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TAKING CARE OF THE TIMBER.
kuropean Nations Paying Strict Attention
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kuropean Nations Paying strict Attention
to the Subject of Forestry.
Nearly all the nations of Europe
are engaged at the present time in
SO controlling the forest supply that
every bit of public and private prop.
erty In trees is placed under rcstric.
ions against destructive cutting. The
forests are all highly protected, says
the Boston Herald, and even where
no State control exists the freedom
10 cutting trees.which exists the free.
dom IN cutting trees which exists In
this country is unknown. In Germany
during the last twenty-five years
some 800, 600 acres have been re.
forested, and the government has
granted $500, coo in this way to
private owners OF waste land. In
Austria, since 1852, a forest law
which exercises a strict supervision
over the forests, both public and
private, has been In existence, and
no one is allowed to devastate for
est TO the detriment of adjoining
holders of land, and every cleared OF
cut forest must be rcplanted within
five years. In Italy the effort is con-
slant to increase the amount of
wooded lands, and the Government
contributes three -tlfths OF the cost OF
reforestatiOn, upon condition that
the work is done according to its
plan and Instructions In Switzcr-
land tho National Eovoro,oont o.,,
tributes from 80 to 20 per cent. OF
the establishment of new forests, and
from 20 to so per cent. for the plant.
ing OF protected forests, and the law
is very strict in regard to cutting.
France is also deeply interested in
public forest property. The forests
belong largely to communities and
public institutions, as well as to the
state, and they are controlled in
manner similar to the regulation o.
forests in Germany. Here as well
as there, no clearing is allowed ex-
cept by the consent OF the forest ad-
mnistration.
In all these countries the strictest
attention is paid to the subject Of
forestry, and schools are everywhere
maintained for the purpose of in
Structing men IN this work. Russia
has been the only nation where for.
ests have been until lately under no
restriction, but since 1883 even this
country has had its forest law, and
offers loans on favorable terms for
the protection and increase of the
forests Hardly any European
nationality is without its State con-
troll Of the forests or without the
training schools in which men are in.
structed how to take care of them.
They are trying in Europe in every
way possible to save the forests, and
in the United States efforts are now
being made in nearly every common
wealth TO regulate and control the
wooded lands, but our people are not
yet ready to accept the stringent
measures which have been employed
in Europe, as a necessity, for their
Preservation.
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A NETWORK OF OCEAN cAsLgs.
Submarine wires About Everywhere In tie
MnrId Ehrnnt In Amerlca MaterA

Submarine Wires About hYeryWhefe VI ~
World Except in America Waters
The world is now SO netted with
cable, great and small and new ones
are laid so frequently that there Is
much demand for the services Of the
cable-laylng ships, says the New
York Sun. A list Of the worlds
cables, long and short, set down in
tabulated form, occupies twenty large
and closely printed pages The ca
bic map Of the world PREPARED by the
United States navy department shows
that the Mediterranean is thickly
netted with cable west Of rIalta, So
is the North Atlantic between the
thirty eight and fifty-flfth parallels
The North Sea, the Red Sea, and the
Arabian Sea have many cables The
only great unbrldged spaces are the
Pacific, the South Atlantic, and the
great stretch Of the Indian Ocean be-
tween Madagascar and Australia
There Is no considerable cable north
of Stockholm or south OF Nelson,
New Zealand. The Black Sea is COM
pletely girdled by land lines and
crossed by one cable. The Gulf Of
Mexico is crossed, though not at its
widest, by several cables, and the
waters of the West Indies are becom'
ing thiekly netted with short cables.
Coast communications In tie Uni
ted States and Europe are maintain
ed mainly by land lines, but in
Africa, South America, and much Of
Asia the same thing is maintained
by means Of long or short cable loops.
1t thus happens that this country,
although moro thoroughly equipped
with tslegraphic lines than any 9th
er in the world, has a comparatively
small amount OF cable within her
own waters. This may perhaps ac-
count In part for the fact that cable
making is only just beginning to be
an important industry in the United
States.
The navy Of the United States,
however, has done a vast deal for the
art Of cable laying. Commander Sigs
bee has invented highly affective
sounding machine for ascertainlng
the depth of the ocean--an absolute
ly necessary preliminary to cable lay
ing. Lieutenant Commander l. Tan.
ner OF the navy has devised an in
genious case for deep sea thermone-
ters and also improved a thermome-
ter frame invented by an Italian ia
val officer. The navy department
has also issued an elaborate treatise
ior the proposed Pacific cable route,
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GRANULAR BUTTER,

In speaking of churning the Iowa
Homestead says that the instructions
given boy or girl "to churn until the
butter will hold the dasher, are fatal
to good butter.
In the first place the dash churn is
ten years behind the times and oneht
to be thrown ont of every farm, even
if no more butter is made than to sup
ply the family table. The box or bar
rel churn is cheap and it is much more
convenient, and so much better butter
can be made with it that there should
be no hesitation in discardine the old
dash churn in its favor. But no mat
ter what kind of churn is used, never
churn until the butter Is gathered in
chunks large enough to hold up the
dasher.
There are several reasons WHY this
should not be done. One of them is
that the grain is destroyed. Good but-
ter has fine, distinct grain, and when
broken shows a distinct fracture like
cast-iron. If this grain is DESTROYED by
oyerchurning or oyerworking. the hut
rer becomes n greasy mixture like
lard, and has greasy taste. Again it
is necessary that the buttermiIk be
well washed out or the butter will he
come strong and rancid IN n short
time. This cannot be done when the
butter is ehurned into Jumps, so in the
latter case the grain, flavor and keep
ing quality are injured.
The ehurn should be stopped when
the butter is in the form of small cram
ules, ranging in size from red clover
seed to grain of wheat; then tho Int
termilk can be well washed outand the
grain will be uniniured if the work is
properly DONE There is no reason
why the farmer should not make lust
as good butter as any one. presiding
he will take the trouble to do it r;obt.
Farm, Field and Preside
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keeping, and to lack Of knowledge Of
it many failures may be attributed.
To feed for good results one must, OF
course, consider the characteristics Of
the breed hs keeps. Brahmas, Co
chins, and other Asiatic breeds, easily
become over-fat, and in state of ODE
sity will produce few eggs, and these
often unfertile. The medium-sized
breeds are less liable to this trouble,
and the Leghorns and other active
breeds are almost free from it. A
quart of solid feed to dozen average
fowls is considered about a proper
feed Feed but little corn to Asiatics,
as they will surely become too fat with
aliberal supply of it.
After the maturing of the garden
truck, and after it has been gathered,
is good time to turn the garden
patch into run for fowls. The
fowls will destroy innumerable worms
and insects injurious to vegetation, es-
pecially if the ground be first plowed
to bring all the insects to view. Then
the birds will delight in the remains
of vegetables left on the ground and
in the corners of the garden. A ''gar-
den patch" should have a good chick
en-proof fence to exclude the fowls
when their presence would be in
furious and to confne them to the
run after the above plan, at least for q
time.
When the fowls have full range of
the farm, and can pick up green food
at will, it is not necessary to cultivate
green food for them except in the shape
of root crops or silage for winter use,
but when the flock is necessarily con-
fined, it is desirable to raise variety
of green food in the garden.
Tender young green oats, rye, lettuce
and clover, which may be cultivated
in odd corners and spots in the gar
den, will make capital food and increase
the supply OF eggs from the confined
flock very much, besides adding to the
health, and adding gloss to the plu-
mage. If this be supplemented with
a good supply of animal food in the
shape of green cut bone or meat scrap,
a flock of hens, even in confinement,
will be found the most profitable Of
the farm stock, considering the money
invested. Turnips are a cheap crop,
and an abundant supply of them
should be stored in the fall. Fowls
will eat them, top and all, in the win
ter, when the more tender green food
is gone. A small piece of good ground
will produce great crop of them at
almost no expense. Il American Agri-
culturist.
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rEED1No VALUE OF pUcKwuRAr.

Buckwheat is very much the same
wherever it is grown. 1t is one Of the
best of all feeds for pigs, and far more
healthful for them than gluten meal,
which is too concentrated. The
gluten meal is excellent for cows. as
1t contains an average of thirty-one
per cent. of proteine and eight per
cent. of fat; sometimes the fat amounts
to as much as twelve per cent. while
other samples have only three per
cent. This shows how desirable il is
to have an analysis of what is bought,
for it may easily be that the meal is
worth fifteen per cent. less in one case
than in another. At SIT ton the
gluten meal is cheaper than the
mixed feed of bran, oats and buck
wheat for cows, but for pigs it is not,
for the reason mentioned. 1t might
be well to add a small quantity of
gluten meal to this mixed feed for the
COWS. Such mixture as this would
make has a better result than anv
single kind of feeds however nutritious
itmay be. 1t is something like a
square meal, as it is termed, for per
son the variety adds to the digest
bility of the food, and the appetite is
better satisfied, which we all know lisa
great thing in food. New York
Times.
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Gets His own Price.

Though Mr.. F. Marion Crawford
probably earns more money by his pen
than any other living writer he is
perhaps not so well paid in proper
tion to the amount of work that he
does as is Mr.. T. b. Aldrich. As a
matter Of fact, Mr. Aldrich always
puts his own price on his work, and
he is always sure of getting it. One
magazine of New York City takes
everything that he sends it. He
simply writes the price in corner of
the MSS, and it is paid. What de-
lightful aspect of literary success this
presents! A few weeks ago an editor
wrote to Mr.. Aldrich: Wont you
please drop poem into our slot and
draw out as much money as you want
for it?" Mr.. Aldrich dropped dozen
lines, as directed, and drew out $50. "
New York Recorder.
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WE'LL VS.. POORLY BALANCED RATIoNs
From late bulletin of the Mary
land agricultural station on data as be
tween well-balanced VS.. a poorly
balanced ration we give summary Of
conclusions, as follows:
For fattening steers a well-balancel
ration is very much more profitable
than poorly balanced one.
Steers fed on well-balanced ration
made an average daily gain of ITS
pounds; those given a poorly balanced
ration made an average daily gain of
IL pounds.
The increased profits from this test,
showing difference of ST. O6 per steer
we're in favor of the well-balanced RAJ
ton.
With a well-balanced feed ninety
days is ample time in which to prepare
All anlHal Tor market.
Where the more heterogeneous foods
are used it is believed nearly as good
daily gains can be made by mixing
the grain with cut corn fodder as
though hay were used.
The use of cut corn fodder instead
of hay in feeding cattle may make the
difference of profit instead of loss.
Fifty per cent. more manure was
made from the animals receiving the
well-balanced ration than from those
receiving the poorly balanced one.
The manure is also much richer in
plant food. Chicago Times.
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Trouble for a Postal clerk.

1t has happened before that man
has got himself into trouble by
nsglecting to give his wife the letters
for her which he has in his pocket
but the present predicament Of a
postal clerk in Maine has some new
features VIII lie handling the mail
not long ago he saw letter d rected
to his wife and put it into the pocket
instead OF lett ng it go through the
usual channels. Another Gle k
in the car saw him take the
letter, and not knowing who it
was for repo. ted the fact to his
superior officers, and as result the
offender is now suspended from duty
awaiting hearing on the cha ge of
robb'ng the mails One of the damag-
ing fact against b m is that he 70 :
got to give the letter to his wife when
he got home and carried it in his
pocket on another trip over the load.
-Po tland Argus
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Twenty-Five hens that are not crowd
ed will pay better than fifty that
are.
No pasture is profitable which
takes three or four acres to support 3
COW.
If the bees are restless give moro
air and water, and sweep up the dead
ones.
Prepare now for handling swarms.
Have hives painted and honey racks
on hand.
J. E. Jamison, of Juniata, Penn,
says that no fruit is so much benefited
by spraying as the ounce.
A. c. Hesson, of Lackawanna, Penn,
thinks that careful thinning out is the
best remedy for the black knot.
SCOT is used by English gardeners
for onion maggot. They dust it over
the plants and apply to the soil.
Set good fruit trees, and give special
care to the apples, pears, and ounces.
If other crops fail, there is always
steady fruit market.
The Vermont experiment station
after three years of experiment de-
cides that sour milk is superior to
sweet for feeding pigs.
Ounces always pay for labor be-
slowed on them, if good varieties are
chosen. They need warm, rich soil,
and not cold, swampy land.
White clover honey is especially
priced by those who relish honey. In
order to get the bees in condition for
the white clover honey flow a little,
feeding may be necessary.
The bean crop might be proftably
resorted to in many cases where late
frosts have killed the growing crop.
The navy bean can be planted in June
and even later and make a crop.
Plenty of shade in the hog pastures
is a necessity and not luxury. 1t is
to your interest as well as for the good
of the hogs that they are not COM
PEELED to endure the heat of the sun.
Hens can be confined by six or
seven foot fence when there is danger
of their doing injury on the farm. But
as a rule, they will pay for all tho
damage they do by destroying insects.
Empress Eugene cherry is rec ON
mended as worthy place in any or
chard. 1t is very large and of high
quality, but in some sections is in
clined to be ashy bearer, butin others
it bears heavily.
In setting out new orchard pre-
pare the soil much as for other crops.
Pillow deeply and thoroughly pulverize
and make holes for the trees large
enough to contain all the roots in their
natural position.
Trees after planting need the best
of care. Most failures in orchard
planting are caused by the want of it.
Weeds must be kept away from the
young trees. Sometimes they die be-
cause they were carelessly handled in
the nursery.
Plums will grow on almost any kind
Of soil, but they will do best if the
ground is rich and retains moisture.
The trees will be greatly benefited by
liberal mulching. They will do we'll
for any length of time if grown in
sod, and they need liberal cultivation.
Grapes and currants may not be
quite as profitable crops as strawber-
ries, but they pay well and are quite
as certain, besides not requiring SO
much labor in SO short q season. Then
they can be grown on land less highly
MANFRED, and when once established
will endure for many years,
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tOn IS a Powerful, IN
vigorating tonic and soothing and strength
ening nervine, purely vegetable, perfectly
harmless. 1t regulates and promotes all the
proper functions of womanhood, improves
digestion, enriches the blood, dispels aches
and pains, brings refreshing sleep, and re-
stores health and vigor. For every "female
complaint" it is the only remedy SO sure
that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't
cure, you have your money back.
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Castoria.
Odio LUI 4t9i
"castoria Is an excellent medicine for

"castoria Is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children
Dr.. G. c. osaooD,
Lowell, Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the yariousquack nostruns which arc
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their threats. thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DE-. J. F. KINCHELoE,
Conway, Ark
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EGectualy yet gently, when costive or bill.
iOus' or when the blood Is impure or sluggish.
to permanently cure habituHl constipati on,
toawaken tue kidneys AMI liver to healthy
activity, without irritating or weak ening
them, 10 dispel headaches. cold or feyers, use
Syrup of Figs.
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WooL-What is the difference be-
tween Croton bug and cockroach?
Van Pelt-None; the former term is
used by the landlord, the latter by
the tenant.
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THAT'S what / get for my palms."
sobbed the small 10y, as he swallowed
dose of castor oil. Philadelphia
Record.
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Castoria.

"Castora Is sowell adapted to children that
l recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-"
H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Our physicians in the childreu's depart
mont have spoken highly of their expert.
ence in their outside practice with Castoria.
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIsPEasAnY,
Boston, Mass.
ALLEN C. SMITH, Pres,
fray Street, New York City.
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periodic pains which at
times were so acute as
to render life a burden. I
began using DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. I
used seven bottles in as
many months and de-
rived so much benefit
from 1t and the home
treatment recommend
ed in his Treatise on
Diseases of Women. that
l wish every woman
throughout our land,
suffering In the same
way, may be induced to
give your medicines and
treatment a fair trial. ("
" Favorite Prescrip-
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PRACTICAL HINTS on FEEDrsa FOWLS.
Proper feeding is the most impor-
sant subject connected with nonltty
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ayes, | am real proud of the splendid body Of
men and women we have to represent us in the
various parts OF the country; many of thsm are
among the best men and women that ever
walked the sod, and we wish to employ few
Johnson ge Of the f firm II B. F. johnson 4 Co.
Richmond, Va, gives of their advertisement.
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What is

Castora is Dr. Samuel Pitchers prescription Infants
and Children contains neither Opium, Morphine
other Narcotic substance. 1t is harmless substitute
Parcgoric Drops Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
1t is Pleasant Its guarantee is thirty years by
Millions of Mothers ClstCria destroys Worms and aays
fevcrshaess Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhea and Wind Collie. Castoria relieves
teethng troubles constipation and hatucncy.
Castoria assmates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels giving healthy and natural Sleep Cas-
tora il tbo Cbildrens Panacca-thc Mothers Friend,
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The success of book depends not so much
upon who writes it as upon who writes it up
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Karl's Clover Root. the great blood purifier,
ion and cures constipation, % cts, 50 cts. 81
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The things that go without saying must
have escaped feminine attention.
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MADE LIFE A RuapEn.

MISS G. +. CRAWFORD, of Limestone, Me-,
writes: FOR years | suffered monthly from
rariodfn r1uif,a uxhfnh ~
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= e I. . esees
FTR ssl h. Mitchell, ESQ.
SIZE ioE ! HEsID EET-Ex-Judge +. Stone
az SThcRSIARY-Hon. A. Posey.
A. AsURER--J. H. Z 1berts, Esq.
ATToRSEY-cOl L. A. Wilmer.
BOARD OF DrREcroRs.
y =. Mitchell, Attornsy.atLew.
= stone, EH'Chief Judge.
a, iF9sey Atorncy.at Law.
III; r. l. n a. Wilmer, Attorney-at-LAw.
! d. Roberts, Merchant.
D D = M9ltngly. Reg ster Of Wills.
7 Il horney Restaurant
Ifs atOyc Company will receive de-
Po'i' and make loans to persons Of small
ans A r're chance is offered to small
Sage'ear0er' to save their small earnings and
Duy Mt tuili q home. And as an investment
'he "0'S Of the Company is safe and
DrO6istl&
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DR.. Kilmer's SwAMP-Roor cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y.
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WHEN man hears of distress, he
longs TO give advice.
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OFFIcERs-Brainard II. Warner, Presi-
d ut; Joha Joy Edison, Vi"e-President; VIM.
b. Robson. Secretary, John r. Carmady,
Treasurer.
DIREcToRs-John T. Arms, Charles B.
Bailey, Charles Baum, James L. Ba bour,
John NJ Clapp II. s. Cummings. J. J. d..
lington, John:Joy Edson, Albert F. Fox. o.
6. Green, VIM. b. Gurley, John A. Hamilton,
John B. Larner, John Ridout, George f.
John A. swope, ]. S, Sworn stedt, George
Trusdell, B. II. Warner, A. A. Wilson 4
D. Wine, S. w. Woodward, A. s.Worthi gton
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The Centaur Company, Murray New City.
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It is always surprising how much deeper a
hole is after one gets into it.