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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Cleanliness is the key to success in
the poultry business.
It will pay to spade up portion Of
the poultry yard occasionally.
Experiments show that grain OF
wheat produces forty-fold.
It is thought that gypsine, the new
insecticide, will largely take the place
of Paris green. 80.
We have certainly reached the point
where timber culture holds out fair
promise of profit.
The Wilkes and Patchen combina-
tion has proven one of the best ever
made in breeding.
With the exception of the black
Langshans, all feather-legged fowls
ore poor egg-producers.
By crossing, characteristics may be
obliterated, breeds modified, degener-
ated or new breeds formed.
Potatoes ore the most costly of all
foods in proportion to price, as they
are composed very largely of water.
In poultry the most desirable flesh
development and greatest hardness
are not found combined in one breed.
In feeding for eggs good Judgment
is required to steer between the two,
extremes of insufficient nourishment
and of overfeeding.
Abroad poultry having yellow skin
and legs are looked upon with disfavor,
and regarded as coarse, havorless and
lacking IN the finest qualities.
By good food, proper care and
jude ement early Matched pullets,
of the hardy breeds, will lay more or
less during the winter months.
The plug horse at present would not
sell for what it would cost to winter
him. It certainly pays better to keep
q superior quality of stock, for they
eat no more than scrubs.
The wild cherry tree grows more
raridly than walnut, it is freer from
insects, and furnishes larger amount
of merchantable lumber, which ranks
next to mahogany in value.
Wheat is rich in nutriment, and at
present prices is a good and cheap
feed for horses. Use it sparingly and
mixed with other food. 1t is cheaper
than oats and better than bran.
With apples, in nearly all cases, as
soon as the fruit will part readily from
the tree it is ready to be gathered,
and any delay in this is usually done
at the expense of the keeping quality
of the fruit.
To preserve the fertility of the soil,
says the National Stockman, three
methods are being practiced by our
best farmers, viz: Rotation of crops,
application of commercial fertilizers
and the use of barn-yard manure.
Sailing with brine instead of with
powered salt seems to be labor and
salt thrown away, and very likely the
butter, if it should be held any length
of time, says the Pennsylvania Sta
ton, as the result of its experiments.
1t will be an advantage to every far
mer to visit the agricultural fairs in
order to keep well informed in regard
to the many new implements and ma
chinery that are invented every year.
1t is important to use the best labor
saving appliances.
The same regularity is necessary in
caring for the hens as caring for the
cattle. Irregularity in hours of feed.
ing keeps the birds in state of ex.
pectation, which prevents foraging,
and it is highly detrimental to health
and egg production. ,
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The Silver Dollars Centennial

The silver dollar Of Uncle Sam celebrated
the centennial anniversary OF its birthday
upon October Is. On July 1e, 1874, the
Bank of Maryland deposited at the Philadel.
phia Mint French coins OF the value OF
ESQ, ,715 for coinage into silver dollars under
the act OF l7S5. The first lot OF these finished
coins was delivered on October Is, l7s4.
There were 175S Of them in all, and they
were the precursors, the first waves Of the
vast floodtide of silver dollars that has
poured out upon the country during the
6nndrad reara that have ELAPSED.
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AGRICULTURAL,
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
THINNING APPLES.

In Albemarle County, Virginia,
where apples ore special crop, one
grower thinned off nearly three-quar-
ters of his fruit from his trees last
year, says an exchange. He got just
as many apples in bushels, as COM
pared with previous years, and also
received double the market price, as
the fruit was superior to any ever be-
fore grown in that section, both in
size and quality.-New York World.
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TEMPERANCE.
A NATURAL CONSEQUENCE.

In thc examination OF an Irish case for.
ssault and battery. counsel, on cross-ex-
mining one OF the witnesses, asked him
rhat they had at the hrst place they
topped. He answered: "Four glasses OF
lp." What nax;?" "TwAlvs glasses OF
rine." "What next?" "Ons glass OF
randy" "What nnSt?'' "A fight, OF
curse. ."-Pittsburc Catholic.
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THE SAME OLD DEVIL.


Alcohol is m enemy, whether in distilled
and fermented liquors, root beer, wine,
cider, Jamaica ginger, cologne, or lemon
extract. Sir Wilfrid Lawson says 1t Is ''the
devil in solution" The Buffalo Commercial
says:
"At Webster City. Iowa, a well-dressed
man arrived, ard, finding all the saloons
closed, went to number Of grocery stores
and laid in supply Of common. bottled
lemon extract. He diluted this with pop
and made an intoxicating drink. For three
days he was In state of beastly intoxica.
tion and wound up in delirium tremens.
His room was searched and forty-eight
lemon-extract bottles found that had been
drained OF their contents. A chemical an.
aiysis OF the extract was made as sold by
grocerymen in all the grocers stores. and it
disclosed the fact that ninety-three per cent.
OF the contents Of the bottles was alcohol.
This Is general dispatch from that city,
but 1t is entirely reasonable. Most extracts
consist principally OF alcohol. The number
Of Jamaica-ginger drunkards in respectable
families, some Of whom are Prohibitionists
theoretically, is large. It has been found
in constant use in the homes OF ministers Of
our church, who were amazed to be told its
exact proportions. The late Horace Greeley
stated that one of his editorial writer's, who
was in the habit of periodical drunkenness,
came to the Office intoxicated and was shut
up in his (Mr. Greeley's) private room to be.
come sober. After a while a person con-
nected with the office came to Mr.. Greeley
and said, "That man is more drunk than he
was when he was put In here" Investiga.
tion showed that he had shifted out large
bottle of cologne that some admirer had
given the editor. On hearing this lady
stated that she could readily believe 1t, for
gentleman Of her acquaintance-a dtpso-
maniac-crossed the Atlantic with his fami-
", means having been taken to prevent any
LIQUOR being sold or given him on the ship,
and drank the contents Of the cologne bot
ties belonging to the ladies Of his party, be-
coming grossly intoxicated"
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The African Exodus.

The African Steamship Company OF Phfla-
delphia has chartered six large steamers to
60 Into the trade of exporting colored emil.
grants from the United States to Liberia
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STUDY YOUR HORSE,

There is key to every horses tenn
per. It is certain that severe punish
ment, when administered to dis
obedient horse, generally makes him
still worse, and confirms him more
than ever in his bad habit of vice.
More can be done by kind than harsh
treatment, although q judicious need
of punishment is sometimes necessary,
and suggests itself as the only remedy
for insubordination. But all depends
on knowing your horse. What will
cure one horse will completely spoil
another. Different horses require
different treatment to make them
tractable and obedient. The Emphatic
and nervous, the stubborn and irrita-
BILE, whether man or beast, should not
be treated alike; yet this is the too
common practice of ignorant horse
men. Great tact and judgment are
required to educate some horses-to
know how to humor the wilful into
submission, inspire confidence in the
timid, and soothe the feelings of the
fretful. All this can be done, how
ever, by careful study of the particular
horses individual characteristics.
However difficult the task may be, it
is we'll to remember there is o key to
every horses temper. Horse World.
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The Latest College Yell.

The ''college yell' Of new institution
Just dedicated In the Indian Territory Is the
Indian warhoop.
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FARM GATES,

used to good advantage in making
farm gates. The gate should certain
ly be given prominent place among
the labor-saving inventions. The far
mer that makes "slip gap" or bars
where he must frequently enter q
field is prodigal of time and must be
unusually favorably situated if he can
conduct his business along such lines
and make profit. Every farmer
ought to be able to make farm gate.
The only tools needed are saw. jack
plane, brace and assorted augers,
hammer and monkey-wrench. A good
farm gate-in fact one that with or
dinary usage will last for ten years or
more-is made of six-inch fencing
boards across the ends, and to the
middle Of which are bolted, on each
side, pieces of boards six or eight
inches wide. These pieces should be
free from large knots, cracks or wind
shakes. The bolts should be four
inches long and one-fourth to three.
eighths inches in diameter. The holes
bored to receive them should be just a
little smaller, SO that three or four
sharp taps with the hammer will be
required to drive them home. Where
ever surfaces are joined they should
be planed and painted. It will pay to
paint the entire gate when it is COM
pleted, and it is probably most
economical to use surfaced lumber.
Gates should be made wide in these
days of self.binders. A narrow gate
way is a nuisance.-New England
Homestead.
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The Cross In China.
The Chinese have cruciaed some japanese
prisoners
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on THE RAILROAD.

Chauncey NJ Depaw is not merely an after
dinner speaker and story-teller. He is Presi-
dent OF the great New York Central Railroad
Company. and very shrewd and successful
business man who has made his own way.
He says:
"An incompetent engineer, or an engineer
who is fuddled can in one week. in merely
starting and stopping his train. lose the road
three times his salary. He breaks couplers,
pulls ont drawbolts, disarranges the fine
machinery OF new locomotive, aud does
damage that cannot be fastened on, but finds
itself when the report comes from the repair
shop. See those tremendous engines which
are now going over our roads, all un1er the
intelligent control OF a very few men Look
at one OF our freight trains, with the thirty
ton car and the hundred-ton locomotive!
See the terrific force as 1t Is bound together
by the modern couplers, and is practically
trip.hammer! See the terrific force with
which It bounds over the rail and on the
bridge! These terrific machines. having be-
hind them untold values and precious lives,
must be controlled by men Of thought, men
Of conscience, men Of clean lives. You must
have In the tower men who understand their
business, and who are men Of educated con-
science which say: Upon my
performance OF my duty depend the lives on
those flying trains. You must have IN the
man who holds the switch the same quail
ties, the same conscience, the same sense Of
responsibility and you only get it when that
conscience Is educated in the midst OF such
surroundings as foster, educate und Develop
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their migration they fly very high. During
khe summer, when they are In the fields, they
often come within reach OF the gun, but
when they start for the annual flight south
vard they take their places midneaven and
8go straight as mark. The longest rife
- That was ever brought to shoulder can.
mot reach them. Would to God that we
were as wise as the stork and crane In our
1Iynr neavenwardI We ny so low that we
Rre within easy range Of the world, the flesh
md the devil. We are brought down by
temptations that ought not to come within a
nile Of reaching US. Oh, for some of the
aith Of George Muller OF England and Alfred
Cookman, once Of the church militant, now
bf the church triumphant So poor is the
ype Of plety in the church Of God now that
nen actually caricature the idea that there
any such thing as higher life. Moles
lever did believe in eagles. But my breth-
len, because we have not reached these
heights ourselves, shall we deride the fact
hat there any such heights2 A man was
nce talking to Brunei, the famous engi-
eer, about the length Of the railroad from
ondon to Bristol. The engineer said: "It
3 not very great. we shall have after
kynIie q sreamer running from England to
gew York" They laughed him to scorn.
but we have gone so far now that we have
eeased to laugh at anything as impossible
For human achievement. Then'I ask, is any.
Thing impossible for the Lord? I do not be-
lieye that God exhausted oil His grace iI
Paul and Latimer and Edward Payson. ]
believe there are higher points of Christian
: attainment to be reached In the future ages
Af the Christian world.
You tell me that Paul went uD to the tip
kop OF the Alps OF Christian attainment
Then I tell you that the stork and crane
have found above the Alps plenty Of room
Tor tree flying. We 90 out and we conquer
bur temptations by the grace Of God and lie
Town. On the morrow those temptations
ally themselves and attack rs. and by the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-07
THE TARIFF SITUATION.

Those who belive that the conference
committee will naturally alter the tariff
bill are reasoning from their own desires
not from the logic OF the situation. The
tariff bill will go to the President sub
stantially as it passed the Senate, or it
will never reach the chief executive.
Even the sugar schedules will see but
little change, and the outlook is
that the bill will be reported from
the conference committee next week
toward the latter part of the week. The
history of tariff legislation bears out the
above assertions and the future will
probably demonstrate their reliability.
The Senate will not agree to any mate
rial change and the House recognizes
this fact and will unquestionably govern
itself accordingly.
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Professional Laughter

II never heard Of professional Iaugher,
except here and in New York city" said
the manager and there Is only one. SO far
as know, in Gotham. Ho bothered me
considerably when 'Charley's Aunt was
In It's first weeks, but / had no use for
him. 80 he got mad and would nav his
way into the theater and try to queer tbe
piece by laughing In his odd way at the
wrong places In the play When there
was "a nice quiet love scene-and there ara
many love scenes in 'Charley's Aunt'-be
would squeeze out sharp little sigh, as II
he were laughing himself to death. and
then the whole house would laugh at him
A professional laugher knows how 70 do
that TO perfection. He cuts his laugh loose
and lets 10 knock against the welkin. but
IL IL not the loudness of the laugh that
wins-it Is the way he handles it. He
laughs with the audience, of course. but
when they get through he has a good little
blast or two left In his checks. and be
gives these with artistic expression. This
lingering laugh catches the audience. and
the people laugh anew Then the profes.
sional sobs out, oh, myl' and You think
he Is giving you his last gasp and diving
cachinnatory death, and the audience can.
not do otherwise than laugh again, the au.
dience really laughing with and at the pro-
iessional and not at the play. used TO
have this professional elected from the
theater every time I found him. Chi
cago Tribune.
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Value of Autograph Documents.

Historical documents have in a GOOD
many cases proved good investments for
those who were first to recognize their
value 80 it has been with the original
araft OF letter in the handwriting of the
late Secretary Blaine. During the time
when the Italian colony was giving a
great deal of trouble at New Orleans Mr..
WiIDur, newspaper man of this ci.v.
went to SEQ the secretary to know what
MS reply would bo to the MARQUIS Impe-
riai, then charge affaires and acting Ital.
ian minister. He found Mr.. Blaine ON.
gagged In writing the reply. In order that
IL might be put on the wire promptly. he
gave 1t to the journalist with REQUEST IN
make such use of it as he wanted. The
rough draft was in Mr. Blaine's hand
writing and contained a number of strong
sentences interlined. When Mr.. Wilbur
had made all the use Of IL he wanted. Will
liam r. Amin, fellow newspaper man.
offered $50 for tho original paper and
got 1t. Ho hung 1t on the wall of his Office
IN frame, and In few days the lat,
Frank Hatton happened in, and seeing
.he relic said 1t was worth 500 to him
Then 1t passed into his hands aud became
IN ornament of the sanctum In The Posi-
'uilding.'-Washington News
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DEBs says the situation is very en-
couraging for the American Railway
Union. With nearly fifteen thousand
armed troops centering at Chicago to
put down the reign of murder, riot,
arson and lawlessness brought about by
the Union, Mr.. Debs must have a pecu-
liar idea of circumstances that favor the
Union. The history of labor organiza-
lions In this country is stained by no
greater disgrace than that brought on
them by Debs and the American Rail-
way Union.
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TOWN OF CRANSTON,
PheniX Road.
Town Clerks ONCE,


Cranston, II. l., June 2b 1894 l
The Town Council OF the town of Cranston tbi
day adjudged IL necessary to lay out straighten
widen Phenix road In said town from Crans1on
street westerly TO Pearce's corner.
Inc southerly line Is bounded and described as
follows: a'
Beginning at stone bound at the northeas,oylv
corner OF the Town House lot the line OF
street; thence southwesterly 267 I7-iOO feet In
q stone bound at land OF Joseph s. Rich
ardson; thence westerly at sp interior
angle OF i6 deg. "a min. 9e5 A-iOI feel
TO stone bound at land OF Mary II
vile OF Charles Is. Angel; thence Westerly Mt an
INFERIOR angle Of III deg 2s min 405 v-I0O fcs> 20
thence westerly at an interior angie of l5q dec 4
min. olo 5e-l0V feet TO stone boz nd at land ~
Jsmes and Joanna Bannon; thence ssstcrly ~ an
exterior angie of Ia deg IL min. 80 "a. 100 Tee
tnence westerly at an ex eror angle OF l7I deg A
min, 2bl H-l00 feet 10 n stone bound thence son,b
westerly at an exterior angle OF 1,b deg ssL, min
Szzl-loo feet To astone bound thence southwe.tcrs
~ at en- exterior angle OF III deg 81 mn Js5 81 100
ieetto stone bound, thence southwestery az an in
terror angle OF lI2 deg. ava mn l6 67.ic0 feet 4,
stone bound at the south east corner of sait
Phenix road and wayiand avenue The ner.hsiit
line 10 parallel with and so feet distant northeriy
rom the above described southerly line.
certain land being required for the purpos.
aforesaid aud 10 being the opinion % said rounrtI
mat certain estates will be especially benratsJ
thereoy tt IL therefore ordered that All per.ons
interested therein be notified TO attend u,. ci.,,
OF the Town Council of tile Town % Crarston 10 he
neid AZ the Council Chamber in said Cranston on
MONDAY, The 2Sd day Of July, 1894, at 10 O'CLOCK
4 m and be heard thereon.
July 7-st DANIEL D. WATERMAN, Clerk.
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TOWN OF CRANSTON.
CRANSTON STREET.
Town Clerks ONCE,

Cranston. K T., June rs, iss4 I
The Town Council Of the town OF Cranston this
widen Cranston street in said town fron C,burch
street, southerly to the bridge over the New YORK
New England Railroad. The southerIy and
easterly lines are bounded as follows:
beginning at stone bound or the southerly line
M Crshston street about thirty-one feet west Of
IN xhuaeh m street thence south So deg. 26 min west
av4 so- iVo feet 10 stone bound; thence south
% deg 4sk min, west "A i3- 100 feet 10
a stone bound; thence south 2s deg. os min.
at the northeast corner of Haven ayenne and said
sfanston street, TO which point the westerly line
o. said Cranston street IL parallel with and 49,
above described southerly and easteriy line
Inence easteriy with the northeriy line of Haven
avenue II iI-l0o feet thence 8. 2s deg. .06 min W.
Ss1s min. w ls7 10 100 feet to a stone bound thence
3 2s deg IL w. SIS feet to stone bound al home Of
rat paiea lex Legsn TO this point from said Haven ave-
nue. the westerly line is parallel, with and SO $40
feet west Of the said eastely line thence northeriy
with land OF said Logan IL 73-i00 feet to a stone
Thence 8. 23 deg II min. w. 100 s5- 100 feet 10 n
stone bound; thence s. % deg. .o5S min. W. AIS
81 100 feet to stone bound south OF Park avenue:
bound; thence s. "a deg. ss min W. 7os AZ 100 feet to
stone bound thence &. 40 deg. 4s min. W. 333
oso ese ioo feet to stone bound thence s. so deg
land Of the New YORK New snsand r. Rarosd ,ine %
rick Logan is parallel with snd an ssd 81 ris 100
ieet distant from the easterly line. Certain land
the opinion Of aa coSne tS"s and
tstes VIII be especially benefited thereby, Il is
therefore ordered that all persons ted there
Counei OF the Town Of Crsn ,ton to be held at the
Council Chamber In said Cianston on MONDAY
me go day OF July, 1894, at 10 O'Clock a. m and be
jui7-s2t Cle,,t
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authority Of the United States If it takes
every able bodied man in the country to
do 1t and he would be coward aud
negligent to his trust If he failed to put
down this open rebellion against the
Federal Government.
Attorney-General Olney's comment
on Altgeld's remonstrance states the
situation in nutshell. He said: "Tne
soil OF Illinois is the soil of the United
States for all United States purposes.
The United States is there with its
courts. its marshals and its troops, not
by license or comfy, but as of right.
The opinion that the territory of any
State is too sacred TO commit the exercise
thereon by the United States Govern
ment OF any of its legitimate functions
never had any legal existence, aud as a
rule of conduct became practically ex-
unct with the close OF the Civil War"
The Federal Government is acting
with commendable vigor through the
courts and the war department.
The injunction restraining the strikers
from interfering with the business of |
the railroads In Chicago has been dis
regarded and President Debs of the
American Railway Union is still active
IN advising the obstruction Of the
commerce OF the country. The ma
chinery OF the Government has been
put in action to enforce the laws
and the orders of the courts. ATTORNEY.
General Olney has directed the United
States district attorney in Chicago TO
have the grand jury come together as
soon as possible for the purpose of in
dieting President Debs and the other
officers of the union in conformity with
clause in the injunction.
1t Is time to see whether there is any
government in this country that labor
lnions are bound to respect, or whether
he conventions of labor union dele
rates have higher legislative powers
han the Congress of the United States.
Debs fails to appreciate his situation.
md still declares that he has violated
10 laws and that he does not propose to
iolate any, but before this matter
caches its final adjudication he will
scertain where he is at. The question
viii now be settled in the United States
'ourt whether man occupying such
osition as that held by Debs, and who \
rders strike that will interfere with !
between states, violates the !.
.ws or not. :
In the meantime the news from the 4
Vest will be anxiously awaited, and
hile every citizen hopes that it will :,
ot be necessary for the Government to v
Ike extreme measures, yet if they be- q
me necessary the nation will stand %
most as one man back Of President :, =,
eveland. o,
Murder, pillage, arson and the wan In
destruction of property cannot be r.
erared, whether at the dictation of IT.
nd OF thugs, or of labor organiza- ar
N headed by men like Debs and Sow br
ign.