Newspaper Page Text
THE. CANCELED MORTGEQE. We're done a lot of scrimpln' *n" Hvin' hand-to-mouth, ,We re dreaded, too, wet weather an* we've worried over drought. Fop the thing kept drawin' int'rest, whether crops were good or had, An* raisin' much or little, boomed It swallowed all we had. The women folks were savin* an* there ain't A bit of doubt But that things they really needed lots of times they done without, So we're Chreathiti* somewhat cany, an' we're feelin' less afraid Of Providence's workln's, since we got the mortgage paid. I wish I'd kept a record of me things that mortgage ate, In- principal nn* int'rest from begiunin' down to date!— A hundFe^dozen chickens, likely fowls witn^rtlow legs, A thousand pounds of butter, an* twelve hundred dozen eggs, Some four or five good wheat crops and at least one crop of corn, An* oats an* rye—It swallowed in its life timey»ure*s you*re born. Besides the Work an* worry, ere its appe tite was stayed! So we're feelin' more contented since we got {he mortgage paid. f'K v. We* re reached the point, I reckon, where we're got a right to rest, An' loaf.arouu', an* visit, wear our go-to metin' best— Keglectin* nothin* urgent, understand, about the place. But simply slowln' down by bits an* rest- In* in the race! In time 1*11 get the windmill I've been wantin', I suppofe The girls can hare their organ, an' we'll all wear better, clothes, For we're always pulled together, while we've saved an' scrimped an* pray ,-j 1 ed, An* It seems there's more to work for since we got the mortgage paid. -—Wall Street Journal. An Accomplice. SAY, Uucle Tommy," said ESrlc, looking very woebegone, "you might give me helping hand." I shook my head. It's against all my principles to muddle myself up In other people's concerns. It Is a thank less task at best, and InduceB Indiges tion. "Have a cigarette?" said I. "You might just as well help me." repeated Eric. "You know tlio 'Ogre' thinks a deuce of a lot of you." The "Ogre,'.' I should explain. Is Eric's disrespectful way of referring to his maternal uucle, Sir Richard Al lotson, whose presumable heir he Is, Sir Richard being a widower without children. "You see. It's this way," he con tinued. "I haven't got a farthing In the world, barling my allowance, and the Ogre threatens to cut me off with the proverbial shilling, or even without It, If I marry. I can't even Induce him to see Betty, or listen to anything about her." "As far as I can make out," said I, Judiciously, "the case stands some thing like this: You are In love with Miss Betty Gasclct. She Is lu love with her profession, and Incidentally with you. Your revered uncle hates her profession for reasons c» his own thinks you, for similar reasons, an ad Jectlvcd Idiot, as you so nicely put It, nnd bids you choose between marriage •nd a comfortable Income." •'That's about the size of It," groaned Eric. "Well, then, which do you Intend to choose, love or lucre?" "Don't be absurd," retorted Eric, stiffly "there Is no question of choice. Nothing will Induce me to give up Bet ty, but at the same time I don't see what In the world we are to marry on. That's why I've come to you to see If you can't coax the Ogre Into a more rational and human frame of mind." I happened to know Betty Cuselet she wns a particular friend of mine. She wns a lady of birth, and, being possessed of a strong dramatic Instinct, Inherited from her mother, and next door to no money, she was studying elocution, with view to making her way on the stage. She wns a plucky girl, and a pretty one Into the bar gain also she was devoted to Eric. All this he knew, too, but what he didn't know was the reason why his crusty but kind-hearted old uncle was such a woman hater, and iu dead set against marrlnfre. I did. It "-as nn old story, and had been played to a finish while Eric was still in the region of the nursery. And this fact conjured memories of bygone days, when Sir Richard was a young man still, and set uie thinking. "I will see what I can do," said I. &L-« The next afternoon I had a long tnlk with Betty. Three or four days later 1 asked Sir Hlcliard to come and have a bit of dinner with me at the Carlton, and lie assented. "By the way." said I. "1 hope you won't object, but I've got a young friend of mine coining, too, a very pretty girl In whom I take a great In terest—a Miss Cnselet. She doesn't get much amusement, poor Utile tiling, nnd I thought It might cheer her tip." '•8! Betty was a good quarter of an hour late—girls always are It Is their priv ilege. However, when she did come she looked so pretty I found myself envy ing Eric In secret, and wishing I was some twenty years younger. She inside herself so pleasant and agreeable, nnd wns so witty and apt in her remarks, that before we had finished the entree even lllchard himself wns betrayed Into a series of approving grunts. it 2,- Sir Richard piled her with more ques tions as to how she lived and where, all of which Betty answered truthfully enough. Finally lie wormed out of her the story of her engagement to Eric nnd the obstacle of the hard-hearted uncle—names carefully suppressed for Betty, forewarned by ine, was perfect ly aware who he was, and the situa tion aroused her dramatic talents. »Kf, The way she pitched Into the selfish ness, narrow-mindedness and general perversity of that uncle was delicious and when old Sir Richard agreed with her (in all Innocence) that such con duct was scandalous, I thought I should have succumber to the pains of restrained laughter. "There's no such thing as acting nowadays," said Sir Richard, apropos of things theatrical. "When I was a young man, my dear, I once knew a woman who could have acted Rachel's bead off, or Bernhardt's, either, only she made a fool of herself, threw It uj and married some parson fellow." "What was her name?" asked Betty. "Her name, ch? Never mind her name," grunted Sir Richard. jtrfc's' \hti & But I saw hlB face twitch with pain It was his life's secret that was being touched upon. "Was It Vlole* D'.himaine?" said Bet ty, softly. Sir Richard Jumped as if he had been rtwt. •V* 1*4 Betty pointed a finger and laughed. "The old curmudgeon," said she— "I'm only quoting, you know- is ono Sir Richard Allotson!" Sir Richard glared for a minute, and then the situation suddenly dawned upon him. and he laughed till I thought he would have a fit "Smoked, by gad!" said he. "So you're Eric's young woman, are you? Bless my soul—to- think of It! Well, my dear, I'll tell you oue thing— you're twenty times too good for him.** "And the curmudgeon," said Betty, archly. "He's an old Idiot!" replied Sir Rich ard. "Don't pay any attcntlou to him. I'll undertake to bring him to his senses. Come along, let's go and flud that undutlful nephew of miue."—New York Dally News. MODESTY AND TITLES OF HONOR. Few Untitled to Use '•Ksquire**—-En glish Vlcxv of Prncticc. Can we not come to some working agreement on the use of the suffix "esquire?" From dictionaries you may make up a list of the people who are entitled to It—tlie eldest sons of knights, and their eldest sons in per petual succession nnd so on to justices of the peace nnd bachelors of law. But in modern practice It may be said that every one who wears a collar Is ad dressed as "esquire." Yet there is a curious modesty among Englishmen. Scores of stamped and addressed en velopes lie upon our table every day (In case of rejection), says the London Chronicle. The superscription Is In variably plain John Smith or.George Robinson. There are two courses open to us. We must write "esqulro" after John Smith's naked name, or we must accept the hint nnd suppress a sufllx which current misuse has made value less. A correspondent writes: "I am one matmr Leather-covered cameras generally suffer in the winter season of the year from the effects of moisture or from stray snowflakes to the extent that the leather will begin to peel away from the frame in parts. This may be prevented by giving them a coating of a celluloid varnish, made by dis solving some waste films from which the gelatine lias been cleaned, In nmyl acetate. If a little aniline black is dissolved in the varnish, old cameras on which the leather has lost its luster may be made to look like now.— Camera nnd Dark Room. One of the most iroublesome drawbacks the aninteur has to contend with is fog. it may happen that one has negative which appears very satisfactory in nil ways but one, and that one defect Is an appearance of slight general fog all over the film. This may be due **, defective light in the dark room, from some stray light which has got t\r*ihe plate while changing when on journey, or it may'have been caused by a general spreading of light which has got to the exposed plnte through a steamy lens, as when exposing upon a very bright subject In cold, damp weather again, it may be caused in some such man ner when exposing upou a bright cloud, and so the brilliant light illuminates the interior of the camera far too much. If we prepare a solution of perchlorkle of iron 10 grains In an ounce of water, and, after soaking our negative In cold water for a few minutes until the gelatine feels soft, we pour off the water and flood the plate with the iron solution for about half a minute after draining we shall probably find on examining the negative that the fog has gone. It is then advisable to rinse the plate in water and transfer it to a clean fixing bath for five minutes. Foggy negatives arc caused by an unsafe light, too much light, decom posed developers, contaminated dishes, traces of hypo, over-exposure or under-exposure, nnd too much forcing with alkali. If the plnte Is fogged, and yet the edges are clean, the plate is most probably over-exposed too great a density with still, clear shadows means uuder-exposiire. When we get circular transparent marks, they are generally caused by bubbles In the developer, nnd especially Is this apt to happen with old solu tions. Black spots are often seen produced by dirty dishes. In case of metallic or irldescqnt stains, which are often seen when plates are stale or have been kept in a bad atmosphere, perhaps the best plan Is to take a fine rag, and having dipped it In methylated spirit, rub gently with the tip of the finger, changing tlfe rag surface as it becomes dissolved. When negatives show signs of frilling, It Is a good plan to add a little Epsom snits to the washing water. If there is any reason to expect that the plate may frill, it may be immersed in a solution of Epsom salts pre vious to derelopment. Formalin Is also very useful for this purpose, nnd the uses of alum are too well known to need enumeration.—American Photographer. "Eh? What? Why, bless my soul! How did you guess that?" "She was my mother," said Betty. 8ir Hlcliard looked at her steadily, and nodded his head. "That's It," he murmured—"that's It! I thought I seemed to know your face. You're very like her. My dear, your mother was the best nnd most beauti ful woman In the world. We must be friends, you and I. You won't mind being bored with an old fool like me now and again, will you, dear? Only, you see, your mother and I—" He stopped hastily and choked a little. "But how," said he, "do you come by the name of Cnselet? Your mother married a man called Stopford, a par son In Lancashire." "Yes," said Betty "but a few years before his death he changed It to Case let, in order to inherit a small legacy from a relative—It was one of the con ditions." "And what about this man, this un cle fellow, who is making you unhap py You must let me go and see him, my dear. I would Uke to do what I can for you. I may have some influ ence." "Oh," said Betty, "I don't think he'll be horrid any more now." "He'd better not," growled Sir Rich ard. "Hang the old curmudgeon! Who is he? What's his name?" 5TOCKH# $ j)hol(»[rapht| of those persons who occasionally send you contributions with nn addressed cover in case of rejection and though I am legally entitled to one of the min or titles of honor, I always address to my 'naked name' and do not expect you to add anything. I do this be I cause It Is unbecoming to brandish one's self titles that others properly give one, Thus I tnlk of the lord chan cellor, but that dignitary signs hlm self merely 'Ilnlsbury,' C.' A liarrls tcr Is by convention always 'learned' as an officer is 'gallant but neither would so describe himself on Ills cards. I once tried to persuade lord mayor of London that ho should not himself use the word 'Lord,' though others should so style him, nnd I quoted thu example of the lord chancellor. I was unsuccessful, but he wns little shak en when I pointed out that Ills official decrees were headed simply 'Jones, mayor.' I have always doubted the propriety of a clergyman styling him self 'reverend and have been sure of its Impropriety ever slnco the court's (decided (In1-flic case of the" noncoii formist minister's tombstone) that 'reverend' wns not a title of honor, hut merely a laudatory cpltliet." The Medicinal Value of Water. The human body Is constantly un dergoing tissue change. Worn out particles are east aside and eliminated from the system, while the new are ever being formed, from the inception of life to its close. Water lias the power of Increasing these tissue changes, which multiplies the waste products, but at the same time they are renewed by Its agency, giving rise to increased appetite, which in turn provides fresh nutriment. Per sons but little accustomed to drinking water are liable to have wasted prod ucts formed faster than they arc re moved. Any obstruction to the free working of natural laws at once pro duces disease, which, if once firmly seated, requires botli time nnd money to cure. People accustomed to rise In the morning weak nml languid will find the cause In imperfect secretion of wastes, which many times may be remedied by drinking a tumbler of wa ter before retiring. Tills very material ly assists In the process during the night, nnd leaves the tissue fresh and strong ready for the active work of the day. •Hot water is one of our best reme dial agents. A hot bath 011 going to bed, even In the hot nights of summer, Is a better reliever of insomnia than many drugs. Inflamed parts will subside under the continual poulticing of real hot water. Very hot water, as we all know, Is a prompt checker of bleeding, nnd be side, If It Is clean, ns It should be, It aids 111 sterilizing wounds. British Trailo I ti'turns. British trade returns for 1902 show an Increase In exports of £3,517,004, and 111 Imports of fG,870,080. MAP OF SCANDINAVIA AND FINLAND. A I 9 E 8HAPEP PORTION BHQWS XIJE ARfiA AFFECTED pv- PAMT|Mt, J. THE STATE OF ^v-Pi\ Celebrated Land Cn« Is Ktitlcd—Ex cursion to Sliiloh for Dedication of Monuments—Doctor Deserts Young Wife-Co-operative Store for Lehigh, The celebrated Trainer & Eggart vs. Pratt land case was tried in this term of court at Clarion. The court grants Trainer & Kggnrt one-third interest in the 800 acres of land located near Big Wall Lake. It seems that about two years ago Messrs. Trainer and Evgart of Acklev contracted with the attorneys of Mrs. Pratt of Ronton, Mas?., for the 800 aer^s of land, hut on account of there being a minor heir the court held that they had no right to transfer the interest of this heir. They asked for $10,000 damages for the forfeiting of the contract, but Judge Kvans held that they were not entitled to damages inasmuch as the attorneys had no authority to make such coutract. The care included about $40,000. Vctcran^lMnn an Excursion. The committee on transportation for the dedication of the Iowa monuments at Shiloh has been at work recently pre paring for one of the most interesting excursion parties that has ever gone out of Iowa. It is estimated that there are several thousand old soldiers in Iowa who went through the campaigns in and about Pittsburg handing and Shiloh and on down Into Mississippi. The Iowa monuments are to be dedicated on Me morial day next. A large party of Iowans will go to the event and Gov. Cummins is to deliver the principal ad dress. Divorce for Desertion. Minnie Smith was granted a divorce from her husband, II. Ed. Smith, of Dows, by tlie court at (.Marion. Mr. Smith has beon neglecting his family for some time. He was formerly postmas ter of Dows, but was addicted to gam bling and drink and he recently left his family and went to Idaho and since that time they have heard nothing from him. Doctor Dcs?rt* His Wife. I.isconib is in the midst cf another sen ration, and this time it is due to a case of* wife desertion. J)r. John F. Cook, who has been practicing at Liscomh since Jan. 30, left his wife and 2-year-old babe a few days ngo and a letter received later by the young wife announces the fact that he does not intcud to return. Mrs. Cook is penniless. A Co-opcrntive Store. The labor unions of Lehigh, a town made up chiefly of miners, brickmakers and other laborers, are about to open a co-operative store with the object of put ting out of business the other enterprises In tlie town and to put the finishing touches to the deadlock which now ex ists between the merchants and the la borers of the town. Ficklc Chicncoan to Pay. On instructions of Judge Kothrock in the Superior Court at Cedar Kapids the jury returned a verdict for $5,000 in favor of Mis Jennie Dunn of that city against Dr. Warren Itced of Chicago in a suit for breach of promise. The de fendant failed to appear. Miss Dunn rued for $20,000. ftatc News in Brlel« Otiumwa women have formed an im provement association. A. P. Nash has been appointed post master at Otranto Station, vice J. D. Kelly, resigned. The Cllntou County, jail Is crowded— sixteen prisoners now being confined on various charges. Dr. Alvin Cole, for thirty years a prac ticing physician of Fort Madison, is dead at the age of 05. An effort will be made to form an autl clgaretto association among the school boys of Burlington. The question of incorporating the town of Lost Nation is to be submitted to a vote of tlie residents of that village. The name of the postofQce at Com potine has been changed to Larson, with David H. Thompson as postmaster. State Dairy Commissioner Wright is seudiug out circulars to farmers and dairymen advising the growing of alfalfa. The Iowa miners, in session at Des Moines, voted down the proposition to raise the membership fee irom $10 to $25. Officials of the Great Western road predict that passenger trains will be In operation over that road into Council Bluffs by the first of July. A statement issued by the State fed eration of labor shows that there are at present 720 local unions in the State with a membership of 45,000,000. After hearing a fortnon at Corydon by Miss (jlcesou, an evangelist, on the text, "Be not deceived God Is not mock ed, for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap," Elijah .Thomas, ag«»d. 18 years, went to the county attorney's ofllce and confessed to the 'setting on fire of the Uea barn Feb. 10, by which fire nine head of horses were cremated and which caused a loss of $30,000. The only reason he gives is that he wanted to see a bonfire. In Fort Madison, as Joseph Moffet, the foreman in the Iowa Button works Inside the Iown State peuitentiary, was passing behind a convict, the follow struck him .In the face with a button saw, fastened In a largo chuck, cutting two very large and deep gashes on his face just below thp eye. Immediately after the blow which felled Mr. Ifoffet to the floor ami left him lying uncon scious, half a dozen convicts came to the foreman's rescue, caught the enraged man, choked him into submission, and carried him to the guard before the offi cial had fully realized the trouble. The Great Western road has perfected an arrangement by which its rolling stock can be repaired in the shops of the Rapid Transit Company at Waterloo. The authorities of Webster City have ordered that the law regulating fire es capes be complied with in that city. All buildings over two stories in height will be compelled to put on the fire escapes. Because the girl he loved rejected his suit, Peter Schaeffer, a Dubuque youug man, procured a revolver nnd was threat ening to exterminate two rivals, the girl and himself, when he was taken in cus tody by the police. At the beginning of the year there were IKX) case* on file in the equity divis ion of the Polk County District Court. In the past two months 220 of these cases have been disposed of. Dr. Lewis Schooler, who has been denn of the medical college of Drako University for nineteen years, has re signed from that position, his resignation to take effect at the close of the present term. Mrs. Kaiser, whose husband recently committed suicide by cutting his throat on their farm near Baxter, has gone violently insane from brooding over her troubles. After the father's death a son attempted to kill himself. Because of alleged dissatisfaction among some of the members of his flock, Rev. J. R. McKaig has rerigned the pas torate of the Methodist Protestaut Church at Newton. After fifteen years of service for the Burlington road as superintendent of bridges, "Jack" Taylor of Creeton has announced that he will resign from the company's service Aprl) 1. In United States Court at Dubuque, suit for $25,000 damages has been brought against the Illinois Central Rail road by the widow of Frederick Acker man, an express driver of that city, who was killed it) ft ^osBjng accident last September, rc 4 riW^s" itittf IOWA.1church OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. •W" V. ..."V." V-:R.:.WA'R'VR- Tne Methodists will build a new at Massena. A husincrs men's association has been organized at Yarmouth. A Chautauqua association has been organized at Indianola. Luke & Farrell, Waterloo plumbers, have made an assignment. A combined Masons* and Odd Fellows' temple will le built at Lucas. Otto Weiss, a prominent business man of Fort Dodge, is dead, aged 30. An opera house is among the improve ments contemplated at Kellerton. Des Moines hackmen have formed a union and will demand shorter hours. The Jewitt Typewriter Company will erect a $30.IXK) factory In Des Moines. By a majority of 100 Davenport vot ers defeated the free text book proposi tion. It is estimated that there are 2.000 people in Des Moines hy the name of Smith. The Elks' Improvement Company at Des Moines has incorporated capital $00,000. The union labor organizations of Ma son City have united In a central fed eration. Des Moines wants the 1003 tourna ment of the Transmisslsslppi Golf As sociation. An armory is to be built at Fairfield for the accommodation of the local mi litia company. Municipal ownership of the electric light plant is being seriously considered at Shenandoah. The report of Anamosa prison for Feb ruary shows 432 prisoners Feb. 28, against 420 Feb. 1. An elevator costing $20,000 will be built at Ames to take the place of the one recently destroyed by fire. M. G. Allen, a Des Moines undertak er, is seriously ill of blood poisoning as the result of handling a corpse. After a warm fight, the proposition to incorporate the town of Geneva car ried by a majority of sixteen votes. Timothy Ryan, a son of William Ryan, a prominent citizen of Creston, was in stantly killed by a fall from a horse. The Rev. I. O. Stuart of Shenandoah is 80 years of age and has spent fifty five years in active work as a minister. Thirty-two families will leave the einity of Tcrril and seek homes at vari ous points in Dakota, Minnesota and Can ada. Fire at Moore Station destroyed the store and dwelling of Martin Stewart. The loss is total, as there was no insur ance. A new greenhouse, to coRt $2,200, will be one of the most notable of the im provements made on the State fair grounds this year. Tests made at the State college dem onstrate that the Iowa brick equalled products of other States, and excel in crushing strength. The shoe store of E. C. Arney at Fer gusou was entered by burglars and goods to the value of $50 stolen. There is uo clue to the robbers. Fire In the Capitol City Woolen Mills at Des Moines caused damage aggregat ing $60,000. One hundred men are thrown out of work. Oliver Conger of Iowa has been ap pointed clerk in the office of the supervis ing architect of the Treasury Depart ment at $1,000 salary. The Clinton school board has promul gated a decree that uo more married women will be employed as teachers in the schools of that city. Prof. Ilolden of the Iowa State Col lege. at Ames Is endeavoring to arrange for an international corn-judging contest at the St. Louis exposition. Rev. John Wagner, pastor of the Con gregational Church at Popejoy, has re signed. He will remove to Chicago and engage in evangelistic work. Myrtle Gullck was Injured, her homo wrecked and the blacksmith shop of a grading gang demolished by an explo sion of dynamite in West Des Moines. Dr. William C. Roskoy of Davenport died suddenly at Kewanee, 111., and it is believed he committed 'suicide, lie was 05 years old and of a prominent family. Davenport Christian Scientists will henceforth have a church building of their own, having recently purchased a structure which will IK? suitably remod eled. Owing to the world's fair at St. Louis In 1004, there will probably be no exhi bition given under the auspices of the Iowa State Agricultural Society that year. The report that the pearl-bearing clams are becoming scarce in the Mis sissippi river is denied by an authority on the subject who has recently investi gated the matter. The Dubuque Malting Company has signed a contract to employ uone but union men, and the employes in all de partments have been given a large in crease in wages. Over 200 people assisted in the proper celebration of the golden weddiug anni versary of Mr. and Mr*. Isaac Stonerd of Toledo. The couple were each presented with a gold watch. El Murphy, an employe at Mercy hos pital at Webster City, crawled into the hospital furnace while intoxicated and when dragged forth five minutes later was found to be fatally burned. Three young boys ran away from their homes in Pella In a determination to Fee the world. About the fir.*t thing they saw was the Inside of the Des Moines city jail, where they were detained pend ing the arrival of relatives to accom pany them home. The Woman's Christian Associatim of Council Bluffs will begin the erection of a four-story hospital building, to cost in the neighborhood of $00,000 as soon as the weather will permit. The present hospital of the association is small. Incon venient and badly crowded. Mayor Brenton of Des Moines will at once take up the work of securing the money necessary to buy a silver service for the cruiser Des Moines. The City Council will be asked to donate $1,000, and the effort will be made to raise an other thousand among the citizens. Masked burglars entered the home of Mrs. Lawrence in Burlington and bound and gagged her son Edward. He was found lying on the floor gagged and un conscious. The two trunks in the room had been rifled, and the contents were scattered over the floor. The boy was almost dead. Jonathan James, an inmate of the Boone County poor farm, threatened to kill his wife and then himself. He has been adjudged insane and taken to a hospital for treatment. The population of the State institu tions, exclusive of inebriates, is as fol lows: At Independence, 900 children at Gleuwond, 078 insane at Clarinda, 013 at Mt. Pleasant, 880 boys at El dora. 512 girls at Mltchellville, 210. Frank Landers of Ottnmwa is under arrest ou a serious charge. Laudcrs, an gered by the trespassing of school boys ou his property, loaded a gun with shot and salt and emptied the contents into the legs of a boy named Burton. Seven stockholders of the Union Oil, Gas and Refining Company of Ohio, rcsi dents of Dubuque, Hampton and Prim ghar, have brought action asking an ac counting, an injunction and appointment of a receiver. The Union Company has floated $3,500,000 of stock. It was reported to the federal author ities that the Continental Bank of Chi cago had cashed on a forged signature a draft for $3,200 that was in a tack of through mail stolen from the Uniou station transfer office in Cedar Rapids. The draft wae issued by a Waterloo bank aud payable to the bank at Gold* field, Iowa. Several other large draft* are missing, FoUUnc Skeleton Stairs. It Is often desirable to have tlie stairs In the wngon house or barn so arranged that they may bo removed quickly. As this is not often practicable, the next best plan Is to have them so constructed as to fold up out of the way. A good method of doing It is shown by the sketch, In which shows one side of the stairs, the dotted lines representing the various steps. The steps should not be less than three feet in length nnd eight inches wide. The upper end of the lower portion of each side Is hinged to the side of the btllldlng at f, while the lower end is hooked to the floor at g. A rope,.b, Is attached to the stairs, PLAN OP FOI.UINO STAIRCASE. passes over two pulleys, and Is there fastened to a weight, c, which is just heavy enough to raise the free end of the stairs up to the ceiling. When the lower end of the steps Is released the whole folds up closely against its up per floor and Is entirely out of the way. Two or three feet of the rope are allowed to dangle ns seen at d, by which the whole nppartus Is again pulled down into position. The weight, c, should slide up nnd down close to the side of the building, so ns to be en tirely out of the way.—D. E. Smith, In Farm and Home. For the Former. Six million two hundred thousand farmers' bulletins ou 140 different sub jects were printed for the Department of Agriculture during the past fiscal year. As there are about six million farmers, exclusive of agricultural la borers, In the United States, this Is one pamphlet for each oue. If any farmer did not get his copy, it was be cause he did not apply for it, for they are nearly nil turned over to the mem bers of Congress for free distribution. There is hardly ft subject In which farmers are Interested that Is not dis cussed In some one of the various bul letins. Information Is contained In them about the feeding of farm ani mals, hog cholera, how to kill weeds, the care and feeding of chickens, but ter-innking and the care of milk, the vegetable garden, good roads, breeds of dairy cattle, bread-making, how to raise apples, rice culture, tomato grow ing, sugar as food. Insects affecting tobacco, cotton and grapes diseases of potatoes nnd apples, how to detect oleomargarine and renovated butter, tree-plantiug on rural school grounds, tlio Angora goat, nnd scores of other things. It would be diflicult to estimate with any degree of accuracy the financial benefit which has accrued to the farm ers from the perusal of these bulletins. Such men as believe they must be con tinually studying to keep abreast of the times aud to understand the possi bilities of their business have been the most diligent readers of the publica tions of the Department of Agricul ture. It Is the benefit which these men have derived that Justifies the contin ued expenditure of money by the gov ernment for free education of this kind, an education almost as necessary to national prosperity as that provided for the children In the public schools. The Forcitic of Pole Iicnns. The forcing of dwarf or bush beans under glass has been a favorite practice at certain seasons of the year with most gardeners, but the use of the pole or running varieties is just beginning to receive attention. The pole bean, like cucumbers, tomatoes trained to one stein, sweet com, etc., must have plen ty of head room or space above the bench or bed In which to develop, and doubtless this accounts for its not hav ing been considered heretofore. The modem lettuce and cucumber houses with the beds directly on the ground are well adapted for tills crop. The soil should be well enriched, containing an abundance of available plant food, preferably a sandy loam composted by mixing equal parts of rich dark loam, sand and manure. The beds may be made directly upon the ground, with the prepared soil avcraglug about seven Inches In depth.—Denver Field and Farm. Movable Fences for Phcep. It would pay grain farmers to have a movable fence, or, as they are called In England, hurdles, to inclose a flock of sheep where they have taken oft* oats, rye or wheat and do not want to put in another crop at once to keep up the fertility of the soil, says American Cultivator. In England they are used not only for tills, but they often break such fields and sow them to the Eng lish or flat turnip nnd then hurdle the sheep on them to eat the turnips after they are fairly well grown. This doubly enriches the field, which Is one reason why the fields In England have a heav ier turf than we often produce here, and why they carry more cattle and sheep to the acre than we average. Weigh the Hny. But few farmers weigh the hay given stock. It Is true that to weigh hay for each cow every time a herd la fed Is tedious, but by weighing a quantity a few times one will be able to come close enough to estimate the quantity In feeding. The object should be mt to overfeed. A great many non-producing animals receive more than tl.ey require, although they may consume It. Ten pounds of hay a day should br? sufficient for an ordinary horse that Is well sup piled with grain. The amoujit allowed cattle should depend upon circum stances. Cows giving milk will consume nnd utilize more than steers. Manaecmcnt of Stce*) Slopes. Some very good land is located on rather steep slopes, but goeji as pasture because the owner fears to break it up and run the chance of serious injury by washing. Such fields, when culti vated, should be covered with some thing all the time. Rye sown early in fall will do much to hold the soil dur ing the season of heavy ralu. The land should be kept In sod much of the time to supply vegetable {natter, which *'^Biaapiii|ppw^w^ ,» \jr ^tfm f*- R1'' -R"^ •«*•*,„ makes the soil like a sponge to take up and hold the water. Clover Is a grand crop to follow a hoed crop and rye on these steep fields. Grain Foods, Good nnd Rad. Among the hundreds of feeds Inge niously combined from the grouud grains, or containing portions of these grains left as byproducts in the man ufacture of malt nnd spirituous liq uors, of starch, sugar and glucose, of breakfast foods or of vegetable oils, the feeder finds a wide range of puz zling compounds. Led only by his eye, touch or taste (helpful ns these nre to the purchaser who Is guided by good understanding of principles) he would find It exceedingly difficult to make a sure selection of the feeds best suited to his needs. Oat hulls, corn cobs, coffee hulls, cottonseed hulls and other materials are very skillfully used as ndulterants, so that In some feeds now for sale the percentage of fiber Is so great that nearly all the energy rep resented lu the food must be used to masticate the material and pass It through the animal's body. Of corn nnd ont feeds on the market at least ten brands examined by the New York station contained from ten to nearly sixteen per cent of fiber while a mix ture of equal parts of corn nnd oats should contain less than six per cent. Good oats normally contain less than ten per cent of fiber, while several oat feeds examined contained from twen ty-two to twenty-nine per cent nnd sold for from $20 to $30 or more a ton. Prices of feeds of equal value also vary remarkably In markets lying side by side. One denier in New York sells a certain brand for $30 a ton, another dealer In the same city asks $40. Good bulletins for those who feel the need of studying the subject nre Nos. 217 of the station at Geneva, N. Y., nnd 85 of the station at Amherst, Mnss. Some of the new feeds nre desirable, and some nre decided frauds. Fortunately the Stntes are Investigating so closely nnd testing so many samples that It Is possible to size up the various products at pretty nearly their true feeding vnl ue.—American Cultivator. Homc'Mndc Carriage Jack. While the heavy jacks used on wag ons answer very well for the carriage as well, a lighter jack, such as Is shown in the illustration, is easier to handle. It will take but a little time to make a jack of this kind by any one who Is at all handy with tools. The standard Is made of lnch-and-a-quarter stuff, three Inches wide and tapered to two Inches GOOD CARRIAGE JACK. It is thirty Inches long. The I' /per also one nnd a quarter Inches thick, five feet and six inches long e^.d four Inches wide. Twenty Inches from the bottom cut a notch and seven Inches n&o?e another notch six inches farther up bbfp a hole for a three-eighths-inch bolt amTbolt the piece on to tbo stand ard, so It will swing freely. To use the appliance, place the notched bar under the axle of the carriage, lifting the wheel clear from the ground, nnd the standard will swing Into place and hold securely. Easily made nnd light, such a jack should be owned by every man who has a carriage to oil. Stay on the Farm. The'country boy sighs for city life, and when he finally reaches the goal he begins to wisli himself again among tho birds and Jlowers, says Country Life. With the coming of old age he regards himself lucky If he can get his feet back on mother earth. The strife is ns great to acquire sufficient wealth to purchase land on which to spend the declining years as was the youthful struggle to get a foothold iu the city. The smiling sky and the green earth seem to be the natural heritage of man, and no one feels this quite so keenly as the one who has had a taste in youth of the sweets of rural life. Demand for Horses, Express horses continue in the most active request in the Chicago and oth er wholesale horse markets. One reason for this is that the forwarding corpora tions arc doing an immense business. In the United Kingdom there Is a short age of desirable horses of this type. lon*t Mix Your lCggs, Pon't set Brahma. Wyandotte and Leghorn eggs In the same incubator .it the same time. The amount of mois ture or ventilation required to hatch one will be too much or Insufficient to hatch the other variety. Farm Notes. Sow part of the clover ciu-ly unci part luti'. Tlint is. sow tlio same prouml twiio. This makes double work, but also oftentimes insures a double crop, and sometimes a crop against uo erop. Cold water will absorb about 30 per cent of its own weight of salt, aud boll lug about 40 per cent. This makes what is known as a saturated brine, which always means all the suit that the wa ter will absorb. Iu saltlug butter the brine Is seldom made strorger than 30 or 34 per cent of salt. The man who attempts to produce several pure-bred varieties of corn on a small farm will soon find all of his varieties mixed. Ordinarily It Is very difficult to keep a slnglc. variety on the quarter section farm, for the reason that the breezes will waft pollen across the road from the neighbor's Held. The cost of weeds to the farmers In a community Is enormous compared with certain other expenses. Weeds rob the soil and entail labor from spring until fall. If the farmers in each community would unite nnd determinedly light weeds for three years, not allowing a single one to grow if possible, they would tlnd their expenses greatly re duced, owing to the cost of production of weeds and thelc destruction being re moved. Subsoiling is matter which has its advocates, but many scientific agricul turists oppose It. It ls( claimed that, although the subsoil plows break the soil to a low depth, yet It destroys the channels which admit the flow of air tiud water below the surface. That as plaut roots penetrate deeply and die they leave chanuols, which are numer ous and which arc Increased every year. Breaklug the soil, it Is claimed, de stroys them nnd lessens the supply ot mpl«ture. ISskB & •'ILLWRJI... 8* Most of the men who own flying machines are holding them for a rise. —Baltimore American. Mrs. Henpecque—Married men lire longer than single men. Henpecque— Yes and it serves them right.—Detroit Free Press. "Mary," said the mother, sharply, "you musn't say 'Well I never/ That Is slang." "Well I never Blang mother If I know it." "I used to consider him one of the most Interesting talkers I ever heard." "Yes but that was before he began telling the cute things his baby says." Not one, but many: Mrs. Stubbs— They have captured the cleverest hotel robber In the country, dear. Mr. Stubbs Indeed! Which hotel did he keep?— Tft-Blts. Literal: Mistress—What in the world are you puttiug ashes on the floor for, Bridget? Bridget—Shure, mn'am, an* didn't yez say to doost the parlor?— Town and Couutry. The modern novel is bounded on the east by blood, on the west by thunder, on the north by gossip, on the south by inanities, and is surrounded by ad vertisements.—Baltimore News. "Doctor," said the wife, "do you think dyspepsia makes my husband Ir* rltableV" "X know it," replied the man of medicine. "I'll try to get him well so 1 can get my bill without a kick." "Little Boy," remoustrated the Kind Old Lady, "don't you know 't is very wrong for children like you to Personal: Mrs. Clifton—Yes, she was furious about the way In which that paper reported her marriage. Miss Avoudnle—Did it allude to her age? Miss Clifton—Indirectly. It stated that "Miss Olde and Mr. Yale were married, the latter being a well-known collector of antiques."—Saxby's Magazine. "Why don't you try *to Jive down your past?" asked the visitor jail. "It's no use," answered the pris oner. "Not if you're sincerely sorry." "Beln' sorry don't do no good. When dey've got your picture in de rogues' gallery you've got to git out o* de busi ness. It's worse dan beiu' up aglu a trust."—Puck. Washington officials say youug wom en haudle money more rapidly than older ones, and there can be no doubt about It. The nmouut of money that can pass through the hands of a young woman has frequently paralyzed a young husband who thought he was something of a spendthrift himself.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Fiendish revenge: The burglar soft ly opened the door of the suburbanite's sleeping apartment, slipped inside, but found nothing worth stcaliug. "Darn him!" he soliloquized: "I'll get some pntisfaetlon out of him, anyway!" Thereupon he set the alarm clock on the bureau for the hour of three, and softly departed.—Chicago Tribune. Could recommend them: "1 would ad vise you," he said to the friend he was taking home to dinner, "to try some ot niy wife's brandled peaches. Of course 1 know you don't care for them ordin arily, but these are worth trying." "Ex tra good, are they?" "Well, I bought the brandy myself and dumped an ex tra bottle of It lu when she wasn't looking."—Chicago Post. The baby's cries outclassed: Mrs. Fiunegan—Shure. Mrs. Murphy, does yez baby croy much wld cuttin' his tathe? Mrs. Murphy—Indnde, Mrs. l'Mmiegan, lie twists up his mouth a bit, but whether Its croyln' or laughln' It's meself that don't know. Mrs. Pin negmi—It's kiddln* me, yez are, Mrs. Murphy. Mrs. Murphy—Indnde OPm not, Mrs. Fiunegan It's a boiler foun dry that we live next dure to.—Phila delphia Telegraph. Things that Make England. The recent elevation of a certain En glish nobleman to the peernge was made the occasion of a presentation of silver plate from his teuantry, with an address of congratulation. The oldest tenant on the estates got up and said that he had himself attended seventy rent audits, and that his house had been lived In by people bearing his name for 260 years. It Is little things like this that make England so sturdy, substan tial and permanent, In comparison "with the nervous, volatile, unstable life of this country. Same Proscription. "These shoes, doctor," said the cob bler, after a brief examination, "ain't worth iueudlng." "Then, of course," said the doctor, turning away, "I don't want anything done to them." "But I charge you two shillings Just the same." "What for?" "Well, sir, you charged ino Ave shil lings the other day for telling me tlior. wasn't anything the matter with me." —Tit-IHts. The less faith a man lias 111 himself tlje move explaining ho has to do, -?s^aWB v.''- -. :U 4 Bmoke cigarettes?" "Aw, gwan," replied the Incorrigible, "do youse expect me t' eat 'em?"—Cincinnati Commercial Trib une. "I understand," said the German town girl, "that you and Charlie ar« engaged." "Not j*et," replied the truth ful maid. "Although he held my hand for over an hour the other evening, and that's a good ways toward being en gaged." "John, dear," said the poet's "wife, "I wish you'd write a poem that'll buy three pounds of beef nnd we'll need a sonnet for ham, an ode for a sack of flour, a lyric for lard, and a quatrain for a box of matches. There! I believe that's all this morning."—Atlanta Con stitution. "In your vermiform appendix," tl» surgeou told him after the operation was over, "we found, strange to say, a small brass tack." "That proves I was right," feebly answered the slclc man, "when I said it was something I had eaten In mince pie."—Chicago Tribune. "Yes," said the meek-looking woman, "I'm glad Mr. Barker isn't on jury duty auy more." "Did he flud it irk some?" "Very. Mr. Barker couldn't express nn opinion without appearing to agree with some of the other men, and It irritated him terribly."—Wash ington Star. Jeweler—Diamond shirt studs? Yes, sir here's a set, neat little stones, for $125. Customer—Iluh! Out home in California 1 can get Jeweler—Ah* yes, pardon me, here you nre. Just look 4tt4hese big flashes. Three ""mtfl fltfcl Sell"yotKthat set fprJ3.D0 —Philadel a 1V# J' 1