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A Faithful Feathered Pet.

The keenness of vision and the per-
ceptive faculties of the carrier pigeon
have been noted in song and prose, but
it is doubtful whether the most fanclful
writer ever suggested the probability
that the CANCELS of the air" could find
their way to their homes after an
absence of nine months. This has hap
pened, no ever. and a bird owned in
Pittsburg by Mr.. Hermann Haupt, OF
Sarah street, south side, is entitled to
the distinction that belongs to the
feat. The Dispatch, of Pittsburg, says
that one day in June of last year Mr..
Haupt and several of his south side
friends, who are pigeon fanciers, sent
large number of carrier pigeons to Rich
mond, Ind, on trial trip. They were
all excellent flyers, and had been away
en- a good many excursions OF almost
that distance. Among others Haupt
sent the one which only returned the
other day.
The pigeon is named Favorite, and it
has very good record as fast and sure
racer. Haupt was much astonished,
therefore, that Favorite did not return
the next day, but he was even more
astonished when he saw the bird alight
and walk into it's own coop the other
day. Haupt thinks that somebody
caught the pigeon and locked it up. with
view of keeping it, and ne values
Favorite now more than ever.
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SOWING GRASS-SEED.

It is hard to say, to the inquirer, chow
deep bluegrass seed may be covered with
light, loose soil in winter and not be
killed out but grow up through the soil
in the spring" Very few experiments
have been made to determine this point.
The general practice is to SOW such light
seed on the surface either early in the
autumn OF in spring, and then lightly
harrow or cover with brush drawn over
the ground. By these methods the seed
is rarely covered more than half-inch,
and much of it will not be covered at all,
but light shower will beat it down deep
enough to insure rapid termination.
When grass seeds are sown in spring the
plants become so firmly established before
the following fall that they are enabled
to withstand the cold of winter. Sow
ing the seed of hardy species of grass in
the early fall is often practised by farm
ers, and in regions where heavy snowfall
gives protection to the young plants it
answers very we'll, but in milder regions
and where the young grass is not pro-
tected there is always more or less danger
of the plants being thrown out by frost.
-New York Tribune.
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CORN-FED HORSES.

Corn is the banc Of tho iarrl horse, as
it is also of the horse doing any other
sort of work, not because of not being
sufficiently nutritious, but because it
makes too much fat and not enough
muscle. The horses muscle wears away
by work as metal does by friction. Fat
wears away under exercise, but its dis
appearance in no wise lessons the power
for draft or speed. On the other hand
we'll nourished and vigorously exercised
muscles, without a deposit of fat to keep
them company, are much more efficient
for any purpose for which the horse
is kept, than when there is load
of fat to be carried. The trainer acts
upon this proposition, and works the fat
off, experience having shown that the
muscles, trained down by exercise
until fat accr mutations are removed
fattening foods being mainly abstained
from-gives the best results in the case
of q speedy horse. Tie same rule will
hold good with the work horse, though
modified by the degrees in which the
movements of the latter are slower than
those of the former. If the farmer has
only corn for feed, then he will be wise
if he makes sale of his corn, or the great
est part of it, buying oats instcad.-
National Horse Breeder.
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MANAGEMENT OF SPRING LAMBS.

Children and lambs have natural
liking for each other; but do not have a
pet lamb unless you are ready to tolerate
a nuisance, and do not permit the chill
dren to tease the lambs unless, you are
willing to have vicious sheep hereafter.
This applies mostly TO the male lambs.
While the sheep is naturally docile, vice
is easily induced in the ram, and vicious
ram is an ugly customer. Wean lambs
when four to five months old. Place
them on fresh, tender pasture. If clover
has been sown with small grain, and q
rain brings the clover along nicely after
the grain is cut, it makes fine pasture
for weaning lambs. Or, three to four
weeks before the young grass is needed,
NOV few acres Of pasture. Give the
lambs-and all sheep, for that matter
easy access to salt and water. AccuStom
the lambs to dry feed as soon as the pas
lures begin to fail, by yarding them at
night. Failure to do this is one of the
things that takes the profit from sheep
rearing. Castrate and dock when young
as soon as the lamb is surely owned by
its dam is none too early. To dock, have
an assistant set the lamb on board,
holding it with its back to him, hind
leg in each hand and drawn we'll up.
Make the incision through a joint,
downward and outward. This leaves a
hood to protect the wound, Fish oil or
castor oil is as good an application as tar,
and less Observation-Disclosures Agri-
culturiSt.
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Vivid Writing.

A little descriptive piece entitled "Oyer
the Guns from the Detroit Free Fress, of
which we give paragraph, reminds us that
great advertisers, like h. Ii. Warner & Co.,
proprietors of Warmers celebrated Safe Cure,
might get hint from it.
Here is the paragraph:
''Shoot to the right or left, over the guns
OF under them. Strike where you will, but
strike to destroy. Now the hell surges down,
even to the windows Of the old farmhouse
now back under the apple trees and beyond
them. Dead men are under the ponderous
wheels Of the guns, mad devils are slashlng
and shooting across the barrels No one
Ieems to know friend from foe. Shoot, slash,
kill and
"But the hell is dissolved. The smoke is
lifting, shrieks and screams grow fainter,
and twenty or thirty living men pull the
lead bodies away from the guns Three
hundred dead and wounded on the single
icre. They tell of war and glory. Look
,ver this hells acre and find the latter" And
n just as deadly strife, though noiseless,
ire men falling at our right and left to-day.
Is it war; Yes, war of the blood. Blood
oaded with poison through imperfect kid
ley action. And is there no power to stop
his awful slaughter! Yes, Warmers Safe
Cure, tried specific, panacea that has
brought life and hope to hundreds of thou
lands of dying men and women.
Be enlisted, therefore, in the great army
If living men and women who have been
rescued from disease and premature death.
md be eternally grateful that the means Of
ife can so easily be YOURS
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A Strange Piece OF Artillery.

One of the strangest pieces of artillery
n Europe is at Metz, Germany, and is
known BY the name of the "Grlffin, "
from the figure of the fabulcls animal
which is to be found AMONG the orna-
mental portion of its workmanship. The
gun was cast in 1929 at hrenbreitstein,
lear Coblentz. 1t is seventeen feet in
eneth and three in diameter. The bore
ten and onehalf inches: weight, 92,-
500 pounds. It's carriage is twenty. y.four
'eet in length, and the weight of the
BALL which it carries is 157 pounds.
rorty-two pounds of powder is required
;or the charge Napoleon intended il
ior the war department, Paris, but found
difficulty in transporting it.
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COAL ASHES FOR FRUIT TREES.

There can be no doubt that coal ashes
spread under fruit trees ere very helpful,
and as they show little or no manurlal
value, there is often difficulty in explain
ing their good effects. One way they
help is to make mulch. Coal ashes are
light, and the fact tl,,-t they have not
much manurial value makes them all the
better for keeping down grass, which de-
pletes the soil of the moisture that the
trees need. Three or four inches deep of
coal ashes spread under trees keep the
soil moist and cool. If they are spread
on sod they kill the grass, and this with
the decaying sod roots make a fine feed
ing-place for the roots of the tree. 1t IS
probable, also, that under this mulch the
soil itself undergoes important chemical
changes, fitting its manurial elements for
absorption by roots.-Boston Cultirator.
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A LonS.Perpetuated Biblical Error.

A Partisan paper calls attention to a
singular mistake in the revised version of
the Old Testament, or rather to the per-
pctraton of an old error. It occurs in
II Chronicles, xii, 1, where Ahaziah
is described as, at the age of 40, having
succeeded his father. who died at the age
of 40. Seeing that another, and a per-
fcctly possible account of the same cir
cumstancc is given in II Kings viii, 26, it
is surprising that this Obvious error should
have escaped correction. According to
the Book of Kings, Ahaziah's real age at
his accession was only 22. At the time
of Ahaziah's birth, therefore, his father
was 1S-a fair age for Syrian father of
a frstborn. This particular error is older
than the art of printing. 1t dates back
to some ancient copy of the Book OF
Chronicles. 1t is reproduced in :he
Douai version of the Old Testament.
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Slaughter Of Seals by Marauders.

"Unless the laws prohibiting the kill.
nc of seals by marauders are faithfully
.nforced," said Representative Dingley,
If Maine, recently, sit will not be five
Tears before the valuable seal roolseries
N the Alaskan seal islands, which now
rield the United States Government an
lnnual revenue of over 100000 Ito be
probably increased to half mllion),
will be destroyed, as all the South Ses
ookeries have been. The fur seals re-
tort to the Alaskan seal islands five
months in the year to bring forth and
ear their young, the females leaving
heir young upon the shores and going
,ut into the waters of the Behring Sea
laily for food. If marauders are allowed
% pursue and kill the females while
hey are searching for food, not only dc
he females perish, but also their young.
More than that, not more than one out
If seven females killed in the water is
recovered, so that 0,OOO sealskins OBJ
aimed by the marauders represent 140,-
700 female seals destroyed, and the young
addition: while the regular and au-
;horized killing on the land by authority
If the Government is confined to the nom
breeding male seals, thus preserving seal
;fo
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Mnnnshiner Miners.

Some of the rugged moonshiners who
ire brought down to Atlanta from the
mountains of North Georgia and jailed,
whose lawlessness consisted in making q
title contraband whisky, know some
hing of crude metal. In their search for
hidden places to screen their operations
rom the keen eye of the revenue agent,
n the mountain gulches and the beds of
ihallow streams they often find glitteriug
particles of gold, and sometimes nuggets
jarge enough to be of considerable value.
While they live from hand to mouth,
:hesc little pieces Of gold are treasured
md frequently carried about for years in
he pocket of the finder. Sometimes in
;he Fulton County JAIL when they have
ALLEN victims to Uncle SANS vigilance,
;heir own wants or thoughts of the help.
ess ones at home bring out the little
treasured pieces of gold and the jewelers.
get them. The United States Deputy
llarshals act rs the middlemen in these
transactions, as the relation between the
deputies and the prisoners here is often
lutte friendly. -Iimes-D .mocrat.
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Curbing the Niles Vagaries.

Egypt is very anxious at present over
the vagaries of the Nile, which has rever
been so low at this time of year since a
record began to be kept of the water
supply. The Nile usually keeps falling
till June, and, if it were possible for the
process to continue at the present rate,
she river would become dry. The con-
iit:on of the Nile at low water for two
successive seasons has been calculated to
bring into favorable notice the great
project of the American engineer, Mr..
Cope Whitehouse, for storing the surplus
water during the inundation in the
Raiyah basin, little southwest of Cairo,
20 be used during the low Nile period.
He eitimates that a reservoir can be
made at a cost of 81, 500, 900 that will
Iupply the Nile at low water with fifty
million cubic metres of water day. His
plans have been approved by eng gineers
ind by the Egyptian Government, but
he money to carry them out is not yet
forthcoming. 1t is a noteworthy fact
hat his scheme contemplates little more
han restoration of the reservoir, dikes,
md canals that are believed to have
been used for many centuries to equalize
!he Nile food. and whose ruins can be
Ieen to this day.-Nep York Sun.
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Why a Cat Falls With Impunity.

1t is quite wonderful to see cat jump
from height. 1t never seems to hurt
itself, or to get giddy with the fall. It
always lands on its feet, and these are so
beautifully padded that they seldom or
never get broken. Why does not the
animal get headache after its jump2
Why does it not receive a conclusion of
the brain, as a man or q dog would if he
performed a similar acrobatic feat9 To
answer this, we must examine a cats
skull, when we shall sec that it has a
regular partition wall projecting from its
sides, good way inward, toward the
center, so as to prevent the brain from
suffering from conclusion. This is indeed
beautiful contrivance, and shows an ad-
mirablc internal structure, made In won
dcrful conformity with external form and
nocturnal habits. Scientific american.
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The Pyramids Mechanical Mystery.

At one of the meetings of the British
Association paper was read on q plan OF
raising large stones for the purpose of
building huge masses of masonry, and
which was supposed to be the means en-
ploycd in building the pyramids, al
though the precise method adopted by
the mighty builders of the valley Of the
Nile was admitted to be aveyed question.
The suppos;tion is that the lifting power
was applied from below, the stone being
raised by a tilting process. One end Of
the stone would first of all be raised from
the ground by means of powerful levers,
which might bc CT considerable length
and worked by a large number of men.
After getting the stone to the proper
height, slab of stone or metal could he
inserted, and Il similar process adopted
with the other end of the stone. So, by
alternately working at either end, GER
tain height might be attained. Then, by
the Use Of wedges and rollers, the stone
might be got into position. Another
method suggested was by means of
slightly inclined planes formed of strong
timber work or even masonry, working
the stones up on rollers by leverage ap-
piled behind. There docs not seem to be
any suggestion of any direct lifting
power applied from above. The question
is certainly one involved in considerable
obscuritv.
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EiRel Tower EIeYatOrs.

The Eiffel Tower, at the Paris Expo.
ition, has enough elevators to take 1850
persons up to the first story and $50
,ersons to the top in an hour, and count
ns all the stairs five thousand visitors
an be admitted to the tower every sixty
minutes. BY means of the two elevators
me can reach the apex in five minutes.
Is to the means required for that result
is estimated at four hundred horse
,ower. There is consequently installed
it the foot of the tower pump OF four
hundred horse power, which will send
o the upper reservoirs all the water re-
luired. So, you see, the going up Gas
Ugh as the sky" not to mention the
oming down again, will not be the
east Interesting Of the many industrial
Incidents of which the Champ de Mars
will soon afford us>the spectacle San
Francisco Chronicle.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
ok we'll to the seed corn.

Look we'll to the seed corn.
1t takes a woman to set hen.
Cover your water trough if you have
pigeons.
Have you laid your plans for winter
dairy next season!
The dairyman pays his biggest tax to
his own ignorance.
Farmers who honor their profession
will, in turn, be honored by it.
Newly hatched chicks need nothing fol
twenty-four hours after leaving the shell.
Let parsnip seed be planted early, and
when we'll up thinncd to six inches apart.
A dairyman should be very inquisitive
and observant, for his profit depends
upon it.
See that the food given to your COWS
is of the best quality and in the best con-
dition for digestion.
The general farmer should keep some
sheep, and it is practicable for him to dc
so if he has good fences.
Burn all the old wood that is cut out
of blackberries and raspberrics, to de-
stroy the eggs of insects.
Iron posts and wire are to be the fence
of the future. The quicker the farmer is
prepared for it the better.
When you turn the COWS to pasture
give them a feed of hay or nice corn fod.
der in the morning and at night.
The oil test is the shortest, least ex-
pensive and most simple test for learning
the amount of butter fat in milk.
To save plants from the curculio, spray
first when the blossoms fall; delay OF
ten days caused a loss Of the crop.
1t is the testimony of some good sheep
men, that they use barbed wire for fenc.
ing their pastures, and lose little or nc
wool.
Slippery watering places are danger.
Gus for the in-calf COW, as a fall may
cause abortion, even if the cow herself
escape injury in other ways.
The reason for not mixing the night S
and mornings milk until ready for heat
ing up and curding is, mixing warm and
cold milk hastens decomposition.
Never purchase farm without having
a search made, back to the State, to know
that your title will be perfect; and be
sure that there are no membranes.
Drill points heated to q cherry red and
tempered by being driven into bar OF
lead will bore through the hardest steel
or plate glass without perceptibly blunt
ing.
If your brood-mare is expected to foal
this season do not spare her from work.
Moderate exercise will benefit her. 1t is
unwise to keep brood-mare in the stall
and overfecd her.
Do not let the milk more than slightly
begin to change before skimming. To
let the milk lobber is positively bad, as
it renders it impossible to remove the
cream without taking too much Gaseous
matter with it.
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help to give constitution to the calf. A
good compound is formed of one part corn
and two of oats; another is one part corn
and one part oats and one part wheat
bran. The nearer the time of birth OF
the calf approaches, the more care should
be given, and the less feed, especially of
the corn.
After its arrival, give the calf two
weeks probation in which to get used to
its new surroundings, then teach 1t to
drink. Commence by giving five plntss
of new milk twice day; at month old
let it have what clover hay OF corn leaves
it will eat and Il half pint of oat meal
daily; at two months give pint of oat
meal and at three months increase to q
quart. Reasonably sweet buttermilk Is
the next best feed to new milk; skim
milk next to that. If you feed butter.
milk, warm it by immcrsing it in water
heated to not over 100 degrees, as it will
separate if heated warmer than that. II
YOU feed skim milk add oil meal -;hict
has been eclatinizcd by adding to 1t Sin
times its bulk of warm water.
When the calf is three and half o.,
four months old, double its feed of oats,
and let it have all the good hay or past
ure it wants. Let the calf have free &C.
cess to pure water and salt at all times.
Would not advocate milk diet after SIX
months old Make all changes from one
feed to another Gas from new to skim OF
buttcrmilk) gradually.
If you are raising beef let the calf do
its own milking, giving it access to grain,
hay and watcras in the other case.-Farm,
Fic!a and St0chmaa.
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RAISING THE CALF.

At the Farmers Institute held in Gen
eva, Ill.,, Mr.. E. E. Garfield read paper
upon "Raising the Calf" In treating this
subject, he said it was necessary to first
decide to what purpose the coming COW
twas to be devoted, meat or milk, beef or
!butter. In raising the calf, the treatment
,of the pregnant dam has much more to
lido with the success or failure than most
ipeople allow. You must have constitu-
itional vigor if you want to raise calf
iproftably. This cannot be obtained II
the dam is not properly cared for when
.pgegnant. Cats fed to the mother will
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A Male Beauty Show.

A novel sort of beauty show is about
to take place at Vienna. The beauties on
view arc gentlemen, and their claims are
to be decided upon by lady judges.
There are prizes for the handsomest man,
and for the finest mustachc Gentlemen
in the serc and yellow leaf will not be
excluded from the competition for there
is a special prize for the most imposing
bald head.-Lpnl!0n Life.
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BELLS FOR SHEEP.

The cheapest and best insurance against
dogs killing sheep are bells-plcnty OF
bells. The sheep dog is great coward
when in pursuit of mischief, and he
wants to do it quietly wants no noise,
no alarm. Bells bought at wholesale do not
cost much. Buy a side of bride leather
at the carriers for collars and put bell
on every shecpi your flock is small. The
price of one sheep will buy gross of bells
and leather enough and buckles enough
to strap them. Put this gross Of bells on
a flock of sheep and they will frighten
every dog out OF the feld'-'soHther"
Farmer.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
HARNESS DRESSING.

One gallon meats foot oil, two pounds
bay-berry tallow and two pounds OF bees
wax make good harness oil. Put the
above in a pan over moderate fire.
When thoroughly dissolved, add two
quarts of castor oil, then while on the tire
stir in one ounce of lampblacE. Mix
well, and strain through fine cloth to
remove sediment; let it cool, and keep II
in tin cans.-Rulul Home.
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No Chemicals.

In THESE DAYS when food adulteration IS so
common, it is comfort to find an article for
he table that is thoroughly reliable. Walter
Baker G. Co.'S breakfast cocoa is eminent IN
his limited class. No chemicals are used in
Is manufacture and it is absolutely pure. 1t
orms moreover delicious and healthful
rink, as refreshing and more nutritious than
co or coffee, and free from the injurious effects
hat those beverages sometimes produce. And
is very cheap withal. The house OF Walter
!aker s; Co. has maintained for more than 100
ears great and honored reputc by the ex-
ellence and purity of its manufactures.
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Advertising patent medicine in the pecu-
lar way in which the proprietor Of Kemp's
.alsam, for Coughs and Colds, does it is indeed
rondcrful. He authorizes all druggists to give
hose who call for it sample bottle Free, that
hey may try it before purchasing. The Large
.ottles are SOC and 81. We certainly would ad-
Use a trial. 1t may save you from consump-
ion
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Tor Ricketts,, Marasmus, md Wasting Dis
orders of Children,
corr's EMULSION Of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Iypophosphites is unequalei. The rapidity
nth which children gain flesh and strength
pon it is very wonderful. Read the follow:
ng: ~ have used Scott's Emulsion IN cases OF
tickets and Marasmus Of long standing, and
s in every case the improvement was
marked. .',aJ. NJ. MAIN, Md. New York.