon, some distance this side of the Arctic circle.' Winter was coming on; but Instead of putting back, they determined not to lose the ground gained, but to spend the winter there, and push n as soon as possible. "The Magnetic North" contains a description of their winter quarters. The big cabin conslJted of a single room, measuring on the outside sixteen by eighteen feet The walls of Cottonwood logs soared .upward to a height or six feet, nud this was magnificently increased in the middle by the angle of the roof. But before the cabin was breast-high the Hoy had begun to long for a window. "When the door's shut it'll be dark as the Inside of a cocoanut" " "It'll be dark all winter, window or no window," Mac reminded them. The next day the lljy came across the wooden box a California friend had given him, containing a dozen tall glass Jars of preserved fruit. The others bad growled at tho extra bülk when the Hoy put the box Into tbe'ltoat, but they now looked ujwn it kindly. One morning the Iioy was found pouring the fruit out of the jars into some cans. "What are you up to?" , . "Wait and see." lie went tOTlynn, who was dish washer that S'eei," got him to melt Iwo buckets of snow uud wash the fruit Jars clean., , "Now. colonel," said the Iioy, "bring along that saw of yours and lend a hand." They took off the top log from the louth wall of the cabin, measured a two-foot space In the middle, and the tolouel sawed out the piece. While he went on doing the same for the logs next below on that side, the Hoy roughly chiseled a moderately flit sill. Then one after another he et up six of the tall glass Jars in a row, and showed how, alternating with the other six bottles turned upside down, the thlc'c belly of one accommodating Itself to the thin neck of the other, the twelve made a very decent rectangle of glas. When they had hoisted up and fixed in place the logs on each side, and the big fellow that went all across on top, when they had fitted the little cracks between the bottles with some of the mud mortar with which the logs were to be chinked, behold a double-glas3 window fit for a king! ' , A Sailor 1'rlnce. Thev Prince of Wales, who Is now lust over 40 years old, entered the navy when he was but little more than a child. As a matter of fact, he was but two days over his twelfth year when be entere 1 the famous, training ship, the Ilritannia, as a cadet. It is said that he had always a delire for the salt and savor of the. dark blue ocean; and there can pe very little doubt that he was greatly influenced In this direction by that goodly tlergyman and famous novelist Charles Klngsley. During Kiiigsley's yearly rlsit to Sandringham there was a nightly begging orf the part ef Prince Scorge and his brother for "Just a little longer, please," In order that they might enjoy the end of some marvelMis adventure of the fighters of old that was being magically woven for them by that wonderful spinner of fell

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THE CZAIt LEAVING THE UACE COURSE AT KUASXOYE SELO. Tlie Czar pn rarely been presented to English readers as a motorist A correspondent of London Sphere, however, has snapshotted him at the miltary horse races at Krasnoye Selo, which Is sixteen miles southwest of St Petersburg, whereas Tsarskoye Selo Is fifteen miles south of the capital. This particular view slwws te Czar motoring down the race course after the races.

i IN THE NEW COUNTRY. . The small office of the Society for tht Assistance of Hungarlau Immigrants, which stands opposite the Uattery in .New York, was crowded to the full with a host of new arrival-. The men, dressed In small, berlbbone1 round hats, tight-fitting coats' and leather trousers tucked In the tops of high tnx)ts, stood .iliuly smoking their long-stemmed pipes, says a writer In the Chicago News. The women, arrayed In foreign cottons and woolens, were even more placid and unconcerned than the men. A cab drove up In front of the plain brick building, and a short fctout womrn, dark of face and evidently foreign by ,desvnt, stepped Into the crowded room with a rustle of silks. "You promised me a girl to-daj'," she said, sharply, In English, although with a pronounced foreign accent "We have only one girl," he replied, "but she wants sixteen dollars, and she isn't worth half of It" "All of them want more than they're worth, anyway. Let me see her." "Anna ltaad2nlk!" called the cleric A tall, thm woman, with a plain, dark shawl looped over her head like a sunbonnet, entered the room. Her cheeks were bronzed, and her vthole appearance, from her long, strong arms to her flat chest, was that of a woman used to hard work in the fields of her native land. ; "You want work?" questioned the wouldbe employer. ' The Immigrant shrugged her awuid- - ' t ' ÄT'rir- r

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of bugle and drum. The blessing of the volunteers, the prayers for their saftty, and the sad, sad series of soldiers' funerals all these came up to the man's memory In the old pew. Suddenly out of this dreamland he is called by the stir of the congregation and Is conscious that he has missed the good pastor's sermon. But perhaps God Himself has preached to him out of life's grim struggle In the vision of some of his own deep experiences and the discovery that they are still potent to arouse the will and confirm the faith with their rich and tender memories. Youth's Companion.

- MINTJTE RAILROADING. signs point to ail eventual electrifi-

yf I cation of the transportation business of the A I country, at least except In the case of very

ioug iiauis inrougu uiiuiy populated regions. Will this transformation bring with it the practical impossibility of mile-a-mln-ute travel? There seems considerable justi

fication for an affirmative answer. It has been amply demonstrated that the electric locomotive Is capable of attaining, and maintaining far higher speeds than this. On the Zossen experimental road in Germany speeds of over 125 miles per hour were reached. The chief difficulty in the way of operating a commercial line at such enormous velocities aside from the question of cost has to do with the safety of passengers. The rails and cars can be built strongly enough to stand the wear and tear, motors competent to push them at this speed are available, and methods of transmitting current to the motors from an overhead conductor have been peri?cted. In fact the realization of a ten-hour train between New York and Chicago seems to require only the devlsenient of a protective block system which would render practically Impossible the terrible fatalities liable to result from collisions and derailments at these speeds. If the rolling stock could be made accident proof, and the road bed sufficiently straight and solid to do away with the'danger of derailment, there seems nothing la the way of a mlle-a-mlnute line, but Its cost How much heavier this would be than In the case of a fiftymile per hour service is a question on which the early " construction of such a line seems to depend. New York Globe.

HIPPIE'S HYPOCRISY. HE damage effected by the late Mr. Hippie Is not confined to his depositors. The ex-

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l .ti in in u u.u. it ii.uuir ui iuc siuujjjiug aim the weak. Mr. Hippie was able to deceive his creditors by parading his religion, by practicing with convincing ostentation the

qualities that usually Indicate character and principle. Hut this proves nothing except Mr. Hippie's success at simulation a success which Is not unique, but which, on the other hand, It would be contemptible to consider universal. Speculations as to our neighbors', our rivals' and our euenile3' sincerity will abiays be one of the interesting occupations of mankind. Yet It is a courageous man who makes rigid rules," who is prepared to condemn or affirm on general principles. Mr. Hippie refrained from the Sunday newspaper he now proves a hypocrite, but that makes the Sunday newspaper neither better nor worse. Unfortunate Indeed would It be to weaken one's capacity for belief In one's kind because a knave had a measure of success. Chicago Post.

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f- v .r."; rfw.j - f V ers. 'There are plenty of places," sbj said. Her sharp eyes flashed a ques Honing look, half-humor, half-Inquiry uiwn her Interlocutor. Then she gavi a start of surprise, and smiled. "What wages do you want?" "Sixteen dollars." "It's too much," came the objection In good Hungarian. "In the old country yon got less than, two' 'That's why I came to the new coun try,' retnrned the immlgraut, calmly. "Well," said the woman, "I think 1 will take you." "I don't know that I want to com yet How many have you in the family?" "What difference how many I hav. In the family? You won't have to wort nearly as hard as you did in the old country." 'That's why I came to the new country," with a smile. "Well, will you come?" "What's the rellgionV" "What has that to do with It?" said the woman angrily. "My religion Is my, own affair. I will not employ you." Turning to face the amused clerk, sh said, "She ought to bo sent bjck to hei farm work In Hungary. Nothing here Is good enough for her." Anna Itaadznik remarked to a companion in the woman's compartment "I knew her. She's Martha Zildth. She worked as a servant girl for a farmer near the town from which I come. If she got a rich man in this country, maybe I can, too." A certain plain woman has a handsome husband. We wonder if ha properly appreciates him? , - s - i.; -'--'' r.f,t'-f""''

Fine oorn meal mixed with milk will fatten fowls rapidly. The egg-layer should have a rather nervous make-up, with a slender body, long leg3, a thin neck and a small head. We are too prone to attribute our crop failure to some defect In nature and that of our neighbor's to his laziness. Animals, like people, appreciate and should receive kind and considerate treatment It is a form of Investment that fetches good returns. Pruning Is a very Important part of grape growing. Books and growers should be consulted before it is undertaken on a large scale. Provide warm quarters for the sheep. Turnips, with a little rye bran, are good to eke out the pasture. Keep the ram with the flock for early lambs. Th Elberta peach is said to be a cross between an Early Crawford and the Chinese cling, and is an accidental hybrid produced by planting one near the other. In building a cellar wall an air space is Just the thing needed and It costs les3 than material to fill It. Jack Frost don't like an air space in walls, for it keeps him out. To the tlreJ, overworked, lamed or otherwise out-of-condltion horses there Is no Fanltarlum nor hospital that compares with a good pasture, with some protection from sun and passing showers. Drewed poultry should not be packed for transportation until entirely cold. It should then be laid In clean straw, breast down, keeping the wings and legs close to the body. See that there is no discoloration of the skin. Some of the organizations of farmers who would regulate the prices of farm products have Just come up to the problem that In some things, such as wheat, there exists a world's competition which they are powerless to regulate. Book farming Is all right, but not always do we find the book farmer right It Is weli enough to know the rules of practical agriculture and It is all right to put them to practice, but we often 3ee people who are in practice and they do better than others. The man who lives near a large city Is not coming up to his possibilities If he does not cater to the best markets near his home. There are many farm products the city people would like to have which he could furnish. This is a trade that It pays to cater to. Carefully conducted experiments In the spraying of potatoes show that while the cost of thorough spraying during the season Is but from $4 to $d an acre, it has resulted in an average gala of about $23 per acre during a eriod of three years over corresponding fields that were left unsprayed. Nowhere does organization count for any more than it does In a thrashing club. Such ciubs are advantageous In that their members know who Is going to help, and when they are to have their work done. There are no laggards and every man has an Interest in the work that is being done, whether at home or at a neighbor's. Thorough cxtltlvation of orchards has come to be one of the most Important operations. It not only makes plant food more available, but Is a valuable protection against drought In soils which are unusually hard, poor In humus, and In which the trees do not form a -taproot, It Is extremely Important that the ground be loosened by cultivation at- by the turnlug under of green manure crops. About the only binding law some states have foor keeping weeds cut along the highways Is the law governing a man's self-resiwxrt Most men tio not like to have weeds grow along the highway contiguous to their farms, but now and then you will find a farmer who Is perfectly willing to let them grow. There ought to be a rigid low for the latter. The former Is not under the lav.- at all ; he does not need It The wheat producer Is told In one paper that It would be best for him to hold his crop for better prices. In another paier equally as reliable he Is told that "every decline of one cant per bushel on wheat puts It near the export price, and it is the price abroad that must determine crop values as long as we have a surplus." In the multitude of such councils It will stand the wheat-grower In hand to "knowwhere he Is at" A steady Increase in the membership af the Grange is noticed In most of the eastern states. The co-operative lda has not taken so well with the western farmers, probably because they have been especially busy In developing a new country, but the Grange Idea Is penetrating Into every section and t soon will have a large membership. The good things that the Grange stands for are being better understock audits influence is widening In propoition. ' Prerv!nir Shluftled Hoof. Many dollars may be saved by ruling your roof last five or more years longer than Is usual before reshlnglitg. Take some air-slaked lime and wlvn the shingles are damp sprinkle It upon the upper part of the roof. It wdl gradually wash over the whole of It and preserve It wonderfully, A busl.el of Urne will be sufficient for 1,000 square feet. If you don't believe tWs, examine your roof and notice the eifference In that part where the Ume has washed from the chimney. Proper Exercise. Comparatively few people understand the value of systematic exercise. Farmers are In the habit of thinking that they get exercise enough. Some of the muscles certainly get used enough and too much, but Uds is not exercise in the. proper sense of the word. It Is work ; there Is Just as much difference between work and exerclsa as there is

between work and play. Life insurance is all right so long as the company Is properly managed, but the best form of life insurance Is a good system of dally exercise, a system that uses muscles that are not used in the routine of dally life and a system that will drive the blood coursing through the little veins that would remain Idle only for this especial effort Most breeders having thoroughbred stock realize the value of exercising the animals, tut those same breeders never think of exercising themselves. Horaea' Valne Increasing. Government statistics show that the value of horses has Increased surprisingly the last nine years. On January 1, 1SD7, there were 14,304,067 horse? In the United States, and their estimated rlue then .was $452,04990, the avenge value at this estimate being about $31.50 per head. On January 1, 1900, the total number of horses was 18.715.578, and their estimated value was 11,510,889,900, which is about $S0.73 a head, or more than two and a half times as much a head as was their estimated value nine years ago. This does not Indicate that the horseless carriage has seriously Injured the hors -breeding Industry, at least so far ns, values are concerned. " 1 Beat Stock Profitable. Successful dairying has proved that the greater profit comes from the best cows, whatever their kind. This is as true of pure bred or registered stock as of common cows. It is better to pay $300 for three excellent cows than to pay the same for four cows or five whIU are only fair. A really "superior dalvy cow of a superior family, with pedigree which gives assurance of calves equal to the dam. If not better. Is always worth a large price. Such an animal adds much to the average value of any dairy herd. In buying regtered dairy cattle deal only with mei of reputation as breeders and of strict Integrity. Points on Prairie Soli. All who have taken up prairie farms will recognize the truth of the following statement of Professor Ten Eyck. of Kansas, in regard to them : When the wild prairie is first broken the soil is mellow, moist ind rich, producing abundant crops. After a few years of continuous grain cropping and cultivation, the physical condition of the soil changes the soil grains become finer; the soil becomes more compact and heavier to handle; It dries out quicker than It used to and often turns over In hard clods and lumps when plowed. The perfect tilth and freedom from clods, so characteristic of virgin soils, is always more or less cqmpletely restored whenever land has been laid down to grass for a sufficient length of time. The Rraaarr of South America. The Argentine Republic is best known of all the South American countries because It produces cereals and lef, mutton, wool and hides In competition with the United States, Canada and European countries; yet It Is difficult to keep pace with the enormous growth of Argentine agri culture during ttie last few years, just as verj- many persons are. still unable to jTaap .the fjict that instead of being a little country somewhere down in South America, It is twenty -eight times the sir.e ol Ohio, and that while In the northern regions it produces sugar and other tropical products, yet as a whole It Is to be viewed as another Mississippi valley. Tho Argentine minister of agriculture estimates the wheat crop for the current year'at 3.SS2.00O tons, the area under cultivation being 14,028,000 acres. The foreign commerce this yeir will ex?ed $550,000,000. How to Slake a Good Hoad Grader. A good road grader can be made foi about $5 that will make a good gradt quicker and with fewer teams than the usual $300 graders. Xall solidly together three planks in the form of letter A ; then, on one side fasten a bai of Iron or steel about 4 inches wide, letting it project down about two Inches ; on the ether side fasten, on a similar iron with a slight curve outward, projecting only about one-half Inch below plank. Now plow two or three furrows on each side of the place where you want your grade. Then hitch onto the point of youi grader with a large clevl3 and chair so that you can adjust the draw; ;ull It with the side that has the'stralght Iron against the bank and adjust yout weight so as to hold it there. It will move these furrows to the width ol the scraper. Two more furrows can then be plow ed and f so on, till the width Is all that is wanted; then start back near the center again and proceed as before. A higher grade can be built with this than with the ordinary grader. In less time and with less power. Cauae of Bitter 3111k. Bitter milk Is one of tbe most an noying ills with which a dairyman can be afflicted. Bitterness sometimes develops In the best-kept dairies, whlhthe most slovenly will be Immune. Its cause is an organism resembling the ordinary yeast; In fact it Is a yeast. It Is originally found on the leaves of trees, just as the yeast organism is found on hops, but Is easily transmitted to milk cows, or the stable dust When once these yeast organisms gain admittance to milk, they find conditions favorable for their development and proceed to reproduce themselves, hence ? the bitter taste In milk, cream and but ter. To remove the source of Infection Is no small task, for in all the crevices of every can In which milk has been kept there will bo ?ound sufficient of the yeast to carry on infection It Is, therefore, necessary to thoroughly clean, scald and scrape the seams of every vessel in which milk has been kept then carefully whitewash the mllkhouse, cellar or pantry, and this should prevent further development in the house. At the same, time sweep down the walls and ceilings of the stables, and give all the Inside a thor ough coat of whitewash or a spraying with some disinfectant such a bichloride of mercury, one to one thousand parts of wctsr. Farmers' Advocate;

A Charm I nc C'hallte House Clown. While garments 'elaborate enough t: oe called tea gowns sometimes masquerade as house-gowns, yet by this term is usually understood one of the simpler anl more serviceable gowns, kucI: as is shown in our sketch, whose graceful lines make auy elaborate trimming quite unnecessary. Tills gown fits snugly under the anus, $o there is no sug-

tattebx xa 15S2. gestion of "bagglness," but falls ful and free from the square cut nefk at both back and front. The short sleeves are full, edged with bands of Insertion and frills of narrow lace, and a ruffle of the goods finishes the bottom of the skirt The above pattern will be mailed tt your address on receipt of 10 cents Send all orders to the Tattern Department of this paper. Be sure to glvi both the number and slzo of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. Fot convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. 15S2. size : NAME ADDRESS Petticoat for a Child. - It Is desirable, particularly with growing children, to support the weight of all garments from the shoulders and to see that the waist is not compressed with tight bands. This little 'petticoat Is a most satisfactory model ' In this way. It consists of a waist fitdnj loosely but trimly, to which Is attached a short, full skirt This may be cut In either circular or gathered style, as shown In the sketch. The bottom Is WS patteex sa 1550. finished -with a ruffle of embroidery. It is convenient, somet lines, to make these waists and skirts separately and button them together. It Is a most serviceable little garment The ax)ve pattern will be mrlled to Vour address on receipt of 10' cents. Scud all orders to the Tattern Department of this paper. He sure to give both the number and sh:e of pattern, wanted, and write very p!ainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: t Order Coupon. No. 1550. size SAME I ADDRESS Little About nverrtl.lnar. Germany's navy costs $12,000,000 annually. To paint a battleship requires 150 tons of paint London's poor devils are cockneys, ciurs are foreigners. The East Indians caPed rock crystals an unripe diamond. Americans are making an effort to establish a steel plant at Flushing, Holland A chimney of 113 feet high will. without danger, sway ten Inches in a oue-fifth the population and oneeleventh of the area of Turkey Is In Europe. Kangaroos' leap readily from sixty feet to tevcuty feet The greatest recorded leap of a horse Is thirty-seven, feet In Dohemia courtships are abnormally long. In that country engagements frequently last from fifteen to twenty years. The fixed capital In agriculture in the United States Is four times that In manufactures. The Hungarian House of Representatives is the largest In the world. It has 751 memberi. Under the patronage of the Carnegie Institute the Vegetation of the arid regions will be tud.'etS. England Las larger investments la tropical America than all other European nations combined. A Bangor (Mc.) ir.an, who Is said to be otherwise saac, has an American flag tattooed on his chec!L

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