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RVALLI8 GAZETTE. SEMI-WEEKLY. SSSSISvi-'Sr'se. ! Consolidated Feo., 1899. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1900. VOL. I. NO. 7. CO Wc TWO. fVe two make home of any place we go; We two find joy iii any kind of weath er; Or if the earth, is clothed in bloom or snow, If summer days invite, or bleak winds blow. What matters it, we two are together? We two, we two, we make our world, our weather. We two find youth renewed with every dawn; Each day holds something of an un known glory. We waste no thought on grief or pleasure gone; Tricked out like hope, time leads us on and on, And thrums upon his harp new song or story, We two, we two, we find the paths of glory. We two make heaven here on this little earth; We do not need to wait for realms eternal, We know the use of tears, know sor row's worth, And pain for us is always love's rebirth, Our paths lead closely by the paths supernal; We two, we two, we live in love eternal. Century. 8 :O0 Alicia's Experiment. o LICIA WELLINGTON was 20 years old and she had never re ceived an oiler of marriage nor had a lover. Her two younger sisters were both happily married Gertrude to a young man who had adored her from childhood and Lottie to an elderly wid wer who had fallen in love with her at her coming-out party. Gertrude had refused three offers before marrying John Nelson; Lottie, who was a born coquette, had received homage from al most every man she knew from the time she could talk. Alicia was serious and rather haughty. Her friends called her "in tellectual," and this same intellectual ity made her unpopular with men, who were generally her inferiors in her cho sen style of conversation, if not in depth of thought. Until now Alicia had affected to despise the other sex. Lottie's flirtations and Gertrude's con quests had seemed frivolous to her. But Bhe wished to be a well-rounded woman and it suddenly occurred to her that she knew nothing of love, although it was one of the chief things of life. The fact that she was different from other girls and their inferior in one respect "SHE THINKS ME CLEVtK." was brought home to her by a medita tion on love and matrimony which fol lowed the receipt of a letter announc ing the engagement of the only un married one of her classmates. To be sure, Alicia was younger than the other girls, but she had come out the same year. "It is all very well not to marry," she said to herself in conclusion, "but it is odd not to attract a single suitor. There must be something lacking in me. I have always known that I didn't like men, but it is strange that men don't like me. I can accomplish almost any thing if I make up my mind to it. I. will have a lover. 1 need not marry him, of course, but I will have him des perately in love with me, so that I shall have an impassioned offer; then I will refuse him." Alicia cast about her list of male ac quaintances with a view to selecting a suitable man for her experiment. Fi nally she chose Reggy De Greve. Reg gy was a year younger than Alicia. He was as frivolous as any girl and de cidedly effeminate in his looks and ways. He had been one of Lottie's nu merous admirers, in an impassive way, but he had never gotten up courage to propose to her. He had not been sure that he wanted to do so. Now he came to the house rather because he was u.ed to coming to see "the ladies," once in so often. Alicia's mother was fond of him, for she had known him since he was in dresses and she regarded him as a boy. Of Alicia he stood somewhat in awe. "Reggy will be a good one to begin with," thought that young woman. "He will be easy to influence. After I have refused him I can try some one more difficult." Thus Miss Wellington began her ca reer as a flirt. That evening Reggy came to the house. He found Alicia wonderfully interesting. She talked about cotillon figures, pretty girls, fudges, and golf. Reginald was in de mand as a cotillon leader, he was a chevalier des dames, an expert chafing dish cook, and an aspiring golf player. "Gwacious, I never thought she knew so much," he said to himself as he left the house. But this was only because Alicia had displayed knowledge of the subjects with which Reggy was con versant, for he had always known that she was "intellectual." It was scarcely a week before Reggy again presented himself at the Welling tons'. He asked for Miss Wellington instead of for "the ladles." He was un conscious of the neglect of Mrs. Well ington, but wary Alicia smiled when she, alone, was summoned to the draw ing-room. "Oh, Mr. De Greve," she said hereto fore she had called him Reggy "I am so glad to see you. I know you can help me solve something that has been worrying my poor brain." She took a seat beside the young man and submitted the "something" that had been worrying her. It was only a charade, an intricate one, however, tc which Alicia knew the answer. Reggy did not suspect that and he was good at puzzles. He solved this one easily and explained the elaborate process tc Miss Wellington. "Thank you, Mr. De Greve, you are so clever," said Alicia, exactly as she had heard Lottie say the same words to different men at least a hundred times. That evening as Reggy went away his predominant thought was "She thinks me clever." In the course of time Alicia convinced Reggy that she was uncommonly pret ty, agreeable, not too wise, and alto gether charming just the woman to preside over his house and help him spend his rather large patrimony. She also convinced him that he was good looking, clever, witty, and manly. In deed, under the sun of her approval he grew wonderfully until he was quite a different Reggy. At last the schemed for proposal took place. Satisfied with himself and mucL more than satisfied with the accom plished Alicia, Reggy asked her to be his wife. Alicia foresaw the coming offer, of course. She made ready to re fuse it. She even chose her next vic tim, William Giles, a lawyer of skill and renown. He would be difficult tc enthrall, but a foeman worthy of hei steel. But she did not think of William when Reggy proposed. She watched "the boy," as she called him in hei heart, with a curious pride. "How well he does it," she thought "Love has made a man of him.- He is desperately in earnest; he is charming he is adora ble." "Why, Reggy," she said aloud, to hei own astonishment, "I believe I do love you. Yes, I will marry you, after all yes, yes I will." The happy Reggy did not notice the peculiar wording of Alicia's acceptance of his heart and fortune. He had wor her and his joy seemed complete. one but his wife ever knew that he hac been the subject of an experiment. Chicago Tribune. NIGHT IN A BUFFALO HIDE. Queer Imprisonment of a Hunter in the Northwest. A party of scouts from the stations on Bledsoe's Creek, in Sumner County, was over in Wilson on a tour of obser vation for Indian sign's, says the l'oit land Oregouian. As they prepaied to camp late one winter afternoon Capt. Jennings, who was one of the number, started out to kill a buffalo from a herd which was near by. There was a heavy sleet on the ground, and he found it difficult to gei a good range on account of the noise of his feet on the crackling ice, but af ter following the game for severa. miles he at last killed a very large bull. Fearing that the meat might be in jured if left until the next morning, he skinned the animal and took out the viscera. By the time he was done night had come, and he decided to remain with his meat instead of seeking camp in the darkness. So, wrapping the huge hide around him, flesh side out, he lay down and slept very, comfortably until morning. On waking he found himself tightly imprisoned in the hide, which had frozen hard and now resisted all his efforts to escape. Hour after hour roiled by in agony to the captain. He yelled at the top of his voice for help and strained and kicked with all his might at the raw hide inclosure, but it proved stubborn to the last degree. He doubtless swore many a bitter oath, for he was of too irascible a temperament to submit tamely. He expected his companions to search for him, and they did, but with a great deal of caution, fearing that he had been killed by the Indians. His prolonged absence could be ac counted for in no other way. He gave up all hope of extricating himself as the hours wore away, but help which he had not thought of was to save him from a death which would have been extremely mortifying, at the least, to a man who had escaped Indian bullets and swam icy rivers like a beaver. We will let him relate the issue in his own words: "Well, the sun came out, in the afternoon, and this softened the h'de on the top so I could get one arm out. and when I got one arm out I worked like pizen until I got my body through." Archibald Forbr a. The recently deceased Archibald Forbes' entrance upon the career ol war correspondent was, it is said, de cided by chance. His first step was tc enter a cigar shop at the bottom of Ludgate hill, where he bought a cigar, and threw the names of the four or five principal daily newsspapers into his hat before drawing lots to decide which of them he should first ap proach. The name that he drew out was that of the Daily News. Without delay he sought out Mr. (now Sir J. R.) Robinson, whom he then met for the first time, and was promptly engaged. Economy in Wipe ess TeleicrapTiy. In one case $200,000 has been saved owing to the establishment of wirelesa telegraphy between the East Goodwic lightship and the South Foreland. OUR BOYS AND GLRLS. THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. Quaint Sayings and Cute Doings of the Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered and Printed Here for All Other .Lit tle Ones to Head. There is really no reason nowadays why children should not have play houses of their own, for portable struc tures for lawn and garden use are manufactured. One house of this, sort is 0 feet 4 inches wide, 9 feet G inches long and 8 feet 9 inches tall from the floor to the point of the gable. This house has one door and one window. The window is divided vertically in the middle, the two halves opening back on hinges at the side edges. The door has a glazed sash in its upper part, and it has also a lock and key. These houses are built in sections, and they can be put up in different ways; that is, they can be set up with the door in the front and the window in one end of the house, or they can be set up with both the door and the window in front; the sections are interchange able. There Is provided for use with the house a veranda roof, which is made in sections of the same width as the sec tions of the house itself, so that these veranda sections can be put up to gether, making a continuous veranda along one side of the house, or they can be put up one over a door and one over a window. There are made also, for use with these playhouses, if desired, outside blinds and screens for doors and win dows. The gable ends of this house, under the roof, are shingled; the side walls are of matched pine, as is also the floor, which is made in two sections. This house can be put up and taken down in a few minutes. All sorts of furniture in suitable small sizes can be brought for the fur nishing of these houses, including chairs and tables and settees and vari ous other articles in wood and in wick erwork. handsome little desks, and everything needed for parlor or library or dining-room, and there can be bought for kitchen and other uses the most complete outfits, including stoves of the most modern description and inned with every sort of cooking utensils, and there can be had also little washing machines and ironing boards, and so on. The nlavhouse. in fact, whether it be of one room or more, can be furnished as completely as a house of ordinary size. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A Cannibal Story. In the long winter evenings, which in South Africa commence in May, June and July, the little Boer children sit around the fires and listen to stories like tins: There was once a woman who had a son named Magoda. She became a can nibal and ate up all the people in the village. One day her two nieees ran away from their home and hid in her house, but they did not know her. Their cous in Magoda came and talked to them. Then they hid. The woman said: "I smell something nice. What is It, my son? Surely I smell fat children." Then she went to the woods and com menced to cut down a tree with an ax. When the first chips fell a bird called ntengu sang: Ntengu! ntengu! Chips, return to your places! Chips, return to your places! Chips, be quick! The chips then went back to the tree. This happened three times. Then the woman caught the bird and swallowed it, but one of the feathers dropped out of her mouth. She tried to cut down the tree again, but this time the feather sang the same song, and the chips flew back to the tree. The two nieces had been hiding in the branches of the tree. They saw three dogs as big as oxen. These they knew belonged to their father, so they called to the dogs, who ate up the wicked woman, and so the girls went back to their father singing the song of the feather. Saved by a Doll. An exchange gives a story told by an Indian agent of the manner in which a doll averted an Indian war. On one occasion Gen. Crook was try ing to put a baud of Apaches back on their reservation, but could not catch them without killing them, and that he did not wish to do. One day his men captured a little In dian girl and took her to the fort. She was quiet all day, saying not a word, but her beady black eyes watched ev erything. When night came, however, she broke down and sobbed, just as any white child would have done. The men tried in vain to comfort her, until the agent had an idea. From an officer's wife he borrowed a pretty doll that belonged to her little daughter, and when the Apache was made to under stand that she could have It, her sobs closed and she fell asleep- When morn , , i AN IDEAL, PLAYHOUSE. ing came the doll was still clasped in her arms. She played with It all day. and apparently all thought of getting back to her tribe left her. Several days passed, and then the lit tle Apache girl, with the doll still in her possession, was sent back to her people. When the child reached the Indians with the pretty doll in her chubby hands it made a great sensation among them, and the next day the mother came with the child to the post. She was kindly received and hospitably treated, and through her the tribe was persuaded to move back to the reserva tion. Old Story, but Good. A little girl was permitted one bright Sunday to go to hear her papa preach. Now, it chanced that on this special oc casion papa's sermon was of the "warn ing" order. After a moment of breath less surprise and horror the little lis tener's soul was wrought upon with a great pity for the poor mortals upon whom so much wrath was descending She rose excitedly to her feet, and, her wide reproachful eyes Just peeping over the back of the seat, called out, in sweet, chiding tones: "What for you scolding all the people so, papa?" What Kept Him Late. "How is it, Frank, that you're late home nearly every afternoon?" "Why, you see, mother, we've got such a big clock in our school." "But what has the clock to do with it?" " 'Cause it's so big it takes the hands an awful long while to get around. If we had a clock like papa's little one I'd get home a great deal quicker." Paid for His Humane Action. Assistant District Attorney Osborne, of New York, who won notoriety by his energetic prosecution of the Moli neux case, tells this story: "Some years ago I was spending a vacation at Rhinecliff, N. Y., trying to recuperate my shattered health. I stayed at a farmhouse which was the property of a man named William Traviss. He was often subject to fits of melancholy, and in that condition was wont to say that he was tired of his life of drudgery and toil, and was almost tempted to end his wearisome existence. Things went along smooth ly until one night he went out to attend to the stock and was gone rather long er than usual. I thought he might have met with some accident, and started for the barn to look for him. My worst fears were realized, for there was Trav iss hanging by a harness trace from a beam. "I hastily whIpped?out my knife and cut the trace, picked him up and car ried him Into the house and ran two miles into Rhinecliff for a doctor. He recovered, and gave his solemn word that he would never try to commit sui cide again. I left there two days after ward, and upon asking for my bill Traviss named an amount Just $2 over what I was sure I owed. Upon asking an explanation of the added $2, Traviss said: " 'Well, Mr. Osborne, don't you re member the buggy trace you cut the night I tried to hang myself?' "I paid up and went away for fear he would find I owed him the doctor's bill." Wheat Lands to Be Opened. The alarm about the early exhaustion or insufficiency of the world's wheat supply may be somewhat abated by the facts in connection with an application for charter of a new Canadian railroad. The title of the proposed road Is the Quebec and Lake Huron, and its route is from the mou.th of French River, on Georgian Bay, across the Ottawa at Mattana and the St. Maurice at Grandes Piles, to Quebec. The distance is 440 miles, or 135 miles shorter than from Parry Sound. Included in the line is a great plateau, embracing 3,000,000 acres of forest and farming lands, now out of reach of railroads, and said to be capable of easily sup porting a population of 500,000. The region through which the new road will pass is well adapted to wheat growing, and the plan includes great grain elevators for the accommodation of this resource. Incidentally the project calls attention to the fact that Canada has other large tracts of unde veloped territory adapted to the grow- J ing spring wheat This area, added to that about to be opened by the Trans- 1 Siberian Railroad, will certainly post- ' pone for some years the shortage pre dicted by Sir William Crookes. Mean- ' time the wheat farmer is not receiving a price for his product indicative of any popular fear or speculative belief in the failure of the supply. Pittsburg Dis patch. Digestive Powers of the Ostrich. The digestive powers of the ostrich have long ago passed into a proverb; the birds will swallow almost anything that they can get Into their beaks. They are amusingly greedy, and will gulp down whole oranges more rapidly than I they can take them into their stomachs, ' so that half a dozen may be seen pass ing down their long necks at the same time, each orange producing a queer looking protuberance. When visitors stand near the fence of one of the in-, closure the birds will peck in a most persistent manner at any bright object, such as the head of an umbrella or a walking cane, a watch chain, locket, brooch or button. It does not surprise us to be told by the attendant that in digestion is the prevalent malady among ostriches, and usually is respon sible for their death. It is said that an attempt is sometimes made to relieva their systems of an accumulation of in digestible matter by administering half a gallon of castor oil in one dose. Good Words. As a moss gatherer the rolling joke heads the list. TRUMPET CALLS. Stmm'a Horn Sounds a Wsnung Not to the Unredeemed. HE seven thou sand silent ones were worth more to Elijah than the shouting hosts of Carmel. Deciding to do right is the be ginning of a fence that God will help you to build to keep the Devil out. The richest man is not the one who has the most, but the one who can be most thankful for the least. Every Christian life ought to be such that if all men were living it, the result would be a heaven on earth. The church needs men who will get out and do the chores even though others are raising their snores. The human heart is like a grapho phone cylinder and the sweetest records are often cut by the stylus of pain. Many a man says the Lord's prayer every day who never thinks it worth while to try to hurt the Devil with his vote. Salvation doesn't depend so much upon what the head thinks about God as upon what the heart is doing with Christ God is not worshiped in spirit and in truth in the church that has to go into the show business to raise money to pay its honest debts. Many a gifted preacher can find time to read a new book every week, who couldn't find the parable of the prodi gal son without a concordance. In patiently toiling a hundred and twenty years without making a con vert, Noah pleased God as well as Peter did by having "about three thousand' on the day of Pentecost. FOUR RICH FOREIGN MISERS. Made Fortunes by Besrging in Different Countries Across Sea. In Austria a man who was without feet or arms seven years ago, lacking two months, sentenced to hard labor for that terms of years, is said to be well and hearty and with eager longing looks forward to the day when he shall be liberated. Simon Oppasieh is his name. Born legless and armless, he managed in the course of fifty years to make, purely by begging, $00,000, and this huge sum he was in the habit of carrying about with him by day and hiding in the wall of the cellar where he slept by night. He got into trouble with the Austrian police by declaring that he was destitute and taking an oath to that effect. Lately in England died one Isaac Gor don who had been a professional beg gar, and when he was picked up lifeless out of the street it was found that he had $15,000 on his person. And a writ ing was likewise found that signifies that he had made a will. Volunteer heirs are coming forward in numbers. The miser of the story book usually hoards his money in good red gold under the hearthstone or in some such uncomfortable spot. Real misers of to day seem as a rule to prefer bank notes. They are certainly more easy to handle. Tori, a notorious Italian beggar and miser, who died a little time ago, after a life of griping want and misery, left $400,000, all of which was hidden in boxes, tins and behind the tattered wall paper in his room. It was almost en tirely in paper money. Another man ol the same type who died at Auxerre, in France, in 1898, left a large sum In bonds, but most of his wealth he had invested in rare wine. No less than 400 bottles of one very choice vintage over eighty years old were found in the cel lar he lived in. This he must have bought bottle by bottle. It was prac tically certain that he himself had nev er so much as tasted a drop of this liq uid gold. A Serum for Leprosy. Some success has attended the treat ment of leprosy by the injection under the skin in various parts of the body of the antivenene of Calmette. The case was a woman 36 years old, and in three months she received forty-seven injec tions. As a result she was much im proved, having lost her leprous expres sion and the infiltration in various parts of the body disappearing. The bluish color of the face changed to a healthy red. Some ulceration that was present disappeared with several tubercles. The skin became softer and fairer and she gained fourteen pounds in weight The Anglomaniac. Tom I suppose Cholly Saphead Is still pro-British? Dick Oh, of course. He has a new wrinkle now. Have you heard him speak of Joey Chamberlain lately? Tom I haven't seen him of late. Why? Dick He refers to him as "Camber Iain." He heard somewhere that the British never could sound their "h's." Philadelphia Record. Early Intelligence. Sunday-School Teacher (finishing the narration) And that is the story of Jo nah and the whale. Johnny Isn't it strange they knew what a Jonah tvas that long ago? Har lem Life. Traveling Speed of Sound. Sound passes through the air at the velocity of 1,142 feet per second; through water, 4,900 feet; through Iron, 17,500 feet. Bequest for a Providence Park. By the bequest of Miss Anna H. Man, Providence is to come into possession of about $200,000 for the maintenance of Roger Williams Park. jaiisasHMfci The Angora Goat. The accompanying picture shows what the Angora goat is like. Its chief value is in its fleece, which supplies a material known as mohair, that is now largely used in manufactures for serges and coarser woolen goods, braids and bindings, for which no sheep wool is fitted. It is of African AXOORA GOATS. origin, being kept in large flocks in that part of northern Africa known as Don gola, a part of the Soudan, where the British armies recently subdued the barbarous Dervishes. The skins of this kind of goat are extensively used for leather, of which the Dongoia kid shoes for women are made. There is a large amount of the wool and skins Imported into every civilized country, and especially into North America, where women and children do not go barefoot, and need light shoes. There is an extensive interest arisen of late in the United States in regard to this goat, and large flocks of them are be ing formed in many localities. Greenhouse Plan. A plan of a greenhouse and the ar rangement of pipes for heating Is shown in the accompanying cut The width is eighteen feet, the length as may be desired. The walls are four feet high. The benches are set on the ground and are eighteen inches high; the side ones are four feet wide and the middle ones seven. The dark space in the benches represent the filling of stones or broken bricks for drainage of the beds. There are seven distribut- ing heat pipes, one three Inches in diam eter at the top, which branches Into four inch and a half pipes on the north side, and three on the south. Whether steam or hot water be used, the pipes must slope sufficiently to cause the water to flow In a steady current. The depth of soil in the benches is ten inches. The best way to heat a house of this kind is by steam. The steam is condensed on its passage and the wa ter is returned to the boiler, thus form ing a steady circuit through the pipes. Good Pruning Knife. Any one having tried to cut the old wood of raspberries and blackberries without a proper tool knows that the job is anything but a pleastnt one. The force neces sary to cut an old woody cane is sometimes quite enough to pull up a whole raspberry plant To make cutting easy one shouid draw the knife across the object to be cut. A writer in Farm and Fireside says: I have lately come across a knife that works well. I have tested it and find it superior to anything I have seen. Looking at Prttning knife. e accompanying Illustration, one might suppose a knife of such shape' would slip off Instead of cutting. But that is not so. In testing it one will be surprised how nicely it will do the cutting. It will slip just enough to give the drawing motion, and thus it will sever the hard cane from the stub with the least outlay of strength. The illustration represents the shape of the knife exactly as it should be. A good blacksmith should be able to make one out of a wornout flat file. It should be inserted in an old hoe handle, or something of that order. Ftartinx Grape Vines. I have had good success in inducing young grape vines to make a vigorous growth the first year by the following method: When set they are cut bat to two or three eyes and from these tney usually start a number of canes.- Some let all of these grow the first season, others remove all but one. I do neith er. Any plant to make a good growth needs plenty of leaves. When my vines tart Into growth in the spring I pinch " a FEET PLAN OF GREENHOUSE. back all but the cane that I wish to let grow. Those that are pinched back form a nice bunch of leaves which serve to shade the ground and take in from the air for the benefit of the re maining cane. When a sufficient num ber of leaves have matured, the canes which have been pinched back are re moved to save further work in keeping them pinched back. By this method 1 have had vines of Delaware make as much growth the first season as they usually do in two. Burrell Stephens. Firat Principles with Bees. Bees when frightened by smoke will immediately gorge themselves with honey and lose all inclination to sting. The most vicious colony of hybrids may be controlled by using a little to bacco in the smoke. The prosperity of a colony depends upon the fertility of the queen. If weak colonies have become populous in one season kill the queen and give them an other. Toads, skunks and mice are great ene mies to bees; see that they do not have access to the apiary. Increasing or dividing should be done as early as possible, but not until stores are coming in abundantly. Drones are just as essential as any other bee, but too many are a nuisance. This may be controlled by cutting out drone comb and substituting worker comb or foundation. Drones may be prohibited In objec tionable colonies by dividing early In the spring. "Keep all colonies strong." , Care of Milk and Chnrnina. As soon as drawn from the cow, put the milk where no bad odors can reach it, or better, as soon as a pail is filled strain it into the can and place in a tank of cold water or run through the separator, if one is used. If ice is plen tiful, reduce the temperature of the wa ter to 45 degrees and practically all the cream will be obtained. Do not mix the night's and morning's milk if the best grade of butter is expected. Change the water in the tank often enough to prevent its becoming foul. If the water is kept at about 55 degrees, practically all the cream will rise in twenty-four hours. Skim, and when enough is obtained for a churning, raise to a temperature of 60 to 65 degrees to ripen. Hasten the ripening by using sour skim milk as a starter. In winter churn at 65 degrees; in summer 55 to 00 is preferable. As soon as the granules are the size of wheat grains, draw oft and wash until all the buttermilk is removed. Work, salt and market as soon as possible. If you are so unfor tunate as to get a poor grade of butter it must be consumed at once or it will soon be unfit for use. Growing; Corn. Prepare your ground with a fine pul verized surface. Mark rows 3 feet 0 Inches to 3 feet 8 inches apart. Plant either in hills or drill rows. When your corn is large enough to plow, commence by plowing the first row on the side of the field. Skip every other row. When you have gone over the entire field in this way, commence plowing the rows which have been missed. I find that by this method it is much easier to turn without breaking down corn at the ends, especially so after corn Is knee high or higher. In dry hot weather this method of plowing keeps down the weeds better, and is less injurious to the roots of the corn. This method re tains the moisture much better than plowing the rows as they come. Wo are able also to kill weeds In the cen ter of rows much more readily because those that have not died as the result of the first plowing may be killed on the second. S. A. Hofman. i Crops that Pay Best. Small farms can be made to combine many advantages. Some poultrymen grow plums in the poultry yards, and also keep bees. Others grow early veg etables under, glass and also grow two or three crops in the open ground. One gardener near Philadelphia makes a large profit on four acres, on which he grows only lima beans. Another makes peas a specialty, following the peas with late cabbage. To attempt to "farm" four acres in the usual way, with wheat, corn, oats, etc., would cause bankruptcy. The crops that pay best, are those that require the most hand labor. i The English Sparrow. A law has been enacted in France exempting the sparrow from the pro tection which is given to insect-eating birds, and the farmers are declaring a war of extermination against them. Ihe evidence of experts was taken who had examined the contents of the stom achs of hundreds if not thousands of them, killed at various seasons of the year, and they all pronounced them in jurious to farmers as being grain eaters and also destructive of fruits and leaf buds, and that the insects they ate were but few, and not among those most troublesome in gardens and or-, chards. fo j Farm Economy. - : J Economy on the farm is where the profits are made. The utilzatiqn of foods that are usually wasted will per mit of keeping more stock and cheapen ing the cost 'of production. A leading New York farmer states that the sav ing of only 1 cent a day on the cost of each cow in the State would amount to over $6,000,000 a year. The gain of only one quart of milk a day would make an additional profit of 112,000,000 in one year.