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- J THE DODGE CITY TIMES Subscription, $2 per year, in advance. H. B. KLAINE, - Editor and Fnbliiher. EN VOYAGE. Whichever way the wind doth blotr Some heart Is fflad to have It 50: Then blow it east or blow it west. The wind that blows, that wind is best. My little craft sails not alone; A thousand Heets from every zone Are out upon a thousand seas; And what for me were favorinj? breeze Might dash another, with the shock Of doom, upon some hidden rock. And so I do not dare to pray For winds to waft me on my way; Hut leave it to n Higher Will To stay or speed me trusting still That all is well, and sure that He Who launched my bark will sail with me Through storm and calm, and will not foil, Whatever breezes may prevail, To land me, every peril past. Within His sheltering haven at last. Then, whatsoever wind doth blow, My heart is glad to have it so; And blow it east or blow it west. The wind that blows, that wind is best. Caroline A. Mason, in Christian Union. SENATOR PALMER'S OPINION FARMING. OF The following extracts arc taken from a recent address before the Western Michigan Farmer's Club by United States Senator Palmer: FAIUI MACIIIXEKY. I need not tell you that horse power is cheaper than man power and nothing should be done by a man on a farm which can be as well done by a horse. I believe that when a man gets around to it, he should have all these machines whereby he can ride instead of walk, and where horse power can save his arms. Human muscles and tissues are too valuable to put in competition with brute force. A man's brain is of far more value than his muscle on a large farm when; lie lias to direct the labor of others, and it is impossible for a man to run his brain and muscle both up to their full capacity at the same time. To be sure reference must be had to the size of the farm and its character as to what machinery lie will ue. I have heard men decry these labor paving appliances, it was taking labor from the poor. A sufficient contradic tion of this statement is the fact that a day's wages of the lowest class of labor will purchase now more of comforts and luxuries than ever before. The only thing that prevents the race from living comfortably on six hours' labor a day is the extravagance, improvidence and vices of the rich and poor. The time will come when six hours' labor a day will support any family in comfort; if they want luxuries they ma' have to work twelve. Strikes will not bring it about. They arc but symptoms that something is wrong in the body politic. Invention in machinery and freedom from vice in ricli and poor will bring it. Machinery and moral cleanliness are the two agents which will hasten the time Ming by bards and which prophets have foretold. I'AXOV FAKMEIIS. If you have one in your neighborhood cherish him. They say that much of the progress of medicine is due to quacks and empiric?, and I believe that farming is alike indebted to quacks or fancy farmers. Don't say to your fancy farmer, when he tinder-drains and puts one hundred loads of manure on an acre and pays high for labor, that he may raise one thousand bushels of carrots to the acre, which will rost him fifty cents to the bushel and only be worth thirty cents, that he has more money than brains although this may be true it ma' be discouraging or when he is about to import some Clydesdales or Percherens, that lie had better buy a trotter, as typical of the fact that lie is going to the bad. Let him speculate with the soil and with Nature. Tell him which are the good points, if you know, and if you don't, watch him and find out which are the bad ones. Remem ber tiiat his experiments even if fail ures, may be used as a sign-board, warn ing others, and if successes, that he lias helped in the world just j-o much. His heavy horses mav not be profitable to himbut their elleefs upon the stock of the country can not be otherwise than beneficent. LIVING. All avocations, whether farming or otherwise, are secondary to living. It is well to be successful as the world calls it, but if success brings no happi ness to you, and those dear to you, it is better to take our chances on failure which certainly oftentimes does not bring misery. To an outsider, the ma jority of Americans would appearto de sire not that they might live rich, and I now mean rich 'in the sense that all the faculties should bo educated to that point where they may contribute to the greatest enjoyment, but rather that they might die rich. From the cradle to the grave, the object seems to be to accum ulate, ignoring the fact that when ac cumulafion alone is the object, we gen erally, if successful, find ourselves in capacitated for enjoying what we have amassed. Making money is a laudable ambition, and a wise provis ion for the future is to be commended; but money is merely a means and not an ena. lien it is achieved at the ex pense of all other faculties of brain and heart, it is not worth the sacrifice. A man's enjoyment depends more upon what he is than upon what he has. Live within your income is the only honest way to live, but as your income increases, let out a tuck now and then. Make your homes as attractive as your purse will afford, and remember that money alone will not make them so. Taste and a little money will do more than millions without taste. Now this matter of taste is innate in some men and women. Whatever they touch, if beautiful, has a new charm to it; if ugly, its repulsiveness vanishes; but the fac ulty can be educated, and possibly cre ated where it does not exist. With the thousands of magazines and papers within reach of the poorest, suggestions may be had which will contribute to this end. Let there be no room in your house too good to use, let the parlor be for the use of the familv and not kept closed, as it used to be forty years ago, save when the minister came to tea or when there was a funeral; and if you have no parlor, make one of the rooms in constant use. . MAKE A HOME. Although the idea in some parts of the country seems to be growun into disrepute, I believe it to be the duty of every man to love a woman, marry her, And raise a family, "God willing,'"' in other words, make a home. Here, after all, is where a man gets his rest and his inspiration. See that your wife has some money of her own to spend; make her feel that she is a partner in your joys a? well as your sorrows. I have seen some cases where they only came in for the latter. Give up half a day in the week to visiting, or being visited by your neighbors, cultivate the social part of your nature, the orootions undthe imagination. Always attend jrour club meetings. Cherish and talfc over your memories and traditions, and at the risk of being called a dreamer, build some castles in Spain and compare them with like creations of your neighbors. We all have our castles in Spain, only some of us build low-roofed, windowless structure ",vere neither air nor sunshine can co. in, and oth ers build them with ornamented turrets and airy towers. Although the latter owners have the poorer houses here, as a rule, I think they are better fed and lodged than the first. We are always traveling toward our castles, but never arrive at the portals. It is well that it is so ordered,, for if we entered there would be an end to the pursuit. It is the wrestle and the pursuit that gives life its value. When we contemplate what an infinitesimal point the present is, a point where the wheel impinges for a second in the revolution from the past to the future, we must sec how impor tant it is that we so live as to create pleasant memories and light our way with the beacon of cherished .and reasonable hopes. MAKE THE CIIII.DTtEX JJAVTV. As the glowing sunrise imprints on the mind the character of the day, al though it may close in clouds and tem pests, so does a happy childhood give color to after life, and whatever may befall them, there will always hang on the walls of their memories pictures ol a pleasant morning, from which the heart may design a pavilion where hope may dwell Put them to bed early and don't pull them out before they wish to get up. Give them as good a chance a a colt or a short-horn, give them as gentle treatment and as little restraint in their harmless sports. Educate them more bv home surroundings than by books. Let them talk J at the table and have a good time gen erally, and they will not be counting the years when they will be beyond your control. Make them feel that life is more than a scramble, that an intelli gent and over-ruling power has estab lished laws which can not be violated without retribution, inculcate feelings of reverence; cultivate them yourself. Remember there arc some things beyond the limit of logical induction and deduc tion, anil that faith, when not contra vened by reason, is as much a part of a man's life as fact. See that they are not confined five hours a day in school before they are twelve years old. In stead of stimulatinsr precocious ones who are fond of their studies, hold them as you would a spirited colt. Some of your boys and girls will want to go to the university. To the boys of robust health I should say if millions were at my disposal: "Very well, 1 will pay half of your expenses, if you will earn money and pay the other half. If a college course will do you any good, it is worth working for.' When at home I would give him work and pay him for it. If thereby it took him six years instead of four to get through, ho would be all the better in mind and body. A boy who is supported by others through college gets artificial ideas of life winch require years to cure, if cured at all. If hard "and ex acting labor sits by him as a compan ion, it keeps him in communion with humanity, and he comes out girded for the race. The boys whom 1 have known in after-life as successful have had dusty traveling in college. As for the girls, I would pay their way. I would do this as a kind of anticipatory justice, for I hardly think they have an even chance with the bovs in our after life. Tarisio and the Creinonas. At the beginning of this century, hid den away in old Italian convents and wayside inns, lay the masterpieces of the Amati, Stradivarius, Guarnerius and Bergonzi, almost unknown and little valued. But Tarisio's eye was getting cultivated. He was learning to know a fiddle when he saw it. "Your violino, Signior, requires mending?" says the itinerant peddler, as he salutes some monk or padre known to be connected with the sacristy or choir of Pisa, Flor ence, Milan. "I can mend it." Out comes the Stradivarius, with a loose bar or a split rib, and sounding abomina bly. " Dio mio!" says Tarisio, " and all the blessed saints, but your violino is in a bad way. My respected father is prayed to try one that I have, in perfect and beautiful accord and repair, and permit me to mend this worn-out ma ehine." And Tarisio, whipping a shin ing, clean instrument out of his bag, hands it to the monk, who e3res it and is for trying it. He tries it; it goes soft and sweet, though not loud and wheezing. like the battered old Strad. Tarisio clutches his treasure. The next d:y back comes the peddler to the cloister, is shown up to the padre, whom he finds scraping away on his loan fiddle. "But," he exclaims, "you have lent me a beauti ful violino and in perfect order." "Ah! if the father would accept from me a small favor," says the cunning Tarisio. "And what is that?" "To "keep tho violino that suits him so well, and I will take in exchange the old machine which is worn out, but with my skill I shall still make something of it!" A glass of good wine or a lemonade or black cof fee clinches the bargain. Off iroes Ta risio, having parted with a character less German fiddle sweet and casy-gor ing and "looking nice," and worth now about 5 in perfect order, no doubt and having secured one of those gems of Cremona which now run into the 200. Violin-collecting became the passion of Torisio's life. The story has been toldjjy Mr. Charles Reade, and all the fiddle world knows how Tarisio came to Paris with a batch of old instruments, and was taken up byChanot and Vuillaume, through whose hands passed nearly every one of those chefs dvuvre recov ered by Tarisio in his wanderings, which are now so eagerly contended for by En glish and American millionaires, when ever they happen to get into the mar ket. I have heard of a mania for snuff boxesit was old Lablache's hobby. There are your china maniacs, and your picture maniacs, and your old-print connoisseurs who only look at the mar gin, and your old book hunters who only glance at the title-page and edition, and your coin-collectors, and your gem-collectors, who are always being taken in; but for downright fanaticism and "gone cooniness," if I may invent the word, commend me to your violin maniac. He who once comes 'under that spell goes down to the grave with a disordered mind. I have sometimes attributed the confusion of my own ideas to this. Hawcis, in the Gentleman's Magazine, -Anthony Comstock says that the societies for the suppression of vice have destroyed during the past ten years more than twenty-five tons of villainous literature. Ar.F. Tribune. Judge J. B. Foraker, the nominee of tho Ohio Republicans for Governor, is a graduate of Cornell University, iSfe Strange Adventures of a Shipwrecked Crew. The London bark Silurian was instru mental on her recent passage to Valpa raiso in rescuing nineteen of the crew of the American ship Oracle, which foundered at sea. The story of the wreck and the subsequent adventures of the crew as related by the command er (Captain H. Morrison), is of the most interesting kind. From Captain Morri son's statement itseems that the Oracle, a ship of some 1,500 tons, left San Francisco with a cargo of grain for New York in the early part of the present year. On the 6th of March heavy weather was encountered, and the tre mendous seas which came over the vessel filled the decks, and portions of the bulwarks had to be cut away. One wave demolished the wheel-house, whilst another smashed the cabin sky light, simultaneously flooding the cabin. The crew had to cling to the rigging to save their lives. One poor fellow named Richard Mason, who was unable to re tain his hold, was washed overboard. A life-buoy was cast adrift, but nothing further could be done for the man, who perished before the eyes of his helpless comrades. The vessel herself was at this time in a most critical condition. Land was sighted on the following day, but no soundings could be taken, and the ves sel subsequent!' got into the breakers and went ashore, although all that was possible was done to avert it. The crew then launched their four boats, and after provisioning them pulled for the shore. The provisions were lauded, and the men were preparing to board the vessel to get a further supply, when site disappeared. By taking observa tions the Captain found that lie and his men were on Herschel Island. The is land, which is about five miles long by one mile broad, was perfectly desolate and uninhabited. The men made tents of some sails the' had, which was the only shelter available. The provi sions were stored, and each man was allowed two biscuits and a little meat per diem. It was known that scaling schooners visited the island, and each day a good lookout was kept for these vessels, but none were found. There were eight islands in the vicinity, and each day one was visited, with the hope of finding some friendly vessel. At last one of the islands, known as the Wol laston, was visited by the Captain, mate and five of the crew, when they found two native families apparently living in a wretched condition. They wero in a perfect state of barbarism, but never theless treated the shipwrecked people with the utmost kindness, giving them what food they could. This' consisted of mussels, fish and berries. The only particle of covering possessed by the natives was the skin of a seal. This was movable, and Avas placed by the natives to cover that part of their bodies most exposed to the weather. The weather was very cold, a keen wind blowing across the island, accompanied by sleet and snow. The only weapon of defense or aggression possessed by the natives was a sling, borne spare clothing was dis tributed amongst the islanders princi pally old trousers, which were donned indiscriminately by men and women. The backs were generally placed in front, to the amusement of the sailors. To test the accuracy of the aim with the sling, an exhibition was asked by the mate, who erected a target. The first shot failed, when the native, in a lit of rage and disappointment, almost tore off his civilized garments, after wards taking aim when accoutred sim ply in his sealskin. On each attempt the mark was struck. The seven men again put off in their own boat, and for two days and two nights suffered terribly. On the third day a vessel was sighted, and after sev eral hours of desperate pulling the ex hausted men came up with the German bark Bessel. At first the Captain of the vessel thought the shipwrecked men were pirates, and for some little time persisted in his refusal to allow them to go on board. However, the- were finally taken on the bark, but on no ac count could the German Captain be in duced to go to Herschel Island for the remaining seventeen of the crew, and, with a favorable wind, he proceeded on his voyage to Valparaiso. After being twenty-eight days on board the Bessel the seven men were landed at Valpa raiso. Captain Morrison was just on the point of going before the authori ties at the latter place to ask for an ex pedition to be sent out in search of his crew when he saw several of the very men in Valparaiso. It appeared thilt the English vessel Silurian had gone by the island and rescued the seventeen hands, bringing them on to Valparaiso, where they had been landed a couple of days before their comrades. The men seemed none the worse for their ad venture, with the exception of the sec ond officer, who was left behind in the hospital. The Ingenious Boy. In a certain part of these United States, away out West, (the exact lo cality I do not care to indicate, as T dp not wish to giv; the ingenious boy away, as the slang phrase is), there lived in a small farm-house a widow woman and ner ooy. ine woman was aged forty-five "come next March," and the boy was aged ten last April. The husband of the woman and father of the boy had died about a year before, leaving his wife a very small farm, two horses, three cows, one pig, ten chick ens and the boy to support her. With a little help from the neighbors, and now and then a hired man, she managed to scrub along, being helped a good deal by the boy, who hired him self out, with the two horses, to haul timber and other things for the sur rounding farmers. The house which they occupied was situated in a rather lonely spot some distance from the main road, and wis reached by a narrow lane or farm road. Down this lane it was the boy's custom to drive the cows, and sometimes the horses, every morning to pasture, and then drive them home again at night. Now, through this part of the coun try there often used to travel many tramps and other bad characters, wko had a habit of stealing- and driving off any stray horses or cattle they could lay their felonious hands on. The wid ow, however, escaped any depredations for some time; but one morning, when they got up, they found their red cqw and their bay horse were gone. This was a sad loss to these poor people, and the widow sat down on a chair and went, while the boy stood by a chair and blubbered. He was a fine, bright nosed, freckel-faced, tousel-haired Boy, with a good head, and eyes that shone with intelligence. Presently, when he had boo-hooed himself out,with a sniff and a snort which sounded like the last gulp and gurgle of water running out of a sink, he said to hismother: "Mother, guess them fellers won't take no more of our stock guess I kin foe 'em." . j ' Ob, Joe, r .tfeerd you can't, for they seem to rob pretty much wherever they've a mind to the big as well as thelittle; but whar them as has got a plenty don't miss a hoss or a cow here and there, it'll just be the ruination of we-uns." "Guess I kin fix 'em," was Joe's only rejoinder as he walked out of the room. That evening, as the widow was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of her son, with a nice hot supper of biscuits and fried bacon on the stove, she was a good deal astonished to see walking toward her, all in a row, one after the other, the familiar forms of Sally, her horse, and the two cows, walking slowly ani" clumsiiy up the lane, . each with a human male boot on each of their four feet, while Joe trudged alon behind. "For pity's sakes alive, Joe," cried the mother, "what is the meanin' of all this?" Then Joe straightened himself up like a rooster about to crow, and spoke: " See here, mother, I have thunk this hull thing out, and I've cum to this con clusion. These here tramps when they cum along the road they look out for the tracks. If they see the footprints of cattle and bosses, they foller them and find out where they rest at night, and then at night they gobble 'em. If they sees the footprints of a good many men a-goin' to a place, theydarsen't go to that place, but give it a wide berth. Now I got a hull lot of old boots of father's, that I know'd was in the gaiv ret, and rigged 'em outer the critters' feet, so's where they walk they each make the footprints like two men, so when a tramp comes along by the end of our lane and looks in the mud, he sees a hull mess of men's footmarks. Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen,' counts he; ' several men gone up that lane, says he; 'guess 111 not go up thar," says he, and lie don't.'' " You are an ingenious by," exclaimed the mother in rapture, " but I'm feared the scheme won't work." But it did work, and work admirably, for from that day to this they have never lost a single thing from their farm, and they have four cows and a calf now, besides a colt belonging to Sally. So you see the advantage of being an ingenious boy, when ingenuity is well directed. The Judge. Sweeper Tom's Dollar. No train was in sight when a reporter had climbed the stairs of a down-town station on the Sixth Avenue Elevated Road the other night, and dropped his ticket into the box, and none was due for several minutes, so he passed into the little two-by-six waiting-room, in side which a conclave of three was in progress, the gateman, the ticket-seller, who had opened the door of his cell and was thus able to attend to his duty and enjoy the pleasure of conversation sim ultaneously, and the ebon-hued "sweep er," who was leaning on the top of his broom and philosophizing as the report er entered: "Wiminen is cute, you kin jes' bet yo'r life," said he, "an' a cul lud pusson has to git up bright an' yer ly to get roun' 'em for wunst, Kt erlone to keep on a foolin' ob em. Now dar's my old 'oman. 'Pears to me that thar ain't nufiin sh' don' know, an' it takes a pow'ful lot o' cle'rness to git roun' her, I jes' tell.you boss. I hev to tote her hum eb'ry dorlah ob my wages, or I done ketch it, an' hit's the wuss boahd fo' me dat week dat eber yo' see. I fooled her fur a. long time by tellin' her I wuz dro'in on'y a dorlah a day yar, but my bre'r Dick, the foolishcst 1 darkey you eber seen, he done giv' the 'ole ting away. He wuks on the Nmet Avenue Elevator, an' he done gone an' tole the 'ole 'oman as he made a dorlah twenty cents a day, an' that I mus' make the same roun' hyar. 1 nateraly tried to argy the matter, an' tole her as how Dick wuz a poahtah, an' I wuz a sweeper, but, Lor' bress you, sonny, she's yanked that 'ar twenty cents out on mc eber since. But I fool the ole 'oman good las' week, an' don't you go ter furgit hit," and the dusky one shifted from one leg to the other in the exuberance of his joy. "How did you do that, Tom?" asked the ticket dispenser. " Well, Marse Henery, this is how it war. Las' Sat' day night I went home yerly an' sot myse'f down in the cheer by the heatah an' started hup sech a groaniu' an' a sighin' as you nevah seen. The ole 'oman bimeby got kin' o' skeered like, an' arsk me wut the matter wuz. I tole her I had a case o' misery in my chis', an' didn't know how I could stan' the aggerny. Go an' see the dorktah,' sez she. 'Dorktah won't loo.k at me unner a dollah,' sez I, ' an' I ain't got no dollah for a dork tah.' 'Sho now, honey,' sez she, 'you take this ver dollah an' go right away an' see trie dorktah.' Well, I groan's an mopes a bit longer, an' then I tuk right hoi' on that dollah an' went out. Bimeby I comes bask, an' sez I've seed that dorktah an' fce boiled mc right ovalv and thar warn't nufiin' reely wrong, but I mus' jes' lay off fur a day. An' tnet's how I fool dat ole 'oman o' mine, Marse Henery." " I don't quite tumble to yerracket," said the gate-man. " Lor', look at that now! How stoop- id .-infi foitc ;B tn. v.n Bhn? Don' yo' unnerstan' I nebber went neah no dork tah, an' I had a 'ole dollah fur my own pertiklar spen'in' money an' a 'ole day orf to spen' it in. To think o' ye not to seed that now. Wall, I'll tell you jes-' what I done with that ar dollah. I went " Here the gate-man rushed out with a hoarse yell: "Aa'l'm train! All aboard!" and the reporter stepped out of the warm nook into the draughty cars, where a few yawning passengers were shivering, and did not hear what the gay Lothario did with his hardly won dollar. AT. Y. Tribune. Coming Leap-Tear A correspondent writes to inquire if 1900 is a leap-year. In Catholic and Protestant countries, the year 1900 will not be a leap-year, they all having adopted the Gregorian calendar. In countries where the Greek Church is established (Russia and Greece), the old Julian calendar still holds, and those countries will count it a leap-year. Aft er February, 1900, therefore, the differ ence between the two calendars, which I is now twelve days, will become thir teen days, ana will remain so until 21UU, the year 2000 being a leap-year in both the Julian 3nd Gregorian calendars. The rule for leap-year may be thus stated, according to the. Gregorian cal endar, which differs from the Julian only in a special treatment of the cent ury years. All yeara whose index number (1883 is the index number of the present year) is divisible by four are leap-years;- unless (1) their index num ber is divisible by 100 (century years). In that case they are not leap-years, un less (2) their index number is' divisible oy400; in which case they are leap years. Thus, 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 re not leap-years, while 1600. 2000 and 2400 are,-7fo CrOfc. Feeding Horses. As a whole, we who feed stock can not be accredited with having reduced feed ing to a science with respect to any of our domestic animals. But it is probably true that men generally feed horses more recklessly than the- do other kinds of stock. In feeding cattle, swine and sheep we have a very distinct object in view, however far we may come from accomplishing it. We are suppesed to aim at turning food into animal pro ducts, and to produce the most of such products from the least possible amount of food. That is the theory of feeding. We are supposed to aim at the saving of food. But in horse-feeding the saving ol food does not generally enter into our cal culations at all. We'dump so much of whatever comes the most handy into the manger and feed-box, and never stop to count the cost. We think many will plead guilty to that charge without any hesitancy; and we presume that every one of us has thrown away hun dreds of dollars through the manger. It is said to be a fact tiiat there are only two experiments on record as to the feed required to make a pound oi growth in colts, and certainly we have never seen any except these. Yet the feeding of horses in the best and at the same time most economical way, is one of the means of making money on the farm. Where large numbers of Hbrscs are employed in city industries the safe ty of the business of which they are a part necessitates a close study of the subject. If the great European omni bus companies and the horse-railroads of this country fed as recklessly as some of us farmers do they would have their large dividends cut down very percep tibly. But they have experimented until they believe they know how ahorse can be kept in good working condi tion at the lowest figure. The horses upon our street-railways are fed about the same ration everywhere. In summer time the ra tion of a horse is sixteen pounds of corn and oats, ground together in equal quantities, with twelve pounds of cut hay. With this class of horses and with the horses employed' on tho omnibuses of London, experiment has established the fact that ground grain and cut hay are better than whole' grain and uncut hay, for reasons which we think will be obvious enough, without taking the time here to explain them. The winter ra tions of the horses referred to are six teen pounds of corn meal and twelve pounds of cut hay, or an equal quantit of corn and oats as for the summer ra tion. Of course location and the conse quent relative price will have something to do in leading to the decision as tc whether corn meal shall be exclusively used in winter. All tilings being equal, or nearly equal, a ration made partly of oats is greatly better. If clover can be fed it will make the corn meal more acceptable as a ration. Corn meal and clover hay constitute a very evenly bal anced food, for the clover will supply the muscle forming elements, in which the meal is deficient. From what we haveaid in recent articles upon this vitally important subject of feeding, no one will have difficulty in seeing that we do not advise feeding on meal and hay alone. Corn is a fat producing food. It furnishes heat, and is neces sary, or rather desirable, for that pur pose, and to produce the moderate quantity of fat which a horse needs. Feed two horses, one upon corn meal exclusively, and the other upon oats ex clusively, and time will demonstrate that the latter will last the longest. Keep the horse's system at the high temperature that a-constant ration oi corn will produce, and we are burning up the horse. We are keeping it in a condition in which it is a ready prey ol disease. We do not know.that we over state the case when we say that, in one half of the cases that come to the notice of our veterinary department, disease has resulted from feeding too much corn. Then again such a food as corn oi corn-meal if fed alone, as is sometimes done, is too concentrated. The horse needs bulk, and this is one of the valua ble features of oats. They contain a large amount of fiber and they entei the stomach in a loose condition, en abling the forces of digestion to come in contact with it all through it. At least half of the animal's food should be ol a bulky character, and this ought to be mixed with the concentrated food, as the concentrated part of oats is mixed with the fibrous husk. If either corn or corn-meal is to be fed alone, it is better to feed the whole corn, for it v4) go into the stomach in a more porous, looser condition. The truth ought to be learned that corn-meal should be fed with hay, straw or other coarse fodder, and that these should be cut and wet down. If we will cut all our fodders, mix our meal with t! cm, wet down the mixture, place it in a bin, cover it with a blanket, and let it remain from twelve to twenty-four hours, we will find that we are consulting the interests of our pocket-books, and conducing to the health of our , horses. Thousands ol horses are ruined by eating dry, dusty hay, and it is time we had reformed our methods to prevent this. The first thing to accomplish in feeding horses, Or other animals, is to insure their per fect health, and the next thing, with the horse, is to develop muscle. While it is desirable to have a horse look well, looks are a secondary object. When ever we feed for looks, Ave are very like ly to be neglecting the feed for utility and health. But if we will adopt the plan of feeding less corn, and cutting and wetting down our hav, with which the meal we feed is mixed, we shall not only conduce to health and usefulness, but add to appearance. Western Mural. A Fight with a Panther. Henry Snook, of Reedsvllle, Pa., had a desperate encounter with a panther in the Seven Mountains on Thu-aay evening. It-seems that he had been in formed that such an animal had been seen the day previous on the back mountain, and he, accompanied by his brother and Robert Dignan, also of Rr.edsville, equipped themselves and started for points in the Seven Mount ains where panthers have been known to frequent. When the men reached the vicinity of the place they concealed themselves some distance apart. Just as the sun sank behind the hills and shadows were shutting out the light necessary to aid the hunter in making a sure shot, Henry Snook's eye fell upon a large panther cautiously moving toward him. Mr. Snook fired a load of buckshot at the animal, breaking one of its hind legs. The enraged and crippled creature advanced upon Mr. Snook, who retreated a short distance, when the anunal halted. The hunter then returned, when another conflict ensued, and Snook ran the muzzle of his gun into the animal's mouth and fired, breaking its under jaw. It then struck several terrific blows at him with its paws, and owing to the darkness drew out of the fight. Two men returned to the place the next morning but did not see the panther. Philadelphia Times. . m In some parts oi Siberia a wife cos to tight dogs. Samaer Cwkery. The appetite of the average working man varies but little with the seasons, and the same is true of the healthful growing child. 'When dinnertime comes both are eager to do the full meal am ple justice. Those not engaged in reg ular industries, invalids, and persons of abnormal or perverted appetite, are irregular in their demands for food and in their satisfaction in it, and require special catering to make them happy at their meals. With all classes, how ever, there is a decided difference be tween the foods eaten with relish in summer and those that are eaten with relish in winter. Fruits and cooling foods naturally take the place of the carbonaceous dishes that are required in cold weather Fat meats are at a discount and vegetables are more in favor. Iced beverages are grateful and cold dishes in demand. The farmer's wife or the average housekeeper not responsible for farm work or workers may very properly take advantage of the natural require ments for food in summer to throw the larger part of her cooking into the early morning, and so avoid roasting herself over the stove at midday and in .the afternoon. For good digestion it is necessary that the contents of the stomach should be kept at blood heat, and to secure this, when cold dishes are eaten, cold drinks should be avoided, before, after and while at meals. If beverages are required, and they should always be sparingly used when food is taken, they may be served hot. Cold food and hot drinks equalize the temperature in the same way as dc hot foods and cold drinks, and it will be observed that those who are fond of hav ing their dishes served hot usually cool them by imbibing large quantities of cold water, a very unhygienic thing tc do. Here it may be remarked that iced water or milk indulged in too freely has often permanently impaired the digest ive power of the stomach, first by chill ing the arteries of the stomach and then by requiring too much work of them in their disabled condition. Hence when cold drinks are taken they should be in moderate quantity and long enough be fore eating to permit the arteries of the stomach to resume their normal tone and be ready to receive tiie food and dispose of it. There are innocent vege table Uames that may with propriety take the place of artificial heat in stim ulating the stomach to its work, but those in the shape of condiments and relishes should be used sparingly. It may be well to state that the object of this article is to lighten, if possible, the labors of the farmer's wife who has three hearty meals a day to prepare for a number of farm hands, and this in addition to all the other work that the season brings her. While those she caters for work under the hot rays of the sun, she works in the hotter kitchen, and there is no question that those who have tried both kinds of work find the former more agreeable and less exhaust ing than the latter. Raking in the hay field with Maud Muller on a summer's day is infinitely less irksome and less tiresome work than cooking or ironing in company with Maud's mother and a hot stove in a close kitchen. There is a fiery energy and stimulus communi cated by the direct action of the solar ray that is quite lost in its transmission through coal and wood where it has been stored up. In this climate our houses are built for cold weather and not for warm, and there are, therefore, fewer facilities for keeping cool in sum mer than for keeping warm in winter. An ideal summer Kitchen would be quite open to the weather with provis'on for protection from the storms that sometimes sweep over us in hot weather. The list of cold dishes that are at once appetizing and nutritious is a very long one. Any meat that is good hot is good also cold; so of eggs cooked in some ways; so of most kinds of bread and of many kinds of puddings and pies and other desserts; &o also of many kinds of vegetables. Potato salad is a standing and very popular dish in our restaur ants; beans and pork are served cold; so are macaroni and rice and the varieties of mush. The reason why foods when cold do not assimilate as readily and quickly as when warm is that they are cold and must after being taken into the stomach be raised to the temperature of the blood before they begin to digest. Hence the more slowly they are eaten the better. A quick bolting of a cold meal will in variably be followed by heaviness and often by indigestion, which slow masti cation and reasonle intervals between mouthfuls would have entirely pre vented. A cup of hot chocolate, or a warm omelet, or even a cup of hot water (which is growing in favor as a beverage), is easily prepared and will lend sufficient heat to make a cold meaf very palatable so far as temperature is concerned. N. Y. Tribune. Where It Came In. "Mr. Maples," said the juniorparfnei of the house, as he looked over the ex pense account of one of his travelers just in, "your expenses are just twenty five dollars more for two weeks than the last man on that route." "Is that so? What sort of a man was he?" "One of our best salesmen." "Did he smoke, drink and chew? "He did." "Stop at the best hotels?" "Yes." "Take sleepers and parlor cars?" "Yes." "Well, then, it must be that when he struck that fat grocer at Troy he won twenty-five dollars at draw-poker where I lost it! I was going to suggest to you that if I was to remain on that route it would pay the lirm to hire some one to give me a few lessons." Wall Street Neics. Among the concessions recently granted by the Mexican Government is one which allows Louis Logorrcta and Arthur Mayer to gather for ten years the cactus or maguay plant on Govern ment lands. 'These persons must es tablish in the country within two years a paper and textile mill, in which the cactus leaf is to be used, and for each such mill, erected at a cost of not less than 8150,000, the Government will give j. premium of 30,000. The plant is sail to be so abundant that the in dustry can be extended almost without limit. Said a father to his son, who had just handed him the teaeher's report for the last month: "My boy. this report is very unsatisfactory. Im not at all pleased with it." Little son "I told the teacher that I thought you wouldn't be; but he wouldn't change it." Miss Stone, the daughter of Stone Pasha, who was formerly an American General and recently in the service of the Khedive, is said to be one of the most accomplished linguists in the world, and the heat Arabic scholar oj tar e. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Mary Anderson has refused the new drama written for her by Oscar Wilde. Miss Helen Barry, the actress, is the tallest woman on the American stage. She is six feet one. Rev. Edward Everett Hale is think ing of writing a history of the Pacific Ocean and its shores- It is reported that he has been collecting material for the work for forty years past. Miss Aver, whose father advertised himself into a colossal fortune, refused a European Prince, who followed her to this country in the hope of marrying her. The constant, judicious advertiser occupies a seat several tiers higher than mere royalty. Chicago Herald. President Arthur has been present ed with a history of the London Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, in two sumptuous volumes, bound in green Turkey morocco, richly gilded and il luminated, and illustrated with hand paintings. Chicago Inter Ocean. "Be careful," wrote Mr. Whittier to a young author about to publish his first book of verse, "not to make the book too large. Don't put everything into it, let who will advise it. Sit like Rhadamanthus in stern judgment upon all that claims admission. I speak out of the depths of bitter experience." Of the late Rev. Charles T. Brooks, of Newport, R. I., tiie Boston Advertiser says: "The two noblest literatures of modern times are indebted to Mr. Brooks for his perfect translations of German poetry and prose into idiomatic and pure English. In this work Mr. Brooks has had but very few equals, and probably no superior. Thousands have attempted the same work, but only a few choice spirits have succeeded in making Faust, Margaret, Ruckcrt and Unland speak pure English. Mr. Brooks was one of these few. Colonel Cilley, who once represent ed New Hampshire in the United States Senate, is living at the age of ninety two years. He is a grandson and namesake of General .Jo Cilley, who fought against Gage and Burgoyne in the Revolution, and the elder broth er of Hawthorne's friend, Jonathan Cilley, who was killed in a duel by Graves, of Kentucky, while serving in Congress from Mi!nc, forty-five years ago. Colonel Cilley was a Lieutenant at the battle of Lundy's Lane, in Cana da. Boston Transcript humorous: To what agreeable thing does one often turn the cold shoulder? The fire. "If I thought I was going to be come gray, I should die," exclaimed Miss Proudfit, And when her hair turned gray, she did dye, sure enough. Golden Bags. Wife: "Why, George, I do believe you've been taking too much wine!" George (who lives in Brooklyn and has just returned home after a lively even ing): "Wine! Nonsense, dear! I've just hie come home over the Bridge, and it's made me dizzy that's all s' help me Bob." Ar. Y. Tribune. While a gentleman was visiting at the house of a friend he gave a silver piece to the son of the host. What do pu say, George?" asked the lad's father. " What uoes your heart prompt von to say in return for the gentleman's kindness?" "Please give mc another; that's what it prompts me to say sir." Pat had been engaged to kill a tur tle for a neighbor, and proceeded im mediately to cut oft' its head. Pat's at tention was called to the fact that the turtle still crawled about, though it had been decapitated, and he explained: "Shure the baste is entirely dead, only he is not yet conscious of it." Detroit Post. Very rare, indeed: Antiquary "Here is something very rare; the identical Colt's pistols worn by the great Roland, who was slain at Ronces valles by the Turks." Customer "But there were no pistols in that day." Antiquary "I know that, my dear sir; that's what makes them so rare." Harper's Bazar. "Come, Samivel, put oop dose shutters already. Ve moost close our store chust like odder peoples on Sat urday afternoon, to give our vorkmen a little fresh air, eh? But, Samivel, when you gets oop de shutters, lock the doors and exercise the poys until after the sunset goes down. Ve moost not let the poor fellows get sunstrike, Sam ivel. ' ' Boston Transcript. Quits. " Who is that flirt, you ask. In the crushed tmnnn:i dress? 'Tis my wife you take to fcisk With such emphatic stress! " That stupid antique cad Will talk her into fit3. Yourliusbtind? That's not bad! At least it makes us quits." N. Y. Trflmnr. A college student, writing home to flis father, told how his class and an other class got hold of a rope at oppo site ends, and how his class beat tho other class pulling. The old man' mused over the letter a while and re plied as follows: "I'm mighty glad to heer that yon ken pul so strong. I was afeeretl that you couldn't stan' the tug when you went thar, an' i'm mighty much pleased, i've got a ole mule that's got such a tuft' mouth that i never could plow him. i want you to buck agin him, an' i'm willin' to bet you ken output him. Come home immegitly." Arkansaio Tra.vellcr. Too Late. Application was made to-day to Vice President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Road, for a special train to New York for a curious purpose. It was to carry 2,000 or 3,000 shares of New Jersey Cen tral Railroad stock to New York. The books closed at three o'clock this after noon, and the short interest there was so large that stock loaned at to f for use over night. There is quite a lot of the stock in this city, where it loans at three per cent., and is in good supply. When the brokers got word from their New York correspondents, Cassatt, Townsend & Co. ana W. P. Smith, who bad 1,500 or 2,000 shares in their tin boxes, rushed to Vice-President Thomson and asked the chance 3f getting a special. It was then half past eleven. To make deliveries the jtock would have to be in Wall street ind in the hands of the persons to whom it had to go by a quarter-past two j'clock. There wa3 only one hitch, if one of the big engines had her steam up mere would be no trouble. The trip ;ould be made with a single car at tho rate of a mile a minute and a half-hour allowed to get round on Wall street. Telephones were" brought into use after die brokers had willingly agreed to pav two hundred dollars for the train. All was in vain, however. None of tho large engines were in readiness, and the time necessary for the purpose would cause a delay, so the brokers were euchred out of a neat little profit af five hundred to a thousand dollars " which they might have made by. thefly tog trip. Philadelphia Special q CHm m