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Godsniths gentemen's and ladies' waterproof collars
cuffs aud shirtfronts. Agents and canvasssrs wanted
James Goldsmith 744 Broadway; entrance Astor Place.
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when in search OF business chances examine the
short advertisement in The Tribune fhey are On
the ninth page today.
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MARRIED.

CANFIELD-KEELER-At the Centennial Presbyterian
Church. in Jefersonyle, Penn, Wednesday evening,
July 20. at o'clock. by the Rev: S NJ. keeler. Mr..
Koher NJ Canheld Of Providence, r. L. and Miss Laura
+. keeler. the daughter of the pastor.
CURTIS-FETTRETCH-On Saturday. August /. at the
residence OF the BRIDES parents BY the Rev. J. Wesley
Johnston, Marie Louise daughter OF James Feretch 10
Alfred Halsey Curtis.
Notices of marriages must be Endorsed with full
name and address
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IF FAT BoILs OVER.

A kettle of boiling fat on hot stove
should be carefully watched. Fat boilg5
at a much higher degree of Temperatures
than water does, and this fact, together
with the fact of the great combustibilifys
of fat, makes an accident of spilled fat
on hot stove extremely dangerous. In ]
case such an accident should happen, the
natural impulse, to throw water on the.
the fire, is not the best one TO follow. AZ
large quantity of water might extinguish
the flames, but q pailful would only:
spread the fire. .s. fs
Firemen say that the best way to put
out fire of this kind is to throw ashes
or sand on it. If a woman has not ann
pie means of this kind at hand for putt
ting out the fire, the best thing she can
do is to run for aid, unless she knows
that there is none within reach. In any
case personal safety should be her first
thought. y IS
III case woman is 80 unfortunate as
to have her clothes catch fire, the best.
thing that she can do is to lie down a and 3 +
roll. and if possible to wrap herself M
something woollen. as blanket or shawl
or rug. The worst possible thing to do
under such circumstances is to run out of
doors. Running only fans the flames
and gives the fire chance to spread and
mount upwards. 4.
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TIE POTATO CROP.

There is qualification of an abundant
crop of potatoes, after the partial de-
privation of last year. The immense
crop everywhere will be likely to give
them nominal value, but this should
not deter any one from continuing to
cultivate them to the same, or greater
extent, year after year. It's the persis-
tent grower of any product, adapted to
his conditions, who does we'll thereby,
and not the spasmodic and half-hearted
person who drops crop or kind OF stock
which happens to be under cloud for
season.
There is one serious drawback to suc'
cessful market. potato culture by many
farmers, and that il disposition to grow
too many kinds wiskou! taking sufficient
pains to keep them separate. A "straignt
lot of even inferior potatoes will be sale
able when i "nixed" lot goes begging
for buyer Select some good, popular
kind, sort them rlgidly at seeding time
and when taken to market, aud in the
long run the complaint will not be heard
at don't pay to bother with many pota'
toes"
The question of proper quantity o
seed seems, this year, to have been settled
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RELIOUS READING.
HARVEST DAYS.

HARVEST Days.
The shininglden Harvest-days!
Fair gospes whose feet are shod
With peace plenty, and whose hands
Are filled h gracious gifts Of God.
O davs as bIt with miracle
Az dawnen sacred Palestine.
The clod un;one are changed to bread,
Aud livipaters turn to wine!
O days that US year by year
Gods Hais DER us still. nor We
Need strainr faith to reach the Love
That wal. in distant Ga lice.
o DAYS Of direction JOY,
When fuHed graves are opened wide,
And dull lightly germs appear
In liyingtlies glorited.
Lush gra2eke swinging ccnsers hang
From ric laden boughs, and ill
The fields n incense as the sun
IlInmineuitful vale and hill.
The orcna,olors glow and greet
with sws the sweetness. of The hay,
And UaryMoon forbids the night
To he leseautiful than day!
o holy. ha Harvest-Days,
Sweet chiclers Of smile and tear,
OF light aphadow, pain and toll, :,
Earth's .rt bears through the clrcllng
Like ve. Sc rich and ripened shearcs,
Some fl of deed fain would show,
Perfected life's smiles and tears,
And beiful in joy and woe!
-[Zitellac cke in the Youths Companion
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POINT OF VIEW.

7 Ionoeard of some blind men who were
taken menagerle. They had gone
arounde animals, and four of them were
alloweo touch an elephant as they went
past. ,ey were discussing afterward what
kind creature the elephant was. One
man W had touched its tail, sdid the ele,
phantls like q rope. Another OF the blind
men, 70 bad touched his hind limb, said.
"No 81 thing! the elephant is IKE the
trunk tree" Another, who had felt lts
sides, id, That is all rubbish; an elephant
had fits ear, said that an elephant was
like ne of these things; it was like q
leathCa,. Now men look at truth at diff
ferents of it, and they see different things,
of core. and they are very apt to imagine
that thing which they have seen is the
who ',tfair-the whole thing.-IProf. Hen
ry Dmmond.
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BEST cow FOR A BUTTER DAIRY.

For butter dairy the best COW is that
which will make the most butter from
the least food. 1t is misleading to sup
pose that the most prolific COWS are the
most profitable, as these usually consume
al enormous quantity of food of the most
costly kind, and the first cost of them is
very great. No doubt the Jersey cow is
the best for this purpose, and as very fair
Jerseys may now be procured at reason
able cost, it would be advisable to stock
butter dairy with them. If the neces-
sary expenditure Is an obstacle, the best
of the common kind of COWS that can be
selected should be procured, and herd
be bred up by crossing these COWS with
a good Jersey bull. 1t may be done in
few years, and in the meantime the
herd Is paying its way. The Guernsey is
as good cow as the Jersey for butter
yield, but the supply OF them is not suf-
fcient as yet to bring the price within
the reach of the ordinary farmer. This
breed is larger than the Jersey, and gives,
as q rule, higher colored BUTTER
NeU York Times.
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have a soul tyill outlast me aud all my
brotherhood oramids. Live for eternity!
Live for Gc With the shadows of the
evening nowlling from my side, | pro-
nounce uponl beneaiction. Take it
with YOU acrdhe Mediterranean. Take it
with YOU &C the Atlantic. God only is
great! Let ae earth keep silence before
Him. Amen
And then tips Of granite hushed, and
the great giaf masonry wrapped himself
again in the ace of ages, and as l rode
away in the aering twilight, this course
of sermons Unprotected.
Wondrou, Eg Land OF ancient pomp and
pride.
Where Beautyks by hoary Ruins side,
Where plentYns snd M stu ths seasons STa sme'
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WHEAT EXPERIMENTS.

As to the comparative merits OF thick
and thin seeding of wheat, experiments
at the Ohio Station running through q
series of ten years are reported as fur
nishipg conclusive evidence that higher
Yields are obtained from seeding at a
rate not below five pecks to the acre nor
exceeding seven pecks.
Seeding below four pecks per acre
oives fewer number of bushels OF in
ferior quality. Seeding above seven
pecks per acre gives fewer bushels but
a superior quality of grain. ,
|! Broadcast seeding has given as good
results this year as drilling, but in a
series of years drilling has produced the
largest crop.
Very Ii ght mulching has apparently
been of some benefit this year. Heavier
mulching has invariably injured the
crop. Cross drilling has been OF no ad-
vantage this year.
No larger crop has been produced
this year from mixed seeds OF two Varl'
,, cites than from pure seed of the same
varieties sown separately.
The sinking smut or bunt OF wheat
may be almost completely eradicated by
! soaking the seed wheat in solution CT
copper sulphate, and the same result may
be more economically obtained by Inn:
mersing the seed in water heated to LIZ
degrees to 135 degrees Fahrenheit:
The red-bearded varieties producing
the highest yields for the year were;
Rudy, Valley, Diehl, Mediterranean and
! Lehig gh, in the order named. The white
/ bearded varieties giving the highes
Yields were: Democrat, Golden Prolific
and Silver Chaif. OF the smosth rec
wbcats Redfultz, Poole and Witter stanf
at the top OF the list, while the Surprise
! and Miler's Prolific are among the high
est producing white smooth varieties.
New York World.
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oUScE GROWING.

This year. as in years past, ounces are
scarce and high priced, although all
other fruits have been abundant. This
is the more strange as it is one of the
easiest fruits to grow, and almost sure
bearer every year, and nurserynen sell
the young trees at prices which may be
called reasonable. They grow upon al
most any soil from a dry gravel to cold,
wet meadow. but they usually yield a
finer fruit aud quite as abundantly upon
a good, warm clay land. The fruit has
less insect enemies than almost any
other, but the tree requires watching to
prevent the borer from getting in it. But
a day once in two or three months
would dispose of all the borers upon an
acre of ounce trees, which would be
from 400 to 500 trees, as they stand
from eight to ten feet apart. They sell
dom need pruning or trimming Of the
fruit unless under high cultivation, and
as the usual price of the fruit is from S3
to S. per bushel at retail, or from W 10
$4 at wholesale, it would seem that they
might be profitable crop. Even if an
increased supply should lower the price,
the demand would be AFT to increase,
and it would be long before the market
would be glutted as it has been in pears
and peaches this year.-Boston Cu!t'0a
tor.
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in the way we have long considered it,
viz, that the season, soil, and moisture
are the prime factors, and not the size of
the potatoes around which the tubers
form. T. B. Terry, the well-known po-
tato-grower OF Ohio, related in the Coun-
try Gentleman, this summer, of cutting a
barrel of choice potatoes so as to plant
an acre OF more with that quantity. He
wrote: "Have but limited quantity of
early potatoes, and these not big ones,
for garden planting; they were cut to
single eyes, and from these pound-weight
potatoes are no longer objects of won.
DER" However, there is no doubt but
that largo pieces of seed are more to be
depended upon to give the plant start
in the spring, especially if there is a
lack of moisture.-Fdrm, Stock and
Home.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
COURT PLASTER FOR KID GLOVES.

COURT PLASTER FOR KID GLOVES.
A contributor to the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal says good way to mend ripped
kid glove is not to sew it but to take e,
small piece of court plaster or surgeons
plaster (the latter is the better), turn
your glove wrong side out and natly ap4
ply the plaster over the rent or rip, first
having drawn the rent part of the glove
nicely together. Now if this has BEEN
neatly done, you cannot perceive wherel
the rip was. If the rip or tear is not
very large one it may be
mended in this manner; but if
the rip is large one it should be nicely
sewn and then the court plaster applied
in the manner described.
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RENGEL's PRAYER.

It was his old study chair that the .pious
Beneel, oof the post-Rcformation Gh9rcn
fathers. v one night sitting, absorbed IN
the study Gods Word till past the mid
night he. Some friends, entirely unDe.
known tim, we're watching, for they mad
said, IN we shall hear BenSel pray" no
gifted wae in prayer that tthey had coVeteo
to hear h at his private devotions. Al
length, EN- nature was entirely wcarleo
with hisng-continued study. he was seen
to clasp hands over the open Bible. wnlle
he raiseds face devoutly to heaven ana eN,
cIaimcIoud, "Lord Jesus! thou knowest
that wee on the same old terms" And
immediiy he threw himself upon his
couch tsicep. That was all OF Bengers
PRAYER friends heard that night!-[D. P.
Putnam Evangelist.
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N,pELI PHILLIPS on CHRISTIANITY.

N2hillips' utterances on Christianity
have,ver received the attention they de-
serve In his address, ''Christianity Bat
tie, r Dream," we find him saying, rs
Chrianity an inspired faith or not'
Shakpeare and Plato tower above tile IN
teIlecal level of their times like the peaks
of Terrific and Mont Blanc. We look at
themad it seems impossible to measure the
intcri that separates them from the intel
acknowledgment around them. But II ms
JEWS b " in that era Of the world, in Pal,
estingith the Ganges on one side OF him ana
the Ompus of Athens on the other. ever
proded this religion with its characteristic
elemts, he towers so far above Shakespeare
and ,ato that the differcrce between
Shakpcare and Plato and their times be-
c mean imperceptible wrinkle on the sur
,ace the earth. l think it ! greater credu-
lity tbelieve that there ever was man 50
mIckuperior to Athens, and to England,
as tn Jewish youth was, if he was mere
man. han it is to believe that in the tulness
of tie q higher wisdom than was ever
youcafed to o human being undertook, 10
tell e human race the secret BY when |,
coullift itself to q higher plane OF mora
andltellectual existence
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MACHINE METHOD IN BUTTER MAKING.

A Mississippi dairyman who could not
get the cream out of the milk, before it
soured, to make more than four or FIVE
pounds of butter q day from eight COWS,
was agreeably surprised to get seven and
seven and one.half pounds per day of
better butter when the milk was put
through a cenlrifuge. He quite naturally
'swears by" the machine method. Mil.
lions of dollars worth of butter go to
the pig-pen every year all over the world
from the same cause, says Hoard's
Dai7yman, and the worst of it is, the
mass of the losers don't know they lose
anything.
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FARM AND GARDEN NoTEs.

Keep hens active by throwing grain
among straw on floor. .."y !
Keep hens warm enough 50 that theii
combs will not freeze.
Take chill off water and warm the
grain for the poultry in cold weather.
The only profitable rice in Louisiana
is the aquatic plant. Highland rice doe,
not pay. Water is the first and last
want Of sprouting, growing aud ripeuing
rice.
If the chicks appear weak, or have
weak legs, from rapid growth, put
a teaspoonful of citrate OF iron
and ammonia "a solid) in each quart OF
water.
The growth of the fungoid spots on
apples after they are barrelled may be
stopped, though the spots will not be
removed, by burning sulphur in the
storeroom.
When cutting dead limbs, or any
other, always cut them close to the limb
or trunk from which they are gowing.
They will then heal over, but if stump
is left this will die too.
A great deal of valuable food goes to
waste every year from lack Of knowing
its worth in the pomace at cider mills.
This has greater value than apples ac-
cording to either bulk or weight.
Ground cork is superior to chaf fol
cushions tocover bee frames during win
ter. It absorbs more moisture than
chat and retains the heat. 1t does not
become mouldy and is quite inexpen'
sive.
A farmer who started out with q
scientific training, taking all that the
college could give him in the way OF prep
aration for his life work, now says:
"S:ience without practice is boat with
out oars or rudder."
When the chicks shows signs OF leg
weakness, have clogging of the vent, an
bowel disease results, there is a lack OF
warmth in the brooder, especially at
night. The night is when the chlcSs
meet with the greatest number OF dill
! culties.
No small fruit appears to be better
adapted for growth among trees not yet
ma,ured than the currant, and no fruit
sells better, holds on and waits longer for
good prices aud has fewer enemies
! Grow the currant. 1t is as easy OF cul'
tlvation as is the potato.
Notwithstanding the praise giver
hedges, the fact remains that they arr
the most expensive fences in construction,
in land occupied, in trouble made and
in time and money required. No fence
is less to be depended upon for per
manency. Let poets enthuse over tho
combined use aud beauty of hedges, the
practical farmer wants none OF them.
Occasionally we see it advised to cross
drill wheat, dividing the seed aud SOW
ing half each way. But the result o
such seeding is thai the ridges made by
the cross-drilling cover that sown TOT
deeply. 1t sends long spire upward tt
the surface, and when the soil freezes
and thaws in winter this is broken OF
and the plant killed. If good wheat
grown thus, it shows that half the sect
sown is enough.
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FATTENINa THE HOGS EARLY.

A peculiar delusion which seems to
have taken fast hold on the minds of a
great number of farmers is that in cold or
winter weather is found the proper and
profitable season for converting corn
into pork. Acting on this idea they pay
little heed to beginning the process
which is to change their lean and restless
shotes to the dignity of "fattening hogs"
whose business it is to rest, eat, and
grow obese, until Jack Frost and biting
winds suggest by no uncertain signs that
autumn is rapidly waning. II is strange,
too, that such state of affairs should
exist among the more intelligent. All
experiments made in that direction dem
onstrate that in warm or moderate
weather the conditions for realizing the
utmost gain for food consumed are in
every way most favorable, while in cold
weather and exposed situations large
share of, and in some instances all, the
food consumed serves as a mere malnte-
nance ration, giving no appreciable gain.
Those who begin tattening their hogs
with the earliest of their new corn crop
as soon as it is in "roasting ear" using
stalks as we'll as ears, find it wonderfully
eficacious in the animals improvement,
giving as large if not larger returns than
when more matured, and enabling the
feeder to have the benefit of thirty or
forty days feeding in the most genial
season, which would be lost if he waited
for the corn to ripen or become fit to
gather for cribbing. The juices in the
green stalks, leaves and cars seem
especially adapted at that time of the
year to the health and vigorous growth
of hogs and, although making what
might appear too bulky food for, fat
production, it puts them in the best
possible condition for finishing of to the
greatest advantage later on more matured
grain. In some carefully conducted
experiments by Professor Shelton, at the
Kansas State Agricultural College, he
found that in severe weather it cost, when
shotes were exposed, about eleven and
two.thirds pounds of corn to produce
one pound of pork, while the same AMI
mails in like weather, but in warm barn,
gave pound of pork for less than i've
and three-fourths pounds of corn. a
summing up of his experiments in this
direction indicated to him that putting
increase on hogs exposed in the severe
weather cost about twenty-five per cent.
more than like increase cost on hogs
that were kept in comfortably sheltered
quarters; also that of each bushel of corn
fed to exposed animals an amount sum
cient to make two and one-third pounds
of pork was used up in merely keeping
the animals warm. Such tariff tor
warmth alone is more than the traffic
will bear and emphasizes the importance
of doing much of the fattening in autumn
that is ordinarily done in November and
Observation-Disclosures Agrieulturist.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
TT IS TORTURE TO TEE HORSE

Never permit check rein of the har-
ness bride to be hooked tight, as some
drivers will perist in doing. 1t gives
the horse great pain, especially when
standing, as all may observe from seeing
him constantly tossing his head up and
down and from one side to the other,
seeking relief from the needless torture.
-CZurk's Horse ReoieW.
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w. Have More Railroads Than All urope

The Duke Of Marlborough's con-
demnation Of the American railway
system is justified by the latest issue
of Poor's Manual. According to that
old authority. the United States had
at the end of 1889 1851 miles OF
railroad. Comparing this with the
Insignificant 1913 miles of Great
Britain, it is easily seen how vast are
the interests here involved and the re-
sources essential to their administra
ton. The total mileage of all Europe is
only 154,71S miles. France increased
from 5,4l5 miles in 1860 to 1923
miles in 1882. The percentage of in
crease in this country in five years is
29.s-a truly remarkable addition
when one considers the original
figure New York Tribune.
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A WANDERING American has been
arrested in Germany for photograph.
ing the Notifications. He pressed the
b kton. and the soldiers did the arrest.
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JtF THAT e. DIR ,TH.

Perseverance is necessary to tue compile
tiumf Christian character. 1t is not repent
anc, however deep; it is not filth, however
true it is not love, however ardent; it is not
humility, however genuine: nor all the
gras of the Christian life, il they fail and
do pt have their perfect work, that Will
tini, our course. There must be persever-
anc in all these, like the sun which shines
MOI and more unto the perfect day.
The hand must keep its hold on
Chst till the conflict Is over and the vict' ry
is wn; the eye must be kept steadily fixed
on ion till it's glorious heights are gained: 1t
is ,is which nerves tie arm with power
owe every evil. which braves all dangers,
antvins every god-like virtue. Perseverance,
Is olltwed by success. "Then shall we
kny,' attain to that which we desired, If
we olbw on to know and are not turned
asic w any allurement, 9TH his going
forh is prepared rs the morning"
thu stccess will fellow as sure as the sun
vii cone out of the East in the morning
"lian man draw back, my soul shall have
nopasure in him." "But," says Paul,
I'VE ac not of them that draw back, but
than hat believe to the saving OF the SOUL
"Ih hat endureth to the end the same
shall ie saved"
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British Earls are dying of ut the rate
of twenty pc: annum. j
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that thew might 90 as continuously as pos
sible close to the pyramid which they wero
investigating. The pyramid, built mora
than four thousand years ago, being conf
pie geometrical figure, wise men have con-
cluded it must have been divinely con-
structed. Men came through thousands OF
years to fine architecture, to music. to paint
ing, but this was perfect at the worlds start,
and God must have directed it.