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ed Kate, opening her Lblue eyes wide
in surprise, didn't you invite Uncle
Jobn?"
elbow could I, when I didn't know
notL in about it?" ~
"pidn't you know about it when
you got it up yourself?" y
"What under the canopy do you
mean"' asked Mr.. Darlington in as
tonishment. 81 didn't git up nothin'. y
"Why, yes, you did, father" said
Kate, ''you sent us note telling us
to invite all the neighbors."
81 didn't do nothin' of the kind,
onless my mentality was wandering"
Sophie and her mother looked at
each other in wonderment, but Kate
straightway brought the paper and
handed it to her father. 'There is
the note you sent us with the grocer
les"
81 didn't put up the groceries and
I'm innercent of the writin' on that
! paper" he said after he had read the
invitation.
Then Uncle John examined the pa
per, but no sooner had he glanced at
the words than he burst into such a
fit of laughter that he was unable to
speak for several seconds. When at
last he found his voice he said: 81
writ that myself last week. 1 had sech
a cold that L couldn't talk, and 1 got
into the habit of speakin' to the folks
on paper One AFTERNOON felt like
havin' leetle company and I asked
Mary to get ready for folks that night.
L writ them words to her in the store,
and s'pose the man never noticed
them when he put the paper on the
groceries.
Joe Darlington smiled grimly. 81
see-a mistake all round. Wal, I'm
not sorry we had the settin, and-I say
its onnec 'sary to let this thing git to
the neighbors. We ought to have
more comp'ny and we will. I want
the women folks to go around more,
too. They're not critters to be
ashamed of when they're dressed up
right and smart.
Nothing was said in opposition to
these new ideas of Joe's and from that
evening there commenced a pleasant
er era for the women at the Daring
ton homestead = Chicago News.
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A Snake.Killing Bird.

The Australian, also called Jardine's
Harrier, is another serpent killer of
no mean ability, that is endowed by
| nature with legs of considerable
length, covered with strong yellow
scales absolutely impervious to any
ophidian tooth. Although it does
not prey exclusively on snakes, but al
SO kills and devours frogs, nevis and
! lizards, the barrier is of very great
service in its native country, which
contains so many species of deadly
snakes, which it searches for on the
wing, hawking at no great distance
from the ground over the places which
they frequent, and snatching them up
in one of its powerful feet, always TAX
care to grasp the reptile by the neck,
then flying upward to a great height,
and letting it fall, to be killed on the
hard surface of the earth or on stone,
if there should happen to be a large
one in the neighborhood.
l must confess, however, to slight
amount of incredulity in respect of
the snake-killing prowess of this very
handsome hawk, for it chiefly fire.
quents marshy ground, and is more
likely to meet with frogs in such
situation than with serpents, which, as
arule, at least in Australia, frequent
the hottest and driest places they can
find. Still, as the reptiles, or at least
some of them, seek the water when they
are changing their skins, at which
time their sight is DINNER than usual,
it may be that the antipodean marsh
harrier does fall in with snake oc-
casionally in the the moist places it
chiefly affects and makes short work
the deadly reptile. Pail Mall Maga-
zine,
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KICKING COWS.

If the animal is handled kindly from
calfhood, and the proper kind of per-
son milks her-one who has sense
enough to control his temper-there
will be very little probability of the
animal developing the kicking habit.
If the cows udder is sore, or if one
handles tender teats too roughly, the
COW is liable to kick. If she does, it
will be wise to handle her more kindly
and gently, lest she repeat the kicking
SO many times that it becomes habit,
for if it develops into a habit, nothing
may serve to cure her. Young heifers,
which have just dropped their calves,
may kick occasionally at the begin
ming; and if the milker kicks her
back, or strikes, or scolds her roughly,
the chances are that the evil will be
aggravated, and the COW ruined.
Gentleness and kindness with dairy
cows is the best plan to avoid having
kicking COWS. But there are frequent
instances where the kicking propensi-
sity seems to be transmitted in the
breeding from dam to offspring, and
in such cases it will be hard matter
to effect cure. AS rule, however,
kicking cows are the result of igno-
rant and brutal treatment by those
having them in charge, and entrusted
with their training. American Agri-
culturist.
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Every male elephant is liable to in.
sanity some time or other.
In Finland and East Turkestan
thunder storms are wholly unknown.
Brick-dust mortar is said by author
tiles to be an excellent substitute for
hydraulic cement.
Neither chemists nor naturalists have
yet been able to solve the question
why lobster turns red when boiled.
Man is composed, according to the
scientists, of five bucketfuls of water
and forty-ive pounds OF, carbon and
nitrogen.
The body of lizard exudes an
acrid fluid that serves as q protection
to the animal. A dog will not hold .
lizard in his mouth more than an in
stant and can rarely be induced to re-
peat the experiment.
By exposing the chrysalis vanessa
atalanta to q low temperature, it
showed great increase in the area OF
the scarlet bands on the wings, and q
great increase in the area of white and
blush markings.
Among the fellow-b -boarders of ants
and white ant nests in Australia have
been found fly, an undetermined
small moth, both from Sydney, and OF
beetles, two species of Pselaphid@,
family often occurring in ant nests, an
Anthrenus, and another undetermined
beetle.
A German electrical paper men
tions patent for an apparatus resem-
bling the Bell radiophone, in which
intermittent beam of light focused on
a glass vessel containing lampblack
produces audible notes. Mercadier
has attempted to use this apparatus
for multipletelegraph system.
There are 43 electric railroads in
Europe, employing 53S motor cars and
locomotives, and 151 trailers. The
systems are divided as follows: rff01-
ley, 81 ; central rail, s. under ground
conductor, 2; storage battery, 2.
There are "a lines now building, all
of which will probably be running be-
for the year is out. A large number
of the systems used are American.
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The Brook.

l,,ooked in the brook and saw a
Heish-ho. but child was !!
,rhore were ruehes and willows in that place,
and they clutched at the brook as the brook
ran by;
,,,d tbe brook II ran its own sweet way.
d. child doth run in needless play.
nd As it ran / heard it say:
"Hasten with me
To the roistering sea
THAT is wroth with the flame of tho morning
sky"
link in the brook and see face;
He.ch-ho, but the years go by!
The rushes are dead in the old-time place,
And the willows l knew when child was | j;
nathe brook it seemed to me to say,
seyer it stealeth on its way,
solemnly now and not in play,
"Oh, come with mo
To the slumberousse sea
That is gray with the peace Of the evening
sky"
Heigh-ho but the years go by,
Iwould to God that q child were I.
Chicago Record.
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ly due to the pressure of the cob moal
and its effect in keeping the mass
light and in better condition to be di-
gested.
The discovery partially explained
the success of few old farmers who
kept their horses fat on hay and few
ears of corn daily, while others with
twice as much meal as the ears of corn
would make did not look as we'll. The
use of bran has been advised for the
same purpose rs much as for what it
contained, and it seemed that the
principle was well understood Cobs
have been analysed and found to con-
tain about as much nutriment as the
same weight of wheat straw, which,
though but little used, is worth saving
if it can be properly balanced with
other foods. But now there is cry
against cobs. Somebody has whitfield
acob and found hard plates in (which
are indigestable, and says no mill will
grind fine, and from that he reasons
that corn on the ear cannot be ground
as fine as shelled corn. It should be
mentioned that this objection to grind
ing gcobscomes from further south, where
cobs grow large and do not get SO dry,
and where, for that and other reasons,
there was less need of the adoption Of
our methods. Failing to make allow
ance for the distance and change Of
latitude is one great source of error
and disappointment. Peo-
pie who are doing we'll with corn
ground with the cobs should not be
scared out of it by the complaints OF
those who have no reason for using
that method. Mirror and Farmer.
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WHAT TO FEED SHEEP.

1t is the practice of many sheep
breeders to feed grain to both lambs
and ewes and turn them to market
early; some feed only the ewes, some
of the lambs and feed no grain at all.
To determine the profit of feeding
grain the Wisconsin experiment sta
ton undertook to solve this question
and found that it paid we'll to feed
grain to the lambs before weaning, but
that there was no benefit from feeding
grain to the ewes. An expenditure of
$2 "a for grain gave n difference of
81. 63 in the market value of the
lambs so fed. Fourteen lambs fed
grain gained 1921 pounds in ten
weeks, while the same number of
lambs with no grain gained 395 3-4
pounds in the same time, difference
of SO. 3 pounds i'll favor of the grain
fed lambs. The lambs having received
grain were estimated by competent
butcher to be worth three -fourths of
cent more per pound than the others.
In second experiment an expendi-
ture of So. 70 for grain gave differ
ence of 50. 06 in the market value of
the lambs having grain. A strong
point in favor of feeding grain to
lambs before weaving is that they
learn to feed themselves and so show
no perceptible loss when weaned;
others lose considerably. Courier
Journal.
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Running AmOk.

| The condition under which the Ma
lays run amok, as described by DIR.
Ellis, of the Government Hospital,
| Singapore, in the Journal of Mental
Science, seems usually to be preceded
by period of mental depression,
sometimes with suspicion, and the pa
tient, when he breaks out, slashes at,
stabs, and sometimes mutilates all who
come in his way, irrespective of creed
or nationality. The weapons used are
n short spear, Malay kris, or chop
per, and in the old days-even now in
the uncivilized parts of the peninsula
it was the custom to have long,
| forked sticks, which were used against
| the man who was running amok, to
stop him and pin him to the ground.
Such men, when caught, are now tied
regularly and sent to an asylum; but
formerly little mercy was shown them,
and they were killed at once, as
though they were mad dogs. The con-
dition seems to resemble in many par
ticulars the automatic condition which
is sometimes left after an epileptic fit;
this, in some cases, takes the form of
running, or "procursive epilepsy;
and, if we imagine such patient
armed with knife and imbued with
homicidal impulse, we have practical
ly all the conditions necessary for the
Malayan pathological development.
The Malayan, in his sound state, pro-
fesses to have no recollection of the
assaults he has committed. The con-
dition of running amok is becoming
less common than it was few years
ago.-Popular Science Monthly.
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COBS AS FOOD.

1t is natural for customs to change
and for opinions to differ, but it does
seem a little strange that, when an old
idea has been laid away and a new one
put in its place, and the reasons for
the change scientifically explained
and generally accepted, there should
be such reaction as there is now in
some sections in regard to grinding
corn with the cob for stock food. 1t
has been known that clear cornmeal IN
over-doses was dangerous and in many
cases fatal 1t has been shown that
when it was the general practice to
feed cracked corn to working teams
because oats were high, there were
more horses used up by founder than
In any other way. When is was found
that fowls as well as pigs would fatten
faster on our Northern corn ground
in the ear than on clear meal Of dent
corn, it was shown that the difference
was not " IN ths corn, but was large.
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Impressed.

A young man fresh from college
wore as a scarfpin jewelled gold po-
tato bug. One day he called the at
tention of an old German bookseller to
it, asking:
'Isn't that pretty, Dutchy?"
"Ja, ja," was the reply. 'Dot ish
the biggest pug on der schmallest po
tato l haf efer seen. - Harper's B&
Zaar.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The breed of hens that lays great
many eggs does not produce the best
table fowls.
Rake together dry leaves for hog
beds. They can be used later to haul
to the fields.
Ducks will come as near to taking
care of themselves as any of our do.
mestic fowls.
1t is better to try to see how much
you can do on small piece of land
than to attempt as little as possible on
a large scale.
Remember always that big crops
taken from the soil year after year re-
quire return to the land, in some
form or other, of the fertility re-
moved.
Large e-combed fowls are the better
layers. Attempts at decreasing the
size of the comb have hitherto resulted
in deterioration in the laying powers
of the birds.
Red clover makes excellent hog pas
ture, but to put any kind of hogs on
such pasture without other food is
wasteful, just as it is to feed too much
of INV other Sino1e food
1t seems to be question with some
people whether it would be better to
clean up the barnyard occasionally or
to remove the barn and other out.
buildings to another spot.
The advice to make the hen work
for her food cannot be too often given.
Scatter it among straw where she must
scratch for it or make her work in any
other way that may suggest itself.
Ifcolt handlers realized their respon-
sibilities more fully there would be
more we'll broken, really useful horses.
By kindness, firmness and persever-
ance the horse can be taught to do al
most anything.
Sheep should be led and not driven.
A shepherd in the old country never
drives sheep. They recognize his
voice and follow him; hence the i'm
portance of changing shepherds as lit
tie as possible.
Sugar beets are worth more to feed
COWS for milk and butter, than the
prices which the sugar-beet factories
offer for them for making sugar. The
same is true of most of the grain pro-
ducts of the farm.
Reasonably mild weather is best for
fattening hogs. Hence hogs that are
to be fattened in the winter should be
put upon generous food early, while
the weather is moderate, and hogs that
are to be slaughtered in the summer
should be well started in the early
spring.
No vegetable is more easily grown
than satisfy, yet it is rarely fonnd in
the garden. Satisfy is known as 'veg-
etable oyster" and when cooked has
the flavor of oysters. IT is very
hardy plant, and can remain in the
ground exposed all winter. A single
row, 100 feet long, will be ample for
1 moderate family,
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A Revised Version.

1t happened in Sunday school The
subject under discussion was Solomon
and his wisdom. A little girl was ask
ed to tell the story of Solomon and
women who disputed possession of a
child. She timidly arose up and an
swered:
Solomon was n very wise man.
One day two women went to him
quarrelling about baby. One woman
said This is my child and the
other woman said, No, this is my
child But Solomon spoke up and
said; Mono, ladies. do not quarrel.
Give me my sword and I will make
twins Of him, SO each Of You can hare
eHel' "~Haspey'a xsrAxiaA
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FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
SWEET POTATOES AS FEED.

The tops of sweet potatoes make an
important feed for stock, and espec-
tally for dairy cattle, says bulletin No.
2S of the Texas station. Since they
grow in punches and stand up well
they can be cut with moving ma
chine and put up like regular forage
crops. They also make salad of
very fair quality. Thirty-one varie-
ties of sweet potatoes were tried and
reported on.
The bulletin cautions growers that
the Northern taste being SO different
from the Southern, sweet potatoes
shipped to the former market should
be dry and mealy, in order to COM
mand ready sales and the best prices
New York World.
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HIS SURPRISE PARTY.

HlN NUIG IGlOu L AIGl Il
The village of Meredith was seven
miles from the Darlington homestead,
and it was quite an event in the lives
otthe Darlington women when they
could manage to secure horse to
take them so long a distance. Mr..
harrington and his son drove to the
village every week, but the old man
,bourht the women folks belonged at
home and had no reason to go beyond
/ the cate at the end of the lane. There
we're other farmhouses near, to be
sure. but Mr.. Darlington was opposed
10 "hayin his wife and darters CAD
about to all the neighbors," and as he
vas very inhospitable when visitors
did appear everybody fell into the ha-
BIT Of letting the Darringtons severe
alone.
It vas hard life for the mother
nd herAwo daughters, but they bore
pir lot uncomplain1ngly and toiled
sfrom day to day with no hope of a
iange 1t is said that there is time
vhsn patience ceases to be virtue,
and | think in the case of the Daring
lon women that time had arrived when
The father positively refused to have
company invited to the house. "Think
want all my hard earned wittles ct
PIP by strangers?" he asked, with
Pcowl, and that settled the question.
Firm and decided opposition on the
part of the women would have won
Or them an easier life, for the old
pan was weak when strong will was
ct against his, but they had never
bought of crossing father, so he be-
anne more tyrannical as his years in
reased.
One morning, when Mr.. Daring
pn announced his intention of driving
'he village, Kate timidly ventured
request that she be allowed to ac-
pmpany him her Uncle John kept
ore In Meredith and she had not
zen that store for ten months.
Ialn't nee 'sary," the father an
efed' testify; ''if you want anything
Stl ito You've got enough work
10 In the house without gaddin'
OuAd the town. I'll stop at Johns
p'e and If his wagon is comm past
'e This mornin' I'll order him to
Y With lot of groceries. Rob amt
~ today. It'll take me too con-
Aea long at the blacksmith's."
y hope died in Kate's heart, and
asigh she returned to her work.
'ast before dinner Uncle Johns
pOn stopped with the groceries.
lie was opening the basket to put
'a'hgs away when she noticed
y writing on the brown paper that
y A'a over them. "Why, what's
A. 4 she cried. Father seems to
~ sent us a note"
> well, what does he say, child?"
= s. aer mother, anxiously. "Read
~ ut loud"
~ y !" before she could begin Kate
"a afs' Darlington looked over her
Ia ''ef and this is what they saw:
s.s y 10 around and invite all the ma
= :" spend the evenin' with us and
- uaSe genwin Surprise Party.
Y sSs ! 'iofSlt Toms folks. Can't you
HI some cake?"
" nat can have come over father l
Sw'E ''aSlhe, said Mrs Darlington,
oewildered, "but we'll have
IL ~ as he says SO.
IN Aueed, We'll be delighted to do
"a neu sophie in ecstasy. "We'll
rrs' "'ia at his word Immediately, for
10 - comes home and changes his
Where's Rob? He must do
Fo' '@ns while we clean up and
- hob was informed of this
Aspssture OF his fathers he ioined
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Saved His Life.

Briggs-Did you hear about Stuf'
fer's narrow escape the other night?
His boarding house got on fire and
tbey had an awful time waking him
up. ~
Griggs-How did they finally sue
ceed?
Briggs-Ihey rang the dinner bell,
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HIGH SCHOOL ENLARGEMENT.
Contracts Let For 1t and Other School
Jnlur0vementS.

Contracts Let For 1t and Other school
improvements.
The City Board of Education held a
special meeting last night for the purpose
of opening bids and awarding contracts
for enlarging the High School and max
ing other Improvements.
Bids for enlarging the High School
were received from S. Carle for SS41, I.
H. Davis for S945, and G. w. Daley for
SS35 rs. The contract was awarded to
Daley.
On the removal of the ungraded school
house from o, Ninth and Tenth, to
Twenty-fourth and n streets, the bids
were: c. w. Daley, S574 50; L. I'll. Davis,
$3.50; S. Carle, $3.50. Daley secured this
contract also.
The bids for constructing a cement
sidewalk around the High School were:
i. M. Burns, $246; John ID. Shearer, $3.50;
M. Langley, 10 cents per foot; j. McGilli-
vray, S24S. The contract was awarded to
Burns.
For labor only in painting the school
house at Thirteenth and G streets: Morse
& Hughes bid Sl25; @. Ii. Rott, $751;
Davis Bros, Sl40, and the former secured
the contract.
For labor only in painting at Seventh
and G streets, the bids were Pendery 81
Moore, $50; j. E. Buck. S96; James E.
Harrison, Sl09 so; G. FL. Rott, Sl46; Morse
81 Hughes SO, and the latter got the job.
For labor in painting at Sixteenth and
n, James E. Harrison's bid was $40 90;
G. ii. Rott, $242; j. Anderson, $500; Morse
& Hughes Sll0, and the latter got the job.
For labor in painting the schoolhouse
at Twentyfourth and n streets, c. II.
Rott's bid was S420, and James e. Harri-
sons S24l. and the latter secured the con-
tract.
The bids for filling in the High School
lotto yards-were: George Burns, 81
cents per yard; A. Meiss. 81! cents; John
Hughes, 80 cents; JAS. Touhey, SO cents;
j. McAdams, 81 cents; NJ. NJ. Brady, 30
cents; Pat McGuire, 374 cents.
The contract was let TO Burns.
The purchase of paint was left to the
Committee on Buildings and Repairs, and
the choice of color was left to the Super
intendent.
The record-union., 1894-08-25

RUMAN-In this city, August 23d, Louis A.,
son of G. a. and Mary Ruman OF Michigan
Bar, native OF California, aged / S years
and 10 months.
RS- Friends and acqualntances are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral from
the Eldred House parlors. Sunday morning.
August 25th, at 10 O'Clock. Interment City
Cemetery.
B0WEN-In this city, August 23d. Mrs. Kate
NJ. Bowen lmother of Mrs. Eta Ingham), a
native OF Vermont, aged 54 years.
EB-Friends ana acqualnJances are respect
fully invited TO attend the funeral this
afternoon at $3.50, from her late residence,
1404 ID street
HILTON--In Broderick, Yolo County, August
9th, Barbara Hilton (mother of Mrs. Reu-
ben Fitz and Robert G. Hiltonl, a native OF
England. aged n years.
s-tuneral private.
The record-union., 1894-08-25
THE STATE FAIR RUNNING RACES.
They Should Attract the Best Horses
on the Coast,
And Insure Great sport for All Who
Delight in Witnessing Con-
tests of Speed.

The programme for the running races
during the State Far is pronounced the
best card of the kind ever offered IN Cali
fornia. It is sure to attact only the best
horses OF the State, and as the public do
not care to see any but that class engaged
in the various contests, they are certain
to be well entertained. The events are as
folloxvo.
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ter miles. Closed August lst with nine

ter miles. Closed August 1st with nine
entries.
No. 32.-Hnrlle race. Purse $3.50; $50
to second; handicap, over four hurdles.
Entrance $40, to go to winner. Declafa-
ton free. One and one-elghth miles.
No. 33.-Free purse $3.50. For beaten
horses at this meeting, of which $50 to
second. II two-year-olds, two pounds
allowed for each time beaten; if three
year-olds, three pounds for each time; if
tour-year-ol aud upward, six pounds
for each time. Entries to close with Clerk
of Course p. NJ. day before race. Six
furInnpS
The record-union., 1894-08-25
spoonbilI Medal Shoot.

The Spoonbill Club will hold the last of
its series of seven medal shoots at Agri-
cultural Park on Sunday, commencing at
"a. NJ. The shoot will be at fifty blue
rocks. George Naghel is in the lead for
the medal. All shooters are invited.