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Last year 1 was induced to try an ex-
pertinent in chrysanthemum growing,
and for tins purpose purchased one
pound OF sulphate of ammonia, which I
bottled and corked, as ammonia cvapo-
rates very rapidly. / then selected
four plants from my collection, putting
them by themselves, gave them a tea
spoonful of ANN mia in gallon of wa
ter twice week. In fortnight's time
the result was most striking; for though
I watered the others with liquid COW
manure, they looked lean when COM
pared with the ammonia watered plants
whose leaves turned to very dark
green, which they carried to the
edge of the dots until the flowers were
cut. As matter of course the flowers
were splendid. The ammonia used is
rather expensive as bought it from q
chemists shop. This year intend get
ting agricultural ammonia, which is
much cheaper. have also tried it on
Strawberries, with the same satisfactory
result, the crop being nearly double
that of the others. 1t is very powerful
and requires to he used with caution
London Garden.
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Miners Who Held ON to Their PilA

william H. Stevens went to Detroit
and retired on a million; Fred Letter
took as much to Chicago. and few
others followed their example. But
they were the exceptions. Ex.Gov.
John l.. Routt made q big strike in
1877. He commenced as "way-down"
prospectOr. Joe Watson, his partner,
was equally fortunate, and so were
George c. Corning, who made $500, 900,
and ex. Secretary Teller, who made
$2OO,OOO Casey also made good deal
Of money in Colorado and had the sense
to save it. Gov. J. b. Grant, W. H.
James and f. f. Eddy realized about
S2OO, 900 each. Simon Foss made
100000 and he now has large cattle
rancho in Indian Territory. In fact,
can give you the names of q dozen other
men who have done well and are now
on the road to large fortunes. But
when you come to speak of millionaines,
there's mighty few worth talking about,
lcastwise in Colorado. Those WHO
commence mining and make stake at it
seldom stick to it and succeed. The
fortunate men are those who have the
good sense to embark their profits in
good paying enterprises elsewhere.
Mining, like gambling, is mighty risky
business. Rice in New York Star.
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The number of eggs that should go
under a hen depends upon the season.
Those set in January or February
should not have more than seven, while
in Mas the number for the same hens
might be increased to thirteen. or for a
Cochin, even to fifteen. if the eggs be
of the same breed. We have to cen
slider not only how many chickens the
hen can hatch, but also how
many she can well protect after
they have reached size twice rs
large as the size of the eggs. Many
early chickens are lost every year be-
cause OF insufficient protection from the
mother during the first few months.
Such as are not fairly covered in cold
weather. even if they do not die. will in
most cases he puny little things that
will never add profits to the growers
purse. Better hatch and raise but five
or six early chicks to hen, and have
them healthy and strong, than twice as
many poor little things. In April
eleven eggs to hen will answer very
we'll, provided she be we'll feathered.
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Theodore Parker writes Young PEG.
pie marry their opposites in tempera.
ment and character. and such marriages
are generally good ones. They do it in :
stinctively. The young man does not
say. my black eyes require to lie we'd
with blue, and my over vehemence re-
quires to be little modified with some
what OF dullness and reserve" When
these opposites come together to be wed
they do not know it. but each thinks the
other just like himself. Old people
never marry their opposites, they
marry their similars, and from calcula-
ton. Each of these two arrangements
8 vcry proper. In their long journeys
.hese oppOsites will fall out by the way
q great many times, and charm the 9TH
er back again, and by and by they will
be agreed as to the place they will go to,
and the road they will go by, and both
become reconclled. The man will be
nobler and larger for being associated
with SO much humanity unlike himself,
and she will lie nObler woman for hav-
ing manhood beside her that seeks to
correct her deficiences and supply her
with what she lacks. if the diversity he
not toeA-tt<6AiA4y R%s&I II tHtTe ne Teti Selei-
osity and love in their hearts to begin
with. The old bridegroom, having a
much shorter journey to make. must as
sociate himself with one like himself.
A perfect and complete marriage is, per-
haps, as rare as personal beauty. Men
and women are married fractionally,
now a small fraction then a large frac-
ton. Very few ale married totally,
and then only, think. after some forty
or fifty years of gradual approach and
experiment. Such large and sweet
fruit is complete marriage that 1T
needs very long summer to ripen it
and then a long winter to mellow and
season. But a real, happy marriage of
love and Judgment between noble
man AMI woman is one of the things so
very handsome that if the sun were, as
the Greek poets tabled, a god, he might
stop the world IN order to feast his eyes
with such spectacle.
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The 0bjeet Of Rating.


We eat for warmth and strength;
hence almost all articles Of food have
both these elements: have carbon to
warm, and nitrogen to strengthen, to
give power to work. Butter, sugar and
oils are almost all carbon. All breads
and grains are mainly carbon. Meats,
flesh of all kinds. abound in nitrogen.
Food which sas most nitrogen is most
nutritious" Butter has eighty three
per cent. Of carbon and no nitrogen; an
egg has no carbon and twenty per
cent. of nitrogen. Milk contains
two parts warmth and one of
strength. Bread contains one part
of nitrogen and eight of carbon.
II is thus seen that IN reference to eat
ing. carbon which is charcoal fuel
and warmth are one and the same thing;
while nitrogen-which is in effect salt
petre-gives flesh or muscle, which are
one and the same thing in substance
with strength. 1t is also seen that most
articles of food have more carbon or
warmth than nitrogen or strength,
showing that it takes more to keep us
warm than to keep us strong. A seden-
tary person requires. in round numbers,
about one pound of food day, while a
hard working man requires two pounds;
this two pounds of food gives ont power
enough-as steam in an engine gives out
power-to raise man OF average weight
eleven miles high. But calling the two
pounds 5 900 grains, only 300 grains of it
are nitrogen, the remainder that is. six
teen times more of warmth is required
than of strength producing food. One
practical result is, that as the world be-
comes more thickly populated, the
necessity increases of economizing food /;
of adapting il to the various needs Of
the system as modified by age, sex, oc-
cupation and season. Persons living in
doors should not eat more than half as
much Us those who work hard. Less
warming food should he eaten in hot
weather than in cold. Ii we eat an ex-
cess OF warming food in hot weather We
have to work it out of the system at a
great expenditure of strength and until
it is worked off We feel full and feverish
and oppressed: on the other hand, in
winter we require an additional quantity
of warming food. hence our instincts
lead to eat heartily Of pork, and buck
wheat cakes, and butter, and mOlasses,
which are almost purely carbon. In
warm weather we need cooling food, and
Providence sends rs in profusion the
fruits, and the berries, and the green
things. which have no carbon at all and
while our appetite for them is ravenous
the very idea of fatty food is nauseating.
Halls Journal of Health.
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Harper's Bazaar says: The general
designs for spring suits is that of short
basques, with long drapery and plain
lower skirts, and this suggestion is Civ
en- alike in dresses OF one fabric or for
combinations of two materials. The
upper part OF the dress will he of plain
goods, with figured stuffs for the
trimming and for the lower skirt. Tho
short plain basque of bison, serge, or
of camel's hair, will be inlaid with vel
vet in front and back alike; sometimes
the velvet forms o short curved or
pointed plastron, while in other dresses
it extends to the waist line like vest
in front, and this is repeated in the
middle forms of the back. Revers or
bretelles of the wool goods edge the
inlaid velvet, and these revers are some
times covered with braid. Polka
basques for the house are very
similar in shape to the jackets
used over them for the street; they ex.
tend plainly over the hips, but are quite
short, reaching only three or four in
ches below the waist line in the back,
where they are shortest, lying smoothly
on the tmrnure without pleats. Very
narrow vests are preferred when velvet
is used, especially if it is OF contrast
ing color. The deep pointed aprons
are now made of q separate breadth OF
cloth and disappear entirely on the
sides next the belt. leaving in view all
the underskirt, which may be Of o velvet
or of the plain cloth stitched in clusters.
or tucked. or else braided. The straight
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CoCoANt-r PvFFs.-Povcred sugar
one cup, two cups dessicated cocoanut.
beaten whites of two eggs, two table
spoonfuls of flour or cornstarcl. Drop
on buttered paper on tins. Bake quick
ly.
MoLAssEs CASDY.-This is simply
made with cup of molasses, aud one
of sugar, half cup Of vinegar. and a
little butter. Some people prefer the
juice of a lemon to vinegar in this re-
cipe. Our little ones are very fond of
butternuts mixed in the half cooked
candy, and prefer this to any store con-
fections that can be bought.
ANGEL FooD.-Whites of 30 eggs,
beaten stiflly, two tea cvpfuls of -four
with two teaspoonfuls of cream Of tar.
tar. Sift flour and cream. of-tartar five
times. three cups of graduated sugar.
cups not quite full. Sift the sugar m
to the well beaten whites of eggs, NOV
ing il in the sieve with q fork that it
may pass through evenly and gradually
Bake on unbuttered pans one hour or
one hour and quarter in q well-hcatcd,
but not scorching. oven. Cut out Of
pans when cool. One-half this quanti-
ty may lie made, but l succeed best
when prepare the whole.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELs.-A pound of
sugar. half q cup of chocolate grated
fine, large teaspoonful OF butter, and
a tablespoonful of cream. Boil all the
ingredients without the chocolate, add
ing that when the rest is partly cooked.
Boil till brittle. porr into buttered pans
and when nearly cold, cut into squares.
ONION AND SAGE FRITTERs. Twelve
ounces of onions. SIX of bread crumbs,
q teaspoonful of dried sage. and four
eggs. Peel and slice the onions. put
them in deep dish, pour boiling water
over them. and 1T them remain a few
minutes: then pour off the water and
fry the onions. or put them in the oven
with a little butter, pepper and salt,
and when licely Drowned. mix The sage
with them. Pit about four Ounces of
the onion to the bread crumbs. add the
eggs. well beaten, season with pepper
and salt and fry in fritters; put the
remainder of the onions on the dish
round the fritters, and serve with
brown sauce and apple saace. If fresh
sage is used. it should he boiled little
and chopped.
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The Bush ness Gait.

A good walking gait for horse is
best. Few farmers think of this; most
of them want the colt to be trotter.
The trotter craze has been an awful
curse to the country. 1t makes me sick
to think Of IT. How many young men
have gone to the bad on account Of 1t |;
and what good does it all do? The
horses Of to-day are not the equals in
endurance of those of the fathers. The
horses Of earlier days did more and
harder work, lived longer and kept
sounder than ours. They trot faster
now, lat what of that? 1t is virtue, il
it is, which makes vice. Teach the colt
to walk. to start on a walk, and to keep
on walking till it is hidden to go faster
such colt will make pleasant driver
and last longer. and will be worth .
great deal more to sensible man.
Break the colt before it is harnessed
to any vehicle. 1t will make safer
and more easily managed animal. ]
have such a horse, and the other day
he saved the team because he would
not run away with his mate. He walked,
and turned in at home all right, with q
big load of coal The driver carelessly
left them without tying, and 1t wal
cold. A fast walking horse will &C
further and faster than che broken t.
10 by spurts, and do it easier, and las
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The Last of the Killers.

He looked in at the door, saw six o
eight men around the stove, and then
he drew back to arrange his toilet. In
his belt were two revolvers. Down the
back of his neck was bowie knife.
In his eye the lightning lurked. and
around his mouth was an expression to
freeze the blood. When he enter el the
saloon il was with a warwhoop which
should have lifted every man foot
high, but no one moved. When he all
vanced to the bar. anil asked for
glass of double-and twisted death mt
forty rods, his voice and manner should
have driven the bartender down through
the floor, but he diden't sink an inch.
"This is my day for gore!" beloved
the stranger as he held up the glass
and surveyed the audience. Nobody
seemed to care. "Who put Tiger Jack
under the sod?" he demanded in an
awful voice. Nobody answered. "Who
run bloody Pete out of Deadwood?
Who made Awful Smith take water ut
Denver?" One man said something
about the weather, but no one minded
the inquiry. "And I've come from the
mountains to get dozen scalp-locks
for q new tablecloth!" howled the
stranger. 81 want a doZen-leven
wouldn't do me. Whoop! Whoopee"
At this point one of the men who had
been trying to catch nap got up and
walked over to the stranger and took
him by the ear and led him to the
door and gave him lift. As. he re-
turned to his chair one of the crowd
inquired. "Who is hep" dunno; but
he made me tired" was the reply, and
the entire affair dropped without
another word. Good-by, Catamonh.
Sam, Panther jack and Buckskin Bill
You've had yonr day. It's no Use ring
ing up the curtain on empty benches
Detroit Free Press.
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The Cleveland Leader prints the fol-
lowing extract from tile manuscript
notes Of Col. A. H. MARYLAND, who was
at the head Of the army postal service
during the war:
1.-THE first time that General Grant
left Cutpepper Courthouse, where his
headquarters then wore. for Washing
ton city tbe quartermaste made mp
special train 10 accommodate the sick
and .;oi. o. might have leave Of alb
sence, the road being taxed to its ut
most cnpacicy to bring forward supplies.
One passenger car in the train was re-
served for General Grant and such Of
fcers as might accompany him. Only
two or three officers were with him, and
they did not attract any special atten-
ton rs they passed into the car. The
General was always the plainest and
least ostentatious man in the army. All
the cars of the tram except the one,
reserved for General Grant were soon
crowded, and many soldiers were stand
ing on the platform of the station. Gen
eral Grant was sitting alone on the side
of the car next to the platform and near
the door, when soldier came to the
door, and was told by the guard that
he could not come into that ear. Gen
eral Grant asked the guard what the
man wanted. and was told that he want
ed to go to Washington. The General
then asked why he was not permitted
to come into the car and was answered
that this car is special car for Gen
eral Grant and his staff The General
quickly replied. Let HIM come in. l
only occupy one seat in this car This
was the first iniimation the guard had
that General Grant and his staff were
in the car. The Gen,ral then asked
what the other men were doing who
were standing on the platform, and he
ing told that they wanted to go
Washington. he said. Let all who "a
crowd in get in The ear was 500
filed, one private soldier taking a sea
beside the General and engaging him il
conversation nearly all the way to
Alexandria, not knowing with whom he
was talking"
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always irreproachable. For evening
dress the satin slippers and silk stock
ings precisely match the toilet with
which they are to he worn. There was
an attempt made at one time to intro
duce the wearing of scarlet hose and
black slippers with white evening
dresses, but it proved total failure.
Neither were black slippers and stock
ings ever worn in Paris with white or
pale tinted ball dresses. That fashion
was not French, it was possibly Eng
lish, and unfortunately It was Ameri-
can.
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Next to milk butter is by far the
largest product of the dairy, and the
costliest and most wasteful of intrinsic
value in its production. Twenty five
pounds of milk-the average weight ac-
quired for making pound of butter
would sustain mans life we'll nigh
half month. while the butter wsuld
supply bodily waste for hardly half q
day. The DEMONSTRATING matter in thu
form of caseine and albumen IN the
milk for pound of butter, would be
Just about equal to ten pounds of meat,
all of which is sacrificed as O direct
human food. and is only indirectly util-
lied as by. product, to be fed
to animals and after sacrificing
nine tcnths of its life-supporting abil.
ity, will return one-tenth In new
form fit for human use-all for one
pound Of butter which is little else than
luxury, and not an indispensable one.
It is but pound of hy,lrocarbon, an
effective equivalent for which science
at . profit can replace for ten cents.
When thousands Of the laboring poor
in our towns and cities, in whose veins
a kindred blood is flowing, are pinched
and suffering for the want of just such
food, to keep soul and body together,
is it o Christian work to occasion 80
large a sacrifice of useful food for q
little luxury? No one will say nay, for
We "all do it !"--Professor L. B. Arnold.
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longer. When working horse is
pushed to trot it will walk every
chance it gets aud walks slow to get its
breath and rest. a driving horse with
light draft can trot with more ease.
but a good walker on long heat will
make the time much sooner than one
could suppose. -Franklin ID. Curtis,
kirkby Homestead, n. Y.
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Farming Notes.

Make up your minds that you will
farm little better this year than ever
before, and begin now. You who do
not need these hints may not think they
mean yo,,, but there are enough who do
need them.
Get your early potatoes up where
they will warm and get ready to sprout
when planting time comes.
A Minnesota farmer raises sunfow-
ers for chicken feed and fuel. An acre
of the plants produces seed enough to
pay the cost Of production as food for
his chickens, while the stalks and seed
less heads make abundant fuel for six
months use.
The state of California has about 40, Z.
600 acres in vineyard. The total wine
product is now about 1900 900 of gal
Ions for the state. This will increase
with the age of vineyards lately planted
in two years to 5O,OOO,O 900. The soil
and climate are peculiarly adapted to
grape growing and the finer favored
varieties are hardy. Forty thousand
people find employment and the state
received last year for the crop sold near
ly -, OO0,OOO
March is one OF the most important
months of the year for stock farmers.
The effects of the long winter will show
on the weaker animals by this time.
Lice will breed on cattle and ticks on
sheep very fast these warm days, and
must he killed. Lose no time about
this. 1t costs too much to feed such
pests, beside the suffering Of the animals.
Remember that these little jobs are
often neglected because they "can be
done any time and these same things
make the difference between profit and
loss.
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The chief point to note about the
dress of Partisan woman. observes the
fashionable Philadelphia Telegraph, no
matter what her station in life may be,
is its appropriateness. She does not
wear as costly garments usually as the
American of the same social class. but
they are always thoroughly suitable to
her position and to the occasion on
which they are to be worn. a French
elegante, for instance, will neither 60
shopping in velvet costume nor to Q
wedding or official reception in cloth
jacket and cashmere gown. She never
goes ont on foot in superb and snowy
apparel, or appears at ball in dark
silk made high in the neck and with
long sleeves. Etiquette forbids her re-
ceiving even the most intimate OF her
gentlemen friends IN her morning dress
though this rule has been relaxed OF
late in favor of the very suberb morn
ing toilets of brocade and satin and
lace which have been concocted for
morning wear by the leading Partisan
dressmakers. These, however, are
simply reception toilets for morning in.
stead of for afternoon wear. If she
desires to go out on foot she dons the
simplest CT costumes in dark cloth or
cashmere. Her visiting costume may
be as magnificent as her purse or her
desires may make it, and the same may
be said of the dress IN which she re-
ceives callers on her ''at home" day.
Her theater bonnet is much more
snowy and dressy than her visiting
one. For street wear she dOns q
bonnet in very dark velvet or felt. In
the matter vi gloves and chassure she il
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full back drapery may hang plain its
entire length. or is may he laid in large
pleats, or, if it must he more bOuffant.
it is plcated in a single puff, and these
pleats are cleary defined, both in the
puff and in the cloth which falls below
to the foot
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The farmers of Iowa were among the
first to break away from the one-crop
system, and to Diversity their grain
growing with dairying. There are now
400 creameries or cheese factories in that
State, and their patrons find the indus
try much more profitable than raising
wheat at 60 to 20 cents bushel on land
that is worth from $l5 to 800 per acre.
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From the Ladies' Home Journal
What is ones social duty? Often We
hear one friend ask this question of an
other. Is ones social done by accept
ing and giving invitations. What do
we bind ourselves to in accepting
the hospitality of friend or &C.
quaintance? Is our duty by her done
when we have entered the portal of
our hostess and have given her greet
ing? DO we owe anything to her
guests? II we are man, do we do our
duty when we neglect speaking to the Ia
dies whom we know? FIVE see chance
when We can be of service to our hos.
tess in making things pleasant and
agreeable for her, is not that our duty
to be ready and happy to do her bid
ding or even to anticipate it? II We are
u woman our power to do more than to
make ourselves as agreeable as VIC may
is limited. We can then only be kind,
generous and considerable of other wo-
men as it comes in our way. We can.
not seek the opportunities of being
polite and making the happiness of
those about us as men can. Selfishness,
alas that we see so much of it where
there is the least excuse for it.
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Tue st. Louis Republican reports
tina. the farmers in northern Missou-
ri Il, we begun to turn their atten-
ton in the same direction, and
saws tin t il one-half the money and
labor ex, 'ended last year in raising Mis-
souri's or. 'p or 35.OOO,O 900 bushels of
net result would have been double. Ii
argues that "'the markets of the world
are glutted With wheat. but the more
butter and chez SO produced, the more
there is communicable demand keep
ing pace with and even outstripping
the supply" There is commonly q
market for good dairy products mt re-
munerative prices, but it is doubtful ii
the average profits have been greater
than those gained from wheat, taking
period Of ten years together. The pro-
duction Of good butter is not altogeth-
er o matter of disposition. Much de-
ponds upon the pasturage, the
water, and climatic conditions. The
dairying belt is rs restricted an the wheat
belt, taking the whole country togeth-
err. The sections adapted to it can
make the industry profitable. 1t is
doubtful il the other sections can do SO.
The older settled portions Of the West
are experiencing from the cheap and
virgin fields in the Northwest the stress
of thu competition by which they forced
the farmers of the Eastern and Middle
States to abandon grain growing as q
reliance, and diversity their produc-
tiOns. History is repeating itself in
compelling them to adopt . similar
policy. Herald.