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The Honey Instinct.

How do bees know when there is
honey in the aowers2 Is it by instinct,
or are they frst.rate smellersf Do gay
colors attract them2
During any warm day, if I melt wax,
and have the door or window open, the
room will soon be alive with bees, and
they will even try to get down the chin
ney. Dear me! let the wax run over and
burn, and there will be bee convention
in short call; or melt honey, and drop
some on the stove. Is this instinct, or
do they smell9
I've plum tree out there in the gar
den that never fails to produce mag
nihcent crop of blossoms, and is fra
grant Sometimes I'm tempted to put
honey on the blossoms to induce the
bees to roam over them, but they know
the flowers are no good and will not
produce plums, and there is no work for
them to do. They cannot afford to spend
their time enjoying the sweet fragrance
and lowering over the delicate white
bloom, for pleasure only; they want
profit.
If gay coIors attract bees, then they
ought to hold high carnival over a red
clover field, for they could find both
bright colors and fragrance. They are
not like Oscar Wilde, for they pass great
Russian sun-tiowers that are over foot
in diameter, and hover over flower so
tiny as to be almost imperceptible. The
great bright peonies of our grandmoth-
ers' day, and bleeding hearts of our own
time, are passed by for the modest clover.
-PTairis Farmer.
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Anecdote of CrOcker. the Millionaire.

Chatting with Western man about
Charles +. Crocker, the Pacific coast
millionaire who died last fall, some of
the side incidents of his life, by which
his character may be gauged, came out.
1t was one of his common expressions
early in his successful career to say that
he was a se!f-made man, and be has fre.
ouently of later years told how he con-
stantly made use of this phrase as an ex.
cuse for any breach of the conventional
rules of etiquette. After he had become
wealthy he started Oh q trip around The
world, which took him down through
the Red Sea on board an English yes.
eel. The heat was intolerable, and ID
accordance with his independent notion
of things, took his seat at the table
without his coat, remarking to a com.
panion as he did 80 that "a self-made
man didn't need a coat with the ther-
mometer at 120 degrees" There was
quite stir among the passengers and q
protest from the captain, which led MIR.
Crocker to resume his coat, but not be-
fore he had put forth another dcclara.
tion that he was selt-made man. Mr..
Crocker has been heard to relate the
SEQUEL of this story and to laugh over it
most heartily. An old gentleman who
had been regarding him with somewhat
severe countenance aculated: 1t
must, then, have been great relief OF
responsibility to the Almighty when you
made yourself" Mr.. Crocker was
patron of art to q much wider extent
than is generally known, and his collec.,
tion of paintings both by foreign and
American artists, consisting mainly of
the works of the modern school, was one
of the best in the country.-Nep York
Gr1nb;c
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Sub Surface Irrigation.

Sub-surface irrigation, or the method
of supplying water to the soil under the
surface by means of perforated pipes. is
becoming popular. 1t is no doubt O
very convenient manner of using water.
As irrigation is the precise reverse of
draining, it may reasonably follow that
o method of furnishing the water for
irrigation similar to that by which the
water is drawn from the soil by drain
age might be applicable, the only differ
ence being that the pipes for the con-
veyance of the water are laid near the
surface where the water can be reached
by the most shallow-rooted crops. 1t is
an OBJ ection to the system in use that
the method is patented, and parties
using perforated pipes, or perhaps any
pipes at all for the purpose of irrigation,
may be annoyed by claims similar to
those made by the well-known and
despicable driven we'll robbery. 1t is
right that those who are thinking of
using the sub.surface method should
know this, and at the same time that
perforated pipes (Which are the basis of
the patent) are not at all necessary, the
common drain tiles, laid with knife
blade" joints, through which the water
will escape, are equally serviceable, and
as they may be used by simply reversing
the slope and connecting them with a
sufficient head of water, they may not
conflict with the patent upon the per-
forated pipes. But to be entirely safe
on this point it might be wise to keep
to the original surface irrigation. .-Nep
York Times.
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Best Feed for Dairy Cows.

Farmers have q much greater sphere OF
influence on the flavor OF milk produced
than many suppose, or they are willing
to admit. The reason why certain num-
Der of consumers in all large cities are
willing to pay what, to farmer or an
average consumer. may seem extraor-
dinary prices, is because they get but
tiers of high flavor which are always uni
form. The makers of these buffers nearly
all use clover and meadow hay aud corn
meal, in varying proportions with other
coarse fodder and meals. The makers
who produce the finest favors prefer
clover and meadow hay, cut on the green
side Just before maturity, and carefully
cured, fed with corn meal, ensilage and
roots. Forage plants harvested just be.
fore maturity contain their maximum of
nutritive matter, and therefore their
highest havors. When the coloring mat
ter of plants is allowed to bleach out, as
in hay or corn stalks, the flavor, or the
best part of it, goes with it. This fact is
one of the best reasons for the practice
of feeding ensilage, for by no other
method of treating fodder corn can the
color be so we'll preserved. The Swedes
and Danes use small quantities of rape
cake combined with their grains and
folders to produce the uniform
flavors which their buffers possess.
The Englishman uses wider
range of mixtures, including fine
clover and meadow hay, small quantities
of carrots, or mangels, middlings, shorts,
bran, pea and oat meal, corn and cotton
and linseed meals in various proportions.
In the United States, the farmer has
everything at his command for feed
which he can desire, with corn ensilage
of the best quality. Successful feeders
compound their rrations from many
sources rather than few, as much for the
purpose of maintaining health and vigor
of digestion as for the food of varied
favors. At present prices, there are no
cheaper basis for dairy rations than
gluten and cotton seed meals, mixed
with enough bran and shorts or what
ever else is cheapest on the market.
With hay at present prices and plenty of
corn stalks, most men will be able to
construct cheap rations from the most
abundant materials. Due care must be
exercised at all times to avoid exclusive
ness in compounding rations:
1t is assumed that every farmer who
feeds for butter will use a COW having
tendency in that direction, and that he
will apply the test of market quality as
we'll as the daily aggregate of butter fat
in ascertaining what animals in his herd
come nearest to this description. Quality
and success do not depend on luck or
chance. There is ''reason why" in all
things. The reason is ineligible to all
who desire to learn.-American Agricul-
turist.
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The Hog In Transit to Market.

Hog raising as an industry has de-
veloped wonderfully in the past dozen
years. Formerly hogs were raised after a
hundred plans by as many different
farmers, each of them going along in a hap
hazard way with a nondescript breed,
making what he could, losing what ne had
to, without either purpose in the former
or lesson from the latter. But the Patrons
of Husbandry movement, fguratively,
lifted the Western hog out of the mlre.
Books on breeding were studied, papers
were read, experiments tried and results
compared, until hog raising has become
systematic and profitable business.
The best crosses were secured, and efforts
on all hands tended to that point where
q nine-month. old pig should weigh ;OO
pounds. That is the contamination
aimed at, and the one which, habitually
achieved, marks the farmer q success.
But the handling of hogs is full of risks:
Pigs are proverbially uncertain. A herd
of hundred fine head may be reduced
to half dozen in week by any of the
epizootics their flesh is heir to. Against
these diseases there seems to be no pre-
ventive. They are liable to come under
any conditions and to defy any treat
ment known to man. Even when ready
for the market the prudent farmer Will
sell his herd at home below the market
price than take tho risk of moving them;
for even up to the point of loading
them some head are lost, and after that
the loss is often frightful. Hogs are
very easily smothered, and in hot
weather q dozen dead ones are often
taken from car at the stock yards.
But load in transit may be relieved
by the shipper or his help. If the at:
tendant be an expert hewill 60 forward
near the engine when supply Of water
is being taken on. As the tank pipe is
lifted and the train starts he will grasp
the rope of the tank and hang on like
grim death, running with increasing
speed while the train gains headway,
and leaping the gaps between cars watch
ing for his own-as curious figure as
ever was seen. AS the portion of the
train bearing his employers hogs passes
beneath the tank pipe he pulls the rope
he has been holding and sends flood of
water from the short arm of the tank
pipe over the swine, washing the car,
cooling its load and freshening up even
the weary ones, who had lain down with
an angry squeal, too tired to want
to rise again. His cargo past, the
the attendant lets 60 the rope and stops
his race on top of the train, diminishes
his tobacco plug by an ounce or so and
watches the tank swim out of sight
around curve with the air of man who
has solved the problem of standing while
he runs. Chicago Herald.
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SWeenY and Its Cure.

Sweeny, or the wasting away of the
flesh and muscles of the shoulder, is the
common result of all injuries which en-
tail disease of the limb. A sore foot
or any injury which will prevent the use
of the limb is very likely to cause q
shrinking of the muscles in the shoulder
or elsewhere. In old and long-standing
cases only a partial restoration of the
muscles can be effected, but if proper
treatment is given in its early stages
sweeny can be cured. If there is any
swelling or tenderness in the parts, wet
cloths should be applied to reduce the
Inflammation, following with gentle ex-
ercise and active friction over the
muscles of the shoulder to increase cir
culation. If early treatment has been
neglected then light blisters and bathing
in alcohol and dilute spirits of ammonia
will be very beneficial. The parts should
be rubbed briskly two or three times a
day with wisp of hay. and the animal
! allowed gentle exercise on soft and
\smooth ground. The restoration of the
parts to their normal condition will
necessarily be slow. but by perseverance
q cure will usually be effected. .-NeU
YorE Sun.
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An Jntoxicant Defined.

The Iowa Supreme Court, in the case
of the State against certain intoxicating
liquors, Cummings, claimant, has de-
cided that any liquor containing alcohol,
no matter how much it may be diluted,
is intoxicating. The courts below de-
clared the liquors not intoxicating, and
the State appealed. The case was sub
mitted upon the evidence of a single
witness. This witness was chemist.
He testified that one portion thereof
contained by weight 2.42 per cent. of
alcohol and 3.02 per cent. by volume,
and the other contained 2.59 per cent.
by weight and 1922 per cent. by volume.
The witness further testified that this
liquor would not intoxicate the average
drinker, but it would intoxicate large
portion of the people who were not in
the habit of drinking. The Supreme
Court now throws out the evidence, and
makes broad.guage decision as to what
composes intoxicating liquor in the eye
of the law, in the following language:
ssThe court must have found, under
the foregoing evidence that the liquors
were not Intoxicating. This finding
mas the IOrCe anu GucCI VI O fStuASe "a "
Jury, and cannot be disturbed if more
than one conclusion can fairly be drawn
from the evidence. Conceding the COM
potency from the evidence as to the in
toxicating character of the liquor, if tho
question to be determined rested alone
on such evidence, we are disposed to
think, under the settled rule prevailing
in this court, it would be doubtful
whether we could disturb such findings.
We do not feel called on to determine
such question. The statute provides
that the words Intoxicating liquors. as
used therein shall be construed to mean
alcohol, wines, beer, spurious vinous and
malt liquors, and all intoxicating liquors
whatever. Alcohol is, therefore, an in
toxicating liquor, regardless of the fact
that the quantity drank at any one time
would not have that effect. 1t IS I'M
material in q statutary sense what effect
alcohol may have on the human system;
it is intoxicating liquor. However much
it may be diluted it must remain an in.
toxicant when used as a beverage, and
no matter how it may be diluted or dis
guised it so remains, simply because the
Statute so declares. The liquor in ques-
ton contained alcohol and, therefore, it
as q matter of law was intoxicating"
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simplicity itself. The receipt said to be
the best is: Place terrapin in boiling
water; take it out as soon as dead; bake
in an oven until we'll done; take of the
bottom shell; take the gall out OF the
liver: season with cayenne pepper, salt
and butter; serve in the shell while not.
In the early days of Maryland and Viz
ginia full-grown seven.inch diamond
back terrapin could be bought for twelve
and one-half cents; forty years ago
seven-inch terrapins sold for fifty cents
each; thirty-tive years ago the brought
81 each; thirty years ago $1.5O each;
twenty-five years ago So each. Now they
bring from $2.5O to s. each. There is
very little loss in the terrapin, as every
thing is eatable in it except the gall,
claws and head. The shell weighs but
little when the meat is well cleaned out.
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Care of Chickens in Winter.

Chickens are the most accommodating
things in the world; they will eat almost
everything that any other animal will,
and accept most thankfully the refuse
that nothing else would look at. In
winter, when their food is necessarily
restricted to whatever is given them,
care should be taken to afford them as
great a variety as possible, and at least
once day something green should be
put before them, as cabbage, turnips,
beets. potatoes, etc. 1t would also be
richer, to give them vitality to endure
the cold. For their benefit, then, the
bits of fat meat, outside slices of boiled
meat, old gravies. etc., should be col
lected each day from the kitchen and
dining-room and be mixed with their
soft food. This is best food to them in
the morning or at noon, and the grain at
night, because the latter requires
longer time for digestion.-Neso York
Obser1fr.
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A Surgical Marvel.

A startling advance in surgical science
has been made by DR.. Maxlmlllan Klein,
German military surgeon. The par.
ticulars are given by the professional
journal Memorabilien. A man accident
ally cut off his left great toe in the mid.
die of the first joint. The severed piece
remained hanging to the foot, but the
connecting skin was scarcely thicker
than a thread. DR.. Klein sewed on the
fragment, dressed it with iodoform, and
had the satisfaction, in twenty-five days,
of finding the wound healed and the toe
perfectly sound and flexible. Encour-
aged by the unexpected result in this
case, DR.. Klein was induced to apply
the same treatment again. A recruit, in
order to disable himself and so escape
from military service, deliberately cut
off his fore-inger with an axe at the
second joint. The finger end was lost,
and could not he found until half an
hour had elapsed. 1t was then cold and
blue. Nevertheless, DR.. Klein sewed 1T
to the stump and applied a bandage OF
iodoform gauze. AS early as the second
day it was evident that circulation had
been partially re-established throughout
the finger, and in six weeks the man had
not only left hospital, but was doing the
very rifle drill which he had hoped to
shirk. The finger was, in fact, as SER
yiceable as it had ever been. These
stories read almost like extracts from
the exploits of Baron Munchhausen.
That they are chronicled in Memorabilien
is, however, evidence of their truth.
English surgeons will not be so unwill-
ing to credit them as they would have
been in the days before the discovery OF
the properties of iodoform. Lancet.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Work the Bulls.

They Learn in a few days to work
single or double, in horse power, cart,
wagon, plow, harrow, on farm or high
way. They become as harmless and do
cile as the gentlest oxen, are much less
dangerous than horses, and in some
things do more satisfactory work. I
worked them many years. Working
makes them better sires and their
progeny more hardy and thrifty. They
should be we'll fed and cared for, and the
vast amount and variety of work done
by them will many times overpay tho
expense of their keeping. If worked
properly they acquire no bad habits.
When worked double they never fight or
annoy each other when out of harness, in
pasture or at the manger.-Neao York
ReraG
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Mineral Manures for Onions.

Onions need rich soil. It can hardly
be too rich, but burnyard manures, un-
less thor roughly decomposed, are not the
thing to fertilize with. They are apt to
be filed with weed seeds. They are in
the way of cultivation if used as top
dressing, and they make the land too
loose and porous if plowed under.
Onions need rather firm soil under
them, with just enough loose, fine loan
near the surface for seed bed. Manur-
ing with mineral fertilizers obviates all
these objections. There is further
advantage in top-dressing with potash or
phosphate. that it tends to make the soil
more compact. Onions, unlike most
other crops, can be grown year after year
on the same ground and with increasing
success. If the plant gets what potash
and phosphate itrequires. it apparently
does not need that the soil be kept mel
low to any great depth, as most other
crops do.-Boston CuttiratoT.
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Cinnamon the Pioneer Sugar-Makers.

CnlnamCn CHc lOHccI cuS"h %
The Chinese, who invented almost
everything before anybody else heard OF
it, claim to be the original discoveries
of the process of sugar-making. ana II
is said that sugar was used in China as
long ago us 9OOU years. This is misty,
but the fact is we'll established that IL
was manufactured in China under the
Tsin dynasty 200 years at least before
the Christian era began. India has put
forward o claim for priority of inven-
ton, but the probability is that the
Hindoos learned the art sugar-maklng
from the Chinese and that through them
the knowledge finally spread to the
Western nations. Nearchus, when sent
by Alexander on an exploring voyage on
the Indus, brought back reports OF
'honey" which was made by the Aslatlcs
from cane, without the help of bees. At
this time neither the Greeks nor the
Jews nor the Babylonians had any
knowledge of the sugar, but later the
art of making the artificial honey"
became known and practiced, though
its progress and development was ex-
ceedingly slow. 1t was prescribed as
medicine by Galen in a. D. $50, and up
tn the seventeenth century it had be-
come nothing more than q costly luxury,
to be used only on special occasions.
Even as late as the beginning of the
eighteenth century the annual consump..
ton of sugar in Great Britain had
reached only 20, 600, 900 pounds, whereas
il is now more than 1000, 600, 600
pounds. Refined sugar was not made
IN England till 1853. The art OF re-
tining was learned by Venetian mer-
chant from the Saracens, who sold the
secret to him for 100, 900 crowns.-Aa|
and Erpress.
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A Seusible Man

Would use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs. It is curing more cases Of Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group and all
Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other
medicine. The proprietor has authorized any
druggist to give you Sample Bottle Free TO
convince YOU of the merit of this great remedy
Large Bottles SOC and 81.
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Raalenl Cure for Epileptic Fits.

To the Editor-.P Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which Warrant to cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir:
tues that will send fl zee sample bottle and
valuable treatise 10 any sufferer who will give
H.G. ROOT. VI. G.. 1S3 Pearl ST.. New York.
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Aged People

Who're blood has become thin or impure. are eEpec-
tally liable to attacks OF rheumatism to that weak
ness called general debility" The pains and aches
of the formor ara relieved by Hoods Sarsararilla.
which pures Al vitaizes the blood. while it also
tones and builds up the whole system.
MY wife and myself were both generally run
down. Hoods Sarsaparilla brought MS out Of that
tired feeling. and made US feel like young people
again. thas done moro for than nll other Incdi-
cines together" RICHARD HXwKuunsT. Amityville.
Long Island. NY.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists O.: six for g. Prepared only
BY c. I. HOOD CO., Apothecaries. Lowell. Aass.
100 Doses One. Dollar
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CatarrIf Cured.

COLONIAL wool on sale this season In London
amounts to some 155 600 bales.
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Catarrh Cured.
A clergyman. after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and valnly
nrescTiption which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread;
full disease sending a self-addressed stamped
envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, " warren
ST.. N Y, will receive the recipe 1reeoI charse'
II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Themp.
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at2oc. per bottle