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perpendicularly. After thai draw
in until the stack is finished. AS
soon as the stack is high enough 20
commence the drawing In, the middle
hould have an extra filling. On o
stack OF ordinary width the middle,
when drawing in is begun, ought 20 pe
at least two feet higher than b out
side. Keep it that way to the top.
When grain is very short it IS not
best to undertake to widen any up 10
the "bulge," because thereis danger OF
the sheaves slipping out. Where the
straw is long enough, the stack may
easily be extended three or ieas iees
on each side beyond the outer lines OF
the foundation, and that makes room
for a good deal more grain than can
be put into a stack that is run up
straight, ordrawnin from the bottom.
The writer of this always did his
stacking of grain, except the filling
ofthe middles on his knees. That was
the rule in those days. But the WORK
can be as we'll done standing by using
q good fork in place OF the sheaves.
Every bundle ought to be pressed IN
to place by the stacker's weight upon
it.
A stack, whether it is OF grain or
hay after it is finished and settled
some, ought to be raked so as to
comb out the straw and make a good
thatching. The top may be secured
by a few sticks tethered with straw OF
hay bands, twisted and ten TO twelve
feet long, and thrown across the top
of the stack. If a rick, the weights
to be about four feet apart. They
need not be h~eavy-just enough to
keep the bands in place.
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Let Them Mature.

Breeding from immature stock has
a tendency to degenerate the offspring
and gradually deteriorate their vital
ity, size, growth and development. All
the teaching of scientists points
to this conclusion, as well as the ex-
perience of practical breeders. The
aim Of breeders should be to build up
their stock and vitality, stamina and
capabiIity for large and rapid develop
ment. But this cannot be done by
breeding from immature animals.
Such a course has Il tendency to weak
EN- and break down instead of build
ing up a breed of any kind. There is
too much of a tendencyto make moth
ers and sires out OF animate which
should be devoting all their time, food
and strength TO making growth and
developing in every way. A change in
this respect would be for the best in.
terests of the live stock business, and
| the general use of more mature ami.
mails for breeding purposes should be
hailed with satisfaction by all farmers
and stockmen.
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Thickheadatiyeness.

"We were the guests of a well-known
London club said Mr.. Depew,
shortly after we reached London,
and were treated to averynice dinner.
When the speech-making began, Gen.
Porter led of, and | followed. ! began
with an apology, saying that Gen
Porter had stolen my best stories,
andthat Mr.. Dougherty's stories were
so bad that / would leave all OF them
for him to tell. Then / looked
around and every Englishman in the
room was sitting as solemn and I'M
moved IS a marble statue. 1t was "a
dreadfully wet blanket to throw over
q man who was trying to be enter
tanning, but / got through somehow.
Gen. Porter had said that he had ar
rived in England by the Lane route,
and that he had found it very pleas
ant to see the trees growing along the
lane, and to hear the birds singing in
the branches. That, too, was receiv-
cd by the E~nglishmen in profound ST.
lence. When the affair was over we
went after our hats and coats, and 4
heard d man behind the cloak screen
say. Dayvilish queer fellahs, those
Americans, don't you know Steal
ing stories from each otherl Did you
aver hear ofs1ch breach ofconfidence?'
Yes, said another, but did you hear
what that fellow said about the Lane
route? Why, that man is the most
surprising liar | aver saw. Do You
know I've been to America and back
by the Lane route myself, and | do
assure you, gentlemen, thatyou won't
find so much as a shrub growing any
where between the continents. Trees
indeed. Really, the Americans are a
dreadfully unprincipled set of people,"
Army and Navy Journal.
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..Your Money or Your Life"

"Senator John p. Jones ofNevada,"
says Harper's Weekly, declares that
he makes it a rule never TO resist a
burglar or a highwayman, being I'M
willing to run the RISK Of having q bull
let put into his head. 4 always sur
render, and tell them | believe In ev-
cry one carrying on his natural voca-
ton without any opposition; and |
further explain to them, that, being a
society man, Ipay no attention to
individual struggles for life.' A dis
distinguished criminal lawyer OF this
city, pronounces the senator's course
to be not only sagacious, but in every
respect legal. THE law, he says, does
not require you TO endanger your life
in defendingyour property; and though
most people would call you a coward
if you surrendered, i am inclined TO
think that you would really be q phil
osopher.' Rochester N. Y. Herald.
This was the view taken by the late
John Morrissey, whom nobody would
think Of stigmatizing as q coward.
Mr. Morrissey was once coming up to
Troy on a river steamer from New
York, when he was awakened by the
presence of a burglar in his stateroom.
Most people would say that John
Morrissey would have grappled with
the thief instantly, and either felled
him to the floor or thrown him out OF
the stateroom window; but he did
nothing of the soft. On thecontrary,
he simulated the soundest kind OF
sound sleep and laid still, while the
robber took from his shirt a very val
liable diamond which Mr.. Morrissey
wore, and made off with it. 1t was a
long time beforethe victim ever told OF
his loss. In recounting the story he
said his first impulse was to give the
thief battle, and then he reflected that
any man who would come into his
room at night for the purpose Of rob-
berry came prepared to take his life il
necessary to secure his own safety,
and he concluded to let the thief help
himself TO what ne wanted and depart
without attempt to MODEST him.
Thenceforth John Morrissey discarded
costly diamonds as articles of person
al adornment, and always wore in his
bosom either a set of diamond studs
not larger than pin-heads or q set
of onyx-neither of which would
tempt the cupidity OF a thief.-Troy
IN. VI Times.
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Farm and Household.
A Few Good Recipes.

Sun BURN.-Mix together three
fourths Of an ounce of glycerine, six
drachms avoirdupois powdered borax,
and twelve ounces of rose water or
.elderiower water. Cream is very good
tn allay the burning sensation sui
fered in sun burn, and to heal the
skin. Any one of the extracts of
witch-hazei in the market IS healing
and cooling.
HANG NAILs.-Soak the ends of the
fingers in hot water until the skin
around the nails is softened; then trim
off all the dead skin with a pair ofnail
scissors, or a pair Of small scissors.
This will prevent hang nails.
D1pHrREnTA.-The fumes of burning
sulphur are said by the American Med
ical Journal to prevent the spread OF
diptheria by killing the infection.
Drop a small pinch of sulphur on a
few Goals in ashovel and fill each room
in the house, includingth one occupied
by the patient, with sulphur fumes
two or three times daily. If they be-
come s%uffocating at all, open the doors
and windows. School.houses in a
neiChborhood where diphtheria exists
should be thoroughly fumigated after
school is over in the afternoon.
WHooPGNG CoUGH.-A writer in the
Medical Press suggests that in families
where there is whooping cough a piece
OF rubber tubing long enough to reach
the floor be attached to the gas burn
err and gas turned on just enough tc
make a perceptible odor, which the
patient is to inhale for a few moments
as often as convenient. This is easier
than sending children to breathe the
air OF the gas works.
SALT RuEUM.-M. FL. sends the fol
lowing for j. D.: "Fhe simplest anc
best cure for salt rheum, tried anC
proved, is one ounce OF glycerine
the juice of q large lemon, and two o
three ounces of water. Apply to the
hands after washing, and while they
are yet damp, 1t is the best thing tt
use for chapped hands, making then
very smooth"
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-24

Questions relating to marriage, as
discussed by an unmarried person,
while they receive only the light which
comes from an ontside point OF view,
may from that very position be con-
sidered with greater GOODNESS and
clearness. But the sufferer is doubt
lessthe best critic Of her own situa-
ton.
What does girl OF eighteen know
OF herself, or of the man she marriesY'
is often bitterly asked by the young
wife before ten years, or five years, or
fewer even, have passed over her pre-
maturely-sobered brow, her unnatur-
ally. burdened heart or brain.
In the old, misleading myth, love Is
blind, and undoubtedly the foolish
little Cupid that figures on ians and
valentines derives lis chief charm
from his bandaged eyes, in the estima-
ton Of damsels who flutter the one,
and SWANS who tinkle their light Gym
balls Of sentimentalism upon the 9th
er. II theirrepressible f1edgcling would
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SO common is the belief that one lo-
comotive engineer is as valuable to d
road as another, especially when en-
~giHeers are paid on the mileage basis,
that we mention a case, without nam
ing the road, whichproves the absurd
ity of such a statement. One OF the
oldest, and heretofore considered the
best engineers on said road, has been
running one OF the fastest express
srsins, and seldom, under the most
favorable circumstances, could he
reach junction points where import
ant connections are made, on time,
always dropping three to eight min
utes behind schedule, and seldom
reaching either terminal on time. "a
short time since, this engineer was out
OF health and took a two weeks rest.
Al yanag man who had been running
but a few years was detailed to run
this train, the same engine, the same
fireman, the same quality of coal was
used, yet the new engineer took this
train, and from the very first, run
it exactly on the time schedule,
reaching junction points and the
terminals with a promptness that ex
cited much comment; and what was
more surprising was the tact that on
figuring the amount of coal he had
used in making the time for each week.
it showed that he had run the train
on an average of 900 pounds per day
less coal than had the veteran engineer
who seldom could make the time. On
the return of the old engineer from his
visit he was given another train to
run, and was SO aggrieved over the
matter that it was referred to the di-
vision of the Brotherhood Of Engi-
neers, of which he was a member, as
well as the young engineer. Investiga-
ton brought out the facts as cited
above. The investigating committee
sided with the superintendent and
master mechanic in the action that
had been taken, promptly admitting
that the young engineer had shown
himself to be s. more competent engl-
heer than the old engineer, who had
been transferred to the running OF .
less important train, and one that is
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
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Contrasting

Washington Special.
"1his incident Of Editor Cutting
the naval officer continued, reminds
me OF some things that happened ten
years ago in Hayti. Some N had fled
for protection to the British consul
ate in Port au Prince. The Haytien
officers followed him closely, broke
down the door, knocked down the
consul, pulled down the British flag
and trailed it in the dust. Theconsul
chartered a vessel and went to Kings
ton as fast as he could go. Three
British men-of-war immediatelysteam
ed out of Kingston harbor, and the
next morning had arrived at Port Gu
Prince. The commander of the FLAG
ship sent the following demand to the
governor:
i. That the man who had been tax.
ed away from the consulate should be
returned.
2. That the governor himself
should run up the Brisish flag to its
place on the consulate.
3. That the governor, in front ofthe
consulate, should tear the epaulets
from the shoulders of the officer who
had so grossly insulted the British
flag.
The governor refused the terms, but
the commander waited till the hour
was fully up. Meanwhile he had ar
ranged his ships in line Of battle. At
the expiration of sixty minutes hedis-
charged two shells into the town. One
of them struck the corner OF the gov.
ernor's house and very nearly demol-
ished it. A flag OF truce was immedi,
ately sent out, and some officers de.
tailed to SO and meet it. The govern
OF said he was now ready to comply
with the terms, and they were compli-
ed with to the letter within the next
hour.
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s.Rubberso and "Galoshes."

The difference in the names Of com
mon things in England and the United
States was, perhaps, nsver better illus
tratedthan it was recently in the expe-
rience OF a young man from one . -four
Western States who went to London
to study medicine. On the first rainy
day he found himself in need OF pair
of rubber over shoes, and went into q
large store, where all sorts OF articles
are sold in different departments, to
ask for them.
II want q pair OF rubbers," lie said
to On attendant.
"A pair Of rubbers?" asked the man
apparently q little surprised.
Certainly; can | get them here?"
Ah,yes,y you may get them, no doubt;
/ will send q boy to fetch them.''
The boy started away. and was gone
flew minutes. When he returned, the
attendant handed to the American not
q pair of shoes, but q pair Of whet-
stonesl
"Why, I don't want any whet-
stones!" saidthe astonished American.
Didn't you ask, sir, for q pair Of
rubbers?"
Certainly, I did,
"And those are rubbers; they're
used, sir, to rub upon scythes. to
sharpen Them
Thedumbfounded American explains
ed what sort of articles he wanted.
"Well, WE'LL said the Englishman,
t'then why didn't you ask fer ga
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sIeepIessness.

A mother writes TO Babyhood that
she has found an unfailing remedy for
sleeplessness in her young children
fresh air. If babies are bundled up
well and protected with a sun shade
they will hardly be able to keep their
eyes open out OF doors; and will drop
off to sleepquickly. She recommends
that the mothers also take refreshing
exercise in the open air, saying 'if |
failed TO be in the fresh air sometime
each day when ] was nursing a baby
/ could always see the result in in
creased nervousness and fretfulness in
the child" We have seer one baby
raised with the happiest results on the
plan of taking its maps out of doors all
the year round. There is a ridiculous
notion that when babies are allowed
to sleep in the open air they ara apt
to be troubled with wind on the
stomach. There is no sense or reason
in it.
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Diet In Nervous Exhaustion.

Herald Of Health.
orlong the German physicians have
beer familiar with the fact OF the nse-
fulness Of fatty food in the treatment
of neuralgia and other affec-
tions. Later on the chemist has
found that a phosphorized fat (Leci-
theim) is the special ailment of the
brain and OF the w system gem
orally. 1t would seem that brain ex-
haustion is commonly the result ofex-
haustion of this complex fat, just as
anemia is the exhaustion and non-re-
newal OF the blood ~corpuscles, andthe
inability to form q new store. Rest
and lessened demand upon thenelvous
system allows Of a new storage; to-
wards which, however, fat and phos-
phorous are essential. When the as
similative powers are no longer able
to break up phosphate Of lime-the
ordinary source of phosphorus-then
this must be supplied in o form less
stable, so that the digestive powers
can break it up. Consequently, well
cooked fish, and especially oysters,
should form q large constituent OF the
food fish contains much phosphate
OF soda). BY an appropriate dietary
the recovery OF the lost nerve-power
can be attained.
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Start a Bed Of Strawberries.

Country Home.
Nowis helmet to lay QUIT for a straw
berry bed. 1t is not the best plan to
plant in the spring. An excellent ar
rangement is to SOW peas or other
early garden stuff where the straw
berry bed is to be located, and thus
take off a crop before time for plant
ing the bed. August is the best time
for putting out the plants, provided
it is not too dry. In that caseit is bet
ter to wait two weeks even before
planting, or until the ground is mois-
tened up sufficiently. BY planting in
August, the latter part, agood growth
will be found of bothroot and top be-
fore winter sets in.
A cultivated crop should precede
the strawberry this spring. Manure
the ground heavily with good stable
manure we'll rotted. 1t will become
thoroughly incorporated in the sol,
so that when strawberry plants are
put out, they can get a good hold
without the usual injurious effect OF
freshly applied manure to any such
crop. A crop of green peas will not
draw much from this fertilizing ma
terial. Their roots and the cultivation
given the ground while the crop Is
growing, will put the soil in frst-class
condition for the strawberry plants.
Another coat of finely pulveriaed
compost of stable manure, muck and
lime well cultivated in before the rows
for Strawberries are marked of, and
after it is plowed, viii put the land In
sfrst-class condition for strawberry
growth. There willnot be such q weed
growth, and the ground will not be
cold and damp at the start, as is the
case with spring planting. It is as
tonishing, too, the start that well cul-
tivated plants will get before winter
comes on. They need hoeing out sew.
eral times during the fall, for late SUM
mer and early fall is the time to Grad
icate all weed growth. II well attend
ed to at this time, the weeds will both;
CIR much less the next season.
believe in the m~atted-r0w system.
plant in rows about Is inches apart,
and the plants about ten inches apart
in the row. Allow the vines to mat
along in the row out five or six inches
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each side. The space left clear be-
tween the rows can be kept clean and
the ground loosened up with the hoe.
The berries do not gst so gritty by
this method, and the roots havegreat-
er feeding surface. The next year aft
er planting in August ought to bring q
crop, but | think the next one still
better. Many pillow them up alter
this, while Others take q third and
even q fourth crop. ! think not
more than three crops should he tax
en- from q piece of ground in success
sion.
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How to Make Hands Soft And white.

From the Scientific American,
There arenot nearly as many secrets
in hand treatment as people imagine.
A little ammonia or borax in the
water you wash your hands with, and
that water just lukewarm, will keep
the skin clean and soft. A little oat-
meal mixed with the water will whiten
the hands. Many people use glycerine
or their hands when they go to bed,
wearing gloves to keep the bedding
clean; but ~glycerine does not agree
with every one. 1t makes some skins
harsh and red. These people should
rub their hands with dry oatmeal
and wear gloves in bed. The best
preparation for the hands at night
is white OF egg with a grain
of alum dissolved in it. Quacks have
a fancy name for it.; but all can make
it and spread it over their hands, and
the job is done. They also make the
Roman toilet paste. 1t is merely
white of egg, barley flour and honey.
They say it vas used by the Romans
in olden time. Anyway, it is a first
rate thing; but it is q sticky sort OF
stuffto use, and does not do the work
any better than oatmeal. Thorough
est and hardest hands can be made
soft and white ina months time by
doctoring them a little at. bedtime,
and all the tools you need are a nail
brush, a bottle of ammonia, a box OF
powdered borax and a little fine white
sand to rub the stains off, or a cut oil
lemon, which will do even better, for
the acid OF the lemon will clean any
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Stacking Practices which Apply to Rye, Wheat
and Oats.

and Oats.
From the Kansas City Farmer.
The object of putting grain and hay in
stacks is to save it from loss by rain.
The secret of good stacking lies in max
ing it shed water, and to do this there
must be a thatching, a kind Of straw
shingling, on every part of the outside
above a few feet from the ground. All
the outside straw or hay must incline
downwards, and it must have that
tendency fixed when the stack is built.
The first thing to be learned and re-
membered about stacking is to keep
the middle full. Start in the middle
OF the foundation. Put the first fork
full there and build around it. Not
only must the middle be kept tull, hut
it must have the most trampingif any
is done, the point being that If any of
the stack is more solidly built than
another part it ought to be the middle,
so that in settling the middle will not
sink faster than the outside. Then lin
Ease of hay) if the outside layers are
so arranged with the fork as the stalks
diiu blhuco 10 tLiiblbtlcu Oub iuclln-
ing downwards, they will settle that
way.
The same principle holds with wheat,
rye and oats, but it is not so difficult
to get the straws into proper position
because they are bound in bundles
beforehand. But the stack must be
begun on the middle of the founda-
ton. Lay a bundle down, then put
another on top of that, letting the
butt end extend a little beyond the
heads OF the under sheaf. Build on
and around these, tops in, butts out,
ring after ring, until the bottom is
large enough. If the stack is to be
Tonga rick-and not round, then,
when the rings widen to the proper
size as to width, build back and forth
on the two sides that are to be run
out as ends. Widen the stack a little
as it is raised to about six feet,
then place two or three layers so
as to keep the outside going up
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#k.t#@M #HUNM
only keep his eyes open before mar
riage, and resolutely bandage them
afterward, much harm might be avoid
ed. Alase like mortals, love can only
grow wise with experience.
Probably the prose of married life
always steals in quite soon enough,
deadening with its cold water trickle
the glow of the honeymoon poetry.
Not that Opponents and runaway
matches are defensible by the social
moralists-although even they are q
less evil than mercenary and conven.
tional alliances maturely made. Youth
and love belong together, like June
and roses. Youth has often indeed a
winsome sagaciry of it's own, but one
must have lived and thought and felt
to have acquired the virtues of pa
thence and forbearance by which hui
man beings manage to live peacefully
together, sfor better or for worse"
1t is true in this matter, asin friend
ship, that woman must be herself be-
fore she can be another's. She is, first
OF all, q human being, with the right
and the duty of developing herself as
such-it may be by marriage, it may
be without it, or it may be by the
prolonged education of her woman.
hoodfora noble matronhood. What
ever she does, she has no right to give
up her own distinctive personality,
her human responsibility. The mar,
riage that requires this of any WON,
an, at any age, is for her a mistake.
The loss of a girls girlhood is the
strongest argument against an early
marriage. Every beautiful and de
lightful development is gradual; and
to have no interval between the ex
perience of q child and that OF a wife
is as if a green bud should burst al
once into a wide open rose, and sc
miss it's exquisite, maidenly, half
blow outlook upon the earth and in
to the heavens. Let girls marry
young if they will, butnot soyoung a.
to lose the sweetness of gazing quietly
out into life, through the fresh dew'
OF maiden meditation, fancy free