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Dr. Augur,s catboat is being length

Dr. Augur's catboat is being length ened out 15 feet by George Graves and Globe gas engine will be fitted in in place of the sails. She will be finished in about two weeks.
 Neither the schooner yachts Phan- tom, Diana nor Edith will go in com mission this summer the owners of all three boats being too busy to use them. The Diana will be overhauled to keep her machinery in order, and be ready for use if required in July.
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Tours to Washington and Getsyburg,
 Tuesday, May 4th.

Personally conducted tours to Wash ington and return, four days at the National capital, SIS, covering all ex- penses of the trip from New Haven. Seven days tour to Washington and Gettysburg, same date, $30, covering all expenses including trip to Mount Yer non and carriage ride over the battle field of Gettysburg. For detailed itin- erary, address Peck & Bishop, man. agers, Recreation Tourist Co.,, New Ha- ven, Conn.
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Pianos Moved. No Damage in 30 Years.

We will tune the piano for one dollar, and move it at the lowest possible price. Our men do nothing but handle pianos, and as they are constantly handling our own expensive and beautifully cased in struments, they have learned to be care full in the minutest details.
 c. M. LOOMIS' SONS, ap2S St S33 Chapel St.
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/ represented by {4KaI
 CHAS. IISON & CO.,, AZ Church St.. First National Bank Buildg
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s25,0oo Enfield s Long Meadow
 Electric R. R. Go.

First Mortgage Per Cent. Gold Bonds
 Dated Dec. 1st, 1896,
 Due Dec. 1st, 1916. Coupons payable Juno and December of each year. Total amount issued, $100,000 These bonds are an abso- lute first mortgage upon over nine miles of completed road, including brick power sta- tion and car barn and all equipment; said Enfield, Thompsonville, to the State line, where it connects with the Springfield road into Springfield. This is believed to be one State, and the net earnings will be more than double the interest charges. Special circular and price upon application For sale by Fl. 0. WARREN & co.
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If the Baby is Cutting Teeth,

Be sure and use that old and well-tried rem. edy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for ,lIar. rhoea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
 d11 MWF&W 1y
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ITO BE CONTINUED.
an Inhulnan Practice,

A correspondent writes from Cal
cutta, India, Of a most inhuman prac.
tice carried on there by the native
infantry. He says that a regiment is
summoned to the jail at Alipore every
six months to fire ten rounds of blank
ammunition in the direction OF the
500 convicts imprisoned there.
These unfortunates crouch down in
their cells and Iremble with fear, ex-
pecting every moment to be put to
death. 1t is supposed that the ALL
thcrities do this to intimidate and
prevent the prisoners from attempt
ing to escape. To add to this in
human practice. the lieutenant gov
ernor and other high officials witness
the parade from the roof of the jail.
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Pressed for Time.

Quibble: MY dear, why will you
permit that Mrs. Rather to make a
goose Of you? She actually kept you
standing hatless at the gate this af-
tcrnoon for three-quarters OF an hour"
Mrs. G.: Was it as long as that?"
bubble: TO a minute by the clock"
Mrs. O.: 'Oh, we'll. the dear woman
couldn't help it. She hadn't time to
come in. for she told me when she
called me down Ihat she hadn't a
minute to stop. Boston Courier
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very questionable neighborhood. the
Seven Dials. and Mr.. Jintle. the pro.
prietor thereof, was a friend of Den
tham's. On the evening of the day
upon which the strange discovery mad
been made at Hampstead. Dentham
was seated in a small. stutfy back
room OF the hotel. talking eagerly to
no less a parsonage than his master.
DR.. Michael Roversmire, who had
come up from Marlowe to Jintle's by
the four o'clock 1raln IN answer to a
telegram SEN by Dentham.
Adrian was in a terrible dilemma, as
he did not know which way to turn.
The telegram which warned him not
to go back to Hampstead or he would
be arrested had fallen upon him like
a thunderbolt. and he had come UP to
see Dentham. That gentleman had
gained his reward from Olive Maun.
ders, and was now the happy posses
sor of one hundred and twenty-fv
pounds, but not satisfied with even
such a sum, which represented wealth
to him, be was now trying to make
terms with his master. Ali his cring-
ing manners had disappeared, and he
sat opposite to Adrian with his elbows
resting on the table and a look Of
coarse triumph irradiating his mean
looking face.
Il knew how it would be-" he was
saying in a sneering tone. IF you'd
only trusted me about the young man
| could have helped you, but now it,
too late-unless you make it worth
my while"
What do you want me to dop"
asked Adrian hopelessly, fully aware
that be was in the power of this man
and quite at a loss what course to
pursue.
What do l want you to do?" asked
Dentham jeeringly. II want you to
give me a check for two hundred
straight Off"
And suppose l refuse?'
"Oh in that case I'll go straight
Out and tell the police"
So you think | killed Adrian Ian
eastern
I'm sure Of it, replied Dentham
promptly. Il saw it myself"
And where is it now?" demanded
Adrian. leaning back in his chair.
AT No. 40 Beryle Square. Miss
Maunders had it taken there with per.
mission of the police this afternoon"
SO there is a warrant out against
me?'
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HARD ON
What Must Be Their Reflections and
Retrospections?

what Must be Inelr feHeCClOnS anu
Retrospections?
The Rev. Arthur Robins, ~chaplain-in-
ordinary to the queen and chaplain to
the Prince of Wales and to the house
hold troops, preached on Sunday last
his five t%housandth sermon in Wind
sor, says the Spectator, and his parish
toner's, in celebration of the occasion,
presented him with a complete set of
clerical robes. We should like to know
Mr.. Robins own reflections on his long
career of exhortation. Does he look
back on it with complacency or with
humiliation, or with some mixture of
the two emotions? If he has kept my
thing like a simple and natural mind
throughout the fifty years or so during
which he has. probably been preaching,
he must be, as very possibly he is, a
man of great. force of character, for
nothing sooner succumbs to the spirit
of routine than the habit of telling my
dear brethren what they ought to
think or feel in relation to their fellow
creatures and their God. Think of
the saying that for every idle word you
utter you shall be accountable at the
day of judgment and consider how
many idle and ill-considered words
there must generally be in 5000 SER
MONS. It must be a pathetic, if not a
terrible, retrospect. But we may hope
that for the great majority Of preach
ers the penance will at least be very
lenient. We hope so, or we journal
lists should probably be left in an even
worse predicament than the preachers.
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CENSUS OF THE WORLD.
Most Stupendous Undertaking That Was
Ever Devised.

Ever Devised.
A census of the world seems imnos-
sible, but it is going to be undertaken,
says the London Mail. The unparal-
leled labor is to be one of the gigantic
projects to celebrate the advent of the
twentieth century, and it is safe to
say that a more stupendous undertake
ing has never before been devised. The
scheme had its real inception at the
biennial meeting of the International
Statistical institute, recently held at
Berne, Switzerland, where a committee
was appointed to consider WAYS and
means. The first step in this imnor-
tant committees labor was to enlist the
interest and aid of Ii Hung Chang.
They met him when he was in Berlin
and secured the promise of his inhu-
ence in China, In no nation will the
work of demonstrating be more difficult
than in China. Anything approximate
ing the accurate census of the popula-
ton of the earth at the present time is.
without doubt, an impossibility. In
addition to the poles there are many
spots on the earth that have never been
visited by the explorer and others from
which a census enumerator never
would get away alive. The population
of the earth is now estimated at 1,7OO,-
900, 000-guesses founded upon the OBJ
s%ervation of travellers and upon other
guesses mentioned in treaties given by
such countries as China, Persia, Arabia
and Turkey.
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She Was Surprised.

Among the poorer classes in England
there are some strange notions regard
ing the law of husband and wife. A
woman solemnly% appealed to one OF the
London magistrates the other day to
advise her whether she was compelled
to wash her husbands brothers shirts.
and seemed surprised to learn that she
was not.
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Proved by the Flowers.

IF every human being on the
American continent were to be taken
out Of existence" said the late Pro-
lessor Asa Gray, and the whole
work of his hands were taken awav
so that no trace remained. subsequent
historians could prove that the eau
casian race existed upon it by the
flowers that would be found growing
there"
Greece for Centenarians.
The German statistician, Bernhard
Ornstein, has computed that Greece
stands in the first rank among
European countries in the number Of
centenarians. He attributes this to
its climate.
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w w WIN wv 4SOs ln
Adrian cried Olive peering for
ward into the darkness, dimly lighted
BY the glimmer of the candle. are you
there:?'
No voice answered. and in vague
terror the girl caught Teddy by the
hand.
"Oh! do you think he is dead?"
she whispered.
.Idon't know" he replied blank y;
perhaps be is not here, or there may
be some o doors to open. See
here is ,Dentham, with two more
lights"
Olive took one of the candles. and
headed BY Teddy the little band went
forward along the narrow passage
and at length found themselves in the
circular vault which looked weird
and spectral-looking with it's strange
decorations.
Clocks like the cave Of a magi-
clan" said Teddy. slowly waving his
light to and fro. 'Hullo, what's up?"
His sudden exclamation was caused
by Dentham, who had dropped his
candle, and with c%hattering teeth.
shaking limbs and pale face, pointed
to a dark form extended on a couch.
With a cry Of terror Olive rushed
forward and held the light close to
the figures face. and fell on her
knees with a shrek.
''Its MISUNDERSTANDING he
dead"
''Dead!" echoed Rudall in an awed
tone, "Impossible.'
mo. it's true; quite true!'' she
shrieked. setting her candle down on
the floor. His limbs are cold. his
eyes are closed, and l can, feel his
heart beat"
Come on" said Teddy, seeing that
Dentham, overcome with fear, made
no move, ''take Mr.. Lancaster by the
head"
Il dare not" whispered Dentham,
shrinking back. hes dead.'
How do you know he is dead?"
cried Rudall, angrily, The may be
only in a trance-do what | tell YOU,
Or III thrash you within an inch Of
your life"
On hearing this Dentham with
manifest reluctance did as he was
told, but gave a shudder Of fear as
he seized the inert feet Of the figure
On the couch, Teddy held up the
head, and preceded by Olive with the
lights, the two men with great diff.
Guilty managed to carry the body up
stairs to the sitting-room.
Olives courage sustained her thus
far. but when she saw Adrian's body
lying on the floor stiff and cold. she
let the candles fall from her hand and
flung herself down in a of
sorrow.
Are you certain he is not dead?"
she asked breathlessly.
"It's rather difficult to say, an
swered Teddy, rising and lead
ing her to a seat, "but we'll send at
once for a doctor and. meantime, you
must have a glass of wine. Dentham,
get some wine for Miss Maunders."
Dentham disappeared and, mean
time, Teddy comforted Olive as we'll
as he was able.
Pm sure he's in a trance" he
insisted quietly, 'look how firm and
healthy the flesh looks. If he were
really dead he would not look like
this after three weeks"
Here peatham returned with the
wine and Teddy made the girl take a
good glass Of it.
"Dentham. he said. when Olive
grew more composed. "go down to
the police station aud send the police
here Then come back with a doctor
aa hard as you cam
Dentham took the money Teddy
held out toward him. and putting On
his hat left the house chuckline
quietly to himself.
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Pleads for Early Consideration

Cholly: What do you think, dear
boy? That beastly tailor sent me a bill
to-day, and it is a week yet before the
first"
II expect he was sending early to
avoid the Embellishments Weekly. :
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OF Course.

Peddler Selling a tooth BRUSH:
These are the best tooth brushes in
che world"
Customer: Haven't you any better
ones?"
Peddler: "Oh, yes; here are some
better ones."-Fliegende Blaetter.
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CHATTER XIV.

Jintie's hotel was situated in that
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Lice that Cannot be Seen.

Along in the summer the late chicks
do not grow and some of them droop.
The owner examines carefully for lice
and finds none. He looks everywhere
for lice but at the right place and dis
covers no lice. Where he should look
is on the skin of the heads and necks
and he will find lice as large as feas,
a single one of which can torment a
young chick to death. In fact so an
noying are they that they prevent
rest, and exhaustion compels the chick
to sleep during the time it should be
running about, hence the term ''sleepy
disease" These lice come from the
hens to the chicks and are never no.
ticed. They are easily destroyed if it
is desired to get rid of them, one or
two drops of melted lard on the heads,
necks and legs, we'll rubbed in, being
sufficient, treating the hen in the
same way, but most persons suppose
that if a little melted lard is effica-
cious more lard is better, and then
the chicks are killed by too much
grease. Look out for the large lice on
the heads and the losses of chicks will
be fewer.-EX.
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The Gapes.

So many write us for remedies to
prevent or cure the gapes that we are
compelled occasionally to repeat some
of our admonitions. Here are few
rules in "a NUTSHELL:
Scatter air-slacked lime freely over
the ground occupied by the chicks.
Put little of the lime in the drink
ing water.
Should signs Of gapes appear feed
the chicks twice a week with stiff
corn meal dough, first intimately mix
ing teaspoonful of spirits Of turpen-
tint with quart of meal.
Give very sick chick a drop of tur-
pentine on a bread crumb.
If this fails, then strip feather,
leaving tuft on the end, dip it in tur-
in the windpipe and quickly withdraw
it.
Feed on clean boards.
Never allow residuum of food to re-
main on the ground.
Keep the ground clear of filth.
The rich, moist places, such as are
favorable to earth worms, are favor
able to gapes.
Do not mistake lice for gapes, as the
big gray lice on the skin of the heads
and necks will often cause the chicks
to gasp from weakness. 1t is not an
easy matter to insert a feather down
the Threats of a large number of
chicks; hence, the best wholesale
method is to give the turpentine in
corn meal, and to use plenty of lime
on the ground, as the lime will de-
stroy all germs of gapes.- Poultry
Keeper.
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bee, after working all day, spends the
greater part of the night tanning the
nectar with it's wings to evaporate the
surplus water. In this way it short
ems it's life by wearing out it's wings.
Langstroth says that bee at the
height of the working season lives
about three working weeks and then
dies. Bees frequently perish on their
way home because their wings are SO
shattered and splintered that they re-
fuse to support the body. If dis
abled bee reaches the hive alive, it
spends the remainder of it's days as
nurse, housekeeper, and in general
utility work. A good and fertile queen
bee keeps the hive full of bees during
the season. When the honey flow
stops, she ceases laying at once; then
the workers kill all of the orones and
manifest other symptoms of con-
suming desire for retrenchment.-
New York Ledger.
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enty-seven when some pullets began
laying. These hens paid for all the
feed stuff they ate, the feed FOR one
horse, all the groceries and some dry
goods for family of five for the year
and feed for six hogs for six months.
This year L began with two hundred
and sixty-one hens and March first
added twenty-five pullets. I now have
two hundred and seventy-eight. These
have fed themselves, two horses, paid
for family of five and have twenty
six dollars and four cents credited to
them May first. This they have done
and are doing almost wholly upon
feed stuffs shipped here from other
places, with oyster shells for grit. No
meats, animal meal, bone, or any of
the egg preparations being used and
with eggs selling at an average of
thirteen and one-half cents per Dozen
With feas and lice conquered and
practically no diseases among chick
ems we expect some day to go into the
chicken business for prolific. H.
Knellinger in Barlow Courier-Inform-
ant.
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The Work of Honeybees.

To secure pound of honey, which
is equivalent to something like 5000
cells, would take a bee several years.
In fine weather the bee makes calls
upon fifty to eighty flowers in a days
outing. During this time it collects
what is equivalent to a grain of nee
tar, which is a thin syrup, and has to
be evaporated to make honey. The
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itself. Feeding bees often produces
robbing, and on this account bees
should always be fed late in the even
ing, so that they can do the work at
night, and feeding should be done in
the hives, and not out in the open air,
or pitched battle is liable to be the
result
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Bees Robbing.

RObbing frequently occurs among
bees and often gives serious trouble,
but in most cases it is caused by care
lessness ON the part of the beekeeper.
If bees are given the attention they
should have, there would be but little
trouble arise from robbing. In nine
times out of ten the cause of robbing
arises from the loss of queens. A col
ony once deprived of their queen, and
do not have the necessary brood from
which to rear another, will eventually
fall prey to robbers.
The swarming season frequently
brings about his trouble, as quite a
few colonies will be found without
queens This may readily be detect
ed by looking through the hives occa-
sionally and seeing if there is a queen
present. II the queen is not discover
ed, the presence of brood in all stages
is an evidence that she is present, Or
at leastit is evidence that the colony is
in condition to take care of itself in
this respect. 1t is only such colonies
that are destitute of young brood, and
queenless at the same time, that are
in danger of being robbed.
There being no brood found in the
combs is not always evidence that the
queen is missing. During the autumn
months queens frequently cease lay
ing, and it may occur that no brood
is present, when at the same time the
colony is all right. But during spring
and summer there is seldom colony
can be found that ontains a good
queen but has considerable of brood.
Robbing seldom, if ever, occurs with
a colony that is in proper condition,
or that has a fertile queen, except
that it is an extremely weak one.
When bees get into the habit of rob-
bling, it is a long time before they for
get it, and it requires extreme pre-
caution on the part of the apiarist to
keep them in check.
The best plan to stop robbing that
[ have ever tried is simply to spread
a canvass entirely over the colony be-
ing robbed, being careful to draw the
edges down close to the ground
About every five minutes, for several
times, lift the canvass at the front of
the hive and let the robbers out, and
also the bees belonging to the hive in.
This repeated several times will check
it, and the same time will do the col
ony no damage, and it may be kept
covered thus for some time if shaded
in very hot weather, and until it is put
in proper shape so that it will defend
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Poultry for Profit.

L
raising and having had little expert
ence l offer the following for your
readers:
| came from Ohio fourteen years
ago and settled here at Barlow, Fla,
and after time got few chickens in
which L got interested. At this time
all L knew about chickens was how
they and their eggs tasted when serv-
ed by the housewife. 1 eventually
sent and got setting of brown leg
horn eggs, Matched and raised some
chicks from which [ now have two
hundred and seventy-eight hens,
which proved a source of profit to me-
The first year or two [ lost about
one-half of the little chicks by inn
proper feeding but now seldom lose
one. | often had hens crop-bound for
three or four years. The subject of
feeding was where the rub came in.
Practically [ bought all the feed the
hens got and likewise the grit, as [
still continue to do, though this year
l am trying to raise a good lot of
grain. In the meantime the jigger
flea put in his appearance and his bill,
and O the cry for help that arose from
all of us as the little fellows would
present their bills and take our little
chicks to satisfy their claim while we
mortals would have to scratch lively
to keep them from taking u.s. All sorts
OF nostrums were recommended and
money freely spent, while the odors
that arose from the poultry runs were
indeed very various, and the poultry
mans temper not little disturbed to
see the little fellows dive into the
sand until the storm was over and
then come again with whetted bills
seeking him who disturbed them in
their billing expedition. In this state
of affairs the little fellows were about
to get the best of me and my money,
and [ concluded to get better ac-
quainted with them. He is indeed a
social little fellow and sticks tighter
than a brother. AS result of study
of my little foe [ went to building diff
ferently, for he had told me of his
likes and dislikes and built accord
ing to his dislilzes, from which cause
he became melancholy and left or
died, and for the past four years the
flea has not cost me one cent nor one
moments time to combat him.
Lice also came thick and fast and
claimed their portion Of chicken. I
had several splendid tonics that would
tone them down Immediately but they
cost money and took time to apply
them, thus lessening the profit. By a
similar study and experiment [ have
not been called upon to rescue my
hens from their feasting upon them
this year, nor do [ believe there are
enough lice upon the place to make
half dozen hens uncomfortable.
AS for diseases little roup is all
that I know that bothers my chick
ems. From my experience here and
from the study of poultry papers [ do
not believe chickens can be raised any
easier than here. AS to the protita be
ness of poultry I will give last years
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POULTRY DEPARTMENT..

Address all communications to Poultry De-
partment, Box 200, DeLand Fla