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LIKE ONE BIG FUNERAL.
Such Was the Departure of the Spanish
Troops for Cuba.

The Seventh Regiment, a battery Of artil.
lery and two companies Of infantry sailed
from San Sebastian, Spain, for Cuba, and
Judging from the local newspapers, the de-
parture of the troops Was made the occasion
Of O vast popular demonstration OF patriot
ism and OF determination to wipe the re-
bells off the face of the earth. According to
somewhat belated private advices from the
scene, the newspaper accounts do not ut the
facts, which is not surprising, seeing that
they had to be submitted to the censor before
publication. Previous to the review the
Bishop Of Vittoria celebrated a religious
service In the open air. on the magnificent
Zurrlola Promenade, but the effect was con.
siderably spoiled by howls, sobs and other
demonstrations Of grief by women and chill
dren, who at San Sebastian, as In other parts
of SPAN, made no pretense to the possession
OF Spartan spirit. Then followed march
past the Queen Regent and little King. The
latter was in cadets uniform and saluted
the troops as they passed with precocious
gravity AND dignity. His appearance GER
tainly aroused good deal Of popular en-
thusiasm, but 1t evaporated as soon as he
disappeared from the scene. As for the
troops themselves, they made no pretense
Whatever OF enthusiasm. They had been
forced to the colors and looked rs II they
were unwilling conscripts sent to fgnt and
die without compensation or glory. After
the march past they were huddled OIL to
the forts on the heights dominating the
town. Triple guards were on duty through
out the night to prevent apprehended de-
sertious, and in the morning the detected
soldiers went aboard the transport with the
air Of men going to funeral.
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THE CABBAGE WORM.

The most common cabbage caterpil-
lar is the larval form of the white but
terhy, 30 often seen about the plants
deposlting its eggs. Aside from this
larva there are several others which
attack the cabbage plant, being the
larve of several species of butterflies
and moths. But while there are sew
eral species of caterpillars on the
plants, yet the habits of all are very
similar, so that the same remedies are
applicable to all.
Just as soon as the worms are no
ticed on the plants, paris green, either
dry or mixed with water, should be
applied. In this case it Is perhaps
best to make the application in dry
form by means of any of the many
ways for making the application. A
common -four sack will do for this
purpose. If nothing better is at hand.
although nothing equals the champion
powder gun for the application of any
dry powders. When applied to the
cabbage, the paris green should be di-
luted with about twenty parts of -four,
the effectiveness of the application de.
pending not 80 much upon the amount
used as the evenuess of the distribu.
ton. The paris green, however, should
not be applied to the plants after they
have formed heads, but pyrethrum or
insect powder should then be used In
stead.
But the question is often asked
'Will not the paris green poison the
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FATTEN1Na FOWLS BY cRAMM1Na.

An excellent method of fattening
fowls by the process of examining, as
it is termed, is as follows: One of the
convenient meat choppers used in the
kitchen in the preparation of food is
procured of the right size, the animal
matter chosen, is mixed with linseed
oil meal, corn and barley meal, and all
run through the machine and reduced
to homogeneous pulp. A little dry
-four is taken in the hands and conven-
lent sized morsels of this food are
rolled into shape like small sausa9es.
These are dipped in oil OF any kind
and laid aside for use for the next two
days, which is a convenient interval
for the preparation of the food. The
fowls are confined in coops set on
benches of convenient height, and
are taken one by one and as much of
this food as may be is forced down the
throat. This is a French method.
which is applied to large business by
the aid of o special machine, and these
people can give US large odds and win
every time in the practice of rearing
and preparing pc ultry for the markets
and making profit OF it.-New York
Times.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE REVIVAL OF REFORM.

Reform Is often talked about as II 1t Were
the beginning Of Il new order OF Things tt Inc
invention Of new modes and ends OF ne:
The very word itself should correct that
falacy Reform is to form again on the
basis Of an order already established or an
ideal already raised up for the lnsPlraLioth
OF humanity. The eye grows weary WIN
reading and the ear becomes heavy with
hearing about new social movements
and moral reforms IN our day. What We
want is not new panaceas tor soclal anu
moral evils, but a revival OF the old
life and the old motive powers to be
and to do. One of the ,9ofs OF the divine
origin of man Is the fac -. IN MS nlgheSl
moods and moments he looks back TO MS
past as the prophecy OF his future. Every
real movement of progress is reformation,
because it Is a going back to or seeking
after the realization Of the revealed purpose
of God. The noblest developments OF the
future can never exceed the types of moral,
social and political order to be found with
in the pages of the Bible. The message and
the weapon Of reform is that Word OF God
which has been delivered to US by David,
Isaiah Paul and the Master Himself.
Christian men are not playing with reform
unless they reverently and patiently study
the handbook Of life to discover what new
light will break from its teaching for the
ing of the kingdom Of God and the doing OF
the will of God must he along the lines OF
obedience to activity fashioned after the pat
tern shown on the mount OF Revelation.
Reform is realization of the purpose of God.
All Christian legislation OPENS its book OF
laws with recital Of the Divine statutes. The
best sanitary measures are revival OF the re-
forms indicated in the Mosaic system. One OF
the ablest men Of science our generation
saw. said that he wanted nothing but the
Pentateuch to establish the most perfect
sanitary ori@- in the land. The lesson of
Levticrs i. public health is iIseparabl.c
connected with public morals. and that
sins against health are sins against God.
After many centuries that lesson Is being
taken to heart by humanity. The ques-
ticns that deal with the relations between
masters and servants. capitalists and work
men. rulers and subjects. are more and
more seeking solution in the teaching OF
Jesus Christ Professor Drummond, in his
Programme of Christianity" reminds me
very forcibly that Christ came not merely
and not mainly to save a few select souls
and transplant them to Paradise. but to re-
construct human society on Christian
basis and to destroy sin and misery, the
fruit of sin. on this planet. "What Christ
came here for was to make better world. !"
All reform must have for its objects the
creation Of an atmosphere of righteousness
in the country in which everything base and
vicious shall be sterilized. and everything
good and true shall flourish. The creation
of that atmosphere is absolutely dependent
upon the thoroughness and fidelity with
which the principles of the Bible are ap-
piled to every condition Of human thought
and every department of human activity.
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TAKING HONEY FROM BEES,

Many have trouble in taking honey
from their bees. 8. T. Petit gives
his plan in the Canadian Bee Journal,
as follows:
This Is the way I do it now: First,
give couple of smart whiffs of smoke
IN the entrance, then blow the smoke
smartly under the quilt, and the bees
will rush downwards, then remove the
quilt or cloth, and, for a moment rush
the bees down with the smoke. Now
is your opportunity; lift the combs,
out quickly, and shake off what bees
you can quickly, and lean the combs
against the back part of the hive or
any other convenient thing, or place
them in light box for that purpose.
Now, keep on hustle, and, as soon
as the last frame is out, drop in and
adjust your empty combs and close up
the hive. Now, see, all this must be
done before the reaction or return of
the bees sets iny and your bees are still
IN good humor, and their zeal for
gathering honey is not decreased by
the presence of those empty combs,
and everything is all right.
1.-THE process of brushing the re-
naming bees from the comb will be
found pleasant and easy, for by this
time they feel quite lost and lonely,
and they are in no mood for self de-
tense. I had rather remove the filed
combs. and replace them with empty
ones, than adjust and remove bee es.
cape. And then I fancy that the bees
being crowded in the brood chamber,
and the consequent excitement caused
by the bee-escape, would work up
swarming.fever.
81 go right on with the work in the
robbing season. I place the rubber
cloth,over the comb box, and just when
commencing operations I fill the box
with smoke; this keeps the Sobbers at
bay. At such seasons I have an as.
sistant to keep the air over and above
the hive pretty full of smoke"
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Round US on every side are cramped,
hindered still-born lires-merchants who
should have been painters, clerks who should
have been poets, laborerS who should have
been philosophers. Their talent is known
to a e. frieads they die. and the talent is
burie' .. their coffin. Jesus says no. 1t
has at last been sown for the harvest; it will
come into the open and blossm in another
land. There are also being trained-trained
by waiting. They are the reserve of the race,
kept behind the hill till God requires it.
They will get their chance they will come
into their kingdom.
"Where the days bury their golden suns
In the dear hopeful west
The continuity of life lifts the shadow also
from another mystery-the lives that have
been cut of in their prime. When one Is
richly endowed and carefully trained. and
come to the zenith Of his power. his sudden
removal seems a reflection en- the economy
of Gods kingdom. Why call this man
to the choir celestial when he is so much
needed in active service? According
to Jesus, he has sunk into inaction,
so much subtracted from the forces Of
righteousness. He has gone where the fet-
tiers OF this body Of humiliation and en-
barrassment Of adverse circumstances shall
be no longer felt. We must not think Of
him as withdrawn from the field: We must
imagine him as in the van of battle. We must
follow him, our friend, with hope and high
heart.
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England's Old Trees.

The oldest tree in England is the
yew tree at Braburn, in Kent, which
is said to be 5000 years old, while al
Fortignal, in Perthshire, is one nearly
as old. At Ankerwyke House, near
Staines, is o yew tree which was fam,
GUS at the date OF the signing OF
Magma Charta, 1915, and later was the
trysting place of Henry VIII and Anna
Boleyn. .,
The three yews at Fountains Abbey
are at least 1900 years old, and beneath
them the founders of the abbey sat ID
1892, There are no famous oaks that
rival any yew in age, 1000 years being
the greatest age attained. Damorey's
oak, IN Devonsbire. which was blown
down in 1903, had this distinction.
Cowthorpe oak, near Wetherby, York
shire, is said to be 1000 years DID,
Philadelphia Press.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Do not hang the harness in the
stable if you can avoid it.
During the moulting season keep
the males and females of the flock
separated.
The farmer who trades his butter at
the country store seldom becomes q
conspicuous success.
Stop churning the minute the but
ter comes. This can be ascertained
by the sound; if in doubt, look.
Ventilate the ohurn freely and fre.
quently during .churning, until no air
.rushes out when the vent is opened.
Clean The watering trough once in
while. After scraping with sharp
onion-hoe, sprinkle with lime and
leave few hours. Then rinse and
refill.
The orchard is one of the best places
on the farm for poultry. The insects
that abound there provide egg.form.
Ing food, and the eating of them is
good for the hens and for the orchard.
Don't make one horse do all the
odd jobs and hard work on the farm,
where several animals are kept, be-.
cause he is willing and tractable.
Break in the others and let them do
their turn.
If properly kept and iudiciously ap.
piled to land, poultry manure is worth
one-half the cost of the food the fowls
get, and yet little account is taken Of
the droppings when an estimate is
made of the profits.
On most farms where the hens have
free range they will DO very we'll in
the summer without gain food, the
growing grasses and ripening seeds
and the insects they pick up supplying
we'll balanced ration.
Nothing will spoil COW, or cows,
quicker than man with bad tenn.
per-one that has the smell of brim.
stone on his breath. There is as much
room for improvement In some dairy
men or farmers, when they keep COWS,
as in the breed Of COWS they keep.
Sheep appear to have bus little
power of resistance to disease, and
can stand but little grief. This is the
rule, although it is fact that an in
dividual is now and then found which
seems to withstand enough disease to
kill a whole flock of ordinary sheep.
The associate editor of the New
England Farmer makes it cost him
50 q ton to harvest his hay. On many
of the largest hay farms in Maine the
cost of harvesting the hay crop has
been reduced to 81 ton. Broad,
smooth fields and the best of machin.
cry do it.
A duckling at week old should
weigh four ounces; two weeks, nine
ounces; three weeks, one pound; four
weeks, one pound nine ounces; five
weeks, two pounds two ounces; six
weeks, two pounds eleven ounces !;
seven weeks, three pounds five ounces; !;
eight weeks, four pounds; nine weeks,
tour pounds eight ounces.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To clean straw mating, wipe it off
with cloth dampened in warm salt
water.
A little saltpetre added to the water
in which cut flowers are put will keep
the flowers fresh long time.
A plaster composed of the yoke OF
an egg and salt will often relieve
pleurisy, and neuralgia pains.
Meat and fowls may be made more
tender if, when they are boiling,
teaspoonful of vinegar be added to the
water.
Pounded glass mixed with dry corn
meal and placed within the reach OF
rats, it is said will Danish them from
the premises.
The addition Of little salt to sweet
foods helps to bring out the flavor, ana
acid things are improved by the addl-
ton of little sugar.
It is positively asserted that to drink
a half pint of hot milk or hot water
will have the effect of producing sleep
in eight cases out Of ten.
Crackers served with soups and
broths are much more appetizing II
they are lightly buttered and then
placed in the oven and Drowned.
Vinegar should not be kept in a
stone Jug. Glass is much better tor
the purpose. The acid of vinegar al
fects the glazing of stone ware.
Do not allow fresh meat to remain
rolled in paper, for the paper will ao-
sorb the juice. Remove the paper
and lay the meat on an earthen plate.
Cream or milk that has turned, but
is not soured, may be made sweet by
stirring into it one teaspoonful OF car.
Donate of magnesia to each quart OF
milk.
After the juice has been squeezed
from lemons the peel may be utilized
for cleaning brass. Dip it in co onmon
salt and scour with powdered brick
dust.
If every pot and pan, or any uten-
Sll uSGu LII tuS COOhiAS VI Aooet ~
washed as soon as emptied, and while
still hot, half the labor and great
deal of time will be saved.
A heavy fatiron, weighing seven or
eight pounds, will do better work If 1t
is passed over the clothes once with a
firm, steady pressure than q lighter
iron hurriedly passed over the clothes
two or three times.
To restore defaced varnish, use lin
seed oil and turpentine in equal parts,
we'll mixed, and applied in small guam
titles with soft piece Of cotton. Re-
peat several times if necessary, then
wipe the mixture entirely Oft.
If you have butter that is not en-
tirely sweet, put it in a porcelain dish
with little salt and tiny piece OF
soda, place over tire, and bring to a
boil. Turn it into stone jar and set
it in q cool place. The butter will be
found perfectly sweet and not too
salt for cooking. The impurities will
settle to the bottom OF the jar.
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PROPER SEED TEMPERATURE.

Late experiments at one of the CO.
madam agricultural experiment sta
tions prove that the different seeds
germinate at various temperatures,
varying with the species and the
amount of moisture present. Some
seeds, it was found, would sprout when
the temperature of the soil was con-
stantly kept at the freezing point.
This was true OF the seeds of white
mustard, which germinated at tenn
perature of thirty degrees Fahr. In.
dian corn germinated at temperature
of forty.eight degrees, watermelon
seed at eixty-three degrees and trifo.
lium ripens at forty-two degrees. 1t
was also found that the different seeds
terminated between certain limits of
temperature, the greater part of those
experimental upon not terminating
at all if the temperature was kept
above eishty.three degrees.
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ROAST DUCK.

Select two or two and half pound
bird; clean and truss the duck and
stuff with dressing made as follows:
Take one pint of stale bread there
must be no hard pieces) and break
into very fine crumbs; add tea
spoonful of salt, a scsnt hslf.teaspoon-
full of chopped parsley, half a tea.
spoonful OF powdered age. one.half
teaspoonful OF summer savory, tea.
apoonful of chopped onion lit likedl
AID one-third cupful of butter, mix
we'll. This gives rich dressing, that
will separate like rice when served,
and is good with any fowl. Rub the
bird with teaspoonful Of salt before
stufing it. Take soft butter in the
hand and rub thickly over tho fowl,
then dredge rather thickly with tour
so it will be just covered. Putting
the butter and -four on makes paste,
which keeps the Juice confined and
also gives q rich basting. Place on
the meat rack in o hot oven for few
moments to brown the -four, then add
in water enough to cover the pan.
The water must be renewed little at
a time when needed. Baste every fif-
teen minutes with the gravy in the
pan, and dredge with little salt, pep
per and -four. When one side Is
Drowned, turn and brown the other.
This will bake in an hour in quick
oven. Before sending to the table
squeeze over it the juice OF a lemon
or orange, and serve up very hot with
it's own gravy about it. Eat with cur
rant jelly. Chop the giblets fine ana
stew slowly in as little water as posi-
BILE, with a tablespoonful of butter
rolled in -four. Season with half
teaspoonful. of salt and three dashes of
pepper. Serve in gravy boat.
Select long, slender sweet potatoes,
peel and lay in the roasting pan
around the duck half an hour before
it is done. The gravy will flavor them
nicely.-Chicago Record.
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sELF.sOwN TOMATOES.

Where large quantitiee of tomatoes
are grown and the fruit is allowed to
rot on the ground, there will be many
young tomato plants spring up the
following season. They will not be so
forward as plarts from seed sown in q
hothouse, but they will be thrifty and
hardy for outdoor setting and come
into bearing very nearly as quickly as
the later plants from the hothouae.
Fall sowing of tomato seed is little
likely to start the seed into fall growth,
as the lains prevent the seed from
drying sufficiently to germinate.-
Boston Cultivator.
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THE ONION CROP SHORT.
Il Decidedly Smaller Than 1t Was a
Year Ago.

That the onion crop OF 1896. now general
" harvested. is decidedly smaller than year
ago is shown by an exhaustive canvass just
made by the American Agriculturist, cover.
ing every section Of tho country where onions
are commercially grown. There is short
age both In acreage harvested and yield, and
the report places the commercial crop OF 1896
at 100000 bushels, or nearly twenty-five
per cent smaller than q year ago, and l.
900, 900 bushels, or a thru smaller, than the
bumper crop OF 1891. AS in former years,
the commercial production is confined al
most exclusively to New England, New
York, Ohio and the head of Lake Michigan.
Low prices last year discouraged many from
putting in the usual acreage, and it Is about
fifteen rer cent. less than that Of last year.
The shortage is pronounced In New England,
but final returns show that il spite OF low
prices many farmers in New York State have
harvested about the usual acreage.
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other material on the barn floor. If
for use in the cattle quarters, scraping
manure into the cutters, and through
trapdoors, the board should be shorter
to give greater strength. Many farm
ers IN cleaning up their barn floors
use rake turned upon the back of its
head-a substitute very inferior to the
excellent homemade implement fig.
ured here. There are many such
home. made contrivances that take lit
tie time to construct that are wonder
fully effective in saving labor, and it
is just as profitable to save labor upon
the farm as elsewhere. New York
Tribune.
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NEW FIELD FOR BlcYcLERS.
Here's q Chance for Them to Get Sta,
Routes.

Advertisements inviting proposals for car
rying the mails on the star routes for the
next fiscal year were Issued from the once OF
the Second Assistant Postmaster-General ut
Washington. Proposals will be received
until December /, and bids will be
announced by February l. Full in
formation regarding the routes in New York
S,ute, the bonds required with the bids and
the present price OF the service will be fur
nished on application to tn. Department.
There are thousands OF these routes through
out the country, there being lO9S in New
York State alone. AT present nearly all are
covered by horse and wagon. 4 large proper
ton OF these routes can be covered by BIZ
cycle riders fur more expe,!itiously than by
the present plan, and splendid opportunity
is presented for young men with bicycles to
secure contracts. The Department Is favor
able to any change which will expedite the
star route mails and at the same time reduce
their cost to tho Government.
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LIS Credentials Exhibited.

The magnificent credentials from tho Chi
nese Emperor which Ii Hung Chang deiiy-
cred to President Cleveland have been
placed On exhibition In the State Depart
ment Library. Washington. The wrapper Is
six feet square, OF yellow satin. elaporately
embroidered in gold, silver and colors OF
exquisite workmanship, with five large five
clawed double dragons conventionally ar
ranged. The letter Is written on a scroll OF
lemon colored parchment, five feet long by
two feet wide. The great red seal OF the
En- oeror Il In the centre