St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 March 1894 — Page 2

SHOULDN’T BE WITHOUT ONE. I’m not a common peddler, chasin' round l.ke them yon see, Civen’parlor suits away with every pound of tea; Or swearin’ that a cake of sor-p. Bioh as they lug about. Will beautify a feller's face an’ make his whiskers sprout. The article I recommend is one T guarantee ; ’Taint no fake nor bunko snap, nor sawdust swindle, see? No house should bo without one. It’s the wonderfulest invention that a fellear ever struck, It kin make the meanest dig of fate look like a streak of luck. If you're sunk d >wn in the dismals it kin cuddle round your heart. An’ make you mosey up a bit an' take another start, It kin preach the strongest sermon—hit the nail plumb on the head, Yet it doesn’t know a single word a preacher ever I •ver s lid. bo house should be without one. It can make a worn an’ fagged-out wife laugh like a strappin' girl; It kin set your teet a dancin’—put your tenses in a whirl If the wolf should push ths door in, or thq^heriif take the turn You feel so blamed happy that you wouldn’t give a darn; I tell you. Loys I've teen there, an’ I know a thing or two — — there s no use tryin’ to tell you what this great cuieall can do. No house should be without one. Ouru is 2 years old to-day, an’ wife's that proud an’ vain. She wonders how we fooled ourselves an’lived belore be came. ■We thought we was contented, but then we didn’t know The difference twist' empty love an’ heaven here below. I’m sure he's not a common kid, he seems so plagued wise. But 1 s’po.o every feller thinks his dropped down from the skies. bo h use should be without one. —Lillian Mack in the Boston Globe. MURFEEKSBURGLAR. 1 There is not a particle of heroism about you Ulysses,” said Mrs. Murfree, as she brushed out her back hair in front of the cheval glass preparatory to retiring tor the night? “Not a particle,” she emphatically repealed. “What on earth your mother was thinking about when she named, you I can’t imagine. lam sure that I never saw a man more unlike his namesake. I have known you to be positively cowardly at times.” Mr. Murfree looked up in a weary way from the corner where he sat. “I’m sure, my dear—” he began. “No, Your’re not,” snapped his ' better half, giving the pincushion a whack with the hairbrush to emphasize her words: ‘ you are not sure: ' you are never sure of anything—you ! only think. Bah! 1 hate a man who only thinks,” and she jerked the tangles out of a refractory auburn lock with additional force. “When Mrs. Jenks was speaking to-night about that paragon of a hus- : band of hers I was simply consumed i with envy. It shows how much to believe in names. Look at you two men—look, I s iy!” “Yes, my dear,” responded Mr. Murfree, pulling off his boots in a resigned way, “I’m looking.” “Bah!” retorted his wife. “1 mean your names—Ulysses Murfree, Peter Jenks—just think of the difference, and yet Peter Jenks knocked a burg- ! lar downstairs this week with one I fist—one, I assure you, and you, . you are afraid to go calling on the Simsongibbers after dark because they keep a dog.” He was not disturbed again until the’moment came for i etiring, when, contrary to their usual custom, Mrs, Murfree turned the gas entirely out, leaving the room in darkness save where a streak of moonlight came । through the window, open for vent.lation. “Are you never going to lie still and let a person sleep?” snapped the partner of his joys and sorrows as she flounced over, dragging half of the bed-clothes with her and thereby causing some chills to chase one another up and down her husband’s vertebrae. Mr. Murfree lay still. He held his breath, figuratively, until the deep—not to say sonorous—breathing of his amiable companion told that peace and quietude had folded their downy wings upon the bosom of Mrs. Murfree. Just as the city clock was I striking 1 Mr. Murfree awoke with a start and looked in a dazed way into the darkness. “What’s the matter with, me?” he | muttered, a sensation of uneasiness creeping over him. “1 think —ha! what’s that?”—and, broad awake now, with cold perspiration starting from every pore, he became conscious of a faint rustle in the loom, the cause of which the heavy portieres draping the alcove prevented him from ascertaining. Cautiously he reached under the , mattress for his revolver, and to his horror found that after cleaning it I on the previous day he had carelessly f forgotten to replace it in its wonted spot. “Oh, Lord! oh, Lord!” he chattered to himself, trying too keep cool, ‘ no revolver, no nothing, and a bu glar, , sure as fate! Samantha was right. I lam a coward: what shall 1 do? If 1 awake Samantha I shall never bear 1 the last of it—she will nag worse than i ever; besides she is sure to yell and | ttien we will be murdered.” and the poor man shook so that the springs ’ creaked and sent him into a fresh fit of trembling. Hustle, rustle, it came again, and then a soft thump and a clink. “He’s got my trousers,” ejaculated Mr. Murfree to himself as he cau- i piously sat up in bed and tried to calm himself. Thump! “I can’t stard this any longer,” said Mr. Murfree in a whisper, beginning to get huffy. “I’m a fool. No wonder Samantha said so. 1 will certainly find out what is outside of those curtains and this time Samantha shan’t have a chance to brag over me. Perhaps I shall be able to do something for once.” Jie carefully put one foot out of bed and as soon as he plucked up a sufficient amount of courage he peered cautiously through the curtains. With difficulty he repressed an exclamation of horror.

The moon’s rays fell acrosn th® dressing table, bringing out each article on it with a. weird distinctness, and just in the shadow before the cheval glas- was the stooping figure of a man. He was evidently searching the upper drawer and Air. Murfee gasped for oy as he distinguished on the top of the cabinet to the glass the missing revolver. Mr. Murfee, gathering himself for a grand effort and nerved to a point of desperation, made a flying leap, and landing with terrific force upon the burglar’s shoulder’s grabbed the : revolver, yelling “Police! thieves!— I oh!” Over he went, bumpety, bump, and ; found himself prost ate on the floor, with a chair and something soft and thick over him. “Oh! Ulysses! Ulysses!” screamed Mrs Murfree, tangling herself up in the bedclothes in her efforts to rise. “Help! Where are you?” Mr. Murfree was on his feet in a flash, holding in his arms the harmless cause of his fright and disturbance. Mrs. Murfree's fur cape, which she had hung over the chair back in front of.the dressing-table, and which, with its high shoulders and collar, had looked in the dim light like a stooping figure. Men think < uickly sometimes, and Mr. Murfree realized the situation with remarkable speed, and, being on his mettle, determined uot to be made a fool of. Knocking Mrs. Murfree’s jewel case from the dressine table as he fled, he rushed out of the room pell mell, stepping on the cat, the author of the mysterious noises that had first awakened him. With a savage kick he sent her ahead of him, as he flew down the front stairs and banged the iron door open and s ut. Then he panted breathlessly up again, sinking on the top stair, sorely bruised, and mad, just as his wife succeeded in lighting the gas. “Burglar!” he gasped. “W here,oh, where?” she screamed, excitedly, half helping, half dragffing him into the room. “Gone,” he managed to say: i “knocked him over—got away—front j door—see there?” pointing to the । jewelry strewn around the floor. Airs. Murfree gave one look, and then, with that faithful sense of ob- : ligation to the tradition of her sex, which the average woman seems to j possess in an emergency, she pro--1 ceeded to faint away. Air. Murfee dumped her into a chair, jHe was too weak to hold her, and I besides, he felt a fiendish exultation , in glorifying in his superior strength >ot mind, so when she recovered he I was picking up the cleverly scattered i trinkets with as bored an air as he i could assume. I “What are you afraid of 9 ” he said scornfully. “Alan’s gone, I’m here; 1 rather think I have protected you, j even if 1 am a coward.” j Veritably the tables were turned. Airs. Alurfree looked at him a moment in a hysterical way, and then falling on his neck, alternatively implored forgiveness and wept over her former severity, calling him her hero and all the delightful names which Air. Alurfree’s soul was thirsting for. “I’ll never say such mean things again, never, never!" “Won’t I just gloat over Airs. Jenks,” exclaimed Airs. Alurfree,as she convulsively patted the pillow into a more accommodating shape. “Oh, Ulysses, I’ll tell every woman in the street.” Just then the ludicrous side of the thing struck Mr. Murfree, and he stuffed the corner of the sheet in his mouth and shook convulsively. “What’s the matter, dear?” cried his wife. “What’s the matter, Uly?" As soon as he could speak he muttered: “Only a chill—don't bother about it—guess 1 took cold.” “Shall 1 get you something hot?” , asked his wife anxiously. I “Nonsense,” he replied, controlling himself with difficulty; “just go to sleep—l'm tired.” “All right, dear,” responded she. “Ido hope you won’t be ill. It's very funny Ulysses, that the policeman on our beat didn’t hear anything or come running up to the house when that dreadful man made such a noise at the door. Hear me, if I didn’t know you had a chill 1 should think you were laughing.” And Air. Alurfree was.—London Tid-Bits. Due Notice Required, An angry discussion was taking place between two colored men. and one of them was about to lav hands on the other, when “Daddy” White stopped to ask what the row was about. “Dat man owes me half a dollar!” remarked one of his disputants. I “I don’t deny it!” said the other. “Den, why don’t you pay me?” “Kase it’s too soon.” “If yo’ doan pay me dat half a dollar Ike gwin ter smash you tine!” “Hole on, Air. Simpkins—holeon!” ; said Daddy as he stepped between | the pa r, “Let’s see how dis yere case stans. How long has this gen’lman owed yo’ a half a dollar?” . “’Bout fo’ weeks.” “Has yo’ dun axed him fur it befo’?” । “No, sah.” “Den yo' hain’t got no case, and better stop .vo’r noise,” “Doan he owe me dat money?” “Os co’se he does; but am yo’ a ' bigger man dan a savin’s bank? If 1 yo’ wants dat money jo’ gin him sixty da s notis, an’ do business in a business way. Humph: de ideah of । a whitewashing cull’d man settin’ ' himself up to be bigger dan a bank wid a millyon dollars in it.”—LxI change. lr hurts a man just about as much to burn him in effigy, as to have his shadow on a wall butted by a goat.

TO TALK OA TARIFF J THOSE WHO WILL SPEAK IN THE] SENATE. * indications Point to a Long and Animated I Discussion—Many of the Cleverest Speed*- J es Delivered on the Floor Are Prepared 1 by Outsiders. May Last AU Summer. Washington correspondence: ' The indications are that the tariff | discussion in the Senate will continue! for two, three or even four months.l The average newspaper reader, if he! has not watched the pregresi of tariffs discussions in the east, will wonder,® perhaps, how eighty-five Senators williJ manage to consume three months ill tariff debate. If each Senator bai ang entire legislative day allotted to him!; with the privilege of speaking from I® o’clock in the morning until (5 in tha j evening, the-debate would last but IBei tie longer. And there are some Stu® ators who will mt speak to the bill w

all. Yet it would not be difficult to prob the'debate through the whole ensuing summer. To balance the Senators who do not speak, there are some Senators who speak on every possible occasion, and some other Senators' who are often called to their feet by questions —whose knowledge of tariff matters makes

them a constantly consulted authority The test auth< rities on the tariff ar® ‘ not always the men who say most abml - it in public. A great many of th® j cleverest speeches delivered on th® j floor of the Senate are not written by i the men who deli - , er them, and the au-i; thority for many another is the prb! vato tecietary of the Senator or o VICK I'RESIbEXT 6TKVENSOX km President of the Senate. tariff expert who is callLu hito'eoiis tation. It is note 1 of somi Sc? ato- 1 j that they are never reaay in delmw I unless their private -co: eturies or thdW committee clerks are. at their elbows. ; one m mber of the Senu e Finance Co nmitti e. now in political retire-1 ment, made his reputation in the House !

of Representatives’ on a tariff speech 1 which was written for him by a well-' known newspaper • * orrespondent, at- , torward clerk of t he I , v . < 'ommittee of Ways : and Means. This ; Senator always had some o’ e to pre mpl • him wh m ne was i making one of his ।

? X A . • r / f'r / SENATOR MILES.

stately tariff speech- ' es. for Senators on the < ther side of i the ehaml er hail an unpleasant way ! of cutting in with questions he could j not answer and throwing him off his ; his oratorical feet. lew Ki ailv Debater'*. Thore are few ready tariff debaters ; in the Senate and the running discus- ; siou of the M ilson bill will be confined i to five or six men. The other Senato s will guard local interests and make set : speeches. The Senators who will be I heard most frequently from day t j day । are \ est, Mills, .h nea of Arkansas, I McPherson and Harris on the Democratic side; Aldrich, Allison. Sherman, Teller and Lodge on the Republican. These are the men who will d hate pending amendments seriously and to the enjoyment of the Senate'and the galleries. The ) a'e, however, few Senators who will not make set speeches on the Wilson bill. Each of them con 4

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aiders it a duty to his State to tell how he stands toward p: otection,and why. There will baa 3hance for ail t+re Trators.for the Sen>te never attempts to shut off tho prepared oratorial effort as the House does. And all of tho Senate speeches”

will undoubtedly be delivered on thej Senate floor. There is no such thing! as ‘'leave t > print ’ in the Senate. ; The order of the speech-making is ina the hands of the Vico President. may recognize whom he pleases. Mr* | Stevenson will follow hi; customary! rule in the tariff discussion. Where!! several orators from each side of the* Senate expect to speak, he will arrange to recognize them alternately—first a Democrat and then a Republican. The names of those who are to bq recognized are entered < n a little sli^ of paper, which the Vice President has on the desk before him. This slip o* paper tells him who is to make th| first speech, and twenty other Senators might address the (’hair in opposition to the gentleman whose name heade^ the list and Mr. Stevenson would past over them all. If a Senator wishes speak at length he must make arrangej ments in advance with the presiding, officer. I Clerks Preparing Data. The Senate clerks are in the midac of a heavy siege < f work. Petition® and memorials for and against feature® of the Wilson bill are being recoiveta Benj. Durfee, the tariff expert of the fir.am • committee, has several thoiil sand of the e in his room, all jacketed? and prepared for reference. । ।

on o ' ' —— j The Senate discussion on the tariff ! s COns idered of more K importance than the B. debate in the House, WjfHBA be ause the Senators ® am’/ ai ° s,l PP°sed to be 4 \ mu ehraoreindepend- || / yAh ent ot executive inPuenee, and, in fact, they have show n r (X t be*>' independence in I de:il in g with the 80/riflwT Fvesidenfs nominaK WV.7 n ’‘ -' n< b more wer. when the House was lyr-NATOK morrill. discussing the tariff |®here were two great, possibilities that r®he Wilson bill would not reach the ■President — now there is only one ob■truction, opposition in the Senate. May Bo Prolonged. B There is very little doubt in the Hgtninds of any of ti e Democratic SenaMtors that tfie debate may be prolonged j for several wcek< Republican Sena- | tors are anxious to delay the vote in ■ the hope that influences may bo breught R to boa ■ which will defeat the bill al- ' together. They have the precedent of a three months’ de- ate allowed to the I Democrats when the McKinley bill was »! under di.-eussion, and they have little that the Democrats wi,l be willhmg- to accord t’-em the mime privilege , of discus ing at length the Wilson bid. Under the rules of the Senate debate can be prolonged by a stubborn mifrom the beginning of a session Until Ito vlojo, f>r the pm H SC of preventing the passage of an ob- | noxious measnie Once in the history of the Senate it adjourned without the trans iction of any budness because, the membership being divided equally betw en the two parties, the Democrats would not agree that the vote of the Vice President should be ca t to elect a Republican secretary ai d other oft ce-. This is one of the | few instant es in which the power to I filibuster in the Senate has been u ed j to prevent a tion of any kind. No Attempt to Fil.bust it. It is a notable fact that no attempt i was made to prevent the passage of 1 । the MeKinle. tariff bill by filibuster-

SENATOR SD B-» MAX.

ing. In the s in; wa y Republican Senat rs will offer no objection to the passage of the WiL-on bill after they have had a good opportunity to debate it and mike it if possible, so unacceptable to some < f the Democratic S na-

tors that it will not command the necsary majority when it is put on passage. Several republican Senators said, just before the vote on the McKinley bill was taken, that two, and p >ssiblv three, Demoeiatic votes could le bad if they were ne ded. The Democrats who were -aid to l>e available for the pas-age of the McKinley bill at that time are still members of the Senate, and the vote on the Wilson bill ought to show how much tr th there was in the statements ma le by the Republican Sena-

| SENATOR ALI.ISOJ

vote. Vn louttedly the chairman of ■ the Ei mine - Committee will arise in ' his place on so: r o • live occasions and ■ appeal to Senators t > come to some ; agret mmt by which an early vot ■ can । l>e had. That 1 ttlo ceremonial was । performed bv Mr. Voorhees with fre- ■ quency during the diseu-sion of ; the silv. r p irchase-rej cal bill at , the speeiil session of Cot gross. ! But this i dne chiefly t » ooni vnee the country that the Democratic | Scnat >rs are not pto onging 'ho dis- | mission willingly. Great pressure will ' be inn tight t > bear by the representa- ■ ti’esof business inteiod-to have the j debate brought to a speedy t"imination, so that the e, untry may know what bush es- condition- it ha- t >moet. In deference t > their demand, the Democratic Senators will make demonstrati' ns at regular interval- apparj ently looking to a termination of the I di-cu.-sion. but n ay with no hope that । the Republican Senators tv ill respond to their app -als. The Republican Senators will a-sume very willingly the resp< n ibi ity for p istponing the vote on the Wilson bill until every < hanee of defeating it ha- been exha isted. MURDERER SHOT TO DEATH. Joseph Dick Suffers the Extreme Penalty Aero <l’ng to Creek Law. Joseph Dick, a full-blooded Creek Indian wa; shot to death ten miles west of Eufala, I. T., for the murder of ■ another li dian named Grey. A few km inutes after 4 p. m. the sheriff went lynt and selected a spot for the exeeu--80. He placed a small box against Bn free and returned tn jail and &eckoned to the prisoner to folplow him. Dick straightened himIsclf up, looked around at the ten guards surrounding him, and leisurely ■ strolled out to the place of execution. IHe took a seat upon the box, and. this I proving un-teady. he arose and jammed I it down solidly and then again sat upon I it as coolly as though he were taking j his seat to l e photographed. A red I handkerchief was tied over his eyeand a piece of white paper pinnod over his heart. Not a muscle of his face or I hands moved. Two of the guards took position twenty-live feet distant and both fired at the white spot, killing Dick instantly. LIVES LOST IN A FIRE. Home for Feeble-Minded Children at A incland, N J., Completely D s royed. Two live.- were lost and a score placed in imminent peril by a fire which consumed a portion of the State Home for Feeble-minded Children at Vineland, N. .1. The victims were J. H. Sage, the engineer of the institution, and his wife, who acted as laundress. The lire was die were I in the basement of the handsome three-story brick structure knewa as “The R< binson Memorial Cottage.” Sixteen helpless and well-nigh idiotic children slept on the lower floors, and for a time it seemed as if nothing short of a miracle could. possibly save them. Loss on the building and contents, S2O, o 0. The cause of the fire is a mystery.

M I 1 SENATOR I.OPGH-

tors four years ago. But, unless the Republicans believe that they <an defeat the bill on Il >t < vofo Loforo uiat tim » expires it is luetty evrta n that the dis ussion will last <three months. There may be propositions from the Democratic si<’o to close debate ’ and to fx a time for a

AGKICULTUBAL NEWS A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Learn the Chemical Changes of Your Soil and Then Make it Give Full Value—A . Cheap Flood Gate—Don't Lnlarge tho Farm. A Cheap Flood Gate. In sections where streams abound, the flood gate is <«uite as important as any other diiision fence or gate, and those that have experienced more or less trouble with other forms of flood gates will find the one shown in the illustration which is from the American Agriculturist, to be cheap, substantial, and self-regulating, and 'mi = ~' INEXPENSIVE WATER GATE. Dot liable to be swept away by heavy freshets. The supporting part is two or three strands of No. 8 or 9 an- I nealed wire, twisted together and suspended from posts or trees about , one foot above high water mark. Three two-inch strips of sufficient length to reach to within eight or ten inches of the bed of the stream, are ; nailed four inches a- ai t to a strip of board and suspended by two wires to the overhanging wire. It desi:ed four or five strips ma. be nailed to form one section, using enough sections to span the stream, it is plain ■ that in low water the sections will stand ] erpendicular, while, as the i water rises, the lower end conforms to the rise and tail of the stream. Moodwood or other obstru lions are allowed to pass uninterrupted. Twist the upper end of all the short suspension wires firmly around the main wire, that the sect ons may not move endwise, or conne.t all the sections together at the top with short pieces of wire that will retain them i:i position yet allow the section- to move down stream during the high water of the rainy season. Study Your Soil. That there are active chemical changes going on all the time in cultivated soil is evident. This fa t constitutes one of the greatest pu.:zles to the agricultural chemist. Certain things which he finds nearly soluble do in some way in the soil bennd nvnH.ilCb n« i loot food. The action of carbonic acid, the great decomposer in nature, sets at naught th work in the laboratory, { and sets up changes, the full extent of wbi h chemists have \et hardly real!.cd, says the Pacific Farmer. Nature has a wonderful reserve power, and in some soils her store ot food which only slowly becomes available seems to be entirely exhaustless. In all the red clays of the granitic formation east qf the Blue Kidge, potash, one of the most essential elements of plant food, even the most worn and exhausted conditions of these red clay lands, seems exnaustless but slowly available. It is wellknown that on some lands, particularly on lands near the coast, piaster is of little value, beyond what value the lime in it may have, while on other land it has an immediate and ;rcat effect. Those who have noticed the deposits of plaster rock in the natural beds are aware that the outer part, exposed to the weather, loses its character as a sulphate and becomes merely a carbonate of lime, while in the quarry it is pure sulphate. And this is the secret of its action ou soils abounding in potash. The lime greedily combines with the ever- : present carbonic acid in the soil, and the sulphuric acid is left free to act on some other base, and attacks the potash, giving us sulphate of potash for our crops, an efficient help to clover and other legumes. Whenever \ plaster can I e had at reasonable price farmers on these clay soils can usually get their potash more cheaply by the use of plaster than by buying potash in an already available form. The moral is, study your soil, and do not buy what you can get more cheaply out of your land itself. Eighteen Tons of Potatoes Per Aere. It Is reported from France that M. Egasse of Archevilliers, in the Department of Eure et Loire, produced an average crop of e ghteen tons ot potatoes per a re, on forty acres. The tons were what Americans call “long tons,” of 2,240 pounds. This result was attained by heavy manuring, the land having rece ved, in addit on to farmyard manure, a dress ng of 280 pounds of superphosphate, 224 pounds each of sulphate of potash and nitrate of soda per acre. Don't Enlarge the Farm. There seems to be a very general desire on the part of the farmers of this country to obtain a larger quantity upland. Theie are cases in which ; this is a wise ambition, but such instances are not near!}’ as common as is the wish to obtain larger farms. Under the present conditions of agriculture our farmers, as a rule, already have more land than they can cultivate to the best advantage. As things are now, and as they are likely to be for a long time to come, the ] roflts of farming are to be increased by securing larger crops per acre rather than by tilling a larger number of at res. Most of the farmers who wish that They had more land now own considerable areas

which have not yet been brought nearly up to their limit of profitable production. In these cases the owners will find it much more profitable to manure their present fields more liberally and cultivate them more thoroughly than it will be to spread their work over a large number of acres.—Farm News. Fruit Culture. The reason why comparatively few । farmers succeed in fru tra sing is because th s business demands more constant and cont nued care in little details than stock, da ry, or grain growing, says the Massachusetts Ploughman. It s easy enough to set out 1,000 trees, or 10,000 small fruit bushes or vines, but it is quite another thing to cultivate and care for them as they need, from one to five years before any return can be j expected. Few men have the needed | perseverence and stead ness of purj pose, even if they have the money, ito carry them through so long a period of fruitless labor which must be done to insure success. For this reason, perhaps, more succeed wth strawberries than with vineyards or orchards. The strawberry brings a crop the year alter planting, and the, per od of unproductive labor s shorter. Still, for those wit» have the pluck and grit to stick to t faithfully, fruit growing offers, and will probably cont nue to offer, a good .margin of profit. A Woman and Her Poultry. Last fall I began my joultry experience with eleven haired Plymouth Rock hens and thirteen pullets, reports Mrs. U. L. Hale in Farm and Home. They began laying in December. From January Ist to May Ist they laid 1,264 eggs. I sold eighty eight do en for $21.16. I fed small potatoes, turni s. beets, and pumpkins, boiled with cabbage, in the morning, and tweie a week at night, chopped apple and cabbage, with pepper or ginger mixed with beef scraps or tallow, mixed with hot water or milk. I gave them two quarts of corn, thrown into leaves and chaff from the barn floor, gave water twice a day, and pounded all the bone ar.d earthenware I could find. At last they began to pick the leathers out. I hung a piece of salt pork in the house that stopped the trouble. This is one women's experience. I took all the care of them mys If, and feel well paid, as my hens are tame, and 1 can pick them up any time. Homemac'e Measures. It takes but a little time to nail together several bushel or half-bushel measures. The former are the more convenient A stardard bushel conta ns 2, Il ' ’-5 cubic inches, hence a HOMEMADE BUSHEL MEASURFS. box eleven and one-fifth inches wide, eight inches high, and twenty-four inches long, inside measurement,contai ns one bushel. The bottom should he on the inside and tiruiiy nailed in place, as shown in the engraving. Cleats, a. one inch square, should be nailed across each end two inches from the top. The sides should be. of half inch clear stuff, the bottom of the same, and the ends of inch stuff. All the boards should be planed upo i both sides. The box will cost about 15 cents when materials for several are obtained at one time. The. - will be found almcst as convenient to handle as a basket, and if there are several they will prove convenient to hold apples or other fruit or vegetables, and to set away full in the cellar until the contents are needed. A half-bushel measure should of course be one-half the length. Smaller measures are as readily made, but would not need the end cleats. Agricultural Atoms. Milk can alwavs be used to good advantage in feeding pigs and poultry. Salt and wood ashes in reach of hogs are beneficial. Good for horses also. So long as good wool and mutton are a necessity, there ought to b& good money made in raising them. Oats is about the best feed you can give calves. Mixed with corn meal it is a great milk producer for cows. When' land is too rocky for cultivation and too valuable for a timber lot, it will make a good sheep pasture or orchard. Double the life of farm machine , .by taking good care of it. The m ter is possible for all because pr:|| ticcd bv many. Texas is at the head of the cat Wproducing States, having a! Ki 7,000,v00: next comes lowa i®i nearly 4,000,000. ■ A New Jersey farmer recommits as prot iction for an iron fence paH ing it with earthly red iron ore Ml crude petroleum. It is cheap, plMiing in color, preservative, but slo,^> dry on iron. Ontario carried off the hon w honey at the World’s Fair. He®xhibits have taken twenty a ward was against twenty eight tor all ihe United States and thirteen for all other countries. The farmer’s wife has a half inter st in what belongs to her husband. If he gets labor-saving implements for the farm, he should lose no opi portuniiy to get something of the kind for the house. Keep a mixture of salt, charcoal and wood ashes constantly before hogs, so that they {can take what thej’ want and no more. Something of this nature seems to be required to arrest fermentation in the stomach a:.J promote general digestion.