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It Is a fine thin , no doubt, mue
tin- Providence (li. I.) Journal, to be
able to dig $V.) a il.iy out nf tin ground,
ns it in said ti bo mhni1i1h to ilo at
Klondike. But there are some disad
vantages when this opportunity is ac
complished by the necessity o( eating
dog meat at $.i a pound.
A most extraordinary question 1
asked of Bishop Tottfr, by the Hod
Hoisting Engineers Union, states th
New York Independent. It is whether,
if n church or cathedral be built by
non-union men, it should bo attended
by union worshipers? The point of
the question is in the fact that non
union workmen are employed iu build
ing the Protestant F.pisenpal Cathedral
in New York City.
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' ILL-ASSORTED MARRIAGES.
The Hartford (Conn.) Times re
marks: So long as the retail price of
the bicycle remained at a figure which
tuale it possible for any mechanic
with a bench and a bug of tools to buy
the different parts of a machine, put
them together, aud Bell the finished
product at a good profit, the multipli
cation of small bicycle factories was
bound to continue. Now the time has
come for them to quit. The bicycle
business is likely to follow the same
course as tho sewing machine busi
ness According to the Springfield Be
publican circulars have been rent out
by Homo bureau of Htatistics to the
Nebraska farmers asking "Does farm
ing pay?" As well ask "Is life worth
living?" The actress Janauschek
once opened her season iu Rochester,
N. Y., and an interviewer asked her
why she had thii3 complimented
Rochester rather than some other city.
"Mein Gott!" answered Janauschek,
"I haf to begin somevare." So men
have to live, and the farmers have to
farm whether it pays or not. In that
as in all other undertakings it all de
pends on the individual aud his meth
ods.
A new scheme looking to the adop.
tion of an international language comes
from Russia. The inventor of "Es
peranto," a manufactured speech, an
alogous to "Volapuk," L. Samenhof, of
Grodno, invites all who have ideas on
tho subject to send him an article em
bodying them. He will have these
printed and copies sent to each of the
writers. The latter must read all the
articles and then write another very
brief essay embodying his final judg
ment. The scheme would be a prac
tical demonstration of the necessity of
an international language, but we
doubt whether it will settle the ques
tion of the choice- of such a common
speech.
The discovery of gold in Alaska
opens up a rich field for the swindlers
and already signs are at hand, notes
the Washington Star, that the confi
dence men of all stripes are at work
utilizing this latest inspiration to the
acquisitiveness of the human race. It
is going to be a hard experience for
the miners themselves, if but half the
warnings that have been given of dan
gers in the Yukon region are well
founded, but unless the stay-at-homes
keep a pretty sharj eye on the main
chance and refrain from long-distance
speculation in the gold fields except
upon first-class authority there will be
equivalent distress at this distance
from the cold aud the hunger of the
Alaskan wastes.
I n r.iruk I p Hip I'. m of tl ll.i.,r llouac
li'il I ! W man 1 I, i.i M ur.li r, Sm
1 l if I'.ml.iw.
The put t Miy that "tbiiiH'i-t ic happi
lir: "h it the only bli-.tof j uiu.hi,. that
bat Mirivfd the full." If that it m,
imd I reck'iu it Kwhat an awful tin it
it for a i. urn or hit wife or a nun or
daughter to bituk it up. It it wurte
than murder, fur there it then only
one victim, iitid he it dead; but the do
Mrover nf di lucHtie liuppineM brinps
!iiirry to the family, and they must
lire on in their Morrow. If domestic
peace and love could bo purchft"d
with money, what a price, it would
brin, und yet it can be bad without
money if eery number of the family
would do rijjht. I wus ruminating
about thii and wondering if ven the
devil w nt mean enough to take pleasure
iu destroying the peace of a household.
The book of Job does not iiiako him
that mean, for Job Hiifiercd no sorrow
from any bad conduct of wife, or child
ren. Satan rants worshipers, and
even dared to try to (-educe tho Savior
to his ullegiance; but he did it in nti
opon and manly way, and lost He is
an adversary a bad one a powerful
one ever t-ince he was thrust out f
heaven; but according to scripture ho
has not yet lost his power or hit con
sequence, for the Lord talked to him
in Job and the Savior had a conference
with him in Mathew, and Michael, the
archangel. had u dispute w ith him about
the body nf Moses. He is n bold, self
poise 1, delimit spirit and uses many arts:
to deduce mankind from their allegi
ance; but surely he wouldn't take away
and destroy the only bliss of paradise
Hint is left us. He hasent done it from
Ingersoll, for that notable man has a
most loving household, and so have
many infidels and atheists and skep
tics. My opinion is that our original
sin has more to do with bad conduct
than the devil. We are born to sin as
the sparks tly upward, and the devil
urges us on and apologizes for every
mean thing we do and tries to comfort
us, but I believe that it is in the power
of every man and woman and son and
daughter to preserve the family peace
and to make home the most attractive
place upon the earth. Then, why
don't they do it? It sickens us with
sorrow to read the family troubles in
the daily papers. Sometimes it is tin,'
husband, sometimes tho wife, some
times the daughter, but oftener than
all together it is the son that brings
the blight aud darkens the doors and
makes parents aud sisters seek to hide
from the gaze of men. What makes
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tho young men do so? Every day
there is a new case somewhere mur
der, suicide, embezzlement, and all is
mixed up with the jails and courts and
pictures in the papers aud the misery
of kindred and the world's cold criti
cism. How many families that once
moved proudly with the social swell
ing throng have retired from it to
grieve over the crushing fate of a way
ward son or a daughter's shame. How
many families have been broken dow n
by reckless sons-in-law. I know some
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ageu parents v.iiose nair lias grown
prematurely gray, whose brows are
furrowed with lines of sorrow and
whose smiles are always sad, if they
smile at all.
Young men, please stop and think.
The happiness of home is worth mill
ions of dollars. It beats tho Klondike,
ami is right close by, and no frozen
hills to cross. The pleasures of a
happy home excel anything upon
earth, and can be had so cheaply if
father aud mother and children will
make 'it so, "He that troubleth his
own house shall inherit the wind." A
fross husband, a contentious, com
plaining wife, a selfish son or an in
dolent, discontented daughter can de
stroy the peace of t e household.
There are some things that are worth
so much they cannot be valued. Health
of body is one of them, but pence of
nund is worth more than that. Sonic
years ago there was a verdict rendered
in our court, at Home giving .$:5.,00U to
a young man because of a fall from tho
train at night and n permanent injury
to his spine. Re was a man of brilliant
mind and high ambition and splendid
prospects, but the doctors testified
that ho would be a mental wreck, and
his eloquent lawyer drew such a sad
picture of the wreck that the jury gave
this largo amount as compensation.
No bones were broken, nor did he
suffer any pain. He walked about and
visited his friends, and showed no
sign of imbecility, but his mental
force was impaired, his high ambition
gone, and this verdict was only an ap
proximation of the damage.
What, then, is the peace of a family
worth? Not merely peace of mind,
but of heart, for the heart outranks
the mind as the mind does the body.
I was ruminating about these ill
assorted, unhappy marriages that seem
n these later years to be more frequent
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n "I i-iuiii'it bear ;.ii':e.itiy any it
loltune. .Ami ceii Mum. i; t In- pur
there it misery that tin- bard tins
have no ri 'tJ-eil. (Inly yesterday n
Mil-faced woman came tout In
food and ( b'thet f i -r In r children, ii 1
her rdory wat that her husband b to
run away fur trying to innke it lmg
by running a blind tijr. Wlia a
ciirte it this marriac tie when Im-vly
nud unhappily made. If I was a til,
it seems to me, 1 would rather leii.in
sinclo all my lifn than bind myi-lf
body and soul to a young man bo
had no moral principles to gotern liu.
The chains of mati imony ! If nun
commit' a crime he can nive bond ml
keep nut of jail, but there it no bud
provided fur a poor woman win is
chained to a bud, unpino-ipled lis
bund. She timidly (.brinks Irom lik
ing a divorce, for even that dues ot
cruse the scars of the shackles i-he in
worn. Her life and her hopes re
blighted. There it no more pitnl
si'ht in nil nature than a good woim
chained for life to a bad, unkind, n
piincipled man. She clings to er
children nt lu-r only comfort and lies
only to shield them from her shauu
Hut v Iiy w rite about these thin"nf
sorrow? I know they are unwelcne
to my readers, but I have thought a
duty, and that nuiybe some nne:ir
more might be influenced to stop id
think. On yesterday I received aUu
letter from an old friend asking unto !
plead with tho young people and Ig
them to stop this mad career tit
seems to bo increasing in our southm
land this unhallowed thirst for si
ting money by short cuts and disht
est practices this drinking and gm
bling that leads to suicide or the j,l
this infidelity to their inarriae
vows that destroys the happiness f
the family.
Ihit this will do for this time.' Its
not a good day for me no how. It
not Friday, but it is one of tin
hard, unlucky days that brings trout
in various forms. The old cow got ot
last night and went foraging in tl
suburbs and eat up a whole cotk
patch, and I'm expecting the darkc
every minute to come for his damage
But that's nothing. A little negi
girl was rolling our little Oarolii
through the hall on a tricycle. Tl
child is only two and a half years oh
and is my comfort a little blu
eyed beauty that wo borrow almoi
every day from her mother and
wouldn't take a million dollars for hi
love. But, somehow, the nurse ct
the wheels around too suddenly an
threw Caroline violently forward on t
the iron shaft, and the bolt on tho to;
of it mashed out two upper teeth am
one lower one, and bent the others i
and cut her chin badly and bruise
her little lips to a jelly, and when
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took uer up una saw it ail it made mi
heart sick. I wanted to weej and cry
aloud for grief.
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One ntm'iig the first
as to a lo -.v country is;
do well'.'" But clover or grut art!
Imt the fir.-t things needed to lit ed
requif ntt
"Dot "-t r
i r seel in the
Mirance if sue-
in ii new country,
lilii' l native cras-K'S
tha-ilhe poor
amount f otnek
Nature buuji
luore ai ill tit i v
si ttler with bLiall
has tb'liuuid fc So
it it many years
or clover are
Southern bi'.vti,
writes J. M. l'.ic
before tame (set
experimilitcilith.
my former me,
e, of WinviewJ.la-
hoiiia, it now known ns n greilue
t'lii.'.i section, vet it had been lied
ten years before the first blue-nit
seed was sovn, and that was nooiie
by a farmer, but by a merchant his
lio.M-yurd. '
grown for lit v
lovcr un'iim
and nioiim-
Clover was ii"t
to-day itt
are lurirer
years, but
othy fields
portnnt than those devoted tmy
other sort of crop. 1
With our five years' history i.his
newest country but littlo attcnti is
yet needed for any kiinl of grassfor
in addition to the native, there issu-
ally limre straw and fodder courted
with the graiu crops than wc lnni' o
for.
Tor three years I have had a mil
plat of a 'fulfil in what it known nurd
land or heavy soil, iu distinctiorrom
tho li'ht soils, these containing ore
or less sand.
It is part of a little valley of fo(- to
fihtv rods in width, iilonir a erv
small water eours, that can be alost
crossed at one step. One-half iired
clay limb l laid with red shale. ter
can usually be found in this shaliit a
depth of five to ten feet. The her
half lays about two feet higher an the
soil is of a chocolate color.
The lower red soil has nroi'ced
about twice the amount of alfal of
that of the upper darker soil all is
not so much ell'ecled by dry w eiiier.
It might be said that this re soil
would hardly produce corn whil the
other would be the best we ave,
though not nearly so good for cm as
lighter soil, while the red is thibest
for wheat, oats and sorghum.
The past two ynrs have beeidry,
but it takes the third year for alf;:fa to
reach its best. The first year i was
cut twice, the cuttings being lit on
the ground. The second year i was
cut three times perhaps aggregatng at
the rate of a ton and a half pel acre.
This year it was in full bloom tiifl just
ready to cut when the hail of ay 12
cut it closer than the mower would
have done. Iu just one month it was
ready to cut again and made at least at
the rate of a ton of cured buy per acre.
It will have to be very reasonable if
it does not yield two more crops before
our usual frost time. This year will
ive a fair idea of its profitableness.
For an hour or tw o 1 but I am inclined to think that it will
unnd i tin' In st u-
ful farming bus on! r
bi'el V been!. in know U to I'lali V fanners.
Iii t!ii-, rather than fintu their direct
pri'ftH, it the grcate-t I'aiil from thii
practice nf ro'.l nig clover Seed. It i:l
inevitable that wherever clover seed ii
grown, more or b"s nf tho seed faiU
to be gathered. It full- to tho ground.
But it is not thereby lost. Usually
the clover by it plowed early nest
spring, or possibly in the fall, so that
the seed does not have a good a chance
tii grow the next season. But it is imL
lost. 1 ear after year as tins in -14 it
plowed this volunteer clover will ap
pear i-om what w;i4 thought at tlm
time to be wn-tcd seed. It is thus
that tho fanner vv bo grow clover seed
receives a benefit that comes in tho
form likely to do him the greatest
good. He always gets a better clover
seeding than be is entitled to from tho
setd he has sow n. Evpu if ho has
sown none he is reasonably sure of a
partial clover seeding. Boston Cultivator.
was nearly heart-broken for I can't be on our red low lawns and that when
bear to see such a helpless child suffer we need it that one-fourth of our
such agony, ller little mouth was all farms will be a maguificent alfalfa
uroKen up ana ueiormeu. inn tne
good Lord tempers such things to
little children, and now the dear little
girl' is getting along nicely and sings
a lisping song to her dolly. The good
book tells about a place where there
will be no more pain or sorrow. Well,
I want to go that place as soon ns the
Lord wills it; and I want all my folks
to go with me, aud everybody else's
folks, too. Bill Akp in Atlanta Constitution.
fields.
Climate and Crime.
The Secretary of Agriculture is
testing, through the meteorological
bureau department, the theory of
French, Italian and German scientists
that the volume of crime, notably sui
cide, is determined by atmospherio
conditions. This year the number of
suicides has been extraordinary. The
record will surpass the statistics of
several consecutive years. In all the
large cities of the country the suicides
have appeared in large force. Poison
ing, shooting, drowning, have been
alio usual methods of "shuttling off
this mortal coil," while not a few have
preferred to be pulverized under the
clanging wheels of heavy railway
trains. The Secretary of Agriculture
should by all means pursue his inves
tigation. It will certainly be some
thing gained if Ave can establish the
theory he is working upon as solid
fact, i. e., that, after all, crimes of
violence and all crimes are prompted
by a peculiarly moist condition of the
atmosphere; that a condition of great
heat and humidity induces that left
spiral movement of the molecules of
the brain which impels a human being
to envy, hatred and malice and all
uncharitableness; yes, even murder
or self-destruction, according to tho
eminent biologists to whom man is
but a mechanical arrangement, a for
tuitous concourse of atoms and thought,
emotion, passion, but exudations of
secretions like bile.
Clover XVlth Sin-lnjj Grain.
It always pays to sow clover with
ispring gram. Jn a fuvorablo season,
s tho present has been, there will
probably bo a good seeding of the
ilovcr. In that case it will be well in
September, or perhaps earlier than
his if rains continue, to sow timothy
o as to make with the clover a per
manent seeding. But even if the
lover seeding has been a partial fail
Ve, enough of it will have rooted to
lake a growth that will much more
tan pay for the cost of the seed, even
iiit bo plowed under as green nia-
nre. There is probably no such in
cuase iu mauurial value anywhere as
frm the clover seed put into the
gmind and the plant that comes from
it. In bulk, the grain of mustard,
xv hcli grows into a tree largo enough
forthe birds to lodgo in its branches,
masurpass the clover. But in ma
nural value, counting the fertilizing
effet of the clover roots in the sub
soil, a grain of clover is worth more
than the biblical grain of mustard
seed
Itlvas a good farmer from whom we
leaned this advice to always sow clo
ver s-ed in the spring, even though
Slierp IliaeiKP ami Tlirir IlneP tlr-.
Bel haps there is no other domestb
animal that suffers so much from para
sites ns the sheep. First, of course,
comes the sheep-tick. They are on
almost all sheep and are so common
that many people seem to regard them
ai unavoidable cud as natural to sheep
as the wool itself. But let even half a
dozen ticks get on u thoughtless shep
herd and bite all nt once, und he will
begin to realize the agony of the young
lamb with a thousand m him, as is
often the case just after tho sheep are
sheared. They are all there for blood
and they get it as long as there is
cno'.'.gh'let't to pay for boring. Ono
tick on u man, says Coleman's Rural
World, w ill cause him to suspend all oth
er labors until he gets it off, and if ho
believes that a sheep basso little sense
of feeling that she can be comfortable
with a tick gnawing nt every square
inch, he should have regard enough
for his poi ket to stop feeding so mauy
mouths that give no income. Sheep
are often so reduced in i'esh and
strength by these pests alone that they
are supposed to be afllicted with somo
strange epidemic; and they are more
liable to other maladies than if they
could have the benefit of nil the food
they eat.
The next most painful affliction i&
perhaps caused "by grubs in the head.
Any person wliohas dissected a sheep's
head or seen their skulls lying about
has noticed a long, thin, parallel plate
of bone reaching from the nose upward.
It is between these plates that the larva
of the gadfiy find lodging and food.
They are where the sheep can apply
no force to expel them by either sneez
ing or coughing, aud are a constant
source of irritation and pain. The
pressure of these in indicated by dis
charges which keep tne sheep s noso
filthy and by attempts to sneeze ac
companied by distressing sounds. A
low condition of the blood, whether
caused by ticks or intestinal worms, is
often shown first in dullness of tho
eyes aud watery swellings below the
jaws. For dissecting a sheep Profes
sor James Law gives tho following di
rections: "Open up tho nose and all
connecting cavities in the head; all tho
air passages in the lungs; all the gall
ducts in the liver; the stomach and the
whole length of the intestines; in the
latter case look carefully for the
smallest threadlike xvorms from one
fifth inch and upward in length. Treat
ment will vary with the species ot par
asite and its habitat."
The same authority recommends
the following treatment for various
troubles: For grub m the head: lithe
trouble is xvith grubs about the pass
ages of tho head, the sheep may bo
turned on its back with the nose ex
tended and into each nostril may be
poured one ounce of a liquid made by
mixing a teaspoonful of benzine m a
quart of water. Repeat this daily for
a week. A more enective, though a
more dangerous, plan is to bore with
a trephine or gimlet through the oiiter
plate of bone on the rounded elevation
on the forehead to the inner side of
iliAi-;i"wnQ n. rnn 'uiii nl it a pertnintv ll'i".
that priug grain stubble would be each eye, aud with a syringe and tepid
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piowei in laii ior some wiuier gram
In one season out of three, the farmer
said, the spring grain seeding will be
too guxl to be plowed up for any
further chauces. Iu the other two
seasons there would still be enough
clover to much more than repay the
cost of seed, even if it were plowed
under s green manure, in everv
case the clover growth took the
place of some weed that xvould bo
worth less than itself as a fertilizer.
So every time tho fanner sowed clover
seed it was with the result of increas
ing soil fertility, which is the capital
on which the farmer must rely for hi3
profits. j
The fact that to have plenty of clo-
water to wash out the cavities. Tho
water aud grubs will flow out through
the nose. Then finally a teaspoonful
of the benzine mixture may be injected
on each side and left in the cavity.
For lung xvorms: Shut the flock into a
close room and burn sulphur, piuch by
pinch, until the ai is as strongly
charged with the fumes as the sheep
can breathe without violent coughing
or sneezing. Let them breathe this
for half an hour, and repeat t daily
for a week. It may then be stopped
for a month, after which they should
be subjected to a second week's treat
ment, to kill the young worms that
have bsen hatched out from the ega
m the interval.