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Some Just little watery discharge
from the eyes and nostrils. Some with
ono eye swelled up, and some with
both eyes closed. The two or three
weeks preeedinglhad been rainy, with
a good deal OF wind at night, and tho
chickens roosting in the trees had sew.
eral times been thoroughly wet and
then chilled by the wind, and very
naturally they had taken cold and the
roup.
We explained the situation to our
friend, ss we understood it, and adj
vised him to put all his sick fowls in
one place and the well ones in another,
and to house them up we'll at night.
he did so, and while he lost the most
of those that were sick, he checked
the disease, and within about three
weeks he mad no sick fowls about.
It won't do to let the chickens roost
in the trees after the fall rains set in.
1t is best, and cheapest in the long
run, to roost them under shed all the
time. e.-Farm, Field and Fireside.
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SHEEP BREEDING.

In sheep breeding there is but one
way of keeping the ideal sheep, and
that is by trying to improve it. Like
all other stock on the farm sheep are
either improving or deteriorating, ac-
cording to the management given. By
using o thoroughbred ram and mating
to carefully selected ewes gradual
improvement can be made, while if
no particular care is taken in the Sc
lection of the breeding animals there
will be a gradual running down. With
good management ram can serve all
of the ewes usually kept on farm, so
that the expense is comparatively
small. OF course the improvement
will be greater at the start than later
on. That is, good ram will add
more to the improvement of sheep
that shear four or five pounds of wool
than to those that shear eight or
more.
The safest plan in all cases is to
breed the best ram to the best ewes.
Better have a less number of sheep
and have them OF quality that with
good feed and care will return fair
profit than larger number kept with
out profit. The best and most eco.
nomical way of improving is by selec-
tion and breeding, especially with
sheep, and the sheep as we'll as other
stock should be kept improving
Nebraska Farmer.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Rotation Is essential to all proper
farming.
The milk does not become normal
until tho fifth day after calving.
If butter color is Used it should be
added to the cream before churning
is began.
Milk remaining in the udder longer
than twelve hours loses in quantity
and qu llity.
It does NOT pay to raise scrub horses,
but there is always a demand for first
class animals.
Be careful not to change suddenly
from old to new oats, and do not feed
the latter in large quantities.
Disbudding is better than pruning.
1t saves the strength and vigor OF the
tree and the labor of the owner.
Cows kept on dry feed alone require
more water than when they have the
run of the pasture or are given sue.
culent food.
One of the great secrets of success
full rose culture is plenty OF water.
You can scarcely give them too much.
Turn the hose on them and let them
have good shower every day.
A Maine strawberry-grower says
that boughs or small trees of spruce
or pine are the best material for cover
ing the plants in winter. These col.
lect and hold the snow, which is the
best non.conduotor of heat, while per.
mitting at the same time q sufficient
circulation Of air.
1t is better to plant in the open
ground through the summer and trans
fer to q pot Of rich earth in winter
than to try to keep plants in pots
through the hot weather. The vigor.
GUS growth Of root in summer will
prevent the plant from blooming very
freely, and the check which the root
will receive in transplanting to pot
will make it bloom freely at the time
when blossoms are worth the most.
But in proportion as the roots are
cramped they must be supplied with
richer soil.
Farmers who grow turnips, beets,
carrots and other roots generally wait
until the whole crop is harvested be-
fore beginning to market it. In this
way they lose, for the price is then al.
ways lowest. There is better mar.
ket for these roots early in the season,
and the roots are then much sweeter
and tenderer than later. OF course
there will be some loss Of growth in
the portion marketed early, but if tho
roots arc thinned as gathered, and
only the trimmings sold, there will 30
d larger growth Of what is left.
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TURyPs AS A HoED CROP.

1t is cheaper and better every way
to have turnips grown in rows so that
they can be cultivated and hoed than
to SOW them broadcast. The latter
method has generally prevailed, ow-
ing to the too common idea that grow
ing crop with little labor makes 1t
cheaper. But where the turnips are
drilled and cultivated this extra labor
Is more than repaid by increased
product, thus making the drilled
turnips cost less per bushel than those
sown broadcast. There is further
advantage in the fact that the culti-
vated turnip may be kept free from
weeds, thus saving labor in future
crops.-American Cultivator.
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CHRISTIAN WORKERS.

Christian workers in our day are being
crushed with the burden of the past and the
future. With these we have no concern.
The past may inspire US. but looking unto
Jesus we have present help. The future is
his not ours. We have no concern with one
day of it. When we sit with Christ in
heavely places we pass already into the
nobler order; We see all things put under
him. But the times, the seasons, the crcum-
stances. these things should not load US with
the lightest burden. Nor are we to be over
much concerned about outward activities.
There be those who make themselves miser-
able when they do not write a book every
year, or when they do not fill up a long cal.
endar Of engagements. When 1t Is the will
of Christ we must hold ourselves ready to
speak, to act, to fight. When 1t is not we
please him by retiring into that recollection
within the central source of light in which
80 many were once wisely content to spend
their lives. w. R. Nicholl.
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PERIODS OF JOY.

Probably as long as there are human
hearts there will be the alternating periods
of exultant Joy In belief and doubt concern
ing the right to appropriate to the common
concerns OF daily life the presence OF the liv-
ing Christ. While we know better, with the
wave Of dependency comes the oppression
Of our own pettiness, and 1t seems almost
an impertinent conceit on our part to expect
that the Power that Is remodeling nations
can feel an interest In us. At such times
there is no passage In the gospel
more helpful i'll its assurance than the
account Of Christ washing the disci-
ple's feet. When Peter objected there
came the reply: IF I wash thee not. thou
hast no part in me-" And so we can be sure
that only as we take the presence OF the
Saviour into every least detail as an inspira-
ton to faithfulness and joyous living only
then can we claim that We have the part In
Christ that makes life more abundant for us
and all with whom we come in touch. This
Is the practical Christianity that we need
especially when engaged in the trivial tasks
Of housework which always seem OF less i'm
portance to her who has the wearisome
round OF duties to perform than any other
form of service.
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APPROPRIATE TRUTH.

There are some ministers who evidently
think that preaching the truth is all that Is
required of them. This is mistaken view
OF their duty. There is much truth that one
may preach and yet the result will be very
measre. Not soul will be saved by it. The
reason is plain 1t is not appropriate truth.
The successful physical does not give the
same kind of medicine for all sorts OF di-
seases: he employs specific medicines for GER
tain troubles. All OF his medicines may be
good, but not all are adapted to the same
type OF malady. So all Bible truth, all gos-
nel truth. are good. but some of it is far bot
ter ADAPTED to awakening and saving sinners
than another type of it is. There are passages
of Scripture which are solely adapted to in
struct Christians in certain duties; others are
designed to comfort. to cheer and to
strengthen. We should learn to discriminate
and 70 a1aDt.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
WAY To HELP THE POOR.

Giving money is not the only way-otten is
not the best way-to help the poor. nor IS
the money thus given the only money that
may be counted as bestowed in charity. we
have known persons to work hard to save
money and then give it away, when II they
had given the work to those who were ldle'
and had paid for it the money they saved,
they would have doubled its value. SO also
to help another to find the work he IS best
lifted for may be even a greater service to-
society than to found college We have
known persons to be helped through course
OF study for the ministry and for other
professions who were failures, and
the study of their aptitudes by those who
helped them would have shown that they
would be failures. when in other lines with
far less expense they might have succeeded.
AT this season many have come from schools
and colleges and are waiting to go into busi-
ness. Wise thought Of them and for them,
door opened here and there by those able to
do It, may make for many OF them the differ
ence between success and failure, happiness
and misery. 1t may make difference to en-
tire communities The distribution Of tenth
Of ones income need by no means limit his
benevolence.
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GOT THEIR REQUEST.

The Psalmist says: ''Hs gave them their
request, but sent leanness into their soul"
These words refer to God aud the lsraelttes.
They got their request granted but --
Tn 9 "but" has an unfortunate significance.
They prayed; their prayer was answered,
but the answer hurt them. 1t brought pow
erty of soul. God has sometimes answered
prayers when He knew that the answers
would be an injury to the praying ones. He
has done 50 because he wanted to teach
them, as they could be taught in no other
way. the folly OF having all their wishes and
requests granted. Besides, He would use
their example and experience to show US His
mercy in withholding from US some OF the
things which we ask Him for. In the lesson
before us we are reminded that it Is always
best to pray in harmony with Gods knowl-
edge of what Is evermore for our good,
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ABOUT RoosTINa IN TREES.

The disposition of the young fowls
shortly after being weaned is to take
to the trees at night, but the wise
poultryman head them towards the
chicken house.
We are aware of the prevalent idea
that tree-roosting makes the chickens
hardy, and that they thereby gain in
constitution and vigor. This idea we
discredit. We have a friend in Nash.
vile, writes H. B. Geer, who is a pit
game breeder. He lives alongside Of
a small park, and his young games last
fall took to the adjacent trees. We
were out to his place late one Sunday
evening, and, seeing the birds going
to the trees, we asked our friend why
he permitted it. He laughed at US
and hooted at the idea of the fowls
taking the roup, saying that they were
as hardy as pine knots, and used to
that sort of roost. That he had let
them roost in the trees before without
any bad results. We never said any
thing more about it, and had forgot
ten the matter until we met our friend
downtown one day about six months
later, when he stopped US, saying that
his chickens were sick, and dying
pretty badly, and for US to 60 out to
his place with him, and see il We could
tell what was the matter.
We went along with him, and as
soon as We reached the place we could
actually smell the disease. The roup
was rank. and not less than twenty ave
ane looking young game fowls had it.
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CoNsoMNuE.

Four pounds beet, one ounce suet,
one small onion. three quarts cold
water, four cloves, one small carrot, .
piece of celery. one egg white. Cut
into dice four pounds of lean beef
from the round, put suet and onion
sliced into the soup kettle and cook
until good brown, then add the meat,
cook without covering thirty minutes.
Add the cold water; cover the kettle
and simmer gently for about three
hours; at the end of this time add
Gloves, carrot, celery. Simmer an
hour. Strain and cool. Remove all
grease. Turn the consomme into q
kettle, beat the egg white with half
cup of water; add; boil; strain; sea-
son; serve.
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SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

The word OF God, the Bible. is called the
HOLY Spirits sword. The Bible is something
besides this, but it is certainly this: What a
literal sword Is to soldier, Gods Word is to
the spirit. The sword is the symbol Of wer,
of conquest, of authority. Of power. In the
hands Of the Holy Spirit Gods Word pierces
mems hearts; it cuts deep: it makes large
wounds: it causes sharp pain it makes fierce
war on mems sins: it cuts off the heads OF
spiritual enemies. If the word preached by
any minister does not make sharp deep cuts
iu the hearts of the hearers, then it is evident
that the sirit is not In the preacher handling
aud directing the Word The mischief with
some preachers is. they take this sword out
of the hands OF the Spirit. Hence failure. de-
feat. loss. We must not attempt to take the
niace of rho Spirit. nor should we get between
Him and His sword. but co operating with
both there is victory.
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EGG AND FISH SANDWICHES.

To make an egg and fish sandwich
pound the yolks Of five hard.boiled
eggs and the white OF one in mortar.
Add about as much anchovy as you
have eggs, and mix in the mortar. Add
to this mixture tesspoonful of butter
to every yolk of egg. When it is .
smooth mass spread it on brown bread
cut to the regulation thickness of an
eighth of an inch. The Norwegian
anchovies that come in keg ara con-
sidered better than those that come in
a bottle, already boned. Take the
little fishes out of the keg, few at q
time, soak them in cold water for two
hours or longer, open them and re-
move the backbone. After cleaning
them we'll lay them in dish covered
with sweet oil until needed.
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LYING on IEANIN0S.

An acute thinker, now dead, drvly said ::
"There are people who live only on what
others leave them over of life." He prob
ably had in mind those limp-back, non-pro-
duetive, nom progressive people, to whom
any new thought, any innovation. Is dis
tressiag. They do no thinking for them
selves, except to think that they who differ
from them are fools. Even then the phrases
thew use in condemnations of others are the
leavings OF former generation OF destruc-
tive directors. These people are never cre-
ators. They have not enough energy TO ere
ate anythins-certainly not anything which
marks substantial progress in methods Of
person al culture and social welfare. Too
many Christians are living on the learings
OF other Christians. They pick up the notes
OF experience which the others let fall and
repeat them by rote. 1t is miserably poor
living
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BACON AND LIVER STEW.

Pour boiling water over beef or
calf liver, let stand one-half hour,
then cut the liver with deep gashes,
insert thin slices of bacon in these
cuts and fasten in with tooth picks.
Have three or four slices OF bacon in
the pot over hot fire frying with an
onion cut fine; when fried to q crisp
put the liver in, cover tightly, let
cook about ten minutes, turning often.
then dredgs we'll with -four, pour
boiling water over till the liver is
covered, put on the top OF the stove
where it will cook slowly. Cook three
hours, nice brown gravywat Badons
with the liver. er.-Womankind." "
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EYApoRAT1Na CORN FOB MARKET.

The evaporator we use ig Of our
own construction, after our own
plans, for there is no patent dryer on
the market that gives satisfaction in
corn. It is built of brick with
wooden framework on top containing
tin wire trays on which we place the
corn. It is divided by centre. wall
into two apartments, furnace heater
in each. No. l, green dryer, runs
at 200 degrees. No. Q, finishing
dryer, run at about $50 to It's de.
grees. The wire trays are 213 feet,
and we have sixty-three in number,
and with this dryer We can run out
45O pounds of cured corn day. The
tray will hold about two and a half
gallons of corn each, and We begin fill.
ing the lower rows first, then the sec-
ond, etc., until full. The corn is fin
ished in dryer No. 2, and We are put
ting in green corn and taking out
cured corn most of the time.
The ears after husking are steam
cooked in az air-tight steam cooker,
but do not touch the water. After be-
ing cooked the corn goes to the cut
ting knives, where our women experts
will cut tray each of two and q half
gallons in from three to three and o
half minutes. The knives are three
circular blades, cutting the grains
into three pieces. Four strokes usual
ly clean an ear. An awl made for the
purpose is placed in the end of the
cob and after the corn is off the cob is
dropped on the outside of the building
through V-shaped aperture. When
working at full capacity two mon have
all they can do to handle the dryers
and cooker, as the corn requires con.
tinual stirring and shifting to keep it
from souring and scorchng. On a
damp, rainy day it requires very close
attention. The heat is all produced
with wood and each of the three fires
consumes about as much wood as one
needs on cold winter day to keep a
room comfortable. Corn requires
from four to eight hours for curing,
owing to heat used, etc.
After it is cured we run all the corn
through a windmill to take out silks
and cob dust. As fast as cured we put
it into new two-bushel sacks, holding
100 pounds. We market in the same
sacks. We sell mostly tojobbers. On
account Of the hard times. prices will
rule lower this season than last. The
price averages about 81 cents o pound,
sacks included. The greatest draw.
back to the sweet corn business is
that but few women understand how
to properly prepare it for the table.
They usually put it on the stove and
boil it for half day and then con-
denim it for being so tough and taste.
less. Evaporated corn, as we put it
up, has been cooked and all it needs
to be and the proper thing to do is to
wash it in cold water, then place cold,
not warm, water over it, put it in
some warm place and let it soak as
long as twelve hours in winter. Then
put the proper seasoning in and cook
long enough to cook the seasoning.
This plan is the only one by which the
natural fresh corn favor can be pre-
served. Denver Field and Farm.
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A REMARKABLE CAREER.
A Colored Scientist Who Was Admitted to
the "Skull and Bones"

Robert NJ. Park. n colozed man OF comfort
able career, is dead at New Haven, Conn. In
his eighty-sixth year. He was brought np
in the family OF Harvey Sanford and later
was body servant OF Professor Benjamin Sill
liman. of Yale University. He was man Of
remarkable intelligence and good education
and was the only colored man eve- admitted
to membership OF Skull and Bones, not a
graduate Of Yale University. This honor
was conferred upon him that he might be-
come waiter in the employ OF members of
that fraternity. He had good knowledge
OF chemistry and gave frequent lectures on
that subject to the people OF his race. His
son-in-law, F. D. Bassett, was at one time
United States Minister to Hayt He has a
grandson prominent in Philadelphia educa-
tional circles AMI another grandson is at
present student al Yale Medical School.
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A POINT IN TILE DRAINING.

In using tile drains it is sometimes
absolutely necessary to change the
pitch of the drain, but in locating the
drain in the beginning such a selec.
tion should be made as will permit the
change of pitch from a slower to a
faster current as shown in the lower
diagram of our sketch. In this case
sediment will not be deposited at the
point where change of grade is made,
as it would be were the grade changed
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
HOW TO MAKE AN OMELET.

Three eggs separated, one table,
spoon of -four, one small cup Of milk,
salt, pepper and either finely
chopped onion or parsley to the TASTE!
Beat -four smooth in milk, add beaten
yolks, and last of all stir in the whites
beaten to stiff froth. Have melted
butter in a hot pan on top Of stove
and pour batter into it. When it is
set and seems thick put it in the oven
on the slide and let it finish baking.
This is excellent.-St. Louis Star
Sayings.
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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
FARMER BROWN AND JUSTICE.

FARMER BROWN AND JUSTICE.
Can old story in new dress.)
Good Farmer Brown in days long past
Hia lot beside stream had cast.
And much good cash had he laid down
BY selling chickens in the town;
Prime, plump and tender were they all,
And brought him prices never small.
But sad to tell, there sometimes came
Wild foods that we'll deserved the name;
They carried off full many coop,
And thus curtailed his chicken soup.
For many years he bore this we'll,
Until at last worse luck befell,
So wild and high the waters ran,
He found himself chickenless man.
Angry at this was Brown indeed.
And sought lawyer with all speed.
II want to sue the State" said he.
Then danced the lawyers eyes with glee,
And, writing down the farmers name,
He said. "Well. sir, let's hear you claim"
With burning cheeks the farmer told
His losses from the water cold.
Concluding, with an angry brow,
"Justice Is what I'm after now"
"Justice:" the lawyer said In scorn,
Sho oAou NY liioAo} oAo Joo WIZ D"AAs
You say the water took your chicks:
Well, rivers often play those tricks"
"But come," continued Farmer Brown,
While deeper grew his wrathful frown,
"You must, I say, way provide
That I may be inaemnihed;
Somebody, now, I'm bound to sue,
To get again what Is my DUE"
The lawyer smiled, and said, "Oh well,
Put up fifty and I'll tell
bow you this trouble may elude
And circumvent those waters rude"
The good man paid the fifty down,
For fair and square was Farmer Brown.
Then said the lawyer. with smile,
"My rule beats Justice by mile"
And, with a wink that rivalled Puck's,
He softly said, my friend, raise ducks!'
Clara J. Denton, in Youths Companion.
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THE BICYCLE AND GOOD ROADS.

Uncle Sam Preparing a Zig Map of tho
Highways OF the Country.
General Roy Stone, special agent and en-
Rineer OF the Road Inquiries Office OF the
Department Of Agriculture. is working
steadily on the preparation of a gigantic road
map of the United States. II is his intention
to show the condition as regards paving or
macadamizlng. construction and repair, OF
every highway in the United States.
General Stone is receiving great assistance
from the League Of American Wheelmen,
and various Good Road Associations OF the
United States. He is confident that the
Roads Parliament to be held at Atlanta Octo-
Der II, 1S and 10, will have great influence