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Size and Shape of Ctsterns.

j. w, Springfield, Mo-:
Give the directions and proper size
and shape OF a cistern that wouldhold
about $500 gallons OF water.
A cistern eight feet in depth and eight
feet in diameter will hold 5000 wine
gallons. Agood cistern q be made
in a solid clay soil, if not in an expos
ed situation, by cementing against the
sides of the ground. Where the ground
freezes we would not recommend such
a practice, but lay a wall OF cobble-
stones IN q m%ortar.o f cement, and face
the wall with a thick coating of clear
mortar. Great care must be exercised
to get good cement, and mix it with
coarse sand. Finesand will not do at
all. One part cement and three parts
sand Is the usual proportion, to be
used as soon Is mixed. Every part of
the wall must be laid below the reach
OF the frost. This can bedone, and an
iron or wooden pipe or throat lead to
the surface, through which the pump
can pass. A cheap, and excellent els
tern q CONSTRUCTED ofwood, in the
form of a large casK, or a tank made
OF pine Or cedar plank. When sunk
into the ground, and kept constantly
wet, it will last for years. A better
way is to place the tank or caskin II
corner OF the cellar, with a faucet in
the bottom, from which the water is
easily drawn when it is desirable to
clean it out and when water is reuuir-
ed in the cellar. An open cistern in a
cellar will rarely freeze.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-23
Farmers as Gardeners.
From Vick's Magazine.

From Vick's Magazine.
The remark is often made thatfarm.
ers are poor gardeners, and it is too
true in most cases. Farmers families,
as a rule, are far more poorly sup
piled with vegetables than city resi-
dents. Not more than q quarter OF
the farms OF this region show anything
better in the way of garden produce
than q little sweet corn and some bush
beans and a few tomato plants, and
possibly even these last are wanting.
The field crops depended upon to sup
ply the potatoes that are wanted, and
perhaps, some turnips will be raised in
the fall, some years, as q second crop.
What q miserable showing is this for
those who are situated so that the
choicest vegetables Of the garden, the
various kinds in their season, might
appear in abundance on their tables,
provided the necessary are and labor
should be given to produce them.
But this picture is not overdrawn; it
is, unfortunately too true, and it isnot
less true that if we inquire about
the family fruit supply for country
tables W. shall find this quite as de-
ticlent, or Eel more so. There is no
necessity for this condition OF things,
andit is opposed both to the physical
and financial interests OF these fami-
lies. No part OF the farm can make
greater returns for the labor and 9TH
er expenditures, than the vegetable
and the fruit garden. If we inquirain
to the cause of their neglect we shall
find, III many cases, that their i'm
portarce is measurably comprehended
and the want Of them is felt, but the
labor and attention they require is
somewhat different from that of the
farm crops, and also, the garden inter
teres to some extent with the farm
work when it is not properly planned
and managed, as for the most part it
might bc,so as to cause little or no in
convenience in the performance of the
regular work. And for this purpose we
now ask our country and village read
ers who are directly interested to give
the necessary thought for the prepara-
ton of a good garden at this season
OF comparative rest, What shall the
garden consist OF? How and when
shall it be prepared? Who shall have
the direct supervision of it? These
and other questions can be consider.
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Cure for Dyspepsia.
ON Country Home.

From Country Home.
81 can tell you what is good for
dyspepsia, if any one wants to know"
said Mrs. Gray.
The wish to be told the cure was so
unanimous, that it would seem to in
dictate that dyspepsia is not exclusive
ly a disease OF the city, but has its
victims among the rural population.
"Myhusband," proceeded Mrs. Gray,
twas in such q wretched state that he
didn'ttakem much comfort. l heard of
the beef and hot water cure from q
friend, and have been making him try it.
He never would have stuck to it alone,
but I've kept him att steady and
he's a different | gave him near
ly raw chopped beef for breakfast and
dinner, with plenty OF hominy and
stale bread, and nothing but bread
and butter and hominy for supper.
Any OF you who know what q banker
ing for pies and cake my George has
always had, can tell what ajob it was
to keep him off EN-. LEST had to stop
making 'en. Just as soon as he walked
mornin's, l got him q full u OF hot
water and didn't let him eat the least
iiii.O VI any lliilS III t-IutFl Ol
an hour; then let him eat his break
fast. gave him hot toast, coffee to
drink at breakfast and supper, but I
persuaded him to 60 without drinking
anything at dinner but a cup
Of hot water with a pinch
of salt in it. Half an hour before sup
per ! got him to take a cup of hot
water regular. He tried my doctorin'
six weeks, and now he says he's a well
man again, and he's let it all drop ex
cept the cup of hot water first thing
every mornin'. He says he'll stick to
that longs he lives"
HAS he gone back to tea and coffee,
pies and cakes?"
"He takes tea and coffee, but l stint
hun on pies and cakes, He grumbles,
but he knows I'm right. I make
crisp cookies and soft gingerbread
with thick cream for shortening and
so he manages to get something sweet
'thout actually killing himself"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-23
Corn for Green Fodder.

Corn, taking all things into consider
alton. is the most profitable crop for
green fodder, and sweet corn is the
most palatable and nutritious on &C
count OF the larger quantity ofsoluble
saccharine matter in it. Corn has
also the advantage OF a rapid growth,
and two crops may be grown in one
season by planting an early kind
which natures in two mouths. Mar
ragansett sweet corn is the best vari-
ETY. for this purpose, and ii planted in
May is ready Tor use in July, and the
second planting comes in in Septem-
Der. Evergreen sweet corn planted in
July is ready for use in October, and
gives about double the yield of the
smaller kinds. Branching Durra is a
species OF millet, and while it is an ex-
cellent crop for the South it is not
equal in value to sweet corn for the
North, East, and West.
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Dead of AyOidable Disease.

A large proportion of the dead peo-
pie were victims OF advoidable dis
ease. Only Il small minority die from
the natural cause, old age. Food,
air, or climatic conditions, and water,
great agencies ofdestruction. Typhoid
fever, Asiatic cholera and epidemic
dysentery are moreg generally propagat-
ed by potable water than by all other
causes combined. The excretions of
the sick contain the seeds of these
diseases, which will multiply indef-
nitely in Il medium containing food for
their growth (decomposing organic
matter. moisture and a given tenn
perature.
EXcretal matters in or cess
pool should excite solicitude, not alone
Tor the filth but because it may con.
tain disease-germs capable o~finde6nite
multiplication. A pound OF a~rsenicin
Croton Reservoir would be incapable
OF reproduction, and the enormous
dilution would remove all dangerfrom
individual consumers; bnt the presence
! n the water supply OF New7York of
the eXcreta OF II person smitten with
cholera or typhoid fever might bring
death to thousands, because germinal
matteris not destroyed by dilution.
The sewage OF one Plymouth, Penn.
household filled that little city with
lamentations and mourning and
Woe"
Sewage is always nasty, and may
be deadly when it contains excretions
of the sick, The wafer spnnjy n q ,yoII
as the manural supply may then hold
the seeds OF disease which shall early
ripen the harvest of death. Keep the
well. spring, river, free from all posi-
bihty OF sewage contamination, that
they may remain what they have
been called in all languages, fountains
OF life If there be any suspicion,
and Its cause cannot be removed, re-
fuse to drink such water unless it has
first peer thoroughly boiledto DESTROY
every living germ; or else use rainwa.
ter stored in clean cisterns.-Dr. R.C.
kedzie.
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FARM AND FIRESIDE.
Farming Notes.

No house in the country can be call
ed a complete home without a garden
attached to it.-Ploughman.
Mr.. B. F. johnson tells The Country
Gentleman that Illinois has more fruit
trees "lifting their barren or dead
branches to the sky" than any other
state.
Sheep manure is good for any crop,
and especially for potatoes and corn,
on account OF it's fine condition.
"Men sound in soul and limb cam"
says Froude, 'be bred and reared only
in the exercise OF plough and spade, in
the free air and sunshine, with coun-
try enjoyments and amusements; new.
er amid foul drains, and smoke blacks,
and the eternal clank Of machinery"
Mr.. It. D. Curtis, of The Farmer and
Dairyman, ispersuaded that if we have
no constitutional right "to suppress
so monstrous a fraud as bogus but
ter we would better substitute aeon
stitution that will give us the power,
by protecting honest men rather than
rascals.
In Connecticut an applicant for ad-
mission to an agricultural course is
required to first have a Knowledge
Thorough knowledge" is the phrase
used-of Latin! and OF the analyti-
cal theory OF the MISUNDERSTANDING.
tions! And the pedants who have
made such rules have been allowed by
the Connecticut people to absorb
$165 ,OOO, for which they have gradu-
ated six agricultural students! How
long can that be suffered, if it be true;
butt it seems incredible.
In reply the following from a recent
number OF the Scientific American:
Asphalt, coal tar and sand make the
best floor. Melt the asphalt and coal
tar, equal parts in a large kettle.
Heat the sand on alarge iron par, and
mix one part asphalt and tar to four
parts sand, hot and spread quickly.
The grass which grows on dry, rich
soil, with free sunlight warming it, is
much morenutritious than thatgrown
on land filled with stagnant water.
Stock will eat the former down to the
roots before touching the latter. 1t
is very common in fields where under
drains run, to see the line over the
tile made plainly visible by its closely
cropped heritage.
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sat in the Amen pewln the brick meet
ing house, and be was seated where he
must behold her, and he always spoke
pleasantly to her at the incoming, say.
ing: .Fm gladto see you looking SO
well, J~erusha."
One winters night there had been u
donation party at the parsons and
Jerusha was there and Shad, and when
It came time to depart, was it not
Shad that observed that, whereas all
the others were going away in sleighs,
Jerusha must needs walk2 Sohetook
her gently by the arm and led her to
his sleigh, which was IL fine one, richly
painted, and stuffed with heavy robes,
and, before the woman realized it,
there she was in the sleigh, well tucked
in, with Shad by her side, flying over
the snow like the wind, and she per-
ceived how powerful he was, and how
he mastered the spirited horse, and
how gently, though firmly, he spoke to
the animal.
"The horse hasn't got the blind stag
gers, Jerusha," said he at length, smil-
ing quietly. Shall l give him the
bit?"
ies II you WISH
They flew SO she could not see, and
had to hold her breath, and she per
ceived that Shad, to hold her firmly,
had passed his arms about her, with
q respectful but powerful embrace.
Nor did she shrink away.
"Shall we ride further," he asked.
eyes," she said in alowvoice. eyes,
it seems"
"Seems WHAT"
"It seems SO much like counting,
Shad."
Eve eve did much counting, Jeru-
sha. That was the trouble, Iguess.
Let's begin now. l knew all along we
should, sooner orlater. Didn'tyou?"
81 kinder hoped so, Shad."
And after that he paid his court to
her like a young lover, for he had
learned her merit, and perceived that
at last she loved him, as he had al
ways her, and she, with what Joy she
now saw her lover as he was, and with
what reproaches and modification she
recalled her blindness.
He lived with her forty years, and
five sons and daughters had they, and
when he died she could not stay with
out him, and lay down and followed
him within a month.
Thus it happened, though twice di-
vorced and thrice married, Shadrach
Platt had only one wife, and with her
found peace and joy.-New York Sun.
E. j. Z.
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is Old Beef Tough?

From the Droyer's Journal.
A correspondent says: ri wish here
to protest against the prevalent idea
that old meat is tough. Never was
there a greater fallacy. The age of
the animal has nothing to do with it;
and the fact is, the toughest and most
tasteless meat is that OF a 2-year-old
steer, kept tat from birth and then
shipped to market, where he will ar
rive in a shrinking condition. On the
contrary, the most tender, Juicy. high
est-fiavored meat is that Of an old
animal, COW, or even a work steer
no matter how old-if fattened rapid
ly and killed when in a thriving con
dition. All meat is more or less
tough when the animal is losing flesh,
and the opposite-tender and juicy-ii
the animal is gaining rapidly; and, as
all your (Chicago) meat is killed when
the animal is losing flesh, you never
get any really good meat. The change
can be noticed in the meat before the
eye detects it in the animals condi-
ton"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-23
Courtesy Mt Homo,

One is forcibly reminded, in going
from place to place, how small and
seemingly trivial often are the things
which go to make or mar the comfort
and peace OF home. In some house
holds there is a genuine good will and
kindness which only works out half its
mission, for the reason that it does
not express itself in little courtesies OF
speech and action. These are more
important than some OF ourbusy men
and women may realize. The ready
"thank you" "if you please" &c, at
table and elsewhere, the quiet excuse
me" when obliged to pass directly be-
fore or inconveniently near another;
the loving good night" and CHEEKY
good morning, although littlethings,
are helps i'll making a happy home.
Courtesy is but the ready overflow OF
kindness and goodwill to all, and is
therefore but a natural expression
which costs nothing, but which often
cheers an aching heart, and which
never fails to make home brighter and
O attractive to old and young.
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Tomato Soup.

Tomato soup can be made in the
two following ways, and no II who
has not eaten it car have any idea
how good it is: To onepint OF canned
tomatoes Or fourlarge raw ones add
one quart of boiling water. Let the
vegetables boil till thoroughly mixed
through the water. Then add one
teaspoonful OF soda, when it willfoam.
Immediately add one pint OF milk.
Put in plenty OF butter, salt and pep
per to taste. 1t is then ready to serve.
Tomato soup can be made without
milk. To six large tomatoes or a
pint and a half OF the canned vege-
tables allow one gallon OF water and
boil thoroughly. Add large piece of
butter. Beat an egg to a froth, add IL
little milk or cream and put into the
soup just before it is sent to table.
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by entering into their joys, and keep
those joys innocent by your knowl-
| edge of them,
Shall We Eat All We Want.

Ii to "eat as much as one wants"
means gorging, or eatingfrom the mere
qualification OF the palate, we do not
need to answer the question, "Can l
eat as much as 1 want?" From the
lips OF a conscientious, reasonable be-
ing, who really longs for a little more,
but who has been from childhood fed
on the adages OF "Poor Richard" and
the likes, it would at least demand re-
s1ectful attention. He must think
and study out for himself this matter
OF quantity needed for his inner man.
Neither starving nor surfeiting can he
indulge in with impunity. Let him
keep his mental powers healthy and
decided on these points. Awell.poised
mind will aid him in reconstructing
the body into n as nearly perfect as
is possible.-Good Housekeeping.
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Kentucky Race Horse.

Forty years ago the most distin-
guished citizens Of the state were en-.
gagedin writing essays and prize papers
on scientific agriculture. A regular
trotting track was not to be found in
the whole country. Nothing was
thought OF the breeding and training
OF horses with reference to develop,
ment OF greater speed. Pacing horses
We're fashionable; and two great rivals
IN this seductive gait having been
brought together for q trial OF speed.
IN lieu OF a track, paced Il mighty race
yer a river-bottom fiat! We have
changed all that. The gentlemen no
longer write their essay. The trott1no
horse will soon, undoubtedly, be adj
united to manhood suffrage here, much
as beef nce won the srurs OF KNIGHT
hood. He has already, even without
the right OF voting, been styled the first
citizen. The great agriculturalfairs of
the state have modified their exhibits
with reference to him alone, and fifteen
OF twenty thousand people give after
noon alter afternoon to the contem-
patton OF his beauty and his speed.
LIE oAie rival - ~ thoroughbred, who
goes on running faster and faster. BY
and by time will be no more. One O
the brief code of nine laws for the gov.
eminent OF the young Kentucky Com
moilwealth that We're passed in the
flrst legislative assembly ever held
west OF the A~lleghanies dealt With the
preservation of the breed OF horaes
Nothing was s9k~sf education. The
,hentuckian Is the memory OF
Thomas Jefferson, not forgetting that
ne nee ran race horses. These great
interests. not overlooking the cattle
interest, the manufacture of whisky
and the raising OF tobacco, will no
ooupt constitute the future determin.
ing factors in the history of this coun.
try.-Harper's Magazine.
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Fun at Home.

There is nothing like it to be found
no, not if you search the world
through. l want every possible
amusement to keep the boys at home
evenings. Never mind if they do scat
ter books and pictures, coats, hats
and boots. Never mind ii they do
make a noise around, with their whis-
tlingand hurrahing! We would stand
aghast if we could have a vision OF the
young men going to utter destruction
Tor the very reason that, having cold,
disagreeable, dull, stiff firesides at
home, they sought amusement else
where. Don't let them wander beyond
the reach of a mothers influence yet
awhile. The time will come, before
you think, when you would give the
world to have your house tumbled by
the dear hands OF those very boys;
when your hearts shall long for their
noisy steps in the hall, and their rudy
cheeks laid up to yours; when you
would rather have their Jolly
whistle than the music OF all the
operas; when you gladly would have
dirty carpets-aye, live without car
pets at ALTO havetheir bright, strong
forms beside you once more. Then
play with and pet them. Praise
Johnny's drawing, Betty's music and
baby's first attempt at writing his
name. Encourage Tom to chop off
his stick OF wood, and Dick to per-
severe in making his hen-coop. Ii one
shows q talent for figures tell him he
is your mathematician; and ifanother
loves geography, tell him he will be
sure to make a great traveller or a
foreign minister. Become Interested
in their pets, be they rabbits, pigeons
or dogs. Let them help you in home
decorations; send them to gather
MOSES, grasses and bright autumn
leaves to decorate their rooms when
the snow is all over the earth. And
you will keep yourself young and fresh
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-09
Republican want rim.


Pennsylvania Republicans are strongly
urging Mr.. Randall to quit the Demo
cratic party and TO enter the Republican
fold. For some reason or other II seems to
have occurred 70 these Republicans that
Mr. Randall's recent vote on the Morri-
son tariff bill Las impa red his usefulness
as a protectionlst in Democratic gar
ments. Heretofore they have rather en-
couraged Mr.. Rsndall's Democracy as
well as his congressional fortunes; but
there seems TO be a prevalent opinion
that hereafter the revenue reform Demo-
Gratis will mean business, and that they
propose that the party shall keep It's
pledges; in other words, that the Repub-
licans shall not control Democratic con-
gress by means Of Democratic agents
Hence the Republicans 'are asking Mr.
Randall 70 be one Of them in name as in
spirit, on the theory that all protection
lists should be Republicans whenever they
cease to be useful Republican agents in
the disguise Of Democrats.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-09

small Industries, TIE GAzErTE gives
place to the brief comments Of the paper
referred W. Mr. Cline, says the States
vile, N. c., Landmark. sis paying 80 pei
cord for white oak cut to about thIrty-six
inches, which, until lately, could only be
sold here for fuel at sl.T5 per cord, and
much u which was burned on the clear
ings. But better thsn that, be is giving
employment 70 labor-not an army Of Ia
oorers, to be sure, but gtill twelve times
as many as he started with, and with q
prospect Of finding work for many more
before great while. His manufactures are
shipped away and the money comes back
here from somewhere else and 10 spent
here. This Is the advantage Of manufaG-
tories to town over every other branch
Of business which is engaged in 1t. They
are not sucking lis blood--one part Of the
community living of Of the other parts
but they bring in money; they add TO It's
wealth Mr. Cline, while doing well for
himself, is doing service TO the comrnu-
nifty He is adding his proportion to its
wealth, and is showing what can be made
out OF small beginnings. He is entitled
to public thanks for the example he has
set in establishing small factory, for in
these lie the hopes Of Southern towns"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-09

LONDON, ONT, July ga profound
sensation was caused here, particularly
in financial and legal quarters, this morn
ing when a rumor got abroad that f. Har-
ris of Harris, Magee & Co. had become
financially embarrassed and had fed from
the city, taking large sum of cash ans
leaving various funds in which he was
interested Ia state Of ENLARGEMENT. He
is supposed to have gone to Toronto on
Frld y and from there toward Niagara.
1t is known that before going he drew $780,
600 in cash, but the amount in his hands
is thought to be larger than that. The
Arm was dissolved by the other members
to-day. Harris has been wellIknown as
solicitor for many years and was re-
ported to be worth from $4,000 to $780,
900. The funds involved are those held
in trust chiefly for wealthy persons In
Great Britain. The loss viii not be I'M
der 100000. 1t is believed that Harris
has become temporarily deranged.