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CALCULATE FOR TEE PROFITS.

As this paragraph is being written,
load after load of wheat seconds" are
being drawn past by the dairymen for
winter feeding at $40 ton. With
corn the cheapest in yesrs.-and that
means all other grain as well-one
would think that these men would buy
the corn, but the fact is this: These
men have corn by the 100 bushels and
oats galore, and yet they find by ex.
perience that they can sell oats and
corn, even at present prices, and buy
fine bran at $40, and get the differ
ence in weight as gift for the draw
ing, and not only is more milk pro.
duced, but the manurial supply is
augmented and gain is made IN two
or three ways. The writer sold his
oats at twenty-five cents-last years
carried over for the rise-and ex-
changed them for bran seconds at SO
per ton, making 1900 pounds of Sec
onds clear on each ton of oats, and as
the seconds will make as much milk,
pound for pound, as the oats, the ra-
tion has been consequently cheapened
as well as increased by something over
one.half.
Then cornmade manure is not 30
valuable as that from wheaton shorts,
and the animal is better nourished as
a result of the feeding more nitrogen
GUS matter. Here is agreat field for ex-
pertinent and practice, and one in
which much can be done to cheaper
the cost of producing thing. Four
cents saved day in the feeding of
cow is the same as the rise of like
amount in the price of butter, and if
the stars of fortune should again shine
and We see twenty-five cent butter, the
man who has cheapened the ration
four cents day to the cow and gets
the rise on butter as well, will soon be
millionaire, and his daughters wed
foreign counts, i. e., fellows to help
him count his cash. Practical Farmer.
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FEEDING THE FAMILY COW.

Feeding the family COW is something
I have learned to do right only after
years of experience. But now my
thoroughbred Shorthorn, nine years
old. is giving thirty-eight pounds of
milk per day, and last month made
sixty pounds, eleven ounces of butter,
besides furnishing two; quarts daily
for the table. I mix sixty pounds
wheat bran, seventy pounds cobmeal,
seventy pounds buckwheat bran and
one hundred pounds shorts or mid
dlings, two such patches lasting q
month. At night water pail is filled
with cut wheat, straw and chat, hot
or cold water poured in and it stands
till morning. Their, after draining off
the water, it is dumped into good
sized box, four quarts of the above
mixture is added and pint of lInseed
meal, the whole mixed together and
given as the morning feed. She gets
the same at night; at noon give only
three quarts mixed grain and one pint
linseed meal. Give hay in quantities
to suit her appetite, allowing her to
waste nothing. New England Home
stead. ......
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heart, if he had oily repeated what SO
we'll know Lea, love you.

l0aTC, IL ne ndQ Oily repGaLeu Wudt eo
we'll know Lea, love you.
She saw Valentine and her uncle in
earnest conversation, as they waited
for the boat that fastened to them from
the Sea Hawk; and she envied them, for
she supposed they were discussing naval
matters, and that love could only en-
gross men when they had nothing else
to do, while with her own Sex, love alb
sorbed all their thoughts, if it did not
control all the acts of their lives.
She regretted that Captain Fox was
coming back, and she made up her mind
to hold him at arms length If he con-
timed his coarse attentions. She could
not even think kindly Of her father while
this man plagued her thoughts.
She was not aware that another per-
son was near her till she heard her name
called in accents low, musical and
thrilling, and looking up with start,
she saw Untilla before her. The Indian
maiden had attended the same school
with Lea, Ellen and the young ladies'
of the better families in the place,
and in many respects she was the
intellectual equal of the brightest.
She was particularly distinguished
for the frankness of her manners-a
trankness that was as far removed from
rudeness as the clear waters of will
low-shaded spring differ from the tinged
stream to which it gives rise.
Untilla had all the dignity Of charac-
ter that distinguished the rulers Of her
race, but there blended with It a gentle-
ness and a freshness Of disposition
which some call natural, and all know
to be loving.
In the days when they were laughing
school girls, Lea made no secret to her
friends Of the feeling then being warmed
into life that should only die out with
her own. And the Indian maiden, with
the Glgnifed reticcnce Of her people.
kept her own counsel; but as she could
not act lie, her manner to Ralph De1-
ham told her feeling for him as plainly
as if she had announced it in a meeting
Of the tribe.
Unt;lla, since the return Of the Sea
Hawk from the last cruise, saw where
the young Captain affections lay, and
while her heart rebelled for a moment
against the inevitable, she made up her
mind to submit, and for his sake con-
tinue loving what he loved.
why, Until.a!" exclaimed Lea, as
she took the Indian girls hands, and
drew her to a seat on the fallen tree. i
supposed you were miles and miles
away" .
Il would be back atmy home, should
be there, for my brother has the white
man, Colonel Graham, for guest, were
it not for you" replied Untilla, still
holding one Of Lea's hands.
Then, my dear Untilla, if you come
to see me, you must do it at my father 8
house." said Lea, preparing to rise.
ITO BE CONTINUED.
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OUTWARD PEACE.

Some people are apt to belittle the peace
Of Jesus because they have peace OF life.
They have had no bitter disappointments,
no cruel wrestlers, no crushing Affections,
no fiery temptations. The world has dealt
kindly by them and they have fitted into
their environments. Moments there are
when the sailors of the deep envy those
that sail in the smooth sheltered waters be-
cause they have not been driven to and fro
on stormy seas and been in danger Of the
turgid swells. Other moments the SONS Of
tribulation pity those unfortunates who
have never seen the great billows lie down
as dog cbidden by his master and God
turn the storm into a calm. One-haIf Of the
Bible is a closed book to them that sit
at ease. because only pierced hand can
open the pages. The promises are for them
whose hearts are sore; the invitations are
to them that hunger. Jesus peace was the
best OF all gifts to that handful OF broken
men in the Upper Room, whose first step
would be into the darkness, but it may not
seem any great thing to the favorites Of this
world. Yet it is not wise for any one to
make too much ofan outward peace, depend
ent on health of body, and the goods that
are kept in barns, and the suffrages Of the
multitude, which today cries "Hosanna,"
and tomorrow "Crucify," and on the whims
or tickle. selfish people. Let man
be as far-seeing, accom- modatinR, polite, un-
scrupulous as may be, he cannot hope al
ways to escape disaster, for this peace ls as
uncertain as the lovely Mediterranean. One
day you look through the motionless foliage
on a still expanse Of blue, and the next
morning the orange blossom is strewn upon
the ground and the spray is dashing on
your garden wall. "As the world giyeth."
Rev John Watson, D. D., in The Upper
Room"
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FEEDING POULTRY.

On winter mornings, to one hun
dred hens give four dozen ears of corn
which have been heated in the kitchen
oven for ten minutes or more, if
somewhat charred the better. The
necessity to work for their breakfast,
gives them the desired impetus to
exercise, while the hot, dry corn,
gradually worked off, furnishes
warmth without heaviness. Never
feed shelled corn to laying bens-it is
too fattening. But on the ear they
will not trouble to pick off more than
is actually required to satisfy hunger.
At noon scatter four quarts of wheat
through the straw. Keep poultry
working and scratching busily and
hungrily all day.
At night give all they will eat, which
in winter should be a hot m ash. For
this keep large kettle in which put
the parings, refuse leaves and scrap
ings, with the water in which vegeta-
bles are boiled. Season moderately
with salt, literally with pepper. red
being best. Boil for an hour in the
morning. then thicken with bran or
oats, bnt when oats are used they
should be boiled with the whole mess.
Boiled oats are excellent egg food.
Dry and uncooked their sharp prickly
points are more or less dangerous to
the crops of fowls but boiling obviates
this, besides making the oats more
digestible. In summer, instead Of the
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MR.. MOODY ON FAITH.


All who would be saved must come as
they are. 'Christ comes to US in our sins,
and saves us from our sins. The gift OF
God was life eternal. and if d gift all had
right to take it," he said. You say you've
been trying! Stop. Don't tryl just take
It Right here believe it is gift and take
it. But here is where unbelief comes in.
Il have just put something in this Bible ;
do you believe it?
A middle-aged man in front said, "Yes,
SIR"
"Then, that is faith. Why do you believe
ftp
Because you said So
''Yes. You have faith in my word. 1t is
a Testament (taking small Testament from
between the Bible leaves.) Now am going
to give it to you do you believe that?
The man hesitated.
"Ah there it is. You will not make your
faith personal matter. Will you take it
Will you take it now?'
The man stepped to the front and reached
up to the stage. Now your faith prompts
you to reach out. You do not receive it at
first (raising the bovk out Of his reach, } but
do you belle ;e you will receive itf"
Yes
Why"
Because you have promised to give it to
me-"
Yes he has faith Ito the audience): he
had faith, took me at my word, reached for
the gift. persisted in reaching and received
it. do not know this man; never saw him
before but he will keep that book; money
could not buy it from him: he will take it
home and read it and find things he does
not know are in it.
"Such is faith; exercise it now and come
into the kingdom. Take the gift of God
now. Will you take it, mother2 Will you
take it, father? Take it Take it, now"
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POULTRY wHENs.

When fowls are rightly fed, made to
take exercise and their quarters kept
clean and free from lice,, there is
scarcely any trouble with disease. s
When the beginner in the poultry
business makes this his motto he has
made good step towards success.
When the combs and wattles OF the
fowls are Of bright red color it indi-
Gates a good healthy condition.
When the hens are busy scratching,
laying and singing and the cocks
almost continually growing, You may
feel sure your fowls are not unhealthy.
When you enter the hen house after
the fowls have gone to roost and hear
no shifting, or wheeling, roup has not
hold on the flock.
When the droppings are rather hard
and partly white it proves that they !
are not bothered with indigestion. 8
When you go into the poultry house
at night and feel draughts blowing
through make sure roup and colds are
near at hand.
When the fowls stand on one leg
with their heads drawn in or tucked
under their wing, you can depend
upon it that something is going wrong
and should be righted at once.
When the edges of the comb and
wattles are OF purplish red and the J.
movements sluggish, something has
gone wrong.
When they lie around Indifferent to
their surroundings, then they are too
fat, and death from apoplexy, indiges-
tion and liver complaint will be sure
to result unless the trouble is quickly
prevented.
When fowls are restless and keep
constantly picking among their feath-
ers, look for lice at once.
When the little chicks keep crying
and standing around refusing to eat,
lice are troubling or they have been
chilled. ..-.s
When chicks get bowel disease it is
usually caused by being chilled.
When you get too lazy to care for
your fowls sell out to your wife and
quit the business. ...
When you think that hens will lay
well on a diet Of corn and water you'll
change your mind sooner or later.
When you see the value of greer
bone and cut clover you will be sure
to use them as food. ...ag
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rgE 1MpRoYEp NAVY BEAN.

This truly successful bean is q cross
between the California Navy and the
Washington. It is little larger in !
size than the Navy and in appearance
like the white pea bean Of the Midi
States, white and CLASSY cooks soonsr
than the Navy; has q good flavor and
is in many ways superior to the or
iginal. The bean as e plant grow
very vigorous, and yields large crops
on sandy loan, as large ass two tons
per acre. On common wheat landBS'
twenty bushels per acre is an average
crop. This bean will nature In ninety
days from time OF planting in this high
latitude (forty-six and one-half degrees
north), where corn is aifaiIlre four
times out of Eve. If planting is done
the first week in June the 3beanwiIl be-
in the SACK the first week inf September
IN spite of cool nights. The greatsst
advantage of the bean is that it viii
ripen evenly. When ii commences to;
ripen 1t gets all ripe. cansiug no delay
and least loss in harvesting,
found the best way TO cultivste 5ils
rows two and one.half feet apart and
plant within the rows at distance of
one foot to eighteen inches, and from
three to FIVE beans in q hill This syss
tenn makes cultivation and cleaning OF
weeds very easy. If pulling il done
by hand, the fact of having sthem;
planted in punches expedites work. +
use a Michigan bean harvester, snc-
cessfully pulling, with two horses and
one man, fully ten acres per day, with
little or no Smelling. Aman follows up
with pitchfork and places the 5beans
in little shocks to cure up for p few
days, when they are hauled toa thresh.
ing floor and four horses are nsed to
stamp them out. Il onlytook twotnaen
for ten days, and the horses to pull,
shock, haul, thresh and sack three hun,
dred bushels of beans, raised on fifteen
acres. By this process they are kept
clean and bright, not cracked, but
glossy, and common grain tanning
mill will clean them as thoroughly asy
a hand.picked bean. / sack them Id
hualap sacks weighing between one
hundred and forty to one hundred and
fifty pounds each, and they are ready
for the market. ~
If any bean raiser desires to try,
these beans, he will find them TO be
preferable and more satisfactory than
any other. They outsell the others. IS
have introduced them to Q few growefs
here latter propogating then and
they have given the best of satisfac-
ton. This bean should he success
in cool Northern climates Like Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the
Dakotas, and I presume also in the
commercial bean-growing sections Of
New York and New England. 5,s
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Professor Coles states that ne has found
after careful experiment that all forms of
alcohol con ain parasitic life called bacalus
potumanla. 1t follows, therefore, that
every kind Of drink, whether wine, brandy
or beer into which alcohol enters, is infest-
ed with this curious germ life. These mi
mute forms have been examined through a
powerful microscope and their development
carefully watched. They have been found
10 be especially plentiful in strong drink
which contains large percentage of alco-
hol. ANY one who drinks is. OF course,
force'l to Introduce these dangerous forms
into the system i'll large numbers.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
ALONE WITH GOD.

If statistics could be collected as to the
amount of time spent by the church in its
closet. we think the figures would be ex-
tremely startling. There would be no fur
ther cause for wonder at the prevalent luke
warmness and laxity. Neglect Of closet
duties may indeed be counted effect as well
as cause of religious apathy; but we are
disposed to place them rather in the latter
class because they are so plain an obligation
thrusts them aside puts away the easiest.
clearest, surest method of spiritual growth.
1t is something within the reach Of all /; not
that in every case it can be compassed with
out effort, but a way can always be found
where the will exists. 1t has the most direct
and immediate connection with the result
desired, and never fails, when properly pur-
sued, to bring it to pass. Nothing can take
it's place. There is no short cut to the
heights of piety.
A few revival meetings, An hour or two of
spasmodic ecstasy are not sufficient for at
tanning the delightful realms sofreligious tran
quillity and power. 1t is far safer to depend
on quiet, systematic gains. 1t is thus the most
substantial, serviceable, oak-like piety is
built up. Daniel in his chamber praying is
the essential precursor to Daniel unterriied
before the lions. We read Of him that "he
kneeled upon his knees three times a day.
anu prhycO duu gave uCiOlO lib
God" Similarly the Psalmist says: Even.
ing. morning, and at noon, will pray and
cry aloud" Who will say that this is not a
reasonable and wholesome custom? Yet it
would be dangerous to ask any Chris
tian assembly how many of those
present followed it. 1t would be
found. we fear. that nearly all
suffered the whole day of busy cares to in
tervene between the hurried. half-digested
mouthfuls of spiritual nourishment afforded
in the crowded morning and the tired even
ing. Among the many lines of reform
pressing for attention in the habits of the,
members Of our churches. it seems to us
that scarce any is more Indispensable than
reform in attention to these powerful helps
to growth in grace which cluster around
the still hour. More time must be spent
alone with God. or we shall not see what
we so much desire either in our own reli-
gious uplifting or outward results upon the
world.
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THE OLD AND NEW.

We are living al the end Of an old epoch
and the beginning Of new one. We can
say, looking backward, 1T is the last
time :" Upon us the ends of the world
have come" Looking forward, we can say
that we are spectators ut the creation of a
new heaven aud a new earth. Today, o.
then. He that sits on the throne makes ap
things new. Christ's coming is to take
place in the year on which we are about to
enter. He is to come to US ali. To all OF US
it is the last time for many things. the first
time for many other things. No hand on
the horologue of time points the hour. no
bell sounds it out from the skies. We see
not any outward change from day to day.
Yet each year takes away the old and brings
the new james Freeman Clarke.
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TRICKS OF THE TRADE.

We read in the report of an English con-
sui whose sphere of observation is Naples
ana district, that more wine is sold and ex-
ported under the name of Capri in one wear
than the island can possibly grow in ten"
On the general question OF Italian wines he
says: Ut is notorious that the British pub
Tic has for years been drinking Italian wines
with French labels on their bottles, and it
seems strange that III Italian label should
deter them from indulging in the same
liquor" Such facts as these do not say
much for the discernment o. the English
wine. drinkers.
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TUNNEL 2I-2 MILES LONG.

Great Northern Road to Run Under the
Cascade Mountalns.
b. G.. henry has secured the contract to
build the approaches to the Great ,rthern
Railroads tunnel through the Cascade
Mountains, in Washington. and mel are al
ready on their way to commence prelimtn-
nry work. 1t will take about six months to
do the work, and then everything will be
ready to commence on the track, which, 1t Is
said, will be one Of the greatest engineering
ieats in history. The tunnel will be two ana
q half miles long, and will reduce the alti-
Jude Of the road one thousand feet.
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TEMPERANCE.

TIE JOLLY BOY.
Here stands q boy,
Quite full Of JOY.
But rather fond of drinking,
So lend your eass.
My pretty dears,
And DO a little thinking.
What kind Of drink,
Pray. do you think,
Do 1 delight 10 swallow?
Not beer nor gin,
They leaf to sin;
My drink will beat them hollow.
IN quenct my thirst
With wnter first.
1t never leads to folly.
It's mild and sweet
And such a treat
1t makes me fat and jolly.
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THE MODERATE pRINKER.

The moderate drinker thanks God that he
can take drink or let it alone. The differ
ence between the moderate criDker and the
total abstainer is. the one can let it alone.
but does not. while the other lets it alone
and tries to get others also to let it alone.
Perhaps those who profess to be able to let
it alone would find ii no easy task if they
made the attempt.
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ALCOHOL DErREssEs DIGESTION.

When alcohol is taken with food and
mixes with the contents OF the stomach, it is
partly decomposed into substances which in
turn decompose the gastric juices, render
ing them inert. and thus depressing diges-
tion., Whatever may sometimes be said in
favor Of the use Of s.imulants with meals,
it is very doubtful if the slight temporary
stimulating effect Of such drinks is at I'll
compensatory for their interference with
the action OF the gastric fluids.
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THE KEEL CANAL.
In Total of 1884 Ships, No Mention ls
Made of an American Vessel.

From July l, 1895, to June 80, 1886, there
passed through the new kiel Canal ,SS4
Ships that had to pay toll: Their tonnage
ships, aggregating 1,14j,57s tons. Their
fiaes were as follows: German, II, 9S7; Bel
gian. 8; British, 1874; Danish, sl2; French, 81
Dutch, ssl: Norwegian, GO; Russian, "a; swe-
dish, Ss6;all other countries, 9,and II any car,
ried the Stars and Stripes, 1t was not deemed
worthy of mention. The years expenses were
about 5000 900, and tho receipts tribe above
that amount. These figures are reported TO
the State Department by Consul Monaghan.
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A LITTLE GRAIN FOR YEARL1Nes.

The first winter of any young ami
NAL, either colt or calf, it has hard
time. In most cases it shows the fact
plainly by rough, staring coat, indi-
eating disordered digestion. A little
grain with the coarse fodder, if only
a quart of oats daily, or it's equivalent
in meal or bran, will give much more
gain than its cost. A quart of oats
day is less than a bushel per month,
or only four or five bushels until the
animal can be put on pasture again.
Boston Cultivator.
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STIFLING CONSCIENCE.

You may stiie conscience for awhile, but
some day-tramp. Tramp, tramp-all will
come before you. those sins you will not
give up. Somewhere today is Herod, and
he still remembers what kept him out of the
kingdom What is your sin? You know
what it is. and what is keeping you out Of
the kingdom Oh, man: Oh, woman Don't
let that sin--you know just what it is: it
comes up before you ncw-don't let it keep
you from the kingdom. 1t takes as much
will t. resist the spirit a. 20 receive it. Will
You not decide nov? You can 10 IT'D. l..
Moody.
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NO SAFETY AT ANY TIME.

Our physical constitution changes with
the changing years, says the Knights OF
Father Mathew Journal That we have
drunk with safety from twenty to Iorty is
no sign that We may do the same from forty
TO sixty. Many have drunk with supposed
safety until they were old men and then be.
came drunkarIs and died drunkards.