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rorehanaea ming.

Mr.. W. c. French, Great Darlington,
Mass, on a farm of 175 acres-only six
tv tillable, the rest in forest or woody
pasture--keeps twenty-four dairy cat
tie to supply n milk route; they are
literally fed with purchased grain, and
the soil Is therefore constantly becom-
ing more productive. Sweet corn, pc-
tatoes and garden vegetables are also
raised for the local trade. and the ag-
gregate crops are, The N. Il. Farmer
saws, four times as great as We're form
erly grown or the undivided homestead,
which contained twice as large a sur
face.
"Buckwheat bulls obtained from q
Touring mill neal by are used tor bed
ding, and are excellent for the purpose.
Winter rye is sown early in autumn for
green feed tor Young cattle, and to cut
for hay the following season. Over 500
bushels OF onions were grown per acre
last year. Cabbages without u single
stump-foot, owing, as Mr.. French thinks
to the free use of lime in the seed-bed,
are selling at 81 per hundred to his milk
customers. Oats are made a prominent
crop, and are sowed so thinly on rich
land that the yield of grain is heavy,
while the straw is not thick enough to
destroy the young clover and other
grasses sown with them. We have
rarely seen a better catch of grass than
can be seen here after a crop of oats.
Water is brought in pipes to the house
and barns, and is in full supply and OF
the best quality. Some dozen or more
families combine to pay the expense, and
are thus supplied at q very moderate
cost, though the spring is more than
half q mile away"
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Hints to Earlners.

Gardening commences now in the
Southern States.
A New Hampshire correspondent of
the American Cultivator for an apple
orchard of 300 trees in that locality
would plant 800 Baldwins-and, on re-
Election, the other one a Baldwin. This,
of course, for market fruit; also as the
result of personal experience ofnear-
ly forty years."
Let those who are near the markets
count on raising early chickens for
sale. Fairly managed this becomes one
of the most profitable branches OF
poultry raising.
Wherever, says the Massachusetts,
Ploughman, a good, live Farmers Club
exists, there is but little chance for
swindlers to succeed; this they have
learned, and 50, as a rule, contine their
operations to farmers who stay at home,
and do not read the papers.
The high prices charged for seed
sweet-corn are fully earned by growers,
as the difficulty in properly drying and
cultivatIng it max IS it cost much more
than the ordinary field varieties.
It is undoubtedly bad practice to cul'
tivate or pillow heavy soil when soaked
with water in the spring. but this OBJ
1 lection does not apply to the light rains
that fall in midsummer and early fall
while the soil is still warm.
Mr.. Bradley, of Massachusetts, ha,
his bulls stall so arranged that, instead
of leading the bull out into the yard
the COW is led into thes bulls stall fol
service. The COW is then quietly lee
away.
Sprinkle a little lime (air Stacked
over the potatoes in your cellar. 1t vii
tend to prevent rot, and purify the ali
of the cellar.
Should you run out of axle grease
some busy time, mix two parts of lart
with one each of black lead and wllea
flour and apply.
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Cost of College athletics.

College athletics cost more than is
generally supposed. Harvard and
Yale have the heaviest boating ex-
pcnses, Columbia coming next. The
paper shells in which the races are
rowed cost from S4o0 to 5000. Train
ers and .%.coachcs'' must be hired and
eating-tables provided at which the
diet of the crews may be closely
watched. The crews eat at training TIA
bles from Easter up to the race in
June, at u cost of about 800 per
After they have been coached and
trained for three months they are
SEM to New London, Conn, where
the races are rowed on the Thames,
Here they are kept at the respective
boat houses under the strictest train
ing. They are coached daily from
the steamlaunches which accompany
them. Yale owns a steam launch,
and the cost is reduced to S12 daily
for coal and service. The other col
leges hire launches, and the cost is
increased. All the crews Ire uniform
ed ct Il cost of S15 to 800 per man.
Yale presents its crcw with white fan
mel suits besides the regular uniform
at an expense of 5000. Harvard's ex-
penses IN this line is larger. The total
ward, Yale, or Columbia is about ST.
600. The Hazard freshmen pay 50, 500
yearly for the luxury of defeating the
Columbia freshmen. A class regatta
at Harvard or Yale costs about $3.50
for each crew, moi counting cost of
she'll. Glass shells cost $500, oars 1915.
Each class uses two shells in its course.
Barges for practice and rough rowing
cost 5000.
Baseball costs less Than rowing,and
can count somewhat on gate receipts.
Williams and Amherst will pay $1,000
each for their respective mines this
year; Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
from $1,000 to $500. Yale employs
Jones, formerly of The Athletics, to
coach its nine; Princeton and Brown
also have professional coaches. In
track athletics the principal cost is for
trainers and grounds. All the col
leges which compete in the iGtercolle-
professional athletes as trainers. These
men are paid from 5000 to $500 fol
the season. In the larger colleges
atnlcuc GROUNDS are PROVIDED Dy SHIs
of the alumni, as in the case OF
Holmes field, at Harvard, and Yale's
new park, which, with its track and
grand-stand, cost about S75, 900.
Football has lately become self.
supporting at most of the larger col
lcges. Tennis at Harvard this year
will cost 81, COO, at Yale $1,000. Rent
ing courts and keeping them in order
is what makes the expense. A fresh
man class ut Harvard pays 5000 fol
its crew of eleven, nine. lacrosse team
and tug-of-war; at Yale and Columbia
the corresponding expense is some.
what less. Travelling expenses, hote
bills (only the best botels), trophies
for the victors, etc., make Il further
demand on the students pocket-book
All these expenses are betrayed b,
voluntary subscriptions of student.
and alumni 1tnes-Star
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the idea of war. and the mistake of the
Army Of the Potomac was in nctrecog-
MIXING it and failing to follow up a
victory, or .'leaving its work only half
finished" as Gen. Grant expresses it,
for fear that there would be greater
losses.
Grants admirers and friends, read
ing the accounts of the battle, suppos-
ed him to be a great smoker, and al
most deluged him with cigars. Every
express brought boxes of cigars as
presents from his Northern friends.
As the General said, 'There were al
ways two or three boxes on the table
in my TEN or headquarters free for the
use of my staff and visitors. Having
them always at hand, it was but natu-
raj that l should every little while take
a fresh cigar, and in that way the
habit grew upon me so that it became
irresistible, and the people no doubt
are right in calling me an inveterate
smoker. ~ Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zpfte. 81
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A Talk with Bismarck.

From the st James's c lzatte.
Count Bella Szechenyi recently had
an interview with Prince Bismarck CON
tanning certain disclosures of a sufi-
GENTLY remarkable character:
Referring to the international situa-
ton at the present moment, Prince
Bismarck, if his interview is to be be-
lieved, took credit to himself for all the
nav departures recently witnessed in
the policy of the chief Cabinets Of
Europe. Everything. he gave his Hun
garian visitor to understand, was really
due to his instigation, to his diplomacy,
or else to his intrigue. "As for France"
said the Chancellor, II have contrived
to get her we'll occupied out in China.
Then, as regards the supremacy of
Britain in maritime and colonial affairs,
I am engaged in the task of counter
balancing or nentralizing it," Turning
to Germany's allies. Prince Bismarck
proceeded: eff Russia desires to take
Armenia or Afghanistan, she will not
have to langnlsh for them long in vain.
And then, with reference to Austria and
Hungary the policy of the dual empire, "
NC Sh!uS lSTol CUuTse ubtlilhtblf W dl-
mex Syria" And the chancellor was
good enough to hint that he would take
care that any little wish Austria might
cherish in that direction might be graf
flied. Count Szechneyi, however told
his German host that Hungary was op-
posed to any active colonial policy.
'There, said the chancellor, 1the Hun
garians are greatly to blame. They are
foolishly spending enormous sums on
their one port at Fiune, instead oil
which they. should seek to enrich them
selves in settlements abroad" Upon
Count Szecheneyi intimating that the
Hungarians disliked the policy of the
German Knlturkampf, tho prince re-
remarked: "That is . policy which ]
cannot abandon. To give it up would
enable Austria to regain her predomi
nance at the petty courts of Germany
However, I am not opposed in principl.
to restoring Rome to the pope, and til,
restoration will be carried out if Ital,
proceeds to make war against Turkey
with a view to the conquest Of Tripoli.
This last threat is only another proof o
the irritation Of the German. chancello
at the friendliness Italy has been show
ing to England.
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Light VS. DARKNESS.

q. P. Churchill, North Auburn, Me-,
writes: Theidea of light in our houses
is one Of the greatest Importance, and
yet how often families live in darkness
a whole life. Whoever thought for a
moment of any kind of flower growing
in the dark? Fashion has much to do
in the matter, because one keeps the
windows half shaded by a dark curtain,
some one else catches the fever and
down goes the light into a gloomy and
lonely darkness, and perhaps some 9th
er fever follows. Oh, when will we learn
to abide by reason and good common
physiology? But we human beings
are not alone in darkness; only look
into many of the stables aud see
the darkness around the poor duml,
beasts; who can wonder at diseases OF
the eye Of the horse? How often he is
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Bright Day. Of a woman. Lilo.

There is no period IN q woman's life
when she is so happy us when she is be-
ing courted. That for the
fact that a great many of them permit
themselves to be courted by men who
have no right to do such thing. They
like the %gallantries of courtship, the
playful words Of a suitor, his constant
animation, his hundreds of small COM
pliments, his readiness and agility in
extending his hand whether it is needed
or not, his ~inspirational conversation,
his self-sacriice and unvarying devo-
ton. Heavens, what is there that o
man will notdo when he is in love? What
else will drive HIM to such lengths Of
brilliancy and daring? 1t is then that
he becomes the cock bird, puts on his
most brilliant plumage, struts about in
his greatest glory and reaches the most
beautiful perfection of his nature. He
writes long letters, spends his money
like a prodigal, is ready to go here and
there or anywhere, rain OF shine, at the
beck and call Of his fair mistress; a
his best clothes, walks with the erect
ness and elasticity of a trained athlete,
smiles on all mankind and is being
much beyond and above the common
run of the race. All this he is to the
woman to whom he is playing the
lover. She takes him for what he
seems to be not what he is. Perhaps
he may turn out to be what he seems
to be, perhaps not-generally not.
| Most hushan1a ara ~anpOinti tc
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confined in darkness for days, when all
at once he is taken on to the road ON to
a new. bright, snow; we forget the
green glasses that we are obliged to
wear on such occasions; we also forget
that we have a little shade to the eyes
in the way of hat rims and wells; but the
poor horse must plod along with eyes
half-shut, and the sun rejecting the
white snow, tenfold worse than what he
was enduring in that dark stable. We
believe it our imperative duty to ar
range our stables so as to afford all the
light possible: it will take less food and
the stock will be more healthy; and we
shall do the chores better in light than
in darkness.
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membranous Group in your columns.
Some years ago my wife VIZ sent for to
assist a lady who was dying with this
terrible and generally fatal disease. 1t
was midnight, and as she was preparing
to go to her assistance I reminded her
of the burned feathers. On her way to
the house she could hear her wheeze
across the street. Going into the house
she observed that the lady wns about
choking to death. She seized a turkey
wing, stuck it in the stove, and then
held the smoking feathers so that the
sufferer could inhale the smoke, which
produced a tickling sensation. She gave
a cough and the membrane broke, flying
two feet from her mouth. By this sim
pie means her life was saved and she is
living to-day"
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Grant as a Smoker.

The cancer Of the throat which is
slowly but surely eating away the life
of Gen. Grant, has by some medical
authorities been attributed to the in
veterate smoking for which the hero
of Appomattox is noted. Others again
ridicule the theory. The subject is
one that has received considerable dis
cussion in the medical journals.
In the popular imagination Gen.
Grant has always been associated with
a cigar. He has bee called the great
est smoker in the world. 1t is u mark
cd popularity Of the man. When ut
The Hague, on his tour around the
world, at the dinner rendered in honor
by the Dutch King, cigars were either
omitted in the MENU, or perhaps it
was thought discourteous to smoke in
the presence of royalty. When Gen.
Grant was, therefore, observed to take
a cigar from his pocket and complac-
entity light tin the presence of the
King. there was a murmur of surprise.
..But, then, sit vas said, she is a
great mana very great man." In
the simplicity of the Dutch Court it was
thought probably that none but the
very great would dare to smoke on
such an occasion. 1t is generally be-
lieved that Gen. Grant has been an in
cessant smoker ever since his boyhood.
1t may be news to many to learn that
1t is only since the famous battle of
Shiloh that the General became so fond
of the weed. A Commercial Gazette
reporter, in conversation with an in
innate Cincinnati friend of Grant, was
told the story of the Cigar
The General, in speaking to his Gin
cinnati friend of the popular idea that
he was a lifelong smoker, said that
prior to the battle of Shiloh he rarely
very rarely-smokcd; that only once
in a great while did he stake p
smoke,'' and that it had never been a
habit, much less a pleasure. At the
battle of Shiloh he CHANGED to smoke a
cigar, while riding over the field, and
the newspaper correspondents, Selling
upon the incident, described it graphs
cally in their accounts of the battle to
the papers in the North. The idea of
a victorious commander OF a great
army, in the midst of frightful scenes
of n and destruction, surround
ed by the dangers of battle, with a
nations life hanging on the result.
looking on calmly and serenely-com-
placently smoking a cigar-when most
men would be overcome with excite
ment, if not nervousness, was some
thing that appealed irresistibiy tic
popular admiration. Here was a man
ewho was not to be frightened by the
dangers of war; who knew that in wal
the mass of men are almost frantic
with fire of battle; that it meant deatf
and destruction; that this was the bust
ness of war; and the GOODNESS of his
mind seemed to say: ''I'he only way
to do is to strike blow upon blow, apd
thus crush the rebellion.
-.not the idea of a butcher, blu,
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Fading Out Of History.
Washington Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer

WI lIcttCt " SALClLuoa LAlulIcI. ~
Where are the men who came here
with Lincoln flying through Baltimore
by night?a General Sumner paid the
debt of nature in the war. Captain
Pope, another one of the party, is now
a brigadier general. If we go back one
more termin inauguration talk we shall
see Buchanan, twenty eight years ago,
riding up Pennsylvania avenue by the
side Of President Pierce, and John a.
Quitman, who had been fighting to an
mex Cuba for the sake of its slaves, was
at the head Of the procession, and Chief
Justice fancy, incubating the bred
Scott decision, administered the oath.
Nothing remains Of that pageant but
Harriet Lane, then a maiden in her
beauty, now a widow remote from pub
Tic scenes. There are however, in
Washington at this moment two mem.
bers of Ruchanan's cabinet, Joseph
Holt and Horatio King.
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Tho silver Dollars.

There were 2s, 200, 600 silver dollars
made in 1883. and but 800 in 1889. The
most ancient date is 1894. From then
until 1904 they were coined continuous
". Then a skip Of thirty-two years oc-
CURED. The trade dollar is the thing
that has marred the issue since 1886,
with the exception of 1887, when one
were coined. The silver dollar q 1904
is the rarest American coin. Bnt tive
genuine ones are believed 70 exist, and
their owners have refused $1,000 each
for them. The 1875 dollar brings $40.
Those between 1895 and 1868, So each;
1886, "a; 1889, with flying eagle, $25
each; 1851 and 1852, $50 and $40 re-
spectively; 1858, $3.50. The trade dollars
issued from 1879 to 1878 are destined to
become rare.
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Personalities.

A picture of Abraham Lincoln, worth
$4,000, has stood boxed up in a dark
and dingy corner of the Capitol at AL.
bany for over four years.
Mr.. Bonner stated recently that he
paid $377, 900 for thirty.five of his
prominent flyers, Maud S. and Poca-
hontas costing $4,000 each.
Gath has found that labelling three
columns of ancient history special dis
patch" and selling it to q newspaper is
more profitable than l~ecturing in the
state of Ohio.
United States Senator Dawes, OF
Massachusetts,, and Se~nator-elect w.
M. Evarts, of New York, are cousins
both being grandson of Roger Sher.
man, who died O Senator in 1898.
The sons of some of the very rich
men of New York are said to be living
at a tremendously extravagant rate,
and are likely to see the bottom of the
fortunes acquired by economy and
thrift. One gilded youth recently char
tered a palace car at 500 per day and
took a party of friends to New Orleans
this being but one item in the expendl
ture. Another is touring it around the
world in a yacht. A third, who is enc
end of a swell" cuts his father dead
when they meet III Fifth n
The interment alive of Miss Cox, al
Okonoko, w. Va, relates the Cumber-
land Times, recalls to mind the curious
custom practiced by an old Virgins
family, the Fendals, Of Alexandria
Whenevera member of the family dies
the male representative of the oldel
branch thereof, just before the hour fol
interment, buries a dagger in the hear
OF the dead to assure himself of no re
awakening. The dagger used is one
sacred to the purpose, and has beer
devoted to it's use for many generations
The custom originated because of The
burial alive of a member Of the family
and an inherited tendency to q peculiar
form of heart disease.
Speaker Carlisle is making a collec
ton of the most curious communication
he receives, such, for instance, as a let
ter from a Minnesotian. who wanted al
appropriation by Congress to provid'
him with a good sleigh. He told wha
kind Of wood it was to be made Of, hoy
many bells it should have, and hoy
thick the steel of the rune should be
and in a post-scriptum intimated tina
the salvation of the country depended
on the appropriation being mad
promptly.
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He Was Rather Deaf.

A young man, who had formed an
attachment to young lady, went to
her fathers house to ask his consent
to their union. The old gentleman,
who was terribly deaf, was standing
on the doorstep as his daughters lover
approached. The front door com
manded a vciw of a meadow in which
a COW was feeding, and while Mr.. G.
was looking in that direction the
youthful lover. whose heart vas yer
flowing with emotion, commenced the
task he came to peform.
81 am acquainted with your daugh-
ter said he, in a loud tone.
..She is a fine beast" remarked the
old gentleman. looking at the COW.
s.Your daughter" screamed the
Young man. Il have the honor to be
well acquainted with her."
.'She is a noble ANIMAL was the
quiet response.
T"Confound the old cow!' said the
young man, in 81 whisper. II wish
she was out of sight"
"Iwas speaking about your amiable
and accomplished daughter!"
"She is very kind, indeed; never
breaks down the fences; never kicks
over the pail; strays away like
the other brutes l have"
"You don't understand me, sir! I
was speaking of your daughter at
boarding school,"
'No, / never put q board on her face;
she never does any mischief here at
all"
.'Your daughter!n shouted the
young man, frantic with excitement.
did you say l ought top'
'No, sir! | was speaking of your
daughter, the young lady away from
home.'
ooh, yes; have plenty of room, but
I think she is too old to keep much
longer. To tell you the truth, L have
made up my mind to shut her up in
the stable and feed her on chop stuff
for a few weeks"
Great h%eavens!" remarked the
l doP This deafness will be the death
of me. l will try one more, and if
this effort fails l will resort to pencil
and paper"
Il should like to say a word or two
to you respecting your daughter
81 shall let the butcher have her by
and by-if he will give my price,
said the old man with emphasis.
AS a last resort, the young man used
his pencil and paper-showed his let.
ters of introduction, handsomely in.
dorsed by men whose opinion was
good authority on the delicate ques'
ton on the tapis. After a little cross.
questioning and a little hesitation the
old gentleman gave his consent, and