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let's save them air But Tabby saids
Seven boys in one house! Why. it's
enough to distract a person to think Of
it; their noise would drive one wild;
and, besides, they would eat us out of
house and home.
"Why, Tabby must have understood
every word that said" said Grandma
Thompson, as eagerly as If she were
telling a real incident, s.she repeated my
very words almost 80
Then Grandma Thompson recollected
herself, and she and Mary laughed in
concert. And the little tiger-cat,
Mary, she said: But the poor mother'll
miss them sol and, Mary. did you ever
hear of such thing? Tabby turned
right around and looked at me and
said: Pooh! she won't care; she can't
count, and if she has one left, it will be
all the same to her. Oh, the idea of
such thing as mother having to count
TO know whether she has all her chill
dren or not!
well, Mary" said Grandma Thomp-
son, after a long and solemn pause.
during which her Indignation seemed
to be struggling with her amusement.
81 can't have seven cats in the house,
really l can't; but I'll keep two-the
little tiger and one other. But / am
sure, l shall never think again that a
mother doesn't know whether she has
lost any of her children or not, because
she can count them. "-Rdte Laurence,
ia Youth'S Companion.
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Measuring Cord Wood in Timber.

The question asked by correspond
ent as to how many cords of wood a
thousand feet of logs will make, is very
fairly answered by another correspond
ent. The amount will depend very
largely on the size of the logs, and also
upon the straightness, smoothness and
taper of the timber. 1t is often impor-
tant to know whether a particular
bunch of timber would bring more if
sold in the log than if cut into wood. In
scaling for lumber, a log is always
measured at the smaller end. A crooked
log is "docked" enough to make it
straight. In very crooked timber this
VIII sometimes amount to one-third or
One-half of what the log cont aims, for
the scale is simply an estimate of the
amount of lumber, board measure, that
can be cut from the log. and crooked
timber must be made straight in saving
In ordinary pine, comparatively free
from limbs, the top end of n twelve-foOt
log is about two inches smaller than the
butt, In short, limby or buckwheat"
pine, there are often two or three times
this difference.
''DOyle's rule for scaling is almost
universally used in Michigan. This
rule is n very simple one. A sixteen
foot log is taken as the standard Take
the diameter of the smaller end, deduct
four inches for slab, and the square of
the remaining diameter will give the
contents of the log. For example: A
log is "a inches through; deduct 4
inches, square the remaining 20 inches,
and we have 400 feet as the contents of
the log. The same rule applies to all
sizes of logs-a log u inches through,
16 feet long, scaling 81 feet, and one
inches Is feet. Longer or shorter
lengths are got by multiplying by the
required fraction, II feet being : and
20 feet ! of 16. II will be readily seen
that thousand feet of small logs will
contain much more wood than a thou
sand feet of large logs, because there is
so much more slab. A thousand feet of
logs inches in diameter would furnish
250 slabs for wood, while there would
be only 10 slabs in the same quantity of
logs "a inches through. have seen q
cords of 16 inch wood cut from the slabs
of a thousand feet of small logs, though
this would be as much as could re OBJ
tanned from the entire contents of the
same amount of large logs Cor.
Country Gentleman.
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A Tale OF Treasure TrOve.

About two months ago there fioated
through the newspapers an item to the
effect that Anna Chute, workwoman
in the paper-mill of the George w.
Wheelwright Paper Company at North
LeOminister, in this State, had found
$1,000 in bale of paper stock which
she was engaged in sorting. The mon
cy was in two Treasury notes, $1,000
and $500 respectively. of the first issue.
On tracing the matter it was found that
the bale. which was mostly writing
paper, was one of lot bought in New
York. There was abundant evidence
in the papers that they had cone from
n certain New York city bank, and cor
respOndence was at once begun with
that bank with view to determining
the question if the money belonged to
the institution. Asked if the bank had
met with any loss, the reply came that
since the bank was chartered, many
years ago. but one loss had occurred,
and that was i'm the autumn of 1873,
when $1,000 had disappeared from
teller's tray, and had never been found.
SuSpi ion had rested all these years on
several employees of the bank. They
could not be proved guilty of the pecu-
lation, nor would II have been possible
for them TO establish their innocence
had they been charged with the rob-
berry of the missing money. 1t was the
hope of the officers of the bank that the
money found in the paper-mill should
be proved to belong to the bank, az the
innocence of the suspected persons
would thereby he demonstrated.
1t came out, on making a thorough
investigation, that n room used by the
bank for storing account books and 9TH
or nearly useless matter representing
old transactions had become so crowded
and crammed with the accumulation
that orders had been given to the jani-
tor to dispose of the papers that had
lain there longest. Accordingly, the
janitor on May 80, Decoration Day-the
time being chosen as one when the bust
ness could be attended to most conven-
iently-had the papers packed up and
taken away by the porters of firm
who dealt I'm paper stock. The books
OF the firm showed that this was the
only stock taken in on that day; that il
was Immediately baled, marked and
numbered, and shipped to the mill in
North LeOminstcr. There was no
longer doubt that the money found in
the mill belonged to the bank. and the
notes were therefore surrendered a few
days ago. The bank officers. fully ap-
preciating all the circumstances goy-
erning the case, have rewarded the
lucky finder with n gift of three hun
dred dollars.-BOSton Transcript.
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A Dangerous Chinese Vessel.

The new Chinese corvette, the Ting
Yuen, has been built at Stettin by
German firm, but it seems to have been
constructed on thoroughly Chinese prin-
ciples. One of its special features is
that every time its own guns are fired
considerable injury is done to the vessel.
At the first discharge of one of the big
Krupp guns with which the corvette is
armed the effect produced was consid-
cradle. Skylights and windows were
smashed, a smoke-stack was snapped
in two, thick iron rail on the bridge
was wrenched from its place, furniture
was shattered TO pieces, (which gentle
men could put in their pockets and car
~ away with them as mementoes of the
occasion" and an eruption of Goals
from the bunkers appeared on deck
Like Don Quixote, when he tried the
damaging power of his sword on his
helmet, it might have been supposed
that 1.-The scratch crew from the German
navy who were aboard the Ting Yuen
were quite content with a single exper-
iment. But, having seen what the guns
could do when discharged singly. they
thought they would find it pleasant 10
know what volley was like. The ef-
feet was tremendous, and very nearly
reduced the whole vessel to a condition
in which gentlemen could have put 1t
in their pockets and carried it away as
memento of the occasion. Evidently
the Ting-Yuen is formidable addition
to the imperial navy. Its owners will
always have the satisfaction Of knowing
that, if it is ever taken by the French,
it will prove very dangerous to its cap
tors.-H. James Gazette. 5, IN
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HUMOROUS.

-Lightning-bugs would be a lively
and suggestive name for telegraph ope-
rators. Commercial Bulletin.
Are trade-dollars taken at par?"
inquired little Rufus Bolts of his mother.
mo, but they are taken from pa when
he goes to bed with his boots on
Teas Siftipqs.
1t is said that the United States
would stand a poor show in naval en-
gagement because she has so few war
ships. This can not be. She has plenty
of navy tO-backer.-BoStOn Star.
"A stone-cutter received the follow
ing epitaph from a German to cut upon
the tombstone of his wife: mime wife
Susan is dead. If she had lived till next
Friday she'd been dead shust two weeks.
AS a tree fall, so must it stand
Chicago Tribune.
Ibid you see that meteoric display
last night" asked Smith of Gilholv.
when did it come Off" about
nine O'Clock. Didn't you see it?
mo, of course l didn't. / live out in
the suburbs of Harlem, aud never get a
chance to see anything that is going on
after dark in the business portion OF the
city."-N. Y. Neacs.
-"Any good shooting on your farm?"
asked hunter of farmer. Splendid, "
replied the agriculturist, "there's dry
well man down in the clover meadow, a
cloth peddler at the house, candidate
out in the barn and two tramps down
in the stock yard. Climb right over the
fence, young man, load both barrels,
and sail in. - Toledo Blade.
-'What influence has the moon on
the tide?" the teacher asked John Hen
~. And John Henry said it depended
on what was tied; if it was a dog it
made him howl, and if it was gate, it
united it, just as soon a cow or young
man came along. 1t is such things as this
that make school teachers want TO lie
down and die every day at four o clock
Burlington HdtOkeye.
The grandma of little four-year-
old had been telling her one day not to
say people lied, but rather that they
were mistaken. Her grandma, to amuse
her, told her bear story, which was a
tough one to believe. After she had fin
ished the little girl looked up into her
face and exclaimed: Grandma, that is
the biggest mistaken have ever heard. )"
San Francisco Netos Letter.
at is WEAKLY quite amusing" re-
marked New York dude, after land
ing in Philadelphia; II am-aw-used
to being admired by the women, don t
you know, but to-day as l came down
the steps to the Bwoad-stweet station, a
dozen men began exciaiming Hanson,
hanson, hanson in such loud tone of
voice that WEAKLY could not help over
heawing. "-Rtiiddelphia Press.
80 Has the Colonel been around this
morning?" inquired guest at sum-
mer hotel. Colonel, what Colonel?''
asked the bell-boy. "Why, the boss;
the man who runs the hotel" Colonel
Huh, He amt no Colonel" Every
body about here calls him Colonel. -
That's nonsense. He had so many
corns one year that some one called him
kernel in fun, but he amt no Colonel. :"
Chicago Tunes.
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Helping Mamma.

Tinkle, tinkle. ti1kle! That was the
telephone bell. Mamma dropped Neddy
and her sewing, and ran downstairs.
Halloo! Is that you, papap"-"
of course, all right" Good bye"
said mamma; then she rang of, and
went upstairs again.
Papa has just sent word that Aunt
Kate and Uncle Joe are in town, and
will be here at dinner" she said to
Lucy. 1.-THE cook is sick in bed, and /
must make cake to eat with the frozen
custard. Jessie can go down stairs with
me, and you must take care of Neddy
until come back"
All rlSht, mamma, said Lucy, "but
L wish could help you make the
cake"
Some other time. Lucy; but to-day
help mamma by keeping Neddy out Of
mischief. -
ME help mamma make cake to-day"
said Jessie, "me and my dolly"
Then they went into the kitchen.
Mamma put her two little helpers in q
high chair, and then got the things
ready for the cake.
lone cup of sugar, four eggs, q cup
of butter, three cups of -four" said
mamma, as she put them on the table.
land two spoonfuls of baking powder
stirred into the -four"
Just then the milkman came, and
mamma ran to get the dish for him.
The box of baking-powder stood by the
snowy heap of flour within Jessie's
reach.
Il s'pect must help mamma" she
said.
Mamma came back soon, stirred up
the cake, poured it into the pan, and
popped it into the oven.
Uncle Joe always likes cake, and
think that will be nice one, don't
you, Jessie?" giving tie dear little girl
a kiss on the tip of her floury nose
Il think so, too, mamma, cause
helped"
Pretty soon mamma opened the oven
door. What in the world was the mat
ter with the cake? Up! up! it was GO
ing, over the top of the pan, higher,
higher, until it dropped down an ran
all over the bottom of the oven.
Mamma was used to Jesse's ways of
helping; so she only groaned, and shut
the oven door. Then she looked into
the baking-powder box. 1t was
empty! Jessie had put half pint of
baking-powder into three cups of flour!
No wonder the cake tried to climb
out of the oven. II was too late TO
make another. Mamma told Uncle
Joe about it. He laughed so hard that
Lucy thought he would choke. Then
he said: "If you will come and be
my cook, Jessie, I'll give you three
dollars week" But Jessie shook her
curly head, and said: 81 can't, cause I
have to help mamma. - oar Little ones.
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ford from above, "and you she'll have
Just as much as you want to keep up
your strength"
Bv and by the noon whistles blow
shrilly, and hundreds of workmen who
have Just heard the news of the accl-
dent flock toward Poplar street, and
from one TO another it is told that
Frank Gaskell is down there in the cut
ting buried in the sand up to his neck,
and that it will be hours before they can
get him out. Again the whistles blow,
and the men from the mills and facto-
ries return TO their work, but the
anxious, waiting crowd is still great,
and 10 their impatient eyes but small
progress is making toward Gaskelfs
rescue. The courthouse clock strikes
two, then three, and still Strawford is
kneeling by the edge speaking encous-
aging words to Gaskell and telling him
what progress the workmen are max
ing. The long afternoon drags by.
Gaskell from his prison watches the
white clouds chase each other across
the narrow rift OF blue sky that he can
see. He says but little, and StrawfOrd
fears ne i growing weaker.
.'Nlore wine, Frank?n he asks; but
the other says NO" and the silence n
unbroken save for the noise of the
workmen's shovels as deliverance slow
~ approaches.
The clock strikes four, and as the last
stroke ends Gaskell says YEARLY:
els il no later? Ii seems TO me have
been here for days"
Courage. Frankr' Strawford saws
cheerfully; awe shall have YOU up here
with US before long. The men are work
ing bravely, and they are great deal
nearer YOU than they were an hour
ago"
I'm glad Jim got out safe" Gaskell
SAYS. n Little after this. Poor man! |
was afraid he wouldn't be able to move
quick enough"
Frank Strawford calls TO him.
johnson tells me they hope in another
hour TO have you out of this if all goes
right and here Strawford breaks oil
suddenly.
Sand and pebbles are once more rat
Ting down from the treacherous western
wall
MY Godr' exclaims Strawford. in
low tones, Il am afraid it's all up with
Frank
Faster and faster slides the sand. and
Gaskell gives one agOnized look into
Strawford's plying face. Then once
again the sand comes down in one
fierce rush. completely filling the cut
ting. and Strawo ord, with the memory
Of Frank Gaskell's last look. turns
away.-Oscar Fay adams, ia Clwistia1
Union.
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He Made IL Clear.

speaking of curious condolences,
said lawyer who had business in the
City Hall yesterday, Il think i have
the most curious case on the boards
what is it?'
Zone day last week a woman came
to me and engaged my services TO file
a bill for divorce. hadn I got through
with her when her husband came in %
secure my services for the same thing.
They were of the same age, had the
same grounds, and had not met before
for months.
"And you took both casesP"
"Oh, no, that would have looked @
little queer.
Then you sent one to another laM7
yer?''
"Oh, no, again. am not furnishing
clients to other lawyers. saw that I
was in fix, and that must do some
thing to prevent one or the other from
consulting another attorney, and so I
acted as a mediator and advised 'em TO
settle their trouble and live together,
which they have done.n
What! You advise settlement aud
lose your feer'
mot exactly" replied the lawyer rs
he stroked his chin. II charged twf;e
as much for the advice as for securing
the divorces!"--DetrOH Free Press.
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81 would advise every young man
who Is thinking upon the question of
adopting a profession to avoid law"
said Philadelphia Judge of TWENTY-FIVE
years experience on the bench. .'Yet.
that Is only a general statement. There
must be lawyers, and the law will al
ways afford n certain number of splen-
did prizes for sustained and well-direct-
ed endeavor. 1t is the knowledge of
This fact that forces SO many excellent
minds into competition for these re-
wards. But the contestants are to the
prizes ten to one. The bar in all the
large cities of this country is hopelessly
overcrOwded. Not more than half the
lawyers make a comfortable living"
Law! said another Judge. Its
a good thing TO keep out of at the rate
at which young men are coming TO the
bar. 4 infer that few who have desire
to achieve distinction in it will believe
me. Though there are half dozen
members OF the bar in this city who are
reputed to earn $4,000 a year, there
are 600, am quite sure, who do not
earn clear nine dollars week. One
can hardly say at the outset who will
and who will not succeed. OF two men
OF apparently equal abilities and oppor-
tunities, one will somehow reach the
front In few years, while the other
will always remain in the rear.
There is, for example, a very
young man, earning ten or fifteen
thousand per year. The District At
torney, / know, made three thousand
dollars during his third year at the bar.
There are, of course, n large number
OF people who have such luck But.
bless my soul, there are men of ability
and energy, who have been at the bar
for ten years and do not earn as much
as they would ut tolerably good trade.
1t IS no wonder so many, who enter
upon'the legal arena full of confidence
In their ability to achieve great things.
become disheartened in a year or two
aud enter upon other pursuits. The
overcoming of the bar must, TO a
great extent, be aScribed TO the work
ing OF the same principle that turns
out scores of clerks and book keepers
when skilled mechanics are really re.
qoired. IL is the idea that manual
labor Is degrading and that il is some
how better to be a lawyer on the ragged
edge OF poverty than a machinist OF
printer with comfort and an assuring
future. This idea grows in the general
atmosphere OF the public schools, and
BY the time boy gets into the upper
classes he IS incapable of calmly think.
ing OF entering any vocation in which
his hands might become soiled. ~
! RsiiadelPhfa Tines.
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Selling Old Corn.

Tim Bunker" the veteran agri.
cultural writer of Connecticut, used to
claim that it was ruin to sell old corn,
That Is, ruin to the farmer. As usual,
Tim" hit the nail squarely on the
head. Many farmers, by careful man
agement, succeed in holding a good
share of their old corn until it is nearly
time TO harvest the new crop. Corn IS
then up at good price. and it is usual
" considered good policy to sell out be-
fore the new crop is pushed upon the
market. 1t is poorpolicy to sell corn at
all if it can be fed out upon the farm,
and it is certainly very poor policy to
sell good hard corn, even if it does
bring a few cents more per bushel,
and then fatten your own stock upon
new corn. Hogs should be fattened
before the cold weather sets in. and
there is nothing that will do the work
up so expeditiously and cheaply as old
corn. A bushel of it seems to 90 as far
as two of the new crop. There is no
gaseous fermentation going on in the
old corn as there Is in the new. conse-
quently it is safer feed for any stock.
Old corn can also be ground, if desired,
and mixed with other food.
Again, there is always a risk in sell
ing out the old crop before the new is
fully ripe, as in our latitude we are al
ways liable to frosts, after the first of
September. We can never feel abso-
lutely sure of crop of corn until il be-
gins TO harden in the ear.
The main difficulty with the majority
of our farmers is, that they have so
managed as to be actually Obliged to
sell crop, whether the price be re-
munerative or otherwise. How fire.
quenuy we have seen farmers sell corn
In the fall for twenty-five cents per
bIshel. selling themselves short in order
TO meet obligations overdue, and then
buy in the spring for forty cents per
bushel. Instead of buying stock and
feeding cut their grain upon their
farms, they are obliged to keen their
stock sold down in order to paw the in
terest upon n mortgage or other debts.
Many rundown farm owes its nresent
condition to an overhangino mortgage.
which not only deprived the farmer and
his family Of their rightful income.
but saps the very fertility from the land
ltself. = Western R0pnan.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Mrs. Dolly White, of Newbury, Vt,
has twin daughters seyenty-two years
old.
Mrs. Lippincott, "Grace Green
wood" is in London, and is said to be
engaged upon a biography of Queen
Victoria.
IS. III. Howard, colored man. who
died in Brooklyn the other day at the
age of eighty-four years, left a fortune
of nearly $500, 000.-N. Y. San.
james Marian Roche, wealthy
and eccentric young Southerner, has
assumed the care of Frederick n. w.
Crouch, the author of Kathleen
Mayourneen."
Miss Charlotte Stark, of Dunbarton,
N. H., granddaughter of General John
Stark. of Revolutionary fame, has been
elected an honorary member of the New
Hampshire Antiquarian Society.
Boyle O'Reilly, the poet-editor of the
Boston Plot, who started from the head
of the Connecticut River to paddle a ca.
noe to Long Island Sound, capsized
lost his paddles and took the cars.
Ned Roach, of Florence. Oneida
County, y. T., in his eighty-fifth year,
was married recently for the sixth time
The bride was Mary Quinn, of Roches
ter, aged seventy. -Rochester Express
i'm "reminiscences of London
Drawing-Room" Thackeray is made to
tell the story of the birth of "Vanity
Fair in this wise: 81 was ransackino
my head for a title to my novel when
it came upon me unawares in the mid
die of the night as if voice had wills
pered, Vanity FART jumped out o.
bed and ran three times round the
room shouting out, Vanity Fair!' Van
ity FairI' T"
Mrs. Webb, wife of Captain Webb
the lost swimmer, is small in statur,
and of refined appearance They haC
been married for three years, and cam,
to America last May She says she ha
not been left so much money as re
ported-only about $4,000. She say
she had great confidence in his power
as swimmer. and did not attempt {,
dissuade him from swimming the Mag
ara.-BoSton Herald.
The now famous Clemenceau. 81
Labouchere says, made the acquaint
ance of w. H. Huntington, an Ameri
can journalist, and conceived for hin
such a liking that he took it into hi
head to seek fortune in his nativ,
State of Connecticut. There he oh
tanned the chair of French literature il
college. All the girls who ATTENDED
his lectures, save one, were engaged Il
be married. That one is now Nine
Clemenceau, and 1.-THE sweetest, mos
unaffected, refined and least vain speci
men of American ladyhood in Paris.